A/N: Part 2 is still in progress, so nobody panic. In the meantime, enjoy!

(Before the start of Part 2, but after the end of Crash-landed)

"I'm not allowed to contact anyone?"

Thor winced. The glare that Hitsugaya was giving him was spectacular, and now that the shinigami's left eye was lit in six different shades of deadly, he could feel the drops of sweat rolling down his back. He shifted uncomfortably, cursing his father mentally. Oh yes, leave the heir to the throne to explain to an angry shinigami captain with the power of seven Infinity Stones in his blood exactly why he is not allowed to speak to his lieutenant or even his superior. Brilliant plan.

"Unfortunately, no." Thor said weakly, trying to avert the young captain's ire. "My father is worried about your current mental state-"

"Mental state?! I've got six freaking infants living in my head! You really expect me to look sane?!" Toushiro seethed, the star/flower shaped tattoo just over his left eyebrow winking with undecided flashes of color. In the few weeks since he'd woken from his coma, the pre-teenager had practically been obsessed with clamping down on the powers of the six other Stones. And from what Thor understood, it was a similar task to raising six children, all of which were hyper on sugar. Little wonder Hitsugaya's patience was so frayed.

Thor made a calming gesture with his hands, trying to press the young captain further back into his room.

"It's less of a precaution for your own safety than it is for the safety of your people." Thor tried again, feeling somewhat relieved when the fury on the younger boy's face faded, though it did not dissipate completely. "And in any case, my father wishes to be certain that you can fully control the six Stones before you set foot outside of this room."

With a snarl, Toushiro turned and stalked inside the large room in which he'd been living for the past several weeks, his tread thunderous with anger. Thor followed him, hoping to regain some fragment of the young man's calm mood.

"I can take a message to your lieutenant, if you wish." He offered, remembering the conversation he'd had several days prior. "She may be allowed to come and visit you."

Hitsugaya shuddered slightly.

"I don't want to drown in that mess anytime soon, thanks." He sniped uncomfortably, going unusually pale at the thought, much to Thor's confusion. "Just…would you tell me how she's doing on the paperwork?"

Thor nodded, smiling, happy to finally have some good news. Matsumoto had seemed quite cheerful when telling him about that the other day, even going so far as to offer him what seemed to be a happy smile.

"Oh, I spoke to her about that recently." He said cheerfully. "She said that she wished to inform you that another lieutenant has offered to assist her with the paperwork. Someone named Ku…oh, I believe it was something like Kusojuchi?"

For a moment, Hitsugaya blinked, uncomprehending, and then all of the remaining color drained from his face. A vision of a pink-haired little menace marching into his office drifted to the forefront of his mind, armed with crayons and glitter glue and destruction trailing in her wake.

"Nooooo!" he howled, startling Thor so badly that he nearly summoned his hammer. "Not my paperwork!"

Thor seized the frantic young man around the waist as he tried to bolt for the door, throwing the young shinigami bodily over his shoulder when Hitsugaya attempted to escape from his grasp. The young captain shrieked in rage, violently thrashing about so viciously that Thor nearly dropped the pre-teenager onto the hard stone floor. With a lot of effort, Thor managed to wrestle Toushiro to the ground, pinning him down as best as he could. Hitsugaya fought back in earnest, his mismatched glare wide in what seemed to be terror. Several times he almost succeeded in hurling the demigod off.

"Not Kusajishi!" he kept yelling, much to Thor's bemusement. He didn't recognize that name…

The tattoo on the shinigami's forehead and his left eye suddenly glowed bright, blood red, and in a massive explosion of otherworldly energy, the Reality Stone, the Aether, swirled dark and ominous through the room. Thor was thrown backwards, striking the far wall hard. For several terrifying seconds the Aether's liquid power hung weblike in the air around Hitsugaya, who knelt on the floor, empty-eyed and oddly limp.

Then scarlet whipped through the room, peeling away the atoms and leaving dark matter in their place, which created incredible supernovae of white light as the tiny particles destroyed each other. Within moments the furniture had evaporated, and as Thor watched in horror, the whirling crimson inched closer to where he lay slumped against the far wall.

However, just as he was preparing to summon his hammer, Toushiro gasped and crumpled sideways to the now-uneven floor. The Aether's red energy vanished instantly, revealing the deep, blackened scars made by Hitsugaya's new powers on the stone beneath. Thor remained as still as he could, slightly terrified, then slowly approached the shuddering pre-teenager.

"I do not know if this will assuage your panic…" he mumbled vaguely, staring. "But the lieutenant's name was not Kusajishi. It was Kurojuchi, or something similar."

Toushiro slid a twitching gaze onto Thor, still shaking with the effort it had taken to repress the Reality Stone's wild energies. He blinked.

"…oh. Kurotsuchi." He gasped out, relief evident in his tone. Then he sweatdropped painfully, his face twisted by sheepish apology.

"If that's the case…I may have overreacted a little…" he said slowly. Thor just looked at him, his expression somewhat incredulous.

"Perhaps just a mite." He agreed derisively. Then his face changed to one of open curiosity as he helped the snow-topped captain to his feet. "For what reason did you panic so?"

Toushiro went a little bit pink as Kusajishi's havoc-causing face wriggled into his mind, complete with a sugar-rush gleam in her maroon eye. He grimaced.

"You really don't want to know."

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