Oh, yeah. My Winter Happiness was dedicated to Snowy Peach Tsubasa. My very first friend before I became an author of fanfics. ^_^
Thanks to Toushirou-chan for the reviews in my Winter Happiness. I was surprised and flattered when I saw your comments so thank you very much. To all the reviewers of my fics, thank you very much.
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Chapter 1- New Mission
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Before the sun had risen above the horizon, Toushirou stirred a little on his bed and looked at the face of his sleeping princess. He stroked her cheek with his thumb and smiled a little. Hina- no .. She's no longer Hinamori Momo but Hitsugaya Momo. Toushirou and Momo are married and they have twins, Hitsugaya Yuki and Hitsugaya Yukina.
Momo woke up and looked at Toushirou's smiling face. She then smiled too.
"Ohayou, Toushirou. You're up early."
"Ohayou. Yeah, I needed to be up early because of the paperwork that I have to finish." Toushirou said as he sitted and Momo did too.
"Well, the 10th squad is the data keeper and organizer of Soul Society about the Gensei and soul Society itself. It's pretty hard, isn't it?" Momo said as she looked at little concerned at Toushirou who flicked her lightly on the forehead.
"Baka. Don't be worried too much. You know, more than anyone here, that I can handle myself just fine."
"I know and I also know that you're the type of person who doesnt't want to leave his work unfinished no matter what." Momo said with a firm but gentle voice that made Toushirou blink and smirk.
"Trust me that I won't exhaust myself this time."
"Oh, alright."
"I'll take a bath and you can use the shower after me." Toushirou said as he got up.
"Okay. I'll cook breakfast for us. The kids would be waking up any time." Momo said as she got up and went to the kitchen. She then prepared the ingredients for miso, fried fish meat and sukiyaki.
Two kids then came out from their room while rubbing their half-opened eyes. Momo turned around and looked at the twins.
"Good morning, Yuki and Yukina." She said with a smile.
-"Good morning, Mama."- The kids said as they sitted on the chairs.
Momo sa ted the vegetables with soysauce. The kids smelled the aroma and smiled.
-"Are we having a Japanese breakfast today, Mama?"-
"Hai. Your Papa always liked Japanese foods so I thought that we should have it today."
-"We like your cooking. It's alright whether it's Japanese or Western as long as you cooked it."- The kids said with a smile.
"Thank you." Momo said as she placed the sukiyaki on a plate and started to fry the balled fish meat then adding soysauce to it.
Toushirou came out from his room while wearing his shihakushou and looked at his family. Then sitted across the kids.
-"Good morning, Papa."-
"Good morning. Did the two of you had a nice sleep?" Toushirou said as he placed his hands on top of the kids' heads and ruffled their already disheveled hairs.
-"Hai. How about you and Mama? Were your sleeps also alright?"- The kids said as they smiled at their father.
"Of course." Toushirou said as he withdrew his hands and Momo finished cooking their breakfast.
"Breakfast's ready." Momo said as she placed everything on the table and sitted next to Toushirou.
-"Ittadakimasu."-
They then started to eat. They enjoyed the foods that Momo cooked and after they ate, Toushirou and the kids decided to wash the dishes.
"Eh? I can do it." Momo said as she looked at Toushirou, Yuki and Yukina.
"You already cooked for us." Yukina said.
"That's why we want to help you." Yuki said as he smiled.
"Just as what they said." Toushirou said as he turned the faucet on and placed stools on the floor and the twins stood on it.
"Thank you. I'll just take a bath now, okay?" Momo said as she stood up.
-"Okay."-
Momo went inside Toushirou's room and got her clothes. She then went to the shower and went in the tub. After a few minutes, she got dressed and dried her hair. She sitted on the chair infront of the mirror and combed her hair. By that time, Momo's hair went past her waist and she liked it. Toushirou went inside his room and wore his captain's coat and looked at Momo.
"Ne, Shirou-chan. Do you think I should trim it a bit?" Momo said as she stood up an went infront of him.
"No. Don't cut it even a millimeter." Toushirou said as he placed his hands on her waist and pulled her to him.
"Really?"
"Ah. I like your hair like that. I always did." Toushirou said with a light blush on his face since it was the first time that he admitted it to her. The only reason on why he decided to restrain himself for not tearing the cloth that secures her hair was because of the battles and missions that Momo goes in. He didn't want her hair to be cut just by a stupid Hollow otherwise, he'll shred that Hollow to tiny pieces.
"Thank you, Toushirou." Momo said as she kissed Toushirou on the cheek. Toushirou smiled and they went out of his room. The twins already finished taking a bath and were wearing their academy uniforms. Yuki was wearing white shihakushou and blue hakama while Yukina was wearing white shihakushou and red hakama.
"Be careful in going to the academy, okay?" Momo said as she looked at the twins.
-"Hai."-
"Around this time of the year, the academy holds a sparring between students in kendo and kidou." Toushirou said.
"Oh, that's right. Good luck."
-"Hai."-
"Do your best." Toushirou said.
-"Hai. We'll go now."- Yuki and Yukina said as they opened the door.
"Be careful."
The kids nodded ran to the academy. Toushirou headed to his office and so did Momo. They worked on their paperworks. Rangiku went to the 10th squad.
"Ohayou, Taichou."
"Do your work."
"Geez... You're still so cold even after you were married to Momo-chan." Rangiku said as she sitted on the sofa.
"That's unrelated. This is the normal me. Married or not." Toushirou said as he signed the documents.
"Really? I don't think so." Momo said as she appeared in the office. Rangiku and Toushirou looked at her.
"Momo-chan! Good to see you. So, how was Taichou when he was still young? Younger than when I met him?"
Momo looked at Toushirou and smiled at him.
"Well, Toushirou was gentle, kind, sweet, caring and strong." Momo said as she sitted on the couch. Toushirou had a blush on his cheeks while he was fighting it down and signing the papers. Rangiku shrieked and clapped her hands.
"So, Taichou had always been like that! I knew it!"
"Hai. Although, he tries to hide it by being mean, grumpy and stoic. I remember that he once questioned himself on why the other kids were running away from him. 'Why is everyone afraid of me? Was it because of my silver hair? Or because of my turqouise eyes? Or because of the coldness that I have?'" Momo said as her voice became softer. Rangiku looked a little sad while Toushirou was completely unaffected.
"Taichou... had things like those to worry, huh?"
"Hai. I knew that he thought of those things when I saw him in our house at Junrinan. Still, I like everything about him up until now." Momo said as she smiled.
"That's right! Those things happened in the past and now, Taichou's loved by the people around him and we all respect him."
"If you really respect me, then why don't you try to do your paperwork?"
"A-Ah... H-Hehehe... hehe." Rangiku laughed nervously. Momo just giggled. Toushirou just sighed, knowing Rangiku, asking her to do all of her paperwork was just like asking Zaraki to be gentle with his opponents and Ichigo to be serious. Things which are totally impossible and has -100% chance of being a part of reality.
"If you don't want to do your paperwork, go to Academy and watch the students who will be having their kendo and kidou sparring today. Take notes and gives them to me then go home." Toushirou said without taking his eyes off of the papers.
"Eh? Hountou?" Rangiku said as she stood up.
"Ah. Be sure not to miss even a tiny detail." Toushirou said.
"Hai! Bye, Momo-chan. See you later. Oh, I'll also take details about your kids as well as mine, okay?"
"Hai. Arigato gozaimasu, Rangiku-san." Momo said. Rangiku then used Shunpo to go to the Academy.
"You just wanted to know how the kids are doing, right?" Momo said as she looked at Toushirou.
"Ah, I just can't help but be curious on how well they are at school."
"Ara, Shirou-chan is like a real parent now." She said as she giggled.
"I'm a parent after all, right?" Toushirou said as he smirked.
"Right."
A Jigokuchou then flew towards Momo and landed on her finger.
"Captains of 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th squads are to go to the 1st squad meeting hall for an urgent meeting." Momo said as the butterfly flew away.
"Seems like you really need to go there now."
"Seems like it. I'll go now, see you later, Shirou-chan." Momo said as Toushirou nodded and she used Shunpo to go to the 1st squad.
When she arrived there, Kira, the 3rd squad captain, Komamura, Shuuhei, the 9th squad captain, Kenpachi and Rukia, the 13th squad vice captain were already there. Momo stood on her place as Yamamoto looked at them.
"All of you are here to go to Hueco Mundo, three days from now."
-"Eh?"-
"You are to bring Ashido back, a Shinigami who's staying in Hueco Mundo to reduce the number of the attacking Hollows. Also, all of you should prepare for spells to block the Hollows' movements."
"Ano... Yamamoto-sou-taichou. Can I also go to Hueco Mundo to bring Ashido back? I met him when I went there with Ichigo and Renji."
"Very well. You will go there in place of Joushirou. Dismissed."
All of them went out of the 1st squad and went to their own squads. Momo sitted on the couch at the 10th squad and sighed. Toushirou looked at her.
"What was the meeting about?"
"We will go to Hueco Mundo to bring Ashido-san back and put barriers to temporarily block the Hollows' movements."
"Ashido? A Shinigami who belonged to the 7th squad the time even before you and I became a part of the Gotei 13 nor students of the Shinigami Academy. He and his subodinates went on a mission to execute Hollows and stop them from attacking the Gensei as much as possible. Many said that he lost his subordinates and his best friend so to make up for them, he decided to be left at Hueco Mundo to atone for his sin of not being able to save his subordinates and best friend."
"Whoa... You really know a lot. No wonder you're a genius."
"I read his file at the archive of the Central Library. As the captain of the squad that handled the data of the Shinigami and Gensei, I need to atleast be able to memorize his file as well as the others."
"Atleast? That's not least. That was plenty and aside from him, you also know a lot of datas. Thank you for the information."
"Hn. When are you leaving?"
"That... Yamamoto-sou-taichou said that we will leave three days from now."
"Sou ka."
"Taichou!! I'm back!" Rangiku said as she opened the door while holding papers with her written report.
"Do you really have to be that noisy?"
"Not really but it was fun to watch the kids while they spar with each other." She said as she handed the papers to Toushirou and he read it.
"So, all of them performed well." He said as he saw the names of his kids and saw that they excelled in kendo and kidou. Rangiku's daughter, Rina, as well as the kids of Ichigo, Byakuya, Ikkaku and the others also performed well.
"Hai. Rina was amazing when she sparred with the other kids but the totally amazing ones were your children. Yuki-kun has the swordsmanship of Taichou although he also did well on kidou. Yukina-chan on the other hand showed potetntial in becoming a kidou master like Hinamori-chan and she did well on kendo too."
"I see. Those two always watches us when we practice for kidou and kendo and I guess that they earned interests in our areas." Momo said as she looked at Rangiku.
"I guess so. Oh yeah. Partners were also formed by the Academy and your kids were partnered against the Kurosaki twins. Rina was partnered with Yana while they fought Mizuki and Zui. Yukina-chan used Shakahou to distract Haru while Yuki-kun attacked them. It was eally an amazing fight."
"Really? We will congratulate them later."
"Okay. Taichou, I did my work so I can go home, right?" Rangiku said as she looked at Toushirou.
"Ah."
"Okay. Bye, Taichou and Momo-chan!" Rangiku said before running out and going to her house.
(A/N: I though that it was a little unfair for the other Shinigami to not have their own houses inside Seireitei itself while Byakuya, being a part of the Kuchiki clan, have his own house. Rangiku's house is somewhere around the 10th squad being the vice captain while Momo's house is somewhere around the 5th. Of course, they're staying in the houses of their husbands near their respective squads. I also changed the rule of the Shinigami Academy. The one that doesn't allow the students to go home whenever they like. In this fic, the kids are free to go home whenever they like but of course, they won't be cutting classes. ^_^ )
Later that day, the twins came home and they ate dinner. Yuki and Yukina told their parents all the things that they did in the academy and also about their sparring. Of course, their parents were proud of them.
After taking a bath, the kids wore their white kimonos for sleeping. They bid their parents good night before they slept. Momo took her hair out of the bun and tied it in a low and lightly loose ribbon. She snuggled to Toushirou and closed her eyes.
"Ne, Shirou-chan. Do you think that I can finish the mission given to me?"
"Of course."
"I see. Thank you. Good night."
"Good night."