Well, I finally manage to write another story...
As for my other story, I promise you that I'll continue as soon as I have spare time...
For now, please bear with this story =p

Disclaimer: I do want to own Bleach. Unfortunately, I have no such luck. It is Tite Kubo's.

Chapter 1 - The Human and The Shinigami

"…I'm going," mumbled the white haired midget as he stood before a gigantic gate: the Senkaimon. Soon enough, a butterfly approached him, fluttering its pair of beautiful black wings elegantly. In response, the male teenager dragged his foot and headed towards the gate.

Before the turquoise eyed one could enter the gate, however, a middle-aged man with the same hair color as his interfered, "Please remember the absolute law, Shiro – I mean, Hitsugaya-taichou."

"…Ukitake-taichou."

"I'll just read it once again just in case you have forgotten," the Ukitake-called man, with an angelic smile on his face, uttered before clearing his throat.

"…There's no need, really," he retorted.

Ignoring the midget's reply, the long haired one continued, "First, no shinigami should ever take humans', whose names are not listed, lives. Second, no shinigami should ever leak any information regarding us to any other beings." Hitsugaya shrugged and let out a sigh of defeat as the speech continued, "Last…I don't think that Shiro-chan would ever do this though. Well, there's no harm in reading it. Last, no shinigami should ever…fall in love with humans. That does it."

"…I'll be going then," replied the white haired midget coldly as he turned away and began crossing the gate, leaving the smiling middle-aged man alone.

"Good luck, Hitsugaya-taichou."

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Under the roof was Hitsugaya, the white haired midget with a green sash that held his zanpakutou hanging around his shoulder. He was lying nonchalantly with his appealing turquoise eyes closed; his head on both of his hands. Several seconds later, he finally, lazily, opened his eyes while letting out a sigh, a rather deep one, and mumbled, "Looks like I'm a bit early this time…"

"Hey you! Don't sleep in such a place! It's dangerous, you know?" yelled a feminine voice owner.

Sighing, the midget protested, 'Both human world and its residents never change, do they? What a noisy world…this is why I hate going to the real world very much.'

"Hey! Do you hear me?" she yelled, again.

'Really…what's she thinking? Shouting in public like that…' he thought. Feeling annoyed, Hitsugaya finally stood up and stretched his body as if he had just woken up in the morning. He then brushed away the dust on the back of his white haori before looking at his cellphone-like thing and murmured, "It's the time."

Suddenly, the wooden door below opened, revealing a fairly beautiful woman, the owner of the house, with a handbag hanging on her right arm. She then, after closing the door, headed towards the gate and slid it open. She took a few steps and closed the gate.

Several meters behind the woman were a pair of young, male delinquents riding a motorcycle. Their speed, however, was way above the appropriate speed. What exacerbated the situation, instead of reducing their speed, the drunken delinquents were speeding. In a blink of eye, the motorcycle past in front of the female teenager from earlier and viciously hurled itself into the poor woman.

Her body lied motionlessly on the street; her once beautiful black eyes were vacant; her once appealing white dress was now blood-stained. There she was, lying lifeless as the two delinquents frantically ran away, leaving their motorcycle and the subsided female teenager alone with a lifeless body to take care of.

Too shocked to scream for help, the female teenager just sat there with her hazel eyes widened and both of her hands on her lips. Tears flooded her beautiful hazel eyes, gushing over her cheeks. Nevertheless, more to her surprise, the boy, midget to be blunt, appeared out of nowhere and approached the poor lifeless body.

'W-what is he…doing?' she thought, trying to hold back her almost uncontrollable tears from flooding her now reddened eyes. It was a success. Though, it was not because of her effort; it was because and unbelievable event in front of her eyes. With her eyes widened, the vivid image of the unexplainable thing in front of her lingered in her mind, 'Two…chain…'

Standing next to the blood-soaked body were two beings: one was the white haired boy with a pair of emotionless turquoise eyes while the other was the fairly beautiful woman whose black eyes were filled with confusion with…a chain hanging from the center of her chest. Of course, this kind of scene was not common. Surely enough, seeing two separated, yet exactly the very same person was out of question.

However, the next thing she saw was even more stunning. The midget lifted his right hand and reached for his light blue hilted katana. Slowly, he pulled the katana and strode towards the petrified woman. There was a short conversation before the white haired midget, again, lifted his right hand and steadily touched the forehead of the woman with his katana's hilt. It surely was an unforgettable sight for her, seeing the woman who was supposed to be dead beautifully turned into an exquisite blue orb-looking thing and drifted to the sky, vanishing gradually.

Too amazed, the girl did not even realize that the midget had walked away, leaving her alone, petrified. It was several seconds later that she finally snapped back to the reality. Fortunately, the midget had not disappeared from her sight yet and thus, she mustered up her remaining strength as she hectically stood up and ran towards the midget.

"H-hey you!" she yelled, yet, her voice was trembling.

Ignoring the voice, Hitsugaya did not slow down; he kept walking nonchalantly until someone finally tapped his left shoulder. It was her. It was the one who yelled earlier. It was also the one who witnessed the tragic incident several minutes ago.

"H-hey! Do you hear me? I'm talking to you!" she said, though, her trembling voice had not changed a bit. As the respond, the midget turned his body. For the first time, the cold turquoises meet the appealing hazels. An utter, yet somewhat comforting silence fell upon the two of them, creating such an atmosphere that none of them wanted to break the silence and hoped that this situation would last forever. There they are, petrified like a pair of living corpse.

It took even a Hitsugaya Toshiro ten seconds to finally show a sign of life. Dragged back to the reality, he lifted his right hand and waved it right in front of the hazel eyes.

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"Ah. W-what…?" mumbled the hazel eyed girl. A hint of sakura pink could be noted from her childish, yet appealing face.

Hearing this, the turquoise eyes widened. Countless possibilities that one could think of lingered on his once calm mind. Hoping that he misheard the girl, he hesitantly inquired, "You can…see me?"

As the response of this unusual question, the girl chuckled and said, "Of course yes! What are you? A ninja?"

Ignoring the girl's laughter, the white haired midget contemplated, could not believe this unusual phenomenon, 'Normal human beings can't see us, shinigami, right? Then why…?'

"What…are you?" mumbled the midget. Instantly, the laughter stopped, replaced by an awkward atmosphere as the raven haired one was finally reminded about the unexplainable scene she had just witnessed.

Being able to muster up her courage, she fought back, "I-I am the one who wants to know that! What did you do to that woman? Who are you? What…are you?"

"I-I…" mumbled Hitsugaya as something came across his mind. That was, apparently, the second law that he should not violated, ever. Telling the stranger in front of him who was obviously those "other beings" that he was a shinigami was absolutely out of question. Fortunately, for a prodigy like him, it was quite easy to find something else to say. Frantically, he continued, "I-I'm a human, of course! What else I can be? What a stupid question…"

"B-but – "

"I'm Hitsugaya Toshiro," he interfered.

"Ah…I'm Hinamori Momo," the girl with her raven hair tied up in a bun reflexively replied.

Thank you for reading ^^

I know that there are and will be many strange, cheesy, inappropriate, etc events...==
Well, this is my first romance story after all XD
So...yeah...^^a

Mind to review?

See you in the next chapter lol.