Ah, this little baby just didn't want to leave me alone. I've been dreaming about this for weeks. This is gonna be slightly cannon. (Is that the word when you go off the anime and stuff?) I'm not following all of what happened in the winter war, changing up some stuff to make sure this story makes sense. I'm obsessed with mpreg, so Yea, eventual mpreg. And this pairing is very unappreciated, which I totally don't understand. Anyway, let's hope this comes out like I want and is actually good. Almost three thousand words! Yay me!
Disclaimer: I don't own bleach or it's characters. This is yaoi, meaning 'gay as fuck', so if you don't like two guys banging it out, don't read this. Or all of my stories. Babies coming out of said banging guys. Alpha/beta things.
Please excuse any mistakes.
Toshiro stood dutifully in front of head captain yamamoto awaiting his orders. He didn't know exactly what he was supposed to do, but he hoped it didn't involve bringing along his lieutenant. She was an amazing soldier, especially when on the battlefield, but in any other situation, she was a pain.
After a minute, the head captain seemed to have decided to finally tell the white haired captain his assignment. "Captain hitsugaya, you will go to the world of the living and monitor for a particular hollow. Since the appearance of the espada, it has been reported that an arrancar has been frequenting a park that is a popular gathering spot for humans. Find it and observe it, if it attacks a single soul, you are to destroy it. Am I understood?"
Toshiro nodded his understanding, but there was something bothering him slightly. "Head captain, may I speak?" seeing his superior raise a greying brow, he cleared his throat. "If I find this arrancar and it isn't harming anyone, what am I to do?"
"You eliminate it! Any hollow is a dangerous hollow." he stated as if it was obvious, which it was to him.
The child prodigy was unnerved by this. He knew hollows were dangerous. But was it ludicrous to think an innocent hollow existed? He didn't think so, but unfortunately, orders were orders. He nodded, feeling slight dread at having to kill a possibly innocent being. "If the hollow doesn't immediately show, how long am I to stay and observe? And while I'm there, where shall I stay?"
"I will give you a month to find and eliminate the hollow. We will setup lodging for you, if it is needed. You may find your own if you desire. Now inform lieutenant matsumoto of your departure and leave immediately. Dismissed." as the head captain banged his cane, toshiro bowed and left, heading straight for the office of the tenth division. Once he made it there, he checked to see if he had completed all of the paperwork for himself and his lazy lieutenant, rolling his eyes at the half empty bottle of sake on her desk.
"How she still has a job puzzles me." he muttered to himself.
He was about to head to the barracks when his office door burst open, admitting his staggering, drunken subordinate. Rangiku laughed loudly, lumbering her way to her pissed captain. "Captain! Where are you going? Ooh, are we taking a break?"
Toshiro felt his brow twitch. How could she even think he would approve of another break for her? The one she came back from wasn't even approved! He sighed. She would give him an aneurysm. "No rangiku, I'm going on a long-term assignment to the world of the living." he went on as she opened her mouth to speak. "And no, you aren't accompanying me. I just came to tell you, so I'll be on my way."
He walked towards the door, turning to face the busty redhead. "An do try not to destroy the division." with that said, he left the building, ignoring the pout rangiku sent him. She would get over it, he knew.
As the smaller captain made it to the living world, he went straight to the park he was informed of. He wanted to see if this hollow showed up. He sat there for hours, the tree he was perched on getting uncomfortable. Five hours and no hollow. He wasn't an impatient person, but this was getting annoying.
He relaxed and let down his guard some, it was obvious the hollow wasn't coming. All he saw for the rest of the early night were couples spending the day together, holding hands and having picnics. Some even argued. He thought it odd that a hollow would frequently come here. What did it do here? Was it 'people watching', as ichigo called it? It made sense, and then it didn't. Watching the humans meant it could track any of them, then attack later on. But it hadn't done that. The hollow had been, and still is, watching the humans for a long period of time. Hollows weren't known for patience.
He huffed a breath and was about to leave when he felt a slight tremor of reiatsu, like someone suddenly hid it. That was odd for a hollow to do, and he knew it was the hollow. They weren't intelligent enough to know how to suppress reiatsu, at least that was what he was taught.
'Maybe they are smarter than we think.'
He kept his spot, watching. He had never seen an arrancar, so this was more than just an assignment. Several minutes passed and he finally saw it, the hollow. It appeared by a park bench, seemingly materializing out the shadows. Toshiro couldn't see its face, since it wasn't facing him, but it had half of what seemed like some kind of helmet on its head, locks of raven hair falling just passed it's shoulders. It wore all white clothing, similar to that of soul reapers, like his own, but not the same. From what he could see of its build, it was male.
The white haired captain sat patiently, observing like he was ordered to. The male hollow slowly sat on the bench, toshiro noticing as it seemed to watch the humans walk past it. This went on for hours, the hollow just sitting and watching. Moving only to stare at a small family of three.
Toshiro was baffled. This was not what he expected at all. He expected a bloodbath as soon as a single human walked by. But no, that didn't happen.
Twenty minutes later the hollow got up, looked at the sunset, and left. That confused the soul reaper even more.
He sighed, this was going to be an interesting month.
Kisuke urahara was just about to go to sleep when there was a knock on his door. Usually he already knew when someone was paying him a visit, even before they came within a block of his shop. But tonight he was off his game. He had finished an experiment in his lab, he had been working on it for days without sleep, so it was understandable that he wasn't as...eccentric as usual. He sleepily walked to his door, opening it enough to see a head of white hair. "Ah, captain hitsugaya, it's been a while. What brings you to my shop so late at night? Finally decided to take me up on experimenting on you?"
Toshiro's eye twitched. He was regretting coming to the crazy outcast. "I came to ask you if I could stay the night, until I can contact soul society about my lodging."
Kisuke stepped aside and let him in, waving his closed fan in dismissal. "Nonsense. You can stay here, then I'll find you your own place. I think you'd rather stay in a place that isn't monitored by kurotsuchi, I know I would."
The man was right, he would sleep better at night knowing he wasn't being watched by the psycho scientist. He nodded and sat at the low table, drinking the offered tea. "I would appreciate that, but what do you want in return?"
Kisuke looked offended. "What makes you think I want something?" he got a look that stated 'do I look stupid?' from the tenth division captain. He chuckled nervously. "Ah, you got me. All I want is to know why you're here. I won't interfere, unless you tell me to."
Toshiro thought it fair enough, after all, he had been getting close to the outcast. "I was sent here to monitor and kill a hollow frequenting a park, an arrancar."
"And what did you find so far?"
Though he tried to hide it, the sadness showed on his face. "I found the arrancar, it was in the park, just watching the humans. But that's it."
A look of understanding came across the shopkeeper's face. "Let me guess, the head captain told you to kill it, even if it isn't harming anyone?" he shook his head of shaggy blonde hair. "The man never changes." he knew from experience that the old man saw the world in black and white. Nothing else.
That night toshiro slept horribly, tossing and turning all night. He couldn't get the image of the hollow, frightened and desperate as it ran for it's life, out of his mind.
The next night he went back to the park, watching the arrancar on that same park bench. That's how it went for a week straight. He'd watch the hollow observe people. It made having to end it's life that much harder than it already was.
It was the second week in, that the hollow was late. That was strange. It always came at the exact same time, every night. Toshiro lept from his tree and made his way to the bench, looking for it. Maybe it was hiding from him? No, he had concealed his spiritual pressure. Then what? He didn't have time to contemplate, as there was a puff of air near his ear, then a soft, monotone voice spoke. "This game has become boring, soul reaper. Care to play another?"
Toshiro whipped around as fast as he could, almost getting whiplash. Nothing, there was nothing there but shadows. Was his mind playing tricks on him? He shook his head and turned back around, finding the arrancar sitting on the bench. He tried not to flinch, he really did. Pulling out his sword and laying the blade end on its neck. "How did you do that?" he demanded.
The arrancar made no move to flee or defend itself. "You ask how I did it, but don't ask why I'm here? And here I thought you were watching me."
Toshiro growled and pressed his sword closer, drawing a small amount of dark, almost black blood. He didn't want to do this, but with the arrancar just sitting there, it was weighing heavily on his heart. He would just have to make this quick and as painless as possible. "We both know that doesn't matter, you're a hollow, and hollows have to be cleansed. Do you have any last words?"
The hollow hummed. "I do. It seems that you don't want to do this, so I'll enlighten you on my species, before I am killed." he turned and set big, emerald green eyes upon the now frozen soul reaper. "You soul reapers see all hollows as one. We are not. We, like humans, have different stages of life. The hollows you lot constantly fight here in the world of the living, are the equivalent of infants, mindless and led solely by instincts. After those, there are the adjuchas, likened to children. Still led by instincts, but they know not to come here and wreak havoc, there is no need to. And lastly, there are the vasto lorde and arrancars, the adults of the hollow world. We know 'right and wrong', if you will, and have no need to come to the world of the living and feed off human souls."
He paused to let all the information seep in. "So, contrary to the belief of you soul reapers, the world isn't black and white. There are an array of colors. Though it won't change things, at least one of your kind knows, ne?"
The grip on the small captain's sword faltered. This, all of this, seemed so wrong now. He never felt bad for killing the hollows that forced their way here, they were killing innocent people. But to know that those creatures essentially didn't know any better, that did not feel good. "I-I don't see the world as the rest of them do." he whispered brokenly. "I at least thought that there was such a thing as an innocent hollow out there. But to hear you say it, makes this so much more horrible than it already was."
The hollow was deeply surprised by that, he thought this soul reaper was like the ones he already encountered. Well, not all of the soul reapers he's met. No, this one was different. He intrigued him. "What are you saying, soul reaper?"
The white haired man took a deep breath and sheathed his sword. "I'm saying, that I won't kill you. I have no reason to, you haven't harmed anyone." he was doing the right thing, but he knew the consequences for the action he was about to take.
Brows furrowed, the arrancar stood, facing the shorter man. "Soul reaper, what is your name?"
Toshiro looked up at the arrancar in surprise. "T-toshiro, it's captain Toshiro hitsugaya."
"Well toshiro, since you've spared my life, I'll spare yours." toshiro didn't have enough time to question what that meant, what with having to quickly draw Hyorinmaru. "I may not know all the ways of soul society, but I know that, by not killing me, you would most likely be killed yourself. So, fight me."
They faced off, trading blows back and forward. Neither getting anywhere in there fight. The arrancar noticed that toshiro was pulling his blows, not intending to harm him. That wouldn't do. Needing to end the fight, the arrancar used sonido to appear suddenly in front of toshiro, surprising the other by impaling the small captains stomach with his hand.
The boy genius coughed up blood, setting pained and confused turquoise eyes on a pale, blank face. "Not to worry, it's not fatal." the arrancar barely smirked. "This needs to look real, yes?" He extracted his hand and watched with a pained expression as toshiro fell to the ground. "Now sleep, a friend is coming, you will be fine. And, we will meet again. You intrigue me."
Before toshiro passed out completely, he croaked out one word. "Name?"
"Ulquiorra cifer."
And just like that, he was gone and toshiro's vision was wavering. He saw a flash of orange, then blackness seeped into his consciousness.
Wow, this actually happened. I thought it would take forever to get it typed up from my brain, only took me a couple of days. This is before the actual war, but after ulquiorra and yammy invaded the world of the living. The way I'm setting things up, the war is going to be more drawn out, it's not gonna happen after like, two months. So, not that many soul reapers have seen espada and arrancar. Side note: I did not know how fucking short toshiro was! I knew he was short, but 4'4½? I'm taller than him, and I'm 4'11! Bruh.