An: I don't own Bleach or the Bleach world... I thought about making this story because I like Toushiro and I love Hisagi... I wondered how Toushiro would act if he had an elder sister and how Hisagi would act around a character who is gaga for him but cna't quite spill the beans to him... This is the result... Enjoy and if you feel like commenting or criticizing please do so. --T.S.

She looked at her younger brother and smiled. "Sorry Shi-chan I can't stay and play with you today, but I have to go to school. Your nee-chan is going to become a soul reaper!"

Young Toushiro looked at his sister and frowned. "…But you will return, right?"

His sister turned her head and looked at him, a big smile on her face. "Of course. Promise." She said holding out her pinky to him. He locked pinkies with her—it was a promise. "Ah… Don't worry. Momo-chan should be coming over to keep you company while I'm away… So be a good boy, k?"

He frowned at her statement. "I'm not a child, Mi-chan…"

"…You'll always be one to me, Shi-chan… Anyhow, gotta fly otherwise I'll be late! Later!" With that, he watched his elder sister run off toward the Sereitei. Little did Toushiro Hitsugaya know it would be the last time he heard from his elder sister…

…Or so he thought…Funny how the way life turns out sometimes…

"Taichou?" Matsumoto, Rangiku, who had walked into the office of the 10th division and found her Taichou asleep at his desk. It was highly unusual that the little Taichou be asleep but it was even more unusual for him to be asleep amidst a pile of paper work.

"Aw… Poor little guy…" Said another female figure as she paraded into the office of the 10th division.

Matsumoto looked at the other woman—long waist length raven hair and blue green eyes…

Nozomi, Kiyomi… Third seat of squad nine and one of Rani's favorite female drinking buddies. "Oh Kiyomi-chan! You came after all! Great! Hold on a second, let me just wake up the Taichou and let him know we're all going to go drinking…" Kiyomi smiled and looked at the unfolding scene.

"Taichou?!" Asked Matsumoto gently shaking him awake. Little good it did her because her little Taichou still remained asleep. Matsumoto looked at Kiyomi and shrugged.

"…I can't wake him up…" She said.

"You're not trying hard enough, Rani. You gotta do it like this… I've learned this dealing with my squad's Lieutenant." Walking over to the little Taichou's desk, Kiyomi bent down and cleared her throat. "Watch and learn, Rani… I know things about men… I grew up with a younger brother after all…" Rangiku for her part smiled and placed a hand to her curvy hip as she drank in the unfolding scene.

"Alright, let's see what you got, Mi-chan."

Smirking the third chair of the ninth squad got really close to Rani's Taichou's ear. Clearing her throat again, the woman called gently,

"Taichou… Taichou…"

Meanwhile… In the land of nod…

Toushiro, for his part began hearing a familiar female voice call to him in the distance as his dreams began taking eerie forms… He was dreaming that he was back in the 10th division office and his elder sister who went missing when he was still young was standing there watching him.

~Taichou…~ She said with a smile on her face.

~…Nee-chan…~ He watched his dark haired blue-green eyed elder sister mouth some words and then suddenly her sweet tone took on a whole new level. He heard the loudest yell he had ever heard in his life.

Meanwhile… In Soul Society…

"TAAAAIIIICHHHOUUUU WAKE UP!" Screamed Nozomi, Kiyomi right by the ear of the Taichou of the 10th division. Suddenly the little captain nearly jumped out of his chair. He began to look around in an alarmed fashion for the source of the yelling.

"MATSUMOTO! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING O—" Looking around for his Lt. he found her standing with a hand on her hip trying to hide a laugh as third chair Kiyomi stood by the Taichou making a Victory sign on her hands-(Kiyomi- ^_^ --v).

Turning his head, he noticed the woman standing beside him. "Nozomi…Kiyomi…" He said through gritted teeth. Suddenly getting out of his chair, he calmly turned to the woman and said,

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?"

"…Waking you up of course, Taichou." She fixed a smile on her face. "Rani-chan needed to have a word with you and was having a difficult time waking you up so I gave her a hand… Rani, tell the Captain what's going on!"

"…Uh… Well… Captain… Now that you're up… Uh… Mi-chan and I are going to go drinking—"

"You woke me up… To tell me that you… Are… Going drinking?" His lower lip twitched as his hand hastily reached for his zanpaktou. Now there's only just so much a person could take… He had to draw the line somewhere.

"Uh… Uh… Kiyomi-chan…" Matsumoto began quickly making her way to the door.

Kiyomi watched Matsumoto curiously and saw her slipping out the door. When she was gone, she turned to Hitsugaya-Taichou.

"Geez, you're a real party-pooper Shi-chan…"

"Shi…SHI-CHAN?!!!!" He snapped looking at the woman.

Smiling at him, she put a hand on his head and ruffled his hair. "Well duh… Otouto-chan… What else would I call you? What cat got your tongue or can't you even give your big sister a proper welcome?" She whispered flicking his nose suddenly. The captain touched his nose and growled at his elder sister—the same sister that became a soul reaper—the same one that left home years ago and hadn't returned. The same one he reunited with upon when he was made captain eons ago. The very person who's identity and relation he had been keeping a secret from the rest of Soul Society in order to protect them both from danger.

And now… Here she was… Annoying him yet again. He had had enough of her mischief making… She was always doing something to annoy him… And now… it was getting old. Even though she was best friends with his Lieutenant and visited periodically, sometimes her methods of greeting became a little too much.. And this was one of those times.

"……….GAAAHHHH! RAIN FROM THE FROSTED HEAVENS HIYORIMARU!"

Kiyomi's eyes widened as her brother's dragon was unleashed from his sword. Running to the door as the room became sheathed in ice, Kiyomi luckily escaped unscathed and found Rani, her acting Taichou—Shuuhei, Hisagi and Ikaku standing outside waiting for her arrival.

"What the hell did you do?" Asked Ikaku.

"…I provoked…Hell to freeze over apparently…" Said Kiyomi shivering at her brother's wrath as she dusted off some of the ice that was on her kimono. The others shivered slightly as they made their way to the bar. Kiyomi sighed slightly. Truth be told, since she and her brother were reunited, she was happy to have him back. The only reason she played the part of the annoying elder sister was 1) because it was fun, 2) it was one of the excuses she could use to get close to him and make sure he was alright and 3) she had done it since they were little—old habits die hard… But she surely forgot that her little brother when provoked had a temper… And man was he mad at her!

A few weeks passed by since her previous incident with her brother. She decided that she needed to make things up to him… So…Kiyomi snuck in quietly to her brother's office--previously poking her head in to make sure that her best friend and often times partner in crime—Matsumoto, Rangiku was nowhere to be found. Lucky for her she was nowhere in sight. Kiyomi smirked as she concealed several childhood photo's of her baby brother in her shinigami uniform and smirked even wider when her brother looked up from atop his paper work over his desk at her.

"Thought you were going to sneak in, eh, Kiyomi?" She cringed at the cool tone his voice was taking on as visions of their previous encounter roamed in her mind.

"Uh...Depends on how you define, sneak, Shi-chan..."

He growled. "How many times do you have to be told to not use such familiar terms with me--"

Kiyomi began to make a puppet out of her hand. It began to move in rhythm to her baby brother's voice as he lectured her. She even went so far as to crouch down near his desk and amuse herself by sticking her hand up and making it talk in time with him for all to see.

"KIYOMI?! Are you listening to a word I'm saying?!"

At his yell, she peered up at him and blushed. "Uh--"

"I'll take that as a no..." He sighed and sipped the tea on his desk. "Whatever... What do you want? I can already tell by the way your acting that you're up to no good..."

She tried to smile to throw him off guard, but she knew he knew her better than that.

"Oh... You're no fun... I was really only here to apologize for the other day…" She whispered walking over to him and hugged him, pulling him close to her chest. He immediately began to squirm, his arms flailing in every which direction.

"Miyomi!!!!!" He yelled starting to turn blue from his elder sister's affection.

"What?! Oh... Sorry..." She said rubbing the back of her head, releasing her strangle hold on him. His face was crimson and he looked utterly and horribly terrified. It was the look he usually gave when Matsumoto was smashing him into her cleavage…

"DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!" He shouted.

"Do what?" She asked innocently putting on her best and brightest stupid smile for him.

"Shouldn't you be getting drunk by now or helping out your acting Taichou in some way?!"

"I thought you said a long looong time ago that I shouldn't get drunk because I demoralize myself by doing that... Besides... Hisagi has other things to do and doesn't need me acting like some sort of lost puppy, does he?"

Hitsugaya sighed. She was supposed extremely intelligent--his intellectual equal, but sometimes she really made him wonder how the hell he ever got related to someone like her in the first place…And he wondered why in the hell they had found each other once again… Why did he have all the luck anyhow? Why couldn't he have a normal sister? Why did she have to be so annoying? Why--

"Hey Shi-chan..."

He cringed at her childhood nickname for him... He didn't know what was worse--Momo's nickname for him Shiro-chan or Kiyomi's shortened version of it--Shi-chan...

"Kiyomi..." He growled, acknowledging her while simultaneously showing his annoyance.

"Guess what I have?"

He didn't want to know... Really he didn't... Why couldn't she go bother someone else?

She suddenly flashed several pictures before his face and his eyes practically bugged out of his head.

"Wh...Wh...Where did you get those?!" He demanded.

She put a finger to her lightly glossed lips and winked at him. "Oh... Ya know... I've had them layin' around for a little while..." She replied.

"Kiyomi... Give them to me right now!"

She stood up and started to back away from his desk. "Uh... No can do... SORRY!" She replied.

"Kiyomi..." He was starting to lose his patience with her.

"No matter how much you beg, how much you threat, these are my cute wittle pictuues of my adowable, handsome, baaaby bruver.." She said mocking him in a baby voice. He rubbed his face with his hand.

"Kiyomi! GIVE THEM TO ME NOW!" Suddenly he lept at her, causing them to both fall onto the ground. The pictures were in his reach--if only he could just grab them from her long arm he would be able to secure them, put them under lock and key or better yet burn them...

Suddenly the door to his office slammed open and Matsumoto walked in.

"TAICHOU!!!!" She called walking in, suddenly seeing both him and Kiyomi on the ground in a rather unpleasant pose.

"Oooh my..." She began blushing. "I had no idea you felt that way about Kiyomi, Taichou!"

Kiyomi and Toushiro exchanged quick glances at Matsumoto and then looked to one another their eyes widening in disgust.

"EWWWWW!" Kiyomi practically squealed tossing her younger brother off of her with one swift kick to the gutt. "That's just nasty Rani!--"

"What you don't like my Taichou?" She asked putting her hands on her hips. "I would say that that pose of you two painted quite a different little scene..."

Kiyomi sighed... She heard Hitsugaya who was behind her laying on the ground suddenly call on his zanpaktou... Not only did Rani run for the door screaming, but Kiyomi followed hot on her heals.

"GET OUT AND STAY OUT!" He shouted.

Kiyomi shivered at her brother's 'cold' parting. Man what crawled up his butt and died?! She wondered and had to hand it to herself she could and always did have a way of ticking off her little brother… As she trekked back to the squad nine compound, she found herself getting more serious… Since Aizen's attack on the soul society and her own Captain's betrayal, the squads acting Taichou and her crush--Hisagi Shuuhei was working really hard to ensure order and that things were running smoothly within the squad. As she made her way home, she found her acting Captain awaiting for her return.

"Captain..." She whispered, practically blushing. He had this odd smirk on his face.

"So... Rani tells me that you've been seeing Captain Hitsugaya again... Anything going on that I ought to know about?" He folded his muscular arms over his chest. She found herself practically drooling over him.

Her face burned. She shook her head. "No… N-no-nothing…" ~Dammit why does everyone think I'm dating my brother! That is soooo freakin gross!~

"Oh well... Hey Kiyomi... You are one of the more responsible ones around here… I was wondering… How would you like to be acting Lieutenant?" He asked before he dismissed her from his sight.

Her jaw practically dropped off its hinges. "…I…I… But… Taichou… Shouldn't Yuri-kun be next in line?"

"Yuri is a good person, but very slow… And don't even get me started about Zen… So will you do it?"

…Kiyomi found her face turning scarlet. She didn't even need to think over the situation at hand before she blurted out her answer. "YES! Of course I'll do it--… Sorry… I mean… Of course, Taichou…"

Hisagi smiled at her. "Good. I'm glad you said yes…"

"…Is there anything you need me to do at the moment, Captain?"

"…I do need some help with paper work if you could spare some time."

"Of course…" ~For you… I would do anything…~ She thought following him like a lost puppy to their central compound.