Chapter 1 New school.
It was the first day that I was going to my new school. My father had lost his job so things were tough; eventually they had sent me to live with my Aunt and Uncle.
I wasn't too happy about leaving; it made me feel like he had forgotten that I was sixteen and just a child. Despite how I felt about being treated this way, I guess it was for the best.
I had been at my aunt Ryona and uncle Yamada's for three weeks now, my aunt and uncle lived in Karakura Japan, they also just so happened to be rich.
I had lived in New York before, but luckily I already spoke Japanese, yet I still wasn't comfortable here. I had no friends and it wasn't like changing schools when you moved to a new town.
No, this was different, I moved to a new country. I left all my friends behind in America, people were different here, I didn't even know if I could make friends here.
"Momo! Are you ready yet? I don't want you to be late the first day of school!" My aunt Ryona yelled from the kitchen all the way at the front of the house.
"I know I'm getting ready right now!" I yelled back in response to her from the back.
One good thing about moving when I did was that school was just starting for everyone else here too, so luckily I wouldn't have to stand at the front of the class every period and introduce myself.
Just getting out of the shower, I glanced at the time, just had to get dress, do my makeup and my hair.
I put on a black skirt that was pretty short for a uniform, then I slipped on a white button up shirt, so far I wouldn't call this uniform the most stylish outfit ever.
Then I found the sailor necktie, plain white except for the black border line, which I had to say made this uniform look a little better.
Putting on the dark red jacket that went with the uniform and knee high socks, I went and stood in front of the body mirror in the corner of my room I realized how good the uniform actually looked on me. I pulled my shoulder length brown hair back into a bun and put a matching red cloth to the jacket over it.
As I was tying a black ribbon around my hair, I couldn't help but wonder what this school would be like. Would the people here be nice or mean? Just stuff like that.
I was brushing on my makeup on carefully, putting on my blush which didn't really help my pale face but it still helped a little, when my aunt yelled again.
"Momo! Are you ready? I don't want you to be late your first day of school!" She repeated.
"Yeah I am!" I replied as I grabbed my school bag and ran out to the car at the front of the house.
I opened the door to a red corvette owned by my uncle and sat in the passenger's seat, the driver's seat was occupied by my uncle Yamada.
Apparently my Aunt was going to stay home instead of coming with us; she walked up to the open window next to me.
"Good luck. I hope you have a good first day of school!" She said in the nice, sweet voice she would always use.
"Thanks!" was all I could think to say.
"'Kay see ya sweetheart!" My Uncle said to her waving and pulling out of the driveway.
"You excited?" My uncle asked to me.
"Well, yes and no." I said while applying lip gloss to my lips.
"What do you mean?" He asked curiously.
"Well, I'd hate to admit it but I'm a little nervous." I replied while looking at the houses we were passing.
"If you weren't then I'd be worried." He said with a small laugh and smile.
"Yeah, I'd be worried too." I whispered to myself.
When my uncle Yamada finally stopped in front of the school I gave him a kiss on the cheek, got out and said bye.
He offered to help me find my first class but I insisted that I should find them myself.
I walked up the school steps to try and find my next class, it felt a little awkward though. People were staring at me with surprised looks, this was one of the reasons I didn't want my uncle to come with me. He was vice president of a huge company here in Japan, so he was well known.
Once I was in the school and had gotten over the stares everyone had been giving me, I finally started looking for my first class history. It wasn't too hard since uncle Yamada, Aunt Ryo and I had come and looked around the school a few days ago.
When I finally located my class and found a seat in the middle area, I began to take a quick scan of the students that were in the classroom. So far it looked like just an average class, but it wasn't like I expected anything special.
"Are you looking for someone?" I heard a girl's voice ask from behind me.
Just in case she was talking to me I turned to see who it was, there was a girl leaning on the desk right behind the one I was in. She had short black hair, one strip that cut across her face and was also very pretty with a nice smile on her face; she was also staring at me.
"No one, I was just looking around the classroom." I said back to her.
"Oh. Well, I'm Kuchiki, Rukia. Nice to meet you." She said holding out a hand.
"Nice to meet you too. I'm Hinamori, Momo." I said wondering when class was going to start and of course shaking her hand.
"So Hinamori-san I didn't see you here last year, you new?" Rukia said while sitting in the seat right behind me.
"Yeah, I moved from America about three weeks ago. Oh and please just call me Momo." I said a little depressed about the thought, I really missed America.
"Well, welcome to Japan!" Rukia said with a big smile, then looking up to the front of the class.
The bell then rang, signaling the beginning of class, the teacher then stood up from his desk to begin class. Everyone else in the room took a seat quickly. The teacher then introduced himself as Komamura sensei and began the lesson of the day. It was just a regular history lesson, boring.
Suddenly, two guy students burst into the classroom laughing their heads off and not even bothering to keep their voices down. They were both muscular looking and both handsome, one had orange hair and the other had red hair.
"Mr. Kurosaki and Mr. Abarai!" Komamura sensei barked angrily to them.
"Yeah?" The one with red hair said lazily.
"I will not have you two troublemakers interrupting my class! Now take a seat and you better not sit next to each other!" He said turning his attention to the board.
The red head went and sat in the seat next to Rukia and the other guy sat in the seat in front of me, when the teacher was done talking he handed out an assignment for us to do and if it wasn't done in class it'd be homework as usual. He also allowed us to talk now.
"Ichigo! Why were you late? You're never late!" Rukia said to the guy who sat in front of me.
"Ask Renji. It was his fault." he said not really even caring.
"What! It was not! You liar!" The other guy said back glaring at Ichigo at least that's what I thought his name was.
"Why does it even matter Rukia? They didn't miss anything." I said a little shy.
The two guys looked at me for a second in surprise as if they hadn't even seen me. It was beginning to freak me out when Renji, at least that's what I thought was his name, turned to Rukia and Ichigo, and turned back around to do his work.
"Who's this?" He asked.
"Renji, Ichigo this is Hinamori, Momo. Momo, this is Ichigo and Renji." Rukia said pointing to the person when she said their name.
"Nice to meet you." I said with a little bow.
"Well I like her! Like she said who cares if we were late? I mean Ichigo the goody goody maybe but me? No." Renji said smirking at Ichigo as he sat back in his chair doing the assignment lazily.
"What!?! I m just as bad as you are Renji! The only difference is that I have a brain!" Ichigo retorted turning back around and taking his eyes back off his paper.
It was like that the whole class period. Renji and Ichigo arguing, then Rukia and I popping into the argument every now and then, it was a little weird but fun.
I headed to my next class, which just so happened to be with Ichigo and Renji.
They both escorted me to the class arguing about how they would beat up any bully that picked on me better than the other. It was both flattering and sort of creepy, but I had some new friends.
Our next class was Science with Mr. Kurotsuchi, we all sat next to each other at one of the lab desks in the back. This class was pretty much the same as any other class, but the only difference was that the teacher was telling us pretty gross stories about some dissections he had done. Ichigo and Renji were yelled at again for playing with the equipment on the table that we didn't use.
After those two long classes we had lunch. They only had four classes a day since block schedules were so long, today were the evens: second, fourth, sixth and eighth periods.
I sat where Renji, Ichigo and Rukia sat; they introduced me to everyone there. There was Orihime, Chad, Tatsuki, Rangiku, Izuru, Ikkaku and Yumichika. There was so many of them, I didn't really remember their names.
"Does everyone always scream when you guys come into the lunch room?" I asked Renji and Ichigo, a bit surprised at what happened a few minutes ago.
"Ha! That's nothing. Just wait for…" Renji was saying before being cut off by a bunch of girls screaming.
I heard some of them yelling annoying stuff like "I love you, Toshiro-kun, you rock, and you're so hot!"
"Am I the only one who thinks that, that is extremely annoying?" I said turning my attention back to the others.
"Eh, I've gotten used to it." Renji said as he began stirring his food around with his fork on his plate.
"Same" Ichigo said.
"Not me! It's so annoying!" The girl named Rangiku said.
"I know! They always give me a head ache!" Rukia complained rubbing the side of her head.
Orihime nodded in agreement; apparently all the guys were used to it.
Finally the source of the ruckus came out of the small crowd that had formed around them.
He walked over to our table and took the only open seat right next to me.
He was a handsome guy with unusually white hair that was really spiky. He sat next to me not even noticing that I was there and put his face in his hands.
"Are they being stupider than usual?" Rangiku asked.
"Is it just me or do they get crazier and crazier every day?" He groaned taking his face out of his hands and resting his head on his palms.
"I think the same thing every day." Ichigo said
"Yeah, same here." Renji said shoveling his lunch into his mouth now.
"Do they try to act like idiots? Cause if they are, they're doing a pretty good job." I said looking behind me at a bunch of girls staring at the back of the white haired guy next to me, like he was some god or something.
The guy next to me straightened up extremely quickly as he looked at me in surprise, again someone didn't notice me until I said something. I guess it was normal or something.
"Nah. They just think Toshiro's hot. I don't think they're aware of how stupid they look." Rangiku said while stealing some of Izuru's food, he didn't seem to notice since he was talking to Orihime.
"Oh." I said while looking at the food that I hadn't even touched.
"Are you not going to eat?" the guy sitting next to me asked.
I looked up at him, he was quite handsome, and I thought it even more once I looked into his piercing blue-green eyes.
"No." I said and looked away. I knew a small blush was threatening to appear on my face.
"Oh! I didn't introduce you guys!" Rukia said standing up. "Momo, this is Toshiro Hitsugaya. Toshiro, this is Momo Hinamori, she's from America.
"Nice to meet you." I said with a small bow as usual.
"Same." That was all Toshiro said, but he continued to stare at me and I kept watching.
"So Momo, what was it like in America?" Rangiku said.
I looked away to answer her question and told some stories about my life in America. To me, they were the same old boring ones I always would hear and it was a little embarrassing too. I didn't have a very exciting life, but everyone else seemed to think it was quite interesting, funny and cool for some reason.
It felt good to have a group to hang out with; they all seemed nice and would laugh at some of the things I would say.
"Momo you need to come with me and Rukia shopping today!" Rangiku said in a very happy and upbeat way.
"You really should!" Rukia pitched in.
"Okay, it sounds fun! But I'll have to ask my Aunt Ryona first." I said not even bothering to hide the excitement in my voice.
"So Ichigo, you still coming over tonight?" Toshiro suddenly said while standing up and grabbing his things.
"Yeah!" Ichigo yelled while standing up roughly and almost knocking Renji out of his chair.
"Hey Toshiro, you said you'd help me with my homework!" Rangiku whined standing up with a small pout on her face, grabbing Toshiro by the arm.
"Matsumoto it's the first day of school. You don't need my help." Toshiro said while signaling to Ichigo to go.
I'm not sure if it was just my imagination or not, but I could have sworn that I saw Toshiro flinch right before Rangiku grabbed his arm.
It was as if he was afraid she was going to hurt him, but his face didn't change for a second.
"Fine! But I'm coming by your place for help anyways." Matsumoto said sitting back down and continuing to pout.
"Whatever." Toshiro said already beginning to leave.
"Okay, but I might bring Rukia and Momo along." Matsumoto said with an evil smile on her face.
"Fine." He said leaving with Ichigo.
The bell then rang signaling that we needed to go to our next class, Rangiku, Rukia and I headed to our next class together. Once we got into the class I noticed that we had Art class with Ichigo and Toshiro too.
Matsumoto and Rukia walked over to where they sat, I just followed. Rukia sat next to Ichigo and Matsumoto sat next to Toshiro. I took the seat next to Rangiku, glancing around I realized that our seats were the best being in the back of class.
"Dude Toshiro! I can't wait for soccer practice to start!" Ichigo whispered excitedly.
"Same here." Toshiro said not really showing any excitement like Ichigo did.
"Aren't tryouts today?" Rukia asked.
"Yeah." Toshiro said while glancing towards me, but he was probably just making sure that the teacher wasn't looking at us since she's in my direction.
"So wait, why do you guys have tryouts on the first day?" Momo asked ignoring Toshiro who was a bit dazed. At the teacher though, or that's least that's what Momo kept telling herself.
"It's because--" But Ichigo was cut off.
"We have tryouts on the first day so we can be ready for our first game that's two months from now. We usually have tryouts a month before school but we did it different this year for some reason." Toshiro said gazing directly into Momo's eyes.
"Well thanks for cutting me off Mr. Captain of the Soccer Team." Ichigo said.
"So wait, are you the captain of the soccer team?" Momo asked curiously.
"No, but everyone thinks I should be for some reason." Toshiro said glancing to Ichigo.
"It's only because you could make a ten times better captain than our current captain. I mean you're freaking amazing--" Ichigo started to ramble and rant for what seemed like forever, so the rest of us kind of tuned him out.
"So you're that good?" I asked while looking directly into Toshiro's piercing sea green eyes.
"Well, I'm not that good." Toshiro said a little embarrassed and started looking down at the table instead.
"Ooo-ooo-o" Rangiku teased.
"So what class do you have next?" Toshiro asked trying to change the subject quickly and glaring at Rangiku.
"I have math. Pre-calculus actually." Momo replied.
"Wow! That's a high level class! I'm not even in it and I'm a junior." Rangiku said in surprised.
"It's not that hard. I'm in it too. You could be but you never do your homework." Toshiro said.
"Do you have it next period?" I asked with a little hope.
"Yeah." He said seeming like he wasn't paying any attention.
I felt a little bit happy even though I probably shouldn't since I don't know him very well. Toshiro was silent the rest of the class period while Rangiku, Ichigo, Rukia and I chatted on.
When the bell rang Rangiku and the others all left with each other and left me with just Toshiro.
"So let's go." Toshiro spoke up and headed out the door.
We walked to class quickly and quietly. We sat next to each other but didn't talk much; math was one of the few subjects that I had to fully concentrate on.
After school, I walked to the front of the school to the meeting place and quickly called my Aunt Ryona and told her I was going to go hang out with some new friends. I was happy that she was so happy that I was and happily agreed.
"MOMO!" Rangiku yelled, looking around the hall, I finally caught site of the two.
"Soooooo" Rangiku said teasingly and nudged me in the side with her elbow.
"Ow! What?" I said confused, not really understanding why she was teasing me.
"What do you mean what?" Rangiku said walking up to a very nice blue car and slid the key into the lock.
"Well, I don't really know what you're talking about." I said a little annoyed that they weren't telling me anything.
This story has been tacking me awhile to write since I'm writing two other ones. So I hope you all liked the chapter!! The next one will be out WAY soon!!!! PLEASE REVEIW!!!!!
