This story came to me in a Mexican restaurant. It was a moment of such inspiration, I couldn´t help writing it down. And here is the result.
It was without a doubt the most colorful thing that had ever graced the 10th squad office. Hitsugaya stared at the abomination with a mixture of confusion and irritation. In all his years he had never seen anything like it. He would have attacked it on the spot if he didn't have so much control over his reactions. There it hung on the ceiling, rotating eerily, allowing anyone present to view it from all angles and fully appreciate its oddness.
The explosion of color appeared to be made up of thousands of small paper tags arranged in a pattern of alternating reds and yellows with the occasional blue thrown in for good measure. Hitsugaya couldn't quite make out the shape, but he thought it looked similar to a My Little Pony doll that Orihime had sitting on the shelf in her living room. It definitely had four legs, a tail, and a proud looking head. Overall, Hitsugaya decided, it was rather creepy. It was the kind of thing you might find in a 12th squad research lab, or an 8th squad party, but certainly not in 10th.
Thankfully, Hitsugaya wasn't left to ponder its presence in his office for very long. Before he could remove the offending object and examine it more closely (or dispose of it properly), his fukutaicho walked in.
"Good morning taicho," Matsumoto sang.
"It´s noon Matsumoto," he reminded her, but that wasn´t really what was bothering him at the moment. He pointed to the exploded rainbow above his head.
"What´s this?" he asked with mild interest. Matsumoto beamed at him.
"Why taicho!" she exclaimed. "That´s a piñata!"
"And what pray tell," he began, trying desperately to keep his cool, "is a piñata?" Matsumoto shrugged her shoulders.
"I have no idea," she replied. Hitsugaya closed his eyes in frustration. He was rapidly losing his patience.
"Where did it come from?" he asked as calmly as he could.
"Ichigo sent it to me," she told him, looking up at it with interest. "He said you were supposed to hang it up and hit it until it opened, and when it did, there would be a surprise inside." Ok, now Hitsugaya was considering attacking the thing.
"So what you´re saying is, you took something that idiot gave you, without knowing what it was, and decided that it would make a nice decoration for the office?" Matsumoto pursed her lips in thought.
"Hmm," she mused. "Yup, that's pretty much it!"
"Well get it out of here!" Hitsugaya ordered. "I don´t want it around. It´s…bizarre."
"Oh, but taicho," Matsumoto whined. "It does wonders to lighten up the room!" Hitsugaya shot her one of his patented icy glares, and while it didn´t intimidate her in the slightest, she got the message.
"Alright, alright," she caved. "I´ll remove it after lunch. Ok?" And with that she swept out of the room, hoping to avoid more fireworks.
Hitsugaya glared at the spot she had previously occupied.
"That airhead," he said annoyed. He looked back up at the piñata.
"So it´s supposed to have a surprise inside huh?" he said thoughtfully. Hitsugaya considered it for a moment, then unsheathed Hyourinmaru and split the piñata in half with a single swipe. A mountain of candy rained down on his unsuspecting head, along with a note. Hitsugaya suppressed the urge to freeze everything in sight and picked up the note. Written in handwriting that could only belong to Matsumoto, it read.
"Gotcha!" Hitsugaya stared at the note for several seconds as the last few pieces of candy drizzled down from the cardboard husk above him. As a piece of chocolate landed strategically in the center of his head, Hitsugaya´s patience wore out.
"MATSUMOTO!"
I´m sorry, but the thought of a piñata in the 10th squad office and Hitsugaya slicing it open with Hyourinmaru was just too good to pass up!