Hello again, everyone. I'm here again for another story of HITSUMATSU and this is a SHORT CHAPTER STORY! This might take 10 chapters.

This was highly influenced by my daily gloomy life, I hope you like it.

The song that influenced me to write it up is Azurite by Urakabe Tae (Ending theme song of Heroic Age).

Reviews and suggestions are highly welcomed with cakes! And flames with burnt food! Thank you *bows*

Now unto the story!

'I'm always running on a straight road that is surrounded by the rustling, summer grasses'

The sun was shining brightly and warmly over the mountains. The fresh breeze of the countryside captured every people's hearts with its relaxing gesture. Running down along a straight dirt road, a boy with snowy white hair eagerly ran towards an old hospital ahead of him with a very vibrant smile plastered on his cheeky face.

'Together with the winds blowing. . . '

The boy stopped, hands on his knees, as he took a breather until something caught his eyes. He took a step forward and overshadowed that caught his sharp turquoise eyes. He bent down and gently pulled at the innocent wild daffodil flower. He took three and ran with his heart beating fast, holding the flower gently like it was something special, like it was holding something very important for him.

'. . . I ran towards that person'

X – X HITSUMATSU X – X

"Gin-kun, Shiro-kun, will you please help me here and stop that Gin! You look like you're going to kill your brother" a woman with snowy hair and aquamarine eyes yelled in front of a traditional Japanese house to the other two silver haired boys who were currently doing outrageous things to one another.

The older one laughed when he had his younger brother in a headlock but a yell stopped him and looked up to find the woman at the front door glaring at him.

He smiled, showing his aquamarine eyes, "Okay, okay, I'll stop" he said as he let go of him and ran towards the woman, helping her to take their luggage inside. The youngest was left alone outside, boiling from anger that his brother got him again in a headlock. He turned away from the house and looked over to the vast land in front of him, surrounded with massive mountains.

The birds sang as they played in the air and the fresh wind touched him which he let his eyes closed, savouring the moment of peace and his turquoise eyes sparked with wonder as he opened them, it was purely heavenly, this place. What catch his attention most were the perfect shaped fluffy clouds that hovers each mount.

He was busy watching from afar that he didn't notice someone walked towards him.

"You're not from here, are you?" it was a voice of a girl, a sweet and cheery voice of a girl. Weird, he hasn't defined every girl's voice sweet and cheery. He looked to his side where the voice was and found a quite tall and voluptuous girl/woman.

He looked up to her face and he flushed, she was gorgeous.

"Uh, no" his reply came weak and small. He looked away from the girl's face which he missed the bright smile spread across her beautiful face.

"Hmm, I thought so~! Oh, my name's Rangiku, Matsumoto Rangiku" she brought her hand in front which he only stared at it. She tilted her head, confused at his action, she coughed.

She saw him hesitate but in the end he took it with shaky hands, odd.

"Hitsugaya Toushiro" she shook it and she showed him her vibrant smile that might melt any ice. He looked at her, dumbfounded, thinking if that smile could really melt ice, would he be alright?

Both of them didn't realize that they were still holding each other's hands until someone coughed that startled both of their souls and eventually Toushiro let her hand go in a rushed manner.

Hitsugaya looked somewhat embarrassed that his brother caught him, "Oh~ that's quite fast for a middle schooler like ya, Tou-kun, getting a girlfriend after arriving here is what mom really needs, really" he remarked sarcastically which Rangiku didn't even realize and he smirked, eyes closed looking at his brother's small figure.

The youngest blush an apple red and yelled, "She's not my girlfriend!"

The older silver haired looked at him confused and tilted his head, "Who said that she's what I'm referring to?" he said somewhat innocently. Rangiku got goose bumps when he turned to her with a foxy grin plastered on him and it scared the hell out of her.

"The name's Ichimaru Gin, nice to meet ya"

"Uh, Matsumoto Rangiku, it's a pleasure" she smiled awkwardly.

Suddenly he took the younger boy's collar and dragged him away before saying.

"I'm sorry but I need him inside, if you don't mind" pointing to the house.

"Hey! Let go, you fox!" Toushiro interjected while fighting the iron grip on his shirt collar.

She sweat dropped, "Oh! I don't mind I'm not a special person, anyway I have to go somewhere" she walked away after she said her goodbyes, she saw him bowed his head a little but his eyes were still the same, closed.

"She's cute" Gin said while she was out of hearing range and it took Toushiro's attention from the grip to him. He stared at him, bewildered that his older brother is saying a word that hardly comes out from his mouth.

He stared back, "What? I didn't say anything odd, did I?" then Toushiro realized that the grip loosened but it wasn't enough.

"But I saw her first" he said, trying to distract his brother but it made him blushed at the thought of him acting all possessive but it did help him because the grip were now loose on his shirt before he tried to ran his way out he was pulled back again and he grunted.

"Try that again and you'll end up in the dirt" he threatened half-heartedly and dragged him to the house.

"Dumbass" his older brother just grinned at what he said.

Ichimaru Gin is in fact his half-brother, the son of their mother's first husband who died in an accident and now they're here where their mother was born, Karakura Town, to visit their grandmother who is currently at the hospital, suffering from stress.

With the help of the summer vacation, Toushiro was permitted to go with her and Gin tagging along much to his disappointment. Surely, the guy would always annoy him with his antics and manipulate him to do his bidding but not all times, still, he would likely choose to come along than being left behind with just the two of them. His mother is the only one who could stop it.

Birds sang their morning song, their wings flapping together with the wind, flying here and there with such playful energy. The sun peaked at their joyous behaviour as its light shine through the mountains. Its radiant light came through the curtain-covered window of our adorable silver-haired boy who groaned under the sheets of the bed.

Minutes have passed, he didn't budge from his position until an uncommon feeling woke him up, he rose from his bed, scrutinizing the room with drowsy eyes and it hit him. He wasn't in his own room that's why he felt the sun's heat. His room back in Tokyo was quite cold for an average middle school student and he was used to it. He groaned and stood up from the bed and went to the adjoined bathroom.

Hitsugaya Toushiro had always been a morning person but now due to sudden changes in temperature in his room, he goes all moody. It actually runs down in the Hitsugaya family, they can resist any cold weather without being cold instead they are comfortable with it much to someone's annoyance.

Toushiro then came down to the kitchen to cool himself just to find his mother and Gin already there. He raised a brow at them. He understands his mom's place because she was a mother but Gin, he didn't quite understand.

The guy slept like a bear in hibernation when it comes to summer vacations and holidays and it's still 6 in the morning! He took a sit near him and eyed the cold cocoa in front of him.

"Don't stare at it like it has poison or something, Toushiro" his mother said before she took a sip of her ice-cold coffee. It wasn't like that instead it was the person beside him and it mortified him to think what he have put into it, vinegar? Pepper with coffee and cocoa? Or simply plain sugar, a large amount of plain sugar, he hated too much sugar or he hated sugar in his cocoa. Really, the guy's pain in the ass.

He then turned to his right and glared at him when he was greeted with the same foxy grin.

"We'll visit grandma after this"

"Fine with me"

"Gotcha"

They said in unison while staring into each other's eyes or rather him staring into the fox's face.

Their mother smiled behind the cup that was hovering over her mouth. Thanking that for only a short time they didn't bicker in front of her just looking at each other.

She sipped her coffee and closed her eyes to relish the goodness, she then opened them when she heard a chair being pulled and pushed to find Toushiro bringing his cup of cocoa to the sink.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm ridding of the drink that would kill me"

"And why would I kill you, Toushiro?" his mother said and he froze, behind him he could hear his older brother snickered.

He got him, again.

. . . . . . . . .

"Rangiku-san you should really take a rest" calm yet worry laced voice said to a strawberry-haired girl who was on a hospital bed currently making an origami. Her face held no emotion as she made them and it scared the black haired nurse.

"Rangiku-san! You should really sleep" she said with force and she stifled a gasp when the blonde looked up from her half made origami to the slightly shaking nurse. Her eyes were dead of any emotion. It was like staring into a void.

"Don't worry, Momo-chan, after all it's too late for me to take a rest"

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