Chapter 1:
"See you tomorrow Hitsugaya-kun!" A small girl with black hair tied back into a small bun waved to a white haired boy who was even shorter than her.
"…See you."
Hitsugaya Toushiro, first-year in high school walked back to his small apartment. He had lived alone ever since his parents had died. Maybe that was the reason, but he was a very mature guy for his age. He climbed up the stairs but halfway up the stairs he heard a clattering noise.
"?" He looked up. It appeared to be coming from his apartment.
'Did I leave the TV on or something?' He thought as he quickly went up the stairs to his room. He pressed his ear to the door and listened. Another noise that sounded like dishes clattering against each other.
"Who's there?" Toshiro shouted as he pushed the door open. He looked around. He first saw no one but soon he turned to the kitchen.
"Oh, Welcome Home, Honey!" A woman waved to Toshiro, a gigantic smile on her face, a mole appeared on her right just below her mouth. She had blue eyes that sparkled with excitement and orange hair that curled around her face. He looked down to see she was making something in the kitchen.
"…" Toshiro was too shocked to say anything.
'What the hell…!?' Toshiro thought trying to regain his cool, but he soon lost it when the woman came up to him and squeezed him tightly, his face pressed against her mammoth chest.
"Kya! Ukitake-san was right, you are cute!" She cried, her cheeks lit up with a shade of light pink as she squeezed me like a doll.
"Wait a second, you know Ukitake?" Toshiro asked her.
"Yes, I was going to live with him, but his family is coming over so I can't stay with him right now. Sadly, I don't have anywhere to go, so Ukitake-san suggested I stay at your place." She said smiling.
'Stay!?' Toshiro was totally freaked out.
"Here's the note he told me to give you." She handed him the note that he took from her and read it.
Hitsugya-kun,
I'm sure that Matsumoto Rangiku-san has told you already but I can not let her stay at my house. Sadly, she has no where to go so I can't just leave her. Please take her in for a while; because there is no way that I can have her in my house while my family is here without making everyone suspicious.
Please Hitsugaya-kun! I'm begging you!
Just think of it like the candies that I always give you!
Best Regards,
Ukitake
Matsumoto read the note from Toshiro's shoulder. At the bottom of the note was Ukitake's face, winking saying, "I wish you luck!" and a small candy was inside the note too.
'U-Ukitake…' A vein in Toshiro's head started to throb. He clenched his fist.
Ukitake was Toshiro's landlord, so he couldn't just go beat him up like he usually did when he was angry at someone.
'But there's something I need to settle first…' Toshiro looked over at Rangiku who was setting the table for dinner.
"…What're you doing?" He asked.
"Hm? Well, since I'm going to be causing you a lot of trouble I thought I should at least make you some dinner." She said smiling. "Ah, and don't worry. I'm not good but my mother was a chef and she made sure that I didn't turn out terrible. I'm a decent meal maker!" She said looking proud.
"…Thanks." Toshiro finally said and took a seat. Rangiku graciously served the food and she sat down as well and started to eat. She had made the usual Japanese meal. A bowl of rice, miso soup, and she had also put a small salad and 2 hamburgers. But still, Toshiro was impressed. He hadn't had a good meal like this in a long time. He took a bite, and when he found it to be good, he started to eat more. When Rangiku noticed, she smiled happily.
They didn't talk much, just ate their food. Once they were done, Toshiro got up and collected the dishes.
"…I can do them." Rangiku said to Toshiro and stood up.
"No, you made dinner for me so I'll do the dishes." He replied.
Rangiku stared at him silently for a second, but her face returned to a smile.
"Okay then. I leave it to you Hitsugaya-kun!" Rangiku said. "Can I lay the futon down?" She asked from the other room.
"Um, sure." Toshiro said. "…Wait a second, where do you plan to sleep?" He asked remembering that he had not planned anything for Rangiku's sudden arrival.
"You have an extra futon, can't I sleep on it?" She called from the other room.
"Fine." Toshiro said whipping his hands as he finished the last of the dishes. He tossed the towel aside and walked over to where Rangiku was.
"…Don't lay them next to each other." He said looking at the futon uneasily.
"Oh, whoops!" Rangiku hit herself on the head and blushed a little. She pulled the futon about a couple feet apart. "That better?" She asked.
"…" He nodded and left the room to get ready to sleep. "You want to get in the bath first?" He asked.
"Yes! I haven't taken a bath in a while so I really need to!" Rangiku said as she took out some pajamas and ran into the bathroom with them in her arms.
Toshiro decided to sit with his back against the bathroom door to wait for Rangiku. He soon fell asleep because it was late.
About a half hour later, Rangiku came out in her pajamas. She gently opened the door.
Thump.
She turned around quickly to find that Toshiro had been pushed forward, now his head was on the ground between his legs. Rangiku looked around as if to see if anyone had caught her. After a while, she picked Toshiro up and laid him on his futon. She sat on her own futon for a while with a distant look in her eyes as if she was remembering something.
She turned to stare at the moon and almost glared at it. She walked over to the open window. The breeze blew her damp hair back. She closed the window and pulled the curtain over the window. She seemed upset at the fact that the moon still could be seen through the window but did nothing more and soon she was also asleep.
It was just black. Pure black. Toshiro looked around frantically, trying to find an exit. He sees someone and runs over out of instinct. It's Ukitake, he gives him one of the stockings stuffed with candy, smiling and dissapears before he can object. He stares at the stocking, which is heavier than he excpected. He finally looks inside and Rangiku's head pops out. She's smiling again and she grabs on to Toshiro's neck and hugs him tightly. He leans forward unable to suppourt her weight and starts to tip over.
Toshiro's eyes snap open and he jumps up. He stares at his hands, breathing heavily. Beads of sweat dotted his forehead.
'...A dream?' He thought.
"Hitsugaya-kun, are you awake?" Her voice comes from the kitchen, encircling him.
'It wasn't a dream...' He thought, getting even more uneasy than before.
"Did you sleep well?" She asked her head popping out from the kitchen.
"...Good enough." He finally said, lying to the best of his ability at the moment.
"That's good." Rangiku said, she didn't notice that he was still looking like he had run a marathon with Jason running after him. (If you don't get that joke, then don't worry.)
"Breakfast's ready so eat it when you're ready." Rangiku took her apron off and put on some shoes.
"...Where're you going?" Toshiro asked a little curious, he had finally started to breathe normally again.
"I have to go to work." Rangiku said it as if it was plain as day, although it wasn't for Toshiro. The first thing that came to his mind was, 'You work?' but he decided that he shouldn't be rude and he asked another more polite question instead.
"What do you do?"
"I'm a teacher. I'm going to be teaching at the high school nearby." Rangiku said. "You're a highschooler right?"
"...Wait, how did you know?" Toshiro asked.
"Oh come on, you may be barely taller than a 1st year in middle school but you act like a high schooler, so I kind of made an assumption." She said.
But Toshiro was still shocked. She had been the first to know that he was a high schooler. Everyone else had thought of him as a middle-schooler, or worse, an elementary-schooler at least once.
"Okay, see you!" Rangiku said closing the door behind her.
He just stood their for a while, but soon he walked to the small kitchen. Breakfast was set and he ate it slowly. It was just as good as dinner yesterday. He was about halfway through when the door burst open and the sound of 2 bodies hitting the floor echoed through the apartment.
"...What do you want? Madarame, Ayasegawa?"
Madarame Ikkaku came first, he looked at Toshiro with unbelievably wide eyes.
"Don't act clueless Hitsugaya! Who the hell was that chick that came out of YOUR front door?"
"Yeah, she was ALMOST as beautiful as me!" Ayasegawa Yumichika added. Hitsugaya and Ikkaku stared at Yumichika who stared into his hand mirror for the billionth time that morning.
"Explain it Hitsugaya!" They both said at the same time pushing their faces into his.
"..." Toshiro pushed their faces away with his chopsticks.
"...It's a mistake, she had the wrong address and came into my house on accident." Toshiro lied calmly.
"Oh, so that's it." They said. "...You Idiot! How could we believe that? She made you breakfast didn't she?" They pointed at his breakfast. "Since when were you such a womanizer Hitsugaya? When have you changed so much?" They were both freaking out.
"Dude, calm down." He instructed both of them. "I am not a womanizer. Ukitake's having someone over and she made extras so she brought them over to my place because Ukitake was busy." Toshiro made this up as he went along, but no one would've guessed with his confidence.
They obviously didn't believe him. Not because it wasn't probably but rather because they wanted to believe that their friend had picked up a super hot chick over night. Sure Mizuiro did it all the time but sometimes they wanted to see someone else do it too. But they decided to let it slide.
They waited while Toshiro got ready and they walked to school together, the other 2 still bothering him about the event.
"Hinamori-chan, how about you?" The girls were all gathered around Orihime who was holding a horoscope book she had bought yesterday.
"My birthday's on June 3rd." She replied. She was the same girl who had walked with Toshiro yesterday.
Her name was Hinamori Momo.
"Uh-oh, Hinamori-chan, you have terrible luck today. It says that you will gain a new rival that seems like a faraway star." Orihime said reading it.
"A rival?" She asked.
"Yeah." Orihime replied.
"Morning." Ikkaku and Yumichika greeted the classroom. Some guys greeted them back. Toshiro didn't say anything but followed the 2 to the others. He was too tired to even greet anyone.
'Hitsugaya-kun!' Momo thought as red tinged her cheeks.
"The loud ones have arrived." Tatsuki said.
"...Hm? Hitsugaya looks tired." Rukia said looking over at them. "That's unusual."
"Really?" Momo looked more closely. She was right, he was tired. Even if it was hard to tell since it was well concealed under his serious attitude.
But they soon all forgot about it. The bell rang and they all hurried to their seats. It had only been 3 months and their teacher had already moved out. They were getting a new teacher today and some of the students were excited.
The door slid open.
"Hello students! I'm your new teacher!" A voice said.
'Th-That voice!' Toshiro thought his face became pale.
A couple of things to get across:
1. I don't know Bleach that well so forgive me.
2. I just want to see how popular this story will be so updates won't come for a while.
3. Try not to flame me!!
4. Please review and let me know how it's going :)
