~Falling Hard~

~Hello my fellow writers and awesome readers. This will be my first HitsuHina (hopefully there will be more to come) fanfiction. I apologize ahead of time to my bestest friend ever Kiko… she is a die hard HitsuKarin fan. (I'M SORRY!) We often clash on this subject, so eventually I will write a HitsuKarin one for her. But for now we have my first Toshiro and Momo story.

A second thing: This is set in America, and they are NOT Soul Reapers in this. They are regular humans. Just like us. Sorry for any inconvenience. Anyway, without further ado, here is Falling Hard. Please enjoy and leave a review.

Chapter 1: The Storm

Dark clouds rolled overhead and a strong gust of wind blew Momo's dark hair all over. She looked up and shivered. 'Four years,' she thought. She just had to be in America for four years. Taking her through college for Theater Arts.

Momo Hinamori is a typical 18 year old girl. Long dark hair, big doe brown eyes, innocent, seemingly innocent anyway, likeable by many back home. She had moved to America about a month ago, leaving her home town of Karakura, Japan behind; including all of her friends, and family. She was currently living in a small apartment in Las Angeles California. She heaved a heavy sigh.

"Wow that sounded sad." A voice behind her said. Momo was living with one other person, Rangiku Matsumoto, who would also be attending college somewhere in L.A.. Momo smiled sadly at her.

"Yeah, I miss home." She said softly.

"More like you miss who is back at home and not here with you." Rangiku teased her friend.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Momo huffed, but a light blush crossed her cheeks. She did miss someone. Her best friend, her protector, her white knight, and the boy she happened to be deeply in love with. Hitsugaya Toshiro.

"Right!" Rangiku said laughing. "Come on chick, let's go out tonight! We still have a few days until our classes start!" The red-head begged.

"It's going to storm Ran-chan." Momo said looking up again, she crossed the small garden they were standing in and opened the door to the lobby of the apartment building. But Rangiku wasn't giving up. She followed Momo.

"You know you want to though! You need to meet someone and you know it! You have to get over him." Rangiku said slyly.

"I'm not going Rangiku!" Momo snapped suddenly turning around and glaring at her friends and roommate. "I don't need to meet someone else and I don't want to go out in a storm." She turned and unlocked their apartment and went into her room and slammed the door.

"Sorry." Rangiku whispered at the closed door and went to get ready to go out anyway.

Momo sat on her bed and looked out the window sadly. Thirty minutes passed and she heard Rangiku leave. She felt a tear slip down her cheek and wiped it away. She didn't want to be alone during a storm, but she also didn't want to be out in it either. Lightning lit up the room quickly followed by loud thunder, and Momo jumped and shrieked loudly. She crawled under her covers and held a stuffed white tiger to her chest. "Shiro-chan." She whimpered lightly.

The day she had 'fessed up had been stormy and dark like tonight. That was the last time Toshiro had spoken to her. That was over a year ago. Momo squeezed her eyes shut tightly. Eventually, she drifted into an uneasy sleep, only to be haunted by the past.

~Sorry for the ending haha and sorry that it's so short. But I had to end it here for the next few chapters to be right I hope you like it! Please R&R

~P.S.~ For my Lost Kin readers, I just got my computer working again and I'll have Chapter 4 up tomorrow! =^.^=

~Shimmerz~

P.S.S: I sign with Shimmerz cause that's my nickname :P