Hitsugaya: Oi, why do you always put a smiley face at the end of your sentence?
Ayane: Cause I want to... *glares* ...got a problem with that?
Hitsugaya: N-No...
Saaya: Ahaha... *wipes forehead with a sweatdrop* Well then, let's start and give the readers a good time to enjoy our first fanfiction.
Ayane & Saaya: *smiles* xNaraku no Hanax21 does not own Bleach, all rights reserved to Tite Kubo! ^-^
Hitsugaya: xNa-xNaraku no Hanax21 d-does not own Bleach... *shivers*
"YOSH! THE SHINIGAMI ATHLETES FESTIVAL SHALL BEGIN!" the shinigami yelled over the announcement.
"YEA!" the crowd responded with enthusiasm, pumping their fist in the air.
"TCH! How did I get dragged into this?" Hitsugaya grumbled under his breath.
"Eh? Did you forget Taichou? Well I'll retell what happened to you Taichou! Maybe then you'll remember!" Matsumoto replied.
"I'll pass," Hitsugaya said, but was ignored.
"Well let me remember... it all started when I was in your office doing what I usually do, Taichou," Matsumoto said with a detective thinking pose glint.
Let's roll back to a few hours ago... wooo~
It was another ordinary day in the Soul Society. Squad captains and lieutenants are at their work, shinigami's going on their missions and errands, and there's also the daily yelling that goes on at Squad 10.
"MATSUMOTO!"
That was the yell of a furious captain yelling at his lieutenant.
"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET THESE REPORTS FINISHED BY THE TIME I GET BACK AND WHAT DO I SEE! BLANK AND UNTOUCHED REPORT PAPERS AND YOU SLEEPING ON THE COUCH!" the short captain screamed.
"But I was tired and I was thinking, why not take a nap for a while and get my strength up so I can stay awake to write my reports," said the female lieutenant with a happy expression on her face.
"You slept for six hours...," the annoyed captain replied. He was trying to stay calm and not burst out yelling and disturb his subordinates with his yelling, again.
"EH? I did?" she said with a shocked expression. She looked up at the clock to check if she did over sleep.
"Well there's no helping it, I guess I'll have to do these reports tomorrow," sighed the lieutenant.
A vein popped on his forehead. "MATSUMOTO!"
"GYAAAAAAAA!"
Yup, this is your ordinary yelling that goes on between the captain and lieutenant of Squad 10. The short, strict, white haired boy yelling is none other than Hitsugaya Toushiro, the captain of Squad 10. The lazy female is also none other than Matsumoto Rangiku, the Squad 10 lieutenant. Hitsugaya is always yelling at Matsumoto because of her lack of attention to her work and always focusing her attention on either sleeping or sake.
"Demo, Taichou, if you would at least give me a break, I would have gladly done my work on time," she said with a pout on her face.
"Like I would," grumbled Hitsugaya, rolling his eyes.
"Eehh you're so stubborn," Matsumoto said.
"At least I'm stubborn enough to get my work done unlike a certain someone...," he replied.
"AH! That's mean, Taichou!" she pouted.
All of a sudden, a hell butterfly flew through the open window. Matsumoto held up her hand to the little messenger as it landed on it. When it landed, Matsumoto started announcing the message aloud.
"'Matsumoto-fukutaichou, you are to report to the world of the living for a hollow extermination,'" she said. "The location is Karakura Town. The Senkaimon shall be opened for your use when you arrive."
After the last part of the message was said, the hell butterfly left.
"Well!~ Looks like I'm heading off to the World of The Living, Taichou! It's a shame that I won't be able to finish my paperwork in time," she said sarcastically.
"Oh, don't worry," Hitsugaya said while a vein appeared on his head. "I'll make sure to save all this paperwork, then when you get back, you can finish where you left off." An evil smirk appeared on his face.
"EEEHHH?" she cried out.
As Matsumoto left her captain's office in disappointment she thought, Heeeh~ Taichou is so mean, as she headed off to the Senkaimon.
When she arrived, a hell butterfly was already there to guide her to the World of The Living. As the hell butterfly flew by her side, she entered the Senkaimon and walked through the doors as they closed behind her. After she arrived she shunpoed her way towards the hollow's location...that is...until she thought, Hmmm... I might as well visit my old friends while I'm here. After all I haven't seen them in a while.
So she shunpoed from her current direction towards the direction of Karakura High School. When she arrived, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
What are they doing down there? she thought.
Unbeknownst to her, the student at Karakura High, were having a sports festival. Matsumoto had thought that there must be some big event going on, so she decided to ask somebody about it and tried looking for the one and only, orange-haired substitute shinigami, Kurosaki Ichigo. As she was looking around she spotted her best friend, Inoue Orihime, playing some sort of game with the petit black-haired shinigami, Kuchiki Rukia, that involved some sort of stick with a net attached to it and they were whacking a ball back and forth over a large net. She had also spotted Ishida Uryu and Yasutora Sado, -also known as Chad- playing some other game unbeknownst to her that seemed like they were kicking around a ball and were trying to aim it in some other large net. Then finally, she spotted who she was looking for. Ichigo was located at some diamond-shaped field holding a metal stick.
Matsumoto decided to stop by there and ask about what they were doing, so she shunpoed towards his direction.
Meanwhile at Ichigo's side, he was about ready to whack the ball out of the field. He was playing baseball, and he was getting pumped up about this hit.
"Yosh... If I hit this, then I'll win," he thought with joy.
As the pitcher threw the ball, Ichigo was just about ready to swing until...
"OHAYO, ICHIGO!" Matsumoto said happily, as she shunpoed right in front of him.
"R-RANGIKU-SAN!" he said with panic.
Then suddenly, Matsumoto sensed the ball coming from the behind and dodged away to her right. But unfortunately for Ichigo...the ball stuck him right in the middle of his face and he was sent flying back from the force.
"GYAAAAAAA!" he screamed as he flew.
"GYAAA! KUROSAKI ICHIGO!" the players yelled, chasing after him.
His friends then suddenly heard a familiar scream coming from the baseball field. As they rushed over to see what the noise, when they arrived, they saw Ichigo lying on his back with a circular red mark planted on the middle of his face.
"Ku-Kurosaki-kun! Are you all right?" Orihime asked worriedly.
"Y-Yea I-I'm fine," he replied while trying to get up.
"Eh? Why didn't you dodge the ball, Ichigo?" Matsumoto said as everyone stared at where the voice came from.
"Rangiku-san! Ohayo!" Orihime greeted happily.
"Ohayo, Orihime-chan!" Matsumoto greeted back with the same joy.
"Just what in the world are you doing here for?" asked Ishida.
"Weeelll~ I was on my way to exterminate a hollow until I decided to stop by and pay a surprise visit to my friends!" she answered.
"Than aren't you suppose to go look for the hollow?" Chad said.
"Ah don't worry about it," she said. "I'll go look for it later, but what I'm wondering is, what's going on here?"
The group first led her to the side of the school to speak, so as to not draw attention to them, then told her about the event they were having, called a sports festival. Rukia said that she didn't even know what a sports festival was until Ichigo explained it to her. She said that it was an event held in schools where the students get to partake in a variety of different sports against one another. After a few more explanations from each of her friends, Matsumoto finally understood the situation.
"Hehh... This sounds interesting," she said excitedly.
Then suddenly, Matsumoto thought of a brilliant idea.
THATS IT! she thought. THIS IS THE EVENT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! WE COULD DO THIS SPORTS FESTIVAL EVENT IN THE SOUL SOCIETY! But instead of calling it a sports festival, I'll call it 'The Shinigami Athletes Festival!' Her eyes started to sparkle about her joyous idea.
"U-Um, Matsumoto-fukutaichou, aren't you going to go destroy the hollow?" Rukia asked, intervening with her thoughts.
"Later, later, but first, I WANT YOU GUYS TO COME BY THE SOUL SOCIETY THE DAY AFTER NEXT WEEK!" Matsumoto said, pointing her finger to the group.
"W-Why? And why all of a sudden?" Ichigo asked.
"Hoho~ you'll see when you get there," she smiled. "Now I gotta get back to the Soul Society to prepare."
"Wait, what about the hollow?" Ishida yelled.
"Well, I sense a spiritual power coming this way, so I'll let you guys handle it instead!" she yelled back with a smile on her face.
"See ya." And with that, she winked and shunpoed away.
"WAIT WHY DO WE HAVE TO HANDLE THE HOLLOW?" Ichigo yelled, but Matsumoto was already gone.
Meanwhile...
"Hey! Where are Ichigo and the others?" Keigo asked his friend, Mizuiro.
"I saw them going towards the side of the school," Mizuiro replied
"WHAT? AND WITHOUT INVITING ME? THAT IS SO UNFAIR! THEY MUST BE HAVING SOME SECRET MEETING FOR THEIR SECRET CLUB OR SOMETHING AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN INVITE ME TO JOIN!" Keigo yelled as he cried on the ground.
"Maybe because of the way you always make a big deal about stuff," Mizuiro answered with a sweatdrop as he took pity at his pathetic friend.
Back in the Soul Society at the Shingami Womens Association...
"You want to hold a sports festival?" questioned Ise Nanao, the Eighth Division's lieutenant, the vice-president of the Shinigami Womens Association.
"Yup! I saw a school holding this event and I was thinking that we should hold it in the Soul Society as well." Matsumoto said.
"But what about you're proposals for a fashion show and a movie awards?" Nanao asked sternly.
"Ooooh, we'll do those later, but right now I want to hold the sports festival first! Please!" Matsumoto pleaded as she tired making the most innocent puppy face she could possibly make to persuade the vice-president.
Nanao sighed. "Well, if the president thinks its a good idea," she turned around to face the president of the association which is none other than the Eleventh Division's lieutenant, Kusajishi Yachiru.
"I THINK ITS A GREAT IDEA! AFTER ALL, THIS PLACE DOES NEED TO LIVEN UP A BIT!" Yachiru said cheerfully as she stood from her seat.
Nanao sighed a bit as she pushed back up her glasses. "If the president thinks its a good idea, then we shall hold a sports festival in the Soul Society."
"WOOHOO! THEN LETS START GETTING READY!" Matsumoto said joyously as she stood up from her seat and pumped her fist in the air.
"But wait a minute!"Nanao yelled as she interrupted Matsumoto's little 'victory'."We still need to get permission from the Head Captain to hold the festival in the Soul Society, and plus we would have to finish up a large amount of paperwork as well," there was a hint of 'Hitsugaya's' tone to her sentence.
"OH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!" Yachiru said enthusiastically. "I'll take care of Gramps, you guys just get the paperwork finished and start decorating and sending out the invitations!"
"W-Well if you say so president," Nanao said, unsure of the president's statement just now.
"ALRIGHT! THEN LET'S START THE PREPARATIONS!" Matsumoto said.
"And so, the Shingami Womens Association started preparing for the Soul Society's first annual sports festival," Matsumoto concluded, as she happily held the last page of the picture book.
"Oi, there's no need for a picture book," Hitsugaya commented dully.
"But Rukia-chan gave it to me! Here, look at these adorable bunnies!" She pointed to the bunny drawing which has pink hair, raising her hand in the air. Next to the pink haired bunny was a bunny with wavy orange hair, raising its hand as well. In the back of the pink haired bunny was another rabbit with glasses with a glint next to it.
"...As always, Kuchiki has crappy drawings," the paper-white haired kid commented dully, again.
"Taichou, Rukia-chan gave me this just for you! And you're not appreciating it? Man, kids these days sure are disrespec-"
Hitsugaya sent her an icy stare, with a demonic aura, as Matsumoto froze in her place and sweated badly.
"Matsumoto, I dare you to say that again."
"Sorry sir, please forgive me, sir."
Behind the Scenes!
"Hey, Gramps!" Yachiru chirped as she bounced in front of the old man.
"Hmm..? What is it, Kusajishi-fukutaichou?" Yamamoto asked, as he stared down at the pink child. Her face was broken into a grin as always.
"The Shinigami Women Association wanna do a sports festival! Can we? Can we, Gramps?"
Yamamoto stroke his chin for a while, while gazing at the ceiling. "Hmm... A sports festival, eh? But, as shinigamis, we are getting our exercise everyday..."
"Even old people like you can join, Gramps!" A hammer hit Yamamoto's head, and his eyes slightly widened.
"I grant you permission to do this 'sports festival.'"
"YAY! Thanks Gramps, you're the best!" And with that, Yachiru happily bounced away.
Smiling and nodding, Yamamoto stood still. Alas, he thought, an event where I can finally participate, and not stand by the side grieving about my own age!
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