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"The snow will always come again. With its' bitter coldness and winter's icy breath, but for sure, snow will come again."
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Life itself is hard. It's that simple. There's always the constant worry of what will I do next, or the fear of losing the lives that mean most to you. It's even harder if you're captain. That's me, by the way Tōshirō Hitsugaya, currently the captain of the 10th division. Man, it's always a pain. Worry about this and that, every little detail. Captain meetings and all that 'adult stuff', but hey, even though I am a kid, I can handle it all pretty well if I do say so myself—more better than most of the adults anyway. I HATE being mistaken for a kid and even worse, being commented by my height. Okay, I'll admit it, I have tried to do something about my height before, but all those commercial products do nothing except make my stomach hurt, so I gave up of that idea.
You must be wondering. What does the little guy think inside his head? Well, that's a good question, seems that you are smarter than you seem. I think of a lot of stuff, I won't bother to explain because it's probably not around your intellectual level, but some ideas might be. I think of the well being of my division, which as mentioned before, is the 10th. I think of Momo a lot too. She's a close childhood friend and she is easily manipulated by other people like cough Azien. I also like to practice with my zanpakutō. So other than that, I have a 'normal' life, if you exclude the fact that I'm a soul reaper. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about…. READ BLEACH!)
Okay, to start this story, it was a normal summer's day, which by the way I hate. I hate the warm days and heat because I'm pretty much the opposite. Well, I was in the human world and my adventure started when I got a message from Matsumoto….
"Captain Tōshirō! This is serious!" Matsumoto called through the apartment door. It was day outside, but the summer's air held its temperature. I had the air conditioning on as I tried to survive the scorching heat. 'I hate the human world, because of this heat." I thought to myself. Grabbing a cool can of lemonade from the fridge, I sat down on the sofa.
"What Rangiku?" I replied, waiting for her foolish response that was going to irritate me. "You can come in." I added and waited for her to enter. She looked concerned for some reason and didn't have her usual cheerful smile on. So, this was a serious matter.
"Captain Tōshirō," She said again. I sat up and opened the can. It was too quiet for her, something must be wrong.
"Rangiku? Are you okay?" I began.
"Captain Tōshirō, there's a summer festival tonight, can we go?" She said really fast.
"…. You've got to be kidding me!" I began, clearly annoyed at her perspective of 'serious'.
"Oh Please! Please! Please! Please! This is going to be so much fun Captain!" Matsumoto exclaimed. Sighing I agreed to go, even though the heat would kill me.
The night streets were lively and well lit. People in both directions were excited about the summer festival. It happened every year, but it was a tradition for the locals to go. Likewise, people from neighbouring cities and towns came to this small town to celebrate together. The summer festival had many different activities. There were plays, music, food, art and much more. There was what you would call 'something for everyone'. It was a festival, well to be remembered.
I got dressed, wearing a thin blue t-shirt and jeans. I waited downstairs for Rangiku, who in my opinion, took forever to get ready. When she finally came down we walked off to the summer festival.
"So I told Ichigo, Rukia, Renji, Uryu, Orhime and Momo to all come. I hope they will all be there!" Rangiku said excitedly. I stopped in my tracks.
"They're all coming?" I asked surprised.
"Yay!" Rangiku replied as she stopped walking as well. "It's going to be amazing!" She thought and grabbed my arm and ran. "C'mon Tōshirō, the way you're walking were going to be there by Christmas!"
" I wish it was." I grumbled. "I hate-"
"The heat, I know." Matsumoto finished and rolled her eyes.
"Hey! I don't appreciate it when-" I began to protest.
"Stop whinning, this is a festival, remember?" and with that, she picked up her pace.
Fun…the festival was far from it.
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As we entered the festival, it turned out to be packed, to the limit. Everyone from all around town came excited and happy as they were with friends or family. Wheather it was eating some specialty or playing games, or watching the stage, everyone was having fun. see, that is one reason to make me uncomfortable. Whenever there is a large crowd of carless, humans, who, not offense, but have no power whatsoever it makes me somewhat suspisous that something bad might happen and needless to say, the hunch that hovens in the back of my mind is usually right. But, I guess that's my job. Protect the weak and innocent.
"Captain Tōshirō!" Rangiku grabbed my arm. "Let's go over here!" and dragged me a few meters and paused, obviously thinking. "No let's go over here!" and she headed towards a dango shop. "Wait, let's eat afterwards, let go win a plush doggy!" she smiled and dragged me over to the booth.
"Rangiku," I huffed as she let go to get her money. "I hope you realize my left arm is now at least a foot longer than my right."
"Really? I wonder how that could have happen." She responded. I wanted to pout, but of course that's only what little kids do and as mention before, I am defiantly not a little kid. And plus I wasn't sure if she was being smart or if she really didn't know. Honestly, why me? Sighing to myself I glanced around again, to see if everything was somewhat normal. And that's when I saw them. Not your average cosplay people. Wearing long black cloaks with red, blood like clouds on them. Hmmm, I thought. I couldn't feel any spiritual powers coming from them—it was something different though. I was sure that that strange group of people had some type of power.
"Captain Tōshirō!" Rangiku exclaimed, "Look I won a pink bunny, you can have it," She assured and threw the bunny in my arms.
"I don't want it!" I yelled, grabbing the bunny by the face. "I'm not a kid!"
"WHAT? But I've seen you with other plushes before." Rangiku thought. "Ya, like that duck…" I reddened. How in the world did she find that out, not that I had a plush duck…well I did, but it was a present from Momo.
"Awww…. Captain Tōshirō, you're so cute when you blush!" Rangiku said. Thanks a lot.
"Rangiku, what do you think of those people over there." I asked her pointing to where the group was, just to find that they weren't there anymore.
"What?" Rangiku said placing her hand on my head and leaning over. "I don't see anyone."
"Get. Off. My. Head. Before. You. Die." I said slowly.
"Oops. Sorry, didn't really notice because you're so shor—" She glanced my way to see icy cold eyes glaring at her. "Never mind." She laughed lightly.
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Meanwhile….
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"Hmm, Itachi what do you think of that guy?" Pain hissed. Itachi glanced to where Pain pointed and stared.
"The white haired one or the orange?" Itachi muttered, glancing away.
"The orange haired one, we have nothing to worry about." Zetsu said, "It's the white one, who actually might put on a good fight."
"It doesn't matter." Itachi said. "I could take them both and it would be over in two minutes—at the longest."
"Whoa, Itachi-sama, you're so cool! Maybe that's why I love you so much…" Tobi said to himself.
"What was that?" Itachi turned and grabbed Tobi's neck.
"I MEANT ADORE AS A SENSEI cough PLEASE FORGIVE STUPID TOBI!" Tobi managed to say.
"Itachi," Kisame said cautiously. Itachi turned to Kisame and let go of Tobi's neck.
"I know my limit, Kisame, but thanks."
"It's time. " Pain announced. "To take over the human world."
"That sounds kind of cheesy." Tobi admitted.
Evil glares from everyone. Tobi looked at the ground.
"Uh…Tobi is sorry and Tobi is a good boy." Tobi looked up to find everyone gone. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Now I'm lost!"
That's it from chapter one…please leave a review and be sure to read, the Akatsuki fun day's if you're a Naruto fan.