"I called all of you for an emergency meeting as all Captains and Lieutenants have received these kinds of 'love letters' from their 'secret admirers'. Am I correct to say every one of you received it?" Sotaicho asked the Taichos and Fukataichos present there.
Everyone nodded.
"The letters state that you have to meet that 'secret admirer' at a certain place, am I correct?"
Everyone nodded again.
"It is advisable that all of you to go to the designated area meet the 'secret admirer' tomorrow and catch them and bring them to light." Sotaicho continued.
"Old man…?" Ichigo the captain of the fifth called. (A/N I know its Shinji. But, for this Valentine's Day fic Ichigo is a more appropriate as the new captain for the fifth)
"Sotaicho…" Sotaicho corrected.
"Whatever. All our secret admirers finally, magically got the courage to admit their true feelings from somwhere...Or something likes that."
"Huh?" everyone in the room went.
"What are you talking about Ichigo?" Rukia the new Fukataicho of the thirteenth asked.
"What Taicho meant is that all our secret admirers have plucked their courage and decided to confess their feelings to their respective crush."
"Hinamori-kun, you're starting to sound like Rangiku-san." Izuru said.
"Is that so?" Ichigo asked looking t Momo then Rangiku then Momo again.
"You are all dismissed." Sotaicho said not wanting to listen to any of the nonsense.
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Toshiro's POV – After the Meeting – Momo's room
"Hinamori?" I knocked on the door.
"Come in Hitsugaya-kun." She said as I slid open her door and closed it again.
"It's Hitsugaya-Taicho." I said well knowing that she was never going to call me Hitsugaya-Taicho even if she was dying. I am NEVER going to say that she is going to die. But, she's just stubborn to the max.
"Yes, Hitsugaya-kun. Maybe next time." She said smiling at me cheekily.
I sign and sit down besides her, crossing my legs. She was writing her diary. She doesn't mind me looking at what she writes in her diary because; I just can't read what she's writing.
It looks like Japanese. But, I can't decipher what she's writing. No matter how long I stare at it, I couldn't figure it out. So much for a child prodigy.
"Still haven't figured the 'code' yet, Hitsugaya-kun?" She asked as if reading my mind.
"I don't care." I lied folding my arms.
Actually I do. She can read me like an open book and I can't read her. It's frustrating. So, I tired to read her diary once but then everything she wrote was unintelligible. How annoying. That baka.
Anyway, that's not why I came here. I wanted to know which bastard actually dared to ask Momo out. When, I meet my 'secret admirer' I am going to tell her straight at the face that 'I don't like her'.
"Hinamori, what did you're 'secret admirer' say in his letter to you?"
Momo looked at me for a moment, considering my question before taking out an envelope from one of the pages in her diary and handing it over to be.
The envelope hand Momo's name on it. Printed.
Has to be someone who had gone to the living world often.
Abarai? No way.
I opened it to see that what's written inside is also printed. (Letter- Toshiro's thoughts)
Dear Momo-chan,
Momo-chan? Only I can call her that! Maybe Matsumoto or Hisagi.
I hadn't called you that in ages.
He's not the only one. I hadn't called her that in ages.
I really like you. I wanted to confess to you for a long time but I was too shy to do so.
I really think you should have stayed that way.
So, today meet me at La Valentino's at 7 p.m. . Do remember to come!
Not bad…Can ask her out for dinner. Very courageous.
Love,
Admirer-chan.
Seriously! Admirer-chan?
I gave the letter back to Momo and tried not to comment about it.
"Admirer-chan?" I said. What kind of name was that!
"I find it ….creative…and …..Innovative." Momo said trying to compliment her secret admirer while still writing in her diary.
I rolled my eyes.
"Are you going to meet your secret admirer, Shiro-chan?" she asked still writing.
"No, and its Hitsugaya-Taicho to you"
"Why not? It's not easy to confess to someone who you like them you know?" Momo said looking up at me frowning a little.
"Why are you so upset with that?" I asked quickly not used to seeing her frowning at me.
She frowns at her recruits, that is a whole different thing all by itself. She doesn't frown at me unless she's very upset with me.
"It is not easy to go up to a person and say 'I love you'. Can you do that? No, you can't. Of course you are just a kid." She said pointing an accusing finger at me.
Noticing my shocked expression.
"I was just kidding, Shiro-chan! Don't be mad!" she said her frown instantly vanishing into a wide smile.
"Funny." I say. "It's Hitsugaya-Taicho."
Man, was I relieved she was just kidding. And she knows I can never get mad at her.
"Are you going?" I asked knowing well enough that she was going to go.
"O course, I am. I want to see who it is. Then if I like him, I will go, oh I like you too." Momo said casually, as my heart sank, for unknown reason.
Recently, every time I see Momo, I feel weird. I feel all the blood in my body go into my face if she's too close. I know that the brain is there and the brain needs a hell lot of blood. But, I think the heart and lungs need the blood too as every time the blood flows a lot to my face my breathing becomes so difficult that I feel like I am suffocating. My heart beats so fast that I am scared it will burst and I will die before growing a few more inches taller than Momo. I am the same height as her, now. I just need to grow a few more inches and I will be satisfied. I went to Unohana; she just smiled at me weirdly and said I will soon recover from my strange illness. When I asked when will that soon be, she said that depends on me. How perplexing?
"Say, Shiro-chan do you realize something?"
"Nani?"
"IT'S FIVE! I ONLY HAVE TWO MORE HOURS TO DO GET READY!"
"You didn't have to shout you know." I said covering my ears.
"YOU SHOULD BE HURRYING TOO!" Momo said trying to drag up but failing miserably.
Of course, I am no longer weighing a mere 28 kg. I have gained weight and height. Now, Momo and I are same height. Not same weight. That Momo is underweight! For thank goodness sake, she is only 45 kg for a person with a height of 155 cm. According to Unohana she is borderline underweight. I seriously wonder where all the food see eats goes to. According to Matsumoto, during Fukataicho's meetings and Shinigami Women's Association Meetings, Momo and Yachiru always snack. Not on fruits, but on cookies and muffins. After Yachiru 'promoted' Momo to be the second vice president of Shinigami Women's association the menu has gotten additional items like cake.
"Shiro-chan, stop spacing out! That's better! I need to prepare for my 'date'. You can stay here if you want, but no comments, okay!"
"No, it's okay. I'll go back." I got up to leave.
"Hitsugaya-kun!" she said pulling me down.
"Nani?"
"You still not going to meet you're date?"
"No, Hinamori. And it's Hitsugaya-Taicho."
"Do you like someone else?"
"No."
"You don't have a crush or you don't know that you have a crush on that person."
Is it me or is Momo sounding like Matsumoto?
"I don't have a crush."
"I see. If you see a certain person, do you feel weird?"
I feel weird seeing you. How weird is that. No point lying to her anyway.
"Yes."
"If you are close to that someone, do you start blushing?"
"No."
Why in the world would I blush seeing Momo? She's my best friend.
"Does a lot of blood go to your face when you see the person?"
"Yes."
Why is she asking these kinds of questions again? Oh yes. She wanted to know whether I liked someone.
"Do you feel you're heart beating super fast when you see that person?"
"Yes."
Why is Momo saying everything I feel why I see her? Does that mean…
No, not even a small chance.
"Do you feel suffocated when you see that person?"
Uneasily, not liking where the Q and A session is going I answered,
"Yes."
"OMG! SHIRO-CHAN HAS GROWN UP! YOU LIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKE SOMEONE!" she rolled her tongue, while exclaiming.
Er…Okaay. Wait. WHAT! I LIKE MOMO!
"I am so proud of you! You're a man now!" Momo said wiping a false tear.
I sweatdropped.
"Since you're a man now, I will call you….Shiro-chan!"
"Isn't it supposed to be, I'm a man now and you should call me Hitsugaya-Taicho?"
"Shiro-chan, quickly go confess to you're that person might be taken away from you!"
Aren't you already taken, Momo?
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