Lie awake in bed at night
And think about your life
Do you want to be different?
Try to let go of the truth
The battles of your youth
'Cause this is just a game
30 Seconds To Mars-A Beautiful Lie
Dumb founded might be the only words to describe the expression her well-built features for the moment at staring at the man who was now entering her bar of all places to walk into in London or anywhere from the world on the point to be taken. Gaping open mouthed all the more to add insult to the energy already forming on her pride on loosing her composer in such a rash way as this in front of people who knew her only as the resilient young lady with a nasty right hook to match any man who walked in like nights like this or drank to much for their own good. Tatsuki Arisawa may have change in many ways from leaving Japan those five years ago, humans did change with the passing of time as all mortals did on the earth but to her own knowledge, it took years for those of the shinigami to age or even change. Yet how it that the once small and icy captain had changed was made her question her own mental state for the moment. Even more that maybe someone had slipped something into her water and the woman was having a bad drug reaction! Of all shinigami or souls to walk in on this misty damp night, why was it him?
Hitsugaya and she had never shared too many words at all during the Winter War or much even after it had ended. Tatsuki barely knew anything about him also to add to the fact along with the ice chip he always seemed to have on his slim shoulders at the time of those first crude meetings of all the fighters of both sides of the living and after life. She would herself only keep in the background of the meetings while Ichigo would be saying something as their so called Leader for their team for the human world. Many of the shinigami thought having humans fight along side them as equals was just down right wrong and not needed, they where nothing but trash to them in many of the Reapers eyes. Yet it had also been the Tenth Captain to say something to them on this issue "It is their world Aizen is trying to destroy, they have a right to fight for it as much as we have a right to protect ours." That one statement had broken and quieted many arguments coming out on the spot with Ichigo looking in a deep gratitude to the young man for the moment and nodding. From then, the small band of humans fight with the shinigami on many levels in all three of the worlds in which the Winter War spread out on around them.
Blinking away the rush of emotions for the moment in recalling some those battles that seemed so long ago in her lost youth back in Japan. Yet still that one silver word was hanging in her mind on a golden thread for the moment. Why? It is a simple three letter word that had more meanings and less endings then any other word in known human language. Why was Hitsugaya Toshiro, Captain of the Tenth Squad of the Goite 13 doing in London, England and in her bar? Was he trying to find her at all on some request from the others? Did the shinigami want something more from her? Huffing a bit in the air of knowing full well when ever she kicked the bucket, the kung-fu queen already had a spot waiting for her in the shinigami ranks! Any of the humans who had fought in the Winter War and lived were told this out right on the spot. Like it was some kind of high honor or something that their afterlife was already planned for them with out even asking if they wanted to be shinigami in the damn first place!
Now at this time these thoughts were rippling out in the young woman's mind, one pair of bright jade eyes where adjusted to the light for the moment of the low end bar. Of all places to seek a moment of warmth and a drink to relax had he had come to this run down hole in the ground? Hitsugaya fight a bit of sneer forming on his lips for the moment at the few souls who were sipping away their time in alcohol. Not that he could talk about his own chosen company or a certain Second in Commend who often did the same thing on and off when she could. "She might love this place.....seems cheap if anything I can say and save a few coins for later use. Of all shinigami to be sent on this damn mission, why did the old man have to pick me?" Growling only a bit in his mind at the old man who was the so called mighty leader of the Gotei 13 would send him all the way to this place on a single rumor. Maybe he had chosen the young captain just to fuck up his life more then it already was going on, use him for a good laugh!
Then it was as he came to the bar, which his eyes locket on those pair of amber ones just drilling holes right into his face. What was this woman's problem? Staring right back at her for the moment with the same dead pan look he would give his officers at a meeting or one of them got out of line. Hitsugaya had learned to master his icy dead stare when the right moments where needed for such a look. Yet something seemed oddly familiar about this woman before him with the cropped black hair and piercing burning eyes of molten amber almost they seemed unreal? Clearly she was not from the nation, from her features alone one could tell she was Japanese but there was a touch of something mixed in her just a tad to add some spice to her stature to the onlooker.
"Could I please have a draft beer?" his voice seemed more chilled then normal as if ice might freeze the very words. "Or do you have a staring problem?" Ok so he was being a little rude but this woman looked ready to come over the bar and hit him head on with those clenched fist for the moment.
"Do you even know who I am or recognize me at all?" Tatsuki let her voice snap into a muffled growl of Japanese at him. Caring not how he responded all the more but she had to know why he was here! Clearly from his expression alone at her face, the shinigami male had no memory of her at all it might seem.
This strange out rage from the human woman made the normally steady and centered shinigami captain a bit off his line of thoughts. What did she mean if he knew her? Had they met before hand? Stepping back for the moment to see her little better in the low light of the bar he just walked in. Studying the strong features of the woman but it was those eyes that acted like the first shot of the gun to the clue it might be for the moment. Recalling those eyes once before in one of the last battles of the winter war as she had stood in front of Orihime Inoue to protect her from the coming tides of the hollows. Amber burning with such a fierceness of their own fire, as if her gaze might burn them away to nothing...
"Tatsuki Arisawa is my name"
