Chapter 2

I'm nothing special

"Momo!" I heard Rangiku yelled from down the hall, I finally caught site of Rangiku and Rukia amonst the crowd of students and waved.

"So!" Rangiku said teasingly and nudging me in the side with her elbow strangely.

"Ouch! What?" I asked confused, I didn't really get why she was teasing me.

"What do you mean what?" Rangiku said walking up to a very nice blue car.

"Well, I don't really know what you're talking about." I replied a little annoyed that they weren't telling me anything.

Rangiku got into the driver's seat and Rukia motioned for me to sit shotgun.

"You know! You and Toshiro." Rangiku stated as if it were obvious.

"What about him?" I was still quite confused.

"He was totally flirting with you!" Rangiku replied waiting for an interesting reaction.

"Uh, no he wasn't. He was just talking to me." I said bluntly.

"That's why he was flirting!" Rangiku giggled, while trying to keep her attention on the road.

"Yeah Momo! I've never seen him talk to any girl that much unless it was Rangiku or me, but he still doesn't really talk to me." Rukia said with smile on her face.

"You could say it's his own way of flirting." Rangiku said with a big grin.

"I only met him today. He doesn't like me." I said trying my hardest to make it sound like I didn't care, but deep down inside I felt something.

"So?" Ichigo began giving Toshiro a friendly shove, it was after tryouts and both of them were tired.

"What?" Toshiro asked a little annoyed and sore.

"You know what. I've never seen you hit on a girl, I can't believe you were flirting with Momo." Ichigo said as they entered his house.

"Fl-flirting?! I was not flirting! I was just talking to her." Toshiro exclaimed surprised and annoyed.

"Ha! Whatever man! I saw how you were looking at her, but I guess I can't blame you. She's cute, but I'm not interested in her like that." Ichigo said falling onto the couch and not noticing the mild shock on Toshiro's face.

Toshiro threw his jacket and backpack at Ichigo while taking a seat for himself.

"Think what you want but there is no way I was flirting with Hinamori." Toshiro retorted.

"Whatever. I've never seen you talk to a girl that long who wasn't Matsumoto or Rukia, especially when you've just met her." Ichigo smiled as if he had just achieved something.

Toshiro just groaned and ran his hand through his white hair in frustration.

Rangiku had finally decided to take me home after three hours of shopping. When I got home I found a note on the table from aunt Ryona saying that she had gone to the store.

I went off to my room and dropped the clothes that I bought on to my desk, and planted my face into my bed. I was really tired since Rangiku had dragged us, literally dragged us, to each store.

I heard my cell phone beginning to ring.

"Urgh!" I groaned as I got up to grab the cell on my desk.

"Hello?" I said as I flipped the phone open.

"Momo! Is it you?" I heard Rangiku say or rather more like yelled into the phone.

"Yeah, it's me. What's up?" I said a little happy to hear from her. Rangiku and Rukia were really energetic and crazy but I loved being around them.

"Just wondering, have you done your homework yet?" She asked obviously hoping that I hadn't done it yet.

"I haven't, have you?" I replied.

"Nope!" Rangiku stated as if she were proud of it.

"Oh well, why did you want to know?" I asked her.

"Well Rukia and I, maybe some others, were getting together to do it. Do you want to come with us?" she asked.

"Sure, I already told my Aunt that I'd be out for a while so why not. Where should I meet you guys?" I replied feeling a bit excited.

"Oh, we're outside your door right now so hurry! We'll see you in a second! Bye!" Rangiku quickly said then hung up.

"Wah!! Dang it Rangiku!" I said grabbing my books and my purse just in case.

I ran outside to see Rukia and Rangiku waiting in the driveway in Rangiku's car.

"So where are we going to do our homework?" I asked still having no clue where we were going and just got into the car.

"Toshiro's." Rangiku smiled devilishly.

"I thought he didn't want us to go there." I said remembering lunch.

"Yeah! But we're going anyways." Matsumoto said happily.

"Okay." I answered unsurely.

I felt a little weird going to a guy's house, I didn't really have very many guy friends back at home and the ones I did have weren't really close.

Rangiku announced that we were there quite loudly, and we got out of the car to the front door.

When I was about to knock on the door Rangiku pulled out a key and unlocked it, she strolled right in with Rukia tailing behind her.

"You have a key to his house?" I asked a little worried that we were just walking into someone else's house without them knowing.

"Ha! This is my house. Toshiro lives here too." Rangiku said obviously amused that I thought we had just barged in.

"Oh." I simply said a little embarrassed and a little curious to why Toshiro was living with Rangiku.

While we walked upstairs, then down the hallway Rangiku and Rukia started to push each other around playfully until they finally slipped and fell into a room.

I soon ran after them and walked into the room to find Rangiku and Rukia on the floor giggling.

"Why am I not surprised that you're here Matsumoto?" I heard a familiar voice say.

I looked up to see Ichigo and Toshiro over on the bed at the other end of the room.

"Oh! Toshiro was expecting us!" Rangiku said happily standing up quickly.

"Yeah, or I could hear you a mile away. How about that?" He replied coldly

"Oh come on Toshiro! You know I need your help!" Rangiku said pouting a little.

"Okay, fine, but only because it's true." Toshiro said standing up and grabbing his books that he had on his desk and walking out the door.

"Yay!" Rangiku said and followed him shortly afterwards.

I looked over to where Ichigo was sitting on Toshiro's bed.

"Hey Momo!" Ichigo said friendly.

"Hey. What are you doing?" I asked noticing the laptop on Ichigo's lap.

"Oh! Toshiro and I were just watching some videos on YouTube." Ichigo answered motioning that I should come and watch next to him.

I walked over and noticed how clean and organized the room was, it was quite big and very nice. There was a work desk and a large shelf on one of the walls full of books, it was very nice and it smelled just like Toshiro.

Ichigo and I began to watch a bunch of videos, some were funny and some stupid but we were both having a good time laughing and talking.

Eventually, Ichigo and I decided to go downstairs to get something to eat.

"So I threw a pie into his face!" Ichigo said finishing a story of him starting a huge food fight last year.

"That sounds awesome!" I said while laughing.

"It was really fun! I can't wait for you to see the one this year!" he replied excitedly.

"What? Do you do one every year?" I asked amused.

"Well I'm going to. I'm only a sophomore." Ichigo said while scanning the fridge for something.

"Oh really? I didn't know!" I said sarcastically, soon laughing at Ichigo's silly smile.

"Hey! If you guys don't mind! Could you shut up! Matsumoto's already hard to teach as it is!" We suddenly heard Toshiro yell from the other room. I also just remembered that I was supposed to be in there with them, but I didn't really want to.

"Whatever." Ichigo mumbled.

We both walked upstairs hearing Rangiku yell at Toshiro.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" I asked Ichigo once we were back in Toshiro's room.

"Go ahead." Ichigo said while eating the snacks that we had brought up and sitting back down on Toshiro's bed.

"I was wondering why does Hitsugaya-kun live with Rangiku?" I asked my curiosity growing.

Ichigo's expression dropped from cheerful to plain out serious, "Well Momo, Toshiro wasn't really the luckiest kid growing up. I feel bad for the guy actually."

It seemed that he was talking more to himself then answering me, "If you don't mind can you tell me why?"

"He was…I guess he was rejected as a child. His mother left him and his father worked all day and practically all night. Toshiro practically taught himself everything and did everything on his own. That's probably why he's so cold." Ichigo stared at me sympathetically before he continued.

"High school is probably the most attention he's ever had. All the girls love him. I mean when you think about it he's got everything you'd think would be important. He's got looks, brains, popularity and money. The guy's loaded. But I guess that doesn't matter to him." Ichigo said.

"Wow, but how did he end up here? I mean why is he living here?" I asked feeling really bad for Toshiro.

"He was soon moved to his grandmother's. His father thought he was too big of a pain so I guess he was practically kicked out of his house, at least that's what Matsumoto told me."

"What? What jerk would do that?" I said angrily surprised.

"His father." Ichigo replied calmly, "But Toshiro said he was happier with his grandmother anyways. He only lived there for a year, then his grandmother died and his father refused to take him back. Rangiku convinced her parents to let him live with them. They said yes since they've been friends since elementary school, but yeah that's what happened." Ichigo said.

"That's awful! How could his father do that? I would like to give him a nice punch in the face." Momo said angrily.

"Ha! No offense, but I can't see you hurting someone." Ichigo said laughing a bit.

"Yeah, neither can I." I said as I smiled meekly.

"You know I've never seen Toshiro talk to someone else that wasn't me the way he talks to you. You really must be something." Ichigo said with a puzzled look.

"Thanks, but really I'm not. Well, I'm going to go downstairs now and don't worry I won't tell anyone." I said as I walked out the door.

Toshiro, I don't even know you, but I'm not stupid to say that you want attention. If you don't you must be crazy. I know exactly how you feel.

As I thought a tear began rolling down my face, really I'm nothing special.

I walked into the living room to see Toshiro with his face in his hands, most likely frustrated with the laughing pair of Rangiku and Rukia.

"What are you guys laughing at?" I asked as a smile crept onto my face.

"Haha, it doesn't matter." Rangiku gasped for breath.

"So, does that mean you guys are done?" I asked.

"We're--"

"Not even close." Toshiro interrupted to finish her sentence.

"That's not true!" Rangiku protested.

"Uh, yeah it is. You're slower than a turtle. Rukia finished like forever ago." Toshiro said.

I couldn't help but let a small giggle escape me. Then I sat down and pulled out my own homework. I then began to work on my own homework.

"I hope you don't mind." I said.

"Nah, it doesn't matter." Toshiro said concentrating on his work.

After awhile Toshiro finished his work and was completely committed to helping Rangiku now, but every now and then the two would start bickering and Rukia would end up telling them to shut up. Later, Ichigo joined us and sat next to Rukia and watched since he had already done his homework.

"Dude, I'm hungry!" Ichigo whined

"I am too! Toshiro I need a break!" Rangiku said putting extra emphasis on the word need.

"Fine, whatever, but I'm not going to stay with you until midnight like last time." Toshiro said not really caring.

"Fine we'll be right back." Rukia said, and left for the kitchen with Ichigo and Rangiku.

I really wished they hadn't, I didn't feel comfortable being with Toshiro alone, and concentrating on my work. I came across a problem that was really hard, no matter how hard I tried the answer never made sense.

I considered asking Toshiro who was looking around the room as if he'd never actually looked at it before. I finally decided that there was no point just trying to figure something out that I know nothing about.

"Hey…Hitsugaya-kun?" I asked unsure.

"Hmm?" he replied.

"Can you help me with this problem? I don't understand it." I pointed it out on my paper,

"Yeah." He came out and sat next to me.

I couldn't help but notice how close he was sitting to me, he asked me quietly which one again.

I couldn't help myself from thinking how good looking he was, not to mention he was really smart and from what I'd heard he was athletic too.

"Momo?" He asked looking at me curiously with his sea green eyes.

I snapped back to reality, I had to act like a normal person Toshiro was right next to me and I was acting like an idiot. I couldn't stop the blush that had made its way on to me cheeks.

"Ye-yeah Hitsugaya-kun?" I stuttered.

"Oh nothing, it just seemed like you were off in your own little world instead of listening." Toshiro said with an amused smile.

"Oh and just Toshiro is fine." He added.

I smiled shyly as we continued; even though I didn't know him very well I liked being close to him. It made me feel safe inside somehow.

"Okay you're done." Toshiro finally said stretching his hands in the air.

"What? Oh yeah, I am." I hadn't really noticed that Toshiro had been helping me with every single problem, I guess I was just enjoying his company too much.

"Man you're a lot faster and smarter than Matsumoto." Toshiro said with a playful smile.

"I don't know you helped me with more than half the problems." I said with small giggle escaping me.

"Actually you may have not realized it but you did most of the problems, I just watched." Toshiro smiled gently and gazed into my eyes.

I smiled like an idiot and gazed back into his, he had a small smile on his face that seemed to brighten up the whole room. Toshiro moved his hand up to my face and brush a few loose strands behind my ears, and brushed my cheek softly while he did. His touch was cold but it felt good against my warm cheeks and heavy blush.

"Momo?" Toshiro said softly removing his hand from my cheek slowly.

"Yes?" I answered gently.

"Do you like--"

"Momo! We have to take you home now!" Rangiku yelled and ran into the room, grabbed me by the arm, scooped up all my stuff and dragged me out the door.

"Wait! What?" I asked completely bewildered by Rangiku.

"It's almost twelve! I'll get into so much trouble if you and Rukia are here any later!"

I got into the car and we headed off, I didn't want to leave. I was having a good time talking to Toshiro, but it was my own little secret.

HEY! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REVEIWED AND READ THIS STORY!!! Sorry that this isn't the best Chapter and that it took me so long to update it!!! I'll work on that! Well thanks!! I hope you liked it!!! PLEASE REVEIW!!!!!!!!!!!!!