Yehey! Bleach has a new movie! And as to what I saw on a teaser, Hitsugaya and Ichigo is going to have a fight! (drools) anyway, GODDAMIT I WON"T REST UNTIL I WATCH THAT MOVIE!!! I'm so excited wahey!!!

Chapter 2: The Girl in the tree

It had been a blissful month for Seiretei. The conclusion of Las Noches did not go uncelebrated by all the shinigami ranks and for a whole month, celebrations, parties and commemorations were held inside the white walls of Seiretei. They were happy, yes, for those people who never really fought and just stood back and waited for news about the war back in their comfy homes.

It was particularly sunny for a February day so everyone was out in the sun, basking in all the warmth as it shines down on them. Even some people were having a picnic under a rather huge Sakura tree in a breezy hill that was overlooking the whole Seiretei. And this people are comprised of Matsumoto Rangiku and her companions.

"Ah…what a nice day, ne taichou?" she looked over at her child captain who was hiding in the shades of the tree, as if afraid of the sunlight.

"Why did you drag me here?" he asked sternly, looking at his vice-caption.

"Hitsugaya-taichou should come out once in a while in days like this…want some watermelon?" Kira offered a slice of watermelon to the white haired genius. Though looking at Kira in a rather uncaring look, he reached for the watermelon and ate it.

"Why is Rukia taking so long? She's just going to fetch that idiot and she's taken at least an hour now, how's that?" Renji asked, taking a sip at the iced tea they had brought in there. Rukia had gone off to the real world to fetch Ichigo so he could spend the day in Soul Society with them. He had not been there for over three weeks now.

Hitsugaya finished his watermelon and came over to the picnic table and sat down to dig into a plate of watermelon to pass his time while waiting for the others to show up.

Matsumoto eyed her captain as he ate his fill. It was hard turning him back to the taichou she knew before Hinamori died. She remembers quite well how he had been for the first three weeks they had been back in Seiretei.

He was just the shell of the boy he had been when Hinamori was still by his side. Everywhere Hitsugaya goes, coldness followed and crept over him. It seemed that the only thing keeping him from freezing himself over was Hinamori but she's now gone. What of him now?

He gets pissed off at every little thing that seems to come into his sight so no one bothered him or even talked to him in the fear of hell freezing over.

Only Matsumoto saw through him all this time. After the day has gone and no one could hear him, she could hear him crying in his room. It pained her the most when she wanted to come to his aid but she doesn't know how. So she just stays awake the rest of the night until she could hear his cries subside and sleep overtake him. She knows the grief he was basking himself in, and he still couldn't see the way out.

But then the time came when she had decided to rush to him. It was the first time in her life that she felt so scared so she immediately ran for his room.

It was another one of those nights when she would listen to him all night, crying for his best friend and most beloved one. Like she had come to do, she sat next to the wall separating her room from his so she could hear him better. Then her eyes widened when she heard the sound of a metal clanking against wood. Without listening for the next sound she could hear she stood up and ran to his room.

She opened the door and saw Hitsugaya sitting in bed, Hyourinmaru in his hand, its sheath on the other and he was staring at it with eyes that seemed to be lifeless. He did not even look up to acknowledge another presence in the room. He just stared down at his sword and did nothing else.

"Taichou!" with that Matsumoto rushed to her captain and enclosed him in her arms. "Taichou, please stop this…" she pleaded, crying as she embraced him.

"Momo…" he muttered.

"It wasn't your fault that she died…it was nobody's fault…please stop blaming yourself…please…"

"I want to see Momo…"

"Taichou, Momo's gone…she isn't coming back!"

"No, she's here…I saw her…" he looked at Matsumoto's tear stricken face and smiled.

'Momo...how could you?' Matsumoto thought while sobbing all the more, hugging the child captain tighter in her arms. For a second, Matsumoto found herself blaming Momo for leaving Hitsugaya in a state like this. The captain had died alongside Momo on that gruesome night three weeks ago.

Hitsugaya rested his face on her shoulder and sighed, "See? I told you she'll come back…Momo would never leave me…she loves me…" he said.

Without a warning, Matsumoto slapped Hitsugaya. That was when he stopped and looked at Matsumoto, his eyes wide with shock, his cheeks paining him.

"Live, Taichou…please." she said.

"Matsumoto, I love Momo…so much…" with that he gave in to her embrace.

Rangiku looked down as her captain calmed down and was on his way to falling asleep. How she came to love Hitsugaya, not as lovers go but she loved him like family, like a younger brother…She would always be here for him, now that Hinamori has passed away.

"Good night, Taichou…" she kissed him lightly on the forehead and let sleep on his own, hopefully, his nightmares won't come again.

And now, looking at him eating with his friends and chatting with them brought glee to her heart. He's back to being the Hitsugaya she knew but part of him would always cherish Hinamori above all else.

"I'm here!!!" Yachiru shouted as she ran up the hill. She was followed by Ikkaku and Yumichika. "Baldy! Homo! They're up there!"

"I'm not a Homo! I'm just too beautiful!"

"I'm not bald!" Ikkaku piped. With that everyone looked at him and silence filled the area.

"What?" said Renji.

"Forget it…" Hitsugaya said, standing with his arms crossed and looking more and more impatient as the minutes passed by.

"Snowball! Snowball! How I've missed you! How are you today?" babbled Yachiru, her eyes glowing with mischief. "Did you have fun last night?"

"Taichou!?!" Matsumoto narrowed her eyes and grinned at Hitsugaya. "Is that true? What were you doing last night?"

Hitsugaya did not even pace at her question and just continued to glare at them. "What are you talking about? I wasn't anywhere last night!"

"Oh…I saw you kissing someone under the Sakura tree! Spill it!" Yachiru continued.

"No, I wasn't!" he looked as though he might strangle the pink haired child any minute now, "That's disgusting."

He knew Yachiru's just messing with him and he wasn't anywhere last night.

"Hello guys!" Rukia appeared all of a sudden, dragging Ichigo with her. The orange haired teen seemed to be full of bruises and is very pissed as he struggled from Rukia's grasp.

"Why the hell did you drag me out here? I was in the middle of class!!!" Ichigo yelled when Rukia released him.

"Hoi Ichigo! Long time no see!" Matsumoto greeted him.

"Yo! Rangiku-san! Toushiro!"

"it's Hitsugaya-taichou to you, Kurosaki."

CRACK.

"What the fuck is that?" Renji snapped.

"The tree…" Yumichika pointed. Indeed, the tree seemed to be cracking near the center and it seems that it is about to break in half.

Then all of a sudden, a brilliant eerie white glow engulfed all of them and they had to cover their eyes from too much light.

When the light had come to pass, they were all surprised to see a young lady with flowing white hair lying on the ground. And she had no clothes!!!

"Oh shit!" Renji said and looked away, blushing.

"Hey, let go! What's there to see?" Hitsugaya struggled against Matsumoto because she had covered his eyes before he could grasp the situation.

"Taichou, let me borrow this for a second…" she stripped him of his white captain's haori and let him go.

Hitsugaya rubbed his eyes and saw Matsumoto help a young lady stand up and that same lady was wearing his haori.

"Who is she?" he asked.

"She's strange, don't ya think?" Ichigo said to Ikkaku who was still in awe at what he saw.

"Why is she naked?" Ikkaku mumbled.

"She came from inside this tree…" Rukia said, inspecting the hollow in the middle of the tree. "But how she got in there in the first place really bothers me…"

"I'll take her to fourth company..." Matsumoto said to them, her arms supporting the still unconscious girl.

"I'll help you with that…" Ichigo hoisted the girl on his back and used shunpo to get to fourth company fast. Who knows if the girl might be dying?

The others, having nothing else to do, followed the three to the fourth company. "What the hell is wrong today? It seems as if the world has gone bonkers on us. It's a holiday for Pete's sake!!! I should have been sleeping all day!!" Renji complained.

"But why is today a holiday? We rarely get those days here." Yumichika struck on a beautiful pose which showed that he was thinking while they were running.

"Stop that. It's ugly." Ikkaku said

"How dare you! No part of me is ugly and will never be!"

"Hitsugaya-taichou looks like a normal child when he's not wearing his haori, how fascinating." Rukia pointed out.

"What is that supposed to mean, Kuchiki?"

"Nothing…just looking." Rukia smiled.

Soon they were at the steps of the fourth division and they saw Unohana coming out a room. When she saw them, she came over and smiled at them.

"Hitsugaya-taichou…here is your haori. I already gave her clothes." She handed him the haori, "And if you wish to see her, she's in there. But please do be silent. She's still tired." She said and left them as she proceeded to other rooms.

Hitsugaya and the others walked silently until they reached the specified door. Rukia slowly opened it and saw Ichigo and Rangiku standing beside the white bed, which held the motionless girl decked in a white sleeping gown.

"How is she?" Rukia asked Rangiku.

"She's awake but I think she doesn't want to talk yet…" she answered.

Hitsugaya looked over at the girl. Her white hair was spread out on the pillows and her right hand was lying on her forehead, as if obscuring the light from her eyes. She had her eyes closed but Matsumoto said that she was awake so they thought she was trying to sleep. Her left hand lay limp on her side as she breathed slowly but evenly.

"What's your name?" Rukia asked.

The room fell silent and they anticipated her answer. But after a minute did she sit up on the bed and faced them. Only then did she open her eyes to reveal teal colored irises.

"Hitsugaya Miyuki," she said then smiled at them.

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Hinamori were on the terrace outside her bedroom. It was a hot day and her room does not give her any chance of cooling at all. So she went outside to have a bit of fresh air before the maids call her and summon her back into the house.

Lately, she had been having these weird dreams about a boy wearing a black shihakusho and he had spiky white hair. And then she starts seeing these weird serene inhabitants in her house when she could have sworn she did not see them before. They even have chains dangling from their bodies which gave her the creeps. She tried telling the maids but they said that she was just imagining things.

"What a great day." She said as she stretched her body.

And then comes the mystery about her about a month ago. The maids kept on telling her how lucky she is that she lived again. It was her second life. But ever since she lived again, her head always hurts and her mind is filled with swords and some sort of information that she can't grasp with her knowledge. The she had nightmares about a brown haired man stabbing her. She could not quite remember the sounds but the feeling was still there.

And then, the most bizarre of them all is the most frequent memory she recalled. The boy with the spiky white hair which struck her as an enigma. He seems to be very familiar to her, as if she had known him all her life. She could have recollections that sometimes she doubts if it was really her own.

"Hitsugaya Toushiro." She murmured as she looked up at the sky.

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