"Maybe you should let us see this book," Byakuya was still peeved but it meant he was thinking of ways to reverse this more, "Maybe it will hold some kind of hint to why this has happened."
The head captain gave a grunt of approval, "And while Hitsugaya gose to get this book I suggest that captains find a way to calm down their squads."
"With all due respect head captain what are we supposed to say to them?" Soi Fon looked over.
"Although farfetched tell them is it a training exercise. As long as they so not know that this has taken us by surprise it will reduce panic." Yamamoto replied.
A few frowned to have to lie to their squad but it was better than them thinking they were all under an Aizen illusion or something which if it wasn't for the fact only Unohona had seen Hitsugaya's book the captains would have thought so too.
So the captain's spilt off for them to face their squad in their new personas. They soon found that the lower ranking shinigami with only a little reatsu were completely taken in by this world. They acted as if it was completely normal which mean that captains only really had to reassure they higher seated officers.
Hitsugaya has asked Ukitake if he would be so kind as to take care of handling the explanation to his squad while he looked for his book and the slightly depressed Ukitake agreed.
But a certain busty Lieutenant was determined to find her captain.
And that she did.
She caught him while he was running and his mind was focused and squished him into her bountiful bosom.
"Captainnnnn!" She wined, "What's going on? I don't remember buying these clothes. Hieneko's turned into a fan and my sake stash has disappeared."
"Matsumoto!" He growled at her trying to get free.
"And don't say what Ukitake did. This is not a training exercise." She released him and put her hands on her hips.
He looked over her. Her outfit was a light purple, tight and fitting to her figure. It was based mostly on a Chinese battle outfits he'd seen in some books. The sides of the long dress where split to allow her legs freedom to move and where hieneko was there was now a bladed fan.
Most might think the young captain had been a bit perverted when he had made the dress so that it had a hole so the top of the boobs would be seen but in all honesty he had just thought she'd like that.
"Captain?" She knocked him from his thoughts and he looked up.
Sighing he though he may as well tell her, "Walk and talk, Matsumoto."
She followed as he led to his room.
"Matsumoto I know this may seem random but you'll see where I'm going with it," He glanced to see her eyes on him, "I write stories. Alternative versions of reality where I can do whatever the hell I want."
"Really?" She titled her head a small part of her not really finding it all that surprising.
"No pun intended but, long story short, as of this morning reality has become one of my story worlds."
Rangiku blinked, "Then…" She looked down herself.
"I didn't think you'd be comfortable covered up." He blushed slightly.
She giggled, "So do I have a super awesome back story?"
He sighed again, "You are mostly known as the Battle Princess and came from a family where you were harshly trained for battle when you were young. You completed what was expected from you by getting a high rank in one of the 13 generals squads but from then on decided you were going to live life your way."
"Hmm… Is that trying to justify why I don't do paperwork." She thought out loud.
"No," He answered quickly, "In the stories you do your paperwork."
"Oh," She shrugged as they ended up at his quarter's door, "What are we doing here captain?"
"Looking for the book I wrote this all in," He replied, "The other captains think there might be a clue on how this happened or how to get things back to normal."
She nodded and was told to wait outside.
He closed the door behind him and took a deep breath.
There was a part of the young captain who still thought he was at his desk writing this as it went, lost in his own little world. He had to get it in his head this was reality. With a small nod to himself he pushed himself up from the door.
He slid open one of his wardrobes. This one happened to have hung up two spare captain's cloaks and some uniforms but Hitsugaya's teal eyes were down. It was a dark wardrobe so unless you knew what you were looking for you probably wouldn't have noticed the two small holes of either side of the base. It was enough for Hitsugaya to put a finger through each and lift the wood up to reveal a secret compartment.
There lay quite a few different note books all with some drawing on the front. You could tell which were more recent because the drawing was better but Hitsugaya frowned. He picked the up one by one, read the first few lines and threw it over his shoulder after each one getting a bit more violent with the throwing.
"Captain?" Matsumoto peaked in when she heard the noise.
"It's not here," He stated after throwing the 5th and last book at the wall.
"What's not?" She looked at the scattered works of her captain.
"The most recent book. The one with these specific characters." He replied, flustered.
"Alright captain," She said calmly, "Is there anywhere else you would have taken the book?"
He frowned. His note books hardly saw the light of day since he was usually to scared someone would sneak up on him a read over his shoulder. And the argument that he was a captain and would sense the person trying didn't seem to calm him at all. Bu there was…
"I might have taken it to the office but I've never forgotten to bring it back before." He replied.
Rangiku shrugged, "There's a first time for everything captain, C'mon."
She started to skip off as he sighed getting up and not bothering to clear up after himself. He just made sure that the door was closed before going with his lieutenant to the office.
The two searched high and low, shuffled through desks and Rangiku wined when she checked her stash areas.
"Where has my sake gone captain?" She looked out to the boy with a pout.
"In the stories you never drank around the office," He replied still looking.
"Awww." She wined like a two year old.
Eventually Hitsugaya's butt landed on the sofa with a large thump, his legs flying up then down with gravity. With his arms crossed his face settled in a deep scowl. But then a thought occurred to him and that scowl turned into a look of worry.
"Shit…"
"What is it?" Matsumoto asked.
He said nothing his teal eyes serious.
"I'm going to take the other books to the captains. You just…be ready something's going to happen and most likely on sogyoku hill." She got up and went to walk out.
"Wait, captain what?" She yelled after him
He looked round, "Think about it Matsumoto, story logic and sogyoku hill is the perfect setting."
She couldn't ask more before he had disappeared round the corner.
He gathered the books into the bag and flash stepped off to the head captain's office where the other captains had been waiting.
"What is it, Captain Hitsugaya?" Ukitake dare ask as he came in with a serious look.
"I have the others but not the most recent book," he replied, "But I think I know where we can find it."
"What do you mean?" Unohana enquired,
"Normally I'm very careful with these as I don't want anyone finding them but at the same time it would make sense if something we needed was missing," He told them, "I am aware this is reality but…going by story logic...it would be too easy if we could fix this straight away."
"You are saying we will have some kind of villain to face?" Komamura questioned.
Hitsugaya nodded.
"Any ideas on who or what?" Kyoraku looked hopeful but Hitsugaya shook his head,
"The main villain of most of the stories was Aizen but I doubt he's been affected by this. Minor villains included Kurosaki, Captain Soi Fon and Captain Zaraki." The boy's head titled up as he thought of other possibilities, "There were some I made up which were usually some kind of overpowered hollow."
"Hmm…" Yamamoto thought, "How long do you think we have until this villain shows themselves?"
"Until we go to Sogyoku hill," He replied, "It's my favourite place for a villain entrance."
"Then you will go with a small group," Yamamoto stated, "Who will go with Hitsugaya?"
Byakuya was usually one to volunteer but it seemed his distaste for his outfit made him less willing.
"Hope you got some strong villains in that head of yours," Kenpachi volunteered.
"I will also go," Soi Fon sounded.
"Alright then the team is set. Hitsugaya will leave the other books with me and you will leave for Sokyoku hill. The rest of you be ready as back-up should this villain be more than expected." The king of the realm boomed, "Dismissed."
So the three captains headed off towards sogyoku hill and were quickly joined by Matsumoto.
"Captain?" She said with a worried look.
He went to speak but was beaten to it by the giant just behind him.
"Nice."
The boy looked round to see Kenpachi's…eye right on the hole of Matsumoto's dress. He was going to kick the man but was once again stopped by an unexpected sound. A hum of agreement from the squad 2 captain on the other side. Toushiro looked a bit traumatised and Matsumoto giggled both from the attention and the fact her naive little captain hadn't noticed Soi Fon's prefaces until now.
She decided to spare him more embracement,
"So where are you going?"
Soi Fon took a breath, "Going by Hitsugaya's story logic we are on our way to Sogyoku hill where we expect a villain to appear who will hopefully have the book Hitsugaya couldn't find."
Rangiku titled her head, "Are you sure you shouldn't just look harder Captain?"
"I'm sure, "He glared at her for under minding him.
"I'm coming too then," She gave a determined nod.
He sighed and continued walking, "I probably wouldn't be able to stop you."
So the odd group found themselves on that famous hill also realising that Kenpachi was the only one with his usual weapon.
Hyorinmaru had been replaced by a bow but Hitsugaya assured them he knew how he was supposed to use it if needed.
Hieneko was replaced by a bladed fan which Matsumoto had enjoyed playing with but worried about using it in a fight.
And Susumebachi was not there at all. Instead Soi Fon opened her trench coat to find a pair of daggers and a pair of machine gun pistols. She was clearly disappointed but curious about the human weaponry.
"So," Kenpachi looked to the boy, "What'll happen when this guy arrives?"
Hitsugaya thought, "It'll probably be over dramatic," He replied, "You know like clouds will roll over the sky or the world with somehow darken.
As he said it the world somehow darkened.
"Like that?" Matsumoto stood on her guard.
"Like that," Hitsugaya answered pulling the bow from round him.
He pulled the arrow back on the string and aimed the longbow at the edge of the hill. He was almost certain that was where the villain would show. The others took his lead and focused on that spot until sure enough something began to appear.
A shadow rose up from the ground, unnaturally, like a corpse from its grave. It began to take shape and form until it you could see the dragon that was embroidered in silver onto the thick navy blue cloak. The short figure had its hood up but Hitsugaya recognised it.
"Reign over the frosted heaven." He called and his arrow glowed a bright blue.
Ice and water gathered as the arrow whistled through the air to create a small version of his shikai but it seemed he was too late it taking the shot. The figured pulled out a thick icy blue staff with a roaring dragon on the top and banged it into the ground.
The flying dragon hit a force field and dissipated.
"Not you," Hitsugaya growled as he pulled out another arrow but once more too late.
"Yes you,"
A second hand grabbed the staff and rose it up holding it until a glow consumed it and banged it against the ground again.
It set off a shock wave only Hitsugaya was expecting but even then it blew them back with no chance of landing on their feet.
"Who the hell is that?" Kenpachi coughed quickly trying to get to his feet.
"A different persona," Hitsugaya painfully rolled onto his front to get up.
"What do you mean?" Soi Fon wanted to glare but kept her eyes on the enemy.
It was clear what he meant when you had a good look at the teal eyes that stared back at them, even more when he pulled down the hood of his cloak to reveal the mop of untameable white hair.
"I'm Toushiro Hitsugaya, greatest Warlock of the realm," He introduced himself and with a casual wave of his staff a gust of air blew at them.
"My strongest persona," Hitsugaya stated.
Author note: I do not own bleach
^^ this story is fun to write. apoligies for those who want to other stories they will get writen at some point promise.
thank you to the reviewers of the last chapter and you might get some pictures from this later since i quite like Soi Fon in my head
