Just a bunch of dialogue and starting of the friendship between the four. And it's not another insert Bleach character name here xOC. It might be later on but right now I'm sticking to a nice little friendship. Trying to make this different from all the rest of these types of stories… But heheh, I'm not revealing anymore of the story! Hitsugaya does have a crush on Tomoyo though, but you have to wait for the end...
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bleach or any of the characters (But Sora Yasashii and Tomoyo Yusuke are both mine), this is strictly and purely fanmande.
It didn't really take long to catch up with Hitsugaya and Matsumoto. They had actually turned catching up to them into a race. Being so wrapped up with it they almost passed the 10th Division shinigami completely.
After awhile, Hitsugaya found Tomoyo walking beside him and both fukutaichous talking endlessly behind them. But he didn't feel the need to start up a conversation or join in to the one already going on.
"Yasashii-taichou looked horrible, don't you think, Hisagi?" The fuku-taichou of 10th Division asked.
Shuuhei nodded. "How do you think Hinamori will manage?"
"I don't know." Matsumoto bent closer down to Hitsugaya. "How about you, taichou, aren't you worried for Hinamori?"
"She'll manage… somehow." He answered.
Shuuhei stared, wondering how heartless he could be to his childhood friend. "Yusuke-taichou, what do you think about Yasashii-taichou?"
"He's really nice." Tomoyo said.
"You really think so?"
She nodded.
"What was it like?" Matsumoto was curious.
"He has a lot of regrets, that's why he looks so terrifying… But he's really, very assuring and he cares about other people."
"How do you know that? I thought you just met him today." Shuuhei asked.
"While we were waiting to be announced, I was there with Ichigo-kun and he approached us."
"So you just met Kurosaki today too, right?" Hitsugaya asked, out of the blue.
Tomoyo turned to look at Hitsugaya and shook her head. "I go to school with Ichigo-kun."
Matsumoto, Shuuhei and Hitsugaya all stared at her in disbelief.
"How old are you? You look incredibly young if you're Kurosaki-taichou's age." Shuuhei asked.
She put out her fingers and started counting. "I'm twelve-years-old."
"If you're twelve and you're in high school, why didn't we say Hitsugaya-taichou was in high school too? Wait, we never saw you at Ichigo's school while we were on Earth!" Matsumoto looked puzzled.
"I skipped two grades." She stated blankly.
"That still doesn't explain why we never saw you when we there."
"No one takes the time to observe their surroundings. Ichigo-kun didn't even know I existed until a little while ago."
Shuuhei thought. "So you were… invisible to everyone unless they took the time to notice?"
Tomoyo smiled and said something before speeding up. "Something like that."
"Uh, hey – TAICHOU – where are you going?" Shuuhei and Matsumoto began chasing after her, leaving Hitsugaya alone.
"I guess that's true then… No one took notice so I was forgotten…" Hitsugaya mumbled, following the others slowly.
Tomoyo stopped to an abrupt halt once she had noticed that they hadn't caught up to her yet. She sat down patiently, waiting for them to turn the corner. But it took Shuuhei, Matsumoto and Hitsugaya sometime to do so because she had just run off at random and at an incredibly fast speed.
"What… was… that… all about." Shuuhei panted as they finally caught up to her.
"Can you feel it?" Was all she said.
Matsumoto, Shuuhei and Hitsugaya all looked shocked. They didn't notice the strong reiatsu until now.
"It's Kurosaki and…" Hitsugaya started.
"Zaraki-taichou; he's fighting Zaraki-taichou!" Matsumoto continued.
Ichigo's reiatsu died down a little and they could feel that he was getting farther and father away from Zaraki.
"Zaraki is probably trying to kill Ichigo." Matsumoto laughed.
"Taichou, how did you notice that when we didn't?" Shuuhei asked.
"Observe your surroundings, Hisagi-kun."
"I'll remember that next time. But, where are we?"
"Gomen… I got excited because Ichigo-kun was fighting, I don't know my way around…"
Hitsugaya sighed. "I know the way."
As they started walking again, an idea came at Matsumoto. One question: would it work?
"Hisagi, are you busy tomorrow?" She asked.
He shook his head. "I'm not, but Tomoyo is. She has to do paperwork tomorrow."
"What about the day after?"
"Paperwork takes awhile. Then again you wouldn't know that since you never really do it…"
She ignored his last comment. "How about Friday, is she busy then?"
To Tomoyo and Hitsugaya, it was like Shuuhei was Tomoyo's personal attendant.
"She'll probably be done by then; the pile is only about a meter tall."
Hitsugaya was expecting a moan or complaint of some sort from Tomoyo but it didn't come.
"Then you should give her a tour on Friday! I know she's only going to stay here for awhile, only a week, but she should still know her way around."
"Sure…" He answered.
"Or Hisagi should do the paperwork for now; it is Tomoyo-chan's first few days after all! Do you really want her to have a memory like that when she reminisces?"
Shuuhei felt a tang of guilt in his gut. "Who will take Yusuke-taichou then?"
She tried to sound like she hadn't been plotting this. "Um… How about Hitsugaya-taichou?"
Hitsugaya froze, stopping everyone else because he was the lead.
"He's leading us right now; Hitsugaya-taichou would be perfect for the job!" She was trying to be convincing.
"I'm busy, I have paperwork too." He responded quickly.
"But – Taichou – Yamamoto-taichou said himself to welcome them with open arms and get along well!" Matsumoto was desperate for this even though it would lead to no personal gain.
Hitsugaya sighed and turned to look at Tomoyo's silver eyes. "Are you okay with this?"
Tomoyo stared at him surprised but finally answered. "Uh… hai…"
"What about you, Shuuhei?"
"Umm…" Matsumoto was giving him a smile that said: I'm smiling now but if you don't agree then I won't be later. "Yeah, I'm willing to do the paperwork!"
Hitsugaya sighed in defeat.
Matsumoto was cheering with happiness inside of her head but looking at Tomoyo in reality.
As if understanding what Matsumoto meant, she thanked him. "Arigato… Toshiro-kun…"
Hitsugaya turned away at this, making Tomoyo feel guilty about it all.
"Taichou is so caring! Giving up paperwork, something he enjoys doing and is good at, for the sake of helping a friend!" Matsumoto complimented.
"I'm caring, am I, Matsumoto?" Something sounded different about his voice. "Well then please do the paperwork for me, it needs to be done."
Matsumoto frowned. "But –"
Hitsugaya turned around angrily, his face was red. They figured it was because he was mad, but Hitsugaya didn't usually turn red when he was mad.
"Hitsugaya-taichou are you blushing" Shuuhei asked.
"N-N-No, why would I be b-b-blushing?" He turned away and began to stalk off.
Matsumoto ran after him.
Tomoyo watched. "Hisagi-kun, did I do something wrong to make Toshiro-kun mad?"
Shuuhei grinned. "You're just his first, Tomoyo."
She didn't care about how he addressed to her. "His first…?"
"Never mind that, go after him."
"What about you?"
"I'm coming too, don't worry."
"But Matsumoto-chan is going after Toshiro-kun already."
"Do you know anything about men, Tomoyo?"
She looked at him awkwardly.
"You should learn… It's exactly like men knowing how to turn on a woman!"
She continued to stare.
"Just…"
She was still staring.
"Go after him. He'll probably tell you what's wrong."
"Hai, Hisagi-niisan." She smiled.
"Niisan, since when am I niisan?"
"Niisan usually give advice to their siblings." And she ran off.
Hisagi watched her run, and then followed behind her once she turned the corner.
Hitsugaya didn't use shunpou until Matsumoto finally caught up with him. Even if he was a taichou of the Gotei 13 he was still considered a child. But Hitsugaya didn't want to be known as a child anymore and he'd rather people show him respect. If anyone saw him like this then all that would go down the drain. They'd probably think he was still immature.
"Taichou, Hisagi was just kidding when he said that! Matai, Hitsugaya-taichou, matai!" Matsumoto called behind him.
But no matter what she said Hitsugaya would not slow down nor talk to her.
Matsumoto sighed but then turned around, sensing someone approaching them. "Oh, Tomoyo-chan, I thought you were with Hisagi."
Tomoyo slowed down and went with Matsumoto's pace. "Hisagi-niisan said to go after Toshiro-kun."
Matsumoto smiled. "Taichou, see what you've done? Tomoyo-chan and Hisagi were worrying about you because you suddenly went off on your own!"
Hitsugaya finally stopped but he didn't turn around, just spoke in a monotone voice. "Nothing's wrong!"
"He doesn't have to do it if he doesn't want to…" Tomoyo told Matsumoto.
He heard. "I didn't say that I didn't want to do it!"
The fukutaichou's lips curled into a smile. "There you go; he does want to do it."
Hitsugaya started walking again.
"Then what's wrong?"
"You should go ask him yourself."
Shuuhei had just turned the corner and caught up to them.
Tomoyo looked at Shuuhei and then went when he gave her a reassuring smile.
"What are you planning?" Shuuhei whispered once Tomoyo left.
"They're too kawaii!" Matsumoto just answered.
He grinned, figuring out what it meant. They both watched the two child prodigies.
"Nothing's wrong if that's what you were going to ask." Hitsugaya stated once he noticed that she was right beside him.
She just looked at him, he was turning pink.
"I'm not mad either…"
"Then…" He didn't object to her so she continued. "Why are you turning red?"
He took a good long look at her as if she had just said something surprising.
Tomoyo just smiled.
Hitsugaya looked the other way so that she wouldn't see how much faster it had started to change.
"Dawn?"
His face returned to its normal color and he looked at her. "What?"
"Friday at dawn, for the tour."
"We can do it tomorrow if you want."
"But you said that you had paperwork."
"Since it was Matsumoto's idea then I think she wants to do the paperwork herself." His voice was loud enough for Matsumoto to hear.
Matsumoto moaned in complaint.
"Hopefully she'll be working hard when we come back, not passed out on the office floor with bottles surrounding her."
Tomoyo just stared as he continued.
Shuuhei was trying to hold in a grin.
They arrived at the crossroad which lead to the 9th and 10th Divisions shortly after and that's where they parted ways. Hitsugaya had started blushing again once Tomoyo bade farewell to him for the day, causing Matsumoto to tease him once they were in the office.