Anime/manga: Bleach
Pairing: Hitsugaya/Hinamori…sort of
Genre: General
Rating:K
Vice Versa
It was weird seeing her actually performing her duties as a lieutenant.
He had always known her as the happy-go-lucky girl he had met in the Rukongai. She had never acted serious for a second, no matter how exasperated he tried to look. She was just always too glad for his liking, not to mention there was nothing to be glad for. They were two hungry children living in poverty, never finding enough food to keep them satisfied. They were always hungry, but she persisted in laughing in smiling, never taking the situation seriously.
It didn't change even when she attended the academy for Shinigami.
She left with a smile. He had wondered if she knew what she was getting herself into. The job of the Shinigami was to kill. Didn't she understand the danger involved in that? You can't just kill and expect nothing to come of it. There were consequencesfor such things!
Even as she told him of how she was attacked by Hollows – real ones! – and even of how she had recklessly charged one, she never flinched. If anything, she wanted more. She smiled through the whole story.
Even when she became a Shinigami, she continued smiling.
When she actually entered the battlefield she never batted an eyelash at the thought of danger. Actually, she almost laughed.
This was when he started hearing stories about her power.
It was hard to believe, a bed wetter like herself being a killer. Everytime he tried to picture it, all he saw was a frightened young girl holding her sword the wrong way. Her being fearless was a ridiculous thought. He was the one who always had to fight the bullies away! And although he would never admit it, it was a bit…lonely. If she could fight, then she didn't need him anymore, not really.
Therefore, her fighting, and being good at it, seemed completely implausible.
And it was…for a time.
As a lieutenant, she always smiled then too.
That was completely wrong. A lieutenant needed to be more strict than their subordinates, but her level of seriousness hadn't moved a bit. He heard all the time about her actually scaring someone so they peed their pants just by a glare. Impossible. She never glared, and, not to mention, she would be the one peeing her pants.
His attention was fully captured when he saw her angry, truly angry, for the first time.
He had recited to her his thoughts on her being intimidating impossible, and she apparently took offense. Any form of mercy in her eyes vanished with the light as her face twisted so malevolently his legs started shaking. She opened her mouth to scream at him, but then thought better of it. She opted for glaring.
The look was so funny he laughed. All the muscles in his face finally relaxed and he let out a laugh so loud it could rival Saint Nick's. He laughed also out of relief. He had, for a moment, been allowed to see the famed lieutenant Hinamori he had heard so much about, rather than Bed wetter Momo he had always known.
Besides, if she could be angered beyond reason, that meant she still needed him to remind her of reason, right?
So the face down between the scowling lieutenant famed for smiling and the laughing captain famed for coldness.
Funny, wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
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A/N: This was the HitsuHina challenge # 46, "Vice versa".
