The Classical Life

Chapter 2: Reunion

"You ready, Momo?" Rukia was walking around, outside the small cottage, waiting for Momo to come out. Orihime was on her left, also growing a bit impatient. She bit her lip, she often did that when she had nothing else to do. Just as she was about to leave, Momo stepped out.

"Ah, Momo….Late as ever," mumbled the impatient Rukia. She and Orihime were wearing a knee length, one-shoulder toga, a golden belt around their waist, and golden sandals on her feet. Momo was wearing a radiant, white dress with an attached white cape, a gold trim detailing the low neckline, a golden empire waist, and a high side slit to the mid thigh.

"Not my fault this dress takes a while to put on." She silently walked towards her partners in crime, and smirked to her pleasure. "It's almost time."

"Ready?" Orihime silently whispered to her friends.

"Ready." replied Rukia as she closed her violet eyes in approval.

Momo tilted her head to see the moon shining above her. "Let's do this."

Somewhere up in the two floor cottages was the god, Toshiro sitting on the roof of one of the cottages. His lips formed into a smirk, a gleam in his eyes flashed. "Found you."

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"Maria!" yelled one of the rich fellows to his slave.

"Y-yes m-master?" she stuttered in fear.

"I am going out for a nightly stroll around the city." He said as he handed her the cup that a few minutes ago had wine filling it. "I will be back in an hour or so." He stood up from his chair, and walked to the entrance, exiting the house not realizing the recent robberies of rich men, and that he was wearing valuable riches such as gold rings. The slave did not argue with her master, fearing the consequences.

He walked around the silent, lonely streets. The darkness surrounded him when the moon was either blocked or he came across a dark street. As he reached fifteen minutes into his walking, he saw a young, teenaged girl with orange hair and gray eyes running towards him.

"Sir! May you please help me? I seem to be lost, and I fear someone is following! Could you maybe walk me home?" Her breaths were heavy, as if she had been running for the last couple of minutes.

The drunken man was confused. "What? I am truly sorry, but I cannot walk you." He slowly rubbed his brown hair in frustration, turning his back on the pretty, young girl. "But if you'll like, you can-" as he turned around, he saw the girl had disappeared. Thinking he had just hallucinated, the drunken man walked towards the street on his right. As he turned, he saw another pretty girl, except she had violet eyes and black hair. Her eyes looked sad, and scared.

Her lips slowly opened, and she started speaking with a gentle voice. "Excuse me, sir. Please help me…..You see, I have no money, and I have a sick mother. And if you can only give me some change to help her-" But before she could finish her sentence, the man pushed her down.

"Why should I give money to a no-life like you!" He told her. She kept her head down, not allowing him to see her face, but he could tell something was terribly wrong.

Out the shadows, she appeared. The man turned around, making contact with her hazel eyes. He froze as he knew what was next for him.

She made an innocent face, and slowly started speaking to him. "Now pushing a girl on the ground is something very, very disrespectful." Her voice was gentle and yet, it sounded frightening. The man turned around where she was pointing: the girl he had pushed down.

"W-what are you going to do to me?" He asked fearfully as he felt sweat all over his body. He turned back on the one with hazel eyes, and saw she had disappeared.

"Too bad you won't see it happen…." her voice whispered into his ear. Then he felt some pressure on his neck. He saw the world blur, darken as his eyes closed, and blacked out, falling to the floor.

After making sure he was knocked out, Momo went towards Rukia. "You okay?"

"Are you kidding me?" she said as she rose an eyebrow. "That guy pushes like a three year old. I just had to fake it. It's called acting, duh."

Momo walked towards the unconscious body of the man. "Orihime! It's okay."

Slowly, the gray-eyed girl come out of the darkness and looked at both girls. She walked where Momo was standing at, and walked towards Momo. She took out a small, wine colored bag from her toga, and handed it to her.

Momo got all the valuable jewels, and put them in the bag. Once she finished taking anything valuable, she handed the bag to Orihime. "You two. Take these to Tatsuki and the old man. See how much they're worth, and report to me. Got it?" The brunette looked at her companions while they stared back with confused looks on their faces.

"You ain't going?" Momo looked at Rukia with a relaxed expression.

"Nah, not today. I'm going down the waterfall for a quick bath. I'll see you guys later." Orihime and Rukia nodded their heads in understanding, and the two girls disappeared into the city while the other one headed for a remote area.

After all three girls disappeared, Toshiro appeared from the shadows. He headed over where the man was laying unconscious. With nothing else to do, he carefully kicked the man to see if he was really knocked out. He thought to himself for a second, then started walking towards Momo's direction.

"So that's what you do…." he whispered to the cold night. "I think it's time for a reunion."

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Not far from the empire, Momo would sometimes visit a lake. It was surrounded by a forest, leading to a sparkling waterfall not so far away. If anybody who doesn't really know the ways around the forest comes, they'll easily get lost. Since it was winter, the trees looked like from a horror movie, and the water was icy cold, but Momo did not mind. She ignored all the life that was dying around her, and only focused on what she came here for in the first place: A relaxing getaway from her little "duties of life".

As the moon shone above her, she undresses herself, only leaving her undergarments intact. She dumped her clothes by a tree, and slowly started walking towards the freezing water. Once the water reached her shoulders, she dipped inside the water, wetting all of her body. At first, the cold water gave her goose bumps, but after a few seconds, she got use to it. Her body felt so calmed, so relaxed. It had felt almost like a year since she had been there.

She lifted her head from the water, water dripping down her skin. She sighed in relief. "This is calming." She dipped back into the water. With nothing else to do, Momo opened her eyes underwater seeing everything blurry.

Just as she was about to lift her head out of the water, a figure caught her eye, but it was too blurry to tell what it was. She lifted her head rapidly, looking around for what caused the figure. She didn't find any sign of anybody near her, so she returned to her relaxation. After a half an hour, Momo felt like it was time to go. She stepped out of the lake, her body soaking from all the water. After making sure there was no more water in her hair, she dried her body with her own clothes, not really caring about them. Once her body was dried enough, she put on her clothes, which were now a bit wet, but like always, she didn't mind.

Momo started walking her regular route when she heard very silent footsteps behind her. She tried to ignore them, but she thought it was maybe a soldier who had seen her description, and followed her to this location. After a while, she started getting irritated with whoever was following her, and decided to run away from them.

After a few minutes of running, Momo hid behind a tree. "That'll show you not to mess with the peach." Just as she was about to move away from the tree, she felt someone's hands grab her, and push her against the tree, but not in a threatening way, more like in a 'stay here' way. "What the-"

"Long time, no see." Momo looked at who was holding her against the tree. He was a boy around her age, white hair, turquoise eyes, a weird, creepy smirk. What made her feel more weird is that she had the feeling it wasn't her first time seeing his guy. "Who the hell are you? Why do you have me pinned? Are you a stalker?…" He just kept on staring at her with that smirk on his face.

"I guess you don't really remember me, huh?" Momo just looked at him as if he was insane.

"Again. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!"

"Ten years have passed since that incident…I thought it was time to thank you for saving me that day." His smirk turned into a pleasant smile. "But when I came to thank you, I found out you've become a wanted criminal. Does that answer your question?"

Momo stared at him. Now, she did remember what had happened ten years ago: She had helped him from that mess ten years ago. She let go of her thoughts, and looked at him with a bored expression. "No. You still didn't tell me why you're holding me against a tree, who you are, and if you're a stalker."

Her hazel eyes stared into his beautiful, turquoise eyes. "Toshiro Hitsugaya. You were running too fast, and I didn't feel the need to ask you politely when you were at the lake. And, no, I am not a stalker."

Momo looked at her left shoulder, then turned back to Toshiro. "So that explains you're not a stalker, but you are a pervert…."He let her go to show he meant no harm. Instead of running away like any other girl would do, Momo stayed in the same spot. "So?…."

"So what?…"

Momo still had some unanswered questions to ask this guy. "Is that the only reason you came here? Seriously, you couldn't wait until it was the morning or something."

"No, not really. You don't wanna get caught, now do you?"

He did have a reason. "Why do you care if I get caught or not? Anyways, the emperor's armies are so weak these days. They just think if they have a sword or something, it's gonna scare me. Well guess what, I'm not. I actually like it, well…..I like the look on their faces before they get their ass kicked."

Toshiro rose his eyebrow at her last remark. "For a girl, you're undoubtedly quick, strong, and…..abnormal. I mean, every girl I met before are definitely girly, and are all lovey dovey with me."

Momo closed her eyes, and started walking away from him. "Sorry to break it to ya, but I've never been normal, I'm still not normal, and I'm not becoming any normal any sooner. If I was normal, I wouldn't be here right now, you would've gotten your ass kicked that day, and I would be all girly and 'lovey dovey' with guys."

'Yeah right, you're probably lovey dovey with guys right now, and with that dress of yours. Yeah, it looks like you're girly."

"If there's one thing you should know about me….I may seem weak….but if you get on my bad side, you're gonna regret."

Just as Toshiro was gonna respond to her, she was gone. "Yup, she is totally abnormal…"

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Sorry for a late update! Hope you enjoyed! Read & Review! Winter vacation is over, so back to work! I'll see you guys next time! Peace!

~Lucy