The Chibi's Checkup
Chapter two
Once again I sadly do not own Bleach. I can dream though. Maybe a spoiler of new-ish chapters.
'Thoughts'
Matsumoto pov.
I was dreaming a magnificent dream when a damn hell butterfly lands on my nose. Sigh.
'What is it now...'
(Message in her head only)
"Matsumoto fuko-taicho. It has come to my attention, the Sou-taicho, that Hitsugaya taicho has not had a checkup in seven years and may be removed of his captaincy if he does not. Do not tell Hitsugaya taicho the reason, but send him to me immediately."
No one's pov.
Toshiro Hitsugaya is sitting peacefully at his desk doing the entire 10th division's paperwork.
"Taicho! Taicho!" Matsumoto yelled.
Startled, Toshiro spilled the ink. "What!?" Toshiro shrieked, his voice cracking a bit. "You made me spill the ink on all the paperwork! Which you don't do by the way!"
"Taicho, you're so uptight!" She whined. "Maybe you should take a break."
"As if I have the time!" Toshiro scoffed. "All my time goes to the paperwork. If you actually did yours, then maybe I could! Why did you even yell at me in the first place?"
"Oh, yeah. The Sou-taicho wants to see you immediately."
"Why didn't you tell me that right away?!"
"Well, you started yelling at me, so I got sidetracked." Matsumoto mumbled while twiddling with her thumbs.
"Ugh, this better be cleaned up by the time I get back Matsumoto." He says pointing to the spilled ink.
"Hai." She says. (Hai is yes in Japanese)
He flash-steps out.
Matsumoto pov.
I look at the spilled ink.
"I guess the least I could do for taicho is clean up the ink." I sighed; this would be a long few days.
I clean up the ink and lay on the couch. I remember back to when Taicho had his first checkup in the fourth division...
Flashback
It was a year after Toshiro Hitsugaya became third seat of the tenth division. His Taicho and fuko-taicho were both lazy and always drunk. (I forgot what his Taicho and Matsumoto called him back then, so his Taicho will call him Shiro-chan, and Matsumoto will call him Toshiro-kun.)
Toshiro walks into the office to find his Captain and Matsumoto huddled by the Captain's desk discussing something. He walked over and they stopped.
"Ohayō (good morning), Shiro-chan!" said Isshin-san taicho.
"Sigh, how many times have I told you not to call me that?" Shiro asked.
"Let's see... That's the first time today, twenty seventh times this week, one hundred twenty seventh this month, seven hundred twenty sixth this year, and it's only December, so... I'd say about one thousand nine hundred eighty even times. Oh! That means thirteen more and it'll be two thousand, right Shiro-chan?"
"Sigh; stop trying to sound smart when you aren't Isshin-san taicho." Shiro says from his desk.
"Oh Shiro-chan, you're so cruel to me!" Isshin starts to cry, when the busty fuko-taicho hits him in the head with a book she found.
"OW! What did you do that for Rangiku?" Ishhin says while rubbing the back of his head.
"Remember what we were discussing before Toshiro-kun walked in?"
"Yeah yeah I remember." Isshin says while waving his hand.
"Shiro-chan! You're going to the fourth division for your first check-up!" Toshiro stiffens.
"Wha– what?"
"You heard me, so get your butt out of that chair and come on." He says standing up. Toshiro on the other hand, clenched his small hands around the armrests.
"What about the paperwork?" He says with big, wide eyes.
"Finished, this morning Toshiro-kun."
"I–I don't believe you!" He suddenly says.
"Take a look in front of the couch Shiro-chan." Isshin says nonchalantly. Toshiro hesitantly got up and looked. And sure enough, it was all there. Signed and finished in all its glory. He starts to back away from the finished paperwork and his captain.
"Shiro-chan, you know you can't avoid this..." He still backs away, until he backs into something big and soft. He whips around and came face to a... bust with Matsumoto.
"Toshiro-kun, this is for your own good." She says kind of motherly. He's about to protest, but he is suddenly picked up from behind and thrown over someone's shoulder.
"Come on Rangiku, let's escort Shiro-chan to the fourth division." They walk out of the office, Toshiro still on Isshin's shoulder. Toshiro was not happy to say the least.
"Put me down this instant or–or..." Toshiro started yelling, pounding his tiny fists against his Taicho's back. Many tenth squad members stopped and looked at the scene.
"Or what?" Asked Isshin, starting to get annoyed at Toshiro.
"I'll- I'll... Freeze you! Yeah, I'll freeze you!" He said. Momentarily relieved that the child stopped pounding on his back, he sighed.
Unfortunately for him though, Matsumoto said, "How can you do that when you don't have your zanpakto?"
"What?! Hyorinmaru is right on my-" His eyes went considerably large.
"Where's Hyorinmaru?!" He screeched, his reitsu starting to freeze the surrounding area.
"Rangiku! Why did you tell him he didn't have his zanpakto?!" Isshin yelled, mad again that the boy was not only pounding his fists on his back, but also kicking him in the stomach.
"I don't see the big deal of not telling him."
"He is strongly attached to his zanpakto! If he is not near it, he'll start freaking out like this!" Isshin yelled over the boy's screams to be let go.
"Here! Hold him for a minute!" Isshin said giving Toshiro to Rangiku. Rangiku asked a few bystanders to help her, knowing what her captain was going to do to insure that Toshiro didn't freeze the tenth, ninth, and eleventh divisions over. Rangiku and the few bystanders, held him down to the ground. He started to struggle, but he knew it was futile. They were older than him, so of course they would be stronger.
"Sorry Toshiro, but I don't want the tenth frozen over." Isshin-san taicho said. He mumbled something and his index finger started to glow. Isshin touched Shiro where his heart was and his reitsu was momentarily sealed. With Toshiro over Isshin's shoulder, they proceeded to the fourth division. They walked there the long way, divisions ten through four, adding to Toshiro's humiliation. By the time they got there, Isshin was badly bruised and furious with Toshiro. Sure, he kicked and hit him, but Toshiro didn't stop cussing him all the way there for sealing his reitsu and taking Hyorinmaru.
"Sigh, Shiro-chan, we didn't take him, you left him by your desk when you went to see the paperwork." They finally got into a room.
"Hey Rangiku, could you go get me some soap?" Matsumoto agreed, only feeling slightly bad for their third seat. Shiro kept trying to run out the door, but without his reitsu to use shunpo, he couldn't get very far. Eventually, Isshin strapped him down to the examination table.
"Shiro-chan stop screaming!" That got him to stop, plus his mouth was sore from all the screaming and cussing he did. Ishhin fell into a chair near him.
"Let me go."
"No."
"Let me go!"
"No!"
"LET ME GOOOOOO!"
"NO FOR THE LAST TIME TOSHIRO SO STOP! I'll let you go when Matsumoto gets back." No less than a minute later, Rangiku came back.
"I got the soap taicho!" She sang.
"Arigoto Rangiku. Now Shiro-chan, I'm going to let you up, you are going to sit up and wait like a good boy until all the soap is gone from your mouth. Understand?" Shiro sighed and grudgingly agreed. Matsumoto sat next to him to make sure he didn't run off. He opened his mouth like a good little boy and glared at his Taicho while he sucked on the soap Matsumoto brought.
"You know better than to swear in front of me Toshiro... Yet you still do it... sigh..."
Unohana Taicho walked into the room.
"I see Hitsugaya-kun is here for his first checkup. May I ask what he is doing though?"
"He was being a bad boy and started cussing at me, so he is eating some soap. I also momentarily sealed his reitsu for now. Would you mind healing these up quickly?" answered Isshin pulling down his shirt's shoulder.
"I wouldn't mind at all." she answered while Toshiro was still taking his punishment. Toshiro flinched at the bruises on his captain's back and stomach.
"You'll get the rest of your punishment later." Isshin-san taicho said pointedly. Once Toshiro finished the soap, they began.
"What does a check-up consist of?" Shiro asked quietly.
"Well, we check your height, weight, eye sight, vaccinations, and we take a little bit of blood." replied the female captain. The tiniest male in the room turned white and dashed to the door. He ran out the door, halfway down the hallway from the room, when Matsumoto shunpoed in front of him.
"Toshiro Hitsugaya. Go back to the room this instant. Or there will be trouble to pay." She hissed menacingly. Her tone actually made him feel guilty. So he turned around and allowed her to march him back to the room.
They started with the basic stuff. Height and weight. Everything was fine he thought. Then they checked his eyes and heart. It was fine he kept telling himself. That was until they said they needed blood samples. Toshiro was beyond nervous. He was shaking. He wanted to run but that would only prove he was a child. (Toshiro's logic is a bit strange) He lay down on the examination table. He wasn't sure if he would squirm or not. Isshin saw this and held down his legs, while Matsumoto held the hand of the opposite arm that was taking blood samples, and raked her hand through his hair calmly. After that was done he said he hated being in the fourth division. Unohana just smiled at this.
"Next are your vaccinations." She said while going over to a tray full of more needles full of liquids.
"M-m-more needles?" Shiro stuttered quietly. The doctor just nodded. He felt the seal on his reitsu starting to lift. He shunpoed through the door and towards the gates of the fourth division. Sadly for him though, Isshin and Matsumoto beat him there. He turned, running now, trying to escape the, in his eyes, scary nightmare that was the fourth division. He looked back to see if he was followed. While doing this he ran straight into the fourth division captain. He fell to his bottom. Toshiro then slowly looked up and gulped. The sun behind her made her look even scarier.
"Hitsugaya-kun," she said calmly, "I think you should come with me now." The third seat of the tenth division crawled backwards while still on his bottom until he ran into something. He looked up. And there was the tenth division captain and lutenient. He knew he had lost. Isshin picked him up like a toddler and carried him on his waist. Supporting his back and bottom with his hands. Toshiro just put his head down on his captain's shoulder, sighed, and closed his eyes. By doing this, it signaled he gave up. They went back to the room, he was held still, and he received seven vaccinations. Unohana wrote on her clipboard. It looked a bit like this:
Toshiro Hitsugaya
Date of birth: 12/20
Age: 82 (about eight but looks seven)
Eye color: turquoise
Hair color: white
Blood type: B
Height: 4'1
Weight: 62lbs.
Eyesight: 100/100
"It seems we are done here, you are free to leave when ever." Unohana said and left.
"You know you're in trouble, right Toshiro?" asked Isshin. Toshiro looked down ashamed, and replied,
"Hai."
"You know you will have a big punishment waiting for you back at the division right?"
Shiro gulped, "Hai."
"Do you know why you are being punished?"
Toshiro said nothing.
"Matsumoto, would you please carry Shiro-chan back to our division? I need to go visit someone." sighed Isshin.
"Yes, sir!" She saluted and picked him up. He automatically wrapped his legs around her waist.
"I can walk you know." He replied to the action grumpily.
"Yes, but you'd try to shunpo away."
Shiro sighed, put his head down, and resigned to his fate. He took a light nap on the way back. He was laid on the couch and he was out cold, exhausted from all the reitsu he used that day.
With Isshin-san taicho...
"I just don't know what to do with him Ukitake..."
"Well… I don't really have anything to tell you Isshin."
"First he starts swearing at me, then he starts hitting me, then he kicks me. After he hears about the needles he runs. I got him to settle down though. He was behaving for a while... even when he had his blood drawn. But then… then he needed his vaccinations. He freaked out. I guess he just freaked out when he saw more needles..."
"Maybe it was too much for him." suggested Ukitake.
"Maybe, but still. I told him to stay put and he disobeyed me. How am I supposed to punish him?"
"Well, I don't know. That's up to you to decide."
"That's the problem though. I just can't. I mean I can but I don't want to hurt him or anything."
"What if you just give him a stern talking to?"
"That's it though. If I tell him something, he'll just misinterpret it as something else. I've tried to before when got out of line, but he just didn't get it. So, I thought to get him to understand what he did was wrong, I'd have to use some kind of bodily harm."
"What did you do to him?" gaped Ukitake. Surprised he had to resort to hurting the young boy.
"Well if he swore, he just ate some soap. If he disobeyed me I'd lecture him. If he did something any kid would do, like talk back, lie, or something, he'd just get a whack to the back of head and grounding. If he did something extremely bad, he'd get a spanking and be forced to sit on the floor doing nothing until I finished the paperwork. I just don't know what to do." Isshin said, putting his head in his hands.
"From what you've told me, he's never misbehaved this much before. Maybe you should mix it up or combine them all. As much as I don't want him to get hurt, and neither do you, I do understand you have to teach him a lesson. So go on."
"Thanks, Ukitake." And with that, he was gone.
Let's just say Toshiro was banned from paperwork for two weeks and couldn't sit for one.
Originally it would have stopped after Matsumoto said the least she could do was clean up the ink, but then I was hit with a genius idea of a flash back! Hope I did okay! Next chapter we get into the real story. Reviews welcome! Ideas on how Shiro should try to escape are also welcome. Reviews will encourage me to update faster!
