Chapter 3
Time seemed to slow down, she could feel the blood pumping in her ears and a fast beating sound she hoped to God wasn't her heart. She hated being scared. In her eyes, only the weak felt fear.
She heard the man let out an amused chuckle as he let go of her hand. Her eyebrows knotted in confusion but she immediately took this chance to get out of his reach. She grabbed a dim torch embedded on the side of the wall. Her eyes narrowed when she brought the torch forward to make out the familiar silhouette behind bars. His deep sapphire eyes shone through the light first till he was fully recognizable.
"Hitsugaya!" His face was unreadable while hers was completely plastered with shock. She didn't even try to mask it.
"Wh –"
"I thought I'd give you a little payback for still turning me in….after I saved you and all" His raised his left eyebrow and a scowl appeared on his well toned face as he spat the words in distaste. He didn't bother to let her ask her petty question, it would probably be along the lines of 'Why'd you do that?', 'What was that for?', 'What? Do you want to die?' You know the usual questions a hunter would ask her hunted. He looked away awaiting her reply, not wanting to look at her face. It was weird how her gaze could falter him that much.
"Why?" He took a glance at her. His eyes caused her to hesitate a bit "Why'd you let go? You could've escaped, used me as a hostage and ran for it." She bit her lip and looked away.
Ok. He definitely didn't expect that.
"Wait, you want me to escape?" He was defiantly amused.
"No, of course not, but why didn't you? It's not like the king would've singed his guards on you, not with me, and I couldn't exactly fight back unarmed and harmed while you had a weapon."
"Yeah, of course I can still run after the injuries yours truly gave me, not to mention the two concussions I have also because of you."
Hiding the smirk slowly creeping in, his voice dripped with sarcasm. She just nodded and he thought he saw a glimmer of guilt in her hazel eyes but it left just as quickly as it came. Silence filled the room but Hitsugaya kept an eye on her every move causing her to squirm uncomfortably. A loud skidding sound of wood and the sound of locks and bolts broke the uncomfortable silence and it only took a second for her to realize that it was the guards locking up the gate to the prison. Hinamori's eyes widened and she rushed up, tripping in her blind haste. She pounded on the gate. No use. There was no way they could here her through the think wood.
She would have to spend the night down here. She looked back down the dark corridor and inwardly cringed.
She made her way back down by feeling the slimy walls of the dungeon to her disdain. It felt like decaying mold. It probably was.
She sighed as she reached the last step and faced his cell, boring her eyes into the darkness inside the cell, knowing he could see her.
"Your stuck down here aren't you?" She could here the grin in his voice. Oh if only she could reach in that cell and….
"Oi"
"What?" She sighed again; she seemed to be doing that a lot lately. Silence filled the room once more, it was deafening. She couldn't stand it any longer and raised and eyebrow at him. "Well?"
"What made you become a…"
"…Bounty hunter?" He nodded
She puffed up her cheeks then let the air out with a sigh "A promise." Which he took as 'like hell I'd tell you more than that.' A heavy silence shrouded the room once more.
He blinked twice and blurted out "What kind of answer was that...?" He mumbled obviously unsatisfied.
Her hand was getting tired of holding the torch so she fit it back into the wall again. Shit, it was pretty dark down here. Hinamori played today's events in her mind over and over. She still can't believe he had saved her.
"Hitsugaya..?" She said moving back towards his cell, closer this time. She sat down with her back against the bars, fully aware he could strike her from behind at any moment. It's Funny how she can trust a wanted criminal.
"mhmm.."
"Thank you…" She turned back and smiled at him, "for coming back to save me." His eyes widened a bit.
-FLASH-
"Toushirou…why…?"
"I wanted to ask you the same thing."
-FLASH-
"Why'd u do it? Why would you let me go?"
"I don't know to be honest; I would like to just say that it was in a moment of desperation. But I guess a part of me just wanted to trust you." She shrugged nonchalantly and looked over at him. He just nodded in understanding.
"So how much did you get for my head?" The question slightly shocked her and the realization slowly began to dawn on her. She basically brought him to his death by bringing him here. Somehow the thought of him dying unnerved her to no end. What makes him so different, she could kill without blinking twice and yet the thought of never seeing him again hurt and she couldn't quite understand why. Geez, he was a crook, a low-life scumbag, that's what all criminals were. But if he was such a bad guy then why'd he save her when he had a clean break. She couldn't look him in the eye anymore and simply focused her gaze forward.
"A lot."
This was going to be a long night…
AN:
Well as you can all see, I haven't updated in a hell of a long time I sincerely apologize. I realize most of you probably have given up on this story and that this chapter is very short but there is more to come =D.
And good news, I am motivated to continue this story since an excellent idea just popped into my head.
I already finished writing half of chapter 4 so u can 10000000% expect an update in 2-3 days.
And again, very very very x 300 x infinity sorry for not updating for 1 and half years
