sandface: yay! chapter 3 is done finally!! enjoy it, and the many to come after it :)
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It was beyond early in the morning to the point that many would still consider it night time. Everything was silent, so silent you could hear a pin drop a mile away. Everyone was sound asleep... almost everyone that is. Since he kept to himself so much, no one knew he had a slight sleep disorder. In his pajamas, fully asleep, Hitsugaya walked around all most all of Seireitei. Every day at that hour he would sleep walk threw the place, as if in the back of his mind he knew what he was doing, and that no one would be awake to see him... so he thought at least. The sound of sword clashing against brick woke him up. Hitsugaya looked around to see where the sound came from, and then found the source. A girl with a black sword was ripping a dummy to bits, as if it had taken the last piece of pocky from her. It was obvious that the reason why he heard the metal hit brick was because she turned wrong, and hit the wall.
After rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Hitsugaya inched forward to figure out who this girl was. He knew he had never seen her in his division, since he wouldn't forget such a beautiful person. Never before in over a hundred years had Hitsugaya seen a girl this beautiful, and hoped that this wouldn't be the last time he saw her. She had orange hair, and was as slim as the sword she wielded. Finally she stopped slashing the dummy, and glanced over in his direction. As fast as she did that Hitsugaya ran back to his quarts, since he now knew who the beauty was. Once he was safely in his home, he all but passed out from running so fast. I had to have seen wrong! Hitsugaya tried to tell himself. That couldn't have been her... it couldn't have!! After sitting in his room for around ten minutes, still trying to calm himself down, the door slowly creaked open.
"Hitsugaya Taicho... are you ok?" Matsumoto was the one who had opened the door.
He glanced up at the tall vice captain, but only managed to nod. No... it was her... but if that's the case this is going to be very strange, Hitsugaya finally had come to his conclusion of who she was.
"Well then stop sitting there in your pajamas, she'll be here in five minutes, and if you aren't ready she might attack you!" Matsumoto laughed before she left.
It then clicked what she was talking about when he heard someone yell "I'm not going to stand out here all day long!!! It's too hot in this outfit!!"
After twenty minutes or so Hitsugaya went to deal with what was making all the fuss. The second he took one step out of his room he was knocked over by something very small.
"You were supposed to be ready half an hour ago!! Because I had to wait so long I ripped up the dummy you had over in that field" Hisana said.
"Get... off... you're heavy" Hitsugaya managed to reply to her.
Despite her pint size appearance, Hisana was quite heavy, but mainly due to her sword. The sword was double her weight, which is why she always complained about having to wear it. "Okie dokie, at least you're ready, so come on, I don't have forever!" she said as she jumped off the now somewhat crushed captain.
Before she had come to Soul Society, someone needed to be picked to show the small Shinigami around the place, since in five seconds she could get lost. To everyone's surprise Hitsugaya said he would do it. He had become friends with Hisana over the years, since they always sent him to check on her in the human world. Another reason he took the task was because he knew that if he didn't, she would find a way to bug him until he did.
"I'll be back after sundown to take her back, if there is so much as a scratch on her, you won't be the captain of the 10th division, I will" Rukia growled at him.
She may have only been a vice captain, but she still scared Hitsugaya to death. How could someone so scary have such a sweet daughter? He wondered. After that Rukia said good bye to Hisana, and left. Hitsugaya sighed, and then glanced down at Hisana. She glanced back up at him, but in the gaze of her deep purple eyes it was as if she saw threw him. I did see right this morning, but because of it..., While in thought Hisana poked him a few times.
"Are we going to stand here forever?!" she growled, that time sounding exactly like her mother.
"Oh, uhh... sorry" he replied to her.
Everyone within earshot was in shock. While Hitsugaya was a very kind captain, he never apologized for something like waiting around too long, or anything of the sort. Everyone picked up on how he acted slightly different around Hisana, but no one dared to comment on it.
"Matsumoto you stay here, you never know when that idiot next door might blow up a wall" Hitsugaya said before leaving with Hisana following behind him.
The 10th and 12th divisions were placed side by side, which at times was good, and at times the worst idea ever. No one ever knew if that day something would explode or if an odd creature would crawl around the place.
"I have one question for you; that fight yesterday, was it staged?" Hitsugaya couldn't help but to ask her that, since it seemed so odd how she won that easily.
"Oh... so you noticed... ain't that nice... crap" Hisana replied.
Within a few seconds Hitsugaya showed her the doors of the 12th division, since if they got much closer Hisana might be the next test subject. Next he took her over to the 11th division, which wasn't too far from there, and luckily neither were jumped on by the pink haired vice captain. After half an hour Hisana had seen only a small handful of divisions, and wondered if she would have seen more on a map. If we're just barely at the 8th one then by sundown we'll maybe be at the 3rd, Hisana thought as they neared the door to the next division.
"Can we actually go inside this one? I don't think that they'll try to fight me or study me here" Hisana said.
"I planned the whole time to take you inside this one, you'll meet someone that hopefully your parents told you about" Hitsugaya replied.
Not long after stepping inside Hisana heard that division's vice captain yelling about too much paper work. A minute or so after that a tall girl came walking past with a stack of paper taller than her. Once she managed to get to the other side of the room without dropping the paper, she set it on a table, and turned to face the two.
"You must be Hisana. I've heard a lot about you, and they weren't joking you do look a ton like your parents!" the tall girl said as she walked up to Hisana.
"This is Neliel; she helped us in the war eight years ago. She may be an Arrancar, but after fighting off her own kind to help us they let her join. Neliel isn't assigned to any division, so she just helps out different ones each week" Hitsugaya explained.
"I remember my dad mentioning you... he said when he first had found you, you were a little kid, and then you turned into the way you look now" Hisana replied.
"That was thanks to an old head injury... oh that reminds me, next week I'm assigned to your division, so I guess I'll seeing a lot more of you" Neliel said.
Before either could say another word Neliel was being called from the room next to them. She sighed, picked up the stack of paper, and went back into the room she had just come from. How can she carry so much paper? Hisana wondered as she watched Neliel try to carry the papers. Amazingly Hisana was right in her prediction that by sundown they would be at the 3rd division. The sun was beginning to go down, and they had just reached the 4th division. Outside of there was a somewhat small Shinigami sweeping the ground. When the two walked up to the door the Shinigami glanced up at them, and smiled a bit.
"Hisana right?" he asked.
"Yep... and... Hana... taro?" Hisana asked while trying her hardest to remember the stories her parents had told her.
He only nodded back to her. After he nodded it hit her that she did actually get it right for once. Every other Shinigami she met she either couldn't remember the name or mixed them up with someone else. By sundown Hisana had seen each division, not in detail though. For some reason Hitsugaya would all but rip her away from some. She knew the reason for one of them, but not for the rest.
"Shiro-chan... why didn't you let me look around the places more?" she asked on their way home.
He stopped for a second, and glanced down at her with a somewhat sad look in his green eyes. "It doesn't concern you" he replied.
"Let me guess... not everybody here really wants some thing here. The only place they didn't want to chase me off from was the human world. I fit in just find there" Hisana said.
"If that's the case then why did you come here?" Hitsugaya asked her.
"Because one day I knew they would track my family down, arrest my mom, probably kill both my parents, and then make me a test subject, so just giving in now has a better outcome" she replied.
After that there was silence for a very long time. Once they got back, Hitsugaya decided that rather than wait around for Rukia to show us he would just take Hisana back home. Well... that was the plan at least...
"Pleeeaassseee!!!" Matsumoto begged on her hands and knees.
"For the last time no" Hitsugaya replied.
"But its tickets for two, not one!" she said.
"I don't really care if it was tickets for twenty, no" he replied.
Not long after they left some masked person came around and gave every other person all expense paid tickets for a vacation to anywhere they wanted. Already half of Soul Society was packing for their vacation, including twelve of the captains, and all twelve vice captains. Matsumoto scowled at him for a minute, and then left.
"Why'd you say no?" Hisana asked.
"I once had to stay in the same room with her in the human world... it was a very scary time" Hitsugaya replied.
Hisana laughed for a second, and then told him she could go home by herself. After ten minutes of the two bickering over that she took off like a bottle rocket so that he couldn't keep up with her. When she was about half way home, she overheard something that a single person wouldn't want to hear the rest of. Hisana slowly snuck up to the door of the 12th division, and pressed her ear to it so that she could hear everything.
"So have you rethought the idea of that little mixed up thing being my test subject?" Kurotsuchi asked.
"We just finished battling a war eight years ago, and if you began running tests on her than we might end up with another war. Both her parents are high leveled Shinigami, so think of what they might do. If her parents had been anyone else then the first thing I would have wanted done was you running tests on her" Yamamoto replied.
Hisana froze after hearing that. He must be kidding, she thought. If anyone else had been my parents I would be in a cage like an animal. It took Rukia tapping her to snap her out of it. Hisana freaked out for a second, since she thought that they had decided to capture her.
"You're jumpy today, are you ok?" Rukia asked.
"I wanna go home" Hisana muttered.
"So do I, but sadly how they set things up no one can leave" her mother replied in a slight bitter tone. It was very obvious that neither wanted to be there, but truly had no choice.
"There has to be some way we can leave! I really don't care right now where I end up, I just want out of here" Hisana cried.
There wasn't much Rukia could say back to Hisana. After a minute or so of trying to comfort her crying daughter an idea came to mind. For the past nine years she had been assigned to Karakura town, who says she couldn't take Hisana with her?
"We can't stay there, but we can go home tomorrow for the day" Rukia said, hoping that Hisana would be ok with that.
"Really...?" Hisana asked.
"Of course!" she replied.
Hisana smiled and thanked her for what seemed like twenty years. Once she had left, Rukia glanced down at the paper in her hands. From what she had heard most of the Shinigami had gotten the exact same thing, and whoever didn't get one was going with whoever had no one to go with. She read every last word on the paper down to the tiniest of small print, and then was ready to rip it to shreds. Since the tickets were for anywhere the person wanted to go, Rukia could have easily taken Hisana with her, and gone home, but in the small print it said that both people must be over eighteen. Why would that be put in there? She wondered as she kept staring at the paper. Everyone here is beyond that age... everyone but Hisana.
Elsewhere, hundreds of hollows and Arrancar were ready to rip their leader to bits. He promised an attack at dawn, but he never went threw with it.
"You said we strike at dawn!!" one Arrancar yelled.
"And since it's never daylight you were the only one to know when that was!!" another yelled.
"Shut up already!!! While yes, we didn't attack at dawn, the plan has begun at least. In a matter of two days every last Shinigami will have left Soul Society, and that is when we attack, and destroy it all, and then kill whoever didn't leave" Grimmjow explained.
Roars of protest came from most of his army, while some got the idea. While they wouldn't be fighting with anyone, they still would get to kill every last person in Soul Society, which sounded nice to many. And besides, that little brat should still be left there... she'll be fun to murder, Grimmjow laughed to himself.
He couldn't wait to tare Hisana to bits ever since he had found out she existed. In the war Ichigo had on many occasions almost killed Grimmjow and had killed many of his comrades. Since Grimmjow knew that to get revenge he couldn't kill Ichigo, since he had been the one that had almost killed him, and he couldn't kill Rukia, since she wasn't much better when it came to that, but he could kill Hisana, which probably would be worse than killing either of them. After a couple of minutes his army realized that his plan made sense, and agreed to it. Now that they all agreed to it, it would only be a matter of time before everything was destroyed...