Hello, Shadow Typhoon is back with another chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any of its characters, even though I wish it. But I do own Aria, Hell and the other OC´s.


Hidden Memories

Chapter 3: Forgotten: Son of the white winter

By Shadow Typhoon

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From the earlier chapter:

Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 7 years. Real age: 33 years old.

Wait, what? This was certainly not what Toshiro had expected. His father had left the room while he was thinking. Now he was back again. He was carrying a small word, wrapped in some cloth. He gave it gently to his son. Toshiro stared at his for some time. Then he unwrapped it neatly. He gasped.

It was a beautiful sword. He caressed the sheath, with was so delicate. His father had engraved small symbols, for hope, freedom, and power and so on. The sheath was made in a greenish blue shade. The hilt was made out of gold, shaped as a four-pointed star.. The blade was of steel, shinning with a silver light. It fit perfectly in his hand. It was not too big, but not too small either. It was perfect.

"Thank you father" Toshiro said and smiled towards his father. Ryuu smiled back to his son. He sat down on the edge on the bed and ruffled Toshiro´s hair.

"You´re welcome. I´ll even give you some lessons on how to use your sword. Perhaps, one day, you´ll be remembered for your swordsmanship. But no matter what, I´m proud of you. Shiro-chan." And with those words, he laughing and walked outside.

It was the first time that he had ever heard his father call him Shiro-chan. And he was proud of him. Proud! He clutched his sword tightly to his body, although being careful, so that he didn´t cut him. And then he fell asleep smiling.

Outside the door, his mother was standing, also smiling. She had known all along, what was troubling her young son, and now it was all good again. But she knew, that the peace wouldn´t last for much longer. That wiped out her smile and she sighed. She went inside and kept the forgotten tray with food on the small table, next to the bed. She caressed her young son´s cheek and left him.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 10 years. Real age: 42 years old.

Toshiro was walking angrily across the garden. He was upset. His parents and Aria had arranged a huge birthday for him, even though they knew, that he hated crowds and attention. So he had fled the party.

He sighed and sat down in the grass. He stared up to the ceiling of Hell. It was jinxed, so that it looked like the sky in the human world. It was shining with thousands of stars. He felt so content. But he knew that he soon had to return to the party. He closed his eyes.

He could suddenly hear silent footsteps walking towards him. He frowned. He didn´t want to go back yet. The footsteps stopped next to him. He opened his eyes and got a surprise. It was the same boy that he had followed through the castle years ago.

"You have to return to your birthday party at once." The boy said emotionlessly.

He still had the same green eyes, black hair and the tear marks. But he was older now. Just like himself. Toshiro had grown taller now, and his hair was so spiky, that it seemed to defy gravity. He frowned at the boy.

"No" he answered defiantly.

"You have to. It´s your 42th birthday, the first special birthday, so it is expected of you to attend the party."

Toshiro hmph´ed. He would not! Then he suddenly smiled slyly.

"I will only go back, if you play a little game with me." Toshiro said, now smirking broadly.

The boy frowned.

"What does this game consist of?" he asked a little bit suspiciously.

"Well", Toshiro began, "we´ll have to ask a question each, which we have to answer truthfully. The first one to lie loses."

"And how exactly will we know, when the other lies?" The other asked. He sounded amused.

"Aria thought me a spell we can use. It is normally used on an enemy soldier, which has been captured and has to answer questions, but it is not illegal."

"Then I will participate"

Toshiro chuckled.

"Very well. But since I am the birthday child, I will start" he started. "But first I have to cast the spell."

He casted the spell and the other boy sat down.

"Good. Now, what is your name?"

"Ulquiorra Schiffer, of the Quiorra clan"

"Figures" Toshiro muttered under his breath. Of course the boy had to be from one of Hell´s most powerful clans.

Ulquiorra tilted his head lightly.

"What makes you so special?"

"Well… Aria said that I was destined to something big. There was a prophesy, but she never told or explained it to anyone. I would actually rather live a simple life, with my parents, but that will never happen."

Ulquiorra was silent, just staring at him.

"That was not what I was expecting to hear. I always thought that you were a stupid dimwit who had taken in by a mistake."

"What! I´m not stupid!" Toshiro spluttered angrily.

"Well, then prove it" Ulquiorra said and smirked a little.

And then they bantered forth and back, coming up with more and more difficult questions. Even if it looked like an argument, they were both enjoying it.

"Toshiro, where have you been?" It was Toshiro´s mother who came running towards them.

"Well…I´ve gotten a new friend" Toshiro said and smiled.

Mizuki only now seemed to realize, that her son was not alone.

"Oh, aren´t you Ulquiorra Schiffer?" she asked and Ulquiorra nodded.

"Well, why don´t you both follow me then?" she asked and the nodded.

Instead of going to the party, she led them to the royal gardens. Here she settled down, and Ulquiorra and Toshiro sat down as well.

"Now I´m able to keep an eye on you both" Mizuki said smiling.

"What about my party?" Toshiro asked frowning.

"Oh, I´m sure they will survive"

And then Ulquiorra and Toshiro started talking again, or rather, arguing again. And Mizuki was happy for her son. Finally he had gotten himself a friend. And this was how Ulquiorra became Toshiro´s first friend.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 11 years. Real age: 45 years old.

It was such a boring day. That was why he had gotten so happy, when his mother had announced, that they were going to have a trip to the city. It had been such a long time, since he had been there. He wore some clothes which wouldn´t stick out in a crowd and went down to meet his mother.

She was waiting for him at the gate. She smiled at him and together they walked to the city. They were quiet, but it was a comfortable silence.

They arrived at the city and were wandering around. They caught almost everyone´s attention, Toshiro because of his appearance and Mizuki because of her gentle smile. Such smiles were quite rare around this part of Hell. That, because they were walking in the slum areas of the big capital city, Inferno City.

Toshiro was also wondering why they were here. He had never been here before and to be honest, he was a little bit scared. He knew that bad things happened here. And of course something had to happen. Just not to them.

"Give us all of your money, or we will rip you apart!"

It was some hoodlums who were terrorizing a girl about 57 years (1) with bright green eyes. He frowned. This was not something he liked. He glanced at his mother. She was frowning as well. Then suddenly she walked towards them.

"Mother, wait! What are you doing?" he shouted while he ran after her.

She stopped right behind the hoodlums. They were three boys. One very tall, one black kid and a boy who was very big and muscular (2).

"And what do you think, you are doing?" Mizuki asked sternly.

They all turned around and glared at her.

"What does it look like, lady?" the tall boy spat. "Leave us alone!"

Mizuki´s eyes narrowed. Then she lifted her hand and slapped him. Hard.

"W-what…?" he stuttered.

"Boys like you should not behave like this! Hurting and terrorizing the innocent? What would your parents' don´t think?"

"They are all dead" the big and muscular boy muttered.

Toshiro´s mothers eyes softened. She sighed and reached for something under her robes. She pulled out her purse and took out 9 gold coins.

"Here. There´s 3 gold coins to each of you. Enough to live properly for a while, I think."

The three of them stood with their mouths agape.

"You are not serious, are you?"

She just smiled kindly in return. They looked at each other, and then as fast as lightening, they snapped the money out of her hand and ran away. Meanwhile, Toshiro was helping the abused girl up.

"Thank you so much. I don´t know what would have happened, if you two had not arrived." She smiled at them gratefully.

"Oh, it was nothing. They were just as much victims as you were. Victims of hunger and desperation. Now, tell us your name"

"My name is Neliel Tu Oderschwank"

In return, she also received three gold coins. She thanked them and ran away herself. Toshiro looked at his mother. He wanted explanations. She just smiled, again, and tucked his arm, and made him follow her.

"Why did you do that?"

"I wanted to teach you, how power can be used and misused. You have so much power; you must not let it corrupt you."

"I promise I won´t" he assured her.

"I know you won´t, sweetie. Now, let´s go home."

In the future, he would remember this day and the promise he made. And he never broke his vow.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 12 years. Real age: 48 years old.

He was so tired. He was tired of life, of all of his duties and responsibilities, of everything in general. Currently he was listening to one of Aria´s ramblings off about the politics in Hell, of what to say and of what not to say. Seriously, it was not like he was going to need it someday.

"Gah! Could you just stop already!?" He screamed frustrated.

Aria stopped in the middle of a sentence and blinked owlishly.

"Excuse me? Young man, are you telling me, the ruler of Hell, to shut up?" she asked with an edge to her voice.

He could almost see himself shrinking, while Aria grew bigger and bigger and overshadowed everything. He gulped.

"Erm…" he stammered, but was abruptly cut off.

"Be quiet! And now listen carefully on what I´m going to say now."

He gulped and nodded energetically. Aria stood up and walked over to the window. She looked outside at the scenery for a long time, before she spoke:

"You might think that what you learn is unnecessary. That is not true. Every single little thing that you learn can be used some day. Where ether it is in battle, in politics, in your daily life etc. You have to see yourself as extremely lucky to have all these things given you like this. BUT YOU ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT!"

"Well, it´s not my fault that I don´t understand this!" Toshiro shouted at Aria. "It´s not easy to always be at lessons, learning about things, without knowing why! I need to know; why am I doing this?"

Aria sighed and looked at him. "As I have told you before, you are destined for something big. You can´t run from your responsibility."

"But what is my responsibility? What is it, I´m destined to?" Toshiro asked desperately. "I just can´t do things, knowing that it is because of something, Fate wants me to."

"I´m sorry Toshiro, but I cannot tell you the exact content of the prophesy. But you will learn in time. That I will promise you" Aria said in a firm voice.

Toshiro sighed. Well, it seemed that this was all he got to know.
"Fine. But I want to know it sooner than later"

Aria smirked. "Good. But this doesn´t mean that you can escape this lesson. Now where was I…"

Toshiro groaned and almost smacked his head into the table of sheer annoyance.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 14 years. Real age: 54 years old.

"Really?!? Are you serious?" Toshiro asked excited.

"Of course I´m serious. I´m not a man of jokes" Toshiro´s father, Ryuu, said.

"I can´t believe it! I´m going with you on one your patrols. Maybe we will see some bandits, and then we´ll fight, and then we´ll tie them up, and then we´ll bring them back, and then we´ll put them in jail and then –"

"Whoa relax! It´s just some routine job, nothing special. Don´t expect too much of it." Ryuu said with laughter.

"But I´m going with you! That´s special! Toshiro said with lights in his eyes.

"If it´s so special, what are we standing here for? I thought we were supposed to be going?"

Toshiro´s eyes widened and he ran as the wind upstairs to find his sword. His father just laughed.

A few moments later, Toshiro, Ryuu and two other warriors were on their way on their route. They had to check for criminal activity and that kind of things. Nothing really happened, and the route seemed void of activity. Not even travelers or merchants were seen.

"This is strange" one of Ryuu´s team members said. "There should be a lot of activity now. This is…wrong"

Ryuu nodded. They were all alert now and there were a lot of tension. Toshiro were even tenser, since this would be his first real battle, if they were attacked. Suddenly, they heard a huge roar! From above, flying mare-horses and a single three headed demon dog came flying towards them. On each of the mare-horses, a demon was sitting, armed with swords, knives, axes and bows with arrows.

The ones with bows and arrows shot at them, and one the Ryuu´s team mates fell to the ground, wounded in his stomach.

"Hide Toshiro" Ryuu shouted at Toshiro before roaring himself and attacking the enemy.

Toshiro quickly found a bush along the road to hide behind. He looked at the scene in front of him. They were attacked in the middle of a deserted road, so there were almost no places to seek cover. Ryuu and the remaining team mates fought bravely against the enemy, but the enemy was simply too many.

They managed to kill of several of the enemies, but not Ryuu´s remaining team mate also fell, injured by three headed dog. Toshiro gasped. There were still 5 mere-horses with enemies on top of them and the demon dog. There was no way his father would get out of the fight alive.

As soon he had thought the thought, an enemy managed to injure him with a sphere. Ryuu was hit in the left side of his chest and he was now lying on the ground, breathing heavily. No! He could not let his father die! He unsheathed the sword his father had made for him and stood out the bush.

As quietly as he could, he sneaked behind the group of mare-horses. He came near a golden mare-horse with a blue skinned attacker on its back. Using the techniques he had learned, he jumped up and slit the throat of the enemy silently. The others didn´t notice. But they did notice him, when the body hit the ground with a dull thud and the mare-horse panicked.

"Get him!"One the enemies shouted and they all charged at him.

"No! Toshiro get out of here. Don´t think about me, save your own life" Ryuu shouted as loud as he could desperately. He didn´t want his son to be slaughtered.

But Toshiro just gritted his teeth and jumped up. The mare-horses flapped their wings and tried to follow him, but as soon as they were up, he was down again. Now they were all above him, with their stomachs bare to any attack. He chanted a spell which sent a rain of needles towards the flying mare-horses. They all screamed as a mare-horse can scream, and they fell to the ground.

Now the bandits had to stand on their own feet to face him. The cursed at him and attacked. Even though Toshiro had evened the odds, they were still bigger, stronger and more experienced than him. Not to mention it was 5 against 1. And that was if you didn´t count the demon dog, which just watched them patiently, almost if waiting for an opened or some chance of some sort.

But Toshiro wouldn´t give up. He would win!

"Very good young one. Where there is a will, there is a way."

Toshiro almost dropped his sword in surprise.

"Don´t be scared. I am you. Well, a part of you. Use me to win the battle."

"And how exactly am I supposed to do that?" Toshiro snapped at the voice, while trying to block and dodge the rain of attacks falling at him.

"You know that by heart. And you´ll have to say my name."

Toshiro frowned. Just say the name of the voice? But he didn´t know it´s name. Somehow he had to figure it out.

"You don´t have to figure it out. You know it already. You have heard it in your dreams."

Toshiro´s eyes widened. He had been having strange dreams since the incident with his father´s sword. Dreams about a huge Japanese dragon, with beautiful wings and blood red eyes. And he had heard a voice. A voice calling out for him, telling him that it´s name was…

"Hyourinmaru" Toshiro whispered and felt a surge of power go through his body.

"Reign over the frozen heavens, Hyourinmaru!" Toshiro shouted and lifted his sword and slashed towards the bandits. Their eyes widened when they saw the giant ice dragon sprout out the tip of the sword. And then they all died, incased in eternal ice. Dead without even a scream, they were so surprised. But now the demon dog stood up.

Toshiro saw it move and faced it steadily. He wouldn´t lose. Not when he had the power of Hyourinmaru. He glanced down towards the sword and got surprised. Somehow, it had managed to grow to more than double its original length. It was as long as he was tall 5-6 years ago.

With a roar the demon dog attacked, all it´s three heads spitting saliva, and Toshiro got back to reality. He jumped sideways to dodge the dog and sliced the side. It roared with pain, and as quick as lightning, it bit Toshiro´s arm. Toshiro screamed with pain and continued to hit on the head that was holding him. The other two heads tried to bite him as well, but they couldn´t get a grip.

Toshiro got his arm free and sliced of two of the heads. The remaining head screamed and then fell to a heap. Toshiro proceeded to cut off the last head and then rushed to his father.

"You all right?" Toshiro asked him worryingly.

But his father didn´t have the strength to other than smile at his son before he fell unconscious. Toshiro gasped and then scooped up his father. He held his tightly as he ran home, even though his own arm throbbed with pain.

Later, after he had given his father to the infirmary, got his arm bandaged and after telling Aria and his mother about that happened, his father finally woke up. Even though he had lost so much blood, and in reality shouldn´t be alive, he still survived. They were all relieved.

Now there was only one question left. Who had planned the attack? Was it meant for the patrol group, or was it meant for Toshiro? They would only find out much later, and by that time, it would be too late.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 15 years. Real age: 57 years old.

It was a nice day. Zayid was eating his food and complimenting his situation. His master, the young dragon, had now been training to control his powers, which had been activated during the attack on him and his father.

Toshiro had become more serious since then, taking his responsibilities very serious, which meant he rarely had time for other things. But today he had promised Zayid to take him for a ride to town. Zayid smiled as much as a mare-horse could smile. It had been a long time since he had seen Toshiro actually.

Toshiro came walking to the stables, Hyourinmaru bound to his back with a green sash. He was also smiling, since he also looked forward to their trip. He saw Zayid and ran towards him. Zayid greeted him and Toshiro took some time to brush Zayid and clean him for dirt. After that was done, he sat atop him and they flew to the sky. Compared to normal horses, mare-horses loathed to be bound in any way, so there was no saddle on Zayid.

They flew for a while, and when they saw the city, the landed and Zayid walked the rest of the way. When Toshiro had told his mother about his trip, she had taken the liberty to give him a shopping list. He was first annoyed, but when he saw, that one of the things was watermelon, he quickly came to a good mood.

He rode to different shops and purchased his goods. He had just gotten his watermelon and was walking out of the shop, when his bag was snatched from him.

"Hey, that´s mine!" Toshiro shouted after the blue-haired thief, as the thief ran as fast as he could, away from Toshiro.

Toshiro quickly ran after the thief, but the thief was extremely quick for a normal demon, so even if Toshiro was gaining, he was only gaining very slowly. He ran for a long time, into the shabby part of the city, while trying not to lose the thief of sight. The thief had looked behind to see if Toshiro had given up, and Toshiro had seen, that he had blue eyes, the same shade as his hair.

Finally, Toshiro was close enough to grab the thief´s arm. The thief fell to the ground, as well as Toshiro, since he was still holding the thief´s arm, and they rolled and started wrestling. The thief aimed a punch at Toshiro´s gut, but Toshiro managed to grab the hand and twist it, so the thief was howling in pain.

Toshiro doubled over in pain, when the thief kneed him in the "sensitive" part. The thief threw another punch at his face, and this time he couldn´t stop it or dodge it, and it broke his nose. Now Toshiro got angry and kicked the thief in the side. Now it was the thief who got angry.

They used teeth, nails, legs and arms in their fight, and Toshiro completely forgot about the spells he had learned and about the knife inside his sleeve. He had left Hyourinmaru behind with Zayid, so that he wouldn´t cause panic in the shops, but now he realized that that had been a stupid idea.

Finally they just stopped and looked at each other. The thief had a black eye, blood running his face, an arm in a weird twist, and various bruises all over the body and was humping on one leg. Toshiro looked almost exactly the same, the only difference being that he had a broken nose instead of the twisted arm, a painful rib where he had been kicked instead of the bad leg.

After seeing each other, they both laughed. They laughed for fully 5 minutes before they shook hands.

"I´m Toshiro Hitsugaya" Toshiro said.

"I´m Grimmjow Jeagerjaquez" the blue-haired and blue-eyed thief replied.

And then they talked, about their lives and such. Apparently, Grimmjow was taking care of his sick mother and his little half-sister. His father had left him years and years ago, and Grimmjow hated him. Later on, his mother had found a new husband, and they got his sister. But then he had been killed, so they were on their own again. Grimmjow showed Toshiro his house, which really wasn´t a house, but more of a shed.

"Brother, see what I have found!" a girl with green hair said, while she came running in.

Toshiro´s eyes widened. It was the same girl his mother has saved from being beaten up! The girl seemed to realize the same.

"It´s you!" she said and hugged Toshiro.

"Erm…what is going on? Have you been dating without me knowing, Nel?" he said with fire in his eyes. He was indeed very protective.

"Of cause not brother. He and his mother were the ones to save me, don´t you remember?"

"Oh…oh! Now I get it!"

Toshiro just shook his head. And this was how Toshiro got his second and third friend.


Age of Hitsugaya Toshiro: Psychical/Mental/Appearance 16 years. Real age: 60 years old.

"Do you want some tea?" Enma asked Toshiro.

"Yes, thank you"

Toshiro was sitting in heaven, together with its ruler, Enma. He now came here regularly. Here he could find peace, while being amongst chaos for such a long time. He and Aria came here for the first time for many years ago, and he instantly liked it.

Aria loved to show off her fighting skills, so she came here to fight some of the archangels. He, on the other side, came here to drink tea, play chess and discuss life. And at the moment, they were discussing Aria and Enma´s relationship.

"Well, we have always been different, right from the beginning" Enma said thoughtfully.

"How different? In the way you thought or acted, perhaps?"

"You could say that. My father, Chaos, and my mother, Balance, always used to say, that we were like day and night. I liked to sit for myself and think, while Aria loved to fight and talk."

Toshiro chuckled: "I´ve realized that, yes"

Enma smiled. "We could have fights which lasted for weeks, but we could never really hate each other. Even though Aria was born careless and carefree, she has learned that she cannot be that. And I had learned that even though you have to think things through, don´t use a lifetime on that. Less talking and more action, Aria always used to say."

"You balance each other out" Toshiro said thoughtfully.

"We have to. If we don´t, there will be war" Enma said, sighed and continued.

"There was a time, not very long time ago, when Aria and I fought so hard, that a war actually started."

"The Grey War" Toshiro added.

"Exactly. It was a war for power, before we learned that we both had to exist. Many died. Thousands actually. And it was thousands too many. We both have scars from that war. And we both regret it so much."

"I´m glad there´s peace" Toshiro said.

"So am I. But there has to be wars in the future. It is the balance of the world. The world can´t be too good. But it can´t be too bad either. There is not only black and white, grey shades exist also."

"So you think that a war will begin soon?" Toshiro asked worrying.

"Yes, I´m afraid there is" Enma said. "But let us not worry about the future. Let us play a game of chess."

"Okay" Toshiro accepted and smiled. Even if there were to be a war soon, life was nice.


And Shadow Typhoon is finally back! I apologize for the long waiting time, but I´ve never had so many homework's in my entire life. I am so sorry!

When you are 57 years, you looked like a 15-year old.

The tall one is Nnoitra, the black one is Zommari and the big and muscular one is Yammy.

Now some of you might say, that Toshiro has been a little OC. You are probably thinking about the part, where he is going with his father- that is true. But then he changes, after the attack. That is partly the reason, that he becomes the person he is in the manga.

Oh, and this is the longest chapter I´ve ever wroted! I don´t know when I will update again, but I hope that it might be soon.

Until then, have sweet dreams.

See ya