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Chapter 4
Hinata looked the room over. It was much bigger than her room in the academy! It had it's own bathroom and kitchen, a separate living room and bedroom! It was nice!
She smiled as she looked around, turning to Byakuya with wide eyes.
He looked down at her and looked quickly away, hiding the slightest blush, but enough that Hinata smiled brighter due to it.
"I'll give you some money for furniture, and I'll have Renji-san escort you to get your belongings from the academy and to the markets as well. I don't need you getting lost."
"Thank you, Kuchiki-taicho!" She smiled and he shook his head, the slightest evidence of distaste in his eyes.
"Please, call me Byakuya."
"Hai, Byakuya-taicho!" She smiled and he nodded, walking a few doors down.
She heard the knock, someone yell angrily, then apologize drastically. Byakuya returned with 'Renji' quickly.
"Renji-san, this is Hyuuga-san."
"Hinata, please." She bowed low and Renji paled, evidence of distaste at her formality.
"Hinata-san needs escorted to get her belongings from the academy, as well as to the markets for furniture. Please be a gracious host."
"Hai, Kuchiki-taicho!" He bowed and Byakuya turned.
"Byakuya-taicho, I won't let you down!" Hinata bowed and Byakuya looked at her for a moment before turning away, his eyes calm.
"I know." With that he was gone.
Renji stared at her for a moment. "Oi, did you just call him Byakuya?"
She only had her white hakama and haori to get from the academy, and since she hadn't gotten her shinigami's uniform yet she wore it and gave Kira back the academy one.
"Thank you for teaching me." She handed the outfit to Kira who smiled.
"It wasn't a problem. It's my job, after all, and at least you took it seriously. I'm glad to have had someone as eager to learn. It's just too bad you won't be here for graduation."
"She didn't graduate?" Renji turned and Kira looked at him with wide eyes.
"I didn't get the chance! Kuchiki-taicho talked Yamamato-sama into taking her early! She was having some issues with training, and I can understand Kuchiki-taicho, since he's so skilled with kidou."
"She's having trouble with kidou, hn? Hinata-san, I totally understand." He sighed and Kira turned to him wide eyed.
"She's creating new kidou that's about ten times the strength of the ones she's trying to do. I had her try number ten sealing and I almost died!" Kira was at a mix between horror and laughter, now that it was over.
"She's more skilled than I am, and maybe more than Kuchiki-taicho himself. But, since you're a third seat now, I'll see you more often." Kira smiled and bowed to Hinata, who just stared.
"Please, don't be so formal with me. It feels weird." She smiled and Kira smiled back.
"You'll fit in well. I have a class to teach soon. Renji, introduce her to Matsumoto and the rest of the seated officers. As a third seat she'll need to know who they are."
"Right. As soon as we're done with the shopping, I'll get right to that." Renji rolled his eyes, already weary of taking her out.
"Oh! And warn her about Matsumoto and Ikkaku." Kira grinned and Renji responded with a toothy smile.
"She's a new third seat. She'll find out tonight."
"Oh! You're right. I'll have to make sure to talk to Unohana just in case..." He grinned and Hinata frowned.
What on earth?
She was able to buy furniture pretty quick, and the shop keepers were delivering all of her things. She bought food and such to last her and smiled as she put all of the things away.
She heard a knock at her door just before sundown and opened the door, finding Renji there with a grin.
"Come on! Time for your introduction!"
Hinata bowed before stepping out and following him to a small wooded area. She noticed the bonfire and smiled.
It seemed oddly relaxing.
She sat with everyone, getting introduced quickly as everyone above fifth seat seemed to be there. She was glad she was trained to have a great memory or else she would have forgotten everyone quickly.
Kira was there, giggling in the corner with some busty redhead when she showed up and she smiled as the woman walked over to her, sizing her up.
"You're pretty. What's up with the outfit, though?"
"Her outfit isn't finished." Byakuya walked up beside her and looked down, looking over the outfit she wore.
"It's suiting." He looked at her and Matsumoto stared at him, shock evident on her face.
"Please, be wary of this group. Save Kira-fukutaciho, I'm wondering why the rest of them have jobs here." He turned to Matsumoto, who seemed to want to run away.
"Don't be like that, Kuchiki-sama." Hinata turned to a man with a sleeveless haori who had tattoos on his face.
"Shuuhei!" Matsumoto nearly tackled the man before her, who tried to escape. He fought himself to sitting and looked up at Byakuya.
"I'm doing my best here too."
"Amended. Shuuhei-san is doing his job as well. Matsumoto, on the other hand, I have yet to figure out why Hitsugaya-kun hasn't sent you back to the academy."
"The academy..." Hinata smiled, but felt a pang in her skull.
She remembered a building, a face, but she could barely make it out.
"Are you alright?" She looked up to see Byakuya looking down at her and she nodded.
"It's familiar."
She looked over at Shuuhei-san, the tattoo across his nose and fell to her knees.
"Hinata!" She heard the voice, but wasn't sure who's it was.
In one bright flash it was over. She stood, brushing off her hakama and looked, Byakuya's eyes trained on her.
"Pardon the intrusion." She smiled and noticed she had a few other eyes glancing her way.
She made sure to keep her eyes away from Shuuhei, as to keep that from happening again.
"Are you sure you don't need to go back to Unohana?"
"There's nothing she can do. I'm fine, anyway." She smiled as Matsumoto walked up to her.
"What was that? You fell."
"I'm having a problem forgetting my life before here." She smiled and Matsumoto's eyes widened. "Shuuhei-san's tattoo reminds me of someone." She smiled, looking around.
She was introduced to the infamous Hitsugaya-taicho, who she was surprised to see.
"He's the heartless taicho? He's so cute..." Hinata stared wide eyed, causing Matsumoto to spurt sake from her mouth, into Renji's face, who just stared ahead blankly before wiping his face.
He must be used to this...
She was interested in the two she'd met, Kyouraku and Ukitake. They seemed to get along together well, and she noticed that they kept trying to get Byakuya into their conversation, but Byakuya wouldn't leave her side after her slip up earlier.
She was eventually able to sneak away from him and found herself alone in the woods, looking around.
"Hinata?" She turned, seeing Kiba looking at her.
"Kiba!" She smiled and ran over, hugging him.
"I heard you were withdrawn from the academy over what happened earlier. Are you alright?"
"I am. It's just a small issue."
"You lie." She turned, her eyes wide, watching as Kiba looked at her with narrowed eyes.
"You should know well enough that I know you by now. You lie to make others not worry. I will be worried, though."
"I'm third seat in the sixth squad. That's why I'm withdrawn from the academy. They're having my welcome party over there. You should come and have a drink." Hinata smiled and Kiba frowned.
"Isn't that party crashing?"
"I'm inviting you and it's my party. That's not crashing." She smiled and Kiba looked at her.
"If you promise to tell me what's happening, I'll go."
"I keep remembering things from before I died. I forgot so much, but I remembered someone, a teacher. He has a bandage across his nose, and spiky hair."
"Iruka-sensei."
"Iruka-sensei?" Hinata thought. She remembered him. His face, his voice, he was kind and caring. She turned to him and nodded. "It didn't hurt to remember him..." She smiled, Kiba grabbed her shoulders and held his forehead to hers.
"I didn't remember him till you described him."
"I'm sad that I died like this. I can't remember my friends, my family, is it supposed to feel this lonely?"
"That's more like it!" She heard and turned, seeing Renji staring at her.
"You're supposed to say things like that! You're so quiet it's unnerving! Be more chatty! You!" He pointed at Kiba and waved him over.
"Come! Celebrate with us!" Kiba watched, surprised for a moment before smiling, knowing he had no choice in the matter.
It was an hour later that Ikkaku and Kiba were passed out on each other. Their drinking competition was something to behold.
Yashiru, the young pink haired girl was dancing on their bodies while Kempachi was watching her, his eyes dark.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Hinata smiled and Kempachi turned to her, his eyes frightening her for a second.
"Unless you can fight, I doubt you'd be any fun."
"She'd kick your ass without taking out her zampactou!" A very drunk Kira laughed and Kempachi turned to her, wide eyed.
"She can fight, hn?" He stood and Hinata looked up at him, a slight terror filling her at his size.
"That's not what I meant!" She turned to Kira, who was now paled at the realization of what he'd just done.
"This is a meeting for friends! Let's not do this!" Kira tried to walk between them, to find himself flying back, flicked away like a gnat by a now very interested Kempachi.
He grabbed her around the waist and in a flash was gone.
On the other end of the clearing Byakuya frowned, noticing the lack of presence of a few of the reiatsus.
He figured he should go and see who had left and found that boy from earlier passed out on Ikkaku with a very happy Yashiru looking to the sky.
"Where is she?"
Byakuya frowned, knowing this wasn't going to be good.
He used shunpo, moving as quickly towards the reiatsu as he could, but just before he got there he saw two giant explosions, one canceled out by the other, and the debris seemed to fly back in.
He ran in, finding a choking Hinata on the ground, a tree on top of her.
"Are you alright?" He ran over, but she slid herself out from under it before he reached her.
"Kempachi-taicho!" She looked around and Byakuya stared, surprised.
"He tried to hit me, I responded without thought! I'm sorry!" She looked at Byakuya, who just stared at her.
"What did you do?"
"I blocked him with my zampactou! I didn't even remove the sheath! Kempachi-taicho, can you hear me?" She yelled as she went around, looking for him.
"Feel his reiatsu." Byakuya watched as she looked at him, her wide eyes collecting tears in the corners. She nodded and closed her eyes, breathing in, then out, then she raised her hand and Byakuya knew she was using her technique. She sighed again and felt for his energy, looking around.
"I can't feel it."
"Yes, you can." He frowned and Hinata sighed, looking around again. Byakuya was surprised when she dropped her eye technique, trying again.
She instantly found it this time and turned, running away from Byakuya.
She reached an area and looked around, activating her eyes again before running to a tree and she stood, staring for a moment.
"8 palm, 64 trigrams..." She mumbled, creating a small ball of wind around her with her hands, pulling up the debris and tossing it aside. Byakuya noticed the tree she was in front of sliced to pieces. She stilled her hands, breathing in and out again before yanking up the rest by hand, pulling Kempachi out of the hole.
Byakuya was surprised such a small girl could lift someone his size so easily.
"What was that technique?"
"It's a technique Neji-nii-sama..." Her eyes widened as she dropped Kempachi, falling to her knees and screamed.
Her reiatsu flared, getting the attention of almost all of the shinigami in Seireitei. She screamed as his face, his actions flooded her mind. The time they'd spent together, the things they'd done, almost her whole life restored itself perfectly in her mind in that one second.
She woke a moment later, seeing Byakuya on his knees before her, the blast too much for him to handle.
She walked up to him and held out her hand to help him up.
"I'm sorry, Byakuya-sama. I'd never meant for you to get injured." He looked up at her, a bright smile on her face. She was more similar to how he'd first met her, not blushing and hiding at his presence.
He stood, not taking her hand.
"Are you alright?" He looked at her and she frowned at his appearance.
"I am. Are you?" She asked and he noticed the worry.
"Of course." He turned and took a single step before falling back to his knees.
"I'll help you." She stepped up and lifted him carefully, leaping quickly away, surprising him. She wasn't using shunpo, but she was near that speed.
She took him to the fourth squad, sitting him down before the front desk.
"I'll be right back. Someone else needs me to bring them in as well." Hinata smiled softly at Byakuya, the look on her face keeping him from being able to hide his blush.
She smiled brighter as she turned and started the walk away.
"Hinata!" She turned and Byakuya looked at her with wide eyes. "Make sure he doesn't wake up!"
"I will!" She smiled again before being gone in a flash.
Byakuya stared. She was able to use shunpo almost as fast as his?
"Kuchiki-taicho, are you alright?"
There was a young man behind the desk that Byakuya knew he'd met before... Hanatarou.
"Save your strength. She's bringing in Kempachi, and I'm not sure he's alive."
Hanatarou's eyes widened almost comically as he turned, preparing a room.
She was surprised to get to the clearing and find most of the taicho and fukutaicho there, looking around at the destruction. "What happened?" Shuuhei looked at her and she smiled, not being in pain from thinking of Iruka.
"I took down Kempachi-taicho and accidentally injured Byakuya-sama." She smiled, going to lift Kempachi, but found someone else already holding him.
"I'll take him. You go be with your taicho." Yashiru smiled at her and Hinata nodded.
"Hai. Thank you." She smiled and turned, looking at the faces of those around her.
She noticed a few were afraid, a few were starstruck, but she noticed one face in the crowd just looked surprised.
"What's wrong, Kiba?"
"You're stronger than you used to be." He smiled and Hinata nodded.
"I try." She smiled, giggling slightly, and turned, in a split second she was gone.
She walked in just as Hanatarou was taking Byakuya back and he turned to her, his eyes narrowed.
"Where's Kempachi?"
"Yashiru-fukutaicho took him. I figured she would have been here by now..." She turned back to the door and Byakuya chuckled.
"You don't realize your speed, do you?"
"Doesn't everyone here move this quickly?" She looked and Hanatarou paled.
"No, you're probably the second fastest person in Seireitei right now." He smiled and Hinata stared.
"Your smile is beautiful." She blushed and Byakuya smiled, his eyes softening as he saw her.
"Go home and rest. I'll need you awake early tomorrow."
"Hai, Taicho!" She smiled before disappearing.
Unohana walked in a second later, Kempachi on her shoulders, a yelling Yashiru behind her.
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