The Rescue Squad...
"OH MY GOD!" Matsumoto cried for what seemed to be the hundredth time, "LOOK AT THIS!!"
Renji simply sighed before rolling his eyes and looking around the crowded room. This mission should have been pretty simple. After all, they had his Captain with them, two lieutenants (including himself), and Ichigo. So when they were told about the mission...
Flashback
"It would seem that Captain Hitsugaya has been sent to an alternate dimension," explained the Head Captain gravely, "That is all we know for the moment. Your mission is to find the Captain and then return to our own dimension with him."
"Very well," responded Captain Kuchiki seriously, "It will be taken care of."
"Oh and..." added Yamamoto, "there are a few people I would recommend that you take with you."
End Flashback
... it didn't seem like it should be very hard. Unfortunately, nobody had been expecting the people of this world to mysteriously know who all of them were. However, as always, Renji's captain seemed unshakable... at least until he saw some freak trying to dress like him, thatseemed to bother the Captain. But the Captain controlled his disturbance and so began to completely ignore everyone around him. Matsumoto, on the other hand, had a completely different response to the situation.
"Oh and look!" she cried gleefully from a booth nearby, "They have a keychain of the Captain!"
That had to of been at least the eighteenth item of her Captain she had purchased. Apparently, seeing his face plastered everywhere didn't bother her in the least. Not even the ugly kid dressing as him worried her. Instead, she thought it was a life-size doll (even though he was waaaayyyy too tall!) of Hitsugaya and had attempted to buy that as well.
Somehow she had managed to find: Keychains, drawings, paintings, magnets, pins, posters, video clips (how they got those the shinigami didn't even wantto know), replicas of Hyorinmaru, charms, figurines, action figures which apparently are very different from figurines), and practically everything else one could possibly imagine. Of course Hitsugaya wasn't the only one who had all of this. The others did too, which the only difference that they found it creepy while Matsumoto was in heaven.
"So have we found Captain Hitsugaya yet?" asked Matsumoto, running up with her armload of Captain purchases and her newly found Hitsugaya T-shirt which she was now wearing along with her Toushiro necklace and matching bracelet.
"No!" replied Ichigo angrily, "If you actually helped we might find him faster!!"
"For once," Byakuya stated emotionlessly, "Kurosaki is correct. You should be assisting in the search, Assistant Captain Matsumoto."
"But I amlooking," whined Matsumoto, pouting, "Whenever I see Captain I run up and hug him to see if it's the right one... it's just that none of them are."
Renji glanced around nervously at all of the cosplayers before saying, "I think that it is safe to say that Captain Hitsugaya is not here. Maybe we should look somewhere else?"
"Very well," agreed Byakuya after a moment. He had actually been waiting for somebody to suggest just that (a Kuchiki is very afraid to stand their ground) and was extremely relived at the opportunity, although he would never show it.
With that the small group began to make their was toward the exit, towing along a distraught Matsumoto who had not yet been able to make all of the purchases she had desired. But the Soul Reapers didn't get very far before they were suddenly circled by all of the shinigami impersonators.
"Where do you think you're going?" asked one creepily, "We haven't even taken the group photo yet..."
Byakuya stared at them stoically for a moment before saying calmly, "Run."
Since the group would never dare disobey a Captain's orders, they ran... fast.
A(s)/N: When arethose people going to take that group photo anyway? Lol. But so yeah... I know that this one didn't have much to do with Hitsugaya but I figured I'd bring some of the others into the mix and try my hand with them going to a convention.
Don't forget to give me your What If ideas for the real world... If you want you can even offer some for my new little group to have to deal with although I'm going to try and get back to Hitsugaya in the next chapter. Thanks and... REVIEW!!
P.S. I'm going to be working at a camp for five weeks so I'm only going to be home on Saturdays... Sadly, that means that I won't be very likely to update more than once a week if at all in July. I'm so, so, so sorry!! But you'll forgive me right?
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any of it's character... No, really! I don't! Quit doubting me like that!!