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What My Heart Is Saying Is…
Chapter 4: Ready To Kill
Info you need to know: "Talking"
"Quit it, Matsumoto" Toshiro snapped, irritably. Ever since they had gotten back from going to see Ichimaru, Matsumoto wouldn't shut up about how cute Toshiro and Hinamori were together. Toshiro and Hinamori had been holding hands. So had Matsumoto and Hinamori so it kind of ruined the romantic affect. Nevertheless Matsumoto wouldn't shut up about it and Toshiro was starting to get fed up. Thankfully Hinamori wasn't in the office with them. She had gone to Aizen's office to get his paperwork and come back. She said she didn't want to do it in there. It hurt to remember that he was no longer there. So she would be back soon and Toshiro, Matsumoto and Hinamori would do their paperwork together.
Currently the big busted ginger haired girl was hugging Toshiro as she exclaimed how cute the two friends were together. Hence the reason Toshiro had snapped at her to 'quit it'. But of course Matsumoto being Matsumoto ignored him and continued squeezing him. He sighed and let her hug him for a minute before she finally let go.
"Aww, Toshiro! Your true love was holding your hand!" Matsumoto squealed delighted.
"She was holding your hand too" he said, managing not to snap. She pouted.
"Why so grumpy, Toshiro? You got to hold Momo-Chan's hand for a while!" the girl said, still excited. Toshiro swore nothing ever got her down. (Except for the whole thing with Ichimaru earlier but if that didn't get her down then she wasn't human!).
"It's the 'for a while' which I don't like." He sighed and looked out the window. "I want to be able to hold her hand whenever I want. For as long as I want." His hands balled up into a fist. "But I can't because she's still in love with that git Aizen. I doubt she'll ever stop loving him." Matsumoto's eyes softened as she heard the heartache in her Captain's voice. He really did love Hinamori. He had fallen for her hard. Matsumoto wanted to see her Captain and best friend together. She thought that they were meant to be together. So she made a mental note to have a girly chat with Hinamori to see if she liked Toshiro in that way at all. For Toshiro's sake she hoped she did.
"I know what will cheer you up." Matsumoto exclaimed cheerfully, Toshiro returned his gaze on her, frowning. Wondering what she was up to. "Let's drink some Sake." She said, with a grin. This didn't cheer Toshiro up. At all. In fact it made him narrow his eyes at her, disapprovingly.
"No." he told her in his no nonsense tone. Of course she didn't listen. Why would she? It wasn't like he was a Captain or anything. (Note the sarcasm :D). Matsumoto crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.
"Why not?" she whined. Toshiro sighed and he too crossed his arms over his chest. Although she did it in protest he did it in being annoyed.
"For many reasons. 1) Because I said so. 2) I don't like Sake. 3) We're supposed to be doing paperwork. 4) Your annoying when you're not drunk, even more so when you are. Lastly, you tend to tell the truth when you're drunk, I'm not going to risk you telling Hinamori my true feelings for her. So those are all the reasons why we're not going to drink Sake. Now, shut up and do your work!" he said, clearly he had lost his patience now.
Matsumoto pouted but seeing as he had five good reasons (well four, number one was a rubbish reason) she kept silent and sat down opposite him. He silently handed her over some paperwork and she frowned at him. But he took no notice. He continued with his amount of paperwork and after seeing he wasn't even glancing at her Matsumoto gave up. She picked up a pen and started doing some paperwork. Something she's never done before. There really is a 'first time for everything'.
Toshiro saw from the corner of his eyes that his Vice-Captain was actually doing some work. He subtly pinched himself. Making sure he was dreaming. It hurt, so he wasn't dreaming. He smiled happy that Matsumoto was being quiet and doing some work. Took her long enough. They sat in silence and did their work.
She sighed and opened the door. The familiar scent of her Captain filled her nostrils. Sighing again Hinamori went over to his desk. There was thankfully only a small pile of paperwork. Since he was the Captain and Hinamori was in hospital for two weeks the paperwork was just delivered to Aizen's office. So that Hinamori could find it easily when she was out of hospital. Which is now.
Tears came to her eyes as all she could think about was Aizen. Seeing as she was in his office. She couldn't believe he was gone. That he had left her. She blinked back her tears deciding it was better that she knew now who he was. If she had known any later she probably wouldn't have been able to cope with it. She quickly grabbed the paperwork and headed out of the office. Back to Toshiro.
Hinamori was humming to herself on her way back to Toshiro's office. Soul Society had finally regained peace after the traitorous events (even though they were still wary of Aizen). So Hinamori was walking along oblivious to everything and everyone around her. Mistake number one. Also she thought she was safe and no harm would come her way. Mistake number two.
She only realised she was in danger when she felt a hand clamp round her mouth. Stopping her from screaming. An arm wrapped around her waist and she was dragged backwards. Into a dark place. A deserted one as well. "Don't scream, Momo-Chan" a voice whispered. A voice Hinamori would never fail to recognize. Aizen's voice. Her eyes widened upon hearing the man she loved voice. He turned her around still keeping a hand on her mouth. He was wearing his glasses still; his hair not pulled back like it was when the three traitors escaped. (Hinamori was in a coma then so she hadn't seen that). He looked just like the Captain she knew and loved.
"Promise you won't scream?" her eyes still bug wide, she nodded to the Captain. He smiled softly at her and slowly removed his hand from his mouth. She didn't scream. She didn't want to. She knew she was in danger but she if she screamed they would capture Aizen. Then kill him. No matter how much danger she was in she didn't want to be the reason her Captain died. Even though he was probably going to kill her. After all her love for the Captain was unrequited.
"C-Captain A-Aizen. W-What are you d-doing h-here?" the girl stuttered, blushing as he smiled at her again.
"I'm no longer a Captain, Momo-Chan. Just call me Aizen" she nodded. "But in answer to your question, I'm here to make sure a certain someone knows I'm serious about certain things." She frowned at that not knowing what any of that meant.
"Eh? What do you mean?" the man stared down at the petite girl. He knew he shouldn't play with her emotions but it was just so much fun. For him. So he leaned down slowly. The girl froze and her face resembled a tomato as her beloved Captain slowly came closer and closer to her. To her lips to be precise. If he kissed her than that would be her first kiss. She already couldn't forget about him because he was her first love. If he was her first kiss as well she worried she would never get over him.
But she couldn't stop him from coming closer either. After all was it so wrong to want to kiss the one you loved? No. But it was wrong to be in love with a traitor. That she knew. She knew in every cell and bone in her body that she shouldn't love him. She was trying not to. But with him just inches away from kissing her it was hard to get over the handsome ex-Captain.
Aizen stopped moving close to her just centimetres apart. He was teasing her. Tempting her. They stayed close to each other for what felt like ages to Hinamori but was probably only five minutes. Aizen could see all the emotions in her eyes. The fear, the pain, the sadness, the joy and the love. He smiled at that. He didn't know why but he loved playing with people's emotions. Especially Momo's. It was wrong. But then again he was evil so he couldn't care less.
Aizen was about to close the gap until he got dragged away by someone. Seconds later his nose was hit with a fist. Hinamori was gathered up in a hug from Matsumoto. Surprised she frowned at the girl, wondering what she was doing here. Matsumoto just shook her head. So Hinamori turned back to Aizen to see who had punched the ex-Captain. She gasped at the familiar hair colour and eye colour. Toshiro. He had punched Aizen and now was looking at Aizen with unbelievable amount of hatred in his eyes. Aizen just smirked and wiped the blood off from his around his nose.
"Toshiro. What a pleasant surprise to see you again." Aizen said, not sounding pleased at all. Just bored. Toshiro growled at him. He wanted so much to kill him on the spot for what he did. To Hinamori. But the girl was watching. Toshiro loved Hinamori to much to kill the man she –unfortunately – loved; no matter how much he hated him. So Toshiro stuck with punching him. Of course he wasn't only going to punch him once. More would come. Soon.
"It's Hitsugaya to you, scumbag" Toshiro hissed, angrily. Aizen just grinned loving the hatred in Toshiro's eyes. He could sense a fight coming, something Aizen didn't mind.
"My, my. Didn't your mother teach you to respect your elders?" Aizen said, rather cheerfully. Toshiro didn't answer. He didn't have a good comeback for that. So he kept quiet.
"What are you doing here, Aizen?" was what he said instead. Aizen sighed and leaned against the wall of a house next to him.
"Dropping for a visit. I was about to kiss Momo-Chan and kidnap her before you rudely interrupted." Toshiro grew angry again and his eyes blazed with even more hatred for the man before him. If that was possible. Hinamori gasped. She had been fooling herself saying that Aizen wasn't really bad. That there was a good reason for him betraying her. But there wasn't. Finally she knew that the only reason he betrayed her was simple. He was evil. Or bad whichever you prefer. Hinamori turned her head to Matsumoto's chest and cried. After all it was depressing to find out the one you loved the most was evil. Wanted nothing from you but to kidnap you for his own evil purposes.
Toshiro saw Hinamori cry and his heart ached for the girl. He punched the ex-Captain again on the nose and then kneed his stomach. Aizen hadn't been able to dodge the attacks in time. After all, the white haired boy had punched and kicked him so fast and out of nowhere. It didn't matter to Aizen though the most damage out of the hits would probably just be some bruises.
"You bastard, you made her cry!" Toshiro had shouted as he kneed the Captain. There was nothing or no-one Toshiro was more protective of than Hinamori. He was seriously thinking about killing him.
"It's not my fault she is so childish, silly and weak to fall for someone so easily. It's not my fault that just by pretending to be kind and encouraging and smiling at Momo-Chan she fell in love with me. She needs to learn that people aren't always who they say they are. She needs to learn how to get over someone who never loved or cared about them in the first place. She needs to learn that she was just a pawn in my game of chess." Aizen said, matter-of-factly.
Toshiro unsheathed his Zanpakutou and charged at Aizen. Aizen sighed and easily brought out his own sword and stopped Toshiro's from making contact with him. Aizen shoved him back and to Toshiro's annoyance he went a few feet away before he managed to come to a halt. But that didn't stop Toshiro. He had a lot of bottle up hatred for Aizen and the man had just added more to that. He was ready to kill.
Hinamori was still crying about finding out the real truth of her Captain. But she had heard swords clashing and looked up to where the two guys were fighting. Toshiro wasn't strong enough to fight Aizen. She knew that, so did he. But he would die to protect Hinamori. So that's what he was doing. If Toshiro hadn't started the fight no doubt Aizen would just take Hinamori and disappear. That wasn't something Toshiro was going to let happen. Ever.
Toshiro hissed in pain as Aizen's sword stabbed his abdomen. But nonetheless he carried on attacking the man. Though his hits weren't hitting and they were way off due to the fact he was wounded. His wound was bleeding a lot and he was finding it hard to stand and breathe. His vision was turning blurry but he didn't give up. He kept on fighting. For Hinamori.
Aizen had gotten Toshiro on the floor and had brought his sword high up in the air, ready to stab it downwards to kill the boy. Hinamori didn't think, she just went for it. She screeched Aizen's name and told him to stop. Aizen didn't listen. Still running towards the two guys, she screeched Toshiro's name as well. He looked over at her, saw a brief flash of fear but then he smiled at her. In that smile he was communicating with her. 'It's alright, I knew this would happen.'
The boy had willingly gone into a fight he knew he couldn't win. Just to protect her. Hinamori started crying again, whilst she ran over to the boy. She didn't want her friend to die. Especially not because of her. Aizen brought his sword down and Hinamori screamed Toshiro's name. She saw blood spill and Aizen looked at her and disappeared. She could tell the brief look in his eyes that something had just gone wrong. So she quickly hurried over to Toshiro. Other than his abdomen wound he wasn't bleeding. Matsumoto was.
Matsumoto coughed out blood. The pain was unbearable but she had known what she was getting herself into when she had jumped in front of her Captain. Toshiro stared at Matsumoto, frozen. In surprise and concern. His Vice-Captain had taken a sword for him. He was prepared to die but Matsumoto had saved him. He quickly snapped out of his shock, realising he had to get Matsumoto to Captain Unohana. Fast. He quickly picked up his sword and gently picked Matsumoto up, bridal style.
He managed to hold her with one hand as he grabbed Hinamori's hand with his other. Hinamori stared at him, concerned for their ginger friend and more than a little scared. Of Aizen and if her friend was going to die. Toshiro squeezed her hand reassuringly and used Shunpo to quickly get to the hospital. Hopefully in time to save his friend.
A/N: dun dun DUNNNN! :O what's going to happen, will Matsumoto die? Well that's for me to know and for you to find out next chapter MWHAHAHA sorry to end it on a cliffhanger but it had to be done. Thanks again to those who reviewed/put me on alert, really does mean a lot :D hope you liked this chapter :3 Review please :D sorry it's shorter than normal :L hope you liked it anyway J
Ja ne - Tilda