A/N: Okay, here's chapter 7. I call it my "filler" chapter because, honestly, that's exactly what it is. Welp, here ya go!
Chapter 7
"Let's see… pass the sector two hallway, make a left… oh, here we are, Squad 10 barracks. Now, where are those captain offices?..."
Hinamori Momo was on her way to tell Histugaya Taicho about the World of the Living excursion. She still couldn't understand why Matsumoto-san told her to go instead. "Oh, here it is! Shiro-chan! Shiro-chan, are you in there?" called Hinamori, as she knocked on the screen gently.
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's Hitsugaya Taicho! Said Hitsugaya (Taicho) from right behind her.
"AHHH! Shiro-chan! Why do you keep popping up out of nowhere?"
Hitsugaya, saying nothing, stepped around Hinamori and slid the door open. He walked over to his desk, sat down and began sifting through his seemingly endless piles of papers. "What do you want Hinamori? I'm very busy and have a lot of work to attend to."
"Okay, I'll make it quick. We just had a Shinigami's Womens Association meeting and Kuchiki-san brought up a little trip that the ryoka are offering to us. I was going to tell the other fukutaicho, but Rangiku-san –"
"Matsumoto? She was with you? Where is she now?" Hitsugaya exclaimed, glaring up at her from his work.
"Ano…on the way to the fukutaicho barracks."
"She's supposed to be helping me with these files. Ugh, I curse the day she joined this squad."
"…Okay, well are you coming Shiro-chan?"
"No."
"Nani? Why not?" Hinamori pouted.
"It's a waste of time, there is too much work to be done to be running around doing nothing. Besides…I don't like rollercoasters."
Hinamori thought to herself for a moment. "Shiro-chan, I didn't say anything about rollercoasters. How'd you know we were going anywhere near them?"
"…"
"Well?"
"I have to get back to work. You're dismissed." Replied Hitsugaya curtly.
"Fine!" exploded Hinamori, she turned on her heels and headed towards the door, just as she was about to slide it open, Hitsugaya called out to her.
"Hinamori.."
"Nani?" she said, turning to look back at him, chocolate brown eyes met piercing turquoise ones.
"Are… are you sure you're feeling alright now..."
Hinamori smiled her gentle smile. "Yes, Hitsugaya Taicho, nothing like the sweet taste of revenge to lift your spirits."
Hisagi-san shuffled through the papers, taking count, just to make sure everything was still in order. "Huh, a captain's work is never done."
"Technically, Hisagi-san, you're not a captain." Pointed out Kira-kun from the other side of the long mahogany table.
"Now I know how Hitsugaya Taicho feels."
"Is anyone hungry? I brought leftovers from my house." Called Omaeda Fukutaicho.
Needless to say, the Shinigami Men's' Association attempted meeting was a hot mess. Ukitake Taicho sat in the corner, hacking his brains out, Hisagi-san was busy doing his precious paper work, and Omaeda was treating it like a free food station, while Ikkaku tried to pick fights with anyone who even looked at him. Poor Iba-san had no control over the situation, regardless of being President. This was the scene that Matsumoto-san had the pleasure of walking in on.
"Is this seriously how you guys run your meetings?" She remarked form the doorway. "And why are you in the fukutaicho barracks? Don't you have a real place to go?" She had just arrived from the women's meeting and found it extremely funny how different the men rant theirs.
"What are you doing here Matsumoto? We're trying to conduct business!" replied Ikkaku.
"Right, I can see that, what with the sunglasses and open shihaksos."
"Urosaina! This happens to be in style!" exclaimed Yumichika.
"We wouldn't expect a woman like you to understand." Ikkaku retorted.
"Relax, Baldy. I was only teasing. I need to speak with Kira for a minute."
Kira rose from his seat to follow Matsumoto-san out of the room, when Hisagi-san called out. "Only him?"
"Oh," began Matsumoto-san, glancing back at him. "And you too Hisagi-san…I guess."
Matsumoto led them to the dining hall of the fukutaicho barracks. Hisagi-san couldn't help but to notice how her gave off a heavenly sheen, even in the dingy hall way lighting. Upon entering the room Matsumoto said, "Hey, where's Renji?"
"Uhh, I think he went to the World of the Living with Rukia."
"Oh, yeah, that's right."
The three of them sat down at one of the many tables adorning the room. After a little bit of silence and staring, Matsumoto decided to loosen things up a bit. (I think you all know what that means.)
"How about something to drink? Would you like some sake Kira-kun?" she asked, getting up from the table and heading towards the cabinets, her long strawberry blonde hair flowing down her back. She began pulling out assortments of bottles and containers, along with cups.
"Actually…" began Kira-Kun hesitantly.
"I'd like some Matsumoto." Hisagi-san said.
"Oh, come on Kira-kun, don't be such a killjoy, one drink won't hurt." She poured him a glass and set it in front of him, on the table.
"I'd like some as well, Matsumoto-san." Repeated Hisagi-san.
"Nani? Oh, right, here you go Hisagi-san," said Matsumoto as she set a cup of sake in front of him as well. She leaned against the counter, sipping her own cup of sake, and continued her staring. Finally, she got to the reason she was there in the first place. "I have a proposition for the two of you."
"Sumimasen, Matsumoto-san, demo, I refuse to play anymore drinking games with you. I just barely got through my last treatment. And-"
"Not that kind of proposition," she interrupted, waving him off, "I meant I something to tell you, news from the World of the Living."
"Bad news?" inquired Hisagi-san.
"No." replied Matsumoto-san, now swirling her drink in her cup.
A slight pause followed. Kira-kun and Hisagi-san looked at each other in confusion.
"Well, what is it?" asked Kira-kun, finally.
"Inoue Orihime has invited us on a trip to the amusement park. We already discussed it at the women's meeting and I volunteered to tell the rest of the fukutaicho. I didn't know that you all would be holding your meeting her though."
"I see what she's getting at. She wants us to bring it up at out meeting." Thought Hisagi-san to himself. "I guess we can bring it up at our meeting." Suggested Hisagi-san, voicing his thoughts.
"Oh, Hisagi-san that would be great!" she exclaimed. She unexpectedly ran to him and engulfed him in a rough, over exuberant embrace, nearly suffocating him. "I did not wanna set foot into that dreadful meeting again! No offense.."
They both just stared up at her.
"Well, I have to keep moving before my Taicho finds me! Sayonora!" With that, Matsumoto Rangiku shunpo-ed out of the room, seemingly vanishing into thin air.
"I swear, that woman is crazy! Ne, Hisagi-san?" remarked Kira-kun to Hisagi-san. Unfortunately, he received no repy. Hisagi-san, having turned a severe shade of beet red, had been rendered speechless. "Ano…Hisagi-san, daishovu deska?"
And that's it. I just realized there are a lot more couples in here that I originally thought…oh well! Reviews please!
