Author's note: Hello everyone, happy Wednesday! Weather starting to get cooler but eh, I might have jinxed myself. Probably going to get all super hot this weekend LOL. Man, I swear my brain works in all sorts of funny stupid ways...Like today, I had to constantly remind myself to not forget to take a package with me. All morning, just reminding myself until I'm walking out of my house and into the streets. Then it hits me, I COMPLETELY FORGOT THE DAMN PACKAGE! Already walked two blocks away and had to run back like a mad man...Whatever I need the exercise and a hamburger. With a Diet COKE! LOL, I hope you guys continue to have a great week and catch you on the next update! STAY AWESOME! **Please NO FLAMES**
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In love with a Death God! Part 2: REBORN
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Chapter 7: Secrets, secrets
"Momo…I'll never forget about you, I will come back."
"…You are the only one I'll ever love."
The voices faded away slowly as She saw a bright light. Opening her her brown chocolate eyes slowly, tears escaped as they fell from her eyes down to her pillow. Hinamori laid there quietly, it seemed every night she would wake up in tears yet she didn't understand why. Her heart ached with a heavy feeling on her chest, Hinamori slowly sat up to wipe away the tears.
She could hear birds chirping, it was morning.
Touching her forehead, she let out a relieved sigh knowing her fever was completely gone. Hinamori got up to open the window and felt the soft morning breeze enter the room. She leaned on the window sill with her elbows and took a long deep breath with her eyes closed "...What a beautiful morning!" She took a moment enjoying the morning listening the birds sing until she heard something tumbling from her captain's room which was next door.
Suddenly, her captain's windows slammed open violently causing the bird in the trees nearby to fly away in fright. Even Hinamori jumped.
"GODDAMN BIRDS!" He stuck his bed-headed blond head out "SHUT UP!" he yelled as more birds flew away in fear. He grunted and turned his head seeing a brown haired shinigami looking at him from next door with a nervous smile "...G-Good morning Taicho?" His face was completely covered in his blond hair and all you could see was the bottom his face.
"HUH!?" Hirako moved his hair aside to get a better look "Huh...Well, look who is back from the dead!"
Last night, Hirako stop by to visit Hinamori to drop off dinner but she was still sleeping and decided to let her be. Even a current white haired captain came by to see her too. "I'm sorry Taicho, I hope there wasn't a lot of work yesterday..." Hinamori said as she watched her captain trying to fix his hair. "Tsk! There's ALWAYS work..." he kissed his teeth "I'm sure we all learn a lesson from that night, right?"
"Hai! Don't go out in the rain without an umbrella and if I do, make sure to take a shower and dry myself fully!" she replied.
"Good girl, you're not a complete lost after all..." he let out a yawn "Damn birds woke me up...Momo, wake me up when it's time for me to go to the captain's meeting." Hinamori turned around and looked at the clock, it was 6:50 am and the captain's meetings start exactly at 7 am. She gasped "T-Taicho, you're going to be late!" He looked at the time as well "Ah, SHIT!" he quickly went back inside and changed, Hinamori ran out of her room and went into her captain's room who was changing in the bathroom and brushing his teeth at the same time.
Hirako finally came out of the bathroom with his black and white shingami uniform and saw Hinamori holding his Hoari up. "Thanks Momo!" he said as Hinamori helped him wear it. "Shit my hair is a MESS!" he looked in the mirror trying to brush it but it was creating static and started to stand on its own. "AUGH! Forget it, I'll fix it later! I'm off Momo!" he opened the door and rushed off.
"Hai, I'll see you during roll call Taicho!" she bowed towards him in the hall.
Around 8 am, Hirako was supposed to return back from the captain's meeting but, the meeting was extended. Hinamori had received an angry yet pissed off hell butterfly message from her captain saying he will be late along with some...Curse words she had never heard until now. As a vice-captain, Hinamori went ahead and did roll call without her captain. After daily morning routines, she went into the captain's office to work on the paperwork she missed due to her fever.
It was around 11 am as the door slid wide open causing a loud slam. Hinamori jumped as she saw her captain completely exhausted and his hair was worse than it was in the morning. It was in a fuzzy blond afro beyond repair and during the meeting, none of the captains could keep their eyes off Hirako's bad hair. It almost seemed if you touched his fuzzy static hair, you would get zapped back to life.
Dragging his feet across the room, he went to his desk and fell into the chair "Holy shit...That was the longest captain's meeting I've ever been in..." Hinamori placed a freshly brewed hot coffee on her captain's table gently "Thank you for all your hard work, Taicho!"
Hirako took the cup and took a sip of the black coffee "Hmm...That's some good coffee."
Hirako noticed something...odd about today. Whenever he looks at his table there's always piles of paperwork on his desk covering his entire table but today there was nothing. No paperwork or unfilled forms, not a single paper to be found. "...Where the hell is all the paperwork?" he asked. "Oh, I finished them this morning" she pointed at her table as they were neatly stacked and organized to each division. Hirako blinked looking at her table "...YOU'VE finished them? ALL of them...By yourself?"
Momo nodded "Hai, Taicho...You told me to finish them when I got better." Hirako didn't mean it so literally, touching his now cleared table as if it was the first time he ever saw the color of this desk. He never knew how good it was to have a vice-captain, especially someone like Momo.
"ATTA GIRL! Whoo, Momo I don't know what I could without you now" Hirako leaned back in his chair with his feet on the desk.
Hinamori giggled, soon there was a knock on the door. Hirako narrowed his eyes at the door "Go AWAY!" he harshly replied as the door opened with a busty vice-captain with an agitated smiled "Oh ho ho...Hirako Taicho, you can't say that to me after what you've done that day in the bar..." Matsumoto glared at the blond captain with murderous eyes. When she had returned to the bar that day the blond bob captain was already gone.
"AHhh!" Hirako let out a scream as he stood up and hid behind his chair "Come on now Rangiku, I had no choice! Besides, how could you wear such a stupid wig and not hide those bombshells!?"
"Oh? I'm sure everyone has a choice...And double-crossing me isn't a good one or a SMART one" Matsumoto walked slowly inside the room with a sinister smile.
"Good morning Rangiku-san!" Hinamori greeted as Matsumoto turned her attention towards the small brown haired girl who was smiling. "OH MOMO-CHAN!" Her menacing aura disappeared as she gave a big hug to her friend "It's been too long! How are you feeling?" Hirako let out a relieved sigh seeing his vice-captain purge the wickedness out of the busty vice-captain instantly.
"Sorry I couldn't visit you!" she turned her attention towards the blond bob captain and glared at him "I had problems of my own..." Hirako gulped, Hinamori still had no idea what they were talking about as she stood there smiling "I'm feeling a lot better, thank you for coming!"
Hirako gasped "What!? M-Momo, you asked Rangiku to come here...Why?" He stood there thinking they've plotted something against him and this is how he was going to die.
Matsumoto let out a sigh as she reached into her robe and took out a small pink bottle of hair detangler and a comb "Momo-chan request me to come here to help you with your bad hair day..." Hirako blinked "...Really?" He was stunned after what he did, this was the last thing she would have done. Matsumoto nodded "Of course, I would do anything for Momo-chan! We're besties, right?"
"Hai!" Hinamori said as she pulled up a chair for her captain to sit "Taicho, come sit here!"
Still suspicious, Hirako inched his way towards the chair with his eyes on Matsumoto and sat down carefully. Matsumoto looked through his hair "Geez...You really need to trim your hair Hirako Taicho, you got a lot of split ends!" Hirako gasped "NO WAY! Really!?"
"Do you have shears?" Matsumoto asked while she was examining his hair.
"Yeah but they're in my room. Momo, could you get the shears? They should be in my drawer in front of the mirror" Hirako requested as Hinamori nodded "Hai, be right back!" Hinamori quickly left the room with the door closed. Hirako sat there looked at his hair ends "Huh...I don't see any split-"
Suddenly, Matsumoto got a large amount of hair in her hands and gripped it hard.
"OW OW OWWW! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Hirako yelled out as Matsumoto still held onto his blond hair tightly and slightly pulling "Don't think I have forgotten my question Hirako Taicho, I'm still waiting for you to answer..." her voice and face completely changed as Hirako knew he was going to die or get his hair ripped out and become a bald man. In this case, he did NOT want to die as a bald man...
"Okay okay OKAY! AHH!" Hirako pleaded feeling her grip tighten "I had to rat you out because Toshiro was going to find out about that pale-looking vice-captain has a crush on Momo!"
Matsumoto gasped in shock as she released the captain's hair "No way...You mean, KIRA!? Kira has a crush on Momo-chan!?" Hirako rubbed his head from getting his hair tugged rashly "Yeah...The gloomy-looking fellow." Matsumoto couldn't believe was she was hearing "Oh my god...And what about Momo-chan!? Does she know this!?" Soon, Matsumoto let out a gasp "Oh my GOD, does Momo-chan like Kira-kun too!?"
Hirako placed his index finger on his lips "SHHH! Shut up, woman! Someone might hear you!"
Matsumoto covered her mouth "Does Momo-chan like Kira-kun too?" She asked again in a whisper. Hirako kissed his teeth "Tsk, who knows. But, I may have messed up on my part...I sent that kid to Momo's room to drop off the medicine and lunch while Rose and I got lunch" Hirako explained as Matsumoto gasped "Kira took care of Momo-chan!? This wasn't part of the plan! Hirako Taicho, we were supposed to help Taicho and Momo-chan together! NOT Kira-kun and Momo-chan!"
"You don't think I don't know that?! I didn't think there was ANOTHER who liked Momo! I just found this out yesterday at the bar from stupid Rose!" Hirako snapped regretting, he knew the 3rd division vice-captain seemed too close to Momo but thought he may be overreacting.
Matsumoto couldn't believe what she was hearing "We need to do something! She might be falling in love with the wrong person!" Hirako let out a sharp sigh "Yeah well, there is nothing we can do if Momo likes the gloomy guy..." Hirako sighed, but Matsumoto shook her head in rejection "No no no! This can't be happening, this isn't how things should go!"
Hirako looked over his shoulder seeing the panicking busty vice-captain "Who are we to stop Momo from falling in love with someone else!?" The room fell into silence. Matsumoto fell into the sofa quietly "...You're right. This is her new life..." Matsumoto sat there quietly, all she could think about was her captain losing her...Again.
Hinamori quickly headed towards the private quarters. Going up the stairs and turned right down the hall, she passed her room and opened her captain's room. Her eyes widen seeing a shinigami standing inside the room alone...He stood there quietly and his back was facing towards her.
"Uhm…Excuse me, you shouldn't be in here" Hinamori said wondering who was this strange shinigami was inside her captain's room. The tall man turned around slowly, he had brown wavy hair and a thick pair of glasses.
He smiled softly "I'm sorry, I guess I've lost my way..."
"Oh...That's okay!" Hinamori looked at him; she felt she had met him before "Erm…Have we met before?" He stood there still smiling softly "perhaps, there are a lot of shinigamis around, wouldn't you say so?" Hinamori giggled "Hehe…You're right, I'm sorry you just look so familiar."
"If you could excuse me, I should go…I shouldn't be in here as you said before" The man took a bow and walked passed her "Hope you have a great day...Hinamori."
Her eyes widen hearing her name from the stranger as if he knew her "W-Wait" she turned around and saw no one. Hinamori looked out in the halls to catch him but he was already gone. "How...How does he know my name? …Is he part of the squad?" Hinamori thought about it but suddenly she began to panic "Oh no! I forgot about Taicho!"
She quickly looked for the shears and found them in the drawers inside her captain's table. Rushing back to the office, she was completely out of breath "I-I'm sorry Taicho!"
"Geez, did you get lost or were you trying to run away!?" Hirako asked clearing his throat as Matsumoto was still sitting on the sofa "Momo-chan, did you bring the shears?" she had a faint smile.
Hinamori nodded and handed her the shears. She sat on the sofa watching Matsumoto work her magic "Hehe…If I did run away, you probably find me…" Hirako sat very still as Matsumoto started to cut away his ends "...Damn right." He looked at Hinamori as she sat there thinking about something...
Hirako narrowed his eyes "Whatcha thinkin' about there...Momo?"
"Huh? N-Nothing!" Truthfully she tried to remember everyone in her squad but, someone like him...The image of him constantly appearing in her mind '...I feel like I know him but from where?' Hirako and Matsumoto made eye contact and gave each other the signal. Matsumoto nodded and soon let out a teasing smile "Is there someone you're thinking about? ...Maybe a GUY?"
When Hinamori left, the two had come up with a plan to see if they can get her to blurt out a name or a hint who she is interested in. They both knew Hinamori was a bad liar and could be easily read with just the right buttons...
Hinamori's face blushed "HUH!? No-No, nothing like that or anything...!"
"Come it's just girl talk! And I know Hirako Taicho would never tell anyone, he is your captain after all!" Matsumoto slowly cutting away Hirako's hair ends. "Yeah...I'm up for some gossip" he acted like he had no interest in the conversation but, this was all part of the plan.
Hinamori looked at them and let out a sigh "It's...Just I've been getting these strange dreams and voices in my head."
"Voices?" Hirako narrowed his eyes towards his vice-captain strangely "Like...Do they tell you to do things? ...Bad things?" Matsumoto smacked him on the shoulder as Hirako hiss "What!? I don't want someone coming in my room with a knife, alright!? Geez, we all know how that ends!"
Hinamori let out a nervous chuckle "No...It seems like a memory or my past."
"REALLY!?" Matsumoto shouted as Hirako moved his head away "WHOA! HEY! You're cutting MY HAIR!" Matsumoto let out a small laugh "Haha oops! Sorry Hirako Taicho but, this is GOOD NEWS! Oh my god...I knew it! Didn't I tell you!?" Hirako let out an annoyed face "Yes, yes, yes...You should go get the lotto now."
"What do you mean? Do your memories come back to you slowly too?" Hinamori asked.
Matsumoto shook her head "No, not for us...But, you're different! Unlike us, you passed away here in Soul Society and might have carried your human memories here!" Hinamori sat there realizing that her dreams and voices were her past memories slowly coming together, she soon leaned in forward "That means...I-I'll remember Toshiro-I mean...Hitsugaya Taicho!" she tried to hide her words but it was too late, the two shinigamis already heard her and smiled widely.
"OOooOH" Matsumoto and Hirako both said looking at the blushing brown haired girl.
Hirako let out a wide smirk "She called him by his first name- How cute. I'm going to tell him." He teased as Hinamori's face burn up red "NO! Please Taicho, don't tell him!" She pleaded "I...I want to remember him for myself." Since she came to this strange new world, she had tried to understand who the white haired shinigami was and her feelings she couldn't understand for him.
"Momo-chan, don't worry! Taicho probably won't care anyways but, I'm so happy you're getting your memories back!...At least small parts of it but better than nothing!" She brushed off the remaining hair left on Hirako's shoulder "Alright Hirako Taicho, you're done!"
Hirako got up and looked into a mirror and smiled widely "Hello Beautiful."
"Alright, Momo-chan!" Matsumoto patted the seat Hirako was sitting in "Your turn!" Hinamori's eyes widen in shock "Eh?! No, I'm okay Rangiku-san!" she waved her hands in front of her. Hirako looked over his shoulder "Just go sit, Momo! You need a hair cut anyways and if Rangiku is offering to cut your hair for free...You better take it."
"Come on Momo-chan" Matsumoto said with a wink "Let's surprise Taicho!" Hinamori blushed, she thought about the white haired captain and wondered how he would react to her having a new haircut 'Will he notice...?' Hinamori slowly walked over and took a seat. She slowly removed the hair bun and let her brown hair flow down, Matsumoto gently started to trim her hair as Hinamori sat there looking at the hair bun cloth she wore.
Hirako noticed her looking at the cloth "Somethin' important about that cloth or something?"
"I…I Don't know" she felt she needed to keep it with her all times. Hinamori still couldn't remember where she got the cloth from. Matsumoto began to cut some parts of her hair as the pieces would fall on her shoulder and onto the ground. "Here, I'll hold onto it for ya, Momo...Don't want parts of your hair getting in this." he reached out for it as Hinamori gentle gave it to her captain. Hirako tucked it into his robe safely.
"What took you so long to find these shears anyway?" Matsumoto asked continuing to cut her hair as she eyed Hirako awkwardly "...Were they in the bathroom?"
"Oh no, there was someone…" her words trailed off, she didn't want the Shinigami she met to get in trouble for entering her captain's room. Even though it was wrong for him to enter the room, she didn't think he did it on purpose or was simply just lost.
She admits, she was pretty lost too on her first day.
"There was someone…What?" Hirako asked she started to fiddle with her fingers "Erm…There was someone..." she needed to think of something quickly, she could feel the eyes of her captain piercing the back of her head. "There was someone...Blocking the halls with boxes and decided to help him move them out" she finally said.
There was a silent moment; soon Hirako looked back into the mirror to see his flawless hair "I see…Yeah, if I think about it. That's probably something you would do." Hinamori let out a small relief sigh and continued to sit there still as her friend continued to cut away.
'I wonder who that was…' she thought to herself remembering his gentle smile 'I'm sure I'll meet him again…'
