Comforting Love
Previously: Hitsugaya answered with silence. Then Hinamori took a deep breathe and exhaled. The next words hit Hitsugaya like a knife in the gut.
"WH-Who are you?" was all Hinamori had said.
Part. 7- Bonding
"What?" Hitsugaya gasped. Hinamori looked away from him and stared down at her sheets, pained crossed her face but Hitsugaya didn't notice. He stared off into space, thoughts, & flashbacks flying through his mind. He shook it off with a shake of his head. He looked up at Hinamori, and just smiled.
"Sorry, I found you in Rukongai, but I didn't want you to bleed to death so I brought you here to Soul Society."
Hitsugaya thought. "No point trying to convince that she knows me, might as well start from scratch." No matter how much the thought pained him, he suggested he could tell her things about his life that he could never tell her himself. Hinamori stared at him with a blank expression.
"What's your name?" Hinamori asked.
"So she's truly forgotten me."
"My name is Hitsugaya Toushiro, call me Hitsugaya-taichou." He smirked.
Hours later, they still talked and Hitsugaya told Hinamori everything about his life in soul society, where he came from; everything, besides the things that involved her. What was he to say? "Yes I forgot to mention, we've known each other for our entire lives even now." Of course he would never bring her up in "his own" life story, afraid to confused/frighten her. They didn't realize time passing by, that it was already 11:30pm.
Hitsugaya rose from his chair, but Hinamori stared at him with a sad expression. Her eyes telling him "Don't go."
"It's late, you need to rest." He answered.
"But I am not tired." Hinamori protested. "I want you to stay here.. With me." Hitsugaya sighed. "What do you want to do?" Hinamori beamed.
"I want to go out for a walk."
Hitsugaya looked out the window. "But it's dark. We can go out when it's day light." Hinamori pouted. "Fine, I'll just go myself." She proceeded to get out of the bunk. Hitsugaya caught her arm.
"I don't want to bring you back with worse injuries, at least let me come with you."
With that they both headed out into the night. The sky was clear, stars were out, and it was a full moon. "Perfect" was all Hinamori thought. Soul society was basically all lights out besides lanterns that lit the paths of the divisions at night.
Hinamori led Hitsugaya to the boundaries of Rukongai, away from Soul Society. Everyone was assumed to be asleep, all silent, but the sounds of Hinamori and Hitsugaya's feet lightly scrapping the pavement. They quickly moved to the stranded beaches farther beyond. Over there was absolutely no light.
"Hitsugaya-taichou?" Hinamori whispered. She had stopped when she no longer heard his footsteps. There was a slight sweep beside her, she was about to scream when a hand cupped her mouth.
"Don't, you'll wake everyone up." Hitsugaya whispered in her ear. She loosened her state, and turned around to see nothing but darkness. She reached out and sure enough he was no more than an inch away from her.
"I can't see anything." She said, still scanning the still darkness. She started to hyperventilate.
"Shhh." Hitsugaya said repeatedly trying to calm her down. Hinamori gasped when a bright orange light illuminated between her and Hitsugaya. Hitsugaya had brought a lantern from Soul Society, knowing without a doubt that it would get darker.
"Why did you bring that?" Hinamori asked dumbfounded. Hitsugaya looked at her with disapproval.
"Do you want me to blow it out because I like the dark much better." He teased.
"No!" she hissed. He chuckled at her obvious fright. He gave her a wave of his hand, telling her to lead the way, but she never moved an inch of her spot. He sighed and grabbed her hand dragging her along to whatever was ahead. The light scraping of their feet fell silent as they hit the soft sands of the beach. A long pause fell between them as they listened to the water hit the rocks.
"Wait here" Hitsugaya instructed.
"Nani?!" Hinamori began to panic. Hitsugaya gave her a slight squeeze of hand, and was no longer beside her. Hinamori began to hyperventilate again, she held her arms around herself, and shut her eyes. She didn't notice her surroundings as Hitsugaya snaked his arms around her waist. She slowly opened her eyes, and gasped. The beached ahead of her had a path of lights illuminating the outside path allowing her to see the length of the beach. She shifted her head sideways and looked behind her, they were further away from Rukongai than expected. Her sight then shifted to Hitsugaya, who was patiently waiting for her to proceed, she turned her head back to the beach. She hadn't realized that she had wrapped her arms over Hitsugaya's, she dropped her arms and took his hand. As she dragged him along the beach she began to enjoy herself.
She ran along the sandy beach, twirling, dancing, jumping, laughing, as Hitsugaya watched her from behind. Amused by her sudden change of emotions. She headed towards the water, following the tide, as it went out she ran after it, when it came back at her she ran away. Hitsugaya following at his own walking pace to the shore line was surprised at her childish behaviour. He walked over to her, as she knelt by the shore line to look at seashells, crabs, and other creatures approach the shore. She looked up at him and smiled. All of a sudden to his astonishment, she splashed him with a handful of water. She pointed and laughed at him.
She stopped laughing when she knew what was coming next.
"You wouldn't dare." She glared at him, as she slowly backed away from him. With a sudden rush that made her lose her breathe, in a second she was lifted off the ground, in another she was in the water with him. She came up in a gasp of air. Hitsugaya was the one laughing now. With him only being a few feet away she splashed at him till her arms got tired. She couldn't stop laughing. Hitsugaya honestly had never seen Hinamori so happy ever since the incident with Aizen. But he was glad that he could finally be with her knowing that she was happy just being with him. Even if she couldn't remember him… he didn't finish his thoughts as he remembered. "That's right. She still doesn't know who I really am." He stood still as the currents moved him back and forth. Hinamori came up to him, and grabbed his shinigami cloak and stared up at him worry in her eyes. Then she sneezed, he smiled as he carried her bridal style back to the shore. He placed her down on her feet, but she was shaking. The wind was starting to pick up, Hitsugaya didn't want her to catch a cold, so he looked for any shelter close by. He spotted a lighthouse near the further end from them. He looked down at Hinamori and picked her up, she understood by holding tightly onto his cloak and buried her head into his wet haori. Hitsugaya used shunpo so they were at the lighthouse no less than 1 minute. The lighthouse was dark, dirty, and stuffy with a long staircase that led to a small room near the main light. Hitsugaya flicked on the lights, the bottom portion of the place had a clean wooden floor, but with the lights of the moonlight made it seem like it was a haunted house. Hitsugaya then clicked another light switch, which then turned off the path lights of the beach outside.
Hitsugaya grabbed Hinamori's hand and led her up the staircase, flicking on, and off some light switches that either was for the bottom or top portion. The flight of stairs was extremely long, Hinamori stopped once and leaned over the railing to look down, she squealed and fell back. As she realized how far down a fall would be, Hitsugaya caught her and continued to lead her up hoping she wouldn't lean over the railing when they got to the very top.
When they arrived at the top, to Hinamori's amazement the room was fairly large, with a king or queen size matress. Also added with a desk, few chairs, a lamp, and extra sheets. But to her disappointment no extra dry clothes. She walked to the end of the room, and opened two large doors of a balcony that viewed the ocean, and beach below. The full moon reflected beautifully on the deep blue ocean water. In the far of distant she could see the Rukongai district, if it was daylight then maybe you could barely see Soul Society. To her alarm, she turned around and walked to the desk, on the clock it read 2:13am. It was already the morning, but outside was extremely dark. She turned to Hitsugaya, who responded with a confused expression.
"It's 2:13am. It's already morning." Hinamori said.
Hitsugaya didn't seem so surprised, but responded. "We'll be staying here if you haven't already noticed." He chuckled. Hinamori pouted in response. She looked over at the mattress, she realized in major embarrassment that she would have to sleep in the same bed with Hitsugaya. But there would be enough room for them to sleep apart. Hinamori went back to the balcony and stepped outside. Hitsugaya didn't know that there was a balcony there but maybe a staircase, when he saw Hinamori jump down, he thought she was going to jump off. To his alarm to ran to doors, startling Hinamori, she turned but he let out a sigh of relief. The balcony but was bit lower than the doors, so Hitsugaya hopped down to join Hinamori. He snaked his arms around her waist, as she leaned on him, together they gazed at the scenery.
For a moment of silence, Hinamori sneezed again. Hitsugaya sighed, he forgot that they were still wet, he turned and jumped back to the room. Hinamori being a little bit shorter than him ever since he grew taller than her had troubles. Hitsugaya reached down and tried to help her up. It was much difficult since Hinamori didn't jump, as he had hoped for but instead tried to climb up with her feet against the wall.
"Hinamori, I need you to jump up a little." Hitsugaya said through a strained voice. Hinamori blushed, but did as she was told. She jumped up but at the same time Hitsugaya was pulling her. They flew back and hit the floor with a "thud" Hinamori had landed on top off him.
"Ite!" Apparently Hinamori hit her head against Hitsugaya's jaw. She closed her eyes and rubbed her head. When the pain subsided, she opened her eyes to find herself straddling Hitsugaya. Hitsugaya apparently was rubbing his jaw, but locked gaze with Hinamori. Hinamori blushed madly and got off of him immediately. She straightened out her robe, and faced away from him. Her heart beating fast, that she had to take a few deep breathes to calm herself.
She finally turned back towards him and said. "Thank-you Hitsugaya-kun."
A long pause happened before them. As confusion hit Hitsugaya.
"Hinamori?" he questioned.But no response came from her. As her hand flew to cover her mouth.
Not finished. Apparently writing the next chapter.
