Title: send me a miracle

Author: Full Shadow Alchemist

Fandom: Bleach

Pairing: Hitsugaya/Hinamori

Rating: K

Genre: Humour, General

Theme: #72, "Send me a miracle"

A/N: I had fun writing the last line with the theme in mind.

send me a miracle

She looks surprisingly good in black. He, not so much.

"It's so weird to see you in uniform", Hinamori giggled as only she can, and he ignores it in favour of wondering how she got into his room to begin with. He asks and she waves it off, and he'll have to accept it now because she's poking her head into every available space as though she had never seen four walls before.

"Why, is it because you don't like me being here?" He asks bitterly instead. She quickly realizes her mistake when the tone manages to squeeze itself between the closet wall and her ear and into her head.

Hinamori turns to her old friend quickly. "That's not it at all!" She bolts over to bow several times in apology in his face, and he wants to push her off so, so badly. It's all very old, and very childish. "You hated it when I went to the Academy and graduated with the uniform, but I wanted you to be happy too but I knew you wouldn't because we wouldn't see each other all that often anymore and you never told me you were going to go until I went ot visit and you weren't there and I'm really not going to get used to seeing you like this!" She gasped heavily, to catch her breath. Her eyes were wide, like a fish's, staring staring staring.

He kind of wanted to tell her to stop that too, but then realized explaining would be a bigger headache than just getting her to go, even if it wasn't nice.

"Shiro-chan looks so much more adult like this," she continued, "like you'll be really strong one day."

Hitsugaya tried to fight it down, but heat spread across his face and neck before he could stop it. It was the first time in a while that Hinamori has paid him a compliment.

"But you're still so short, I almost can't imagine it!" She scratched the back of her head and laughed like it was nothing. Like it. Was. Nothing. As she laughed, Hinamori managed to miss may crucial signs that she should be leaving, such as the frost on the windows, a sudden drop in temperature and a growing scowl. She got the message well enough when he booted her out of the door.

That entire spectacle…well, Hitsugaya didn't know what it was about but it was starting to get tedious. He sighed and scratched the back of his head Hinamori style since he didn't know what else to do. Hopefully, once this phase of childhood stupidity passed she might not have to think of him as a child anymore.

All he needed was to grow taller.