Official Couple: Toushiro Hitsugaya and Hinata Hyuga

Bag grammar ahead. Sorry.

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Hinata woke up to the light footsteps of Ururu heading towards the kitchen, to help prepare everybody's breakfast meal with Tessai.

Hinata sat up and sighed. She felt useless. The only thing she's done so far since being put to rest was sit around and do nothing. Yes her hearing skills were improving but she already knows whose steps are whose and where they are headed. She can sometimes hear a conversation that's outside the shop but it's no help if she can't use this improved skill when her life depends on it.

She's been in bed for 4 days now. School has been informed she was ill. Her father was still out of town and wouldn't be back in a couple of months. Training has been suspended, even though her friends told her that being patient and not having her sight are considered as training.

Urahara said they have received permission to start the treatment in her eyes through Unohana but it would have to wait until they were sure Unohana could be absent for such a long period of time.

"Hyuga-san, breakfast is going to be ready in a few minutes. Do you want me to help you?" asked Urahara, outside the room.

"I'll be fine Urahara-san." Replied Hinata.

Hinata heard Urahara said okay and that if she needed help to call for it.

Hinata slowly got up and faced towards what she knew was the bathroom connected to her room. She walked slowly, step by step with her hands in front of her to make sure she wouldn't hit anything. Once she felt the door, she opened and stepped inside. She searched for the wall that would lead her to the shower. When she reached the shower knob she turned it and water started coming out of the shower head. She touched the water to make sure it wasn't too cold nor too hot. Realizing the temperature of the water was okay she removed the bandages from her eyes, stripped of her kimono nightgown and her undergarments she cautiously stepped in the water.

She finished her shower quickly and dried her body. She wrapped the towel around her body and walked out of the bathroom. She took some steps towards the right and searched inside a drawer for clothes. Once she made sure that those were the needed clothes, she put them on, her eyes closed the entire time after removing her bandages before. She searched for new bandages and wrapped them around her eyes.

Hinata didn't know if she was matching her clothes or not but she tried her best by guessing her clothes fabric. She had put on a pair of, black, skinny jeans, white tank top and over it an off-shoulder crewneck. She put her socks and headed towards the door that lead to the hallway. When she reached and opened it, she knew Ururu was there waiting for her.

Ururu had been watching over her to make sure she didn't get injured without telling Hinata but she knew anyways. Hinata could feel her reiatsu, even if she was in the basement training grounds. Hinata didn't say anything about Ururu watching over her though, it felt nice to have someone to care for you.

Hinata headed towards the direction where breakfast was being held. With her hands in front of her just in case she trips or bumps into something.

Once she made it to the room she directed herself towards her seat and when she was sure that was her seat she sat on it.

Seconds later, Urahara came in through the door.

"Good morning Hyuga-san!" greeted Urahara enthusiastically as he sat down on his seat which was across from Hinata's.

"Good morning Urahara-san." Hinata smiled.

Soon after Tessai and Ururu came in with breakfast. They ate their meal quietly until Urahara spoke up.

"I have good news from the soul society." He started. At his words Hinata's ears perked up and she listened intently for any sign of humor from his voice." You will be allowed to receive training from Captain Unohana today this afternoon."

Not hearing any sign of humor or lies, Hinata allows herself to smile widely, showing her excitement, to which Urahara slightly blushes at the sight.

Hinata got up and walked towards where Urahara was seated, lowered herself at his level and hugged him tightly. Urahara was shocked and his body went stiff out of reflex, as well as Tessai, Ururu and Jinta, at Hinata's actions but he then relaxed and smiled softly when returning the hug.

Yoruichi came in at that moment and was surprised at the fact that her long-time childhood friend was showing affection, and in not in humor kind of way.

"She can make changes… just like Ichigo." Yoruichi thought as she remembered Ichigo and all the differences he's made the past year.

"Ohayo!" yelled Yoruichi interrupting the moment. Urahara quickly changed his face expression from relaxed to humor and let go of Hinata, who let go of him at the same time. Hinata turned to face where Yoruichi was and smiled brightly.

"Ohayo Yoruichi-san." Smiled Hinata. But not even a second later Hinata jumped away and landed on her previous spot on a battle stance. Yoruichi had launched herself to Hinata as soon as she replied to test out how her reflexes were doing. Realizing that Hinata's reflexes were sharper than before made Yoruichi come to the conclusion that Hinata was ready for training, even if she was blindfolded.

"Incredible Hyuga!" Yoruichi praised. "We can continue your training now."

"Can I?" Hinata turned to ask Urahara, with hope in her voice.

Urahara who had been fanning himself out of boredom, thought about it and decided that it would be good for Hinata to continue her training. "Sure. Just don't use your byakugan and over do it."

"Hai!" agreed Hinata excitedly.

After a few minutes of discussing what would be done during her training Ichigo and Rukia came in to the room.

"Ichigo-kun! Rukia-san!" greeted Hinata happily before Ichigo and Rukia could say anything. They were both surprised as she ran over to where they were, moving around the furniture with speed and grace, like she wasn't blindfolded. Once she reached them she hugged them both.

"Hey Hinata." Ichigo hugged her back." What's going that has you this happy?" he asked after she let go to hug Rukia afterwards.

"I'm starting my healing process this afternoon with captain Unohana and I can start training too!" stated Hinata with a grin.

"That's great!" Rukia was the first to comment. She turned to look at Yoruichi and Urahara for confirmation and smiled as they nodded with smirks on their faces.

"Alright!" Interrupted Yoruichi. "Go change so we can start your training."

Hinata nodded and made her way back to her room, no hands in front of her, the good news have made her more confident. If Yoruichi wanted her to start training, that meant she thought Hinata would do fine, even without her sight.

Hinata quickly went to her drawer and took out what believed were black knee-length leggings, gray tank top and some gray sneakers.

As she walked out of her room, Rukia and Ichigo were waiting patiently for her. She led the way towards were the underground field was. Ichigo told her to be careful when going down the stairs and she could hear the concern in his voice. She turned her head, giving Ichigo a confident smile.

Once they made it to the field, Hinata started stretching her muscles as well as doing warm ups. She heard Yoruichi talking to Rukia and Ichigo, both of them nodding to every word the older women said.

"Ichigo and Rukia are going to help train you." Yoruichi said to Hinata as she walked towards her, followed by Rukia and Ichigo.

"I will teach you some kido basics, if you are able to do them though." Said Rukia.

"I still going to teach you kendo." Commented Ichigo as he gave her a smile.

"And I'm still going to train you in hand-to-hand combat." Finished explaining Yoruichi.

By the time Hinata found out she could do kido it was already noon.

Urahara came in the field with a woman behind him a slender and very youthful woman with blue eyes and black hair. She wore the standard Shinigami captain uniform apart from using an obi instead of the normal sash. Her hair is long and worn as a large braid down the front of her body. She had this calm aura around her and was demonstrated by the smile on her face.

"Hyuga-san. This is Unohana Retsu." Introduced Urahara.

"Unohana Retsu, Captain of the 4th division." Unohana introduced herself with a gentle smile.

"Hinata Hyuga. Nice to meet you." She greeted back with a bow and a smile.

"I'm here to teach you the basics of self-healing, am I correct?" Unohana asked.

"Correct. Thank you for coming." Said Hinata.

"It's no problem. Let's get started." Said Unohana.

Hinata nodded and followed Unohana to sit down on the pillow seats that Ururu set up for them.

"Relax and try to feel your reiatsu flowing inside you." Instructed Unohana.

Hinata inhaled and exhaled to relax her body. After a few seconds she could feel her reiatsu. She nodded to Unohana to confirm she was able to do it as instructed.

"Try to guide your reiatsu onto your fingertips." Unohana said has she touched Hinata's stomach and led her hand up Hinata's chest, shoulders, then down Hinata's arms, hands, until she reached the fingertips.

Hinata would have normally blushed at the contact on her chest but she was focused on how Unohana's hand was helping her guide her reiatsu. The woman's contact held reiatsu in it, making her own reiatsu follow the older woman's like a magnet.

"Let a small portion of your reiatsu come out through your fingertips." Said Unohana removing her hands from Hinata's.

Hinata furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "How am I supposed to do that?" Hinata asked herself.

She relaxed her body even more and focused on her fingertips and her reiatsu. She inhaled and when she exhaled she felt reiatsu start flowing out of her fingertips. She smiled at the feeling of a light blue glow around her fingertips.

Unohana smiled kindly and proud towards Hinata accomplishment. "She's a quick learner." Unohana thought to herself.

"Alright. Keep practicing this until you can do it without much though but controlled." Ordered Unohana before sipping the tea Ururu had served them.

Hinata nodded and focused on her whole body's reiatsu, trying to familiarize with it.

As she continued with this training Ichigo, who was a few yards away, smiled at the thought of Hinata gaining her eye sight again.

Rukia caught him smiling and looked back between Ichigo and Hinata. She smiled at her friend's happiness for Hinata's recovery.

"She'll back to training like this never happened." Said Rukia.

"And even better." Interrupted a serious voice. Ichigo and Rukia turned around to see Hitsugaya walking towards them with his casual clothes, which consisted of a black, short-sleeved, golf shirt and gray skinny jeans. His hands were in his pockets and he looked relieved.

"Hitsugaya." Ichigo called him out.

Hitsugaya's eyebrow twitched at the lack of honorifics when Ichigo called him. "It's Hitsugaya-taicho, Kurosaki!"

"What are you doing here?" Ichigo asked, ignoring Hitsugaya's correction, once Hitsugaya reached them and stood by their side.

Hitsugaya sighed at Ichigo ignoring his command. He looked towards were Hinata was and smirked to himself. "I came to look for Matsumoto. She's been ignoring her duty's to go shopping. Thought she might be leaving her stuff here." He replied.

Rukia and Ichigo sweat dropped as they knew how Matsumoto ignores her job to have fun.

"What do you mean she's going to be better?" asked Rukia, confused at the white-haired previous comment.

"Without her sight, Hyuga has been relying on her other senses, sharpening them to the point where her lack of eye sight is not a problem. Her hearing ability will be sharp, she could probably hear something as small as a needle falling from feet away." Hitsugaya explained.

"Right!" Ichigo and Rukia agreed, realizing that what Hitsugaya said made sense.

Rukia was about ask Hitsugaya if he was going to help with her training but didn't get the chance to voice out her question when a scream was heard.

All three of them turned their heads quickly towards the origin of the scream and saw it was Hinata holding her blindfolded eyes.

Hitsugaya and Ichigo dashed to her aid in the blink of an eye, leaving Rukia behind.

Hinata was no longer screaming but breathing harshly and covering her eyes. They could see there was blood slipping through the bandages.

"Hinata!" Ichigo called to her while kneeling next to her before turning to Unohana. "Aren't you going to help?!" asked Ichigo, angry that the woman was not attempting to aid Hinata.

He turned around when heard a thump and saw Hinata had fallen on her side and was in fetal position, still covering her eyes as she whimpered.

Hitsugaya beat Ichigo to help her and he sat down, picked her up and placed her on his lap. He caressed her hair in attempt to calm her down.

"Relax Hinata." Whispered Hitsugaya into her ear as he leaned in. Hinata stiffed for a second at the sound of her name said by Hitsugaya and inhaled and exhaled to control her breathing.

"Her healing process will be painful." Said Unohana as she stood up. She stared at Hinata's form as if studying her. "But in less than a week she'll be able to see again." With that said, she walked away to talk to Urahara.

"Hinata…" whispered Ichigo who just looked at her frail form. He frowned to himself as he felt useless.

Hinata started moving off Hitsugaya's lap to sit on the floor, her hands on the floor to keep her from falling face first due to her legs being unstable.

Hitsugaya, Ichigo and Rukia gasped at the sight of bloody bandages and what would seem like bloody tears.

Hinata however just smiled weakly, trying to reassure them she was feeling better, even though she knew that her eyes hurt.

"Hinata, you shouldn't move so soon." Said Rukia concerned for her friend.

Hinata shook her head and got up carefully. Ichigo and Hitsugaya following her movements.

"I'm fine. I just need to rest a bit." Hinata said as she turned towards the stairs direction. However before she could even take a step, she was lifted off the ground.

Ichigo had Hinata in his arms bridal style and without a word started walking towards the exit. Hitsugaya and Rukia following him.

Rukia didn't think too much about Ichigo's actions but just came to a conclusion that he was being a good friend.

However, Hitsugaya thought that behind Ichigo's actions there was more than just concern for Hinata. But decided not to involve himself in the situation, realizing he didn't have any rights as to who cared more about Hinata.

Once in Hinata's room, Ichigo placed her on her futon gently. She sat up and thanked Ichigo who replied with an 'hn'.

Hinata could tell Ichigo was upset at her, probably for trying to do everything herself.

Rukia and Hitsugaya came into her room. Rukia had clean bandages while Hitsugaya had a bowl with water.

Rukia sat in front of Hinata while Hitsugaya placed the bowl next to Rukia.

Hinata sighed at the feeling of her bandages being removed. She didn't open her eyes, she could already feel a headache forming just with the very little light that was on her eyelids so opening her eyes would make it worse.

Hitsugaya seeing her discomfort at the light moved across the room and dimmed the lights enough for Hinata to feel comfortable but also enough for Rukia to see what she was doing.

Rukia wet a piece a cloth and gently cleaned the still fresh blood off of Hinata's face. She then placed new bandages on Hinata's eyes.

Rukia grabbed the dirty bandages to throw them away while Hitsugaya grabbed the once clean, now red, water and followed Rukia outside to dispose of it.

Ichigo stood silently against the wall, staring at Hinata who started shifting uncomfortably.

"I'm sorry Ichigo-kun." Hinata interrupted the tension that was rising in the room.

Ichigo closed his eyes and sighed. He walked towards her and sat in front of her.

Hinata was about to ask if he was upset at her when she got interrupted by two arms circling around her body.

Ichigo held Hinata in his arms as he rested his head on her shoulders. "Don't exert yourself ever again like that Hinata." Warned Ichigo in a serious yet concerned tone.

Hinata only nodded and returned the hug with a smile. Ichigo sighed as he felt her arms around him.

Ichigo let her go seconds later. He smiled and ruffled her hair, to which she pouted but smiled after.

Hitsugaya came in and cleared his throat uncomfortably. "Urahara wants to talk to you Kurosaki." He interrupted.

Ichigo nodded to Hitsugaya and patted Hinata's head before he left.

"I guess I'll be leaving now. See you later Hyuga." Said Hitsugaya.

"Wait!" called out Hinata. Hitsugaya stopped walking and turned to face her, even though she was facing towards the wall in front of her, he knew she was aware of his location. "Could you please stay for a little bit?" asked Hinata shyly fiddling with her fingers.

Hitsugaya's eyes widen at her request but he let a smirk settle on his face. He walked towards Hinata and sat in front of her. "Why is that you want me to stay?" he asked.

"I don't get much company. Ichigo and everybody else are busy with school and fighting hollows. Urahara-san disappears doing I-don't-know what. Ururu is busy cleaning the shop with Jinta. And Tessai-san helps both, Ururu and Urahara." Hinata explained.

Hitsugaya 'ah'ed and didn't know if to feel like a second option or happy Hinata felt comfortable with him as company.

"Hitsugaya-kun?" Hinata asked for him. He replied with an 'mmh?'. "Is your hair naturally that color?" Hinata asked quietly, afraid she would upset him.

Hitsugaya's eyes widened at her question.

When Hinata didn't hear a reply, she started to get worried. "Ah! I apolo-" she was interrupted by Hitsugaya laughing.

It was a small laugh but deep. Hinata realized this and she blushed.

"You're interesting Hyuga." Hitsugaya said with a smirk. "But yes, my hair is naturally this color." He said as he grabbed the strand in front of his face and pulled it slightly to look at it.

He saw Hinata was fidgeting with her hands as if trying to refrain herself from doing something. Then Hitsugaya came to a conclusion as to what.

"Do you…" started of Hitsugaya, not believing he was about to ask this. "want to touch it?" he finished

Hinata gasped at how he knew she wanted to do it and was even more surprised that he would allow her if she wanted to. She nodded shyly.

"Go ahead." Said Hitsugaya.

Hinata slowly raised her hand and directed to what she thought was his hair. Hitsugaya saw her being careful as to not try to touch anything else.

When she finally made contact with something she furrowed her eyebrows to her confusion that what her hand was touching. She started moving her hand around, trying to figure out what it was she was touching.

She stopped her movement when she heard a chuckle. It was a deep, alluring chuckle that made her blush.

"You're touching my face." Stated Hitsugaya as she saw her confusion.

She eeped and retracted her hand to her side as her face turned red.

Hitsugaya couldn't help chuckling at her antics, not knowing that this action made Hinata get redder.

He saw she was embarrassed. He grabbed her wrists and placed them on both side of his face. She was surprised but smiled softly.

She started tracing every inch of his face as she remembered how he looked like. She blushed when she realized he was handsome.

She led her hands to his hair and was surprised as to how soft it was. She started moving her fingers around his hair. She heard him sigh as she continued.

"This is probably relaxing him." Thought Hinata as she remembered how this relaxed Sasuke every time he was stressed.

If her eyes weren't bandaged, her eyes would have widen at thought of Sasuke. "I haven't talked to him!" she realized. "But what am I supposed to tell him? That I temporarily damaged my eyes trying to achieve a power that runs in my dead family?" she frowned at her own thought.

Hitsugaya, who had closed his eyes at the feeling of her hands running through his hair, opened one slightly and saw her expression. He knew it wasn't him that made her upset because she kept running her hands through his hair.

"Hyuga." He called out as he took her hands out of his hair. This brought her out of her thoughts. "Turn around."

Even though she was confused at his command she obliged. She felt finger massage her scalp ad felt immediately relaxed. One hand was on her scalp, the other one running down her hair.

Hitsugaya couldn't believe he was doing this, but convinced himself he was repaying back the favor. As he ran his hands through her hair, he realized it was really long and soft like silk. A small smirk appeared on his face as he realized he wasn't the only one with an odd hair color. He saw it was a mid-night blue with a hint of purple, depending on how you looked at it.

Hinata sighed as Hitsugaya massaged her head. Unconsciously she leaned back until her head was resting against his chest.

Hitsugaya had noticed her leaning towards him but decided not to stop her. He was amused at how she rested herself against him comfortably.

After some minutes, Hitsugaya noticed Hinata's breathing had slow down. He turned to look down at her and saw she had fallen asleep. He grabbed her shoulders gently and he slowly accommodated her on the futon. He pulled the covers to warm her up. She sighed in her sleep. He moved her hair out of her face. He stood up quietly and walked out of the room.

Hitsugaya headed towards the main room where he heard Urahara's voice. He walked in the room after Urahara gave permission to come in.

"Ah Captain Hitsugaya." Greeted Urahara. Hitsugaya noticed Ichigo, Rukia and Unohana were in the room.

"Have you discussed Hinata's status?" asked Hitsugaya.

"We were just about to start." Answered Rukia.

Hitsugaya nodded and took a seat next to Ichigo.

Urahara waited until Hitsugaya was seated, then turned to Unohana signaling her to start the discussion as he gave her a nodded.

"Hinata's a quick learner. She has amazing control over her reiatsu now that she is more aware of it." Started Unohana. "However, without a zanpakuto it will be hard for her to control her reiatsu."

"Her family does not require zanpakuto to control their reiatsu. They release it through their hands." Interrupted Urahara as he explained Hinata's family specialty. "That why I thought it would be better if you were the one to teach her to use her reiatsu in a healing way. She would then learn it to her advantage."

"Your intentions are good Urahara." Said Unohana. "But, she might need the help of her own family for this. I can only do so much. She might be able to control her reiatsu to a certain point. I can tell more reiatsu is locked up in here. Hyuga-san needs more than just my training."

"I thought you were here to help her heal her eyes." Said Ichigo.

Hitsugaya's eyebrow twitched at Ichigo's ignorance at the situation. But his annoyance was gone after Rukia slapped Ichigo's head.

Before Ichigo could complain, Urahara interrupted to explain.

"What would be the point of her healing her eyes if she can't control the reiatsu she releases through them? She would only injure herself again. "

Ichigo nodded, understanding the situation.

"Wouldn't this mean that Hinata has to go to the soul society and visit her mother's clan?" asked Ichigo.

"We don't have authorization for that." Said Hitsugaya.

"What if we tell her mom that Hinata's health is at risk if she is not trained properly?" insisted Ichigo.

"Even if we did get authorization from her clan, we still have to get it from head captain." Said Urahara.

"Then why is she still involved in this?!" yelled Ichigo. "We did it so she could protect herself but even her training is putting her life at risk!"

Everyone in the room knew Ichigo was worried about Hinata's health, so were they but they had to make sure that soul society or the living world safety wouldn't be in danger.

"Kurosaki. We will talk to both, head captain and Hyuga's mother." Said Urahara. Unohana and Hitsugaya nodded at his words.

Ichigo felt a bit more relieved at these news but was still worried for his friend.

"Meanwhile, Unohana will be teaching her some basic training and so will I." assured Urahara.

With their meeting done Unohana left with Urahara somewhere, Rukia was talking to Renji outside the shop, Ichigo and Hitsugaya headed towards Hinata's room.

They came in after no response was given, just to make sure she was okay, and they were about leave when they heard whimpering. They turned to see Hinata whimpering as she slept.

Ichigo was about to wake her up when she suddenly screamed and blood and a blue energy started coming out of her eyes.

Not a second later Unohana was at Hinata's side trying to find a way to help. Everybody else was by in the room worried for Hinata's sake.

However, after a few minutes, everybody in the room except Yoruichi, Unohana, Hitsugaya and Ichigo, were on their knees trying to breath as a powerful wave of reiatsu burst from Hinata, but was gone after a few seconds as Hinata fainted from exhaustion.

"What was that?!" asked Ichigo. He turned to look around the room and saw that those who were affected by the reiatsu were getting back up but were breathing slightly harsh.

"This is what I was referring to her not being able to control her reiatsu." Unohana said as she unwrapped Hinata's bandages. Ururu was soon handing a wet cloth to clean the blood and new bandages.

While Hinata had her eyes uncovered, everybody could see she was in pain. But the pain subdued after Unohana treated her eyes after wrapping them.

"We will have to hurry up the authorization process." Said Hitsugaya.

He was angry at himself for not being able to do anything to help her through the pain. He didn't want her to go through it again so the only thing he could think of was her getting the proper training as soon as possible.

"If we don't this will happen again and the results could be worse." He was controlling himself to not run his fingers through her hair, as he figured out it relaxed her, to soothe her.

"I will speak to head captain directly." Said Unohana while getting up. It was obvious that she was concerned for Hinata.

"I will go with you so I can get authorization to speak to Hinata's mother." Said Urahara.

Yoruichi moved her gaze from the weakened girl to Urahara's news. "I'll go with you." She said. She knew that Hinata's reiatsu was coming out in strong waves but she didn't expect it to be that strong.

Urahara nodded at her, thinking that same as her. Soon Unohana, Yoruichi and Urahara had already departed to the soul society.

The only ones who stayed inside Hinata's room were Rukia, Ichigo and Hitsugaya.

"I'll go get Inoue just in case anything happens." Interrupted the silence in the room. Ichigo nodded and gave a weak smile at her.

She walked out the room, leaving only Ichigo and Hitsugaya to watch over Hinata.

Ichigo had been so deep in his thoughts about Hinata that he didn't think much of the reasons why the tenth division captain was still there until he realized he wasn't alone.

"Not to be rude, but why are you here?" asked Ichigo curious.

Hitsugaya didn't know how to respond to Ichigo's question because he didn't know the answer himself. He knew was concerned for the girl in front of him but he didn't know why if they didn't really know each other.

"I don't know." Sighed the white haired boy as he kept his gaze on the exhausted girl. He could feel Ichigo's staring at him but he ignored it.

"She has that ability you know." Said Ichigo.

Hitsugaya turned to him with confusion in his eyes. He saw Ichigo's gaze was focused on the girl in front of them and he saw a flash of emotion he couldn't very well describe. Was he happy? Proud?

Then realization hit him. Ichigo Kurosaki was falling for the girl, if hadn't already.

"She doesn't notice it but she makes the people around her want to be around her." Explained Ichigo as he smiled softly. "Hinata could brighten up your day just by looking at you."

Hitsugaya then realized that what Ichigo just explained was the answer to the question he asked a few moments ago. This made Hitsugaya smile.

Finally done! This has been the longest one I've done. I couldn't get myself to stop even if I had reached my usual amount of pages. The ideas just kept coming for this chapter as I stayed up late at night during my winter break. Though there was a moment where I told myself to stop half way and post the rest as another chapter, I chose not to since I felt like I've been slow with my updating. I hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks for reading. Please review! It motivates me if you do!

I have a Hinata harem problem… I know but she's too darn cute to not be noticed by other guys...! But reminder official couple is Toushiro and Hinata.