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READ: Hey, ya'll! I think I'll put in a new character in the next chapter. In this one I'm going to have fun with Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Hisagi. Let's see if they can handle it. I hope you guys like it; some of you are still saying a couple of hurtful things. But I need to know about it so I guess its okay. I thank chibi-tachio for this wonderful idea, thank you! If any of you have ideas for anything you want to happen in the story let me know. Anyway, no one reads this part so to the story! My first double-digit chapter!

Toshiro's Outer Child

Chapter 10: Real Men and Water Guns

Hisagi was staring down at the giggling Toshiro. Toshiro's body was lightly vibrating to the soft rhythm of his sweet laughter, his smile was indescribable. All they knew was that it was pure beauty and innocence. The giggles melted in everyone's ears, creating a smile of pure joy on their faces. Even Ikkaku had to give into the command of a warm, friendly smile tugging as his lips.

Last time Hisagi had seen Toshiro he was saying good-bye from the kitchen. Toshiro had been throwing a small fit. He had been whining and running around making light tapping noises as his foot steps ran along the white-tiled kitchen floor. His whines had been quiet cute, his high voice was making up reasons why they couldn't go. This had caused a few of the soul reapers to shake with laughter. They had never seen the Toshiro Hitsugaya throw a temper tantrum. Rukia had luckily caught it all on camera, even the part of Toshiro attempting to block the soul reapers way. He had spread out his arms, his beautiful aqua eyes gleamed with seriousness, as he stated in his serious voice that they weren't going anywhere. Ichigo then picked up the boy, causing him to squeak in surprise. Ichigo put Toshiro on his shoulders, and then he proceeded to run around the kitchen, his footsteps much louder as they made contact with the floor. The other soul reapers quickly left, giggling lightly as they recalled how Toshiro was so cute and innocent. What a change, Hisagi had though through his light laughter.

Hisagi suddenly had a bright idea; you could practically see the light bulb go off above his head. He had looked down at Toshiro's small body with a grin of pure joy spread across his face. Toshiro had stopped his little giggling fit and looked up at Hisagi with those glowing aqua eyes he was lucky enough to call his own. Toshiro's eyes seemed to be a deep pool of innocence and dreams, showing that Toshiro truly was a child.

Toshiro was confused by Hisagi's strange smile. The smile seemed to linger with an unspoken plan to make the small boy smile. Hisagi's eyes were filled with glee and excitement; this was going to get very interesting. Toshiro's head tilted to the right with his innocent confusion, little question marks flying around his soft white locks. Hisagi decided to play with the boy now. After all, this wouldn't last forever.

Hisagi lay down on his back, and held Toshiro by his under arms. Toshiro was giggling wildly because this happened to be his strongest tickle spot. Toshiro's giggles were as sweet as chocolate and melted in the air around him. As Toshiro was having his giggling fit Hisagi brought his legs up, knees to his chest, and put his stocking feet on Toshiro's stomach. He pushed Toshiro a little bit in the air while now holding onto his frail hands. Hisagi was playing airplane! Toshiro got quiet, not knowing what was going on; then Toshiro felt as if his body was floating, and started to have yet another sweet giggle fit. Hisagi started laughing too, his laughter boomed through out the room in an enjoyable tune. He enjoyed seeing this icy captain smile, not to mention hearing him saying cute things like," I can fly!" and "Higher, Hisey, higher!"

Hisagi smiled a grin trumpet victory. Thought smile of pure joy sent friendly, gentle waves around the room, making everyone smile with joy. He had scored himself a nickname.

"Who knew you were good with kids," Ikkaku stated with a grin, and that grin seemed to be mocking Hisagi even though he was in a good mood. Ikkaku was trying to get Hisagi's attention, but it didn't seem to be working. Ikkaku didn't like to be left out of all the fun; he HATED being the third wheel. Ikkaku sat there getting anxious. He got a small scowl on his face and stared longingly at the two giggling soul reapers. He was also a bit confused on how a game like that would be so fun. To be honest he didn't see the point of playing this game, instead, Toshiro should be seeing if he still has the same powers he did before.

Hisagi and Toshiro were just in their own little world laughing and playing airplane, Hisagi making sound effects every once and a while. This caused Toshiro to yell "Wheeeee!" as he pretended to fly through the air. Ikkaku's loneliness had grown, even though there were people surrounding him. Ikkaku noted that this people were lightly vibrating with giggles and chuckles. What in the world is so funny about Toshiro playing? Ikkaku thought. He decided he was going to get the two playing's attention now.

"Hey, Toshiro, Hisagi?" asked Ikkaku quite loudly, finally getting the attention of the two. Toshiro and Hisagi looked over at Ikkaku with looks of confusion on their faces. Toshiro was still smiling that adorable little smile and tilted his head to the left; Rukia got a quick picture of this. Rangiku awed at her sweet little captain, and so did Ukitake. Toshiro was just to dang cute!

Hisagi's look of confusion was much different. He looked quite annoyed because he was finally having a good time with the ice captain. Before the change Toshiro had thought Hisagi was just a mentally drunkard, but now he thought of him as a close friend. Hisagi never wanted to see that uptight captain again. Toshiro seemed much more healthier when he was more relaxed; when he was up tight he got close to getting sick so many times. These thoughts made Hisagi even more annoyed.

"What is it?" Hisagi asked; his head was upside down looking at Ikkaku. Ikkaku made an angry face at the annoyed look Hisagi was giving him. Ikkaku was angry because Hisagi thought he could keep Toshiro all to himself, and Ikkaku really wanted to spend sometime with Toshiro. Even though it wasn't tough at all to want to play with a toddler, but he didn't care.

The staring contest between Ikkaku and Hisagi continued, allowing a tense energy to flow around them. Toshiro looked as if he was getting awfully bored. He made a pouting face at Hisagi and Ikkaku; he wanted them to play with him. Toshiro's face became more in more pout like. His bottom lip was sticking out in the out most adorable way, his puppy-dog eyes were looking longingly at the two holding a staring contest, and his cheeks were tinted a little pink. Not from the fever though, Toshiro was able to control his blush, so he made it so he looked like he still had a fever.

Toshiro started to squirm as he made slight whimpering sounds, but the two didn't notice him at all as the staring contest went on. The tense air was also making Toshiro uncomfortable; he didn't like feeling this way. He liked it better when everyone was smiling and being friends. He squirmed some more.

As Toshiro was squirming Hisagi was having trouble keeping the small boy up. Hisagi didn't want to be the one to give in first, so he made a big mistake. He tuned out Toshiro completely. Toshiro continued to squirm and as he made pouting noises; Hisagi lost hold of Toshiro's small frame.

Toshiro's light body came crashing down and he landed hard on Hisagi's chest, knocking the breath out of the older. The hard thump echoed through the room as everyone winced. That sounded like it hurt. Toshiro slid off Hisagi's chest and was now sitting on the floor. His knees were in front of him, and his feet were next to his hips. Toshiro's hands were between the spaces in his legs as he seemed to be processing what had happened.

He looked sheepishly at Hisagi's pain filled face. Hisagi's face was twisted with pain as he held the spot on his chest where Toshiro had hit him like a missile. Toshiro looked guiltily at that nice person, and the surrounding soul reapers saw small tears well up in his big blue eyes. His bottom lip began to quiver and he started to make small sobbing noises that seemed to echo through the small room.

Hisagi quickly sat up, scaring Toshiro slightly, and looked down at the boy. Toshiro looked so defenseless and adorable; thank God Rukia got a picture of it. The tears were thankfully still in his eyes; Hisagi decided to stop them before they spilt over his clear, smooth cheeks. Hisagi was about to say something to Toshiro, but the little captain beat him to it.

"Are you hurt, Hisagi?" Toshiro asked clearly guilty," I'm sorry." Hisagi caught his breath and if it was any other person he would have yelled, 'Yeah it hurt! Why do you think I was having trouble breathing? Oh, that's right, you fell on me!' But, Hisagi couldn't yell at such a sweet face. Toshiro's sweet eyes instantly got Hisagi wrapped around Toshiro's little finger. Toshiro's soft lips were in a frown quivering still and his eyes were still filled with tears. No one had ever seen this small boy so guilty before. It was quite strange to hear him apologize, but the words drifted in the air and seemed to melt against everyone's skin. Hisagi was shocked that he even wanted to yell at all.

Hisagi waved it off. "Nah, I'm not hurt," Hisagi reasserted the small boy," But you need to be more careful, okay?" Toshiro's sweet lips broke out into a childish smile that fit perfectly on his smooth skin; his tears seemed to disappear to leave his eyes shinning bright. The shine in Toshiro's eyes seemed to brighten the room as the mood lifted to leave everyone feeling light. Hisagi saw Toshiro's sudden change in appearance and grinned in his victory. He felt strange warmth in his heart that he didn't understand. Then it all made sense, he actually cared for this small boy like a big brother cares for him little brother.

Toshiro jumped to his feet with amazing grace as he chirped in the cutest voice possible," Okkie-dokey, Hisey!" Toshiro saying those words seemed so cute, so adorable that everyone burst into a light laughter. The laughter seemed to grasp any bad mood and shove it out the door. Toshiro's laughter was the best though. His small chest vibrated with the sweet noises escaping his throat and out in the open. His smile was stretched wide on his face making him look awfully young, and his eyes were shut in delight as he laughed. Everyone wanted to trap that laughter in a jar, so whenever they were sad they could open the jar and allow the laughter to erase all the bad feelings away. Then again, Rukia's video camera was capturing the sweet sound and sweet sight.

"Besides," Hisagi stated, making everyone calm down as they reverted their attention to him," We wouldn't want you getting hurt again." As Hisagi said this he curved his back so he was hovering over Toshiro's small frame; Toshiro had laid down on his back allowing Hisagi to tower over him. Hisagi grinned as Toshiro smiled, and pulled Toshiro's injured left leg and right arm in the air with ease, tickling Toshiro slightly. Toshiro was giggling as Hisagi held two of his limbs in the air. His sweet giggles continued to make the surrounding people smile with warm hearts. "If you cried so much with these two little injures I don't want to see what happens when you play like a real man," Hisagi teased. He was wearing a mocking grin and teasing eyes, he was clearly enjoying this. But, his actins received a pouting frown from Toshiro's lips as he squirmed out of Hisagi's grasp.

Hisagi laughed at how weak this captain was now, and he let go of Toshiro's two injured limbs. Toshiro jumped to his feet and started to protest at the statement Hisagi had said not five seconds ago," I am too a weal man." Everyone had started to giggle because Toshiro had mispronounced "real" and got an adorable, pouting look on his face. Toshiro then proceeded to puff up his small chest and show off his nonexistent arm muscles. Toshiro also stood on his tippy-toes for more effect. The girls squealed in delight and ran over to hug him. "See," Toshiro stated with a grin as the girls held on to his neck lightly," I've got two girlfriends and you got none!" The girls giggled and both kissed Toshiro's cheeks at the same time. To prove that the two girls were his "girlfriends" he turned to kiss Rukia on her right cheek, and then he turned to his right and kissed Rangiku on her right cheek. Both girls were speechless at first, but then they grinned and started to back up Toshiro in his childish protest.

Rangiku looked at Hisagi with a grin as she sat to the right of Toshiro, facing Hisagi with her legs up in an upside down "v". Rukia grinned as well and sat to the left of Toshiro in the same position (she had handed her video camera to Ichigo a few minutes ago). Toshiro had his arms crossed in front of his puffed up chest, and a grin of pure mockery painted beautifully on his innocent face. They looked like some kind of small gang; all they were missing was leather clothes and sunglasses.

Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Hisagi stared dumbfounded at the three in front of them. Ichigo, Renji, and Ukitake on the other hand were laughing their heads off. Their laughs boomed through the room, making Toshiro smile childishly. Toshiro thought that acting tough was making them laugh, so he decided to continue the tough guy act. He didn't know what else to do, until a thought popped into his head.

Toshiro's sweet, innocent smile twisted into an evil grin. His eyes seemed to be laughing at how much fun this was going to be. Toshiro even started to chuckle! That chuckle sent chills down all the men's spines, but the girls just started to laugh too. What in the world was going on?! Their question was soon answered as Toshiro raised his hand and pointed at all the boys in front of him.

"How about we play a game?" Toshiro asked with the evil grin on his face. 'That was it?' the boys all thought,' He just wants to play a game?' Toshiro's grin grew wider; he looked like a little devil with that creepy grin on his face. Maybe he and Gin were related…Nah.

"Okay," Ikkaku agreed with an equally evil smile," What game do you want to play?" Oh, how Ikkaku was going to regret that answer. Toshiro's chuckles grew a little louder, the chilling noise seeped into the soul reapers ears, scaring them a little bit more. What the hell was so funny?!

Toshiro calmed down and stood there for a few seconds. Everyone got confused at how quiet and still he was being. The small boy was just standing there with no expression at all. They all stared at him with confused expressions, waiting for him to do something. Toshiro looked so small standing there next to Rukia and Rangiku. He was smaller than Rukia when she was sitting down!

Suddenly Toshiro grinned and bolted out of the room at top speed. His hair was having trouble going back to its original position, and his smile was bright and lighted up the whole room. But, then he was gone. Everyone just stared stupidly at the door Toshiro had run out of; then they started to here a bunch of rummaging noises. They heard him say thing like," Where is it?" and "It has to be here somewheres." Everyone made eye contact with each other with a longing look on all of their faces. They all nodded at each other and darted out of the room to Toshiro.

They opened the door with all the noises at the other side, but before they opened the white, sliding door they heard Toshiro yell, "Ah-ha!" in a very happy voice. Once they had the door open they saw Toshiro standing in the middle of a surprisingly clean room, a smile of pure joy on his face. He had clearly found what he had been looking for, and the others didn't know if they should be happy or terrified. But then they noticed the items surrounding Toshiro: water guns.

"Ah, sweet!" Ichigo called as they all grinned and went to grab a gun. Rangiku, Rukia, Yumichika, and Ukitake got small pistol ones, while Renji, Ichigo, Ikkaku, and Hisagi grabbed medium-sized ones. They turned to Toshiro to see which gun he had received, but he was gone. They all looked a little worried around the room, but he wasn't there. "Toshiro," Ichigo called to the small trouble-maker," where are you?"

"Outside!" Toshiro called from the front of Ukitake's house. They could hear his voice motioning them to hurry outside, so they did. Their feet made small thumbing noises on the ground as they headed to the front of the house. They made it outside and allowed the warmth of the sun's rays to reach their skin. The sun was gentle, but warm. It was the perfect weather on a nice spring day. A light wind blew by, weaving through everyone's hair (except Ikkaku) and their clothes. It was the perfect weather for a water gun fight.

Rangiku got this sweet, friendly smile on her face and bent over to look Toshiro in the eyes. "So what water gun did you get Toshiro, or are you not going to play?" Rangiku asked sweetly. Her voice was welcoming, and Toshiro enjoyed how sweet this woman was. He smiled a sweet childish smile and closed his aqua eyes. He was playing alright. Everyone noticed that his hands were behind his back, holding something. Toshiro, still smiling sweetly, pulled out a gun at least two-thirds his size. It was a freaking bazooka! He was still smiling sweetly and tilted his head to the left with innocence. Everyone sweat dropped, frozen in place. This was going to be murder!

Renji thought that no one was watching, so he shot Ichigo in the back of the head. The water shinned in the air as it made contact with Ichigo's bright orange hair. Ichigo's head went a little bit forward from the impact and the water trickled down his neck and back. The water felt good against his skin, but he was mad that he let Renji had hit him so easily. Ikkaku and Renji started laughing a little bit too loudly.

"Pwahahaha! Ichigo you're so weak!" Ikkaku yelled while his laughs carried through the soul society.

"Honestly, Ichigo, you should have seen that coming! Hahahaha!" Renji laughed as he made fun of a now fuming Ichigo. You could see steam coming off of Ichigo's head as his cheeks grew red with embarrassment and anger. Ichigo was about to shoot Renji back, but something beat him too it. Water suddenly went flying at both Renji and Ikkaku, knocking both of the men down in the process. Once the two weren't hidden by the water they were on the floor coughing. Renji was on all fours facing the ground coughing, and Ikkaku was sitting on the ground holding his head as if it hurt. They were soaking wet. Renji's hair was lying down against his head, and both of their clothes hung tight on their bodies. They looked over to the right of Ichigo, along with everyone else, to see a giggling Toshiro.

Toshiro's chest was lightly raising and falling at the speed of his sweet giggles. His smile made the day seem so much better, and the sound echoed through the soul society. This made some soul reapers curious of what was going on. Kempachi had heard the screams of Ikkaku and Renji and then laughing, so he and Yachiru were quickly on there way.

"I got you," Toshiro giggled as he looked at the two soaked figures on the ground. Renji and Ikkaku picked them selves off the ground and everyone got really quiet. Then the water war began. The water sparkled in the air as it flew this way and that. Everyone laughed and played, and a few bystanders had sat on the side and cheered them on. Then everyone felt a strong, yet familiar, spiritual pressure approach them. It was forceful and energizing, and it made Toshiro, Ikkaku, and Yumichika smile with joy. It was Kempachi!

"Hey guys!" Yachiru called from Kempachi's left shoulder," What are you doing?" Toshiro held up his bazooka as high as it would go and smiled with glee.

"We're pwaying with water guns," Toshiro called sweetly," Do you wanna pway too?" Toshiro stretched out his thin arms to give Kempachi the gun. Kempachi took it and examined it, and then he smiled evilly and looked at the others. They looked pretty scared, but Ukitake just smiled back. Yachiru jumped down next to Toshiro, her feet making a small tap as she made contact with the ground.

"Can I and Yachiru are gonna go get more water guns?" Toshiro asked Ukitake with complete innocence masking his true motives. Ukitake nodded at the cutie and watched them run inside the house, their feet making light noises as they ran across the wood of the house. Once the two were completely out of site the water war started again, although it was much crazier. Kempachi was going crazy and shooting people left and right. He even hit some of the by passers on accident. Everyone thanked God he wasn't the one taking care of Toshiro.

The war went on for a few more minutes until they heard a small scream from Toshiro and Yachiru, the sounds echoing through the Seireitei. "Everyone come quickly," the two called from behind the house," there's something moving back here and it looks funny!" Everyone dropped there guns, BIG mistake, and ran to the back of Ukitake's house. Their feet were hitting the ground hard, and their clothes and hair were trying to keep up with them.

They stopped at the back of the building to see Toshiro and Yachiru grinning wildly. They all paled as they saw what they were holding. They were holding a giant hose pointed strait at them. The hose was green and they couldn't see where it connected, and Toshiro and Yachiru started to laugh. Their chests were vibrating in sync with the sweet music escaping their throats. "Bye-bye!" the two called as they turned the hose on. The hose made a slight hissing noise, and in the blink of an eye Toshiro's babysitters were soaked to the bone. Kempachi was able to get hold of the hose and turned it on Yachiru and Toshiro, before he turned it off. Once the water was done flying through the air everyone was on the floor. They all looked at each other and then started to laugh.

They all had a little bit of mud on their clothes, and grass was clinging to the water on their skin. Renji also had a flower stuck in his hair! The laughs continued for a long while as Toshiro picked the flower out of Renji's ponytail. 'How was his hair still in a ponytail?' everyone wondered, but they quickly waved it off. Rangiku knew they all needed a bath, but she didn't want it to be at Ukitake's house this time.

"How about we go to a public bath to wash up?" Rangiku suggested smiling," It could be a lot of fun." Everyone looked at each other and then grinned, it did sound like fun.

"Sounds good to me," Ikkaku agreed.

"I'll go," Yumichika nodded.

"Come on guys, lets go," Renji started to walk in the direction of the bath house, not waiting for the other answers. Toshiro skipped over to Renji and tugged at the bottom of his kimono. Renji stopped in his tracks and looked down at Toshiro with a confused expression. Toshiro was giving Renji the puppy-dog look. Complete with the big aqua eyes, and his bottom lip sticking out. Toshiro didn't even have to say anything, he just reached up with his hands and Renji instantly got the message. Renji smiled like a big brother and took Toshiro into his arms. Toshiro smiled and leaned onto Renji's shoulder. He was tired from all the fun he had, and he was ready to take a bath and get in bed.

Rukia took out her video camera and zoomed in on Renji and Toshiro. Renji's right arm was under Toshiro keeping him up, and his left arm was wrapped around his back keeping him close to his chest. Toshiro's arms were around Renji's neck as his head was nestled in the area between Renji's shoulder and neck. Toshiro's legs were hanging limply, his left at Renji's hip, and his right in front of Renji. Rukia and the others awed, causing Renji to blush. How was it so easy for Toshiro to get what he wanted at this age? Oh, that's right, he was completely adorable.

They all headed for the bath house, Toshiro had gotten a quick nap on the way there, and was ready to play by they time the bath house was in view.

PLEASE READ THIS I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO, BUT PLEASE READ:

Yeah, baby! All done with the tenth chapter. Hey did you know that someone is plagiarizing this story. If you go to Google and look up "Toshiro's Outer Child" they have some matches from .com, and they say that they wrote it! Can you believe it?! Dani213 stopped it at Chapter 7 and made the WORST ending ever, and if you think this person is stupid send me a message or review. I'm mad at this person.

Toshiro: Yeah we're mad!

Ichigo: Stupid bit**, shouldn't have done that!

Nikki: ICHIGO! Don't curse in front of Toshiro! Go stand in the corner and think about what you have done!

Ichigo: Fine (walks to corner).

Toshiro: Dani213, that was a no-no and I'm mad at you! We aren't friends any more!

Dani213: WHAT, NOOO!

Nikki: There you are (kills Dani213)!

Toshiro: Yeah!

Ikkaku: Aw, I wanted to kill her…

Nikki: Now that that's over with let's say bye.

Everyone (with Ichigo in the corner pouting, and Dani213 under Nikki's foot): Later, Alligators!