Should Your Captain Fall

by JeanThine

A series of oneshots in which each captain of the Gotei 13 dies. Big emo warning for people who don't like death n' stuff. It's finally complete! Review for the possibility of bonus chapters

10. Hitsugaya Toshirou

Should Your Captain Fall

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

10th Division Taicho – Hitsugaya Toshirou

The colour drained from his face, slowly. He felt his internal organs clenching up, an instinct as his body shut down all unnecessary functions. He was short of breath, it was becoming harder and harder to expand his chest and let air in. This was the battle's peak, its crescendo, the penultimate moment. He was trying to maintain his full force, but the water in the air was all exhausted, he himself was dehydrated. This was going to end, and very soon.

Ichimaru Gin stood across from him, everlasting grin in place, though slightly shaken by the long battle. He could still stand though, and his attacks weren't diminishing in strength. He was preparing himself for a final strike, Shinsou was performing its unseen routine of charging energy and focusing it to fire off into the direction of the enemy.

Hitsugaya was down to his last ice flower, he held on to Hyourinmaru with all his will, but his hands were slick with his own blood and the hilt was starting to slide out of his grip. He could see the attack coming, but he couldn't think how to counter it. His energy was so depleted he would be impaled if he tried to block, and he couldn't muster enough energy to shunpo off to the side. He blinked as he realised that the blood from some wound on his head was leaking into his eyes, then like tears sliding out the corner of his eyes and down the side of his face.

He steeled himself as best he could, trying to summon energy for a block. Ichimaru moved gracefully and pointed his blade at the child prodigy. But their blades never met. "Ikorose"Gin began his zanpaktou's release command. Hitsugaya's last flower burst, the bloom shattering into a million pieces of his energy. Hyourinmaru went with it, the blade cracked and fell apart. The blood his sword had been holding back violently burst out of his chest spraying into the air. The last word he heard as he fell out of the sky was the name "Shinsou", divine spear, as Ichimaru's blade came curving through the air towards him.

Hitsugaya Toshiro, closed his eyes.