"Did he just ask how you were going?" inquired Kira when Hinamori finally reached the table.
"Hai" she replied simply taking a seat and pulling her lunch out which was sushi.
"So, Hinamori-kun…Where do you live?" asked Ichigo breaking the silence
"Uhm…It's close by to the school I think…do you guys want to come over after school?" Hinamori invited
"I can come" said Ichigo
"Me too" said Matsumoto
In the end it seemed all of them could come, having nothing else to do after school.
"You guys want to play tag? Sitting here is making me sleepy" Rukia asked after they had all finished eating
"I'm it. Run!" Said Renji closing his eyes "one…two…"
Hinamori quickly stuffed her bento box in her bag and ran to find some where to hide in between the trees. Knowing she was bad at running she had to find somewhere good to hide where she could the see the others to see who's in but also in a place where it would be hard to find her. "In a tree!" she thought, stopping at a tree with some low branches and which was pretty close to the table and the open grassy area. Hinamori looked down at her skirt. "Eto…" she quickly looked around to see if anyone could she her and then 'conservatively' tried to get onto the lowest branch with no avail.
"It's no use…and Renji will have finished counting by now" Hinamori thought peeking out behind the tree to look at the picnic table where Renji was no where to be seen. Changing her strategy Hinamori jumped up grabbing a taller branch with her hands as her legs climbed up to the lowest branch. Quickly she balanced herself on the branch and used her other hand to tuck her skirt around her legs. "Success!" She then got herself into a sort of sitting/crouching position.
Looking out into the open area she saw Matsumoto running after Ichigo who was running after Inoue. "Eto…What's going on…?"
It was surprisingly peaceful in the tree and the view was spectacular. "Mou…I should bring my sketch book and pencil up here next time"
Not far away Hinamori spotted…"Hitsugaya…" she whispered. He was all alone just sitting under a tree twirling a white flower in his hand looking at it although he was in a trance. He may have seemed cocky in class but now seeing him like that Hinamori felt his loneliness.
Jumping down from the tree Hinamori was going to talk to him but was stopped when she felt a small tap on her shoulder. Turning around she saw Kira running away from her
"You're it!"
"Eh!"
After a while later the game ended as the group wanted to go to their lockers before class to put away the books they didn't need as well as get a drink. Hinamori was the last in and she felt dead. While taking a long sip from her drink bottle she looked at her time table. Next was Japanese class
"Who do we have Japanese with?" she asked
"Soi Fong…" Rukia answered for the rest of them "Rather strict, especially about homework"
DING DING DING
"C'mon, let's go"
A/n Please review!