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I love this shinigami zukan! It's cute!!!

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Nicknames for Toushirou belongs to chapter seven of The Mask of Ice.

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Nicknames for Toushirou

Ok, Kon, hit it!

Kon: Shinigami zukan!

Everyone: Golden!

"Ah he he he he… So, um…" Ichigo began, trying to stifle his impending laughter. "He heh… Why do you let her call you… Tou-chan?"

Hitsugaya's eyebrow twitched while Kage looked away, blushing. Everyone was in Ichigo's room, which was amazing in a way that it can hold so many of them in just one room. Ichigo was sitting on the bed while Rukia and Renji were in the closet. Hitsugaya was sitting on the floor with Hinamori and the Kurayami sisters. Hitsugaya retorted, "It just so happens that she likes calling me Tou-chan, Kurosaki."

"And you never ask her to correct you?" Ichigo countered.

Hitsugaya looked around nervously. "Well… I, um…"

"Mou, Shirou-chan, you always correct me whenever I call you Shirou-chan or Hitsugaya-kun! It's not fair!" Hinamori pouted. Kage blushed even more.

"Shirou-chan? Hey, Toushirou, you sure got cute nicknames," Ichigo teased, causing the white-haired child prodigy to blush.

"S-shut up, Kurosaki!"

"Well, it won't hurt to reveal what we call you, right, Tou-Tou?" Meian giggled.

"M-Meian!" Hitsugaya protested.

"Tou-Tou?" everyone else, except Merenaito and Kage, echoed.

"Aww… Or do you prefer Rou-Rou?"

"MEIAN!!!"

"Rou-Rou?" everyone else tried to control their laughter lest they go crazy over laughing too much. Hitsugaya slapped his forehead, his blush deepening. He knew his pride was going to be shattered.

"Ne, Toushi, I just revealed mine," Merenaito spoke with a bored look on her face.

"M-Merenaito…!!!"

"Toushi? Doesn't that mean to be frozen to death?" Ichigo burst out in laughter. "Suits ya, Toushirou!"

"Kurosaki!!!"

"I have another, Ichigo," Merenaito continued.

Hitsugaya blushed and blushed and blushed. "M-M-Merenaito! Don't!!!"

"Oh? Tell us, then," Ichigo replied, ignoring Hitsugaya's protests in the background.

"Try Lil' Touie."

" Lil' T-Touie…?" Ichigo burst out in laughter again.

Hitsugaya's face reddened in embarrassment as everyone suffered from another laughing fit. "MERENAITO!! MEIAN!! I AM SO GOING TO GET YOU…!!!"

"I have one more if you want," Kage offered, an evil glint in her eyes.

"KAGE, NOT YOU TOO!!!!"

"Scream all you want at me, Tou-chan." Stifled laughter. "Or should I say Gagaya-chan?" Burst out laughter.

Hitsugaya slapped his forehead, his face reddening even more and more with every passing second from embarrassment. This was not going to be left out in the reports for Soul Society…

＜ブリーチ＞

"Um… Yamamoto-soutaichou…"

Yamamoto looked up from his desk. "Yes, Ukitake-taichou? Kyouraku-taichou?"

"Umm… We were thinking…" Kyouraku began. "We were thinking that you should know about what's going on in the material world with Toushirou-kun…"

"Apparently, Kurosaki Ichigo is aiding in looking for the vizards to train Hitsugaya-kun, and something… amusing happened before they departed for the vizards' adobe… We were thinking that you should know about what really happened," Ukitake finished, handing up the report to Yamamoto.

Yamamoto's eyebrows raised like as if he was amused by the report himself. "Gagaya-chan, hm?"