Title: Love Amongst The Snow
Author: Shadewolfy
Rating: Just K+
Genre: Romance
Warning: None
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach but oh how I wish I do.
Summary: Snow is beautiful. My name means snow. Bit ironic that I would fall in love with the best of the Snow and Ice Shinigami.
Talk = "I love you!"
Thought = And no one knows.
Chapter 10
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Toshiro knew he had never moved as fast as he was moving now, but he just knew he had to get to Yuki.
Something made him very anxious.
He could hear the panting Matsumoto behind him, trying to keep up and in his left hand the glittering strands of Yuki's grey reiatsu.
He followed the thin strands into the forest and started noticing the closer he got, the thicker the band got.
He finally stopped when his fingers could no longer touch each other and peered out from behind a rather large tree, sensing Matsumoto's stop behind him.
There she was.
Yuki.
Momo?
What on earth was Momo doing here? How did she get here so fast?
Toshiro watched as Momo walked up to the slumped Yuki and kicked her.
Toshiro's eyes widened.
How dare she!
Momo!
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Hinamori glared down at the useless pile of shinigami before her, giving her a solid kick to the chest.
Behind her Aziro stood and apologized for almost losing her. Hinamori ignored him and bent down to haul up the lax shinigami when she felt something curling around her senses. She could hear Aziro whimper in fear, but she just smiled. Now Shiro-chan would see Yuki was nothing.
She heard a rustle behind her and turned to see Toshiro standing next to a tree. His face was carefully blank but Hinamori could see he wanted to smile, thank her and take her into his arms. Hinamori completely ignored Matsumoto's stepping out after Shiro-chan. She didn't matter, only he did. Hinamori watched Shiro step forward, towards her and open his mouth, "How could you?"
Hinamori grinned until she comprehended the question. How could she? How could she what? Not tell him what she was doing? Was that it?
By now Toshiro was closer to Hinamori, who still hadn't noticed Matsumoto had taken out Aziro, or that Ukitake and Kyouraku had both appeared in the field. She stepped closer to Toshiro and saw a flicker of emotion on his blank face, the first emotion he had shown since he had appeared. The emotion, anger, was the only warning she had before Toshiro backhanded her.
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With a crack Hinamori hit the tree to Toshiro's left but he didn't show any reaction apart for a brief flinch. He hurried to Yuki, who hadn't stirred since he got there and he was starting to get worried. It took him a second to see the dart from where she lay on her side protruding from the back of her neck.
Toshiro scooped Yuki up and hurried to Ukitake and Kyouraku, where he laid her in Ukitake's arms, asking him to take her to the 4th's barracks.
Ukitake blinked down at the snowy in his arms, so much like him, before he nodded and flash-stepped away. Kyouraku followed him after a second's hesitation. Toshiro turned to Matsumoto who was holding a struggling shinigami down and told her to take him to the 10th barrack's cells. Matsumoto nodded and disappeared. Toshiro watched her go before he turned back to Hinamori, who was still out cold.
He scooped her up and, with a last glance around, disappeared after Matsumoto.
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Yuki was beginning to think it would be something regular when she woke up to feel Unohana-taicho's reiatsu around her. But not only hers, Ukitake-taicho and Kyouraku-taicho reiatsu's were also around her. Yuki lifted her heavy eyelids and stared up at the white ceiling. Unohana-taicho appeared in her vision and asked her if she was alright. Yuki nodded, wondering why she was in the hospital this time when the heavy reiatsu settled on her shoulders. The progress she had made with sitting up was diminished as the reiatsu pushed her down into the pillows.
The door across her slid up and there stood Sou-Taicho, with his fukutaicho next to him. Yuki straightened, or at least she tried, with his reiatsu around her. Sou-Taicho stepped in and walked to her bedside, Yuki only noticing Toshiro standing behind him when he moved.
Yuki blinked wide eyed up at Sou-Taicho, wondering why he was there when her memory came back to her. The whole ordeal came back to her and she wondered if she was in any trouble.
Sou-Taicho took her hand, "I heard what you went through at the hands of one of the Taicho's, or ex-Taicho's now. I wanted to personally apologize. I should've known she still wasn't ready to be released."
Yuki nodded, still in a bit of a daze. Sou-Taicho nodded before he left. Yuki stared, not even noticing everyone but Toshiro leaving. She only came back to herself when Toshiro kissed her.
When he drew back she smiled up at him.
Toshiro sighed happily, Yuki was fine.
He knew there were going to be a lot of things they were going to have to talk about, but for now. . .
For now they were fine.
He kissed her again.
End
Wow, my first multi chaptered fic and I'm finally done. And now I understand how a writer can lose interest in a story. I did. It took the movie Fade to Black to revive my interest.
There will be an epilogue. Just you wait. And a sequel.
Peace.
Out.
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