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Hinamori felt so pissed off. How could she not be? Her best friend was no longer captain of the 10th squad and was being EXILED! Then again, Hmmmm… flashbacks of the times where Hinamori tried to kiss Hitsugaya when he was asleep and when she actually kissed him flashed into her head…
What's gotten into me? I'm such an idiot! Trying to kissing Shiro-chan like that!
She covered her head with her blanket in deep thought.
Why did I try to kiss him? It's not like I like him… right? Hehehe… awkwardness, awkwardness…
Hinamori could feel her temperature rising as her face went red. She squealed in shock and tucked her knees up to her chest.
OMG! So I like him? As in, not as a friend?
Hinamori slapped her forehead as the embarrassing memories came back into her head again…
"WHA!"
Hinamori let out a high-pitched but short cry of embarrassment and fell out of her bed. She quickly untangled herself out of her blanket before she looked up.
Hitsugaya was staring at her as if she'd grown two heads. He cocked his eyebrow.
"Itai"
"What are you doing, Hinamori?"
"Oh, ah, ummmaa… nothing! I had a nightmare!"
"What do you mean? You weren't even asleep…"
"Ummmaa…"
"Just drop it, get back into bed."
Glad that the harassing moment only went for a couple of seconds, Hinamori picked herself up off the ground and laid herself in bed. Thinking about it, the pain in her stomach was gone and she didn't need an oxygen mask anymore… Unohana-taichou must've healed her and Hitsugaya while they were asleep! YAY!
On the other side of the room, just a few metres away, Hitsugaya was thinking of how weird Hinamori was acting. (Well, obviously…)
How could she have nightmares when she's not asleep? She's so stupid! Sometimes…
There WERE times when Hitsugaya had seen Hinamori being serious, especially these days. Like the time when Hinamori was talking to him while he was "sleeping"… he'd actually been awake that moment… just pretending to sleep… he wasn't a pervert or anything… just wanted to hear what she had to say to him…
Memories of that moment flashed back into his head…
"Gomene, Hitsugaya-kun. I'll get stronger… so that you don't have to risk your life like this again… so that if anything like this ever happens again, I'll protect you! I'm glad that we met, became friends, argued with each other, lived with obaa-san, got into the shinigami academy and both became shinigami! I can't come up with any ideas of what life would be like right now if we never met!"
Hinamori then had squeezed his hand so tight that it was probably cutting off the blood circulation. He couldn't see what she was doing next but he decided to open his eyes when he suddenly felt her breathing on his cheek. If he were to use one word to describe that moment, it would've been 'warm.' Literally, emotionally and symbolically: warm…
What am I thinking? I'm leaving at midnight tonight and I haven't even thought up of a plan yet! What's the use of a plan… Hinamori knows and she'll probably confess… maybe I should talk to her now? Make her feel more comforted?... sighs… What!!!! Since when was I this sympathetic?
"Idiot…" Hitsugaya retorted to himself.
"Hitsugaya-kun! That's not fair! I didn't do anything and you still called me an idiot!"
"NO! Not you! Ummmaa!..." Toushiro started to go red by the fact that he couldn't make up a good reason to change the topic (which he was normally good at…) it wasn't like they were having a conversation anyway!
Hinamori giggled at Hitsugaya's red face and fell silent before starting to go red herself…
What's with her? Going silent and red all of a sudden… NO WAIT! More importantly, what's wrong with ME? I always feel uncomfortable when Hinamori's in ANY sort of danger, when she's with other males and when she's winning an argument against me! (Which happens VERY rarely)… But anyway, what's going on? I'm fussing over how stupid I looked in front of her just then and I was considering on COMFORTING her?
Before he knew it, Hitsugaya was being smothered in mortification as he slowly came to realise that he had feelings for Hinamori. That was when-
The next thing they knew, Hitsugaya had fallen out of bed as well. Hinamori burst out laughing.
"It's so funny! We're both falling out of bed one after another!"
However, instead of saying his usual, "Shut up, Bed-wetter Momo!", he lay still on the ground. Hinamori's cheerful laugh soon became a chuckle of nervousness in a matter of seconds.
He hasn't moved a muscle… Well, he's surely alive because I can see his chest rising up and down which surely means he's breathing but… is he okay?
"H-Hitsugaya-kun? Hehehe… You okay?"
He didn't answer but his lower lip trembled and he started to go red. He stood up and stared ahead in shock.
"Shiro-chan! Yamete! You're kinda scaring me! SHIRO-CHAN!"
Trying to get Hitsugaya's attention by calling him his childish nickname didn't work… ummmaa…
"Hinamori…"
"What is it?"
"Just drop it…"
Hitsugaya lay in bed and sighed to himself in embarrassment…
So I DO like Hinamori…
Hinamori stared at the back of Hitsugaya's head. What was wrong with him?
I mean, he's going to be exiled and all but… this is COMPLETELY unlike him… even if it were on purpose!
Hitsugaya stood up and walked to the door.
"Where are you going, Shiro-chan?"
"It's none of your business."
And with that, he left the room…