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Author's Note: Sorry to keep you waiting everyone, I was very busy studying for my mid-terms and working on my Valentine's Day One Shot before I was able to work on The 100 HitsuHina Themes Challenge. Anyway, enough with all my excuses, thank you everyone for being so patient with me especially my wonderful reviewers: Evertale, icyangel27, EternalRoses, fayfan, anime16, becomeafan, applestoapples, NeonCookies O.o, Yellow. Sunshineeh, Ebbie54, and Rawr.
Message to Rawr: I try to make each theme long as possible, but I focus more on how complete it is as a short story. It must have a beginning, middle, and end. Thanks for your review!
Without any further delay, here is a Bleach related theme number eleven. Enjoy!
LEGEND
"Talking." "Thinking."
The 100 HitsuHina Themes Challenge
Theme #11: No Time
There is no time; everything must be done. After he returned from a recent trip to the living world, he came back finding several stacks of papers that need to be signed and completed. Then again, he expected something like this to happen. Besides, he was not in his office over the past couple of days. At first, things didn't seem so bad. However, it turned out otherwise. Just when he thought he has enough work to finish, a certain somebody, who he knows too well, just had to make things worse. His vice-captain called in sick.
"Out of all days, why did she have to choose today to skip work?" Hitsugaya muttered while writing away with his ink brush. "Damn, now I'm left to finish it all on my own...again."
He pushed a piece of paper aside and pulled out a new one from the other side. He continued writing.
"I bet she planned this ahead of time. She knew that she was scheduled to do some paperwork today and decided to go out and get drunk last night at the bar."
He finished writing on another one and immediately started on his next one.
"I want to take a break, but no, there's no time for me to do that at all. She's going to pay for doing that."
"Hey Shiro-chan!" greeted a familiar voice, who opened the slide door and waltz into the room.
As the fifth division lieutenant walked up to the white haired captain, she noticed that he is awfully working hard. "Sorry Hinamori, but I can't talk with you right now. I'm busy finishing all the paperwork I have here in front of me."
"He didn't bother to snap at me like he usually does whenever I call him by his nickname," she thought. "He must be really busy."
She looked around and noticed that Matsumoto is nowhere in sight.
"I see; he's left to finish all his work on his own."
As she watched her precious friend continue to write away on his brush, she let out a silent sigh. One of these days, he's going to breakdown if he doesn't stop and get some rest soon. However, he's stubborn when it comes to stuff like that. He's like a machine who won't stop until it malfunctions. Momo placed a finger and a thumb on her chin and thought for a while. How can she make him stop working? Suddenly, a thought came into mind.
With a smile on her face, she walked around the desk and stood next to him. For a few moments, she watched the younger Soul Reaper doing his work. "Hitsugaya-kun..."
He didn't respond. She leaned over and called his name again.
"Hitsugaya-kun..."
Once again, he didn't respond. She leaned even closer to him. She whispered in his ear, "Shi...ro-chan..."
"Argh, stop bothering me Hinamori!" he finally snapped, turning his attention to the raven haired girl. "Didn't I already tell you that I'm too busy to talk right no-"
Without any warning, she grabbed the collar of his kimono and pulled him towards her face. In amidst of it all, she gave him a long kiss on the lips. By the time they finally pulled apart, Momo let go of him, leaving dumbfounded (and dazed) Toshiro to stop and think for a moment. He asked, "W-What was that for?"
She simply smiled. "You should relax a bit; stressing out over paperwork is not good for your health."
Suddenly, a smirk appeared on his face. Resting an elbow on the desk and a chin on his knuckle, he turned to the peach girl and replied, "Hn, really now? Will you help me finish all the work then?"
"I will help you only if you promise to go out with me tonight and pay for the meal we'll have together."
He turned to see his stack of paperwork on the desk at one moment. Then, in the next, he resumed his attention to the fifth division lieutenant with a smile on his face. Maybe he does have time to spend with Hinamori after all.
"You got yourself a deal."
Author's Note: Yeah, I can't make this theme anymore complicated than this. Sorry about the length of the one shot; it's a little on the short side. On the bright side, the next one is most certainly going to be longer; I promise. It will be posted as soon as possible. So, stay tuned for my next update! Please review! Thanks.