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A/N: Hey peoples! I hoped you liked the tenth chapter! But before I begin this chapter, I would like to ask you guys a favour. Can all of you guys PLEASE REVIEW every time you read my chapters! I know it sounds kind of selfish but I really want to get at least 5 or 10 reviews per chapter. For those of you who already review my chapters, thank you!

By the way, there was a slight problem with my first chapter a few days ago so it might have been a bit confusing for readers who have just started reading my story...I edited my first chapter but I accidently replaced with my friend's first chapter^^ That was a stupid mistake wasn't it :P So for you readers who have read up to this point even after reading a ouranxbleach fic, don't worry. I've changed it back to my first chapter now~

Now on with the story~

* Chapter eleven: Hinamori *

Natsume's POV

Seriously, I'm doomed. This guy didn't even have anesthetic in his lab to begin with! I persuaded him, no, I forced him to borrow some from the forth division but he looked kind of down in a way when I told him I will burn him to a crisp if he didn't use anesthetic on me when testing me. I think he was planning to torture me from the beginning...That sadist...

I was wondering what kind of test it was going to be. I thought it was going to be the kinds you see in movies; like the ones where they stick needles and wires with the suction cups into your body and type random things on the computer and then laugh hysterically at what they've discovered. Unfortunately, I was right-Except for the laughing part.

After I was strapped onto the the white bench, he let me take a whiff of the anesthetic before throwing it away somewhere behind him. So he was going to let me experience even a little of the pain he was going to give me...Why did I even agree to this again?

"Now hold still while I stick these I-I mean p-place these wires into your body" Kurotsuchi explained. It still sounds painful either way. Those wires didn't even have suction cups on them but instead they were really sharp needles!I really wanted to burn him as he got closer to me with those cords but the anesthetic was taking effect and my body felt sort of limp. Although I didn't drift off to sleep completely, I still felt a little drowsy.

You know, I kind of felt like I was in one of those horror movies. You get kidnapped and knocked out and when you wake up you find yourself in an isolated laboratory, strapped to a bench type of thing that you put corpses on. And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, an evil genius comes out of the shadows with a butchers knife in one hand. He comes closer and closer then.........BAM!

Well I'm not sure if this guy was a genius but he sure looked evil. Now about ten wires, without suction cups, were sticking out of my body. It felt really awkward since I was only in my boxers... I could still feel some pain since I didn't get enough anesthetic and it was getting worse and worse. He was typing away on the computer, completely ignoring the fact that I was in pain when the door opened and a lady who looked like one of those airport people without that freaky smile came in.

"Mayuri-sama, how is the test going?" she asked in a neutral voice.

"Quiet Nemu! I'm busy!!" shouted Kurotsuchi not even looking at her. The lady who's name was Nemu looked at me with pity.

"The boy seems like he's in pain. Should I get him some more anesthetic?" she asked. Finally! Someone notices!

"Gah! He'll live" I was seriously going to burn that guy once this was finished.

"Yes Mayuri-sama" and she left the room without another word.

More minutes passed and I was sure that the anesthetic had officially wore off. Beads of sweat were running down my forehead as I restrained myself from shouting colourful words.

"Hm? This is interesting" said Kurotsuchi stroking his chin. After a moment of staring at his computer screen, he came over to me and pulled out the wires, emphasis on pulled. I sighed a sigh of relief as the wires were taken out but they were soon replaced bigger ones. Oh joy...

Typing and more typing. Seriously I thought I was going to lose it when I heard another tap on that gigantic computer keyboard. I looked over at Kurotsuchi who had finally stopped typing. Thank God. He had a weird look on his face. Something cross between worry and surprise. Then he looked at me with the same look. Why is that?

He sighed and gave a noticeable grunt before he came over to me and this time yanked out the wires.

"Ouch! Watch it!" I shouted.

"Shut up! Just be grateful that I'm letting you go alive kid" he retorted back. I'm guessing he doesn't have many guests over. I slipped back into my Alice Academy uniform after Kurotsuchi kindly gave me a painkiller. I'm surprised he even had some.

So I'm guessing I can go now? I shrugged and head for the door when Kurotsuchi stopped me.

"Wait kid! Before you go I need to tell you one thing. Do not use your powers until I say you can, got that?!" I just nodded. Then I turned and headed for the door once again.

3,

2,

1...

"Argh!!!!!! My hat(?) is on fire!!!!!" shouted Kurotsuchi. I smirked and continued out the door.

A girl shinigami with short black hair insisted on taking me back to Hitsugaya's division and of course I accepted. Hey, it's better than getting lost and I really don't want to get lost in a enormous place like this.

We past other divisions as we walked in silence. Most shinigami turned to look at me as if I was an exhibit in a museum. I was a bit used to it since people did the same thing back at the academy although their expressions looked much more scared.

Then we walked past the 4th division. So this was where Kurotsuchi got the anesthetic... The building look very clean like any other hospitals. The walls were white like the other division buildings and it had a gigantic 'four' written in kanji at the front. I took another good look around it. Wait, was that...Hitsugaya? I looked closer and surely, their was a short looking kid with bright white hair, standing in front of a door before he went in. Was it just me or did he look hesitant?

"Natsume-san?" asked the shinigami that was escorting me.

"What was Hitsugaya doing there?" I asked more to myself.

"Oh, Hitsugaya-taichou must be there to visit Hinamori-fukutaichou. She had just woken up from a coma" explained the shinigami. I never did learn the shinigami's name.

"Coma?"

TENTH DIVISION OFFICE

Normal POV

"I hope Natsume is ok...." said Ruka with a worried face.

"He'll be fine. He's not a scaredy cat like you" replied Hotaru sitting on the couch reading one of the books from the book shelf.

"I am not a scaredy cat!" Ruka protested. Matsumoto sighed. She was too tired to even stand up after trying to persuade the two kids to drink a little bit of sake for an hour.

"Come on guys~ Don't fight. I'm sure he's fine" she said. Just then the door opened and Natsume came in.

"Well speak of the devil"

"Natsume! Are you ok?"

Natsume's POV

"Yeah but that was one hell of a test. I think I was used more as an experiment" I saw Matsumoto snicker. Something tells me I'm right.

"Where did taichou go?" she asked looking around for the small captain.

"I saw him at the 4th division and I was told he went to see Hinamori or whatever her name is..." I replied sitting down on the couch. Matsumoto's face darkened.

"Oh..."

There was a silent pause. The only sound was Imai turning her pages in her book.

"Who is she anyway?" I asked. I saw Matsumoto hesitate for a moment before she explained.

"She's taichou's childhood friend. They lived together along with taichou's grandmother when they were still in Rukongai"

"...And?..."

"Well she was betrayed by her captain Aizen Sousuke, I'm sure you've heard of him, and was also stabbed by him. So every since then she's been in a coma and now she's finally woken up. He might not show it but I bet that taichou is really nervous right now" said Matsumoto.

Huh?

"But if it's his childhood friend, why would he feel nervous? Shouldn't he be jumping with joy?" asked Ruka.

"I really can't imagine Hitsugaya-kun jumping with joy..." said Imai. Same here.

"Well I think he's nervous that Hinamori-chan might still believe that taichou's the bad guy. Aizen tricked her into thinking that taichou was the one who killed him-Aizen fake his death before betraying Soul Society"

"He faked his own death" asked Ruka with a shocked face. "Wasn't that going a bit to overboard?"

"Well it's no use in telling me. He was the one who did it." said Matsumoto. "And so after he stabbed Hinamori-chan and almost killed taichou" Woah! Hitsugaya was almost killed? "he left Soul Society along with Tousen Kaname-former ninth captain and....Ichimaru....Gin...former third captain..." said Matsumoto trailing off at the end. Ichimaru Gin? He was the bastard that kidnapped Mikan! I swear I'm going to burn him some day.

"The one who kidnapped Mikan...."said Imai, Matsumoto nodded.

"Your lover?"

"W-What! Your joking right? H-He's just a childhood friend!" protested Matsumoto. Yup, she so liked him.

"You do realise that it's so obvious" said Imai.

She sighed in defeat. "Well, I must be pathetic at hiding it since it was noticed by a bunch of kids that don't even live here..." she said laughing nervously. "Now back to Hinamori and taichou. Well it'll be extra hard for him to face Hinamori since he's got feelings for her"

"He does?" asked Ruka. He does? I repeated inside my head.

"Yeah! Everyone knows about it although taichou himself is not to sure of it. You could call him a bit 'slow'." she said using her fingers to make quotation marks. Well he sure doesn't look like the type that'll make the first move on a girl.

"Well talking has made me thirsty.. Who wants some sake?"

There was silence.

FORTH DIVISION

Hitsugaya's POV

This was it. She was just beyond this door. I just have to slide it open and step inside....but why can't I do it? Why was I afraid? Come one Hitsugaya, you can do this. I slowly lifted up my hand and let it slowly down on the handle. I took in a big deep breath and slid it open and stepped inside.

It was just like I had left it. A solitary bed with machines next to it but where was Hinamori? I looked around. There she was, looking outside the window in the white gown she had been wearing every time I can to see her in her sleeping form.

"Hina...mori?"

She turned around and looked at me with an emotion I didn't recognise.

"Hitsugaya-kun" she said calmly. I walked closer to her. Why was I so nervous? She's my childhood friend right? I should be basically jumping with joy right now, but, I wasn't. I was nervous and sweaty.

"Hina-" but before I could finish, she embraced me in a tight but soft hug.

"Shirou-chan.....I'm so sorry" she said. I could feel her hot tears soaking through my haori.

I was confused, "What do you mean Hinamori? There's nothing to be sorry abo-"

"Yes there is!" she shouted. I was taken aback. Hinamori shouting was a rare thing.

"I...You...I d-doubted you...I pointed m-my sword at you...I...I..." then she started sobbing again on my shoulder. What was I supposed to do now? I really am bad at these type of things.

I slowly lifted both of my arms up and wrapped them around Hinamori's body. She tensed for a second and then eased up again, still crying.

"I-It's ok. It wasn't your fault. A-Aizen tricked you into believing it was me, remember?" She suddenly stopped crying. Maybe I shouldn't reminded her about Aizen...

"A-Aizen-t-taichou..." Oh God...

Tears started to roll down her cheeks again, "H-Hitsugaya-k-kun...What d-do I do? H-He's my captain b-but he betrayed...e-everyone...D-Do I still believe h-him? A-Am I supposed to follow m-my captain?"

I tightened our hug, "Just...follow your heart Hinamori... No matter what other people say, just do what ever that feels right and whatever your heart tells you" (A/N: Was that a bit too cheesy?)

"Shirou-chan....." she said burying her face in my shoulder again and we stayed like that for what it seems like eternity.

TENTH DIVISION

Natsume's POV

It's been about two hours since I came back from the twelfth division or as I like to call it: hell.

"Why isn't Hitsugaya-san coming back yet?" asked Ruka stroking his pet rabbit for the 857th time. Yes I counted but what else would I do for two hours other than listen to Matsumoto snoring away after gulping down five bottles of sake or read a bunch of books on stuff that I don't really care about.

Suddenly the door opened and Hitsugaya walked inside with a pile of papers, only to stop in disgust.

"I see Matsumoto showed you her secret sake collection she still had.....and then drank it" he said rubbing the bridge of his nose to stop the upcoming migraine. "Well I expected that..."

He walked over to Matsumoto and shouted: "OI MATSUMOTO! WAKE UP! YOU'VE GOT WORK!"

Her nose bubble popped with a loud 'pop' and she lifted her heavy eyelids. "Taichou~ When did hiccup you hiccup get here?"

Hitsugaya sighed. "While I talk with those guys, do these paper work. The thirteenth division handled most of our work but these are the left overs" he said as he dumped the pile on the table. Then he motioned us to follow him out of the room.

"Will she be ok in there?" Ruka asked in concern. He always was and still is the worry type.

"She'll live!"

"Will she really do the paper work you left her?" asked Imai out of curiosity. She always was and still is the curious type.

"I doubt it..." Wow...It seems like he has a lot of faith in his vice-captain...

* End *

A/N: Hehe I think this is one of the best chapters yet!!!! Sometimes I get these really sarcastic thoughts so I write them in my chapters but sometimes I don't so that's why some of my chapters are well written while others seems like it's been written by an eight year old-it's not that I don't think eight year olds can right great stories^^

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