So it's chapter 11 already guys! Wow!

So yep, im sorry for the confusion for some of u! I meant that Ichigo will be in hollow in the next ARC. I'm so sorry if you got confused! All my fault! Sorry! And also, a warning. The beginning you mite find, is a bit pointless and boring. It's all for the sake of the leftout characters tho! I realized some characters weren't in here for awhile, so I had to stick them in SOMEWHERE to say that they were still alive lol. Anyways, sorry, and enjoy! (btw, this chapter is pretty much eventless. Sorri, new arc not starting just yet!) And sorry for the overdose of hitsugaya and hinamori. I'll try to go easy on them in the next chapter.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

Hinamori carefully licked her cotton candy stained finger. She nodded for the millionth time. "I'm sure Hitsugaya-kun. Thank you for the cotton candy."

Hitsugaya just grunted. "It's fine." He had changed back into his shinigami robes when Hinamori suggested that they go out. They had had some small talk, little things like 'are you fine' and 'how have you been'. But it still didn't satisfy Hitsugaya. He needed to-

"Waa! Shiro-chan! Look at that!" Hinamori ran off into the gathering of shops. Shiro-chan? He thought, I haven't heard that in a while… "Oi! Hinamori! Wait! And it's Hitsugaya-taichou!" The little captain chased after Hinamori with his 'short' legs. He finally found her squatting in front of a row of boxes. "Hey, what are you looking at?" he said, also kneeling down, not that he really needed to. Hinamori smiled.

"Aren't these so pretty?"

She pointed to the content of one of the boxes. Hitsugaya peered in. "Eh?" Inside the box was a glass box. Surveying it more closely, Hitsugaya saw two butterflies inside the glass box. One was blue and the other was orange. "What the hell do you want with these?" He stood back up to his amazing four feet. Hinamori pouted, going back to her old self. "Hitsugaya-kun doesn't understand! These are so beautiful! I want to keep them in my room. I heard you can make wishes on these. And afterwards, you set them free. If your wish comes true, it means at least one of them made it to heaven. Well… maybe Soul Society." Hinamori smiled. "I want to make a wish for someone…"

Hitsugaya Toushirou stood, mesmerized by the butterflies. Hinamori was smiling still, but it looked sad now. The shop keeper had kept silent throughout the entire exchange. Hitsugaya sighed. He grabbed the glass box by the hook on top. "Here. I'll buy this for you." He tossed the shop keeper a few coins. He handed the butterflies to Hinamori. "You owe me Momo." Hinamori hugged the box close to her chest.

"Thank you Hitsugaya-kun!" Her eyes shone with delight as the butterflies flew gracefully in the box. "You're the best!" Laughing, she twirled like a top with the box in hand. Hitsugaya watched all this with a sweat drop. She hasn't lost her joy at all… And since she couldn't see where she was going, she crashed head first into a person on the street. Landing on her butt, she rubbed it discreetly. "Ouch." Hinamori checked to see if the box was okay before looking to see who she had bumped into.

Pale green eyes glared down at her. "Ah! Gomen! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!" She bowed respectfully at the red haired shinobi. The shinobi stared at her for a few more minutes before walking around her. However, he didn't get far. He was stopped again, this time by a different person.

"Oi… she apologized didn't she? Why don't you say anything?" Hitsugaya glared with his deep green eyes at the shinobi with pale green eyes. The Sand shinobi glared back at the obstacle blocking his way. "Move." Hitsugaya didn't budge.

"Move."

Hitsugaya frowned. "Say it's okay to Hinamori first. It shouldn't take you long to do that." The shinobi's eye twitched.

"I am on my way to an important meeting. I do not have time to argue with a… child."

It was Hitsugaya's turn to twitch. His glare became even more menacing and the temperature dropped slightly. The Sand shinobi glared back just as fiercely with no reaction. Yes, it was a glare to the death. Hinamori stood awkwardly to the side, not sure of what to do. "Ano…" She hugged her dear butterflies closer. Maybe it's because I didn't share my cotton candy with him…

Fortunately for her, the death glare match was interrupted by a loud crash a few shops down. The little captain and tall red head turned to the source. The smoke cleared to reveal a half rundown sushi shop with a cowering owner and waitress. The telltale 'yay ken-chan!' told the two shinigami who had caused all the destruction. Zaraki.

"Say it again. Say the price."

The unfortunate waiter was in tears (complete with snot) under the sword point of Zaraki's lethal zanpakutou. "I-I-I-I-" He was close to peeing in his pants. Zaraki only shoved the sword further to the waiter's face. "Say it." The waiter gulped.

"Ten yen."

Though a captain's job paid pretty well, Zaraki was not one to carry around money everywhere. Especially with a hyper active girl like Yachiru who needs sugar every minute to keep herself alive. Yes it was a sad world indeed for Zaraki. He growled in frustration. How the HELL did they expect him to pay for THAT when all his pay would be gone in no time for Yachiru's candy and such. He didn't want to name all the cute and cuddly things that his wage had paid for.

Meanwhile Yachiru was jumping from ruined wall to soon to be ruined wall. "Go Ken-chan! Go! We'll get free meals! Yay! Then more candy!" Kenpachi was sure he felt a shudder run through him when she said 'candy'. However, he still kept his zanpakutou up to the face of the victim. "We are NOT freakin' paying for the meal. Got it, kid?" The waiter would have done well to agree, but he just didn't. "B-but sir, you need to pay. We don't hand out free meals, e-even to needy people."

Zaraki felt blood rush to his head. He had called him 'needy'. Zaraki Kenpachi was not needy. Hell, Zaraki wasn't anywhere NEAR freakin' needy. Zaraki Kenpachi was a hell of a lot deadly, but he was not needy. He decided he was going to end the life of the miserable waiter once and for all.

Not that Hitsugaya Toushirou was going to let him.

Zaraki's zanpakutou met Hyourinmaru with a clang. The on lookers, if they hadn't already gotten the clue, left the scene immediately, sensing danger. "Zaraki," Hitsugaya said, "What the hell are you doing? Did you forget we are on a political mission? One involving NOT harming everyone in sight?" He slid Hyourinmaru back into his sheath. Zaraki was still swinging his around. Hitsugaya was about to begin again when a certain pink object landed on his spiky hair. "Oof."

From there, Yachiru began her speech.

"Shorty captain's being mean! He was going to get us free food! WHA! It's Momomomomomomomomo! So, hm… Food! He was going to get free food! Then he has more money to buy more candy! Yay! Ken-chan is great! Candy! Candy! Candy! Ken-chan! Candy! Now! Candy! Candy! Candy!" And the speech continued with cries of 'candy'. Hitsugaya was close to suicide.

However, Zaraki was distracted. He observed the red headed shinobi to the side carefully. Then, he grinned. "All right! Someone worthy to fight!" Gaara's non-existent eyebrow shot up.

Before anybody knew it, Zaraki was enveloped in sand. Hitsugaya and Hinamori stared. What…? Zaraki swore colorfully, making Hinamori blush and Yachiru giggle. Gaara remained stoic. Hitsugaya frowned. The stopper on the gourd… it was lying in the dirt now. And the sand was coming from the gourd! There weren't any machines or such that he could see, and they were definitely not puppets. He was controlling sand.

Zaraki continued to swear, this time getting his arm up to swing his zanpakutou. Gaara continued to stare. "Sabaku-"

"Stop this absurdity now."

Everyone turned to see the great Kuchiki Byakuya standing before all the destruction. And he had spoken yet again. He was doing that a lot lately. Zaraki said it was him finally breaking. Hitsugaya thought it was just time for an inferiority complex.

Gaara, slightly annoyed at being interrupted, put Zaraki down. All the sand disappeared into the gourd with a 'swoosh'. Gaara picked up the stopper and pushed it in securely onto the gourd. Byakuya frowned. He then turned his gaze onto Zaraki. It read 'you are a lot of trouble peasant and I wish to kill you now'. Zaraki was unfazed. He snorted. "Whatcha doing here pretty boy?"

Ignoring the blunt insult, Byakuya spoke while searching for something in his sleeve. "We are to be present for the first kidou lesson and," he turned his violet eyes onto Gaara, "I believe you are to be there also." Gaara grunted. Typical of the Hokage to involve him into these things. Gaara left quickly, only leaving a few grains of sand. Meanwhile, his royal highness had finally found what he was looking for. His fat wallet. Dropping a few coins before Zaraki's feet, he left. But not before saying the reason.

"Money for the needy who cannot pay for their own meals."

Hitsugaya smirked. About time. "Let's go Hinamori." He pulled the bewildered vice-captain into his shunpo, allowing her time only to release a surprised yelp. Byakuya had also left with a shunpo. He left before Zaraki's outburst could be heard.

"YOU FREAKIN' BASTARD! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!"

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"I suppose I'll introduce your new students."

Hinamori nodded, eager to please. Tsunade gestured with her hand to the rather large imposing group of shinobi.

"All right. Well, the one of the two genin here, Uzumaki Naruto; medic-nin and my assistant Haruno Sakura; Uchiha Sasuke, also a genin; Nara Shikamaru, chuunin; Yamanako Ino, chuunin; Hyuuga Neji, jounin; Rock Lee, jounin and taijutsu specialist; Hyuuga Hinata, chuunin and cousins with Neji; Inuzuka Kiba, chuunin; Aburame Shino, chuunin; and…" she smiled as sand began to whirl beside her, "Sabaku no Gaara, Kazekage."

Hinamori's eyes widened. "He… he's the…"

"The one who doesn't properly acknowledge apologies."

Gaara turned to the shorty captain. "And you're the one who blocks people who are in a hurry." Another glare battle ensued. Tsunade laughed. "An acquaintance already! I'm impressed Gaara!" Gaara glared at Tsunade instead.

"Not an acquaintance. More like a random person from the streets." From Gaara's eyes, Hitsugaya could see a hint of amusement. He resented that. "No, not acquaintance. A rude person who walks around with a giant gourd for no reason." Gaara's eye twitched. He wasn't going to take this. Especially not from a ten year old.

"I'll have you know that this serves a very special purpose. One for killing people easily… kid…" If Gaara had hoped to scare Hitsugaya, he had failed with a capital f. Instead, it only annoyed Hitsugaya and dropped the temperature significantly. The group of shinobi, or at least the normal ones, began to shiver.

"I'll have you know that I'm far older than you could ever hope to be." Gaara seriously doubted that. "You can't be older than ten…"

Big mistake.

"Oh yeah? Well I'm ANCIENT. You should show respect to people older than you. I mean it. Now learn some kidou…. kid…"

Hitsugaya smirked. Who said that he never got the last laugh? Gaara glared at the 10th division captain. "Psst…" Gaara cocked his head slightly to the source of the noise, Naruto. "Gaara… I think it's true… seriously, a ten year old can't possibly know as much as him about… stuff…" Gaara was confused, but he decided to leave it at that. Naruto wasn't that stupid.

Hinamori sighed in relief. She had been afraid that a fight might occur. Now she could teach in peace. "Okay… well, I guess first thing's first, I want you all to-"

CRASH

Dust cleared and there were a few coughs. The dust revealed Rukia standing on top of Ichigo. Ichigo looked uncomfortably close to dead. Rukia hopped off with bunny-like grace. "Sorry we're late. We were having a little lesson on 'manners'. Weren't we Ichigo?" Ichigo slowly raised his face from the cracked concrete. He shook his orange-hair free from dirt.

"Screw you Rukia."

Byakuya's eyes shone. He looked at Ichigo. I will deal with you later. Ichigo gulped. Damn it. Then he noticed the unusually frigid temperature. There was only one source of AC that was strong enough to do this. The supplier looked very angry, well more like pissed off.

"Don't. Interrupt. Momo's. Lesson." Or else you'll be in so many million pieces of ice cubes so help me, Yachiru will mistake you for new candy and eat you. That was the last part but, for Hinamori's sake, he said none of it. But he was pretty sure the shinigami representative got the message. Ichigo brushed himself off to stand near Naruto. Hinamori smiled cheerfully.

"Let's get started!"

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"Well… that's good… but please try to form it into a ball."

Currently, all shinobi were glowing blue with chakra (except Lee). However, they seemed to be unable to manipulate it into any shape. Ichigo was having better luck, but his orb was unstable and… too big.

"What do you see?"

The Uchiha prodigy looked at Neji for an answer. The veins popped up from around his eyes. Neji bit his lip. "Their chakra is completely different from ours. All of their chakra are different colors too. Like that Ichigo. His is pale blue, but Hinamori's is reddish pink. And that other girl's… it's purple." Sasuke frowned, obviously confused. Didn't red chakra mean demon chakra? But he doubted Hinamori was a demon. And purple? What was that all about? Was it dark chakra? He hadn't seen that since the Sound village. However, the chances of the shinigami being a follower of Orochimaru were very slim. There could be only one explanation.

"Different sources of chakra."

Neji nearly gaped at Sasuke. Nearly. "You mean to tell me that their chakra does not come from their bodies?" Sasuke's sharigan turned to Neji.

"Exactly."

The two shinobi looked at Hinamori who was busy helping Ichigo focus better. Neji frowned. If not from their bodies, where could chakra come from? Could they be… borrowing chakra from a spirit? A host? But such a thing was not heard of… at least not here. That could explain why they are able to manipulate it much better. It was not quite as attached to them as the average shinobi's was. That reminded Neji that he needed to try to shape his chakra into a ball. But summoning chakra like that was like performing chidori, or ransengan. It couldn't be done without great effort.

The others were having as much trouble as Sasuke and Neji. Naruto was in deep concentration. Or he looked to be in concentration. He could just be thinking about food. Sakura was frowning, green eyes distressed. Ino was in a similar situation, as was Shikamaru. Hinata was trying again after releasing, Shino stood in blue chakra, while Kiba was stomping around in frustration. Neji wondered who would break first.

Hinamori was completely unaware of this, being almost at a breakthrough point with Ichigo. "Almost Kurosaki-san! Try again! More concentration! The same concentration you use when eating ramen!" Both Neji and Sasuke shook his head. She wasn't noticing anything.

Surprisingly, Shikamaru broke down. Swearing lightly under his breath, he approached Hinamori.

"This is impossible! You're telling us to break off our life energy first, before shaping it. But we can't risk breaking our life energy! We might die if we don't have much control in chakra, like Naruto."

"Hey!"

Hinamori frowned. She hadn't foreseen this. She had guessed it would be easy for everyone. Why would it not be easy for them? It was a basic to all shinigami. Perhaps it was this world? Or they weren't trained in this? Reiatsu was life energy too, in a sense, so it could not be so different from this chakra that they kept talking about…

"I think I have the answer to this."

The kidou instructor snapped out of her thought to face the Uchiha survivor. The deep coal eyes seemed to glint red. "Your chakra… it's from a different force. It's not truly yours." Everyone froze from what they were doing. Ichigo was in total shock? And here he thought the concept of reiatsu was simple enough… Sakura, wide-eyed, looked from Sasuke to Hinamori. "What do you mean Sasuke-kun? Momo-san?" Sasuke looked deep into Hinamori's eyes, daring her to tell him where her reiatsu was from. But I don't know what he's talking about! What does he mean it's not ours!

Byakuya and Ukitake glanced at each other. "I suppose we will have to explain, won't we Kuchiki-san?" Byakuya nodded slightly. "Well then, let's go Jyuushiro." Shunsui said.

Sakura looked up startled when she heard someone land beside her. The white-haired captain of the 13th division smiled.

"I believe we can discuss this over a cup of tea."

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"And that is?"

Orochimaru gestured to the scroll in the Sound shinobi's hand. The Sound shinobi bowed before setting it down before the sannin.

"A message, from that… person."

Orochimaru smirked. An answer already? Oh dear… his business partner was hasty. He undid the seal to meet neatly written kanji.

"Oh really…"

Yes! It's the end of chapter 11!

So here are the replies to all u non-signed in ppl!

Shippo: No of course u weren't annoying! I love to listen to requests (tho I mite not do all of them lol) thank u for reviewing!

Qwerty: yes, hitsuhina is cute, but only if they write it well tho lol. And thank u for reviewing! I hope u liked the chapter!

Yaoi hata: thank u so much! Haha, ya I guess the last chapter was pretty funny. Anyways, the akatsuki? Whoa… a LOT of characters lol, well ill try cuz they have to come in SOMETIME (how else would there be itachi?) also, IM SO SORRY FOR CONFUSING U! I meant the NEXT ARC! Not next chapter! IM SO SORRY! All my fault! I give you permission to damn me. Temporarily. Lol. So I hope u liked this chapter!

Peter Kim: Yes, im well aware of Ichigo's abilities. And about the vaizards… im not sure if they'll even be in here. Also, because im the author of this fic lol, ill say that whole 'save aizen hitsugaya-kun' never happened lol. Cuz I want a more SANE Hinamori thank u very much.

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