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Here is the sequel to "A present for the sadist" Enjoy!!!!
Hinamori Momo
Byakuya looked at the girl with a serious expression, looking for something, anything suspicious at all.
"Shirou-chan, are you okay?" Hinamori sat beside her childhood friend. They may have different perspectives about Aizen's innocence but other than that, all is well.
"Baka…" Hitsugaya whispered with a raw voice "…Its Hitsugaya taichou to you. Besides, do you think I would die just from a—" he coughed, blood escaping his mouth cutting his sentence short.
"Hitsugaya kun…"
"Don't worry, Hinamori fukutaichou…" Ukitake entered the room with a smile on his face "…we're doing everything we can to catch the culprit"
Hinamori nodded as she stroked Hitsugaya's hair.
"Tch, oi, stop doing that, Bed wetter momo!" he slapped her hand away while covering his mouth as he coughed once more.
Hinamori smiled at this. He always did act grumpy when she's around. "Mou, shirou chan, that's mean"
"Urusei!" the boy frowned.
Ukitake chuckled at the child like actions of the poisoned captain. But like Byakuya, he can't let his gurad down. Everyone is a suspect.
Suddenly, the alarms blared off around the room. All residents looked nervously as Hitsugaya's chest rose high up and his mouth shot open—he's having a cardiac arrest.
"Shirou chan?"
"Hinamori fukutaichou, please leave the room immediately" Unohana requested as she rushed to the boy's side.
"Ah, H-hai" with that, the girl left. Byakuya's eyes followed the young girl exit the room.
"Hinamori fukutaichou" Byakuya approached the girl. He has no need to stay inside the room. After all, he has absolutely no idea on the procedures required to stabilize Hitsugaya.
"Kuchiki taichou?" the girl turned around to face the Kuchiki.
"Quite a trouble Hitsugaya taichou is in right now, don't you think?" Byakuya eyed the girl suspiciously.
Hinamori nodded "It pains me to see him like this, Kuchiki taichou. He is after all my childhood friend"
"And yet you still do not believe Aizen is the man who sexually assaulted him"
"OF COURSE NOT!!!" the girl exclaimed then lowered her head as realization hit her—she is talking to Kuchiki Byakuya, a man who sees everyone as a mere peasant. "I know Aizen taichou didn't rape him, Kuchiki taichou. I just know it" she said, in a lower voice.
Byakuya stared at the bun haired girl for a few moments. Then, he spoke "So, who do you think poisoned Hitsugaya taichou?"
"It's not Aizen taichou" she replied and Byakuya took note of the fact the girl is trembling.
"Of course not. He, along with all the other arrancars, are already ruled out as suspects. Which means that the culprit is among us" the nobleman stared down on the girl who is now shaking violently.
"I-I-I….I DIDN'T DO IT!!! I DID NOTHING!!! I'M INNOCENT!!!" the bun haired girl yelled then ran away to the opposite direction, tears following her. Byakuya stared at her path of escape for a few moments, contemplating on their conversation. Just then, Ukitake emerged from the room.
"Kuchiki taichou, you may come in now" he said, his smile nowhere in sight. He is not a doctor nor a nurse but the sickly man had made himself familiar with the procedures required for such instances. Byakuya nodded and entered the room.
'What the hell?' the Kuchiki stared in horror at the boy. He is in worse condition than he was found raped. His skin is so pale that one would mistake it as a white bed sheet. His lips were in a purplish color while his eyes are surrounded by large, dark violet eye bags. The worst part is that the boy is foaming at the mouth.
"This is the best we can do for now" Unohana said gravely as she walked up beside the boy and sat on the bed, gently caressing the white hair of the sleeping prodigy.
"How is he feeling?" Byakuya asked Ukitake. Silence filled the room and as much as Byakuya would hate to admit it, the silence is making him nervous. Then finally, Unohana spoke.
"Kuchiki taichou, the poison has taken his ability to speak"
To be continued.
Next up, he may be obscure and almost always left out of scenes but he is also a potential suspect: Kira Izuru
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