Title: I'm Sorry!
Genre: Humor, Mystery(?)
Characters: Hitsugaya, Matsumoto
Summary: He might have let it slide if she'd been more sorry and less obnoxious.
"Taichou, I'm sorry!"
Hitsugaya carefully set down his pen just long enough for his rising gaze to meet the buxom woman who had come running into the office … three hours late. He snorted before continuing with his work. Well, at least she'd apologized right away. She didn't do that very often.
"Ack! No, Taichou!" came the familiar shriek when Rangiku Matsumoto did not go to her desk as Hitsugaya had expected, but instead leaned over his desk with a pleading expression overtaking her frantic features. "Anything but that! Don't give me the silent treatment! I really am sorry! So, so, so sorry! I didn't mean to do it! I swear! I was just … in the wrong place at the wrong time! Yeah, that's it! I wasn't playing around at all! It wasn't my fault that the butterflies went nuts and those idiots had all of that jello, and the giant hole in the wall was already there when I arrived! I swear!"
"Matsumoto!" The young taichou was as far back in his chair as he could muster, hands over his ears in an unsuccessful attempt to drown out his fukutaichou's desperate vocals. "What the hell are you talking about?!"
Finally, the woman ceased, mouth hanging dumbly open. "You … don't know?"
"No," he growled. And here he'd thought she'd been apologizing about being late….
"Oh." The woman perked up considerably, standing straight once again. "Sorry to bother you, Taichou! I'll go get you some tea!"
And she was out of the office before she'd even finished speaking.
It wasn't until several minutes later, when he'd heard an obnoxious racket outside the door and peeked around the corner to see the loose hell butterflies, the slippery, gelatin-covered floors, and the cartoon-esque, Matsumoto-sized hole missing the door by inches, that the pieces finally began to fit together.