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Chapter 13: Hitsugaya, First I Have Matsumoto Irritate Me, Now It's This? De arimasu! Wait, such a long title...
Hitsugaya grunted.
"Matsumoto!"
"Yes, sir!" Matsumoto came flying towards him in an instant.
"Starting from today on, I'm going on break."
She froze. Her mouth dropped. Literally, her mouth dropped to the ground. "No... No... NO! You can't abandon me!" Oh gosh, now she's grabbing his legs, practically begging!
"Let go of me!" Hitsugaya shouted. "(I can't really trust you) But I need a break everynow and then!"
"Don't abadon me! How long are you going on break?"
"A few days or so."
"A few days! You can't leave me alone with a few days' work of paperwork! Don't leave! Health me!" She accented the last two sentences in English.
"What are you, Kagura from G*ntama?"
"Taichou, you watched it?"
Hitsugaya decided to ignore that. "Why is it even censored in this story?"
"Who knows. Wait, we're straying away from the topic! Anyways, DON'T LEAVE!"
Hitsugaya kicked her away and she rolled across the room. "I'm leaving now. Do your best, Matsumoto." And so he left the poor lieutenant in the corner, rusting away...
"Taichou~~! COME BACK~~!"
"Taichou~~! COME BACK~~!"
Hitsugaya sighed. Sheesh, must she always be this embarrassing? Her poor English was literally echoing and everyone is staring like she's an idiot or something!
"No, she is an idiot..." He sighed once again and then went through the Senkaimon with the Hell Butterfly's guide and successfully crossed the dimension between Soul Society and the World of the Living.
He glanced around his surroundings.
...This is Karakura Town... Hitsugaya thought.
Actually, he used the excuse of taking a break just to see the aliens Hinamori and Matsumoto has been jabbering about. He would nod every now and then just to go along with the story. He soon learned about how the lieutenant of the Ninth Division also met them, and the Sixth Division's lieutenant also met them.
So, he felt out of place and decided to go see them himself.
But fate being fate, gave him exactly what he wanted.
"Hey, you."
Hearing the voice, he looked around but saw no one.
"Down here."
He looked down.
A yellow creature with swirly glasses holding a weird gun was right in front of him.
"...What is this...?"
The creature pointed the weird-looking gun at him, and Hitsugaya's hand immediately flung to his zanpakutou's hilt.
"Don't worry," the creature said. "It won't hurt a bit. I just need you to test something out for me." And then, everything began, with just one, single, trigger.
It was just so sudden. Hitsugaya tried to run away, but then the next thing he knew, some burst of weird sparkly rainbow light shot out of the gun and then dragged him in it, and then the next thing he knew, he was...
"...What in the world is this!"
"Kukuku... Looks like it was a success," the creature said, its hand covering his chin. It bent down and petted a milky-white fur cat who was glaring in return.
"Meow meow meow meow!" the cat shouted, its tail standing straight up.
"Don't worry, you'll turn back in 24 hours. Well then, bye." With that, the weird creature just up and left.
"Meoooooowwww!" the cat screamed.
Ahem. I think I'll get to the point.
This adorable teal-colored eyed cat with soft, sugar-white fur, is that short prodigy who is a workaholic thay yells at his subordinate for being lazy and doesn't like to be called by his first name and will always try to find a chance sleep so he can grow taller...Hitsugaya Toushirou of the Tenth Division.
"Meow! Mrow!"
Since it's a pain to keep saying meow all the time, I might as well translate what he says.
"That bastard! He just came up to me and turn me into this...thing...GAH!" He stood up on his feet and banged his head on a wall. "Dammit! Why must people make things so hard around me! If that yellow thing can even be considered as a person!"
He panted as he put his paw on the wall, trying to calm himself down. "Wait... Isn't this like the time when Sakata Gintoki turned into a cat...?" He expression darkened as he recalled the episode. "If this goes that way then..." Sweat rolled down as he thought dangerously in the back of his mind, "I'll be castrated!"
He immdiately shook his head. "No no no no no, why would they do such things here nowadays anyways..." Suddenly, he stopped everything and turned. "Don't question about anything."
Basically, he means... "Ask about why does Hitsugaya watch G*ntama, and your head will be sitting in the garden of the Tenth Division."
Anyways, back to the plot, Hitsugaya is still standing there, thinking about what to do.
First, he thought. I need to find that guy again. The question is how...
"Ooh! Look, Tatsuki-chan! It's a little kitty!"
Hitsugaya stared at the person. Inoue Orihime...?
Orihime grinned as she bent down. "Aww... It has such adorable eyes! Oh, are you hungry? I have some bread with me!" She dug into her pocket and took out a bread...with questionable toppings such as caviar, caramel and cheese.
"Orihime, you sure you gonna pay for that cat's funeral?" Tatsuki said bluntly.
"Eh? What for?" Orihime questioned innocently.
"Nevermind. Let's go." She dragged the stubborn Orihime back home, who was crying out, "I wanna play with the kitten some more..."
"Yes, yes, we'll go to the pet shop tomorrow and look all you want, ok?"
As the girls left, only the bread was left there. He stared dangerously and awkwardly at the bread, who was just sitting there emitting a deadly aura. His eyes twitched.
"I-I think I'll go the other way then..." He walked away from the bread, who sat there pitifully with that aura around it.
Hitsugaya sighed. Ugh, if only he didn't come here out of curiousity...things wouldn't have ended up like this!
He scratched his ears with his paws. All of this was just irritating him.
Hm, come to think of it... Hinamori once showed him this book about cats... Something about how cats mark their territory by rubbing their ears on it...
Not that it'll really help him in this situation.
Speaking of Hinamori, she came back to the World of the Living for another vacation...
Speak of the devil.
"Hmmm? What're you doing here alone, little cat?"
Hitsugaya turned around. Hinamori...!
She picked up the cat. "Aw, you're so cute! You're kinda similar to a very close friend I know! I know! I'll take you back to my apartment! It's not very far away."
Suddenly, his system circuited back to life like a lightning bolt. Ok, this is turning in the wrong direction...
But it was already too late. Hinamori was already on the elevator! So fast!
And then before he knew it, Hinamori was already in her apartment.
She sat him down on the couch and smiled. "Hold on a minute, I'll give you a bath and then I'll give you something to eat!" She skipped to the bathroom happily.
The cat sat there, dumbfounded.
Ok, so he was turned into a cat by some weird creature which he assumed to be the alien he wanted to see, was spotted by Inoue Orihime and was almost fed by some weird food, and now he's picked up by Hinamori, who's on vacation?
He finally got it straight.
"Crap..." he mumbled.
Then Hinamori popped out of the bathroom. "Alright, time to give you a nice warm bath!" She grinned and took the cat-form of Hitsugaya into the bathroom, who was struggling to escape.
"Aww, baths aren't so bad," Hinamori cooed. Damn this cat was adorable. "It's nice and comfy!" Once she reached the bathroom, Hitsugaya immediately feels something inside him drop.
Could this be...cat instincts?
He yelled out a whole bunch of 'meow's' while frantically kicking and pushing himself out of Hinamori's arms. Dammit, he wasn't going to let his humanity leave him so soon! He's a 100% shinigami, and he will not lose his dignity!
"Hey, stop moving around!" Hinamori scolded. She gingerly put him in the tub filled with warm water and began to scrub him with soap.
He suddenly stopped everything, and just relaxed as she scrubbed. This...felt comfy actually.
Hinamori chuckled. "See? It's not so bad?"
He narrowed his eyes and hid his lower face under the bubble-filled water. Even if he's in this form, she could still see right through him...
After the bath, Hinamori gave him a saucer of warm milk.
"Here!" she exclaimed happily. "Milk!"
Hitsugaya stared at the saucer filled with milk. Milk...apparently helps you grow.
...
He began to drink the milk in a hurry.
Hinamori laughed. "You must've been hungry! I have more if you'd like!" She ran into the kitchen to fetch some more milk.
Hitsugaya licked his lips after he finished the saucer of milk. Damn, he hasn't felt so comfortable in a while...
When nighttime came around, Hinamori had made a comfy blanket for the cat to sleep on tonight. She smiled at him and said, "Well, good night!" and was about to turn, until Hitsugaya suddenly walked up to her.
She smiled. "It's late now, so go to bed."
He just walked right next to her leg, and slightly brushed his ears against her leg, his cheeks tainted with just a little dab of pink.
Hinamori giggled. "Are you thanking me for today? It's fine! Now go to bed now, alright?"
He nodded and climbed back into his bed, feeling satisfied.
5 a.m. in the morning.
The captain groaned as he twisted and turned. Why was the bed so hard and cold... Where's his pillow?
Then it hit him.
He snapped his eyes opened and glanced at his surroundings. Shit! He's back in his human form and he's in Hinamori's apartment!
He immidiately opened the window and was prepared to jump, until he realized: Hinamori will be sad if she finds that the kitten just disappeared...
He groaned. She'll be fine, right?
So in the end, he just jumped out.
I'm sorry for the crappy ending! But did you like this chapter? I did! It was fun to write Hitsugaya's character, but it's difficult...
And thanks for the reviews, guys! I'll try to write whenever I have access to the Internet again! (By the way, summer school...;_; I might die from too much algebra...)
And, don't ask Hitsugaya on why he watches Gintama. ...Maybe because they both have white hair?