The End?
Flashback 10 days after the battle of Fake Krakura Town
Rangiku Matsumoto finally decided to talk to her captain, for he hadn't ate a bite since they returned.
"Captain!" She shouted upon entering the cave where Toshiro Hitsugaya (Brat) had turned into a freezer. "Holy s**t, what are you planning to do? Sell ice?"
"How did you find me?"
"Hinamori's journal, it seems all child hood friends have a secret hideouts somewhere or the other," Matsumoto smiled sadly thinking of Gin, and then looked at the painted walls of the cave. "The walls are beautiful! Did Hinamori paint all this herself?"
"I made platforms fore her to stand on," Hitsugaya replied. "What do you want Matsumoto?"
"Why aren't you visiting Hinamori?" Matsumoto asked. "You never went to visit her."
"She wouldn't know it even if I did, its kind of hard to greet visitors when you are trapped in a bottle of chemicals," Hitsugaya sheathed his Zanpakuto. "Besides, she kept in this large security room that only Unohana and Kurotsuchi are allowed to enter."
"Yeah right, if you really wanted to see her, you would."
The next second, Rangiku Matsumoto found her captain's sword right at her neck. "Wha-?"
"What if I cut you right now?" Hitsugaya hissed. "What if this sword was stabbed right through your heart, and you realized it was me…"
Hitsugaya sheathed his sword again. "I'm sorry Matsumoto, but you see Hinamori can't even hear my apologies right now."
"But it was a accident Captain!" Matusmoto shook her captain. "You could have never known. And back when Rukia Kuchiki was on trial Hinamori intentionally tried to kill you."
"How dare you compare me to her! She turned like that because of my carelessness!"
"I'm just saying, it was the same for both you and her! Aizen had manipulated both of you to kill each other."
"He knew Hinamori would be incapable of killing me… Both times were actually aimed for me to kill her."
"For gods sake she is older than you-"
"No she's not!" Hitsugaya snapped. "When I first found her she was shorter than me, but I tend to age slower than any with weak spiritual power. Which is why I never grew while she did…"
"Hinamori is a Lieutenant of the 5th Division, and she has become more powerful than we could have hoped. Captain, you are not her father or older brother."
"I'm all she has got, who else does she have?"
"She has me! And the other Lieutenants and Captains, unless you haven't noticed 5th Division is still the most well liked division regardless Aizen's betrayal."
"Matsumoto!"
"Huh?"
"Is that the alarm ringing?"
Author Note: Actually in my version, Hinamori's actions + Aizen's actions were what made the Gotei 13 Captains kill her in the real storyline because she wanted to sacrifice herself in order for the death Aizen (it didn't work).
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Author Note: As many might have noticed my italicized words are usually thoughts of a person, in this chapter I decided to include both Hinamori and Hitsugaya's thoughts. Hinamori's are bolded while Hitsugaya's are underlined.
Another figure swooped in to catch Rangiku Matsumoto.
"Matsumoto you idiot, why didn't you-"
"Captain? Don't look, oh god please don't look."
A moment of silence, Toshiro Hitsugaya stared at the girl clad in a fiery cloak.
Hinamori…
Toshiro Hitsugaya, Captain of 10th Division…
Impossible… This isn't her spiritual power
I killed the one he cared most about
Is this Shiji's work?
I deserver to die here at his hands most but…
Shinji's illusion magic isn't like this, this style of hypnosis…
I must finish Captain Yamamoto's orders!
Could only be Aizen's Kanzen Saimin (Complete Hypnosis)!
"Captain, the spiritual pressure isn't…" Matsumoto stood above the horizontal barrier, while Hinamori was dragged back within the elemental guardian barrier. "Please don't be reckless, it's not…"
"Matsumoto…"
"Huh?"
"Thank you, for all this time you served under me."
"Captain…"
"But now, I have to find it for myself."
"Find what?"
"Answers," Toshiro Hitsugaya summoned Hyorinamaru and re-entered the spherical barrier as well.
Ω Ω Ω
"Did you come to get your revenge Captain Hitsugaya?" Hinamori sighed. "For, her?"
"YOU!" Hitsugaya yelled as he released his shikai at Hinamori who dodged it swiftly. "DID YOU PLAN ALL THIS TOO?."
"Please get out of the way Captain Toshiro Hitsugaya," Hinamori pleaded. "I need to fulfill Captain Yamamoto's wish."
"Fulfill it in non-existence! I'm here to violently hack you to pieces!"
Aizen had said that before I defected from Soul Society, I killed my lieutenant
I said that before, right before I stabbed you
"You have gotten much more powerful Captain Toshiro Hitsugaya," Hinamori breathed as she used her full-bring powers to deflect his blows. "My lieutenant would have been proud, she-"
"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF HER? HOW DARE YOU?" Hitsugaya hollered. "YOUR NOT EVEN TRYING, GO ON! RELEASE YOU SWORD."
Why is it! Even now I could not bear to hurt an illusion of her
Those eyes are not her eyes
Her hair couldn't have grown that long
She is using human full-bring powers
She is disguised as a member of the 0th division
It is not Hinamori, G*d d*mn it ITS NOT HINAMORI
Nana yake shi Hibana Shichishitō
Seven Burnt Deaths Ember Seven-Branched Sword
"Sensei," Karin cried, suddenly appearing. "What are you-"
High above the sphere, all other elemental guardians paused to watch.
"Get out of the way you two!" Ripashirudo pulled both Ichigo and Karin back. "Master, do you want to get killed?"
"Nii-san," Karin sighed. "Please take Ripashirudo, and kill Aizen! Please save Hinamori-Sama!"
"Take your Zanpakuto spirit? No way!"
"ICHIGO-NII! Don't you get it? You are the only one who is able to wield such power! Ripashirudo is not my power to wield!"
"That power is darkness, I fear it. Why can't Hinamori wield it herself?"
"Darkness is not evil! Darkness will only progress to evil if Hinamori-Sama uses it!"
"Fine," Ichigo sat. "This will take a while though."
Karin quickly exited the barrier. The outside shinigamis and visoreds rushed to him.
"Is Ichigo alright?"
"He's fine Rukia-san," Karin grimaced. "Saisei kura Ōgama!"
"Dark-scythe?"
"This is my real Zanpakuto."
"A new Zanpakuto huh?" Hitsugaya growled. "Might as well change your face."
"Why? Is this a face you cannot cut?" Hinamori replied. "I do not wish to hurt you Captain of 10th division."
Hitsugaya didn't reply, but released his bankai and attacked again missing Hinamori's neck by an inch.
This is bad; at this rate he might actually be able to kill me.
Bankai.
"BANKAI, Tan'itsu no buranchi HIBANA!"
The hair, it turned back to black
Is that strange hair color only an after effect of the power?
Hibana… Tobiume and Terroya Kin?
Could it be, could she be…
"Dai nana no shi Benito-seki (7th Death Benitoite)."
"GET DOWN!" Karin yelled as immense power lunged. "That's the power to incinerate a entire living world continent!"
I just need to shoot at Aizen from here
D*mn that brat is in the way
I need to avenge my lieutenant too!
"Lieutenant Hinamori, is that you?" Captain Unohana yelled. "What are you doing?"
Liar…
I was a lieutenant?
Aizen you managed to fool me again….
I remember now…
Hitsugaya-kun
Why… why is your expression so scary?
Hinamori shot towards Toshiro Hitsugaya who stood stunned. Her eyes were a very pale blue; she knew what she must do now.
Everything will be all right now,
Everything.
Momo Hinamori stabbed Toshiro Hitsugaya in the chest. Matsumoto uttered a scream no one can hear. In slow motion the flaming blade went through. A clear liquid crystal seemed to form in Hinamori's eyes as she moaned in pain,
Hinamori…
Hitsugaya-kun…
Stabbed me,
Forgive me…
It's really her…
Please smile for me…
Why is she crying?
Hibana, forgive me,
Why do I not feel pain?
It seems, I am a horrible person after all
The blood of feels warm.
I think… this is the second time I tried to hut Hitsugaya-kun
It feels so warm.
He could never hurt me…
Toshiro Hitsugaya stood calmly, unaffected
Momo Hinamori shook with pain
Hinamori leaned her head forward on her friend's torso.
"Sh-shiro chan…"
"Hinamori!"
"W-why do y-you have such a s-scary f-face? Please f-forgive m-me" Hinamori smiled softly. "Dai nana no shi Benito-seki… Saigo ni (end)."
She's dissolving?
Father, thank you…
My hands, are dissolving too?
Without you I could have never…
I cannot feel pain
Have protected him
What is happening…?
He who always protected me.
This blood on my hands
I am the Lieutenant of the 5th Division
THIS BLOOD ON MY HANDS?
I am but a very fine Gladiatorial Sacrifice
NO NO NO NO.
"I h-have, a-always been a b-burden…"
The ashes they dissolved into in each other's place regenerated both figures.
NOTE FROM AUTHOR: This part is a bit confusing… So Hinamori stabbed Hitsugaya but kind of used Aizen's trick on herself and Hitsugaya. So she actually stabbed herself with Hitsugaya's Conscience, in order to get a stab at Aizen who was right behind.
Both Zanpakutos appeared
One held his blood-drenched master in his arms as he exited the barrier,
The other materialized in a jet of fire and stabbed a hidden Aizen in the heart
Hibana, weakening along with her master abandoned her human form and materialized again in Hinamori's hand.
Toshiro Hitsugaya was unscathed, stained again by Hinamori's blood.
"Hyorinmaru… Did you heal me?"
"Master…"
"Whose blood is this?"
"Master please calm-"
"WHO'S BLOOD IS THIS?"
"Master…"
"Take me back now!"
"Master it really isn't the time to be-"
"NOW!"
Ω Ω Ω
"ICHIGO!" Karin screamed as Hinamori began falling.
"I KNOW!" Ichigo yelled back as he went forward to catch his mentor. Damn! He thought, he wouldn't be able to make it.
Pain
So much pain…
But
I'm free now
To die...
To Be Continued?
Author Note: Should I end here? Kinda tempted