CHAPTER 29: LITTLE MOMENTS IN LIFE
Tayomi stared at the textbooks blankly. She did not remember 'studying for tests in the Living World' being included in her agenda. Captain-commander Yamamoto had told them to get used to life in the Living World and somehow, studying had been dragged into their life once again. She twirled her pen and stuck it behind her ear. She felt as if she was a student of the Spiritual Arts Academy again, but was studying different subjects. The subjects that humans studied in school were so strange, yet so fascinating. She could not help but feel enthralled by what she was reading. Although the subjects were intriguing, studying them was a daunting task. Rubbing her eyes sleepily, she forced herself to keep awake and study. Though it was only three in the afternoon, Tayomi already felt exhausted and was bored from all those books. All of a sudden, her phone rang and she checked it. Hitsugaya had sent her a message.
"Sakuri… CHANGE YOUR ANNOYING MESSAGE ALERT TONE."
Tayomi looked up from her books and stared at Hitsugaya, who was studying at his table. They were both in the study, studying for the upcoming tests. He had clearly grown sick of absorbing information and gave her a serious look. She quickly texted him back, arguing that she liked her message alert tone. Giggling, she got back to her books and read the last page. Hitsugaya texted her back, sighing as his fingers flew across the keyboard. Her message tone was incredibly annoying. Right after he sent the message, her phone rang again. Tayomi read his message and finished reading the last page, before running over to him and hugging him from the back. He looked up into her eyes and her bright smile, resisting the urge to pinch her bright pink cheeks. She was one step ahead of him, poking his cheek and kissing it, before running off to keep her textbooks. For the past two weeks in the Living World, Tayomi had been incredibly hyper, excited to try anything in the Human World, acting as if it was the first time she had arrived in the Living World. She was like an overexcited little girl, but then again, that was what made her so adorable and lovable.
Once she was done keeping her books, she dashed out from her chair and into Matsumoto's room. The two of them were the only girls in the house and relied on each other's company whenever they wanted to do girly things. Matsumoto and she had decided to have fun together once she was done studying. As anyone expected, Matsumoto did not intend to study as hard as the others. In fact, it was possible that she did not study at all. They closed the door and giggled to themselves. Matsumoto switched on the radio and played their favourite song. It had been two weeks since they had entered the Living World and they had spent quite some time trying to learn how to dance. After much hard work and watching the music video over and over again, they had finally learnt it. Now, they were going to try it out for themselves. Matsumoto and Tayomi stood in front of the mirror, before blasting the music out loud. They turned up the volume, laughing to themselves. Once it started, they began dancing, just like normal teenage girls. It was rare that she got to act like a teenager and Tayomi certainly enjoyed the feeling of being grown up and youthful at the same time. Other than playing the guitar, she hardly did anything that normal teenagers did. Sometimes, leading a simple and happy life seemed like the perfect life for her. Suddenly, the door to Matsumoto's room flew open and an angry Hitsugaya stood in the doorway. Matsumoto and Tayomi were stunned, rooted to the ground and staring at him. The three of them stared at each other blankly.
"I was going to get you to turn down the volume…" Hitsugaya grumbled. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING?"
"Ooh Taicho, we're dancing!" Matsumoto squealed excitedly. "Want to join us?"
"No." He replied bluntly.
"Why not?" Matsumoto attempted to persuade her Captain. "It's fun!"
"I said NO." Hitsugaya shouted. "Turn down the volume and let me study in peace!"
"TAYOMI-CHAN! LOCK THE DOOR!" Matsumoto shouted excitedly. "It's time to use FORCE!"
"OKAY!" Tayomi giggled excitedly, locking the door and whipping out her phone. "IT'S CAMWHORE TIME!"
"Cam… What?" Hitsugaya stuttered.
"SMILE AT THE CAMERA!"
"WHAT?"
That evening, Ichigo and his friends came over to their place to study together. They sat in a circle in the living room, munching on food and studying their textbooks. Tayomi sat in between Matsumoto and Rukia, while Hitsugaya was sitting opposite her, in between Ichigo and Renji. He was madly hoping that the two would keep quiet and not spring into an argument all of a sudden. Hitsugaya was still grumbling after he had been innocently dragged into what Matsumoto called a 'Camwhore session'. He sighed, wondering how they managed to spend an hour and a half taking pictures in front of the mirror. Tayomi seemed to enjoy it though and he wanted to see her happy. But surely, there was another way to have fun. Tayomi smiled at him, chewing her pink bubble gum. She had felt rather bored after all that studying and the bubble gum had made it a little more fun. The sweetness of the gum came into contact with her taste buds, as she grinned, happy to taste the sugar. Just then, Orihime asked her why she had not blown a bubble. Tayomi stared at her blankly and it was obvious that she had no idea how to blow it. Orihime giggled and tried to teach Tayomi to blow a bubble. Following Orihime's instructions, she chewed the gum happily and attempted to blow a bubble.
"Go Yomi-chan!" Orihime squealed excitedly.
Instead of becoming a bright pink bubble, the gum flew out of her mouth, flying right across and hitting a certain someone in the face. The pink gum was stuck on his face, as he grumbled.
"Tayomi…"
"AHHHH SUSU-CHAN! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRYYYYYYY!"
She ran over to him and pulled the gum off his face, before putting it back in her mouth and chewing it again.
"You don't have to do that you know…" Hitsugaya sighed.
"Eh… It's not like you're contaminated!" Tayomi smiled. " Hime-chan! I'm going to try again…"
Hitsugaya screamed. "NO! TAYOMI, DON'T!"
After an hour of studying, everyone felt rather restless and closed their books. Matsumoto suggested playing 'Truth or Dare', her favourite game. Ishida simply pushed his glasses up his nose bridge, sighing. Matsumoto would go completely insane whenever she played that game, coming up with the most outrageous dares ever. Excitedly, she spun the bottle and it pointed to Hitsugaya. Hitsugaya sighed. Once again, he was being dragged into something he did not enjoy.
"Hitsugaya-kun!" Orihime beamed. "I just received an awesome idea from my friend, Chibi-Taichou! I dare you to hug Rangiku-san in front of Yomi-chan!"
"Wow, I didn't know Orihime had such a mind for dares…" Rukia spoke in shock.
"OOH! COME HERE, TAICHO!"
Matsumoto ran to Hitsugaya and forced him into a hug. He choked, as he was suffocated by Matsumoto's chest. She had a strange smell on her, the smell of perfume. Tayomi watched intently as the two of them hugged. It was such a strange sight, seeing his face stuffed in Matsumoto's chest. He drew back abruptly, running off into his room.
Tayomi sighed and followed him into their room to drag him back out. His face was bright red and he looked so adorable. She ran up to him, giving him a hug as well.
Once the both of them were back in their seats, Hitsugaya spun the bottle. It landed on Tayomi and Matsumoto laughed happily.
"Sakuri, I just realised something…" Ichigo pointed out. "Why is it that Toushirou's Zanpakutou is strapped to his back, but yours isn't? I mean, your Zanpakutou is pretty long…"
Tayomi instantly blushed. "Well… It's a long story…"
Everyone bent closer, eager to listen to the reason why she never carried Inazuma Kaze on her back. Tayomi stared at Hitsugaya with an innocent look, hoping that he would explain in her place. She tugged on his arm, begging him to help her explain to the others. Hitsugaya looked back at her blankly, before nodding and sighing.
"Well, you see… She did try that before." Hitsugaya replied coldly. "I tried to teach her how to keep her Zanpakutou and she ended up injuring her back. She tried to keep it, but she couldn't aim properly, so her Zanpakutou's blade scratched her all the way across her back. After that, I suggested that she keep her Zanpakutou in her sash. I refuse to heal her again for such a stupid reason."
"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Tayomi shouted. "It wasn't my fault it went out of control and I ended up having a nice wound across my back…"
"WAIT!" Matsumoto had a cheeky grin on her face. "Taicho, you healed Tayomi-chan after that?"
"Yes." Hitsugaya nodded.
"If her wound was on her back… That means…" Matsumoto grinned widely. "OOH TAICHO! DID YOUR NOSE BLEED? ARE YOU SURE YOU WOULD REFUSE TO HEAL HER IF IT HAPPENED AGAIN?"
Hitsugaya and Tayomi's faces both turned bright red. Tayomi shook her head, diverting their attention and suggesting they play 'Dance Dance Revolution'. All the girls cheered happily, while the boys simply groaned. The girls got enthusiastic, as they set up the mat and the remotes. Once the game appeared on the screen, they all squealed happily, while the boys sighed. The girls grinned and decided to drag the boys into the game. Their first victim was Ichigo, who grumbled and complained about how bored he got whenever Isshin persuaded him to play it with him. He dragged his feet onto the mat, causing Rukia to slap him in the head.
"What am I doing?" Ichigo groaned, as the other guys stared at him in horror.
"GET SERIOUS, YOU IDIOT!" Rukia screamed, as she hit every single arrow.
"Kurosaki, you should be glad that your opponent isn't Tayomi…" Hitsugaya sighed, as he recounted how he was dragged into the game and suffered a miserable defeat.
"Yeah! Tayomi Taicho trashed Hitsugaya Taicho… Big time!" Renji smirked.
"Abarai… SHUT UP!"
That night, they decided to watch a movie on the television. Ichigo had brought over some horror DVDs and let everyone take a vote on what to watch. Matsumoto grumbled at the fact that there were no romance DVDs and Ikkaku got excited. Yumichika sighed and flicked his hair, commenting on how ugly the monsters in the cover looked. After much debate, the boys finally picked a film, as the girls groaned. They grabbed chips, popcorn and fizzy drinks from the fridge, gathering their jackets and blankets. They switched off all the lights, lowered the temperature of the air conditioner and settled down. The movie started, with creepy music in the background. Tayomi sat in between Hitsugaya and Matsumoto, Yumichika, Renji and Ikkaku sat next to them, Ichigo and Rukia were sitting on the carpet together, with Ishida, Orihime and Chad. Hitsugaya put his arm around Tayomi, positive that she would be scared in fifteen minutes. Tayomi blinked and tightened her grip around his waist, as horrifying images appeared on the screen. Don't scream, don't scream…
Just then, a scream echoed throughout the pitch black living room. Tayomi's eyes were wide open in shock for a second, before Hitsugaya held her close to him and let her hide her face in his chest. She felt a lot better after that, as he stroked her hair. All sorts of terrible sounds blasted from the television, as the horror film continued to play and everyone was stunned by the grotesque graphics and gore.
Once the movie ended, they switched the lights back on. It was almost twelve midnight and Tayomi and Hitsugaya had fallen asleep together. They were hugging each other tightly, deep in slumber, not knowing that everyone was staring at them.
"I have got to take a picture of this!" Matsumoto squealed as she took out her phone and snapped a picture of the two Captains. "And a video! I'm definitely uploading this onto SoulTube…"
Author's note:
Yayyyyy... :D SO KAWAII! Tayomi shares my fear of horror movies. And the failure at bubblegum blowing! The bubblegum incident was inspired by my friends... My friend tried to blow a bubble and she ended up 'spitting' it onto my other friend's bed XD
I hope you all liked this chapter! :D I wanna thank Chibi-Taichou, VampirePrincess987, Tiryn, XxDark-maiden201xX, IdentifiedLuna1998, tokidokicutie, LunaBlackLovesPie, Exile7 and sasusakufan2357 for the awesome reviews! And FuzzyShadowFoxx, kanna yamamoto, Maii04, Lovia7, MiniTyou, pokecharmer007 and soulraven98 for favouriting this story! And rainbowdragongirl101 for adding this to your story alert list! :D
Next chapter, the gang will have their first clash with Aizen and Ichimaru! The clash won't be too long though... Anyways Hitsugaya and Tayomi take on Aizen, with their blades full of hate! And YES! TAYOMI'S ZANAPAKUTOU'S UNIQUE FEATURE WILL BE REVEALED NEXT CHAPTER! :D (it'll be a major cliffhanger, of course, because I'll explain it only in Chapter 31) So stay tuned! Please review! Thank youuuu ! ^.^
