Warning: More mentioning of abuse and of attempted rape.

Shouniaisha Taicho
~Fear~

The idea of freedom crossed the small boy's mind as he sat on the roof of a building somewhere between the Gotei Thirteen prison cells and his new division. He sat up on the roof, watching for the sun to start to set indicating that evening was coming, allowing him to head back to where Aishadou was.

The truth of the matter was the fact that he didn't want to go back there. What the man had done to his hurt and still hurt. Yet, he knew that another dosage of this pain would be coming once he got back to the division. This caused him to flinch constantly, trying to think of a way to avoid the inevitable.

His hand reached into his right sleeve, feeling the hilt of the zampaktuo that he had hidden up his sleeve. His fingers rubbed the hilt, making circles, fidgeting on the ribbon, feeling it in an attempt to comfort himself. A few times he thought about death, but he quickly found himself not wanting to think about that scenario.

Toshiro wondered where rescue would come from. Ichigo's powers were completely zapped. Aishadou smashed the phone with the evidence on it. The one person who possibly could help him was in jail. Not to mention the boy had problems trusting Ichimaru. Why would the man want to help him, unless there was something in it for him.

A humming sound came to his ears. "Hyorinmaru?" The boy asked rather quickly, a tad bit shocked to hearing another voice in his head. Closing his eyes, he felt a small sense of hope from the fact that his dragon might have come back. "Please... I 'really' need you to come and talk to me."

"Not..." came the voice, startling the small boy, causing him to snap open his teal eyes suddenly. At first, Hitsugaya thought that the ice dragon was saying he wasn't needed. However, he then realized that the voice he heard wasn't his dragons.

"Who are you?" Toshiro closed his eyes again, attempting to dive into his inner world. Everything in truth was foggy, almost as if he was only going half way into his world. He saw a rather tall figure, thin, dressed in clothing similar to Hyorinmaru's humanoid form. "Seriously... who are you?"

The being started to open his mouth, only for the small boy to have someone jerk his body in the real world. He opened his eyes to see someone he didn't want to see, standing near him. He gulped hard, as Aishadou spoke sternly. "I thought that I asked you to be back by evening."

"The sun hasn't set yet," the boy chocked out. "If that isn't what you meant, I am confused as to what you mean."

"And they say you're supposed to be a genius," the man stated, saying something that he had been saying over and over ever since the two had met.

"I don't want..." Two teal eyes snapped shut as the man yanked him to his feet. "I'll go..." Despite saying this, the man dragged him back to the third division, his huge hand having a tight grip on the child's arm. They passed by the office, giving Toshiro the chance to see no one was there. "Where is the other fukutaicho?"

"I sent Kira on an errand. It will take him awhile," the man stated, dragging Toshiro back to the room. The small white haired boy couldn't help but close his eyes, another hope of rescue disappearing.

M

The sky was turning dark to the East. Soifon shunpooed at a rather moderate speed away from Gin's jail cell still trying to piece things together in her mind. She couldn't help but accept the man's request, despite the fact that he was recognized as a traitor. It wasn't just for him, but for Hitsugaya Taicho and Matsumoto Fukutaicho/

Her sharp eyes suddenly spotted Izuru walking about, and she hopped down from the rood to confront him. "Kira Fukutaicho."

"Ahh... good evening Soifon Taicho," the man stated, balancing a stack of deliveries.

"What exactly are you about?" the woman stated firmly, her eyes narrowing in concern.

"I am delivering some things for my taicho," the blond haired man spoke. "What of it?"

"Do you know where Hitsugaya Taicho is?" Soifon asked again.

"I wish I knew. Aishadou was pissed that Hitsugaya Tai... Fukutaicho hasn't returned yet. I think he was going out to find him, then bring him back," Kira's eyes had a dull look.

"Do you think that maybe your taicho gave you so much stuff to deliver at such an odd time of night because he wishes you not to be at the division," the woman stated firmly.

Izuru carefully set the pile onto the ground. "We really shouldn't talk about our taicho in a negative way."

"Come on, you happen to have had two before betray you," Soifon stated firmly, watching the young man.

"That's the thing, I had no problem with either one of them. Ichimaru is a bit off his rocker, but I know that he also was under Aizen's thumb for a long time. As for the other one, he was the same," Kira let out a deep breath. "The thing about this taicho is, I don't trust him, I don't like him. Something is wrong, but I didn't pick up on it until Hitsugaya Taicho..." There his words stopped.

"Are you willing to leave those deliveries there?" the woman stated firmly. "Are you willing to follow my orders for a bit, to go back to your division?"

"But what do we have to suspect Aishadou Taicho on?" Izuru narrowed his eyes.

"Instinct. And if we are wrong, we can apologize, but if I am right, we'll stop him. Either way, we can end up helping out Hitsugaya," Soifon watched as he nodded in agreement.

M

Arriving at the room, Toshiro felt his whole body shiver. He felt the man push him towards the bed that was in there, a flat futon. "Idon't want to."

The response he received was a hard slap on his behind that thrust him forward. Due to the pain that was between his legs, he found himself fall hard, his knees brushing on the ground as well as the palms of his hands. Gin's zampaktuo slipped a little from where Toshiro had positioned it. He quickly pushed it back in, chocking down his panic.

He scuttled over to the wall and flipped over so that he could see the man looming over him. "You're just nervous. When we get going, you won't be so agitated."

At that, the man bent down, his hands reaching for Toshiro's shingami robes. "I didn't before... Izuru-kun... he's going to get back soon. So if I can just hold out..." Two teal eyes closed as the man forced the kimono top open, causing the cloth to fall off the boy's shoulders, leaving his entire chest exposed. Bruising from the previous time could be seen.

The hands brushed carefully against his chest, causing Toshiro to mentally scream in protest, while his body reacted according to how the man wanted despite trembling. The hands moved away, causing him to open his eyes slightly. "Use me..." The small boy chocked out as he saw the man removing the top of his clothes.

Toshiro felt the man place his hands on either side of his face and Toshiro's eyes snapped closed, just in time to feel the man's lips press against his. The man began to do various things to his upper area. "I just have to hold out until Kira comes. It won't be long. I held out last time." That voice came into his head again, the same words.

After a few minutes, Aishodou's hands reached down and drew back the lower region, exposing the child's private area. At that, one small right hand reached into the left sleeve, unsheathing Shinso, and drawing it hard across the man's stomach area. At least, it was as hard as Hitsugaya could manage in the state of mind he was in.

This caused the man to pull back in shock, his right hand reaching for the would on his right side. He glanced down, then at the small boy, who pulled his legs closer to him, which caused his lower garment to drop lower. It was easy to see the blade sitting in the palm of the boy's hand. "Where the hell did you get that?"

Toshiro's eyes were on the bewildered side, almost like a deer caught in a headlight. His lip trembled as his words couldn't come out. The next thing he knew, the man's other hand was at his throat, tightening and causing the child not to be able to breathe. "I asked you where you got that from. What did I say if you caused me bodily harm?"

Toshiro felt his eyes blurring from the lack of oxygen. Shinso slipped out of his hand and onto the ground beside him. "Please... somebody..."To his surprise, he heard someone yelling at Aishodou to stop. But then, he thought he was imagining things. There was no way that someone knew to come find them.

M

Soifon moved from roof to roof. A sudden pain was felt in her abdomen, meaning she likely pushed herself a little bit too much. She figured though, Unohana would understand the reason behind this. Kira was close behind her and they headed towards where the third division captain's quarters were.

Everything was quiet, which caused Izuru to pause, then whisper at the second division taicho. "Are we sure something is going on? Its quiet."

Soifon simply held up a hand just in time to hear a loud yell of pain from none other then the new captain of the third. She and Izuru hurried forward hearing the words. "Where the hell did you get that?" Soifon's reaction was to yank the door open, in time to hear more words. "I asked you where you got that from. What did I say if you caused me bodily harm?"

Both shingami's eyes went wide as they witnessed the man clutching the bleeding spot on his side, while the other strangled the small boy's neck. Soifon went and yanked the man back, her own face pale from exhaustion. At that, Kira hurried forward to the small boy, his hands grabbing the small shoulders.

As he pat Hitsugaya's back to get him breathing again, his eyes quickly took in the rest of the preteen shingami's body. He caught a good deal of information that was rather hard to stomach. However, he suddenly had two teal eyes snap open on him, full of panic. His own eyes widened as his hand, which was near Toshiro's mouth was suddenly bit down upon.

Izuru leaped back and found himself switching places with Soifon. He could hear the child's ragged breath as he stared the man in the face, his eyes filled with anger. Glancing over, he saw Soifon reach out to do healing kido, to which he snapped, "Don't!"

"Yes. I haven't a clue what got into the boy, but he doesn't deserve to be healed. Particularly since he isn't that hurt," the man stated firmly.

"He isn't that hurt! Kira! I am going to heal him as I out rank you," Soifon stated, reaching a hand to the small boy, only to have Kira snapped again.

"Don't! Hitsugaya Toshiro has evidence on him that Unohana Taicho will want to see," the young man stated firmly.

"You mean that fact that despite that boy not having hit puberty, he's obviously been sexually active? It wasn't a good enough thing to discredit him, was it?" the man snapped out. "We were just supposed to go to bed." A strangled sob escaped from the small boy's mouth in protest.

"How many people are going to believe that," Kira snapped out.

"Me, a taicho whose been around for some time, or that child whose been around for only a short amount of time? Who are you going to believe?" Aishadou stated firmly. The next thing anyone knew, the sobbing came quick and hard from Toshiro causing Soifon to pull the boy close to her.

Kira glanced at Soifon, giving her a pitying look. "I am going to step just outside to give the order for someone to send for forth division for both Aishadou Taicho and Hitsugaya Toshiro."

As he did this, his eyes caught sight of the weapon that was used to wound Aishadou.

Author's note – Well, things are under way to being resolved, though Aishadou is still spinning his lies.
Wouldn't Shinso be basically a Asauchi in Toshiro's hands? This was a good question asked two chapters ago. Asauchi is what you call the form before Shikai. As you can see, Toshiro wasn't able to use Shinso more then this. However, people can use other people's zampaktuo. Tosen apparently uses his dead friends and Toshiro's was also used by someone else, Kusaka Sojiro. I've had Gin use Hyorinmaru in Christmas Nightmare to protect Toshiro. Here, Shinso would have let Toshiro use his Shikai form, however, it also depended on Hitsugaya.
Evilhumour wishes to say... The darkest hour has not occurred yet.