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Chapter 16: Hinamori's Decision

It was dark outside, but the stars lit up her cell like a neon light. Hinamori sighed. How long were they planning on keeping her in this cell? All she did was defend her friend. So why were they doing this to her?

A guard came up to her cell, but she didn't notice. "Hinamori-fukutaichou?" The guard asked.

"Yes?" she asked softly.

"I bring news to you from the Soutaichou. He says that the prisoner was broken out of the Shi-Shinro early this morning, but was terribly injured in the battle over his custody and was taken to another prison block."

"Which one?"

"Sorry, ma'am. It's classified."

Momo's eyes softened sadly. "I see. Thank you."

The guard bowed and walked back to his post and the entrance to the Division Five prison block.

That next morning, Kuchiki Rukia walked around her barracks a free woman. Yesterday was the day she was finally let off of house arrest. She walked over her Division's office. She knocked.

"Come in," Ukitake said.

Rukia opened the door, just as Ukitake set down his morning tea.

"Ah, Kuchiki-san. I'm glad your here. I was just about to call you."

"Really, sir?"

"Of course. I need you to do me a favor. Go down to the Thirteenth Division prison block and watch over our new prisoner. Notify me immediately if there is any change in his condition."

Rukia nodded and turned to the door.

"And Kuchiki-san?" Rukia turned. "There's no need for your zanpaktou." Rukia nodded before heading out, closing the door on the way.

Soifon's light, fast footsteps were mismatched by Oomaeda's slow, heavy ones.

'I heard his defensive abilities were high, but I heard he nearly took Kira-fukutaichou's hand off when they went to the Living World to fetch him, I couldn't believe it. Not to mention that yesterday morning, he nearly broke Kenpachi's arm. And he did that without gathering any reiatsu at all. We better be more careful...'

"It's joke, right?" Oomaeda laughed. "I mean a kid like that against a captain like Zaraki. It's such a joke!"

"Be careful, Marechiyo." Oomaeda fell silent. "He nearly took off Kira's hand. He may have been reborn into human form, but he is starting to get his Shinigami relfexes back. What happened to Kira may happen to you."

Oomaeda said nothing for the rest of the day.

Matsumoto Rangiku hadn't drunk a single sip of sake all day. That was very unusual behavior for her. Normally, she wouldn't miss sake for the world. But she had a reason.

The prisoner the Soul Society was talking about all the time. She caught a glimpse of him when he first got here. She knew him. She was the one who told him to enlist as a Shinigami, but had wound up dead. Now, he was back. She was happy at first, but that happiness disappeared when she heard the poor kid's death sentence.

This poor kid was to be executed by the use of the Sougyouku in ten days.

Yes, you heard right.

They moved his execution date up by six days.

That's what got Rangiku so down. She wanted to help him so badly, but anyone who helped the prisoner would be put in prison like Hinamori.

But there was something else bothering her. Her Captain, Kusaka, had not come out of his room ever since he got back yesterday. She was worried...

Rukia walked down to the cell block of the Thirteenth Division and stopped in front of the newly occupied cell. This new prisoner...she was to watch over him. Ukitake had told her "not like a guard" but "as a guardian angel" or "bodyguard". They were orders from her captain, so she couldn't help but nod and follow them.

Now that was she was here, she peeked inside, just to get a better picture of who the prisoner was and why Ukitake had told her to be gentle.

She softly gasped.

The prisoner, lying on a bed, out cold, was Toushirou.

Hinamori had the entire day to think. That night, she narrowed her fire-filled eyes again.

'Zaraki-taichou...he tried to hurt him...on purpose...for that, I will not forgive him.'

"Excuse me," she calmly said to the guard.

He turned around, saying "What is it?" but then gasped. Hinamori's eyes were glazed over with anger. He felt his body go weak and his world went black.

Hinamori turned back to the wall, inwardly proud of how effectively her Hakufuku had worked on the guard.

Suddenly, a wall was blasted apart by a strong kidou.

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