AN: (Drumroll please…) Damn…That didn't work. Anyway, I'm back, its 10 PM and I have just finished studying…half my chem…sigh… year 12 sucks… Now I am on a little study break (no sleep tonight) so I guess I'll write the next chapter. Note: This chapter is for HitsuHina shippers, all you IchiRuki fans (including me) just have to wait till next chapter. Don't worry, don't worry I love the IchiRuki paring, its just that, well…yeah... Ok, now i have just read the reviews and they say 35 o.O thanks guys!

Disclaimer: Blah. I don't own Bleach. I will however, own some characters if I make them have babies! XD Or…maybe not…We'll see –evil grin-

A Summer Job: Business Lunch(es) - Part 1


An annoyed Hitsugaya stomped through the Court of Pure Souls. Needless to say, an annoyed Hitsugaya meant a temporary season of winter. And half-frozen bodies to anyone who came within a metre radius to the prodigy.

Of all of the people…Toshiro seethed. I have to take care of Ichigo. And of all of the people, that old geezer decided to choose me!

Chuckling evilly to himself, Ichigo followed the miniature blizzard. "Oh, Shiro-chan?"

The temperature dropped another 10 degrees. A large vein proceeded to show itself on the back of the short captain's head. "Don't call me that, carrot-top."

"Tush, tush…Why are you so angry?" Ichigo asked, even though he fully knew the situation. Rukia had informed him of it before he left on his teaching tour with the prodigy. Apparently Toshiro and Hinamori usually ate lunch together, but couldn't, because of Ichigo. Ichigo had thought that this would be the perfect situation to get the child prodigy mad. Rukia, on the other hand, had other plans.

She and Ichigo would have a picnic lunch together, and Toshiro and Hinamori could go somewhere together while they were having it. She told Hinamori this, and she was delighted to have someone so thoughtful as her new captain. Secretly she was worried that she would have to miss a day with her 'Shiro-chan'. Ichigo promptly told her that it was Rukia's idea, but it got Hinamori thanking them all over again, that they both had to ask her to stop. When she skipped off, Rukia said in a rather sighing tone, "She's in love." Rukia then turned to Ichigo and said, "Go tell Hitsugaya-taicho. And behave."

And here he was, behaving, if not having a 'little' fun.

Silence.

"Yo, I asked you a question, shorty."

The temperature dropped yet again, and Ichigo thought he better lay up on the provoking statements for a while, unless he wanted to end up inside of a freezer. It was a good choice.

Teaching proceeded in a cold, cold manner (literately), and lunch neared. Toshiro's stomach growled. Which reminded him of the fact that, since Ichigo was here, he couldn't eat with Hinamori. Because of this he started saying random comments about how Ichigo was going to make a bad captain, how he only beat Byakuya by chance, how he had no chance with Rukia etc. Ichigo, on the other hand, funnily enough did not get angry. He did however say, "Wouldn't it be funny if Hinamori suddenly got a large load of paperwork, out of no where?"

Hitsugaya stopped his comments, and proceeded to work in a more icy tone than ever.

Ichigo chuckled to himself.

This is too good, he thought, but he was secretly annoyed that the short captain had dared say that he had no chance with Rukia…Bah, not like he cared anyway.

The lunch bell rang. Hitsugaya continued like nothing had happened.

"Hey, Hitsugaya-taicho, lets get something to eat. I'm hungry." Ichigo explained.

Toshiro gave him a cold look, but followed Ichigo outside the door. Ichigo looked around for Rukia. Yep, there she was, smiling prettily, while holding a lunch basket.

Smiling prettily? Where did that come from? Ichigo scratched the back of his head.

"Er, Hitsugaya, wait here." Ichigo said, as he promptly ran off to where Rukia was waiting, leaving the short captain to scowl at the scenery in front of him.

As he reached her, he looked at her up and down. Something was different. She looked…different. Ah, it must be her clothes. I haven't seen her - "Did you tell him?" Rukia asked. He snapped back to reality.

"Nope."

"BAKA! How the hell is he supposed to know what to do?"

"Um…" He replied, scratching his head. He was about to say something else, like he didn't care what happened to the snotty brat, when he was interrupted.

"Shutup. Look," Rukia hissed.

They looked over to where Hitsugaya was standing, and suddenly the temperature went back to normal. They saw the reason running over to the surprised captain.

Rukia, even though she was Rukia, was still a girl, and wanted to wait to see what happened next, as throughout the Court of Pure Souls the relationship between the 10th division Captain and the 5th division vice-captain was one that many a shinigami pondered upon and it definitely was top on their list of couples-to-be. Rukia prided herself with knowing such knowledge, though she kept it to herself, as she knew that Byakuya-niisama wouldn't be very pleased if he found her gossiping. Even though she did know a lot, she didn't know that the next on the list of couples-to-be was her paired up with certain 'new' captain. Funnily enough, Byakuya knew of this, but he didn't say anything, as, after all he did have an image to keep in front of his little sister, and there was no way that he was going to tell her that he had been sneaking around, trying to catch up on the latest gossip on his sister - no, no he wasn't over protective. Not over-protective at all.

Sadly, Ichigo was new to the Court of Pure Souls, and he didn't give a damn about the relationship between his vice-captain and the short prodigy. He probably would have given a damn if he found out that most of the shinigamis in the Court of Pure Souls thought that he and Rukia were more than just friends. He looked down at Rukia who was watching them with undivided interest. He looked away, embarrassed. Even if he was Ichigo, it still is hard to keep a straight face when your girlfriend – nope, correction – friend who is a girl, openly stares at a couple.

He grabbed her slender arm and marched off. "Come on, I'm hungry."

"WHAT!"

"Oh come on Ichigo, grow up."

"But I have my captain training, and…" She cut him off by placing a finger to his lips. He was about to say that Hitsugaya was going to kill him, which was probable.

"Since when have you been so girly?" Rukia asked him, with a mischievous smile.

"Since,…What! Shutup! I'm not girly!" This comment hurt his pride, especially coming from her.

"Are too."

"Am not."

"Are too."

Ichigo opened his mouth to say another 'Am not' but he stopped when he felt Rukia's fingers grabbing onto his hands.

"Look, just come with me ok?"

"Fine, fine…" He mumbled, and allowed himself to be led off to Rukia's hometown.

"Hitsugaya's going to kill me when I come back, you know?"

"Shutup."

:Defeated sigh of air:

Actually, Hitsugaya wasn't thinking about killing anyone at that particular moment. Quite the opposite really. Hinamori had explained everything to him, and he realized that Ichigo was just hiding it from him all along. Now, if someone else had explained to him what was happening, he might have called out his Ice dragon, however, it WAS Hinamori talking to him here, so he let his anger slide.

They sat up on the rooftop, gazing at the sky. They had finished their lunch rather quickly, well, Toshiro had finished his rather quickly, anyway. In front of a very embarrassed Hinamori, he had gulped down all the helpings of food in less than 5 minutes. She had scolded him for eating too much, but inside she was secretly glad because he had eaten her food so enthusiastically.

She rolled over, gazing at her young friend. "Did you like it?"

"Like what?"

He was so dense. "The food," she said in a flat voice.

"Oh." He turned over to his side, his back facing her face. "Yeah, I…I liked it." A few moments of silence. "Um, you're a really good cook."

"Thank-you!" Awkward silence. "Uhm…Why aren't you looking at me?" She asked, truly puzzled.

"Um…Um…Its nothing…"

Hinamori frowned. Shiro-chan was being a bit weird today.

"Shi-ro-chan," she sang sweetly, "look at me when you talk."

"No." There was no way, no way in hell, or Soul Society, for that matter that he was going to face her, blushing like a beetroot. When she said his name like that...Ok, blushing like a beetroot was over. It was more like, his face was a beetroot.

"What?" She sounded like she hadn't even listened to him.

"I said, no."

"I'll make you."

"No, you won't."

Hinamori grinned. It was her childhood friend, and she knew just how to make him move. She slowly raised herself on one elbow, and then grabbed him by the ribs. She knew where his ticklish spots where, she thought, as she tickled him from behind.

"Wha…Hey, sto-haha-stop that-haha" Hitsugaya was laughing uncontrollably. Leave it to Hinamori to know everything about him. Well, almost everything.

Toshiro summoned up his remaining strength and turned to face her. She was still tickling him, so he grabbed her, and tickled her back. The sounds of laughter could be heard for miles, but of course, it was lunchtime, and most of the shinigami were indoors. Suddenly the laughter stopped.

As it was, the two were on a roof, and a roof, is, after all, slanting. Their tickling round had ended up with the both of them rolling towards the end of the roof, rolling towards the ground. It was quite a drop.

Toshiro braced himself for the impact, making sure that he was the one hitting the ground.

THUD…

The two had fortunately hit a grassy slope, tumbled down, and came to rest at the foot of a sakura tree. Hitsugaya was knocked out from the impact, but Hinamori was still conscious. Conscious, however with an unconscious Hitsugaya on top of her, his chin resting on her shoulder. Hinamori blushed furiously.

"Um, Shiro-chan."

"Shiro-chan." This time a bit louder. For a second she contemplated staying like this, after all, this was probably as close as she was going to get to the white haired prodigy. Since he did nothing to notice her feelings.

"Shiro-chan." This time Hitsugaya answered.

"Uh…" His eyes half opened, as he put his hands down in front of him to prop himself up. "Are you ok, Hinamori?"

She nodded, barely, but her face was getting redder by the second.

Hitsugaya looked confused for the space of about, 1 second, then he looked down to where Hinamori was looking.

So that's what he was holding himself up on.

"WAHHHHHH!"

This 'wah' (greatly minimized by the way) was joined by a female voice that screamed quite loudly, the words that no man wants to hear from his girlfriend, or potential girlfriend for that matter, "PERVERT!"

"HAAAAAA-CHOOOOO!"

"YUCK! Keigo, that was disgusting!" Mizuiro winced, wiping off the beads of… well you know.

"Shutup, you just sneezed a second ago." Keigo said, wiping his nose. They were in the middle of an eatery, and were in the process of analyzing the aspects of the human body - female species – namely 'girl-watching'.

"Ha. At least it was controlled."

"Hmmph…" Keigo looked away. "It's cause you're a girl."

"But its weird," Mizuiro said, as his gaze was diverted again, this time by an older woman, "I don't have a cold."

"Same," Keigo said wanly, as he followed Mizuiro's gaze.

AN: Hum de dum… –sigh-…Well, look forward to next chapter, where you'll see the end of this particular lunch meeting XD…I guess I'll start on Ichigo and Rukia's picnic…sometime…when I'm not studying…

Well that's it for now, keep reviewing… it makes me write !