Me Notes: Nothing much to say, just that me no own Bleach. Oh, and Thanks for reading. This one is short.

Ch. 2: So Sorry

Crunch.

Hitsugaya's eyes flew wide open.

Crunch, crunch, snap.

"Ahhh!" A girl screamed. He looked up right on time to see a branch and a girl heading right towards him.

Thud.

"Owww..." the girl rubbed her bottom where she collided with the ground. She then remembered the prince was under her. "Oh, the prin- THE PRINCE!"

Amaya, the prince's horse, looked up from eating to the place where she heard the scream. Nothing was unusual to her so she continued eating.

'Oh no! The prince is out cold! I landed on him and knocked him out!' The girl in tattered clothes panicked and quickly removed the debris on the handsome prince. She hesitated, but she removed most of the rubble on him without touching him. 'I'm going to die! The prince is going to wake up and order my death! What should I do? What should I do?'

"Help! I need to get help! But what if...? I'm so sorry Prince Hitsugaya. Please forgive me," the girl was on the verge of tears. She didn't know, but he was able to hear her. "I'll stay as far away from you so I'll never hurt you, I just- hic... hic..." the serf in a bun held by a white cloth hiccupped from crying.

She stopped crying, but continued hiccupping when she saw his eyelids move. They slightly opened, enough for him to see her face as a blur. "Oh! You're waking up! I'll go get help!" And off she went to find help.



The dark haired girl was long gone when the prince was fully conscious. "Ouch. What the heck happened to me?" It all came back to him and he remembered the voice. "A girl fell on me from the top of the tree? I'm the one who witnessed it yet; even I find it hard to believe." He looked to the left of him and there was the branch and a pile of twigs, leaves, and pieces of bark that landed on him.

Amaya walked up to him and put her face to his, telling him she wanted to go back home. "All right, all right, I'm going. Wait, where were you when this happened?" His horse looked away meaning she wasn't that concerned. "Thanks, you are so kind Amaya. Let's go, the girl has no need to worry."

At the palace, he was ambushed by a worried brother. "Shiro! What happened to your forehead? There's a huge, red bump on it! We need to take you to the doctor!"

"I'm fine, Ukitake, it's just a bump," Toshiro side stepped him. "I'm going to put Amaya back, are the other horses fine? I didn't mean to harm any of them."

The older prince nodded, "One question though, how did you get a bump on your head?"

"Uhh... Something fell on me," Hitsugaya didn't want to explain, but the 'uhh...' was going to make Jushiro suspicious.

"'Uhh...?' That doesn't sound like Shiro-chan," Ukitake grabbed hold of his little brother's wrist and dragged him. "We need to take you to Unohana, something is wrong with you. Guards! Take Amaya back to her stable!"

In doctor's quarters they came across Aizen, Hitsugaya's advisor. "Good afternoon, Prince Hitsugaya, Ukitake. It seems like you were able to escape for the fifth time this week and with the help of your brother. Honestly, Ukitake, I thought you, of all people, would understand your brother's safety is utmost importance here; what with your health and he succeeding the throne."

"Don't you dare talk to him like that!" Hitsugaya couldn't stand Aizen, and he ridiculing his brother was overboard. "You advise me and me alone! You have no right to advise Ukitake, understood? And even with that I don't have to listen to you."

Aizen had to have the last words, "Two things I will make sure of my prince: that was the last time you escape the walls alone and the person who did that to you will be executed." 'After all, I can't let you get hurt to the point where there will be a new heir to the throne…. Once you are King, I'll find a way to get rid of you.'

For some reason the prince wanted to protect the girl from earlier, "No one did this to me! I fell off Amaya!"

"That is the most ridiculous lie you've ever said," Aizen walked away and Hitsugaya knew it was true.

Later that night Hitsugaya wasn't able to sleep. He kept thinking about the girl and he tried to remember how she looked like, but to no avail, he remembered nothing. 'Her voice, I remember it clearly, but how am I going to find her just by that voice? Why should I even worry? I don't even know her. She's just another girl.'

"'I'm so sorry Prince Hitsugaya. Please forgive me,'" Those eight words kept him up all night; playing over and over in his head.

Me Notes: Me done, for now. Hmmm... so how old should Hitsugaya be? Hmmm... I remember that there was a prince mentioned in my history book that took throne at age six. He is not six, that's for sure. I really don't know how old... Hopefully around Hinamori's age. Thanks for reading my junk!