Title: Lost and Found
Characters: Hitsugaya / Hinamori
Prompt: Dreams
Word count: 273
Requested by: Davan
Hitsugaya Toushiro. She knows the name as she knows her own. When she was younger, she used to dream of places beyond the limits of their world, just the two of them. She would dream she was a helpless princess, and he her knight. But she was too strong to be saved, too reckless to be defenseless, too proud to ask for help.
And so she locked herself away inside the shell of her mind to dream of dancing snowflakes in the summer heat, of aquamarine eyes lost in a blanket of white. She would dream of his voice saying her name, of his eyes calling her soul. She would see her hands encased in his, lost in the vastness of his robes as he engulfs her in his embrace. But they were old dreams, wishes upon lost virtues and lost moments, upon times past when he would be her friend instead of a comrade… It was all lost now.
Fear and helplessness. Lost freedom and tarnished dreams.
Until that one night he came, shining like the beacon of light he is against the contrasting black, to rescue her just like he had done in her dreams of so long ago. That one night, and the next, and the one after then, she lost herself in him, never to be recovered. And she holds his hand as Tobiume whispers in her head, questioning what's next. And he whispers, unknowingly, a vow, simple words falling off teasing lips.
Of course she smiles. She smiles because… Just because. Why should there be a reason?
And then Tobiume's silent, and she can at last be free.