"Killua, he called me Killua?" Toshiro thought feeling very confused and yet at the same time right.
Closing his eyes and then opening it, the young captain finally opened his mouth to speak.
"... Hitsugaya Toshiro..." he said corrected him.
"... huh?" the young boy asked slightly whining.
"My name... It's Hitsugaya Toshiro." he responded again.
"Great you get new names too?" Gon curiously asked as he tilted his head.
Toshiro only narrowed his eyebrows.
"What are you talking about, I really think you are confusing me for someone else..." Toshiro retorted slightly annoyed.
"No I'm not." Gon said innocently.
Toshiro sighed, this kid gave no reasoning and yet he didn't know why he had actually recalled his name.
"Oh how cute, you made a friend." Said Ichigo.
"K-Kurosaki..." Toshiro said half surprised that the boy had actually caught up to them.
"Yup, he's my best friend." Gon declared causing Toshiro to slightly jump.
"Now hold on a sec-!" he tried to protest while Ichigo smiled.
"Oh yeah, so what's your name?" Ichigo continued.
"Gon Freecs!" he said showing out his small hand.
"Kurosaki Ichigo." Ichigo said back as he shook his hand.
Toshiro sighed, this really wasn't helping. If it wasn't his busty lieutenant it was his meddling ginger friend; not that he really minded, he just preferred not to get the teen involved.
"Kurosaki..?" Toshiro asked sounding rather serious.
Ichigo looked at him.
"Do you mind bringing us some drinks?" He asked bluntly.
The carrot top blinked for a brief moment, it wasn't everyday that the boy asked for a favor.
"Sure thing... I'll be right back..." he said fuzzing Gon's spiky hair as he walked on by.
"I like your friend, he's pretty nice!" the boy said as he folded his arms behind his head.
"Why did you come here?" Toshiro asked bluntly right after he made sure the teen was gone.
"Aw, I just told you. I wanted to see you!" Gon said childishly.
Toshiro's eyes slightly narrowed as a chilly wind blew.
"I seriously doubt that..." he responded coldly.
"Why?" Gon then asked making Toshiro become a tad bit annoyed.
"Because it doesn't make sense." he responded as a nerve twitched at the corner of his temples.
"Why?" Gon asked again.
"Because no one in there right mind casually comes out of the blues just to see another random person!" Toshiro reasoned while raising his voice.
"Well yeah, who does that." Gon agreed happily and Toshiro sighed. "No offence, but you really became uptight."
"This is hopeless..." Toshiro moaned feeling quite stressed out.
"Are you upset?" Gon asked.
"What do you think?" Toshiro snapped as he turned to leave.
"Is it because of what happened?" the boy suddenly asked causing Toshiro to freeze in his tracks.
Ichigo walked through the crowed of people; it seemed pretty packed today, but the ginger didn't mind as he was more preoccupied about Toshiro. Smiling a bit to himself, he thought that it was very sweet that he had found a friend.
Having a soft spot for kids, he had no doubt that there could have been something more.
Turning with some cups, a man bumped him causing him to spill.
"Oh crud, watch where ya going ya freaking clown!" Ichigo yelled at a really tall man with blood red hair.
The guy was as tall as Renji with slit narrow blue eyes and with a maroon star on his right cheek and a spring green teardrop on his left cheek.
He was pretty well muscular and didn't look like one to be messed with, but Ichigo didn't give a dime.
The man grinned a wicked grin causing Ichigo's scowl to deepen, something about this guy was really creepy and didn't fit in well.
Turning to leave, he noticed another man was watching him; his face reminded him of Ulquiora, pale dark and melancholic. Big difference was that Ulquiorra was shorter than him while this guy was a bit taller than him.
Ichigo held his ground.
Kon was not around and nor did he have his substitute soul reaper badge on him; not that he thought that he needed it, he just didn't feel right around these guys.
The red headed guy licked his lips as he softly chuckled.
"Kurosaki Ichigo?" he asked.
Ichigo looked at him with disgust as he laughed.
"Your going to be coming with us..." the tall dark haired man than said.
Ichigo looked back at him and then at the first man.
His amber eyes suddenly widened as the man whom was about five feet away was now only inches in front of him.
"I dream of a field of Ice"
The wind howled as the cold wind blew over the strange field of Ice and snow; Toshiro stared down at his own blood that tainted the snow.
"I can hear a voice echoing"
"Killua. Thank you. To have come here with you... Yeah, to have met you... was really a fortunate thing." echoed a strangled voice.
"What?" said Toshiro as he looked around, it sounded like Gon.
"like it's crushing me, like it's swallowing me up."
"Do you remember what you responded?" the voice asked again sounding much more lively.
Sitting on his knees, Toshiro felt another figure against his back.
"I don't... remember..." Toshiro finally responded looking back down.
"It's the other way around. Gon, it's me. Gon. Me. ...Meeting you, I'm the fortunate one." echoed the voice like thunder resounding far in the distance.
Turquoise eyes bolted up as large worried chocolate brown eyes stare back at him causing the miniature captain to slightly jump.
"I'm sorry to bother you, Hitsugaya-kun but have you seen Kurosaki-kun?" asked Orihime.
Toshiro rubbed his aching head from his nightmare, he used to have vivid dreams but these were becoming too much.
"I haven't seen him since yesterday evening..." Toshiro responded with a shrug.
He recalled seeing the ginger during his meeting with Gon, but he had sent him away that way if anything were to go wrong then Ichigo wouldn't have to be caught in the mess... again.
Sitting up in his bed, the captain slightly twitched in annoyance seeing as though the girls had a sleep over in his hotel room.
"What on earth is this Rangiku?" he asked fixing a scowl on his face.
"Oh captain, there's no need to yell... the ceremony starts soon and all you can do is yell?" she asked pouting a bit.
"I don't care when it starts, but I do care when you have sleep overs without warning me!" he screamed as a bunch of hot girls jumped and squealed.
It was a man's dream to see what the captain had saw, but as for Toshiro it was the perfect way to start off a bad day.
Walking in the main room, Toshiro slightly sighed as he saw a few lieutenants but not one captain.
"Matsumoto... where are the other captains?" he asked angrily.
Supposedly she said that most of the captains were supposed to be here.
"Eh... well they are, heh-heh, their the vice-captains!" she said teasingly causing Toshiro to clench his teeth.
"Matsumoto!" he raised his voice, but paused as Renji came forward to him.
"Captain Histugaya, good morning." he said causing Toshiro to take in a deep breath before responding.
"I'm not sure if good, is the best way to define it..." the silver captain responded.
"My apologies sir. Oh yeah, also have you seen Kurosaki?" he asked now making the captain a bit wary.
"Not since yesterday... why?" Toshiro asked now sounding a bit concerned.
"Well we went to play a prank on him and well he wasn't in his room, we couldn't find him all day." Renji explained causing Toshiro to tense up.
"Then we'll look for him. Everyone separate into pairs: Abarai and Kuchiki, Madarame and Ayasegawa, Matsumoto and Hinamori, Ishida and Inoue and... where is Sado?" Toshiro asked.
"He left earlier to go looking for Ichigo." Renji explained.
"Fine, whoever finds him will end up in a group of three." Toshiro explained.
"Captain, maybe you should have a partner..." Rangiku suggested a bit upset.
"This is a large festival, the boy could have gotten lost for all we know. There were no hollows or even traces of spiritual particles and so we don't have to be alarmed." Toshiro waved off the concern as if it was nothing.
"Now move out!" he directed.
Toshiro frowned as he walked towards the stands, there was no way a hollow or an arrancar could have been around without their knowing and Ichigo wasn't one to go down without raising his spiritual pressure or wrecking...
Toshiro suddenly paused as a stand was completely toiled some cops were talking with the man and they seemed quite irritated.
"I'm telling you that they were magical delinquents... the boy completely destroyed my stand..." he said in an Italian accent.
"Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude but can you give me a brief description of the man." said the boy from before.
He was the strange blonde from before, he seemed strangely familiar and yet Toshiro found his gaze back down onto the young boy... Gon.
"He had red hair, and blue eyes about a 6'2'' or 6'3'' I duno, but the boy he was orange and much smaller that the magic man-" the man said causing Toshiro to enter the conversation.
"Where did the orange one go?" he asked directly causing a few of the crowed to go silent.
Gon smiled as he waved and the really tall guy whom looked like a cop seemed to be staring at me in shock as the blonde just stayed quiet.
"I a don't a really know... they vanished out of thin air, like a magic trick... he seemed persistent." the man continued with his horrible accent.
This didn't make sense at all, Ichigo was almost the only person in the world of the living with his kind of hair, but it didn't hurt just to make sure.
"What did this guy looked like, I need to know if he's my friend." Toshiro said point blank and the man thought.
"Es well about, this height, orange hair, fuzzy like a strawberry, brown eyes an-..." the man paused after Toshiro turned to leave.
"Is something wrong?" Gon asked as he took Toshiro hand.
Toshiro paused before he looked back at him.
"It is none of your concern.
Walking alone Toshiro pondered over and over in his mind what on earth could have happened, a mere human had no chances on taking on his dear friend and yet he was now missing.
Turning the edge, the silver haired captain was about to take out his cellphone when he suddenly paused.
A slender man with pulled back long hair stood across from him with a melancholic expression on his face, his dark eyes held no life in them as he stared back at Toshiro.
"Long time no see... Killua..." he said
Toshiro unintentionally took a step back as he moved forward.
"Who are you?" Toshiro spat out like poison.
"Illumi Zoldyck... however the question you should be asking is where is your dear friend..." he said causing Toshiro's blood to boil.
"Return Kurosaki immediately!" Toshiro demanded.
"Laughable really, you don't seem to know who I am... than again you don't really recall any of your friends either, do you?" he asked.
Toshiro balled up his fists as his chest slightly tightened.
"Do you know what's a hunter's purpose? Hunters seek out the most valuable and forbidden treasures, which is something your friend has." he explained as he walked a bit closer.
Toshiro took a step back, for each step he took towards him.
"What do you mean, Kurosaki has no treasure." Toshiro reasoned.
"Oh, but last time I checked you treasured him." he said causing Toshiro's eyes to widen.
"I think that's more valuable than gold itself, stealing something so precious from you... now how does it feel?" he asked his eyes burning holes into Toshiro's soul.
Toshiro couldn't move, a flashed entered his mind of an event with this man from before; he couldn't remember any details, however the feeling was a sense of deja vu.
Dropping his jaw as the man was just a foot away, Gon suddenly jumps in between holding a fishing line as if it were a sword.
"G-Gon..." Toshiro whispered.
"Don't worry, I'm not bound to let him hurt you again..." Gon responded causing Illumi to sigh.
"How interesting..." he muttered before holding out two fingers.
"Two weeks... That's how much time your friend has to live, are you an assassin or a hunter?" he asked before moving back into the parade that came from behind.
"Wait!" Toshiro cried, but it was too late.
Illumi was gone and the pool of dressed up people surrounded them in dancing rituals as they made their way towards the party. Toshiro searched through the midst of people only to get dragged out by Gon.
"It's no use, he's gone." he said pulling Toshiro back.
"He took my friend!" Toshiro said still in shock of what was happening.
"Then we're going to have to find him!" Gon said looking quite optimistic.
"He called me Killua... You know him don't you?" Toshiro asked slightly losing his mind from the influence of Illumi's presence.
"I do... but I don't know why..." he explained
"Explain yourself!" Toshiro demanded.
"You don't have to be so pushy..." Gon whined a bit.
"Now Gon!" Toshiro raised his voice.
"Illumi Zoldyck is the eldest son of the Zoldyck Family. They are considered by and far the deadliest assassins known..." the blonde teen from before responded as he arose from the shadows.
"An assassin, are you saying he was hired to rapture Kurosaki?" Toshiro asked.
"I don't know... If my guesses are correct, than there's mush more to the story. However we are not detectives, we are hunters." he explained.
"What the hell is a hunter?" asked Renji as he stood by Toshiro's side alongside a pissed off Rukia.
Kurapika raised his eyebrow at the intrusion; he was all in for talking to his long lost friend, but not some hot headed red pineapple.
"I don't see why I should answer you..." Kurapika responded.
"Let me see, cause I might blow a hole threw your pretty head!" the hot head argued causing Leorio to jump in protectively.
"I dare you to try and get close!" he barked back.
"Enough!" Toshiro yelled drawing all of there attention.
"It is obvious that arguing isn't going to save Kurosaki, we need to calmly figure out what is going on, the enemies up hand, where they are and especially what they want with Kurosaki Ichigo..." he explained before looking at Gon.
"You said you were going to help me." Toshiro said pointing it out so that there was no funny stuff.
"Uh huh, and so is Kurapika and Leorio!" he said nodding as he pointed at the other two.
"Say what?" Leorio asks as Kurapika glares back at Renji.
"If Killu-ah um Toshiro wants to save Ichigo, then we are going to!" he said causing the other two to sigh.
"Captain who's the kid?" Renji suddenly whispered feeling a bit awkward.
"... I don't really know... however, I feel that we can trust him..." Toshiro said weakly.
A tall man walked in a dark area wearing a strange ninja-like outfit, his long silver hair dancing in the cool air as he reached a cell. Ichigo looked like a mess in the cell, bruises covered his frame as well as several deep gashes.
Chocolate brown eyes glared back at the man with an intensive cold gaze taking on a more gold color.
"How interesting, not too many eyes catch my attention... too bad it won't be lasting long." he explained.
"What the hell do you want?" Ichigo snapped as blood trickled down the side of his lips.
The man chuckled towards the hot heads temper.
"What do I want... I want your core." he explained causing Ichigo's eyes to narrow.
"My what?" he asked.
"In due time, you'll understand..." he said before turning around to leave. "Put him in the whole." he directed towards a servant.
"Yes sir..." they responded as they went to retrieve the body.
Canary a dark skinned servant frowned as she witnessed the servants try to subdue the red headed teen.
"I'm so sorry, Lord Killua..." she whispered as she took her rod and walked into the room.
The sounds of screams and loud thumping sounds echoed off the walls, but Silva only grinned wider as he walked away...