HEY GUYS! SOZ 4 THE LATE UPDATE! SERIOUSLY, I NEED STICKYNOTES TO REMIND MYSELF TO MY COMMITMENTS! URGH! I'M SUCH A DEPRESSING PERSON… ANYWAYS, SINCE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE BORED THESE DAYS, I MIGHT AS WELL WRITE THROUGH THIS STOOPID WRITER'S BLOCK AND DO MY BEST… THANKS!...
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Hinamori sighed and slumped back in her seat, tightly gripping her seatbelt. She could see it though. The light emerging on the other side. First it was a small pinprick but then it started getting larger. And larger.
A large crash was heard as splinters and chunks of wood sprayed the vehicle as it bashed through some kind of wooden barrier. To Momo's surprise, she didn't need to squint her eyes as the sunlight was blocked out by a canopy of pine trees. She looked out the window and gasped in surprise at how tall the trees towered above them before she realised something.
"Toushiro! Is it really safe to drive between the tree trunks?"
"Yea…"
"But-"
"Don't talk big if you've never been here before."
Hinamori rolled her eyes before getting back to staring out the window again.
"We are officially out of Karakura now!" Haruka chimed from the front as he leaped into the seat next to Momo, slightly startling her. The little genius jumped up and down on the soft seat.
"What? Already? Doesn't it take a while to get out of Karakura?"
"That's if you take the free way! Which takes around two to four hours or maybe more depending on how the traffic is! We took a shortcut that we only know!"
Hinamori smiled at the little boy. He was cute with his large, enthusiastic, somehow innocent-yet-scary, yellow eyes and his baby fat. He was also a prodigy with his childish and unique, yet outwitting and intelligent ideas.
'However… Toushiro's a fairly different story…'
The girl gazed sadly at the back of the white-haired boy's head, unsure of what emotions she was meant to feel. Was she mean to feel happy because they were reunited? Sad or disappointed because he couldn't remember things clearly? Angry or betrayed that he'd forgotten about her and changed? Or should she just get over the facts that she knew him but was forgotten and act like two people that met for the very first time?
'I have no idea… should I try to return his memory or just let him be… what happened, Toushiro?... No, I shouldn't call him by his first name when he doesn't even remember me… Hitsugaya-kun… yea… Hitsugaya-kun…'
Momo sighed and looked out the window. Her eyes widened when she saw a large house, no, a mansion nestled in the distance around four hundred metres away. It was built in the old-fashioned Japanese style but by the way that it had a street light at the entrance, there was electricity.
"My great-great-great-grandparents built this place… I've been living in it for as long as I can remember… Surprisingly, I've never gone outside of Karakura town besides here and the airport… One day, I wanna go to Paris!" Arakawa explained, getting excited and bouncing up and down when telling the brunette about his fantasies of travelling to Europe. The car then halted as in the driveway of the estate and Toushiro took the key out of the ignition, returning the car back to its non-moving state.
"We're here." Hitsugaya grumbled, getting out of the driver's seat. Hinamori and Haru both followed, Toushiro locking the doors once they all evacuated with her luggage. The trio all entered the mansion with Momo lagging behind by a few metres, as she was simply awestruck by how large the place was.
"Oi, Hinamori. Hurry up or we'll leave you behind." Hitsugaya called.
"Mou! So mean! Hitsugaya-kun! I'm just... taking in the place..."
"You can take it in tomorrow morning. It's 5pm. Dinner's in an hour."
"O-ok... yea..."
"By the way, Inoue will show you to your room."
"I-Inou...e?" The brunette asked but didn't get an answer. She quickly ran after the boy and took her shoes off at the entrance and jumped back in surprise when maids took her shoes away. She quickly bowed her thanks before scurrying into the house.
Momo gasped, turning around in circles and gazing at the astonishing manor. Tatami mats covered the floor which seemed to be made of timber. The walls and ceiling were cream yellow and leather furniture was arranged around the rooms along with displays of expensive-looking vases and paintings. She'd only seen such places in books and photos and only been there on class excursions.
CREEAAAKK...
The female yelped and turned around at the sudden sound and sighed in relief when she realised that the house was old and would often creak. She'd just have to get used to it. She eyed a few china plates hanging on a wall when a small tear in the wallpaper caught her eye. She walked towards it and pulled it a little bit and gasped.
'What is this?... some kind of... spy hole?...'
Hinamori slowly leaned in to take a look through it. She couldn't see anything so far. She squinted her eyes and-
"Ah... Eto... Hinamori-san?..."
Momo yelled in surprise and jumped around at the same time, also causing the other person to the do the same; except she fell back.
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" Hinamori quickly offered the individual her hand. The female smiled at her and accepter her offered help and straightened her clothes when she got up. She had long, ginger hair with bangs which reached her waist. Her large brown eyes stood out on her smooth face but were accompanied by her bright smile. It took a while for Momo to be astonished (or rather surprised) at the size of her massive breasts.
"I'm Inoue Orihime! Nice to meet you!"
"Hi..." Hinamori wasn't really sure what to do in this sort of situation. For the past two years, she was friendless and was always in her own world. Surely, two years wasn't a long time but with no friends to spend the two years with, two years seemed to be an eternity. She was always trying to make new friends but she just wasn't really... accepted...
"Hinamori-san? You okay? Would you like something to drink?"
"Ah, no! I mean, I'm fine! Thanks, Inoue-san!"
"Orihime! You can call me Orihime."
"Thanks..."
"I'll show you to your room!"
"Okay..."
For the next hour, Inoue showed Momo around the mansion. All the rooms, gardens, study places, libraries and other places. The two were quite tired and looking forward to a nice, long rest once the tour was over. Hinamori looked around her room. This place was also laid with tatami mats and had cream coloured walls. On the far side of the room, near her bed were two, large shoji doors which obviously lead to the garden. There was also a normal, wooden study desk with all of the necessary stationery, notebooks, textbooks and even a computer, printer and telephone.
"If you get cold during the night, the air conditioner also has a heater so you can just turn that on, okay?" Momo nodded in response to the big-busted girl. "Oh, by the way! NEVER go into the pine forest alone and without permission. There have been cases where students and teachers went in there and never returned. Actually, they're still missing... Nobody knows why but... YES! That MUST be it! They were kidnapped by aliens at a tea party!"
"Aliens?... Tea... party?"
"Yes! Aliens are sending mind signals out to people and inviting them to tea! Then they invite them and erase their memory if they send them home so that they don't tell their friends about it because they're running out of red bean paste!"
"IF they send them home?"
"Well... there was once a time when Toushiro-kun disappeared in there too... he was gone for around eight months but Haru-sensei managed to saved him... but he lost all of his memory. And himself. And-"
"Oi, Inoue! It's not such a great idea to scare the newbie!" The two females whipped around to see who was standing at the doorway. There was a man in his early twenties. He had reckless, orange hair that stuck out everywhere. His eyebrows were knitted in a scowl which sat above his somewhat deep and determined eyes. He smirked at Orihime. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you."
"S-s-sensei!"
LOOK, SOZ 4 THE LATE UPDATE! MY PARENTS RESTRICTED ME FROM MY COMPUTER AND INTERNET... CRIES... OKAY, I KNOW NOT MUCH HAPPENED IN THIS CHAPTER AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT FIND IT BORING BUT HEY! WHAT DOES TOUSHIRO'S MEMORY LOSS HAVE TO DO WITH THAT GIANT PINE FOREST? THE ANSWER IS REVEALED... LATER IN THE STORY... THANKS 4 READING AND I'D REALLY APPRECIATE REVIEWS! I LIVE ON THEM!...
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