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In the previous chapter
Mishiro slowly turned and looked at Kotori with sad, teal eyes.
"My name is Mishiro. Mishiro Hitsugaya"
Kotori gasped.
"D-did you just say... Hitsugaya?"
Mishiro simply nodded.
"B-b-but... you do seem related, but...!"
Mishiro closed her eyes and sighed, quickly showing where Toushiro had gotten it from.
"I know that it may seem hard to understand, but I am Mishiro Hitsugaya, Toushiro Hitsugaya's mother"
Kotori all but fainted in pure shock.
"B-but... I've got to tell him!"
"I rather see that you don't. I don't know how he'll react..."
"What do you mean?"
"Please don't ask... a lot of things happened, and I don't know how to explain them to him in a good way yet. Please wait"
Kotori didn't know what to do. It was her duty as a third seat to tell her taichou about something this urgent, but those eyes. Those teal, begging eyes. They were impossible to say "no" to. She sighed and scratched her head.
"Okay okay, I see what you mean... I won't tell him. I promise"
Mishiro smiled.
"Thank you very much, Aosora-sama"
Koroti blushed.
"Just call me Aosora or Kotori, I don't mind"
"Okay then, thank you Aosora-chan"
Kotori blushed and walked away. She shivered. They were so much alike.
A few weeks later in Hitsugaya-taichou's office
The office was quieter than usual, not that Toushiro was disapointed with it. Matsumoto wasn't there, which was probably the reason that it was quiet. She was somewhere else, hopefully (but probably not) assisting the lower officers in an exercise or something.
He looked down at the papper in front of him, wrote the last thing and then leaned back in his chair and yawned. He had worked a lot lately, and even though he didn't want to admit it, he was just a kid that needed much sleep. He quickly shook his head as if to shake the sleepieness away and grabbed his cup. He was just about to take a gulp of the warming drink, when the door bust open and his fukutaichou walked in.
"Konnichiwa taichou!"
Toushiro sighed.
"Matsumoto, where have you been? You've got a lot of paperwork to do!"
"Oh, I'm sorry taichou, but you see, our new fifth seat is so interesting!"
Toushiro looked slightly confused at first, but then he remembered.
"That's right, one of the new ones, right?"
"Yes, and she's very beautiful sir. She's very strongbut also playful, I like her"
"I see..." he frowned and put the cup to his lips.
"Oh, and taichou! What's this talk about your mother?"
Toushiro's eyes went wide and he choked his tea. He coughed a little and put the cup down, before looking at Matsumoto with confused eyes. His hand was still clutched around the cup and the tea inside seemed like it was slowly turning into ice.
"What did you say?!"
"Oh, it's just a rumour, but people say that your mother is here in the seiretei! I bet it's Mishiro-san!"
"Mishiro? That's our new fourth seat, isn't it?"
"That's right, taichou! It isn't hard to asume You two look very much alike"
Toushiro for once didn't know what to say at all. It was probably just a rumour, but it made him curious.
"Who told you this, Matsumoto?"
"I heard it from Takeshi-kun who heard it from Hanabi-chan who heard about it from Aoyama-san and Akatsuki-san who heard it from Fujiwara-san who heard about it from Shirokawa-chan who heard when Reishi-kun told Kaidan-san that he had heard it from Kanashii-kun who heard it from Sakaya-chan that heard when Aiha-san told Kotori-san while Mishiro-san was sitting next to them"
Toushiro sighed.
"I'm quite sure that this is just a rumour, Matsumoto. That's not a reliable source" he said and managed to hide the fact that he was still curious about it. He placed his hand on his chin, just like always did when he was deep in thought. Matsumoto turned to the door.
"Well I guess that's it! I'll be off now!" she cheered and opened the door. Toushiro snapped out of his thoughts when he heard this.
"MATSUMOTO! COME BACK!"
"Aaw, but taichou!"
"Don't whine! Just do it!"
"But what about Mishiro-san?"
"Ignore it. Sooner or later, they'll stop talking about it"
"Understood"
A few weeks later
"Hitsugaya-kuun!!"
Toushiro sighed and turned.
"I've told you a million times, Hinamori. It's Hitsugaya-TAICHOU!"
Hinamori giggled.
"I know. But Hitsugaya-kun..."
"-Taicho..."
"I heard some of the officers in squad seven and five talk about your mother..."
Toushiro groaned.
'Not again!'
"For the milionth time, my mother is NOT here! I don't even have a mother! No one in the seireitei know their parent's faces, and you know that Hinamori"
"But you're special! Maybe this truly is your mother! I've never seen her, but people say that you two truly are..."
"Alike, I know. I've been hunted by this rumour for weeks now! I thought that it'd be over by now..."
It was true. There were often rumours going on in every squad, but it was rare that the rumours reached to another company. This time it had, and it kind of pissed him off a little.
'Maybe I should do something about this after all...'
"Hitsugaya-kun? Is there something wrong?"
"Wha-? No, it's nothing. I have to get back to work. I was just going for a walk, that's all"
"Oh... okay. See you late, Shiro-chan!" Hinamori giggeled and walked away.
"Don't call me that!" Toushiro yelled and blushed. Then he sighed and walked back to his office. He nodded a little at his subordinates that he past by, who of course bowed and greeted him with "Good day Hitsugaya-taichou"
He walked into his office and found Matsumoto sleeping on the couch. He aighed (again) and walked over to her.
"MATSUMOTO!"
She yelped and fell down on the floor.
"Owie, that wasn't nice taichou!" she complained, rubbing her sore butt.
"I'll stop do it when YOU stop fallling asleep when you should be working"
Matsumot looked at her feet ((A.N: Or she would have, if her enormous "friends" weren't in the way)) sheepishly.
"Anyway, I want you to get someone for me, Matsumoto"
Matsumoto quickly rose to her feet. She may seem lazy and childish... and sometimes stupid, but she had great respect for her taichou and if he wanted her to do something, she did... unless it was paperwork. She did do that too, it just took her a week, or two, or three...
"Yes sir. Who do you want me to get for you?"
"Our new fourth seat, Mishiro"
Me: Weeeeeeeeeeeeell? What did you think? Not too bad I hope...
Takara: Hmmm, not bad... a little short maybe...
Me: I know.... but I like cliffhangers and I wanted to make a cliffhanger RIGHT there XD
Takara: I see.... well, you're the author
Me: And to you HitsuHina-fans out there, there will be fluff later. There will also be family-fluff and also action. Hope I'll se you next time! BYE!!