This is the final chapter. I hope you will all enjoy it. It has been a pleasure writing this story, so I´m going to begin the sequel. Please review, it´s my last chapter after all...

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, but I do own my OC, Ryushiro.

Dark Ice

Chapter 18: Thoughts

By Shadow Typhoon

:

:

:

:

:

It was a nice sunny day. Hitsugaya was sitting in his office in the tenth division. It had been a month since he returned from his spying mission. He was neatly signing the documents while sighing. Since he had returned, Matsumoto never made the paperwork again. Just like before.

He looked worried outside the window.

Flashback

It was extremely loud inside the tenth division. The party Kyouraku had talked about had been planned and was now being held.

Matsumoto tried to force sake down his throat, but he withstood the attack on his personal bubble. Matsumoto was already drunk as she had decided to drink "a few bottles" sake before the party, so she was now trashing around.

Ukitake was sitting next to Hitsugaya. He was waiting for the opportunity to get some questions answered.

"Hitsugaya, where is all the arrancar and espada right now?" he asked.

Hitsugaya choked on the watermelon juice he was drinking. He didn´t know how to answer the question. He couldn´t just say that they were all in Hell, could he?

"Well...I fainted due to the amount of energy I used in the battle against Aizen. When I woke up after the fight, I couldn´t sense any arrancar or espada at all. It was like they were all gone into the thin air."

"So you don´t know where they are?" Ukitake asked suspiciously.

"Nope, not at all"

"Hmmm. Well, let us just enjoy the party for now, shouldn´t we?"

Hitsugaya nodded and sipped on his special made watermelon juice. He just had to hope that they wouldn´t find out the truth...

Flash back ended

Hitsugaya sighed again and continued his paperwork. He didn´t want to know what would happen, if Soul Society found out what really happened with the arrancar and espada. What would happen to them? And what would happen to him? He really didn´t want to know the answer.

Hitsugaya then thought of something which made him smirk.

Flash back

Hitsugaya knew that Rukia, the only shinigami residing in the living world, didn´t know of his return, so naturally Ichigo and the others didn´t know as well. So why not go and visit them? He had gotten the permission and was now in Karakura town.

He smirked. He would like to know how their face expression would look like, hopefully just as comical as the shinigami´s in Seireitei. He knew that they were all having a picnic in a park nearby. Why exactly holding a picnic, he didn´t know, but it was probably Orihime´s idea. Her and her freaky flavoured food.

At least he didn´t have to try it again. He flash stepped towards the park, as he wasn´t in a gigai. He spotted the park and slowed down. He walked into the park. It was a nice park, with a little pond in the middle with ducks. He looked to the left side and spotted the picnic. He smirked and walked towards them. As soon as he came into a hearing range, he said:

"Mind if I joined you?"

They stared at him for a while, not as comically as he had hoped. Ichigo was frowning as always. He stood up and pointed at Hitsugaya.

"What are you doing here, traitor?!"

Hitsugaya´s eyebrow twitched as he didn´t like to be called traitor.

"I´m not a traitor"

"Yes, you are"

"No, I´m not"

"You are"

"No"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"No!" Ichigo shouted furiously.

"Why, thank you" Hitsugaya said smirking.

"You cheated me" Ichigo was now tomato red in his face.

"Did not"

"Did too"

"Did not"

"Did too"

"STOP!" Rukia screamed on top of her lungs.

"What are you doing here, Hitsugaya?" she asked him venomously.

Hitsugaya smirked and pointed. She looked at where he had pointed. He was pointing at a Hell´s moth. The moth flew to Rukia and landed on her finger. She then received the message and her eyes widened. She looked at Hitsugaya again.

"Is this true?"

Hitsugaya nodded. Rukia then smiled.

"You can join us, if you will"

Ichigo was looking at them.

"What exactly is going on here?" he shouted, demanding an answer.

Hitsugaya sighed, sat down and told his story once again...

Flash back ended

Hitsugaya dropped the smirk and continued his paperwork again. He still had an enormous pile of paperwork to finish. But he was content. He was living his life, with his friends. But he felt that something was still missing. Something...something...

"Relax, Toushiro, you´ll probably soon find out." Ryushiro said gleefully. "Just enjoy your life. Or is it afterlife?"

"Young Ryushiro is right, you should relax and don´t think too much. It might hurt your brain"

Both Hitsugaya and Ryushiro looked at Hyourinmaru like he had grown another head.

"Where you just attempting a joke?" Hitsugaya asked suspiciously.

"A wise ancient dragon has humour you know!" growled Hyourinmaru.

"Hahahaha" Ryushiro laughed his head off, while Hitsugaya merely chuckled.

"Don´t make fun of me!" Hyourinmaru was now very angry.

While Ryushiro and Hyourinmaru were bickering, Hitsugaya looked outside. He still felt that something was missing. And it had something to do with the arrancar and espada and Hell. It was all familiar, but he couldn´t remember why. Something was missing. Something...something...and he was determined to find out!

-----The End-----

Whoa, I finally managed to finish the story. And on such a nice day as well. It´s the 10/4-09. 10 for Hitsugaya, 4 for Ulquiorra and 9 for...I´m not quite sure.

I would like to thank all those who have read my story and to those who have reviewed as well, I am eternally grateful. It was a slow process in writing the story, but it was fun. I have been kind of lazy sometimes, but you know, you can´t do anything about it.

I didn´t plan this, but I will give you a little appetizer for my sequel...Hitsugaya finds out what "something" he has missed... I won´t say anything more! Just read it, okay? The name of the sequel is: Hidden Memories.

I´m going to set up a poll to see if people want me to finish Dark Angel or begin Hidden Memories. Go to my page and check it out!

Well, this is the end of my story, Dark Ice. I hope you all enjoyed it. Please review, this is my last chapter after all... Maybe I will rewrite this chapter some other time, it was kind of sloppy.

So, until I write again, have sweet dreams

See ya for now...