Haha, I am finally updating after so many years! (JK, so many days more like.) Anyways, thank you VERY MUCH (AS I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!) to KaRiSa, MimoriFanForever, whitehitsugaya, and lastly but not at all the least, Benihime the Red Princess!!!! Anyways….Onward!

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Chapter 8 – Oh the Sweet Moon

The days of summer were over, autumn had started, which got everyone back to business. The sun was just starting to set when Hinamori had finished the last of her paperwork. "Yes!!!!!!!! I'm finally done the last sheets of paperwork!" She cheered as she rushed out of the office. Even though the sun was setting and twilight was coming, Hinamori was as hyped-up and awake.

"Hi Shiro-chan!!!!" Hinamori shouted as she opened the door. "It's Hitsugaya taichou!!!!! Now what do you want?" He asked. He was very grumpy; for he realized that he dropped the sheet of paper and didn't know where it went. "I just wanted to say hi!" Hinamori pouted. "Well, you're done with saying hi. Now would you please leave, I have to do paperwork. Matsumoto is lazing off again."

"Aw, you're no fun Shiro-chan!"

"It's HITSUGAYA TAICHOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Hai, hai, (yes, yes), well you're still boring."

"No I'm not."

"Then prove it and stop doing paperwork!"

"Fine…." He said, unwillingly. He quickly left a note to Matsumoto and started to leave with Hinamori when a sudden thought hit him. 'Why didn't I think about that earlier, I thought I was a genius!" "I have to go Hinamori, see you." He said quickly and dashed off. "Wait!!!!!!" Hinamori shouted, but he was already gone. 'I wonder where he's going, I better go and check!' So Hinamori quietly but quickly followed him.

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Hitsugaya found Matsumoto drinking some sake alone in the third division, surprisingly not drunk at all. As a matter of fact, she probably set a new record, for only drinking 2 bottles of sake! Wow…. "Matsumoto…." He started but Matsumoto quickly jumped up and started making up excuses for why she wasn't doing any paperwork. "I'm sorry taichou! I was busy helping Hinamori with her paperwork and then I was helping Kira find something and I just started drinking!" Lies….

"One, Hinamori was with me the whole time so that's a lie. Second, I just saw Kira walking down and he wasn't looking for anything; knowing you only helped him a little if that was the truth. And third, that's not why I'm here for."

"Oh…, then why are you here?"

"I want to know what you did with my sheet."

"You're sheet?"
"Yes, the one that fell out of my pocket."

"Uhh, what sheet? Heh…." She lied. She didn't want to let her taichou know that she read it, knew where it was, and well, etc. "Matsumoto…where is it?"

"You know taichou, I bet there still is a lot of paperwork left to do, I think I'll go do it now!" She exclaimed then jumped up and headed straight out the door. "Wait…, ah never mind," Hitsugaya sighed. She wasn't even going to do the paperwork even though she said she would, she's was probably either going to sleep or drink more sake. The benefits of having a lazy fuku-taichou: one, you don't have to worry about where she'll/he'll sleep, two, you get lots of sake, three, you get to hear the whine so much you get use to complaints, and fourth, there is no fourth.

Hitsugaya was walking out of the division and decided to go and find Hinamori, but that wasn't too hard since she was by the division anyways. He knew that she followed her, so he was kind of thankful that Matsumoto didn't say anything about the sheet of paper in the end. "Hello Shiro-chan!"

"IT'S HITSUGAYA-TAICHOU!"

"Right, gomen, anyways, you left before so I went to go and find you. Umm, you're not too busy right now are you?"

"No, Matsumoto's finally getting the hang of 'working' and went to do some paperwork at my office." 'Not really….'

"That's great, then why don't we go and umm, look at the moon, it's full today!"

"Fine…." He said, once again hesitantly. So they both went up on top of the tenth division and looked towards the snow-white moon.

Summoning all her wits and guts, Hinamori said quietly: "Hitsugaya, why don't you tell me anything about the Rukongai days we spent with each other?" Everything was silent, not even a cricket chirped between the silence that held between the two. "I…." He started, he didn't want to tell her about the past, and he just thought it wasn't quite…right. "I…don't believe this is a good time…."

"It's okay Hitsugaya-kun, you can tell me whenever you want, just promise me that you'll tell me some day."

"I promise."

So they sat in silence as they looked up at the moon that reflected off the river below them (that was very quiet by the way). After a few minutes, Hinamori started getting tired and by accident, fell asleep on Hitsugaya's shoulder. Hitsugaya first grew stiff, but got use to it as the night went on. Soon she started shivering in her sleep, so Hitsugaya took off his captain's cloak and put it around her.

"Oyasumi (good night) bed-wetter Momo."

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HI!!!! Anyways, this is the end of my chapter, sorry it took so long for me to update, I kind of had my e-mail get screwed over and didn't realize people reviewed so I didn't update till I found out that there were reviews. Heh…. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'll try to update soon! By the way, this story will probably end soon, sorry to say, but uh… too little ideas, actually, it might not be too short. So bye for now!!