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Chapter 18 – The thief!
"What do you mean Hitsugaya-kun, we left it right----." Hinamori stopped mid-sentence when she saw that the table were her present laid was cleaned. Panic rushed to Hinamori's head and she fainted. "Hinamori!" Hitsugaya quickly rushed to her side, and felt her forehead…no fever. He started shaking her, constantly shouting her name and hoping she would wake up. A few minutes later, Hinamori felt better and opened her eyes and got up. "Ugh, did I just faint?" She asked herself.
"Yes you did Hinamori, and you worried me!" Hitsugaya scold.
"AND ME TOO!!!" Matsumoto yelled out happily and hugged Hinamori tightly. Hinamori took a big breathe before she took the embrace, knowing how hard it would be to breathe otherwise. After a few seconds, she still hadn't let go, and Hinamori's face started to turn purple. "Matsumoto, Hinamori's turning purple! Let go of her!" Hitsugaya demanded, so Matsumoto let go. Coughing for a bit, Hinamori finally recovered and sat up and dusted herself, "Arigato (thank-you) Matsumoto-san and Hitsugaya-kun."
"IT'S HITSUGAYA-TAICHOU TO YOU!" He repeated the millionth time with annoyance. The two girls laughed together, forgetting all about the present that disappeared a few minutes ago until Hitsugaya reminded them. "Who would take a present?" He mumbled to himself. Being brought back to reality, Hinamori frowned at such an act. "The last person in this room was the mailman, SO IT MUST'VE BEEN HIM!" Matsumoto yelled.
"But what if someone came before the mailman?" Hitsugaya pointed out.
"Umm….THEN IT COULD BE ANYONE!" Matsumoto stated the obvious.
"Well…I only sense the mailman's reiatsu in the room, so…." Hinamori said. All three of them thought hard about whom could have stolen the present or where it had gone, but the answer was quite obvious. "Where would you be right now if you were a mailman?" Hinamori asked herself.
"Delivering mail to people?" Matsumoto suggested.
"AH, GOOD IDEA, WE'LL FOLLOW HIS REIATSU!" All 3 yelled in unison, too busy thinking about where the present had gone to realize they could have done that sooner. All three quickly bolted out of the door and went their own three different ways, all feeling the reiatsu in different areas of Soul Society. Hitsugaya went to Rukongai's direction, Hinamori to the 11th, 12th and 13th division and Matsumoto opposite of Hinamori.
We'll start off with what Hinamori found…and that was nothing. She searched all of the 13th division and found that the mailman had not come this way. She tried the 12th division, but she wasn't even allowed to check the whole division, as Nemu advised her to get out quickly before the 12th division taichou would come and blow his head off at her. Nemu had told her that the mailman had come by, but hadn't seen any boxes of whatever Hinamori's gift was lately, nor did she know where he went. When she even tried to enter the 11th division, she was greeted by Kenpachi-taichou, and she got a little scared, but luckily, Yarchiru –fukutaichou was there, so at least it wasn't that bad. And she got to ask, but nope, not boxes there. And if a mailman was even brave enough to give them mail, they would probably be flooded with complaints about the racket they make at night and the holes in the walls they make in the morning. So Hinamori had absolutely no luck there. She sighed, that present she spent forever working on and learning how to make from who knows who…had disappeared.
Matsumoto didn't have much luck either (it was still better), but heck she didn't have it as dangerous. The 1st division had a whole bunch of bill payments and complaints and etc, and had only known that the mailman had been down the 4th division. The 4th division had been sent mail about how to cure this and that, and heard the mailman had gone down to the 3rd division. The 3rd division, Kira-fukutaichou only get a little bit of fan girl mail, and since this was one of Matsumoto's drinking buddies, they had a drink. A few hours after, she didn't know where she was going and flopped down on the wood and fell asleep. She forgot about the whole present disappearance thing while sleeping, and when walking sliding open the 10th division door, she flooded by fan girl/boy mail, and remembered. She headed to the 6th division, knowing that Byakuya-taichou would have gotten fan girl and possibly boy mail. Byakuya-taichou had thrown away all his mail, told Matsumoto to go and get Renji to do some work, and that he had not heard where the mailman was going. When she got to Renji, she had some more drinks and got drunk and fell asleep on the wooden boards again. Typical Matsumoto, nothing done, but enough drinking to get her drunk.
Hitsugaya was walking along the streets of Rukongai, and right away he regretted taking this route. One step out of Seiritei, and he's already flooded by fan girls…and guys. "I'M NOT GAY DAMN IT, STOP FOLLOWING ME!" Hitsugaya shouted at the guys that were following him, but none of them listened. Frustration and irritation was the only thing that kept Hitsugaya running for hours, but the fan people had determination on their minds. Running by a house, he saw a man beckon for him to quickly run inside, and since it was just around the corner, the people wouldn't know that Hitsugaya would be in there. Nodding quickly, he raced inside. The door closed quietly and a candle was quickly lit, sending shadows on the small hut's walls. The stranger's face was still concealed but he could tell by her voice that she was female. "You must be quiet." She whispered and led him towards the corner of the room, that's when he noticed that there were stairs; but he didn't want to see what was up there. "Is this yours?" Her voice suddenly jerked him back to reality from whatever he was thinking and he saw there, in front of him, the most important thing in his life…well second most important thing in his life. "Whe…where did you get that?"
"A mailman came by and dropped it off; he told me it was for the person upstairs."
"But that's mine!"
"I know, and that's why I kept it away from the guy upstairs."
"How
did you know?"
"The mailman said it was from
Hitsugaya-taichou, so I figured that it was yours. And even though
Mento may have sent you a quadrillion letters, I don't recall him
ever receiving one from you so I knew something was wrong."
"YOU
LIVE WITH MENTO?!"
"Quiet down or else he'll hear you and
then we're screwed. Yes I do, and he was kind to me when I first
arrived at Rukongai, he gave me shelter and food. So I don't want
you to go rushing upstairs and banging the door and killing him off,
got it?"
"Fine…but
can I have that back please. And why'd the mailman think that I'd
give Mento anything?"
"Probably because he saw your name, and
thought that was for him. Not sure why he just saw your name and
nothing else though. Now hurry up and take it back, I'm busy and
those fan people are bound to come back this way as soon as they
realize that they missed you."
"Thanks." Hitsugaya nodded his thanks and dashed off, only then realizing he never asked for her name. 'Oh well, what are the chance's I'll see her again?'
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Hinamori and Matsumoto were dead exhausted when they came back in the tenth division, they didn't even notice the amount of mail they walked through. "This is horrible, I can't believe we L-O-S-T his present!!!!!" Matsumoto shouted and flopped onto her favourite couch.
"Actually,
someone S-T-O-L-E it."
"It doesn't M-A-T-T-E-R!!!"
"Actually, it D-O-E-S."
"It's
still G-O-N-E either way!"
"But at least the person who
S-T-O-L-E it can be F-I-N-E-D for such a crime."
"Well L-O-S-I-N-G is just as bad because then you C-A-N-APOSTRIOHE-T it."
"Okay, what in the world are we doing? We're just bored and crazy now." Hinamori stated.
"And we're D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E! YOUR PRESENT YOU SPENT A MONTH ON IS GONE AND WE'LL NEVER FIND IT, AND NOW HITSUGAYA'S BIRTHDAY ISN'T AMAZING ANYMORE!"
"And you know what? Wasn't there supposed to be a party for him…or did we miss it. I think it started a few hours ago… Let's go and visit the first division where it's held."
"Good
idea…AND THERE'LL BE SAKE, WONDERFUL IDEA!" Matsumoto jumped up
and raced out. Hinamori sighed and smiled as her friend raced down
shouting and singing and dancing. Everything went wrong today, the
interruptions, the presents going missing, and now missing the party!
She started to head out the door when Hitsugaya came in, huffing like
mad. In his hands, he held the box that contained his treasure.
"Hitsugaya-kun!"
"Hi—Hinamori. I—I have you—your
pre—present." He brought the present up to show Hinamori but the
present was too big for his hand and the present slipped.
"NOOOO!!!!!!"
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That's the end people! You know, I was going to make it longer, but well…lazy and I haven't updated up for a while, so might as well make it as fast as possible. Hope you don't mind my short chapter, SO ENJOY! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT AND STUFF, SO PLEASE REVIEW, FLAME ACCEPTED!
