So I've decided to update since I realized that it's been a while. And I'm still kind of low on ideas, so if you've got any, I welcome them with open arms! And thank you all who still support me even though I take forever to update!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention last chapter that the song was:

We Dance Anyways – Deanna Carter

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Chapter 20 – The World Spins

As you might think, Hitsugaya was frozen in his seat for about…two minutes before his mind could function again. He didn't move from his spot though, and he could only think of one thing: Hinamori. Maybe it wasn't so bad, this so called love, hey, maybe it was thrilling! Whatever love was, Hitsugaya liked it, he really liked it. It was only then when he realized that he forgot to give Hinamori her present. He quickly grabbed his wrapped present and rushed out of the door.

Hinamori was lying in bed, completely zoned out and stupefy. 'What in the name of us did I just do?!' She stared up at the ceiling and couldn't help but want to faint. A knock came from the door to bring her back to reality. "Come in." Her usual cheerful voice was drained of emotion.

"Merry Christmas." A warm voice (for once) wished her. Instantly, she bolted up right and stared at the boy. He smiled at her and handed a wrapped box to her (way to lazy to describe everything.) She smiled back and said thank you and careful unwrapped it. (Is it just me, or do I have something with presents?) She gasped at the glittering necklace lying in the box untouched. The pendant was a snowflake inside a peach, both glittering in the sunlight like snow. Gently, she picked up the chain and clipped it on behind her neck and stared at the beautiful pendant now lying on her palm.

"Do you like it?" Hitsugaya cautioned to ask.

"I love it." She smiled her beautiful smile at him. For some time, they didn't move, didn't speak, but only stared into each other's eyes. Finally, Hitsugaya broke the silence with a small chuckle. Hinamori looked at him in a puzzled expression.

"Christmas is amazing isn't it?" He said suddenly, looking out of the window as the snow fell. Hinamori nodded and looked out the window too, and then realized what Hitsugaya meant.

"They say love on Christmas day is the strongest." Hinamori whispered. (A/N: Once again, I'm just making stuff up). They stayed silent and watched the snow fall. But the silence didn't last long, because in comes, MATSUMOTO! "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!" She jumped cheerfully and hugged Hitsugaya hard, then jumped onto Hinamori then threw confetti from who knows where all over her room. "Lalalala, lalala, its Christmassssss, it's Christmass, it's the time of year to celebrate!" She sang a happy tune and jumped around. Groaning, Hitsugaya turned to leave, but was stopped because Matsumoto grabbed his arm, and Hinamori's, and pulled them together.

"It's Christmas! Go out there and celebrate together!" She smiled her mischievous smile and pushed them out into the cold. Then slammed the door shut. Instantly, her smile and cheerfulness vaporized, leaving a heartbroken Matsumoto sitting on the floor. She heard their conversation between them, and she knew that they were in love. The whole time she stood and listened to them, she thought about Gin, and his carefree attitude, and everything she loved about him. She would've cried then, but she grew stronger as the days grew longer, and she didn't cry. "You idiot…."

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Hinamori and Hitsugaya went to the tenth division since they got kicked out of the fifth one. They didn't sense Matsumoto's unhappiness and walked quietly to the division, two love birds happy as can be. But happiness only lasts so long before the whole of Seireitei finds out. But in the meantime, let's get into detail of these two happy lovers.

They decided that they might as well go for lunch just to discuss about what they should do together that Christmas. During their lunch (which had a Christmas Special menu since it was a once a year thing) they enjoyed their Christmas lunch whatever it was (I'm not much of a Christmas lunch person…) and talked. They discussed how their lunch was (which was delicious) about their presents (which they both loved, especially Hitsugaya), about what they were going to do tonight (which they didn't decide...) and about their tomorrows. They didn't get a chance to talk much about it because it just so happened that Renji and Kira, who were in a drinking mood, popped out of magicland and grabbed Hinamori with them to get some drinks. Little did the couples know that Renji and Kira were there all along…just kind of hidden from somewhere. Hitsugaya stared after them with a blank face; surprised at the suddenness of the two men that he sat there for a while wondering what happened to Hinamori. When he figured out what happened, he jumped up and chased after then…which was a little late by then.

Renji was desperate to get away; he just didn't want Hinamori to be with…well, Hitsugaya. He wasn't really sure as to why he didn't want them together…but rather that he disliked the idea. Kira on the other hand, didn't see what was wrong with them liking each other, but thought it was a little early for the two. Hinamori didn't seem why she had to be dragged across the floor as they ran to the sixth division (which was closest) when she could walk fine and that they had to have her as a drinking partner and not Matsumoto or one another. So being dragged and forced to drink, Hinamori wasn't the happiest person, but she smiled and acted fine anyways. She noticed that the two got drunk really early and ditched them and bumped into Matsumoto, who was secretly following Hinamori the whole time, and also dragged her to find Hitsugaya. When they finally found him searching for her, Matsumoto quickly came up with an excuse to ditch work and ran as fast as she could to the opposite direction.

With the two occupied, Matsumoto went to find Renji and Kira so they could plan a giant party for Hitsugaya and Hinamori…you could say it was a big Christmas party…really big. When the three met, they went to find other people willing to make the celebration big, and found Hisagi, Yachiru, Ikkaku (who wasn't actually that willingly) and other people who weren't so important to help out. So they spread the news about the special couple and they started to plan it by discussing the place for the party with Yamatou-taichou. With that done, they went to a decently open but secretive place and started the clean and set up the place. Many people spent their time shovelling snow, Matsumoto with Renji and Kira started to set up a banner that someone with really pretty writing and drawing made between two trees. Written in big blue/teal and peach letters was: Merry Christmas Lovers! And all around were snowflakes, peaches and watermelons. They found markers from somewhere and coloured it in. Then they had someone who was really good at baking to bake a giant cake that had cut peaches and watermelon pieces everywhere with white icing and all those little details. They blew up balloons (and you can probably guess the colours: Blue, silver and peach…) and tied them around the tables people brought and the branches of trees and around the banner and just about anything they could find that balloons could be tied around. They collected confetti and other things that could be thrown and gather everything up and hid behind trees or whatever for them to come by. By the time they finished it was late at night and the moon was high in the sky, and then it took them some time to realize that the place was so secretive that the chances of the two of them were going to come by was unlikely. But they also didn't want to ruin the big surprise.

Finally, Matsumoto quickly wrote on two separate sheets of paper a note that read:

Hi Hinamori (or Hitsugaya)

Please meet me at the farthest end of the 1st division under the moonlit sky for a big 'surprise'.

Smiling at her words, she quickly delivered the mail to the doors of whom the letters were to be sent to. Hitsugaya and Hinamori, who had different plans and were too 'in love' to notice the people gone, and notice the letters that slipped through their doors. Hinamori and Hitsugaya, who were in the same room at the time the letter arrived, looked at each other and picked up the card. Hinamori who was reading it first, stared at the letter blankly, wondering what the heck was happening showed the letter to Hitsugaya who shrugged and said to do it anyways. So together they went where they were directed, both a little anxious and a little excited to see who the person was and what this surprise was. Together, hand in hand, they walked into the moonlit opening and in a spilt second, everyone jumped from where they were hiding and confetti was thrown into the air, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Everyone screamed. Taken by surprise Hinamori fell backwards, causing Hitsugaya to fall onto the snow with her. Instantly, Hinamori's first reaction was to grab snow (which was the sticky type), clump it up into a ball and she threw it to whomever. It hit Renji square on the face just by luck, and that caused him to throw a snowball back but it hit Hitsugaya instead. He grabbed his own chunk of snow and threw it towards Renji and it hit Kira instead, who was behind him and that was how a snowball fight began. For the next hour or so, snowballs where thrown, and forts built, teams made and battles fought. And the perfectly shovelled snow was soon back all over the ground in piles of snow and such.

Hinamori had never felt so good in her life time, heck, she'd never felt so happy and perfect before. It was almost like her life was perfect, the person she loved loved her back and she had the best Christmas present ever. She was playing instead of fighting and doing paperwork and she enjoyed the delicious ice cream cake with her friends, laughing and sharing smiles and memories together. But the best of it all was the fireworks that happened after everyone was settled and full, and she got to spend it with Hitsugaya. The fireworks came in so many colours that Hinamori thought she was blind by the time it was over, and she thought she could spent the rest of her life there, staring at the sky with the moon sinking slowly under the horizon where dawn was soon to rise.

Sitting on the roof top with Hitsugaya, they stared in a moment of silence at the blended sky. Even though the secret was out, they didn't care, life was perfect for them at that moment and nothing seemed more amazing than being beside each other. "That was pretty fun." Hitsugaya suddenly announced.

"Yeah, the best Christmas ever."

"You know, I never said it yet."

"Say what?"

"That I love you." He turned towards Hinamori, who looked towards him. In the setting moon and the rising sun, where the colours blended from a dark indigo and a light peach sky, the sun and moon shinning on both of them, they kissed passionately. The world seemed to spin all around them, and whether for good or bad, it would always keep spinning, around and around, orbiting the sun and keeping the moon in orbit. Everything at that moment seemed to freeze at the same time, though time frozen and the world spinning, life had never been so perfect, for The Peach or The Snowflake.

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Yeah, I finally updated, aren't you happy?! I decided that this would be the end of my story, because I thought it was a decent ending. HOWEVER, I'm going to make a sequel, where things are hopefully going to be more exciting, so stay tuned! And also, I would like to thank KaRiSa for sticking with me the whole time and supporting me! THANKS!!!!

Oh yes, I also suggest listening to a sad-like song or one of those different tunes that make you feel like the world is a little odd and that your life is perfect, because I don't know, when I was listening to those types of songs, the words jumped out to me a bit more.

So thank you everyone for sticking with me,

I'll make the sequel sooner enough later…

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Because if it weren't for you people who reviewed, alerted or favourites this story,

Or supported it with your wonderful advice, suggestions and comments,

It wouldn't have been such a great success,

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