Chapter 20:
"We're here…" Toushiro said. Momo looked up at him then on the expensive-looking building in front of her.
"Umm, it looks expensive here, Shiro-chan…" Momo said as she looked at Toushiro with a worried expression. Toushiro just smirked at her.
"How much money do you think a captain like me receives?" Toushiro said. Momo pouted and blushed in embarrassment.
"Mou…" Momo muttered. Toushiro just chuckled at her expression. "She can be really cute with her childish expressions…" Toushiro blushed at the thought.
"Uhh, let's come inside now.." Toushiro said.
"Umm, okay!" Momo replied as she smiled at him. They soon entered the restaurant, unaware of a familiar shinigami spying on them.
"Hmm, so it's really true… Aww, my captain's finally growing up!" the blonde-haired female shinigami said as she peeked out from the bushes while holding a camera on her hands. "I'm so proud of you, taicho~!" she squealed softly in delight and stood up from the bushes revealing herself as none other than, Rangiku Matsumoto.
"Hey Yachiru, let's follow them inside…" Rangiku said as she glanced at her fellow little pink-haired lieutenant that was now dozing off. Rangiku sweat dropped a bit and then sighed. "How come she dozed off so easily? Now, how am I supposed to witness my taichou's first date ever? I just can't leave Yachiru-chan here…" Rangiku thought. Just then, something caught Rangiku's attention. She saw the 8th Division lieutenant passing by.
"Ah! Nanao-chan!" Rangiku called out her fellow lieutenant. Nanao stopped on her tracks when she heard someone called her. She turned her head on her left side and saw Rangiku waving at her on the bushes.
"Areh? Rangiku-san?" Nanao muttered confusedly. Rangiku motioned her to come closer. Nanao obliged and she slowly walked towards Rangiku.
"What are you doing there in the bushes?" Nanao asked.
"I need you to do me a favor…" Rangiku said while grinning.
Meanwhile, Momo and Toushiro have taken their seats on the table that the waitress motioned for them to sit. The waitress handed out the menus to both of them for them to choose their foods.
"You may choose your orders now. I will just wait here until you finish choosing out.."The waitress said. Momo scanned the menu same goes with Toushiro.
"Shiro-chan…Umm, the foods are sure expensive here…" Momo muttered at him.
"Hinamori, its okay… I'll pay." Toushiro reassured here as he focused his attention on the menu again.
"B-But— " Momo was cut off by Toushiro.
"I said it's okay.. Just order what you want…and don't call me Shiro-chan in public." Toushiro replied back.
"Mou, Shiro-chan—"
"I just said don't call me Shiro-chan…bed-wet-ter Mo-Mo.." Toushiro teased as he said his her that.
"N-Na-Nani..?"
"Well, if you keep calling me that, I'll call you by your 'famous' nickname as well." Toushiro smirked at her. Momo just glared at him and then pouted.
"Hmmp… You're so mean, Hit-su-ga-ya-tai-chou…" Momo said as he mimicked the way he said her nickname awhile ago. Toushiro grinned in victory as he looked at her face. "I so wanna pinch that pink cheeks whenever I teased her…" Toushiro thought. Realization hit him about his current thoughts."Ugh, what the hell I've been thinking…I becoming so out of the character…" Toushiro mentally slapped himself.
"Oh well… What a cute love quarrel between this couple.. They're adorable…" The waitress thought after witnessing the cute exchange between the two. She giggled and this caused the two of them to glance on her direction. "Oops…" She cleared her throat.
"Oh sorry.. I just found you two so…adorable together…" The waitress said as she flashed a sweet smile at them. Toushiro and Momo blushed at the comment. They glanced to each other only to find their selves blush even more. They quickly hid by looking down on their menus. The waitress felt the sudden awkwardness between the two of them.
"Umm, so have you already decided what are you going to order?" the waitress asked in order to clear the building cloud of awkwardness between them.
"Oh yeah! I'm sorry.. Well, uh…I like to order..a bowl of rice and *Yakiniku, please…" Momo said as the waitress took out a small notepad and write down, Momo's order.
"Why were you ordered only those?" Toushiro asked.
"Umm..—" Toushiro sighed.
"Well, I will order *Oden, *Gyoza, 2 cups of *Sakurayu and rice." Toushiro said as Momo gaped at him.
"Why did you order too much food?" Momo asked.
"What's the problem with that? It was dinner and I haven't even taken my lunch earlier plus you ordered only *Yakiniku." Toushiro replied.
"Are those all you want to order, sir?" the waitress interrupted.
"Yes."
"Well then I'll take my leave now. Please wait for your order. It will be there after a few minutes.." with that said, the waitress took the menus and left. Silence engulfed them for a moment until Toushiro decided to break it.
"Uhh, I'm just going to the restroom…" Toushiro said. Momo looked at him and then nodded. Toushiro stood up from his seat and walk towards where the restroom is. When he was out of sight, Momo wandered her eyes around her. The restaurant was adorned by paper lanterns. They were oval in shape and light yellow-orange in color like the color of the rising sun every morning. There were also shoji screen dividers that divides every table on the restaurant and bamboos that were placed over a medium-sized vases. To summarize, the restaurant is really relaxing. She liked it here. She was grateful that Toushiro took her out for a date in such nice and relaxing place. Momo's eyes widened as realization hit her. "No, it's not a date! It's just…a..dinner… Yes, a dinner…" Momo thought as she mentally hit herself for thinking such things. As she continued to look around, she failed to notice a person who approached her.
"Ah! If isn't Hinamori-fukutaicho? Good evening… What are you doing here?" a dark-blue haired shinigami said making Momo jumped in surprised on her seat. She turned around and looked up.
"Oh, I'm sorry.. I didn't mean to surprise you." The dark-blue haired shinigami said. "I'm Takamura Shouta. I'm the 8th Division 5th seat." He added while smiling sweetly.
"Oh…" that was all Momo could say.
"Are you alone? Do you want me to join yo—"
"I would never try if I were you." A cold voice interrupted them. They were both startled and looked towards the direction where the voice was, and only to find the 10th Division Captain with his eyebrows twitching in irritation while emitting a very familiar cold aura.
"Oh, I-I don't know that y-you're here, Hitsugaya-taicho…" Takamura said sweat dropping.
"Now you know. So leave already because you're disturbing our date." Toushiro said not failing to add a stress on the last word. Momo blushed upon hearing that. Takamura immediately dashed off in fear of being frozen to death. Toushiro sighed and sit back down on his seat across Momo.
"S-Shi-Shiro-chan—"
"Here's your order!" Momo was interrupted by the waiter as he put down the foods on their table. Once he was done setting all the foods on the table, the waiter bowed at them and then left.
"Let's eat. I'm starving." Toushiro said as he reached for the chopticks.
"U-Umm, yeah…" Momo muttered and reached for her chopticks as well and they began to eat.
"What the hell? Taicho is sooooo boring… Can't they go all lovey-dovey and stuff like feeding each other or kissing? This is so boring." Rangiku grumbled as she watched the two childhood friends eat inside the restaurant from a window not far away from their table. She was with Nanao who carries the sleeping Yachiru on her back. "I really should have helped her…Geez…" Nanao thought as she remembered the favor that Rangiku asked.
*FLASHBACK*
"Areh? Rangiku-san?" Nanao muttered confusedly. Rangiku motioned her to come closer. Nanao obliged and she slowly walked towards Rangiku.
"What are you doing there in the bushes?" Nanao asked.
"I need you to do me a favor…" Rangiku said while grinning.
"What is it?" Nanao asked.
"Can you please carry Yachiru for me for awhile?" Rangiku said as she shoves the sleeping Yachiru on Nanao's arm before she could even reply. "Thank you so much, Nanao!" Rangiku said as she beamed happily at her and then sprinted going to the restaurant.
"Ah! W-Wait, Rangiku-san!" Nanao called out for Rangiku as she follows her not before placing Yachiru on her back giving her a piggy back ride.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"A-Anou..Rangiku-san…I think we should go back now.. If Hitsugaya-taicho found out about this—" She stopped midway when she felt something moved on her back. She glanced to her back only to find Yachiru fully awake and staring inside the restaurant and drooling. The back of her uniform felt damp. That was when realization hit her hard as she stared down from Yachiru to the back of her uniform. Nanao's eyes widened in horror. "S-She's…practically drooling on my uniform!"
"Gyaaaaahhhhhh!" Nanao cried out loudly.
Nanao's scream heard loudly all over the restaurant. Momo choked out of her *Sakurayu.
"E-Eh? What was that just now…?" Momo said as she looked side by side.
"It's nothing. Just eat. Maybe that's a mouse's cry after getting caught in a trap." Toushiro said as he continued to gobble the food.
"Mou… A mouse's scream can't be that loud…" Momo said. Toushiro looked up at her and smirked.
"So you think a mouse can scream?" Toushiro said in a teasing manner.
"Mou, Shiro-chan! That was not what I meant.." Momo replied back as she puffed her cheeks in anger. Toushiro chuckled at her expression and stopped when he suddenly heard Momo giggled.
"What?" Toushiro asked.
"You're like a little child, Shiro-chan…" Momo said between her giggles. A vein popped over his head at her comment.
"Why, you bed wetter—"
"Come closer… Here, I'll wipe it…" Momo said as she get her table napkin and reached for Toushiro's face to wiped the bits of food on his jaw and lower cheek. She was about to withdraw her hand after cleaning his jaw and lower cheek when Toushiro held her hand on his left cheek and leaned in to her touch as he closes his eyes. Momo blushed at his action and tried to tugged her hand back but Toushiro tightened his gripped on her hand more. Toushiro opened his eyes and looked at her.
"Momo…I…I—"
"Oh well, the two young lovebirds are here!" a familiar voice interrupted their moment. They were both startled and Momo withdrew her hand immediately as Toushiro mentally cursed whoever the bastard that ruined their moment. Momo and Toushiro looked beside their table where the culprit was standing only to find the grinning Kyouraku.
"Yo!" He greeted as he raised his hand.
"Kyouraku?" Toushiro blurted out a little too loud. Toushiro glared daggers towards him for ruining his and Momo's moment.
"Ahaha.. Why are you glaring at me as if you're going to cut me into immeasurable pieces, Hitsugaya-taicho?" Kyouraku asked.
"Yes…I so wanna cut you into immeasurable pieces for ruining our moment…" Toushiro said angrily as he continued glaring at his fellow captain.
"Kyouraku! Why are you there?" Ukitake said as he enters the scene. "So Hitsugaya-taicho and Hinamori-fukutaicho were also here?" Ukitake said as he looked back and forth on the two young shinigamis. As if sensing the situation, he pushed Kyouraku away. "Ahaha, I'm very sorry for disturbing. Please continue your date…" Ukitake said while smiling at the two of them as he raised his right hand to wave at them. When they were out of sight, Toushiro sighed. "Seriously, can't we enjoy our date without any interruption? And…earlier, I almost…almost confessed to her…"Toushiro thought as he sighed again.
To be continued…
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*Yakiniku – grilled meat or it can be referred to several things. Vegetables such as bite-sized onion, carrot, cabbage, mushrooms, and bell pepper are usually grilled together. Grilled ingredients are dipped in a sauce known astarebefore being eaten.
*Oden - A nabe dish prepared with various fish cakes, daikon, boiled eggs, konyaku andkombu seaweed, boiled over many hours in asoya sauce-based soup.
*Gyoza - Gyoza are dumplings with a filling usually made of mincedvegetablesand ground meat. Gyoza were introduced to Japan from China. In Japan gyoza are usually prepared by frying them.
*Sakurayu - an herbal tea made with pickled cherry blossoms.
Hello everyone! I'm back again! XD
Hmm, after 4 months of not updating, here's the chapter 20! Thank you very much for your patience and I'm very sorry for making you wait that long. I was just really busy and focused on my studies. My course is not getting much tougher than before. I hope you understand. ^^
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erik: I'm sorry but your accusation is wrong. I never 'stole' the exploding spiders from Naruto just to be clear. I just came up with that idea by myself and I never ever used or even thought of any anime especially Naruto, just to based some parts of my story. Actually I have never watch nor read Naruto for several years now and I have a habit of skipping some parts of the story when I'm reading a manga. The word 'stole' is very unnecessary word to describe it. You can say it was 'based' from it, although I didn't ever based it with anything else. Plus, the appearance exploding spiders from Naruto is completely different from mine. Do you want me to draw a picture of it just to prove that it's my own idea? Well if you understand now, thank you… ^^