Chapter 6 is up! After exams and some vacation I finally found the time to update! Plz read and review!
Chapter 6: Jealous Ice, Drunken Dog
Hitsugaya entered 5th division headquarters, slightly smiling as he looked forward to seeing Hinamori again. He had really come to like her company in the past few days. Sure, he had always liked it when she was around, even though he would never admit it, but recently something had changed between him and Hinamori. He noticed different things about her that he would have never thought of before. Like her beautiful eyes, and smile and…
"Jeez keep it together Shiro-chan, you act like some teenage kid in love. It's not like… wait, did I just call myself Shiro-chan?"
Hitsugaya shook his head wildly to chase away all those strange thoughts that spooked his mind. He just liked her, like a normal friend and nothing more. And as a normal friend it's normal to occasionally help her out with her work. When he arrived at the 5th divisions office, he gently knocked on the door and waited for Hinamori's sweet voice in response. Sadly, it wasn't Hinamori that answered. The door slammed open and Yugo appeared. He looked down on Hitsugaya and gave him a weird look.
"What do you want kid? I still have a lot of work to do so it better be important."
Hitsugaya felt like he was going to explode but tried to keep his cool. He had promised Hinamori to behave around her officers, even when they were complete morons.
"I'm looking for Hinamori, is she around?" Hitsugaya asked as politely as he could. Yugo didn't answer but turned around. "Hinamori fukutaichou, there's someone here to see you."
"Who is it?" Hinamori's voice sounded from the office.
"Some small kid with white hair."
"Oh, that must be Hitsugaya taichou, please let him in." Yugo's face turned pale when he heard the word taichou.
"I-Im sorry taichou I didn't know tha…"
"Forget about it. Just let me in." Hitsugaya pushed him aside and entered the office.
"Hi Hitsugaya- kun, how are you today?" Hinamori greeted him.
"Same as usual." Hitsugaya replied nonchalantly. "I just dropped by to see if you need any help with you work. I have some free time so…"
"Oh that's nice of you but it won't be necessary." Hinamori interrupted him.
"R-really, don't you have a lot of work today? I mean, you still have months of paperwork to catch up." Hitsugaya stammered a little startled by Hinamori's answer.
"I do, but Yugo helped me out a lot today. We've already done more work today than in the last week." Hinamori smiled.
"Who's Yugo?"
Hinamori rose her hand and pointed behind him. Hitsugaya turned around and looked at Yugo, who was still standing at the door, sheepishly grinning.
"Nice to meet you, Hitsugaya taichou, I'm Inugami Yugo, recently transferred from 2nd division to 5th division." Yugo nervously made a deep bow. "I apologize for my rudeness earlier on."
"Don't worry about it Yugo-kun, people mistake Shiro-chan often for a child." Hinamori laughed.
"Hinamori!!" Hitsugaya yelled fiercely blushing. The last thing he wanted was that that idiot Yugo heard his nickname. He glanced at Yugo and noticed that he was biting his lip to hold back any laughs.
"I'm sorry Hitsugaya-kun, It's stronger than myself. I promise that I'll be more careful next time." Hinamori apologized.
"You better." He mumbled, still a little embarrassed. "So um, do you still need a hand with you work? Yugo can take a break if he wants."
"Oh you don't have to sacrifice your spare time just for me taichou." Yugo smiled. "I'm not tired yet anyway."
"It' really nice of you to offer Hitsugaya-kun but we'll be ok. Yugo-kun is a great help." Hinamori added.
"Aww you're making me blush Fukutaichou." Yugo grinned shyly.
"Well I guess I'll be on my way then." Hitsugaya muttered. Reluctantly he left the office before Hinamori could even say goodbye.As he left 5th division a strange unpleasant feeling welled up inside him. He found himself cursing that damned Yugo and at the same time he felt rejected by Hinamori. Could this feeling be jealousy? He shook his head in disbelief.
"Ridiculous, why should I be jealous? He's just a shinigami from her division, he's doing his work. Still, I really looked forward helping her. Now what I'm supposed to do? "
Dissappointed and annoyed he wandered through Seireitei. "Maybe Yachiru knows something to do." He mumbled to himself. "God, I'm really desperate…"
"There that was the last one." Yugo sighed as he added another sheet of paper to the already enormous mountain on the desk. He was glad that all was finished now. His wrist and fingers started to go numb from all the writing.
"Well done, Yugo-kun but I'm afraid we're not finished yet." Hinamori replied. "There's still a lot of paperwork stored in the 5th division archives."
"Still more?" Yugo cried out. "You got to be kidding me…"
"We can finished it later. You deserve a break now." Hinamori smiled at him.
"Maybe we should have Hitsugaya taichou help us after all." Yugo sighed.
"Maybe..but it wouldn't be fair to him. He already helped me out so much in the past. I'm starting to feel guilty that I take so much of his time. He has a lot work himself as a captain." Hinamori made a worried face. "I hope I don't cause any trouble for him."
"He seems like someone who can take of himself and he still got a vice-captain too to help him out." Yugo tried to comfort her. Strangely enough, bringing up the vice-captain caused her worried expression to deepen.
"But it's weird you know." Yugo quickly continued. "He didn't seemed glad that he didn't have to help. He looked more… disappointed ."
"Why would he feel disappointed." Hinamori asked confused. "I don't think he likes work that much."
"Well maybe it isn't the work he likes, but the people who he works with." Yugo suggested carefully. Hinamori blushed and nervously started shifting her feet.
"T-that's silly, I mean we're friends and all but it's not like we…"
"I wasn't implying that." Yugo interrupted her. "maybe h just wanted to spend some time with you as a friend."
"R-right that must be it!" Hinamori smiled nervously. "Silly me, thinking of such stupid things."
"At any rate, I'm taking a break fukutaichou" Yugo smiled. "If that's okay with you."
"Sure but could you so something for me first?" Hinamori asked shyly.
"What is it?"
"Uh could you bring these papers to 10th division? It really important." She hand him a stack of papers. "I wanted to give them to Hitsugaya-kun earlier on but he left so fast and…"
"Don't worry Hinamori fukutaichou, I'll bring them to him." Yugo smiled. He hurried out the office and headed for 11th division, still smiling. "Man, those two really are in love with each other and they don't even notice it. Love is such a strange thing."
Later,10th division office.
Yugo knocked on the door of the office and entered as a female voice granted him permission to enter. As he came in, he noticed a large bosomed woman sitting behind the desk, drinking sake. She looked up and examined him with smile. "And you are?"
"Uhm, I'm Yugo. I've brought some documents from 5th division for Hitsugaya taichou, is he around?"
"He's out… somewhere…" The woman replied before taking another sip of the sake bottle. "You can give them to me. I'm the vice-captain by the way, Matsumoto Rangiku."
"Oh okay…" Yugo handed her the documents, which she immediately tossed aside on the desk. When Yugo looked around he noticed a lot of unfinished papers.
"Uh shouldn't you look at them?" Yugo carefully asked.
Matsumoto gave him a weird look. "Huh, it's break time, so I don't have to work and neither should you. Take a seat and have a drink on me." She presented him a bottle of sake and took a new one for herself too. It looked like she already had finished a lot of them.
"I really shouldn't…" Yugo tried to refuse but Matsumoto wouldn't let him.
"I said take a seat and drink! Do I have to remind you that I am superior to you?"
"Well maybe one drink…" Yugo gave in. He wasn't in the mood to argue with a drunken vice-captain
"That's the spirit!" Matsumoto cheered while handing him the bottle.
1 hour later, still 10th division office.
"L-look I r-really had enough now… Matsu..moto fukutaichou…" Yugo stammered. His head felt like it was going to burst. He tried to get up but fell down again. The room was spinning so hard that he couldn't see anything around him.
"Heh, you're a soft one, Yugo-kun." Matsumoto laughed. "Don't tell me you're drunk already?"
"I'm afraid so.. This is bad.. I still have to help Hinamori with all the work…" Yugo cried.
"Oh don't whine. I got a really effective cure that I got from 4th division. It won't sober you up completely but at least you'll be able to walk again." Matsumoto sighed while taking a small bottle out of her pocket. She tossed it it to Yugo. "Drink up, it's really good. I use it all the time to cheat at the drinking contests with Kira and Shuuhei."
Someone Yugo managed to open the bottle and drank it. It tasted bitter and it burned his tongue but it worked. Yugo released a sigh of relief. "Thanks Matsumoto fukutaichou."
"No problem and call me Rangiku. After all ,we're drinking buddies now." She smiled while opening yet another bottle. That woman must have had her liver removed.
"Now please Yugo-kun, continue your story."
"My what?" Yugo asked confused. His still felt a little dazzled.
"Boy you really were drunk if you can't remember that. You were telling me that you used to be 2nd division but that Soi Fong kicked you out and switched you to 5th."
"Really? I can't remember that.." Yugo mumbled.
"You were just about to tell why she kicked you out but then you started throwing up." Matsumoto continued.
"I did?" Yugo looked around and noticed a full bucket next to him filled with… well you get the idea.
"Good thing I think ahead huh?" Matsumoto grinned. "Although I was starting to worry if one bucket was enough. You just kept going."
"I-I'm really sorry…"
"Don't worry just tell me what you did that made Soi Fong so mad." Matsumoto said impatiently.
"Well, my pet dog ate her Yoruichi photo collection." Yugo replied.
Matsumoto bursted out in laughter. "You're joking right? You did that and you're still alive?"
"It's not funny." Yugo replied annoyed. "She really liked those pictures for some reason and if I can't find a way to replace them…"
"Her entire collection… that's to much… you really are something Yugo.. poor Soi Fong." Matsumoto laughed while wiping tears from her eyes. "And to think I got an entire archive of those pictures myself."
"You what?" Yugo stammered. "Are you saying you have those pictures too?"
"Not quite, but I got the negatives so I can make them any time I want. It's really useful to blackmail Soi Fong."
"That's great! If I get those negatives I can replace the pictures. Please Rangiku, can I borrow them?" Yugo begged.
"Yea right, and lose my advantage against Soi Fong? No way!" Matsumoto replied
"Please Rangiku-san I'll do anything for them."
"Everything huh?" Matsumoto thought for a while. "Well I still got to do a lot of work here so if you would be so kind…"
Yugo sighed. He really hadn't the time to take care of all that work too. Suddenly an idea popped in his head. Matsumoto wouldn't be happy about it, but he didn't care about that right now."Okay, I'll make sure all this work get done if you give me the negatives." Yugo agreed.
"Wonderful!" Matsumoto smiled. She walked to a cupboard in the corner of the office and opened it, taking out the negatives. She then handed them to Yugo. "I do want them back though so be careful." She warned him.
"Don't worry I'll bring them back." Yugo smiled as he stood up and headed for the door.
"Hey and the work?" Matsumoto yelled.
"Don't worry I'll make sure it gets done." Yugo grinned as he left for 5th division.
5th division headquarters, captain's office
"There really must be a reasonable explanation Hitsugaya-kun." Hinamori said to her friend while handing him a sheet of paper.
"I don't care." Hitsugaya replied. He really didn't care. Whatever caused that Yugo to be late for his work, it was like a blessing. After his earlier disappointment he had decided to go back to make sure everything was alright. And wonder by wonder, poor Yugo-kun was missing, leaving Hinamori behind with all the work. And of course he was just the right guy at the right time to help her. He never had been so happy in his entire life.
"Yugo isn't the kind of guy to just walk away from his responsiblities." Hinamori continued. "I hope nothing bad happened."
"Yea me too..." Hitsugaya said grinning. "Anyway I'm here now to help so let's focus on our work."
"Alright..." Hinamori replied softly. She was still worrying about Yugo. Caught up in her thoughts she reached out to grab a paper and accidently touched Hitsugaya's hand, who also wanted to take the paper. "Oh I'm sorry Hitsugaya-kun! I didn't mean..."
"No no, it's my fault entirely." Hitsugaya quickly said. "You wanted this paper right?"
"Y-yes..."
Hitsugaya picked it up and handed it to Hinamori. As she reached out to take the paper from him Hitsugaya touched her hand again, this time on purpose.
"You really have soft hands Hinamori." Hitsugaya smiled. Hinamori startled and wanted to pull back her hand but he stopped her by gentle grabbing her by the arm. "I'm sorry, I didn't want to upset you..."
"I-it's fine I'm not upset, it's just that we should continue with our work..." Hinamori stammered shyly. "God, he looks so cute..."
"Yea we really should..." Hitsugaya replied while leaning towards her, bringing their faces closer together. "She's so cute when she's shy..."
Hinamori's face turned red as she saw Hitsugaya's face close in. She wanted to pull back but her body wouldn't move. She closed her and and waited anxiously for his lips to touch hers. Hitsugaya was about to kiss her when the door slammed open and Yugo ran in.
"I'm so sorry fukutaichou, I can explain every..." He stopped as he saw Hinamori and Hitsugaya in their intimate position. Hinamori opened her eyes and backed away from Hitsugaya, startled by Yugo's sudden entrance. Hitsugaya glared annoyed at Yugo. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh ,uh I just delivered some documents to your division Hitsugaya taichou but I got... well anyway I'm here now, ready to help with the work again." Yugo smiled nervously.
"We were doing just fine." Hisugaya grumbled.
"Actually I got a message for you taichou." Yugo continued. "Your vice-captain asked me to find you. She's really, really drunk and she can't finish all her work so she asked me to find you and tell you that she needed some help."
"That airhead..." Hitsugaya mumbled angry. "I better get back then. Are you sure you'll be okay Hinamori?"
"I will, Yugo's back now to help me right?" Hinamori replied, still a little red in the face.
"Yes taichou don't worry, I can take over from here, ...the paperwork I mean." Yugo quickly added. Hitsugaya gave him one more annoyed look and then left for his division. As he headed home he pondered about what happened between him and Hinamori.
"Damn it, what wa all that about? I was actually trying to kiss Hinamori? I hope I didn't offended her but... she didn't stop me so... Argh this is too complicated!"
Hitsugaya hurried home and tried to forget everything that happened. He had bigger fish to fry now, like his incompetent vice-captain.
Okay that was it, I know it was pretty long butI hope you didn't mind. Plz review and stay tuned for the next chapter: Matsumoto strikes back