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Hinata vision

"What…who are you?"

Another giggle. 'Just call me Miharu. Now let's help you get you out of this mess.' The bird landed on the ground and looked at me.

"Eh? H-how are you going to do that?"

'Me? Fufufufu. No, you're going to do it not me.' Miharu must have seen my confused expression. 'Just do what I tell you okay? Close your eyes and think of a place you think would be far away from here.'

I obeyed and immediately a field filled with farmers popped into my head. I opened my mouth to say something but I heard the voice in my head again. 'Open your eyes.'

I opened them. A man was gawking at me from the ground. I looked around puzzled. A wheat field filled with many people surrounded me. All of them looking at me.

"W-where did you come from?!" A man asked me, with a touch of surprise and fear in his eyes.

'fufufufu. I think they think you're a witch or some sort of freak the way you popped out of thin air! Better make up a story quick dear!' Miharu laughed. I didn't think was so funny.

"U-uh… I was just sent here… is this 'heaven'?" I said as convincing as I could. Though I did wonder if this was what Toushiro-san had called heaven. This certainly wasn't my idea of it.

The faces of the farmers softened to relief. The same man laughed. "I guess you could call it that. You must be awfully tired, miss, how about coming down to the shed house and get something to eat?"

I laughed for the first good thing to happen to me today. "Hai!" I followed behind the farmer to the 'shed house' as he called it and he told me some things he considered 'need to know' priority for living in the soul society. One, find a role as fast as possible, Two, get a place to live so you don't end up like the slums peoples, Three, know your place, and finally, you always are to be willing to do your share.

He said that when you're sent to the soul society if you don't pay attention you often forget about things when you were in the living world. When you died in the soul society, you end up being reborn back in the living world. You do not age very fast either.

"Ah, and here we are. Hahaha, funny how you don't notice how time passes when you talk, right?" He laughed. His 'shed house' was a large barn like structure near the trees. He pushed open the door and we walked inside. There were two long tables inside, a window to a kitchen along one wall, and there was lots of hay on the ground. Two children played in a corner and some women walked between the tables, setting up dining ware. There was an earthy smell.

One of the women noticed us. "Yamada! How many times must I tell you not to try to sneak in here to eat early?!"

Yamada laughed and pointed at me. "Kojimaaa, I'm only here to feed a new soul." He started to make goo goo eyes.

Kojima looked at me. "A new soul, eh?" She smiled. "C'mere dear, let's get you a welcome meal. How old are you?" She put an arm around me and started leading me away.

"Ok. Since I'm already here how about-" Yamada began.

"OUTSIDE! You'll eat when everyone else does you free loader!" Kojima yelled at him. He ran back outside and closed the door behind him.

She turned back to me with an angel smile. "So like I was asking. How old are you?"

"Th-thirteen." I stuttered. She reminded me of Sakura, with much more deadly mood swings.

"Thirteen? Really? You have such a baby face." She tilted my chin up. "Anyway let's get you a snack 'fore dinner. You must be tired."

"Hai."

She led me into the kitchen and gave me an apple to munch on. Several other women walked up to me and started asking me questions, like my name, my family (they loved how dramatic it was), when my birthday was. All kinds of things. Afterwards I helped with the final preparations for the dinner and we summoned the field workers.

Apparently the family who owned the land was too lazy to take care of it so they rented out the land to a group of farmers. One thing lead to another and now a whole bunch of them live and work here. Many of them newcomers like me who stumbled along. They live a modest life, not that I minded. It was kind of refreshing.

Hours later after being introduced to the 'field family', as they called themselves, I fell into a bed that one of the women had put together for me.

'Enjoying yourself?' Miharu asked as I sank into my warming blankets.

'Yes.' I answered.

'You still haven't developed my form yet.' She sighed.

'Form?'

'Yes, what I shall be when you make me a zanpakto. Your heart still has not completed me.'

I thought for a second. 'What's a zanpakto?' I yawned. 'And what are you?'

'A zanpakto is the sword that a shinigami, commonly called Soul Reapers, carry. I am a spirit that lives in a zanpakto, the zanpakto's essence if you will.' Miharu explained. 'Like Toushiro-san's, remember?'

I blinked. 'Toushiro-san was a shinigami???'

'Duh.'

I thought about this for a second. That explained why he saved me, and how he was able to do all that…cool stuff.

Miharu snickered. 'You think Toushiro-san is cool.' She sang.

I blushed. 'I-I do not! … wait! No he is cool…but… not in… oh forget it!!' I pulled my blanket above my head.

I heard Miharu laugh. 'Make sure you think on my form while you're asleep.'

Hmm…. Zanpakto..form……….dragon… bird……maybe with………………

Toushiro vision

"Why do I have to do this?" I groaned as we made our way to the specified rukongai.

My lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto smiled at me. "Because this is the sector you're assigned to and if the ruckus isn't investigated who knows what might happen. Remember the "Ichigo" incident. Not that it was a bad thing but the only reason it got that far was because it wasn't-"

"Yeah, yeah, no one took him seriously so he ended up making us look stupid. I know, I know." I interrupted.

She blinked at me. "What's crawled up your butt and died? Ever since you came back from your last hollow killing mission you've been really cranky."

I thought of Hyuuga Hinata-chan but pushed it to the back of my mind. I'm on Soul Reaper duty right now, I can't be thinking of one average soul so much. "I have no idea what you're talking about." I said to her coldly and walked ahead of her. I heard her sigh but she didn't say anything.

We finally came upon the building we had arranged the meeting. A man from my squad division stood at attention in front of the door. He saw us coming. "Captain Toushiro." He said politely. I nodded at him and entered with Rangiku right behind me.

In the room was a group of people, many common folk stood inside along the walls. The group I sent out earlier to deal with the rabble sat at the table, looking meek.

"Suwaru, what's going on here?" I asked the leader of the group.

"Captain!" Suwaru stood up and gave me a courteous bow. "We don't quite know. They keep going on and on about things and won't settle don't long enough for us to get a clear story."

I looked at the rukongai villagers. This information didn't surprise me in the least. Rukongai villagers tended to be a noisy and brutish bunch. They were cruel and harsh, they wouldn't even give a single piece of bread to a starving child no matter how much food they had. Even the children quickly grew into liars and thieves. I hoped Hyuuga-chan had enough sense to get out of the rukongai quickly; people like her were too soft for such living.

I walked to the end of the table to the seat reserved for me. Rangiku stood beside me. "Okay, let's start at the beginning. What happened?" I asked one of the group members.

Before the man could even speak the villagers erupted into a frenzy chaos, all trying to tell their version.

"Shut UP!" I barked at them, exerting my spiritual pressure. They immediately closed their mouths. Spirit pressure could be so useful sometimes. I turned back to the group member. "Continue."

The man looked at the people along the walls for a hesitant second. "Well, what we've been able to get so far is that a child beater was about to be reprimanded when they assaulted them with-"

"Child beater?" My lieutenant interrupted him.

"Yes. That's what they told us. Anyway they were attacked by a monster and then the beater vanished. Or something along those lines."

'Monster?' I wondered. 'What could that mean?'

"That's not very specific." I mumbled.

The group captain sighed. "We've been trying our best so far but we just can't get them to settle down."

I looked over at the rukongai villagers and glared. "That won't be a problem anymore." I said coldly. They seemed to get the message and a few gulped.

"Alright. Let's start with the cart merchant again." The group leader said out loud, motioning for a man to come over. A thin, wiry man walked over and sat at a chair in front of the table. "Start from the beginning again, would you?"

The man nodded. "I was minding my own business, selling bread like always at the same place, when a child ran up and kicked me in the shin! I was gonna smack 'em but he ran and I began to chase after 'em when I heard a noise and there was 'em lil girl taking meh bread." I heard Rangiku yawn behind me. I stomped on her foot and she straightened up. "So iz go after the chillins and they runs. Thought I lost 'em when I saw that the girl fell down and that someone was hoisting her up and I sayz to get the thieving lil brat."

One of the group members who was writing down the account looked up. "What happened next?"

The man grinned, happy to have the spotlight. "Well the girl says that the person helpin her made her do it, poor sprout, and them uther chillins show their bruises and that got me really fired up. I mean, using a child to steal, awful b*tch should be doing it herself! Didn't see what happened after that cuz the others got to her first. I thought that I wasn't gonna get my bread back and headed back to the cart." He ended his account and was sent away.

"What do you think, captain?" A group member asked me. I thought for a second.

"I think we need to ask someone who was there when the 'monster' attacked." I told them. The group captain nodded, asking for the next 'witness' as he called it. A man walked to the chair and sat down.

"I'll tell you what happened after. The children revealed the girl who forced them to steal things for her, poor kids, and made everyone mad. I could see everyone thought my way so I ran up and grabbed the girl and held her still, right? And she starts trying to run away-"

"I punched her!!" I burly man boasted holding up what I surmised was the punching arm. The rukongai cheered and patted him on the back. I glared at the crowd. I couple looked my way and zipped their mouths quickly. The boasting man also noticed my expression and he hung his head.

"Do not speak if it's not your turn." I growled, annoyed. They nodded and looked away. "Continue."

"Y-yeah." The man gulped. "Anyway so he punched her, get her to stop, y'know. Then my buddy gets an ax and holds out her arm, y'know to chop it off and-"

"You were going to chop her arm off?!" My lieutenant asked in surprise.

He shrugged. "Well a thief gets what a thief deserves. Get rid of the arm that caused the trouble." A group member glanced at me with wide eyes at this backwards logic. "Like I was saying the girl sees this and starts putting up another fuss and just when she's about to get her reward…well. Dunno what just happened. Felt like something threw me away. Just blasted!"

"Blasted?" The writing group member looked up again.

"Yup. Like I was blown away. MY feet left the ground! And when I got back up there was this gigantic flying monster in the air and then it was gone, looked like some kind of bird!" He snapped his fingers to show his point.

Several other rukongai agreed with him.

'A bird? Could it be a hollow?' I wondered.

'Doesn't sound like a hollow to me, besides they can't come here.' Hyourinmaru said secretly. I detected something in Hyourinmaru's voice.

'Do you have any idea?' I asked.

'Yes, but I think I'll let you figure it out.'

'Hyourinmaruuuu…'

I heard the zanpakto laugh. 'I'll give you some hints: She has lavender eyes, you met her recently, and you have a crush on her.'

'I do not have a crush on… Hyuuga-chan? You think it was-'

'Ask them what the girl looked like.' Hyourinmaru teased.

I huffed. "What did this girl look like?"

The man thought for a second. "Dark short hair, light colored eyes, pale-!" He cut off, I was glaring at him. I stood up and held my hand out to the side near my head.

"About this high?" I asked.

"Y-yes?"

I felt like smacking someone. Not sure if I wanted to hit this man, the burly one, or Hyuuga-chan. I heard Hyourinmaru laughing at my reactions.

"And where are the children that were beaten?" I questioned.

The man pointed to a group of kids who were looking wide eyed at me. I walked over to them.

"Where did this girl hit you?" I stared them down. A little boy put his hand on the shoulder of another child.

"H-here. She hit my brother here." He showed me a bruise on his brother's arm.

"That looks like a scrape to me. There's even scabs from the ground on it." I quickly disproved it. The boys stared dumbfounded at me. "Anyone else has an injury that was actually caused by this girl?"

None of them answered. "And can you tell me exactly HOW LONG she's been forcing you to steal for her?" They looked at a little girl.

"I-I don't know. A long time!" She said defiantly.

"Really?" I stooped down to her height and stared her down. "You wouldn't lie to me would you? I hate children when they lie to me. Now answer me this, how long had you known her before you started these accusations?"

She shivered and looked away. Mumbling something…

"What was that?"

"A-A few seconds…" She admitted. The rukongai people gaped at the little girl. I ignored them and walked out of the building.

"We're through here, let's go." I barked as I left. My subordinates scrambled their things together to follow me out. Rangiku ran to catch up with me.

"Captain! Where are you going? We still haven't-"

"Found out what happened? I already know who it was; just have to find her now." I informed my lieutenant walking on. I ordered the group to go back and organize another to begin searching for Hyuuga Hinata. With any luck I might just have a reunion with the trouble making girl.

'Looking forward to it?' Hyourinmaru teased.

'Shut up.'

Hinata vision

"Aa-CHOO!" I sniffed. I had sat up when I sneezed. I rubbed my eyes lazily and looked around wondering what time it was. I smelled something nice and walked out of my small room toward the smell. I came up to the door of the kitchen where there was lots of noise. I opened the door.

"Ah, Hinata-chan. Good morning, you're up early." Kojima chimed spotting me. "Since you're awake want to help us with breakfast?"

I paused and looked around slowly at the kitchen. All of the women smiled at me and waited for my answer. I wondered if this was what many families were like.

"Sure." I answered. I needed to do my best to earn my keep. I helped with the cooking and setting out the plates.

One of the older women sighed. "Hee hee, seeing Hina-chan reminded me of when I first came here. I still remember my shinigami." She giggled. "He was such a good looking one."

Kojima laughed. "You've only been here two years, stop making it sound like you're old."

"Can't I look back on things in a reminiscing mood without being lectured?!" She barked making everyone laugh.

Another woman put a hand on her cheek and sighed. "I know what you mean; I remember my shinigami too…" She paused. "He was butt ugly." This caused a fit of hysteria at the poor girl's expense.

That got started a conversation from woman to woman about the shinigami's that sent them over, what they looked like, looks, and also about how they died in the first place.

"What about you Hinata-chan?" Kojima asked me. "What was your shinigami like?"

I thought for a second. "'He was short." This made them laugh.

"What else? What'd he look like?"

I closed my eyes for a second and his face flashed back into my mind. "Silver hair, tanned skin, blue green eyes."

They paused.

One of the women looked at me. "Hinata-chan, was he wearing a white kimono?"

"Yes?" I replied. They shrieked and went into a fit of hysterical giggles.

A girl grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me."Hinata do you know who that was! Your shinigami was Captain Toushiro Hitsugaya! Captain of the 10th division in the Gotei 13!!!"

"…Is that good?" I asked.

"GOOD?! He is the youngest ever to become a captain, he's a genius!!"

"He's super smart!"

"Super awesome!"

"You're so lucky Hina-chan you got to meet him! I'd do anything to just see a glimpse of one of the captains. Even a lieutenant."

They blabbed on about how they wished they could meet a captain and which one they'd like to meet the most until duty called and we had to go back to work.

'He's really that strong?' I wondered.

'Obviously, I can just look back at your memories to see how talented he was.' Miharu tisked. 'Oh well, fun memory, eh? You can tell all the people you meet that you were saved by one of THE captains. You'll be the center of attention for at least 15 minutes.'

'I guess...'

'And you could also tell them about how you were on top of him too!' Miharu cheered. I blushed.

'Uwaah. Don't remind me of that!!'

'Why?'

'Because it was embarrassing!'

'No it was funny.'

'No it wasn't!' I started ignoring Miharu's teasing and rushed to help out the other women.

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