It had been close to three weeks since she and Renji had arrived in the World of the Living but already they were being called back to Soul Society. It wasn't that Hissori was upset about being able to return home, it was more worry for what the future had in store for her; well her and Toshiro.

"So tomorrow then?" came an instantly recognized voice from behind her. Hissori turned around allowing her violet eyes to be captured be intense teal ones.

"Yes…although I don't know exactly when" she answered in a low voice trying to hide her sadness at the event.

"We should be returning in a couple of weeks" Toshiro continued and stayed at his place against her door frame.

"Oh really? That's-"

"Nothing is going to change" he commented cutting her off.

"What do you mean?" Hissori asked in a confused tone, Toshiro only sighed and shook his head.

"It doesn't matter, not yet anyways. Are you ready?" he said changing the subject. Hissori gave him an odd look but shook it off and nodded.

"As I'll ever be" she answered trying to give him a smile but failing miserably.

"Good" Toshiro said as he crossed the room to close the distance between them.

"I'm going to miss you" Hissori confessed bashfully as her cheeks flushed a dark pink, Toshiro smiled down at her and pressed his forehead against hers.

"And I you" he said leaning down to kiss Hissori ever so chastely. Hissori felt tears stinging her eyes and quickly pulled Toshiro into her arms in hope to hide her weakness for him.

It was a sleepless night for Hissori, she laid in bed tossing and turning until finally giving up on the hope for sleep and getting up. She left the comforts of her futon and headed up to the roof to look up at the starry sky and wait for morning. Hissori had found out soon after dinner that she and Renji would be leaving early that morning. Looking up into the greying sky Hissori attempted to count the stars only to give up soon after starting and watched as the night changed calmly into dawn. With a sigh she stood up and made her way back into the house and sat at the table waiting for Renji.

"How long have you been there?" Renji asked as he walked into the room with her.

"Long enough" Hissori muttered and stood once more.

"Well we should get going, don't want Captain Kuchiki getting mad at us" he said and headed out the door.

"Yeah…" Hissori agreed turning to fallow after him but pausing to look over her shoulder wondering if she should say bye to Toshiro.

"Hissori let's go" Renji called to her. Snapping her head forward she quickly fallowed after him.

"Coming!" she yelled and disappeared back through the portal to Soul Society unbeknown to her that Toshiro was watching her the whole time.

Back in Soul Society nothing seemed to change and everything was just how it was when they left three weeks ago.

"Alright I'll go report to Captain Kuchiki" Renji said walking off.

"Alright and I'll….I don't know" Hissori sighed and started walking around.

"Hey Sori!" she heard Mihane say from beside her. Hissori turned and gave her a smile.

"Hello Mihane, how have you been?" Hissori replied.

"I've been good, I'm glad your home! Do you wanna go to training with me?"

"Sure, I've got nothing better to do" Hissori said gaining a smile from Mihane and then losing her wrist as Mihane pulled her along.

Training was rough, but that was mostly because some of Hissoris' wounds had yet to heal and could still be a bit painful at times.

"Are you alright Sori?" Mihane asked as she ran over to Hissori.

"Yeah I'm fine, it's just that I got hurt bad in the world of the living and some of my wounds haven't healed yet" she explained.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't know!" Mihane exclaimed guiltily.

"It's fine I just can't push it, I think I'll just go home and rest" Hissori said holding her side and turning to leave.

"Do you need some help?"

"No thanks I'll be alright" Hissori replied and started on her way back to her room.

She was half way home when she ran into Renji. He looked at her as if he was seeing a ghost. His face went pale and he was suddenly by her side.

"Renji what's-"

"What were you doing?" he interrupted.

"I was just training with Mihane why?" she replied sensing the tension in his voice.

"And you and Mihane didn't notice that you're bleeding?!"

"What?!" Hissori looked down to see that he was telling the truth and her wounds had apparently reopened during her training session "Oh that's just great!"

"You look a little pale, come on we need to get you to squad four" he said as he wrapped an arm around her and guided her towards the fourth division.

Six days had passed since Hissori was admitted to the 4th division, she was all but positive that her wounds were completely healed but Captain Unohana insisted on her staying at least one more day for monitoring and what made things worse was that Renji had come to tell her that Toshiro was back. The only thing that kept Hissori at bay was knowing that Toshiro would come and see her. But she was wrong, so very wrong.

Hissori took a deep breath as she was released from the 4th division, Toshiro hadn't come to see her yesterday but she thought nothing of it considering he probably had mounds of paperwork to catch up on. So Hissori walked merrily down the road to the 10th division. She stopped outside the office door knocking a few times and then waiting patiently. There was the sound of a heavy, tired sigh before any sound of a reply.

"Who is it?" Toshiro answered in an obviously tired voice. Hissori opened the door and stepped into the office, closing the door silently behind her.

"Good to see your back" she said giving him a smile.

"Hi- Ms. Kane how can I help you?" he replied giving her a blank look.

"I just wanted to know if you'd like to have lunch with me?" Hissori asked as her tone dropped a few octaves at his formality.

"I don't have time" Toshiro answered returning to his paperwork. His words back in the world of the living became oh so clear to her now, of course nothing was going to change.

"Oh well sorry for bothering you Captain Hitsugaya" Hissori said and left his office going instead to her own room.

How could she have been so naïve? Just because they have feelings, as strong as they may be, for each other doesn't me anything could change rules were rules and she was still a 3rd seat and he a captain. So there she lay crying her eyes out because of the rules.