Ch. 5 Melody's New Best Friend

Once again sorry the last chapter was so short. This one isn't as short as the last one so I hope it makes up for it! Enjoy!

Satoshi approached the door in a hurry and prepared to face whoever it was that the Soul Society had sent. He opened the door.

A woman with long black hair tied in a bun with a blue ribbon stood on the other side. Next to her was a man with spiky black hair and the number 69 tattooed on his face with a bandage on the other side. Satoshi knew who these two were, the woman was Momo Hinamori, Squad 5's Liuetenant. The man was Shuhei Hisagi, his own Liuetenant. This was going to be easy.

It took an hour for the two Liuetenants to be debriefed on the assignment at hand. Once they were done the two captains looked at each other with pleased looks on their faces. "We are going to need to split into two teams, Shuhei and I will remain here at the house protecting the inhabitants while Momo and Takeshi take the kids to school," Satoshi finally said.

"Oh Captain Yamashita of Squad 9, may I stay here with you while Shuhei goes with my Captain?" Momo asked in a somewhat sweet begging voice.

"Why is that Liuetenant Hinamori?" asked the Captain, curious to what she would say.

"Well, I noticed when I came here that there was this adorable little baby chipmunk that I would love to get to know better sir," Momo said with a hint of embarrassment.

"Permission granted, if you don't mind Shuhei."

Momo gasped, looking at Shuhei with longing in her eyes, almost begging him to say yes. Shuhei simply shrugged, "I'd prefer to go with the kids anyway so why not?" he replied.

"It's settled then," Satoshi said with a smile, "Let's get the kids ready for school, and introduce Momo to her new charge."

Takeshi and Shuhei had left with the kids after introducing Melody to Momo. It didn't take long for Melody to crawl into Momo's hands and begin to play with her. Satoshi watched them for a while, not thinking anything bad could possibly happen, he slowly drifted off to sleep.

Momo and Melody spent the morning playing. Around noon Momo decided it was time to make Melody some lunch. She got out her little high chair that Dave had made for her and put her in it while she began cooking. As she started getting out pots she felt something strange, a huge spiritual pressure that she couldnt quite figure out who or what it belonged to. Her soul pager went off and she looked on the screen, an order! A hollow was coming, the location: Dave's house, the time: Now.

Momo knew she couldn't wake the Captain, she ran out the door just as the Hollow came crashing down from the sky, landing in the backyard. She drew her sword and charged, only to be knocked aside. The hollow reached into the house and grabbed Melody, still stuck in her little high chair. Melody began to scream and cry as the hollow raised her to his mouth.

When Momo saw this, she knew she couldn't hold back.

"SNAP, TOBIUME!" (Flying Plum Tree)

Swinging her now released Zanpakuto, a huge fireball hit the hollow dead in the face, causing him to drop the squriming baby chipmunk, who began to fall. Momo dived and caught her just in time. As she landed she saw Satoshi leap over her, Zanpakuto raised. He sliced the hollows arm clean off. "Momo, I can't explain this too you in detail, but my Zanpakuto's name is not actually Kage Akuma as you beleived it to be. No one, not even Takeshi has ever seen my real zanpakuto. Don't tell anyone you saw this," Satoshi said in a hurried tone, then facing the hollow he looked it in the eyes and said, "Drown him, Umi No Megami" (Sea Goddess)

The small weapon's blade suddenly began to glow blue, he swung the blade and shouted, "Dai Ippa, DOREKA!" (First Wave, Tide Wrecker) A wave of sea water flew from the blade and hit the hollow dead on, killing it instantly. Swinging his weapon down again, thus sealing it, he sheathed it and turned to face Momo, "How is she?"

"She's fine," Momo replied, holding a now squriming and crying Melody in her arms.

"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Melody began to scream at the top of her lungs.

"It's ok Mel, You're mommy's not here right now. But Momo's got you, and I'm not going to let anything or anyone hurt you. After all, that's what best friends are for," Momo said with tears in her eyes.

Melody stopped crying, then looked Momo in the eyes and said, "Mo-Mo?"

Momo gasped.