Not Mine Valentine
Bed Wetter

Toshiro sat up in his bed, one small hand reaching up to clutch his heart. He took a deep breath and then another, before snapping his eyes shut. His free hand reached under the covers until they briefly touched against something wet. His hand jerked back and both hands suddenly went to cover his eyes as he let out a groan, before flopping back onto the bed.

"If you want to cry, just cry."

"Wetting the bed is a childish thing to do, plus Hinamori always did it when she wet the bed before accusing me of being the one to do it. Why is this happening to me when I've always had better bladder control then she his."

"She cried because she was embarrassed. You want to cry because you're frustrated. There is a difference between the two."

"Nobody would say that if they found out. They would say that I was crying because I was embarrassed."

"Taicho?" Toshiro heard the door open to the room and he took a deep breath.

"How did she know to come right now?"

"Mother's instinct."

"She isn't my mother though, so that can't be it."

The sound of footsteps could be heard approaching the bed and then the sound of the lamp being clicked on. The woman sat down on the edge of the bed, causing his body to shift uncontrollably. Her soft hands reached out and touched the hands that were still covering her eyes before carefully pulling them back. The teal eyes blinked a couple of times before the corner of his mouth turned down.

"Taicho... it's all right to feel embarrassed some times about..." The boy sat up, pulling away from her as he did so, only to find himself pulled back into her arms. The woman leaned over his shoulder and whispered into his ear in the usual manner she used to calm him down. "Wetting the bed is uncomfortable, so it is understandable to be embarrassed when you don't feel comfortable. Plus, you're frustrated because you don't know why you're doing this and you know you're old enough."

The boy let out a deep sigh of half-relief only to hear Rangiku say something else. "I think we should see Unohana about this."

With that he pulled away again and scurried over to the other side of the bed. "No!"

"Taicho!"

"Absolutely not! I'm fine!"

"I've been wanting to take you to her to talk about wet dreams."

"I already told you no!"

"Taicho! They aren't the same thing!"

"Yes they are!" The boy stood up. "I'm not going. Plus, I have to meet Hinamori."

Rangiku watched as he hurried to get some clothing together. "So the two of you are getting along again?"

"Sort of. I mean..." The boy walked to the open door. "I'm going to borrow your room to change in, so if you'll excuse me."

The woman took a deep breath before shaking her head. "He just had to ask for me to leave and I would have."

M

Two small feet paced back and forth across the wooden walk way. The door to Shinji's room opened, causing the white haired taicho to stop pacing and look straight at him with wide teal eyes. The man let out a deep sigh before closing the door. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for Hinamori."

"What ever for?" Shinji watched as the boy's right shoulder twitched suddenly. "You're up to something, aren't you."

"Who says I am?"

"I say you're up to something. Why are you waiting for her?"

"Because... we have something to do today."

"What might that be?"

"None of your business."

"Actually Hitsugaya Taicho, she is one of my subordinates. I think you should know as well as I do that when a captain asks for ones purpose in regards to one of those under their charge it shouldn't be taken lightly or as 'none of their business'." Shinji watched as the boy took a deep breath and gave him an angry look. Letting out a deep sigh, the man went and knocked on the door to Momo's room.

The small female opened up the door, rubbing her eyes. "What's going on?"

"Apparently Hitsugaya Taicho is here to see you?"

"What ever for? There didn't seem yesterday to be..." Momo paused for a few minutes, her eyes going wide. "Oh... that."

"What would that be?"

"We're going to see Ichimaru Gin."

For a few seconds a silence fell over the three, then Shinji took a deep breath. "What ever for? If it's to go and annoy the man I'm putting my foot down."

"I already told Shiro-chan that. He thinks I need to face Gin and dared me to, otherwise I would prove him right that I'm afraid of the man."

The blond taicho opened his mouth. "Of course you're... wait a second. You do realize he's trying to use you as an excuse to annoy the man."

Momo folded her arms across her chest. "How can I not. Shiro-chan already admitted it to me. If I don't go, that proves I'm afraid of Ichimaru. So I'm going."

"Then I'll go with you two."

"Hell no!" The response came from both of the young shinigami and Shinji found himself scratching his head.

"Well, have it your way. Hinamori... I think you're biting off a little more then you can chew."

"I can handle Ichimaru."

"That's not what I was referring to actually. Go ahead and go. I don't care." Shinji watched as she disappeared into the room. He narrowed his eyes at Toshiro. "What are you up too?"

"As Hinamori has stated, I have very clearly stated that I am going to annoy Ichimaru and I am using her as an excuse to go and annoy him."

"Let me rephrase this. Are you trying to get my fukutaicho into some kind of trouble?"

"You don't care if she's your fukutaicho or not, so why are you asking such a question?"

"So she told you I was considering demoting her and for who?

"Yes."

One of Shinji's eyebrow's went up. "You aren't at all upset about my decision."

"Why should I be?"

"Let's say you happened to think she was fukutaicho material..."

Toshiro interrupted the man. "She isn't. May eventually be, but isn't." The boy folded his arms across his chest. "Why do you care if she's your fukutaicho or not?"

"Let me ask you something. Let's say Matsumoto weren't fukutaicho material, would..."

"She is fukutaicho material."

"I wasn't asking you if she was fukutaicho material. I was asking you a hypothetical question. If she wasn't fukutaicho material and you made the decision to demote her would you still look out for her well being."

"Yes, I mean..." Toshiro paused, blinking a couple of times. "Oh..."

"Now you get it."

"As if I would do anything to put Momo-nee in harms way!"

Shinji took a deep breath. "Can I ask why you're here this early?"

"Now that isn't any of your business sir."

"All right. Just, the two of you stay out of trouble, all right." Toshiro opened his mouth, only to have Hinamori grab his arm and drag him away before Shinji could say anything they could hear. "Well, at least she's in a positive mood this morning."

M

Ichimaru lay in his cell with his arms tucked behind his head. He heard chatter coming from the stairway down to his cell and sat up, a frown spreading across his face. He found himself watching as the two figures appeared in front of him. He took a deep breath and pointed at Toshiro. "Well, I know why he's here. To annoy me. You on the other hand..." His finger moved to point at Momo. "Why are you here."

This caused Momo to startle and take a step back, only for Toshiro to step behind her and push her forward. "Go and say it."

"I...'

"Hinamori..."

"I told you, it isn't a good idea to..."

"Momo-nee..." Toshiro's tone of voice suddenly changed.

This caused the young female to take a deep breath and her voice suddenly became louder and her posture more bold. "I came to let you know that I'm not afraid of you."

"Good for you."

"I'm also going to prove myself to taicho so I don't get demoted."

"Again, good for you."

Momo blinked a couple of times. "Wait... I thought... I thought?"

"You thought what?"

"That you would be condescending me, telling me that... well, I don't deserve the position. I mean, I do know that you deserve it more then me. You wouldn't have been a captain at one time if you didn't know Bankai."

"Skill wise I deserve the position more then you, yes. I don't however deserve the position as..." Gin paused what he was saying just as Toshiro made a face at him from behind Momo's back.

"What is it?" The female turned around, only to see the boy regain his composure.

"Nothing. Just a fly on the wall which is begging to be flicked. As I was saying I don't deserve the position as I've done some pretty bad things. Even I have to admit you're more deserving of it in that regard."

"So..." Momo paused as she thought about what he said while Toshiro made another face. "Wait, you're saying that you're planning on declining the position?"

"What? You don't think I have an ego on me? I admitted I don't deserve it, so you assume that I'll do the good thing and refuse it? You do realize this is what got you in trouble with Aizen you know."

"I... good point."

"You're acting calm, so..."

"She's not calm, ever." Toshiro suddenly went from making a face, to making a comment.

Gin stood up and walked to the cell walls, causing Momo to back up a few steps. "Shiro-chan, come here." To his surprise the boy stepped up close enough for the silver haired man to flick him in the middle of the forehead. "As I said, there is a fly on the wall begging to be flicked. Hopefully it doesn't ask to be flicked again."

Toshiro backed up, only to have Momo come forward. "Don't do that!"

"Excuse me?" One of Gin's eyebrow's rose up.

"Don't pick on Shiro-chan!"

The man stared at Momo for a good bit of time before going and sitting on the bed. "I prefer it when you stand up for him."

"Excuse me?" The female's face twisted up in confusion.

"I'll tell you what I have to say another time. It's not for his ears, at least not yet." Gin place his arms behind his back. "As I was saying, I actually would turn down the offer if I could!"

"You can't!" Toshiro blurted out.

Momo suddenly clapped a hand over his mouth. "Shiro-chan! No antagonizing the monster!"

"Yes... don't antagonize the monster... and yet call the monster a monster..."

The female felt Toshiro wiggle lose and suddenly start laughing. "You told me not to antagonize him but called him a monster!"

Again, Momo slapped a hand over the boy's mouth, her face becoming pale. "What do you mean you would refuse if you could, but can't."

"Do you think I'm in the position to refuse the higher ups of the Gotei Thirteen."

The female blinked a couple of time, relaxing her grip on Toshiro again. "No, I guess not." It was then that the white haired child made another face at Gin and Momo found herself suddenly reaching out to grab him and pull him back so he wasn't facing Gin. "What do you think you're doing!"

Gin let out a sigh. "Do you want to know a secret?" The man stood up and walked over. Toshiro looked at him as well as Momo. "This is for her ears only." Toshiro let out a sigh before turning towards the wall to sulk. He leaned over and whispered so that Momo could hear him. "In case you haven't noticed Shiro-chan isn't acting like himself."

"How do I know I can trust you, because I don't."

"You don't have to trust me on this one. I'm quite sure you can see it for yourself. So if you'll do me a favor, you'll get him out of my hair before I do something I would regret if I wasn't a psychopath."

Momo's face paled even more and she found herself grabbing Toshiro's hand and pulling him from the room. "Wait... Hinamori!"

"Are you crazy!" The female shook her head as she pulled him behind her. "If you were to push him anymore he would have killed you."

"No he wouldn't." The small taicho crashed into her as she stopped.

Letting go of his hand she turned to look at him. "What do you mean he wouldn't?"

"It isn't as if Ichimaru is a psychopath."

"Are you feeling all right?"

"I'm feeling all right. Nothing is the matter."

"You just called a man who is a psychopath not a psychopath!"

"Why do you think he's a psychopath?"

Momo's eyes widened before she stuck her hands at her sides. "Sheesh! He was known as a psychopath even before... even before... well, you know."

"I don't know."

"So nothing is bothering you?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"You're not acting like yourself." Momo watched as Toshiro simply gave her a blank look. "Shiro-chan... I know! Something is bothering you, so I'll cheer you up!"

"What... wait..." Toshiro felt his hand grabbed again and the girl was off dragging him behind her.

To the person who keeps insisting that I'm writing Momo out of character. Telling a writer they're writing any character out of character amounts to pure opinion until the reviewer brings forth solid evidence that proves their case. After pointing out why your evidence didn't work you proceeded to rant about how you were right and I was wrong without giving any actual evidence, which is why you ended up blocked. And no, adding me to your favorites won't get me to unblock you.

While you did give me more evidence in the anonymous review you just left, it is yet again more evidence you've taken out of context and misinterpreted in an attempt to force me to write the way you want me to write. Hands down I'm not going to believe your claims that I'm writing Momo out of character when every single one of the non-rabid fans I've spoken with have come to the same conclusion I have.

To my other readers. There seems to be a misconception of what character bashing actually is. This misconception occurs among Bleach fans whether they are rabid or not. To quote bantha_fodder on this one, "if you are writing a fic and within it there are characters disliking Character X, or Character X comes off in situations very poorly in a way that would be believable in the original text, then this is not character bashing, this is writing your characters correctly."

I also apologize for the aforementioned rant. I wish to make my stance clear that I am not going to write fanon!Momo, which amounts to a character who is incapable of throwing a tantrum or getting upset about things. I'm also not going to forgo portraying her in a negative light simply because someone gets upset because they feel I do it too often because that would be bad writing simply because I would be having to write Momo OoC to avoid not putting her in a negative light.

Actually, nobody should change from good writing habits to bad ones just because it upsets other people.