I woke up with one thought in I mind. It was the day I graduated from the Shinigami Academy and was going to enter the Omietskidos. When I got dressed, I noticed something was missing from my robes. There was usually a bump in my pockets, all I felt was cloth. Then it dawned on me, my journal. My face went pale at the thought of anyone finding it. It contained my personal thoughts and projects.
"Missing something?"Shirobarakaze asked.
"Yes, my journal. Did you see it?"
"Didn't you draw in it last night and left it at the clearing, Hime-San?"
"Why didn't you remind me to get it yesterday, Shirobara?!"
I left for the clearing as soon as I left the dorms. When I got there, I searched frantically for the tattered book. All I found was grass and flowers. I couldn't let anyone find it, or that will be the end of me. I was ready to tear up the place when a voice said "Looking for something, Hime-san?"
***
Toshiro got up early to gaze at the sunrise. This would be the last time he would look at for a long time. As he was getting dressed, his eye caught a certain notebook and he remembered.
"Master, do you remember you have to return that to the girl," asked Hyorinmaru.
Cursing, Toshiro ran all the way to the girl's dorms and looked at the sleeping guard's directory book. When he found Kurohime's room, he shunpoed all the way to her room to find the door unlocked and a huge mess.
"She must have woke already, and went on a frenzy trying to find her book. The one you took," Hyorinmaru said.
He felt a familiar reiatsu coming from the (nothern?) side of the campus. He hurried there to find a figure kneeling on the ground, searching frantically for something. This must be Kurohime-San in the morning. He cleared his throat and said "Looking for something, Hime-San.
She turned around and screamed "Give it back!!" She looked desperate and frightened. Suddenly, Toshiro regret reading her journal. "Please give it back." This wasn't a statement but a pleading request. Toshiro reached into his robes and took her notebook out. "Did you read it," she whispered. Toshiro didn't know what to say to her. "Did you read it?!?!" He looked at her and by realization she got her answer. "Why?"
***
I felt as if someone had stripped all of me away and left me with all my worst thoughts. Then a thought hit me. What if he told someone else? What would happen if someone knew? I felt tears threatening to spill at very thought. "Please, please don't tell anyone. Don't tell anyone what you saw. Please," I croaked.
I looked up. What was it that was in his eyes? Pity, or disgust? He didn't say anything but held his hand out as if to help me. I refused it and stood up, then I grabbed my journal and shunpoed out of there before he could catch me.
"Mistress, are you ok?"
I know Shirobarakaze means well, but she has horrible timing. I didn't answer. Even I didn't know how I felt. Should I feel angry and betrayed or happy that I shared something about me with someone. I landed on a tree and sat down. Taking out my journal, I flipped through it. Nothing was ripped out or damaged, but I saw little creases where some of the pages were bent when they were being turned.
That little snot! He must have read through everything, even my music! I thought. But when I got to the end, I noticed something was gone. The picture of me and my family, laughing. The only happy memory I had.
***
One moment she was here then she was gone. Toshiro ran his hand through his hair and sighed. At least he had something that belonged to her. He wanted to see that pale face smile. But who were the two that were in the picture?
"Boy, what did you do now?"
" I just wanted something from her," Toshiro said with drippy innocence.
"Well, what did you take from her?"
"Just a little something to remember her by."
"Master, can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead, Hyorimaru."
"Do you care about her?"
"Maybe, perhaps time will tell soon."
The bell rang and that was the time for the ceremony. Crap! Toshiro shunpoed quickly through hoards of students and by the time he got there the doors were half-way closed. He slipped through just in time and took his seat at the back. A few rows down he could see Kurohime sitting alone in a huge crater of empty seats. Oh well, he'd go and talk to her later. The ceremony was quite dull and everyone fidgeted so often that Toshiro had started doing that too. But Kurohime just sat still, paying attention to the headmaster's every word. As everyone was being assigned to their squads, Kurohime-San's head perked up and was paying more attention then before.
"Hinamoto, Kurohime. You are assigned to the Commander of the Omeiteskido Personal Guard Squad," announced the Headmaster.
Immediately, the whole room was gasping and bursting with commotion.
"She's that strong?! I wouldn't want to cross her at all."
"I wonder why she joined the Omeiskidos instead of the Gotei 13?"
"Who cares, at least we don't need to see her anymore."
"I already feel sorry the poor sap who's going to be killed by HER."
At this, Kurohime bowed her head and sunk down her seat. "Poor girl," thought Toshiro.
***
I made it to the Commander's personal guard squad. So why don't I feel happy? Was it because of the whispers or that I felt afraid that it would be like the last time? "Hitsuguya, Toshiro. You are assigned to Squad 10 of the Gotei 13. The room stopped whispering and started cheering.
"Wow Toshiro. Squad Ten! I could never beat that!
"Congratulation, Toshiro!"
"He must be pretty strong, but he still lost to you," said Shirobarakaze.
"I don't care. Let the brat parade himself around and see what happens to him later. He's gonna turn into a brat anyways."
After the ceremony was over, I ran to the clearing on last time. The moon was already out so that meant the ceremony took all day, but I wasn't sore anywhere. Everyone else was at the celebratory feast, but what does that matter to me. I gazed at the moon and out of habit started singing a new song. It was so beautiful tonight and this would probably be the last time I'd have some peace and quiet.
I took out my journal to start writing and an annoying behind me said "why aren't you eating, Hime-san?" A vein in my head popped. Why was this guy so annoying? Has the world ended now that someone talked to me so many times without insulting me?! I slammed my journal shut and turned to face him. "Why aren't you there too, Toshiro? Too much pride to show your face there or finally snapped?" I tried to sound polite, but somehow it slipped out of me and almost nothing sounds polite with clenched teeth. Its not that I hate him, it's that since I met him, he's turned into a (stalker?)
He blushed at this comment and smirked (poor guy, thinks he could actually dupe me). "Well, now that I think about it. I don't know why I worrying over an ungrateful pinhead like you. If you want food, you're gonna have to get it yourself," he retorted. "I have food, thank you very much and if you won't mind-" "What are you eating then?"
I froze. He got me there and my stomach finally decided to announce its presence.
Shirobarakaze was laughing hysterically and so was Hyorinmaru and Toshiro mentally. But they stopped as soon I glared at them.
***
Toshiro was having a good laugh in his head when he noticed Kurohime's eyes turn silver. She was emitting a monstrous reiatsu. The reiatsu twisted and contorted itself around her, then her eyes returned to normal but her reiatsu was getting stronger by the minute. She sank to her knees, gasping and panting. Toshiro went to help her but she croaked "Stop, don't come close. You'll get hurt."
"Master, try to get as close to her as possible, then focus your at hers and concentrate."
Toshiro crept as close as he could and her reiatsu flared out clashing with his. Her eyes widened and snapped close at the wave of pain that washed over her. Her reiatsu eventually weakened and it seeped back into her. "T-thank you, Toshiro Hitsuguya," she rasped.
He looked at her when she said this. She seemed to be shivering and her breathe was coming out as clouds of vapor. Who wouldn't after they clashed with Toshiro Hitsuguya. He went over to her and knelt down to examine her. She seemed even paler then usual, her lips were turning a purplish color, and her hair was flaked with tiny ice crystals that shimmer every time she moved. Kurohime 's eyes suddenly dulled and returned with vibrant colors that disappeared as soon as they came." My zanpaktou thanks you as well, Hitsuguya- Chan." "No problem," he said.
***
That was unbelievable. I didn't know what happened. My reiatsu had slipped from my control and I almost went on a killing spree and what was more unbelievable was that someone cared enough to come close and help stop me.
"Kurohime, are you okay," asked Shirobarakaze.
"yeah, are you?"
"It's really cold in here and there was ice on me, so what do you think?!"
"okay, sorry for that."
I hope I wasn't shivering but I couldn't help it. It was freezing and Toshiro wasn't flinching from the cold at all. I turned to him and saw him looking at my opened notebook. What is with this guy?!?! Then I saw him looking at my song and I immediately snatched my book out his hands before he could read anymore.
"You're really curious aren't you, Hitsuguya-Chan," I asked. His eye twitched and he turned away from me. Oh well, I won't be seeing him again so I let him gag under his breath (which by the way I could hear) and then I socked him in the shoulder.
Reviews Please! This is short and next time I'll make it longer! Oh yeah tell me if it sucks so I can edit it!
