Hello people, I just wanted to remind you that I don't own bleach just Kurohime_
I woke before the sun rose. I didn't know why though. The room was dark and there were obstacles I still had to get use to before I'd stop crashing into things. After running into the hamper and a chair I made my way to the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day.
"Good morning, Kurohime-chan. What are you doing up this early?"
I said "I always get up early, unlike a certain person in this room."
"No, you should look at the clock, Hime-san. You got up two hours early than usual!!!!"
My ears were ringing from that last sentence. During sometime in my life I would have to remember to get her to speak like a normal person. Once I got to the Omeitskido training grounds, I looked around to see if anyone was awake. Shoot, Shirobara was right, I thought. I walked further into the grounds and in the background I could hear a scuffling noise and a katana swinging in my direction.
"CLANG!" I drew Shirobarakaze and countered the hit before I got wounded. "Who are you and what purpose do you have on these grounds," snarled a voice. "My name is Hinamoto, Kurohime. I'm the Commander-in-Chief for the Omeitskidos and Captain of Squad 2." Immediately the katana withdrew and the voice shouted, "I'm so sorry, Commander Hinamoto. Please accept a thousand pardons for my incompetence." I realized the voice belonged to Soi Fon or was it someone else? "Soi Fon, is that you?" I heard a cross between a yes and a grunt but I took it to be Soi Fon.
"Get up, Soi Fon. Though I must ask why are you up this early?" I pondered on the question until a quiet voice answered "I always get up this early to train, Ma'am." Soi Fon looked up and I gave her a small smile. "Why don't we go get breakfast right now so you'll have more energy." That sounded incredibly cheesy coming from me. But so what? We ate rice with nori and drank several bowls of miso soup. Suddenly, we felt a huge reiatsu over at the South Gate. Hollows sneaked into the Seireitei, but how? The sekiseki should have corroded their very being, yet if we didn't do anything they would cause a lot of trouble.
Soi Fon already left the Dining Hall and I followed close behind. When we got there, huge hollows were smashing everything within reaching distance. Soi Fon unsheathed her zanpaktou and was jamming it into a hollow's mask. I gathered my reiatsu into my palm and shoved my hand into the hollows.
But no matter what we do to them, they keep coming. I looked over at Soi Fon and she was starting to get tired. Just then two hollows flew over to her and while she killed one, the other raked its claws her back. Immediately, she fell and coughed up blood. I picked her up and slung her across my back, but I couldn't fight like this.
I set her down gently and casted a kido barrier around her. Pulling Shiraobarakaze from her guard, I then threw her into air. "Sashi Muko, Shirobarakaze!" The katana dissolved into thin air and a huge breeze swept over me and it shifted into a tornado. The hollows roared and charged at the storm.
I never liked to watch my opponents die from multiple lacerations caused Shirobarakaze and I didn't like it now. Whenever hollows died, more came from wherever they were. Then when a hollow flew into the tornando, I saw a black hole in the background where there should have been a sky. Holding my hand out to the wind, a pure black and silver spear materialized into my hand. I spinned it like a baton and cried "Saita Hana!"
The attack ripped through countless hollow and collided with the garanta. I pushed harder and it started to close. After it did, I finished of the remaining numbers of hollows and went over to Soi Fon. She was struggling to breathe and when I turned her over, there were purple blotches spreading over the wound. Damn it, she was poisoned, I thought. Taking off my bloody haori, I covered Soi Fon in it like a blanket and shunpoed to Squad 4 barracks.
I made it to Squad 4 in record time. Unohana-taicho did not appreciate all the commotion I'd caused, but at least Soi Fon was ok and was resting in the company stable. It was freezing in the building and my breath came out as clouds of vapor. Still it was better then the chill I had received when I came in contact with Toshiro Hitsuguya. After thanking Unohana-taicho, I left to go back to my barracks to wash all the blood and grime from my skin and uniform.
***
Toshiro got up as soon as he could feel reiatsu clashing over in the far distance. A soul reaper and hollows fighting, he thought. He was about to back to sleep when the soul reaper's reiatsu spiked. The answer was clear to him now. Kurohime was fighting in the distance and was probably wounded. He got dressed and strapped Hyorinmaru to his back, then he was off to the Southern Gate near Squad 3.
As he got closer, he could smell the heavily perfumed air. A small explosion was heard and Hinamoto's reiatsu dropped. Toshiro panicked and picked up his speed. But when he got there, all he could find was a smoking crater in the ground. Over in the distance he could sense she had gone to Unohana's barracks.
Hitsuguya was relieved that Kurohime was not hurt, but annoyed that he couldn't find her anywhere. Unohana turned to him and said "Hitsuguya-taicho, may I ask you to return this to Hinamoto-taicho. I'm sure she'll be very pleased." He nodded and grabbed the blood-stained haori from her hand.
"Master, were you afraid that the girl would die?"
Toshiro wrinkled his nose at the question and said "Of course I'm not. She is a Taicho of the Gotei 13. She would never allow it herself."
Since there was no response, he set off for Squad 2. It was easy to get around the barracks now that he was so familiar with its layout, but it was the first time he'd ever gone to the Captain's room. He stood in front of the screened doors until a voice said "Nothing is going to happen if you opened the doors, Hitsuguya-taicho." He was about to go away, but his hand instinctively reached for and opened the door. Inside stood Hinamoto-san drying her wet hair with a towel.
She discarded it when she saw him and said "What can I do for you, Hitsuguya-taicho?" He said nothing in return and pulled out her bloody haori. She reached out to get it when she tripped on something. He had to stifle a laugh when he saw the towel on the floor beside her. Inside his mind he could hear Hyorinmaru give a low chuckle when she fell.
He held out his hand to her, but she refused it and got up herself. He noticed when she winced as her left hand grazed the floor. When Hinamoto stood up he saw her knuckles covered in bandages. She seemed to have noticed this and said "Don't worry. I'm fine. You would do this after you repeatedly punch through a hard surface." But he wasn't listening to her because her robe seemed to have shifted when she fell.
Kurohime's eye twitched and her face was growing crimson by each second. She adjusted her robe and then pushed him out her room.
"Did you enjoy that, boy? I never knew she was so busty even when she wore her Omeitskido uniform," said a smug Hyorinmaru.
Toshiro blushed slightly as the image of Kurohime flashed in his mind. "I didn't enjoy that and you should keep your eyes in your head, Hyorinmaru."
"Well, then if you come across her again, you better hide because you still have her haori, so she'd still be wearing the Omeitskido uniform."
Toshiro grimaced when he saw that Hyorinmaru was right. He would clean it and return it to her later then.
***
I was still blushing after I pushed Toshiro out of my room. Thank god that Shirobarakaze was asleep. I dried the rest of my hair and went to put on a clean uniform. When I realized that he still had my haori, I went crazy in my mind. Finally, I settled down and planned o remind myself to kill him. I walked around the barracks until I got bored, so I went to the office and sat down. I was really tired especially after this morning's fiasco. So I fell asleep on the sofa in my office.
***
Toshiro was buried in paper work and Matsumoto was passed out on the couch, mumbling incoherent phrases. He wondered if he could ask Hinamoto if she could help him, but he couldn't help but replay the scene where Kurohime had blushed. His lip curled into a small smile against his will and he tried to get rid of it with no success at all.
Hours passed and Toshiro was still doing paper work. He overcame his pride and grabbed a huge stack of papers to take to Squad 2. It had taken him a while to get to her office, considering the sheer size of the stack. He didn't bother knocking and just went in directly.
The room was eerily silent when he entered so he just went over to her desk to set the papers down when a sight startled him. It was Hinamoto-san lying on the sofa, sleeping peacefully. Her sharp features were softened when she is sleeping, he thought. Her petite figure shivered when he got closer to her.
"She looks so angelic when she is sleeping, so very vulnerable that you just want to comfort her," sighed Hyorinmaru.
Toshiro shrugged off his haori and gently placed it over her body. No point in going back now that I brought the papers here, he thought. So he sat down her chair and grabbed a brush and paper.
***
I woke up in my office, with sleep in my eyes. When I got up, something fell off of me and onto the floor. Puzzled, I picked it up and it was a captain's haori. I thought it was mine until I spotted a ten sign on the back. I turned around to get my journal from my desk, but I froze in place when I saw Toshiro gave me a small wave.
"W-what are you doing here, Hitsuguya-taicho?" He smirked and said "I came over here to apologize and to ask you if you could help me, but I found you asleep on your sofa." Suddenly the thought of him being here since I fell asleep registered in my mind. "Where's my haori then?" He paused and replied "I washed it since I didn't think you'd want to walk around in a dirty jacket." I was about to say something when the clock on my wall chimed. Afternoon patrol, I thought. I was about to call Soi Fon in but I remembered she was in Squad 4 recuperating.
Toshiro stood up and asked "May I come with you, Hinamoto-taicho?" Say hell no was my first choice of a response, but I needed someone to replace Soi Fon for a while so I nodded.
There was nothing in the world of the living so we were back earlier then usual. My squad went to the dining hall for lunch, but I said I had some pastries from this morning I didn't finish. Walking away from my squad, I was going back to Squad 2 barracks when a shadow followed me. Oh yeah, Toshiro had came with me to the World of the Living and I didn't see him until we got back.
We ate the pastries I had in my office silently. It was pretty awkward and we were sitting side by side next to each other.
"Talk to him, Hime-san," said Shirobarakaze.
"Why would I," I said out loud. Toshiro jerked up and leaned closer to hear, but sadly I did not notice this at all when I was talking with Shirobarakaze.
"He's sitting right next to you, and its pretty quiet around here."
"I don't care. Why do you care so much, Shirobara?"
"Fine, Miss Grumpy-pants."
"I'm not grumpy. Besides you should see yourself when you get up. It's like me but worst."
"Whatever, Hime-san. I hope you know he's listening to you right now."
I stood up to yell "hey!" and punched the air with my fist, but I heard a husky voice laugh heartily. Oh crap, I forgot that he was in the office with me. "Shut up, Toshiro," I growled. This seemed to make him laugh more. "What were you saying about me, Hime-san. Do you like me," teased Toshiro. Then he stood up and put his hand on my bare shoulder. "Thanks for lunch, Hime-san. I look forward to it again." He left my office and my hand unconsciously went to the cold part of my shoulder that he had touched.
A few hours later, after I came back from the dining hall and went to my chambers. On my bed was a package that had a note attached to it.
"Here's your haori back. It doesn't smell like roses but it's clean. Sincerely, Toshiro Hitsuguya.
I held back a smile, but with no success, and he was right. It didn't smelled like roses.
sorry 4 short chapter. reviews!
