Sorry for super late update! Will try to update faster next time. :D
This chapter will nicely wrap everything up! So enjoy!
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Hitsugaya woke up, rubbing his eyes. The fourth division headquarters' beds are really comfortable. Well, he should get back to his office now. It's no good troubling the fourth squad…
He stared at the blue, ringed book lying on the table next to his bed.
He was sure that he had locked it nicely inside the drawer of the table.
The room suddenly filled itself with icy cold mist, as Hitsugaya felt himself flaring up.
Fuck, someone read my diary…
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"Hitsugaya-Taicho likes you?"
The entire of the Gotei 13 (well, minus Hitsugaya) exclaimed in shock.
Matsumoto nodded her head. "That's what…his diary said…"
Yamamoto rubbed his chin and mused. "So, Captain Kurotsuchi, you were actually correct in your observations."
"My investigation never fails me." Kurotsuchi said simply, smiling his creepy smile.
"What?" Matsumoto asked, looking around. "What investigation?"
"Captain Kurotsuchi knew that Captain Hitsugaya likes you. This whole thing that we tell you to do is just to prove it to us."
"Y…you knew…?" Matsumoto looked around. "How…?"
"You don't want to know, vice-captain." Kurotsuchi said, making Matsumoto gulped in fear.
"So, now that we know what's causing Captain Hitsugaya's… extreme temper, what should we do?"
"I can make a pill to control his hormones." Kurotsuchi offered.
"I cannot allow that." Unohana said. "Captain Hitsugaya will not be your test subject."
"Why not just beat some sense to that boy."
"Get him some counselor, then, I think he needs counseling."
"Better teach him some lesson on 'how to get girls'."
"I can be a good teacher! :D"
"Shut up, Kyoraku."
"We have to teach him some lesson on 'respecting your elders'. I hate his rude behaviour."
"What? I like his behaviour. He should keep it up, it's really badass."
Yamamoto silenced the whole hall. He turned to Matsumoto. "Vice-captain Matsumoto, tell me, do you like Captain Hitsugaya?"
"What?" Matsumoto blurted, blushing immediately. What was with that Captain Commander, asking such questions so blatantly?
"I asked: do you like Captain Hitsugaya?" He repeated.
"I…erm…I…" Matsumoto's face turned into different shades of red. This is so embarrassing! Why does she have to talk about this kind of thing in front of so many people. And in front of Gin… She peeked at Gin, who was standing at a corner, not making any comments. He had been quiet the whole time she had been there.
"I think it's very insensitive to ask Rangiku-san this question, Captain Commander Yamamoto." Unohana said calmly, saving Matsumoto from the need to say anything.
"Well, if you don't want to answer, then fine." Yamamoto shrugged, after being glared at by Unohana. "If you like him, just go and tell him, so he don't need to go on with this outrageous behaviour. If you don't, then…just go and tell him too, tell him go find another girl to like."
"O…okay." Matsumoto said, thankful for Unohana's help.
"Captain Hitsugaya reporting in, sir. I apologise for my lateness." A voice sounded from the back.
Everyone turned, only to see the small captain standing at the entrance.
"Why are you here, Captain Hitsugaya?" Yamamoto asked.
"Isn't this a captain meeting? I never heard of this meeting, but I assume that I must come." Hitsugaya said, facing everybody. "Unless, this is a meeting about me, and I'm not supposed to come."
He threw his diary on the floor. "A meeting about what I wrote on this stupid book." He glared at the Captain Commander. "Am I right?"
"So, Captain Hitsugaya, you knew…"
"Of course I knew." He said angrily, cutting into Yamamoto's words. "I knew it all along. So all the stuff I wrote inside had always been fake."
Everyone stared at him, especially Matsumoto.
"Taicho, what you wrote inside…were fake…?" Matsumoto asked.
Hitsugaya averted his head away from Matsumoto. "Of course, why would I like you?" He said. "Captain Commander Yamamoto, if you want to sack me, just go on and do it. There's not need to go around snooping, trying to read my diary."
Hitsugaya threw these words angrily, and left the room, leaving the stunned audience, and a shocked Matsumoto.
"Sorry, I'll be taking my leave…" Matsumoto said, voice quivering, as she stood up and ran for the exit.
Thankfully she ran off early, she could feel her tears flowing down already. So Captain was lying about everything he wrote in the diary. Of course, this is stupid, why would a child like his subordinate that was like, 20 years older than him? But why would he lie about something like that?
Matsumoto wiped her tears. She had not expected anyone that she loved to love her back; it has always been like this, with Gin, with Hitsugaya… She was used to her one-sided love. So when she knew that Hitsugaya liked her, she was pleasantly surprised.
Now she knew: everything had been fake. Hitsugaya did not like her. So she's shock, that's all. It's nothing. She'll just go back to their normal relationship then, her one-sided love. But why can't she stop crying?
It's the same, the same feeling she had when the other day when she hugged Gin, and saw Hitsugaya running away. The feeling that she need to explain herself, explain… Explain what? Explain that she felt cheated when Hitsugaya announced that he had been faking his diary entries? Explain that she had been so happy when she read that part about him liking her?
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Unohana peeked into the room. Hitsugaya was lying on the bed, staring at the ceilings.
"Hitsugaya-taicho, time for your medicine." She said, gently.
Hitsugaya glared at her, taking his eyes away from the ceiling. "I'm not sick."
"Of course you are, you must have been sick in order for you to lie to everyone about you faking your diary, which is obviously not true."
Hitsugaya sat up, and stared at Unohana. "H…how did you know…"
"Why did you lie, Hitsugaya-taicho?" Unohana asked firmly.
Hitsugaya lay down back on his bed and sighed. "I don't want them to know…" He said softly.
Unohana walked towards Hitsugaya, sitting down next to him, as Hitsugaya continued softly.
"Matsumoto said that it would be private, so I wrote all my true feelings in it, all those words that I kept inside and did not want anybody to know. I can't believe that they actually read my diary…I can't believe Matsumoto read them…I…" Hitsugaya blushed. "I feel…betrayed… I really did not want anybody to know, but I can't erase their memory. But I really, really did not want them to know, so I thought…that the best thing to do was to lie and said that whatever I wrote in it was not true…So I lied."
Unohana sighed. "Well, it is not very nice of us to read your diary, I wasn't very supportive of that idea too, but well, you wouldn't open up to us, this was the only way."
She patted Hitsugaya's head and continued. "Matsumoto-fukutaicho, she likes you too, you know."
Hitsugaya sat up immediately, bumping his head on Unohana's hands, and then blushing deeply. "W…what are you saying…?"
"She cried when you announced that what you wrote in your diary wasn't real."
"She…did?" Hitsugaya asked, worried.
Unohana chuckled. "Yup. She really likes you, it's quite obvious."
Hitsugaya flushed into a deeper shade of red, if possible.
"S…stop joking, how could she like me? I mean, I'm shorter, younger and in a higher position too... It's quite wrong…"
"It's not wrong, it's completely understandable for anyone to like you, you're too adorable."
Hitsugaya blushed as he turned his head sharply. "S…shut up…she's my subordinate, it's forbidden, you know…"
"Who forbids it, may I ask?" Unohana said. "No one."
Hitsugaya opened his mouth, but he couldn't think of anything else to say. What Unohana-taicho said is very true…
"I think you should go and apologise to everyone, and confess your feelings too." Unohana said. "Tell Matsumoto-fukutaicho your real feelings, and apologise for your rude behaviour these weeks, alright, Hitsugaya-taicho?"
"No way." Hitsugaya said adamantly.
"Hitsugaya-taicho." Unohana said once more. "You have been really disrespectful and unreasonable."
"I said I don't want to!" Hitsugaya said finally, as he threw up his blanket over his head.
Unohana shrugged, and stood up and left. Hitsugaya would definitely listen to her. Sometimes, she felt like his mother, since he do not have one, and he really needed one right now at this stage of life. She felt like she always had to be there for this little boy. She smiled. She liked this feeling.
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Hitsugaya bit his lips as he saw Matsumoto. Oh my gosh, she's really crying. So what Unohana-taicho said is true… He can't believe he made her cry. He bit down harder into his lips to numb the pain in his heart.
So Matsumoto liked him? So his love is not one-sided? Which also means that all these times, all those things he did, trying to get sacked, trying to avoid Matsumoto, everything that he felt, were not necessary since Matsumoto liked him already from the start?
Guilt hit him hard in the face. Damn it, if this is the case, he should have confessed long ago, and save everyone's sadness and worry over him. All the captains must be really angry at him now…
He really should apologise for what he had done…
Hitsugaya cleared his throat. "M…Matsumoto?"
Matsumoto sat up, wiping her tars away, and smiled her usual cheerful smile. "Taicho! You're back!" She ran up and hugged him. "I'm so worried! You're so badass in the Captain's meeting room, I was so nervous! Now you're finally back! I missed you!"
"M…mfft…pfft…."
"What, Taicho, I can't hear you!" Matsumoto said, leaning her head closer to the boy, which is making matter worse.
Hitsugaya pushed Matsumoto away from him. "I can't breathe, you idiot!"
"Oh, sorry!" Matsumoto laughed.
Hitsugaya stomped out of the room angrily. He closed the door. Geez, Matsumoto totally ruined the mood…
Why on Earth is she so cheerful and bubbly? Did she do that to contain her feelings inside her? Come to think of it, whenever she's with Hitsugaya, she will always be so cheerful and happy, even though Hitsugaya's solemn and gloomy most of the times. But that's what he liked about her, Hitsugaya smiled. She makes me happy.
So, this time, I should make her happy. I shouldn't make her cry anymore… Hitsugaya thought as he tore a piece of paper from his diary. (He was still holding on to it after coming out from the Captain's meeting room)
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Ah, Hitsugaya-taicho is always so cute. The way he struggled away from her grasp is just so epic. Hitsugaya knew, everyone knew, that the tenth squad captain is really strong, and could break out of her grasp as easily as drinking a bottle of sake. However, somehow, Hitsugaya always ended up struggling in vain. Was it on purpose?
Well, whatever, Matsumoto always liked the feeling.
And hugging Hitsugaya like that is always the best technique to drive Hitsugaya away. She really can't cry in front of him, she'll show her feelings away, and it's really embarrassing.
Oh man, it has been only a few minutes, and her vision is already blocked totally by her tears.
There's a tissue paper box in front of her. She reached out and grabbed a piece of tissue, wiping her eyes.
Wait, since when was there a tissue paper box in this room? She had never bothered to buy any.
She looked up.
"Taicho! Why are you here again?" She cried, forcing a smile. Gosh this is so embarrassing, why did Captain come back? "I didn't hear you at all!"
"I came to…give you this…" He said, blushing.
Matsumoto took the piece of paper he was holding, and Hitsugaya immediately flashstepped away. She smiled as she sensed his reaitsu just outside the door. Captain is so funny.
She read the piece of paper.
Dear Matsumoto,
It's really difficult to say this in front of you, so I'll just write it.
I just want to say that…
(One whole big chunk of section of words being crossed out and coloured to the point that there's a hole in the paper)
Just now in the Captain's meeting room, whatever I said…
(Crossed out and coloured)
…is not true. I mean, what I wrote in my diary is real, 100% real! I just said it was fake because I was so angry the Captains read my diary. So… you know…
(Crossed out and coloured)
…it's true that I like you. I really really like you! So…don't be sad, I…really don't want to see you cry…
If you look to your back, there's a bunch of flowers. It's for you…as thanks for doing my paperwork.
…Sorry for everything…
You Captain.
She read it, and re-read it, over and over again. The more she read, the more she laughed. All the remaining tears flowed down happily, tickling her cheeks in joy. Captain is so funny!
She could feel her cheeks burning slightly. So it wasn't fake after all! She spun around, and just as he wrote, a bunch of roses wrapped up nicely in ribbons was lying on the window ledge.
She squealed happily as she ran to where Captain is, and picked him up and hugged him.
"Thank you, Taicho, thank you!" She exclaimed.
She looked at Hitsugaya, and she laughed. "Oh Taicho you look like a tomato!"
"S…shut up! You…look like an apple!"
"Tomatoes are cuter!" Matsumoto said, squeezing Hitsugaya's cheeks.
"Mff…apples…are…mff…stupid…"
"What, Captain I can't hear you!" Matsumoto said, hugging Hitsugaya more.
Hitsugaya yanked Matsumoto's hands away, easily as if yanking a baby off. "Matsumoto." He blushed before he leaned forward to kiss Matsumoto (he did something to his leg with kidou, so he didn't need to tiptoe; he has a huge sense of pride.)
It was meant to be a short peck on her lips, but we're talking about Matsumoto here, so it deepened into a sweet, wet kiss.
They stared at each other after they broke apart.
"Taicho, did I give you a wonderful first kiss?" Matsumoto giggled.
Hitsugaya did not answer. His head had stopped functioning, with all the blood clogging up his brain. Matsumoto stared mouth agape as Hitsugaya just fainted into her arms.
"Oh my, Captain? Why are you so hot?"
He fainted, and smoke can be seen coming from his head.
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End of chapter! Damn it I want to end the story here, but it's not a very good ending is it? Tell me how I should end it so I can make you happy! :D
This chapter is not very well done, but, hey, it's a very hard topic you know!
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