Chapter 14

Toshiro Hitsugaya

"Daddy!" Toshi screamed as she walked clumsily over to me holding her arms up at the same time. I reached down and scooped her up from the floor. She wrapped her small arms around my neck and squeezed tightly.

"Okay, not so tight Toshi." I chocked out as I reached around and pried her hands from around my neck.

"Captain!" she yelled loudly. I set her down on the ground and removed my captain's haori from my shoulders. I bent over and draped it around her shoulders. She shoved her hands through the oversized arm holds that were a lot bigger than her arms. She clapped happily then walked away from me.

"Captain Toshi!" she screamed as she ran around in circles with my haori flowing behind her. Katsu sat silently watching his sister running around him in circles. He lifted his hand and gave an unsatisfied grunt. He poked out his bottom lip as he reached a hand out to Toshi. These times were the only time I had seen her show any interest in anything, he only seems interested if Toshi shoes an interest first.

"I think that Katsu wants to wear your haori too." Karin said as she watched his very flustered face.

"Uh, I guess so, but I don't really think that Toshi will let me take it from her." I said to Karin. Karin looked over to the twins and smiled.

"I don't think you need to." She said nodding over to where the twins were sitting. I looked over to see Toshi struggling to pull the Haori off of her back. When she finally pulled it off she held it out Katsu.

"We don't even have to teach them how to share," I said to her.

"I think we have the perfect kids." She replied as she threw herself down on the couch.

"Captain Katsu." Toshi said with a big smile. Katsu smiled at her then the turned back to me. His smile fell and he gave me his usual emotionless face. It was as much as a smile as I was ever gonna get so I was happy with just that.

"I can't believe they're two years old already." She said she watched them playing on the living room floor.

"Matsumoto said that she had a special surprise for the twins at their party." Karin said.

"Really? I wonder what it is." I said. My mind flashed with all of the horrible things that I could be. Knowing Matsumoto I could be anything.

2 Days Later

"Okay now, after we open presents we can cut the cake." Matsumoto said as she captures everyone's attention. She walked over to the giant table of presents and started handing them to Karin and me. We handed the gifts to the twins' one at a time and helped them open each one.

Once again the twins were given everything under the sun. Toshi got dolls, and dresses, and Katsu was given toys cars and spinning tops. There was one gift that they received that neither of them could play with, two identical Swiss army knives courtesy of Captain Kenpachi. I set the both of them aside, far away from all of the other toys that the twins were allowed to play with.

Matsumoto's insisted on us opening her gift last. She even went so far as to hold it in her hands until all of the other presents were opened and out aside.

"Okay captain, open my gift now." she said happily.

"It wasn't just your gift; we all helped out with them." Renji said pointing his finger back to the rest of her dysfunctional friends who were standing behind him.

"Yeah, you can't take all the credit. We all worked hard on this gift." Yumichika said as he stepped around Renji and up to Matsumoto she rolled her eyes with a smile and handed me two boxes. I handed the blue box to Karin and she started opening it. I ripped the wrapping paper away from the box before opening it and pulled out what was inside.

"A mini captain's haori." I said as held up the tiny replica of my own haori. It was small enough to fit Toshi but at the same time big enough for her to wear for a couple more years. Instead of white Toshi's was a Soft pink color that matched the Giant Ribbon that she always wore on the top of her head. Katsu haori was the same color as the green scarf that often wore. They were the same two colors that I had picked the day she came over to my house and forced me to choose between two handfuls of colored fabrics.

"These are so nice!" Karin said as she turned the haori round and round to see the entire thing.

"Captain!" Toshi yelled as she eyed the Pink garment in my hands. I bend over and placed the small pink haori on her bike like I had done with my own so many times before. Karin put Green haori on Katsu and he smiled at her before turning to me and giving me the same stern emotionless look he always gave me.

"Captain Toshi!" she said happily as she ran around the room weaving in and out of our guests legs as she ran in circles with Katsu following closely behind her.

After they finished running to their heart's delight we gave them each a small piece of cake. After their cake they went on playing until they had completely tired themselves of running. We let them run until they finally tired themselves out. When they were done and all of the guests had left Karin and I each grabbed a child and carried them into their room.

"Matsumoto why are you still here?" I asked as I walked back into the living room to find her sitting on the couch.

"I wanted to be the last to say goodbye." She said with a lazy smile.

"You're drunk aren't you?" I asked.

"Nooooooooo! I'm not!" she screamed.

"Matsumoto quiet, you'll wake the kids." Karin said in a oft voice.

"sorry." She whispered loudly.

"Rangiku, can you please go home?" I asked.

"Fine, but I need help." She said standing from the counch.

"With?" I asked.

"Do you remember where my home is?" She asked as she stumbled through the lving room nearly falling flat on her face. I looked over at Karin who was giving me a look that I didn't like. She wanted me to be nice.

"You're too drunk to walk home alone, just stay here." I said before turning and walking towards the door. "You can sleep on the couch." I added.

"Thank you captain," Rangiku said as she fell over the back of the couch. shortly after I could hear loud snoring coming from her.

"That was really nice Toshiro," Karin said as she trailed behind me. we walked into our room, she removed her shoes and laid down in the bed.

"Yeah whatever," I said to her.