Chapter 21

Toshi and Katsu

Toshi was so excited for her first day at the academy that she was nearly bouncing off the walls. She ran around the house fixing her hair and rechecking her cloths to make sure everything was exactly how she wanted it to be.

"Toshi don't run, you can hurt yourself," Katsu said calmly. Toshi rolled her eyes at her brother and continued on with what she was doing.

"You act so much like dad, lighten up." She said as she walked ahead of him on their way to the academy.

"I would be able to if you weren't so oblivious to the world around you." He replied.

"I'm not oblivious," she replied. "I'm just too busy having run to care."

Katsu rolled his eyes then brushed his hair away from his face. he tied his hair back that morning but that did nothing to help the shorter pieces of hair in the front that fell into his face at very inconvenient times.

Toshi took his moment of weakness to her advantage. She went up behind him and grabbed the hair tie that was holding the rest of his hair back. Before he could open his mouth to object she pulled the tie from his hair and ran away. The rest of Katsu's hair that had been tied into the hair tie feel down around his face and further blocked his vision. Instead of giving her the satisfaction of seeing him in a bad mood so he chose to ignore her and keep walking.

"Hey Katsu watch out!" Toshi yelled.

"What?" Katsu asked still paying no attention to what was in front of him. Whatever it was he ran right into it.

"Ouch," he said rubbing his head. Toshi walked over and held his hair tie out to him. he frowned as he took it out of her hand and quickly secured in into place before standing from the ground.

"Are you okay?" asked an unfamiliar voice.

"Yeah, I'm fine….."Katsu voice trailed off when he finally looked up to see just who he had run into. The girl in front of him smiled apologetically before turning to collect her things from the ground.

"No, it was my fault, I wasn't looking where I was going." He said as he stopped back down again to help her collect the papers from the ground around them.

"Hey, aren't you Hitsugaya Katsu?" she asked. Katsu nodded.

"Yes I am," he replied.

"Is it true that you guys are starting at the academy today?" she asked.

"Yes it is," he answered. The girl was so excited to talk to him that she didn't notice him staring directly at her the entire time.

"I hope that I get the chance to go to the academy someday." She beamed. "Well I got to get going, uh, maybe I'll see you around sometime." She said. Katsu nodded again and watched her as she walked away giving a friendly wave to Toshi before she got on her way.

"Do you know her?" Katsu asked his sister.

"That's Yui," Toshi replied. "I'm not surprised you've never heard of her. She keeps to herself a lot."

"Then how do you know her?" Katsu asked.

"I don't really know her, I just know of her." Toshi answered. "She's Hanataro's younger cousin…or maybe she's his sister" she said touching her finger to her chin.

"Well which one is it?" Katsu pressed. Toshi shrugged.

"I don't really remember, but I know she's related to him, that why she had all that paperwork. She helps out with the filing system in the 4th squad." Toshi said.

"That sounds like a lot of work." Katsu said.

"Eh…I guess so, it also sounds really boring." she said.

Katsu rolled his eyes. "Come on, we need to get going, we can't be late on our first day." he said.