This is Week 5: Challege 1 ~ part 9: I'm working with each flower for each Gotei Thirteen division as well as the meaning.

Summary: Toshiro finds himself in a tight spot.
Notes: Nothing.

White Poppy
~Oblivian~

The small taicho's feet sounded against the roof of the old fashioned Japanese style building and sounded again on the next roof. Toshiro could feel the presence of the enemy behind him. Letting a deep breath he veered his course in another direction so that he could move away as well as move the enemy away from civilians to a place where destruction would be less of a problem.

His small foot landed on a tree branch and he moved to the next one with great speed, preparing to turn and launch an attack at the other person. As his foot went down he heard the sound of an attack whirling by and crashing into the branch, causing it to snap. He felt himself falling then, his small body hitting the branches as he felt down and another attack hitting him hard in the chest, causing his energy to tank.

He somehow managed to land on his feet and teetered on the edge of a cliff like area. Another attack hit him in his chest, knocking him backwards and his energy dropping again as he fell. His small hands grabbed onto the rock surface to try and stop himself from dropping. Looking up he blinked a couple of times.

Dust fell on his face and the sudden feeling that he was in quite a bit of trouble came across his mind. He slipped down slightly as the face of his enemy appeared in front of him. The boy's bright teal eyes narrowed at the enemy and his lips pushed together into a frown. The enemy said something about him dying and launched another attack at him.

The pain shot through his body and he lost his grip on the rocky cliff and fell backwards. He tried moving his limps so that he could walk on the air but his body didn't want to react and his reiatsu wasn't enough. That or it just wasn't working right. His ears heard a loud slamming sound as he closed his eyes wondering when his body would hit the ground.

"Oblivion... that's what it feels like to die." Toshiro kept his eyes closed, only to feel something grab onto his arm causing his arm to be jolted out of socket. He opened his eyes to see the taicho of the ninth division looking down at him, his large hand holding onto Toshiro's small hand. The boy then felt himself hauled up and then held over the man's shoulder and held close.

The fox faced captain said something in the direction away from the cliff and Toshiro turned his head towards said direction. Said enemy stood there, glaring at them. The boy couldn't hear what they said as his entire head was filled with a painful ringing sound. He twisted his head to look at the man, a frown upon his face.

It looked like the captain of the ninth had managed to smash the enemy all the way over there which would explain the smashing sound that he heard. Which in turn meant it wasn't his head smashing into something like he had thought. He found himself set down on the ground and his eyes closed.

"I hope he can take this enemy out and not get hurt."

He wasn't sure what happened after that but the captain of the ninth division came back and lifted him up and began to carry him back to the forth division. He felt himself set onto the bed and then felt someone begin to take care of him. Eventually he opened his eyes and saw the ninth division taicho remaining near him.

The fox faced captain opened his mouth to say something, but Toshiro shook his head and flinched as he did so. He pointed to his ears. The taicho simply looked at him and remained sitting there by the boy. Eventually Toshiro's ears cleared and he could hear the sound of birds chirping outside of his room. "Thank you for saving me. I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to take care of myself."

"You really shouldn't apologize for such things. You are a child after all."

"Me being a child is no excuse for not being able to take care of myself when I am as a high ranking as I am." The boy looked up at the ceiling but then twisted his head to look back at the man. "I do have a question though."

"What might that be?"

"You used to hide your face behind a mask? That was because you were ashamed of the way you look?" This statement from the tenth division taicho caused the ninth division taicho to raise his eyebrows up. "I mean... how did you get over feeling ashamed about the way you look?"

"That is kind of a personal question."

"You're honestly the only person I can ask the question of."

"Hitsugaya Taicho... are you ashamed of the way you look."

There came silence from the boy. Finally he spoke. "Yes."

"Why?"

"Because people always stared at me." There came more silence between the two. "Nobody wanted anything to do with me when I was younger. It might have also had something to do with my rieatsu. It's kind of icy."

More silence came. The taicho of the ninth finally spoke. "Do you think I should have a reason to be ashamed of how I look?"

"No."

"And why not?"

"I like the way you look."

"Then you shouldn't be ashamed of the way you look because I like the way you look." More silence came and Toshiro closed his eyes while the ninth division taicho leaned back into the chair.

"Oblivion. It would be nice if that would occur to my being ashamed about the way I look." The boy had another thought. "Though sometimes I wish that would happen to me."

Opening his eyes back up he looked at the eighth division taicho. "So... do you think that someone would miss me if I was gone?"

"Why do you think I saved you?"

"Because it is the right and honorable thing to do?"

"Yet I know that you are a captain of the Gotei Thirteen and it is normal procedure to allow one to fight their own battles."

"I didn't know you were one for the eleventh division semantics."

"I'll try another route. I know I would care if you were gone and I know your fukutaicho would care. This feeling you have... it won't go away over night, so just don't worry about it."