This is Week 5: Challege 1 ~ part 12: I'm working with each flower for each Gotei Thirteen division as well as the meaning. (22/166+)

Summary: Toshiro is captured and his freedom taken away.
Notes: None...

Thistle
~vengeance, strictness, independence~

The small, white haired boy felt himself coming too. His chin rested against his chest. There was a burning sensation that ran from his left shoulder to his right hip and from his right knee down. A cough caused his teal eyes to open as he coughed up the blood. Toshiro's vision remained out of focus and his mind tried to put things together. "I thought I defeated my opponent. Isn't the goal to kill us?"

His vision slightly blurred again as he took the floor in. This didn't stop him from noticing the cold whiteness as well as the uniform pattern that was broken by the bloody spittle on the floor. He coughed some more and more blood came up.

"Your majesty?"

This comment caused Toshiro to flinch before lifting his head slightly so he could see who was speaking. Cang Du stood to the left of a man with a dark beard, his arm missing and bloody at the right shoulder. "I don't remember causing such an injury."

The blond to the right of the man with the dark haired beard spoke again. "What are we going to do with the boy?"

"Cang Du will see to his care." The man with the beard spoke.

Toshiro let out a breath and spoke. "I thought I was the victor?"

The man who had spoken prior to his majesty quickly drew his weapon and placed the tip at the boy's throat. "Watch your tongue child."

Toshiro looked away. "Shouldn't I be dead anyhow?"

His majesty as he was called pushed the blade away. "What is your name child?"

"Hitsugaya Toshiro, captain of the tenth division of the Gotei Thirteen."

"Hence forth your name is Haschwalth Jushiro."

Toshiro watched as the man with the blond hair's mouth twisted up into a frown. He continued to look at his majesty and finally spoke again. "The child's body is broken."

"So... what... you're going to put me down like a dog?" The words came out of the boy's mouth without thinking.

Another strange look came from the blond haired man, this one of utter shock and disgust." Again his majesty spoke. ""Yet this child is still standing despite his injuries."

"No. I honestly know I wouldn't be able to stand as my right leg is too injured and I have not the stamina to force myself to stand with such injuries."

"It is a figure of speech. He means your will to live is high." The other who spoke to him spoke again.

"Not really."

The blond haired man frowned. "You need to learn your place child."

"It is all right. He'll eventually learn our rules and our laws. Let him be in ignorant bliss for now."

"I'm sure that is meant to be an insult of some kind."

"In the mean time Cang Du and the boy are in need of healing."

Toshiro watched as the man left with the blond haired man left. His ears picked up on someones footsteps from behind. He felt his arms being unbound and instinctively he lurched forward in an attempt to escape. Someone grabbed his arm to stop him. "Don't."

The familiarity of the voice caused him to turn his head. "Ishida..."

"Before you ask I know not much more then you and what I do know I have no permission to give you."

The white haired child looked away in annoyance. "Traitor. He knows as well as I that the Quincy are in the wrong this time around."

"You are going to be taken to their medical ward."

"In other words I'm to be carried. How humiliating?"

"I over heard you when you spoke to his majesty. You can't walk on your own two legs with the injury you have."

"It's still humiliating." he boy felt himself lifted up by Uryu so he could stand on one leg. The task was awkward and the boy was a bit taken aback. He then found himself moving forward dispute the pain, his eyes to the ground. How long it took he did not know. Eventually they passed through a door frame and he found himself being set on a medical bed. Looking around he was the curtains around one bed pulled shut. A sudden screaming came from the other side of the curtains."

"Now, now Bambietta-chan. No need to throw a fit to this extreme. I've given you a heavy sedative as well as pain killer. Be a good girl now." A nurse came from around the corner.

At first she looked right at Toshiro. "She's wondering why a shinigami is here."

She then looked at Cang Du, her mouth opening in disbelief. "You... the arm they brought in is yours? I'll work..."

Cang Du finally spoke, much to the small boy's annoyance. "Take care of the child first."

The woman turned towards the boy and then stepped over and removed the sweatband from around his forehead. "What is your name little one?"

Toshiro felt his hair fall down in his face, blocking his ability to see from his left eye. His right eye though saw the look of sudden surprise on her face, almost as if she had seen a ghost. "Hitsugaya Toshiro. My name is Hitsugaya Toshiro."

"No. Your name is Haschwalth Jushiro." Uryu quickly corrected him. There came a sudden sound from the other side of the curtain and the nurse went to calm the person in question. "I'm the only one here whose likely to call you Hitsugaya."

The white haired child looked away with irritation. He spoke again without realizing it. "You sshould take care of him first. He's your ally... I'm not." when he didn't receive a response he spoke again. "You should get his arm re0attached. The sooner you can, then the less repercussions. I should know."

"You should..." the look of recognition changed to horror.

"Look. I'll get him settled while you take care of settling him. This way... Hit... Hachwath-san is calm once you have taken care of your other patient."

Cang Du let out an audible curse while the nurse led him away. Uryu turned to Toshiro and pushed him down gently. "Hitsugaya-kun. I want to make something clear to you. Things are different here then it is with the shinigami."

"I don't understand why they're moving against us. We've been making positive changes."

"I think that is the problem really."

"I don't understand. What is wrong with making positive changes? We've had positive changes ever since Kurosaki came around."

Uryu's voice lowered to a whisper. "I think that's why. The Quincy... they're even father back then the shinigami were. It doesn't help either that some of the Quincy hold major grudges either." There came a pause. "Wait... you didn't think for a bit that the Quincy and shinigami could be friends?"

"You and Kurosaki are friends."

"Kurosaki and I aren't friends." There came silence before the blue haired teen spoke again. "Kurosaki and I are actually blood related. Our parents... his mother... my father... they are first cousins."

"Kurosaki is friends with the shinigami."

"Kurosaki is an anomaly."

"Where's Matsumoto?"

"I don't know."

The nurse came back then, stopping for a few seconds. "It's your turn little one."

"What about Matsumoto?"

"Who?"

"She's his fukutaicho." Uryu touched Toshiro's arm to calm him.

"I see. I did note that the boy is wearing a haori. That's a bit odd." The woman sat down next to the boy. "Bazz-B caused these injuries?"

"I wouldn't know." The blue haired Quincy frowned.

The nurse simply went to work removing the boy's clothing. There was quite a bit of pain when she removed the clothing near the burns, but he in turn didn't flinch. She then began to treat the burns, stopping after a few minutes. "Child... do you need a pain killer?"

Two bright teal eyes turned to look at her in surprise. "What do you mean?"

"Are you not in pain?"

"Yes..."

"Then I can get you a pain killer?" The nurse noted the continued confusion on his face. "You don't think that you need to hold out letting us know you're in pain. You can yell, scream, cry..."

"It's not like him." Uryu folded his arms across his chest. "He's as far as I known him been very tolerate of pain."

"It's not normal though. I've known adults who can't handle this much pain. I'm going to go ahead and give him a pain killer." The woman stood up, turning her head to the place they saw her originally coming from. "No... you don't need any more pain killers little one." The woman slipped away and then came back, slipping some kind of powder between the boy's teeth, causing him to drift off.

When Toshiro came too he was fully bandaged and he found himself sitting up despite the pain. Setting his feet onto the ground he looked around in time to see Cang Du sitting in his bed looking at him. He then turned his head to the curtains were the nurse had come from. He stood up, pausing to look at Cang Du again.

Letting out a sigh he sat back down, surprised to see the man suddenly stand up and walk over to sit on the stool next to him. "Let me make something clear too you."

"I don't care to hear what you have to say."

"You will hear what I have to say to you."

Toshiro turned his head to look at the man, his eyes narrowed in disgust. "I have no reason to hear what you have to say!"

"You don't have the freedom to not hear what I have to say. You are to obey his majesties orders. You are also to receive your treatment before I ever receive mine ever again. Do you understand?"

"Why didn't you argue the point before?"

"He ordered otherwise. Nobody has freedom here, not even him though." For some reason Toshiro understood what the man meant.