Chapter Two: Ice

"Matsumoto!" A white haired Shinigami screamed as he walked into an office complete with all the office necessities. Mounds of paper covered his office in Soul Society and it wasn't going to disappear with a wave of his hand. "We've been back for a week and you can't even get one thing of paperwork done." He sighed along with a grunt, taking his usual seat.

Rangiku Matsumoto stood up strait as her Captain entered the room with a ruckus and proceeded to his desk. She had preciously been sleeping on the futon provided in her captain's office after a long sake drinking binge the night before and boy... was she hung over. "Oh captain… I'm sorry, it's just… the stress."

"Save it," he said deadpan. The Captain pulled out a writing implement from his desk and began to work on papers. "Lets just get this done, we are to report back to the human world soon."

"Hai…" replied Matsumoto. Toushiro was kind of glad they were going back on another assignment. There was really no one to protect the town from any rouge hollows at the moment and so his team would return. It also meant no paperwork, lots of waiting around, and a good old game of soccer with Kurosaki; although he'd never admit to the last one. He didn't know what it was about the young girl but he felt like he did around Momo before the incident... before she went psycho.. He often found himself thinking about the young Karin Kurosaki and would never notice that he was Idle and staring off into space while doing so. This left him vulnerable to Matsumoto's attacks.

"Captain?" Toushiro was brought back to reality by his lieutenant's call.

"Hum?" The young captain replied.

"What are you thinking about?" Matsumoto furrowed her eyebrows and looked at her Captain's face, trying to read his features for any hint of what it might be.

"Nothing…" Toushiro retorted, a bit annoyed, too quick to avoid the questions she was sure to ask. It was like she could read his mind sometimes.

"It's that Kurosaki girl isn't it?" Rangiku inquired.

Toushiro just sighed and replied with a simple, "No," before going back to his paperwork. Matsumoto knew better.

"Oh Captain, you mentioned the human world then stared off into space. It obvious you were thinking of a girl." She fluttered her eyelashes. "Believe me I know." Her voice dripped with fake innocents and sweetness.

That's because you let drunken fools fondle your oversized breasts, but he didn't have the heart to say it out loud. So, seeing no way out of this, the mighty Captain of the fighting 10th gave an angered grunt and stood making his way to the exit. "What ever, just get this stuff done. I got some where to be," and with that he left.

Toushiro Hitsugaya arrived at the 4th Division's head quarter shortly after he left his own. He walked the halls for a short time before coming upon a room. He opened the door and knocked softly. "Momo..." He spoke in a whisper. He never expected her to answer but he did expect her to be asleep. She slept a lot after the incident, well more like she was drugged. She could only remain in her right mind for short periods of time and the periods weren't getting any longer.

Toushiro took a seat next to her bed and stoked a few stray strands of hair from her fore head. What that monster did to her was unforgivable and I'll make Aizen pay. "Hey Momo…" He whispered "I'm back from the human world. It was okay, fought some Hollows and Arrancar. It was Amusing." He would never normally open up to her like this but she was asleep, so what difference did it make? "I met this human girl, Karin Kurosaki, she's Ichigo's sister. We played soccer and guess what… she reminds me a lot of you…" If she were awake she'd tease him. "Her eyes, nose…" He drifted off. Her neck…her…He was cut off in mid thought by Momo's troubled voice.

" Captain?" Momo worded in her sleep. She then giggled "Stop captain… that tickles." Toushiro clenched his fist at the words. Great now he's in her dreams. At this rate she'll never recover. He waited for her dream to pass. I'll kill Aizen no matter what!

The Ice Captain rose and kissed his childhood friend on the fore head before making his leave.

Yes I will restore Honor to those who had it stolen from them by Aizen… He will die one way or another…

A/N: Yeah so… looks like old Toushiro is in love… Thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter! You guys are awesome. The next one might take a little longer to get up. I'm going on vacation an will not have the internet available to me. Until then R and R.