“Cherry Blossoms”

Chapter 3: Being a somebody who isn’t really an anybody…

The next day Hinamori woke up feeling confident, she said to herself yesterday when I wake up the next day, I’ll immediately go to Hitsugaya-kun and say sorry! Then I’ll tell him something important...Heheheh! I’m really a bit nervous in doing this. But nevertheless, she got up and wore a big smile on her face as she set out unto a new day. She walked by the Cherry tree and remembered what she did to Toushiro and blushed a bit I should say sorry about that too. When she got by the office, things didn’t work out the way she planned it to.

“Hey Hitsuga-“she started to say cheerfully but she was cut off by a surprised person inside his office.

It was her most hated person in her whole life next to Aizen-taicho and some other people. But second to her death list (Whoa! Can’t expect her to have one! So cool!). It was Suzuki Iwatami or whatever.

“Oh if it isn’t you peachy.” She said in a disgusted tone. Hinamori was so surprised and both annoyed she was forcing herself to stop saying words not to say if she wanted a fight.

“Peachy?” she asked her. (This is Hinamori).

“Yeah...That’s what your name means right?” she added.

“Yeah...So?” she snapped back. Suzuki was surprised at her reaction.

“Don’t “so” me! You still have to remember I’m a captain here.” She snapped back.

“Hmm...” Hinamori replied in a not interested at that tone.

“What are you even doing here anyway?” she asked.

“If it’s any business of yours” Hinamori began as she glared at Suzuki, “I am looking for Hitsugaya-kun.”

“Well, for your information, he left on a mission with his fuku-taicho.”

“Oh...Well...Hmm...What to do...” she began to think as she turned her back on the so-called taichō which made Suzuki really angry.

“Hey who do you think are you talking to?!”

“Oh yeah! I forgot you were there (she did really...)” Hinamori said resisting a laughter that was about to escape her.

“Are you really challenging me?!”

“You’re the one who said it not me...” Hinamori shrugged as she said it.

Suzuki grabbed her zanpaktou and prepared herself for a battle. But then Hinamori snapped back again.

“I can’t believe a taichō like you would act in a rash way like this. You are being carried away by your emotions. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. I am a bit disappointed in you Iwatami-taichō.”

She left Suzuki dumbfounded by what she said with mouth hanging open. Hinamori left her there with a smile on her lips then she heard her

“Why you little! Who do you think you are to speak to me like that?! Pooh! You’ll get your punishment!”

Meanwhile in the real world...

“Oh! Hitsugaya-taichō! Matsumoto fuku-taicho! Oh! What brings you here! This is a surprise!” Urahara said looking surprised (Not really...)

“Kisuke-san! Long time no see!” Matsumoto said happily. Toushiro stepped out of the opening and he was looking glum.

“What brings the both of you here in the real world?!” Urahara said as he motioned the both of them to sit down.

“Free loader-san! Can you please bring our guests tea and some snacks?!” Urahara said with a smile.

“Waahh! You have a free loader here Kisuke-san?” Matsumoto asked as her eyes lit up with excitement. Urahara just smiled and suddenly a guy with red hair and tattoos stepped forward wearing human clothes.

This sight made Matsumoto laugh so hard she kept on rolling unto the grounds while the guy stood there with a red face.

“Abarai-kun? You’re the free-loader?” Matsumoto asked as she stopped and recovered from laughing. Renji nodded. And they all sat down as they drank their tea.

“So...What brings you the both of you here?” Urahara asked in a very serious tone.

“We were sent here by the Captain Commander.” Toushiro said.

“Are there any problems Hitsugaya-taichō?” Renji asked.

“There is...” Urahara said.

“So...You already know about the problem?” Toushiro asked Urahara.

“Actually I don’t” he said as he laughed, they all fell unto the ground-anime style.

“Hey! I was only joking. But please tell me the details Hitsugaya-taichō.” Urahara said fanning himself.

“Aizen isn’t dead yet and he is planning to take action. Where are the ryokas?” Toushiro asked. Urahara sighed and said “Kurosaki is still the same but he trains everyday by killing hollows, meanwhile his other friends are doing fine.”

“Let’s contact them” Matsumoto said.

Urahara called all the ryokas and they all sat down and Matsumoto told them the problem. Inoue shivered and avoided everyone’s glances. Rukia touched her hand and told her “It’s all right Inoue...”

“So what’s our plan now Toushiro?” Ichigo asked Toushiro.

“It’s Hitsugaya-taichō...”he said angrily to Ichigo but his voice trailed off as he remembered some memories.

“Taichō?” Matsumoto said and everybody stared at him.

“Ahem...For now let’s be on guard and save people who are in trouble from the hollows and we’ll get some information.” He said.

“By the way Toushiro...How’s your girlfriend?” Ichigo asked grinning. Matsumoto was smiling devilishly.

“Girlfriend?” Toushiro blushed in a surprised way as he said it.

“Waahh! How sweet! Toushiro-kun has a girlfriend!” Inoue exclaimed. All of them were shocked. Then Toushiro remembered Hinamori and the happenings in Soul Society then he blushed extremely to the highest level, but he frowned after a few seconds.

“She’s doing fine...She’s not my girlfriend...And it’s Hitsugaya-taichō.” He said as he became serious. Then they continued talking.

Back in Soul Society...

I feel so alone here…I just wish that I didn’t have that fight with Hitsugaya-kun…Now look at how everybody’s staring at me. Man, I just wish that I could grab all of their eyes and just stab it with my sword. Sigh… Hinamori thought as she walked down the halls to the 1st division with Kira Izuru.

Before all of that, she was staring unto space when Kira said to her that the Captain Commander was calling for them in the 1st division for their mission, and for Hinamori, both a mission and a punishment.

“Hinamori fuku-taicho and Izuru fuku-taicho, I have called both of you here because of one reason…” Genryuu said.

“We were called here by you Captain Commander because of an important matter, a mission.” Kira said.

“Yes.” Genryuu said.

“What kind of mission Captain Commander?” Hinamori asked.

“This concern the same mission sent to Hitsugaya-taicho and Rangiku-fuku taicho. I will send the both of you to the real world and ask the both of you to assist the 2 of them there.” Genryuu replied.

“Yes, Captain Commander.” The both of them said. They were about to go back to prepare their trip for the real world when Genryuu asked Hinamori to stay for awhile.

“What is wrong Hinamori-san?” Genryuu asked in a concerned voice. Hinamori was surprised by his question.

“Nothing, Captain Commander” Hinamori replied, keeping her voice in a cool and calm state.

“I heard that you had a little bit quarrel with Iwatami-taicho.” Genryuu said staring directly at Hinamori which made Hinamori blush in embarrassment.

“I am sorry about that, Captain Commander.” Hinamori replied bowing her head.

“So as your punishment, I will ask you to separate with Izuru-fuku taicho in the real world and you will observe Karakura town in a few days alone, make sure you will not be noticed by the shinigamis there.” Genryuu said. Hinamori bowed down and left with a mixed feeling of relief, worry, and fear. The 2 of them left quickly, only carrying their zanpaktou and their money.

In the real world…

Kira and Hinamori arrived at one alley and they went to Urahara’s shop. Once there, they had their little reunion and they began to talk about…Well…Serious stuff…

“Hey, Urahara-san, Abarai-kun, everyone.” Hinamori called out. Everybody stopped what were they doing and stared at her with a serious face.

“Nani?” Renji asked.

“Can you please not tell anyone that I’ve arrived here in the real world? Captain Commander asked me to observe Karakura town in a few days and to not be noticed by the shinigamis in here.” Hinamori said.

“Well…If you put it that way, we’ll keep it a secret. Right, everyone?” Urahara said and then all of the people nodded.

“But how will ne-san be unnoticed?” Ururu asked.

“Well, I saw it in a movie once, but the question is…How will she disguise herself?” Jinta suggested. Then everybody stared at Hinamori.

“I’ve got it!” Ururu exclaimed (Ya know with the bulb at the top side of her head…)

The next day…

“Good morning Kurosaki-kun!” Inoue greeted cheerfully and gave Ichigo a little wave when he entered.

“Good morning Inoue, Tatsuki.” Ichigo greeted back and slid to his chair. Rukia approached him and they overheard Inoue and Tatsuki’s conversation.

“Ne, Orihime, have you heard about the rumor that there will be a new student transferring around here?” Tatsuki said to her.

“Yeah, I wonder what kind of type that person is.” Another friend of Orihime’s joined in. While they were talking about the rumor, Rukia and Ichigo talked about something else.

“So where is Shorty and the others?” Ichigo asked while looking outside their classroom window.

“Hitsugaya-taicho and Rangiku-san are here in the school in the rooftop, while Renji is still in Kisuke-san’s store, doing stuff.” Rukia replied.

“Oh.” Ichigo said then their class adviser went inside their classroom.

“Hai! Hai! Good morning class! Let’s see…No one’s absent, that’s good, because you’ll really regret if you were absent today. You have a new classmate today.” Their class adviser said. Then a pigtailed, braided, black-haired girl with glasses that looked like she was only in middle school went inside.

“Everyone, this is your new classmate. And I don’t know her name yet. Hahahaha!” Their class adviser said laughing. The class sweat dropped by her reaction.

“Well then, please introduce yourself.” She added. Then the short girl (a little bit taller than Hitsugaya) bowed down and said in a soft voice:

“Hello everyone! I am…Hi…Hira…Hiranomi…Mimi! I hope we all get along!” The whole class whispered with excitement upon hearing this girl’s voice.

“Hmm…This girl’s voice seems so familiar…”Rukia began. Then Ichigo heard her.

“What do you mean by familiar? What? Have you seen her before?” Ichigo asked.

“Hmm…I don’t know. Maybe it’s because of her voice.”

“Maybe not here in the real world, how about in Soul Society?”

“Hmmm…” was all Rukia had said. I’ll just try to talk to her later; she really seems familiar to me. Rukia thought and she gazed outside their window and saw this blue and black spotted butterfly. At lunch time, Inoue’s group went outside to talk to each other while Ichigo had a group of his own, but he separated with them to go with Rukia after she told him about his plan. While the both of them were finding Hiranomi, Mimi (or Momo, come on, only idiots wouldn’t notice this.) went at the rooftop to eat her lunch alone and to check if there were any hollows. She hummed the same tune from Soul Society before which gave her memories and when she opened the door leading to the rooftop she shouted “Waahh! Time to eat already! I have sushi and-” She stopped in her dead tracks. Why? Because she saw this short, silver haired, light blue eyes which is looking at her. Silence came past over them.

“Anu… Ah! I am so sorry! I thought…There were no persons here!” Hinamori said bowing down her head.

“No, it’s alright. Who are you anyway?” Hitsugaya asked.

“Uh…” Hinamori muttered and was looking at a different direction.

“Waahh!” Ichigo shouted as he stumbled upon Hinamori uh…Hiranomi (whatever.) and Rukia stumbled at the top of Ichigo. Of course, Hitsugaya sweat dropped. (They looked like a sandwich.)

“Um, I am so sorry!” Ichigo said to Hinamori as he helped her get up

“Oi Toushiro! What are you doing out here all alone?” Ichigo said with a grin.

“It’s not Toushiro! It’s Hitsu-!” but then he stopped when he saw Rukia and Ichigo pointing at Hiranomi.

“It’s Hitsugaya-san.” He finally muttered with a big fat vein at the top of his head. Hinamori as Hiranomi always found this so funny and accidentally laughed out loud and found after that 3 people was looking at her and was being suspicious of her.

“What’s funny?” Ichigo asked.

“Ah! It’s nothing...I’m sorry for laughing out so loud, I just thought.Of something funny.” She said. Then Ichigo thought Man, she is really weird. After that the bell rang.

“We didn’t get the chance to talk to Hiranomi today.” Rukia said while walking with Ichigo.

“Yeah…”Ichigo said.“I wonder where she is right now.” He added.

In Hinamori Momo’s case. . .

“Man! That was really close!” Hinamori said while in her shinigami form (she left her gigai with Inoue) and rounding off the city.

“But, it really does feel good to come back here with the people you like.” She added. Then her cellphone (which has the color of red and a dangling Cherry blossom keychain, by the way) beeped and it reported that there was a hollow in the playground.

“What?!” she exclaimed as she saw a soul kid being chased by a hollow. She took out her zanpaktou and she began slicing the arm of the hollow, but the hollow had a special power- if the hollow let out a moan, it will hurt anyone because its sound waves are like little knives flying unto the air. The hollow moaned and before the kid even got injured Hinamori jumped and shielded the kid, injuring herself. Her cheek got scratched then she said

“Die!” and she jumped really high into the air and divided the Hollow’s skull into 2 which left a blood shed in the playground but quickly disappeared.

“Are you alright?” Hinamori asked the kid who was still shaking and crying because of the incident.

“Yeah, you got scratched ne-san, are you alright?”

“Huh? This don’t worry, I’m alright.” Hinamori smiled and asked him

“Hey, I am going to do the soul burial on you okay?”

“S-soul Burial?” the boy asked with scared eyes.

“Yes, I’ll be sending you to a place called the Soul Society. Soul Society is another name for heaven.”

“Will I be able to see my parents again? They both became missing when our car was bumped by another car.”

“Of course, say ‘hi’ to them for me okay?”

“Okay.” Then with those parting words, Hinamori did the soul burial to the boy and the boy vanished. Then she felt some reiatsu and quickly escaped just behind the tree, because she suddenly weakened because she wasn’t used to that kind of thing at all.

“Huh?! Where’s the hollow then?” a voice asked. It was Ichigo’s.

“I’m sure it was here.” Another voice, it was Rukia’s.

“Is it broke again or something?!”

“Shut up, let me get this straight.” Rukia replied with a hint of impatience in her voice and began pushing some buttons.

“Well, since there are no hollows here…Let’s get going.” Rukia said while pulling Ichigo’s ear.

“Don’t you think it’s weird?” Ichigo asked.

“What’s weird?”

“Nothin…”

“Don’t you say things like that! It pisses me off!” Rukia said stomping on Ichigo’s face.

That night, Hinamori crept unto the window of Inoue’s house to fetch her gigai. Unfortunately, Inoue saw 2 Hinamoris and she was confused (her face chibi with 2 spirals as her eyes).

“Huweh! Why are there 2 of you here? Is this an invasion?!” Inoue asked.

“No, gomenasai Inoue-san let me explain it to you in a second.” Hinamori said as she placed her hand at Inoue’s mouth to prevent her in making a commotion. And thus, she explained it all to Inoue (How lucky is she?)

“Wow! I see…Waahh!” Inoue started to say in her usual enthusiastic voice.

“What is it Inoue-san?” Hinamori asked suspiciously.

“It’s all so cool! Think about it, you, going here undercover and hiding from everyone while nobody knows a thing and you’re also fighting hollows! So cool!” she said as she plopped down the floor hugging her pillow.

“Ne, can I tell someone?” Inoue said smiling from her pillow.

“I’m sorry demo…No.” Hinamori said gently urging Inoue to lie in her lap.

“Why?” Inoue said as she lie upon the lap of Hinamori, then Hinamori began to play with Inoue’s hair.

“You can’t tell it because it’s my mission baka…”Hinamori said.

“Even to Toushiro-kun?”

“Well…Especially him…”

“Why? Because he’s your boyfriend?”

“NO!! I WOULDN’T LIKE SOMEONE SHORTER THAN ME!”

“How about Rangiku-san?”

“Well, I guess…”

“Yatta!” Inoue said as Hinamori finally agreed. That night, Inoue kept on asking Hinamori a lot of questions, and while answering them, Hinamori didn’t feel that good at the decision she made.

Next day, Hinamori woke up and left early with Inoue and together with Tatsuki. They passed by Hitsugaya and Rangiku who was pretending to be on their way to school. And at their little walk, Hinamori and Toushiro were both quiet.

“Ne, Toushiro-kun why are you so quiet?” Inoue asked with concern.

“Yeah, even you Hiranomi-chan.” Rangiku asked with a little grin on her face. Then Hinamori felt a chill run down her spine (Wow, what a scary effect.)

“Umm… Gomenasai! I was just thinking of someone who reminds me of one of you here.” Hiranomi said nervously looking at the ground while walking (She’s gonna trip over something sooner or later…Tsk. Tsk.)

“Oh! Who might that be Hiranomi-chan?” Rangiku asked her with a devilish smile on her face. She fell silent for a few minutes then all of them looked (especially Hitsugaya) at her.

“It’s a secret.” Hiranomi finally said. Then Rangiku really smiled at her to the fullest, after looking at Hiranomi, she looked at Hitsugaya

“What are you looking at?” Hitsugaya asked in an irritated tone (Actually, anyone who will experience that from someone will really be irritated. How weird is she?!).

“Nothing…” Rangiku asked in a singing tone.

“Ne, who is that person Hiranomi-chan?” Inoue asked nervously. Then Hiranomi looked down with sad eyes, she didn’t know that Hitsugaya was also watching her and he kept on a straight face.

“Well, me and that person kind of…Well, got into a big fight, we treated each other differently before. When I was about to say sorry to him, he left to um…Another place…To um…Meet his…Well, fate.” Hiranomi said.

“Oh, Hitsugaya-kun here is also finding the same person.” Rangiku said smiling while glancing back and forth of Hiranomi and Hitsugaya.

“Who?” Tatsuki and Inoue both asked at the same time.

“No one…”Hitsugaya said coldly.

“Aww, that’ so unfair Hitsugaya-kun! Hiranomi told us so it’s unfair for her if you don’t tell us as well.” Rangiku said.

“Fine. The person I am looking for…” Hitsugaya said. Everybody was excited with what he was about to say. Meanwhile, Hitsugaya can’t bear to mention that person’s name because of awful memories.

“Well, who?” Tatsuki-chan asked with impatience and annoyance. Unfortunately, Hitsugaya’s cell phone rang which meant T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Hitsugaya and Rangiku looked at each other and they knew what it meant. Before Hitsugaya could even explain, Hiranomi’s cell phone also rang then she jumped a little because she was startled. Hiranomi looked at Inoue with a nervous glance, then Hitsugaya looked at Hiranomi with suspicions as well, but Matsumoto just smiled at Hiranomi making Hiranomi nervous.

“Oh! A phone call, who’s it from Hiranomi-chan?” Inoue asked and looked a helping glance at Hiranomi.

“Eeto…”Hiranomi said then she took out her cell phone, as she took it out Hitsugaya stared at it for a moment then looked at Hiranomi then back to Matsumoto.

“Oi, we have some important business to attend to. We’ve got a message that says that we have to do some errands for a meeting later. Well, see ya.” Hitsugaya said as he looked at them then started to go.

“Well, bye Toushiro-kun!” Inoue said as she waves happily, Tatsuki also waved good bye.

“Goodbye Hitsugaya-kun, Rangiku-san.” Hiranomi said quietly and smiled at the both of them. Again, Hitsugaya stared at her for a few minutes then started to go. Rangiku smiled at her taicho and started to follow him.

Poshpuppy27: Well, I know it’s a boring chapter. I really made it boring so I can move unto the next one. Ha! I am so evil! Hahaha!

Well…Dot. Dot. Dot. Hahahaha! Ermm…Here’s the part 2 of Kon’s talk show with some new guests.

Plush toy Kon: Welcome once again to my talk show!

Haru Glory: Ah! Where are we?!

Plush toy Kon: Oi! You are one of our guests for today! Haru Glory, from Rave Masters!

Elie: Where am I? I was just taking a bath then I suddenly found my self here...My clothes?!

Plush toy Kon: Umm…Ermm…Elie-san from the same show. (blushes)

Elie: Where are my clothes?! Waahh!! (Unleashes her guns from somewhere behind then shoots down the whole place.)