I...don't...own...bleach
The tenth division captain made his way towards the forest knowing perfectly where the girl he was looking for was, after all her reiatsu wasn't hard to miss. He was so use to it by now. Hitsugaya slowly walked towards the tree he was sitting at the day they fought but when he looked up and saw Rukia, his breath was caught in his throat.
Rukia sat under the tree bathed in sunlight, her raven hair shown a brilliant pure black, her face seemed to glow under the kiss of the sun, her black turtleneck was like soft charcoal, her tight fitted white vest was like snow, as her long black tight pants were like a streak of black light in a lighted room, her whole being glowed making her look like an angel.
"Rukia..." the petit shinigami opened her eyes and turned to the source of the voice
"Hitsugaya-taichou!"
"Ku...Kuchiki" the captain stuttered, Rukia just stared at the white haired boy in silence when
"It's rude to stare Kuchiki"
"Forgive me taichou"
"No, its fine" he made his way to sit on her left
"Your not still angry at me are you?"
"Kuchiki?"
"I...don't think so sir" Rukia answered after she had pondered
"Then I don't have to give you this huh?" Hitsugaya took out a small white box from his right pocket, it was the size of his palm.
"What is it?"
"It was for you, as a forgive me gift, but since your not angry at me anymore, I guess I don't have to give it to you" he smirked as he twirled the box on his right index finger.
"And what if I said I was still angry at you?"
"I'd said you were lying"
"..." Rukia stood up and started to leave when Hitsugaya pulled her left arm
"Alright, alright I'm sorry" Rukia just smiled, and Hitsugaya's cheeks burned 'great! I'm doing it again!' he thought as he stood before her.
"Now give it!" Rukia commanded and the boy gave in. When Rukia opened the box her violet eyes widen in shock,
"This...this is what I've been wanting for so long! how...how did you know!?" it was the necklace she had wanted ever since she had last seen it, during the month she stayed on earth before her execution. So many years ago. It was a thin single pure white cross, with a scarlet gemstone shaped like a tear hanging on its left, on a midnight black cord.
"I didn't, I just thought it might have been something you'd like" Hitsugaya found himself blushing at the truth he had just said
"I...thank you taichou!" Rukia grinned as she put the necklace around her neck. The small tenth division captain flushed red as he watched her in pure happiness.
"So your really not angry at me, anymore?"
"Of course not, taichou, in fact now that I think about it, I'm sort of...glad that we fought"
"What!? why?!"
"It got me thinking about some things" Rukia said as her face began to turn red, and it wasn't because of the cold of March.
"Some things? like what?" Hitsugaya got curious as the raven haired shinigami made her way to sit at the base of the tree.
"I...I...IthinkIlikeyou!"
"What?"
"I said...I think I like you Hitsugaya-taichou!" Rukia's face was now hotter than the face of the sun. She hid her face as she curled up in a ball, so she didn't see Hitsugaya's face furiously blush. 'She...she likes me!?'
"You...you like me?" he saw Rukia nod her head, but remained silent. He made his way to her when, Rukia sneezed.
Hitsugaya had never seen a funnier face than Rukia's the moment she sneezed. Her face was red with a hot blush and when she sneezed her nose got redder and her eyes watered, she looked like a black wet bunny.
"Hahahahahah!!" The white haired boy held his sides as he laughed at the female shinigami, Rukia looked horrified.
"STOP LAUGHING TAICHOU!" Rukia yelled as she stood up and tried to glare at the captain, with her nose still running this only got the captain laughing more
"Hahahahahah!! your face is so funny!" Hitsugaya had never laughed this much before, he had never thought it would be at Kuchiki Rukia.
"Stop it taichou! its not funny!" she stood up and stomped her right black winter boot, and pouted, when she could feel another sneeze coming Rukia turned and sneezed once again. Hitsugaya saw this and tried to stop his laughs, when he suddenly untied his scarf and wound it around the cold girl from behind her, his blush hundred times stronger.
Rukia automatically stopped shivering once she felt a pair of strong arms wound around her from behind. She could feel her blush strengthen when she felt Hitsugaya's scarf around her neck.
"Hit...Hitsugaya-taichou?"
"Just shut up and turn around" Rukia did as she was told, they avoided each others eyes in the process
"Done, now hopefully you'll stop sneezing" he smiled as he remembered her face not long ago
"You better not start laughing taichou" she said darkly
"Is that a threat Kuchiki?"
"You bet it is" she smiled, when suddenly Hitsugaya pulled her into an embrace. Rukia's face flushed maroon
"I'm sorry Kuchiki, what I said that day, I didn't mean it, I wasn't thinking"
"Its alright taichou, I already said I forgave you"
"I'm not finished Kuchiki, I felt like I needed to apologize to you, when normally I would just pass this, for you its...different" Hitsugaya's face was equal to Rukia's maroon face.
"I think...no I know now, I like you too, Rukia" a small gasp escaped the girls lips
"Are you...really?"
"I am...Rukia" the white haired captain could feel Rukia's body heat rise
"Hitsugaya-taichou?"
"Just Toushiro" he looked at her as he held her at arms length
"Then...Toushiro" Rukia blushed and smiled as Hitsugaya too blushed and returned her smile, when she did something that took the boy's breath away. She leaned forward and softly kissed the tenth division's warm lips. Only for a few seconds.
"See, I told you the candy wasn't too sweet Toushiro" Rukia smiled at the flushed boy
"I guess you weren't lying after all, Rukia" Hitsugaya smiled as he played with her necklace from under his scarf
"Of course not!" she then intertwined their fingers almost hesitant at first when Hitsugaya finished the job.
"But if you told me that it was this kind, we wouldn't have had the fight"
"Maybe, but then I wouldn't have gotten this necklace" Rukia pouted as she played with her gift through Hitsugaya's fingers.
"Spoiled aren't you?"
"Of course, I'm a Kuchiki"
"By name yes, but hopefully your going to be Hitsugaya Rukia" the raven haired shinigami looked shocked and released her hands from his as she tried to cover her mouth.
"Your joking right?"
"What makes you think that?"
"You want to marry me?!"
"Not now of course but, later in life I plan to"
"Why?!" Hitsugaya smiled at Rukia's cuteness and dove onto her lips once more, this time Rukia was left breath less.
"Because...long ago I fell for you, Kuchiki Rukia" the tenth division captain proclaimed
"...You fell for me?" Rukia asked, Hitsugaya couldn't help but smile
"It means I've fallen in love with you Rukia" wide purple eyes looked at him, but soon soften with a strong blush running along her cheeks
"...I love you too, Hitsugaya Toushiro" the unseated shinigami announced as they kissed each other with soft passion, the scarlet cross around Rukia's neck glowed brightly. That day the air wasn't so cold, of course maybe it was just them.
THE END