A/N: I'm taking advantage of my sudden burst of creativity and decided to write a little drabble on Hitsugaya, because I know if I don't now this drable series will be completely filled with Uki/Shun stuff. Anyway, hope you like it!

Of Chocolate and War

"Hitsugaya-taichoooooooooouuu!" A bubbly… and half-slurred voice called out, and Hitsugaya looked up only to be surrounded on all sides by what suspiciously felt like his vice-captain's cleavage.

"Masumoto, get off me," he growled, but the energetic woman was already digging around in a bag she'd dropped by the door.

"I went to the human world today, taichou, and I brought something back for you," she chirped, throwing a few things over her shoulder. Most were empty bottles. Hitsugaya noted with a complimentary frown that they once contained either wine or liquor.

Stupidity was imminent.

Sure enough, Masumoto turned around and held out a rectangle covered in silver foil. Hitsugaya had had enough of those shoved into his hands by the thirteenth division captain to know what it was.

Chocolate.

But not just chocolate.

Chocolate… with almonds.

"You're always so grumpy, taichou, and chocolate will sweeten you up a little, hmm?" Several others appeared from the plastic bag and were promptly dumped on the tenth division captain's desk. "It's like sake… But without the hangovers!"

"No thank you." Hitsugaya made sure that every single last confectionary had a nice, cozy spot in his trashcan before staring at Masumoto coldly, hoping she would get the idea and just leave.

No such luck. "I bet you've never even tried it!" She whined, opening a candy bar and breaking off a square. She popped it in her mouth, and Hitsugaya swore that little hearts shone in her eyes.

There was no way in hell that he would put that in his mouth.

After Masumoto had finished her little display of the wonders of sweets, a silence echoed in the office. Her expression visibly fell, and when it had reached the point of a pout, she sighed and picked up a stack of paperwork from the desk where Hitsugaya was working. And then, she sat down at a desk, picked up a brush (she fumbled for a bit with that; Hitsugaya suspected that she hadn't used any sort of writing utensil since her academy days) and actually began writing out a report.

If he didn't have better control over himself, Hitsugaya's jaw probably would have hit the floor.

"Masumoto, what are you doing…?" He inquired after a few moments of watching the spectacle. Surely this had to be a sign of the apocalypse. Or maybe Aizen had hypnotized her. Something had to be done.

"Well, I figured that since you are always so stressed, doing some paperwork would help out a little. Even though eating a comfort food like chocolate would be the easier way, I have to do what's best for my captain--"

Hitsugaya was at her side in a moment, snatching the candy bar from her desk and breaking off another square. Masumoto watched him expectantly as he nibbled off the corner, and then, after making a strained face, popping the entire piece into his mouth.

Somewhere, an eagle crowed.

Hitsugaya lowered his face into the trashcan and spat out the sweets with a look of disgust on his face. "Masumoto, that was terrible... Now that I've tried it, can you please stop doing paperwork and… go out drinking somewhere? Get back to normal," he ordered, and after hearing little protest from his vice-captain, she disappeared out the door towards the eighth division.

Hitsugaya grumbled to himself as he looked down at the report that Masumoto had written in her brief moment of insanity.

"Taichou, I made you worry, didn't I? It was all

for the greater good, trust me!

X Masumoto"

The muscle under Hitsugaya's right eye jumped sporadically.

"MASUMOTO!"

After his anger had calmed exponentially, Hitsugaya sat down and resumed his work. After jotting down a few lines, he glanced at the wastebasket-- empty of anything besides those multi-colored treats. He took one out, peeled off the wrapper, and, allowing himself a tiny smile, bit off a corner of the chocolate.

Not bad. He could grow to like this... chocolate.

Somewhere, Ukitake randomly suffered a fit of hysterical laughter.