It was just another regular day in Squad 10, Matsumoto sitting there while her captain does all the work. Matsumoto finally gets up, grabs a pen, and gets to work. Toshiro looks up stunned as he sees Matsumoto do work voluntarily for what might be the first time in her life. She looks at him.

"What?" she says finally after an awkward silence.

"Y-Your doing your...work?" he says still in surprise

"Yea" she says "I figured since you've been training so hard, I would give you a bit of a break." Toshiro goes back into silence and does his work. The Captain had been doing none stop training.

Three days earlier...Toshiro laid on the floor of a training cave, knocked out. Matsumoto runs in yelling "Captain! Captain!". After a few minutes, he wakes up with Matsumoto sitting next to him.

"Oh good your alive" She says with a smile. He signs annoyed and gets back up.

"Bank-." he starts but Matsumoto grabs his arm before he could finish speaking.

"Stop" She says "You've been training all day! Come on. You trained so hard I walked in and you were passed out on the floor!" The young captain goes silent.

"And I'm going to keep training" he says "I need to get stronger...I need to protect Hinamori..." Matsumoto's face gets serious.

"she's fine Toshiro" she says. "have you talked to her yet?"

Toshiro looks at her."First of all, its CAPTAIN HITSUGAYA Matsumto. And second...No. I haven't. She's been resting." he says

"Something you should be doing." she says. "Come on. Go home. Go sleep. You must be tired. You've been here for at least 3 days, maybe 4." Toshiro doesn't move. He continues to look down at the floor and just listen.

"Your not going to pass out again are you?" Matsumoto asks. Toshiro makes a very small smile at the joke and walks away.

Matsumoto gets up and starts to walk out.

"Hey where are you going?" Toshiro asks "You just sat down two minutes ago"

"Yeah,' Matsumoto says "I need to go talk to someone first. I'll get back to my work when I come back, I promise." Toshiro rolls his eyes and goes back to work

"If your going to see Kira or Hisagi, don't come back if you get drunk with them." He says annoyed.

"I'm not going to see them. I'm not even going drinking. I'll save that for tonight" she says winking and then leaves.

A few hours later, Hitsugaya sits outside the office, his hair wet from bathing and in a regular Kimono, starring at the setting sun, thinking of Hinamori and the times in the District.

"Hinamori..." He says. he dries his hair with his towel and goes back into his office. Matsumoto then walks in the office

"hey what are you still doing here? It's past working hours." She says

"I have a lot of work to do so I'm working through the night." he says. Matsumoto shakes her head.

"You work too hard" she says "Why don't I finish the work and you go get some sleep?""No" he says "I'm fine doing this. besides, I'm not tired."

"Aren't you the one who said 'children who sleep well grow well'?" she says. Toshiro gets annoyed again.

"My grand mother said that and I'm not a child!" He yells

"Don't you want to grow more?" she says to annoy him more

"shut up..." he gives in and says.

"yea so go home and sleep" She says "You have to be tired. You've either been training or working here for the last 6 days. Maybe you've had a nap or two but you haven't had a good nights sleep. That's not good you know...Plus you won't grow"

"ugg Matsumoto stop annoying me" he says.

"Oh by the way" she starts "I asked Yamamoto to give you the next two days off and he said yes so-"

"What!" he yells.

"You heard me. Take a break over the next two days. That's when the paper work is due now." Matsumoto says.

"FINE!" he yells, mumbles, and storms out, slamming the door.

Later on, Matsumoto invites Izuru and Hisagi over for some Sake. She explains how much Hitsugaya has been working and training.

"Hmm" Hisagi starts "Maybe he's just been really busy". Matsumoto shakes her head.

"He would usually take a break at least once. He hasn't. I either find him in the office doing paper work, my paper work included, or at the training cave working on his Bankai."

"Is he ok?" Izuru asks "Has his personality changed a little?"

"I guess so" Matsumoto says "He's just working so much..."

"How has Momo been? Do you know?" Izuru asks.

"She's been fine. She's back to work."

"Maybe...Maybe he feels guilty about what happened..." Izuru says. This is brought to Matsumoto's attention.

"But it wasn't his fault right? Aizen tricked him in the battle" Hisagi says. Matsumoto gets sad.

"I think that's it." she says "and he doesn't even want to see her. I don't think he's talked to her once after that..."

"and working and training is how he gets his mind off it" Izuru says

"Yea," Matsumoto says. "He's training to get stronger, maybe to protect her. And since he can't train 24 7 without almost dying, he gets to work to keep his mind off it..."

"He hasn't talked to you?" Hisagi asks.

"He barely says a word to me anymore. We talked for a little bit today but he just goes silent" She says. "This has really gotten to him."

"I can imagine why" Izuru says.

Captain, Matsumoto thinks, Why don't you talk to us? Don't you know you have friends who will listen...

OOOOO

This takes place after the final battle with Aizen, after he tricked Hitsugaya into stabbing Hinamori accidentally. But not before Ichigo *SPOIL* looses his powers and they later all have weird hair and stuff

So, I'm finally starting to put up the hitsuhina chapters from DA. Once I put the ones I have written already up on here, I'll start up on the new ones!

I do not own the characters used in this! Nor the anime where they come from.