The horrifics are back! This is full of them. A quick Japanese guide should do it:
-Chan: Usually translated to 'little'. Used for cute girls or little kids, can also be used in a derogatory way. (Nanao-chan!)-Kun: Usually for boys, used for boys who are good friends (Hitsugaya-kun!), young boys, and sometimes for girls (Hinamori-chan.
-San: Usually translated into Mr./Ms. It means the speaker is unfamiliar with the spoken to.(Yoruichi-san!)
Chotto!: Excuse me! Used for when trying to get attention in a semi-polite way.
Momo: Peach. Do you watch Avatar?
Unpunctual: Hey! This isn't Japanese! No, it's a real word(I checked...). It means 'tending to be late'.
Sumimasen: Sorry! Excuse me!
Gomen Nasai!: I'm sorry!
Boku wa Yamada Hanatarou desu: I am Yamada Hanatarou. (This sentence only works for men)
Hajime Mashite: It is nice to meet you for the first time.
Ryoka: Outsiders. I.e. Ichigo and the other people who broke into Shinigami-Land.
Anou: Sometimes means 'That', but in my stories shall forever mean 'Um...', 'Er...', 'Eh...' Ect.
It had become more of a mental thing.
Hinamori would never be very athletic again. She could fight, but whenever she got too tired, she would collapse. One of her lungs had been punctured by the knife, and, though the fourth squad had made that lung useable again, it would never quite work as well as the other. She would collapse from oxygen deficiency before she would die of the enemy's blade.
"If the world where a better place," Hinamori mused out loud, "I would be working on a way to fight without breathing too much." Hinamori squeezed her hands together and shivered in the small, cold room. The tears running down her face weren't making it any warmer, "But the world is not such a good place," She said, "Because Captain Aizen is dead."
No matter what anyone else told her, Captain Aizen was dead all over again. He died, and then he died again. Hinamori couldn't quite make sense of it, but it made more senses than the stories Hitsugaya-kun had told her. The lies. Captain Aizen had not, could not, join the Menos! It was inconceivable!
Rangiku-san had even come in and lied to her as well! Telling the same lies to her as Hitsugaya-kun! She had started to cry and had hid in her room. She had never noticed how small and cold her room was. She wanted to get some blankets but her urge to stay still was stronger. A quiet voice in the back of her head told her to mourn Aizen, and to do nothing else.
Ever.
Nanao prided herself on many things, but above all she was proud of two things the most. The first was her ability to run very fast without the aid of spiritual power. The second was her ability to not lose her cool in front of her captain. Her captain was a good person, she trusted and respected him, but, he was a constant aggravation for her.
Though, at the moment Nanao was using the prior mentioned to the best of her ability. Jumping off another rooftop, she landed with a dull thump in the main court yard. She optically scanned the area.
"Chotto, Captain Hitsugaya!" Nanao turned to look at her superior, a boy who looked as if he was in primary school.
"Yes, Ise-san?" Hitsugaya, who had been walking towards the general direction of his vice-captain ("Matsumoto-san, what did you do to Kira-san?"), turned to ask.
"Hinamori-san has spoken again." Nanao walked over to the young captain.
"What did she say?"
Nanao, who had a very good memory, said, "If the world where a better-"
"Oh, yes, I know, she has been saying that for the past three days." Hitsugaya nodded.
Nanao sighed. This boy seems like he is very good at masking his emotions, she thought, but a little bit of that anger and sadness is leaking out.
"I just thought you might like to know, sir." Nanao started to walk away.
"It's odd," Hitsugaya squinted his eyes as if there where sun in his face, but it was a cloudy day, so Nanao highly doubted that, "that Hinamori-chan always said how hot and stuffy her room was. It isn't at all like her to stay in there for this long."
Nanao sighed and Hitsugaya walked away.
Nanao's shift was over. She no longer had to watch the slightly insane Hinamori Momo (A/N: Did you know that? Hinamori's first name means peachtalk to herself in a stuffy room. Nanao was starting to wonder how this girl had ever become a vise-captain in the first place.
But that wasn't the only thing bothering Nanao. The replacement for Hinamori's 'guard' was late. She had never known someone from the fourth squad to be so unpunctual. She stifled. Was 'unpunctual' a word? She started to pull out her book when-
"Sumimasen! Sumimasen! Gomen Nasai, I'm so late, I got lost and then," a frail looking boy with a healing pack (A/N: For the life of me, I don't know what those things are called! Do you know?) ran up to Nanao. He perfectly personified the stereotype of the fourth squad, "and then these guys from squad eleven... well, anyway, Boku wa Yamada Hanatarou desu. Hajime Mashite. I'm here to watch Hinamori-san." The boy was panting now.
"Ah. I'm Ise Nanao. I'll be leaving now." Nanao was glad to be away from that room and that girl. She was rather creepy, the way she kept talking to herself about 'Hitsugaya-kun's lies' and 'How cold this room is.'
Nanao Shuffled away. Was someone calling her? "Nanao-Chan!" Yes, someone was calling her.
"Nanao-Chan!"
Hanatarou had been promoted since the Ryoka incident. Well, not really promoted. His rank was still the same, put Hanatarou was getting assigned to better jobs. Hanatarou smiled with pride. Today, even, when his commanding officer had started picking on him, some one had told him to stop! Hanatarou couldn't really remember anything after that, it was all a painful blur, but it was a start!
Hanatarou was rubbing a bruise on his arm when he heard a voice from behind the door.
"Hitsugaya-kun?"
Though Hanatarou had never met this Hinamori Momo he could guess that this was her voice. It was a very cute voice.
"Anou... I'm not Captain Hitsugaya. I'm Yamada Hanatarou, what's your name?" Hanatarou already knew her name, but she presumed it polite to ask.
"I-I'm Hinamori Mono. Are you a vice-captain like the other one?" Hinamori whispered.
Hanatarou presumed that 'The other one' was Nanao Ise, "No, I'm not a vice-captain."
"Good. Than I can talk to you without you telling everything to your captain." Hinamori's voice was growing louder.
Truth be told, Hanatarou had never meet his captain, but if Hinamori said anything important, he would have to tell Captain Uohana or Captain Hitsugaya. He didn't say anything, not wanting to lie, and Hinamori took this for an agreement.
"So, eh, Hinamori-san..."
"Why does everyone hate Captain Aizen so much?" Hinamori interrupted him to shoot straight to the point.
"W-well, he did some bad things..." Hanatarou didn't want to be called a liar, but, well, this was the truth. Rukia had told him what happened, and he trusted Rukia.
"You're a liar like the rest of them!" Hinamori banged her fist on the inside of the door, causing Hanatarou to twitch.
"N-no, I'm telling the truth, Hinamori-san, but if you don't believe me, that's fine." Hanatarou wanted to ask her something, though, "Why do you still like Aizen so much even after he stabbed you?"
"He stabbed me?" Her voice now seemed echolike.
Waaa! What do you think of the first chapter? Is it good? I like it a lot! I will write a second chapter. I have plans in mind. If all goes swimmingly, more Hitsugaya will pop up in the second chapter. Nanao might not be there at all. I'm not even sure why she's in this chapter, actually...
It's strange. None of my favorite characters are in this story. I should at least drop Renji in here or something. Speaking of which... Where is that Renji?
Muffled screaming can be heard coming from the authoresses' closet.
…So that's where I put him...
Please review. I'm not begging, I'm pleading.