Star lines of Destiny

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Bleach characters in this story. The only person I own is my OC character Natsumi and Nakito and right now Nohaya.

Important (Or not) News: I am going to start writing a fan fiction about Nakito and Hitsugaya's childhoods, academy and being in the same division soon. Once it comes out, please read it!

Trespasser

Natsumi frequently glanced at her bracelet as the three continued their journey. It was irritating; the bracelet kept rubbing against her skin, making it itch. She wanted to take it of but Hitsugaya had stopped her.

Flashback

After leaving the house, Natsumi immediately, reached for the bracelet to wrench it of her wrist. There was no way she wanted to keep those weird visions that she had in her head. Natsumi was stopped by Hitsugaya as he put his hand over her hand. The two immediately stopped walking as Natsumi stared at Hitsugaya, slightly annoyed. However she was curious why he did that.

"What is it Hitsugaya-taichou?" Natsumi asked. Hitsugaya shook his head. "Don't take it of."

"It's my seal I can choose what I want to do with it," Natsumi immediately hissed back. Hitsugaya just argued back in a calm and deadly voice. "Not in this case. I'm your captain and I say you must not take that bracelet of until needed. This is an order."

"At least tell me why," Natsumi replied as she pushed Hitsugaya's hand away from her own. She then lowered the arm with her bracelet towards her side. Natsumi took in a few deep breaths to calm herself.

"Did Grandma Hiko not mention that it could be used as a gift too? That is one reason. One more reason is that, keeping it on might help us figure out something about Nakito," Hitsugaya replied. His voice had softened; and was lightly sprinkled with a tiny crumb of hope. Natsumi look away from his eyes, her heart feeling mixed emotions.

"You would give up everything for Nakito wouldn't you," Natsumi whispered in an angry tone. Hitsugaya looked at Natsumi questionably. "Did you say something?"

"I comprehend Hitsugaya-taichou," Natsumi replied with a firm voice as she shook her head. Nohaya stood not far away. Her ears snatched every single word that had been spoken between those two. She needed an alteration of plans.

End of Flashback

"Hitsugaya-taichou," Nohaya's irritating voice drew Natsumi's attention away from her bracelet. She tore her gaze away from it to focus on what Nohaya and Hitsugaya's exchange was going to be like.

During the whole time after Natsumi and Hitsugaya had left the house, Nohaya had not made any gesture or suggestion of what she was pondering. Nohaya had not spoken a single word and Natsumi as typical had gotten mistrustful. However, Hitsugaya had made no motion either. In fact, not all three had spoken a single word since they left the house. Nohaya's voice was the first to slice through the silence that had devoured the three.

"Yes, Nohaya-san what is it?" Hitsugaya enquired as he stopped walking and turned to face Nohaya. It was during that time that Natsumi turned around to view in the surroundings. She had not become aware of until now, but the land was getting barren. There were fewer and fewer signs of any type of vegetation.

"When will we arrive at the next village Hitsugaya-taichou?" Nohaya asked. It was an innocent question, but to Natsumi, there was a deadly secret beneath the question. Hitsugaya didn't seem to have noticed. "In a few hours or so if we stay at this pace and if we speed up around one hour."

"What if we slow down?" Natsumi asked. She got a glare from both people in front of her. What it was a normal question just like Nohaya! Why am I the subject for glaring?

"We will ignore that question since I will not allow us to slow down," Hitsugaya continued walking again. Natsumi glared at his back while Nohaya turned around with a light smirk on her face.

What is with this? Why do we always end up doing something friendly and then immediately start arguing and glaring at each other? Is there something wrong? Wasn't everything good when Nakito was here? I hate this so much! I hate this! Natsumi screeched in her head.

You do know that your voice resonates very deafeningly in your head right?Arunika immediately complained after Natsumi's yelling. I could be deaf very soon and then you won't be able to summon me as you wish!

Arunika, you do realize we cannot go deaf anyway. Hikaze replied from somewhere in Natsumi's head. The two sword spirits immediately started bickering.

How do you know we can't go deaf? Arunika asked in a mocking voice. Hikaze's answer was calm. Because not a soul I know of has gone deaf.

Well you are so evil you probably don't know anybody but me! Arunika once more argued her voice slowly rising. Hikaze stayed calm only stirring the anger inside Arunika. I think I know more people than you do. You've been a hollow for half your life. Hollows don't have friends.

Moreover, what makes you so sure that Hollows don't have friends? Arunika decided to point out a flaw in Hikaze's argument. However, Hikaze immediately covered it up. Well unless you say hi by ingesting each other. Then I guess you could make friends.

Can you two stop arguing too? I'm sick of this! I'm sick of arguing! Natsumi silenced the quarrel immediately. The two immediately became silent inside Natsumi's head. Natsumi sighed. She had established that this world was getting inferior by the second, much to her great annoyance.

Rustle. Rustle. Natsumi looked around. The two in front of her had not noticed the eerie rustling sound. The landscape was flat. There was no way that anything could give rustling sounds. What was it then?

"Did you two hear rustling?" Natsumi called in front to Nohaya and Hitsugaya. Both stopped and looked at her like she was crazy. Hitsugaya promptly replied. "No."

"Are you hallucinating because of the heat?" Nohaya spoke in a worried voice but Natsumi knew that as an insult. She was about to shoot out another one but Hitsugaya interrupted her. "Natsumi-san you must have imagined things. This place is flat like a plain there is no way there would be any sound of rustling."

Hitsugaya continued walking once more. Nohaya followed behind him like an obedient puppy. Natsumi stuck out her tongue at Hitsugaya but she did agree with him. There was no way there could be rustling sounds. Maybe it is my imagination. Natsumi reassured herself as she continued walking.

Rustle. Rustle. The sound came once more. Natsumi stopped and looked around. Hitsugaya and Nohaya stopped too and they turned around. Natsumi was expecting them to have heard it too however their facial expression told otherwise. Hitsugaya had his arms crossed. "Are you that eager to slow us down?"

"No," Natsumi bitterly replied in an angry tone. She didn't have much other time to answer before there was a sudden explosion and Hitsugaya pushed Natsumi down towards the ground. Natsumi coughed as the smoke engulfed Hitsugaya and her.

As the smoke slowly cleared, Natsumi squinted to make out a figure. It was a boy with brown eyes and chestnut coloured hair. Whomever this boy was, he shunpooed over until he was around two meters away from the group. Nohaya was on one side of him, Hitsugaya and Natsumi on the other. Natsumi looked up from where she was lying down towards Hitsugaya. Why was his face so stricken? The boy was smirking; he was holding his zanpakuto in a relaxed position near his shoulder. "Yo, shorty! It's been a while! So you ditched Nakito for a new girl eh? I knew I shouldn't have let her go."

"Yakusho!" Hitsugaya could barely conceal his surprise. Natsumi noticed Nohaya's small smirk from the edge of her vision. She decided to let Hitsugaya have a wonderful reunion with this stranger. Natsumi was going to find more about Nohaya's "smirk". Hitsugaya continued talking with a surprised voice. "I thought you."

"You thought I died? Go figure. You never really cared about me anyway. All you had to do was lure Nakito away from our group. I could never forgive you for that. Well you know what? While you two were of in Seiretei thinking I was dead, I joined the Shinigami academy. I gained my own zanpakuto while keeping away from your peering eyes. Guess it worked huh? Good thing cause I want revenge!"

Natsumi didn't like the wild look in Yakusho's eyes. She could barely dodge out of the way, as Yakusho's zanpakuto clashed with Hitsugaya's. Natsumi used that opportunity to go over towards Nohaya. She punched Nohaya without a second thought. Nohaya only screeched at Natsumi. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Why were you smirking? Who is this guy? Tell me everything you know!" Natsumi stated towards a flustered Nohaya as she grabbed Nohaya's shoulder and shook her hard. Nohaya tried to push Natsumi away. "Let go of me! He was a classmate at my school okay? I don't know anything else because he just mysteriously disappeared. I wasn't smirking! I was smiling because I was glad to see he was alive! I didn't know he was going to fight Hitsugaya-taichou!"

"Sure you were!" Natsumi was about to punch Nohaya again but a sudden explosion from behind surprised her. Before she knew it she was dragging Nohaya out of harms way. "Fine the, do you know anything about his zanpakuto."

"No, he didn't have one back at the academy," Nohaya innocently replied. "You should go fight since you have a sword spirit."

"Me?" Natsumi squeaked in reply. Nohaya nodded. "Yes you!"

Nohaya was about to push Natsumi into the battle, hopefully killing her, however Yakusho suddenly moved away from Hitsugaya. Both of them had cuts and were slightly bleeding but it seemed they were near par in battle and that none of them was going to die anytime soon. Hitsugaya and Natsumi were surprised when Yakusho sheathed his sword. "You're not going to fight anymore?"

"Nah I would really like to pulverize you right now and have the triumph of seeing you dead, but, that's for some other day. After all, I need to get Nakito to see it happen," There was a brief sweep of wind before Yakusho disappeared. He didn't leave any traces and Hitsugaya could only blankly stare at the spot where Yakusho had been. Hitsugaya's face was grim and his fists were clenched.

There was a pause of silence. Then Natsumi decided to ruin it.

"Wait, you had a rival?"

Sorry for super late update! I don't even know if anyone is reading this story anymore...oh well it's for fun~ Hope you enjoyed it! Comments and constructive criticism greatly appreciated!