Today's the day! Momo Hinamori thought as she rose from her bed. She got up and quickly put on the clothes she had laid out the night before. She brushed her teeth, and put her toothbrush, the last remaining item to be packed, in her luggage. She carried the bag downstairs and greeted her family. This would be one of their last family breakfasts for a while.

Today was the day Momo was leaving to go her new high school, Parker High. It was one of the best in the country. She would be living with a family friend until she finished high school in 3 years. It was an awesome opportunity for Momo, to be accepted into such an amazing school, and she was brimming with excitement.

But, despite her excitement, Momo was also sort of scared. She had never met the man she would be living with before, although she was told he was very kind. His name was Jushiro Ukitake, and he lived with his nephew and his mother. She was told Ukitake had quite an amount of money and lived in a very nice home. Apparently, he also had tuberculosis, although most of the time he was able to live quite a healthy life style.

She didn't know much about his mother, or his nephew, although she was told his nephew was in a similar situation as she. He was living with Ukitake to attend Parker High, but his parents continued to live somewhere else. He was also a sophomore, like Momo. He had been living with Ukitake a year at least.

When the time finally came, Momo's parents said goodbye to her at the airport, as Momo boarded the plane alone. After a long plane ride, with many thoughts about what her new home would be like, the plane finally landed and Momo grabbed her belongings and went to look for Ukitake. She had been given a picture, and a description of what he would be wearing so she could locate him.

Suddenly she spotted him.

"Mr. Ukitake?" She asked as she approached him.

"Momo!" He said gushing over her, "It's been so long since I've seen you! How was your plane ride? Oh... I know you're just going to love it here!" Ukitake pulled her into a hug. "Well, I'm sure you're tired so we'll just grab your bags and head on to the house!"

Momo nodded. The two retrieved all her bags and headed to his car. After they loaded it up, they took of, and after a nice car ride filled with light conversation they arrived at Ukitake's home, and whoa! Her parent's hadn't been lying about him being rich.

His house was quite large, and had 3 floors. The top floor had a long lovely balcony stretching across the top.

"Wow! It's so beautiful!" Momo said.

"It is. Your room will be that one," He said, pointing to one of the doors that lead out onto the balcony.

Momo was amazed, but her amazement only grew as the two entered the home. It was as beautiful on the inside as it was on the outside. There were many, many pictures that lined the walls. Many of them showed Ukitake with other people, and Momo even saw a few of her parents, and other friends she recognized.

Ukitake gave her the grand tour, and finally he showed her to her room, which was on the third floor. The third floor was smaller than the other floors. It only had a small hallway like room, and two doors. He led Momo to the door on the right, he told her to put her things anywhere and there were empty drawers labeled for her in the bathroom. Then he bade her goodbye, so she could have time to settle in. He told her he would be back later, when dinner was ready, and he would introduce him to his mother and nephew. Momo politely said goodbye and shut the door. She was quite tired.

Momo began to inspect her room. It was quite large. It was peach colored, and seemed like a very nice hotel room. There was a queen-sized bed, two big chairs, a desk with a huge mirror, and a couple of tables.

There were a total of four doors in the room. One of them lead to the hallway, and another lead to a nice closet. Another was a glass door, covered with nice peach colored cloth curtains. Momo opened the last door that led to the bathroom. It had two sinks and a toilet on the left and a shower bath on the right. On the near side of the room, Momo was able to locate the drawers that were labeled for her. Aside from a few towels, that side of the room was very bare, however the other side was very cluttered. There was an empty laundry bin, toothpaste, a toothbrush, a hairbrush, shampoo, and other bottles and such.

Opposite the way she came in was another door; it was shut. Momo walked towards it and put her hand on the handle, slowly and cautiously. She turned it and began to push. The door slowly opened, but then stopped. There was a ball-and-chain lock on the other side. Momo peered in as far as she could see.

This was another bedroom, which would have been almost identical to hers had it not been for the light blue color-theme, and the huge mess. This room was very messy indeed. Clothes were all over the floor near the closet door, and the bed was completely unmade, the white comforter was totally mangled only half way on the bed. There was a pile of used soccer gear on the floor, and a soccer ball. Momo also saw a door leading onto the balcony, similar to the one in her room, but these curtains were not closed.

Momo shut the door, and went onto the balcony, hoping to get a better look at this room. After finding this door, like the other, was locked, she peered into the room. The parts of the room she couldn't see before, gave no surprise to her. They were just as messy as the rest of the room. However, she did see a few picture frames, but the only picture she could really see was the largest one. It showed a cute young boy, with a younger, healthier-looking man that was probably Ukitake.

Momo didn't recognize the boy though, he had white hair, and green eyes, he seemed to be scowling a bit, but he did look happy in his own way. Momo was still looking around the room when the door inside the room began to open. Quickly, Momo ducked around the balcony until she was out of sight from the room. She heard the curtains shut, and crept back into her own room.

Maybe that's his nephew's room. Momo thought, Come to think of it… I actually don't know what his nephew looks like… I don't even know his name. Momo began to unpack some of her belongings; Ukitake said I would see him at dinner…

Suddenly Momo heard gushing water, someone had turned on the shower in the bathroom between the two bedrooms. Momo wasn't sure what to do. She didn't know who was in there, and she wasn't sure they knew she was in the other room. Finally, she decided to just ignore it, and hope that nobody came into her room without any clothes on, or anything... She continued to unpack her things.

After a few minutes the water turned off. Whoever they were, they took a quick shower. Instinctively, Momo looked up from what she was doing to watch the door. The doorknob quivered a bit and the door moved ever so slightly, enough to let Momo know someone was definitely on the other side of that door.

She heard a click and nothing happened. They must have been unlocking the door, Momo thought; so, they did know I was in here after all. Why else would they lock the door? Momo concluded, but something bothered her, I'm sure it's not Ukitake, he would have said something, but if it's not him, and they knew I was here, why didn't they introduce themselves?

Momo continued to think as she placed the last of her clothes into her closet. The only thing left to unpack was her toiletries, which needed to be placed in the bathroom. Even though whoever had been in there had unlocked the door, Momo was a bit afraid to go in there. But, Momo decided that if the door was unlocked then it must be okay to go in there. Besides, she didn't know what else she would do, and she wasn't about to sit around the room being awkward. So, she finally opened the door, and to her relief, the bathroom was empty.

It was quite steamy in the bathroom, and the floor was wet in some places. Condensation was on the mirror. Someone defiantly had taken a shower. Momo wandered around the room, looking for some sort of clue as to who had been in here. She noticed the laundry bin, that had previously been empty was no longer empty. She peered inside. She felt like a stalker, but she was too curious to care.

At the top of the laundry basket was a soccer jersey. Cautiously, Momo pulled it out, praying that the owner would not suddenly walk in. She held it out in front of her. Whoever wore it couldn't have been that much larger than she. She turned it to the back, #20, Hitsugaya. She stared at it a bit longer. Hitsugaya, she thought, that must be Ukitake's nephew. Suddenly she remembered what she was doing, and the stalker feeling took precedence. She dropped the jersey back into the bin and went back to her side of the bathroom and inspected all the drawers, deciding what would go where.

After Momo was satisfied that everything was put away, she laid down on the bed. She had promised her parents she would call at some point that night, when she had gotten settled in, but she didn't feel like doing it right now. So, instead, she just lay there thinking until she heard a knock on the door.

"Momo?" Ukitake's voice came through the door.

"You can come in." Momo said, sitting up.

The door opened, "It's time for dinner, I wasn't sure if you had any likes or dislikes towards certain foods, so I just made pizza. Everyone likes pizza after all."

Momo grinned, "Great! I do like pizza!" She got off the bed and headed towards the door.

"You can head on towards the dinning room," Ukitake said, "You remember where that is?" Momo nodded, "Great, I'm just going to tell my nephew. We'll be down shortly." Momo nodded once more, and headed downstairs towards the dinning room.

Momo arrived in the dinning room to find a relatively plump old lady already sitting down at the table. The lady was humming to herself, and didn't seem to notice Momo's arrival. Momo cleared her throat a bit, and the lady looked up. There was silence for a moment, as the two stared at each other. Suddenly the lady smiled.

"Momo." The old woman said, "You're taller! It's been to long! Sit, sit!" The lady motioned for Momo to sit in the chair across from her. The table sat six people, in a one by two formation. The places were set at one head, with one place on the right and two places on the left. The woman sat at the sole place on the right side, and Momo took her seat across from her. It looked like she would be sitting between Ukitake and this mysterious Hitsugaya.

"I'm sorry, but I don't remember who you are…" Momo said awkwardly.

"Of course you don't!" The lady said, a smile still at large across her face, "Just call me Granny. I'm Toshiro's grandmother, and Ukitake's mother."

Toshiro… hmm? Toshiro Hitsugaya. That's a pretty hot name. Momo found herself thinking against her will, she shook those thoughts.

"Thank you, Granny." Momo said kindly.

"No need to be polite," Granny said, "As long as you are here, you are family!"

Momo was secretly relieved, she was almost afraid Ukitake's mother would be strict, or mean, or silent, or awkward… the list went on.

Suddenly Ukitake walked in, with someone following behind him, presumably his nephew. Ukitake sat at the head of the table and his nephew sat next to Momo, but Momo still hadn't gotten a good look at his face. When he sat down, she didn't look at him, it felt… weird, considering she sort of rifled through his laundry.

"Momo, I'd like you to meet my nephew, Toshiro Hitsugaya. Toshiro, this is Momo Hinamori." Ukitake introduced the two, and for the very first time, Momo turned to look at her new housemate, her would-be family for the next three years.

Author's notes:

Thanks for reading! This is my first fan-fiction, so please review!

And, in-case you are wondering why I named the high school Parker High; I'll tell you. I had no idea what to name the high school, so I named it after my cat. Yeah. Great reason, I know.  Please review!