Summary: When someone has all the money in the world what is there they can't have? According to Toshiro, money can buy you anything. On his twentieth birthday, Toshiro decides that what he really wants is someone to love him and to return there love. One day, a few months after his birthday, he decides to go down to the beach where he lays eyes on one girl that he can't seem to take his eyes off of. When he sees her he decides she's the one he wants more then any other. When she turns him down he has no other choice but to go to her family. They are pore and are in need of money badly. Toshiro makes a deal with them, he would give them half of his fortune if there daughter could stay and be his until she turns nineteen. They agree to this deal and Momo goes to live with him without a say of her own. He buys her everything under the sun to make her happy. But can you buy love?

..:What Money Can't Buy:..

..:By: Regina Guthrie:..

..:Chapter one:..

..:What Beauty The Beach Holds:..

A mid-night black SSC Ultimate Aero car breezed down the streets of one of the largest cities in the world. People on the sidewalks, near windows in the stores, even the drivers and passengers in other cars turned there heads as the dream car drove smoothly past everyone of them. This 'SSC Ultimate Aero' car was the third most outrageously expensive car in the world. Not many people would or could even think about purchasing it. Only few could afford it. One of the few being the third richest man in the world, Toshiro Hitsugaya.

Lets fill in some of the everyday knowing of this guy, shall we?

Toshiro Hitsugaya: He's ranked third on the rich list. He's worth a little over six-hundred million dollars. He lives in a summer beach house in Miami with his grandmother, from his fathers side, living next door. Toshiro is twenty years old and single. Not only is he the third richest guy in the world, he also is the number one topic of the world. He has played in many movies and been to dozens of photo shoots. Not to mention the interviews are countless. But hardly anything personal is known about him to the world.

Toshiro had his left arm out the open window as he drove around a curve, coming to a narrow path that led to a parking lot right above the Miami beach. There was a path that led into this parking lot and a path of golden flaked sand that led down to the beach. It costed a good ten dollars to drive your car onto the beach. Toshiro drove down the sanded rode, not bothering to stop, he rode right past the small shake where you pulled up to to pay your way in. The guard and collector waved at him as he passed by, he paid no mind though. It wasn't a wave of disapproval as you might think though, but a friendly wave. I mean, if you own the beach, you really have no need to pay now do you? That's right, Toshiro Hitsugaya also owns the western part of the Miami beach.

He rode his car smoothly through the golden particles until he came to his usual parking spot. Easily he backed into it. After parking, he pushed a button on a control panel in the middle of the two front seats. The door slid up into the air above the part where it was hooked onto the car. He stepped out and pulled the door down. He started to walk to his left. There was a place, not to far from where he was parked, where huge rocks were bunched together and the waves would draw in and hit every inch of sand until it hit the rock. It wasn't deep, only reached up to your ankle when it came in. Mostly the little kids would play around there, while only a few teenagers would go out there, along with parents.

When reaching his destination, he picked a reddish brown spotted rock to take a seat on. There were more people out here then he had thought. Many, many more actually. A lot of teenagers and hardly any adults, but a few kids. It was summer though, and most kids had gotten out for vacation, and of Corse most of the older ones would be at the beach all the while. He climbed up the smooth rock and sat with his knees bent as he looked out into the distance, watching most of the young men surf while some of the girls splashed and giggled really far out in the water.

In the corner of his eye something bright flickered in his side vision. Turning his head to see what it was, his mouth dropped open and his eyes became a little wider. A girl with chocolate brown silky looking hair that cascaded down her shoulders sat on a gray rock a few yards away from him. Her eyes were a brownish color with so much sparkle in them, he might have even believed there shine was what flickered by him. She was stunning, beautiful. Hardly any words could describe how she looked to him. She was wearing a white strapless summer dress. The front of it reached her knees, but the back trailed down to her ankles. She seemed to be writing something. She had a baby blue book, that appeared to look like a journal clenched into one of her hands and a silver pin in the other. He guessed that the pin was what had caught his eye.

He hadn't noticed the time fly by as he watched her all day. It was nearly five in the evening and the clouds were getting dark gray, indicating rain, or a storm. He hadn't noticed that either, though. He was in his own little world. Watching her move her hand across the page as she wrote. Watching her look into the distance in front of her as she tapped the pin on her chin, showing her in a thinking mode. There were a few times she would looked over his way and he would quickly turn his gaze away from her angelic appearance, but would go back to watching her when she had turned back.

The wind started to blow hard all of a sudden knocking Toshiro back into reality. He looked up into the sky and watched the clouds move and darken quickly. He then took a minute to examine the state around him. No one was there, only him and the angel he had been watching. The waves had picked up speed and hit the rocks with a lot of force. He looked down and noticed the water had risen too. He sighed as he slid off the rock to only almost be knocked off his feet when the water came up again. It had raisin to just below his knees and it was really strong. Toshiro glanced over at the girl, who was still writing. He guessed she was in her own world just as he had been. If not his only explanation would have been that she was crazy.

Thunder rumbled into the distance as the girl looked up from her writing. Toshiro watched as realization struck her. She looked as if she was horrified. In a split second she too slid off the rock. The water was right above her knees and the back part of her dress was floating on the top of it. Toshiro would have guessed because it was really light fabric maybe. The water withdrew, but only to there ankles and the girl turned in his direction to walk. She looked up and met Toshiro's gaze, eyes locking. She seemed to be awe struck as she clinched her book to her chest. Toshiro only smirked at her and a light pink shade came over her cheek bones as she looked down at her feet.

Suddenly the water hit up against both of them again with hard force. Toshiro kept his ground, slipping a little but not much. But when it hit the girl, she yelped as the wave pushed her over and right into the water. Toshiro's eyes widened as he ran over to her. He grabbed her elbow to slowly help her up. When she was standing she looked up at him and then down again.

"Thank you." She mumbled, hiding her eyes with her bangs and she encircled her arms around the book tightly. Toshiro glanced down at the water as it pulled away again. Right below there feet, her pin was slowly flouting away with the current. Toshiro bent down and picked it up. He then took one of her arms from around the book and flipped her palm right side up, setting the pin in the middle and then recurled her fingers around it with his own. The water came back with just as much force. Nearly knocking her over again but Toshiro reached out and put his arm around her waist to keep her from falling. He chuckled as he watched her face turn shades of pinks to reds. The wind blew again, but harder then it had before. Her hair started to go wild as it twisted around her face.

Toshiro wasn't sure how long they had stayed like that. Her looking down at there feet. Him looking at her as if she was the most beautiful piece of art in a museum. His arm was still encircled around her waist as he kept her from falling every time the waves hit them. Finally reality hit him for the second time that day when thunder crashed into the distance once again, causing the girl to jump slightly. Toshiro only chuckled at her.

"I think we might want to get out of here before the lightning comes and fries us, don't you think?" He asked with another chuckled, She only looked up at him and smiled softly before nodding. He smiled back at her. Her smile was so heart fluttering. He bent down just a tad and put his other hand under her knees and swung her up into his arms. She yelped at his action but was still as he carried her along. "Do you have a car or something?" He asked as they made it out of the water and finally into the sand, but he didn't set her down. She shook her head.

"I have to get a cab." She whispered softly as she played with her fingers, her book laying on her stomach. Toshiro looked down at her and smiled. That was good, now he had a reason to put her in his car and drive her home... slowly.

"Oh." He replied with a smirk. The wind picked up a little on their way to his car. The girl shivered slightly and Toshiro tightened his hold on her, pushing her harder against him to keep her a little it more warm. "What's your name?" He asked out of the blue of silence. He looked down at her, waiting for an answer.

"M...Momo... Momo Hinamori." She answered lowly, glancing up at him for a second and then back down. Toshiro chuckled at her shyness and without thinking kissed the top of her head. Momo jumped slightly as her eyes widened. She pulled her head away from him quickly and looked up into his gaze with scared looking eyes. Toshiro then noticed what he had done and sighed heavily.

"Sorry, that was out of line." He whispered as he watched her face soften and she slowly put her head back against his chest, looking at her fingers again. "I'm Toshiro by the way." She giggled slightly before answering.

"Who doesn't know, your name and face is everywhere anyone turns." She giggled out as a small peaceful smile came across her lips. Toshiro only chuckled at her response and replied with a 'ya'. Not long after that, they had made it to his car. Momo hadn't noticed where they were going since she was to busy fiddling with her fingers. Toshiro easily put her feet on the ground with one arm wrapped around her still. Small droplets of water started to fall down as he flipped open the passenger side of the car. He tried to pull her over and in but she had he feet planted in the ground. He looked over to her and she was staring at him shocked. Toshiro sighed.

"Why are you so afraid of me, Momo?" He asked her. She only looked down at her feet again and kicked through the sand.

"Why are you trying to get me into your car?" She answered my question with a question of her own. Finally he realized that not everyday someone carries you out of the beach and tries to push you into there car. Actually that was the sign most people would take for a kidnap or something worse, of Corse she was afraid.

"You said you were going to get a cab, I don't think you'll have much luck in this storm, so I thought I could drive you home and get to know you a little better on the way." He explained slightly tugging at her waist again for her to come closer to the open car door. She hesitated for a minute but then came to him. She looked up at him before climbing in to meet with a smile on his face. She smiled back and got in. Toshiro reached up and pulled the door down until it shut. He then went over to his side as proceeded to get in. "And where am I taking you too, Momo?" He asked as he started the car. He started to drive through the sand and onto the main rode.

"To the apartment building on three fourteen." She answered softly. Toshiro looked at her amazed but then away so she didn't notice his shock. That building was nearly ran down and didn't even have electricity hardly. Maybe only for two hours a day. People that were nearly broke lived there and he would never had thought she would have. She looked like an angel, he couldn't even picture her in a place so rundown. "What are you thinking, Mr. Hitsugaya?" She asked softly. Toshiro glanced over at her, only to notice she was staring at him. He looked back to the rode and shook his head.

"Nothing important, and call me Toshiro. I feel old if you address me like that with your sweet light voice." He chuckled as she smiled softly. She turned her gaze back to her book and picked it up, she set it on the ground between her feet and then leaned back into the seat.

"It's okay you know, everyone else thinks about it too. I'm not offended in anyway. I live with my mom and grandfather, my mom can hardly keep a job because my grandfather needs so much care, I'm not enough and she has to be there too, so she's always getting fired and then looking for more work." She whispered out. Toshiro looked out to the rode with no emotion written anywhere on his face.

"It's understandable, I guess. People go through hard times. I'll admit though, I was shocked when you told me where to take you, you look hardly like someone to live there. To be honest, you look like someone who would live in a huge white classy house, actually." He chuckled inwardly. Momo only smiled and looked at her lap as she fiddled with her fingers.

"Your really good at dazzling people." She whispered with an even bigger smile, her cheeks turning pink. Toshiro stole a glance of her and smiled too.

"Really? I haven't had much practice at it." He chuckled. He waited a minute before adding. "Actually, your the only practice I've had, if you don't count acting in films." Momo looked up at him shocked which cause him to smirk.

"Really?" She whispered under her breath with shock, but he could still hear her.

"Really." He replied as he watched her look down once again. She sure was on the shy meter wasn't she? They were only a few blocks away from her home when he decided he would ask her something very important. "Momo?" She looked up from her hands and looked at him.

"Yes." She asked. She noticed he had slowed the car down and they were hardly moving. The rain started to get harder and Toshiro flipped on the windshield-wipers.

"Would you come live with me for a while until I get a ring to ask you to marry me?" He was now whispering. Momo looked at him with shock in her eyes. Then all of a sudden she was giggling, then plain out laughing.

"Okay, you got me! That was too funny, Toshiro. I actually tho..."

"I'm serious." He interrupted her with a sigh. She stopped laughing and stared at him as if he were crazy. She rose an eyebrow at him and a frown appeared on her face. So much for being shy, she out did that.

"No, your crazy, not serious." She scowled. "I haven't even known you for more then an hour at the most, and you want me to marry you? You don't even know how old I am? Or... or my favorite color. Or... or anything!" She screamed. Toshiro looked at her in the corner of his eye, this wasn't going as well as he had planed.

"How old are you?" He asked softly. Momo looked at him and sighed.

"Seventeen, too young for you. Your twenty." She whispered as she looked out her window. Toshiro sighed and everything went silent.

"Ever heard the saying 'love has no age limit'?" He asked as he stopped the car at her apartment building. She opened the door and climbed out. She turned around, about to close the door but answered first.

"There has to be love for there to be no age involved with that saying, think about that." She said before closing his car door. Toshiro watched as she ran into the building as the rain crashed down on her. He sighed heavily as he leaned back and closed his eyes.

He had everything in the world, anything he wanted he could have. But now what he wanted more then anything, had just ran away from him. There were many fish in the sea he remembered his friend say before.

"Ya, but only one penguin." He murmured to himself as he started the car.

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Okay this is that new story I wanted to start, I couldn't stand it, I had to write it, I couldn't wait! lol. Well I hope you liked the first chapter, It came out way longer then I thought, but that's good for you guys I guess, right? lol. Well please review! Thank