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Summary: How do you capture a captain's heart? Well, Hinamori Momo will show you. However, like every plan that is mustered up, there are always some drawbacks.

Timeline: After the Winter War

Pairing: HitsuHina

How to Capture a Captain's Heart

Prologue: How do you Capture a Captain's Heart?

They have always have been this way for a long time. And for that long time, they were close. How close?

"Mou...Shiro-chan! Stop appearing out of nowhere!" the female vice-captain from the fifth division pouted as she held her fists up in front of her childhood friend.

Well, that close...

Shooting back at her his trademark icy glare, which never works on her, the white haired 10th captain of the Gotei 13 retorted, "It's Hitsugaya-taichō, Bed-wetter Momo!"

Despite having nicknames for each other, the two Shinigami have always shared a close friend type of relationship; at the best, they have thought of each other as brother and sister.

Unfortunately, over the past few weeks since the Winter War went to past, she began to notice how supportive he has always been to her. He's been there for whenever or whatever happened despite that time she pointed her zanpakutō at the bottom of his chin. Something about him kept her alive. Whatever it is; his glowing turquoise-emerald eyes, his soft and snowy white hair, or his cold exterior attitude in contrast to his inner kind-heart personality, she knew now that she, Hinamori Momo, has fallen in love with her chlidhood friend, Hitsugaya Toshirō.

She gently pounded her forehead on her desk. "Mou...what am I going to do?" she wondered. "I know I have fallen for him, but if I tell him and he rejects me, our current relationship might not be the same as it is now."

Sitting up again, she sighed in defeat. "This is hopeless; knowing Hitsugaya-kun, he most likely won't have the same feelings as I do for him."

"Ohayo Hinamori-chan!" her cheerful orange strawberry haired peer, Matsumoto Rangiku said as her upper body suddenly came into her office.

Feeling the gloomy aura in this room, the large breasted woman walked towards her. Placing a hand on her shoulder, the fifth vice-captain looked back.

"Hinamori-chan, is there something bothering you?"

Quickly shaking her head back and forth. "It's nothing Rangiku-san."

Knowing that she's lying, Matusmoto bent over, closer to her and said, "Whatever you're worried about, I don't think it's a good idea to keep it in. Who knows, maybe I can help you solve it."

"Really?" Hinamori asked.

Giving her a thumb up and a bright smile, she replied, "Yep! So what's wrong?"

Just then she was having second thoughts about this; to be more exact, a very bad omen. If she tells Matsumoto about her little love problem, she knows that the taller vice-captain will do whatever it takes to get her and her taichō together. And when she means 'will do whatever it takes', it means that literally. But what can she do? If she doesn't tell him soon, he might be taken away from by some female Shinigami or even worse; remain single for the rest of his life. Okay, maybe that's not bad, but still...

"Well, you see..."

End of Prologue

How to Capture a Captain's Heart

Plan A: Send him a Love Letter

"Ano Rangiku-san," Hinamori timidly said, "are you sure this is going to work?"

"Daijoubou Hinamori-chan!" Matsumoto cheerfully replied as she placed a clean blank sheet of paper in front of her desk. "Sending a love letter to your crush is the next step after you admit that you have fallen for someone. First of all, I'm happy that you have feelings for taichō. Plus, the timing of this is perfect!"

"Perfect, but how?"

"Easy. Today is February 11th; there are only three days until Valentine's Day."

"Valentine's Day?"

"Yes, it is a holiday that the humans in the living world call it. On that day, is the day when couples come together after a sacred ritual is performed in which someone offers their crush a gift and the receiver accepts it. As a result, if he responds to you, bingo! A couple is born!"

"Who told you all this?"

"The Subsitute Shinigami from the living world, Kurosaki Ichigo."

"Oh...umm, maybe we should do this another time..."

"Oh no no no no! You have to confess to taichō! Now, write out your feelings to him!"

"Mou..."

This is the first time she has fallen in love with someone. However, this kind of crush is totally different from all the other crushes she had in the past. Her first crush was the former fifth division captain, Aizen Sōsuke. It all started back in the days when she was still in Shinigami Academy. Hinamori first met him when he came to the academy to check out some potential students that could be his subordinates in the future. Since she laid eyes on him, she knew exactly what she wanted to become; a vice-captain in Aizen's division. Comparing her feelings for him to the feelings for her Shiro-chan, this one is more complicated in many ways; for example, she can never forget about him. On the other hand, her feelings for Aizen is nothing more than just an obsession over someone she looked up to.

Matsumoto told her once that if she ended up falling in love with someone, she must tell the person her feelings as quickly as possible. Though some of her other advice is not quite as helpful in the past, this time, without a doubt, she believed her.

LATER IN THE DAY

His yelling as so loud that it echoed the surrounding halls causing not only the birds to fly away from their hiding spot in the trees, but also causing a ruckus for the nearby Shinigamis. She's late...AGAIN.

"MATSUMOTO!!" Hitsugaya exclaimed.

Sitting down on his seat behind his desk, the white haired prodigy put his hands into the opposite sides of his long black sleeves. She has taken yet another long break from work in order to avoid having to do paperwork.

"Ohayo taich--" Matsumoto greeted as she entered the office.

"You're late Matsumoto," Hitsugaya interrupted in a rather almost calm manner.

"I'm sorry, but I have an imp--"

"I don't want to hear another one of your excuses; I'm not in the mood right now. Just sit down and finish your paperwor--" he said as he sat up from his seat, moved to the side so that his vice-captain can sit down and start working.

Just as he did that, he noticed that she was nowhere in sight. "Matsumoto..." Hitsugaya slowly and angrily said as a vein popped above his head.

However, his thoughts were cleared when he noticed a lone envelope sitting on his desk. Picking up the letter, he opened the contents inside it and began reading it.

It can't be...

A few moments later, he tore the paper into pieces, and threw them into the garbage bin as he walked out of his office. For once, he ran out of patience. It's time to catch her and drag her back to the office.

"That's not going to work Matsumoto. You're not hooking me up with yet another one of those Shinigami fan girls."

PLAN A: FAILED

AznVKai: Be soft on me, this is my first Bleach fan fiction and also the 2009 Valentine's Day fan fic. I support the HitsuHina pairing. (They're just too kawaii together) Hope you enjoy the first chapter. Your reviews are greately appreciated. Thanks!