Liking Oneself II: Thank You (Bleach Fanfic)

Home Stay (Part 2) Tantrum

The sheets in the forth division were soft and comfortable. Toshiro found himself wishing that he could simply stay in the room and not have to worry about being carried back home to visit his grandmother. He awoke as someone nudged him awake. The small taicho opened his eyes part way to see Kira looking at him. "We need to get you ready to go Hitsugaya."

The boy closed his eye's and instead choose to bury them with his arm as his mind wanted to continue to sleep. Kira shook his shoulder again. "Come on, we're going to be going and seeing your granny. Don't you wish to see her?"

Toshiro opened up his eyes, his mouth creasing into a frown as he peeked from underneath his arm. "Go away. I want to sleep."

A louder male voice came to his ears and caused him to become more awake then before. "Come on Hitsugaya Taicho. We need to get going."

"Maybe it would be better to just let him sleep. You can go back to sleep." Kira spoke up.

"Are you sure that is a good idea?" Toshiro recognized the voice of that person as being Momo's and he took a deep breath as his body and mind began to drift back to sleep. He felt himself suddenly lifted up from the bed, causing him to open his eyes. Through the blurriness he could see that one of the people happened to have reddish hair, but his eyes snapped shut again as he felt himself carefully placed on the person's back and lifted up.

His foot hung down while his chin hit the persons back. H e opened his mouth to protest, but the person stood up and the movement caused him to drift back to sleep, though before he completely fell asleep he found himself hearing Kira speak up about how he had been right about the idea of letting him sleep be easier.

Toshiro woke up again sometime later, his body sweating as well as the pain coming back to his foot. He could also feel drool coming out of his mouth and absent mindlessly wiped his mouth on the cloth under his mouth. The movement he felt as well as the ache caused him to open his eyes. His eyes blinked a couple of times from the bright light.

"What's..." The boy tried sitting up, only to realize that he was being carried on someone's back, someone with red hair. "Why is... what the hell is going on!"

"Now you wake up?" Renji turned his head to look at the small taicho. "And thank you for drooling all over me in your sleep. Nice job there."

The boy balked and his chest tightened as his mind raced to try and figure the situation out. "What is going on!"

Momo's voice came from the side. "Don't you remember? We're going to visit granny."

Two bright teal eyes blinked a couple of times as the pupils attempted to adjust to the light. Toshiro's head turned to the side and he felt the breath in his lungs draw short, while his voice suddenly cracked from the panic he was feeling. "Why am I wearing my haori?"

The small female blinked a couple of times at him. "Because your a taicho. It's part of your uniform."

"Baka!" The boy began to fidget while Renji attempted to keep a grip on the child prodigy. "It's broad daylight! I never go to grannies during the day. I always go early in the morning, or in the evening, or I don't go in my uniform!"

"So?" Momo shook her head.

Toshiro began to twist about in an attempt to remove his haori. "You don't get it!"

The boy moved wrong and suddenly felt him toppling backwards while Renji tried to rebalance himself. Thankfully Kira stepped up behind and quickly pushed Toshiro back. "Hitsugaya Taicho. You shouldn't fidget like that. The last thing you need is to injure yourself anymore."

"I want it off!"

"Stop acting like a baby." Renji's eyes rolled back in frustration.

"You..." The boy swallowed. "I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't."

"Seriously, calm down!" The fukutaicho of the sixth division spoke then to Kira. "Help me get him to the ground."

The two somehow managed to get Toshiro sitting by the side of the road while he glared at them, taking deep breaths. Renji backed off slightly, rubbing the back of his head. "Seriously? Do you have to be such a brat?"

Kira pulled the bag off of his back. "Do you need more of your medicine?"

"Hell no." The boy crossed his arms across his chest while Momo stared at him, a rather confused look on her face.

The red haired shinigami turned his head towards her. "Do you know what his problem is?"

"No, I actually don't know what his problem is."

"I want my haori off!" The words came out of Toshiro's mouth unrestrained.

"No." Renji in turn glared back.

"I'm going to take it off."

"Are you an idiot? I don't care if you out rank me on this, you're being stupid."

The small taicho suddenly took a deep breath before folding his arms across his chest. "I want it off."

Kira took a deep breath before kneeling down to remove the haori from the boy's back. Renji however shook his head. "You're just going to let him throw a tantrum?"

The blond shinigami frowned. "Better to humor him right now."

"Excuse me?" Toshiro's shoulders tensed up. "If you guys had waken me up before we left then you wouldn't be having to deal with me putting my foot down." Silence followed this comment as Toshiro looked from one fukutaicho to another ."What?"

"You're going to put your foot down?" Laughter began to pour out of Renji's mouth.

The small taicho's eyes narrowed at the fukutaicho. "Shut up. Just shut up."