Of Birthdays and Siblings

Running Away

Toshiro's frustration reached a peak as he spoke with her. "Yet you don't stop and think about the fact I just found you again, only to lose you again?"

"I just realized that I'm taller then you." The words came out of Bambietta's mouth as she came to the realization. She watched as the white haired boy's eyes went wide.

He then tensed and began to yell at her. "I am not short!"

"It seems as if you have height issues." The female frowned at him.

"Well, there are more important things then that!" Toshiro found himself unable to prevent the panic attack that was surging. "As I said, they are going to execute you."

"So?" The girl let out a deep sigh before going and sitting down. "It isn't as if they'll execute me in the next forty-eight hours. They haven't made the decision to execute me either. Your just being a worry wart."

"No I'm not!" Toshiro could feel his throat straining as he spoke to her. "You act like the possibility that they'll kill you will mean nothing. What are you going to do if your dead?"

"Nothing. That should be obvious." The female watched as he leaned against the wall, placing two hands on top of his head as he tried to think.

"I'm not impressed with the fact you're making jokes about this." Toshiro shook his head., wincing as he felt the pain in the back of his head. "Can't you think of a serious way for you to get out of this situation. Because I certainly am. We have to think about what we have to do, because..."

Footsteps were suddenly heard on the stairs and one of the members of the sixth division came down the stairs in order to check on the prisoner. The man saw Hitsugaya Toshiro and blinked a couple of times. "What are you doing down here, Hit..."

The small taicho reacted rather quickly and jumped up and elbowed the man in the chin, before taking his elbow into the man's stomach. The man bent over and Toshiro brought his elbow down on the back of his head. His head was spinning from the sudden movement, but as the man fell to the ground unconscious he found his small hand grabbing the key.

Bambietta gave him a dirty look. "So the idea that you came up with is to help me escape?"

"You aren't going to say something along the lines of just because you're a girl that you don't need rescuing. I've got that." Toshiro turned to look at her, the keys in his hand. His head was spinning and he knew someone would notice that the guard was gone. "Yet I know that he heard what I was saying to her, and anyone of intelligence could put the two together."

"You'll get in trouble if you let me out." The female shook her head. "You aren't happy that I may be executed, but I'm not happy if you got executed either."

"I realize that I can't stay if I help you out." Toshiro walked over to the door and put the key into the lock and twisted it unlocked. "Eventually someone is going to realize that the two of us are twins just like I did and when they do, they're going to figure out that I am Quincy hybrid. So I really can't stay here anymore if I want to live."

"Then come back with me." Bambietta spoke up, a smile spreading across her face.

"While you're trained as a Quincy, I'm trained as a Shinigami. I think you know as well as I that the only place I can go is the world of the Hollows or the living world." The boy glanced at the ground. "So we'll head to the living world and then you can decide where you're going to go after that. I'm capable enough of hiding from Soul Society, so you don't need to worry about me."

"I'm staying with you." The girl reached out and grabbed his hand. "If you can't come home with me, then I'm not going back. We're twins, so we need to stick together."

The two then found themselves pushing up against the walls and slowly heading out of the cells, hiding from the guards who were on duty. Toshiro could feel his head pounding as they moved along, his breath coming tightly. "We need to get from here to the gate in order to get to the living world."

"You don't look to good." Bambietta held onto his hand.

"I'm fine." The small shinigami spoke up without looking her in the face. This was despite the fact he felt nauseous and his head was spinning. The bottoms of his feet stung as he moved towards the gate. He noticed how the shinigami security had grown and he found himself frowning, realizing that everyone had been on alert. "We need to get past them."

"I can easily take care of that."

"Without killing them." Toshiro stated, watching as she turned to him in surprise. The next thing he knew, the two of them were moving and knocking out the guards. The men dropped to the ground without them doing much. He then reached out to push the gate open, only to hear someones voice behind him.

"Hitsugaya!" The young man turned in time to see Renji glaring at the two. "What do you think you're doing? Why are you doing this?"

The small taicho pushed his sister behind him, causing the gate to open slightly. Bambietta noticed it was open and grabbed her brothers hand and pulled him through. Toshiro could see the look on Renji's face and knew that he was livid. As they went through, he found himself kicking the door shut. They were then both running down the path that oozed at the sides.

Bambietta glanced up. "What is with this gate tunnel? I thought that the travel to the living world would be instantaneous?"

"I guess that Shinigami and Quincy's ways of traveling between the worlds happens to be different. This is how we always traveled." Toshiro stated as they continued to hurry forward.

"If you had told me, I could have just opened a gate up to the living world and gotten us there a lot faster." The girl shook her head, but continued to hold onto his hand as they hurried along the path. "Isn't that guy coming after us?"

"One of the advantages of coming through this way is the fact that by closing the door behind us, he would have to come through the gate at a later time. One hour in Soul Society or the living world is worth a months worth of time in this place. Time passes faster and thus we're already ahead of them by a bit of time." Toshiro suddenly felt his head ping and he placed a hand on his forehead.

"If you've got a headache, why don't we stop." Bambietta's voice indicated she was worried.

"We can't stop."

"Why not? I mean..."

A rumbling sound was heard and both spun their heads around to see the sweeper bearing down on them. Toshiro narrowed his eyes. "That's why. We have to move faster."

The two suddenly were hurrying forward and finally the light was seen at the end. They burst through the end of the gate and Toshiro moved his feet so that they would hold himself up in the air. However, as soon as he gained his foothold, he found himself hit by a dizzy spell. He found himself suddenly falling to the ground, his hand letting go of his sister's.