Negirau Atashinchi (Bleach Fanfic)

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Upon hearing the nickname that told him rather quickly that Hinamori still thought of him as a child, Toshiro felt his eyebrow twitch. His feelings weren't of anger though, as he had heard clearly the anger in Momo's voice. His feelings were more of shock, and guilt, among other things. "Oi... what did I do this time?"

Momo's face twisted up with frustration, and she slammed her hands down onto the table. "You are most definitely not old enough to be dating. So don't you dare think about it."

Hitsugaya didn't know how she was able to keep from yelling at him, but he couldn't control it, his shock at having such a thing come up. "Where the hell did that come from!"

"I am not blind to the fact that you've been acting rather strange of late, ever since we've come on this mission. However, the times you act the most strange happens to be when you are around Karin, or talk about her!" Momo's voice finally came to the yelling point.

"You've barely seen us together! How can you actually judge something like that!" Toshiro's teal eyes though caught site of Rangiku and Rukia giving each other what seemed to be rather knowing looks. "You guys think that too, don't you? No... I know Rangiku thinks that, as she's brought it up a few times, over the past year."

"It's kind of obvious," Momo snapped out, folding her arms across her chest.

"Not to me, and I am the one whose supposed to have these feelings you say that I have. That makes no sense at all," the boy glared at them. "I think I would be the first to know if I liked someone or not." At that he held up a hand, shaking his head as he did so. "I am not going to listen to this. I have better things to do. I am going out on patrol."

At that, he stood up and left the room. He almost stormed out of the place, but choose to change out of his school uniform as it would look weird to have a student constantly in uniform being seen. He could hear the girls still talking in the other room, but he didn't want to know what was being said. He left his uniform in a bundle so he could pick it up later.

As he walked, he felt for hollows around him, but then he suddenly paused, realizing that somehow he had ended up outside the Kurosaki twins school. At that, he walked into the place, the sun setting indicating that most of the students and teachers would be gone, unless they had come back to get something. Something crossed his mind. Karin had said that her name had been scratched out.

At that, he stuck his hands into his pockets and walked towards the entrance. He got in there, then removed his shoes, picking up the pair to carry with him so that he could respect custom. He walked down the hallways, looking for something specific. He quickly found the board that he was looking for and stopped to look at it.

"Karin wouldn't ever cross out her name for something she likes so much, not unless she was bullied to do so," the boy stated. He then read the names right underneath, memorizing them in his head. He then glanced at Karin's writing on the line that had been crossed out, looking at the direction and size of everything very carefully.

"Toshiro?" a male voice stated from behind him. "What are you doing here?"

At that, the boy glanced up. "You're one of Karin's friends, aren't you?"

The boy spoke up. "My name is Toba Ryohei. You wouldn't happen to be thinking of joining the soccer club?"

"Why?" Hitsugaya gave him a confused look.

"I thought you liked soccer, that's all," the boy stated firmly. "If you aren't here, then why are you."

"Someone I know asked Karin if she was going to be in the soccer club, and she told us she wasn't going to be. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that? I don't think she would scratch out the name herself," the boy stated, still taking in the look of the name.