Okay guys, this is my first attempt at an AU. I'll keep this on for 10 days, if I get some good feedback (that means review friends!) I'll keep it going. If not...well, I think you can guess.

Stardust897

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"That'll be all for today class. I expect that report on the shogun of the Meji era done by Monday. Have a good weekend!"

"Ah! Classes are finally over for the week!" I said cheerfully as I stood up and stretched. As soon as the bell had rung and the teacher had left, the class had dispersed. There were a few people standing around chatting or packing up to hurry off to clubs or home. I had cheerleading in a few moments but I didn't think it would be a big deal if I was a few minutes late.

"Yeah, but my weekend just go ruined by that report. I haven't even started Momo-chan!"

"Eh? But Ukitake-sensei assigned it over a month ago, Karin-chan."

"I forgot about it until he mentioned it just now!"

I shook my head at my best friend Karin Kurosaki. She was extremely smart and a talented soccer player, but she was so forgetful when it came to school projects.

"Let me guess," she said shooting me a look, "You're already done aren't you?"

I smiled.

"I hate you." She muttered shaking her head causing her short black hair to bounce a little. She shut her dark eyes and sighed in frustration.

"Love you to Karin-chan!" I checked my watch. "Ahh! We're going to be late for our practices!"

Karin shot out of her seat. "Coach'll kill me if I'm late again!" She yelled as she raced out the door. "C'mon Momo! You've got cheerleading!"

"Oh, coming!"

"Five, six, seven, eight! Reaper's pride, let's fight fight fight! Reapers come on and show your might!" I twisted, did a back hand spring, and landed in a split while the other girls chanted.

I loved being a tumbler for the squad, and I was pretty good, but best of all, being on the squad meant that I got to watch my boyfriend Izuru Kira-kun play soccer. While we took a break I watched him as he caught yet another ball that was kicked his way, dropped that one and batted another one out of the goal, and kicked another one back at the person that kicked one at him. He was the team's goalie, the best they'd ever seen.

"Go Kira-kun! Give it your best!" I shouted. He caught my eye and waved just as another ball was kicked at him. He caught it. I smiled and waved back at him.

"Wow, Kira's doing pretty well," Another voice commented behind me. I turned around and saw my good friend Matsumoto Rangiku standing behind me. She was two years older than me, in 11th grade. She was really pretty with sunset orange hair, silver blue eyes and well…plenty of assets (If you catch my drift). She was also the captain of the cheerleading squad. I nodded.

"Yeah. He is."

"You know, he's been much more cheerful ever since you started going out with him. Speaking of which, how is he?"

"He's feeling fine," I answered a bit confused. She should be able to tell.

Rangiku-san shook her head. "I mean, how is he?" She wiggled her eyebrows.

"What do—Rangiku-san!" I finally caught on, blushing.

She laughed. "I'm just kidding. Kira's too much of a gentleman for that." We went back to watching the soccer players for a little while. Most of my guy friends were on the soccer team.

Rangiku turned around and clapped her hands together. "Alright ladies! Let's get back to work. I have a new routine I want us to use, and it needs to be memorized by Friday!"

We groaned and got back into formation.

We caught up with Karin and her extremely cute (Rangiku's words not mine!) brother Ichigo-kun as we were leaving practice. Ichigo sighed as he ran a hand through his spiky orange hair.

"What's this I hear about a meeting being held at Urahara's?" Urahara's was the best restaurant in town for teens. It was practically a club; we hung out there so often. Urahara-san was super nice and his (girl?)friend and partner Yoruichi was not only amazingly beautiful but smart too, though she could be a bit of a tease. She had helped me with tumbling, since she used to be a gymnast.

But back to the bit about the meeting. "What about a meeting?" I asked.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I told everybody to meet up at Urahara's because there's somebody I want you to meet. I already told Kira. Speak of the devil."

"Hey you guys, wait up!" I turned to see Kira-kun heading our way, his blond hair flopping in one blue eye. I shot him a big smile.

"Good work out there!" I chirped. He gave me a peck on the lips. I giggled and Karin rolled her eyes.

"Thanks. Let's go."

The walk there was just a bunch of chatting between Kira, Karin-chan, Ichigo-kun and I. Rangiku stayed out of it because she was too busy bickering on the phone with someone.

When we arrived, Urahara looked up from the glass he was drying and smiled. "Good to see you again. Your party's in the back."

"Thanks again for letting us use the VIP room Urahara-san!" Rangiku trilled.

Karin looked around. "Hey where's Ururu and Jinta?" Those two worked at the restaurant as waiters. We personally think that there's something going on between the two, but we're not so sure. Ururu is a really meek quiet girl and Jinta is a bit of a loud mouth. Jinta seems to take pleasure in teasing Ururu to death, but once she gets threatened, he's scary. He beat up two guys that were twice his size for harassing Ururu.

They were both old friends of Karin. Ururu and Yuzu (Karin's much quieter twin) are both in the Home Ec. Club. Jinta plays baseball.

Another voice answered. "We gave them the day off today, so they joined the party." It was Yoruichi. She walked out wearing a spaghetti strap dress with and apron over it. Her dark hair was pulled up into a high ponytail, but it still reached the back of her knees. "Yo Ichigo! It's been awhile." Apparently they had been friends for some time, for reasons on known to us.

"Good to see you too, Yoruichi-san."

We headed to the back of the store where everyone was gathered. As we walked in we heard the chattering and yelling, typical of our crowd of friends. Ichigo walked straight over to the table and sat down in-between Orihime, a cheerful, kind, redheaded girl (She and Rangiku were very good friends. They even sorta looked alike), and Rukia-chan, a small, slim, smart and pretty dark haired girl. She was related to the Japanese teacher Kuchiki-sensei.

On the other side of Rukia sat Renji, her childhood best friend. He had long red hair tied up in a ponytail and tattoos on his face and arms. On the other side of Orihime sat Ishida. He was a quiet one. Extremely intelligent (best score on the midterms for his grade every time) and he could cook or sew anything.

The seating pretty much represented the issue at hand.

It's quite complicated. Renji has had a crush on Rukia for forever. From the looks of it, Ichigo has a thing for her too, but she's just not showing any interest in either of them yet. Orihime really likes Ichigo, but he just doesn't notice it, and Ishida obviously like Orihime, but she's totally blind to that too. Ichigo, Renji and Ishida were all good friends, as were Orihime and Rukia.

There's no way that this could end with everyone being happy.

Anyway, Karin went over to Jinta and Ururu and started chatting, so I sat down by Rangiku with Kira-kun in tow.

Rangiku started chatting with Ikkaku-san immediately, but I could tell she was distracted, because she kept looking at her phone.

"So how's cheerleading going so far Momo-chan?" I glanced back at Kira.

"It's going fine. But the newest routine Rangiku-san came up with is really hard. It took most of practice just to get the first part of it down."

"Ouch. She really works you guys hard."

"Not really. She gives us plenty of breaks, she's a good captain. So how's being the best goalie for the shinigami ever working for you?"

He laughed quietly. "Pretty good. We just have one problem though." I raised an eyebrow. "We need another forward attacker. Ichigo's good, but he can't handle it by himself."

"Hmm…but haven't tryouts already ended?" I asked.

"Yeah, but if someone's good enough for the position, coach'll gladly put them on."

"Ah. Well coach should—" I was caught off by Rangiku.

"He's here! You guys just wait here for a moment, I'll be right back." She stood up and bounced out the door. Everyone went quiet and started looking at each other with confused looks across there faces. Apparently we were the only one's that knew we were meeting someone today.

I looked up when Rangiku reentered practically dragging the new kid by his collar. He was trying to fight her off, but it wasn't working out so well for him. He had snow white hair, was wearing a white button up shirt, and a pair of dark blue jeans.

I caught a glimpse of his face. All I could see was his nose and mouth, because the rest of his face was covered by the most ridiculously sized pair of glasses I'd ever seen. They covered more that half his face and the glass was so thick you couldn't actually see anything on the other side. They were so big and reflective, I could have done my hair using them.

When he was finally able to stand up straight I saw that he couldn't have been more that two or three inches taller than me and I was pretty short (Only 5' 3''). Of course, his spiky white hair made him seem taller.

He turned to—I think—glare at Rangiku. And he muttered in a much deeper and huskier voice than I expected, "Matsumoto!"

He stood up a little straighter and pushed his glasses up his nose. Not that it did much good since they just slid right back down again.

Everyone silently stared at him.

Kira-kun murmured in my ear, "Is he really our age, he's awfully short for a guy."

I whispered back, "Yeah, and why is he wearing such huge glasses, does he have something to hide underneath all that glass?"

It turns out that the entire crowd had broken out in soft murmuring.

"Alright, if you guys have finished your gossiping—"

"You have no room to talk Rangiku-chan you're the biggest gossip of all," Ikkaku said.

"Shut it, Ikkaku. Any way, I'd like to introduce you to my cousin, Hitsugaya Toshiro. He's in 9th grade, same as the squirts." I frowned at that. Squirts?

He shoved his glasses back up his nose again and said more clearly in his strangely husky voice, "Nice to meet you." His glasses slid back down his nose, and right before he got the chance to slide them up his nose again, Rangiku intervened.

"Oh, no you don't. I don't even know why you where those things all the time. You only need them to read things close up! And with a face like yours I don't know why you hide it!"

Face like his?

Despite his protests, she ripped the glasses right off his face, and tucked them into the pocket of her school uniform's skirt.

I take back everything I just said about him.

Word's couldn't describe him. He was beyond hot. Way beyond. He had the most beautiful blue-green eyes, and his white hair accented it perfectly. With the glasses off, you could see his high cheekbones, the lightly tanned skin…he was perfect. And now that I took a better look at him, the button up shirt clung to him a little, showing off some lean muscle, like a distance runner. So he wasn't as scrawny as I first thought.

And, naturally, my eye was the first one he caught.

As soon as we made eye contact, I looked away, turning back to the table. Across from me, I saw Karin and Ururu, and they were both blushing bright red. Jinta was glaring coldly in his direction. I had a feeling my face mirrored Karin's and Ururu's and though Kira-kun wouldn't make a face, he was probably thinking the same thing as Jinta.

Stay away from my girl.

"See!" Rangiku chirped. "Don't cover up those pretty eyes of yours! This is pretty much everyone worth meeting in this town. Over here we have Orihime, Ichigo…" She started with introductions going around the table. Everyone said hi or nodded in his direction (Jinta and Ikkaku)

Then when she got to me, I turned around and he met my eyes again. I tried really hard to fight down a blush.

"…And this is Hinamori Momo."

"Uh…um…Hi," I muttered. He held my gaze for a few moments before finally dropping it. I felt my face turning red. He had the most mesmerizing look.

But you have a boyfriend dearie.

I needed to get out of here. I shot Karin a helpless look. She caught my look and stood up.

"Momo-chan, a word." And proceeded to grab my arm and drag me out of the room.

When we got to the hallway I looked at her. "He's really cute," I hissed softly.

"Yeah, I know. But Momo, you have to remember you have a boyfriend that likes you a lot! And you like him a lot too!"

"I know but…" I groaned.

She put a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at her. "Help!" I squeaked

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