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What My Heart Is Saying Is…

Chapter 12: That Person

Info you need to know: "Talking" "SHOUTING"
Translations: Itai = Ouch, (I think). Ohayo = Good Morning. Hai = Yes.

~The next day ~

Toshiro woke up in the armchair he had sat down last night when he got back from the whole Grimmjow and Ulquiorra trying to steal Inoue incident. He had sat down with Hinamori on his lap, glad at least she had been safe and unharmed. He meant to just sit there for a little while with Hinamori, to make sure Izuru and Matsumoto were doing okay. But he ended up falling asleep and with Hinamori falling asleep on his lap. But he didn't mind much, it was nice to wake up with a sleeping angel on your lap. That's what happened, he woke up and Hinamori was snuggled up on his lap, her head resting on his chest. He looked down at her and his heart literally skipped a beat. She was looked so peaceful and safe yet somehow vulnerable at the same time.

Toshiro smiled slightly at his sleeping girlfriend then looked over to Matsumoto sleeping on the couch next to him. She was looking better than she had yesterday, not so pale and her breathing was normal. Inoue had healed both Izuru and Matsumoto before she left to go back home. So Toshiro didn't doubt that Matsumoto would make a full recovery. Matsumoto stirred slightly but didn't wake up. Toshiro felt a wave of guilt rush over him. If only he had stopped Grimmjow from hurting Matsumoto she wouldn't be like this. Toshiro hated seeing his friends hurt, especially Matsumoto he was close to his Vice-Captain. Though she could be annoying and a nuisance and hardly ever did work, Toshiro still felt that Matsumoto was like a sister to him. He didn't want her to get hurt because of him. Toshiro sighed. Sometimes he wished he wasn't a Shinigami, that he was a regular human. Life wouldn't be so hard and dangerous then. But then again Toshiro knew it would be boring.

"Itai, good damn that hurts." A voice hissed, Toshiro turned to where Izuru was on lying on the floor. There wasn't any over large space for Izuru to lie down. Matsumoto had taken the couch seeing as her wound was more dangerous because she had strained herself defending Toshiro.

"You alright?" Toshiro asked. It wasn't like Toshiro hated Izuru so he still was concerned. Still, Toshiro didn't like him that much seeing as he had a huge crush on Hinamori. Toshiro often wondered if Izuru was the type of guy to try and break them up. For Izuru's sake he hoped that he wasn't.

"I'll live." Izuru said and sat up wincing but otherwise ignoring the pain which went through his chest. He had bandages covering his chest and he looked over at Matsumoto who had matching bandages. He then looked at Toshiro who had a bruise on his abdomen (thanks to a kick from Grimmjow) and bandages going around his torso (though that was for the stab wound on his back). All in all the three Shinigami did get pretty beaten up. Thankfully the Espada were worse off, though Izuru didn't know that.

"You should do, Inoue healed us all." Toshiro stated.

"In that case we should all live." Izuru stated back earning a shot nod from Toshiro. After all, everyone in Soul Society thought that if Inoue healed you then you would always live. She was that good. Toshiro wasn't quite sure what to do with Izuru, he knew that the blond boy hated him because he was with Hinamori. But Toshiro didn't really care about him not liking that, he was with Hinamori and the only person that could stop that was Hinamori herself. Toshiro hoped she never would. A broken heart was one thing Inoue wouldn't be able to heal. That's what would happen to Toshiro if Hinamori broke up with him.

Toshiro heard Izuru groan again and looked back at him instead of being in his own world with his thoughts. Izuru was starting to stand up and he stretched slightly, even though it caused him to winch and hiss in pain.

"Itai, damn this really hurts" Izuru hissed and put an arm around his wound.

"Of course it's going to hurt, you were sliced with a sword in the chest." Toshiro said, earning him a short glare from Izuru.

"Aren't you in pain? I can see a huge bruise on your abdomen and you have bandages around your torso. Not to mention Hinamori-san is probably leaning on the wounds." Both Izuru and Toshiro weren't wearing shirts seeing as Inoue had to remove them in order to heal them. Matsumoto was wearing a shirt though, seeing as she was a girl and she was living with two boys. Which weren't perverted. Mostly.

"Yep, she's leaning on the wounds and making them hurt more." Toshiro said simply, earning a raised eyebrow from Izuru. Toshiro just shrugged. "But she's worth the pain." Toshiro added and Izuru sighed and left the room. Toshiro smiled slightly when he looked at Hinamori. She then stirred and woke up.

She opened her eyes to teal green ones and smiled softly at her boyfriend. She remembered now that she had fallen asleep on Toshiro's lap. She had wanted to get up so she wouldn't hurt his wounds but Toshiro was already asleep. She had tried to moved but Toshiro's grip around her was really strong even in his sleep. So she had given up and just decided to snuggle up to her boyfriend's chest. She fell asleep immediately and honestly it was the best sleep she had.

"Ohayo, Momo" Toshiro whispered. Hinamori smiled at him again.

"Ohayo, Shiro-Chan." She said and got off his lap and stretched. She then looked around to see if Matsumoto was okay. She was. She was still sleeping but Hinamori could see she didn't look as pale and was breathing normally. Hinamori sighed, a sigh of relief. She then searched for Izuru and her eyebrows furrowed when she couldn't spot her blond haired friend.

"Eh, Shiro-Chan where's Kira-kun?" Hinamori asked, slightly concerned for her friend. Toshiro sighed.

"He left the room a few minutes ago. Probably in his room or having a shower, I don't really know." Toshiro said and then got up. He stretched and then wrapped his arms around Hinamori from behind. Hinamori immediately relaxed and leaned into his embrace. She didn't notice his wince and he didn't let go even though pain surged through his body. He meant it went he told Izuru she was worth the pain. Toshiro then gave her a loving kiss on the shoulder and let go of her.

"Want some breakfast, Momo?" Toshiro asked as he left the room to go to the kitchen.

"Hai, yes please." She said and then followed him into the kitchen. Toshiro was by one of the kitchen tops and he stretched his arms to open up a cabinet above his head. This time Hinamori didn't miss the wince as he stretched. Hinamori put a hand on his shoulder and Toshiro looked at her. He softened his gaze at her worried expression and sighed as he stopped reaching for the bowls on the shelf above his head. Instead he sat down on the chair by the kitchen table and silently watched as Hinamori got the bowls down instead. She then got the cereal – Weetabix – spoons and milk. She placed them all on the table and helped herself to the cereal and milk.

Toshiro got up and went to the fridge and got some orange juice out. Then he got out some glasses from a cabinet which he didn't have to stretch for. He returned to his seat and poured orange juice for him and Hinamori. Then he got his cereal ready and the two eat their breakfast in a comfortable silence.

"How boring. Can't I walk into a room when you guys are being all romantic? It's funny to see Toshiro-kun's face when I walk in you two kissing. Plus it gives me new materials to tease you with." A voice said, entering the kitchen. The couple turned to see a smiling Matsumoto. Hinamori smiled and jumped up and hugged the girl. But gently. Toshiro smiled and rolled his eyes at her comment.

"It's never 'good morning' with you or 'I'm fine now', is it Matsumoto?" Toshiro said after Hinamori stopped hugging her and went back to seat in her seat. Matsumoto smiled at him brightly and went over to him and gave him a hug around the shoulders from behind him. Toshiro for once didn't shout at her or try to push her away. After all, she was wounded.

"Of course not, that's too boring for me." Matsumoto said cheerfully and sat down. Hinamori wordlessly got a bowl and glass for her and Matsumoto said her thanks. She too had some cereal and orange juice. "So, what happened after I passed out on you? I clearly wasn't a hindrance seeing as we're both still alive" Matsumoto said, still being cheerful. Toshiro sighed but he smiled too. Glad Matsumoto was fine and being her old self.

"Well, I was stuck with you on me and couldn't move in time to stop Grimmjow from killing us. But I didn't need to struggle too much. We got rescued." Toshiro said, not really wanting to tell Matsumoto, Ichimaru was there. He knew she would react but he didn't know how.

"Really? Who saved us?" she asked intrigued. Toshiro sighed but figured if he didn't tell her and found out that she would severely pound him for not telling her.

"Ichimaru saved us." Toshiro said, quietly hoping she wouldn't hear. But she was sitting right next to him so of course she heard. She stopped reaching for her glass half-way when she heard that fact.

"Gin saved us?" she asked in a whisper, Toshiro nodded. "Is he here now?" she asked still with a whisper. Toshiro shook his head.

"No. I went to save Inoue from Ulquiorra while he fought Grimmjow. When I came back from defeating Ulquiorra he had won the fight. Grimmjow was seriously injured he took Ulquiorra back to Hueco Mundo. Inoue healed Izuru and then me and Ichimaru started to walk away. I asked him where he was going but he just said that he had a home here and that he was always here whenever you needed him and that he would always come to save you. Then he disappeared." Toshiro said. Matsumoto sighed at that and rolled her eyes. Surprising Toshiro, that wasn't really the reaction he was expecting.

"That's typical Gin. Always disappearing before I want him too" Matsumoto said quietly and a tad bit angrily. Toshiro wasn't quite sure what to say to that so he kept quiet. Breakfast when by in silence. Sometime later Izuru came down to eat but everyone was already done. Toshiro and Matsumoto went into the living room but Hinamori decided to stay with Izuru whilst he eat his breakfast. That didn't thrill Toshiro to much but he let it go.

Matsumoto sat down on the sofa and Toshiro sat down next to her. Toshiro had grabbed the newspaper so he read that. A few minutes went by. Matsumoto silently thinking about Ichimaru and Toshiro flicking through the newspaper. Matsumoto couldn't take much longer though, she silently began to cry. But Toshiro noticed. He always noticed those type of things. He put away the newspaper and turned to his crying Vice-Captain.

"Why are you crying, Matsumoto?" he murmured. Matsumoto sighed and laughed sheepishly as she wiped the tears away.

"I have no idea. I was thinking about how Ichimaru always saves me and then disappears and then I started crying." She said, not looking at him, her head hung down. Then she added in a whisper, "Why does he always disappear before I can thank him? Why does he always appear whenever I'm in danger and no other times? Doesn't he understand that I miss him? Doesn't he understand that I wished he would just stay with me? That I wish he never betrayed us in the first place?" she then looked at Toshiro, tears still in her eyes. "Why did he betray us, Toshiro? Betray me? Why did he do it if all he wanted to protect me? Why couldn't he protect me whilst still being by my side?" she then broke down. Her cheerfulness from this morning had gone. She wasn't really feeling cheerful this morning but she just wanted to reassure her friends.

Matsumoto grabbed Toshiro and cried into his chest. Toshiro was surprised by this but sighed and wrapped an arm around Matsumoto. With his free arm he stroked her hair soothingly. Okay, so usually he was a mean and grumpy Captain but that didn't mean he didn't have a heart. Or care for his Vice-Captain. Both things were true, he just liked to hide them.

"I can't answer your question correctly. But I can answer them with my theory." Toshiro said quietly, the girl continued to cry into his chest so he continued. "I think the reason he disappears and appears randomly his because he knows he hurt you by betraying you. I think he's worried that you hate him so only comes when you need him and goes when you don't need him anymore. He probably does know that you miss him, he probably misses you too but wants you to be safe. The reason he betrayed you was because Aizen threatened him with your life. He felt the safest option for you was to go with Aizen so he did. Though I don't understand why he didn't just keep you by his side and protect you, by leaving you that's how he protects you. It probably hurts him to leave you but he cares about your safety more than he cares about himself. At least that's my theory."

Throughout Toshiro's little speech Matsumoto had stopped crying. She pulled away from Toshiro's chest and looked at him, her eyes bug wide. She hadn't really thought that her Captain would be so good at comforting her. She was surprised again about how he was smiling down at her when she looked at him. Toshiro patted her head, gently.

"Don't cry over him, Matsumoto. That's just going to make him sad." Toshiro said and got up. He felt that it was safe to leave her. Matsumoto smiled, as she watched her Captain walk away from her.

"You really are kind-hearted, Toshiro. No wonder Momo-Chan loves you so much" Matsumoto whispered to herself.

Toshiro sighed as he left the living room. He hated seeing Matsumoto cry but knew that only saying those things was all he could do. He didn't know that for Matsumoto those words had been enough. Toshiro walked into the kitchen and found Izuru had just finished breakfast. Hinamori was washing up his bowl. Which made Toshiro's jaw clench. Izuru should be washing up his own damn bowl, not making his girlfriend do it.

Toshiro grabbed a drying tea towel and took the now washed bowl from Hinamori's hands. She hadn't notice he was there so had jumped. Toshiro chuckled and dried the bowl. Then he put it away even though it caused him to wince. Still he wasn't going to make his girlfriend put away something she didn't use.

"Shiro-Chan, I was going to do that." Hinamori muttered and pouted.

"I know, but there was no need for you to do Izuru's cleaning." Toshiro said, quietly and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I offered." She said and automatically wrapped her arms around his neck. The couple were so engrossed in each other they didn't notice Izuru sighing and walk out of the room.

"You shouldn't have. Izuru can tidy up his own mess." Toshiro whispered, every minute they were getting closer and closer to each other. Now, they were close enough to kiss. Hinamori didn't have a good come back so she let Toshiro close the gap. Everytime they kissed both of them felt as if electricity was running through them. They felt warm and fuzzy in their stomachs, the good kind of fuzzy though. Toshiro pulled her closer and deepened the kiss. Loving the taste of her lips, peach. Hinamori loved the taste of his lips, mint.

A noise like a camera taking a picture went and that broke off their kiss. They turned around to find that Matsumoto had taking a picture of them, she was smiling evilly. Toshiro glared at her and Hinamori blushed. Which was what always happened whenever Matsumoto caught them kissing.

"Don't mind me." Matsumoto said and sat down on the chairs around the kitchen table. She placed an elbow on the table and her head on her hand. She grinned wickedly. Toshiro just glared at her.

"No, you cannot sit there and watch us kiss. Go away." Toshiro said, harshly. Matsumoto pouted.

"Aw, you're so meant Toshiro." Matsumoto wailed.

"Matsumoto" Toshiro growled. Hinamori giggled at her boyfriend's and best friend's bickering. She didn't really understand why they showed their affection through bickering but it always made her giggle. Matsumoto and Toshiro continued to bicker for a few minutes until they heard a loud voice from upstairs.

"SHIT,ITAI!" the voice screamed. A voice they recognized as Izuru. They all looked at each other, their eyes now filled with worry. Even Toshiro's.

"You two stay here." Toshiro growled warningly. Matsumoto didn't have time to protest as Toshiro ran up the stairs. He ran to Izuru's room and kicked open the door. Izuru was on his knees and he coughed out blood. Toshiro looked at him worryingly before he saw what was the cause of Izuru's new injury.

"Hello, Toshiro-kun. Long-time no see." A familiar voice said. Toshiro's fist clenched, he would recognize that voice anywhere. But just in case he was mistaken he looked up, to Izuru's window. He wanted to swear when he saw that his suspicions were true. It was that person. The only thing Toshiro could think when he saw that person was this: Shit.

A/N: Mwhahaha cliffhanger :D hehe sorry 'bout that but it had to be done. Anyway, I think this story's going to end in the next few chapters, not sure whether I'm happy or sad about that. Oh well, there's still a few chapters to go. So once again I'm sorry for being so long to update but please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter. Thanks :D

Ja ne - Tilda