Hello and thanks for considering this story to be worthy of your time! I hope that I live up to any of your expectations. The chapters on this may be short but I'll try to make sure that I update often. I already have the next chapter written and half of the one after that written. I have to admit that I don't have much planned for this. It was originally supposed to just be a oneshot but I ended up spitting it up into parts. If you have any ideas on where this could go then please tell me!

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The Case of the Living Corpse

Chapter 1

Toshiro

Captain Hitsugaya Toshiro fought the urge to groan as he finished off another batch of Hollows with one swing from Hyorinmaru.

Why does this task require a Captain to perform it? He thought and absentmindedly stabbed Hollow sneaking up behind him in the face. It is only a checkup on an unusually large amount of souls who died tragically and aren't passing on. A lieutenant could easily take care of this. Why did I have to do it?

He snorted and used shunpo to reappear in front of another Hollow who he then decapitated with barely contained anger. Of course, he already knew the answer to that question. Despite the hundreds of times that he had shown people that he was deserving of his rank, others still treated him as if he was nothing more than a stronger then usual third seat.

He could still see the Head Captain's face, as serious as ever but he could sense a patronizing tone in his voice when he handed him the assignment and told him that it would be an easy job. Observe the situation, try to fix the situation if it was anything linked to Soul Society, and kill off as many Hollows as he could while he was there. The Head Captain was a stern and serious leader but he did have a side to him that was actually quite caring and protective. He just kept it hidden very well but Hitsugaya somehow seemed to bring that side out in the most discreet of ways. He was usually given some of the easier assignments and was never the very first person to fight on the battlefield. Yamamoto had given him this easy assignment even though there was still so much to do after Aizen's betrayal.

Aizen. Hitsugaya growled and froze a particularly large Hollow and smashed it into a million, tiny shards of ice, all the while imagining that it was Aizen's smirking face shattering. What he had done to Hinamori was unforgiveable! She was still in a coma from the bastard stabbing her and he had no doubt that she would be heartbroken when she finally woke up again. That psychopath had manipulated Momo's heart then turned around and shoved a blade into her chest and he did it all with that confident and misleading smile on his face. He would pay for hurting Momo like that!

Hitsugaya lifted his sword to slay another Hollow and found that he was now standing in a formerly forested field that was covered in deep gouges and spikes of ice jutting from the ground. He shrugged and slid Hyorinmaru back into his sheath before returning to where he had left his gigai when he was suddenly attacked by the swarm of Hollows who had felt his high reiatsu. Extermination of Hollows: done.

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Toshiro didn't swear often, it was unnecessary and people gave him weird looks when they saw an elementary student cussing, but he allowed himself one choice four letter word when he saw the police cars and caution tape surrounding the limp body of a white haired child.