Where IS She?! [Discont.]

[Ayame]

//OOC| Meh, since we had ideas for interaction between Hitsugaya and both of these two characters, I figure we can do either, really. Whoever you have muse for, either'd be fun. XD

(As a side note, this post was SO MUCH FUN writing, you wouldn't believe it. Yay for really-annoyed Soul Reaper Captains/sarcasm. XDD) \\



Two weeks since the report of Aizen's return elicited instant turmoil in Seireitei.
One week since the Captain's request to join his Lieutenant in the living world was approved.
No sign of her ANYWHERE.

Captain Hitsugaya was getting VERY annoyed with the situation.
Even surrounded by so many living souls with such strange spirit energy, he should still easily be able to sense her reiatsu—her unique spiritual pressure or aura.
But he couldn't. Even the spirit ribbons—the "scent trails" of each individual reiatsu—had failed him so far, each of them hazy and abnormally difficult to summon into being. (Plus, he could almost never find a place secluded enough to do so unobserved and uninterrupted.) Typically, a Soul Reaper had a red spirit ribbon as opposed to the ordinary white, but there were so many blurred colors here, it was impossible to identify anything by them at all. And when he'd tried to call her, he found that she'd set it to orders-only mode—no receiving normal calls.
Now he was reduced to asking random people in the hallways if they'd seen her.

"Excuse me, have you seen a girl in a black kimono, really long sword, silver hair, taller than me?"
The kid stared at him for a moment.
"Dude, if you wanna find a freak, go find a mirror."
Okay, that was completely uncalled for. Toshiro really had to work to to keep his temper.
"Thanks, I'll try that," he muttered sarcastically as the boy turned his back on him and continued on his way, leaving the Captain alone in the hallway.

Well, that just went spectacularly. Now what?
Toshiro sighed and consulted his "schedule" again. He was supposed to be on his way to English class, but as he'd been lost all day and had missed all his previous classes, and the bell had rung fifteen minuets ago, there really didn't seem to be much point in continuing to look for it.
So where did students go when they cut class?
Who knows?
Muttering about lousy school layouts, he folded the paper back up and stashed it next to his kikanshinki, continuing down the hall.

Turn right here... left there... where the hell am I...?

Oh, what an annoying, annoying day.
And his "teachers" probably already loved him.
Assuming "love" is actually spelled "L-O-A-T-H-E".

[Root Account]

OOC: I'll use Alex she seems right for this type of thread! XD Maybe I might have it so another one randomly shows up, depends on what happens.////

'Cattle Is what many of the students of Anslema are. All afraid to stop acting like everyone else just to fit in, afraid to stop wearing brand name clothes. School now isn't about learning its a giant popularity contest...'

Alex stood in the corner wearing an Abercrombie shirt and a mini skirt. She thought about this as students walked pass her. One of the girls stared at her and Alex responded with a
"Hey skank! get a makeover! Ew!"
The girl faced the ground and ran away, Alex smiled and then went back to thinking about how different she is.

The bell rang but today it didn't matter she was gonna skip a few periods to have a lunch with Spencer. She Began to run down the hall to wards their meeting spot. Alex spotted him and shouted "Hey!"
He put his hand over his lips a signal to say keep it down. "We are gonna get caught if your loud..." Alex raised and eyebrow as she looked at what Spencer was wearing. A Pair of dark blue jeans and a turtle neck.
"Whats with the clothes?"she asked.
"I am going for a stealth look" he told her.
She rolled her eyes "Well then you do that!" she paused "So where are we going to eat?"
"That coffee place." Spencer replied "I have a lot to tell you!"
"Like what?" she asked.
"Like a girl ninja and a gay cat."
"Ooh can't wait!" she told him sarcastically.

Alex's eyes widened "I forgot my purse and it is has all my money in it! can I just meet you there?"
"Sure."
Spencer turned around and walked the other way to wards town. Alex ran toward her room but soon stooped when she saw a white haired boy...He looked like came right out of an anime comic, but he was so hot... but looked a little young. 'I am sure Spencer wouldn't care if I was a little late...'
She began to walk to wards him as soon as she got in talking range she said "Hey... are you lost?"

[Ayame]

"Hey... are you lost?"
"Hm?"
Toshiro blinked and stopped walking, turning to face his addressor. A brown-haired girl, somewhere in her teen years, by the look of her. Kinda hard to tell the exact age with her expression. She was approaching him at a walk.
Huh. Wonder if she was the one running a minute ago...? He thought blandly, but dismissed the matter. It wasn't important. He folded his arms after his usual manner and shifted his weight to one side.
"Actually, yeah," he answered bluntly. "Why do you ask?"

Okay, he was being a little cold, but he was still rather annoyed with his current situation, and had more important matters at hand—Captain Hitsugaya did not have time for socializing.

[Root Account]

"No reason..." she studied him from head to toe, he looked younger. Maybe she was wasting her time with this boy but he was really cute... she might as well ask him his age.
"How old are you?" she asked him.

OOC: sorry real short.

[Ayame]

//OOC| Yeah, my bad. >_< \\

"No reason...."
The girl gave a good glance-over, looking him up and down.
One word: Why...??
"How old are you?"
Now she was asking after his age. Crap, of all questions to have to answer—his actual age was out of the question here....

Toshiro had roughly two choices—"None of your business," or "Older than I look." He sighed in annoyance, eyes shutting briefly—first he can't find Kaite, then he gets stuck talking to a human who apparently wanted to chat for no obvious reason with whoever happened to be lost in the halls. What, was he just a magnet for annoying situations? Forcing his attention back onto the current subject, he considered her momentarily.
Well, if nothing else, she might know something about Kaite and her whereabouts. Might as well humor her, he figured evenly. Feeling a little creative, he exploited both options in his answer.
"Not that it's any of your business, but I'm no kid, if that's what you mean."
This time it was his turn to give her the once-over. She seemed to be closer to adulthood, really—roughly fifteen to nineteen. What on earth did she want with him?
"You were going to ask my name next, right?" A shot-in-the-dark guess, but probably right. After a brief pause in which he met her eyes studiously, he stated, "It's Toshiro. Toshiro Hitsugaya. Yours?"
A bit short-termed, but it served its purpose, he figured. Maybe a different approach to the question would get a better response than the last time.

[Root Account]

Alex was beginning to grow tired of this boy's level of rudeness, but... he was really hot! She would have to give him another shot.
"My name is Alex" she replied and touched him for a split second on his shoulder in a flirtatious way.
'Ok just a few more minutes Spencer wont care!' she thought.

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He was 5 minutes away from the school, when Spencer got bored and lonely. He wondered if he should go back and wait for her, Spencer
turned around and began to make his way back over. Which he knew was a horrible idea because Alex was so going to hit him.
He walked into the school and made his way over to the girls dorm but he stopped when he spotted Alex.
"Hey Alex hurry..." he then noticed a boy with almost white hair and looked a lot like Katie.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" he yelled "THERE ARE MORE FUCKING NINJAS!?"
Alex gave him a cold look, "This is Toshiro!" she said this with a 'shut up you jackass' kind of voice.
"You know that other ninja girl with the gay cat and ice sword I was going to tell you about? This guy looks just like her!"
"Shut up Spencer!" Alex hit him in the shoulder.
"He is an Anime fre-"
"Shut it!" she said again this time hitting him in the gut.
"We are in an abusive relationship..." he whispered to Toshiro.
Alex soon hit him again.
"Don't make me call the hotline again!" he yelled in reply.

Alex rolled her eyes and tuned her attention to Toshiro, "Sorry about him..."

[Ayame]

"My name is Alex," the girl replied. Toshiro's eyes followed her hand to his shoulder for that brief instant. When she withdrew her hand, he returned his gaze back to meet hers again, a slight spark of suspicion flickering darkly for an almost undetectable instant before vanishing again.
"What're you—"
Of course, it was then that all hell broke loose.

"WHAT THE FUCK?! THERE ARE MORE FUCKING NINJAS?!"
The Captain's attention went immediately to the newcomer, who was yelling his head off. Before Toshiro had a chance to reply, however, Alex did that for him.
"This is Toshiro!"
Her inflection conjured mental images of her doubtless shut-your-trap expression.
"You know that other ninja girl with the gay cat and ice sword I was going to tell you about? This guy looks just like her!"
Key-in moment for Toshiro, who had apparently become an onlooker of sorts. "Ice sword"? "Ninja girl"? Had this boy had a run-in with Kaite?
"Shut up Spencer!" Toshiro watched in slight alarm as Alex whacked him, although he did notice the lightness of the "assault"—she was playing with him.
"He is an anime fre—!"
"Shut it!" The girl interrupted, dealing another light blow to his stomach. The boy—Spencer, apparently—chose this point to whisper to him,
"We are in an abusive relationship...."
Alex "attacked" him again.
"Don't make me call the hotline again!"

By the time Alex turned back to face him, Toshiro had reached the point of simply standing there with a "this is ridiculous" sort of expression.
"Sorry about him...." Alex stated calmly. Toshiro turned his attention back on her yet again. She and her friend had a slightly strange idea of playing.
"That's fine. Something he said interested me, anyway," he replied calmly, looking back at Spencer. "The 'ninja girl' you mentioned earlier. Any chance you'd be willing to tell me about that?"



Honestly these classes sucked. Kaite only wished she could afford to skip them, but being on assignment meant keeping her cover, and the best cover here was as a student. Now she had the bathroom pass and was on her way down the hall when yelling suddenly reached her ears.
What the hell....?
Kaite picked up the pace—it would be a good idea to find out what that was all about, even if she was a little late back to class. Of course, the yells had been pretty loud—who knows how far away they'd been...?

[Root Account]

OOC: She wasn't attacking him just hitting him lightly.///

Alex was pretty ticked now that the guys attention was on Spencer, yes equally as cute with a great charm to him but annoying as hell!

Spencer smiled at Alex before replying to Toshiro "Well I had just got... into a fight with a couple of tall fags..." Alex soon interrupted.
"So basically you got beat up, like usual!"
"You couldn't let me impress on guy?" he asked.
"Nope" Alex smiled.

"So anyways I had just got beat up by these building like people," Spencer started again. "The this girl is all oh are you ok? and I'm like I'm find and she's like ROAR! cause I said something and then we insulted each other for a bit then this cat thing kissed me then she wanted to fight me, so she hits me with this Ice sword which hurt by the way..." He took a breath and started to speak once more "Then I'm all like oh I don't wanna fight you! then the cat things like RAWR! and throws me! and I'm all what the fuck!? Then I..."
"He didn't ask for your life story!" Alex smacked his shoulder again.
"My life story is very interesting!"
Again Alex rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah and the girls name was Katie..."

[Ayame]

//OOC| Oh, well.... That is not how you portrayed it. >_<;; XD Eh, I'll fix it later. XD
Not sure how well this works, but, meh.... \\

"Well I had just got.... into a fight with a couple of tall fags—"
"So basically you got beat up, like usual!" Alex interrupted.
"You couldn't let me impress one guy?" Spencer complained, looking back at the girl.
"Nope," she replied with a grin.
"So anyways I had just got beat up by these building like people. Then this girl is all 'Oh, are you okay?' and I'm like 'I'm fine.' and she's like 'ROAR!' cause I said something and then we insulted each other for a bit then this cat thing kissed me then she wanted to fight me, so she hits me with this ice sword—which hurt, by the way..." Spencer paused for breath. Yes, this all sounded like his Lieutenant. Honestly, that girl could get out of hand so fast....
"Then I'm all like 'Oh, I don't wanna fight you!' then the cat thing's like 'RAWR!' and throws me! And I'm all 'What the fuck?!' Then I—"
"He didn't ask for your life story!" Alex interrupted again, giving him another light whack on the shoulder. Toshiro glanced at her—he really hadn't minded, as long as he was getting the information he needed, but whatever.
"My life story is very interesting!" Spencer protested. "Oh, yeah, and the girl's name was Katie...."
"'Katie'?" Toshiro asked, surprised. Everything he'd said had sounded just like her—except for the 'cat thing', but that could easily be the demon boy she was guarding for the time being. "Are you sure it wasn't Kaite? Kaite Natsume?"


Voices were audible now, but what they were saying wasn't entirely clear yet. She knew she'd heard one before—quite recently, too, but she couldn't really place it too well—but she didn't recognize the female voice. It was then that a rather soft-spoken male apparently re-entered the conversation—Kaite could have sworn it was.... But there was no way, right...? She caught the very tail end of his sentence—
"....tsume?"
No way, no way in hell....
It wasn't fear or anything that made Kaite deny the possibility that he of all people was here—hell, she'd be glad to see him, her friend and superior—just the total shock at the thought. It made no sense, why the hell would he come? Even so, Kaite couldn't help but break into a run and come to a stop at the corner to see, further down the hall:
The boy from the other day—or was it just yesterday? Whatever.
Some girl she didn't know.
And, yes, of all people from Soul Society—
"Cap—Toshiro?!" Total surprise as she butted into the conversation out of nowhere. "What the hell are you doing here?!"

[Helen as Guest]

"Katie, Kaite I don't care how you say it!" Alex gave him another cold look. "What!? as long as I don't see that bitch-"
"Cap—Toshiro?!"
He jumped and almost instantly hid behind Alex.
"Thats her!" he yelled.
Alex placed her hands on her hips then looked Kaite up and down, she dressed in the same style as Toshiro. "Why are you guys dressed in all Japanese clothing?" she asked.
"Cause their freaks!" Spencer butted in "Except for the guy" He pointed at Toshiro, "The girl is just weird."

OOC: sorry for the weak reply its morning here.///

[Ayame]

//OOC| Np. I didn't give you all that much to work with, anyway. >.<;
Bleh, I did it again, here.... If you can't think of anything, PM me and we'll come up with something, I guess.... \\

"What?! As long as I don't see that bitch—!"
"Cap—Toshiro?! What the hell are you doing here?!"
Toshiro looked up and around quickly as Spencer hid behind Alex—that was definitely Kaite, no one else would even have known his title to almost expose. Sure enough, there she was, staring dumbfounded at her Captain.
"That's her!" Spencer shouted.
"Kaite...." Hitsugaya muttered with a bland expression. "About time!"

"Why are you guys dressed in all Japanese clothing?" asked Alex, who had her hands on her hips and had been examining the Lieutenant's clothing choice. Before either could offer an explanation, however, Spencer butted in again.
"Cause they're freaks! Except the guy," he added, pointing at Toshiro. "The girl is just weird."
Kaite turned her attention to the boy momentarily. Normally, she'd get annoyed with being called weird, but she was still rather confused from her Captain just showing up out of nowhere, so she dismissed it.
"Oh, hey, it's that bastard from before. What's up?" A (sort of) friendly greeting.
Having already fought him and won, the Lieutenant had lost any real anger for him. After all, saying she disliked him was the same thing as saying she cared, right?

"Anyway, to answer your question, Alex...." Toshiro cut in bluntly—except he had no idea how to answer. 'It's my uniform' would probably be a bad idea, so what, then?
"It's because a bunch of seniors told us it was the school uniform and 'traded in' all our other clothes for these," Kaite tossed in suddenly, plucking at her hakama. // ....Look it up. >.> \\ "And we don't have any money, so this is all we've got."
Toshiro looked at her with some surprise. Clever excuse—he'd forgotten that was always something she was good at.
"Yeah," he added with a nod, just to confirm. Thinking it would be a good idea to change the subject, he also added, "And Kaite, shouldn't you be apologizing to Spencer for what happened the other day?"

Kaite blinked at him. "Spencer...? That his name?" She pointed at the boy, whose name she never had gotten during their little run-in. Toshiro gave her a look.
"Do it."
"Oh, come on!"
"Just get it over with or I'll tell Madarame* that you think he's hot."
Kaite's eyes widened at the thought.
"....You wouldn't."
"Oh, yes I would."
"Alright, alright, fine!" With a sigh, she turned to face the boy and stated, as if reading off a script, "I'm sorry for what happened before."


//OOC| *Ikkaku Madarame, 3rd seated officer of Squad 11. He has held that position since before Kaite even entered the Soul Reaper Academy. He's slightly crazy and overreacts a lot, really hates it when people call him bald. If Toshiro were to tell him that Kaite thought he was hot, not only would he be lying through his teeth, but he'd be setting her up for some seriously embarrassing situations. Yes, he does in fact have a devious side. XDDD \\

[Root Account]

Spencer smiled as she apologized to him, Yeah He knew it was his own fault for pissing her off.
This was just another little thing to help with his ego.
"HUH! don't think that just because some chick was forced to give you an apology means that you're all king of the world now!"
He started to laugh "Of course it does!"
Alex hit him with in the shoulder again.
"You know that starts to hurt after awhile!" He shouted at her.
"Good, I'm glad!" she replied.
"Oh! Snap! Snap! Girls got bite!" He said shaking his head and snapping.
"Shut up!" she yelled this time laughing and hit him softly in the head. This Time Spencer hit her back gently. (Type of flirting)
Spencer opened his arms really wide and picked up Alex while hugging her and gently put her down out of the way.
"So where is you're gay cat friend?" He asked.

[Ayame]

//OOC| *filler Lieutenant-Captain conversation* x.x \\

Honestly.... If only she had some way to counter-threat Toshiro—better yet, blackmail him....
Well, at least Spencer wasn't all "You bitch!" with her anymore, so it was at least partly worth it.
"Oh, Vincent? He's in class." Kaite responded easily, holding up the bathroom pass. "I just got this thing and was walking down the hall when I heard someone yelling about ninjas." She paused before she looked over at her Captain. "That was the first thing he said when he saw you, huh?"
"Mm-hm," he nodded. Frankly, he was just glad Spencer hadn't called him a ninja kid. That just would've been insulting.

[Root Account]

'These two are pretty odd' Alex thought 'Hmm... Ice sword... The capt before Toshiro... The stupid story about fake unfiforms...'.

"So both of you know each other and act like you haven't seen each other for a long time even though you go to the same school." Alex began to question them she thought they were... different. "And you are wearing Japanese clothing and that kids name just happens to be Toshiro oh whats that? a Japanese name!?" She gave them both a dirty look "Are you hiding something? If not and your just creepy people who think there from an anime comic then I'm leaving."

[Ayame]

Throughout the exchange, however, Alex had fallen silent. When she next spoke.... Well, the two Soul Reapers weren't happy to hear it.
"So both of you know each other and act like you haven't seen each other for a long time even though you go to the same school. And you are wearing Japanese clothing, and that kids' name just happens to be Toshiro—oh what's that? A Japanese name?!"
Toshiro was immediately annoyed again—"kid"? Dammit, if only he could tell her to call him by his title.... Besides, they were both obviously of Japanese decent, why the hell would she question his name? For that matter, she only questioned his name, even though "Kaite" was equally of Japanese origin. Was she targeting him on purpose?!
She was giving them a dirty look now.
"Are you hiding something? If not, and you're just creepy people who think there from an anime comic, then I'm leaving."

Kaite sighed, knowing they'd been caught. The fatal mistake here was saying "we" in her story to explain the clothes, but at the same time revealing her surprise to see him. What she should have said was "I," and then added at the end, "They must have got him too," that way she could have passed it off as him coming to the school after her without her being aware.
"Well...." Natsume turned to Toshiro for permission to tell the truth. He did nothing at first, eyes shut as if in thought. After a moment, he nodded with curt resignation. It couldn't be helped. Kaite returned her attention to Alex and Spencer. "It looks like you've got us, so I guess we don't really have much choice. It's a long story, so if you know of anywhere we won't get interrupted, that would be good...."