Paperclips

Chapter 1

Hitsugaya Toushirou stood in his office with a look of disbelief. A bomb. That was the only explanation that he could come up with. A bomb must have gone off in his office to make such a scene. Papers, pens, and who knows what else covered the tenth division taichou’s office. Hitsugaya clenched his small fist over and over again to try and keep his temper under control. He glanced over at his desk. HIS DESK! The large table was hardly recognizable. Everything was shoved off the desk and onto the floor and his chair. The mounds of paperwork that had been neatly stacked and organized earlier that morning had dissolved into an unknown sea of paper. The small taichou rubbed his temple is short motions. He had come up with another explanation. He was going to kill his fukutaichou.

“MATSUMOTO!” The taichou belted with all the force he could muster. No response. Hitsugaya let out a long tiresome sigh. He knew that it was no use, she wouldn’t come knowing she was in trouble. His sea green eyes took another sweep of the room. Well I might as well get started. This isn’t going to clean p itself. And heaven knows Matsumoto is not going to be any help, he thought as he started with the papers laying unconcerned on the couch.

Two hours and about 6 paper cuts later, the youngest taichou sighed as he fell back into his desk chair. His office was finally back to its’ original state. Minus the fact that the paperwork still had to be finished and his fukutaichou wasn’t passed out drunk on his couch. Where is that lazy drunk? Hitsugaya thought as he picked up the first of the paperwork of the day without another thought of his fukutaichou.

Paperclips. Where the crap are my paper clips?! Hitsugaya was searching around his desk trying to locate those all too important paperclips. It was well after dark and the child prodigy was exhausted, and well more than irritated. He could not find his paperclips and he could not finish his paperwork for the day if he could not find his paperclips! With a frustrated grunt he threw open the sliding drawer on the front of his desk and began to shove its’ contents around looking for his paper clips. The young taichou barley registered the door to his office quietly open and close.

“As always you have impeccable timing, Matsumoto,” Hitsugaya stated with a dagger of ice in his voice as he continued to search for his paperclips.

“I- I’m sorry, Taichou,” Matsumoto whispered softly. So softly, Hitsugaya almost didn’t hear it. The taichou’s head snapped up at the soft sound of her voice. His fukutaichou would have never apologized for something like this. She would have run over to him and glomped over as she gave her lame and unfathomable excuses. This, this was right. The taichou looked over his fukutaichou. She was a mess to say the least. Her normally beautiful strawberry blonde hair was pulled back in a messy bun. Her uniform was twisted and torn in some places. Her face, her face was smeared with make-up, and it looked she had been crying. No, crying would be an understatement. Her rosy cheeks were stained with dry tears. Her eyes were full with such sorrow that Hitsugaya felt his hear t drop to the floor.

“Ma…Matsu….moto…what…” The ice prince trailed off as Matsumoto looked up at her taichou for the first time. As she looked at him, tears began to form again in her gray slate eyes. She chocked back a sob as she slowly sank to the floor in her taichou’s office, tears over coming her once more. A flash of light darted across the room as the white haired taichou caught his fukutaichou in his strong embrace. All he could do was pull her close to him as she cried. Matsumoto, what happened? Somehow he knew not to ask the question aloud as he sat on the cold floor with his fukutaichou in his arms.


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Author's note
Well there the first chapie!! Please read and review!! (construtive critisim is wonderful!) This is my first attempt at HitsuXMatsu! Let me know what you think and if you want to find out what happened to Matsumoto!! teehee!