Talking Toshiro

Instead of a response you watch as Hitsugaya huddles further into herself, her arms tightening around her bent knees as she tries her very best to hide her face from view. This only serves to draw a sight from your throat, your body collapsing into a crossed legged seating position beside the transformed fellow Taicho as you begin to speak, “look, I just want you to know one thing Hitsugaya-Taicho…to be honest you were my first male friend in Soul Society, one of the few people I could count on that wasn’t insane or out for themselves. I know it’s not much but for what it’s worth I’m sorry and…as it stands, while Mayuri’s total idiocy and insanity did this to you, I still see you in the same light as I have seen you since you first became my friend.”

For a few moments Hitsugaya says nothing, her gaze hidden behind her crossed arms, however after a brief pause the feminized Taicho raises her head with a soft and very feminine voice, “do you mean that Genryusai-Taicho?”

You nod your head with a kind smile, one large palm clapping over your knee as you speak, “Of course I do, you’re still that grumpy little shrimp I met the first day I came here.”

Hitsugaya gives you a slight glare out of the corner of her eye but you can see a hidden smirk behind her arms, her slowly relaxing posture finally allowing you a full gaze of her beautiful face. Granted, when she was still a male you wouldn’t have had trouble passing Hitsugaya for a woman but now her features are smoother, more delicate, and to put it quite simply; beautiful. Yet, just as you offer up a slightly charming smile Hitsugaya retreats back into her limb cocoon, her gaze turning away from yours as she growls, “Thrice Damned spell…”

“Excuse me?” you quizzically ask, something that is answered as Hitsugaya remains facing away from you.

“It’s that…attraction you have to women Genryusai-Taicho,” Hitsugaya mutters in mortification, “It is…beginning to affect me as well.”

“O-Oh,” you mutter with a slight blush on your face, your eyes turning away from Hitsugaya with a slight tint of red to your features, “I-I’m sorry…I kind of snapped for just that reason too…”

“N-No problems,” Hitsugaya stammers, “I-It’s not necessarily bad feeling…i-it’s just…well…you know…”

“Y-Yeah,” you grumble, scratching the back of your head in nervousness, “It’d be really…kind of odd…not saying that you don’t look good or anything but considering who you grew up as and what you’re comfortable with…”

“Y-Yeah,” Hitsugaya mutters, her crimson face turned away from you as she idly grabs at the space above her racing heart, “Th-Thanks…really it was Hoyinmaru who wanted this…since her seal was weakened during the transformation and she could manifest she’s been obsessed with finding you…”

You chuckle a bit sourly, “Y-Yeah…I…kinda got that impression.”

“You mean how she is a vicious man eater?” Hitsugaya jokes to which you laugh, a nice round of jovial chuckling filling the once tense air between both you.

After a bit more friendly conversation you let loose with a heavy sigh, your body rising up as you speak, “I should go meet with the others…you know…apologize for snapping like that.”

“Ah, alright,” Hitsugaya mutters with a slight disappointment to her tone, “well…I should probably find Hoyinmaru and try to get back to Soul Society so Mayrui-Teme can fix me.”

You nod your head, one hand sticking out as you give Hitsugaya a thumbs up pose, “No problem…see you around?”

“Y-Yeah,” Hitsugaya mutters softly, her gaze avoiding yours as she speaks, “A-About that…Gen…I mean John-san, can I ask you a question?”

With a touch of confusion in the back of your mind and more than a little worry in your heart you speak, “Yes, of course you can. What is it?”

“If…If Mayuri can’t change me back…can I…come stay with you?”