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unwritten_iconsAuthor/Artist: Unwritten_icons
Rating: PG
Warning: None.
Summary: The moon is white and his green eyes close.
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The moon is white and his eyes are green.
Hitsugaya’s face is upturned to the skies, clear with the breath of night. Although winter has ended, the air is cold enough to chill his skin, bring color to his cheeks. A woolen haori is draped across his shoulders over the uniform, and a cup of hot tea dangles from his fingers, elbows propped on his knees. He slouches like a teenager would, careless of posture and propriety. Hitsugaya sits alone upon the rooftop of his office. At this late hour, no one can be seen in the courtyard below, his division asleep in their barracks.
The moon is white and his green eyes close.
It has been one year since the Winter War. Three-hundred and sixty-five days have done nothing. The mark of Aizen’s betrayal still lingers upon all who dwell in the Seireitei. The war does not exist to the people of Karakura Town, save Ichigo Kurosaki’s friends. Yet they, too, are marked.
His head goes up at a noise from behind, silver hair shining in the light, shoulders tense.
Momo emerges from the shadows not caught by the moonlight, her smile small, barely-there, but she smiles. The blackness of her uniform reminds him of a cloudless midnight sea. Her hands are behind her back, and her eyes wander. They haven’t truly met one another’s gaze since the war.
“Why aren’t you dressed appropriately, Momo?”
Her eyes drift along the tiles. Momo shrugs in that way of hers, left shoulder rising farther than the other, chin tilted down.
“I didn’t think about it, really. I’m sorry if I’ve disturbed you, Captain Hitsugaya.”
Hitsugaya makes a plaintive noise in his throat.
“I told you! It’s not ‘Captain Hitsugaya’ anymore. It’s ‘Shiro-chan.’ Bed-wetter Momo.”
She looks up, then, and they look at each other for the first time in ages.
The moon is white and her eyes are beautiful.
