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Captain Hitsugaya didn't like it.
At all.
This happened every time Rangiku Matsumoto visited the world of the living. Therefore, as soon as the lieutenant crossed the threshold of the tenth squad's office, Toshiro looked at her incredulously and expected some kind of trick, just about ready to roll his eyes and shout discontentedly: "Matsumoto!".
In fact, nothing out of the ordinary happened — Rangiku just often joked and quoted films that she watched in the world of the living in the company of Rukia Kuchiki and Orihime Inoue. (Although there were cases when they simply advised his lieutenant to look films, but the result was always the same — during this period Toshiro Hitsugaya learned too much about the world of the living)
"Captain, you and I, like the real pirates, surf the open spaces, despite the danger!" Rangiku once said on one of these "enlightenment" days, having fallen into a work chair, while eating a croissant on both cheeks.
"What do you mean, Matsumoto?" Toshiro asked without taking his eyes off the report he had been poring over for about twenty minutes.
"How's that, Captain?" We rush into the very abyss of events, surf the ocean of life, not always thinking about the consequences. That's what pirates do, Captain."
Without taking his eyes off the report, Toshiro sighed and, mentally agreeing with his lieutenant, said:
"Pirates don't make reports, Matsumoto, and you should take care of them."
Sighing theatrically, Rangiku muttered that he, Captain Hitsugaya, was the spitting image of Edward Teach and, to the question "who is this?", replied that he was the most cruel pirate in history, and then added that "despite this, I still appreciate you, Captain. You see! And you are all reports and reports."
"I doubt you'd like a real pirate if you met one, Matsumoto."
Captain Hitsugaya was not a fool, so Toshiro had no doubt that the film watched by Rangiku Matsumoto in the world of the living was about pirates. At least give me a hand to cut off. And he also had no doubt that Matsumoto Rangiku was the most unbearable woman, because it had been too much to joke about a pirate theme for about a week (Toshiro can only hope that the next movie Matsumoto watched will not impress her so much to joke about that topic for so long). And the more often she talked about the damn sea robbers, the more often Hitsugaya drew parallels between his own life and the life of pirates, while being aware that, in principle, his lieutenant was right to some extent (of course, she didn't need to know about it). Just because in Rukongai you, as a captain without a course, surf the ocean of life, and nothing bright and impressive happens in your life. And now, as soon as the captain glanced at the symbol of his own squad, thoughts arose in his head that the idea of walking under his own pirate flag was quite dangerous and irrational, which appeared, apparently, for the purpose of psychological impact on the crew of the attacked ship. And then Matsumoto's voice sounded in my head: "we are like real pirates, Captain."
Sometimes jokes about pirates got out of hand. At least, that's what it seemed to Toshiro. And he realized this only at the moment when he met Ichigo Kurosaki.
Toshiro came across a temporary shinigami after a meeting of captains and lieutenants, returning to the barracks of his squad. He was probably going to look for Rukia Kuchiki, so he called out to Captain Hitsugaya:
"Hey, Toshiro!"
"CAPTAIN Toshiro Hitsugaya," Matsumoto interrupted, before Toshiro could say it himself, and then added, "Savvy?"
The captain of the tenth squad did not expect such a reaction — Kurosaki, sending his fingers into red hair, suddenly laughed and, shrugging his shoulders, sped off on his own cases. To be honest, Toshiro didn't understand the joke, but he suspected that it had something to do with Matsumoto's much-loved pirate theme.
An absolutely unbearable woman.
Sometimes thoughts of sailors appeared when the captain of the tenth squad all alone, was finishing late in the evening reports on the training of the squad, which Matsumoto was supposed to do, of course.
Toshiro leaned on the back of a chair, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples tiredly, thinking that now he would really like to be on deck, so that the sea spray fell on his face, and the outgoing sun tried to get a ray into his closed eyes until the last. He would stand there for so long until the sun was completely out of sight, and then he scolded his subordinates, especially Matsumoto, and set about his pirate cases. What the sea robbers were doing besides attacking ships, Toshiro did not know. But at that moment, Hitsugaya was in the barracks of the tenth squad, and not on the deck of a pirate ship, and he needed to finish the report, so the captain discarded thoughts of dashing sailors and got to work. After all, pirates don't make reports, and Toshiro wasn't one after all. The robbers have their own affairs, and Captain Gotei 13 has his own.
Especially which Toshiro is a pirate? If anyone is more suitable for the role of a pirate, it's Captain Zaraki (he would definitely like this!), who, like the "gentlemen of fortune", terrifies the population. They were feared, rounded up, executed, but interest in their adventures never weakened. The captain of the tenth squad leaned back again, shaking his head at the same time, and muttered something to himself about impossible women and annoying sea robbers.
Perhaps the whole of Gotei 13 are really those dashing sailors who surf the ocean of life, getting involved in eternal adventures, about which legends will be made up; those same thirteen strong pirates who were recruited to maintain balance; those same pirates of the Rukongai Sea.