Chapter 1.3: ♥ Komamura Chiyoko ♥

When I turned around he was still staring at the sky. I'm sorry Jidanbō, but rules are there to be broken.
I actually wanted to go to the children, but something much more exciting was going on right behind them. I passed them but didn't go undetected. A girl with long, curly, blonde hair waved to me. She had to be my age.
She looked really pretty. I reached through my short, black and blue hair and thought about maybe growing it long too. I wanted to look as pretty as the girl.
A nice thought. I kept walking and what caught my attention was something like a market.
It smelled wonderfully of delicious food. There were all kinds of markets. From various food stalls to vendors selling colorful flowers.
"Girls!", One of the traders called me. I went to him hesitantly. His stand was full of yellow flowers. There was only one kind. He didn't sell anything else.
He was an old man himself. He wore glasses on his nose. His hair was white-gray and no longer as thick. A few bald spots here and there. He looked well-groomed which was understandable. This was the 1st district. People still lived peacefully here.
I swallowed. What did he want from me?
He took such a flower from the water jars and held it out to me.
"Is that for me?" He smiled.
"A pretty girl needs a pretty flower," I took it without hesitation.
"Thank you very much!", He just nodded.
"What kind of flowers are these?" I asked him curiously.
"These are daffodils. They stand for vanity and egoism and thus express longing. Daffodils can also stand for spring and fertility.
In Gotei 13 they have a different meaning: mystery and arrogance. "
"You can be a little vain and selfish. After all, you are beautiful."
"I agree, and you can also make pretty headdresses out of them," laughed the dealer. I walked around the stand and held out the daffodil.
"Can you stick it in my hair?", He took it and carefully tucked it behind my right ear. I smiled at him to show my gratitude. I bowed and walked on.
"See you soon," I called after him, waving.
Really ... Oto-san was wrong. This old man was more than friendly.
When I got so excited I didn't even notice that I was slowly but surely lost. How did this happen? I had just been in the hustle and bustle of the market and now ...?
I looked in all directions but nothing was to be seen, not even a soul.
Where have they all been?
The more hectically I looked around, the more fear arose in me. If I couldn't find my way home, Oto-san would mince me and eat me.He used to threaten me with that because wolves liked meat.
I ran back and forth ... I was completely at the end of my nerve.
But then I decided to just keep walking. At the next intersection I turned left. At the end of this street I had to choose. Left or right?
I chose left again. The houses were no comparison to the noble houses of Seireitei but they still looked cozy. I would have liked to take a look inside. But if I just did it like that ... wouldn't I break into the house then?
I sighed.
Suddenly I noticed how much my feet hurt.
Stupid Byakuya-kun. It was all his fault. I sat down on the dusty floor and pulled on the Getas. How good it was to be barefoot, it felt really liberating. I should do that more often. I got up and brushed the dirt off my purple kimono.
"Hey you !!!", I looked in the direction from which someone was apparently calling me. Three boys came out of a dark alley. That never meant good.
The "leader" of them was a big bump. His eyes narrowed and a disgusting grin on his padded cheeks. The other two standing next to him were more inconspicuous. One pretty thin and exactly the opposite of the Klops and the other a beanstalk.
The thin man suddenly grabbed my hair. It hurt but I didn't defend myself yet. What had I done wrong so that they attacked me like that? He pulled the daffodil out of my hair and caught a few strands with it.
I whimpered.
I was about to cry but I wanted to stay strong and just squinted my eyes. The Getas that I was carrying in my hands I now held even more tightly so that the pain was a little more bearable.
The thin man finally let go of my hair but the beanstalk didn't wait long. He hit me with full force against the wall behind me. My whole body started shaking. I opened my eyes and hesitantly looked up.
The thin man jumped around on the daffodil that lay on the ground. She lost her beauty.
The fat man came up to me and leans forward. If the beanstalk hadn't held me tight, I would have loved to hit him in the face. I held up his disgusting look, I just wanted to look strong, but that went completely wrong.
It felt like everything was in slow motion. The Klops reached out with his hand.
Did he really want to hit me?
But suddenly he stopped. His face twisted so much ... I mean ... I had never seen anything so ugly in my life before. He seemed close to tears.
What happened?
He fell forward very slowly until he found a place on the floor. A real cloud of dust opened up.
"Boss?", The beanstalk let go of me and ran to the fatty.But he didn't get far either. With a slap in the face, he was flat. The thin man didn't move at all and just stopped straight ahead.
As the dust cloud slowly subsided, someone grabbed my hand and pulled me behind them.
Only now did I realize who my savior had been, even if only from behind. He had white, tousled hair. I had never seen hair like this on someone so young. Maybe he was sick. Same disease as Ukitake-taicho. He wasn't much bigger than me. Definitely my age.
He was running pretty fast and I could hardly follow. Fortunately, he held my hand so tightly, otherwise I would probably have fallen. He turned a few corners a few times and finally stopped in front of the entrance of a house. Did he live here?
"The Hakutōmo is up there. From there you can go back to Seireitei," he slowly let go of my hand and walked towards the property.
What the ... and how did he know ... Waaaaaaaaaaas?
"Wait!" I ran after him. There was a garden in front of the house. To my left a small pond and to the right in the meadow were a couple of cherry blossom trees.
He stopped only hesitantly.
"I ... I haven't thanked you at all," he finally turned around and I could see his face. He looked pretty annoyed. His eyes were beautifully colored. This green-turquoise really fascinated me. But he didn't seem to like it that I stared at it like that.
"Wh-what's your name?" He seemed a little confused but answered.
"Hitsugaya Toshiro," I swallowed. I was so excited. Would we be friends I no longer trembled with fear, but with joy.
"Then ... Thank you very much, Toshiro!", I bowed briefly and immediately held out my hand to him. Now he looked even more confused but he took my hand. I hadn't noticed it before but he had warm hands apart from his cool look.
I smiled gently but his expression didn't change. I also wanted to tell him my name to break the silence.
"My name is Komamura Chiyoko."