Name : Momo Hinamori
Birthday : June 3
Height : 151 cm
Weight : 41 kg
Occupation : Shinigami lieutenant of the 5th Division.
Hinamori is an upbeat and easygoing girl who gets along with nearly everyone she meets. Her appearance is fairly ordinary compared to other shinigami in Soul Society. She wears her hair up in a bun with a cloth wrapped around it.
Hinamori is generally quite trusting, but also very impulsive. She greatly admires her former captain, Sosuke Aizen and is a childhood friend of 10th Division captain, Toshiro Hitsugaya.
Hinamori grew up in a fairly quiet district of the Rukongai, likely Junrinan, District 1, along with Toshiro Hitsugaya. While Hitsugaya tended to be a bit of a brat as a child and insisted that he would protect her, Hinamori found him amusing and treated him in an older sisterly fashion. The two became close friends and remain so, evident by Hinamori's continued tendency to use her nickname for him, Shiro-chan (White-chan), while Hitsugaya grew out of calling her "Bed-wetter Momo".
When Hinamori entered the shinigami academy, she excelled at kido (demon arts). Here, she also met Izuru Kira and Renji Abarai, who soon became her friends and, later, her fellow lieutenants. They were placed in the 5th Division of the Gotei 13 under Captain Sosuke Aizen and Lieutenant Gin Ichimaru. Hinamori remained in the 5th Division and became the division's lieutenant (through much hard work, as noted by Hitsugaya) while Kira later moved to the 3rd Division as Gin Ichimaru's lieutenant. Renji was moved to 11th Division and later made Lieutenant of the 6th Division, under Byakuya Kuchiki.
Hinamori's trusting nature and impulsive tendencies would later lead to disaster. As the issue of Rukia Kuchiki's execution came up, Hitsugaya warned her to be wary of Gin Ichimaru and the 3rd Division.
Aizen's supposed death drove Hinamori to challenge the 3rd Division captain to avenge Aizen's death. Kira, out of loyalty for his captain, stepped in and fought her instead. Hitsugaya managed to interrupt the fight, arresting both of them. In jail, Hinamori received a letter written by Aizen citing that Hitsugaya was his murderer. Escaping jail, she interrupted a confrontation between Ichimaru and Hitsugaya, but was rendered unconscious by Hitsugaya who did not wish to fight her and was concerned for her safety.
She was later taken to 10th Division headquarters by Hitsugaya and his lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto. When she awakened, she followed Hitsugaya, whom she still believed to be Aizen's killer, to the Chamber of 46. Ichimaru had been waiting for her and took her to the Court of Pure Souls and discovered that Aizen was alive. So great was her relief that she wasn't interested in any explanation that he would offer. She didn't question the dead body lying in the 4th squad building, the letter trying to turn her against her childhood friend Hitsugaya nor the guilt or innocence of Ichimaru. So strong was her admiration for him that none of these things mattered. Aizen later comments "admiration is the emotion furthest from comprehension."
Hinamori was overjoyed to see that the man whom she was ready to die for was alive. In what Aizen considers a twisted act of kindness, seeing that his plan to have her fight Kira and Hitsugaya to the death had failed, Aizen impaled Hinamori. Hitsugaya arrived too late to save her and was near-fatally wounded.
Both Hinamori and Hitsugaya are then saved by Unohana, but Hinamori was still unconscious when Hitsugaya departed to the living world. As of Chapter 224, Hinamori is awake, and still seems to be under the thrall of Aizen, blaming Ichimaru for his actions. Whether or not she's still under Aizen's power remains to be seen, though her denial of the facts seems to be a coping mechanism, something that greatly disturbs Hitsugaya.
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