A/N: This is my first fanfiction! GinRan is my favorite paring in bleach so I decided to write a GinRan fanfic. Here it is! Enjoy!

Chapter 1

"Gin! Where are you going?"

Without looking back he said: " I'll be gone for a while now, Rangiku."

"Again? Gin, please stay", she cried out to him.

Gin stopped walking away and turned around one last time to look at her. His cold blue eyes met hers.

"Sorry Rangiku." And then he was gone.

Rangiku Matsumoto woke up immediately. She had been dreaming about him again.

Sorry Rangiku, those words had haunted her dreams ever since the day he betrayed her. That was the last thing he'd said to her before he betrayed the Soul society and went to Hueco mundo together with Sousuke Aizen and Tousen Kaname, all three of them was now former captains. Leaving her and all the others on the Soukyou hill, paralyzed of surprise and fear. That was exactly one month ago.

"Damn you", she whispered quietly into the darkness.

"Did you say something?"

Rangiku almost jumped out of her skin. Orihime Inoue's voice came from the door opening only a few meters from her.

"Oh, hey! Didn't see you there", Rangiku smiled at Orihime.

"Sorry Matsumoto, I didn't mean to scare you" said Orihime and switched on a lamp in the dark living room. Rangiku used to live in Orihime's house when she wasn't on duty.

A week had passed since she, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Renji, Rukia and captain Hitsugaya entered the World of the living. And just a day ago they had their first confrontation with six arrancars. She had survived, but just barely, if they hadn't get the permission to use the "limit release" they would definitely been defeated. Even if they had won the fight it had really taken a lot of her spiritual energy away. The only thing she could do now was to rest and recover and just wait until her powers came back.

"Eh, Matsumoto?" Orihime said carefully.

Rangiku suddenly looked up to Orihime and shook her thoughts away.

"Sorry, I'll guess I'm not quite awake yet. So what did you just say?" she said and yawned.

"I was just asking if you wanted some tea", replied Orihime.

Rangiku smiled at the beautiful young lady with long hair, just like herself.

"Sounds good to me." Rangiku was already on her feet.

Orihime Inoue had a nice and normal kitchen where she used to cook the most delicious food Rangiku ever tasted in very many years. Well, that was at least her opinion. After a few minutes Orihime served the hot tea.

"I hope you like it." Orihime smiled and lifted the cup to her lips and so did Rangiku.

"Mmm...it's perfect"

Orihime smiled satisfied to herself, at least someone did like her tea.

"Couldn't you sleep tonight? I couldn't, that's why I was up on my way to the kitchen when I thought I heard you say something"

Rangiku got a dreamy look in her eyes and said: "Actually I was awaken by a dream…" she sighed.

"A nightmare? Do you want to talk about it?" Orihime asked carefully.

Rangiku shook her head. "No, not a nightmare. It was a memory…" The usually glad and laughing Rangiku was gone and replaced by a face full of sadness. Orihime had never seen Matsumoto like this. She understood there was something serious was bothering her friend. She could tell by the look in her eyes that Matsumoto was carrying a very heavy burden.

"Something is bother you isn't? Do you remember when you helped me with my trouble with Ichigo and Rukia?"

Rangiku nodded.

"You told me something that lifted my burden in my heart, now it's time for me to do the same for you" said Orihime with her most trusted voice .

For a second Rangiku looked a little surprised but almost as quickly she remained control over herself. She looked straight in to Orihime's brown eyes and tried to hold back the tears. When she finally looked away she said: "I've never told anyone before…" It looked like the tears was wining after all.

Orihime reached out for a handkerchief and gave it to Rangiku in front of her.

"Here you go", she said softly.

"Thank you", Rangiku sobbed one last time before she wiped away all the tears in her face. With a normal voice, just a little shaky, she said: "Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been betrayed by a person you cared about? A person that you once thought was your best friend? Have you ever been betrayed by… someone you loved?

Orihime shook her head.

"I have." Rangiku answered her own question.

"Oh, Matsumoto. What on earth happened to you?"

Rangiku drank up the rest of her tea before she begun: "It all started when he saved my life..."