The One Who Saved Them All

A/N: This is my first Bleach story so be nice!

Summery: The Hogyoku has awoken and it's time for Aizen and the Arrancar to attack Soul Socity! But someone among Aizen's ranks is doubting Aizen. Was he ever really with him? Was he tricked? Or was the unknown darkness in his heart so black he didn't understand what he was doing? Now the time has come where he need to choose. Aizen or his frineds? Either way it doesn't look likely he'll live to see tomorrow.

Couples: Gin x Rangiku, Ichigo x Ruika, Hitsugaya x Hinamori, Ishida x Inoue, Urahara x Yoruchi

Warning: OOCness, swearing, and misspelling/using words out of context

Disclamer: If I owned Bleach, Gin never would have left!

"Ya called for me, Aizen-taicho?" Gin asked as he walked up to Aizen, who was sitting in his big stone white chair.

"Hai. Gin, I need you to do something for me," Aizen said.

"Anythin' Taicho. What do ya need?"

"I need you to undergo a…um…I guess you could call it an operation for lack of a better word." If Gin lived life with his eyes opened, he would have blinked but instead he frowned momentarily before grinning his fox-like grin.

"Operation? What? Am I sick or somethin'? Cause I feel fine…well I did loose more weight…but that's not abnormal!" Aizen chucked.

"No, no, no, Gin! You're not sick." Gin sighed a breath of relief (sarcastically of course). "But I would like you to get that weight thing checked out though…your sickly thin and pale."

"Hai! Now about this operation?"

"Gin…I want to do a simple soul binding operation."

"Soul bindin'?" On the outside Gin was calm but on the inside he was really worried. Soul binding was…not something he wanted to do. Not at all.

"Yeah. Kaname did it also."

'LIRE!' Gin thought. Tosen would have told him if he did something like a friggin SOUL BINDING!

"Ya don't say! Well of course I'll do it Taicho but may I ask why?"

"Of course Gin. I wouldn't make you commit to something so extreme without telling you why. It's just something I want you to do to test your loyalty. Nothing will happen at all." Gin frowned.

"Why Taicho! You suddenly don't trust me?!" Aizen smirked.

"I trust you with my life Gin. It's just…we're going to battle very soon and I know it'll be hard on you, fighting all your old friends. You may chicken out. I don't want that."

'A soul bindin for a 'may'. How…FUCK!' Gin was torn. He really didn't want to but he couldn't say no or Aizen would think he was going to betray him…

"No you wouldn't want that…"

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About an hour later Gin walked out of Aizen's chambers with a horrible pain in his stomach.

"Well I'm gonna lose more weight now. I can't eat feelin like this!" Gin walked back to his room and sat down on the bed, looking at the wall.

He signed. A year was almost up and the Hogyoku would be awake soon. He didn't want to fight…he really didn't. But he had no choice. He was in too deep now.

"Rangiku-chan…" he whispered. His eyes closed tighter. The good thing about attacking Soul Society soon would mean he would at least get to see her. The bad…no horrible thing was that he would either be ordered to kill her or watch her die and that would truly be the end of him. It would destroy what was left of his broken soul.