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ChibiRebel

ONESHOT

Summary: Years after Ichimaru and Tosen(sp?) are executed, Matsumoto visits the human side and finds someone she never expected to see.

Genre: Romance

Pairing: Rangiku x Gin, some Hitsugaya x Hinamori

A.N. This pairing is a tragedy in the making…they can never be together no matter what. I just wanted to give Rangiku a happy ending.

Matsumoto sat in her room, staring at the wall. Although it had been years since he was executed the pain was still fresh in her heart. She watched Master Yamamoto do it, she watched him activate his sekkai and kill Gin. It hurt her so much, the last thing he said to her was, "Ja ne." She felt tears run down her cheek, "Gin, you liar…you always were a liar. How can we ever meet again, tell me that? You're dead."

She stood up and walked away from her division to the 3rd division, to his room. Nobody was assigned in his room, she was glad for that. She liked spending most of her time in there, reminiscing about their past.

She got to his room and opened the screen door, she walked inside his room and looked around. Plain, he was like that, he didn't have much in his room, unlike her. He was simple, just like the old days, oh how she missed those far away memories. Things were so simple back then…she wanted to relive those memoirs again.

"Gin…I miss you."

Hitsugaya had noticed the change in his vice-captain, well it was actually Hinamori telling him Matsumoto had changed and was depressed. He knew the reason why, it was because of that bastard Gin. Although it had happened 20 something years ago Matsumoto was still experiencing the pain like it happened yesterday. What could Hitsugaya do to help her?

"Maybe she would want to go to the human world again?" Hinamori suggested as she read her boyfriend's thoughts, she then leaned her head on Hitsugaya's shoulder.

Hitsugaya looked down at the girl next to him and wrapped his arm around her waist, he thought about it for a moment and agreed. Matsumoto always did like the food there, and the drinks of course, "That's a good idea Momo, she would love that." Hitsugaya then kissed his girlfriend on the forehead, "What would I do without you?"

2 weeks had passed and Matsumoto was preparing to go into the human world again. Master Yamamoto, Hitsugaya and Hinamori were seeing her off. She took a last look at everybody and smiled. She knew her captain arranged this, for that she was grateful towards him.

Hitsugaya had requested this to Master Yamamoto and he understood Matsumoto's position. Even he noticed the change in he blonde's attitude. She smiled less often and didn't have those drinking parties that often involved almost every male in soul society. He wanted Matsumoto back to normal, so he approved Hitsugaya's request.

"Matsumoto-fuku taichou," Master Yamamoto spoke as he cleared his throat, "You will stay a month in the human world, we have made arrangements on a gigai with Urahara and a place for you to stay at is being dealt with as we speak."

Matsumoto nodded at the captain's words, the living world, when she was there with Hitsugaya and the others was a busy place full of life and happiness. She wondered how much had changed in 25 years.

"Matsumoto-fuku taichou, I hope you enjoy your time in the living world, we'll be seeing you soon," Master Yamamoto spoke as he waved her off.

"Have a good time Rangiku-chan!" Hinamori called as she waved her hand.

"Be back soon, I have lots of paperwork for you," Hitsugaya said smiling as the words came out of his mouth.

Matsumoto smiled at the old man and everybody else, "Ja." She began walking through the portal that was set up for her convenience. 'I wonder how much the world has changed since I've been there…' Her thoughts soon stopped as a light began to envelope her body, 'Just like last time.'

"Hey,hey, Matsumoto, you okay?"

Matsumoto rolled her head to the side and groaned.

"Somebody hand me a flashlight!" the voice got a flashlight from an anonymous person and clicked it on, he began flashing it Matsumoto's face.

"Goddamn!" Matsumoto grabbed the flashlight and glared at the person, it was none other than Urahara.

"Well at least we know you still got your strength," Urahara said, staring at his flashlight with had her handprints permanently imprinted into it.

Over the past few hours Urahara explained how much the human world had changed, and how Orihime, Ishida, Chad, Karin and Uzu turned out, "Well, Orihime and Ishida are married, have two kids and are expecting a third one. Chad and Karin are in a relationship…I hear he's going to propose to her soon enough. Last but not least Uzu is happily running the family clinic along with Karin. The others help as well."

Matsumoto nodded at each word Urahara was saying, it was hard to believe. The last time she saw Orihime was when she was still a teenager. Now Orihime was a grown woman, with a family and with Ishida no less! Chad and Karin! Now that was surprising. Wayyyy surprising. She smiled, everyone got their perfect ending…except for her.

Urahara continued to talk as Matsumoto spaced out, so many thoughts ran through her head, all those thoughts lead back to one person though, GIN.

"Urahara, I'm going to experience these changes for myself," Matsumoto said hurriedly as she stood up and waved at the ex-captain. She then slid open the screen door to his shop and ran out.

As Urahara watched her figure disappear into the distance a smile came to his lips.

"Why didn't you tell her?" A voice asked from the shadows.

"Tell her what?" Urahara retorted teasingly.

"About him, he's been reincarnated," the voice replied bluntly as the figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a black cat.

"Why spoil the surprise, she'll find out soon enough, Yoruichi," Urahara said as he motioned to the cat to sit next to him. Yoruichi nodded, moved gracefully and sat next to Urahara.

Matsumoto walked around the city, Urahara was right, things did change, buildings got bigger, streets got wider and crowds definitely got bigger. But there was one thing that did not change, it was the park. During the time she had been in the human world, she had often went to this park late at night, just to think. She loved the place, it was a haven for her, a sanctuary.

She would visit it later, right now she wanted to see the city. She turned a corner and saw a large shop that used to be small, 'Hmm…back then it was smaller…I knew it would be more successful.' Matsumoto continued walked down the street, suddenly as she walked a sudden dizziness overcame her. Her legs suddenly became numb, her body lost all its' movement and her mind became a blur. 'What's happening?' she thought nervously, jus then Urahara's words of warning came back to her.

"Now Matsumoto, this is a new gigai I'm experimenting so there might be some glitches, don't take it out too much, it might shut down on you."

She cursed herself for not listening, at that moment everything shut down and she fell. As she drifted into darkness the last thing she saw was silver hair.

Matsumoto slowly opened her eyes, she winced a bit when light poured into them. She covered her eyes with her hands, 'Where am I?' She thought as she looked around the place she was in. It looked like Orihime's apartment, but it wasn't. It was simple, nothing was lavishly decorated, it felt somewhat familiar.

Matsumoto then looked down at her body, a white blanket covered her waist and down, she wasn't wearing the human clothes Urahara lent her anymore, she was wearing an oversized T-shirt with a fox on it. 'Kitsune?' She raised an eyebrow and smiled. The design on the shirt was simple yet beautiful at the same time, "I wonder who took me here?" She thought out loud.

At that moment Matsumoto heard a doorknob being turned and a door opening, she turned her head in the general direction of the sound. She saw a young man come in with a brown bag. He was wearing a black jacket with a hood, a plain white t-shirt and baggy jeans, the hood was over his head so she couldn't get a good view of him. But he managed to see her.

"Oh, you're awake already?" The young man asked.

Matsumoto was silent for a bit then decided to be polite and answered him, "Yeah, uh…you're the one that took me here?"

The young man nodded and smiled, "Yeah."

"So, could you tell me what happened?"

He nodded again, "Yeah, It happened all so fast. I was just walking in the streets, then I saw you falling, the next thing I knew you were in my arms, and I was carrying you to my apartment." The young man placed the brown bag on a counter and walked over to Matsumoto, he sat down next to her

"You ain't from around here are ya?" He asked eyeing Matsumoto or so she thought he was.

Matsumoto raised her eyebrow at his tone but then let it go, "I guess you could say I'm visiting." After that silence both enveloped the two. Minutes passed and the young man finally spoke up.

"So what's your name?" He questioned as a smile appeared on his lips.

Matsumoto couldn't help but smile either, "I'm Matsumoto Rangiku, how bout you?"

"Gee, that's a long name," He said chuckling slightly.

Matsumoto narrowed her eyes, "Are you making fun of my name?"

The boy held up in hands in defense and waved them around, "No, of course not, I was just kidding 'round."

Matsumoto sighed and looked at the man again, trying to get at least one good look at his face, "Thanks," she whispered, "Thanks for saving me." She then looked down at the blanket.

The young man leaned against the wall behind him, "No problem…by the way," The young man reached for his hood, "I'm Ichimaru Gin." He pulled back his hood and revealed his face to Matsumoto.

She gasped.

It was him.

Him.

GIN.

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A.N. I cut it off LOL. Anyways I was thinking about making this a chaptered fic, like 5 chapters maybe six, I don't know. But I'm still indecisive. Anyway hope y'all liked this fic R&R.