Author's Note: Welcome to my Drabble Series. I started accepting requests from my friends on Livejournal for drabbles and ficlets, these are the results. More will be added as I complete the overwhelming list of prompts/requests I have received. There is a huge variety of pairings and interesting situations. I hope you enjoy them. All of these are stand alone one shots. Any reviews and comments are appreciated. Please take a moment to leave some encouragement if you enjoyed these little stories. All of them are self-beta'd so please forgive any mistakes.

Disclaimer:

All characters belong to Kubo Tite and not me. I make no money writing these. It's just for fun.

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Prompt: Toshirou/Rangiku- "I just want to tell you how I feel, but I can't find the words."

She was irritating. Very irritating.

She was slovenly, lazy, and a drunk.

She never got her work done on time. In fact it was a miracle she ever got any work done at all.

She ran off at the most inopportune moments and she fell asleep during Vice Captain's meetings (so he'd been told).

She was always sneaking up on him, suffocating him with her enormous breasts and trying to force feed him candy.

In short, Matsumoto Rangiku was a gigantic pain in the ass. Toshirou wasn't sure why he put up with her...

That wasn't true. He knew why.

Matsumoto was a lot of things, most of them annoying. However, she was also loyal, genuine, vivacious (when it suited her), cheerful, skilled and dependable in a fight. She had never let him down in battle.

Now she was lying there, barely breathing, missing a huge section of flesh where the creature, Allon, had ripped into her. Her beautiful blue eyes were closed and her skin was covered in a thin sheen of sweat from her exertions.

Kira Izuru knelt over her, the green glow of healing kido illuminated his face, making it seem pallid and ghost-like. Toshirou saw from the look on Kira's face that the former 4th Squad member did not have high hopes that Matsumoto would survive.

For the first time, Toshirou wished that he'd just once told his Vice Captain something good. He wanted to tell her that he was proud of how well she fought in a 3-on-1 fight and that he was honored that she was his Vice Captain. He wanted to say 'thanks' to her for encouraging him to become a Shinigami… And more. There was so much more to say, but he couldn't find the words, and even if he did they were not for others to hear. They were only for Matsumoto.

"Captain Hitsugaya?" Kira looked up from the nearly lifeless body in front of him. "If you have anything to say to her, now might be the time…"