Title: Silver Dawn
Anime/Manga: Bleach
Chars: Hitsugaya, Gin
Type: Part one of two
Rating: PG and a bit OCC but I might do a story based on this one shot down the line.
Sum: Some truths remain hidden for a person's need to protect what they most love and they do things that the person who they wish to protect may not understand till the end.

To my son

I am sure your shock of reading this is hitting you right now. It would me if I was reading this so I would chuckle softly at the wide eyed expression of your's from that scowl you keep up all the time or the strained tight lip. Now back to the matters at hand while you read this or why I wrote this to you. I felt that at my death that old man Yamamoto should give you this and let the truth out a bit. He fought with me to keep this a secret but I have enough dirt on the so called "Pure Court" to have some pull on this so no worries kiddo!

To turn over to the truth of the real meat of the meal I might say kiddo. To be blunt and not use all the flowery language was never my style in the first place. Yes I am father. Were do you think you got your hair and coloring from in the first place? That's all me and my brains you also got as a so called "prodigy " title they faced down your throat like they did me back then. Guessing bout now you want to throw up or burn this letter as this being the only truth and copy but I know you will keep waiting for one reason only.

Your ma.

Your thinking of one lovely busty babe but thank your stars your mind is on the wrong trail kiddo. I was close with my hellcat but I didn't want to bring a child into the world but seems fate had other plans huh? Well your mom is one hell of a lady and I respected her more then others. She left this world soon after you were born I am sorry to tell ya kiddo due a hollow attack a few months after you were born. Her name was Umeko Tsuboi , she was a healer in the forth when I met her after a nasty attack from a hollow one night. Awe, she was fine bone and cold as ice just as you but always cared for the people around her just as you. Most of your nature comes from her from what've I seen so far and can guess but you got my temper a bit from when I was younger so there is me in you still kiddo. Ah Umeko was as fast with her sharp tongue but collected as a winter's dawn and just as frozen save "bed time". We had a few meetings you might take and one night she told me she was all pregnant with you out of the blue. What a shock to me I was going to be father but things had started to move along and I was put in as a spy you might say by the old man to Aizen. Old man Yamamoto had put me in his paths just for those reasons and had already had tabs that bastard was up to no good ya see kiddo. Yet now I was going to be a dad! Umeko knew the truth once I told her and she understood it could never happen with me in your life or Aizen might found out about you and use you later for his own needs. How was that good for you? The best I could do was watch him and keep tabs as a spy to make sure your life would be peaceful if we stopped his plans but I think it didn't work out like that huh?

Some months after you were born, Umeko got killed by a hollow and me with you. So I did some fast thinking one night and tracked down her mom or your grandmother and told her everything while holding ya. You were just a little silver haired wailing brat but I knew I had to protect you some how at least. The old grandmother took you in and promised to raise you as her own with one more girl she had picked up along the way called Momo. I left a bit grateful you were safe and would have a free life, more then I did back then. Then came the shock when I heard Rangiku talking bout this kid with silver hair and a huge restiu, I know who she was talking bout and I knew soon you would be the ranks of the shinigami and I was right. Then soon you made Captain soon after I did and I amint I was proud you had come this far by yerself like I did. Then everything else when to hell but I was grateful when I knew Rangiku was put with you to keep an eye on you a bit as I never could. ....

Hell came soon with Aizen doing his plans and I left that day after our fight, you gave me one hell of a send off ya dragon! I was proud of you all the more from our little tiff when I left and knew you could be so much more once you gained some more years and grew up a bit. So I take it I am dead and your reading this and thats how it ends kiddo.

Take Care of our Hell Cat
Gin Ichimaru