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Yuki pulled her sheath from her hip and slammed her Zanpakutou into it. She began flicking her wrist with her fingers loosely closed, causing it to roll in her hand. "SCREAM TO THE PALE MOON! TENROU!"

Yuki grabbed the hilt and unsheathed the blade, an etheral wolf leapt forth, landing in front of her, the ground freezing where its feet touched, the blade itself looking like a piece of ice.

"GROWL!" Rangiku yelled as she released her blade as well, "HEINEKO!"

Yuki and the wolf moved in unison as they rushed their opponent. Right before they were engulfed by the ashes, she pointed the ice sword, "Howling Blizzard!" The wolf howled, and ice came spewing from its maw like dragonfire, freezing all that it touched. Aiming for the frozen ash in front of her, Yuki brought her hands together, "Hadou 31! Red Flame Cannon!"

Matsumoto actually had to Flashstep to avoid the attack as a blade of ice suddenly emerged from the chaos in front of her.

"Hadou 4! White Lightning!" Yuki's nickname of the Bloodwinged Angel had been well earned because of her intensity in battle. Even in a sparring match, she'd try to draw blood, but today was beyond that, something was wrong.

Rangiku held up her hand after dodging the spell. Yuki had to take a painful spill to avoid impailing her friend. She got up to her feet as the wolf stepped up to her to check on her, she scratched it behind the ears before turning to her sparring partner, "what's wrong?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing," Rangiku sheathed her sword after the ashes returned to blade form.

"It's nothing," Yuki sighed as the wolf dissapeared and she but the sword back in the sheath and put it on her hip.

"Yuki-chan..."

"Remember about the boy i liked?"

"Oh, honey, did he reject you?" Matsumoto never had that problem, she was normally beating guys off her with a stick; unless she was drunk, in which case she'd usually just beat them off.

"No," Yuki's embarassment was palpible, "it was worse..."

"Worse? how could it be worse?"

"hesgayandididntevennotice," she mumbled it so quick that you couldn't even separate the syllables.

"aaaaah... what?"

"He's gay and i didn't even notice... I went to the 12th squad barracks when his shift ended, and I saw him meet up with a boy and they kissed."

"12th?... you mean Rin and Hanatarou from the 4th squad?"

"Yeah, Rin."

"How could you NOT notice they are gay? they make better girls than alot of the girls in our squad!" As soon as she said it, Rangiku wished she hadn't.

Yuki's face went from embarassment to crying in the blink of an eye. "Yeah, I'm stupid, I know."

"No, Yuki, I-"

"Don't even bother Vice-Captain," Yuki turned away, "you can't make me smarter. I'm already stupid enough to chase after gay guys!" Yuki ran off crying. She apologized without even looking to see who she ran into as she continued running.

"Matsumoto!" Captain Toushiro Hitsuguya angrily started as he picked himself up off the ground, "what did you do this time?"