Hi, yes I posted up a new fic which I already finished completing but decided to post up two more chapters on this favorite project of mine, as you can see. I also have another project I want to work on it's a AU comedy fic but I will post that up next month for school and family are really squeezing hard into my schedule. This fic is shorter than the last one just to let everyone know Now onto the reviews!

Thanks TWOFORMEMORIES for your encouraging reviews and I'm sorry you found the last chapter to be depressing but Gin is a depressing character in reality so I wrote that to complement his background. And Im already having second doubts to whether you'll like this chapter but its all for a good reason, promise to not let you down!

Thanks to Shinigami School Girl. Im really glad you find my fic , I try really hard to keep them both IC so it can be very readable, hope to hear from you soon. Hope you enjoy this chapter!

Warning: This fic is doused in ANGST, and there will be blood, swearing and some sexual themes. But I kept it all T friendly so just warning you all what to expect.

Disclaimer: Why Kubo has to own everybody! Give me Rangiku at least!

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~Resolution~

The market place was crowded as everyone prepared for the New Year, people stopped to collect new charms to hang, food to prepare and even clothes to wear. Rangiku wanted something special to give to her companion since this will mark their 4th year together and she wanted something meaning full. She walked along side him and they held each others hand so they wouldn't lose one another in the crowd, she noticed as she followed behind him that he has grown taller and his hair a bit longer as well she reminded herself to trim his hair when they got home.

"I'm hungry Ran-chan lets look to see if we can find something to take home" even his voice held a new baritone that made him appear different to her.

"Okay, but after this can we pass by the dress shop?" He nodded in reply and the scent of chicken roasting got them following its scent.

When they reached the meat shops it didn't surprise them to see butchers both cutting meat and cooking it along side them, there were all kinds from fish to chicken to beef and pork. For a heftier price came the more exotic meats, eel, lobster, and a tender meat called lamb though Rangiku would never want to try it for she heard that it was from a baby sheep.

Rangiku pointed to the chicken spinning around an open fire and Gin went up front to purchase half, the cook smiled at the girl behind him and cut up the chicken and gave them a generous portion. He noticed that Rangiku was blossoming further than before and was starting to develop a womanly charm, not only was she developing physically but her reiatsu has grown significantly along with his. They found a bench nearby and sat down, Gin gave her share and she quickly licked her lips ready to taste.

"Breast for those growing breastes" he laughed while Rangiku slapped his shoulder.

They ate peacefully not minding at all the bitter cold that whipped by, the hot chicken warming their bellies. Rangiku quickly finished hers and began to wonder aloud, that they should do something to earn more money, Gin seeing this as an opportunity to tease her began to say.

"How when all you do is sleep all day, and when I leave you somehow manage to make a mess in our home. Gods help the man who decides to be your husband for you don't cook or clean…you're so lazy" Rangiku smacked him upside the head and when he turned his head back he saw her walking away. He knew he took it too far again with his taunts.

"Rangiku I was only kidding comeback!" Rangiku wasn't having any of it and walked faster to further distance herself from him as she went far leaving the meat district she turned back to see that she has lost Gin in the crowd. Smiling to herself she didn't notice a large man in front of her until she bumped into him, she looked up to excuse herself until she caught a nasty hungry look in his eyes as if he caught prey, it made her freeze.

"Well, Well I knew that was you from afar and let me say you have grown…so delicious" he licked his lips in a slow manner that made the girl want to leave, she began to turn around the man until he caught her wrist.

"Wait where you're going? You don't remember me, oh c'mon tell me you remember the old cock and play"

"I don't know you let me go" she tried to struggle free, she saw his bloody hands and apron and realized he was a butcher.

"Oh your making me sad, you had the sweetest little snatch and those round breasts of yours…that little birthmark inside your thigh was really cute" At this claim it made Rangiku blue eyes widened in horror.

'How does he know?' she said within herself

"Ehh now you're remembering, oh how I loved when you screamed over and over like a common whore when I shoved into that tight hole of yours. Now why don't you be a good little slut and come over to the back with me, I miss tasting that sweet pus-" a pounding stick smashed right into his face making the bone of his nose snap, the impact of the blunt object made him fall back releasing the girl. A silver figure jumped over him and began assaulting him with the heavy wooden pole, beating into his face in furry making blood splash into their clothes. Rangiku shocked by everything sat on the ground watching the whole scene entirely, her mind at a blank.

Gin didn't stop until someone grabbed him from behind and threw him off the man, he got up immediately and was ready to go at it again until Rangiku's scream for him to stop caught him. He looked at her shell-shocked state and dropped the stick, he walked over to her and helped her up. Gin tuned to see the man struggling to get up, his face beaten bloody, his nose broken and his left eye swollen shut. Blood flowed freely from his busted lip and he tried to get at Gin but his friends held him back telling them its better if they leave before they get into more trouble.

"You little piece shit…I'm going to get you killed, you better have eyes in the back of your head boy" he yelled a small crowd forming around them.

As Gin pulled Rangiku away the man continued to spew threats, Rangiku had blocked everything out and shut herself in, never has she felt ashamed as she is now. What revolved around her head as to how this man knew her intimately, her mind rattled. They both walked in silence not even having the vaguest idea as to how they made back home, Gin allowed Rangiku to enter first and as soon as he closed the door she slumped herself against the wall and began to sob loudly.

Rangiku raised her hands unto her face and howled her fingertips grasping the edges of her smooth forehead, Gin sat beside her and tried to pry her hands off her face afraid she might scratch herself, she let herself be pulled into his embrace and comforted like the nightmares before. He wrapped his arms around and rocked her saying its alright that he wont be saying those things to her no more, Rangiku wanted to bury herself, never has she felt at a loss.

"How could he say those things to me? Who is he and how does he know about my body? She sobbed in to his thin chest.

"Ran…" his mind was racing to put pieces together but remained just as perplexed he clenched his jaw in frustration.

"You heard him, could what he is saying true? Oh god if it is I don't want to live anymore" at this statement he held her tightly. His resolution now firm and clear his mind began to plot, he told her not to say such stupid things and the man obviously was lying.

She remained inconsolable in his arms, he picked her up and laid her on their mat, he went to start a fire to warm themselves. As the fire build he saw her tears silently flowing, he couldn't bear to see here like that anymore.

It wasn't until nightfall when she finally stopped whimpering in Gin's arms, exhausted she fell to sleep. He looked at her and saw her eyes retained their puffy redness from hours of weeping, he felt her inhale and exhale slowly, her body warm. He wiped the remaining tears off her long sweeping eyelashes and kissed her cheek, it has now become a secret habit of his. She remained still and he slowly got up and got dressed for the cold, he pulled out from a loose floorboard a dagger that he had traded for a long time ago. As he stepped to the door he looked back at her sleeping figure knowing that once he stepped out the door something will change for both of them.

'No more Rangiku, I won't let us sit in the dark no more' turned for the door and only a gust of icy wind was all that was left of Gin Ichimaru.

Men shouted over each other in drunken cheer, the clattering of glasses and incomplete brawls filled the small tavern. He shook his head at the ache he had allover his swollen face, he grimaced at remembering the event earlier in the day, feeling aggravated at his powerful acquaintance not showing up as promised had him even feeling more sour. He made his decision to leave his friends in their drunken squalor, the stench of burnt tobacco being more than enough.

"Hey Toritsubo your leaving already? Did that boy beat the fun out of you too?" a man went to grab him but the bigger man shook him off in annoyance, he had no mood for their taunts.

As he left the hot pub the frosty winter air hit his face providing a cooling sensation that tingled, perhaps he wasn't ask drunk as he thought he was. He walked down the street and tuned into an alleyway that only held a dim lamp, it was his shortcut home. His eyes strained to see someone at the end sitting on a wooden crate playing with a shiny dagger that glinted in the light, the man walked further and with his remaining good eye immediately recognized who that was.

"Oi, you skinny bastard…so you decided to come and end it with me eh?" he chuckled not feeling threatened at all.

"I decided I will let you die quickly if you answer just one question" he raised up a thin bony finger at the man.

"Hahaha, you got balls boy…you got lucky 'cause I was distracted by that pretty little thing that use to be mines" his eyes glimmered to him while Gin's shot daggers.

"I want to know how you know about Rangiku?" he began spinning the end of his dagger on the crate flashing a reflective light that mesmerized the taller man. Gin saw his jugular vein pulse rapidly.

"Oh I see now so you're the one that's giving it to her now, she got a golden snatch don't she hehehe…and I don't mean just about her hair" Gin smiled back at him which made the other man stop chuckling there was something peculiar about how the boy smiled, it seemed as if it was devil that was smiling at him.

"Answer the question…" he continued spinning the dagger.

"Well if you must know…I found her a couple years back running around by herself calling out to whoever would help her sick parents, so I just went up and told her that I have what she's looking for at my house naturally she just followed me" the man went to walk closer to the boy ready to make his move once he said the right words.

"Oh the fun we had once we got there, I've never had someone as tight as her…she kicked and screamed but once I gave her the heavy petting she stopped fighting, it made me laugh every time I would ravaged her she would call out her dear mummy and daddy, I told her that there is no use for they were dead and now they're watching their little daughter become my whore…oh the look on her face was priceless" Gin gripped on the clutch of the dagger so tight that blood was oozing through the fingers, he clenched his jaw and made a cracking sound with his jawbone. He was going to make that man scream for all the pain he has caused towards Rangiku, screw his earlier promise.

"I pounded into her so fast and hard she would pass out after she was done crying, which made it even better 'cause it made it easier for me to fuck her every which way heh, even sideways. But what I really didn't like about her was that she always would be eating, I figured she wasn't normal for sometimes when she is fighting me I would feel some kind of pressure that would try to burn me. It came to me that the little bitch had powers and I knew of a couple of shinigami friends that wanted to get their hands on that so I sold her to them" at this revelation Gin stopped spinning his blade and it all made sense now, how those three shinigami stole her power and left her to die by the side of the ditch. All her nightmares, her pain, her whole self that was stolen, for she was now forever incomplete

…It was all because of this man

Toritsubo advanced close enough to grab his butcher's knife from behind his sash, he was going to kill the boy until Gin threw blood from his hand blinding his face with the copper liquid. Gin ran behind him and slashed at his tendons that connected the back of his feet to his ankles causing him to loose his balance.

As he tipped over Gin caught him by the back of his hair, yanking him to a kneeling position…all he could see was red.

"So tell me how you pounded into her again? Like this?" Gin stabbed the dagger repeatedly into his spine, he saw how the man raised his neck and his mouth formed into a silent scream.

Gin smirked into how much his face looked like a fish and he took his dagger and wiped it on his face, it remained as it was. He positioned it lower to his neck and the man's eyes widened in horror.

"And you fucked her sideways you say, like so?" At this he slashed the pig's throat before he had a chance to beg for his life, cutting the jugular it sprayed blood out ward. He let the heavy man fall with a loud thud as his body stained the immaculate snow. Gin felt as he was being watched he turned his neck to the street and saw someone coming out from the shadows.

A man dressed in a black robe came forward, his shaggy hair reached his neck and he had a solemn face, Gin recognized him at once. It was one of the shinigami that handed his superior Rangiku's power, Gin clutched his dagger ready to face him.

"Wow that old blob was right, you are indeed a handful…But I can sense your reiatsu boy it's strong" he began to click at his zanpakto as he walked closer to the boy.

"You see my friend over there helped me find anybody in Rukongai with special talents like yours, it's for my lieutenant of my division he is really interested in collecting everyone's powers" Gin remained still his eyes fixed on any of the others movement.

"And I think Aizen-sama will be most pleased if I bring you in" he unsheathed his sword ready to attack but what he didn't count on was that the boy had already set up his trap and was now smiling back at him. It was as if death was smirking into welcoming the doomed shinigami.

Rangiku awoke to a sinking feeling in her heart, she felt cold and alone. She turned to find Gin gone along with his cloak and sandals, it wasn't unusual for him to take an evening stroll even if it was winter but deep inside she knew it wasn't normal. She got up quickly and got dressed to go find him, tears threatening to burst from her eyes, she could hear him crying out to her. Rangiku left the shack and into the snowy evening, she ran with no sense of direction just following a voice that cried out to her. She soon saw a black figure from afar and ran towards it.

"Gin!" she noticed him turning to her.

"Where have you been?" as Rangiku went closer she noticed the dark robe of a shinigami on top of him, it was confusing to her everything that was going on.

"I've decided, Ran" he stopped in his tracks and turned away not wanting to show the blood that stained his cheek.

"I'm going to become a shinigami, I'm going to change things, I want the pain to end" she didn't understand what he was saying.

"I want them to end, so Rangiku doesn't have to cry anymore" she saw the blood and ran to him embracing him, his hands that were battered and bruised clung gently to her.

"Wherever you decide to go, I'll follow you even if I get lost I will never stop following you Gin" the tears she held back began to pour, he sighed seeing his puff of exhale evaporate into the snow.

"Then lets go together Rangiku, lets become shinigami together" he held her trembling frame sheltering her from the freezing wind, and laid his head on top of hers.

They stood there together wondering how their lives will be years from now, he wanted to go after that man that stole from Rangiku. She wanted to stop being helpless, Rangiku didn't want to cry anymore, she wanted to be able to fight her own battles even though she felt weak and scared. What she wanted most was Gin to be proud of her, she wanted to become stronger

Both had a common goal, they wanted to stop sitting in the dark. They had so much to do and all the time in the world to accomplish it, they had both made their resolution.

That's the end of the Rukongai chapters, and the following one is the Academy arc. There are several more arcs in the story so expect this to be up to 20 chapters. I am writing a detailed account on their story from beginning to end. Sorry if you found this chapter to be dark and gloomy but this is only one of the few that will be so, trust me I had to HEAVILY edit this chapter to fit it into the T rating (their was going to be a lot of swearing and disturbing imagery) but promise next chapter will be full of sunshine and fluff.

A preview for the next chapter will be when they enter their first month into the Academy and getting use to the big changes that surrounds them.

Now for the important part BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS FAVORITED THIS FIC AND FOLLOWING IT! Your support makes me sit here every morning and completing this project of mine!