Confrontations

Chapter 7

While the fate of two worlds hang on the balance, Igrayne must convince the Seireitei to pardon Gin and form an alliance.WARNING! VERY, VERY GRAPHIC LEMONS IN THIS CHAPTER! I don't own Bleach or The Coldfire Trilogy. Rated VERY M! I'M NOT KIDDING! If you're offended by strong graphic sexual content, don't read this!

Gin stretched and curled into his lover's arms snuggling into her embrace and sighing contentedly when her nails ran over his scalp, "Mmm you feel sinfully good!" he said nuzzling her hair and breathing in her scent. He felt lazy and content. They'd slept, but he had kissed her awake a few hours later, wanting to make love again and they had, for hours now, but now his thoughts nudged at him. He'd always had the ability to push a problem into his subconscious, where his mind would still continue to work on it while he occupied himself with other, more pleasurable things, but it would always be there, until he worked it out. He hated to ruin the mood, but he had a few theories that he needed to talk out with Igrayne. It had surprised him when the Seireitei had totally refused to even speak with Igrayne's people unless she handed over not only him, but an innocent girl as well. He knew they'd want him, but he'd never believed they'd still blame Orihime. He shook his head, something else was going on that apparently he didn't know about, however he had a theory. "Hime, as much as it pains me, I need to talk to you about Yammamoto." he said, his face still against her hair.

"Hmm, I knew you were thinking about something earlier, but you're very good at hiding your thoughts from me. No small feat I might add." she smiled, fingers sliding absently through his silver hair, in a familiar gesture of affection that he loved.

"Well can't let ya know everything can I? Where's the fun in that?" he teased, trailing his long fingers down her bare skin,feeling that familiar ache pool in his groin. He groaned softly at what was also becoming a familiar feeling, that feeling of intense want that filled his whole body!

"I thought you wanted to talk." she reminded him, his warm touch making her shiver. She pressed herself against him with a soft groan of desire and they lay kissing and exploring for a few sweet moments. Hot desire swept her under as the pull from her mate made her hands bolder. He hissed when her fingers began to stroke his shaft. She was beginning to wonder if he'd heard her or if he was going to ignore that in favor of the pleasure building between them. She shivered, knowing he needed to talk something out with her, but the compulsion was working on them both with a vengence! Her thoughts scattered to the four winds as he deepened his kiss and slid his long fingers into her. She moaned softly stroking his erection slowly and deeply, just the way he liked it while she opened her thighs wider to give his long fingers more room. "Ah! Gin! That feels so good!"

"Did I? Hmm wonder why I'd say somethin like that?" he kissed her more deeply, feeling her rough cats tongue against his and thrusting into her hand as her heat enclosed his fingers and wanting more than anything to make love to her again, then feeling his conscience prick at him. Finally he pulled away with a frustrated groan, knowing the problem would continue to nag at him until he delt with it, "Okay, okay! I hate bein serious, but this damned problem with Yammamoto is distracting and I never wanna give you less than my full and undivided attention! I need to talk to you about it, even if there are things I'd much rather be doing with or more to the point to you at the moment!" Gin pulled away and sat on the side of the bed taking a few deep breaths to get his scrambled thoughts back in order. He wiped his wet fingers on the sheets knowing he was lost if he tasted her! The problem was those deep breaths drew her scent around him, all the more intoxicating from her aroused state and it made him want her so badly that he could scream! Focus Gin! Focus! His body, as usual ignored him.

To distract them both, Igrayne rose from their bed and poured two glasses of the same wine from the first night and passed him one. She was no more immune to his charms than he was to hers and the compulsion seemed to be working overtime these days. Her body was still pulsing with the feeling of his slim fingers and wanting him inside of her so badly she ached! He took the glass, feeling another flood of desire as their fingers brushed, but nodded in thanks and took a long swallow, hoping the alcohol would help him collect his thoughts and relaxing back against the pillows, though, since he was completely naked and still aroused, it didn't do much to get his lover's mind off wanting him, especially when she could still smell his scent and the firelight played across his lean muscled body. Igrayne sat quietly at the foot of the bed sipping from her own glass, and trying to calm her desire, while waiting for him to organize his thoughts, not daring to touch him. The moment she did both of them would be lost, unable to think of anything else until they had made love again. She crossed her legs to try to still the ache between them, but she still felt empty now that he'd pulled his fingers out of her and wanting him. She pulled her mind away from those thoughts and concentrated on the conversation, "Something is troubling you my love." she said quietly. "You suspect something. Maybe something you think Aizen has done?"

Gin's eyes widened a little, but then she had an odd way of knowing what was on his mind without prying. She would patiently wait until he was ready to tell her. Her patient attitude was something of a relief, because he knew she could just read his mind. The thought of people able to know at a glance thoughts he had kept to himself for centuries was absolutely terrifying to a loner like Gin, which he suspected Igrayne knew and that she took pains to make him feel at ease. Besides, as she had said, to enter someone's mind uninvited and read their deepest thoughts was a crime among her people. Oddly, though he had seldom trusted anyone, he had no problem believing her, at least most of the time when paranoia wasn't getting the better of him. The habits of a lifetime were difficult to break and died a stubbornly slow, hard death! He just had to remind himself over and over that he didn't need to hide anymore. It was annoying, but his lover understood and didn't push. Igrayne would never lie to him or use anything she knew through their bond to hurt him, not just because hurting him would hurt her, but because she understood that to do so would destroy the man she loved. Gin trusted almost no one, so when he did give another being his trust, it was a rare and precious gift and his lady treated it that way. Everyone else had violated his trust, some long before he had thought to give it, with the exceptions of Rangiku, Ukitaki and Orihime, since he knew the gentle girl was a terrible liar and she just couldn't seem to hurt anyone. Perhaps Kira too. Gin wasn't entirly certain of him as he hadn't known the boy as long, but he suspected that Izuru would not hurt or betray him either. Though a gifted fighter, the boy had a gentle soul. He would fight and even kill, but only if he had to or was under orders and usually in the defense of another. Gin winced at the memory of how he'd lied to his lieutenant when he'd betrayed the Seirieitei and gone with Aizen to Hueco Mundo. I don't have the right to judge Izuru or anyone after what I did! Feeling remorseful and vulnerable he brushed Igrayne's leg with his and kept it there, needing the light physical contact, though it did no good for his aroused state of mind.

"I can understand why they want my hide," he said slowly " and Aizen made sure that they would think Orihime went over to him willingly, but I never thought that the Soitaicho wouldn't even want to talk. I know almost everything about Aizen's plans. Sousuke told me things he didn't even tell Tousen and they were... well never mind, that part isn't important, but he had me with him when he negotiated with the Nameless the night you came and got me and I felt the power of that terrible evil! They need to be warned, they have no idea the level of power their going to be faced with and I know a lot more too, things that they could never find out on their own! It's in their best interest to deal with us even if they break the alliance later. He has to know that it's worth it to at least hear me out. He's stubborn, but he's not that stupid! Why is he doing this?" his red eyes were troubled, "I have to be missing something, but I'll be damned if I know what!"

"Could Aizen have used his zanpakuto in a more subtle way? Differently than when he demonstrated it to the lieutenants? Not to blind Yammamoto, but to control how he would respond to you if you should try to speak out against Aizen and enhance his anger?" she asked after a few moments, taking another sip of her wine. "Perhaps when no one could see them? You said he liked to play chess with Yammamoto. Could it have been then?"

"I...I'm not sure, but it sounds plausible." Gin said thoughtfully, then his head came up and his eyes became concerned. " You think Aizen may have used it on Yammamoto so he wouldn't listen to me if I did turn on him? Me or anyone linked to me, like you or Orihime."

"It's very likely. It's what I would do if I was in the same place. Control of those in authority and blinding them not only to his actions, but also making them reject help from outside would fit Aizen's plans neatly. He won't be able to make Yammamoto do much. The Soitaicho is far too powerful for even Aizen to control completely. If he tried and your Soitaicho acted too much out of character it would be noticed. However he would play on the Head Captain's suspicions and and use the sense of anger and betrayal that Yammamoto feels already to make him refuse an alliance with us until we handed over the only two people that could tell us Aizen's plans. You've told me yourself, Aizen loves to manipulate people, the more powerful the better, so the train of thought you're on fits." she said. "That's why I must speak with him. If he is under Aizen's control I'll know."

" Hmm that's true. Mindgames are something Sousuke just can't resist. That was why he insructed Ulquiorra to give Orihime 12 hours to say goodbye to one person." Gin shook his head, "It sounds just like his type of subtle maipulation. He knew it would make her appear to have turned to Aizen's side, but even if you know, what can you do?" he asked, reaching out and taking her hand, interlacing his fingers with hers. He loved just touching her, even if it was only holding her hand. Now that his desire had calmed a little, it was safe to touch her again. For a while anyway.

"I can break Aizens's spell and show Yammamoto the truth." she smiled and cupped his cheek with her free hand, "Don't worry beloved, I can see right through Aizen's spells and I think once the Head Captain learns how Aizen did and how manipulated him, he's going to be very, very angry and looking for revenge. I intend to help him." Her green eyes were dancing and her smile looked a little feral and the feline-like expression coupled with a lack of any human illusion took his breath away. "And since rebounded spells can be extemely painful, I guarantee more than Aizen's ego will be bruised after I'm through with him."

"You're beautiful, a bit scary sometimes, but beautiful!" he leaned forward for a kiss, feeling a thrill run down his spine and reignite an increasingly familiar ache that he tried with marginal success to ignore. Apparently touching wasn't going to be safe for long. " Okay, you've convinced me, we'll do it your way, You're right, I think the only one with a chance of making an allience with the Seireitiei is you but I don't like it, especially since I know you won't let me come with you and watch your back, so you'll have to teach me how to watch you like you used to me. Otherwise I'll be a nervous wreck."

"You just want to see your former comrades squirm!" she accused laughing.

"No...okay a little, but I don't want them destroyed. I've started to have dreams about what the world would be like if Aizen succeeds. What happens to the souls that die? I mean I know some become Hollows," he struggled for a moment, "Igrayne, I never made a human soul become a Hollow, I need you to know that. What would happen to the ones who would go to the Seireitei if Aizen and the Nameless were to win? I mean, my life there wasn't great, but I'm sure it beats the hell out of what would happen if those two were let loose to remake the people of Earth and here into what they want! They'd be mindless slaves that lived only to suffer! I'm no bigger fan of humans than the rhaka, but to see them made over into a twisted parody of what they once were...well that's an abomination and I can't just sit by and let it happen! Especially now. Humans gained the ability to travel the stars and colonized another world! A world that gave birth to you. It gave me love, children and a chance to start over! That's reason enough to fight for them."

Igrayne watched her mate struggle to recover the inner person Aizen had bent and twisted, but never broken, but he'd buried his true feelings for so long it was difficult for him to openly express himself, she touched his hair, sliding her fingers through the shining strands in a gentle gesture of affection,"Once again your instincts are exellent and fully in accord with mine. It has tried before, tried and failed, but with Aizen on It's side, It could actually succeed. Not since my father has the Nameless had such a powerful partner and the wholesale chaos they intend would feed It with pain and suffering for many Ages. If he bargains successfully and manages to retain his independence and I am fairly certain he will be able to do so, or seem to, It will appeare to grant him whatever his wishes in exchange for Orihime. With her power the Nameless One will be the God, not Aizen. This is what I was created for and I know your strength as well. It is far greater than anyone knows and you, of all the shinigami can challenge your ex-Captain, take the Hougioku and kill Sousuke Aizen for good!"

. "What? Me challenge Aizen and kill him? I think you grossly overestimate my abilities!" he said with a startled snort, " While I'm flattered, I couldn't take on Sousuke. Not and live to talk about it!"

"No Gin, I know the truth. " she squeezed his hand, looking deep into his eyes," Your power and mine together can finally bring this to an end, but first you must be honest, at least with yourself. I'm not prying my love and your thoughts are your own, until and unless you choose to share them." she gently brushed his cheek, "Remember that you are not alone and together we are far stronger than Aizen or the Nameless suspects. Even It has not taken the measure of the Bharashadi, but I doubt It has forgotten The Hunter. The one man the had the audacity to break his compact with the Nameless and live to talk about it and to destroy the Iezu It had allied with to turn the humans into so many cattle to feed it's hunger for pain and death. To know that his power lives on in me will not please the Nameless, not at all. The Mother made certain that I inherited it in all of it's dark glory." Igrayne took his face in her hands and looked at him, "When you see it, I hope you do not fear, because I promise you Gin, that power will never be turned against you."

Gin pulled her into his arms and held her for a moment and then asked, " So what do we do now?"

"I go break Kyoka Suigetsu's spell and give Aizen some migraines and insomnia" she said looking even more inhuman and giving him a feral, toothy grin as evil as any he could come up with.

Chuckling delightedly he leaned back on the bed, tucking a pillow under his head and said, "Like I said, a bit scary, but beautiful and you're all mine!" He finished his wine in a long swallow and grinned, lightening the mood, "Glad you love me too much to damage me. You won't even scratch my back unless I beg you to. Or drive you into it."

"Is it so bad that I don't want to hurt you?" she asked in mock exasperation, trying with difficulty to hold a stern expression,her twitching lips and sparkling eyes giving her away.

"But you scream so pretty when I do it to you! Can't blame me for wanting to know that I can drive my pretty little princess to claw, scratch and bite the shit out of me while I fuck her brains out." he grinned wider at her raised eyebrow at his blunt language. "Oops! Did I say that out loud? Oh dear, that was meant to be an inner monologue." He just managed to duck the swung pillow, but she was laughing when she did it.

"When I get back your, 'pretty little princess' is going to fuck your brains out...among other things, probably like biting, scratching and clawing the shit out of you!" a suggestive smile curled her lips. "Oh dear, I guess the whole out loud thing is catching!"

He pulled up the covers, laughing to disguise the effects that her seductive smile and teasing were having on him, " Promises, promises! Just go and get this over with! " he grinned again, " I'm looking forward to it and I'm gonna hold you to it."

"Oh I plan to hold a lot of you lover." she taunted, going back into the bathroom to dress, giving him a look that made him fall back on the bed with a groan trying to get his body back under control. It seemed to have other ideas though. He was hard enough to pound nails right now! He decided to get dressed and pulled on a black shuhakusho that he found in the wardrobe containing his clothes. Maybe if he was wearing the loose black hakama, his state of mind wouldn't be quite so obvious. He'd just finished tying his obi when she came out and sat down to brush her hair, his long fingers snatched the brush out her hands.

"Let me do that." he said, separating her hair and drawing the brush slowly through the shining strands, "Baby, promise to be careful. The old man is not evil, but he is stubborn to a fault. A privilage of age I suppose, but he doesn't like challenges to his authority and he believes I'm a traitor attempting to escape justice. He might decide to hold you until I am handed over." he caught her eyes in the mirror, " You know, if you'd asked me to that morning, I would have stayed. I would have gone with you. I wanted to. I wished I had stayed, so many times I wished I had stayed, but I was so afraid I wasn't strong enough to protect you and at the time Ran had no one else to watch over her."

"I know and I wanted you to stay, but it wasn't supposed to be that way and I knew you had reasons of your own for staying in the Seireitei. I would never want you to have to choose between the people you loved. It happened the way it was supposed to happen." she said softly. " In the end it worked out and if the Head Captain is stupid enough to try hostage taking then he's in for a very nasty surprise. I don't take challenges well either and I have no problem with bouncing Yammamoto across the compound too."

"I know," he sighed, "Nothing seems to give you problems, not even creepy little me. An before you say anything I am creepy, and I know it. I went outta my way to be that way. Keeps people from asking too many questions if they're not sure the person they're talking to is entirely sane. In fact sometimes I kinda liked em thinkin I might turn homicidal at any moment. Surprised the hell outta me when you started flirting with me though. That never happens since most women find me...disturbing." he looked at her speculativly, "You never did. You even seemed to enjoy the way I acted. I finally understood what it was like to be a normal guy flirting with a beautiful young woman. It felt really...good. It was especially flattering when I knew every man in the place couldn't keep their eyes off you and wanted you as bad as I did and you actually picked me!"

" I thought you were absolutly gorgeous and I could see into your mind. I knew you weren't homicidal or insane. You just like to taunt people and sometimes you can be a little cruel, I know, I know, you had to be, but you knew Aizen might hurt someone that you cared for, so you pushed them away. I was a stranger and therefore safe to play with for a night." she answered.

"Yes, but that backfired on me in a rather spectacular way didn't it?" he said laying the brush down, "I fell so hard for you I'm surprised I didn't bounce! I couldn't stop thinking of you every moment I was awake and I dreamed of you at night. It was getting obsessive by the time you showed up in Hueco Mundo. When I got that picture of Kai and Silmara I swear hime, I thought my heart was gonna stop! I didn't know whether to be relieved or angry that you hadn't told me you were pregnant, then I remembered what Sousuke would do to anybody I cared about and my blood nearly turned to ice! I just wanted you safe. After what he did to Kaien Shiba, it gave me nightmares to think what he would have done with two innocent children! I mean, Gods that thing he created ate Kaien's wife! From the inside out and turned her against her own squad and it tried to do the same to Kaien! It destroyed his zanpakuto and fused with him so he had to force Rukia into killing him to avoid the same fate! Everyone is just research material to Aizen. Even if he didn't find out what you and the twins can do, he still would have used you to make certain I never stepped out of line!" Gin shuddered and pulled her into an embrace, letting her warmth banish the cold chill creeping down his spine. "It was enough to know you three were safe in a place where Aizen couldn't get to you, but it nearly tore my heart out and it made me miss you even more. It reminded me of everything I couldn't have, but wanted anyway. Of everything I did have, but couldn't get near because of the choices I'd made long before I ever knew you. I didn't know what you had told our children! Did they hate me for abandoning them and their mother? Did you hate me for not staying? I didn't know what to think!" he caressed her hair as he looked into her eyes, "Who put that picture there? It wasn't you was it?"

"No and I still have no idea who did that." she murmered against his shoulder."I'm so sorry my love for not telling you. I didn't want you to feel pressured to choose me because I'd borne your children. It had to be something you chose because you really wanted to be with us, I knew you had other obligations, but I know how lonely you were." Tears colored her voice, "So was I. I didn't hate you! I couldn't! I just wanted you to have the space to decide for yourself what you wanted. I didn't know you knew about the children, but now I'm glad you did." "Whoever it was, they must have thought I needed to know, for whatever reason. Maybe to show me that all of you didn't hate me and still loved me. To show me that even though there was very little in my world that gave a damn about me, somewhere I had people that loved me, that missed me and I mattered to all of you. That I had a chance to be happy if I chose to take it. Whatever it was, I'm glad they did." He sighed again, wiping her tears with gentle fingers reluctant to let her go, "I suppose I should let you get on with this."

"I'll be back soon. Silmara can show you where and how to watch. Beloved, please don't try to come to my aid, no matter what. They'll kill you." she said before kissing him. "Don't worry, it will be a pleasure to throw Aizen's power back into his face and I think your former comrads are going to be angry enough about that to overlook your involvement in favor of ending Sousuke Aizen forever. For the Soitaicho I believe it will be a matter of honor."

"I think it will, but it doesn't mean they won't be down our throats the moment this is over." Gin answered,settling his hakama more comfortably and falling into step beside her as she moved to the door. When she looked at him, longing and a desperate loneliness in her eyes, he smiled, "What's the matter sweet girl?" When a single tear rolled down her cheek, his smile faltered, "Why are you looking at me like that?" he asked, looking at her with concern. She turned and threw her arms around him, holding him tightly.

"Because, you're...you're wearing black robes, a shuhakusho!" she sent, shaking and trying desperatly not to cry, "You...you look like you did when we first met! I don't want to lose you again!" He could feel her anxiety over being seperated from him again.

"Oh baby, don't cry! I'm only wearing this because it was loose and I was, well...what I was wanting was fairly obvious, so I decided that these might cover it a bit. That's all. You're not going to lose me! I promise you won't love!" he whispered into her mind, holding her close, He tipped her face up so he could look into her eyes, switching to verbal speech, "I told you, this is where I want to be, where I belong and I'll never leave you again. I swear I'll be right here when you get back. I've made my choice and it's you!" he sighed, "Guess it's my turn to watch you leave. I don't like it either, but I promise my angel, I'll be right here waiting for you! I'm just worried about how you're going convince Yammamoto to talk to me without him doing something stupid. He knows I'll come for you if he tries to keep you there and that's going cause a very unpleasant bloody scene. Even if you can convince him that he's under the influence of Aizen's zanpakuto it still won't excuse what I did. He'll still regard me as a traitor."

"Not if he thinks the same was done to you. As far as the Seireitei is concerned, you were under the influence of Kyoka Suigetsu, just as they were and it's hold was stronger on you due to your long association, so all of your actions were at Aizen's command while you were under the hypnosis spell." she said, leaning into his embrace and getting herself calmed.

"That's a great explanation...except for one minor detail. I wasn't under the influence of Aizen's sword." Gin said. "Sousuke taught me how to break it's hold decades ago. I taught Orihime how to do it too. You just touch the blade before he releases it." "They, however, do not need to know that, do they?" his lover answered, wrinkling her nose at him impishly.

"You're a devious woman hime. I like it!" he grinned, "Must be one of the reasons I fell for you. Makes you an even more perfect match for me!"

"Hmm , maybe," she smiled running her fingers through his fine silver hair again. "Mmm so soft."

"I think you're obsessed with my hair, Kitten." he smiled, touching her face softly with the backs of his fingers.

"I'm obsessed with you Gin Ichimaru. All of you and only you and I love you with all of my heart and I'll use any means necessary to stop the Seireitie from trying to hurt you! You belong to me and I to you and woe to whoever tries to seperate us again!" Igrayne said pausing for a passionate embrace, her lips pressing against his.

He wanted more than anything to sweep her up into his arms and take her back to their bed and show her that he felt the same way. That he never wanted to be away from her again. He'd never been all that good at just coming out and saying what he felt. Innuendo and misdirection had always been his preferred method, but what he felt for her demanded nothing less than wholehearted honesty. "I love you sweet girl, more than anything or anyone and the obsession is mutual. I'm not going anywhere!" his mindvoice was soft and filled with love, then he smiled, all typical Gin again,"Go convince that stubborn old fossil that he needs us and get back here as quick as you I'll show how here I really am!" He kissed her again, a long, slow, very wet kiss all teeth and tongue in the way only he could kiss and turned her bones to water, making her shiver as she clung to him. "I'll be waiting, so don't take too long. I'm not very patient these days, especially when it comes to sweeping you off to our bedroom and doing interestingly naughty things to you until you scream."

"Oi Ichimaru! Knock it off! We've got things to do!" Ichigo said, his scowl seeming even darker than usual, then he grinned and added, "You can feel your woman up later, after she's gotten the rest of the Seireitei to stop wanting your head on a spike!"

"Jealous?" the older man grinned, making the younger one blush."Are you wishing that you had someone to feel up?"

"Maybe." the younger man grinned back, even though his cheeks were still a little pink, "What if I am?"

"Then I suggest that you find your own woman and feel her up!" he tipped his head and gave Ichigo a long, penetrating look, "Really Ichigo, those thoughts about Rukia are very inappropriate! Captain Kuchiki would give you quite a scolding if he knew. She's his younger sister after all." Gin said with mock disapproval. To his amusement Ichigo turned a brilliant scarlet.

"Shut up!" Ichigo snarled in a strangled voice and his face was getting redder by the second! "You don't know anything about my thoughts!"

"I didn't! I was just messing with you, but I do now! You're broadcasting loud and clear!" Gin laughed, then bit his lip, choking a little as he tried to reign in his amusement at the boy's expense. He just couldn't resist a little teasing, no matter what the situation. His mate only smiled at him fondly and shook her head.

"Shame on you for making the poor boy think you were reading his mind!" she laughed. "He's so embrrassed he might die from it, or wish he could!"

" As I said I was just messing with him. I had no idea he was actually thinking that about the girl until he started blushing and broadcasting some rather graphic...fantasies!" Gin protested, but grinning unrepentantly, "I was beginning to wonder if the boy even noticed girls! I had no idea he was that shy about sex!"

"Sure you didn't." his mate teased, mussing his silver hair.

"Well, ok maybe a little. It's just so easy with that kid that I can't help myself!" her lover laughed shaking his fine, silky hair back in order.

"You're not going with me." Igrayne said looking at the young shinigami when he'd mastered his blushes. "This could be very dangerous." "Yes, my lady, we are. I owe you a debt for bringing Orihime here and protecting her. You and the Captain." he said addressing Gin by his former rank, "Since Ichimaru can't go with you, Chad, Uryu and I are going. It's to repay him for looking out for Orihime. Without him there, who knows what would have happened! She's told me some of what he did including making sure Noitora knew that laying a hand on her would cost him big time! I know you don't need looking after, but we have issues of our own with Yammamoto!" he raised a hand when she began to shake her head, "No! We're going and that's final! You might need us to tell them about how Ichimaru saved her and how he's changed since he's been here. We all have to help convince them to ally with us and that things weren't like what they thought and that Aizen duped them! They think Orihime is a traitor too and they were going to abandon her in Hueco Mundo for gods sake and now they want to put her on trial! Yammamoto needs to understand my friends are not expendable or his to judge when he doesn't have all the facts and he knows Aizen can make people believe anything he wants! He's being an idiot and I intend to tell him so!"

Gin grinned and turned to his lady, "Just say yes and take them or we'll be here all day! Remember love, they took on the whole of the 13 Court Guard Squads and they were only half trained. I saw what a mess Ichigo left of Renji and he was a lieutenant who just a short time earlier, nearly killed this boy. Ichigo came very close to killing Renji that day. I was a damn Captain and this kid gave me nightmares. He was almost strong and quick enough to get in a hit or two on me and I was dodging as fast as I could! That's why I knocked Jidanbo out from under the gate and closed it. I was afraid if it went on any longer I'd be forced to hurt him and I wasn't doing that. Whatever else people think of me I do not hurt kids! I didn't have nearly as much trouble avoiding Hitsugaya and the kid is a Captain too. Don't underestimate them and he's right, it is their fight too. It was unforgivable to leave Orihime in that place alone." he said grimly, then he casually went over to clap Ichigo's shoulder in a friendly manner, but he whispered in the boy's ear, " Thank you Ichigo. I appreciate you watching her back. She's everything to me and having someone like you there eases my mind. I ain't happy about this, but she's right it has to be done and it has to be her, since they wouldn't listen to you. Don't worry about Orihime, I won't let anything happen to her either."

"Did you ask her?" the boy asked in the same low tone, changing the subject.

"Yep and she said yes." Gin grinned and shivered as a thrill shot down his spine. My wife. She really said yes. She said yes and she's going to be my wife! Better, I get to be her husband! If this is a dream, I'll kill the person that wakes me up!

"Gods help her!" the boy said sarcastically,then looked at the older man, "You've changed...a lot and I think it's because of her." he said, looking the man up and down, "Congratulations and be happy, but just remember that if you hurt her or anyone else, I'll kill you myself. I don't know why you did what you did, but you hurt a lot of people."

"And here we were getting along so well! Don't threaten me kid. It ain't healthy, besides I had my reasons! " Gin warned, but then unbent a bit and said, " If it makes you feel any better Ran is going to be mad as hell, no matter what reasons I give and she'll probably kick my ass if she's feeling kind! If not, she might decide to kill me slow and painful."

"She has every right to! Your lieutenant attacked her and he did release his zanpakto against her, not to mention you hit her with yours when you tried to kill Momo Hinamori." Ichigo said in a severe tone.

"Hate to break it to you since you seem to have worked up such an elaborate theory but I wasn't really trying to kill Momo. I would have pulled the blow at the last moment, but Ran got in the way. I didn't mean to hurt her." he glanced at the younger boy, "If I'd wanted the girl dead then she would be. I don't run around letting everyone know exactly what my abilities are, or how strong I am and I wasn't stupid enough to do it while fighting Hitsugaya! I just made it look that way, but as far as I knew, Sousuke planned to take her with him to Hueco Mundo. I was only following orders to create as much chaos as possible and make sure everyone suspected me of Aizen's so-called death, but he's the one that screwed up her mind and stabbed her in the chest after he told me to bring her to the Central 46 living quarters. I didn't know he was going to try to kill her or I would have found a way to keep her away or make sure Toshiro kept an eye on her." the tall shinigami looked at Ichigo, a hint of red iris glinting beneath his silver bangs, " I was wrong, I made a huge mess of things, but I had my reasons. Grow up a little and I might even tell you the whole story someday. I won't lie and say I didn't enjoy getting to slap Toshiro around, that kid hates me, not without reason I might add, since I like messin with him and we just seem to grate on each other's nerves and I doubt that will ever change, but I didn't want him dead either so I didn't fight all out. I stuck to shikai even when he used bankai. Ain't it enough that I'm helping you now?" "I dunno, guess we'll have to see how much help you'll really be. This could all be a set up. You could be leading Aizen to the one person who might destroy him. It's obvious that she loves you with everything she has! She's vulnerable to you so that makes you her greatest weakness." Ichigo pointed out, "You could be out to betray her and because of her feelings for you it would be very easy."

"Yeah, could see how you'd think that, except for one small detail. You don't know anything about what being lifebonded means, so I guess I'll let it slide. Igrayne's people were created here from three seperate races, two of which tried to obliterate each other and hate each other to this day. Their creator, their Mother, only had the resources to create 21 of them. To ensure that they would grow and spread over this world, that they would become like the shinigami in a way, the Mother created an ability to recognize their perfect mate and to bond that person to them, whether they were human, rhaka or whatever, for as long as they live, which is a damned long time since they're as close to immortal as you can get. They are then able to mate and bear the children of their bondmate. That bond is unbreakable and if it's denied, both partners die, their brains literally overloaded from too much sensory input. It's just about the only thing that can kill one of the Bharashadi. A bonded pair have to come together to exchange information and assimilate the new data into their own minds. It's a form of telepathy. Igrayne was the firstborn and so the first to bond. She bonded me a century ago and had twins by me. Because she's a very powerful telepath, something they call a dreamwalker, she could reach me in my dreams so she was able to keep us alive that way. But the bond has gotten much stronger as my abilities developed and dreams weren't enough. That's why I had to come here and if I betrayed her, what I'd go through is worse than hell. Worse than death. Much, much worse, because on top of my own pain I'd feel everything she felt too." Gin watched the younger boy as he explained. "As if it were happening to me, at least until my brains turned to liquid and ran out my ears, nose and eyes and that's only if the convulsions didn't kill me first."

"That sounds like a nasty way to die." Ichigo agreed, then asked curiously, "How do you do this exchange thing?"

"Just remember, you asked me to tell you about this. The bond is sexual and it contains a compulsion. We have to make love, and stay together for the full 24 hour period. During that time period the mental input gets sorted out, but until it is we can't focus on anything else. We cease to be two people, we're literally one person with two bodies then. Even when we're not making love, I'm still aware of her thoughts at the same moment as she thinks them and she is with me. There's a constant flow of information being exchanged between us all the time and we need to sort it out every few days or it causes a mental overload because there's just so much information flowing back and forth between us that even our minds, which are very different from the mind of any other species, can't handle the pressure. Personally I prefer to do my sorting every night. Not only is the compulsion powerful, I find Igrayne incredibly sexy and I adore making love to her! " Gin paused while Ichigo made an exclaimation of embarrassment, his red eyes amused at the younger man's discomfort, "No need to be so embarrassed Ichigo, you did ask me to explain. It's a little overwhelming at first... no it's very overwhelming at first," the silver haired man admitted, "the constant flow of thoughts, emotions and even physical sensations. She literally knows my thoughts the moment I think them and I do hers, though somehow, she never seems to pry. She waits until I'm ready to talk about it and if I'm not or don't ever want to, she's not bothered. She allows me the privacy of my own thoughts. I'm not really sure how, but she does and I'm grateful for that. I'm not used to being an open, honest person yet. I've hidden my true feelings and my real self for so long that it's hard to be any other way and the idea that someone knows everthing about me is a little disconcerting. I think you should know though, it's more than that Ichigo, I love her and bond or no bond that doesn't change. She's my life, the other half of my soul and she understands me in a way no one ever has, not even Rangiku. She's seen parts of me that no one should ever see, she's even seen me break down and loves me, just loves me, without judgement or censure. I can't let anything happen to her, not because I'd die too, but because I love her and I wouldn't hurt her for the world! The very idea makes me sick. I can't let anything happen to this world, Earth , or for that matter ya irritating little brat, you. I'm a Guardian of this world now, one of the Bharashadi and I have no choice but to protect it and if Earth falls this world will never be colonized, so I have to protect it too and everyone on those worlds. Somewhere along the line I got saddled with a conscience and a whole lot of responsibility! I don't much like it, but it's the price I gotta pay if I wanna be with her! " Gin looked at the boy, "Any of this makin sense?"

"Some." Ichigo admitted, " I don't know if I trust you yet Ichimaru, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now. Do you think she can get the Seireitei to help? Without costing you your life that is?"

The ex captain was silent for a moment then said, "I think she will. She can be very persuasive when she wants to be. I have an idea that some of the captains will hear her out. The kind of power she offers, they'd be insane to turn it down!"

"What makes her so powerful?" Ichigo asked.

"She and all of her siblings, even my children are created as living weapons. Igrayne herself was born from a human that was the most powerful Adept this world has ever known. His name was Gerald Tarrant, also called the Hunter. If you think I'm evil, then this guy will really creep you out. He hunted young, beautiful women for 900 years in the Forest of Jahanna. Fed on their fear as they died. He was also the only human to make a pact with the Nameless and survive breaking it. Want to know how he sealed the pact?" When Ichigo nodded, he went on, "He vivisected his wife and murdered two of his children in Sacrifice, Igrayne is the Hunter's Daughter."

"Didn't he make the same deal Aizen is ? Somehow that's not very reassuring. Why would evil like that help us?" the boy said frowning. "Because sometimes you don't fight evil with good, Ichigo, sometimes you fight it with a different kind of evil. Bharashadi means the Black Shadows." Gin said watching him. "When it's a different kind of evil then they know all of evils tricks and are harder to fool, right?"

"How do we know she won't betray us?" the substitute shinigami wondered.

" She doesn't have to betray us, just leave us on our own. Besides,her father Sacrificed his immortality and his life to save this world, along with a rhakawoman named Hesseth sa Restrath who put aside her hate and fear to fight and die along with humans to stop an evil so powerful that it was warping her people, making them into demons. They couldn't tolerate the sunlight. It killed them as surely as it would a true demon. She was Igrayne's rhaka parent. She was born of the Sacrifice of two very powerful beings, bound together by the Iezu Mother. She has all of their power and better, Sousuke's power doesn't work on her, it never has and she knows how he manipulated me. She's seen what he did to Kaien Shiba, to Momo, to Rangiku, to the Vizored and to people that you'll never know because they were just poor street people that nobody misses. She hates him Ichigo, a strong deep hate that comes from seeing someone break every oath he's ever taken and abuse his power and authority for his own selfish ends, to use people like laboratory rats, instead of protecting those in his charge. She knows what he did to me and knows that it kept me from my family and my children for their entire childhood. She won't harm innocent people, but she's not above dirty tricks or any other tactic against the enemy. Her favorite saying is pain teaches. Aizen is going to get a very long, bloody lesson, but I doubt even I can stomach what she'll teach him."

What will she teach him that you couldn't handle?" Ichigo asked, his dark eyes a little afraid

"She'll most likely teach him about fear," Gin said, his red eyes looking into Ichigo's amber brown ones, "The Arrancar follow him because they think he's without fear. He might even be, but not once she gets hold of him. Then he'll be prey to The Hunter's Daughter. Think, what did her father hunt?"

"Young, beautiful women and fed on their fear until they died." Ichigo answered.

"Ever looked at Sousuke?" when the boy nodded, "Would you say that he was attractive?" Gin grinned as understanding dawned in his eyes, "She'll Hunt him and induce overwhelming fear until the pain and terror are so great his body can't sustain it. But the end is the part that will be worst." He grinned a wide totally evil smile, "She'll teach him a very detailed lesson in pain, before she kills him and by then he'll be a broken, insane shell. Or at least in Sousuke's mind it will happen that way. Lets just say he's in for the mental mindfuck of the century! If I know my Kitten, and I do, she'll leave him just sane enough to keep screaming as he relives being hunted and frightened and utterly powerless to prevent any of his punishment, day after day. She isn't normally cruel, but Aizen is a special case in her mind and death just wouldn't be enough after the countless lives he's destroyed. She'll make an exception for him and I think I've changed my mind...I might watch after all and I might invite Toshiro too. Think he has that right."

"That might be a good idea love." Igrayne sent quietly, "He has as much reason to hate Aizen as you do."

"I don't think it sounds cruel, it sounds like he'll get exactly what he has coming and the fact that it will all be in his mind is poetic justice for all of the minds he's contolled and destroyed. Lets get going. The sooner we stop your former comrades from trying to have your liver for breakfast, the better. Do I get to watch too? " Ichigos said with a nasty smile that Gin couldn't help returning. He turned to Igrayne, who was speaking to the biggest rhaka either shinigami had ever seen. Gin recognized him as her Weaponsmaster Khatasa. "Are you ready my lady?"

"Yes child, though I'm not happy about you coming." she frowned.

"I assume you can get us into the Seireitei without having to dodge arrest or attack by the Gotai 13?" Uryu asked quickly before Ichigo could take offense to being called a child.

"Of course." she said with a smile, as if the question was the silliest thing she'd ever heard, "It's getting out that might be...interesting." She turned to Gin, "Don't worry, I will be back love. Silmara will show you where and how to watch."

"See ya soon, " Gin kissed his lady softly, then grinned, " but I'm still gonna worry until you're back with me. Give em hell sweet girl! Don't take too long, I'll be waitin." He looked in her eyes and sent, "Are you ok now? Tell me you believe me when I say I'll be right here."

"The trouble is I am going to save them from hell! At least your friends, Rangiku, Ukitaki and Kira. Hopefully they'll help me get through the front door without giving me too big a headache." She conjured that black gate again and answered her lover with a gentle mental caress and a soft brush to his mind. "I'm fine my love, but I already miss you. I'll be back as quickly as I can, I don't want to wait to be with you again either." She returned to verbal speech, her tone brisk, businesslike and slightly annoyed. "Come gentlemen, let us get this over with! Despite the fact that my mate was one and Ichigo is still, I'm not very fond of shinigami. Especially not their pig headed Soitaicho!" Her tone made Uryu and Ichigo both smile. The orange haired boy looked over his shoulder at Gin and shook his head wryly. He understood the man's attraction to this woman. She was an intriguing mix of a stern leader, battle commander and rutheless fighter and at the same time a gentle healer, wife and mother.

The journey was not long and the came out in an upopulated forest area that Igrayne knew from memories she'd inherited from Gin had been Kaien Shiba's favorite area to practice and meditate. It was also where he'd brought Rukia to teach her sword fighting and to practice kido. He'd also helped the girl feel accepted and a part of the squad she had been thrust into because of her adoption into the Kuchiki clan. He'd given her the friend he had known she needed. Since Ichigo was dressed in a black shuhakusho and therefor less noticeable, she let him lead the way. She wore a simple russet skirt and blouse, Uryu as usual was in his blue trimmed white uniform, but Chad was dressed in everyday teenage attire, jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt. They made an odd group. A second later they heard a rustle in the brush. They all tensed, but then relaxed when the white hair of Juuishiro Ukitaki, Captain of the 13th came into to view. "Hello my friend, it's good to see you again." she said with a smile. Had Gin not stolen her heart so completely, she might have fallen for this man. His deep inner kindness, gentle smile and abiding sense of honor were appealing.

"It has been a long time Igrayne." the captain smiled, "I was very surprised to get Gin's message, but I'm happy to hear he is finally with you. I was very glad he wasn't the traitor everyone thought him to be. I always liked Gin and he was one of my brightest students. I was surprised to learn that you had his children. He said they were twins? A boy and a girl? That's wonderful! I look forward to meeting them."

"As glad as I am to have him with me finally and yes we have a boy, Kaien, called Kai," she smiled when Ukitaki's head came up sharply and then he looked at her with brimming eyes. Igrayne knew the Captain was touched beyond words that she had horored the memory of his lieutenant by naming her son for him. "and a daughter Silmara. The twins look forward to meeting you too. Gin is fond of you and considers you a friend. " she held out her left hand to show the ring that her lover had given her the night before, "I hope you will wish us happiness."

"I do. I've known for a long time that he was in love with you and now that you've found each other again I hope you have the happy lifetime together that you both hope for." the white haired man said softly and he embraced Igrayne for a moment. And thank you for remembering Kaien. He was one of few people that called Gin a friend, he never paid any attention to Gin's sarcasm or strange personality, he understood that the person everyone else saw wasn't the real Gin I think and I know he'd be very happy for you. Now tell me, what was this about the Head Captain being under the influence of Aizen's sword? If that is true then it explains much." he said.

"It explains some things, but not all. He has made too many rash decisions before this. He is too tradition bound and he hates change, but he must learn to work with allies he dislikes or Aizen will have us all! He'll get no sympathy from any of us! To believe Orihime could turn against her friends and then decide to leave her to Aizen's nonexistant mercy is unforgivable! If he could not see that she was a distraction from Aizen's true goal then he is old and blind indeed! He all but ignored your investigation and forbid any of his squads from helping to get that poor child back! He knew Aizen's zanpakuto could make it seem any way that psychopath wanted and yet he still fell for it! Well that ends today! Whether he chooses to help us or not I will make him see the truth!" Igrayne said in an almost feline growl that immediately put Ichigo in mind of the Rhaka he had seen in the encampment. If this lady was part rhaka then she would have little patience with the former humans of the Seireitei and she would be a deadly enemy. He had seen Khatasa putting Gin's son Kai through combat drills and the speed and force of the big rhaka's sword blows had made Ichigo's arm ache in sympathy for the Bharashadi boy, though Kai had taken the full force of the blows easily and had landed no few of his own, just as hard in addition to being so fast that his movements blurred. If the lady was anything like her offspring then Ichigo doubted anyone here would have the ability to stop her, especially with her phenomenal mental abilities. "I will however, try to remember that this is a diplomatic mission," she finished with a smile, "Please lead on my friend."

"This way then my lady." Ukitaki led them without incident through the streets of the Rukon, though many gathered to watch them and she heard them whisper about rioka and the singer from Hashi's inn.

"Does Hashi still run the inn by the river?" she asked.

"He does indeed and has grumbled for a long time, wishing you would come back and sing so that he could have the kind of business you brought him again. He also liked you and was charmed by Gin falling so in love with you practically from the moment he laid eyes on you. Hashi is quite the romantic soul and he'll be thrilled to hear that Gin is with you and that you are to be married. He always refused to believe the boy, as he called him was a traitor. Perhaps he saw more clearly than any of us who think themselves wise." Ukitaki laughed. "Why didn't you come back? Hashi was not the only one who missed you. Gin became even more isolated and alone after you left. It didn't take much to know how deeply and hard he'd fallen for you, I'd never, ever seen him act like that and I've know him since he was a child at the Academy. I knew you were the one for him and I hoped that you would come back one day and love him like he did you."

"I did love him, from the moment he walked in the door, but I did what had to be done. It was...a long time before I could smile again too. He had to deal with his own demons and come to the place he is in now. He needed to understand that he can't do everything alone and learn to trust others. Also, I had other responsibilities after I left here. You will see what I mean later as I intend to ask for you to be among the captains to be stationed on Erna." she smiled sadly, "Besides we both had a lot of growing up to do. We were so young." As they were talking they came to the headquarters of the 1st Squad and it appeared that the Head Captain was waiting for them. "But Juushiro, we were never apart. He just didn't know that they were more than dreams. He's never been alone."

When they were all inside the Head Captain began to speak without greeting and Ichigo and his friends tensed, fearing the worst. "You are not what you claimed to be when you first asked for and were granted permission to play here Lady Igrayne. Your deception is not appreciated. What do you hope to accomplish by coming here? I have already told Ichigo Kurosaki our terms. Hand over the two traitors and then we will talk, otherwise you waste your time and mine!" the Head Captain said with finality. Igrayne saw that all the remaining Captains were standing before the old man and their seconds were standing just behind them. She noticed a lovely strawberry blonde standing behind a young man with spiky white hair and cold aqua eyes. So that's Rangiku. Hmm Orihime does look like her. Then that makes the boy her Captain, Toshiro Hitsugaya. She glanced to the empty place where the Captain of the 3rd should have stood, it was occupied by a thin young man with a Lieutenants badge bearing the sign of the 3rd on his left arm. And that must be Izuru Kira. The young lieutenant watched her with wide blue eyes, but he flushed and dropped his eyes nervously when she looked his way.

"I am everything I claimed to be Head Captain, I simply didn't claim all that I am. Those days are gone and I am here to tell you what you face now. It is no longer just Aizen alone, for he has allied with the embodiment of evil. For a human to even think of the Nameless will draw it's attention and drawing it's attention is usually fatal. Without my people you cannot hope to win." she stated, her tone cool and regal. " I will offer an alliance, but I will not hand my mate over to you. Gin Ichimaru does not belong to this world anymore, he belongs to Erna and is one of my people now. I am here because he felt compelled to tell you of your danger and is willing to tell you all he knows of Aizen's plans. He was there the night Aizen took this abomination as a patron and ally. As for Orihime Inoue, she was coerced into going to Hueco Mundo. Aizen sent his 4th Espada Ulquiorra Schiffer to force her to come by threatening to kill any she held dear, including Captain Hitsugaya and Lieutenant Matsumoto. By giving her time to say goodbye to Ichigo and heal him they knew you would assume she had turned traitor and gone willingly. You failed to see that he was playing with you, dividing your forces and making fools out of you! You were prepared to leave an innocent girl in Hueco Mundo with Aizen and his Arrancar any of who would have eventually killed her. If not for Gin she might have come to serious harm there and you would have lost Ichigo and his friends when you needed them the most because he would most surely have gone after her!"

The Head Captain's eyes burned as he looked at her, "Perhaps Miss Inoue can be excused, but not Gin Ichimaru! The former Captain of the 3rd Squad was a willing traitor! He was charged to defend the Seireitei against the Hollows, not join with them! He is an oathbreaker and a traitor who has murdered and plotted beside Sousuke Aizen since he was a child! Why should he not face justice? Just because you have developed a liking for him? His crimes merit death!"

"Many live who deserve death and many die who deserve life! Can you give them that Soitaicho Yammamoto?" she snapped, "You should not be so quick to deal out death and judgement to a few when both our worlds face destruction! Aizen used Gin as he will use us all as a Sacrifice to become a God! He will have no need of life as it is now. Not when he can create new races made to bend to his will! The Nameless comes from my world and my father helped to defete it before, as I will now! Our powers are very different from yours. As for my lifemate, you know nothing! He was...no that is for him to tell you. If and only if he chooses. I will tell you this much though, if you kill him then you also consign me to that same fate! If one half of a bonded couple dies then their partner dies as well. I have done nothing Head Captain. I have betrayed no one. Would you still consider Gin's execution just?" Igrayne's expression was one of finality.

"How can you be certain of this? What can you do that we can not?" the old man asked ungraciously, leaving aside the issue if Gin Ichimaru for the moment. Whatever he had done, Gin had gained this woman's loyalty and Yammamoto sensed it was not only her love that was responsible for it.

"Forgive me Head Captain, but I trust both Ichimaru and the Lady Igrayne. I've been to her world and met her people. The Bharashadi and their human and rhaka allies have unbelievable power! The Plains where they live, has a barrier over it that keeps everything out. The rhaka fled to the those lands and the sheer need for protection from the human colonists that tried to exerminate them created that barrier out of a natural force called the fae. That power responded to their need for protection by raising the Canopy. Even though humans on that world can use the fae too, the Canopy is different. It negates any human sorcery or technology and no one can sense anything from inside the Canopy. Whether you choose to pardon Ichimaru and Orihime, you'll never be able to get to them. Not while they are under the Canopy and Ichimaru can mask his reiatsu so well that you'll never know when or if he leaves. He can use Igrayne's power as well so even if you did, he could make you forget that you'd seen him. I believe him when he says he was never what you all thought him to be and his power is far stronger than you know, so I don't think even if you find him that you could capture or hold him and even if you did you would be facing Igrayne and her people and I really don't think you want them as enemies." Ichigo said stepping forward. "Sorry, but I wanted you to know how I felt." He bent his head to both of them and stepped back, but both Uryu and Chad nodded.

" I saw it happen over and over and each time you rejected our aid, the Seireitei fell in fire and blood!" she continued calmly. "My people can see many things. Things that were, things that are and things that have not yet come to pass. Sometimes we can see how to change things, prevent the extinction of life and I can free you and your people. Aizen has you under the spell of his zanpakuto. You know this. It does not affect me or my people since our power is perfect illusion and it allows us to see the illusions of others."

"Why should we fear mere illusion?" a shinigami every bit as big as Khatasa said scornfully.

Igrayne smiled maliciously, sending her mind slamming into his, brushing aside his reiatsu as if it were nothing,knocking him flat and suddenly the big man's eyes bulged as he fought for breath against something he could feel but not see! "Are you worried now Captain Zaraki? I merely suggested to your brain that there was no oxygen and here you are, unable to even fight." she knelt down next to the gasping man as his face turned blue, "Our illusions are real enough to kill and I'm afraid even you don't have the power to keep me out of your head or your heart. Just as with our Iezu kin we can read souls much as others would a book." She finally made a dismissing gesture and he was able to breath again. "I told the rest of you that you could not move or speak. You may do so now." Igrayne stood serenely and waited while her actions sank in. "Aizen used a similar power on you so that you did not see the evil walking among you and now he is gathering power enough to become a god and making alliences with the embodiment of pure evil. An evil that will consume your very souls until you are unable to do more than eat, sleep and suffer! Are you frightened now? You should be. Only a fool is without fear."

"Forgive me if I wonder how we are any safer with you my lady." Captain Unohana asked, her eyes serious and troubled as she knelt to check Captain Zaraki."You could decide to do the same and we would be just as powerless against you."

"Because my lady healer, I have no desire to hold that kind of power over others. I have no desire to be a god. No creature of the mortal world has that ability, no matter how powerful they are. I can and will use my power to free you, but it is a tool among others, a fulfillment of my being and nothing more." Igrayne smiled, her eyes softening for a moment, "I want no more than any woman wants. A life with the man I love, our children and peace." Her green eyes grew cold again. "One point is not negotiable. I want Gin and Orihime, free from you and any punishment you intend for them. You will agree to this or this conversation is over and we will leave you all to your fate though any individuals that choose to may return with me." Igrayne caught the eyes of Rangiku and Kira. The two looked startled and looked at her and then each other. " Orihime is innocent and what was done to my mate I hold you, Soitaicho to be partially to blame. You allowed things to go on right under your nose and even if you saw it, you sat and did nothing!"

"What if she's right Head Captain? What if we could have stopped Aizen from making Gin and Kaname his allies and...dear gods the Vizored." Ukitaki asked, then turned to Igrayne, "Lady, what didn't we see that you obviously did? What happened to Gin?"

"Everything that Aizen hid from you, but I won't tell you what Gin suffered, only that he did. He may tell you someday if he chooses, but he will stay with us. He has a life and a family on Erna and I will not allow anyone to take it away from him." She gave them all a level look, "I do know that if we do not find a way to work together then we will all be worse than dead. We will be made over in Aizen's twisted vision of pain and suffering for his amusement. Many more than those of you here suffered because of Aizen. Ichigo, your former comrades like Shinji Hirako and Kisuke Urahara and Kaien Shiba and Rukia Kuchiki, especially Rukia! Aizen nearly succeeded in manipulating you into executing her, but for Ichigo Kurosaki you would have and people you will never know, because they were poor, common people that no one misses." She glanced at a black haired tatooed young man that had once been Tousen's lieutenant. "Is that not so Shuuhei Hisagi? Where would you be with out Kensei Mugurama? He saved you when he was the Captain of the 9th and yet because of Aizen, nearly paid with his life and soul when Kaname Tousen betrayed him and he nearly became a Hollow, that he didn't is due to the brilliant mind of Kisuke Urahara. They both paid with exile."

The young man gave her a sharp look, but then his fierce dark eyes softened and he bowed slightly, "Hai, lady that is true. He saved me when I was just a poor kid from the Rukon. It was unheard of for a Captain like he was to fight to defend a nameless child, but he never hesitated. I mattered to him, poor or not. He was the reason I wanted to join the Seireitei. To protect others as he had and repay him for saving me. Head Captain, I want to fight with her people. We owe the people who had their lives destroyed by Sousuke Aizen! If Gin is willing to help us then we could have access to valuable information."

"They were all innocent and if we do not unite and stop him more will suffer needlessly. Do you mean to leave two worlds to suffer. Do all those people stand alone? Is punishing Gin that important? My bonded is no monster. Let him prove it." Igrayne asked softly.

There was a stir among the assembled officers. Even the Captain of the 6th looked at her with reserved respect." Your words have raised a number of questions that must be answered and you have already convinced enough of my officers and they wish to help you. Break the spell lady and let us see what may be from there. I would see this power of yours and see if you can truly show me the truth." the old man finally said.

"I will have to touch you for this. You have my word that I will do nothing else." she said softly. The tension level rose as she said that.

"Proceed." was all he said.

"I will go first, Head Captain!" Ukitaki stepped forward.

"No, I must know!" Yammamoto said with a curt gesture, then he looked at his subordinate and smiled, "I know that you are trying to help Juuishiro, but if I have blundered this badly then I must trust this woman. You obviously do. Many of you do." he looked at Igrayne, "You could put us under your control and make us free your lover and fight for your world, but I see no deceit in your eyes, so I will begin with a gesture of trust. Do what you must." Igrayne stepped forward and brushed the man's forehead and concentrated. From inside it looked like a mirror, but everything was distorted and warped. She closed her eyes and made an odd twisting gesture and the old man cried out, dropping to his knees as the veil of lies was ripped asunder! The truth flooded his mind causing him great remorse and mental anguish. The Stealth Squad was instantly around the woman and her young escorts, but they were saved from further violence by Yammamoto himself. " Stop! All of you!" the Head Captain roared, "She told the truth! She was right! He not only decieved and betrayed us, he used us like lab rats! It was Aizen's experiments that created the Vizored! He created the creature that killed Kaien Shiba! And Gin Ichimaru, what he suffered...no I cannot say, I will not! You are right lady." He turned to the woman who had just freed him, " You have a formidable power my lady. I thank you for showing me this, though I could wish I did not know! This is the truth, but it is bitter medicine you bring! Free the rest and you have my word that your lifemate and the girl are free. Aizen has done enough to both of them."

"You saw?" Igrayne asked in surprise. She had not intended a deep connection, but sometimes things leaked, especially if they had a high emotional significance to one of those in the link.

"I did a little and you are right, I did not heed the signs and so a young man who was actually one of my finest officers was twisted and manipulated into a parody of the true man he was, all to defend someone he loved. He was given a second chance at happiness and nearly lost you as well, once again because of Sousuke Aizen." he shook his head, "I feel that sometimes I have lived longer than I should. I did not see what I should have seen and my Squads are in conflict, trust has always been a tenuous thing and it is all but nonexistant now and the Hollows are on the rise with a powerful new evil behind them. I am too old for this."

" I will not offer you soft words and pity, but I'll give you a chance to strike back at Aizen and I offer you the help of my people. Fight beside us and regain your honor. You are not alone and I will not believe you are weak." she gave him a feral grin. "What is old endures."

Yammamoto looked at the woman beside him, remembering the pretty young girl that had sung so beautifully all those years ago. The news of her unlikely romance with the young lieutenant of Squad 5 had startled him. Gin Ichimaru was a rising star in the 13 Court Guard Squads and already bid fair to earn a Captain's haori in a few short years. The young man's behavior upon seeing Igrayne had been completely out of character and Yammamoto had feared the outcome since the girl was not shinigami, nor did she belong to the world of the Seireitei, but she had left the next day and Gin had returned to his usual personality and habits. Yammamoto was not in the habit of prying into the personal lives of his officers, especially in the instance of a brief one night encounter like theirs, but now the old man wondered if he should not have questioned the boy a bit closer. If he had, how much would be different and how many people would still be alive? He had heard that Gin was in love with the girl and the young man became even odder and more distant after his lovely songbird had returned to her world. "You have two children with him, yes? Your son is even named for Kaien Shiba isn't he?" he asked. When she nodded, he smiled, " I will fight with you. I owe this to both Gin and you. I think he's suffered enough pain, I do not think he needs more. Let us talk and I will give you the aid you need and Captain Ichimaru and Miss Inoue will have their pardons. I give you my word my lady." Igrayne could feel the tension drain from the room.

"I would like at least three captains and their people on Erna. We will all work better if we train together. Aizen sowed dissent, so now we must foster trust or one by one the everlasting darkness will consume us all." she smiled sadly her eyes suddenly seeming too old for her youthful face, "Don't worry, I will lead your people back alive. At least as many as I can. I promise Yammamoto Soitaicho any lives lost will be at a price only a madman would pay!"

"I should have known that it would not end there when I saw your messanger was Ichigo Kurosaki. Once again he has saved us from our own blindness." the Head Captain agreed, "Choose the captains my lady. Let us be the bringers of the everlasting darkness to Sousuke Aizen and his allies! Let us see what price he is really willing to pay when they began to fall one by one!"

In a softly lit room far from the Seireitei three pairs of eyes watched the exchange in the scrying bowl."I cannot believe she got him to agree that quickly!" Gin said, feeling floored. "How much does he know about me?"

"Not that much I'm sure. The privacy of ones own thoughts are doubly important to telepaths. Your former superior knows only enough to know that it was bad and he should feel guilty about it. It would be more of an empathic impression than a true seeing. Anything else she will leave to you, to tell or not as you choose." Khatasa said, "You have nothing to fear from her, my lord, your lady would never hurt you."

"I have everything to fear from Igrayne. She's every bit as powerful as Aizen and she has seen things in my mind that no one should ever see, things I can't even face myself and it scares the hell out of me! I know she loves me, I know she would never hurt me, I know she would never use that knowledge against me, but trust has never been easy for me." Gin shook his head wearily. "I know it doesn't make sense, but it's still difficult not to be guarded, even with her. Sometimes I wonder what I've dared to love! By the way, it's not my lord, it's just Gin." he said, "She's my biggest vulnerability. If something happened to her...there isn't a God in existence anywhere that could put my world back together or make me care if they did, because I couldn't live in a world that didn't have her in it. It's almost a relief to know I won't survive if she is killed, but the thought of Aizen hurting her makes me sick! I want her to live, so that means I have to, but sometimes the things I've done haunt me and I wonder how anyone, even Igrayne can see that and not hate me!"

Gin found himself looking directly into the rhaka's eyes as Khatasa effortlessly lifted him by the front of his shirt, "Then you do not let anything happen to her! She is your mate and you defend her back as I would defend Solea's and if this Sousuke Aizen attempts to harm your mate and take what is dear to you away then you kill him without mercy or remorse!" The big rhaka glared at him with intense green eyes. "As to what you have dared to love,you love a powerful lady who is yours body, mind and soul! You love someone who has watched over you from the day you met, shared your sorrow, your pain, your fears and even sometimes your joy. You have never stood alone since that day and you never will! You should respect her always, but you need never fear her. In all ways you and she are one."

"You're right of course and I suppose I'm an idiot. Being guarded is stupid since she's already seen everything! I'm just still paranoid. Aizen took great pleasure in destroying any happiness that his possessions managed to find. He'd already come close to killing my first love so I get scared for Igrayne and what he would do to her, forgetting how powerful she is and that she could stand and fight Aizen by herself, but I'll always have her back. Uh Khatasa? Ya wanna put me down now?" he glanced over at his snickering offspring, "This really is a bit undignified."

The rhaka lowered him down and apologized, "I am sorry if I offended you sir."

"No I'm not offended, especially since everything you said is absolutely right. I knew I wasn't alone, sometimes it was the only thing that kept my mind and my soul in one piece and for the second time, it's just Gin. Don't worry Khatasa, I'm just a little new at this and the habits of over a century are hard to break. To have shown Aizen what I really felt or thought would have been fatal, not just too me, but Igrayne, Rangiku and my children, or at least it would have been as far as I knew. I know that you and the rest of the tribe would have kept them safe, but you've just reminded me that sometimes I need my chain jerked a little to get my attention. It's not like that anymore and I don't have to hide. I can't hide anything from her even if I wanted to, no more than she can me." Gin said as he straightened his shuhakusho and patted his zanpakuto, "I suppose I should pity the idiot that sees Igrayne as a weakness and goes after her or tries to hurt her! Shinsou likes her and he gets viciously overprotective." he looked at the rhaka "So do I for that matter. Anyone stupid enough to try to harm my family had better hope Igrayne gets them first! She'll kill the fast, while if it's me, well lets just say they'll have a lot of time to regret that decision." Gin turned to his daughter, "All right demon child you can stop snickering now and do something useful, like teaching me how to use some of these inherited powers."

"You already sound like one of us!" Silmara chuckled, wrapping her arms around her father's waist, " Once you're trained in using the power you inherited from mamma you might even be scary."

" Are you implying that I'm not scary now? You'd better be careful daughter mine, or I'll show you how scary I can be! Are all the women here like this?" he asked grabbing his daughter in a hug and swinging the girl around, then tickling her ribs until she gasped with laughter. He stopped only when she began fighting back, attacking his ribs and knees until he too was gasping and giggling and a little red in the face. Silmara was his daughter without a doubt! She knew as well as her father did how to fight dirty and she was just as ruthless in exploiting an advantage! "Difficult, smart-mouthed, annoying, ruthless and tough?"

Khatasa smiled, a fearsome look as it bared his teeth, ""Only the ones worth having." he chuckled watching Gin tease his giggling daughter, "Solea is much like your Igrayne and I would not have it any other way though at times it makes for an interesting life, yes?"

"Oh hell! You mean there's a version of may-your-life-be-interesting here too?"he laughed, "That one truly is a universal truth!" Gin grinned as he straightened his black shuhakusho, "Wonder which captains she'll ask for?" Then he turned to his daughter, "No matter, come on you little she-demon! Time to teach your father how to use his new toys. I definitely wanna be scary just for you!" With his still grinning daughter leading he made his way to the practice grounds and worked himself into a sweat, only calling a halt to Silmara's instruction when he felt Igrayne's mind saying she would be home in an hour or so. He responded with a brief mental caress and told his daughter "Your mother will be home soon, so I'm going to take a shower." He kissed her sweaty forehead, "Thanks love, we'll resume practice tomorrow or the next day."

"You did surprisingly good for your first try. Your kido training seems to be similar to training for using the fae although some of it appeared to be instinct. I didn't know that one partner being an Adept would grant those powers to their other half." Silmara said, then narrowed her eyes, a Knowing warming the air around her father, "Unless you are an untrained Adept too. Hmm, curious, I can't tell for sure, but I think you might be." the girl sighed, "We'll figure it out later, go take your shower and get pretty for mamma."

She giggled when her father swatted her and growled "You really are my kid! Now I know why I annoyed people so much. You just watch your mouth my girl, I'm still your father!"

"Maybe so, but you still wanna look pretty for mamma!" she laughed dancing out of Gin's grasp.

"Minx!" Gin huffed, giving up. "I'm going to get cleaned up and yes I do want to look hot for your mother! How do you think you and your brother got made?" With that parting comment and his daughter's laughter he made his way back up the hill to await his beloved.

"So my lady, which captains do you wish to train with you? I assume Captain Ukitaki will be first on your list provided his health will allow it." Yammamoto asked, echoing his former subordinate and Gin turned back to the bowl to watch, though he kept his daughter close. He sent a wordless wave of love to his lifemate knowing she would feel it and know he was watching her and still on the Plains, waiting for her. The feeling of love and gratitude he got back made him smile.

"Yes, I believe he will be invaluable. Don't worry, we have healers among both the rhaka and the Bharashadi, we may even have medicines that will be more effective in helping to control his illness, we may even be able to cure it, but I won't know that until the rest of the Healers and I examine him. His tasks will be understanding us and learning Ernan culture, Rhaka, Human and Bharashadi. I think you will find even the humans will be very different than what you are used to. Our world changes her people in profound ways. Next, I think either Captain Kyoraku or Captain Kuchiki. Both are skilled combat and tactical experts. We will rotate other squads in as we can. Sorry Captain Zaraki, but I don't need anything destroyed by brute force at the moment, but if I do I will keep you in mind." The big man smiled fiercely.

"I like her." Zaraki said with a laugh, "She's got guts and she had me down so fast I couldn't react and I couldn't break her mental hold. That's never happened before! I'd like to have some more fun with you pretty lady, but I don't think Ichimaru would approve."

"I believe I like you as well. Don't worry big man, we'll make fine use of your strength and I'll find you some nice strong opponents to have fun with and put you in the best mood you've ever been in! In fact you and your whole squad will have lots of fun if you stick with me!" Igrayne laughed, "You too young lady! We can't leave you out of the fun now can we?" she tousled Yachiro's pink hair. The little girl grinned up at her cheerfully. Kenny liked this lady and had had fun with her, so that was good enough for Yachiro. "Moving on, I would also like to ask for Captain Hitsugaya." she finished turning to look at the young man.

"WHAT! Why would you request me? That's the most insane thing I've ever heard! I have NO interest in working with one of the men that tried to murder my best friend! Momo may NEVER recover from what Aizen and his lapdog did to her! He even came after my Lieutenant and he was supposed to be her friend! She was his friend and he still hit her with Shinsou! I'll never forgive him for any of it!" he exclaimed angrily. "I'll let Rangiku decide if she wants to be a part of your team, but find another Captain! I'm not going!" The last was said with flat finality.

"That is why I want you Toshiro Hitsugaya. First, no one will be able to accuse you of acting against the Seireitei. You won't sympathize or feel anything but duty. You'll follow orders, but nothing else. Second, you must learn to work with allies you personally dislike. This is the price of command, working with those you hate to defete those you hate more. Last, you wish to strike out at those that hurt your friend don't you? Then we are your best hope to do that. I will teach you new ways to strike at our mutual enemy and you can keep Aizen from ever hurting Momo again. Also, we number many mindhealers in our tribe that may be able to help her. Don't you want that Toshiro Hitsugaya? Would that not be a mighty strike back at Aizen? To render what he did to her so unimportant that she never gives it a second thought as anything other than a lesson in caution? I can feel your hate and anger and I understand it completely but, you must learn to control it, not let it control fight with your intellect! Anything else you leave behind and forget utterly or it will get you killed! More it will get your allies killed and aid those you fight against. You're playing right into Aizen's hands and you don't even realize it! He wants you angry! Aizen wants you off balance and not thinking clearly so you will make mistakes! Do not give him what he wants! Stay in complete control, no matter what he does! THAT, Toshiro Hitsugaya is the best weapon you have! Wrap that cold icy calm around you like a cloak and he will have no power to harm you or yours! Your people cannot afford to lose another Captain and Momo cannot afford to lose you!"

"Why do you care? You're not shinigami! You're Ichimaru's lover! You'd say anything to keep him alive! Besides, I CAN'T work with Gin Ichimaru! I hate him and I don't trust him and I never will!" the boy snapped."Momo is so broken I'm not sure anyone could help her, but I certainly won't expose her to Ichimaru again!'

"I care because I have a daughter close to her age. I care because if you knew what I knew about my lover you would weep and I care because I am a healer! I understand your pain, Hitsugaya, but don't let your hate turn away aid that might help her. You also need to understand that it was never Gin. It was Aizen, the whole time. He made you see what he wanted you to see and made you blame the person he wanted you to blame. Aizen is the one who broke her and he's the one who tried to kill her!" Igrayne said softly, compassion in her green eyes, "I can tell you, had Gin known what Aizen intended then he wouldn't have taken her there and he would have found a way to warn you. It is because of him that she lives still. He put a stasis field around her to slow her life forces down to a bare minimum right after Aizen ran her through, using my people's power. He slowed her bleeding and used his own life energy to fuel hers to keep her alive until Unohana could get there. He already knew she was on the way. He didn't know how he knew and he had no idea that it was he who mindcalled out of sheer desperation to save both you and Momo, but he still did it." She looked at the Captain of the 4th, "Do I lie my lady?"

"No Lady Igrayne, you do not. Toshiro, she is telling the truth. I felt...something compell me to go the the Central 46 living quarters. He was the one who helped me see through Aizen's illusion, though I doubt that he knew he was projecting There was a field around Momo that I'd never seen before and I know we couldn't have done it, but there were traces of Ichimaru's reiatsu. He was using it to slow time and feed her energy to keep her alive. Had he not done so, Momo would have bled out before I could get to her. The aeorta was torn! I said nothing because it would have meant his death. I suspected he was not a true ally of Sousuke Aizen, which is why I did not call arrest on him, only on Aizen. I know you heard me, even though you were badly injured, but ask Isane. I did not call for Gin's arrest, because he was aiding Momo at the risk of his own life and even though I didn't know why he was helping her I wasn't about to interfer. I saw the look of horror on his face for just one second then he used a kido spell to take Aizen and himself to Soakioku Hill. I knew he was ashamed and horrified by what had happened. I could feel it."

"I believe she is honest in her desire to help us and Igrayne raises some excellent points Captain Hitsugaya. I am ordering you to be a part of her team." the Head Captain said, before Hitsugaya could launch another angry tirade, "I believe that you should include Captain Kyoraku Lady Igrayne. He also knows both you and Gin and can work alongside you. Captain Kuchiki can follow a short time later."

"Yes sir!" both captains said, Kuchiki merely inclined his head slightly, but then Toshiro turned and stalked off toward the 10th's barracks, a thunderous frown on his face and the shadow of violence in his eyes. "Get ready Lieutenant Matsumoto! Apparently we're being deployed to Erna!" the boy growled, "If I'm going, you're going! Maybe you can keep me from killing that silver haired snake the moment I see him! No matter who defends him, or what they say he did, I don't trust him!"

"Yes Captain," she said following quietly, but felt her stomach twist. She had her own issues and trepidations about seeing Gin Ichimaru again. He had been her best friend, but she had loved him in a way she knew he didn't return and had not for many years. Since entering the Serietei they had grown apart and the closeness they had had as children faded as if winter's chill had killed it, some because he always outranked her, some because their duties were different and last because of Aizen. His allegience to that man had shrouded his soul in a darkness she couldn't reach through. He'd practically shoved her away! After a few years that childhood love was gone. Then there was Igrayne, a woman Gin had had a brief affair with the night he'd been made the Lieutenant of Squad 5, but even though they had parted after one night Rangiku knew Gin had never gotten over her. She'd known Gin loved Igrayne and then the photo of his children had appeared in his room and it had felt like a knife in the heart! They should have been hers, but she had known from the look on his face as he gazed at the woman holding them that he would never feel that way about her again, if he had ever felt something even close to it for her once. He had given his heart to another and nothing was ever going to change that. He didn't even look at his friend anymore most of the time and on the rare occasion that he did, Rangiku knew that he would never look at her with feelings of love anymore. Gin had not acted like Igrayne was gone. He acted like she was beside him every single day and with that he ceased to see women as anything other friends or subordinates, nothing more and stayed faithful to his white rose. She supposed that she should be happy he was back, but he had some serious explaining to do! If his love for another woman had felt like a knife in the heart then his apparent betrayal, joining Aizen and leaving for Hueco Mundo had left her wanting to die for a very long time. She turned at a sound behind her, "Hello Izuru.I take it you want me to help you get on the team?"

The young man blushed, "Am I that obvious?"

"Only to me. I suppose you have as many questions for him as I do." Rangiku smiled at her friend.

"I have only one question. Why?" Kira said sadly, "Why would he do all those terrible things? Why would he have me attack you? Why would he hurt Momo?"

"That's a lot of whys Izuru. I have a few questions for him too." Rangiku said, "Wanna drink?" She pulled a bottle of sake from the drawer.

"Um Rangiku, the last time I had a drink with you I lost three whole days and woke up with the worst hangover I've ever had! The headache alone nearly killed me! I was afraid I was going to die and afraid I wasn't!" the blond objected. "It took my stomach an month to recover!"

"Ok lightweight, tea then?" Rangiku laughed. When he nodded she turned to set the kettle on her small fire. "Really, Shuuhei drank as much or more than you and he was fine!"

"Rangiku?" she turned and Izuru continued, "Do you know who that woman is?"

"Yes I know who she is, I'm just not sure what she is, but Toshiro was right, she's Gin's lover and from the ring on her finger, probably soon to be his wife and they already have two children." Rangiku kept her voice even, but Izuru knew her well. He could feel the sadness, hear it in her voice, but he could sense his friend was trying to be fair and not hate the woman for taking the love of her life. There was one part that startled him though.

"The Captain has children? How do you know that?" he exclaimed.

" He told me. He has twins a boy and a girl. Someone gave him a picture of them, snuck it into his room a few years after he took over the Third Squad. We never knew who put it there, but, his son looks exactly like him except that he has green eyes. His daughter looks more like Igrayne, but her smile is his and she has his nose. Her hair is black, but it seems to have a silvery shine to it. Her eyes are green too. They're his, no doubt and beautiful kids! I'm looking forward to meetin them," she smiled sadly at her friend, trying to be brave. "He told you about her?"

"Yes, but not about his children. We talked about it the night I was chosen as his lieutenant. He seemed to miss her very much." Izuru said, not looking up. "He told me he wished I could hear her sing and then he got very quiet. I could tell that he missed her terribly and I couldn't understand why he didn't find her and bring her back and try to be happy for a change."

"He didn't know yet and he seemed to want to keep it quiet. He asked me not to tell anyone, begged me in fact. He said he had people that would use it against him. It was his business and he wouldn't discuss it further, but I do know he loved her and apparently still does." Rangiku said, making their tea and pouring a cup for Izuru. "I also know it hurt him not to be able to go to them, to see his children and be anactive part of their lives. I've never seen him cry and he didn't even then, but he was a mess! Whatever he thought was going to happen terrified him! He shook for several hours and just stared off into space for the rest of the night. He was so lost that I wondered if he'd ever get over it, but just when I was about to call Captain Unohana, something seemed to touch him and he fell asleep. I could swear I heard a woman singing. It had to have been her!"

"Her power is absolutly unbelievable isn't it? I couldn't move and didn't even realize it until the spell was lifted!" Izuru observed, sipping his tea. "I didn't see or hear her cast anything!"

"Yes, it is. She must not need to say or do anything to use her abilities." the lieutenant of the 10th said, pushing her heavy hair over her shoulder. "He never told me she had that kind of power."

"I don't think he knew, at least not then. I think he thought she was exactly what she seemed. If he didn't know then he would have believed he had to protect her, but even if he had known, who knows if he would have said anything? It's not really like him to let very many people close, not even his friends. A lot of people knew tha he flirted with her the whole evening and that he spent the night with her. Kaien Shiba teased him about every chance he got, but I doubt anyone else knew it was more than that. Why would he hide it though? It's not like anyone would blame him! Everyone has the right to fall in love and be happy." Izuru wondered, "Do you think there's something he didn't tell us?"

"I'm sure there's a lot he didn't tell us, but, we aren't really entitled to know anything else, at least not about his personal life. What ever he had in his mind it terrified him! I mean really terrified him and there aren't a lot of things that scare Gin! If he was that frightened then it must have been something truly horrific. He may have been our friend, but...well, he may not want to talk about it and if he doesn't then we can't make him. He's been my friend for years, since we were kids and I used to think we shared everything, that we could always talk to each other about anything, but sometimes I wonder if I ever really knew him. I look back and realize I was the one telling him everything and he listened, but he never told me much of anything. If I tried to talk to him about it he'd just smile that infuriating, indifferent smile and say he'd tell me later. I am going to kick his ass though for being such a jerk and making me worry about him! What the hell was he thinking?" her blue eyes grew cold and Izuru grinned. When Rangiku got angry even the sly, calculating Captain of the 3rd ran for cover! Kira fell silent. He had looked away when Igrayne caught his eyes earlier, because those eyes of hers, deep jade and clear as a summer grove, they were...almost inhuman, alien. There was an air of darkness around her. She would not harm anyone without reason he was sure, but should she decide she had one, he had no doubt she would be merciless. She'd said that she and her people were weapons! I'm not sure what that means but I don't think I'd want her against me! I get the impression that if she thinks anything is a threat to her family or her people then she'd kill without regret or remorse! I think she may be even more powerful than she's shown us! What the hell are these people? And if my Captain is one of them now, what has he become?

"I heard Ichigo talking to Renji, apparently there are three species living on her world and she's a created hybrid of the three. Gin has always been drawn to power, so if she is as powerful as I think she is, he wouldn't be able to resist her." Rangiku said.

''I think it has very little to do with power Rangiku-chan. From the way he talked about her it seemed like he really loved her. I don't think he knew she was anything other than a singer. At least not then. Granted I heard she had a powerful and beautiful voice, but nothing else. Half the men here couldn't stop talking about her for years, but everyone agreed, the only one she ever looked at was Ichimaru and he was a lieutenant then, but he was just as taken with her. Shuuuhei told me that Captain Tousen told him Gin had been mezmerized from the moment he laid eyes on her and that it was unusual behavior for Gin." Izuru watched the steam rise from his tea, "I don't want to hurt you in any way but, I think it was pure attraction, plain and simple and she touched something inside of him, some part of his soul that we can't even see. He's never let very many people see the real him, but I think somehow Igrayne did and he wasn't afraid to let her see it? There's something deeper and stronger than any of us could give him and I think that's all that has held him together for all these years. I'm sorry Ran, I know you loved him too." He reached out and squeezed her shoulder.

"I did and I know he loved me. I wish that had been enough." Rangiku said sadly, "It just wasn't meant to be I guess. If Igrayne can finally get him away from Aizen and take care of whatever was wrong, whatever made him push everyone else away, then I'll just have to be happy for him and accept it. I don't have a choice anyway. He belongs to her body and soul and has for a long time. I hope when we see him again we'll see the changes Ichigo was talking about. I've always hated the guarded, secretive man he became."

Gin waited in their bedroom after his shower for Igrayne to return. He tried to relax, watching the flames in the fireplace dance, but his mind was restless. The shinigami from the Seireitei were due to arrive tomorrow and he wasn't sure how to feel about that. Now that the alliance had been made there were serious issues of unfinished business with almost all of the ones coming that he hadn't thought he'd have to deal with so soon. What the hell am I supposed to say to any of them? Why would she want Toshiro here? And Ran, gods what do I say to her? Sorry I stabbed you in the back? Sorry I sent my lieutenant after you? Sorry I promised to be there for you and then fell in love with someone else? Damn, damn damn! What a mess! He rubbed his temples and sighed. Hurry up my angel! I just wanna forget how much trouble I'm in for a little while longer! He was deep in thought, staring at the fire and he didn't hear her come in. He jumped when she ran warm fingers through his silver hair. Damn! She moves quietly! I didn't even sense her! How odd! Her green eyes enchanted him just as they always did and he reached up and took her hand, pulling her down into his lap. "Welcome home." he said kissing her and letting her scent wash over him and feeling the peace his mate's presence brought him, profoundly glad to have her in his arms again. "See? I'm still here, waiting for you."

"Glad to be back." she sighed and returned his kiss with enthusiasm, " Don't mind me, I was just being silly. You just looked so like that young lieutenant from so many years ago. The one I didn't want to let go of that morning, but knew I had to." She curled up and snuggled easily into his lap, laying her head on his chest, playing with the sash of the red robe he was wearing."It just brought some old anxiety, that I thought I'd gotten over a long time ago, howling down from the past. Watching you leave that morning when we both wanted to stay together hurt so badly that it left scars that I didn't know about until this morning. I guess I just needed to know that not only would you still be here when I got back, but that you want to be as well."

"I didn't want to go, but I had to. Ran needed me and I had no idea you were a powerful sorceress. I wanted to protect you too, but I was so afraid that I wasn't strong enough, so I had to be strong enough to let you go." he said softly. "But, that's all a long time in the past and now, this is the only place I want to be. Where ever you and the kids are is home to me and I'll never leave again." Gin held his lifemate tightly and let her into his mind so she could read the truth for herself. In fact this close it would be impossible for her to miss any of his emotions or thoughts, but he had no reason to hide anything from her and he felt no fear in leaving the barriers down. It was the ultimate gesture of trust for Gin.

"I know, I should have trusted you and what I feel from you. Apparently you're not the only one who needs to hear things said on occasion. As I said I was being silly. I did miss you today though." she said holding him and breathing in his clean, wintery scent, letting it banish her fears and her loneliness. "My arms feel empty without you in them." she sighed and kissed up his jaw and neck and kissing the spot just below his right ear a little harder. She flicked the lobe of his ear with the tip of her tongue, making him chuckle.

"Missed ya too baby girl." he trailed his fingers over her bare shoulder,kissing up her neck to her ear, "Shall I show you how much?" he whispered into her hair.

"You don't waste time do you?" she breathed, shivering as he kissed her neck, while his strong arms crushed her smaller body to his.

"Nope! Not anymore, if I can help it!" he agreed picking her up as he stood and laid her on the bed, "Did enough a that. Tonight I just want you. I need to be inside you! Make love to me sweet girl, make me know we're together for always." he laid down beside her and untied her shirt, letting his long fingers brush her nipples under the thin material. "If you want me that is?"

"Is that a trick question?" she teased, "Of course I do..." Her words trailed off as he rid her of the shirt and skirt quickly and set to work his magic on her. Nimble thieves fingers were very adept at other things than picking pockets and he was quickly taking her ability to speak. Soon enough she only had breath enough for his name amid wordless cries and moans of pleasure! He licked his index finger and traced the dark pink of her nipples, just feather light for now, watching her as she sighed and melted into his touch.

He could feel her skin warm to his fingers and he gently rolled the nipple he was playing with between his thumb and forefinger, flicking it with the tip of his warm tongue. His other hand traced patterns on the skin at the nape of her neck. He paused to sweep aside her long red hair to kiss and nibble the soft skin there, feeling her shiver. He moaned softly against the nape of her neck, feeling his already hard cock start to throb with anticipation when she straddled his lap. Igrayne was running the palms of her hands over his silk covered chest and stomach, reaching around to run them over his shoulders, pulling him closer, just to hold him for a moment and savor his warmth. Gin shivered when she untied his belt. She pulled off the red and silver silk to touch his skin, warm and alive and defiantly wanting her! Sometimes it surprised her by how someone with such cool coloring could be so warm. He pressed his erection against her, grinding into her, feeling her heat so tantilizingly close that some of her essence dripped out onto him. Breath hissed between his teeth when she closed her fingers around the head and languidly stroked the length firmly, as she worked the wetness that had dripped from her own body into the the shaft and head, precome dampening her hand and adding to the delicious friction. He finally pushed her hand away, shuddering with desire, closer to coming than he wanted to let on. So close in fact that all it would take is a few more strokes from those long talented musicians fingers and she'd have it all over her! "Gods stop or you'll make me come and even though it feels so good, I want more than your hand! You're not getting away with that tonight! Tonight I'm gonna give you a little taste of what ya do ta me! You've taken me ta the edge of sanity and maybe just a bit past it, so tonight it's yer turn. I want you so far over that edge that ya won't remember yer own name until ya come down." he grinned and pinned her hands above her head, letting his tongue slide over her breasts and nipples, delivering a sharp nip when she tried to squirm out of his grip. "None a that baby girl! Yer doin what I let ya do tonight, now be a good girl and let me play." He held her small wrists with one hand while his other squeezed her breast and he sucked the pert nipple to hardness, turning the skin bright pink and leaving small red and purple marks where he nipped her.

"Don't I get to touch you?" she asked, wrapping her legs around his waist squeezing his hips and letting her warm, wetness slide against his erection. Gin had to close his eyes for a moment and bite his lip when the move spread more of her slippery essence all over his throbbing erection, fighting the desire to take her right then and pound her into the mattress. Gods I wanna fuck her as hard as I can, so bad right here, right now! I'm not gonna yet though. She's getting a dose a her own medicine tonight! I'm gonna turn that pretty body into a drippin, screamin mess that begs me to fuck her as hard as I can and then begs even harder for me to do it all over again!

"Maybe, but not until I'm done playin," he grinned at her after mastering himself, still playing with her nipple, pinching it a little harder while his mouth claimed the other. Since he was in a playful mood, his accent colored his voice heavily. "then I might let ya...if yer a good girl. If not then I'll just have ta get off an leave ya like this! All hot and slippery and not getting what ya need! Besides, I promise ya that what I've got in mind fer you will feel very, very good. I know you'll like it,cause I know exactly what ya like." Gin paused to suck her nipple again, getting a breathy moan of pleasure for his efforts, "Now, ya gonna be good so I don't have ta be a sadistic bastard and let me be a greedy one instead?" He pressed his body against hers and gave her a warm kiss, his tongue gently teasing her lips apart and running against hers as her mouth opened under his. While he did that he slid his fingers into her wet slit slowly working them in and out, feeling her moan into his mouth, "So wet already, huh? Do I turn ya on that much baby girl? Ya seem ta like bein held down and taken any way I happen ta want." He let his thumb rub along her sensitive clit, making her wetter still. He ran his tongue along the same soft bundle of nerves, suckling with his lips, tasting her wet skin, groaning at her sweet taste. He patted her thigh and encouraged her to put her legs over his shoulders, working his tongue inside of her soft, pink slit, making her moan and pant heavily. "What'cha want little girl?" he asked, grinning mischievously, his breath hot on her skin. She shuddered when he flicked it teasingly with the tip of his tongue. "Hmm?"

"Please Gin, I want to touch you too. Let my hands go." she whispered, his grin and sparkling eyes making her a little breathless, " Please?"

He raised up licking his lips and considered her, crimson eyes filled with amusement and lust, still stroking his fingers in and out lazily, "Hmm, I think I wanna watch ya come first." he said as he slid a third finger into her and rocked them in and out harder and deeper. "I wanna see ya turn that pretty pink while I give ya the shivers." He hooked his fingers a little, looking for the spot inside that never failed to make her moan. He caressed her clit with his soft tongue, alternately sucking and licking the sensitive bit of flesh, making her thrash and moan under her lover's sensual assault. With each slide of his fingers inside or brush of his soft tongue, she got wetter and wetter until she was coating his whole hand with the results of her pleasure. She heard a noisy slurp as he sucked some out of the palm before he returned to licking her clit and teasing her towards insanity!

"Gin! OH! " she moaned as his long fingers slid over her sweet spot, caressing it sensually while his wickedly seductive lips and tongue did the same to her clit. She finally couldn't hold back and came against those long fingers, with a moan that made him grin against her wet skin. "Gods! " she moaned as she rocked her hips against his long elegant fingers, heat flashing through her belly and down her thighs. The delicious feeling ran down the back of her spine, making her feel light headed as the intense pleasure swept through her body. Gods he could make her body sing with those elegant hands and wicked tongue!

"Yep, I definitely got the combination ta this lock!" he teased. He slid his fingers out and regarded the clear wetness dripping down the long digits and pooling in his slender palm, before slowly licking them clean, "Mmm, I like the taste of ya really wantin me." He looked into her green eyes, watching them glow slightly as they reflected the dim light. He grinned and offered her his middle finger, still dripping her essence, "Ya look so delicious right now, all pink and flushed." he said watching his long finger disappear into her mouth and shivering a little when she sucked every inch and rubbed the rough part of her tongue against the pad, her eyes heavy with promise, "Got ya good an worked up don I? Yer so wet!" He licked her pink dripping slit a little more, moaning a little in approval until he heard a pleading gasp that might have been his name. He glanced up and her pleading green eyes melted him. He slid up her body and let her wrists go taking her hand, letting her guide him and slid slowly inside of her, hissing with pleasure as his eyes locked with hers, watching her expression while he slowly filled her wet body up. "Do ya like feelin me all hot and hard for ya? Ya do don't ya?" he grinned when she gasped and shivered, her body still feeling the aftershocks of what he'd just done to her, but then she groaned wordlessly and rocked her hips, grinding them into his. "I'll take that as a yes." he chuckled. He pulled out almost all the way and quickly thrust back into her, taking her hard and deep, the way they both needed it right now. It was getting a little difficult for him to focus. He wanted to come so bad it hurt! "Gods yer hot baby girl!" He pushed in and set a steady, deep rhythm, "Come on! Show me ya want me too! Show me you love me!" She reached up with a feral, catlike growl that made him shiver, gripped a handful of his silver hair and yanked him down for a kiss that could have melted glass and began to twist and writhe under him, arching up off the bed to meet each hard thrust,driving him as deep as possible. He gasped as sharp nails dug into his shoulders, feeling a thin trickle of blood run down his shoulderblade as her sharp teeth left their own marks on his pale skin. Her long legs snaked round his hips and she locked her ankles in the small of his back. He responded by bending her at the waist to straddle his hips, burying himself full length, but just to tease her a bit, he varied the rhythm and depth that he used, first slow and deep and the a bit faster,with more shallow thrusts, not letting her get used to it. He grinned when she growled a rhakene curse word at him. "Baby girl yer waaay too quiet! Scream fer me an make me know ya want it or I'm gonna stop and give ya a reason not to. You know I'll do it too. If ya won't scream then I'll make ya beg." he warned panting.

"Feels so good I can hardly breathe!" she panted, then moaned softly, "Harder! Oh gods Gin, please! Stop teasing me!" It was getting frustrating to the point of madness everytime he slowed. She wanted him hard and deep and she wanted it now! She grabbed his hips digging her claws into his hipbones and rocking her hips in a deep, hard rhythm, groaning with sensual pleasure as he matched her strokes.

"There ya go, that's what I like ta hear!" he chuckled, riding her a little harder, finding he liked this position and he definitely liked the stinging scratches on his hips and back. "Now was that so hard?"

"Seems very hard to me!" she laughed, stroking his testicles with the same nails that had scratched his hips, this time gently before cupping them and squeezing and stroking them with a gentle, but insistant rhythm. She made him squirm and groan when she tickled the skin just behind his balls. "But hard feels soo good!" she purred, mischief gleaming in her eyes too.

"Naughty girl! Yer resortin ta dirty tricks again, playin with me like that! Yer just lucky I like those dirty tricks so much!" he felt a shudder of pleasure run down his spine. Gods she had him wired now! He thrust harder into her, "Since ya like hard so much..." he grinned making his lover laugh before he kissed her and made her moan when he angled his thrusts to hit her sweet spot.

She cupped his balls a little more firmly, grazing them just a bit harder with her claws and making him moan softly and bury himself deeper into her, rocking her body and slamming into the back of her core. "Something...tells me...you're..as..into...naughty...as.I..Ah! As...I am into...(gasp) hard." she gasped, "Want...want me to stop?"

"No! Didn't say that! Just...makin an...ob..observation." he said reaching down to take her hand and guide her to squeeze a little harder then groaned as his body signaled his impending explosion, "Mmm ya feel so damn good!" She was so wet and he could feel the first little flutters that told him she was very close, which was good because he couldn't hold back much longer. " I'm about ready ta burst! Come with me baby girl! I know yer close, I can feel it!" he groaned, his red eyes hot and glittering. It was the combination of hard thrusts into that perfect spot inside and those fiery red eyes that made her body respond to his demands instantly. It was always those beautiful eyes so filled with love and a passion few ever saw.

"Ah gods yes! Oh, oh! Harder! It feels so good! Gin, I'm...I'm coming!" Gin slammed into her hard, until he was buried all the way as she moaned arching her back and hips up to meet him with a series of wordless groans and whimpers as the muscles inside clenched down around the hardness of his thrusting cock on all sides, squeezing him hard and sending her lover over the edge with a low groan of satisfaction as he came deep inside her. Her moans joined his as the heat of his seed hit her, flooding her belly with fiery warmth. She was still sensitive enough to feel each ejaculation and she put a hand on her belly, savoring the heat of him inside. She loved feeling him come just seconds after her. It was a deliciously erotic experience.

He lowered himself slowly onto her for a moment, gasping for air and slick with sweat, unable to hold himself up. His whole body was shaking. "That...was so...good! Think ya turned my...bones ta jelly." he planted a kiss on her lips and smiled, "Not too heavy am I? I wanna stay inside ya. It feels so warm and wet and I'm as close to ya as I can be."

"Mmm mm, stay right where you are, you feel good!" she buried her face against his neck and sighed as she held his strong shoulders, her nails tracing patterns on his warm, slick skin, "Nice and warm." she pulled back, "Kiss me again." She sighed happily when his velvet soft lips claimed her mouth again, nibbling and nipping her lower lip, running the very tip of his tongue along it then teasing her teeth apart and running the tip of his tongue against hers in a slow,wet kiss, prolonging it until they were both breathless, then pulling away with a smile to watch her, just enjoying the way her skin was still a little flushed and her eyes still held that dreamy sparkle that they got when he made love to her.

While he was looking at her, she gazed at him. He was so beautiful and despite the fact that she'd just come twice, he looked so sexy, his skin still flushed a pale, pale pink and his red eyes hot with an intense fire that made them glow, a pure waton desire flooded her, making the juncture between her legs ache for him again, but she laid still for the moment, enjoying the feel of the muscles playing under his skin and him still inside of her, but everytime he moved at all, even to breathe, it sent shockwaves of desire through her! She knew he had to catch his breath, but felt she might lose her sanity if he didn't move soon! She moved her restless hips, rocking them just slightly, feeling him slide in and out. Even if it wasn't hard or deep it felt amazing and she couldn't seem to keep still. His knowing grin told her he knew she couldn't either. He was reading her like an open book, with no recourse to his Talent needed. He began to move slowly with her while he caught his breath, enjoying her desire and need for him.

As his breathing returned to normal, his desire returned with a vengence too. Feeling her need for him in his mind building sent his desire amping even higher, so without warning he quickened the pace and thrust deeper into her, chuckling when she grabbed his shoulders and the green eyes went wide. It was nice to know he could suprise her like that. "Ready for round 3?" he smiled, his crimson eyes half open and shining. "Don bother sayin no. Yer gonna go nuts if I don give it to ya all the way! I can feel how bad ya want me and baby? I like it." he thrust in a little harder, "I like it a lot! It make me feel sexy. From the naughty thoughts runnin through your head, I'd say ya think I am too."

"Yeah...(gasp!) just...ah! Easy! Still a little sensitive!" she said squirming, though that silky hardness inside her felt luscious. Each little shock of his thrusts sent shivers up and down her spine, while heat pooled in her belly. She savored each one, rocking her hips gently. She let the fire build up slowly this time, but build it did! By the time he couldn't stand the slow, teasing pace anymore her body was ready for anything he wanted to give her!

"I'm always easy, I just ain't cheap!" he chuckled, making her laugh too. He slowed his pace a little and thrust inside her a little more gently, though he was growing harder and more aroused by the moment. His body was already begging him to go full throttle again! "Ya know I like it hard baby girl, don't know how long I'll be able to stay gentle! Yer so tight and wet!" he whispered between soft, sensual kisses, "I know you like it that way too. Tell me yer ready an ya want it hard and deep!" he shivered when she increased the pace herself, pushing up and meeting his thrusts, holding onto his hips and pulling him deeper.

"You know I want it just like that!" she groaned, "I'm so ready and I want you so badly it hurts!"

"Do ya now? So soon? Well I think I can accommodate ya pretty one." he teased. Gin rolled onto his back and pulled her on top, using gravity to push deeply into her soft wet entrance. His strong hands guided her up and down his hard slick shaft, "Ah..that feels good! I like it when yer on top! I get to watch the prettiest woman I've ever seen fuck herself senseless." he breathed, snapping his hips up to meet her slick wet passage, "Can ya take it harder?"

"I can take it anyway you want to give it to me!" she said, her voice husky and warm as she drove herself down, grinding into each thrust. He could feel her heart racing.

"You better watch what you ask for little girl, you might get it!" he warned as he snapped his hips up into her again, biting his lip at her hot juices that spilled from her snug slit and ran over the base of his cock and down into the silver curls around it. Aw fuck it! Gonna see how far I can push her! If she thinks I'm a perv, well she shoulda known not to tell me she could take it any way I wanted ta give it to her! "Ya wanna be fucked really hard?" he asked. When she moaned softly and nodded, he said, "Then get on yer hands and knees so I can do it from behind." grinning at her disappointed whimper when he pulled out to turn her onto her stomach. " So impatient!" he teased, "Don't worry pretty one, I'll be back inside just as soon as I get ya turned over. I can get better traction this way and I can bend that beautiful limber body of yours every way I can think of and give us what we both want! So be a good girl and moan and scream and wriggle that body of yours around as much as ya want! Wanna see how insane I can make you and hear how hard I can make ya beg me ta keep fuckin ya!" He couldn't resist running his tongue over the weeping pink slit, as he bent her over, even sliding it inside to get a noisy slurp of their combined juices a few times before guiding himself back inside. He chuckled at the squeak she made while he licked his lips and chin, tasting them both mingled together all over his face. She was absolutely delectable and his come mingled in didn't bother him at all. Mmm, so that's what sexy tastes like! Che, maybe I am a pervert for likin that, but I still think we taste delicious together and that little squeak she made was adorable! He shivered when she groaned deeply in the back of her throat when he gave a rough thrust into her tight body. Gods the sounds she made were enough to make him come and this position made her even tighter! As he withdrew for another thrust, he wet his fingers with their mingled essence and held them to her lips. "Wanna taste too baby? It's good!" Gin groaned at her slightly rough tongue when his fingers were licked and sucked with sensual eagerness, as if since she couldn't suck his cock at the moment and be fucked by him at the same time, then his fingers would do. Gin grinned when his body signaled how much it wanted that too. Damn, I'm feelin greedy t'night, wantin everything I want! She's just so sinfully delicious! (chuckle) and deliciously sinful! I can tell she wants me as badly as I want her! She's picked up my mood and she's as horny as I am. In fact I'm a little too excited! Mmm, if she agrees to what I want then I'll ask her to suck me off first to get me calmed down enough and if she doesn't agree then I'll still ask her for a blowjob from that delightfully rough cat tongue of hers in compensation. That at least I know she'll do because she likes it as much as I do. Win, win for me really, but I hope she doesn't say no to what I wanna try later. I'm feeling like a very dirty boy tonight, but she's bein a very dirty girl too. She has the most beautiful ass I've ever seen and it's been drivin me nuts ever since I fucked her standing up against the bedroom door! It fit in my hands perfectly and it's been obsessin me ever since! I can't even get my head around how tight she's gonna be there though, but if I can get her ta relax enough, her bein really tight will make it even better for both of us! I think she'll say yes. Thank the gods for that feline-like sensuality! She seems to enjoy a bit of adventure.

She sighed and gasped when he entered her again and rocked back into the thick column between her legs, still sucking every trace of juice off of his long slender fingers, "Yes! Oh yes! Don't hold back! I won't be!" she grinned over her shoulder, after one last delicate lap to his index finger, "I won't break that easily!"

"Really? Think so? Lets see then." he said snapping his hips forward, grinning when she yelped. He had a tight hold on her hips, his long fingers leaving bruises where he gripped her hips to pull her back while he thrust forward, savoring that delicious wetness enclosing him. She was so tight! Gin thought about what she had just said and whispered, "Would ya let me break ya little girl? Could ya take it really rough? I told ya once I ain't a nice guy and right now I don't wanna be nice. I wanna be bad, very bad!" He switched to telepathy, "Ya got me wantin ta be a really bad, dirty-minded boy right now, who wants to do very, very nasty,unspeakably dirty, dirty things ta yer gorgeous, tight body!" He was thrusting in so hard and deep her stomach ached a little and she hissed when his grip on her hips tightened to just short of painful! She shuddered loving the hard, rough fuck he was giving her! He wasn't just hitting her sweet spot, he was pounding into it, sending bolts of lightning up her spine everytime he hit it! His teeth and tongue were roaming over her neck and shoulders, smouldering with promise! She sensed a wildness in him tonight, as if he was only barely holding himself in check and had an urgent desire to totally lose control! She'd never been so turned on or wanted him so badly in her life!

"Yes I can! I want you to! I need you to!" she groaned, rocking back into his hard thrusts. "Do whatever you want!"

"Whatever I want? Hmm what a lovely thought." he growled into the back of her neck. He moved up to lick the shell of her ear, his thrusts getting deeper and harder and his grip on her rougher. "Anything?" She nodded, crying out wordlessly, unable to speak since he was fucking her breathless. Before he could go any further she moaned as she came, her orgasm earth shatteringly hot and hard, making her shudder and rock back into him even harder, arching her back and crying out his name as her toes literally curled! He groaned in pleasure and held on, giving her everything he had while the muscles inside of her gripped his thrusting cock so tightly he saw white flashes, but he somehow managed not to climax with her, though he wasn't far short of it, he just wasn't ready to come yet since he wanted more of her and the feeling they were creating between them! His mind was a little clouded as he thrust into her and waited for her orgasm to finish. The screams alone were sending electric jolts through his groin from cock to balls and up his spine! He knew he wasn't going to last, he was getting close and he gripped he hips tightly,yanking her back into each thrust to get as deep as he could, taking her hard and fast, knowing it had to be hurting at least a little, but she didn't seem to mind, in fact, from the way she moaned and pushed back against him, she seemed to like it, even if it felt like he was literally trying to break her! He could only sense her pleasure. Soon the only sounds were harsh, labored breathing, flesh slapping together wetly and both voices groaning wordlessly. When he felt the signs of his impending release, he managed to gasp out, "Ya ready for another one baby? Want ya ta come with me!" He felt her start to tighten and spasm around him and he just lost control, giving one last desperate thrust before locking his thighs as the force of his release shook his whole body! "Igrayne! I damn...AH! I..can't I I'm...I'm gonna...!" he groaned as he emptied into her! She screamed his name while she came with him, moaning with every thrust, shifting her hips to meet him while her orgasm crashed through her body like a tidal wave making her shake and tremble in his arms while her inner muscle contractions milked the last drop from her lover. She had him in a visegrip and he LOVED it, letting out a low, feral growl! He loved vocal partners, moans were his weakness and hers, coupled with her obvious enjoyment of his deep, rough thrusts sent molten heat through his blood, straight down into every pleasure center in his body. They collapsed together onto sheets that were damp with sweat and a few spots of blood, some hers, some his, both of them shaking and weak and dripping with sweat. He kissed the back of her neck, down to her shoulder, tasting the slight tang of copper where he'd drawn blood. He couldn't remember doing it. After a few moments he slid out of her gently, though he wasn't soft, but he needed to catch his breath and cool down a bit since he was drenched with sweat. Despite how hard he'd just come and how rough he'd been, he was still hard and he still wanted to see if she'd agree to his more adventurous idea. He didn't know what was making him so wildly excited tonight,though he always enjoyed loveplay with his beautiful mate. He felt very out of control tonight! Maybe it was their bond mixed with the possibility of danger tomorrow or the anxiety it caused, whatever it was he was going to enjoy it as fully as he could since his playmate seemed quite willing to let him do whatever he liked! Danger usually brought out this side in him, but up until now he'd had to take matters into his own hands, so to speak, but he'd never felt quite this amped before. Now that he had a willing, eager Igrayne under him again he was going to enjoy pleasuring them both until he couldn't get it up again! He wanted to keep fucking her until they both collapsed from exhaustion! Already, he had rolled close to her again and was rubbing his hardening length slowly up against the velvety wetness between her thighs. Gin paused for a look though, shivering at what he saw! That slick pink slit, nestled in a mound of wet red curls was absolutly shimmering with her juices and seeping a thicker pearly liquid that was beginning to mix with her clear wetness. The outer lips were just a bit swollen and the entrance hadn't yet closed up from it's recent invasion of a few moments ago. Mmm, she is so pretty right after she's been thoroughly fucked and she comes nice and hard! Love bein the one that made it look so pink, swollen and slippery too! If there's a part of her that isn't gorgeous and sexy, I haven't found it yet and seein her drip me onto the sheets and know I made her feel that good is the sexiest thing I've ever seen! I wanna taste us wanting each other! I wanna taste her and make sure I satisfied her as much as she did me. he thought as he brushed soft kisses to the lips and then flicked his tongue over the pink slit and the swollen clit and kept kissing and licking, just softly while his fingers brushed the livid purple bruises on her hips and thighs and kneaded the firm cheeks of her heart shaped ass, but if her squirmy movements and her low cries meant anything, it wouldn't stay soft for long! He smiled when her legs spread wider to let him get more access if he wanted. He decided he wanted. He knew she was still very sensitive so he kept it gentle for now, drawing a soft moan of pleasure from the beauty beneath him. He was still cooling off himself, so he was content to play nice for now.

"Did..." he flicked his tongue across her entrance, panting still while he caught his breath. "did I hurt you too much sweet girl? You've got some pretty dark bruises. " Gin could feel how sensitive she was, but he could also feel the building tension and desire in her. Doing this to her also gave him some time to decide how to broach the subject of what he wanted later.

"No my love, I'll be fine as soon as I catch my breath." she panted as she leaned back and brushed his hands as they caressed her, "It hurt just right and don't worry, getting them was such fun! Gods I love the way you are right now, but what's gotten into you tonight? You're absolutly wired!" Igrayne's catlike eyes glowed with desire while her lover continued his gentle oral play, feeling his pleasure at the way she looked and tasted after the rough sex they'd just had. She felt a second, invisible embrace as his reiatsu coiled around her and began to heal her bruises, gently easing the pain too. His reiatsu felt like being wrapped in cold silk. She shivered and voiced a little "Oh!" when his exploring tongue hit a sensitive spot, "Gin, don't stop! I'm going insane because it's so soon, but don't stop!" she sent as she shivered in his arms.

" Mmm, my sweet little girl wants more doesn't she? Even if it does drive her crazy!" he sent the thought with images of what he knew she wanted to do. "What's gotten into me is you! Makin up for lost time!" Gin paused in his exploration to switch to verbal speech,"Yer gonna have bruises all over your hips and thighs and yer gonna be raw here tomorrow," he grinned,touching the red curls between her legs and giving the entrance a series of soft, gentle licks, "no matter how wet ya were. I got ya good! Guess I should make it up to ya for bein so rough," He knelt and ran his wet tongue from front to back a little harder this time. Igrayne's eyes closed as she shuddered and gasped, but her thighs parted to allow those lips and tongue to do whatever they wanted! He played with her a little more, even flicking his tonguetip in the cleft of her ass, loving the shiver and the little moan that that got, not to mention the spike of pleasure through his mind! No doubt, she'd liked it! Time to get her really turned on and then see if she'd let him do what he wanted. He turned her over on her back and put a couple of pillows under her back so he could spread her legs wide and let his mouth in on the fun his cock had been having earlier. Those long elegant fingers and his wicked darting tongue soon had his lover a trembling wreck as he lapped her up like a bowl of cream. She couldn't decide what felt better inside, his tongue or his fingers! Both felt so good they were criminal! Finally he stopped teasing her and began to french kiss her lower lips, while his fingers flicked and stroked her clit, sucking the taste of her deep into his mouth. Igrayne gripped the headboard and rocked her hips, wanting that sensuously teasing tongue as deep inside of her as he could stick it

"Ha, oh gods! (gasp, pant) Gin, please let me come! Use your tongue to make me come!" she pleaded shuddering around the sweet feeling his mouth was giving her between her legs. He didn't answer, but he did push in harder, sucking the sweet pink slit and took her clit between two fingers and stroked it right over the nerves inside. Igrayne spread her legs wider and pushed her hips up, instinctivly seeking more of that sinful tongue! When the tip found her sweet spot too and began to lap at it with soft teasing strokes, she came apart, screaming his name with the intense fire that roared through her belly and thighs.

She was dripping hot liquid, but he lapped it up and drank it down with a groan of approval. "Mmm, you taste like hot maple syrup." he murmered against her wet skin, smiling when she jerked violently in aftershock."and those screams were lovely. You liked that didn't you? Tell the truth now."

She felt like an earthquake had ripped through her body, along with the heat of a volcano! She'd never been taken by him that way quite so thoroughly! That tongue of his was so fucking skilled he had nearly driven her reason from her. He'd never used it quite like this before, but it had felt deliciously wonderful! Her body still tingled all over and she was having a very difficult time collecting her scattered thoughts. "Gin that felt...wonderful and sinful! It just keeps getting better and better between us and I'll do anything you want for making me feel so incredibly good!"

She could feel the sly, slightly smug smile curve his lips, as he wiped his wet mouth and chin on her thigh, though he dipped a finger back inside and held it to her lips. He was thoroughly pleased with himself and with her reactions. As she licked his finger clean, tasting herself and the wonderfully salty, sweet flavor of him she saw his lips curve even more and from the sparkle in his eyes, she knew he wasn't going to let her rest for long. "He's not done yet! I know that teasing grin", Her body shivered in anticipation of having him in her again, of what he would do next, even though she should by all rights be exhausted if not unconscious! She listened as his voice became darkly seductive and softly hypnotic, sending thrills down her spine as he kissed her hip and then her belly. He was actually using projective empathy on her which amused her! He must want something he was afraid she'd respond negativly to badly enough to use any means to persuade her. Not likely that I'll tell him no! she thought in amusement. He feels wonderful and he's so incredibly, sensually creative. I wonder if he suspects I know how he aquired his bedroom skills? No matter, he is beautiful, all silver silk and moonlight and I'd do anything to entice him into my bed too. An exotic beauty like his would command high prices

"Whatever will I do, Igrayne, cause I don't wanna stop yet? You're so beautiful right now, all soft and warm and flushed pink from what we've been doin and you feel so good! I still wanna fuck you some more and fuck you hard! Where will I put it if you're too sore here? " he grinned while he stroked her body, making her gasp and shiver. She wasn't too sore and so that must mean he wanted something else. "You said I could do whatever I wanted, even try to break you. Did you really mean that?" He reached between her still widely spread legs to stroke her still dripping slit a little harder, sliding in first one slim finger, then another and began to play lazily with her, watching her shiver and gasp with hot, amused, red eyes. Those elegant fingers soon had her desire spiking again as she rocked into them. When his fingers were soaked and slick in their combined juices and he slid his hand back and circled the entrance to her heart shaped ass with wet fingers, making her stiffen and moan. "Ever been fucked back here?" She shook her head breathless and shivers running up and down her spine as he let his fingers just brush the sensitive skin there and circle the opening. "Wanna be?"

"Will it hurt?" she asked, her body shaking and shivering in both desire and aftershock. Well, she didn't immediately say no! Gin thought with a mental chuckle, Holy shit! Does that mean she's considering letting me?

"It'll hurt right at first, but if ya can just relax enough, it'll pass pretty quickly and then it feels really, really good!" he said softly, "So? Ya wanna try it?" he kissed her lips and her neck and nuzzled her long hair while his fingers continued to softly stroke her back entrance. He knew how to be persuasive too and he really wanted her to say yes! Enough so that he would beg if that's what it took! He was already aching with the idea of taking her there!" "Not a lot, just a little and if it hurts just a little then sometimes that makes it feel even better and you did say you like a little bit of pain as much as I do! So I gotta ask, do ya trust me enough ta let me do somethin like that? It won't hurt that much and I'll be gentle, I promise."

"Yes," she breathed, already rolling her hips a little against his gently questing finger, "I said you could do whatever you wanted and the idea if having you everywhere is...intoxicating!" then she chuckled, that low sensuous sound that she only let him hear. "You can be very persuasive, do you know that?" She shivered when he kissed her, warm lips just grazing her neck, then her lips. "You feel so incredible when you touch me! My blood is still pounding in my veins! I know I'll enjoy it, even if it hurts a little. I love you and I want you in every part of me."

"Tonight, before everything goes to hell and we start fighting Aizen, I want to do everything that feels good and I want you everywhere too!" he said, his breath soft against her skin, "I wanna make love to you and fill you up so completely anywhere and everywhere I can so that you'll feel me for hours after. Don't worry, you'll like it, I'll make sure you do, but you might not be walkin too well tomorrow." He finished with another kiss, soft, warm and wet like only he could kiss, then he pulled back to look at her,"You're not...weirded out by all this are you? Me liking the taste of us together and wanting to fuck you...well, back here?" Gin's fingers brushed the entrance to her ass again. " I mean I am...a little more adventurous than regular guys, but...you already know that. As I said, I'm a little twisted. You're going to feel it from me anyway, so I might as well tell you. If I feel it hurting you...just a little bit, it...well...it sorta turns me on. I don't want it to hurt bad, just a tiny bit and then feel it going away and you liking what I'm doing. I said I...was...a little twisted."

" I'm not, as you say, weirded out at all! I'm very excited and turned on by my beautiful lover and I seem to be into twisted, so you can fuck me anywhere and any way you'd like! Look into my mind if you don't believe me." she said, looking into his hot red eyes. "In fact, I can't keep my hands off of you!" Her fingers took his erection and began to stroke him firmly, getting a soft moan from him. He closed his eyes and just enjoyed her fingers for a moment. Those musicians fingers could work magic! "I do have a request first though."

"So ask me! I might not say yes, but ask me anyway." he shivered as her fingers kept working him, thinking he knew what she was going to ask for and wanting that and what was going to happen next with his whole being! He couldn't believe he still wanted more when he'd come so hard so many times already, one right after the other, but then she seemed to do that to him and he knew he was doing the same thing to her, feeling her emotions and her desire in his mind! He grinned inwardly, he definitely liked the sexual compulsion, although he had an idea he'd still want her as much without it. The compulsion just meant he could go longer. Gin loved sex and he loved Igrayne, so the tender emotions added that little extra spice. With those things working on him, he couldn't keep his hands to himself either!

"Let me suck you off first. I love to do that to you." she smiled at his surprised look. She couldn't help herself, she longed to taste him again. She loved the feel of him in her mouth and she loved it when he came down the back of her throat! "You've been having so much fun doing things to me with that sinfully wonderful mouth of yours and now I think I'd like a little of the same kind of fun."

" Hmm, you really do get off on that don't you? You just can't seem to keep yer mouth off me can ya? I guess you have been a good girl, so I have ta let ya don't I?" he grinned, leaning back, "But," he held up one finger, "ya have to suck it still wet from bein in you, covered in my come and yours, just like I licked you." he smiled at her, "You tasted absolutly delicious! You were absolutly dripping! In fact you still are! You love it when I lick you!" he grinned, getting his fingers wet again and licking them clean. "Don't know why you don ask me to do that more often! I love to do it to you and you love having it done, in fact it makes you all slippery, wet and flushed and so beautiful that it makes me wanna stick other parts of me into you all the way! I love makin you feel that good!" Gin tipped her face up to his. "Especially when you scream like you have tonight. Ok, baby girl, you got a deal. Suck me off good and hard! It's gonna take drainin me dry before I'm done with you tonight! I need to calm down a little anyway. I'm a little too excited right now and I wanna be able to take my time, cause if I do it too fast and you're not ready, I could hurt ya more than I mean to. Still wanna let me? Mmm that feels good." he groaned, she already had him in her mouth, sucking him and swallowing him down all the way to the base before sliding him out with a wet slurp. "Guess that's a yes?"

"Yes, I still want to. You really have no idea how beautiful and sexy you are do you?" she gave him a long, slow lick, base to tip. "I told you anything and I meant anything. My body belongs to you and you alone, my beautiful silver angel." She swallowed him back down, using her tongue along the underside and bobbing her head up and down and hollowing her cheeks so that she could hit all the right places, sucking as she withdrew and creating a sensually slick feeling of suction. She could taste herself mixed with the taste of him and it made her shiver with desire! She sucked the head of his arousel, using her tongue to circle the sensitive crown. She smiled when she flicked her tongue tip over the slit, making him gasp. She made him twitch and jerk when she ran her clawtips through the silver curls between his legs.

"Ah, that's it! Right there!(gasp) Keep going! You didn't really think I'd say no when it feels so good? " he tangled his long fingers in her hair, letting a red strand curl around his pinky and groaned when her soft tongue circled the head of his erection while her lips sucked the shaft. He stiffened and groaned when her claws threaded their way through the curls between his legs and creating an intoxicating sense of pleasure when her fingers curled around his balls to stroke them, just gently for now, but enough to send molten heat through his groin. I should have known that I'd react this way! She just does this so well and she gets so into it! I don't think I'm going to last long! Her wet mouth moved to suck his balls, using the rough part of her tongue there while her hand stroked him firmly and that delicious feeling, coupled with the thought of what she was going to let him do next were driving him to lose control! He held back as long as he could, enjoying the build up and what that rough little tongue was doing, feeling a jolt of intense pleasure as her soft wet mouth stroked him in places no lover ever had, seeming to know just what he wanted and how he wanted it at any given moment, but he felt his need to come build to point of no return! He gripped the back of her neck and just managed to push back between her lips before he exploded messily into the heat of her silky mouth, watching, a little dazed when a line of pearly white dribbled out of the corner. She used her thumb to catch it and to lave it over the heated crown, then her pink tongue swirled it around, to lick it clean, "AH! Oh gods yes!" he groaned while she greedly swallowed him down again to get every last drop. He looked down watching her delicately lick small drops of his come from her fingers and lips, loving what she did to him and how she made him feel. He ran his fingers across her cheek, smiling at her.

"That was fast!" she smiled, licking her fingers "But oh so good!"

" It just feels so good and I lose it! Can't even think when your mouth is all over me! I've told you before, you're the only woman I've ever known that knows how good having my balls sucked feels and then there's that tongue of yours! It makes me nuts! Gods you're pure sexual temptation to me and I can't even think of resisting!" he shivered, pleasant electric jolts still sparking along his nerve endings and humming through his blood. He took a deep breath and relaxed for a moment to organize his thoughts before continuing, "Now though, I can handle the time it's gonna take ta get ya ready since this will be your first time doing this and baby girl, I want ya so ready a little pain won't mean anything. Just lay down and let me take over. Don't be afraid to tell me if it hurts or if it feels good. You liked it when I touched ya like this before," he ran his long fingers down the cleft of her ass, pausing to very gently touch the tight pink entrance, just massaging it lightly and ever so gently with the pad of his finger, still wet from the mingled essence inside her, "do you still?"

"Yes," she said shivering under his gentle touch. "Oh gods yes!" He licked the whole tip of his finger, wetting it and stroking her again, this time a little harder and touching her sensitive clit to distract her a little with his other hand, smiling when she gave a shivery moan and touched his face. The sensations were already making her ache with longing. "When you touch me Gin, all I can think of is how much I want you! You're just as sexy and tempting to me and I couldn't say no even if I wanted to! You feel too good for that, so get used to being jumped at every opportunity, you gorgeous demon! Oh!"she exclaimed whe she felt him go down and run his tongue along the tight area his fingers had been playing with. He swirled his tongue around the ring of muscle, teasing the tight entrance with the bare tip and making her shudder as little shocks of pleasure sparked along her nerves.

"Turn over onto your stomach woman, so I can get ya better." he teased giving her bottom a light smack. "Don't worry baby girl, we're still just at the very beginning, by the time I fuck ya, I'll have made sure you'll be ready and wantin it." he ran his tongue around the sweet opening, wanting so much to slide at least one finger into her, but he was unwilling to hurt her. The key to getting her to relax and enjoy the experience was for him to make it feel as good as he could right up until the point of penetration, when it would hurt a bit, but if he'd done it right she wouldn't care. He used his tongue again instead, using the tip to first circle and then press against the entrance, just lightly, keeping it gentle for now,but he got the response he wanted when she relaxed and moaned softly, leaning into the pressure a little. He smiled, the fact that she was letting him do what no one else had ever done to her was wildly exciting and his body was responding right along with hers! Encouraged he ran the flat of his tongue against the tight circle of muscle and massaged it sensually with just enough pressure to make her moan softly again.

"Gods it feels so good!" she whispered. She felt his lips curve into a grin as he kissed back up her spine before going back to lick and play with the entrance to her heart shaped ass finally sliding one slim digit inside to the first knuckle after getting it slick with the juices still dripping from her warm womanhood. "It's handy ta have ya already so wet here! Not ta mention sexy as hell ta see ya drippin me all over the sheets while yer getting ready ta let me fill ya up back here! Gin sent into her mind. She gasped, even his mindvoice was sensual and heavy, filled with the promise of shared pleasure and his tongue felt like wet velvet against her skin. She'd been right when she'd sensed he had an sensual nature that he hadn't explored fully. Igrayne was happy beyond measure that he felt free to express that side of himself with her.

He took the time to look as well as touch. She had a beautiful backside and just thinking how tight she would feel enclosing him made him shudder with pure lust! His fingers spread her a little so he could get his tongue directly into the oh so tight entrance. He lapped at it gently, applying a little more pressure and feeling it loosen a bit more and making her make those soft little groans and purring squeaks that meant he was making her feel amazing. Gin shivered, loving the sounds she was making and continued to massage the tight entrance, feeling how much she was enjoying what he was doing in his mind. Just for variety he ran his tongue against her dripping slit again, getting another delightful squeak for his trouble. The sound made him smile.

He put a finger to her lips, "Suck it and get it really really wet for me sweet girl." he said, "This might feel a little strange when I slide it in all the way." When she did, he slid a long, slim finger into her tight bottom, slowly moving it in and out, grinning when she groaned and rocked softly into his questing finger.

" I like that! I love how gentle you are, but I think I can take a little more." she groaned flushing a pretty rose pink.

"Mmm my pleasure baby 're getting into this aren't you" he grinned, then unable to help himself he ran the head of his arousel over the now wetter back entrance and sliding it between the heart shaped cheeks while his finger continued to stroke inside groaning. "Sorry, it's just so pretty and so damned sexy I couldn't help myself! Have ya got any lubricant? It'll make it easier than just saliva. I don't want to hurt you and if yer all slippery it feels even better for both of us."

"In the bedside table." she laughed and then gasped when he again ran his tongue over the spot his finger had been a moment ago, pushing the firm wet muscle inside, stepping up the pace a little as he felt the tight ring of muscle relax fully and let him in. He certainly knew what he was doing. She'd liked his finger, but she loved his tongue,velvety soft, warm and wet. It was one of the most intimate and erotic sensations she'd ever felt! "Ah! Ah Gin gods! That...that feels..wonderful!" she squirmed a little as he did it again, "Tickles a little.., but...oh gods it feels so good!" she groaned, laying her head on the pillows, but shifting her backside higher, "Please... ! Use your...oh gods! Use your tongue for a while." she managed to gasp out, "I've never felt anything so good!"

"Whatever ya want pretty girl." he grinned, "If this is what ya like and what turns ya on then it's my pleasure to do it." He applied his tongue, sometimes licking, sometimes penetrating her with it, but she was relaxing much faster. When he knew she was right on the edge of an orgasm Gin opened the small bottle and spread the clear lubrication liberally onto his middle and index fingers and then pressed them into the tight entrance one finger at a time, slowly at first, until they were all the way in. His penis twiched, beginning to sit up and take notice again as he rocked two fingers into her, trying hard not to let it hurt too much right at first. "Ya got a pretty little ass my baby girl." he mumered, dropping a kiss onto first one side then the other. He kept a soft slow pace and kept licking the ring of muscle, feeling through her mind how good it felt to her. It pleased him that she was enjoying this so much.

"So...good" she managed to get out. She squeaked a little, more in surprise than pain as he spread his fingers to stretch her tight passage open a little more. He was right it did feel a little strange, but it also felt incredibly good! "Please Gin, keep using your tongue! I'm so very close!" She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and rocked back into them increasing the friction, sighing when the muscles inside loosened a little, making it easier for him to pump his slender fingers in and out. Now that his fingers were slick and wet with lubricant it felt incredible! "Mmm Gin, please!" He knew instinctivly what she wanted and responded with a chuckle and began to thrust those long slim digits ito her a little harder. Hard enough to make her squeak and moan again, flushing deeper and beginning to move with him, pushing his fingers in deeper still, savoring the maddeningly erotic sensation. He grinned when he felt her loosen and relax a little more, enough to admit him, though it would be very tight. He decided to play a bit more and see if he could get her to climax at least once. Then she would relax fully and what came next would be easier on her. "Mm!" Igrayne sighed softly. Everytime the muscles inside relaxed, it felt even better. She'd never known she could be this responsive back there. "Please, don't stop!"

"Ya make the cutest sounds kitten. You're starting to feel ready an I definatly am. It still might hurt a little though. No hurry, sweet girl, just let me work you open a bit more." he warned. He was very hard now and his body was starting to beg him to get on with it! He forced himself to calm down, all the while rocking his long fingers in and out steadily and using his tongue the way he knew she liked. "Just be patient! This is her first time with this. If I can go slow until she's really, really ready then this will feel awesome for both of us!"

"That's ok, it actually makes it feel even better and it only lasts for a moment." her eyes caught his in the mirror as he slid another finger inside to join the other two and spread them open to stretch her a little more. "Oh!" she squeaked as she felt a sharp, quick spark of pain, followed by a surge of pleasure, especially when he returned to using his tongue on the outer edge. The soft wet sensation, combined with the hard, strong fingers thrusting inside felt so good she began to shake, "Mmm that feels wonderful!" She was even enjoying the sharp little bite of pain too. It was intimate, sensual and slightly naughty, but oh so good! She opened her mind, sending all she was feeling to him and watching him smile in surprise and pleasure. Gods what will having him inside me there feel like if his fingers and tongue feel this good?

" I was afraid ya'd think I was a pervert if I suggested this!" His chuckle turned into a gasp when her fingers closed around his erection. "Oh sweet girl that feels so good, but go easy, I'm really turned on an I wanna do this so bad it hurts, but I want you really ready an if I get anymore excited I might not be able to take it slow enough!" he looked into her eyes in the mirror, aching at the erotic sight displayed there, "I want you to like it and I wanna make you come so hard that you'll beg me ta do it again!" With that he began to pump his long thin fingers in and out, using his tongue to lick the tight ring of muscle since he knew she liked that feeling so much. His free hand played with the sensitive bundle of nerves between her lower pink lips, using every bit of experience he had. He hadn't told her, but once he got older, stealing wasn't all he'd done to make a living and he'd been fortunate enough to befriend an aging geisha who'd taught him everything she knew and he used every ounce of that knowledge now. He loved the feeling of her enjoying something like this, though he was close to screaming! He'd never wanted to do this so badly before and patience had never been something he'd had a great deal of.

He knew she was close, so he mastered himself once more and continued to lick and stroke her, stretching her open a little more, coaxing and playing, building on the erotic sensations he knew were flooding all of her senses, until he felt her come around the wet fingers he was thrusting deeply into her ass. Her orgasm felt as if it were sucking the fingers in her as the muscles inside clenched in waves. It almost felt like when her mouth sucked on his fingers. This could end up feeling even better than I thought! he mused to himself, then he felt her inner canal yield completely, becoming pliant and relaxed. He knew she was ready! Oh thank the Gods! he thought, as her orgasm finished, though he had entertained a brief fantasy of taking her while she climaxed. Wasn't sure I could hold out much longer! He grinned, he'd made her come back there with nothing but his fingers and tongue. When she finally quieted a little he groaned as he pulled his fingers out, she felt so silky and wet and so soft inside! "Oh gods baby girl,I want ya so bad I'm ready ta scream! I don't think I can wait any longer! Think ya can handle it?"

He sighed with a mix of pleasure and relief when she sent into his mind "Yes. I can't wait anymore either!"

"Then get me good and slick, I don't wanna tear anything, but baby, it will hurt a little. There's nothing I can do about that. Tell me if it's too much and I'll try ta stop, but I wanna fill ya up til ya scream!" he whispered giving her the bottle of lubricant and scooting to the side so she could reach him, hissing when her warm hand spread the slippery liquid over his aching erection. "Gods! Even her hands drive me crazy! Everything she does feels so good!"

"Mmm, I want you too and I won't ever be more ready!" she said as she smoothed lubricant liberally over his stiff cock, sensually massaging his erection and feeling him get even harder as he gasped and threw his head back, obviously enjoying what she was doing. That made her ache even more and she flushed a little as she murmered boldly,"Make it hurt a little my love. I think I like that too. I certainly enjoyed it when you were stretching me open."

"Baby girl ya shouldn't a said that! I don't think I can stop now!" he moaned rising and positioning himself against the tight entrance pushing in with one smooth hard thrust, feeling her body yield slowly and listening to her whimper as a sharp pain shot along her nerve endings as his cock stretched her tight passage. He held still, letting her get used to the feeling of him inside her and waited for her to signal him to continue though it nearly drove him crazy! He wasn't a patient man, but he forced himself to stillness, but he ached to move as his cock throbbed with need. He moaned softly when her insides rippled along his cock. "Gods! Can I move?" he asked, burying his face against her hair, his breath coming in harsh pants. He wrapped one arm around her waist, waiting.

"Move my love! Oh gods this feels so good!" she said, her voice breathy and soft with desire. It had hurt sharply at first, but that was melting away and being replaced by a shuddering pleasure. Since her ass was tighter she could feel every delicious, thick inch of him! She could feel his raw desire, but she could feel he was holding back, afraid to hurt her. She reached for his mind and sent what she was feeling to him and how much she was loving what he was doing, how he felt inside of her, how even the pain was delicious to her! She knew the pain/pleasure that was racing through every nerve in her body would turn him on with a vengence and he wouldn't be able to hold back! She knew she wasn't wrong when he began to thrust harder in response to her sending. Well, he'd told her he liked feeling her getting a touch of pain and then feeling it turn to pleasure. The pain was gone now and it felt almost too good to believe! She cried out wordlessly, moving with the rhythm of his thrusting hips and feeling a sensual heat spread through her belly and thighs. She'd never have thought he could make this feel so good! His arms around her felt warm and very good. She could hear his heavy breathing in her left ear, feel it hot on her neck when he kissed her just below her ear, then ran the tip of his tongue along the shell.

"You...do...like it don ya? he asked, his speech was breathy and his accent came and went. "Oh! This feels so good! You're...so tight...and...and so..hot inside! So soft...and...wet!"He shivered and kissed her neck, then the tip of one pointed ear, watching her fair skin flush rose pink. "I love watching you feel this sweet girl. Watching you take me where only I've ever been and likin it. So sexy!" he whispered as he watched them in the mirror. The way their bodies were positioned, he could see everything! What he was doing to her and where and how much she was loving it! The whole sight made him shiver!

Her body responded to his pleasure, climbing up toward her orgasm, rocking her whole body back against him,"Oh...gods, yes! Harder Gin, let me make you come!" Igrayne begged, "I'm so close I can hardly breathe. Let me feel you come in me!"

"No let about it baby girl, I'm gonna come anyway! Can't...can't stop it...even if..I wanted..to!" he moaned thrusting deeper, precome adding to the wetness, holding her close and wrapping his arms around her as her climax came crashing down and the sharp, quick, rippling squeezes the muscles inside her tight, little butt made around his hard shaft pushed him over the edge into his. Gods she was just about squeezing the life out of him, milking him dry as he came, flooding her with sticky heat, filling the tight passage completely until a little dribbled out to soak into the silver curls at the base of his convulsing erection! "Oh gods baby! AH! Yes take it! Take it all!" he panted, thrusting hard when she squeezed him sharply. "Oh shit! That feels so damn good! You're unbelievably tight back here, but it feels beyond good!"

" OH! Gin! GIN! Gods baby, nothing has ever felt as good as what you do to me!" she moaned, matching his movements until her legs and arms couldn't hold her up anymore. They collapsed together, both spent and shaking. Gin managed to fall on his side, keeping hold of her and staying in her as long as he could, though he knew this was their last time until he recovered. He felt himself sliding out of her, hissing as over sensitive nerves sent aftershocks through his body and feeling her shiver in aftershock as well. He'd given her everything he had and there was nothing left for now.

"Baby girl that felt so amazin! Did ya like it as much as I did?" he whispered, turning her over to kiss her passionatly. He was tired and drained, but he had never felt this good ever before! The soft echos of their shared pleasure still played and danced along inside his body and he could still feel the electricity that had shot through them both the moment their shared climax had begun! With his mind still fully in contact with hers he could feel it doing the same inside of her and he could feel her love for him, not just the physical passion, but her deep, abiding love for everything that made him who he was. To his greater delight he learned that she did not do these things with him simply because he wanted her to. Igrayne did them because she loved the mischief and the slightly naughty sense of adventure she felt from Gin. True, he sometimes seemed to enjoy the slightly "forbidden" things and while he enjoyed both giving and getting a little pain during loveplay, the sure and certain knowledge that he would never really hurt her was there too. If she hadn't liked it, he would have stopped and done something else, equally pleasurable she was sure. He liked it that she enjoyed his naughty side too and trusted him enough to try just about anything with him. His active imagination was already formulating plans to top this!

"I loved it!" her voice was as tired as his, but it sparkled with love and satisfaction, "When we're rested, will you do it again? I think I could get addicted to that! I didn't expect it to feel that good!"

"I'll do that and anything else ya want, anytime ya want it, but I think yer gonna be kinda sore tomorrow. Sorry, but I got a little carried away." he smiled, "Couldn't help it when yer always beggin me ta fuck ya harder naughty girl!" His fingers squeezed her backside, tenderly kneading the firm muscles. "But I'll be happy ta give ya fix anytime ya want!" he grinned, leaning over to kiss her.

"I may be sore, but it will be worth it! I absolutly loved it! I love what you do to me!" she returned the kiss slowly, just letting her fingers touch and feel his skin and the hard, toned muscles underneath. Her hands crept into his silky silver hair, fingercombing the soft strands out of his eyes, loving it's soft, fine texture and the feel of the silky strands slipping through her fingers. "I am so in love with you." she sighed, kissing him softly,enjoying the velvety feeling of his lips as he kissed back. Her heart thudded painfully with the intensity of what she felt for him.

"Mmm that's good, cause I'm so in love with you too. More than I ever thought I could be." he murmered before claiming her mouth for another lingering kiss and pulling her close, wishing he wasn't so tired. He couldn't ever seem to get enough of her, even when he was physically exhausted and knowing the feeling was mutual only made him want her more, but he said, "We should sleep sweet girl. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow."

"Good idea," she yawned, "since I can't keep my eyes open. Good night my love." she curled into his arms and closed her eyes, feeling completely happy and content.

"Night my baby. Sweet dreams." he whispered as he pulled the sheet over them and pulled her close tangling his legs with hers and wrapping his arms around her knowing he held his life within the circle of his arms. So this is what real love feels like? Think I like it. He sighed and snuggled down next to her, letting sleep sweep over his weary, but sated body.

AUTHORS NOTE:

Yeah I so went there! Not sure why, just felt like it and Gin has to have a kinky side don't you think? No worse than some yaoi stories I've read. In case you havn't noticed so far, I make Gin a little talkative during sex. Not sure why, it just seems to suit his personality. See ya soon!

Gin: Damn you were naughty in this chapter weren't you? Where ever did a nice girl like you learn things like that?

Me: Why, whatever do you mean?

Gin: Yeah like that innocent act is gonna work on me! (smirks stepping closer) Or maybe it will. I like the way you're portraying me though. It's nice to think somebody sees me as sexy insead of just creepy.

Me: Oh, I'm not the only one that sees you like that. Trust me my friend, you're more popular than you think. (gives Gin a head to toe look and grins back) More women than just me think you're hot, sexy and gorgeous! Besides, who told you I was a nice girl? Look at who my favorite is! You're a very bad and snarky guy, but I think you're gorgeous and I'd take you any day and slap the shit out of any other girl trying to get near you!

Gin: Really? My, my what a sweet thing to say. It's nice ta hear that for a change. And having pretty girls fighting over me? Hmmm, sounds...interesting. Certainly good for my ego. (leans over and kisses his author's cheek) Well, see ya in the next chapters. Bye bye! (Waves at readers)

Me: (bites knuckle) Damn I like him! He's just too sexy for his own good! I meant it! I really would take him any day and bitchslap any other girl that got in my way! In fact, I'd do everything Igrayne is doing with him! Oh crap! I didn't say that out loud! I didn't!

Gin: (turns and smirks) 'Fraid ya did 're getting an absolutely dirty mind the further into this we go! And I like it! Don't worry, I won't tell. (winks before vanishing into the dark)