Title: Absurd Insecurities – Pt. 3
Date: 17 December, 2008
Words: 771
Characters: Matsumoto, Hitsugaya, Hyourinmaru, mention of Kira
Pairings: Matsumoto & Hitsugaya
Inspiration: RedPearlVoice wanted to know where Hitsugaya drug Matsumoto off to, so, here it is, in full detail.
Rating: T – for innuendos.

A/N: The third and final installment of the Absurd Insecurities mini-trilogy. I hope you've enjoyed. Also, the ByaChiru fic (chapter six – Obvious Outcome) will be up after I finish my Child Rearing fic. It shouldn't take much longer, I predict four, maybe five chapters, and then the prologue. I promise to hurry, but I'm building that fic from the CR 101 story line.

Read, enjoy and review!
-Rachel Noelle

Hitsugaya drug Matsumoto out of the bar and back to his flat. Why she moved in with him he didn't know, nor did he care. He just wondered why the women always seemed to move in with the men. But, after tonight's fiasco with a horny Kira at the bar, Hitsugaya was more than a little upset and pissed. Not to mention his security in his sexuality had been questioned.

"I hope you're happy, Rangiku. So help me, for the rest of my days I will not repeat tonight. Next time you can just be upset when some other man won't hit on you," Hitsugaya fumed. Matsumoto fought hard to keep from laughing, but she simply couldn't help the few giggles that escaped.

"I'm so sorry, Toshiro. Really. I was just worried. I know it was silly, but you have to understand that for someone like me, there's only been four men immune to my charms in my lifetime. Gin, after he found Aizen, then Aizen of course, and Kira, and you," Matsumoto whined, trying desperately to keep up her act and not burst into laughter again. "I don't know why you still pretend I don't have any effect on you. It only lasts until I get my little taicho to bed, anyway." She 'hmphed' and crossed her arms.

Hitsugaya fell back into an arm chair, sighed exasperatedly. "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that. Never again."

Matsumoto put on her best pouty-puppy face, and leaned over his chair so they were nearly nose to nose. "Let me have the chance to make it up to you, at least, Taicho," she begged. Hitsugaya's face hardened and he turned away from her.

"Oh, you can make it up alright. You take care of the paperwork for the next two weeks," he huffed, not budging in his grumpiness.

"Ah, Taicho! How could you? Besides, I can think of much better ways to make it up to you. Let me show you what a good time you can have. You need a real woman to show you that, not some imposter," Matsumoto trilled, her voice taking on her favorite seductive quality.

"No," came Hitsugaya's firm, unmoving reply. He stood abruptly, nearly knocking heads with her and fetched a blanket and pillow from the closet. He deposited them on the sofa before stomping off to shower and change for bed. When he returned he found Matsumoto sulking on the sofa, worse than her usual.

"Are you going to make me sleep on the sofa?" she whined, the hurt apparent in her voice, as she looked up at him standing (albeit barely) above her.

"Perhaps," Hitsugaya replied, his gaze cold and stony.

"Well, what if I beat you to the bed?" Matsumoto asked, her voice and gestures alluding to flirtatiousness. She stood, expecting him to give chase, and headed for the bedroom.

Rather than chase her down and reclaim his bed, he was going to torture her by sleeping on the sofa himself. See how she likes being held out on, Hitsugaya thought smugly. Teach her a thing or two, to be willing to put me in that situation and not even try to defend me.

'Master,' countered Hyourinmaru, 'What if the plan backfires, and she ends up being the one to hold out on you?'

Hitsugaya scoffed. He may not know everything there was to know about women, and he certainly never would fully understand them, but he knew enough about Matsumoto to know that she wasn't exactly the type to willingly abstain when she was seeing someone. He was just happy he was only the second someone, and intended to be the last.

So, for one full week, Hitsugaya did not speak to Matsumoto, and slept on the sofa every night. She could have the bed, as long as she left him alone. For another week after, Hitsugaya shared their bed (it used to be his, but something about your girlfriend moving in with you changes that situation) but slept as close to the edge as possible. So, by the time two weeks had passed, Matsumoto refused to let him leave her sight for the next three days. She vowed, too, to never let Kira near Hitsugaya again.

After all, as she saw it, they were making up for lost time, and she didn't want to stall any longer. Some of the other taichos were curious when Hitsugaya failed to show at their meeting that Monday, but when they saw Matsumoto's possessiveness and silent threat to kill anyone who so much as spoke to him wrongly, they didn't question it.

Note: The line about "I would do anything for love…" comes from a song by Meatloaf, I believe of the same title. And I am totally like I picture Matsumoto to be. Why abstain when you're in a committed (and monogamous) relationship? And I don't striclty mean sex, either.