Not Mine Valentine
More Worrisome

The fukutaicho of the tenth division worked on getting the paper work done when her small taicho came back into the office giving off a strange vibe. At first she thought his was because he failed and was disappointed that he had in fact failed. When she asked about it she was surprised to find that his response was that he had actually succeeded.

It was then that she felt that something was wrong. Her taicho had a bounce to his step, a smile on his face and it looked like he was enjoying himself. The way he acted was way to similar to the manner he went about cleaning the office the other day after seeing Gin. He had been way to laid back for his normal self. "Taicho... what did you do?"

"Oh... nothing." Rangiku found herself staring at the boy, frowning as she did so. While the busty female would have loved to see the child smile, something told her she would rather know and understand why he was acting differently from his normal behavior. Letting out a deep sigh she got up. "I'm going to go ahead and talk to Gin."

"That's fine by me."

"And no complaint about me not doing my work. That can not be a good thing" The woman walked over to the boy's desk and walked behind him while he wasn't paying any attention to her. "That's another thing that bothers me. When he knows around he pays very close attention to where I am in the room."

She then walked behind and hugged him from behind. She watched as his hands jerked and the form he was feeling out go a line it shouldn't have. A yelp came from his mouth. She reached one hand up to touch his forehead. "Well, you aren't running a fever."

The boy pushed her away and shook his head. "Why the hell do you think I have a fever?"

Rangiku pulled away and placed her hands on her hips. "You haven't been acting like yourself."

"I have too!" The boy went back to his work, his chipper mood having melted away.

The female let out a deep sigh before heading out to see Gin. She slipped in and saw that he was sitting with his leg crossed across his lap. The look on the man's face showed some emotion for once and she could tell that he was irritated as well as quite bored. "What did taicho do that convinced you to talk to me?"

She watched as the man suddenly flinched. One pale teal eye opened up to look at her. The corners of his mouth twisted down. "I'll talk to you about anything but that."

"But if taicho did something wrong..."

"Don't worry Rangiku. He didn't do anything like stripping in front of me, or unlocking the cage I am to come and stab me multiple times. Can we please leave it at that?" The man set his feet on the ground and his hands on his knees. "I wish to warn you though that what you want to hear isn't going to make you happy."

"I don't care. You owe me an explanation. Why did you go after Aizen and toss me aside like that?"

"Do you remember how we first met?" Gin's eyes opened up and he looked forward without looking at her.

"You rescued me from hunger. That's the first time we met, remember? What does that have to do with anything?"

"That has everything to do with this because that wasn't the first time we met."

Rangiku paused a few seconds before folding her arms across her chest. "If that isn't the first time we met, how come I don't remember?"

"Do you know what amnesia is?" Gin leaned forward and rested his chin in the palm of his left hand.

"So... your saying that I have some form of amnesia that made me forget my memories before I thought we met? How did I lose my memories?"

There was a period of silence before the silver haired man spoke. "The reason you were starving at that point in time was because some of Aizen's henchmen came and stole a good portion of your rieatsu for the hogyoku. You needed food to replenish your body and it was a good thing I had gone out to get some kind of food for us to eat. You also lost your memories."

"Gin... if it were as simple as me having lost my memories of you we could have easily just have started over."

"Except it wasn't as simple as you losing your memories of me. You lost your memories of someone else who is honestly far more important then myself." There was a lull of silence and Gin looked up to see the rather shocked look on his face.

"Who? I don't remember anyone else being in our lives."

"That's because I made sure the person wasn't around after you lost your memories. You were supposed to get your memories back on your own. Eventually I came to the conclusion that the reason you couldn't get your memories back was because the hogyoku had stolen them. So, I was going to get them back so you could be with that person again."

Rangiku shook her head, her arms still crossed across her chest. "I don't get how this person is so much more important then you. You're the person I'm in love with, or are you trying to tell me that the other person was in fact my lover instead."

"Oh, we were lovers Rangiku. This person wouldn't exist if we hadn't been." Gin turned his head away from her.

"This person wouldn't exist unless..." The woman pushed her lips together. "You're saying you and I have a child somewhere out there? Where the hell is this child Gin? You can't just go and leave them somewhere and expect them to live! You know as well as I how harsh of a place the outer circle of Soul Society is and how a child can die.

"Don't worry. I placed him with a nice old lady in the first district of the south." The man leaned his chin on the palm of his hand again.

"First district of the south, that really narrows..." Rangiku found herself blinking a couple of times. "Wait a second, you said that the child was male. I very well know a child who fits both of those. Are you telling me that taicho is our child? Good lord this is a bad joke! You and I both know that taicho wasn't born in Soul Society, he died and then came here. He remembers..."

"... wrong." Gin suddenly crossed his legs together and placed his hands on his knees again. "Did you ever stop and think carefully about something? His exact words were that he died on a plain of ice and then came to Soul Society. Doesn't the whole plain of ice sound oddly familiar? If you think about it, the boy's inner world is a plain of ice."

"You tried killing him."

"Did not."

"You did too! I saw you launch an attack at him that would have cut his head in half!"

"An attack I knew he would dodge. I was trying to kill Hinamori Momo that whole time."

"You know how attached he is to her! They grew up together! He would die for her!"

"I won't hide the fact that I dislike Hinamori Momo with a passion. She may have grown up as siblings with him, but she's always treated him like dirt because she could only see that bastard Aizen."

"You are so immature!" Rangiku narrowed her eyes. "And how exactly am I to tell him?"

"I never planned on telling either of you. I honestly thought I would be taking this secret to my grave." Gin's eyes remained shut, tightening from frustration. "Neither one of you need the stigma of being associated with me."

"Yeah... I already got that. I can't believe I hoped that it would be something simple I could easily forgive you for."

The man frowned suddenly. "Speaking of the stigma of being associated with me, Shiro-chan's behavior does bother me."

"Let me make something clear to you Gin." Rangiku watched as he looked up at her with his eyes open. "I don't want you to have anything more to do with him. I want you out of his life and I think that the reason I want you out should be quiet obvious."

"I get that, I honestly do." The man opened his mouth, "But..."

"No buts! I missed out on his early years because of you and he missed out on having a mother and father. You can very well miss out on watching him grow up any farther as punishment for your real crimes."

"I got that, its just..."

"Do you get it?" Rangiku snapped the words out. "He's grown a couple of inches since you've been gone! He's opened up to a lot of the people around him and I'm not going to let you take advantage of that." The woman's eyes noticed as this didn't phase him. She swallowed. "And by the way, taicho has himself a girlfriend."

"What?" Gin's mouth twisted up.

"I'm telling you the truth."

"No... you're lying because you're mad at him."

"The hell he has! Shiro-chan hasn't even hit puberty!" The man stood up and came to the jail cell.

"Oh yes he has. He's dating Kurosaki Ichigo's sister Karin-chan."

"Matsumoto Rangiku... you're letting him date?"

Rangiku folded her arms across her chest. "First off, I don't think either one of us has room to talk as we had a child and weren't much older then him. So don't you even dare go there. Second, he has hit puberty and he likes Karin-chan a lot. Third, I like Karin-chan. She's a very sweet girl. Of course, I wouldn't want her meeting our son's father. Oh, and forth. How could I tell him no when I didn't know I was his mother thank you very much."

She watched as the corner of his open eye twitched along with the corner of his mouth. His jaw hung open for a bit and then she watched as he turned and sat down on the bench and buried his face in the palms of his hands. "Wow. You are so childish."

"And you're one to talk lying to him like that."