Well here is the new chapter and I think I may have been a little lost in love making this fic. But I know my loyal readers well enjoy this. Now on to thanking them!

Thanks to Shinigami School Girl!: Always the first to review my updates and I am so glad you find it beautiful!

Thanks to Papaya: Everytime I look at your reviews I think of happy thoughts of the fruit (it is one of my favourites) And I hope you find this chapter lovely!

Thanks to V Son Sayain: You were right about their being a chapter with pure fluffiness, the only time I can picture that actually happening is in their childhood but once they entered Soul Society that seemed to change. I love your review its so detailed!

Thanks to Stardust5: You havent seen the tears yet, trust me Rangiku will cry her fair share (so will Gin) but you have to wait! Glad to find you love the antics, I will do more!

Thanks to Twoformemories: You review was best for last...ahh conflict. The basis to every GinRan fic, there will be more I am just shedding light to a happier side of their relationship in this arc! Cant wait to hear more from you.

AND SPECIAL THANKS TO ANGELDARK! your constant encouragement in BA has made me feel so welcomed and happy! You are my biggest supporter and I feel blessed to have found you as a friend.

Warnings! I tried to keep this fic within the limits but there is sexual references (heavy) but I hope you dont find it offending. I tried to do less but its hard to suppress pure raw passion between the two.

Disclaimer: Kubo Tite owns this fabulous pairing and we are just basing speculations.

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"I can't conceal it anymore"

"Ah! Gin…"

"I touch you, and I start to tremble"

Eyes closed he records her memory through his fingertips, his hands traveling upwards remembering her face in the throes of ecstasy. Her eyes clamped shut, her mouth open in desperate pants, her skin slick with sweat, and her vibrations rumbled through her throat as she let out the most divine sound to ring his ears.

"You are beginning to undress yourself"

Their clothing cold and discarded, the only thing on them was each others skin.

"You look at me and beg for more"

Soft pleasurable cries echoed harsh grunts. Moan's, pants, cries, and whispers were their music of love. Creating their own soundtrack alone without abandon, the sounds of their flesh their symphony.

"Both of us in heat, I lose control of myself"

They rolled and thrashed against each other, their mind fogged by desire. Sweat dripped down from his forehead to drop from the tip of his nose on to the beloved woman below him in soft cool raindrops.

"You give yourself to me, and all I know is"

The golden woman completely yielding towards his possessiveness, she was biddable to absolute desire and lust. She had to remember to breathe for the feeling was so intense she almost collapsed from lack of oxygen.

"That I finally feel you…we are now one"


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The hole in each others hearts filled itself with one another as their lovemaking washed every painful moment inflicted from earlier youth. Rangiku's whispers of love healed all of her lover's scars better than time would've allowed, he had never felt so free and blissful. She never mattered more to him than now, all his earlier promises to give back what was lost to her replenished itself into a drive that never left his heart.

Gin thought it was all unimaginable as his mouth claimed hers and their bodies melded as one. He traced every inch of her skin to remind himself that it wasn't a dream and Rangiku was indeed writing beneath him fervently. Both desperate to complete each other, a hunger that refused to be sated as the hours passed by and the moon was slowly replaced by the rising sun. He turned her over once more and he opened his eyes to watch her as she sensually moved with him, her expression sublime.

Pain, pleasure, and passion mixed simultaneously in Rangiku, the words that came out her lips were of another being that she was not familiar with. Every movement helped her find her that peak that tore her between life and death, no other sensation entered but rapture. To Rangiku time was non existent just desire.

Even after the morning sun rose they continued on, their bodies spent yet they still craved for each other's taste. Their erotic dance slow and languorous as the day passed on until the final fulfillment finally caved them both in like a house of cards. Gin collapsed in exhaustion and Rangiku struggled to catch her breath, after minutes of labored breathing they held each other and chuckled. They were slowly coming down from that high cloud of delight.

Gin craned his neck up to look at the sun, seeing how the sun made a shadow against the trees he saw that it was 3 hours past midday. As he kissed Rangiku's bare shoulder he heard a low growl erupting from her stomach, a sheepish grin formed her face.

"Hungry?" He whispered in her ear as his hands intertwined with hers.

"A little but I'm so tired…"She stretched and yawned, their night activities had not let her have an ounce of sleep and she ignored her stomach.

"Can you get me something to eat?" She purred and felt Gin smile drop slowly at her question, his low growl in annoyance made her desire stir once more.

"No, I rank above you there for you cannot order me around as if I am some Rukongai brat" she sensed the sarcasm in his tone, she wondered if there were other methods to motivate him.

"Well if you don't get me something to eat, I guess I will devour what I have here" Rangiku slithered a hand behind her to reach for a part of Gin's body that made him jump in surprise.

"God's Rangiku, you could kill a man with your lust" He reluctantly moved away from her and groggily rose up to fetch her something to eat.

"No, I want what you have there" she grabbed his arm and her eyes went from up top to his lower regions, he found that she could use his signature smile quite well.

"Ne, Rangiku the spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak. I need some rest" he wondered if he awakened a demon within her that will consume him like wildfire.

"It doesn't look that way from my view" her gaze made Gin look down at his own body in dismay.

"Shinsō is always up and ready even when I don't want him to be, Rangiku if I start again the only thing that will come out of me is air…" Rangiku laughed heartily at how Gin referenced his codpiece to his zanpakto.

A sinful glint shined in Rangiku's eye as she laid on her back and spread herself invitingly, she raised a leg and her toes played with his upper stomach and trailed down to his hip bone until finally touching that piece of flesh that made him curse at the gods for creating such an erotic woman. He took her leg and left trails of bites and kisses as he knelt closer to her, Rangiku threw her head back to giggle in triumph. He hovered above her as she prepared herself for another session with her lover, a challenging smile rose from her plump lips.

"Keep on smiling like that, I'm going to make you regret you have awakened me…" Gin crashed his mouth on top of hers as he claimed her once more.


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As the days crossed on they went through the cycle of hungrily consuming themselves to day long sleeping. They spent the first entire week in just Gin's futon, only getting up to wash and replenish themselves with quick food. Rangiku seemed to have an avaricious desire which often convinced Gin to take her on the spot not minding where exactly in the manor they were located, it was an act that came so naturally to them. Gin wondered why he hadn't done this ages ago…

Rangiku's curiosity to explore the large mansion has led her wandering into one of the master suites, she was amazed by the wonderful décor and its harmonic design. As she opened a large closet its emptiness did not convince her and she sunk low on her knees and looked at it interestingly. The wall was decorated in a fine painting of a mountain and a hot spring with monkeys bathing inside, as she traced the outline with her finger she felt a tiny bump over where the steam of the hot spring rose up on the wall. Unconsciously pressing on it, a trap cabinet sprung up from under the mat surprising the young woman.

She peered down and saw a shiny red box inside, taking her hands to pull it up she brought it into the sunlight. A fine settling of dust was on top and she wiped it off seeing it decorated in red enamel with gold inlay. The exotic piece was beautiful and she wondered what it's contents could be, as she slowly removed the top her mouth went wide at what she found inside. It was a treasure find and her curiosity grew tenfold as a naughty desire to dabble into the forbidden tempted her.

Gin snuck in seeing her shapely back turned towards the door, he slithered by and pulled her hair away from her neck and began leaving soft nips and kisses making her giggle in delight. His hand roamed upwards cupping her sensitive bosom, he continued teasing her neck traveling up to her jaw line.

"Whatcha have there?" He turned her face so he can capture her lips, she happily put an arm around his neck to continue showering her with affection.

Gin broke off to look down and see a intricately arranged set of some unusual smoking material. The pair of pipes that lay before them were unlike the usual ones used for tobacco. He picked one up curiously as Rangiku took hers.

"What is this, its not like the other tobacco pipes I've seen before…"

"That's because it isn't a tobacco pipe" Rangiku's slender hand reached into a box which contained a royal purple silk bag. She opened it and pulled out a large round ball of yellow sticky sap.

"Opium…I knew it" the word that slid from her mouth made Gin wonder if he had let Rangiku find something dangerous.

She pinched a small piece and placed it in the small square lamp that rose near the end of her pipe. Quickly striking a light she watched as the lamp melted the sap and a sensual steam arose from the tip filling the whole room with a sweet intoxicating scent. Gin saw as her eyes sparkled with forbidden want and he luscious mouth parted slightly to allow herself to inhale the end of the pipe, instinctively his stopped her hand.

"Stop, ya never know what can happen to ya" he was worried and Rangiku's soft blues made his cautiousness waver.

"Relax I'm just going to taking a small puff, its not going to kill me" she went back to her hand and this time he didn't stop her as she dragged a long pull from the pipe. Releasing herself she let it settle within her body before exhaling the vapor in a languid blow, she closed her eyes to feel the euphoric effects clouding her mind.

Gin watched closely as he saw her body relax, she took another long pull and she passed on to Gin's lips but he refused. Rangiku made a small frown at his reluctance to join her, she took another pinch and added it back into the lamp. She kept persisting but Gin was unyielding to inhale the poison.

"What are you afraid of?" Rangiku's voice flowed like honey into his ears. She lingered her lips over the mouthpiece and she breathed in with her heavy lidded eyes. Her body began to feel light and hyper sensitive she could sense each cell come alive with a blazing heat. She softly pressed her lips against Gin's and when he parted his mouth she exhaled the inescapable drug, he made the mistake of breathing and his lungs soon filled itself with the sweet toxin.

Pulling back he let himself sit back, she offered to him once more and his judgment was replaced with the tempting want. He slipped his fingers around the pipe and she smiled, Gin felt the oddest feeling of déjà vu when he neared the opium pipe to him. He remembered an odd story that Aizen once told him about what the westerners believe. As Gin took smoked the opium he didn't notice himself chattering his thoughts before analyzing the words as he usually does.

"You ever heard about Adam and Eve?" Rangiku turned her head to their names were familiar but she found it hard to recall. He passed her the pipe and took her turn as Gin started to tell.

"I heard this sensational story about how the world first came to be and that supposedly we were all descended from the first pair named Adam and Eve. Of course that what is westerners believe but I think it's an interesting myth"

"Like Izanagi and Izanami" Rangiku jumped in and the silver shinigami nodded slowly.

"Yes, but they were not gods. Merely humans created from a sole god, well anyhow they lived in a paradise called Eden and were in charge of all the animals and plants created" Rangiku listened intently but her body had followed its own accord and she slipped on the mat, relishing the delicious sensation of the fabric brushing against her skin. She let out a languorous sigh and didn't care that her bountiful breast peaked out deliciously through her robe.

"They were allowed control and use of everything except one particular fruit, an apple. It was called the fruit of knowledge and they were explicitly forbidden to touch that fruit for if they did their god would unleash a terrible punishment on them" Gin went on the opium giving a soothing effect and his body began to feel light and lively with raw emotion.

"So what happen keep on going, I could tell this is going to get good" Rangiku settled her pipe down, done with continuing on raising her elation.

"Well because a clever little snake tricked the woman into eating the fruit, she shared it with her mate. And the worst thing happened to them…" Gin let his desire overtake him and he went to crawl on top of the goddess beside him.

"And that would be?"

"They became mortal, they felt pain, and knew what it meant to toil into hard labor…but the worst part was that they were kicked out of their paradise, all for disobeying a simple order" His eyes widened when he saw her hands open herself completely to him, exposing her supple curves.

"And what does that have to do with us…" She gave him a coy gaze inviting him on.

"You being a constant temptation and how it will eventually lead us to our downfall" He slipped off his own clothes and his mind was in a haze, it was an inexplicable feeling. He felt a euphoria that washed and crashed his senses, coupled with the promise of carnal satisfaction he let his primal urges surface.

Rangiku's skin felt burning with every touch, writhing sensually she has never felt so sensitive often crying out with the slightest brush. Rising warmth radiated within her and she felt it was a dire need to prolong the excitement she felt.

"Then devour me, like their forbidden fruit" Rangiku's voice called out to him, he didn't need to be told twice. Pure emotion tapped from the inner recess of his mind came forth and he was alive with it, all his thoughts, motions, and needs. He no longer felt vulnerable, or the constant need to hide within the mask just the scars in his heart that needed to be healed by her touch.

Starting their illicit dance anew Gin has never felt so detached from fear and its consequences. He muttered his innermost thoughts and Rangiku reveled at each word, her exhilaration climbed faster with his encouragement.

"Promise me you will always be mine…" His teeth sunk into her collarbone, a tiny drop of blood rose up to be lapped by his swift tongue. Rangiku was screaming at how every pleasurable touch was increased tenfold, pain nonexistent.

"Yes I promise" her promise lingered and drove his need further, he roughly took her. Anger, joy, lust, love, pain, pleasure, and want are what he returned to her. He felt invincible, not an iota of fear penetrated his consciousness. Rangiku received his unrefined passion with equal reciprocation her mind overloaded with perpetual bliss.

"Gin, I..ah" her back arched up her nails dug into his shoulder blades as she dragged long red lines across them.

"Tell me…" his voice hoarse commanded her, the sheer violence of his movements overwhelming her.

"I…am" she found it difficult to breathe as he knocked each breath she took with his rocking movement.

"Rangiku…" he paused when he saw tears running from her eyes, thinking he pushed her too far he withdrew himself but she instantly climbed up and pressed him once more in her. Her arms enwrapped around his shoulders and neck, she brought up her lips towards his ear.

"I will be yours, I have never felt so complete. I could die in your arms right now without a single shred of regret" those words engraved itself in his soul and he resumed in claiming her.

They both spent hours pouring their love for each other, his love imprinted itself deep within her heart and she knew she could never wrench it out. Gin knew that the opium allowed him to be more honest in declaring his feelings towards Rangiku but he could feel Shinsō's hard gaze shooting daggers behind his back.

The after effects of their opium induced euphoria began to take hold and a inescapable feeling of sleep claimed them. Wrapped in each others arms they whispered their last words of devotion before their blues darkened and they lost themselves into the dark world of their dreams. They felt as if their whole world just extended itself into that room and nothing else existed, that they were the only souls alive and they would never want to venture out of their paradise.


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They left together, the old keepers of the home returned earlier than expected and where horrified to find the home a mess. The old man looked at the young lieutenant viciously while he returned an enigmatic smile, Rangiku was in her room naked throwing on whatever clothes she could find. His wife started muttering how the mansion was not a love hotel and it would be the last time she would let youngsters rent out the manor.

When their carriages arrived Gin made sure to leave a considerable sum for their troubles, the man's hard gaze wiped itself off when he saw the heavy coin purse but the woman remained like stone. Giving a low bow he turned and was ready to board the litter, he couldn't help but listen on to their conversation.

"Well the money isn't bad, at least they paid"

"I don't care about the money, have you seen the mess they made. The whole house smells like sex! It's an unforgivable sin if we allowed them to return. They defiled a noble Kuchiki home!" she nearly shrieked.

"Now Sayuri, if I remember correctly back when we were youths you used to gather women for those opium induced orgi—" his wife smacked him before he would utter another word.

"Silence! The Kuchiki lord in that time ordered me to help him host those scandalous parties, and those were different times…" Sayuri was surprised when her gentle husband took her hand and gave her an intent look.

"I remember clearly that is how we first met, I a young servant boy at the time fell in love with a swaying dancing woman who stood out above the rest. You took my hand and ordered me to join in your sin and I did" he kissed her hand her cold voice lost.

"Oh, be quiet Eiji I had no choice but to pick you. Every one else was paired off! And you will be the one cleaning up after their mess now go!" He laughed sheepishly remembering the fond memory clearly and Gin boarded inside with a soft chuckle. He saw Rangiku reclined on soft pillows as if she was a full blooded royal, she winked at him and offered him to come closer.

Giving her a chaste kiss he remembered that he had to warn her of the reality that awaits them.

"Rangiku, you know we cant stay like this when we head back to our divisions…" he was afraid of her answer.

"I know, I'm not expecting us to quit our positions just because we found something good. I know the etiquette the Gotei enforces on situations like these" She pouted not wishing their romance to end with just their private refuge.

"Not now, I will make sure we can get around this. I think it could be dangerous if our superiors would catch us together" Gin's eyes remained fixed on hers as to read her expression

"Dangerous?" a quizzical look crossed her face.

He kissed her silencing her further, she blushed and softened.

"You asking me to forget this whole thing as if it never happened?" she looked at a loss in his suggestion.

"Just publicly, we cant allow them to think something indecent for now. It will be just a secret for a small while" he promised her as he relaxed her with his embrace.

"I understand…" As Gin went on nibbling her neck Rangiku couldn't help but remember the words he told her before as she was his temptation and that she will eventually be his undoing. She wondered if he really considered her such a nuance or something that could harm his potential as a shinigami.

"I love you Rangiku, please do not worry. Everything will happen in its time, just be patient for me a little longer" he sensed her depressing moods arise.

"You don't know how long I wanted to hear those words from you, I am happy with that for now" Rangiku let Gin lie in her lap as the litter jolted and bumped to and fro. They rested and shared kisses with each other, he told her that he dreaded heading back to work and that there is nothing greater than to rest on her lap.

When they returned to their respected division's they shared one last kiss in secret and Rangiku was the first to board off. As the men unloaded her luggage back into her quarters she turned back to look at her new lover and he stared back at her, smiling she waved.

"Bye Bye Gin…" She turned and the doors closed as she went on her way to her division.


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Gin surprised Rangiku the following months by often visiting her, although they were careful to be discreet about their meetings often times using different aliases when writing or seeing each other.

Rangiku wondered at first why he was more secretive to her than in the past. He would send her letters declaring friendship one day under his original title and then write passionate verses of erotic desire that would make her blush and yearn for his return, in the assumed alias of course. She went wild when he retold his sensual script word for word and acted as so, he never seemed as the type of a romantic in such a sense but he had a mysterious air on how he expressed his urges for her. After their liaisons which would occur at random locations he would always dispel her nagging doubt about whether he truly loved her with a meaning full embrace and had no problem in spilling the truth of his heart to her.

For those months the once ray of light that Rangiku has been peaked over and burst to become his full sunshine in the dark abyss he has trapped himself in. Her golden rays erased the poisonous shadow he had once dwelt in, he drank in all of her for he felt no pain or loss when he lost himself with her.

He thought that being in love was beautiful, he hid it well of course but he felt alive when he saw her and transcendent when embracing her. Aizen was nonexistent, his diabolical schemes erased, the fingerprints that had marred his soul replaced with Rangiku's delicate strokes.

"You're becoming clumsy, the captain will notice…" Shinsō warned him countless times since he returned with Rangiku but he turned deaf whenever the sword spoke about her.

"How when I make sure to not leave tracks?"

"He is already questioning your frequent disappearances, you of all people know that once something catches that demon's attention he will stop at nothing to uncover the truth" Gin looked at his zanpakto seriously.

"And can you stop looking like a love drunk fool when your around him, he gives us the oddest look of suspicion, you look pathetic" Shinsō added.

"I can't help it, I want to be near her"

"You are already Aizen's subordinate. You tossed away your chance to be with her a long time ago even before I came into existence" The smack of reality temporarily brought Gin to his senses. He knew he couldn't be with her yet it drove his motivation to eliminate Aizen even further.

A knock was heard and dispelled his thoughts with Shinsō, his zanpakto cursed him for the inability to sense that it was Aizen.

"You're slipping boy, you better end your foolishness with the girl"

Aizen slid the door and Gin got up abruptly making the older man arch his eyebrow.

"Captain Aizen, how are you?" Gin pinched himself for making his captain give him that look of knowing something is up. Brown eyes neared him and he felt the man's strong hands cup his face.

"Are you not feeling well? I came to see how you were. You either look flustered or in a daze when I see you and it's so peculiar that it were to start after you came back from your little excursion"

"What did I tell you?"

"Shut up" Gin looked at his zanpakto, Aizen caught him and looked at his sword as well. Gin could feel his mask slipping from his face

"Did something happen?"

"Of course not Capt'n, it's just my zanpakto has been very snappy at me lately. Doesn't like it when I have to remind it who's boss" Gin was surprised to see the man chuckle and touch the clutch of Shinsō tenderly.

"You haven't visited my quarters, I miss that look of expression you have when I…" Aizen dipped his head and casually brushed his lips over his lieutenant testing his boundaries.

"When you touch me Capt'n?" Gin did not falter and opened his eyes to show those remarkable blue hues that drove the older man.

Aizen smiled, Gin could breathe his scent and it made his stomach do somersaults. He knew what was coming next but his knees buckled. As the taller man put his hands on his shoulders and his lips on Gin's slender neck he tried to replace it with the memory of Rangiku's plump mouth.

"I missed you…" Aizen nuzzled him and pulled him closer. Gin always had the ability to shut himself off whenever the captain went this far but he couldn't escape and Gin felt immediately trapped. His breathing quickened.

Mistaking it for excitement, Aizen began to slip his hands under his uniform, Gin instantly remembered the scratches and love bites that Rangiku left behind from their last encounter. Swift fingers passed through tense muscle. Gin couldn't escape and his heart started to beat insanely fast, it only succeeded in making the captain more aroused.

"Shinsō…" Gin whimpered inside his head.

His zanpakto reacted wanting to save his master and slipped his poisonous reiatsu into his core making his world spin and darkness take over. Blue eyes rolled back and he fell over, his captain alarmed captured him before he hit the ground, the lieutenant started convulsing under him.

"Gin!" The convulsions did not stop until Shinsō's reiatsu dissipated. Aizen looked at his zanpakto venomously wondering why his sword would do such a thing to his owner, he took it away from his sash and threw it over.

Listless and slumped over, Gin was lost in his inner world embracing the taller man that was calling over to him. Aizen laid the younger man on the ground and caressed his face gently as he looked around he saw in Gin's desk a letter that was half done. Curious as to it did not have the usual look of an official document his hand pulled the parchment over.

"Your heart is my obsession, one that will consume me. For a second I drown in the ocean of reality to know that you are mine yet at the same moment you are not. Teach me how to forget the memory of your body for it ravages my thoughts constantly" Aizen looked at both Gin and the letter and wondered deeply. He returned the letter back onto its desk and his head looked down, a terrible slash of jealousy claimed him but he refused to show it.

Aizen stormed out of the office and went out of sight, he left his lieutenant alone and abandoned.


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Everyone was bustling preparing for New Year's in the 8th division. Rangiku had to dodge the onslaught of shinigami that raced back and forth to different locations. She felt excited for the new coming year and its firework festival, as she returned to her room she saw someone hiding in the darkness. The night could not conceal his fine hair and her smile went from ear to ear.

"Gin, how did you manage to slip by?" He grabbed her wrist and pulled him closer to her, they kissed with fervor. Finally breaking for a breath they panted looking at each other with longing.

"Are you kidding me, with the havoc out there any intruder can walk in and go unnoticed" He pressed his lips to her hands and filled them with kisses. She giggled and wretched her hands away to wrap them around him.

"I am so happy you are here, I always wanted to spend the New Year's with you" she whispered he nodded and told her if she wanted to get away from here.

"I thought you would never ask"

They flash stepped out of sight and Gin lead her on a high rooftop of his own division. Rangiku wondered what they were doing was dangerous but he told her to not worry since everyone else was doing well on their own and not focusing on anything else. The cold night air made Rangiku shiver and she saw that Gin had brought up a large basket. His slender hands opened the top to pull up a large warm wool blanket and wrapped it around her, he also picked out a bottle of sake and their favorite persimmons.

"You came prepared" she noticed he passed her the dried fruit and she ate it contently with some sweet crackers.

"I remember when we lived back in Rukongai, the promises we made if we ever had money to celebrate New Year's together. You always thought of yourself of course but one wish I made was that I always wanted to show you the fireworks up close" He poured the sake into separate cups but Rangiku gave him a look that made him chuckle and drink the contents then tossing the ceramic cups over. He passed her the bottle and she drank it down like water.

As Gin made himself comfortable beside her the first flash of fireworks shot up into the air and burst forth displaying the rainbow of colors that left the girl in awe. Every year they left a magical sense of excitement with each new pop and fizzle that made Rangiku's heart swell. As they watched the fireworks continue her hand clasped over his and she soon felt something cold and metallic slip around her neck.

Looking down the red and blue light shined a golden light down her neck, with her free hand she touched it and saw that Gin had wrapped a slender gold chain over her, it had a large round loop to which he slipped the opposite end into. She looked back at him and saw him looking at both her neck and smile.

"And I also promised that if I could I would buy you a golden necklace so you would feel like a princess" Rangiku remembered that promise but always dismissed it for she thought he was saying it so she would stop being mad for his absences. Touching the golden necklace she saw how it settled perfectly over her heart, his hand went forward and touched it.

The fireworks continued to fire into the night sky announcing the New Year and soon the lightest snowflakes descended over. Rangiku caught one in her hair to which Gin melted with his lips as he loomed over her.

"I always wanted to make love to you in the snow…" he chuckled.

"And I always wanted you to make love to me during the firework show…" Rangiku's fingertips touched his jaw and up his cheek.

"Then lets start the new year by fulfilling both our wishes" He took the blanket and wrapped it over themselves and they vanished into their own world with both snow and bursting colors showering around them. Since that night onward Rangiku would always regard winter fireworks with the time she has felt absolute happiness and love.

It was the year when Gin likened love to beauty, for to him they were one and the same…


I tried to do all fluff but I had to add some dark elements so I apologize to those that may feel a little taken back. But I don't do all happy sappy stories, tell me somewhere in Bleach where there is not a single element of tragedy. Well I also want to add that unfortunately due to finals coming up I have to take a two week break to finish my work. If I update with the next chapter early consider it a blessing but I am not certain that I will.

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