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Chapter 11.

"You are the new captain of Aizen's former squad, aren't you?" Gin asked, sheathing his sword as he knelt down next to Rangiku, "I would like to thank you personally for stepping aside when you did. I wouldn't have wanted another person to look after."

Dawn sheathed her zanpakuto, after cleaning the slight traces of blood on it. Toshiro's blood. Shuddering slightly, she tried to ignore it as she turned around, facing Gin. She had to smile, he looked exactly like Rangiku had once described to her when Dawn was still at the academy.

"Yes , I'm captain of squad 5," Dawn said as she carefully walked towards him, "You're Gin Ichimaru, aren't you?"

"She told you about me, did she not?" Gin inquired, tearing some of the white material from his already tattered clothes as he wrapped it around the wound on Rangiku's leg, and seeing the other multiple wounds that she had, he sighed in anger. Dawn bit her lip, before she sighed and shrugged off her haori, passing it gently to Gin.

"If you need to, tear that up-just don't tell the Captain Commander, he'll crack it with me. It was when I was still training to become a soul reaper she visited the academy one day. She had been drinking the previous day, still had it in her system," Dawn was saying as she heard Gin's sigh of partial annoyance, "she was blundering around in the hallway and I had pulled her into the room I was staying, thankfully no one was around when I did that. I don't know how we ended up there, but she just began talking about the war with Aizen, and when she told me that you had die… Well… That was interesting. I'm sorry Aizen tried to do that."

To that, Gin had to genuinely smile. Aizen had given it a good shot at trying to kill him, just in retaliation of Gin trying to kill him.

"Let's just say this: Aizen isn't the only one who can create illusions." Gin whispered as he picked up Dawn's haori and glanced at her, "Are you sure about me using this?"

Dawn looked slightly puzzled at Gin before she nodded, "Of course you can, you'll be using it on Rangiku. Do you need a hand at all?"

"No, that won't be necessary. But may I ask you this, why do you trust me? I betrayed the soul society." Gin inquired as Dawn grinned, shrugging it off as she looked at him.

"I don't care if someone has done that, well I do but not much, it depends on the heart of the person. Ryu'en tells me that seeming Rangiku holds you in such high regards that you are a good person." Dawn said, startling Gin by that statement. He looked up at Dawn, before slightly frowning, realising how much she trusted her zanpakuto. He sighed before he bound more bandaged to Rangiku, being gentle yet firm as he tightened the strip of haori.

"Don't put too much trust in your zanpakuto, it could wind you up in danger. Trust me, Aizen will distort what you think. He can use your own feelings against you." Gin said before he looked at her, straight in the eye as she looked slightly confused again, "I could tell. You and the prodigy child. You weren't using all of your strength until the last blows when you tried to drive him away, forcing him to leave. You didn't want him dead. That's why I didn't kill him there and then for what he has done to Rangiku." Gin said, with slight venom in his voice as he turned his attention back to the injured lieutenant, "You know, the reason why he didn't kill you when you stopped him is because he can remember you. More accurately, he remembers what the people here mean to him. He could sense their spiritual pressure. It's a really complicated explanation you see… "

"Well, I have no where to be, so you could start explaining it to me?" Dawn asked, tearing a strip of the haori and giving it to Gin, who gave her a more than annoyed look before he sighed, turning back to Rangiku as he applied pressure to the wounds which flowed blood freely onto the white sand, more than likely attracting any hollows nearby.

"Fine. But this is going to take a while…"

"Toshiro… Are you telling me… That you failed this simple task that I told you to do?" Aizen asked, looking down on the former captain from his throne as Toshiro lowered his head, the red ice melting and formed a substance that looked like blood dripping down from him. He had sealed the wounds with ice, his left hand still clutching the first wound Gin inflicted upon him.

"I'm sorry Aizen but that's what I'm saying." Toshiro said, his voice filled with regret as Aizen stood up, slowly walking towards him.

"You do not know how serious this is, I cannot allow failure to go unpunished. Not many arrancars will live again after their failures. But you were ignorant of these… sentences. So," Aizen said as he drew his sword, plunging it deep into Toshiro's arm, who cried out in pain, "A limb for each failure should be suffice!"

Toshiro howled in agony as Aizen ripped his sword towards the sky, tearing through him arm. Aizen twisted his wrist and began to bring the sword down onto Toshiro's arm a second time, which surely would have severed it, but he rolled out the side, his right arm holding the almost severed upper arm in pain as he fell to his knees.

"Master… Please don't, I will not fail you again!" Toshiro cried, clenching his arm tightly. Aizen looked at Toshiro, before he smiled gently, sheathing his sword.

"Don't disappoint me again Toshiro… I would hate to hamper your unique abilities. However, I do want you to go to room opposite the stairwell. Just outside of these doors. If anyone were to come, it you know they are a soul reaper, attack them on sight. Don't hold back." Aizen instructed as he ascended to his throne again. Holding back the anger and agony inside of him, Toshiro stood up and turned away from Aizen, leaving the room as he held his arm closely to his body, slowly sealing the wound with a substance which he concentrated to make it harder than ice. Slightly wincing as the substance filled the sensitive wound, he walked to the room which Aizen had commanded him to wait till the right time he resisted the urge to punch down one of the walls. He was so angry that he had failed Aizen's command. How could he be so foolish to actually listen to that silver haired freak! How could he have listened the other, but… he could have killed her, but why, why didn't he? He had more questions than answers in his mind as he slightly winced at the searing pain in his arm Why couldn't he have killed her? Toshiro sighed slightly in annoyance as he knelt down, concentrating his reiatsu as he entered his inner world.

Toshiro's inner world

'Ah, you are still alive I see.' Looking at the collapsed figure on the ground, the figure gasped in pain as it looked up at him.

"You… What have you done to me, and Hyorinmaru!" He roared, standing up, "Where is Hyorinmaru!?" The figure roared as he threw his fist down, causing the person who entered their inner world to smile as he extended his blood red wings, and ground his teeth at the former master of their world.

'Why Toshiro, I'm making sure you are still alive. There's next to no chance of you stopping me from killing Dawn.' The red dragon growled as Toshiro forced himself up to his feet, muttering to himself about being stuck in his own inner world.

"You won't ever be able to kill Dawn. I will never let you. I already stopped you once." Toshiro said, looking up at the red dragon as he glared at him.

'I will kill her. You can count on it.' The red dragon growled as he disappeared from his inner world, reclaiming his mortal body in the real world.

The real world

Toshiro's body, being commanded by the mind of the red ice dragon, stood up as he looked out into the hallway. To his own disappointment, no one had showed up. Sighing, he sat back down in the centre of the room, looking at his damaged sword as he clenched it tightly.

The next time you try to kill Dawn, I promise, you'll die! Toshiro's mind yelled at the red dragon's, who just chuckled in amusement. The dragon knew Toshiro wouldn't be able to stop him, so he wasn't fazed by it at all.

Just you wait you pathetic dragon, I will kill you. I'll make sure you die before you touch Dawn!

Chapter 11 is done! Sorry if it was a little boring, but it will get better again soon, I hope :D

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