Crazyfeatherhead you're a fic saver. Thanks for the idea – and it is now 11pm and I have done this one in just under two hours. Yes!

Setting is post betrayal and Gin has discovered the joys of pie baking. I wanna make pies, it souns fun... I'll have to walk to town to get the stuff and make some for dinner. I've already had to look up how to make them to write this chapter anyway. Prepare for a long one.

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In the kitchen - pie making 101

Gin was in the kitchen, and it was his turn to make the food. He'd always wanted to cook something but for some reason Aizen never seemed to let him anywhere that was remotely near the kitchen. Gin never could gather why, but it probably didn't help that he had once set the entire kitchen on fire when they were back in the soul society when he had attempted to make pies before. That was a real disaster. But this time was going to be different. Gin was going to prove to Aizen that he could cook edible food and not have people die or somehow get food poisoning.

He was wearing a black t-shirt and an old pair of jeans, along with a pair of white socks, since the last time he tried this he ended up in a right mess. So he thought that he had better put on some old clothes just in case. And with Cherry-chan there too it became even more likely that things would get messy.

After some time of looking through the many pages of the big book of food recipes, Gin eventually came across one for a meat pie. It was a beef and veal pie.

"Aha, this'll be good, huh Cherry-chan?"

Cherry, who was on the table lying down, looked over the picture of the rather large pie wagged her tail in excitement and barked.

"Alrigh' then, wha' do we need? Hmmm..."

She then watched him get out a big bag of flour, butter, a large bowl, a big wooden spoon, lumps of meat, a meat grinder, gravy granules, eggs, milk, and a large bottle of water from Aizen's personal stash. He also go out a rolling pin.

He broke the eggs in the bowl and then added the milk from the fridge. Needless to say, he was very messy about doing all of this. [wow Las Noches has such a realistic kitchen]

Cherry padded over and sniffed the edge of the large glass bowl as Gin grabbed the overly large bag of flour. Kami only knew why Aizen had to buy flour in such large quantities. Maybe it was just so that Gin would be more likely to drop it, which he did. There was a big cloud of whiteness as the flour went everywhere, covering everything and everyone, and making Gin cough and little Cherry sneeze. And then Gin squealed "kawaii!" very loudly because of the little noise that she made.

Having added what remained out of the huge six kilogram bag of flour, Gin finally managed to get the mixture into what looked like a dough. Though it was still a bit thick, so he had to add some of the water to it to thin it out a bit. But when he was done he picked up the big lump of dough and started to knead it with his hands. Having cool hands here seemed an advantage since it didn't stick to them. Cherry had been watching this for just a few minutes, continuously looking at Gin and then back at the dough he was kneading. He then laughed playfully as she tried to copy him in what he was doing.

"Kwaa~ d'ya wanna help me Cherry-chan?"

She looked up at him with wide eyes and wagged her tail again. She was enjoying this. He then watched as she used her front paws to stomp on the pile of dough.

When they were done they had to roll it out flat now. And again Cherry attempted to copy what Gin was doing, only this time with the rolling pin. This prompting much squealing on Gin's part. He then got a knife and cut into large and small circles. There was enough dough for thirteen pies in all.

"Aiya, there's not gonna be one for Tousen-san..." he moaned, seemingly annoyed that he had not made enough dough. "Oh well." He shrugged happily as he strode over to their large industrial sized oven, taking out three baking trays specifically designed for this purpose. He then put the large pastry circles into the holes.

He then grabbed the chunks of meat and then set out to cut them up with one of the sharp knives, but Cherry was scratching at the door of one of the cupboards and whining. Gin looked in there only to be quite surprised.

"Wow, I didn' know Aizen-chan had a meat grinder!" he said happily as he heaved it out and onto the side, threw the lumps of meat into the grinder and then turned the crank. The ground up meat falling onto the flour covered work surface in a pile.

Now he had to divide up the meat evenly between all of the pie casings. That was simple enough, and with Cherry-chan helping him it was done a lot faster. With her carrying the meat in her mouth.

They then had to put the rest of the smaller pastry circles onto the top of them. And once they had done that, all that was left now was to throw them into the oven and wait. Giving them just enough time to clean the kitchen and Gin to dust himself off before serving them with the gravy they would make later.

"Well, I think we did rather well, don'tchya think?"

Cherry squeaked happily in response.

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Some time later, when each of the espadas were seated once more at their table for dinner along with Aizen and Tousen, Gin waltzed in carrying multiple plates with the pies that he had slaved over for all that afternoon. With the little fox perched on his shoulder.

Aizen was astounded.

"Wow Gin, I must say I am impressed." he said while all of them were eating.

"See Aizen, I told ya we could do it."

When Gin was approached by an angry Tousen a few minutes later Gin had to feign a bit of sympathy.

"Oh, sorry Tousen-san, there wasn' enough pies to make one fer everyone, so yer gonna have to wait..."

Tousen glared at him, "But what about that!" he pointed to Cherry, who was now concerning herself with devouring the pie on her plate.

"Whaaa~ deprive my Cherry-chan of food? Sorry Tousen, tha' jus' aint gonna happen now... yer jus' gonna have to wait for a bit."

Tousen just stormed off, determined to make his own food. Gin just smiled to himself. Cherry-chan had gotten Tousen's pie.