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"Rangiku!" Rangiku heard someone calling her name. Where was she? What happened? Slowly, and with some difficulty, she opened her eyes, a hard look on her face, only to see Shūhei's face above her.

"W-What happened?" Rangiku whispered, not able to talk louder. "W-Where am I?"

"You're in the 4th squad barracks after... Well you drank too much, you've been in coma..."

"In coma?" Rangiku asked shocked, trying to get up. "For how long?"

"Shhh, calm down!" Shūhei said, pushing her back into the bed again. "You've been absent for... a whole day..."

"A whole dáy?" Rangiku yelled with a breaking voice.

"Y-yeah..." Shūhei said, casually scratching his head.

"But... But... How about my work and everything?"

"Well, nearly everyone was worried dead about you, so I guess they're already glad you woke up..."

"Matsumoto!" another voice yelled, and Hitsugaya came running into the room. "I'm glad you finally woke up, but how could you possibly be that stupid?"

Shūhei nodded. "Y-yeah, Rangiku, I think that too, sorry... You're acting so weird the last time..."

"Weird?" Rangiku asked, frowning. "What do you mean?"

"Well, you start drinking as an idiot while you're not used to it, you are friendly to Hitsugaya-taicho and arranged an amazing birthday present for him, you are doing your work..."

"Well, sorry, I'll stop doing my work then~!" Rangiku said grinning.

Shūhei also grinned, but a bit faintly.

"Rangiku, I don't know what's happened and what you're doing to yourself, but please, stop it, you're ruining yourself..."

Rangiku sighed. "It's just... I was starting to believe something, when someone said something that turned it all the way around... And I was starting to trust someone I shouldn't trust according to the very thing said by the person I trust the most... And it's just... I..."

Rangiku's voice fainted away when someone walked through the "corridor" made between the beds surrounded with curtains, visible because one of Rangiku's curtains was left open by Shūhei.

Gin threw a short glance in her room for as far that was possible with closed eyes, and then quickly walked along, followed by a guy with blonde hair which covered the left half of his face.

"Hey, Kira!" Shūhei said, standing up from Rangiku's side and walking to Kira. "Drunk too much again?"

"Nah, the only time I did that was an accident, I'm not that bad as you... I had just a very bad papercut..." Kira said faintly grinning and showing his right hand's index finger wrapped in bandages.

"Auch!" Shūhei said.

"Yeah... And now Ichimaru-taicho is cross with me because I was wasting his time and everything by nearly bleeding to dead..."

"He is whát?" Rangiku yelled from her bed.

"Er..." Kira said, looking up and spotting Rangiku. "He..."

But he didn't have to finish his sentence, as Rangiku stood up from her bed and ran past Kira.

"Rangiku!" Shūhei yelled. "You're not supposed to be out of bed, yet! You're recovering from a coma for god's sake!"

But Rangiku didn't listen, and ran along for as far as she could run, though. Her legs felt like they were made of iron and her head was aching very badly. She could collapse any minute now, but she had to go on. She just hád to teach that idiot how to behave!

When she finally reached Gin, who was only a few yards away from her place in the 4th squad barracks, her legs couldn't carry her any longer.

Gin looked around, his eyes opening, just in time to catch Rangiku before she fell on the ground.

But instead of those things that always happens in movies and books, like that they both burst out into tears and forgive each other, the opposite happened.

"Rangiku, have ya gone completely mental?" Gin yelled. "You musn't-"

"I rather think yóu are the one who went completely mental!" Rangiku yelled back. "I mean, Kira can't help cutting himself that badly, can he? So there is no freaking reason to be cross at him!"

"I-" Gin started, completely dumbfounded, but Rangiku didn't let him finish his sentence.

"You really are an idiot, aren't you? You don't care about other people and their feelings. You just lie to them, hurt them, shout at them, threaten them..."

"Hey, I've never threatened anyone!" Gin snapped. "So don't start to lie yerself!"

Rangiku looked up to Gin's face to see if he was lying or not, but he didn't seem to be lying.

"But then... Aizen..."

Gin bowed forwards to Rangiku and held his head next to her. "Aizen isn't who he seems to be, ya'd rather beware of him than of me," he whispered.

"Wait a minute, why would-" Rangiku started, but Gin interrupted.

"But okay, if ya insist on it, I'll apologize to Kira," he said in a somewhat louder voice than usual.

"Come to my place tonight if you're recovered by then," he continued in a muffled voice. "This isn't a safe place to talk".

"But-" Rangiku started again, but Gin threw her a warning look.

"A-Are you all right, Rangiku?" Shūhei's worried voice sounded behind her.'

Rangiku turned around for as far that was possible with Gin still holding her.

"Yes, I'm fine," she said smiling.

"I'll help you back to your bed," Shūhei said, offering Rangiku his arm.

"I can walk myself, thank you," Rangiku said, pulling herself free from Gin's grip and immediately losing her balance again after doing a step.

Shūhei tried to catch her, but Gin was quicker.

He helped Rangiku back to her bed where Rangiku sat down, sighing.

"What's wrong?" Gin asked grinning. "Seems like somethin's botherin' ya..."

"Yeah..." Rangiku sighed. "I just don't like being dependent of others..."

"Well, then don't get that drunk again, will ya?" Gin said, winking at her before closing his eyes again.

Rangiku smiled. "Only if you behave yourself..."

"I'll see..." Gin said, turning around to Kira who still stood there dumbfounded. "Come, Izuru..."

After a few seconds Kira finally reacted by nodding at Gin and they both left the 4th squad barracks.

And despite of Gin's nickname, the sad foxfaced bastard, Gin was smiling this time, like the sun had started shining after all those rainy days...

Hey,

I had a bit of a writers block after the "you're ruining yourself"-part of Shūhei, so that's why it took some longer, but I made this up and I think it came out quite well...

See ya next chapter~!

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