Chapter 36

Gin

When Rukia's eyes finally open, Ichigo is so relieved. She looks up at him and their surroundings in confusion.

"Rukia!" Ichigo says, happy that she's no longer unconscious.

"What happened to me?" Rukia asks as she feels disoriented.

"You don't remember struggling with someone?" Ichigo asks her in concern. Rukia's eyes widen.

"That's right, I choked him until he was unconscious, but I was feeling dizzy, and then my head started to hurt." Rukia tells Ichigo. Isshin walks out of the room to leave them alone.

"I woke up to hear you shout, and when I saw the guy charging at you, I took off to come help you, but I fell down the steps. When I finally made it outside, both of you were unconscious. You had me so worried. I'm so glad you are alright." Ichigo tells her softly before leaning over to kiss her forehead.

"I had another scary dream." Rukia tells him. Ichigo looks confused since he thought she'd want to talk about the attack, but he decides to go her route anyways.

"What about?" Ichigo asks with interest.

"That girl, Hinamori Momo, she told me I was next for the guy who got her." Rukia whispers to him. "She also told me he'll never give up." Rukia admits sadly.

"I won't let anything happen to you. From now on, when you want to come over, call me first, that way I can meet you outside." Ichigo tells her softly.

"Okay." Rukia says, giving him a weak smile for all of his concern.

"I don't know what I would do if I lost you." Ichigo mutters as he runs his fingers through her hair.

"You're not going to lose me," Rukia tells him with feeling.

"Damn straight." Ichigo tells her.

"I really want a shower." Rukia tells him next.

"I'll tell my dad you're going to use ours and spend the night. I'll get you a tee-shirt and then you can stay in my room. I'll call your brother, too." Ichigo tells her softly.

"Don't tell him I was sneaking over, tell him I had a strange feeling and went outside to verify it." Rukia instructs him. She doesn't even want to hear her brother's opinion on her late night habits. He would probably be very angry if he knew what she had been up to lately.

"Got it." Ichigo agrees before he helps her up and they head upstairs. Rukia waits for Ichigo to get her an oversized tee-shirt before she heads into the bathroom.

Ichigo grabs his cell phone up and sighs with aggravation. He really doesn't even want to call her emotionless brother this late at night. He knows if he doesn't call, it will look bad since there's always a bodyguard on the street who has probably already called Byakuya to tell him there was trouble tonight.

He dials the number reluctantly and he's actually surprised when Byakuya doesn't answer. He's very relieved too.

"I'm just calling to let you know that Rukia had a run in with another person who wanted to abduct her, but she's okay. She choked him out before she passed out from the chloroform. She's awake now, and we're keeping her over here for the night. Call Rukia if you have any questions. Bye." Ichigo presses end and bites his lip as he sets his phone down.

He lays in bed and considers the fact that Rukia has been attacked yet again, and he hates that he wasn't there in time be of any use. He wonders who the man was, and is really relieved that she's more than capable of holding her own, even when someone is using something as effective as chloroform to try and subdue her.

When Rukia appears, freshly bathed and in his tee-shirt, Ichigo sits up and looks at her.

"How are you feeling?" Ichigo asks as he stares at her.

"I feel a lot better now. What did Byakuya ni-sama say?" Rukia asks as she walks closer to the bed, closer to him.

"He didn't answer. I left him a message." Ichigo tells her as she reaches the bed and sits next to him.

"Good. Turn off your phone, I don't want to deal with him until we wake up after a decent amount of rest. I'm not so sure I'll even be able to go to class tomorrow." Rukia tells him with an exhausted yawn.

"If you don't go, I'm not going either." Ichigo tells her firmly. Rukia nods and she leans over to kiss him.

"I'll be able to sleep now that I'm here with you," Rukia tells him as he pulls her into his arms and they snuggle close to one another.

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"Yeah, I'll confess." Gin says with quite a bit of amusement in his voice. The officer smacks his hand on the wall, hard and Gin just stares up at him.

"Do you think this is funny? We have your fingerprints. We're going to see just who you really are since I don't believe for one minute that you are whatever fool name you claimed you were earlier." The officer says loudly, since the man seems to find this all entertaining.

"You talk too much." Gin tells him in an irritated voice. "Give me a pen and paper, I'll confess in writing since you don't want to listen to my confession." Gin tells him as he glares up at the officer.

The officer's face turns red with anger, and he gets right into Gin's face and spit flies out of his mouth as he says what he has to say next.

"That was a fifteen year old girl that you assaulted tonight. Why did you do it?" The officer asks him.

"I wanted to fuck her. Those young ones are always so fucking ripe, just waiting to be picked…you know what I mean?" Gin asks before he nods his head at the officer and gives him an arrogant grin. "You know." Gin says with a suggestive note to his voice.

"So why did you use chloroform, if you just wanted to do that?" The officer asks next. Gin looks at the officer like he's brainless.

"I didn't want to fight her I wanted to ram my rod in her tight little-" Gin is cut off by the officer grabbing him by the hair and yanking his head back.

"Were you going to abduct her?" The officer asks next.

"You really aren't all that bright are you? Can I get a cop with half a brain around here? Does this town even have any of those?" Gin asks with a bored yawn. He smirks at the way the vein in the officer's forehead starts to bulge.

The officer has had enough of Gin's smartass, disrespectful, and amused attitude. He neatly jams his knee into Gin's crotch.

"Ow." Gin says as he cups his tender area and glares at the officer.

"I'm not amused. I have a fifteen year old daughter you know." The officer hisses at him. Gin looks up at the officer in curiosity.

"I bet she'd look real pretty with my cock in her mouth." Gin tells him, earning him a punch in the face. "You're only mad because you know it's true." Gin says with a chuckle.

A second officer steps into the interrogation room.

"You were supposed to wait for me, you were only supposed to keep an eye on him." The other officer says in a low voice against the officer's ear.

"He said he wanted to confess." The officer is so angry he's surprised he can get the words out calmly.

"Maybe you should go get the chief and also get him a pen and paper. I'll stay with him this time." The newly arrived officer says.

"My pleasure." The first officer agrees. He quickly leaves the room, and Gin looks up at the second officer with interest.

"What did you say to get him all worked up?" The officer asks him. Gin grins a bit.

"I told him that his fifteen year old daughter would look real pretty with my cock in her mouth. Then his sanity just up and went bye-bye." Gin says with a calm wave of his hand. The officer's eyes widen.

"No wonder he lost it…you're outrageous." The officer tells him as he looks down at the man.

"Yeah that's me. How long is it going to take to get a pen and paper around here anyways?" Gin asks the officer with a hint of impatience in his voice.

"It will be here soon. You really wanted to rape that little girl tonight?" The officer asks, a bit disgusted at the man's intentions.

"Shit, she's not that young, she has tits doesn't she?" Gin says to the officer with a bit of a scoff.

"She was so small I thought she was a child at first." The officer tells Gin with a serious look in his eyes.

"Your concept of a child and my concept of one are two different things." Gin informs the officer. "What about you? You have any kids?" He asks the man. The officer shakes his head no even though he does. He won't let this man get to him like he got to the last officer.

"How long have you been after that girl?" The officer asks Gin, who gives him a creepy smile.

"A real, real long time." Gin tells him as he stares down at his crotch which is still throbbing a little bit from the last officer's reaction to him earlier.

"Did you have anything to do with the other recent abduction attempt made on her?" The police ask Gin, since they're unaware of what happened at the party. Gin gives the officer a real quick nod.

"You could call it an obsession if you like." Gin tells him.

A third officer hurries into the room.

"You're not going to believe who this man really is." The officer says excitedly.

"Who am I?" Gin asks with a sudden sense of dread.

"This man has been wanted for over ten years for the murder of Kanzaki Kyoko, and the attempted kidnapping of her younger daughter who was known back than as Kanzaki Rukia. He's changed his appearance, but it is definitely him! This man is Ichimaru Gin, uncle to Kuchiki Rukia on her birthfather's side. This man is a wanted killer!" The officer tells him wide eyed. They both look at Gin.

"Things just got more complicated." Gin mutters, no longer smirking.

"Apparently the chief got a call from Kuchiki Byakuya, the girl's brother who has close ties to the Prime Minister of Japan, has requested to be informed of any developments in this case. The chief is on the phone with him right now.

"You're fucked." The officer who just got the news gives Gin a pleased smile.

"Pretty much," Gin concedes as he sinks lower in his chair.

"He's going to be presented to a judge in the morning." The officer shares with them both.

"Ah, sweet justice." The officers smile and cross their arms. They feel like they've done a good job today.

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Byakuya cannot believe it. The man that the police have in their custody is the man who first came after her when she was just a little girl. It sounds too good to be true, that they finally have the man who is responsible for the murder of the woman who was mother to his wife and sister.

He feels himself breathing a bit hard at such a revelation. Rukia had confronted her mother's killer, and she'd come out of it alive. It was so much to take in, and Byakuya pours himself a cup of sake and he walks over to his wife's shrine.

"He's finally been caught, Hisana, and it was your sister who pulled it off." Byakuya says in a low voice as he gazes at his wife's picture. He swears that he sees the smile on her face grow brighter at his words.

Rukia…how will she react to this? She's probably pretty unnerved by everything that's happened recently. I'll wait until morning to call her.

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Rukia wakes up in Ichigo's arms and lets her gaze travel over to his alarm clock. They've definitely missed school, and his father hasn't bothered them either. She can hardly believe it's almost eleven in the morning, she almost never sleeps that late. She snuggles back into Ichigo's arms, since he still hasn't stirred, and she closes her eyes.

She lays in his arms like that until she feels him start to stir. When he does, he sits up in surprised.

"How come dad hasn't come to annoy the hell out of me?" Ichigo asks even as he realizes the answer. "Rukia." Ichigo tightens his hold around her.

"Good morning, Ichigo." Rukia whispers. Ichigo smiles and lets go of her so that she can pull away and he can look at her. When he does, he's surprised. She has some sores on her face.

"Good morning, we need to go downstairs and have dad take a look at you." Ichigo says a bit nervously. Rukia gives him a questioning look but he gets out of bed and offers her his hand. Rukia takes it, and Ichigo leads her downstairs and then into the clinic. He finds his dad in his office and Isshin looks up when Ichigo and Rukia walk in.

"Finally awake?" Isshin says to Ichigo. He looks over at Rukia and his eyes widen. "It's as I suspected." Isshin says as he notices the sores on Rukia's face.

"What?" Rukia asks in confusion. Ichigo squeezes her hand, and Isshin stands up and approaches them.

"Rukia-chan, I'm sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but I'm very certain you were knocked out last night due to chloroform." Isshin tells her in a serious voice. Rukia's eyes widen in surprise.

"That's why I started feeling dizzy, and my head started to hurt?" Rukia asks Isshin with a bit of nervousness in her voice. Isshin nods at her.

"The sores on your face are a classic side effect of skin coming into contact with chloroform." Isshin tells her quietly. Rukia puts her hands up to her face and her eyes widen in horror when she feels several bumps on her face.

"Gross!" Rukia shrieks before she yanks her hand out of Ichigo's and tears away from him, she takes off back in the direction they came in and she runs to the bathroom. Her eyes widen and her eyes well up with tears when she sees the sores on her face. "No wonder Ichigo wanted me to see his dad first thing when we woke up." Rukia mutters as she stares in disgust at the sores on her face.

Ichigo appears next to her, and he looks like he feels really bad as he sees the depressed look on her face.

"They'll go away, you know." Ichigo tells her quietly.

"They're still ugly!" Rukia mutters to him.

"Come here." Ichigo pulls her close and hugs her tight.

"Ichigo." Rukia's voice sounds like she's about to cry.

"You're still beautiful, it's not like there's anything wrong with you, at least you managed to defend yourself from your attacker even though he was trying to knock you out first." Ichigo tells her softly.

"I don't feel beautiful right now." Rukia is breathing deeply, trying to get control of her emotions.

"Well you are still beautiful. No matter what." Ichigo tells her in a firm voice.

"Really?" Rukia asks into his chest. Ichigo smiles.

"Look at me." Ichigo tells her. Rukia pulls back and gives him an insecure look. "Really." Ichigo assures her with a serious look as he's staring at her. He leans down and presses a soft kiss against her lips.

"Thank you…I love you, Ichigo." Rukia tells him with a soft smile on her lips.

"Come on." Ichigo pulls her out of the bathroom and upstairs to his bedroom. They sit down on the bed together.

"Thanks goodness I have you." Rukia tells him softly.

"I'm the lucky one." Ichigo tells her with a fixed look at her beautiful blue eyes. He hopes she believes him when he tells her she's beautiful no matter what.

He puts his arm around her and pulls her into his side. They sit there like that for a minute until Rukia speaks.

"I have to run home to change. Will you come with me?" Rukia asks Ichigo. He nods. He watches as she throws on her pink bunny pajama bottoms from the night before. She grabs the top up in one hand and then tosses it over her shoulder. She looks at him as she waits for him to answer her. Ichigo gives her a small smile before he does.

"Yeah, come on." Ichigo stands and he grabs her hand. Rukia still feels pretty self conscious about her sores, but she lets him pull her out of his room, down the hall, down the stairs, and out of his house. They hurry over to her house and Rukia feels embarrassed when Shoko pops out into the open before they can head upstairs. Her eyes widen at the sight of the sores on Rukia's face.

"I'll talk to you after I get a shower and get changed!" Rukia yelps as she hurries upstairs. Ichigo follows Rukia, but stops to greet Shoko.

"Good morning, we'll talk to you in a little while." Ichigo says before he runs after Rukia. He finds her in her room, and she's looking at her cell phone.

"Byakuya ni-sama left me a message." Rukia tells him softly before she hurries to listen to it. Ichigo watches as she bites her lip while listening to the brief message. She clicks end looks up at Ichigo.

"You should probably call him back since I had to leave him a message about what happened last night." Ichigo tells her as she stares at her phone. She lets out a sigh.

"You're right." Rukia tells him as she dials her brother's cell phone number. She looks nervous and when her brother answers, she's even more nervous. "Hello, Byakuya ni-sama." Rukia says, and Ichigo watches her face. "I'm okay, really." Rukia says next.

"Want me to give you some privacy?" Ichigo whispers, but Rukia shakes her head no. Ichigo watches as she walks over to her bed and sits down.

"Okay, I'm sitting now. What did you want to tell me?" Rukia asks next. Ichigo can't tear his eyes away from her as she speaks to her brother. He watches as her eyes widen and her mouth falls open in shock. She drops the phone onto the bed and looks completely shocked. Ichigo walks over and yanks up the phone off the bed and puts it to his ear.

"What in the hell did you just say to her?" Ichigo growls at her brother on the phone.

"I simply informed her of the name of her attacker last night." Byakuya replies easily.

"What was his name?" Ichigo asks suspiciously, since Rukia still hasn't recovered.

"Ichimaru Gin. That man is her father's half brother." Byakuya informs Ichigo, and his eyes widen as well.

"I don't believe it." Ichigo whispers into the phone. "The man from last night is the progenitor?" Ichigo asks, a bit stunned. "Rukia choked him unconscious." Ichigo says in a bit of wonder.

"I know. The police from Karakura Town told me. He's still being interrogated in regards to that night over ten years ago." Byakuya informs Ichigo.

"He's finally captured? That means my sisters are safe!" Ichigo tells Byakuya with a note of relief in his voice. "Why was he still after Rukia though?" Ichigo asks Byakuya next.

"He told the cops that he still wanted to rape her." Byakuya informs Ichigo in a hard voice. Ichigo grips the phone in his hand.

"Too bad I didn't know who he was last night." Ichigo says angrily.

"I don't believe it." Rukia says in a soft voice. "I never thought he'd be captured, and I never thought he'd come after me on his own." She says next.

"Why did he come after her?" Ichigo asks Byakuya.

"The police think he had an obsession with her, since that's what he told them." Byakuya informs Ichigo.

"Does that mean the attempts on her are finally over?" Ichigo asks Byakuya next.

"I am going to keep the bodyguards in place for some time to be sure, but I believe it could be." Byakuya tells Ichigo. Rukia grabs the phone out of Ichigo's hands.

"He's the one who killed my mother? The man I confronted last night?" Rukia demands into the phone. Ichigo watches as tears start falling down her face. "I wish I had killed him." Rukia says softly to Ichigo and to her brother.

"He's experiencing hell now," Ichigo predicts as he imagines what kind of treatment the man is probably getting from the cops.

"Thank you for everything, ni-sama. I need to take a bath and let everything just sink in." Rukia tells him into the phone. Ichigo watches as Rukia pulls the phone away from her ear and looks up at him. He can't even look away, since tears are still streaming down her face.

"Rukia." Ichigo says it achingly and she can't stop crying.

"The man who killed my mom came after me again." Rukia says brokenly. "And I didn't kill him." Rukia says angrily. "Why didn't I just kill him?" She wonders out loud.

"You were drugged. It's probably better that you didn't kill him, since you didn't know who he was." Ichigo tells her, hoping she'll stop crying.

"I feel like I failed." Rukia tells him. Ichigo picks her up and holds her close.

"You didn't fail. You didn't get captured, which means you were successful." Ichigo tells her in a hard voice. "What would I do without you?" He asks her, causing Rukia to look up at him with hope.

"If I didn't have you, I'd probably begin to lose my mind." She tells him as she relishes the feeling of him holding her like she's his bride.

"I'm not going anywhere." Ichigo assures her.

"I thought he wouldn't be interested in me since I'm no longer a young child." Rukia tells Ichigo.

"Your brother told me that he developed an obsession with you." Ichigo tells her quietly.

"So he wanted to rape me? But to me that doesn't make a lot of sense. In my dream, Hinamori Momo told me the man who wanted to abduct me likes women who look young in the face but are developed in the body. That didn't exactly sound like my uncle considering he was after me when I was three." Rukia tells Ichigo.

"That was only a dream. What happened last night is reality." Ichigo tells her, not wanting to believe there's someone else out there who wants to take her away from him.

"I just don't know what to think." Rukia tells him honestly. She remembers how angry the girl had looked when she'd informed Rukia about the man who had tortured her until her death.

"I think we should probably always be on guard, but I'm looking forward to a bit of peace now that the asshole has been caught." Ichigo tells her as he walks her out of her room and into the bathroom. He gently sets her on her feet and he turns on the water to her tub.

"You are going to be the very best husband." Rukia tells him as he squats down and starts tugging her pajama bottoms down. He stands and takes the bottom of his tee-shirt that she's wearing and he pulls it up over her head. Rukia raises her arms as he pulls it off, and she doesn't feel uncomfortable being naked in front of him.

She walks over to the tub and sticks her hand into the running water before she slips in. Ichigo stands there and feels a bit guilty at the way he's feeling turned on as he watches her bathe. He hopes Shoko doesn't come upstairs and realize he's in the bathroom with her.

Rukia allows herself to completely relax in the warm water. With Ichigo in the room, she doesn't have to worry about a thing.

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"We want the names of the men who were assisting you that night." The officer tells Gin in a hard voice. He's angry that the prisoner hasn't shown any proper amount of fear since they discovered his true identity.

"It's been so long, who can remember insignificant details like that?" Gin asks the officer in a sarcastic tone.

"The statement of the older sister was that she was being chased by more than one man that night. We want your accomplices names!" The officer tells him in an angry voice.

"And I want to be out of this room fucking that little girl." Gin replies easily. "How does it feel to want?" Gin asks him with a grin.

"You shame your mother with your attitude." The officer tells him gravely.

"I'm sure you shame your mother too, with that high and mighty attitude of yours." Gin tells him as he looks at the officer, who's face reacts to Gin's comment. Gin smiles.

"I'm not a pedophile and rapist!" The officer tells him sternly. "My mother has no reason to feel shamed by me. You are truly scum." The officer finishes. Gin just chuckles.

"That hurts my feelings, officer." Gin says in a casual voice, which only makes the officer angrier.

"I don't even understand how you can think this is one big joke." The officer says, for lack of any better response.

"Hard for me to take you seriously when it took you over ten years to catch me." Gin tells the officer with a sneer. "That gave me over a decade to be able to satisfy my sexual desires." Gin says, earning him a punch in the face.

His eyes are already black and blue from their treatment of him through the night and his nose has been punched so hard that blood has run out of it several times. He knows each time he's been hit, he's struck some sort of nerve and he gets a bit of satisfaction out of that.

"Fuck you." The officer says with a sense of satisfaction.

"Hey officer?" Gin says as he feels more blood coming out of his nose.

"What?" The officer asks in a hard voice.

"Why don't you suck my fucking dick?" Gin asks as he lets a creepy smile show on his face. The officer hits him again. "That didn't hurt." Gin mocks him, even though it had hurt like hell.

J J J J

Ichigo watches as Rukia carefully applies make up to her face to cover up the sores. She's terribly self-conscious about them, even though Ichigo had made her feel a lot better.

She puts on a casual dress that is dark blue on the top and bottom, but light blue in the middle. Ichigo is surprised she did such a good job covering the sores on her face, even if she is wearing far more make-up than he's used to seeing her in. She typically looks very natural, but you can tell she's wearing make-up today.

When their friends show up at Ichigo's house after class to check on the couple, they're up in Ichigo's room cuddling, and they're very surprised when Tatsuki, Renji, and Sado all appear in the open doorway since they hadn't bothered to shut the door. Rukia and Ichigo sit up blushing at being caught cuddling like that.

"Did something happen? I know the police were here again, last night." Tatsuki tells them both.

"Are you okay?" Renji asks Rukia, noticing the increase in make-up.

"I brought your homework." Sado tells them next.

"We're fine." Ichigo tells them all. Rukia looks right at Tatsuki and Renji when she informs them of the news.

"The man that got arrested last night is the same man who killed my mother." Rukia tells them in s quiet voice.

"So that's why you didn't go to class." Tatsuki says with an understanding shake of her head.

"He's in police custody now, and apparently he admitted he has an obsession with her." Ichigo says, nodding his head towards Rukia.

"That's horrible!" Tatsuki says with a shake of her head. "What exactly happened?" Tatsuki asks. Rukia looks at her and decides not to share that she sneaks over to Ichigo's bed nightly.

"I had an uneasy feeling last night and I went out to investigate. He was there and we struggled." Rukia tells Tatsuki.

"So you're responsible for him being captured?" Tatsuki asks with a big grin.

"She is." Ichigo confirms, causing both Renji and Tatsuki to grin hugely at her.

"Nicely done, Kuchiki-san!" Tatsuki tells her with a grin.

"You're supposed to call me Rukia, now that we're good friends." Rukia tells Tatsuki.

"You did good, Rukia." Renji tells her with a smile. Rukia blushes a little bit.

"Actually, I got really lucky. He was attempting to use chloroform to drug me and abduct me without a struggle." Rukia explains to her friends. "At least that's what Ichigo's father thinks." She adds.

"Chloroform?" Tatsuki says in horror.

"When I was choking him, he was actually successful in drugging me, even though I managed to stay conscious long enough to choke him out of consciousness." Rukia tells them with a shiver.

"I ran outside in time to find both of them passed out." Ichigo tells them.

"Yeah, the struggle woke him up." Rukia explains as she gives Ichigo a sideways glance.

"My dad knew right away that something was wrong." Ichigo tells them.

"Of course, she's not the kind of girl who would wind up in that condition without a good reason," Tatsuki says with a nod of her head.

"I was worried when you didn't show up to school," Renji tells them both.

"Everyone was worried. We all knew the police had been in front of your houses." Tatsuki says to them.

"Great." Rukia mutters quietly.

"We're getting ready to head over to the gym, you guys interested?" Ichigo asks them.

Everyone looks relieved and happy to hear that the gym will still be available today.

"Yeah." Renji says first. Both Sado and Tatsuki nod their heads in agreement.

"Great, I'll call the car to take us all." Rukia tells them before she grabs her phone from her purse.

J J J J

Aizen feels very relieved that it seems Gin hasn't gone back on his word. The police haven't shown up at his door, nor has he received any strange calls. Kira hadn't been caught, and Aizen hasn't been fingered as the mastermind behind the plot to abduct Kuchiki Rukia.

He had his doubts about whether or not Gin would keep his word and take the heat for everything, but it appears that everything is going to go the way he had planned for it to go. He knows Gin really was grateful for the time that Aizen had given him, he would have certainly been apprehended years ago without Aizen's assistance.

He really appreciates the people like Gin, and his earlier subordinates who all were loyal enough to take their punishment without giving him up as the true source behind all of Kuchiki Rukia's troubles. Now all he has to do is sit tight for awhile. Let everything with Gin sink in with the girl, and leave her alone for awhile.

He knows it will be extremely difficult on him, all of this waiting, and he considers whether or not he should focus on a second prospective pet that he may be able to secure in the meantime, to keep him from going completely insane.

Aizen grabs his keys and his syringe and decides to go for a walk. He'll have to do some scoping around and try to keep his mind off of Rukia for the time being. It won't do him any good if he's so frustrated he can't keep up with his plan.

Besides, if he can find a second subject to keep in the chamber, he can practice keeping her alive, because he wants Kuchiki Rukia to experience a hundred times the pain and fear that his last pet suffered.

He also believes that Rukia will be more apt to be afraid if she realizes she's only one of his pets when she first arrives in his chamber. He's certain that she'll be just as terrorized if he's bringing fear to another young girl right in front of her. He smiles at that sadistic thought. Maybe the pet will even die in front of her eyes.

He walks around as the sun is setting, and he sees a lot of people, but he doesn't see any girls that he'd want to take home. His plan is to drug a girl, drag her into some bushes, and then get his car to come collect her. But only if he finds a girl that captures his attention. He walks around for hours, unsuccessful in his search.

It's never as easy as he hopes it will be, plus he's never actually kidnapped a girl himself, he's always had it done for him. He rarely spots girls that he desires enough to want to capture them, which is why he's been going crazy over Kuchiki Rukia.

He keeps walking around however. He knows that if he's lucky enough to spot a suitable catch, the cover of the darkness will work well to his benefit in not being spotted.

He walks around until his legs start to hurt, before he finally turns back towards his own home. He can do this until he finds the right one. He's sure he can accomplish this, or at least pass some time by trying.