(About 2 weeks after the argument)

Rooren opens the doors to the office widely. 'You called for me sir?' She says alittle stiffly.

'Matsumoto said you needed to talk to me, what was it?'

'Uh-.. Nothing.' Rooren said stiffly, turning away alittle blushing.

The captain stacks his papers and starts to walk out.

'Where are you going?' Rooren hold his shoulder, he continues to look forward.

'If you have no business with me then there's no need to be here, *shrugs her hand off* I have to go and report something to captain Ukitake'

'captain..'

'What is it'

'There, there is something I wanted to say, *the captain turns around alittle* but'

'What is it?'

Rooren openly blushes, 'I-im sorry, I acted stupidly, I'm alittle annoyed about how I reacted, I know it was stupid to go straight after feeling better, I should have left it longer before going'

'I wouldn't have let you go even if you have gone a month after feeling well again (Rooren stays quiet, looking at him alittle shyly), is that it?' he blushes alittle openly because of her nervous apology.

'And..I-i-' Rooren continues to blush openly

'I like you captain!' She shouts out

The captains eyes widen and a light blush spread across his face, he turns around to her more.

'It was stupid of how I reacted, because of it I tried not to see you because I felt ashamed of how I acted, you are the captain afterall. But doing that, It probably sounds stupid but I started to have a sinking feeling day by day, I couldn't even focus on training properly, I stopped going to group training and-' he interrupts her.

'I heard from Matsumoto. If you were this effected by not speaking to me why didn't you come to say this earlier?'

'I didn't want it to seem like I had given up, it was embarrassing.' Rooren looks to the ground embarrassed.

'Hm' The captain chuckles alittle and puts a hand on Roorens shoulder.

'Captain I'm sorry' Rooren looked up.

'Stop apologising, I do have my faith in you, that's why your my 3rd seat, I just didn't want anything to happen to you.. I would have hated myself if you had-' he said with a light blush on his face, tears forming in his eyes.

Rooren looked up to the captain, her heart beating loudly and a blush across her face, she looks back down, hiding her face, a tear running down it.

He closes the office door, lifts up her chin and kisses her gently, tears rolling down his cheeks.

A deep blush goes across her face, tears rolling down her cheek too, she then closes her eyes gently.
The captain let's go of her chin and pulls away slowly, wipes a tear from her cheek.

'I don't know why your crying, its a sign of weakness'

'Y-your crying too though'

'Because the thought of not being able to see you again. (He wipes his tears) you should feel ashamed about making a captain react like this'

'I-i'm sorry'

'I was kidding, you know if anyone finds out about this we could be in serious trouble, its a violation of the rules to get emotionally involved with other members of the Gotei 13'

'I-i know captain, I'm sorry' Rooren says looking down.

'I told you to stop apologising, (She looks up towards him) I was the one who kissed you after all' he says smiling at her.

She looked to the left shyly, 'You probably just did that because you felt pity for me'

'Shut up, don't be stupid. I like you. I've ignored it because I like to follow the rules, I can't get emotionally involved, I promised myself. (He looks up to Rooren with a blush over his face) but then you came here, not speaking to you has been hard on me too, not seeing your smiling face, I just tried not to show it, I'd rather know you were safe than know you could be-'

'T-to...Captain' Rooren said with wide eyes, deep blush over her face

'Even in situations like this you still call me captain, you seem to have listened to me the past few months then, (he took her hand pulling her closer to him, though he looks away alittle embarrased with what hes about too say) You don't have too keep calling my captian when were alone..o-okay?' He says feeling alittle awkward and blushing more.

'T-..toshiro' rooren says stuttering, still blushing alot.

He looks towards her, 'R-rooren' and Toshiro kisses her again with his hands on the top of her hips grabbing the material not wanting to let go, Roorens hands resting on his shoulders.

'Captain~!'

Rooren and Toshiro looking surprised towards eachother still with locked lips, there eyes still alittle red from crying.

'Why do you have the doors closed~?'

They look towards the door.

'You know the lights haven't been fixed yet~!'

Toshiro whispers to Rooren, 'Quick, lie on the sofa and pretend your asleep'

'What's that gonna-'

'I've got a plan just do it'

'I'm coming in captain~!'

Rangiku opens the doors, Toshiro sat at his seat with a light blush from how hot it was with the doors closed and from kissing Rooren, he looked like he was silently doing paper work, Rooren on the sofa still red and pretending to be asleep.

'Captain~' Rangiku looks down and sees Rooren sleeping, '~why's roo-chan sleeping on the couch?'

'She came to see me but before she managed to say anything she fainted' He says still looking busy.

Rangiku grins at him, he tries to act like he didn't see it.

'I couldn't just leave her'

'So you do have a kind heart somewhere in there captain' Rangiku smiled, playing along.

'Shut up'

'Uh- Why were the doors closed though~?' She say, a grin appearing in on her face again.

'I-I didn't want the noise outside to wake her up' Toshiro says, a blush appears across his face

Rangiku smirks.

'What did you need Matsumoto?'

'Oh that's right!'

'Shh!'

'Oh, sorry, shuhei, izuru and myself were going to go out for some sake, I was hoping you'd come out too take a break and relax, possibly with Roo-chan..'

'I can't, I have paper work to do, and even if I didn't have any to do I don't think I'd want to anyway'

'I understand captain, you have your hands full, (She turns around) I'm glad you've made up with Roo-chan now, take care of her'

'I will' Toshiro then noticed what he had agreed to, and a wide-eyed expression hit his face.

Rangiku turned around and grinned at the captain, 'Roo-chan your welcome to wake up any time, (Rooren opened her eyes) your secrets safe with me'

She winked at Rooren, hovered her index finger over her lips and closed the doors behind her.

'H-how did she-' Rooren said sitting up and then turned around towards Toshiro, who was blushing

'Toshiro, your all red'

'Huh? -hehe I guess it can't be helped, (He put down his paper work and rested his head on his hand and looked towards rooren) this is what you've done to me Rooren' he says still blushing.

Rooren blushes more and looks the other way, and smiles secretly.