Well…….two reviews………. At least it's like something right? Trying to maintain a positive thing here. Well, I was deciding to make an April fools chapter, not making it that long, but it just kinda flowed once I got the ideas, hmm but its ending at a slight cliff hanger so ha! That should influence more reviews lol. Thanks to Bloody-Ribbon, thanks for telling me to get better I try. I'm still slightly sad, but yeah not really so its cool, I'm trying to get into a happy joking mood in this chapter. Thanks also to tootsiepopgurl, thanks for the review, I hope that everything works out for them too. I really wish it will be a good ending; believe it or not, I have the entire ending planned out. This fic is going to last for a really long time while, and I have a good ending version and a bad-ending version. Just thought that I'd point it out. I hope it's a good version LOL!! Who doesn't? Anyway on with the story. And I know that April fools was yesterday, I'm not dumb, I just didn't have enough time and motivation in life.

Gin struggled back to his headquarters. Its dark, he realized. It really was late. He didn't realize how much he was deep in thought. However, what he didn't notice again was a lurking shadow behind the wall. Bumping into him, he encountered Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

"Bah, watch where you're going!!" he screeched. But upon seeing Gin he smiled. What a coincidence, just the person he was looking for. Reaching behind his back, he threw powder from a canister. Sleep overpowered Gin with the last thing he saw being the maniacal scientist looming over him.

"Where's all my damn freking RAMEN!?"

It was midnight. Yachiru and Etsuka were fast asleep, Yachiru dreaming about Renji running away from her. In her dream, she was inside of a robot suit and snapping his Bankai in half. Over and over again. It's made her smile. So those two were safe from Kenpachi. However Ikkaku and Yumichika weren't.

"I keep telling you, I don't know what happened to your damn ramen". Ikkaku was pissed. First of all, Yumichika wasn't helping at all; he had to go through his taicho alone. Secondly, he had no idea where his ramen went; he had his own ramen shop to deal with. Thirdly it was midnight he didn't feel like it after all he just got back from working the ramen shop with no help. Thanks… he promised to curse Yamamoto once he got enough sleep. Fourth, Yumichika in addition to not helping, was complaining how this lack of sleep did wonders to his hair.

"It's got so many split ends… please let us sleep Zaraki-taicho…" Clutching his weakened strands, he whined, but Zaraki shunned him out. All through out the night, the citizens in the Rukongai 44 were wondering who emitted that girlish scream from the eleventh division.

"What happened to you guys?"

"What?"

"I said what happened?"

"Yachiru, stop laughing or I swear that I'll make you regret it."

It was early morning the next day. Yachiru and Etsuka were walking around and happened to chance upon Ikkaku and Yumichika. Ikkaku looked awful, he had bags under his eyes and looked extremely irritable. That was nothing compared to Yumichika however. You could see parts where his hair used to be peacock feathers poking out at his hair. Looking extremely pissed he started talking in a random high-pitched voice all about how none of his hair products could cure the "injustice".

"God the only injustice is your voice, now pipe down!!" Ikakku yelled while using his sheath to smack him on the head. Mutterings of "losing my essence" were heard from the mouth of Yumichika whilst he fell down hitting the ground with a thump.

Slightly happier that his annoying friend had been silenced, he explained to the two what had happened. Meanwhile a groggy Gin awoke from a long nights slumber.

"Gahhh, that was a bad nights sleep", Gin mumbled to himself. He put on his slippers and walked into the bathroom. Looking at the mirror, he started to brush his teeth. Except that he was looking at the cabinet. And his toothbrush was too far above him. Crying out loud, he ran out of the room.

Running smack into Etsuka, Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika.

No one said anything.

Then Yachiru burst out. Laughing.

"SHUT UP!!" screeched Gin.

Etsuka tried to stifle a laugh also, but found out that she couldn't. Looking at Ikkaku she could see that he was already laughing out loud also. Then she couldn't help it. She had to laugh, laughter came by so fast, and she was literally on the ground laughing until she couldn't take it anymore. Gin looked pissed and for good reason. He now realized that that powder made him shrink down a foot. Now he was literally 5 foot 5, (AN: I know that that doesn't seem too short or anything, but bear with me, my friend wanted this to be his height, just pretend he has like an extra tall sink or something).

After fifteen or so long minutes for Gin, he started explaining what happened to him. Calming down, Etsuka advised him to go see Unohana and offered to walk with him there. Yachiru and Ikkaku dragged Yumichika to go get some more beer. At least then I would get to know him better, she thought. While on the way there she teased him and pestered him about his height again and again.

"Now your just like my height!!" A smile

"Now I don't have to look at your belly when I talk" A playful shove.

Gin kept it in. He still didn't really know how he felt. That whole incident at the ramen shop still burned clear into his head. He tried to show no emotion and was really reserved. But a hell butterfly landing on his shoulder perked his head up. A message was sent to every captain that there was to be another meeting. Gin sighed, there were too many damn meetings.

She thought that it was strange that Gin didn't fight back. Usually when she teased him he was trying to defend himself with a smile. Now though, he seemed to have something on his mind. Etsuka breathed in deep and exhaled. Whatever it was, she hoped that he felt better. Just before exhaling though, Yachiru popped out of nowhere and landed on her head.

"TYYEEE DYEEE CHAAANN!!" she screamed.

Etsuka emitted a squeak of surprise when her fukutaicho landed on top of her head. This surprised her like mad until her vice-captain then suggested the idea for them to go get drinks. Etsuka frowned. Usually she didn't drink; after all she was just a teenager. But after all, it wasn't everyday that you found out that you were a spirit and you found out that nothing could kill you. And anyway she needed to get her mind off of Gin. So…

"What the hell? Of course lets go. I always wondered what happens when you're drunk." She said with a sheepish smile. Yachiru cheered and they headed for a bar nearby.

At the bar:

Yachiru and Etsuka were by themselves at the bar, mainly because the regular customers, Shunsui and Kenpachi, were at the meeting. The bar was a grubby little place and the bartender looked worse. Both of the shinigami drank a total of eight bottles but I'll leave it to your imagination who drank what.

"Yachiru…" Etsuka slurred, "I've been thinking…you're my hic bestest buddy ever. Let always be bestest buddies ok?"

Yachiru always drunk raised her glass to the center of the table. "To friendship" she said without the slightest bit of a slur in her voice.

"You know, you know, YOU KNOW…..Yachiru old buddy old pal of mine, I was thinking….about what happened with Gin and I.."

" You love Giiiinnn" Yachiru yelped out in a drunken voice.

"NO I don't!! And anyways I wasn't talking about Gin really…I was talking about how sad it was that Mayuri pranked Gin on April fools day and everything… so I was wondering… (Here she leaned closer to Yachiru and whispered) if we go and prank Mayuri!!"

"Yes!! I always wanted to prank that obese clown. Lets go!!" Yachiru yelled at the top of her lungs, (here Etsuka tried to hush her by putting her hand over her mouth).

"Don't get so loud Yachiru…………lets go". She motioned Yachiru to follow her to Mayuri's lab; they knew that he would be away for the meeting. When the door was left swinging you could see a faint smile on Yachiru's face as if she wanted to go, not because she was drunk, but because she wanted her to finally help her friend see the light. Finally that stupid tye-dye chan can finally get to know whom she really wants to know.

Gin walked up the steps to the first division office. Accidentally bumping into someone, he recognized Unohana-taicho who looked extremely startled by his lack of height. Explaining quickly for a second time, he was literally out of breath before asking for help. It took only five minutes for Unohana to be able to figure out what happened, especially once she figured out that Mayuri was involved. She had seen way too many cases of these kinds of symptoms especially considering that today was April fools day. Personally she never saw the point of this whole pointless day. Pointing out to him that the symptoms would disappear in a day she walked inside the office followed by a calm looking Gin. While this was happening, a few people were seen sneaking off into the twelfth division lab.

Mayuri came out of that meeting as fast as he could, swearing under his breath. That damn Kenpachi, he's like a monster. What kind of person attacks you during a meeting? Clutching what used to be his left arm he hobbled of to his lab. Searching madly he finally found what he needed, his trusty limb growing serum. Injecting it into his stump, he sighed feeling the familiar feeling of skin stretching out once again. But that wasn't what happened.

A high-pitched scream could be heard from twelfth division office. Etsuka giggled like mad. She had to split up with Yachiru however, because vice-captain Nemu, caught them and they had to split paths. Luckily it seems as though the twelfth division fukutaicho abandoned the chase because she couldn't see her anymore. Slowing down, she started to slow down to a walking pace. But seeing as how she couldn't stop in time, she ran into, (you guessed it), Gin Ichimaru.

Forgetting all formalities, Etsuka almost yelled at him but stopped when she saw whom it was. Feeling her face flush, she was about to say something but Mayuri's shrieks could be heard from just a few feet away behind them.

"Run!!"

Feeling his legs having a mind of his own, he ran off bewildered looking for a chance to say something. Soon they reached a beach. Feeling nostalgic, this was where he had felt that one emotion so long ago. But that was in the past now. All that he felt from back then was heartbreak and woe. It didn't suit him that this was just so happened to be where they were headed. Somehow he just seemed to follow her wherever she lead him. On the way there though, he noticed that she had been drinking, having to pause at random times to catch her while she was falling. It seemed that she knew where to go leading the bewildered captain to a nearby cliff overlooking the sunset now gazing down upon them.

They sat catching their breath before Gin finally said something, "What was THAT about?"

Etsuka smiled and giggled with glee stopping to hiccup while she told the story about how they got back Mayuri. Gin couldn't help but offer up a small smile; she really was something he thought.

"You know that you're dead right"

She smiled. "Doesn't matter. I wanted to get revenge for you Ichimaru-taicho."

He said his thanks and looked down sheepishly. He noticed that one of her chopsticks from her hair fell off on the ground when she was "tipping" over on one of her dizzy spells. Looking up he noticed that she noticed.

"Its ok I got it" Gin said.

They both bent down to get the wooden utensil. And banged their heads. Classic.

"OW!!" she yelled out.

"Sorry sorry". He actually got the chopstick from the ground though and handed it to her while she was still rubbing her forehead. He put it on for her, brushing away her hair. It was a good thing that Gin put it on behind her head or else he would have seen her blush very red. (Actually maybe that is good, your opinion).

"Ahahaha you look really cute when you clutch your forehead like that ya know?" smiling his trademark smile.

She got crimson like mad and started to change the topic, personally she liked teasing him about his height more. This went on for about five minutes until a silence started. Started and seemed to never end. Then finally Etsuka broke the silence this time.

"I love yo……hic you"

"What was that" he was sure that he misheard.

"I lo…hic love you" she repeated.

"Are you sure that you're really saying that correctly, I mean its April fool's day after all. When Mayuri tricked me, I said to myself that this was the last time."

"No no its not like that at all!!" she stammered, her cheeks growing more red, if at all possible.

"Then is it because you're drunk?" he said with an inquisitive look. He still didn't know how to feel. He just suddenly wished that he could control time right about now.

"Uhhhhh yeah I guess your right. Maybe its because I am drunk." She said dismissively with her mouth tilted at a sideward angle. Maybe he can't accept it right now. He's sure finding an awful lot of excuses. And who knows? I really think he's cute, but maybe it really COULD be because I'm drunk.

Gin sighed. DAMNIT, she accepted that response. That was really the only response that he had. He couldn't discard that fact that she was drunk or else it would have been really awkward later on if she really didn't feel that way. And if she did reject that idea and say what she said was truly genuine I wouldn't know what to do anymore… He was about to say something more but all of a sudden her mouth opened up wide. His eyes opened wide in shock, something was happening. And whatever it was almost made the cliff that they were standing on break off.

AHAHA cliffhangers get it /? Even though it was a really long chapter than normal, I decided to end this with a cliffhanger. If I get more than three reviews then I'll work on this story more. Other than that if I don't, ill work on my other story and then get back to this story later. Don't worry if you care, it won't be that much of a break. Besides that story NEEDS to be updated. But no ideas still again. RxR and gahh I got owned at april fools. Like four different pranks at once. If anyone cares what they were, tell me in a review and ill pm what happened. Other than that so long!! And once again thank you for your reviews!! They make me super happy!! Believe me I need to be happy these days… it's been a while since I ever felt truly happy. Wish me luck!!