Hiiiiiiii! I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO sorry for not updating, I haven't been able to work on this story as much as I would like to, due to summer classes, planing big get togethers with friends and trying to hangout with everyone before they set off to college and boarding school and such. I'm sorry I'll try to update when I have free time, but anyway I won't keep you from this chapter any longer. yeah I'm sure you're all dyeing to read my writing hahahahahaha not! but for those willing to read THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!

Chapter 4

Toshiro rolled as he felt a sharp jab in his side. He felt another jab and rolled even farther away. When he couldn't roll any further, he opened one eye and looked up to see Rangiku's upside down face.

"GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNINGGGGGGGG SEMPAIIIIIIIIIII!!"

The startled Toshiro fell off the couch, "Ma- MASUMOTO!!"

"Yes, Sempai?" Rangiku asked from above him.

"What the hell?! Why are you here?"

"You forgot already Sempai? I stayed here last night to help take care of Momo-chan. I also made breakfast!"

"Oh." Toshiro got up remembering yesterday's events. "How is she?"

"She's still sleeping. She seems to be doing better though. She stopped shaking, and isn't tossing and turning anymore." Rangiku lead him to the kitchen where the food was.

"Good." Toshiro stopped at the kitchen entrance, "Masumoto, did you make all this?"

The kitchen was filled with food, enough to feed 20 people. All different kinds of dishes, japanese dishes, western dishes, anything you could think of for breakfast and lunch. "Yup! I wanted to give Momo a choice. We can have the left overs at karaoke."

"I hope you invited enough people." Toshiro mumbled to himself.

"Let's go wake up Momo-chan. She can't sleep all day."

Toshiro nodded and let out a sigh knowing they would be taking Momo away from the safety of her dreams.

"TATSUKIIIIII!! Someone is here for you! A MALE!" The loud annoying voice of Tatsuki's mother rang through the house from downstairs. Tatsuki rolled out of bed. What's Ichigo doing here? She trudged down the stairs rubbing her eyes.

"What do you want Ichigo?" She said turning around a corner to come face to face with Abarai Renji. "Re-Re-Renji?!" She looked down at her pajamas, the pink girly night dress her mother insisted she had to have. SHIT! "I'll be right back! KAA-SAN! WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN ME IT WASN'T ICHIGO?!" She shouted while she ran up the stairs.

Tatsuki ripped off the stupid gown and threw on a t-shirt and some capri pants. Ugh! Why did I even give in to wearing that- that- thing! And Renji saw it! Shit!

Tatsuki ran down the stairs and found Renji sitting on the couch waiting for her. "So. Why are you here?"

"Uh. I was supposed to call you yesterday, but I fell asleep before I could."

"So. Why are you here?! You still could have called." Tatsuki was a little on edge.

"Because we don't have time. Are you busy today?"

"No. Why?"

"Okay. Lets go." Renji stood up, grabbed her arm and pulled her toward the door, but Tasuki punched him before they made it to the door.

"What's going on?!"

"We need to be at the karaoke place in 10 minuets come on lets go!" Holding his jaw in one hand he grabbed her arm again with his other hand and dragged her out the door as Renji explained why they needed to be at the karaoke.

Tatsuki stared at Renji's hand as it gripped her arm. Renji noticed and let go. "Sorry, I forgot."

"Pft. Sure you did." Tatsuki teased.

"So, what was with the night gown?"

"Shut up! My mom bought that for me!"

"Sure, Tatsuki-chan." She punched him in that face so hard, he fell to the ground.

"Renji?"

"I'm okay. I'm just still sore from karate. Sorry." Renji slowly got up from the ground.

"Oh, sorry. Then why are we going to karaoke? You should rest."

"Because Momo-chan needs it!"

"Oh." Tatsuki stared at the ground. Okay, conversation! Come Tatsuki you can do it! Just say the first thing that pops into you're head and go from there! You can't be completely terrible at conversations. "So.. you guys are close, right?"

"Yeah, me, Izuru, and Momo-chan were in the same class during middle school."

"Cool." Tatsuki stared awkwardly at the ground unsure of what else to say.

"You and Ichigo are close too."

"Huh? Yeah. I've known him since elementary. We took a karate class together."

"Wow. You must be really close. Close enough that it's okay for him to see you in your pajamas?" he raised an eyebrow, the tattoo above scrunched up a little.

Tatsuki turned bright red, "We used to hang out a lot more than we do now. He practically lived at my house at one point. My mom has been trying to make me more girly since elementary school. He's seen all my mothers attempts; so it's not a big deal for him to see something like that. I dragged him bra shopping once. I brought him so my mom would tone down on the girlyness, but that didn't stop her at all." Tatsuki laughed at the memory then stopped and blushed when she realized she said too much. "Sorry." she mumbled. Great. Talk about a guy I used to like to a guy I currently like, smooth Arisawa. Shit, why am I even thinking about this?

"It's okay. I don't care." Renji scratched his neck and looked the other way. Yeah? Well I do. Tatsuki thought, as they continued to walk in an awkward silence.

"Shuuhei-kun!" Rangiku ran ahead of Toshiro and Momo to the front desk where Shuuhei was working at. "Thanks for helping me set this up! You're not working while we're here are you?"

"Yeah. I am, sorry. I might be able to get off early though. If that happens I can join you guys. You're in room 6." He handed her the key and pointed to the direction the room was in.

"Really?! That would be great! Work hard Shuuhei-kun!" Rangiku cheered and waved as she skipped down the hallway backwards.

Toshiro and Momo slowly followed. They we're both still tired from yesterday.

"Shiro-chan, why are we doing this? Isn't last minuet?"

"Masumoto really wanted to do this, so she set it up as soon as she could with Hisagi. You know how they are." Toshiro said not mentioning that the whole thing was for her.

"Who's coming?"

"I don't know. Ask Masumoto." Toshiro held the door open since Masumoto had already gone inside and had forgotten about them. Maybe this is more for her than Momo. He thought as he walked inside after Momo.

"Momo! Lets do a duet together!" Masumoto shoved a microphone into Momo's hands.

Toshiro sat in the corner and watched the girls; Masumoto loudly belting out every word and Momo quietly stumbling over several words. After a couple of songs Renji and Tatsuki arrived, followed by Izuru, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Ichigo, Rukia, Nanao, Shunnsui, and Jushiro.

"Shiro-chan! Here, I brought you some candy." Jushiro said shoving a bag of candy into Toshiro's hands.

"It's Hitsugaya." He tried to correct Jushiro, but he had already turned away from him to join the singing.

The room was getting very noisy, everyone was laughing and having fun, singing and dancing, even Momo seemed to have some life back into her eyes, laughing at Izuru's jokes and unusual silly behavior. Nanao was scolding Shunnsui for lying about them being in an intimate relationship. Renji and Ichigo were rocking out to their favorite songs, Rukia and Tatsuki laughing at their awful singing.

Rangiku was high on happiness, incredibly glad that her plan worked and everyone was having a good time. She even got Toshiro to sing a few songs, badly. Every thing was going great. Until Ichimaru Gin decided to poke his head in.

"Hey everyone! How ya doing?" He grinned.

"Gin-chan? What are you doing here?" Rangiku asked, fast walking over to him.

"Fer karaoke of course." He grinned at her.

"Is ...Aizen-sempai with you?" She asked in a hushed voice.

"Course he is! Ya think I'd come here myself! But, Ran-chan, I'm hurt, having a party and not inviting me? An we're childhood friends an all!" He replied loudly. Rangiku grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the room.

"Ran-chan! You're being quite forward aren't ya?"

"Gin-chan! I'm not in the mood for your jokes! You and Aizen-sempai need to leave!"

"But Ran-chan, we jus got here. Why don ya want me around anymore?" He pouted.

"Because you never call! All you do is tease me and act like you're not interested!"

"Aw, Ran-chan, ya know dat's not how it is."

"Whatever! You need to leave! This party is about Momo-chan forgetting about Aizen-sempai and you're not helping! So get lost!" She shouted at him, a little too loudly.

"Fine, Ran-chan. I'll go fetch Aizen-sempai and we'll be out of yer hair, but I don think ya should've yelled at me." Gin turned swiftly and walked away.

Rangiku glared at his back as she felt tears form in her eyes. Gin-chan.. She rubbed her eyes, took a few breaths and walked back into the karaoke room.

Ikkaku waited impatiently for Yumichika to finish saying good bye to everyone. We're going to be late! When he glanced up at Yumichika who had picked up a mic and was about to sing again. "YUMICHIKA! WE'VE GOT TO GO!"

"Oh, just one more song."

"No! You all ready did your last song!"

"But Ikkaku!" He whined.

"No!" He grabbed Yumichika by the wrist and pulled him out of the room, shouting a goodbye to everyone on his way out.

"Ikkaku! Let go! You're holding my beautifully perfect wrist too tight!" Ikkaku only tightened his grip on Yumichika, he was pissed off.

"IKKAKU!" Yumichika screeched as he kicked Ikkaku in the groin, causing him to stumble and stop just short of the busy street he was about to walk into.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" Ikkaku shouted as soon as he could stand up again, he knew what it was for, but he wouldn't admit his mistake.

"You were gripping my wrist to tight! You didn't let me sing one last song! And you were yelling at me!" Yumichika complained not admitting he did it to save Ikkaku's life.

"You already sang your last song! You dragged you feet! Your going to make me late." Ikkaku was slowly calming down.

Yumichika was quiet for a moment. "What are you late for?"

"MY DATE! DAMN IT YUMICHIKA!" Ikkaku's temper shot up again, "YOU SAID YOU'D HELP ME!"

"Oh, did I?" He was purposely making Ikkaku upset.

"AHHH!!" Ikkaku shouted getting out all his frustration; if he had hair he'd have pulled it all out at that moment. "Yes! Now lets go!"

They walked as fast as they could, or Yumichika would. They stopped at the Ayasegawa house first to grab somethings Yumichika needed, then they both ran next door to get Ikkaku ready at his house.

"There, I've done all I could." Yumichika announced as he fell onto Ikkaku's bed.

Ikkaku was staring at himself in the mirror he took from the bathroom. His red eye makeup that Yumichika had convinced him to wear everyday was washed off, his normal white T-shirt and jeans were replaced with black pleather pants, a sleeveless white shirt and a black pleather jacket. "I look like I'm a Yakuza member." He commented.

"You said you wanted to get rid of her right? Girls usually don't like Yakuza guys. All you need to do is act they way you look, which shouldn't be hard, and scare her off."

"It better, this pleather is killing me."

Buzzzzzzz! "Ikkaku! A Asano Mizuho is here for you!" Ikkaku's mother called from downstairs.

"Wish me luck." Ikkaku said as he exited the room.

"Thanks Rangiku, today was fun." Momo hugged Rangiku tightly as everyone slowly left the room.

"No problem Momo-chan! Do you want me to walk you home?"

"No, it's okay. Shiro-chan and Izuru-kun already volunteered." She gave her a small smile before turning to the two guys waiting to take her home. "Bye! I'll see you later!"

Rangiku finished cleaning up the small mess the party left and closed up the room. She locked the door and walked to the front desk to give the key back to Shuuhei. He never did make it to the party. I guess he couldn't get off work. However, when she reached the front desk it wasn't Shuuhei, but someone else. Did he skip out on us?

Rangiku pulled her purse higher up her shoulder and left the building. She slowly started to walk home. I was too hard on Gin-chan.. he must have the wrong idea now.. He seemed a little upset when he left.. "Hey! Rangiku-chan! Wait up!"

Rangiku turned around to see Shuuhei running towards her holding a plastic grocery bag. "Shuuhei-kun?"

"I was worried I missed you. Sorry, I didn't make it to the karaoke party. I had to get this first." He said holding up the bag. "Want to come over and hangout for a bit? For dinner?"

"Dinner?"

"Yeah, but my parents are over seas and I'm not a good cook." He scratched the back of his neck.

"Oh. What did you have in mind?" She reached for the bag and peaked in, then looked up questioningly. "This is it?"

"Er... Uh, yeah.." He said sheepishly.

Sigh! "Come on!" Rangiku started to fast walk away.

"Where are we going?" Shuuhei jogged up to her.

"To the super market. You need more than that for dinner. I'll help you."

"Do you think Rangiku-chan is okay?" Momo asked Izuru and Toshiro as they walked home.

"Probably, why?" Izuru replied.

"Well, she seemed kind of upset when Ichimaru-sempai left."

"Huh, I don't know she seemed fine to me."

"Shiro-chan, is there anything going on between them that we don't know about?" Momo turned to the dark faced Toshiro.

"Well, he's been kind of a jerk lately and she's fed up with it." His voice was icy. Why do people even bother with these pointless relationships? FIrst Masumoto now Momo. Everyone ends up heartbroken.

"Really?! What has he been doing?!" Momo asked shocked.

"He's just not taking their relationship seriously. I don't really know the details, it seems like they are on and off a lot."

"Oh, that explains it! I'm never sure if they are going out or just close friends." Izuru exclaimed.

"Poor Rangiku-chan, that sounds tough." Momo said quietly to herself. Her thoughts wandered back to Aizen and before she new it tears were rushing down her face again. Why?! Why wasn't I good enough for you?! What did I do wrong?!

"Momo-chan!" Izuru quickly put an arm around her shoulder and lead her to a near by bench so she could sit.

"I.. I'm sorry.." Momo continued to cry, when Izuru sat down with her she quickly buried her head into his shoulder. Toshiro stood a few steps away and watched. Damn it Aizen! How could you do this to her?!

Momo settled down several minutes later and sniffed into Izuru's damp shirt. "Sorry." She mumbled while rubbing her eyes. "Lets go."

"Okay." Izuru stood up and helped Momo stand up. "Are you feeling better?"

"A litt-" Momo froze. On the sidewalk ahead of them, walking towards them with an arm around some girl's waist was Aizen Sosuke.

"Sosuke-kun? Isn't that the skank you used to date?" The girl in Sosuke's arm asked.

"Yeah Yuki-chan, that's her." Aizen said to the girl before turning to Momo. "Wow, Momo-chan. One day and you already have two guys hanging around you? Good thing I broke up with a little whore like you." Aizen declared.

Momo was shocked, Aizen had never talked like that to her, or anyone she knew. He would never call her a whore or anything like that. Unless... it's true...

"We were just walking her home." Izuru growled.

"How dare you Aizen! You cheated on Hinamori and then come here and accuse her of being a whore?! " Toshiro shouted.

"I didn't cheat. I had decided to break up with Momo before I started going out with Yuki-chan." The girl next to him smirked at the teary-eyed Momo.

"What kind of logic is that?!" Toshiro lunged at Aizen, but got kicked in the stomach and fell to the ground.

"You don't think well when you're angry, do you?" Aizen and the girl, Yuki stepped over Toshiro and continued on their way, Yuki's giggles heard until they were out of sight.

"Hitsugaya-sempai!" Izuru crouched next to Toshiro who was clutching his stomach. Baka! He thought to himself, That bastard was right, I didn't think!

"I'll be okay." He slowly lifted himself off the ground and stood up, "Where did Hinamori go?!"

"Huh?" Izuru quickly spun around, "Momo-chan!?"

"That was delicious Rangiku-chan! You're a great cook!" Shuuhei exclaimed, washing the dishes.

"I like to cook. Thank you for letting me, and for inviting me." Rangiku beamed. She loved to cook.

"No problem. I'm alone here so the company is nice."

"I know what you mean. I'm alone too. I only get to cook for myself."

"You don't have to, you know. You can come over here anytime you want."

Rangiku laughed, "Because you can't cook."

"Exactly!"

Shuuhei stared at the dishes before quietly saying, "And if you need someone to talk to..."

"What do you mean?"

"I heard you yelling at Gin earlier. When I went to check up on you, you were wiping away tears and calming yourself down." He looked at her shocked face, "You don't need to do that. You don't need to be strong all the time. Sometimes you need to lean on someone. I'm here if you need to talk or get away."

Rangiku stared at him shocked he saw that, and understood. She blinked back a tear then smiled. "Thanks Shuuhei-kun."

Once again I'm SOOOOO SO SO SO SO SOOO sorry for not updating for a while.. I've had this chapter completed for a while, but there were a few spots I wanted to go over before posting.

Any way, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Aizen's a real jerk right? I don't like calling him by his first name. It just seems wrong to me. Any way, I hope your summers are going well, they're almost over though.. (sad face)

I'll try to update as soon as possible, I wanted to finish this before school started, but I don't think that will happen.. but don't worry I'll keep working at it!