Rangiku slowly made her way to her apartment. She stood in front of the door and stared. She was going to tell Shuhei everything. She was going to tell her husband about her affair with Gin and she was terrified. She finally understood what Shuhei meant to her. She loved him more than she loved herself and she was too blinded by the lust for Gin to see that.

Rangiku took a deep breath and unlocked the door while pushing it open.

"Rangiku, is that you" Shuhei called out from the kitchen. Rangiku could feel her heart sinking. She took another breath and replied "Yeah it's me" trying to sound happy.

He walked in to see him looking through the fridge. "What are you doing?" Rangiku asked.

"Looking for the carrots, I think I'll cook curry" Shuhei said, he turned to look at his wife and Rangiku could feel her heart beating faster. This man was beautiful inside and out. Why did she never see this before and why did she cheat on him. He didn't and never deserved it.

Shuhei realized Rangiku had been crying, but he also knew she was being distant so he asked a safe question. "Are you okay babe? Do you want curry or should we order out again" He asked softly walking closer to her.

She could feel her tears coming back. Be strong Rangiku, do what Rukia said to do. Before leaving the Kurosaki household, Rukia had comforting Rangiku and telling her that it would be best to tell Shuhei the truth. Rukia was right; she couldn't keep lying to him. If there love is strong enough, they would get through this.

"I have something to tell you" She said as her voice broke. Shuhei seeing that his wife was about to cry immediately rushed to her side.

"Babe, what's wrong" He said looking lovingly in to her eyes and she began to tear. He stepped away, knowing he was going to receive bad news.

"Please listen to what I have to say" Rangiku asked him. "Just hear me out and let me explain"

Shuhei felt his heart drop. He knew it. He had a feeling this was going to happen but he chose to ignore it, he had to if he wanted to keep a happy home. But a man knows his wife, he should know when things are off, and he has felt like things were off for the last year.

"For the past year, I have been seeing Gin Ichimaru" She confessed. She paused to look at Shuhei and she was surprised to see he had no emotion in his face, not even a look of shock or anger. He just looked at her as if she didn't say anything, so she continued. "I have been having an affair with him, and I know you probably think the worst of me, but I want you to know that it's over between me and him. I love you and-"

"Stop" he said calmly. Rangiku was shocked when he stopped her, his face was still blank, and she couldn't read his emotions.

"But I need to finish, I love-"

"DON'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME!" Shuhei yelled. Finally you could see all the emotions on his face and hear it in his voice. He was upset, hurt, confused and feeling betrayed. "How can you sit there and say you love me, when you have been fucking Gin for a whole year, do I looking fucking stupid to you!"

Rangiku was scared, never had he ever been so upset, not since Rukia did the same thing to him.

"I'm sorry, I truly am"

"If you were sorry, you wouldn't have been fucking him for a year. How could you even do that to me? After everything I have done for you, after he left you all those years ago?"

"I know, I was stupid, but its over now, and I just had to tell you"

"I don't care if its over! You still acted like a whore and cheated and I'm not dumb you probably didn't end it. He probably got bored of you and ended it. I'm so disgusted with you"

Rangiku tried to reach out to him "Baby, please", he moved away from her. "Don't fucking touch me"

"Can we please talk about this; I really want us to talk."Rangiku pleaded.

"Fine, you wanna talk, let's talk. When did this start?" He asked. Rangiku was surprised by the question, and she didn't want to answer.

"I don't want to talk about that…"

"I don't care what you want and don't want to talk about! Answer my questions!" Rangiku was so nervous. She knew he was upset but she didn't think he would become so angry. But she knew he had every reason to. She betrayed his trust and slept with another man.

"About ten months ago, me and Momo went out for drinks and we saw Aizen and Gin. We all got drunk and went back to their place and I had sex with Gin, I didn't realize how much I still cared for him until that night and that's when it all started"

"When and how did you guys meet?" Shuhei asked

Rangiku sighed and answered" Once a week at the Marriot downtown"

"Did you talk about me?" Shuhei asked as his voice became weak, he tried not to let his hurt control his voice but that was the most dominating feeling. He was hurt. When Rukia did this to him five years ago, he felt betrayed but he saw it coming, he was planning to break up with her if it wasn't for her getting pregnant.

"Never, he asked…but I didn't out of respect-"

"How dare you talk about respect Rangiku? Respect would have been to keep your fucking legs closed and stay faithful to your husband!"

Rangiku stood there quiet, she deserved all of this and she was going to take it.

"So now, that Gin doesn't want you, you want to try and be happy with me?" Shuhei said approaching her.

"No, I realized that I do love you more than I will ever love him. Shuhei, I can't live without you and I know that what I'm saying might not mean much, but I want this to work, I need this to work because I have been dying inside for the last ten months and I didn't realize I was able to be without Gin for those 5 years because you were all I needed."

Shuhei couldn't help but let a tear fall because he knew Rangiku, he could see she truly loved him. That she was truly sorry and that Gin would probably never be a problem, but why didn't he see this affair for ten months, he noticed changes but he didn't think his wife would hurt him, not like this.

"I need to go" He said. As he tried to walk away, Rangiku stepped in front of him. "No please, can we talk more, please Shuhei, I'm begging you don't leave me"

Rangiku was now crying on her knees and all Shuhei wanted to do was hug her and tell her, he still loved her more than anything in the world, but he couldn't. He slowly pulled her off and walked to the door.

Rangiku who was still on her knees cried as her husband walked out the door.

Three Months Later

"I need the reports from the third, six, eightt and tenth division by 5pm today" Shuhei yelled to his vice president, Mashiro as she sat in his office.

"I heard you, Mr. Hisagi, I was just emailed by Mr. Kira, Ms. Ise and Mr. Abarai"

"So what is going on with the tenth division?" Shuhei asked. He knew, he could have just said, What about Rangiku or what about my wife, but it still hurt and what was worse everyone knew.

"Miss Matsumoto hasn't emailed me yet" Mashiro said. Shuhei glared at Mashiro as she said Rangiku's maiden name.

"What did you call her?"

"Matsumoto" Mashiro said to him with no fear. For the past three months, she had been wanting to say "I told you so" but she refrained.

"Me and Rangiku are still legally married, her name is Mrs. Hisagi, please refer to her as that" Shuhei demanded.

Mashiro stood up and headed to the door. Before she opened it she turned to Shuhei and said it "I told you so" then she walked out and slammed the door.

Shuhei clenched his fists and sat down in his chair. He knew Mashiro had been thinking it all along. She suspected when Rukia cheated and she suspected Rangiku too.

Mashiro still had feelings for him and working as his vice president was not helping. He however, could bring himself to feel that way about her because he still loved Rangiku.

"Mr. Hisagi, you have a visitor" his assistant said through the intercom.

"Send the person in" He said as he rubbed his temples. As the door opened Shuhei didn't look up until he heard his voice.

"Long time no see, Shuhei Hisagi"

Shuhei looked up to see the man he hated, the man who betrayed his division and his friend, the man who slept with his wife.

"Gin Ichimaru, what the hell are you doing here?" Shuhei said with pure venom in his voice.

"Is that any way to speak to someone who came to visit you?"

"I am about 3 seconds away from killing you"

"I'm guessing you know about me and Rangiku"

"DON'T FUCKING SAY HER NAME!"

"Calm down Mr. Hisagi"

"I will not fucking calm down, you had an affair with my wife for a year and now you come in my office after you betrayed the company and you want me to calm down. I should rip your fucking throat out."

"That is all fine and dandy but first I thought I would give you this letter from Kaname"

"Kaname Tousen?"

"Yes your former president" Gin set the letter on the desk. "I'll give you time alone to read that but you should know, Kaname regretted having to deceive you. I think he genuinely saw you like a son"

"Why couldn't you have mailed this to me?"

"Because I am also hear to tell you that you won"

"Won what"

"Rangiku, she loves you….way more than she loved me" Gin confessed

"Yeah, that's why she was fucking you for ten months"

"You know the first time we had sex, she-"

"I don't want to hear this"

"You need to" Gin demanded "While we were having sex she said your name a few times, don't think she realized it though"

"So you mean to tell me, she was thinking of me while fucking you, I doubt it."

"I know Rangiku, I know her too well, I know when she is upset, sad and I can read her emotions clearly. When she was asleep, she dreamt about you. She smiles when you text her, even when we were together. I never gave Rangiku the closure I needed to when I left the Gotei 13. I did love her and to be honest I still do. I kept stringing her along; tell her things she missed hearing from me to keep her coming back. I wasn't ready to let Rangiku go. But Rangiku already fell in love with you. I'm giving up; I was trying so hard to keep her to myself that I realized I was jeopardizing her happiness."

Shuhei couldn't believe what he was hearing. Gin was giving up on Rangiku and telling him that he won?

"Why are you doing this?"

"To remind you that you won, Rangiku will never love me like she loves, before you think about leaving her for good, think about how much you love her too." Gin said as he got up.

"I think you should leave' Shuhei said still very confused.

"Yeah I know" Gin said as he made his way towards the office door. "Have a good life" he said as he shut the door.

Did that really just happen. Did Gin Ichimaru just admit that he was at fault for that affair and that he was wrong?

Shuhei sat back in his car and began and began to read the letter Kaname left to him.

"Get in the car, Ran!" Rukia yelled at her friend who was fixing her make-up. Rukia and Rangiku just finished having lunch at a near-by café.

"Alright woman, we still have twenty minutes til we have to be back at work, why are we rushing?" Rangiku asked as she stepped into Rukia's car.

"I need to make a quick stop; do you have your month report on you?" Rukia asked, smirking to herself.

"Yeah, I was going to fax it to the bitch later today"

"Why must you refer to Mashiro as a bitch?" Rukia asked laughing to herself.

"Cause she is" Rangiku replied. "But why do you ask?"

"Just wondering…"

…..

Rangiku was shocked when Rukia pulled up in front of the Ninth Division Headquarters. "Rukia Kurosaki, why are we HERE?"

"I need to meet with the bitch or the vice president, Mashiro and you need to hand in the monthly report, it just makes sense" Rukia explained in a fake innocent tone.

"I hate you" Rangiku said

"Yeah, whatever, let's go" Rukia said getting out the car. Rangiku took a deep breath and felt sadness wash over her. She hadn't seen Shuhei in three months. She missed him terribly but decided to focus on work while he was gone. She knew it would take him a while to forgive her so she gave him time. She cried herself to sleep every night, thinking about the chance of divorce.

Rangiku stepped out the car and slowly followed her petite friend into the building.

"Hello, I am Rukia Kurosaki, I am here to meet with Mashiro Kuna" Rukia said to the receptionist "and Mr. Hisagi's wife is here to see him also". The receptionist looked at Rangiku and gave her a cold glare.

I guess everyone knows our marital problems

"Right away, Mrs. Kurosaki" the receptionist said. "You can go to the top or 13th floor and see the assistant."

Once Rukia and Rangiku reached the top floor, Mashiro was the first woman they saw.

"Mashiro, hello how are you" Rukia said catching the woman's attention,

"Rukia Kurosaki?" She said surprised to see her and then Mashiro's glare turned deadly seeing Rangiku. "and Rangiku"

Rangiku and Rukia didn't fail to notice the disgust in Mashiro's voice.

"It is still Rangiku Hisagi" Rangiku corrected her.

"Don't give me that bulshit, Rangiku!" Mashiro said. Mashiro had been wanting to confront Rangiku for a long time. But Rangiku had never shown her face.

"Watch your language in the workplace" Rukia said trying to avoid a catfight at a work.

"Excuse me, Mrs. Kurosaki, you aren't better than Rangiku, you both cheated on Shuhei, you both acted like whores, so don't lecture me about shit!"

"You better not put her nose in things you know nothing about. You have no idea what me and Shuhei's relationship was. Why even bring it up? We broke up over five years ago and we are still good friends now" Rukia said trying to defend herself.

"Oh yeah, You got knocked up by your high school boyfriend and you and Shuhei broke up, what is so hard to understand" Mashiro said.

Rukia was ready to rip that girl's eyes out when Rangiku stood in front of her.

"Mashiro, you truly are pathetic." Rangiku spat. Mashiro was about to retort when Rangiku continued. "I'm guessing Shuhei still hasn't returned your feelings." Mashiro's face turned red.

"He will never love you like he loves or loved me. You won't even reach the place Rukia had in his heart. That is why you hate us, because we mean more to Shuhei than you ever will"

"Shut up!" She yelled. " I have loved him for years, I would never betray him like you did. I have been there for him thru his breakup with Rukia, so why did he choose you!

"I don't know why either." Rangiku said surprising Mashiro. "He is the sweetest and most caring man I have ever met. He loved me more than anything in this world and I took him for granted. I let my past blind me and allow me to hurt the only man I have ever truly loved. Actually I still do. I love Shuhei Hisagi more than life itself. " Rangiku stated as tears began to fall. "I have cried every single night since he left the condo. You may love him but I can't live without him."

Mashiro was about to scream at Rangiku when a voice stopped her.

"Mashiro" Everyone turned to see Shuhei watching the scene. "Go on your lunch break"

"But-"

"Now" Shuhei said seriously. Mashiro nodded and walked away. Rangiku stood there looking at her husband. He looked calm, handsome and collected. She loved that most about him.

"I'll be waiting downstairs, " Rukia said out loud as she left them alone.

"Come to my office" Shuhei said simply before he started to walk away. Rangiku quietly followed

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"Why are you here?"

"I came to drop the monthly report"

"Thanks"

There was a long silence between them until Rangiku broke it.

"How are you?"

"Better, you?"

"Worse"

There was another pause then Shuhei broke it.

"I want to hate you Rangiku, I really do" He started. "But I can't, I love you so much it hurts when I think of you. I cry every night just like you"

Rangiku could feel herself crying again.

"It's going to take me a long time to be able to forgive you but I want to try because I cant live without you either"

Rangiku smiled slightly as her tears fell. "I am so sorry" was all she could say. He stood up and went to his wife and hugged her.

"I know you are" He said holding her tighter.

"We can get through this," He said before claiming her lips in a sweet kiss.

END OF STORY!

I know, the ending is terrible but I was so tired of this story, I have been putting off writing the chapter.

Next story is a one chapter mini-series for Kaien and Miyako.