She never thought she could feel this way about someone. What urahara said earlier made her start to think. Could she really love toushiro? At first she was scared of him. He showed so much hatred that it scared her. But now, she didn't know what she was feeling anymore. love? Hate? Anger? Worried? She didn't know anymore.

Rain was very troubled and confused. She sighed and layed down on the roof of the kurosaki clinic. She found toushiro up here the day she first met him. He was nice to her then. Rain looked up at the sky. She wondered if toushiro was safe. if he was ok. She felt this feeling in her stomache, Then she remembered that wound. She closed her eye's and tried to relax.

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Rangiku was sitting in her room silently. Then she heard yelling outside her room.

"No! You're prohibited from contacting rangiku matsumoto!" A big guy said to renji outside of rangiku's house.

"Why not?! It's just for a little chit chat!" Renji growled at him.

"No means no!" He argued. "These are the orders from head captain and captain soifon!"

Renji turned around. "Man, talk about being inflexible. Thickhead." renji said as he glanced at the big guy.

"What'd you say?! You just insulted me didn't you!" The guy said pointing at himself.

Renji picked his ear with his pinkie and then looked back at the big guy. "Nah." he retorted.

"You said i have a thick head, i heard you!" He yelled as he grabbed his zanpaktou, but trying his hardest not to fight.

"Don't look at me!" Renji snarled.

"Sure is lively out here." A voice called to them.

They turned and saw Captain kyouraku walking towards them with nanao.

"Captain kyouraku?" Renji asked.

"I'll go in with you. that should be fine shouldn't it?" Captain kyouraku said to the guards.

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"Kusaka? i don't know i don't think i've heard that name before." Rangiku said.

"i see..." renji said as he looked down disappointedly.

"Even though i'm his second in command, knowing so little about my captain is..." Rangiku trailed off.

Renji hung his head.

Nanao looked at renji then looked back at rangiku. "There are still a few things we don't know about. What kind of relationship does captain hitsugaya have with this kusaka? Who is he? Does he have anything to do with this case?" nanao said.

"If he does then what?" Captain kyouraku asked.

Rangiku looked at him. "Nothing but questions." She sighed.

"We just need to find the answers." Nanao said.

Renji looked at her. "C-can you do that?" Renji asked.

nanao looked at him. "It's quite impossible for one person to completely understand another. though it takes effort, when you don't know, all you have to do in inquire. it's just that simple isn't it?" nanao said.

Captain kyouraku chuckled at his vice-captain.

Nanao turned and looked at him. "What is it captain?!" Nanao growled.

"Thats my nanao-chan! i knew you'd do something about all this." He said as he put his hat back on. "See?"

"What? Um..." Nanao began.

Renji bowed to her. "Please!"

"Huh?!" Nanao said shocked.

"Thank you, nanao. I'll pay you back somehow." Rangiku said with a relieved smile.

"If you want to pay us, get us some of this." Captain kyouraku said as he gestered sake.

"Then i assume you're willing to pitch in too, captain?" nanao snapped with a hand on her hip.

"What? me too?" Captain kyouraku ssaid as he took off his hat.

Nanao tried to glare at him. then they began laughing.

"Oh yeah! and theres this.." Renji said as he held up a bag.

They went inside and rangiku opened it up.

"Ichigo and rukia wanted me to give this to you." Renji said to her.

Rangiku gasped when she saw blood on it. "He's hurt!" She claimed.

Renji nodded. "From what ichigo told me, it's really bad..."

Rangiku set it down. "Yet he still left this behind and disappeared." Rangiku said as she looked at renji. She looked back at the haori. "Should i be happy that he's alive? Or Angry that he left this behind?" Rangiku asked.

"Well, uh..." Renji said trying to find the right words.

"Jeez, everyones so worried about him. I wonder what he's doing?" Captain kyouraku said.

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Toushiro woke up by the riverbank. He stood painfully and began his journey once more. He went over bridges, up stairs, down streets, on his way to find kusaka.

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"i've searched through the last fiffty years of the registry. But theres no record of a soldier named kusaka." nanao said to her captain.

"So did you go back and search through the spiritual art's academy?" Captain kyouraku asked.

"Yes, there was no such name when i looked there either. However, The names in the registry when captain hitsugaya graduated is one person short. The student of intrest is a native of north rukongai." nanao explained.

"Is there any record of a kusaka in that districts name list?" Captain kyouraku asked.

"There is." nanao answered as she grabbed a book and handed it to him. "This is him. Kusaka soujirou."

"So this is kusaka?" Captain kyouraku said as he grabbed it and began reading. "Huh? He's dead?"

"he isn't in the registry. Perhaps someone simply forgot to write his name in?" nanao suggested.

"That wouldn't make much sense would it?" captain kyouraku said. "Espically if he died." He said as he closed the book.

"But, with this the one thread linking the attacker to kusaka soujirou is gone." Nanao said sadly.

"Hmm... As long as the disappearence of one's spiritual pressure remains unconfirmed, you can't mark it as death." Captain kyouraku said as he crossed his arms. "Well, he's dead but.."

"But what?" nanao asked.

"I'm going for a walk, nanao-chan, see if you can figure out how he died." Captain kyouraku said as he stood and walked off.

"Captain!" nanao called after him.

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Rain was tired. But she couldn't sleep knowing that toushiro could be dead somewhere because of that wound.

"You need my help, girl." a voice said to rain inside her head.

"What? Who are you?" Rain asked the voice.

"Look into the darkness and see for yourself, girl." The voice said to her.

Rain peered into the darkness of her mind. She saw a ice dragon with teal eye's. "Who are you!?" Rain asked in shock.

"I am, your heart." The dragon said to her.

"my... heart?" Rain asked confused.

"I am, ******** *********." The voice said.

"What?" Rain asked confused.

"I am, the one you love most, rain abari. i am..." The voice trailed off.

Rain's eye's snapped open. "Toushiro hitsugaya." Rain whispered.

A/N xD Yes now she knows she loves him! YAY!!! Rain finally figured it out! 10 points for rain! =3 hope you all enjoyed!