004. Inside
A/N: I'm cheating a bit here. The title was actually Insides, but as I couldn't think of anything but the most gruesome. Though gruesome works for both characters, I didn't want to go for anything really gory. There's plenty of that already. So instead, Yachiru fluff!
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"Here, Smiley-chan!"
Before Gin could turn his head, a lollipop was forcibly shoved into his mouth. He paused to register the flavor - lemon - before looking at the pink-haired girl that had perched herself on his left shoulder.
"That's to cheer you up!" Yachiru chirped, swinging her small feet so they lightly tapped against Gin's chest. "Buuut, you're not really sad are you, Smiley-chan?"
gin looked away from the maddeningly cute yet intense gaze and raised his eyebrows at the girl's guardian.
"Che, we're just coming back from the fourth division. Manditory, you know," Zaraki answered Gin's unvoiced question. "Yachiru overheard a bunch of psychobabble-"
"You're not smiling on the outside while frowning on the inside are you?" Yachiru asked Ichimaru.
She would have scolded him for spitting out a perfectly good lollipop, but his laughter was the answer she'd been looking for.
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A/N: Yachiru is smaller here than when we meet her in the Soul Society arc, if you were wondering.
The lollipop. Why lemon? shrug The only other flavor I could think of when writing this was cherry and I can't see Gin liking cherry flavor. I could be wrong, though.