RUSH

Author's Note: Yet another procrastination drabble. This one was inspired by an oekaki (a neat little thing that shows you the finished doodle and the doodle-in-progress) by gishkishenh from the ginkira LiveJournal Community. I originally joined there to find some background information on Gin, so I would have a better understanding of the Fox of these stories. Little did I know I would be getting a truckload of inspiration. Just what I needed, more plot bunnies. They multiply like crazy! Gah!

RUSH

Gin stifled a laugh with a yawn, stretching his arms above his head, as he shuffled up to Kenpachi's side. The larger taichou was standing in the middle of the third division, spiked head tilted slightly to the left, taking in the activity before him. Gin lowered his arms, one stopping halfway so he could scratch the back of his head. Laughter and squeals of delight filled the air around them.

"Ah, that explains a lot," Gin commented after they stood there for a while. Kenpachi's eye fixed on him, clearly expecting Ichimaru to elaborate.

"Izuru and I were eatin' breakfast . . ."

The other's eye rolled to look upwards. The bells on the tips of the black spikes jingled lightly with the knowing shake of Kenpachi's head.

"You fell back to sleep didn't ya?"

Ichimaru bowed his head in shame.

"Ne," Gin lifted his head back up. "I just woke up. I looked down at my bowl an' it was empty! An' Izuru was gone. All the paperwork was still sitting there. I was wondering what could be wrong."

"Don't ya eat the same thing Yachiru eats for breakfast?'

"Yeah, 'Shinigami Love Love Sugar Stars with Marshmallow Hearts and Zanpaktous!'"

Yachiru and Kira paused their game of dodge ball tag to chorus:

"With a free collectable card in every box!"

Then Kira wound up, tongue sticking out in determination, and threw the ball as hard as he could at his fellow fukutaichou. He missed and there was another mad rush for the loose ball accompanied by more laughter.

"He's never ate that stuff before, eh?"

"Nah, he's usually such a good fukutaichou. Eats his vegetables and all, ya know."

"You're such a bad influence," Kenpachi rested his forearm on Gin's shoulder, lop-sided grin on his face.

Gin beamed back up at him. "I know."

A/N: After some discussion with the artist and from other comments, I began to wonder: What if Kira ate Gin's cereal on him while he was sleeping? This is what I came up with. It's a slightly OOC Kira, but I think he'd be so hyper from Gin's cereal that he couldn't work even if he tried. Poor Kira, at least it's only a sugar rush.

Way out there : I bet Mayuri and Soi-Fong eat that cereal too. Only in a very, secret room with many locks on the door so no one ever knows. And if anyone did find out, they wouldn't live to tell. XD