ALTERNATE ENDING

The next morning…

"MATSUMOTO!"

"I can't believe they're at it already, it's altogether too early…"

"I miss my Ran-chan…"

WHAM Nanao's fan landed firmly on the top of her Taicho's head.

"Nanao-chan, so mean…"

From the eighth division office, the sounds of Hitsugaya's furious screams for his bubbly fukutaicho interrupted a very ordinary morning.

At the tenth division barracks, however…

"MATSUMOTO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" It was no understatement to say that steam was practically gushing out of Hitsugaya's ears. His face was scrunched up in a huge scowl and his ears had turned entirely red.

"Awww, taicho you are so CUTE!" Came Matsumoto's elated squeal.

"MATSUMOTO!"

"Come on taicho, chill, you're going to disturb the other taichos you know?"

"MATSUMO..."

GLOMP

"mhm…mhm…" By the time Hitsugaya finally got his cheery fukutaicho to release him from her voluptuous chest, he was entirely blue in the face and could do nothing more than gasp for air.

"Matsumoto, I swear, either you fix this of I'm going to have you frozen solid in a block of ice for the rest of the day" His face had regained its angry red color and their breaths were forming puffs of steam in the cold temperature.

As soon as the words left his lips he regretted it. The look on Matsumoto's face was like a smug spider and he felt like the prey that had just accidentally landed in its web. Smirking she leaned in until their faces were mere centimeters apart.

"Really? Taicho? But aren't you afraid I'll get sick and the soutaicho will send me away because I'm unable to handle my superior?" Hitsugaya winced inwardly, crap. That was certainly a possibility, or she might get mad at him and transfer away again, he'd just experienced that and he never wanted to experience it again. Taking a deep breath, he tried to calm himself down.

"Matsu… No, Rangiku, you know I can't go around, let alone to today's captain's meeting in a (he splutters) pink haori!"

"Taicho did you just call me Rangiku?"

"Matsumoto"

"Eh? Maybe I heard wrongly" She turned away, looking like she was loosing interest in the subject.

"Matsumoto, wait… Don't walk away… Matsumoto… RANGIKU!"

"Say that again?"

"Rangiku"

"Yes? Toushirou" He blushed furiously.

"Its Hitsugaya Taicho"

"Hm? What was that? Toushirou" She took one step closer to him, their noses were almost touching. He took a step back… And hit the wall.

"Rangiku, remove the color from my uniform." He was desperately trying to keep himself composed but the pink haori was rapidly becoming the lesser of two problems. The bigger one being, of course, the beautiful fukutaicho with her lips dangerously close to his. She smirked, it appeared that he was in a very stubborn mood. Leaning in, she captured his lips. He felt her lips close on his and instinctively his arms snaked around her waist, pulling her closer to him. They broke off, panting.

"Toushi…" He pulled her to him in a sudden movement, pressing his lips against hers once more. Rangiku's eyes widened, "Mmmm..? Wait, Taicho…" She mumbled against his lips but heck if Hitsugaya cared. He had reclaimed the women he loved and he was damned if he let such a good opportunity slip away.

The door opened, "Sorry to disturb Hitsu…" Renji's jaw dropped. Hitsugaya's eyes widened, no wonder she had tried to stop him but in the heat of the moment he had neglected to check and thus had not felt Renji's reiatsu approaching the room. Renji slammed the door close and sprinted for his life, if he wasted time frozen in a block of ice, Kuchiki taicho would kill him.

"Looks like the cat's out of the bag eh, toushirou?" She smiled at her shell-shocked taicho, she wasn't too worried, really, after all, this meant she wouldn't have to fend off one Hinamori Momo or any other of his fangirls. Satisfied with her morning's work she decided she'd take the rest of the day off at the bar.

"Wait Matsumoto, you still have to get the colour off my haori!"

"When did I say I would? Besides, a taicho should keep his promises you know"

"What prom…" Then it hit him.

"Rangiku please accept. I swear I'll treat u better… Hell I'll even wear pink if it makes you happy…"

CRAP.

Under critical (Mostly amused) stares from the other taichos, Hitsugaya toushirou, 10th division captain, attended captain's meeting in a pink haori(and constantly wished he could sink into the floor) while his fukutaichou merely waited outside with an ever present, very pleased, smirk on her face. Glaring furiously at anybody who passed by, Hitsugaya tried to put up with his promise as he performed his regular duties. A very pleased Rangiku finally removed the pink on his uniform after a day of teasing her poor taicho, of course, he had to give her plenty of kisses to make her do it and plenty more to ensure that his haori stayed white each day.

- 終わり-