Title: Absurd Insecurities
Date: 09 December, 2008
Words: 655
Characters: Matsumoto, Hitsugaya, Kira, Hisagi, mention of Gin and Aizen
Pairings: Matsumoto & Hitsugaya, implied Gin & Aizen, kind of implied Kira & Yumi
Inspiration: Coming across a lot of Yaoi stuff. I'm not a fan, really, but everyone seems to have Gin & Aizen stories… So, naturally, I came up with this.
Rating: I'll say T, just because of mentions of sex. Nothing explicit.
A/N: If you can't leave a review and you want to, it's my fault. I deleted the first chapter, and I think it may have screwed something up. I expect things to return to normal with the next one. And, to Thunderwolf66, I am working on your request. It's just been kind of a brain-fart sort of moment for me to come up with anything yet. I promise I've not forgotten!
To my readers, please enjoy, read, and review! Also, i apologize if I've spammed your inbox. 8-)
-Rachel Noelle
She still remembered the first time she asked him. He was, admittedly, still a little young and hung-up on Hinamori, so he really couldn't have cared.
"Taicho!" Matsumoto wailed as she stepped foot into the tenth division office unusually early in the morning (ten am is early for her, thanks).
The taicho in question looked up warily, wondering just what could be the problem. Because, given the time and the fact that she was, indeed, standing here in front of his desk, something had to be amiss. "Yes, Matsumoto?" he asked, grudgingly.
"Is there something wrong with me?" she cast him a pensive look, trying to assess if maybe he felt the same about her.
"How should I know? You don't look sick or anything…" uneasily he replied.
"No, no, not that. I mean, like, is there something wrong with me? Like…" she paused, looking for the right words. Finally she pointed to herself, indicating any number of her features from her eyes to her boobs and her feet to her hips. "Is there something wrong with me in the way I look or act that detracts from my appeal to men?"
He flushed a cute shade of pink before he answered. "Um, as far as I can tell, no. Why do you ask?"
"Because, Gin doesn't look at me the same way anymore. He used to try to sweet-talk me into his bed sometimes two or three times a day, and he sort of stopped a few months back. Maybe something really is wrong with me, because Aizen-taicho and Kira all sort of started treating me the same way…" Matsumoto finally disclosed the source of her dilemma.
Hitsugaya shrugged, returning to his work, "So Gin won't sleep with you, huh? He must have turned gay." She looked dumbfounded, but considered it a possibility, but not a probability. She resolved to think about it later if her relationship with Gin continued down this road. "Get to work, Matsumoto."
The second time she asked, he was a little upset, thinking she was trying to get with someone else.
"What?" Hitsugaya exclaimed. "Why on Seireitei would you even think that?" he gave her a very confused look. She shrugged nonchalantly, and then her words hit him.
He scowled, glaring daggers at her. "Why do you care what other men think?" he bristled, quite unhappy with the situation.
She laughed, deciding she had said things in a not-altogether-correct way. "Is someone jealous?" she teased. His cheeks grew red with combined anger and embarrassment. "I'm just asking because it suddenly occurred to me that Kira never looks at me like most guys do, and even Gin stopped looking at me like that when he started hanging out with Aizen."
"I told you before. They're gay," he sighed, not fully relieved but considerable less pissed now that he realized his girlfriend was having some simple security issues. She looked at him in disbelief. "Do you want me to prove he is and there is nothing wrong with the way you look?" he asked, knowing he wouldn't like the results, but, if it made her happy…
When, because of their 'social experiment,' he wouldn't speak to her for a full week, nor allow any touching of any kind (not even their fingers touching as she handed him a teacup) for two, she decided she didn't care if Kira was gay. He could have Yumi, if he wanted. She was, however, glad she got the pictures of her cute little taicho as Kira constantly tried to touch his hair and such, desperately hitting on the younger man. And she was especially glad to have the picture of Hitsugaya punching Kira hard in the face when Kira leaned over to kiss him.
Naturally, of course, she commissioned Hisagi to use that as the month of June's centerfold in the Seireitei Times. They sold more copies that month than any other month in history.