Title: Promises
Date: 16 March, 2009
Words: 361
Characters: Rangiku, Toshiro, Sasakibe, mentions of Yamamoto, Hinamori, Yachiru, Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Ikkaku, Yumichika
Pairings: Rangiku & Hitsugaya
Inspiration: Because I needed a break from the ongoing mini-series (which has now been moved). And I intended this fic to be these sorts of updates anyway, lol.
Summary: If you have questions, you better ask 'em fast.
Rating: PG
A/N: Nothing special here, really. I've kind of gone back to what this started as. This fic has been reformatted, and the 'missing' chapters moved to here: http://www(dot)fanfiction(dot)net/s/4933244/1/Beautiful_Mess
I you want to copy the bit below about Yachiru into your profile, go ahead ;-). Just give me credit, and a link would be nice (link to this, please, though you can send them to my profile, whatever you like). Lol, j/k.
-Rachel
"Taicho?" Rangiku called for Toshiro's attention. He looked up from his paperwork, eying Rangiku cautiously.
"Yes, Matsumoto?" Toshiro ventured.
Rangiku looked at Toshiro with hopeful eyes. "Promise me something?"
Toshiro was unsure he heard his fukutaicho correctly. She wanted him to make a promise?
Deciding to be adventurous, he took the bait. "Promise what, Matsumoto?"
"Promise me that you'll marry Yachiru and not Hinamori or someone like Ichigo's younger sisters, if you don't want to marry me."
Toshiro's mouth hung open, in spite of himself. He was aiming to ask Rangiku for an elaboration, but she beat him to the punch. "At least she never tried to kill you, and you do know her… I mean, not that it's my business. Well, it is, but you probably don't think so. But, you know, you may as well pick someone who's cute, and who never tried to murder you, and shouldn't you know her pretty well first? Even Rukia is a better idea than the others."
Toshiro continued staring at Rangiku. He finally succeeded in putting some words together, in what he hoped was a coherent sentence. "Matsumoto, what the hell are you talking about? Why would I want to marry any of them? I don't even want to think of them like that."
Rangiku perked up immediately. "Really?"
Toshiro nodded slowly, as though she were mentally unstable.
Rangiku smiled mischievously as she responded. "That's what I thought."
Toshiro barely had time to process the chain of events before he was being drug from his office behind Rangiku, trying helplessly to struggle from her firm grasp. "Matsumoto, what are you doing? Where are you taking me?"
Rangiku successfully ignored his complaints and questions until they reached the soutaicho's office. She knocked smartly on the door, and was greeted by Sasakibe quickly. He led the duo to Yamamoto's office. The small crowd of gathered taichos and fukutaichos worried Toshiro. Had he missed the butterfly for an emergency meeting? But why would Yumichika, Ikkaku, Orihime, Ichigo and Rukia be there?
When he finally had the chance to ask, he was already 'joined in holy matrimony' to Rangiku, and had figured it out for himself.