The Trouble with Love-games
Eventually, you are going to lose…
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Ok so moving on from my slight insanity, hope this chapter was worth the wait!
I'm still a moocher. Duh.
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Rangiku woke with a start.
Her sudden movement had woken the sleeping silver haired guy next to her.
"Hey Ran-chan, what's wrong?" He asked gently, stroking her hair.
"The same, the same nightmare! It won't go away! Ever since Aizen…" She trailed away, still breathing heavily.
"Don't worry about him, he is gone, we took care o' it" He cupped her cheek reassuringly.
"It's weird though" She began faintly
"What's weird babe?"
"Well, these dreams. They aren't about what happened to me and Momo. They are about what happened to me the day I met you. Do you remember?"
"O' course, I'll never forget." Gin replied, through gritted teeth.
"But you saved me, my Gin."
"Yeah, and I was meant to stop you from needing to be saved ever again!"
His mind went back to that day, 9 years ago.
Gin had been walking home the quick way, since he had been in detention that evening and wanted to get home fast so perhaps his lateness would be less noticeable. Usually, he avoided this route, since it involved walking down a few alleyways, and at this time of year, when it got dark so early, they were not very appealing. But he decided to brave it nevertheless.
Just as he reached the last alley, he saw a group of guys, who couldn't have been much older than him, kicking something on the floor. He didn't know whether to run, or yell at them, and so stayed hidden in the shadows (he had always had fierce martial arts skills, but never really used them outside of class). Before he could decide, one boy, the youngest, looked up and saw him. The boy was quite small, but looked authorative somehow. He had wavy brown hair poking out from under his hood, and he wore black glasses.
Another, taller boy, looked up to see what his friend was staring at, and spoke;
"Aiz… I mean boss!" He began, as the spectacled boy glared at him "Shall I go hit that thing over there?"
"It's probably nothing more than a cat, but you are right, we should get out of here, this bitch is no use to us now" His voice cold and calculated. "Let's go".
And they ran off into the night. Gin saw a person on the ground where the gang of boys had left. He approached tentatively.
"A- are ya alright?" He called.
There was no response.
He got closer, and looked down at the figure. It was a girl. She was in a junior school uniform. She couldn't have been older than 10. The sight made him feel sick. She was bruised, bloody, and her clothing was torn. Next to her was an empty wallet. He swore to himself, right then and there, that he would find the brown haired boy, and make him pay for what he did to the innocent girl in front of him.
Of course, Rangiku does not remember that as the day they met. She was unconscious as Gin called for help, and watched her be taken away in an ambulance. She remembers the day they met as the next day, when she awoke in hospital to find her family, and also, a strange looking boy with silver hair. He was introduced to her as her saviour, who found her when she had had an 'accident'. Her family had not wanted her to know the truth. Whilst Gin understood there concern, it had always annoyed him, but he had given his word not to tell.
Rangiku spoke again, bringing Gin's mind back to the present.
"It's funny, although I fell down the stairs on the hill, I keep having this dream about getting beaten up, then waking up in hospital that day when I met you"
Gin hugged her to him and spoke softly to her.
"It's just a bad dream, Ran-chan, forget about it"
"I know, besides, you're here, so I know everything will be ok" And she snuggled her head on his bare chest, and closed her eyes once more.
'Yeah' He thought. 'And it will stay that way now that bastard is gone'.
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Rukia had also woken up around 3am. However, the trigger of her departure from sleep was much plainer, she needed a glass of water.
Taking great care not to wake her sleeping boyfriend, she climbed out of bed.
She was assaulted by a sudden chill, and after looking down at herself, realised she was still wearing the sweatpants Momo leant her, and her bra. No top. She was glad Ichigo was asleep as her cheeks went bright red.
'This is moving fast! I can't believe I'm sleeping in his bed for the first time and I'm half naked. What will Rangiku and Momo say? Actually Rangiku will probably ask why I didn't sleep with him, perhaps I'll just tell Momo and Isane!'
She picked Ichigo's discarded T-shirt off the floor, flushing redder still, remembering why it was there, and put it on. She then made her way to the kitchen.
On entering the kitchen, Rukia flipped the light switch.
This activated not only the lights, but also a small yelp from the couch.
Rukia looked to the source of the noise, and there, looking startled, was Renji Abari.
"Jeez what's with the lights?" He said, shielding his eyes with an arm.
"Traditionally one turns them on so they can see their glass to pour water into it." She responded.
"Smartass" He said, settling back into his lying down position, however, holding his head up to look at the intruder.
"Why are you here anyway? Your bedroom is right down the hall…"
"The bitch who has decided to take up residence there kicked me out. Literally. I was happy to leave, like I was gona sleep with that bitch kicking me constantly…"
Rukia laughed.
"Aren't you guys adorable?" She said sarcastically.
"Screw you." He suddenly noticed, Rukia was wearing one of Ichigo's T-shirt. He seized his chance to humiliate the smartass girl who had the nerve to wake him up then insult him. "And speaking of screwing, how is Ichigo?"
"Why would screwing make you ask me about Ichigo, we've only been together a few days?" She replied, looking confused, wondering whether he was just saying it to be perverted.
"He is my best friend you think he wouldn't tell me when you guys…" Then what she said registered fully. Renji wasn't the quickest. "Wait, did you just say together?"
"Who cares if I did, what were you about to say?"
"WHO CARES! That bastard! That is so cheating!"
"Cheating?" The midget girl was starting to get pissed off! What lies were floating around this place exactly! "Cheating on who? Does he have another girlfriend?" She was towering over him, since he was still lying down.
Renji had never seen a girl looking so fierce!
He cowered a little.
"No no!" He got out before she started beating him for information! "Nothing like that!"
"Then what was he cheating at!" She demanded, eyes narrow as slits and a vein threatening to pop in her temple. Renji was surprised her yelling hadn't woken anyone up.
"Er nothing much…"
She was clearly unsatisfied by his terrible attempt to dodge he question, since she started pummelling him.
"Oi stop that you crazy woman! It was just a silly bet that's all! Nothing you need to know about so stop hitting me already!"
She fell silent.
The expression silent and deadly was the one that came to Renji's mind.
"Bet."
She breathed in deeply.
"You guys had a bet. About me. Sleeping with Ichigo by the sounds."
She took another breath, filling her lungs, before exploding!
"I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
With the worst timing ever in recorded history, a sleepy looking Ichigo opened the door.
He spoke.
"Midget, why the hell are you makin' such a racket, you'll wake the whole building up!"
Renji cringed, and jumped up.
"I gotta go laters guys bye!" and he ran from the kitchen, wanting to be as far away as possible from the two when Rukia began the screaming.
And boy, was she going to scream.
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Ooooooh cliffy! How evil I am XD
I hope to update soon though, so I will try not to leave y'all hanging ;)
I did address Gin's animosity towards Aizen that was expressed back in chapter 6 though. So hopefully you enjoyed that.
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