Gin Ichimaru sighed contentedly, stroking a sleeping Izuru Kira's hair protectively. The expectant Soul Reaper had his arms wrapped around Gin's shoulders, as if to avoid losing him.
But he doesn't need to worry himself with that possibility, Gin said to himself. I told him I'm staying for good.
A thump downstairs made the captain jump, but his dozing lieutenant only stirred slightly. Taking painstaking measures to be quiet and not wake his lover, Gin carefully disentangled himself from Izuru's arms and started downstairs, zanpakuto in hand.
There in the living room, waiting for him, were Kaname Tosen and Sosuke Aizen.
"What a pleasant surprise to see you both," he said. "We'll have to keep our voices low; Izuru's asleep."
The next day, Izuru was woken up gently by Gin.
"Mm... Gin...?" he murmured wearily, rubbing his blue eyes and sitting upright.
"I just wanted to let you know I'm going to that meeting with the other captains now," he said. "If you need anything, anything at all, you know where I'll be."
"Do you... really have to?" The poor thing really hated to be separated from Gin these days.
Gin lovingly stroked Izuru's hair, then tenderly patted his gently rounded middle. "I'm afraid so. Anything," Gin called back from the doorway. Izuru nodded in reply. After hearing the front door close, the Soul Reaper went back to sleep.
Only about three-quarters of an hour later, Kira was searching for Conference Room 10, where the captain's meeting was being held. He missed Gin desperately. He knew he was clingy a lot lately, but he really couldn't help it.
Eight... Nine... There. Ten.
"...do you plead, Third Captain Gin Ichimaru?" Izuru heard the Head Captain's voice say. Confused, he got closer to see what was going on. The next he heard was this: "...betray the Soul Society a second time, sir."
His own captain's voice. Izuru stumbled backwards, shocked at what he'd just heard.
Captain Ichimaru? Betray the Soul Society... Again?
Unwilling to think on it any longer, he fled to nearby the Thirteenth Division training grounds, where he had a place he could just slip away to to forget everything.
His hiding place was really nothing more than a storage shed attached to the main barracks, but it seemed soundproof enough, and it was fairly temperature regulated, so it was useful. Izuru had come here a lot in the aftermath of Aizen's rebellion, when Gin had first left, to just be emotional. Now, curled up sobbing on the small collapsible cot in the corner, and four months pregnant with Captain Ichimaru's child, here he was again.
After an unknown amount of time, he sat up, trying to get himself together, but the tears just kept coming. He was an emotional wreck now, if ever he had been.
Gin had told him he'd stay, though... He'd promised he wouldn't leave again...
But in reality, he'd been planning to betray him a second time? No...
"Captain Ichimaru... why?" Izuru Kira sobbed.