Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns everything in this story except for the storyline

Hehe, sorry, I tend to rant about things after finishing my chapter. Oh, and if you think some things in this chapter are a bit strange… hehe, sorry about. Oh, and I'm experimenting different ways to write Gins speech since I'm to lazy to watch the episodes, so it might change every few chapters )

Chapter Summary: It seems that up until now, everything has just been 'part of a plan'.

Chapter 3 – The Little Play

"Toshiro Taichou!" Rangiku said in surprise, everyone froze in shock. What did she just say?

"M-Mats…" was all Hitsugaya could sputter out.

Little Rangiku paused and looked at everyone, Kira, Hitsugaya, Ikkaki and Yumichika and then gripped her head in obvious pain. Something was wrong, visions flooded her head, or where they dreams?

"Rangiku!" Hitsugaya called out dashing to catch Rangiku as she fell, Gin caught her first though, the worry on his face was very apparent.

"Shit," Ichigo murmured quietly, the door of the Matsumoto residence swung open, revealing a angry and worried mother and father.

"Ichigo? What happened? And what are you doing here… boy…" Rangiku's mother said with contempt in her voice. Hitsugaya and Kira turned around and realized they couldn't be seen, Ikkaku and Yumichika didn't seem to care about what was happening anymore.

"Um… um… I found her, right now…" Ichigo stuttered, oops that was a mistake.

"What did you do to her boy!" Rangiku's mother screeched angrily, about to attack Gin with her nails.

"W-Wait!" Ichigo yelled, blocking Ichimaru-who was completely oblivious to the rest of the world-from getting hurt. "Um… I'll take her to the hospital, boys with me, sorry about that, lets go Gin!" Ichigo said nervously, pushing Gin slowly away, damn the woman scared him. In truth he never liked the Matsumoto family, this was one of the reasons why.

"Hey wait! Where are you taking her!" Toshiro called angrily, catching up to Ichigo, Kira following after him. Ikkaku and Yumichika were nowhere in sight.

"Ichimaru Taichou!" Kira called in a high pitched, strangled voice that bordered on hysterical.

"We're taking her to my house so my dad can have a check on her!" Ichigo called, he was carrying the lifeless faux body of Gin, who was running beside him carrying Rangiku's body.

Passerby's looked at the running Ichigo without much interest… not really caring about the pale, sleeping boy in his arms. On the other hand, when they looked beside Ichigo, most of the fainted dead on the spot, seeing a floating body of a sleep girl wasn't very normal and that's exactly what they saw.

"Er… Gin, maybe you should get back into your body, people are fainting back there…" Ichigo muttered, turning around after hearing a old lady shriek in fright. The ex-captain didn't answer. When they arrived at the Kurosaki Clinic, Gin literally threw the door open, nearly ripping it off it's hinges and then very gently placed the unconscious body of Matsumoto Rangiku on the examining table, completely ignoring the patients already in Dr. Kurosaki's office.

"Um…" the woman said to Isshin who, of course, could see Gin perfectly fine.

"Was there just… a floating-" the woman's husband didn't finish when Ichigo suddenly burst into the room as well, yelling wildly, "GIN WHAT THE HELL!" and then he stopped, look at this dad and the patients and slowly walked back out turning slightly red.

"Ahem… um… sorry about that, I think it's a bad time, my son seems to be high off coke again," Isshin said in a very serious voice, "I might have to close early, poor soul…" Isshin grunted, pushing out his patients who were probably also bordering on shock. As they saw Ichigo standing their red faced, they literally ran into their car and drove off, going at least 120km p/hr.

"S-Sorry Dad, but um… Ran-chan fainted from shock," Ichigo muttered stepping in, making sure to pick up the fallen door which Gin and broken.

"I saw…" Isshin said dryly, getting up. "Well, would you care to explain how?" Isshin asked, of course, Urahara had already told Isshin what happened,somehow, even though the event only happened 15 minutes ago. Kisuke really had a way of knowing things.

"Well, Hitsugaya, and his group came… and Rangiku saw them, and yeah…" Ichigo trailed of, dumping Gins faux body onto a chair and following his dad into the room where the examination table was. Gin stood beside her lifeless body, his eyes were open, showing his blood red pupils, as Ichigo and his father walked in, he looked up at them and walked out without a word. Ichigo made to follow him but he stopped when his dad called him for help.

Gin wasn't very happy, no he wasn't happy at all. This wasn't part of his plan! All he wanted was to just live life with Rangiku, growing up together, hopefully 'dying' together, except he wouldn't be dying, he'd be the one to send Ran-chan's spirit to Rukongai and then he could find her and live with her all over again. Preferably he wouldn't mind if she died somewhere along her 30's so that she would look exactly the same as she had in her last life in Soul Society but thoughts like that were selfish, and Gin didn't want to kill her again. Frustration overwhelmed him and he stood outside of the Kurosaki Clinic to get some fresh air and peace, except he didn't get the 'peace' part because Hitsugaya and Kira stood at the entrance to greet him. It took a few moments, but his frown soon turned into his original mocking smile and his eyes were close again, as usual.

"Well, if it ain't lil Kira-kun and Shiro-kun," Gin said laughing his annoying mocking laugh which made Hitsugaya want to kill the man.

"T-Taichou," Was all Kira could make out.

"Wha's wrong? Can' talk?" Gin asked mockingly. He always loved mocking soft little Kira.

"Ichi… ICHIMARU!" HItsugaya yelled angrily, gripping Hyorinmaru, he was close to releasing it but he was aware that Isshin Kurosaki was very near them and that guy could probably wipe out all three of them in seconds.

"Wha'?" Gin asked flicking his tongue out to wet his lips.

"I'll… I'll… " Hitsugaya said threateningly.

"T-Taichou… why?" Kira finally managed to make out.

"Why wha'?" Gin replied, faking confusion.

"Why're you doing this? Why didn't you stay in Soul Society, you only had a 5 year sentence, they would've set you free and next year you would've been able to meet her!" Kira said, his eyes were beginning to bulge out of his head. Hitsugaya was seething with so much anger that he couldn't interrupt.

"…took me 4 years t' find 'er, if I took de sentence, I woulda seen 'er nine years later," he said his smile was replaced with a slight frown.

"B-But… I mean… it would cause less trouble," Kira said, the poor guy was nearly on the verge of tears.

"…Sorry, I ain't goin back dere, stayin' here t' be wid 'er," Gin said, he didn't make a move to leave though and neither did Hitsugaya or Kira.

"Um… she's back to normal, you guys might want to get out of here before she sees you again," Ichigo said coming out, he half expected the place to be frozen and the two fighting and was surprised when they weren't.

"Hmph… I'll be back, Gin," Hitsugaya said with as much anger as he could muster, which was a lot.

"Sorry… Ichimaru Taichou," Kira murmured as he backed away slightly and then left to follow after Hitsugaya who was flash-jumping off to Urahara Shop.

"Um… you… you want to see her? You should get into your body soon, she might be worried about seeing your lifeless body," Ichigo said, pointing to Gins faux body still sprawled on the empty chair in the clinic lobby.

Gin didn't say anything to Kurosaki and instead just went in, and entered his body, he smile warmly, much to Ichigo's hidden surprise when Rangiku came out of the clinic with a laughing Isshin and a lollipop in her mouth. Ichigo couldn't help smiling a bit when he saw Ran-Chan hug Gin and the little guy returned it, he had to admit, the two looked really cute together, but… Kurosaki couldn't forget, Gin sided with Aizen. Strangely he felt no anger at this thought, it confused him, "maybe I should just let those to be…" Ichigo murmured after Gin and Rangiku left to go off somewhere to play.

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"What are you planning Kisuke?" Isshin muttered as he stood outside of his home, talking to the shadows.

"Whatever do you mean Kurosaki-san?" Kisuke Urahara replied lightly.

"I can understand why you made Ichimaru a body, and I can understand why you sent those two, Ikkaku and Yumichika back, but I don't understand why you made a growing body for Toshiro and Kira. They don't need one, all they need is a regular faux body, not one that ages and defiantly not one that makes them look four years old!" Isshin said with a frown and a slight glare.

"Well, being 5 sure would make it easier for them to get close to little Ran-chan!" Urahara said smiling.

"Yeah, but you didn't need to make it so they would age, they're not going to stay for more then a few months, and even if they did, the original faux bodies you made for them would still be better!" Isshin commented, getting more serious.

"Isshin-san, are you suspecting me off foul play?" Urahara asked, laughing at his choice of words.

"Yoruichi has told me you've been doing strange things, like how you've somehow managed to make Aizen's body, which is supposed to evaporate appear, and your examining it, what the hell are you trying to do? Also, why do I keep feeling blasts of high reiatsu, they feel like arrancars, but they disappear in seconds, what's up with that? You're hiding something and I don't like it!" Isshin said, if he had his sword and was in shinigami state he would've pulled it out.

"Isshin-san, I don't know what you're talking about, I haven't felt a thing," He still held the same light smile on his face. Isshin scowled.

"You know sometimes Urahara, I don't know whether you're good or bad," Isshin Kurosaki grunted, turning away to walk back into his house.

"I'm not good or bad, I just do what I need to get what I want… some people would say I'm doing evil, but I say I'm doing science," Urahara answered lightly, and then he disappeared into the shadows, leaving Isshin to stand outside with a frown.

"Doing science… science my ass, what the hell are you planning, what's your plan? What do you need… what are you trying to do," Isshin mumbled under his breath. He looked into the sky and at the stars and walked inside, whatever was going on, he wouldn't like it, but Isshin wouldn't stop it. Whenever Kisuke was planning something no one ever tried to stop him, no matter what he was doing, even if it was bad.

Ichigo frowned as he saw his dad and Urahara talking, his dad didn't seem happy either. Not many things made his dad 'unhappy' like that, what was going on? It had been a week since the Rangiku incident and when he saw little Toshiro and Kira hanging around with Gin and Rangiku he knew something was up. As his thoughts drifted to other things, like how school was, and how Rukia was doing, something caught his eye and as he looked into the night sky he swore.

"Vasto Lord…" Hitsugaya breathed into the night, this was bad.

Erm, I know the whole 'Urahara, Isshin' thing was kind of confusing, but I'm sort've thinking as I write. Some things I've planned out, some things I haven't – and I didn't want this chapter to be too long.

I'll explain about what Urahara and Isshin were talking about next chapter, I'll also explain more about the outcome of the Winter War with Aizen and stuff like that in the next chapter to.

And I know you're probably getting tired of this but – damn… seriously my chapters are getting worse and worse. Yeah, I'm hard on myself.

ANYWAYS - thanks for reviewing, appreciate them.

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