A/N Hello again everyone. I don't really have too much to say about this chapter other than it contains some implied and described character death. Don't like don't read. You have been warned. Oh yeah and by the way this takes place several weeks after the last chapter in the middle of the war.

Disclaimer: Bleach isn't mine.

Yet more rain splattered the sidewalk as Ichimaru raced down it. His feet splashed through puddles of, usually stained red with blood, rainwater. It had been raining almost the entire day during the battle, one of the last major ones. He leaped upward over the roof of a building at the end of an alleyway and made it onto a more main street.

Suddenly the air was torn by the scream of a girl who had found the body of her childhood friend and was crying his name the same way she had wailed for her former captain only months before.

Gin kept on running and passed by a black haired bespectacled boy on his knees staring at the two bloody bodies before him; a large Mexican boy who looked more like a man than a boy and a girl with orange hair, the one who could have reversed this. The boy kneeling on the ground stared at him with half dead looking eyes that didn't care that Gin was the enemy anymore he didn't care anything anymore not now that the only people who had ever cared for him at all were dead.

As he turned a corner Gin saw two more Shinigami men standing there, the orange haired substitute and a red head. The substitute was staring at the lifeless body of the girl both boys had been in love with. The substitute almost reached out and grabbed Gin to stop him, they still thought of him as the enemy after all but the red head stopped him.

Gin rounded the final corner and found the source of Matsumotto's, low enough to be missed by most, reiatsu. She was slumped against the wall eyes half closed, one arm was laid across her stomach and a wound. The other was limp on the ground next to her blood dripping down it.

Almost instantly Gin was at her side; his arm around her shoulders so she didn't need the wall anymore to support herself, "Rangiku…." He muttered, "Please… Please don't be dead…" He shook her very lightly.

Her eyes slid fully open wearily, "Gin…?" She murmured, "What are…?"

"Be quite.. Don't try to talk anymore…" Gin interrupted quietly speaking quickly with worry conquering his usual unconcerned tone. He looked at her again, "I'm sorry…" He spoke those words to her finally. That was the third time he had ever spoken words of apology to her, the first was when he left her in the Rukon, the second was when he had left for the Huecco Mundo.

"Don't say that…" She whispered, not being able to speak at a normal tone from the pain and her nearness to death, "Don't talk like we're about to be separated again, Gin," She tried to smile at him. She was fading fast and they both knew it, her body was already growing cold in his freezing arms.

Gin's eyes slid open revealing his piercing blue-green stare, "But I… I… Rangiku I love you…"

"I know… I know…" Matsumotto spoke even softer now, "I love you too Gin…" Mustering the last of her strength she reached up one hand and stroked his face, and moved slightly forward pressing her lips against his for a moment before falling backwards, limp.

"Rangiku…?" He asked quietly shaking her lightly again. She didn't respond, "Rangiku," Louder now, "Rangiku! Rangiku! Ran-chan!! Dammit come back! Come back…." He screamed. Gin's body was shaking as the rain fell down on both of them. His shoulders shook with sobs he wanted those tears of relief to come to his eyes but as always they never did. His love was dead… Dead because of this goddamn war. His thoughts changed.

"This is all his fault! If he hadn't wanted to conquer heaven you would never have… Died…" He laid her body gently back against the wall standing up and turning rage burning in his eyes.

"Aizen-taicho I'm going to kill you!"

--End Chapter--

A/N I feel a little bit evil for writing this… I wanted to see if I could actually write an effective death scene. How did I do? No flames please. Also no murdering me for having all those characters killed. I'm too young to die.

Lots of Love

Killerbunny