Title: Leave out all the rest

Disclaimer: Bleach belongs to Tute Kubo I am doing this for my own amusement and I do not gain anything by doing this…ok I my gain some good reviews and the satisfaction to see my favorite pairing in a story.

Pairings: Hitsugaya/Matsumoto is the main pairing of the story, but the story is also going to have some Ichigo/Rukia and...can't think of any other pairing, any suggestions?

Rating: I am not sure yet...but let's put it T .

Summary: That day was the first time he noticed Matsumoto, the day he noticed that he had been watching his fukutaichou for quite some time but he wasn't aware. Or, rather, he was in denial of all the things the woman made him feel.

Author's Note: This is a sort of sequel to 'The day she noticed him'; but the story can be read even if you haven't read the other one. The title was inspired by the song Leave out all the rest by Linking Park.

I want to thank Rachel Noelle (( THANK YOU!)) for helping me out with the story, not only correcting my mistakes but also because of her excellent fics that made me a HitsuMatsu fan-girl.

Now, here is the prologue of the story. Do not forget to review!! tell me if you like it!

Prologue

He sat there, with his knees against his chest. He was trying to look everywhere but the figure next to him. Why, oh, why had he done that? Why he had fallen into the trap that his heart and the damn woman had set for him?

The figure next to him stirred, Hitsugaya tensed up and held his breath until he was sure that his fukutaichou wasn't going to wake up. He couldn't take it anymore, he needed to leave the place before he finally gave in and his mind, just like his heart, broke definitely, leaving behind only a ghost of what and who he used to be.

"Gin…" Rangiku moved to her right side and put an arm when the figure of Gin, and now Hitsugaya's, used to be.

The young Captain stood up at an amazing speed and the temperature in the room dropped drastically. That name…the same name she keep repeating over and over

again while she was finding pleasure, while he was giving his whole being to her.

Inside him Hyourinmaru stirred worried at his wielder emotions. Hitsugaya was breathing hard his naked body was being lit by the silver light coming from the moon up in the sky of Soul Society. He had a lost look in his eyes and his chest hurt, it hurt so much that he couldn't think, couldn't breath. He felt suffocated and hopeless. Suddenly Hitsugaya's sight blurred and he felt something roll down his cheeks. With trembling hands he let his fingertips touch the skin on his cheeks. There he felt the wetness of…tears? Was he… crying?

With a lump in his throat and the desperation crawling to his entire being Hitsugaya started dressing, wanting more than anything to leave the place where a part of him had died.

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It was really late and Ichigo had just escaped another rampage from Kenpachi. That man was crazy and the less contact he had with the man the better. On his way to freedom from the eleventh division Captain he had stumbled across a drunken Ikkaku and Renji and a very amused Yumichika.

"We are going over Matsumoto's place…usually when they kick us from the bars she lets us go there for another round" said Ikkaku grabbing Ichigo and completely ignoring the boy's protests.

They turned the corner of Matsumoto's street when they saw someone exiting the blond woman's flat. The four men stopped, surprise evident in their eyes at the sight of the Tenth division Captain, the weather around them became suddenly incredible cold and

windy and Ichigo and Yumichika couldn't help but notice the Captain's attitude. So different from the one Yumichika was used to and the one Ichigo had met for a brief moment.

Apparently the young Captain didn't notice them because with a quick shuunpo he left the place, never looking back. There was a moment of silence between them before they made their way to Matsumoto's place.

Ichigo noticed the small flat was a real mess. There were bottles of Sake all over the place, each one of them empty. He was inspecting the place when a gasp from

Yumichika and a curse from Renji called his attention. They were at a small door and when Ichigo entered he could feel his cheeks heat up. Matsumoto Rangiku was on her back with a small sheet covering some parts of her, obviously, naked body.

"Out! All of you!" the firm voice coming from Yumichika surprise Ichigo but the poor boy obeyed; he wasn't a pervert after all, even if his eyes were glued to the figure of the woman just before Yumichika pulled them out of the room.

"Hey, can we just…?" asked Ikkaku with hope in his voice. The glare and lift in reiatsu coming from Yumichika shut the bald man up. "Gee, it was a simple suggestion; after all you aren't going to enjoy the view."

Yumichika closed the door and Ichigo could hear the sounds coming from them. He looked up at Renji and the red-head had a serious looked on his face that the representative shinigami had only seen on him when fighting. Ikkaku appeared then with four bottles on his hand. He put one in front of Renji and Ichigo; he took the other one and left the last one on an empty spot between himself and Renji.

"I don't drink. I'm underage." Said Ichigo. Ikkaku lifted a not existent eyebrow and eye Ichigo with indifference.

"Technically you are dead. Age isn't an issue for this kind of things." Ichigo looked at the bottle still hesitant to take the drink.

"Just do it, in that form it would be more difficult for you to get drunk" this time it was Renji, who was taking a sip from his own bottle.

Still doubtful Ichigo took the bottle and drank. The taste wasn't as strong as he thought it would be but he imagine that what Renji had said was true, maybe because he was in

his shinigami form the drink didn't affect him that much. Ichigo lifted his eyes from

the table when he saw a frowning Yumichika walking towards them. An uncomfortable silence formed between them, not even Ikkaku seemed comfortable with that situation. Yumichika took the bottle of Sake that Ikkaku had put for him and drank a long sip; Ikkaku was the first one to break the silence.

"So Matsumoto and Hitsugaya-taichou…just wait until Hisagi finds out…"

"No one must to know about this, Ikkaku." Said Yumichika glaring at his friend. "It would be a very ugly situation…"

"Especially for Toushirou." All of them turned to look at Ichigo who merely shrugged. "I may not know what you guys are talking about or how things work in here…hell I don't even know you very well…but Toushirou doesn't seem the kind of guy who sleeps with someone just to have fun."

They fell silent again; Yumichika sat on a chair with a hand on his forehead showing his concern.

"When Matsumoto wakes up we are going to tell her that she was drinking with us, right?" this time it was Renji who spoke and Yumichika's mouth lifted a

little. Tonight all of them seemed so…perceptive. At least they knew how bad this could get if they did something inappropriate.

"Yeah, it would be better if she thinks that she tried to do a striptease show for us. Again. " Said Ikkaku with a dreamy look on his face, almost as if he was remembering.

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Hitsugaya Toushirou lay on his futon in his grandmother place; he had woken up just after his grandmother left a cup of tea with some breakfast for him on the floor. He didn't feel like eating, or opening his eyes, or waking up to the world. The pain he had felt the night before was still there, making him feel like a broken soul. And on top of that he felt embarrassed for breaking down in front of his grandmother; for crying in her arms like a five-year-old boy.

"I'm so pathetic." He said out loud. His voice sounded husky and tired, the young taichou didn't recognize himself. He was not in the world he was so used to.

It was late in the afternoon when Hitsugaya decided to leave the bedroom; he was ready to leave the place when the voice of his grandmother called out at him.

"Are you going without saying good bye, Toushirou-chan?" Hitsugaya didn't bother to cringe or frown at the use of –chan in his name, firstly because she was the woman that had taken care of him since he arrived to Soul Society and secondly because he didn't have the strength or the will to do so.

"I'm sorry Granny, Good Bye."

"I didn't say you could go Toushirou," said the old woman with a firm voice full of authority that made Hitsugaya sigh in defeat. "Come here and sit. I am interested in knowing what happened to you."

"I don't …I don't want to talk about that, Granny. I have to go; my Division needs me right now."

"You weren't so worried about your division last night." Hitsugaya lifted his eyes and he found himself looking directly into his grandmother's . The old lady was looking at him with worry evident in her face. "You can't really blame me, can you, Toushirou? I can count on my hand how many times you have cried on my arms the way you did last night."

There was a long pause, followed by an uncomfortable silence while the tenth division Captain contemplated what he should said to his grandma.

"It's complicated."

"This has something to do with what happened to Momo-chan's Captain?" Hitsugaya opened his eyes in surprise at the mention of …that particular incident. Her grandmother gave him a small smile. "Or maybe…this has something to do with your little crush on that fukutaichou of yours?"

The way Hitsugaya reacted at the mention of his fukutaichou told the old woman all she needed to know. She frowned, not really knowing what to do. Of course she had known for a long time about his little Toushirou's crush on Rangiku-san. It was really hard not to notice. Maybe she was the only one who noticed so easily because apparently, Rangiku-san didn't have any idea and somehow had broken Toushirou's heart. The question here was what did she do to him to get him in that state?

Hitsugaya held the tears that wanted to escape again and breathed in and out. The pain was too overwhelming and he didn't know if he could take it any longer. A hand on his shoulder made him lift his eyes and he found himself looking at the woman he had got to called grandmother, the woman that had been like family to him. Probably the only woman that hadn't betrayed him…yet. 'I'm so pathetic… such a child…' And with those thoughts in mind he opened his mouth and started telling his grandmother what had happened since the very beginning.

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Ok, this was the prologue, next time is going to be part of the story that lead to the initial situation between Hitsugaya and Matsumoto.

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