Christmas Nightmare (Bleach Fanfic)

Heartache

Rin's voice chimed out from the two hell butterflies, echoing as it did so. "Attention! Attention! Ichimaru Gin is escaping from the cell! All shingami assemble!"

Both of the two highest ranked members of the tenth division gave each other startled looks, their eyes showing the fact that they felt that their trust was yet again betrayed. Matsumoto narrowed her eyes at the small taicho, and nodded her head at him. "It is a matter of putting personal feelings aside, taicho… so don't worry about me. I figured, if he ever betrayed me again, I would personally kill him."

"Rangiku… with the fact that he has been hollowfied, you wouldn't stand a chance at all," came the small white haired taicho's frustrated response. "And you can't count on him not wishing to harm you, like what he did when he tried to kill Hinamori Fukutaicho. I know that you are at a captain's level, disincluding the fact of bankai, but still… I spoke to him… he doesn't care!"

"Taicho… that is even more of a reason that I need to take care of him, so please… let me do this," Rangiku glared at her small taicho as he stood in her way.

"I refuse to let you do this on your own, we don't need to lose you!" Toshiro's turquoise teal eyes had desperation to them.

Matsumoto gave him a weak smile. "Don't worry, I didn't plan on doing that…"

At that, Hitsugaya stepped aside, and allowed her to shunpoo away, allowing her to take the lead as he followed her to where they were in truth going to go. As the last place Gin had been was the jail cell, the best place to begin to look for him, or clues as to where he had gone, was to go to that place. That was the way the tenth division had always worked, even before Toshiro had become captains.

A soft snow was falling as they hurried along, and Matsumoto couldn't help but comment on this. "This isn't your rietsu causing this… does it have something to do with this mess?"

"Most likely, as I can tell when it is natural, and not natural, or so I would like to think. It was bothering me to a great extent of the matter," the boy muttered, suddenly shunpooing next to Matsumoto so that he could speak to her easier.

"So, there is the possibility that we are dealing with a hollow with ice powers. It spreads further than your storm, taicho… well you be fine?" the woman asked suddenly.

"It might be spread farther, but it is also softer. Nothing is icing over, and none of the snow is sticking, even though it has been going on for a few minutes," came his response. "Of course, I could be wrong… this is just a surmise. Matsumoto-san… please be prepared for something you might not want to know."

"I already know that," came the stern sigh. "I already told you, you don't need to worry about me, didn't I?"

It was at that point that they arrived at the jail area, and moved to where Gin's cell was, going from the outside, which confused Matsumoto. Toshiro glanced over, saw her confused face, and commented on why he had picked this route.

"From experience of my own powers, if the person were inside, the storm would have been contained inside that building. Yet it is outside, meaning that someone broke Ichimaru out from the outside. I assume that it wasn't him, as there is the fact that I see no point in assuming otherwise, as his powers were sealed by Yamamoto, and we wouldn't have this freak smelly storm if it weren't for someone showing up."

"Smart as always… though smelly isn't something I would expect you to use,"

"Fine, odorous…" the small taicho sighed, as they came to stand outside of the huge hole that was now a part of the building. Staring out at him was Byakuya and Renji, both with dark facial expressions, not to mention that their auras were filled with killing intent.