Christmas Nightmare (Bleach Fanfic)

Christmas Shopping (Part 2)

"Not the… when was the first time we met? I mean…" Toshiro's two teal eyes suddenly went wide, as he was half way to taking another bite.

"I was there, Toshiro, when you first opened your eyes, and took a look at the world around you," Gin stated, suddenly causing Toshiro to pause, quite surprised. Gin watched as the crepe went down from the boy's mouth, as his mind wrapped around what was going on, almost as if her were trying to find another meaning, but couldn't.

He finally let out a chocked reply. "Yeah right. I died, froze to death, then came to soul society, unless you meant you were the first person I saw when I got here…"

"So says the person whose inner world , is a plain of ice," Gin stated softly, his hands folded now in his lap, and his leg no longer crossed.

"You're lying!" Toshiro suddenly pulled away, so that he could directly face the man, irritated that this would come up, of all things. "This is one of those games, isn't it! I don't need this Gin! Please!"

The tone of the adult suddenly turned sad, a true sadness written all over his voice. "There is a little old lady, in the Rukongai, who would refuse to lie to you. She would tell you, I brought you to her, as a newborn babe. She is also the one who named you."

"Oh… and what else would granny tell me?" Toshiro's tone was full of irritation, and he hadn't take n another bite yet.

Gin, suddenly tensed up at this, at gave him a weak smile. "The best way to put it, she doesn't deserve to be my mother. No, let me rephrase that, as she defiantly deserves to be a mother. I don't deserve to have her for my mother. She deserves better, but then, you have an idea why I say that. I have to say, the one good thing I've ever done, has left you with her."

"In other words, you're saying that you didn't want me, right…" the small boy stated, pulling back and shaking his head.

"No… I was trying to say, where I was something she never deserved, you were something that she deserved, and she was blessed to have you," the man stated, raising his head towards the sky, taking in the big holy wreathes.

"As if I am really anyone special," came the shaking of his head. "Though… would grandma be able to tell me who my mother is, or is that something you'll have to tell me?"

One of Gin's eyebrow's suddenly rose up. "No… I lied to her about your mother dying in child birth. I doubt that she'd… wait. Why are you even needing to ask who your mother is?"

Toshiro's nose wrinkled up, as if he was slightly disgusted. His voice was also chocking, as he held back "That question makes me think you don't know for some reason. You had an affair with another woman. That's why I'm what caused the rift between you. I'm the result of that affair. Well, aren't I?"

The man's lips suddenly pressed back, as a short, stifled laugh escaped his lips, then burst out. "God… that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. I'll blow a little theory in that little theory of yours. If Rangiku thought you were some child I had in an affair, there would be no way in hell she would be accepting of you as she is."

"Why do I think you're only telling me that, because you want me to have a positive outlook on this," the small taicho took another bite of his crepe, with vigor, then spoke around the bite in irritation. "Then she doesn't know about me, and you got me away before she would know about me, simply because it was your attempt to hide the affair."

He watched as Gin stated at him for a few minutes. The man then spoke up, after contemplating what the child had said. "Can I ask, why you didn't make the guess that Matsudo is your mother. The two of you are rather close and attached to each other, so I figured that she would have been your first guess."