Who: Hisagi Shuuhei (
shoohay) & Matsumoto Rangiku (
leftagain)
What: Shuuhei goes to pick up Rangiku after her 'fight' with Gin.
Where: The fountain.
When: Immediately after
this.
It wasn't any sort of wound that kept her sitting on the edge of the fountain, motionless but for the draw of breath and an occasional uncomfortable shift - at least, not any physical ones.
And now the others were angry with her - rightly so - and Shuuhei was coming to get her so all she could do was sit and feel useless.
She'd attacked her first friend - the man that had saved her life, made the years pass more easily with a birthday - given her a purpose.
It hurt. It hurt a lot.
She wasn't able to save Hanatarou. She hadn't been able to do anything, really - and now Gin's blood - how little of it had gotten to her - was flecked, a small amount visible on white and skin.
He hadn't retaliated.
As she sat, Rangiku dropped her face into her hands and wept.