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Who: Izuru (sealship), Rangiku (leftagain).
What: Kira arrives, and Ran goes off to see him~. ♥
Where: Near the church.
When: Sometime today.

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[leftagain]

And she'd hurried. She'd hurried because this was important and if what Kira had said was true, then it was even more important.

We had just found Aizen-taichou's body.

Hearing that on the communicator had made her blood run cold. That meant he'd been taken from far before she was - before Gin was. Which was disconcerting enough in itself without Gin's eerie calm about the whole thing. The way to the church was all but ingrained in her mind now so it was easy to go there without concentrating on it, instead thinking on and worrying.

She'd thought she would have been overjoyed to see Kira in this place, but all it had brought was a keen sense of dread. It was bad enough that she'd never be able to cast off what she felt for Gin - even in light of his actions - but Kira didn't know and that was even worse.

It seemed far too long before she finally came to a stop in front of the other Shinigami, trying to retain something of a smile. "Kira-kun."

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Kira didn't know a whole lot, really, and it might have been too bad, might have been a little bit unfortunate, but he would have never guessed. How could he have, really, when his loyalties were so pinpointed to one cause, one purpose, and how could he, really, when that cause and purpose all tended to circle back to Ichimaru Gin, to the 3rd Division?

He didn't know anything. Very unfortunate, yes, and it really was too bad.

Bright eyes slid open at the sound of her voice, and a look of mild surprise shifted over previously drawn features as his vision fell and focused on her. He noted the smile, and it seemed like her smile, felt like her smile, but something was still a little bit off. Her nervousness wasn't hard to read, really, considering she had the terrible habit of being maybe a tiny bit obvious when she wasn't in her normally chipper mood. Part of Kira wondered if it was because Hitsugaya wasn't in Nuadoria with her, and the other part said, no, that's not it at all; you really have no idea, do you

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She inhaled now, slow - this was more strange than she'd thought, having to do this - and she wondered, idly - crazily, in a sense - which of their words would hold more weight with Kira, but... She already knew that answer.

Because it was the same for her.

"Well, I hadn't seen you in a while so I missed you, Kira-kun." She felt sick to her stomach even as she said it, but she kept the smile there as well as she could. "Either way, we should go talk. It's a long story, so maybe we should go sit in the house I got when I got here."

Her smile flickered a moment - it was, after all, another memory she'd prefer gone at the moment. She knew she was as transparent as glass, but that much didn't matter anymore. "Gin's right though, I think it's only the six of us here. No one else has said anything if they are, and I can't..." The frown deepened slightly. "Ah, this place does weird things to our powers, so you never know!" The cheerfulness was contrived, but part of her just wouldn't let her drop it.

She was nervous, and she hated it.

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The only thing Kira could really tell for sure about Rangiku was that she looked about fifteen seconds away from falling apart. Everything she said made enough sense, he supposed, but it wasn't right, either, because they weren't the words she wanted to say. There was something else she wasn't telling him -- something she was afraid to tell him, maybe, and she was masking her fear with sentences that went together, that flowed prettily enough, but that ultimately told him nothingKira had never seen her like this before, and he realized in that moment that he'd never been so unsettled before in his entire life