My Childhood Friend, Who Died Young, Became My Guardian Spirit

Matsumoto Rangiku is seventeen, a high school girl who works part-time as a fashion model. Her favorite food is dried persimmons, and she can't stand men who talk too much. She also once had a squinty-eyed childhood friend.

Yes, once.

Because on her thirteenth birthday, he suddenly vanished without a word and was never heard from again

"...That's harsh. I'm still right here, you know."

Hearing that familiar Kyoto accent beside her, Rangiku glared irritably at the guy who had left without a word and now, having reappeared as a ghost, was leisurely floating beside her with his hands tucked away as he ate a dried persimmon.

"I just couldn't leave you all alone, so I came back to be Rangiku's guardian spirit."

"..."

"Gin is the most selfish idiot ever."

"Yeah."

Ichimaru Gin opened his pale blue eyes and cheerfully accepted her reproach.

"After all, Rangiku wants to stay with me forever, too."

*

"...Those who call love beautiful don't understand love. Those who call love ugly only think they understand it."

With a few drops of blood still splashed across his face, he narrowed his eyes and smiled at her as he said this.

"So, Rangiku, which kind do you think I am?"

A few things to know before reading:

An old-school childhood-friends pairing from Bleach

Ichimaru Gin × Matsumoto Rangiku

Reincarnation in a modern AU. Basically, a ghostly guy(?) × a current high school girl, going about their daily lives

A snake-like man who seems like a fox × a cat-like woman

The Soul Society's true warrior of pure love

This is a sudden idea I had, so it'll basically be a short-to-medium-length story

A self-indulgent labor of love, written to satisfy my own fandom cravings

These two are just too good together (sobs)

Quietly hugging myself at the bottom of this very old fandom pit jpg.

Theme: If tomorrow you became a snake and started devouring people, then used that mouth that devours people to cry out that you love me, could I still say I love you just as I do today?