Rangiku thought that she had an idea of what Kira must have been thinking at that moment. On top of waking up in this pit of hell, to then be told that his comrades had a truce with someone who had hurt him so cruelly... Well, she knew how she'd felt when she'd first arrived and seen Gin. She doubted that he'd forget the feeling anytime soon either.

And she wasn't going to allow fighting to break out between them now. Not today. She couldn't lose another person who she cared about.

She swallowed when Kira asked that question, her face paling a little. Kira and Renji had been good friends, along with Hinamori. He wasn't going to take this well. "Renji," she said quietly. "I don't know how. I wasn't there. Myself and Gin and a woman called Tsubaki, part of our group here, were exploring beyond the walls when we felt it happen. We couldn't have got back fast enough to do anything even if we'd been at full strength." And she hated that that was true. It made her feel sick and helpless.