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incandescens ([personal profile] incandescens) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2008-05-09 01:04 am

(May 9th) (Bleach / Phoenix Wright) Order In The Court: Part IX

Title: Order In The Court: Part IX
Day/Theme: 9. She was my first, she was my last, she was my friend until the end
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Rangiku, Gin, Mia, Godot
Rating: G


Godot raised his coffee mug. Not only did it waft the lovely aroma of coffee sweetly to his nostrils, but it also helped block out the rampant alcohol fumes coming from the blonde beauty in the witness box.

"Perhaps if we can go through it again?" he suggested.

Matsumoto Rangiku leaned forward, giving the whole courtroom an even more complete than usual view of her decolletage. "I know that Hitsugaya-taichou's just trying to protect my reputation, so of course he won't admit to it, but we were in bed together on the night in question. I was almost late getting to the meeting as it was. So it's totally impossible that he could have had anything to do with Aizen-taichou being murdered."

"He couldn't have crept out while you were asleep?" Mia asked.

"We didn't sleep," Matsumoto said, with a bump, jiggle, and wink.

"Madam," Godot said. "I appreciate that you are trying to shield your captain. But we have testimony from another witness that they spent the night with you, and they don't mention Captain Hitsugaya being in the bed as well."

Matsumoto blinked. She counted on her fingers. "Surely not," she said unconvincingly. "They've got to be wrong."

Godot leaned forward menacingly. "Then, madam, can you explain the fact that GIN LUVS RANGIKU is handwritten in ink on your lower belly?"

"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" Rangiku screamed, tossing her hair, her breasts, and her dignity out of the window.

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Ichimaru Gin was in the witness box.

"I put it to you," Mia said, "that you had a quarrel with Captain Aizen on the day in question. And while your testimony about Matsumoto may destroy Captain Hitsugaya's alibi, it also gives you an alibi for the date in question! Can you prove that you wrote GIN LUVS RANGIKU on that specific occasion?"

"Actually, I can," Gin said. He smirked. "I dated it."

Mia opened her mouth.

She shut it again.

"Do you normally date that sort of thing?" she finally asked.

"Objection!" Godot snapped. "My kitten --"

The glare froze his coffee mid-sip.

"-- Miss Fey, that is, is bringing in matters which have nothing to do with the matter in hand. The date has been established by examining the belly in question --"

"Who examined it?" Mia enquired coldly.

"Franziska von Karma," Godot said hastily. "And since it was written in water-soluble ink --"

"Scrubbing it off's half the fun," Gin observed.

"-- this establishes clearly that Matsumoto Rangiku spent the night with Ichimaru Gin, thus voiding any alibi she attempted to provide for Captain Hitsugaya," Godot overrode him loudly.

"But would Captain Ichimaru like to explain his earlier argument with Captain Aizen?" Mia asked.

"Objection!" Godot said. "This is not relevant to the case at the moment. As I'm sure Your Honour will agree," he remarked in Yamamoto's direction.

"Aww, I don't mind telling," Gin said. "It was those intruders, the ones that are still running round out there. I figured it was enough to give them a slap on the hand and throw them out. I guess Aizen disagreed, and seeing as he was my old Captain and all, he was always kind of hard on me when I made a mistake. Guess it's like that with old superiors, mm?"

Most of the prosecution and defense attorneys nodded.

"Speaking of which," Mia said, "has there been any word on these armed and dangerous intruders, Your Honour?"

Yamamoto checked one of the papers on his desk. "Three have been taken prisoner, and two are still at liberty. However, this court does not expect them to be a serious threat. Eleventh Division is in hot pursuit." He cleared his throat. "If the prosecution and defense have both finished cross-examining this witness?"

Godot and Mia both nodded.

"Very well. I call Hitsugaya Toushirou to the stand."


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Compilation Order in the Court post.