I've decided to take a little break from Welcome Back, and post the one mentioned in chapter 27. I'm sorry if it sucks, but it's what you get. Those of you who are going to read it, on the off chance you do, please leave a review.

Disclaimer:I do not own Bleach in any way, shape or form. I do, however, own this fic, and if I catch you copying it, I'll kill you, and it will be very slow and painful.

"I'll see you,"Karin kissed him again, "in April." Karin kissed him goodbye, and fast-walked into her terminal. Karin turned around, and waved good-gye for the next four months.

Chad waved back, and stayed there for the next five minutes after she'd left.

Karin didn't dare look out the window; she'd been nauseous for a few days now. It felt as if she'd be greeting her breakfast sometime in the next thirty seconds, but it never came.

She neglected to think about that night about a week and a half before. Neither of them had bothered to talk about it, but t didn't sem worng at the time. It doesn't seem wrong now, come to think of it, but nothing had changed between them.

They were still their old goofy, height-challenged selves, and it would stay that way for a damn long time.

Karin leaned her head against the back of the seat, eyes closed. It was an eighteen hour flight, and she needed sleep.

Ichigo lifted the bag over his shoulder; and glared at his sister for not packing light. At least she came home with the same amount she left with, unlike his father who has to stop at every damn gift shop in the universe.

Karin lifted her electronics and another bag containging other random, but heavy, stuff.

"That's only about nine days of clothes." She stuck her tongue out at her brother, and they walked out to the SUV to get home.

Karin had just hauled her stuff up into her room, and then flopped down on her bed. No matter how much she loved staying at her boyfriends house, all the way across the goddamned Pacific, she would always miss her own bed. She'd had the same bedspread since she was nine. It had a bunch of dragons on it, and matching pilllowcases. Over the top of that, she had a red and gray afghan that her mom had made when she was about two.

Karin pulled out her phone, and called her boyfriend. It's about five in the morning back in Mexico, but that's what he gets when he tells her to call when she gets home.

"Hey. Did I wake you up?" Karin put it on speaker. "Well, I'm home now. How'd you entertain yourself while you were waiting for your's truely to call?" Karin smirked at the phone; he seemed like he wasn't going to sleep until she called, and he had his classes at nine.

"I stared at the TV until about nine lastnight, and then read a shitload of manga." (You don't hear him cuss in the anime, and I thought I'd change that.)

"Well, you get some sleep. You'll need it in a few hours." Karin layed her head on her pillow. "Love ya, bye." Karin shut her phone, and took her own advice.

"Karin, dinner!" Yuzu yelled through the bedroom door. They'd gotten seperate rooms about a year ago, when they got their driver's licenses. When she didn't get a reply, she opened the door. Karin was sprawled across the bed, still in her coat, sleeping the rest of the day away.

In the fridge her dinner goes...

Look, people, I know it's short, but I'm going to put the exciting part in the next chapter. I need your honest opinions on this. I'm sorry that I had to take a break from Welcome Back, but this popped in when nothing else would.

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