Full summary: Karin is the only daughter of a leader of freedom fighters and the only woman in the freedom fighters. How can she live in the group consisted of young men of her age? Will she find love? Will her father let her find love among his men?
HitsuKarin Au, huge amounts of OCCness, especially from a certain character (you'll know who I mean once he makes his appearance)
The inspiration for this came from Rave Master where there is a group of freedom fighters with only one girl among them. Only that idea will be from Rave Master, the story is completely mine
So a Disclaimer for that: I don't own Rave Master.
Ichigo will be in this fic, but he is not Karin's brother, only one of the guys in freedom fighters. I'm not sure will Isshin be in this story at all. Probably not. So as you can guess from that, he isn't Karin's father.
Unlike my other story, 'Three things', this won't be told from anyone's point of view. Only closer looks on someone's feelings are the diary texts.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach
Karin was stomping across the secret village where the freedom fighters lived, angrier than ever seen. She was literally burning with anger. Every single guy knew to make path for her. That they had learned years ago.
Another good clue to avoid her was the fact she was wearing only a towel, water dripping from her midnight black hair that barely reached her tanned shoulders. When almost naked girl is stomping through a village someone is in deep shit.
Karin was 19, young, pretty and headstrong. Everyone in the village knew her well, to some she was like a sister, to some she was a friend and to surprisingly many she was a secret crush. Since, excluding Karin's father, the leader of freedom fighters, everybody was almost same age. The oldest was 25 and youngest 16. Everyone called Karin's father 'Dad' since he had raised all of them.
The boys were all orphans, some because of war, some because of deceases and some because they were just abandoned. Karin's father hated to see a crying child, so he had raised them all. For some odd reason, he had only found boys. Girls were usually adopted to be a pair of helping hands with the housework, something boys usually weren't able to do.
Karin finally reached the canteen, place where a certain duo usually hung out. That certain duo was the one in deep shit.
She slammed the door open and every single pair of eyes in the room was immediately fixated on her. There was another reason for the many crushed on her than the fact she was the only girl. She was in a good condition, since she was also one of the freedom fighters, and she was extremely well developed as a woman.
Several young men were looking for something to use to stop their noses from bleeding, some just didn't care.
Karin took a long look around the room, spotting a duo with bright colored heads. She glared at them and walked straight to the table to duo was sitting. Both were failing to hold their sniggering. The other people on the same table were also covering their grins with their hands.
A total of six men were sitting around the round table, five of them always in trouble and known for it, all of them grinning widely, and the last one in their group, the most silent one just staring at the approaching storming girl. He was the only one not grinning, but he was known for his control over his expressions, so inside his head he just might have been grinning as widely as the rest of the group.
All of the men had always been friends, mostly because of their similar attitude and tendency to get in trouble for being stupid. This didn't apply for the most silent one; he seemed to just follow the five around, always a little bored. But in the end he was the one who always saved the rest of the groups asses.
The biggest problem magnets were sitting closest to Karin. They had turned their chairs around to smirk at the girl.
On left was a carrot-top, Ichigo, shorter of the problem-duo, and also the one with shorter temper. Despite his looks and idiot smirk, he was always the brains behind their tricks. He was most likely the second smartest in the group.
He was wearing a typical out fit for him: loose blue jeans with a lot of pockets and chains, a wide belt, white t-shirt with a red print on it and a light blue jacket with a beige stripe around the chest. On the left side of the jacket was a black, skull-like print. He had blue sunglasses and black wrist bands as accessories.
Next to him was a bald man, Ikkaku. He was known for even shorter temper than Ichigo's, especially when someone was commenting his hair (or the lack of it). He always carried around a sword on his belt.
He was wearing a tight pair of black jeans and a tight white top, which embraced his muscular chest and stomach just perfectly. He had two red tattoos on the side of his each eye.
On other side was a blond man, Shinji. His hair was cut in a bob haircut, but because of some odd reason (maybe the shape of his face) it looked good on him. He was also a smart one in the group, but still lost to Ichigo. He also had a really creepy sense of humor.
He wasn't wearing his usual long grey coat but still had the newsboy hat on. He had a white t-shirt and a loose black tie, matching his black jeans. Although not seen, he also had a piercing in his tongue.
Next was a bit flamboyant and self-centered man, Yumichika. He too had a bob haircut, though many had said his earlier a bit longer hairstyle fit his black hair better. He had four feather-like things, two in his right eyelashes and two in right eyebrow. He was probably the most oddest of the group, always talking about how things must be done in a beautiful way.
He was wearing a pink (yes, pink) t-shirt with a frill on the front and a pair of white jeans.
Other man of the terrible duo was on the other side of Yumichika. He was known by his tribal tattoos all over his body which extent only Karin wasn't familiar with and bright red hair usually kept in a ponytail behind his head. He was the one usually executing Ichigo's bright ideas.
He was wearing loose gray pants with a huge red chain and a purple jacket with a white fur-like collar. Under it he had a white t-shirt with black writing on it. Around his neck he had a skull necklace and around his head was a purple bandanna with a red tiger in it.
The quietest person of the group was sitting on a windowsill behind the rest of the group. His teal eyes were half closed and he obviously knew the reason the rest of the men were grinning and found it childish. Which it probably was. His white gravity-defying hair swayed in the air flow from the open window. He was the shortest of the group, just a little bit taller than Karin.
He was wearing a simple white t-shirt and blue jeans with a long forest green coat hanging from his shoulders. Around his neck he had a necklace with a dragonhead-like silvery thing hanging from the almost blackened silver chain. His name was Toushiro.
Karin stopped in front of the table and placed her hands on her hips, hoping that the towel would not fall. She glared the two men with so much anger that warier men would have backed away. Not those two. They just kept grinning.
"You two! Give me back my clothes or I'll swear you'll face more painful death than you're able to imagine!" Karin commanded, causing the duo to burst out into an uncontrollable laughter. Some of the men in the canteen did the same, some decided that now was a good time to make the distance between themselves and Karin a lot longer.
"You have no proof it was us", Ichigo told between his giggles. Karin growled angrily.
"I have much proof it was you! You left a note, idiots!" she yelled, making Yumichika cover his ears. Karin was not known to be a quiet girl. She was just the opposite. If she didn't like someone, everybody in the village knew it.
Karin threw a note she had held in her fist to the table. It said 'Ichigo and Renji were here' in a bit unstable hand writing. Toushiro rolled his eyes.
"We have been framed! When have we ever done something like stealing some ones clothes?" Renji asked holding his stomach, causing a huge amount of snort from around the canteen.
"Give me back my clothes, NOW!" Karin said sternly, clearly not amused. Suddenly she felt a light tug on the towel. She quickly turned her head around to spot the youngest in their village, Jinta, who was a huge fan of the troublemakers in front of Karin.
Karin lifted her hand to grasp the towel, but was a little too late. It fell to the ground, causing an enormous amount of wolf-whistles as she stood naked in the canteen. She shut her eyes, teeth clenched together, hands in tight fists. Signs a smarter guy took as a cue to leave.
"You'll pay for this", she growled and spun around landing a strong punch on Ichigo's cheek. He practically flew from his chair, hitting the wall and falling unconscious to the floor. The canteen was suddenly very quiet and many of the watchers decided to get far, far away from the canteen. Jinta was the first one out.
Karin didn't care about it. She lifted her right feet from the round and moved the leg swiftly through the air, hitting Renji's face straight on. He flew from his chair to the opposite direction than Ichigo had flown.
Ikkaku, Yumichika, Shinji and Toushiro were all staring at the girl in front of them, eyes wide. Unfortunately said eyes leaved her face and moved a bit lower, which was something Karin didn't like.
She smiled darkly and cracked her knuckles.
"You're all so dead", she announced before jumping on the table. From there it was easy for her to kick Ikkaku in the shin, so hard he fell over, and hit Yumichika in the head with an elbow. His eyes rolled back to his head and he fell unconscious to the floor. Karin spun around, looking at Shinji over her shoulder and surprising him by kicking her leg back towards his face. Hitting her target (his nose) square in the middle she sent Shinji flying out of the window, past Toushiro.
Now Toushiro and Karin were the only (conscious) people in the canteen. Karin was glaring at him warningly, the only reason she hadn't attacked him was that she knew he usually wasn't a part of the group's idiot ideas.
Toushiro however was having some serious trouble to keep his eyes on Karin's face. After a long staring contest between the two, Toushiro's eyes moved down for an almost unnoticeable moment. Karin was (unfortunately for Toushiro) a sharp girl. She closed her eyes, steaming with anger, before she jumped from the table and hit Toushiro with a perfect mid-air roundhouse kick.
Toushiro just barely missed the wall and flew alongside it for few dozen meters, before hitting a huge stone. With a loud crack he fell to the ground, unconscious like the rest of the group.
Karin jumped to the edge on the window and out, walking calmly to the unconscious white-headed boy. Jinta had managed to steal the towel (in her head she was planning things Jinta certainly didn't want to know) so she needed something else to wear. Out of the boys she had knocked out Toushiro was the only one wearing a long coat.
"Sorry Toushiro, I have to borrow this. You can blame your idiot friends about this", she said taking the coat from Toushiro. She put her hands through the sleeves and had to roll them up a bit. Even though she was almost equal height with Toushiro, the boy had much longer legs and arms, indicating he was still going to grow.
Karin spun around and headed back towards her house. She was still angry, ready to beat up anyone who would come in her way. No one did, apparently they had heard Karin wasn't in a good mood. And every single guy in the village had once crossed ways with Karin when she wasn't in a good mood. It wasn't an encounter easy to forget.
Karin finally reached the small two story building she lived in with her father. The uppear floor was practically only an attic, but Karin loved it. The attic was also her room. She loved to sit on the windowsill and watch to stars.
Because neither Karin nor her father had time or interest to take care of the garden it had gotten pretty much out of hands. The grass was so long that it reached over Karin's ankles as she walked to the front door. There were also some bushes, but no one was sure if they were meant to be a decoration or a fence.
The only thing relatively beautiful in the garden was the old apple tree. It was not high, but wider than any tree in the village and always produced the best apples. Karin sometimes greeted the tree elder with a friendly pat. Not today. Today she was still angry.
Karin threw the front door open and stomped right to her room to put on some new clothes. His father wasn't at home, he was probably attacking a group of soldiers of the Kingdom of Hollowes led by Aizen. He had taken over the throne before the birth of Karin and whole her life she had been fighting alongside her father against Aizen and his groups.
Nowadays Karin was bored in the missions she got. Always just attacking food or weapon transportations. Only her father and the oldest men in the freedom fighters got real missions with real fights. Everyone from the group of idiots had been with a group attacking the soldiers at least once. Toushiro and Ichigo were the ones with most fights.
Karin hadn't been allowed to join for even a single time. To keep her frustration at bay her father let her lead the attacks against the wagons with food or weapons in them. Karin knew it was a show of trust but it still didn't stop her from feeling annoyed and underrated.
In her room Karin took the coat she had "borrowed" from Toushiro off and pulled some of her own clothes from the closet. She chose to wear dark red combat trousers with a tight black top. She quickly grabbed a new towel from her bathroom (she had refused to share one with her father so they had two).
Drying her dripping wet hair she walked to the small desk next to her bed pulling a journal and a pen from the top shelf. Throwing the now wet towel away she sat cross-legged to the bed opening her journal to continue writing it. The journal was full of her complaining about the trick the group of idiots had done to her.
She had a head-line for every single time she learned what not to do near them. One example was: "Do not wear a bikini top with strings tied behind back". Karin fisted her hands as she remembered what the boys had done.
She picked her pen and started to write about what she had learned this time. "Do not let clothes where the idiots can pick them when going to shower".
Soon Karin finished her writing and put the journal back to its place. Of course there were other things written in it than all of the teasing the guys had done. There was also many entries about her frustration of not getting real action, good memories from childhood, wondering and random scribbling. The diary was probably the only girly thing Karin had.
She laid down on the bed and let her gaze wander around the small room. The walls were made from dark wood, just like the whole house, and the furniture was pretty simple. She had only her bed, closet and the small desk next to her bed. On the other side of the room was a stand for her favorite weapons: two handguns and a long sword.
Mostly she used the sword like everyone else, but when fighting long range she had to use the two guns. Usually they didn't work very well since the bullets were pretty slow and most swords had a guard against them. She also had a bow, but it was only for hunting food.
Suddenly she heard the front door slam open and a booming laughter filled the cabin. Her father was home. She got up from the bed and walked to the stairs to peek downstairs if he was with anyone.
"Great job today Byakuya, we really showed them", her father laughing in his low voice. Karin only saw the back of the man, but she already knew who he was. He was the first person her father had adopted and thus the oldest in the village, Byakuya. He was a silent warrior with a cold gaze.
Karin had always been a bit wary when she was in the company of the young man. She had often trained with him and had learned he showed no mercy no matter who was the enemy.
"Karin! Come downstairs, I want to see my pretty daughter!" her father called and she shook off the uncomfortable feeling caused by the black haired man. She jogged the stairs down and around the corner to see her father sitting in the kitchen. A wide smile appeared on her face.
"Hi Dad! Did the trip go well?" she asked, causing another deafening howl of laughter from the man. He grinned devilishly and threw his sword to the wall of the living room. It swayed for a moment before sticking tightly to the wall.
Karin's father was quite a sight, only his looks sometimes scared his enemy. He wore the traditional battle outfit of the freedom fighters, a black kimono, with a white haori on top of it. Both the kimono and haori were ragged from the battles, but he didn't want to change it. He usually kept the upper part of the kimono open to show his muscular scar-covered chest.
He also had a scar on his face, running down the left side of his face. He wore an unnecessary eye patch over his right eye and sometimes had bells in his ridiculous looking hairstyle. Not this time, the mission had been a stealth mission. Though probably after the attack it wasn't a stealth mission anymore.
The leader of the freedom fighters didn't do stealth missions. He was the feared Zaraki Kenpachi.
"Beat those mummy's boys like nothing! I can't believe the level of the soldiers in Aizen groups. They suck!" he bellowed and laughed again. Karin grinned devilishly, habit she had learned from her father.
"But I had a few things I wanted to discuss with you. First, what are these clothes that were on the porch when I arrived?" Kenpachi asked, his laughter stopping but the devilish grin never leaving his face. Karin's grin however disappeared and was replaced by an angry scowl.
"That would be the doing of the idiots. The stole those clothes while I was in shower", Karin growled grabbing the clothes her father was holding. He raised one invisible eyebrow curiously.
"Would it have something to do with the fact six of the best men I got are laying in hospital beds?" he asked. Byakuya, who had moved to stand on Karin's side, looked really disapproving. He was used to discipline and good behavior, being the leader of operations so often. Unlike usually, he was wearing only the black kimono, not the white haori on top of it. It was because he hadn't been the leader of the mission.
"It certainly has. And one more will end up in the hospital once I get my hands on him", Karin told. In her mind she saw herself beating Jinta into a small pulp.
"Well, since we have cleared the two out of the three things I wanted to talk with you, we should move to the last and most serious business", Kenpachi told with a huge yawn. Byakuya tried not to look at his leader with a disapproving gaze.
"I've been thinking about sending you out on a true mission. You will be moving in pairs and Byakuya shall be the leader. He already picked the pair for you, judging by your skills. I think you know him pretty well. I'm just sad we have to break the team Candyheads up", he told and chuckled.
Karin however was listening sharply. She was going to get to go on a real mission. She could show her true skills.
"Team Candyheads? Who do you mean Dad?" she asked curiously. Her father often used odd names off regular pairs.
"Renji and Ichigo of course! You'll be paired with Ichigo and I think we should make Toushiro and Renji a pair", Zaraki told looking at Karin like she was stupid. Currently her expression might have looked like it.
She was staring at her father, mouth hanging open. She didn't believe her ears. There was one thing no one in their right mind would do and that was to break the pair of Ichigo and Renji. And even if they did, they should never, never, assign either of the boys to be Karin's pair. That was just downright stupid.
"I'm expecting you to be on the training grounds tomorrow at 7 a.m. so that we can practice working with these pairs before the mission", Byakuya told expressionlessly before exiting the house. Karin grimaced after him and judging by the change in his posture one would think he had seen it.
"So what was this stealing of your clothes? Did they really do it? Do you need me to beat them up for you?" Kenpachi asked as soon as Byakuya had disappeared. Karin shot an amused glance at her father and shook her head.
"No thanks, I can take care of myself", she told making her father burst out in another deafening laughter. It rang in their small house.
"You're a good girl Karin! Just remember that boys will always be boys", he laughed patting Karin's head with his huge hand as he stood up.
"Could you be so nice that you'd cook something good for your old man? I need to take a shower", he said over his shoulder at the bathroom door.
"You do need a shower, you smell terrible. And I can't cook anything", Karin told holding her nose. He looked at her confused.
"Then how do we usually get food? I remember eating here", he said scratching his chin. Karin chuckled and shook her head. Living with her father was really relaxed.
"Yumichika usually brings his cooking. But I guess now he can't since for a certain reason he's sleeping in the hospital", Karin told scratching the back of her head embarrassedly. She hadn't cared a bit about the fact that Yumichika provided the father and daughter their meals when she knocked him out.
"You're right! Next time someone steals your clothes don't send our chef to hospital, okay?" Kenpachi asked and Karin nodded agreeing with her father. She was getting hungry and Yumichika was a good cook.
"I'll go to get something from the canteen! They always have some leftovers", Karin suggested. Her father nodded.
"You do that. I'll take my shower", he said closing the bathroom door behind him. Karin turned her head towards the front door and suppressed a sigh. It was her fault they didn't have food so she should be the one getting something.
She grabbed her black hoodie from the couch in the living room and put on her black boots before opening the front door. The sun had already set and it was starting to get cool. Karin lifted her head to gaze the trees around her. The long warm summer was coming to an end, the few maple trees' leaves were already starting to turn yellow.
Karin sighed and pulled the hoodie tighter around her. She started to jog towards the canteen, hoping that there still was someone there to let her have some of the food. The way to canteen was pretty quiet, most of the guys either sleeping or training on the other side of the village.
Karin reached the canteen just as the last person working there this week was coming out. Karin sped up and managed to catch him before he closed the door. A little bit out of breath she explained her reason of coming and the young man went inside and returned with a big container full of food. Karin thanked the man who just told her smiling that it wasn't a big deal.
Karin waved at the young man for last time before she turned to head back home. It was almost time for new moon, so it was pretty dark. Karin didn't fear the darkness, but it made her feel uneasy. She had been raised to fight against human and monsters (Aizen army consisted both) and she knew that monsters loved to move in the darkness.
She turned to the path leading to her house when she heard a crack behind her. She spun around holding her hand without container in fist in front of her face cursing that she had left her sword home. She relaxed a bit when she saw the familiar white hair emerge from the darkness.
"Toushiro, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the hospital?" Karin asked moving the container in front of her holding it with both of her hands. The teal eyes young man sat on the rock next to the path.
"They wanted all of us to sleep there because of slight concussions and bruised faces in Ichigo's and Renji's cases, but I don't like to sleep in the hospital. The beds are too hard", he said staring at Karin, face blank. "I sneaked out".
"Okay, that explains the reason you're not in hospital, but why are you here? You live on the other side of the village, don't you? And aren't you cold?" Karin asked glancing at the young man. He was only wearing the white t-shirt and grey jeans. Karin herself was shivering because of the cold despite her hoodie.
"Not really. I like the coolness. Summer was too hot", Toushiro said lifting his eyes to stare at the stars above. Karin followed his gaze and tried to spot her favorite star. It wasn't the brightest or the easiest to find. But it was Karin's star.
One time when her dad had gotten sentimental (meaning he was really drunk) he had told her how her mother, who died giving birth to Karin, had told that the star would be Karin's lucky star. Since that day every time she looked at the night sky she tried to spot her star.
The star was close to the moon with three brighter stars in a triangle around it. Because of the brightness of the three surrounding stars Karin's star was almost invisible to the bare eye.
After spotting the star Karin gave it a small smile before turning to look back at Toshiro. He was staring at her curiously. Karin raised her eyebrow, daring him to ask something. He shook his head quickly.
"I'm here to get my coat back. I know you took it, Shuuhei told me. He saw everything according to his words", Toushiro said emphasizing the word everything. Karin knew what Shuuhei had meant when he said so and added his name on the list of those who needed a beating.
"Follow me, I think it's somewhere in my room", Karin sighed and Toushiro stood up from the rock. They walked in silence, not feeling the need to break it with unnecessary talking.
Soon they reached the small cottage where Karin lived. She slammed the door open like she usually did (they broke doors pretty quickly with both the father and daughter slamming them) and yelled: "I'M HOME!"
"GREAT! DID YOU GET THE FOOD?" her father yelled back from the living room. There was a good reason the cottage was build so far from other buildings. Karin and her father were the two loudest people living in the village and when you put loud and loud under the same roof you get an unending uproar.
"IN THE KITCHEN!" Karin yelled. Toushiro had already covered his ears with his hands. Everyone in the village was accustomed to the communication ways of the father and daughter.
"Great, I was starving", Kenpachi said entering the kitchen. Karin had just placed the container on the kitchen table. The leader of the freedom fighters was wearing only a towel around his waist with usually pointy most gravity-defying hair in the world was now hanging flat on his shoulders. Toushiro couldn't help but wonder how on earth he made it stick up like it usually did.
"Hello Toushiro. What are you doing in here? Escorting Karin home?" Kenpachi asked staring at the white-haired young man with a look which told how ridiculous he thought the last option was.
"Hi Dad. I'm just here to pick up my coat. She borrowed it earlier today", Toushiro said trying to sound as normal as possible. Kenpachi wasn't fooled. He leaned closer with his usual devilish grin.
"So you're one of the kiddies who stole the clothes of my daughter, eh? Don't you boys know to respect a lady?" he asked smiling dangerously. Toushiro took a step backwards, starting to sweat. Karin snorted to the idea of her being a lady. She might be a woman, and a very womanish woman by her development, but no one would ever call her a lady.
"It wasn't my idea!" Toushiro said making Karin laugh. She loved how her father was able to make the guys act like they were five again. She left Toushiro to be grilled by her father and run the stairs up to her room to look for the coat she had borrowed.
Karin's room was a room where non guy had visited (excluding her father of course). Even though she had always been a close friend to many guys they had always remained downstairs. Karin didn't know it, but many guys wished they'd once be invited to her room.
She quickly grabbed Toushiro's coat from her room and hurried downstairs. Toushiro had his back pressed against the wall and he was warily glancing at the huge man in front of him. No one could ever tell what his devilish grins meant.
"Here's your coat!" Karin exclaimed throwing the green cloth over to Toushiro. He turned to look a little too late and the coat fell over his face. He quickly pulled it off and folded over his arm.
"Next time try to stop those idiots. You seem to be the only sensible person within them", Karin said solemnly and Toushiro nodded. Both of them knew that even if the white-haired youngster tried to stop his friends they probably wouldn't do so.
"Good night", Toushiro said over his shoulder as he exited the cottage. Karin waved a hand after him, Kenpachi only grunted something unintelligent. Toushiro closed the door and disappeared to the dark night.
"You'd better go to sleep, tomorrow you'll have your last training before a real mission", Kenpachi told glancing at his daughter from the corner of his eye. She was standing next to the chair he had sat down hands behind her back with a bit dreamy expression. She turned towards him with a big smile.
"Yup, that's a good idea. And thanks for letting me finally go! I'll show you it was not a mistake!" Karin exclaimed pumping her fist into the air, grinning widely. Kenpachi grinned back at her, inwardly proud of his daughter.
"Good night Dad!" Karin said and a quickly pecked the cheek of her father. He ruffled her hair and they grinned at each other with almost identical grins.
Karin left the kitchen quickly, jumping the stairs up two at a time. Kenpachi shook his head, amused by the girl's excitement. The love for battle was something she had inherited from him.
Kenpachi stood up and with a final glance out of the window to the moon he went to get some sleep himself.
The morning came in an usual way in the village. Instead of a quiet morning the day in the village of freedom fighters began with either Renji's or Ichigo's screaming after which the duo raced through the village, angry one chasing the laughing one.
So was the morning of Karin's first real mission. A very manly scream (can you sense the sarcasm?) came from Ichigo as Renji somehow managed to get him to inhale chili powder through his nose. Everyone in the village started to slowly wake up as the duo ran through the village, trying to avoid any trees, rocks and people.
Karin got up, completely awake and ready to get the training started with. She put on her training outfit (very loose black pants and a black top with a belt for her guns and sword tied to her back) before running downstairs to get some breakfast. She heard her father's snoring from his room and chuckled. Zaraki Kenpachi was the only one in the village who didn't wake up because of the yelling of Renji and Ichigo.
Karin quickly chewed down two sandwiches and drank a glass of apple juice throwing the dirty dishes to the table next to the sink. The pile there was starting to get too big to handle, since neither she nor her father ever did any housework. Occasionally someone came to visit and pitied them cleaning up a bit.
Before leaving the house Karin checked her image from her reflection in the window. Her hair was open since it was short enough not to bother her while it was open. Satisfied with her looks she opened the door and walked out.
She closed her eyes enjoying the warmth of the morning sun on her face. She walked to the old apple tree giving it a pat and a friendly smile as she walked by. As soon as she was out her yard (as soon as the grass started to be shorter) she started to jog slowly to get her muscles warm.
When she arrived at the training field she noticed almost everyone had already arrived. The attack parties were always consisted of six men and a leader. Byakuya was standing in the middle of the field, wearing his kimono and the haori indicating the fact he was the commander today, at least for their group.
The three other people on the field were Toushiro, Ikkaku and Yumichika. All of them were wearing similar training outfit as the one Karin was wearing. Only differences were with the weapons.
Ikkaku had his usual sword on his waist and a huge Chinese monk's spade tied to his back. Karin wasn't sure how he managed to use such a huge weapon since he never used it in the training field.
Ikkaku had a shorter sword with which looked like a sickle with four blades and a bag for throwing knives over his shoulder. Yumichika had the best aim in the whole village.
Toushiro only had one weapon, his sword which was tied to his back with a green sash. A metallic chain was connected to the end of the hilt of the sword. It was custom made in their village so the chain was able to extend huge amounts. It was said that the sword had another special ability but Karin didn't know more about it.
None of the guys had any guns with them, which told how unusual it was to use them.
Byakuya turned to look at Karin as she slowly approached the group. He gave her a short nod before returning to his original position. Karin suppressed a smile, knowing who they were waiting for.
Only minutes later the bright haired men ran towards the field. They were late and they knew it. Both stopped in front of Byakuya trying to gather their breaths.
Ichigo had his both swords with him. Both of them were black, a normal katana tied to his waist and a kitchen knife –like huge sword in his back. Karin had heard he liked to use them both, rather the kitchen knife –like though.
Renji had only one sword like Toushiro. The sword didn't look like a traditional sword though, it had six segments which were connected to each other by stretchable thread. It was useful in as a long-range weapon.
Byakuya glared coldly at the two guys, who only panted and lowered their heads. No one said anything and after a moment Byakuya waved his hand gesturing that the group had to line up. They moved to the pairs they were assigned to be in and stood in a neat line in front of Byakuya.
"Our mission tonight will be to attack the enemy-group west from the village of Inuzuri. There are fewer of us, but they won't be waiting for anyone to attack so we have the upper hand. I expected everyone to be able to make it out alive. Now we'll practice with the pair you'll be paired with this evening so that you'll know each other better", he told and everyone rolled their eyes. Like they would need to learn each other better.
"For warm up you'll be wrestling. One of you will go to the ground and lay on their back while the other sits on top of them. Then the one laying on their back will try to get the other off them and get into a reversed situation. Of course the other one will fight back", the black haired young man commanded.
Karin looked at Ichigo, trying to think of a way to beat him as they removed their weapons. They would just be in the way when wrestling.
At the beginning Karin was paired up with Jinta in their martial art practices, but he stood no change against her. So later she had been a pair of the guys closer to her size and skills, since it was more rational to make the pairs that way.
That was the reason Karin was usually paired with Toushiro. The white-haired youngster shot a pitying gaze at Ichigo. He had no idea how strong and sly Karin could be.
Ichigo smirked at Karin. "Would you like to go first, miss Karin?" he said gesturing towards the ground. Ikkaku and Renji snickered.
"Whatever", Karin told with a shrug. She laid on her back on the ground, knees bent so that she would be able to use her legs. Ichigo sat on her lap and wrapped his fingers around Karin's wrists waiting for the sign to start.
"Begin!" Byakuya commanded and Ichigo tightened the hold of Karin's wrists. Karin was however faster and managed to free her left wrist from Ichigo. She grabbed his right arm moving her left foot to seize Ichigo's left ankle's movement.
With another quick move she pulled her other wrist free and hit tried to grab Ichigo's other arm. He moved the arm out of her reach, but that was just something she had been waiting for. She lifted her hip with help of her left leg and pressing herself close to Ichigo rolled them around. Now she was sitting in between of Ichigo's legs, holding his hand on top of his chest.
Quickly she grabbed the other hand too and slid her right leg over his left one, pressing his thigh with her knee, making it impossible for him to move his other leg. Before he was able to move the leg again after Karin had moved her leg over Ichigo's she flung the other leg over the boy's leg too and was sitting on top of the orange-head.
Ichigo started to struggle to get her off of him, but Karin made it harder by moving to sit on top of his chest, seizing his hands over his head.
"You lose Ichigo", she told him. The man tried to struggle, but he had to admit Karin knew her stuff. He of course had the upper hand because of his size compared to hers and soon they were rolling around the training field trying to tire each other out.
"That's enough, now we'll move on to other things", Byakuya announced as Ichigo managed to get on top of Karin again. She grunted annoyedly. This meant she had lost. Ichigo stood up with a wide grin on his face, indicating he was thinking about the same thing.
He was a gentleman enough to help Karin up though.
I really like how this chapter turned out to be. The wrestling in the end is a straight copy from what we did in my practice today, I'm just not sure if it's written clearly enough. Hopefully you understood at least some of the things I was trying to describe.
This is my first AU story, so tell me what you think! I really like reviews!
I tried to make it written in a different way from my other story 'Three Things' so that I wouldn't end up making kind of a sequel to the first story. I hope you like it.
Hugs to everyone! Please review!
~Vilu