It was two days after the shingami had battled the espada and (sort of) won. Karin Kurosaki was in her kitchen washing dishes in front of the window, looking into her backyard, ignoring Yuzu's constant chit chat, and focusing her attention on the 6 Shingami training outside. The Shingami did not know what she was watching was them, for they did not know she could see them or scence there tremendous amounts of spiritual power. She wasn't really surprised to see them, she had seen their fight earlier (or bits and pieces ) and understood why they were there, she just couldn't figure out why Ichigo hadn't introduced her to them, she even knew most of their names, the bald one was ikkaku, the prettyboy with the weird feathers was yumichika, the red head with the tattoos was Renji, the only girl with the large bust was matumoto,and there was rukia of course, and then there was one that particuly caught her attention, the so called captain, Toushiro hitsugaya . but, yuzu,… yuzu couldn't see them, and because she was such a worry wart , Karin decided, when she had known what they were , she wasn't gonna tell her, and she didn't want to . She liked having the knowledge that she was the only one (other than her brother) in her family that could see them; it made her feel, special.
She was watching Matumoto yanking Renji's ponytail for some reason when she heard her brother's footsteps coming down the hallway.She turned around just in time to here and see Yuzu's squeal of excitement, rushing over to hug her brother then see hercome around the corner. Karin despised everything about Orihime, everything that circulated around one point, her blunt stupidity.And it wasn't that she was the center of half of ichigo's attention, it was how the soul society could actually think she had natural ability. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, when she opened her eyes she continued staring out side, this time focusing on Toushiro, who was sitting upon a tree branch eating an onigiri ( Karin had made some last night ) and watching matumoto and Renji's constant bickering he glanced up, and Karin felt there gazes connect . Toushiro cocked his head and smiled, Karin smiled back and lifted her hand in greeting, and Toushiro did the same smiling back. "Whatcha starin at? Eh?" came her brother's voice by her side "what do you see?" "I, see a couple of trees." "Really, I see 6 people, training, Ichigo" "ah." "Well? Can I meet them?" "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt. You know, 'cause you can see em" "yeah…" Ichigo headed towards the backdoor "well, come on, let's go." Karin dropped the dish into the sink dried her hands off and hurried to her brothers side. She looked back to see yuzu and Orihime chatting. She heard the back door creak and looked to see her brother holding the door open. She smiled, scooting under his arm and onto the sun baked patio and into the hot summer sun, down the steps and onto the concrete all the shingami froze as Karin scanned the yard, all except Toushiro, who hoped down from the tree and walked a couple steps forward "Ichigo, who's this?" "This, is my little sister, Karin, she can see you." The shingami's all relaxed, most of them smiling at her, and Ichigo continued, "Karin, has the same powers I do, and she's a Hollow magnet, Karin, this is, --" "ep! Lemme think" she pointed to the red head "Renji" the prettyboy "yumichika" the baldy "ikkaku" the strawberry blond "matumoto" she pointed lastly to the snowy captain "and Captain Toushiro hitsugaya"
