AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my first Toshiro X Karin FanFic, so please let me know what you think.
Toshiro sat on the Kurosaki roof, gazing up at the sky.
Suddenly he heard someone climbing up on the roof and was about to yell for Matsumoto leave him alone when he realized that it was one of Ichigo's sisters. The raven-haired one he'd helped to win the soccer match. She raised her eyebrows at him in minor surprise before shrugging to herself and sitting down beside him. They shared the comfortable silence as the clouds began to cover the Sun.
After a while, without turning her head, Karin spoke: "You here to work again?"
He waited for a while and she didn't pry, so he just nodded quietly. Closing his eyes, he lay down and asked. "Does Ichigo know that you know?" He didn't need to say what, she knew he meant her knowledge of Soul Reapers and Soul Society. She shook her head, "Dad knows though."
He turned to look at her as she lay down beside him, the back of her hand on her forehead as he raised his eyebrows at her and she raised one back at him. "What, did you really think I didn't know about him being an ex-soul reaper? After I figured out he could see the spirits too, I confronted him about it. Though I have to admit, I didn't think that old goof-ball was even remotely capable of being Captain of the Tenth Squad like you are now."
A small smile crept onto Toshiro's lips but it disappeared a second later. He sat up, turning his head towards the sudden appearance of spirit power. He noticed she sensed it too because she was looking towards the same direction.
"A huge hollow," she murmured before looking down and watched as Ichigo leapt out of his window, free of his gigai. Toshiro felt an increase of spirit energy from the same direction and left his gigai as well.
He was about to leap onto the neighboring roof when a firm hand suddenly grabbed his wrist and he turned around, his face expressionless. Karin's eyes met his and he suppressed a gasp when he realized how dark and beautiful they looked now.
"Toshiro, look after my brother, okay?" They both strong yet reckless the orange-haired male was and Toshiro nodded before leaping into the air. And this time, he took an entire 10, yes 10 seconds to suppress the smile which found itself on his face when he heard her last sentence.
"And if you come back with even a single bruise, I'll never let you play soccer with me again."
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Thank you so much for reading. Constructive criticism is well appreciated.
