Five Years Later
"Toshiro?" Karin asked looking at the shinigami in front of her with the white hair and the captain's haori. He looked older than he did five years ago and he looked a little taller than her.
She had glimpsed him over the past five years and they'd wave or say hi but that was the extent of her contact with him. She hadn't really talked to him, not in five years, not since the soccer game he helped her win when she was twelve.
He looked at her and tilted his head to the side, "Oh, Karin, what are you doing out this late?" he asked curiously.
She paused, because she hadn't expected him to ask. 'Shit, what should I tell him?' Karin thought.
'You could always tell the truth, but if you decide not to you better think of something quickly of it will look like you're lieing. Though you are I don't think you want him to know.'her zanpakuto answered completely amused by the situation.
Karin felt like smacking her zanpakuto. This was not a funny situation. 'To you it's not.' Karin rolled her eyes.
They both knew that she couldn't tell why she was really out here this late, because since she became a shinigami, she and Urahara had decided to keep her transformation a secret. It would make sure no one in the soul society knew she had transformed since she couldn't help in the Winter War and there was no imediate danger now.
"I was just out for a walk, because my dad was giving me a headache." It wasn't a lie since he had been irritating her and that was what she had told Yuzu and her dad. "The question is why are you here, Toshiro?"
"Oh," he scratched the back of his head, "Well, I was heading over to talk to,:" he stopped before he said the name not knowing how much she knew. "Someone." he looked around.
"Why?" she asked, she knew who he was going to go see. Glad the conversation was off of her she allowed herself to be curious as to why the soul society sent someone. She thought she had been handleing the hollows pretty well by herself.
"It's about the hollows that have been showing up here. The soul society wants to know what's happening so they sent me here to moniter the situation." he said looking around agian; like he was in a hurry.
"Is there anyone else here?" she asked feeling around the town for other soul reaper's reiatsu. She had found them before he could answer here.
"Yeah there is. My Matsumoto-fukutaicho, the sixth Abarai-fukutaicho, third seat Madarame, and fifth seat Ayasegawa." Toshiro answered.
"How long will you guys be staying?" Karin asked hoping it wouldn't be too long.
She wasn't going to be able to get in her shinigami form while avoiding all of them and her brother and Rukia, who still hadn't left. Rukia was the reason that she already had to completely mask her reiatsu while fighting hollows.
He shrugged, he didn't seem like he was that concerned. "No idea." he looked around for the third time and then said, "Well, I've got to go to that meeting now." Toshiro finished.
Karin nodded to him and he was gone in a flash. 'Guess I won't be training today with all the shinigami around there. I might as well head home early. Yuzu will be happy at least.'
'That makes one of us. Damn I was really looking forward to it. Stupid shinigami are ruining everything.'
Karin grinned at her zanpakuto antics. She was never going to hear the end of this especially after her zanpakuto realizes that it also means no hollow hunting until they leave.
'Oh, I've realized all right. Good for nothing shinigami keep messing with my fun.' her zanpakuto grumbled and the night started to heat up.