So how does everyone feel about the story so far? This is really written for my own gratification, because I'm a huge Karin fan and want her to be more involved in the story. That's why I love fanfics so much, you get the read the stories based on what you want to happen, but since its someone else writing , it can sill feel like a genuine part of the story XD Speaking of which I'm sorta changing the point of view in some of these chapters, so its more omniscient like the manga.

Just so everyone knows, I probably won't pair her with anyone. I might make her have a crush on someone, or something like that, but nothing really intense that leads to limes or anything, the T rating is for my horrible fucking language ;D I will end up hinting about other pairs, so if you don't like them just pretend its not there.

Bleach belongs to Kubo-sensei

Chapter 2

The Strawberry's Sister

Ichigo reluctantly headed down a familiar ladder to Urahara's underground training room which was now being used as a base of commands for the shinigami that had remained in Karakura town. The had killed Aizen, but its not like that meant they didn't get their asses kicked. Hard . It was almost dawn and the fighting had ceased hours ago, but everyone had been so busy that he really hadn't had time to catch up with what happened during the fights. He didn't even know if everyone was alive. Rukia had talked to him hours ago, she said pretty much everyone was hurt bad, but they were still alive. Ichigo cringed when he thought about how she said it like it wasn't like they were going to come out of this with everybody. Reaching the bottom, he glances around the training grounds at a large assortment of …buildings?. The appeared to be fairly larger than Urahara's shop, but seem to be of the same traditional Japanese design. There were 5 total single level buildings, and each had a different sign in front; Barracks, Hospital, Hospital Barracks, Holding Area, and Central Command. Ichigo shook his head in disbelief, Only Urahara would think to set up a miniature Seireitei in his basement.

Looking around he supposed he better head to the hospital first, he wasn't beaten up to badly, Inoue had healed him right after they killed Aizen. However, afterwards he and some of the other less battered shinigami ended up with there hands full, as it seemed every hollow out there assumed that even though they had just won, the shinigami would be to weak from fighting to be able to defend themselves. So Ichigo, Renji, Zaraki (like he would miss a fight), Yachiru, Hitsugaya, and almost all the Vaizards took the task of wiping out the masses of hollows that were invading Karakura town. The fighting was easy, it was just the sheer numbers that caused them to be injured more than usual, especially since most were of such low level that their power didn't even register to them, making it harder to sense all of them. He had went with Renji and Hitsugaya to fight. Renji wasn't hurt bad either, but Hitsugaya looked like hell. Renji had later told Ichigo how Rangiku was hurt really bad, and Ichigo understood why whenever Rukia would come by with an update for them Toshirou's face would pale when he saw her coming. He could only imagine what the poor kid was going through, having thought news of his lieutenants death would be coming at any minute. So Ichigo was relieved when the last time Rukia showed up it was with news that Matsumoto was awake. Ichigo told Hitsugaya to go see her and he would take care of the hollows that were left. Toshirou had shunpo'd away immediately. Ichigo couldn't help but laughing, and when Rukia asked him what was so funny, they go into a big debate over whether or not there was something going on between the icy taichou and his busty fuukutaichou. Suddenly very tempted to pick on a very short taichou , Ichigo picked up his pace heading toward the temporary squad 4 station, he was stopped by another midget calling for him.

"Oi , Ichigo!", Rukia called from the barracks as he was passing by. " Ichigo, Urahara wants to see all of us; Renji, Ishida, Inoue, Sado and I have been waiting forever for you. Urahara said he wouldn't tell us anything until you got there!" She looked annoyed, and Ichigo didn't have to wonder why, Urahara calling a meeting was never usually a good thing. She looked over at his wounds and said, " You can have Inoue heal those, they're not bad are they?"

" Well, I actually wanted to go check and see who's in the hospital and if everyone…"Ichigo trailed off, not really wanting to finish that sentence. Ichigo looked over to Rukia and she flashed him a rare smile. He smiled back, knowing that everyone must have made it. He breathed a sigh of relief, " Alright, lets go see Hat-n-clogs." He and Rukia made there way to the end of the hall of the Barracks, which, not surprisingly, looked exactly like the inside of Urahara shoten, except for being around 5 times as long and probably containing only living quarters. They reached the last door and opened to find a near exact copy of the living room in Urahara's shop. Realizing hat-n-clogs was never one to lack creativity, Ichigo figured the buildings must be some weird duplicates of the shop. Rukia sat down next to the enlarged round table that Urahara, Renji, Sado, Uryuu, and Inoue were already sitting at. Ichigo sat down between Urahara and Rukia and glared at the man.

"My, my, Kurosaki-kun, making such a scary face at me", Urahara chuckled, " You'd think I was up to something, how mean, especially after I went through such trouble to make sure all of your guy's friends and family were safe." Urahara let his words sink in. Everyone was staring at him, and he could see they were trying to think whether to thank him, or wait till after they heard the whole story. Noticing everyone seemed to make the latter choice, he cleared his throat and continued, " As I'm sure you know, several of your friends have developed high reiatsu levels from prolonged contact with you all, Even though nothing has manifested from them, they still have the ability to see Shinigami, and their power was strong enough to be easily picked out by me, and surely any Arrancar. So, when we moved Karakura town, I made sure I gather them all at my shop in the real one so I could keep and eye on them, and , in case the pillars fell, protect them from danger, as well as keeping them from wanting to help you."

" Wait just a damn minute," Ichigo interrupted, " Why would they think they even could help? You didn't tell them what was going on when you gathered them, did you?" Everyone at the table glanced nervously at Urahara.

"Of course not, Kurosaki kun," the shopkeeper answered, " When the town was moved, the binding kidou put everyone in it into a deep sleep and prevented them from waking up or being harmed by the immense spiritual pressure if Karakura started returning before the fighting was over." He didn't mention that the spell wasn't strong enough to bind everyone, but he was trying to avoid bringing that up for now, he valued his life. Apparently not very much, as he continued glancing around the table to be able to catch everyone's reaction., " So everything turned out fine, The towns have been safely switched back, and everyone is awake and going about their daily lives, and when your friends, and family…" he nodded to Ichigo, " ….woke up I explained about the whole shinigami thing and Winter War, and now they're upstairs waiting to see all of you!"

Urahara face dropped when he looked around the room. He was definitely NOT going to get any thank yous.

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A/N: that's all for now, I have to work tomorrow, but I'm really into this so hopefully I can get another chapter out by tomorrow. I know this is moving kind of slow, sorry, I take a long time to do shit XD also, Urahara's nickname for Karin in the first chapter is Minichigo= Mini Ichigo = mi-ni-chi-go. Just wanted o clarify X3 reviews are always welcomed!