'M BACK!~ My family went out to Kahana! Met paradise there! Nature~ animals~ snakes! Aaahhh! Heaven! Sorry couldn't update for a long time; I was busy with Mother Nature *gives a dreamy look*
Hope you guys like this chapter! I really do! No, I seriously do. Ah, whatever. I am just not confident with this chapter, but I hope you guys like it either way!
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He wants to kill me….

'Master he really wants to kill you. And not only that, he wants to rip your guts apart, tear open your chest, and feed the remaining to the crows.' Hyorinmaru made his beloved master aware of the disturbing situation.

'Yeah, I kinda figured that bit out. Thanks for the….. Descriptive explanation.'

'Oh, you did?' Hyorinmaru questioned, prudently, earning a look of annoyance from the 'inner Toshiro'. 'Sorry master, sorry.' He said, apologetically 'I just didn't think that you , the extremely icy, beautiful, yet serious *snicker* master would ever, by that I mean EVER, loose his calm over a matter of being handcuffed *snicker* to your crush-' he stopped, noticing the flame of annoyance leaking out of his short-tempered master. 'Master, stop increasing you blood pressure. I won't melt.'

'Haha. Very funny.'

'It is, isn't it? It does make sense.'
Toshiro was just about to talk back, when a certain orange haired shinigami broke in. "So, Toshiro. Do you mind explaining?"

Toshiro, sitting on his knees, his palm sweaty and clamp, shifted uncomfortably on the floor. He looked up at the orange haired Shinigami, or worse yet, Ichigo Kurosaki, who was staring at him, anger dancing about in his eyes, arms crossed.

'It's Hitsugaya-taicho to you.' He would have corrected, but the current menacing glare made him think twice before moving towards one step closer to death. He gave a tiny glance at Karin, who like him, was red, but she hardly seemed uncomfortable. But, an embarrassed Karin? THAT itself was magical.

Finding Ichigo's persistent glare really, really, really annoying, he shifted his gaze and looked at the room.
After being kidnapped, hit on the head, killed (again), he was dragged into the house by Ichigo, Karin tailing him. Next moment, he was flopped on the ground; Ichigo wanting answers, while Yuzu and Ishiin were having wild fantasies about things.

His flashback got disrupted by the strawberry "So, anyway, my CHIBI tichou"- he emphasized on the word 'chibi', rubbing it in- "what in the world are you doing, meeting my sister again, on top of that being handcuffed together?"

No answer.
What was he supposed to say?
Matsumoto, that idiot, did this?
Yes, he would have.
In fact he would have loved to because that definitely would have resulted to her death.
BUT.
That would have meant more paperwork for him, and that's not one of the best 1001 things.
In fact that was the worst.

Silence pervaded between the two, if it weren't for Ishiin and Yuzu constantly side commenting about their marriage.
'Sheesh, they should definitely get a life…'
'And you should get a girlfriend, you single minded master.' Hyorinmaru snickered.
'Go on. Continue teasing.'
'You sure?'
The inner version of Toshiro rolled his eyes.
"Allright. First of all- I love the way you get embarrassed when you see her!'
'Wha-?'
'Ta-ta-ta. My speech. Not yours. Secondly, why the heck can't you admit it?'
'Admit what?' Toshiro asked, pissed 'I don't have anything to admit.'
'Hnn. I am sure you don't. But she is your crush, isn't she? That's obvious.'
' She. Is. NOT.' He avered.
'C'mon! I know you have a lot of feelings for her! Don't tell me that those extremely weird dreams you have about her are just useless! Especially those ones. The ones where she-'
'Shut up! Stop lying! I never had such dreams!'
Toshiro's face abruptly turned red, causing Karin and Ichigo to look at him.

'Man, he looks cute.' Karin hastily thought, and realizing those awful words she thought, she blushed. Ichigo noticed it.
Not good.

"TOSHIRO." His voice was undoubtedly filled with semi suppressed anger "Again, let me ask- what were you doing with my sister? Being handcuffed together? In the night? In that position? And last, but not the least" Ichigo's eyebrows twitched "Why was the first two buttons open? Of her shirt?"

Hearing those cursed words, cursed because they were bound to kill Toshiro, the two perverts started day-dreaming.
"Yes~ Karin's got a boyfriend~"
"The sushi~ the marriage~"
"Shut up!" Ichigo sprang up, held the chair he was sitting on and picked it up with ease. He whirled the poor chair towards his father, who, despite being hit on the head, was still alive. In fact, despite him rolling towards the door, and hitting his head hard against the door, rolling out some more out, and hitting the streets, he was still alive.

"I…er… the button part… I am not sure. It…. It was just a mistake…. I guess."
"Oh? Is that so?" his voice dripped with understanding sweetness. Which definitely meant one thing- he was angry. Dead angry. So damn angry, that the word 'angry' itself was on the verge of extinction. "It was just a mistake, huh? A silly little mistake, after all, wasn't it?"
"Y-y-yes…." He felt his teeth chattering, as if he was frozen. Ironic. Him freezing. For Heaven's sake, he was supposed to be the freezer! Not the other way round!

"And the rest?" the ever so menacing voice asked.
"Um…." Did he just say 'um'! That was beneath him! Only extremely confused and/or love struck people say 'um'! He wasn't confused, or love struck for that matter!
'Aren't love struck, huh? That was a surprise.'
Toshiro ignored the Dragon's comment, so he answered "I don't know how to get rid of these." He said, raising his hand, allowing Ichigo to get a clear view of the heart filled handcuff. And, their hands knocked each other ever so slightly.

Now, Ichigo was enraged. Karin blushing was another matter entirely, but with Toshiro blushing? That was unforgivable! Ichigo held the tiny shinigami by his collar, and picked him up, his feet barely touching the ground. Toshiro tried to wriggle free, but Ichigo's grasp was a bit too stern. Toshiro loved his undying and faithful luck. Getting strangled twice a day was great.

"I AM GONNA PUMMEL YOU TO ICE!"
'Oh! Master! You are in DEEP trouble!' his faithful zanpakto chided, clearly enjoying the situation.
'Yeah, thanks. Aren't you a loyal Zanpakto?'
'Duh, master. I am aren't I?' he said 'Besides I love the way you behave! It's just HILARIOUS!'
Toshiro imagined a tall green haired man, probably in his forties, laughing, rolling on the floor and laughing more.
'Mater! You would have been laughing like me *laugh* if you ever saw your expression! I love teasing you about her! I would have labled you as 'gay' if you wouldn't blush around your crush!'
Toshiro blushed, and screamed "I *beep* don't have a crush on her!" Toshiro screamed out loudly, aiming to turn Ichigo deaf. He at last felt the result of Ichigo's grasp around his throat. He gasped, turning blue.

"What?" Ichigo bought his ear close to Toshiro's mouth, urging him to repeat. Hell, he had just spoken so damn loudly! What was he? Deaf? At this point, turning him deaf did not sound intimidating. Because if Ichigo did get deaf, then Toshiro would die getting strangled.

Toshiro grunted, and Ichigo finally loosened the grasp around the chibi-taicho's neck.
"What did you say?"
"I said that I don't have any freaking feelings for her!"

Ichigo kept silent, as the Ice-Captains words processed in his mind. Finally realizing, he abruptly left Toshiro's throat, resulting in him falling on the wooden floor with a 'hump!' Karin looked as bored as ever, so she did not even bother picking him up.

"Ow!" the Captain muttered silently, cursing under his breath. Toshiro looked at Ichigo, ready to argue, but the expression on the Shinigami's face stopped him. Toshiro had to admit- he had never seen anyone, not even Rangiku, put on an expression like that.

Ichigo was smiling, a bloody lot. There were pink flowers, popping out of nowhere, along with strawberries, rotating, and then disappearing. Toshiro wanted to puke. Bile forced itself through his throat.

"So, Karin." Ichigo asked, a bit serious "Who-"

'Oh no." Toshiro thought, suddenly expecting more paperwork on his desk, the next moment he entered Soul Society, along with a grand funeral, filled with pink petals. 'Please no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!'

"-Did that to you?"

Yep. Definitely more paperwork. But he kept quite. If luck was with him, Karin, or even better, Ichigo, would die in matter of a few seconds. How? Toshiro did not know. After all, there was a BIG 'if' before that sentence.

"Oh, these? You mean the handcuffs? Rangiku-san did this to us. Trying to make us up for our argument."
Toshiro shut his eyes, waiting for a miracle to happen..

Ichigo kept quiet. Too quiet for Karin's comfort. Karin very, very, very well knew what that silence meant- someone was about to die in a matter of few seconds. It was the same silence which had taken over the room when Ichgo mistook Jinta for kissing Karin. All Hell had broken loose then, so why couldn't it now?

Toshiro kept his eyes shut. Seeing that the room lacked any noise, he decided that Ichigo/Karin was dead. WOW. A miracle did happen! He slowly opened his eyes, relieved. As soon as he looked straight ahead, a human met him. An orange haired human.

Damn.

Next moment, the both of them were clasping the substitute Shinigami's waist, and preventing him to kill the poor lady, and then killing her again.

"I'll KILL HER! I'll go and freaking kill her!"
"Ici-nii! STOP!"
"Please, Kurosaki! I don't want any more paperwork!"

Somewhere far off, Rukia imagined Chappy howling (?) ominously (?).

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