Please don't kill me I know it's been forever since I updated .
But anyway, it's finally here c:
Please excuse my sorry excuse for proofreading T^T
Any mistakes you catch would be greatly appreciated.
"Karin got attacked by a hollow. She had lost conscious for a few seconds and saw the phoenix from her dream again. She said that the phoenix told her to go to you, Kisuke."
"Hmm, I see."
Everyone gathered in Orihime's small room to avoid prying eyes.
Ichigo glanced at his sister on Orihime's bed. His face was full of concern and worry. For all he knew, she could be about to join him in the world of shinigamis. It wasn't exactly a bad life, but it wasn't one that he wanted Karin to have.
"We may have to turn Karin into a shinigami," Urahara finally spoke.
This caused a chorus of "huhs?" and "why?"
Ichigo stood up with his fists clenched and shouted, "No way in hell!" The answer 'no' was written clearly written across his face.
"Calm down Ichigo. It isn't particularly surprising considering the circumstances," Ishida spoke, pushing up his glasses.
"Ishida is right. Karin's spiritual pressure has grown a lot. This was bound to happen sooner or later," Yoruichi spoke, twitching her tail back and forth.
"Until we can do anything about it, Karin will have to wear this." Urahara picked up a chain bracelet. To anyone, it would seem like a pointless piece of jewelry. But if you knew Urahara, it was something way more.
"This will constrict her spiritual pressure, keeping it at bay. Since it's much like Ichigo's own, it will probably be difficult to control as she is human right now."
"But lots of humans of spiritual pressure and never end up being shinigamis!" Ichigo blurted out.
"Ichigo, if Karin is anything like you, she needs to become a shinigami. Look at how massive your spiritual pressure is. She will attract too many hollows and she wouldn't be able to defend herself," Rukia spoke firmly while placing her hand on his shoulder in an attempt to calm him down.
"I think Karin-chan will be fine. She is a Kurosaki after all," Orihime said with a smile.
"Orihime-chan is right. Karin is a Kurosaki," Isshin spoke with a grin. "She'll be fine! She does take after me you know."
"That's not exactly a good thing," Ichigo muttered.
"Oh Masaki! Why is our only son so cruel to us. Why!?" he cried dramatically. There was never a time when he wasn't dramatic.
"Knock knock!" The other not-passed out Kurosaki twin had opened the door ever so slightly, peeking her head into the room. "Why is everyone in here?" She asked, coming into the room completely and shutting the wooden door.
"Oh hello Yuzu-san!" Orihime greeted.
"Hello Orihime-chan! Erm- what's wrong with Karin? Is she ok?" Yuzu asked, her voice filling with concern as she walked over to the sleeping Karin.
"Oh she's fine. Just got a little dizzy from lack of oxygen. It is quite dense up here," Urahara lied easily. No one would ever understand that man. He could tell a lie right of the top of his hat. It would make anyone easily suspicious of him.
As if people weren't already suspicious with him. The best thing to do when it came Urahara was to never trust him and never get on his bad side.
"Ah okay. I'll go make some hot-chocolate for when she wakes up!" Yuzu said briskly sliding out the door.
"Ughh." The raven-haired Kurosaki was finally waking up. "Karin? Karin? Are you okay? Ichigo asked, immediately making his way towards her and standing over her.
"Wha-?" Her eyes fluttered open.
"Oh why do I feel like someone's kicking me in the head?" she groaned, clutching her head.
"I feel like that everyday!" Matsumoto chuckled.
At this Karin sat up and glared at her. "I'm pretty sure this isn't what a hang-over feels like!" she snapped.
"Ughh." Karin clutched her head again. "I hate hollows. All of them!" she declared angrily.
Fuck hollows. It just had to throw me against a rock and try to eat me. Why would a hollow appear here, out of all places!? And why did it have to give me such a fucking pounding headache.
"Here ya go!" Urahara handed Karin the chain bracelet. "This will keep the hollows away."
Karin eyed the trinket suspiciously. All of Urahara's items were suspicious.
With a shrug, she decided to take the chance and put it on. Hopefully she didn't explode into a million tiny pieces.
"Karin-channn, is my beautiful daughter okay?" Isshin said, popping up out of no where. He had a talent for that.
"Go away!" she snapped, punching him in the face.
"Masaki! Our girl still continues to punch even in her weakest moments!"
"I'm not weak!" she shouted, making her headache worse.
What kind of parent is supposed to be happy that their child punches them?
A delusional one.
"Oh, Urahara-san!" Matsumoto shouted, hurriedly walking down the hall to catch up to him.
"Hm?" He turned around with Yoruichi on top of his hat. I bet that feline was pretty damn comfortable up there. Urahara's hat was pretty soft all things considered.
"Did you put in the extra adjustments to the bracelet?" Matsumoto asked with a starry look in her eyes.
"Yep! It should go well." Urahara chuckled evilly from behind his fan. "Thank you Urahara-san!"
"It was no trouble. Besides, it's been painful to watch those two fight."
"Yep! And now, with this my captain should be happy on vacation! And maybe he'll stop doing paperwork!"
"Doesn't that mean he'll have you do it?" Yoruichi said skeptically.
"I'm far too busy for paperwork! I'm going out for a drink! Bye Yoruichi-chan, Urahara-san!" The busty woman quickly disappeared to go get her sake.
Did that woman ever go a day without drinking?
"Kisuke, what did you do?" Yoruichi asked suspiciously.
"Oh nothing!" He said, looking up at his hat. Yoruichi leaned over the side and frowned at him. It was obvious he was up to something. He was always up to something. Always.
"Hmph, you shouldn't meddle in other people's business."
"Yoruichi-san, if anything I'm helping them."
"If you screw up I'm not covering for you."
"Nyah, it'll be fine!"
"Mommy! That man's cat talked!" A little child who looked to be nearly 5 tugged on his mother's shirt. "Oh sweetheart, cats don't talk."
"But that man and the cat were talking!" The mother frowned, annoyed. She turned around to see what her child was talking out.
"Sweetheart, there's no one there," she said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. She put her phone back to her ear and started speaking about business again. Quite a businesswoman she was.
"Hm?" The child glanced around the hallway confused. He was almost certain he had seen a man in a striped hat with a cat on top.
"That was close."
"Hmph, you should be more aware of your surroundings. You're gonna get us both caught."
"Yoruichi-san, you're the one who talked."
"I do have claws you know."
Humming could be heard down the hall. Yuzu Kurosaki hummed to herself as she fixed hot chocolate in the public kitchen. Another reason she loved the Ski-Resort. You were allowed to use the public kitchen as long as you cleaned up your mess. They would charge you extra if you didn't.
Yuzu pulled out a bag of marshmallows from one of the cabinets above and set it on the counter as she waited for the ding of the microwave.
She frowned to herself as she glanced at the dishes in the sick. They were the usual coffee cups. A few were "fancy" and a few more were a bit decorative like the occasional snowmen cups.
I'll do the dishes when I come back. It's the least I can do for the chiefs who work here.
Yuzu had made good friends with the head chief who owned a small restaurant upstairs. He had even let her use the restaurant kitchen to make some food. Yuzu much preferred the restaurant kitchen since it was cleaner and had better appliances.
The kurosaki twin helped the restaurant in her free time since they were understaffed. She had made good friends with the chiefs and she had also learned that they were the ones who were forced to clean up the messes that some people didn't take care of.
Since then, she had made sure to clean up the public kitchen whenever she made something.
Ding.
"Yuzu-chan!"
"Hm?"
She looked up to find the busty Matsumoto standing there excitedly as she pulled two plastic cups from the microwave.
"Let's go spy on the captain and Karin!"
Yuzu gasped and her eyes widened with surprise.
"Are they making up?" Yuzu said, getting as excited as Matsumoto.
"Let's go find out!" she said with glee. The excited lieutenant grabbed Yuzu's arm and pulled her out of the kitchen.
"But the marshmallows!" Yuzu cried out, looking at the bag mournfully. She tried desperately to keep the hot-chocolate from sloshing over into the floor.
"Shh!" Matsumoto shushed Yuzu as she crouched by Orihime's door with a glass in her ear. Yuzu closed her mouth, deciding to ask the question later.
What's gotten Matsumoto so riled up about this? And where did she get these glasses in the first place?
"Mind if I join you?"
The two eavesdroppers turned around to find the evil Urahara and his side kick Yoruichi. Or was it the other way around? Was Urahara Yoruichi's side kick?
Matsumoto motioned with her hands for the two to join them. The duo had came prepared, already having their glasses with them. Yoruichi squeezed in between Matsumoto and Yuzu while Urahara leaned over them, still standing. They brought their glasses to their ears, continuing to eavesdrop.
It wasn't particularly hard to hear what was going on, considering Karin could be loud.
"Sorry."
"Huh?" Karin looked at the shinigami captain with surprise. It wasn't every day that Toshiro Hitsugaya apologized.
"Why?" It wasn't that Karin didn't like him apologizing, but she was confused as to why he apologized.
"Sorry I didn't get there in time."
"It's not your fault. It's not like you knew that a hollow was gonna pop up nearby."
The two stared at each other in uncomfortable silence. After a few minutes or so, Hitsugaya made his way towards the door.
"Wait!" Karin blurted out. Toshiro turned around, surprised.
"I thought you were mad at me."
"I was..." She trailed off. It was strange. An hour ago, she would've pushed him out the door and slammed it in his face. But now she didn't feel as angry. It was as if her anger had disappeared. All that was left was longing. She longed talk to Toshiro again and be friends with him again.
"Was? What changed your mind?" Toshiro asked skeptically, raising an eyebrow.
"I was mad because..." Karin clutched the covered tightly.
"Because you left!" she nearly shouted.
Toshiro stood there as seconds ticked by. He was caught off guard, not expecting Karin to finally tell him why she was mad. He had half-expected her to stay mad forever.
"I'm shinigami captain. You can't expect me to stay in the human world forever."
"That's not it! You didn't at least say goodbye! You just disappeared for two years! And I even sensed your reiatsu once after about a year but you didn't stop by or anything. You didn't even say hi to Grandma Haru!"
Toshiro opened his mouth, then he closed it again. He then paced back and forth, unsure what to say.
"Say something dammit!" Karin shouted. She didn't like this. He didn't answer her and now he was pacing.
This was a bad idea. I should've just kept my mouth shut.
Karin mentally smacked herself in the head.
She sighed and stared down at the blanket in her hands.
Suddenly she heard crashing outside her door and muffled whispering. This finally got Hitsugaya's attention and he stopped pacing for a moment. He glanced at the door as the noise began to quiet down.
"Kisuke be quiet!" Yoruichi hissed.
"I'm not doing anything!" he said innocently.
"Yes you are!"
"Hush!" Matsumoto whispered a little too loudly.
Urahara's glass slipped through his fingers and landed on the floor with a crash, narrowly avoiding Yoruichi and Matsumoto.
"Dammit Kisuke!" Yoruichi snapped. A panicked look was plastered onto Yuzu's face and she was unsure what to do. It took all off Yoruichi's willpower to not punch Urahara.
"Way to go butter fingers!" Matsumoto glared at the clogged culprit.
It was a miracle that the group didn't jump up and sprint away at that moment for the fear of being caught.
After a couple of seconds of hushed arguing, they realized that making even more of a ruckus would probably get them all caught so they quieted down and stood still. They didn't even dare breathe.
"What was that?" Karin muttered to herself.
"Probably just some idiot breaking something," Toshiro sighed.
"I'm sorry." He finally said softly.
"What?" Karin looked up at him with surprise again. That was twice he had apologized.
"I'm sorry that I left without saying goodbye. I honestly thought you wouldn't care."
"Baka! Of course I would've cared! You're my friend." Karin looked away, her face heating up.
Three times he apologized. Three apologies from Toshiro Hitsugaya in one day? Surely hell was freezing over by now.
The two were left in awkward silence again. Toshiro stood there, unsure if he should leave or not. He figured that was probably best to leave Karin alone for awhile so he stared towards the door.
"Erm, Toshiro?"
He looked up, his hand resting on the doorknob. "What?"
"I'm sorry to. I know I shouldn't be mad at you. It was a stupid reason."
Once again, Toshiro was caught off-guard again. But this time he quickly recovered. He was getting used to the surprises that Karin seemed to be full of.
"It's nothing." He gave a small rare tiny smile.
This made Karin blush even deeper. As if it wasn't already embarrassing enough. She hated these kinds of moments.
While she wasn't the type to sweep things under the rug, she still hated apologizing. Especially since when people apologized she felt obligated to apologize as well. Unless it was totally their fault for being a jerkwad. In that case she felt like beating them up.
"O-okay! You've made your point! You can go now Toshiro!" Karin yelled, throwing a nearby red velvet pillow again.
The shinigami captain caught it with ease as always and threw it onto Karin's bed.
"That's Hitsugaya-taicho to you." He said, briskly opening the door.
He nor Karin were prepared for what was on the other side of the door.
There sat four guilty eavesdroppers.
And there stood an annoyed tenth squad captain.
"MATSUMOTO!" Toshiro and Karin shouted, in sync. They always blamed the tenth squad lieutenant first. Of course the other three were just as guilty but surely this was all Rangiku's plan?
"Hitsugaya-taicho! I see you and Karin-chan have made up!" Urahara grinned, whipping out his fan.
"GET OUT OF HERE YOU PERVERTED SHOPKEEPER!" Karin shouted.
"This is your fault Kisuke! You got us caught!" Yoruichi glared.
"I didn't force him to open the door..."
"Karin-chan, I brought your hot-chocolate! I'll leave it here!" Yuzu said innocently, placing the hot drink on top of the mini-fridge nearby the door and sliding out of the room.
"YUZU GET YOUR HIND-END BACK HERE!" Karin shouted.
"I'm glad your feeling better Karin-chan! I'll come by later!" Rangiku shouted, waving to the girl before running away to escape the wrath of her captain.
"I'll tell Ichigo you're feeling well!" Urahara said as he ran off with a final wave of his fan with Yoruichi not too far behind giving Hitsugaya peace signs as she ran down the hall.
"GET BACK HERE! HOW DARE YOU EAVESDROP ON ME! I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS FOR THIS!" Karin shouted, frustrated that she was bedridden. Any other time she would've jumped up right away and chased after them but right now it would only make her headache worse. It was already almost a migraine.
Toshiro sighed as he stood in the doorway, watching the culprits escape down the hall.
"GET BACK HERE DAMMIT!" Karin gave on final shout before giving up.
Well, I finally finished this. And they finally made up ^-^
Anyway I hope this brought the story back on track with the whole HitsuKar thing.