Negirau Atashinchi
~Night and Day~

After saying that, the Kurosaki twin turned and headed home, not much arguing the point with Hitsugaya Toshiro. Rukia also watched from her shingami form. The small female shingami then spoke up. "Hitsugaya Taicho... may I give you a piece of advice?"

"I don't know why you would, but go ahead an tell me," the white haired child spoke up, his eyes rather narrow.

"You said that you didn't care about what happens to you. You should though, know enough about the Kurosaki family to know that none of them would be pleased about their friends getting hurt," Rukia sighed.

"Your point is Kuchki?" Toshiro raised an eyebrow at her.

"If Ichigo was willing to go as far as he did to protect his baby sister, don't you think that Karin would also go that far?" Rukia commented.

"Unfortunately... I already figured that..." the boy stated.

"Then avoid saying you belittle your life in front of her. She's upset enough about other things as it is," the female stated.

Two teal eyes blinked, a large amount of innocence showing through. "I really hadn't thought that my words were..."

"Hey, taicho!" came the rather bubbly voice of a familiar fukutaicho. Matsumoto came forward and glomped her small taicho from behind. "Did you find the shingami person we've been looking for."

Hitsugaya Toshiro's face twisted up at first with a look of complete frustration. Irritability, he pushed the woman's arms away and sidled away from her. Glancing over, he saw Hinamori with a frustrated look on her face. "No..."

"Oh... to bad," the busty woman sighed.

"Yes. We just missed the shingami," Momo muttered. "I wanted to get this over with, so that we can forget this place."

"Forget... why?" Toshiro glanced up, a rather surprised look on his face. However, he received no answer.

"So... where are we each going to stay tonight?" Rangiku smiled. "We'll be stuck here for awhile. I think I'll go check up on Orihime-chan. You want to come with me, Hinamori?"

At that, the brown haired female blinked a couple of times. "I don't see the point in checking up on someone from the living world, when we have no reason anymore to have contact with them."

"You weren't... exactly involved that much, Hinamori Fukutaicho." Rukia spoke up. "Shingami aren't supposed to get involved with the living, but this was one of those times we ended up doings so."

"No... the situation wasn't normal," Toshiro stated.

"Well, since Ichigo knows I'm here, I'll go get my gigai and stay in his closet again," Kuchiki stated, heading off.

The other two females watched as the small taicho suddenly tensed up. "What did you say?"

"That I would be staying in Ichigo's closet. It makes a great room," Rukia stated, her face faltering.

"But..." there was a pause for a bit. He didn't say anything though, as Kuchiki disappeared.

"Taicho... are you going to stay on Orihime-chan's roof again?" Matsumoto asked.

"Hmm... no, I'm going to go sleep on Kurosaki's," the small boy muttered. "I can't believe those two are so stupid. Byakuya Taicho would have their hides if he knew."

"Are you sure there isn't another reason you're going?" Rangiku asked, which caused him to suddenly turn to her, his eyes wide. "You know... Karin-chan?"

At that, his eyes narrowed. "Matsumoto... don't go there. Don't put me with those two morons either." At that, he turned and left.

"Whose Karin-chan?" Hinamori asked, a bit of concern crossing her face.

"Oh... nobody really. I just like teasing him about it," the woman laughed, only to get an odd look from the other female.

M

The small taicho passed the night sleeping on the roof. He awoke as the sun was coming up, blinking a couple of times to rub the sleepiness out of his eyes. He could hear someone yelling. From the fact that it was a female voice, he figured it to be Kurosaki's other sister. Sitting up, he watched for the Kurosaki family members to leave for school.

Shrugging his shoulders, he popped his shoulders, then popped a piece of soul candy into his mouth. "Go find Matsumoto and go with her. Behave."

He then headed off, hoping on top of the rooftops, watching the two Kurosaki twins walking. Karin's sister seemed to be talking off her ear, and to be having a rather good mood. He watched carefully as they entered the middle school doors. He then hopped down, knowing that he wouldn't at all be seen, and saw the two sisters head over to the foot locker.

He saw the two sisters pull off their shoes into their own footlockers. He saw Karin pause as she put her hand in with her shoes, then turned to her sister. "Yuzu... head onto class. I'll catch up to you."

At that, she pulled out the letter, and began to read it as the small taicho stayed out of the way of the students passing through the hall so that his form, which was invisible to them, wouldn't be bumped into. He saw her hand suddenly scrunch up the piece of paper, and he decided to move a little bit closer. "What is that?"

At that, Karin spun around, a rather shocked look on her face. "Toshiro..." She suddenly felt him pluck the letter from her hand. In a whisper, she spoke up. "That really isn't any of your business."

The white haired boy's eyes scanned the letter quickly, only to become wide. His mouth opened slack like. "Why?"

"I don't know why," Karin whispered.

"Is the part about..." Toshiro blinked, slightly pale.

"What part?" Karin raised an eyebrow. "None of it is true Toshiro, though I don't know why you would be worried about it."

"Well... whose writing the letters?" came the young mans question.

"It's not really your business and not something that a shingami should worry about, particularly since you aren't part of the living world," the girl stated, going to put her shoes in. she closed the shoe locker, then headed towards the hall to get to her class, only to have a group of girls step in her way.

"Well, if it isn't the little gay girl, " the other seventh grader snapped out, which caused a flare of icy cold reiatsu to flare forward. "Oh, did the temperature drop because you're mad at us?"

"No... I think the temperature really did drop," one of the other girls stated.

"I am going to ignore you. Now, if you will please move so I can get to class," Karin sighed.

"We don't want you in our school," the girl stated.

Hitsugaya felt another urge to let his reiatsu suddenly flare out, then thought better of it. He went and crept over to the one girls shoes and untied them then retied them, with the Kurosaki twin watching from the corner of her eye. "Look... this is not your school."

"Most definitely not," Toshiro stated, quietly moving to the next person. Glancing up, he could see Karin's eyebrow twitch.

"Oh... so now your getting angry?" the girl chuckled.

"At you... no..." the bullied female stated, just as Toshiro went and retied the last pair off shoes.

"Oh, I am so sure," the girl stated, suddenly flipping her hair.

She then turned to walk away, only suddenly falling flat on her face. The other two girls started at this and fell backwards. Karin felt her eyebrow twitch, and then grabbed the shingami captain's arm, dragging him around the corner, her hands holding onto her school shoes. Getting to a place that was more private, she dropped down the shoes and slipped them on. "What the hell were you doing?"

"What do you mean? I untied their shoes, then tied them together," Toshiro stated, folding his arms as if the answer was obvious. The preteen girl's jaw dropped from shock because of his statement. He blinked a couple off times, then glanced at the floor, scratching his head. "I did something wrong... and very stupid, didn't I?"

"Yeah. You did. Let me rephrase my question though, as you did not answer it. Well, you answered it, but the fact is, most people would have not answered the question as it was asked, but what was implied," Karin let out a sigh. "Why did you do that to them?"

"They were picking on you," came the straight forward answer. Toshiro's eyes, which normally showed a level of maturity, suddenly had a large amount of innocence to them.

"Well..." The female closed her eyes. "Toshiro, didn't I tell you not to interfere?"

"Yes. But..." Toshiro paused. "No matter what I say isn't a good excuse, as I did not listen to what you said."

"Are you always like this?" Karin asked rather quickly.

The small taicho leaned up against the wall, his eyes narrowing and he glanced away from the girl. "You mean how I don't think like other people and end up walking into things because I can't read things. Depends on the situation."

"Your tone of voice changed right there," the small female stated, watching him as he turned to her, his eyes suddenly going wide.

"I don't have a split personality, if that is what you are thinking." However, he quickly went back to glancing away. "I'm sorry if I freaked you out. I only meant to come ask about your brother's soul reaper badge."

"Well, with what happened today, it is going to have to wait until after school," Karin began to walk away.

"Wait..." came the young taicho's voice. "Karin... I am sorry about what I did. Particularly if it goes and make things worse for you."

"I'm not mad at you," the girl stated. "I'm mad at my brother, my dad, those girls, the guys. Dad's got some secret and is a major reassessment to be around. Ichigo wants to leave home. Those girls are calling me things I'm not. The guys don't want to play soccer with me anymore."

"I don't get why," Toshiro stated, a bit of that unique naivety and innocence that was him.

"Because I'm a girl," Karin smirked.

"Then just kick a soccer ball at their heads like you did to me. Let them know that just because you're a girl, you're just as tough as them," Toshiro folded his arms. "From my experience, girls are better then most of the guys I know."

"Should... I be asking you if..." Karin closed her eyes, pausing a bit. "Toshiro... have you yet taken interest in girls?"

"Didn't I tell you yesterday that if a guy starts liking girls, they become perverts," the boy stated firmly.

"You've had... rather bad experiences with males and how they deal with females haven't you..." the girl sighed.

"I don't get what you mean by that," Toshiro sighed.

"Kicking soccer balls at guys head won't solve the problem I am having with them Toshiro," the girl stated. "They didn't notice I was a girl before, now they do. I'll try to meet up at Urahara's shop after school, and then I'll answer your question.