A/N: I don't own Bleach;
All I have is my creative mind
We meet again – HITSUKARIN
There are always threes sides to a story…. HERS, HIS, and what really happen
We are still in the flashback…
Now enjoy
Chapter 10: A battle fought and Siblings face each other
A wager worth fighting all out for…
Ichigo stands on the training ground, his mouth drops as he sees Karin yell to Hitsugaya saying, 'Bring it on Snowball!!!', even though he is thoroughly amused by her affectionate name for the man, he is feeling uneasy with the sound of Hyourinmaru clashing with her katana.
'CRACK'
Karin stands hard in place as Hitsugaya strikes, on her face is a teasing grin as she brings her foot up and kicks him in the chest sending him across the training grounds heading into a wall saying, 'you are not easily going to win this one !!' .
Ichigo's face lights up.
He is impressed thinking, 'Damn!! ... lit' Sis has some skills!!'
He jerks over to see Toushirou smirking at Karin as he breaks in air stopping just short of the wall teasing saying, 'Kurosaki, if you think it is worth having you are going to have to earn it.'
She attacks her moves are fluid as she strikes saying, 'You just make sure you are ready to give me what I would have earned!'
She jumps in air sending her katana down towards his head only to be blocked and thrown down to the ground landing on her hand then springing back to her feet, he looks at her saying, 'I will gladly give you what you earned, but you will earn it!'
She laughs as she charges him again.
Rukia looks to Urahara saying, 'What are they talking about?'
Urahara laughs saying, 'it seems they made a wager on their fight.'
Rukia looks over to Karin saying, 'What!! .. He is a Taicho and she is still human, how could she think she can defeat him?'
Ururu laughs as she looks to Ichigo, whose attention she now has, then to Rukia saying, 'Kuchiki San, Hitsugaya Kun is here in the human world and has a limiter on so he can only use a quarter of his power, and when he is training with Karin Chan he always uses a quarter of that.'
Ichigo looks at her then to Karin saying, 'What … he has been training with her?'
Ururu looks at him, then turns back to watch Hitsugaya and Karin saying, 'Yes, that is their morning date, they train.'
Yoruichi looks over to them, her voice is serious saying, 'this is different, in order for us to see how powerful she really is he will have continuously flux his power levels to meet hers.'
Sado looks to her saying, 'isn't that a little dangerous?'
Keeping her eyes on the battle, Yoruichi says, 'Yes it is, but he knows the importance of this test.'
Inoune looks to Yoruichi saying, 'Yoruichi Sama, are you saying Karin Chan can actually hurt Hitsugaya Taicho?'
Yoruichi turns and looks at her and the others saying, 'She is very powerful, so yes she can.'
Matsumoto looks to Hitsugaya then to Karin saying, 'Does she know?'
Urahara steps up saying, 'No.'
He looks at them, his face is serious as he says, 'if she did know, she would not fight all out and we would not have the information needed to finish my calculations.'
Ichigo eyes stays focused on Karin, as he says, 'Ururu, what is the wager she is fighting so hard to win?'
Ururu's eyes are also focused on the two battling in front of her saying, 'I don't know'.
Her eyes grow large as they hear Karin's katana again clash with Hyourinmaru her focus is hard on her friends as she then says, 'but whatever it is… she wants it bad!'
Their attention now turns to the individuals battling in front of them…
The test of her reisatu
Hitsugaya watches her careful, monitoring her levels he is impressed she is stronger then he first thought.
He again blocks her blows then counters this time he slaps her bottom with the flat part of Hyourinmaru, licks his finger, drawing a hash mark in the air saying, 'One'.
Matsumoto swallows her laughter and shock while everyone else stand with their mouth open, as they all witness the white haired Taicho acting very much out of character, with the move he just landed on Karin's bottom.
Ichigo's reiatsu raises as he steps up to say something only to silenced as he hears Karin say, 'Ich-nii if you are going be here, please stay calm and do not interfere'
He looks to his sister saying, 'Fine, but when you are done, we will talk!'
Karin stands rubbing her bottom looking at Hitsugaya who stands in front of her with a grin on his face, she again takes her stance saying, 'don't get cocky snowball, we are not done yet!'
Ishida step up and gasps loudly as he witnesses Karin move using Hirenkyaku, her speed in her feet as she attacks is unbelievable.
Hitsugaya quickly adjusts, but not before getting hit on his bottom with the flat of her sword therefore breaking it.
Ichigo starts to laugh loudly, Renji snickers, Matsumoto, Ishida, Sado, Inoune and Rukia choke as they trying to swallow down their laughter, while Ururu and Yoruichi shake their heads in approval.
Karin laughs as she now licks her fingers, drawing a hash mark in the air mockingly saying, 'one!'
She appears in front of him as he now rubs his bottom whispering, 'I always said you were a hard ass.'
She again uses Hirenkyaku to go and retrieve another Katana from the rack.
Ichigo stands beaming with pride as he laughs watching his sister best the white haired Taicho.
He looks over to Urahara and Yoruichi saying, 'She's good … Damn good!!'
Yoruichi watches Karin closely as she stands with her back to Hitsugaya selecting two beautiful butterfly swords and placing them in the waist of her pants under her shirt her eyes light up as she turns to Urahara saying, 'Kisuke did you see that!'
She knows his answer because he has a large grin on his face as he writes in his notebook.
Yoruichi's eyes are now back on the training field watching Karin who now stands her back still to Hitsugaya, but now with two katanas one in each hand.
Everyone braces themselves as they all hear her voice, stern and serious saying, 'Toushirou, don't underestimate me... I will WIN this… so be ready for anything because now I am bringing all I that have!!'
Ichigo watches with shock as Karin releases her reisatu and turns around facing Hitsugaya, who has also raises his reisatu levels to match hers.
Hitsugaya is amazed at her beauty, as he watches her standing before him; her eyes are fiery as red glow emanates from her body.
He turns his attention to the katanas she holds in her hands as he now brings Hyourinmaru in a ready stance; He grins as he watches as she runs towards him swinging the two Katanas in an attacking motion.
Seeing Hitsugaya ready himself for her attack, Karin quickly throws the katana blades first into ground; while his eyes focus on the katanas she threw into the ground she brings up her hands shouting 'Bakudo Spell # 9 Horin... Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini!! Look upon yourself with horror and tear out your own throat!!!'
As she speaks orange hued tendrils with spiraling yellow patterns suddenly to erupt from her fingers towards a startled Hitsugaya, she starts uses Hirenkyaku as she spins a web around him, it never touches him it just surrounds him.
Ichigo, Sado, Ishida, Inoune, Rukia, Renji, and Matsumoto stand there in shock each saying, 'WOAH!!!'
Hitsugaya maintains his level of reisatu to match hers as he quickly flashsteps while swinging Hyourinmaru, defensively around his body cutting the tendrils which continue to weave its web around him.
Urahara shouts that is incredible, as he continues to write in his notebook.
Ichigo now looks to Urahara saying, 'is she going to be alright, are there any side effects?'
Yoruichi and Ururu each start to laugh as they notice the tendrils have stopped moving and now not only completely surround Hitsugaya but now Karin; they looked like two flies caught in the middle a spider web.
Karin grins, as she again sends tendrils out from her fingers making the space less than two and half feet between them.
Hitsugaya looks at Karin confused saying, 'Kurosaki usually the point of the Bakudo Spell # 9 Horin, is to bind your opponent, not trap yourself and your opponent!'
Ichigo watches he too is confused as to why she would put herself in that position, he turns to Yoruichi and Ururu saying, 'what is she doing, why ...'
Yoruichi still watching Karin says to Ichigo, 'be quiet, and watch as the spider captures the fly.'
Karin now stands before Toushirou saying, 'Snowball, I never said I was going to bind you, I just wanted the battlefield smaller.'
Her eyes are locked on his hand as it starts to slowly raise Hyourinmaru as he says to her, 'How do you hope to win, standing here unarmed'
Hitsugaya looks as she arches her eyes at him, He then locks his eyes on her hands which slowly glide under her shirt into the waist of her pants, they light up with surprise as she pulls out the butterfly swords saying, 'who said I was unarmed!!'
She still holds the ends of the tendrils but now she spins the butterfly swords in the palms of hands, their eyes are locked as she takes her stance saying, 'let's finish this!!!'
He knows she has him trapped.
His eyes stay locked with hers as he grins saying, 'you sly little spider, yes let us finish this!!'
'CRACK…'
Ichigo stands amazed saying, 'Who taught her that?'
Ururu while keeping her eyes on her friend says, 'Karin, has perfected her own methods of fighting; they are unorthodox which makes them effective against an opponent such Hitsugaya Kun who was higher skills.'
They all look in awe, watching Hitsugaya and Karin sparring full speed.
Karin's eyes light up when she sees her opening, she moves in close to him blocks Hyourinmaru with the left butterfly sword, and slides it all the way down to the hilt, while swinging the around his body and positioning the right butterfly sword at his neck. Her lips kiss his ear as she whispers, 'You lost.'
As she pulls the butterfly swords from his neck, she sees him smirk as he lowers Hyourinmaru putting him into his sheath whispering to her, 'I never loose, could be that your wager was a lot better than mine.'
Before she could reply, she senses Ichigo and Urahara's reisatu now standing behind her, without turning around she says, 'Did you get all that you need?'
Urahara says, 'Yes, I should be finished with my calculation and have some recommendations in a couple hours.'
She tilts her head to Urahara saying, 'Good'.
She grins as she looks over to Hitsugaya saying, 'I want...' before she can finish her words she blackouts falling back into Ichigo's arms.
He stands there holding her, looking at her then to Urahara who says, 'She is fine, she just used all her reisatu so she must now rest and regain her strength…take her upstairs and lay her down so she can sleep.'
A Ni Sama faces his sister
Hitsugaya and Ichigo both sit in the room with Karin; watching her as she sleeps.
As much as Ichigo tried to make Hitsugaya leave her side, he could not make the white haired man go away.
Hitsugaya just sat there quietly ignoring Ichigo, his teal eyes never leaving her face.
After an hour of silence Ichigo finally looked up to the white haired Taicho saying, 'once I know she is fine, you and I will discuss your relationship!'
Hearing his words, before Hitsugaya could answer, Karin whose eyes are still closed weakly says, 'Ich-nii, Toushirou's and my relationship is just what is it … our relationship…stay out of it!'
Hitsugaya grins as he stands and walks over to her, Ichigo watches as Hitsugaya leans over and moves a strand of hair from Karin's face saying, 'Kurosaki, how are you?'
Ichigo's eyebrow raises as he sees his sister open her eyes and look at Hitsugaya, he breathes deeply as he takes note that the look that she gets him is a look that Rukia gives him, when either she just awakes from being injured or he awakes from being injured, bottom line he realizes his sister is in love with the terp!
Remembering that they are not alone Karin weakly grins at Hitsugaya saying, 'You lost Toushirou!!.... Pay up!!'
Hitsugaya's eyes glances over to Ichigo then back to Karin softly saying, 'get some rest, and I promise you we discuss our wager at a later time.'
He pats her arm saying, 'I know you are probably hungry I will talk with Urahara Kun about getting you some food' reading Hitsugaya's body language Karin smiles and nods.
Hitsugaya walks over to the door and looks over to Ichigo who has been quietly watching their interactions, saying, 'I will leave you to talk, if you need anything just let us know.'
Ichigo looks at him saying, 'we need privacy!!'
Hitsugaya looks at Karin then back at Ichigo, his eyes are hard and threatening as he says 'Of course' and steps out shutting the door behind him.
Hearing her brother's tone Karin starts to sit up only to have Ichigo at her side gently pushing her back down saying, 'lay still you are still weak'.
She swats his hand from her as she sits up says, 'You didn't need to be rude to him.'
Ichigo looks at the closed door saying, 'That terp… I will deal with him later!'
Her eyes are fiery as she looks at her Ni Sama saying, 'Why are you being mean to him…what did he do to you?'
Ichigo looks to Karin, his words reflect anger as he says, 'He was supposed to be my friend and he should have told me about you!!'
She looks to her Ni Sama saying, 'He is my friend also and just so you know, even though he kept his word to me; he told me to talk to you, so your issues should be with me not with Toushirou.'
She reaches for a glass of water only to have Ichigo hand it to her, as she sits drinking the water he looks at her saying, 'Why Karin…why did not you come to me…why did not you trust me?'
Karin reacts to his words by spitting the water back into the glass coughing violently grasping of air; after taking a moment she sits there her anger and reisatu seething as she stares at him.
Suddenly there is a knock at the door Karin's eyes are focused on Ichigo's eyes as she says, 'Toushirou… everything is fine …. I am just talking to Ich-nii!!'
From the other side of the door Hitsugaya replies saying in a stern voice, 'I understand, but you have not fully recovered you must lower your reiatsu and keep it lowered.'
The two siblings continue to glare at each other, as they both saying in unison, 'NO PROBLEM!!'
Hitsugaya rolls his eyes as he walks back to the front with the others leaving the two hot heads to face each other.
Karin's voice is hard as she says, 'How dare you say ...why didn't I come to you!!" How dare you say … why didn't I trust you!!!'
Ichigo stands next to her again yelling, 'you should have come to me…I am your Ni Sama you should have talked to me!!'
She is angry as she jumps up and now leans against the table screaming, 'I DID COME to YOU telling you I saw you battling the hollows … You Ignored my words called me crazy and because you are my Ni Sama I believed your words … I believed… I was crazy!!'
She looks over to him her eyes are full of tears as she says, 'You have NO idea how much I wanted to run to you, but you refused to hear me!!'
The tears run down her face as she looks at him saying, 'So as things started happening NO I did not turn to you.'
He stands and takes her into his arms and holds her as she cries saying, 'I did not want you to tell me I was crazy again, I just could not take it!!'
He holds her stroking her hair trying to calm her saying, 'Karin I am sorry, I just did not want to believe that you would become involved with all of this; I wanted to protect you ... I wanted to keep you out of it!'
Karin looks to him saying, 'Ich-nii, I have always been a part of it… it is who I am … you must accept it.'
He holds her close saying, 'I know and I do accept it…I just don't like it!!'
Once she calms down they talk about what was been happening, he talks to her about the pain she experiences with the hollows, telling her about the things he experienced when going through that stage of his life; it has been a long time coming but they are finally bonding.
After Toushirou senses the two have calmed down, he knocks and brings her a plate of soba noodles and vegetables telling her to eat and then he walks out leaving the sibling alone to continue talking.
Ichigo looks at the closed door and then looks at her as she starts to eat, saying, 'How did he know to get you soba noodles and vegetables?'
She glances at him then continues to eat saying nothing.
He looks closer at her this time asking, 'are you dating him?'
She looks up saying, 'No… we are not dating' and continues to eat.
He gently takes her hand holding her chopsticks as he looks in her eyes saying, 'but you really like him don't you?'
She chews and swallows her vegetables as she says, 'Ich-nii, Toushirou and I'; she starts to blush uncontrollability saying, 'we are starting to find our way'
She pulls her hand free and continues to eat, he looks into her eyes saying, 'Find your way where, exactly?'
She licks the sauce on her lips as she locks her eyes with his, her eyes are giving him a warning to back off, a warning she knows from his expression that he is ignoring…
Tea with the LSC
After a few minutes Karin and Ichigo have joined the others in the front of the Shoten for tea, Ichigo has ensured that Karin is not sitting next to Hitsugaya; she is sitting protectively between Sado and himself.
They all look at her with questions in their eyes.
Everyone rolls their eyes as they hear Ishida say, 'Karin Chan, the skill you use to move quickly… how did you learn to do that?'
Karin looks over to him saying, 'I just concentrate my reisatu on my feet and move to where I want to go.'
Ishida looks at her pointing with excitement saying, 'so it is not Hirenkyaku!!'
Karin looks at him now with a confused expression saying, 'Hirenkyaku… Ishida Kun, I do not know that name… it is as I said... I just use my reisatu on my feet to move to where I want to go…nothing special about it at all.'
Everyone snickers at Ishida as he sits staring into his tea cup perplexed that Karin has described Hirenkyaku, a technique which has always been complex to him as nothing more than a parlor trick to her.
Karin picks up her tea and start to sip, when Rukia turns to her asking, 'Karin Chan, I must ask when you learned kido?'
Karin looks to her and chuckles as she pulls out her iPod, she turns it on and hands it to her; Rukia's eyes light up as she hears Tessa's voice giving instructs on the uses, forms, and techniques of Kido coming from the earplugs into her ears.
Rukia hands the iPod to Ichigo saying, 'All this time we thought you were listening to music, you were having instruction on Kido?'
Karin laughs saying, 'No, my Kido instruction is mixed in with my music, which for me makes it simple to learn.'
Rukia looks to Ichigo saying, 'maybe it would work for you?'
Ururu looks to Rukia then to Ichigo softly saying, 'Kurosaki Kun, would first have to learn how to restrain his reisatu, then we could teach him how to use it for Kido.'
Renji looks at him saying, 'forget it… It will never happen!!'
They all laugh at the orange haired man as he now sits embarrassed.
In an attempt to change the subject Ichigo looks to Karin asking, 'what level of Kido have you achieved?'
He is taken back when he hears her proudly say, 'Tessa Kun says I have accomplished the level of a second year academy student, and I am ready to begin the third year academy instruction.'
He looks to her saying, 'how long have you been studying Kido?'
She looks to him saying, 'a year and a half.'
She looks over to Ururu and smiles as she says, 'my Kido training has actually helped with my science and math classes in school!!'
Ichigo now sits there with an expression that can only be described as 'Sweatdrop!'
Matsumoto now looks to Karin, her voice full of mischief as she says, 'Your Kido is very good I really like that move you did on my Taicho.'
They all have laughter in their eyes as they look at Hitsugaya, who sits there sipping his tea, watching but saying nothing.
Ichigo looks over to Karin saying, 'Yes about that move, where exactly did you learn that?'
She grins as she says, 'That was something I recently picked up…it is used when you are engaging a more skillful opponent.'
She looks over to Hitsugaya bows her head with respect then continues saying, 'In order to achieve an advantage, you must distract them and then attack; it can only be successfully achieved if you know your opponent.'
Matsumoto takes advantage of the opening and teasingly says, 'Karin Chan like you know my Taicho?'
Before anyone can react, Karin looks to Matsumoto quickly saying, 'of course Rangiku San I do know your Taicho.'
Karin rolls her eyes at Matsumoto saying, 'do you forget it he who has volunteered to train me!!'
She then turned to Hitsugaya saying, 'you always correct the way I hold my katana, so I knew you would out of habit be watching the way I held onto my katanas, so when I threw them into the ground I knew that is where your eyes would be; hence my opening.'
Hitsugaya looks at her still saying nothing; he nods giving acknowledgment to her logic.
Inoune looks to Karin and then to Hitsugaya asking, 'Karin Chan, you fought hard to beat Hitsugaya Taicho, what exactly was it that you fought so hard to win?'
They all look at the two people sitting in front of them, their ears perk up to hear what the mystery wager is.
Karin sips her tea, her eyes are slyly looking to Hitsugaya as she softly says, 'Inoune San I don't know what it is I have won…. It is a mystery even to me.'
All eyes turn to the White hair Taicho as he sits there sipping his tea looking back at her saying nothing.
A/N…
I know I am a tease but I the fight and siblings facing each needed its own chapter.
I hope you enjoyed it
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Next chapter: Ichigo and something unforgettable
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