Last chapter!

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"That's it!" Karin cried, grabbing her four year old daughter by the waist. "We are getting that senkai gate out of this kitchen. That's the third time this month you almost walked though it!"

"But Kasan!" the raven haired girl whined. "I want to go see Tousan!"

"Masaki-chan," Karin said sweetly. "Tousan should be home soon. You can wait until then, ok?" Masaki looked at Karin, her startling emerald eyes sparking.

"Ok!" she said brightly. Karin smiled at her and pinched her nose. Masaki giggled. As if in response to their conversation, the doors of the senkai gate opened and Hitsugaya stepped out.

"Tousan!" Masaki said gleefully, slipping from her mother's grasp to run into her father's outstretched arms.

"Hey, Masaki-chan!" he said happily, lifting her over his head. "Were you a good girl today?"

"She almost went through the gate again," Karin tattled. "We are putting it back into the shed!" Hitsugaya shook his head.

"We can't do that. Don't you remember why we moved it out of there in the first place?" Karin shuttered at the memory of the neighbor's boy, curiosity over the locked shed getting the better of him, almost getting trapped inside the space between the two worlds. Which was the reason why they had the unsightly gate in their kitchen in the first place. At least if Masaki walked through, she had enough reiatsu that a hell butterfly would join her and lead her to Soul Society. She was after all, three quarters taicho class shinigami. Someone in Soul Society would bring her home, everyone knew who she was. But the neighbor's boy would die in the inter-space.

"All right, fine!" Karin conceded. Hitsugaya grinned slightly, he was doing that more often these days, and came up to Karin expectantly.

"No," she reprimanded. "You know the rules. You don't get a kiss until you're in your gigai. I'm not kissing a fifteen year old! I'm not a child molester." Hitsugaya scoffed.

"I'm a hundred and eight years old, so that makes you a gold digger!" he retorted. Karin laughed.

"How many hundred and eight year olds do you know with four year old daughters?" she teased. Hitsugaya looked at his daughter who was hiding under his captain's haori and giggling mischievously.



"Good point," he said. "Alright, I'll put it on." Hitsugaya's gigai had been a present from Urahara years ago, long before Karin and Hitsugaya even started thinking about marriage. As Karin grew older, Hitsugaya didn't, and she felt more and more awkward being seen with him, even though she would never admit it. And her friends had started asking weird questions. So Urahara, who was extremely perceptive and very aware of her predicament, had created a gigai for Hitsugaya that aged like a normal human. It took Hitsugaya a while to get used to the height difference, but now he moved around in it as naturally as his own body.

Donning in his gigai and looking quite a bit older than fifteen because of it, Hitsugaya returned to Karin's side.

"Is this better?" he asked.

"Much!" she said, wrapping her arms around his neck and drawing him in for a kiss.

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That night at dinner, Masaki asked a question she had never asked before.

"Tousan, Kasan," she said in her sweet little voice, "how did you meet?" Hitsugaya and Karin looked at each other.

"We actually met over a soccer ball," Karin explained. "I had a big game coming up and your Tousan was kind enough to help me." Masaki giggled.

"And how did you fall in love?" she asked, bouncing up and down giddily.

"Well," Hitsugaya said, looking at Karin affectionately. "It all started with a story."

The End!

Well, it's been a lot of fun. I think I had more fun writing this story than any of the others. Thanks so much for everyone who reviewed, you guys totally make my day! It makes me so happy every time I check and have all these amazing reviews! Be on the lookout for a story featuring all your ideas! It should be up really soon (like in the next day or so, I've got most of the first chapter already, but I just have to make sure it doesn't sound too stupid!) Thanks for sticking with me! I love you all!