This is the 21st chapter of Diamond Academy. I hope you all enjoy it.

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Toushirou's thoughts

Diamond Academy

Chapter 21-What She Makes Him Do

Karin awoke in an unfamiliar room the next morning. She had expected to see her soccer posters but instead she saw a regular poster-less wall. She then remembered that she had slept in Toushirou's room last night.

Karin tried to get out of his bed only to roll onto Toushirou before hitting the floor beside him. She then also remembered that Toushirou had practically forced her to sleep on the bed while he slept on the floor. Toushirou, unfortunately, was awakened by the drop on to his body.

"What was that for?" said Toushirou angrily as he sat up to look down at Karin's laying figure.

"I told you I wanted to sleep on the floor" complained Karin.

"and I told you no. I will not let a woman sleep on my floor no matter how much she wants to" Toushirou proclaimed.

"You and your stupid morals and ability to be a gentleman" grunted Karin as she got up and headed to her bag to get her capris.

"Well excuse me for being well mannered" said Toushirou as he turned around to let her change in to her capris.

"Whatever. I'm done" said Karin. Toushirou turned back around.

"Good, so what do you want to do today?" asked Toushirou.

"I don't know, I mean usually I do homework, but our teachers didn't give us any so that we could have a stress free dance" explained Karin.

"Yeah, I'm free too until the show tonight" stated Toushirou.

Karin sat down on Toushirou's bed and Toushirou sat next to her and the two began to brainstorm. Suddenly, Karin got an idea.

"Is there a park nearby?" asked Karin. Toushirou thought briefly before nodding.

"Let's go there" said Karin as she headed towards the door.

"Where are you going?" asked Toushirou.

"Well first, you can't go to the park in your Pajamas," Toushirou looked down to see that he was still wearing his light blue pajamas. "And I need to change into something nicer if I'm going outside."

"Fine" said Toushirou as he headed to his dresser to see what kind of outfit he could were to the park while Karin left to go to her dorm to find something to wear as well.

Toushirou was now walking down the hall of the female dormitory. He was wearing a white dress shirt that had thin black stripes with the sleeves pushed up to just before his elbows and the first button of the shirt was unbuttoned. His hands were shoved in the pockets of his jeans. On his feet were normal black converse shoes.

He then stopped at the door of Karin's dorm and knocks with the knuckle of his index finger.

Karin opened the door not a second later with a white, thin strapped, shirt that began flowing down like a dress from the top of her waist to her mid thighs. She was also wearing jeans and cute sandals. Her hair was put up in a high ponytail revealing her dangling, fake diamond, earrings. In her hand she had a small black purse.

"K-Karin, you look great" complemented Toushirou. He never realized how angelic she looked in white.

"Thanks, you too. Let's go" said Karin.

They then left in Toushirou's car. Once they got to the park Karin ran while Toushirou set the alarm on his car and watched her in amusement. Karin then stopped running and turned around.

"Aren't you coming?" asked Karin.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming" he said as he followed after her.

They walked for a little while, Toushirou mind was in another place though.

It's almost surprising. I would have never walked in this park if it hadn't been for Karin. I knew it was here, but I've never been it before. This girl is making me do things I would have never thought I'd do.

Toushirou hadn't seen Karin stop so he bumped into her. Once he was back to the real world he looked down at Karin.

"Alright Karin, now what's wrong now?" asked Toushirou. Karin turned around to see his face. Her eyes were beaming with joy and excitement.

"Toushirou, it's April" said Karin. Toushirou looked at her quizzically.

Karin just rolled her eyes and said "just look up, stupid".

Toushirou then looked up and his breath was taken away. There were beautiful flowers everywhere.

"Oh yeah, it's that time of the year when cherry blossoms bloom" Toushirou realized.

"Yup" said Karin as she looked at all the cherry blossoms in the trees and the ones that were falling.

"How did you know?" asked Karin.

"Well, I was in the library, so I decided to do a little research of when cherry blossoms, my favorite kind of trees, bloom around here" explained Karin.

"Man, this is awesome" said Toushirou. The wind was playing with his hair and the sweet smell of fresh cherry blossom was everywhere. Toushirou wanted to stay just like this forever. He then looks to his side to see the Kurosaki looking at all the cherry blossom trees in awe. Yes, he wanted to stay this way with her forever.

"Toushirou, come on. Let's go sit down" suggested Karin as they went to sit down underneath a cherry blossom tree nearby.

"So Karin, why cherry blossoms?" asked Toushirou.

"When my mother was still alive and when our family wasn't broken, I saw cherry blossoms for the first time. When I asked mom what they were she said 'they're heaven's flowers'. Ever since then my family and I have always went to see the cherry blossoms every year. This year I thought I would be by myself, but then I thought 'why not have someone close to me come with me?', so why not have you, my best friend" explained Karin.

At that moment Toushirou wanted nothing more than to hug her and the pain away. He also wanted to thank her for choosing him; there was no where he'd rather be. He refused to do so though, he wasn't really one who would show his affections so easily, but this girl made him want to.

Toushirou then saw an ice cream man rolling down the path and Toushirou thought of an idea that would make Karin feel better. He got up and stopped the ice cream man so he could buy a chocolate and a vanilla ice cream cone. Toushirou then came back and gave the chocolate ice cream to Karin. Karin then looked at him, confused.

"I thought you didn't like sweet thing" commented Karin.

"Well, you make do things I thought I didn't like to do" said Toushirou as he took a lick at his ice cream.

Not bad

This is the end of chapter 21 of Diamond Academy. I hope you all loved it. Please review.