"I was thinking that since Karin missed her prom and graduation because of her life as a soul reaper," she got on her knees and begged." Can we please throw her a party or a party for her new official title as captain of the 9th squad."

Karin was in extremely bad mood when she woke up. She thought about it hard about the alarm. She was sure that someone had tampered with it. Only her suspicion on Momo was more and more accurate.

When Momo slept beside Karin, she looked so peaceful and innocent. She wanted to believe that Momo wouldn't do anything like that but she had to make sure.

When Karin went though the living room she noticed that Toshiro was already up and out the door. Karin laughed as it was five o'clock in the morning. Since she had been living here, he had been getting up an hour earlier than usual. She quickly got ready for work and left for a jog.

As Karin ran through the streets, she saw that many people were doing the same as she came to a crossroads between the buildings. She noticed that many people were up early for 6 o'clock. Usually it was only a few individuals but there were many soul reapers up early for work.

When Karin approached her barracks, she saw some of her seated and non-seated members training. She smiled as she saw her higher rank members helping her lower rank members, train.

"Good morning, captain." They chimed as she past them.

"Morning." She smiled at them. Karin began to walk to her office. She could feel the stares of her members as she walked past them. She brushed it off her as she was used to it.

When it reached 10 o'clock Karin had finished all the paperwork giving for the squad. She stretched her cramped hand for writing for so long. She felt that many members were missing, Shuhei being one of them. She brought out her phone and called him. He didn't answer quickly but after 3 rings he picked up.

"Hello, captain?"

"Shuhei, are you all right? Your not at the squad. I was just worried. Are you okay?" She asked as she placed her feet on her desk.

"Yeah, I'm fine, captain." He began to cough." I'm just not feeling well." He coughed again.

"Oh, okay. I just wanted to know where half the members are?" She could hear him being a bit hesitant. "It's fine. I'll work with the ones I have. Get well soon." Karin hung up the phone and looked up to the ceiling.

"Well that was weird." She climbed out of her chair and headed out the door.

She walked around the barracks looking for any of her members. She found a couple relaxing in the court yard. They looked up as she saw her standing there. Quickly they jumped to their feet, standing at attention. Karin shook her head and walked beside them. She sat down and looked up at them.

"I may be a captain but I ain't boring." The two men laughed and joined her. Karin noticed that both were shocked at her action.

"Captain, why?" She looked at them.

"I have no idea where my members are and I can't use the butterfly. It creeps me out." The members laughed.

"Hey, want me to help you with anything, you like. Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Hohō or kido." The men looked to each other.

"Erm, our squad stinks at Hakuda." Karin smiled and stood up.

"Fine. Find remaining squad 9 members and if you want you can ask any free soul reaper."

Karin was in the dojo with many random soul reapers. She recognised some of them as she had trained with them before. She placed her haori on the bench and then placed her in a messy bun. She turned around to find the men scattered around the dojo. She placed her fingers in her mouth and whistled. They quickly turned around to look at her.

"Right, we'll start out with stretches." Karin began to stretch her arms but no one else did. "Go on move it." They quickly started to copy her actions. All of them stretched their arms, back and their calves.

Karin finished stretching her limbs. She saw that many of the men were also finished.

"Right as a request I will teach you Hakuda. What would you like to do?" The men looked at each other.

"How about flips and stunts." A shy member asked. Karin walked over to him and patted his back.

"Sure but be more confident." The male smiled back at Karin. She walked over to her space and stepped back a few steps.

"So, you want to learn this." Karin ran forward jumped in the air, did a back flip but landed on her hands then pushed her weight up and spun round in the air landing back on the spot. All men started at her.

"Eventually you will learn that. You will need a whole lot of confidence in yourself and your zanpaktou to perform that. I will teach you a simple back flip of objects. Who can perform backflips?" No one put their hands up.

"They don't teach that at the academy." Spoke up the shy boy

"Okay, I will teach you the feeling off spinning then being able to jump and backflip. First pair up." All men paired up but the shy boy was out numbered. Karin beaconed him to be her partner. He stood beside him though he was still shy. She kicked him in the shins.
"Stop being shy. It's damn frustration." She hissed at him. He was shocked, he wasn't even a part of her squad.

"Sorry, captain Yoshida." Karin smiled the moved on.

"Right, now I'll show you the first thing you should. It is called a crab." She manifested her zanpaktou. "You know what to do." She whispered to him. Karin turned around and leaned backwards. Her hair fell out of its bun and sprawled out on the floor. Her back was slightly arched. He was on her tiptoes, pushing her stomach out.

"This is the crab." Kazen spoke up. "After you enter that position. You flip your legs over your head." Karin brought up one leg and flipped herself over. The males looked at her. She ushered them for them to try.

She saw many people supporting their partner as they fell back and tried to catch themselves with their hands. They tried to keep their body in that position. Karin saw one man attempting the backflip but she saw that her going to land on his head. She rushed up to him and brought his legs back down while her zanpaktuo caught his chest. He sighed as he thought he was going to hurt himself.

"Thank you, captain Yoshida." Karin smiled and examined his head for any shock.

"Captain, have you taught other people to backflip." Karin brought out her phone and showed them a video.

It was a light brown haired girl in a leotard performing a perfectly executed gymnastics routine. The routine consisted of backflips, frontfips, cartwheels and round offs. As the video stopped she placed her phone away.

"That girl you saw was my sister and I helped her with every single of those moves." Everyone gasped.

"You have a sister." Karin lowered her head.

"Had." The looked at her with sad eyes. "Aizen killed her and my dad. That's why I have to kill him." They could hear her voice crack.

"Captain?" Karin looked up with her teared face. She quickly wiped her tears away.

"Sorry, it's that Aizen showed up at my graduation. I was one swish of my sword to killing him." Karin clenched her fist. Karin closed her eyes and walked away from the dojo.

"Captain?" A member of squad 9 said as he chased after her. Kazen stayed where he was and looked as she left the dojo.

"Go with her. I'll help out here." He said to the member of Karin squad then turned to the others. "Carry on as usual." He growled.

Karin ran on the tops of the buildings. The member tailing her was finding hard to keep in close range to her as she was going to fast. He tripped everything he jumped to the next house. He kept finding that he was stumbling over his feet. He noticed that water would splatter on his face but it was not raining.

He watched as Karin ran towards a house with the number 101 on the door.

"Captain, you should be at house 91." Karin ignored him and kept fumbling with the keys. He was going to place a hand on her shoulder but she managed to get the door open. When he was in close range, he could heard her sobbing.

When Karin was in the house, she ran to the door nearest the bathroom. He followed her in the door to find that Toshiro's spiritual pressure was faint in there. He noticed that clothes were scattered on the floor that belonged to his captain. As he followed his sight of vision up, he saw Karin sobbing in the middle of the bed. Karin was holding into the pillow tightly. He saw that she had a bare shoulder. Only a black strap ran along it.

"Captain?" He asked as he walked forward. A hand prevented him going on any further. He saw an old man sitting at Karin's legs. The man was slightly old. He was dressed in a tunic. The male noticed that the older man was very familiar.

"Leave. She is safe with me." The young male shook his head and started to walk forward. The older male still had his hand out, preventing him from walking any further.

"I will not leave her, not with you." The older male stood up fiercely.

"I am Engetsu. I am Karin's zanpaktou's brother. I am also the zanpaktuo of her dear father. I am capable of looking after my masters daughter. Got it?" The male nodded and quickly left the room, scared of what he was going to do to him.

The member entered the hall and looked for Toshiro, who was on his knees, unscrewing the tables from the floor. He stood their froze at the captain. Toshiro was still a captain of the 13 court guard squads. He was planning on confronting him and finding about what was going on with his captain. He swallowed his fear and walked up to Toshiro. He was determined to find about what was happening between the two captains.

"Captain Hitsugaya," when he heard his name, he turned around to look at him then back to his work.

"What? I'm busy." The male took a step back by his cold response.

"Erm, eh." He stumbled. "I want to know what's going in with you and my captain." He spat out. Toshiro looked at the small, brown haired male, with a vacant expression.

"We are close friends." Toshiro said then went back to working.

"That's no what I was asking. I want to know why she stripped herself and ran into your bed." Toshiro froze.

"What's she doing in my bed?" He asked while he was working.

"She started bursting into tears then she ran to your bed." Toshiro sighed and stood up.

"Did you perhaps mention her dad or her sister." The brown haired male nodded. Toshiro sighed. "That's a taboo topic for her. She will talk about it but she will always end up crying." Toshiro handed him the screw driver then ran out the room.

He ran straight back to his house, to see how Karin was. Every captain tries not to bring the war up or her family but sometimes it is inevitable. The war was coming up and the soul reapers were training to fight in it. They were planning on how to fight against Aizen and his army of arrancar.

As he reached his house, he noticed that the door was locked. He had figured that Karin wanted to be alone. He gathered that she didn't want any one to talk to her except him. He was the only other one who had a key to his door. If she didn't want him to talk to her she could easily have stopped him from even coming into his house. He brought out his key and opened his door.

Toshiro ran straight into his room to find Karin hugging into his bed. He laughed and sat on the right side of the bed. Karin looked up to see Toshiro sitting there.

"I believe this is my bed." He said as he lay down beside her. Karin wiped her eyes.

"Sorry. It's comfy." Toshiro placed a hand at her eye and wiped her tears.

"It's fine. Don't cry, Karin." Karin shook her head.

"I can't help it. Why did they have to mention them." Toshiro sighed and climbed on top of her, pinning her to the bed. Karin's eyes widened at his sudden action.

"Karin, please don't cry." He said as he looked at her teared face. She sat up, pulling away from his grasp. She wrapped her arms around his body, resting her head on his chest. Toshiro let one arm wrap around her body and the other on the bed holding both of them up. Toshiro patted her back as she cried.

"You know, I don't like see you crying." Karin softened up her sobs.

"Then don't look." Toshiro pushed himself backwards and let his other hand stroke her hair.

"Hey Karin, head captain is letting all female captains and lieutenants take a break in the world of the living. Why don't you join Rangiku and Rukia?" Karin looked into Toshiro's eyes.

"Thanks Toshiro." She said as she gently pushed him off her. Toshiro stood up and walked to the door then then throw her clothes on the bed.

"I'll let you get dressed. And Karin if your upset, come find me." He smiled at her then left the room.

Karin walked through the shopping mall with Rangiku, Rukia, Nanao, Isane, Nemu and Soi feng. Yachiro wouldn't come if Zaraki didn't come. Captain Unohana had said that she had to look after the barracks and she was going to watch Momo as Karin was absent.

Karin had been dragged to many stores by Rangiku. She was currently in a lingerie store. Rangiku picked up fancy underwear and held them up against Karin.

"Oh, he will love it." Karin swatted her hand away.

"Who's he?" She glared at her. All the other girls giggled as they knew who he was.

"My captain, stupid." Rangiku cheered. Karin blushed deeply at the thought of her and Toshiro doing it.

"We are not like that!" She shouted from the top of her lungs. Many shoppers turned around to look at Karin. Karin turned around and looked to some random woman who was shouting at her kids. "We are not like that. We're just friends." Karin repeated in a quieter voice.

"Then tell me why was captain pinning you to his bed while you were in your underwear." Karin blushed.

"He was comforting me because I was upset. That's all." Rangiku patted her back and snorted in disbelief.

Karin and the other girls sat on a bench with millions of bags at there feet. Karin on the other hand had no bags. She didn't want to buy anything.

"Karin, why haven't you bought anything." Karin shrugged. "What about that dress you said you liked." Karin looked confused.

"Which one?"

"The red one with the rose embroidery running up your chest." Karin nodded as she remembered.

"Oh, that one, it was too expensive." She said as she watched the people walking past her. Many children staring at her then point towards her.

One kid ran up to her, giving her a massive hug.

"It's you, it's you." She shouted as she jumped up and down. "It's really you."

"Who are you?" The little girl ignored her.

"You're Karin Kurosaki, the second year championship that lead your school to victory." Karin smiled as she now understood why the little girl was hugging her. "You are an amazing captain." Karin smiled then bent down to face her.

"Thanks. If you love something, stick with it and keep practising. It will bring you so much happiness when you achieve victory." The little girl smiled then ran back to her mother. Karin smiled as she had a little fan. Karin made sure that the little girl was safely with her mother before re-joining the group.

Rangiku and the girls were in a restaurant finishing their lunch. Karin had her head resting on the table, breathing gently. Rukia bend down to look at her face.

"Hey guys, she's asleep." All the girls looked over at the sleeping captain.

"She is so beautiful when she is sleeping." Rangiku said as she soothed her hair. Rangiku quickly gave a menacing smile.

"Hey guys, I have an idea." She said as she picked Karin up and the left to go back to the soul society.

On their way home they had bumped into Ryuken who handed Rukia a box shaped present. All he had said that it was good for tonight. Nemu was wondering what was inside the packaging. Everyone else felt the same way.

Karin had woken up a few hours later, around 7 o'clock. When she opened her eyes it was still dark. Something was blocking her view.

"What the hell." She said out loud then felt the strange object obstructing her eyes. She also felt that it was too hands on her shoulders. "Who's this." She said as she felt their hand.

"Don't worry, Karin, it's me Rangiku." Karin sighed as she knew who it was.

"What are you doing?" She asked in a causal manor. Rangiku didn't reply to her question. "Answer me." She said shakily. Rangiku placed her hand on her shoulder.

"Trust me. It will be alright." Karin placed a placed her hand on Rangiku's. The older woman slightly pushed Karin forward. "Come on. We are going somewhere."

Rangiku lead Karin through the seireitei. Occasionally she had to comfort Karin. The younger female was slow at walking. Though she trusted Rangiku with her life, she was still scared. She had no idea on where she was going. She couldn't even feel Rangiku's spiritual pressure. She couldn't feel Toshiro's, Ichigo's or any other soul reapers spiritual pressure. Karin tightened her grip on Rangiku's wrist.

"Karin, it's okay. I won't let anyone hurt you." Karin believed Rangiku but her grip still remained the same.

Rangiku lead Karin into a large building then lead her to the middle of the room. She gave a thumbs off then removed the blindfold from Karin's face. Rangiku stood firmly beside the girls side.

"Surprise." Karin heard everyone shouting. She looked around the room to see every soul reaper in a dress or a suit. She saw a banner that said 'Welcome to your prom/ graduation party, Karin.' Under the title was another sign. 'Welcome to the soul society, Captain Yoshida.' Karin was quickly engulfed in a hug from behind. She recognised the smell of the perfume.

"Surprise, Karin." The girls sang. She turned around to see Nagisa, Yumi and Rika, smiling at her. Karin examined her friends in their beautiful dresses.

"Hey what are you doing here?" She asked as she hugged them back.

"Well, early in the morning, someone's lieutenant came to our door, saying their was a party for Karin. How can we not say no." Karin laughed at them. She quickly stepped backwards.

"What is it Karin?" Rangiku asked her. Karin looked to her then examined her. Rangiku had a black dress on with a low split at the front which showed her cleavage perfectly. It stopped perfectly at her legs revealing the silky skin legs underneath.

"If that's what you are wearing. What am I wearing?" Rangiku smiled then handed Karin a tag.

"That's for you. Ryuken gave us this." Karin flash stepped to the bathroom to read the note.

She leaned against the wall to read the note.

'Karin, by the time Ryuken gives you this note, I already assume that I am dead. I hoped Aizen didn't ruin your graduation. I know you were waiting for it for ages. I hope this present will be in handy at your graduation party. I saw you look at this when we went out shopping the other day. Please have fun for the both of us. Please don't cry over this note and remember, daddy will always love you.' Karin clenched the note in her hand. She slowly moved to the mirror to look at her reflection. She started to sob when she saw her reflection.

Her hair had all been curled and strands were hanging over her shoulder. Her face hadn't a spot of make up on it except some lip gloss. She guessed that Rangiku already thought she was beautiful without it. She was wearing the red dress with the rose embroidery starting from her right side to her left shoulder. It had two thin black straps which matched the lacy hem of the dress that stopped just above her knees. Her dress made her hair and her eyes stand out more. She looked to her feet to see red and black pumps with a red rose at the top.

"Thanks dad. I love it." She said as she held her tears back. She turned on the tap and splashed her face with water. When she looked back up she saw Toshiro standing behind her in the mirror.

"What you doing in here? There is a party just for you." Karin turned round and handed him the note. She watched his eyes as he skimmed the paper.

"That is a present from your dad." Karin nodded as she took the note back. "Come on, go have fun for the both of you." She laughed and walked out the bathroom with Toshiro.

"Toshiro, you look handsome in your black suit." Toshiro smiled and followed behind her.

Karin gave the note to Toshiro for him to place in his pocket as she had nowhere to put it. Karin had smiled throughout the whole night. She danced with many members from the soul society and her friends. She had also danced with her brother a few times, laughing about when they were younger and she used to dance on his feet.

"Ichigo, I so missed the times when we were younger." Ichigo laughed and patted her head.

"Me too, we all had so much fun." The song had finished and went to sit down beside Renji and Toshiro.

Renji and all the other male were super drunk. Renji, Shuhei and Izaru started to hit on her. Karin made sure that Ichigo or Toshiro was close to her. Rangiku had also was trying to make Karin drink the sake. Karin had a 2 drinks but she wasn't tipsy at all, just thirsty.

Karin had looked at the time to see it was 1 in the morning. They had been partying for 7 hours. She was now getting tired but she wanted to dance with Toshiro just once as she hadn't already done so. She made sure the next song she would dance with him.

Karin was on the dance floor when her favourite song came on, Never Stop by Safetysuit. Karin walked to Toshiro and placed her hand out.

"Dance with me, Toshiro." He smiled and took her hand. Toshiro lead her back to the dance floor. She placed a hand on his shoulder while the other was clasped by his hand. Toshiro placed a hand on her waist and they started to sway to the music.

Karin looked over his shoulder to see others had joined the dance floor and were copying Karin and Toshiro. Rukia was dancing with her brother while Byakyua glared at Ichigo. Renji danced with Nanao. Izaru was dancing with Momo and Shuhei was dancing with a tipsy Rangiku.

"Toshiro, how come every song I knew." Toshiro blushed and looked away.

"I borrowed your laptop. Sorry I took it without asking." Karin shook her head. Toshiro moved his hands further down her waist.

"It's fine. As longs it was you." Karin moved her gaze to look in Toshiro's teal eyes. She didn't notice that he too was staring into her eyes. Karin was too distracted to notice.

"I'll never stop trying. I'll never stop watching as you leave. I'll never stop losing my breath. Every time I see you looking back at me
I'll never stop holding your hand. I'll never stop opening your door. I'll never stop choosing you babe. I'll never get used to you." She sang to him. Toshiro smiled back at her.

Karin slowly moved closer to him and pressed her lips against his for a few seconds. When she knew what had happened, she quickly pulled away from him. Karin was about to run out the room when Toshiro caught her wrist. When she turned around, he was looking at the floor. He was trying to process what had happened.

'Did she just kiss me? Why would she kiss me? We are just friends.' Without realising it he pulled Karin in closer to him. Her hands were pushed up against his chest.

"Why are you running?" He said the pressed his lips against hers. Karin stood their shocked at his response. She felt his warm lips against her own. She slowly closed her eyes and kissed him back. She could taste the alcohol that he had took. Karin arms slowly wrapped around his neck while his arms wrapped around her waist. Karin pulled away and let her head rest on his chest as they swayed to the rest of the song.

"Toshiro," he looked down to see Karin holding tightly into him. He gave a slight sound to tell her that he was listening. "I love you." Toshiro's eyes widened at her words. He soon got over it and held her tightly.

"I love you too, Karin." The couple didn't notice that Rangiku was watching them as they kissed. She gave a slight squeal into Shuhei's ear.

"What is it?" He asked. She spun round so he could see the pair.

"Our captains." Rangiku squealed once again. Shuhei looked though the crowd to see what she was meaning. He smiled as he saw how happy both of them looked.

"Rangiku, they just admitted they loved each other." Rangiku held onto Shuhei's clothes a little tighter from her excitement.

Karin and Toshiro held onto each until the next song came on. She still had her head against his chest.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he gently stroked her hair.

"I'm tired I've been up for almost a whole day." Toshiro grabbed her hand and lead her out the hall. He too had was exhausted but he wanted to show her a good time.

When they returned home, Karin plopped herself on the couch as she was too tired to move. Toshiro sat down beside her as Karin had pulled him to sit beside her.

"You have no strength to make it to your bed but you can pull me down to sit beside you." Karin gave a small smirk and leaned against him.

Toshiro turned her around so she was facing him. Karin leaned in to kiss him again. Toshiro quickly caught her lips and kissed her back. The kiss was full of passion. The way he gently brushed his lips against hers to the way he was holding her.

Toshiro licked her bottom lip, pleading for entrance. Karin kindly granted his wish and allowed his tongue to enter her mouth. She pushed against him, making him lie in the couch while she was on top off him. Toshiro placed his hands on her back, pulling her closer.

Both tongues fought for dominance as they pushed and twirled aghast each other. Karin broke for air but was immediately brought back to the kiss. He could taste the alcohol she summed and the sweet tasting of her lip gloss.

After about five minutes Kadin broke apart from the kiss and pushed herself up.

"Goodnight Toshiro. Thanks for tonight, I had fun." She gave him a kiss goodnight then entered her room, where she slid down the door.


Chapter 28 guys, I really hoped you liked or loved this chapter as much as I did. I did tell you a few chapters ago that there was a kiss. Who was surprised by it? Oh I'm sorry to tell you that my summer holiday is now over and I am back at school so I won't update as much.