237c.) Lucky, Lucky
Genera: Humor
Main Characters: Toshiro, Ikkaku, Hozukimaru, Matsumoto, Yumichika, Keigo, Karin
Rating: T
Warning: Small hints of Toshiro/Karin here, though one can read it differently

The prerogative of a parent when their child brings home the boyfriend or girlfriend, is to embarrass the heck out of them. Truthfully, she wasn't her taicho's mother, but she was the closest thing he really had to one, so it was thus her job and her prerogative when it came up.

And truth be told, her taicho was yet to date a girl, and she rather hoped it wasn't because he liked guys, as that rather worried her sometimes as she watched for signs of him hitting puberty. She'd tried everything, and the closest thing she had gotten was his interaction with Karin.

She had gauged that there was the possibility that her taicho had a crush on Ichigo's little sister. She just had to figure out a way to clarify the truth of this. That was her so called prerogative.

A small group of shingami, after the zanpaktou incident had been sent to the living world to work on cleaning up some hollows that had suddenly appeared. She and her taicho were selected to go along. Of course, it was pretty much the usual team.

Their group was waiting for the next signal to go off, which was getting further and further apart. They were in the park and Matsumoto was thinking she would never get to test her theory to prove whether or not her idea was true.

However, to her luck, Karin happened to stop by. Matsumoto pointed out her taicho who was in a gigai and sitting on the park bench to the preteen. Thus, Karin went over to set, say hello and chat with him. Unfortunately, there were still no results.

Biting her lip, Matsumoto settled on an idea and went to speak with Ikkaku. "You know, maybe if you perform your special dance, you might get some hollows to fight."

"Excuse me?" Ikkaku gave her a weird look.

"And if you perform it with your zanpaktou, you might get more luck," Matsumoto stated as Yumichika stifled his laughter.

"Not a bad idea!" Ikkaku stated, popping out of his gigai and summoning out the materialized form of his zanpaktou.

Karin was watching this as she spoke with Toshiro, who just sat and listened, unless he felt there was something important to say when she burst out laughing, while trying to cover her mouth.

"What's so…" the small taicho glanced up, and saw Ikkaku and the strange humanoid. "Oh, god, no…"

"Do you know them Toshiro?" Karin snorted.

"I'm going to pretend I don't…" Toshiro muttered as the two suddenly broke out in dance, which caused Karin to burst into a fit of giggles at this. The small taicho buried his head in his hands and let out a small groan.

When both ended, Ikkaku finished, his zanpaktou turned back to normal. He then noticed Toshiro sitting with Karin and went over to where they were. "Didn't you tell me not to interfere with living world matters Hitsugaya?"

"Oi… Toshiro… who is this person? I know he's a shingami…"

"Wait… you can see me?" Ikkaku stated.

"So?" Karin stated, causing another groan to come from the small taicho as he continued to bury his head.

Yumichika then walked over and pried the small taicho's fingers away. He got a huge grin at what he saw. "It is the parents right to embarrass their kids, but Matsumoto technically is just you're lieutenant."

"Matsumoto!" The small taicho suddenly sprung away to give her a lecture about doing this to him.

"Man… I don't know what the big deal was…" Karin stated, shrugging her shoulder.

"You can see me…" Ikkaku tried giving her a scary look, but she could only start laughing again. "All right, what was Rangiku up to?"

Yumichika leaned over and whispered something into his friend's ear, which caused the bald headed man to narrow his eyes with skepticism. "Are you sure?"

"I'm positive… his face was red!"

"No way… I wouldn't have expected his…"

"Ssshh!" Yumichika stated. "Don't make the situation worse!"

"So, kid, how are you able to see Hitsugaya-Taicho?"

"Everyone can see him," Karin burst into giggles. "Say… do you know my older brother?"

"Ehh…" Ikkaku made a face at that, only to be interrupted by Keigo hurrying up.

"Hi Karin," he then turned to Ikkaku. "My sister fainted because she liked your dance and gave a complete… what's the word?

"Ecstasy?" Karin imputed.

"Should a little kid know such a word? Keigo muttered as Ikkaku hurried off.

"Should Toshiro know such a word? I bet he probably does," she stated as Yumichika begin to laugh again, while Keigo had tears in his eyes from Karin's comment.

"Ehh… I don't get why it's so funny…"

"Hey… you seem to know her," the shingami that was left spoke up.

"Duh. I figured since you guys knew Ichigo, you would know Karin's one of his younger sisters,"

"Oh… this is just classic! Wait until I tell Ikkaku!" Yumichika was laughing so hard, it seemed he would crack a rib.

"What is so funny?" Karin asked. "And classic about it?"

"No clue…" Keigo muttered.

Author's note – I got to thinking; Ikakku's lucky lucky dance is something that a parent might do to embarrass a kid while on a date.