Correction from chapter 2, Karin's 12 so like I know I wrote Elementary school, so let this school be up to ninth grade ok? (sorry about that) Ok so this update is a little later than I planned, I totally fail at updating . School is getting kinda crazy. I know you guys will probably guess it but some parts here were inspired by everyone's favorite soccer episode. lol I do not own the characters and places of Bleach.

Chapter Three: Indigo Smiles

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." Oscar Wilde, Irish poet novelist, dramatist and critic. 1854-1900.

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Karin had slowly made her way to her room by the time she heard the loud noises of Ichigo's return. Wincing at the loud screams that her father and Ichigo made as they started their frequent "late for dinner" brawl, Karin sighed softly and eased her way into the desk near her bed. She yawned tiredly and thought about going to sleep. Karin glanced at the time. 6:00 p.m. This was ridiculous!! How on earth could she be so tired?! Well, sure she did just get injured, but seriously she was made of tougher stuff than this. It doesn't matter I'm going to school tomorrow, weak or not-the team needs me. Karin furiously thought. Shaking her head she tossed her soccer ball off her bed and slid herself under the covers. Ridiculously early or not, sleep was calling and she'd rather not be tired the next morning.

Despite being tired Karin was a fussy sleeper. Shifting in order to get comfortable, Karin glanced and her nightstand and gasped. With wide eyes she reached out to the black tantou sheath with dark blue swirls and markings. Her fingers barely grazed the lacquered material when the blade disappeared at her touch. Karin bolted up in shock; looking at the nightstand she saw that it was now 8:00. What?! Was I sleeping already? Did I imagine that? Huh…I must have… Sighing in disappointment, Karin grumpily turned to face her window…despite everything that happened it look like she was just imagining things- she was still useless.

7:00 a.m. Monday Morning

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! BBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPP! BEEEEEP! A small pale hand slowly suspended itself in the air, grabbed the offending alarm clock, and commenced to hurl it at the wall. BANG!

"GOOOD MOOORNIIIING Karin!" A high pitched voice interrupted the haze that clouded Karin's groggy mind. "Time to go to school!! Oh dear, is that your alarm clock"

Karin opened one eye to see Yuzu holding a black box that had wires hanging down the front with some sort of screen barely attached to them. "Wouldn't this be the third one this month Karin!!"

She smirked and grunted out a "Unn," before swinging her legs over the side of her bed and trudging her way to the bathroom.

"Breakfast will be ready in a couple of minutes so don't take too long." Yuzu sang out as she went back down the stairs to the kitchen. Karin shut the bathroom door and felt that she needed a nice cold shower to get her fully awake and pumped up for soccer practice today. Getting into the shower she hissed when the cold water hit her sensitive wound. Yeah, that was going to complicate things wasn't it?

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Toushiro's morning was punctuated by a loud squeal and two monsters specialized in the art of suffocation. "MATSUMOTO!!!!!!!!!!" Like usual the first words he uttered this morning was the accursed name of his fukutaicho. "AAAAH Taicho, why so cold? I just wanted to give you a morning greeting!"

"More like trying to kill him," Renji muttered between poorly muffled guffaws as he passed the open door to Toushiro's room.

Toushiro's right eye twitched. "Renji! See what you did you made Taicho mad."

"How can you tell when the only thing that pokes out from those mountains is his white hair?"

Realizing how tight her grip was getting and how purple her Taicho was starting to turn, Matsumoto quickly let go and exclaimed, "Today we have to register you in school Taicho. So we can't be late no matter what!!" While flouncing out of the room.

Toushiro forced himself to calm down. It would not due to start the day yelling at Matsumoto and Abrai when in thirty minutes they would have to power to utterly embarrass him. Just thinking of the situation made him twitch and grimace. Shaking his head he proceeded to get dressed. It seemed as if it was time to go to school.

8:00 a.m. Class 2A

Toushiro walked into the classroom that would be the arena for probably the most headache inducing mission he was ever given. Silence washed over the chattering 12 year olds and a collective gasp spread over the female members of his class. Toushiro rolled his eyes in disdain. Teenage humans were one thing, but preteens? Did Yamamoto seriously think that he was on the same mental capacity as antsy children on the cusp of puberty?! Oh sure he was shorter than half the guys here but that meant NOTHING, NOTHING!

"Toushiro…" Hitsugaya winced at the voice of Hyourinmaru pervading his thoughts. Ok so maybe he had the occasional bout of immaturity, but he thought glaring at his open mouthed gaping classmates, it was nothing compared to how these children were going to be. "Just think little dragon, it's like you're doing a mission with 25 Renji Abrai's."Hyourinmaru softly chuckled. Toushiro could feel a vein popping in his forehead as he glanced at the teacher waiting for her instructions- that was not a pleasant thought.

"AAh Hitsugaya-kun! Welcome to class 2A, why don't you introduce yourself?"

"I am Hitsugaya." What else is customary for humans to say on the first meeting….? "Oh, and please take care of me." That said Toushiro arched an eyebrow and waited for the teacher to give him further instructions.

"O-Oh, well then take the free seat next to Kurosaki-chan." The teacher pointed to two empty desks. "huh? Kurosaki-chan? Oh no it appears like she's not here. Does anyone know where Yuzu-chan is?"

"No Sensei! And Karin-san's not here either!"

Yuzu and Karin Kurosaki? But Toushiro's thoughts were interrupted as the door was gently opened to reveal an out of breath strawberry blonde. "Sorry Sensei! Karin and I had to explain to the nurse how Karin got injured this weekend. And then they made her fill out paperwork, and well you know how Karin is. She angered the nurse and now she has to stay filing in the front office until lunch time."

"Oh dear, not again! Well, then this is our new student Toushiro Hitsugaya-kun, he's going to be sitting next to you Yuzu-chan. So why don't you show him where you sit and get to know each other, ok? OK, that was quite a lot of excitement for today, LET"S BEGIN CLASS!"

"Hi! I'm Yuzu. These are our desks. It's a pleasure to meet you Toushiro-kun."

"It's Hitsugaya." Toshiro responded and turned away from her to look at the board. Apparently, the girl was Yuzu Kurosaki, which meant the one that got detained in the office must be the Karin he was looking for. Toushiro grimaced, please don't be like your brother.

12:00 p.m. Lunch Time in the School Courtyard

When the class was dismissed for lunch Toushiro made sure that he was far away from the rest of his classmates. It had been the most trying four hours of his life. Girls passed him notes. Boys glared at him and not a single sign of the Kurosaki he was looking for! Huffing in complete and utter irritation, he chose not to partake in the ritual these humans called "lunch time" and climbed a tree next to a large grass field and in order to observe his classmates as they scrambled around in the courtyard.

Unexpectedly a rag tag group of about four of his classmates, "The more idiotic looking of the bunch, if I should say so myself," gave a loud cheer and ran up to the sidewalk leading from the far side of the building where his classes were located. Toushiro scrutinized what seemed to be the cause of the change in emotion from the boys and noticed a girl around their age walking down to meet them. She was thin and tall, with longs legs. The dark black hair that was slightly longer in the front and shorter in the back, framed her round face and moved as she seemingly chewed out the less than brilliant looking boys and directed them in the direction of the large field. Nevertheless, the cut of her hair wasn't so styled as to be considered feminine. In fact, if it were not for the small swell that her oversized shirt did not manage to cover or the subtle dip of her waist, he would have been convinced that this creature was actually a boy.

"In some places, staring that intently at someone can be considered strange. Doing it while in a tree…? Well that's just plain stalking." Whispered a voice from above him. Toushiro's brain was just about done processing that the voice sounded identical to Abrai's when…

" Taicho!!!" Matsumoto sobbed out from next to him on the branch, all the while grabbing him and holding on with every asset her body provided. "NNNOOO my son is a stallkeeer! I should never have let him spend all that time with Soi Fon!"

"Matsumoto! Cease from strangling me and speaking nonsense this instant. It is not like that. I was merely obtaining data."

Matsumoto responded to the reprimand by grabbing her grumpy twitchy Taicho's shoulders and shaking him frantically, "But, you were looking at girls! You're too young! Too innocent!

"MATSUMOTO!!!!" Toushiro yelled. She responded by laughingly letting go and flash stepping to the branch Abrai is on. Toushiro irritatingly huffed and looked back at the girl. Her friends were clambered around a soccer ball and kicking it back and forth. She on the other hand was looking directly at the tree that Toushiro and his team were sitting in. He met her wide eyes straight on and furrowed his brow in annoyance. "That girl's probably the Kurosaki we're looking for and you two may have just blown the "me enrolling in school to gain her trust in the first place" part of the mission."

To his annoyance "Oi, that's no reason to speak to your mother the way you did." was the response. Toushiro glanced out of the corner of his eye. "h-hey!" Abrai continued to exclaim as ice quickly trapped his hands and feet to the tree he was standing on.

Smirking Toushio went to look back at the girl he suspected was his mission target when he heard "Hey KUROSAKI. HEADS UP!"

Karin, who was staring at the mysterious people in the tree near the field, totally forgot that her friends were warming up for a game of soccer. At the sound of the call she quickly turned around to face the ball. Her sudden movement creased the area of her injury and caused slight spasms of pain, which she was not braced for, to shoot through her nerves. Wincing, Karin accidentally kicked the ball straight into the direction of the tree. Luckily for Toushiro, he was staring so intently. He noticed her surprise at receiving the ball, he also noticed her wince and misfired kicked. Dropping out of the tree Toushiro drew in his right leg, tilted his body back and forcefully kicked the ball while flipping in midair. Karin ducked as the ball flew past her and into the goal on the other side of the field.

Karin was impressed and as for her friends, well, her friends could only stare in amazement. "Hey, White-haired Kid! Do you want to play with us?" Karin called out. Toushiro responded with a silent shake of the head. Karin was annoyed. This kid was obviously watching them! And now he doesn't want to play?!

"C'mon you look like you can play really well. And what else can you possibly have to do on break?" She responded.

"Karin!!" Her friends said, "He's the new kid, don't ask him."

"Why not?"

"He looks weird…and angry."

Toushiro tried his best to ignore them and turn away. So when Karin faced him again he was already walking towards the building.

"Well, alright it's your loss!" She called out while angrily mumbling under her breath as she turned around to rejoin the guys.

Toushiro observed the girl further as another group of kids came to the field (from a new more discreet location). Together both groups started an actual game of soccer. It appeared that Kurosaki was in pain for some reason, but continued to play anyways. Toushiro internally snorted as he noticed that even though the other team seemed to take full advantage of the girl's weaker state, her friends were totally ignorant of her predicament. He was right, his male classmates appeared to be complete idiots. Suddenly, a member from the other team kicked the ball straight into Karin's side. He watched as she doubled over in pain.

Observation would have to wait. It seemed as if he was going to get further involved with the Kurosaki than he would like to on the first meeting.

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I totally know that I gave Toushiro stalker tendicies. But it makes sense to me. His sword is a Dragon. I feel that the swords have to be compatible with their wielders personality. Dragons hoard things. So Toushiro obsesses over missions and work and stuff, since his division is like a part of his hoard. It'll come into play later, I just didn't want people to think that I made toushiro kinda weird for no reason lol.

OMG! I'm so sorry that this is really late. Well be happy to know I cut it off here in order to post. Lol its almost double than what I usually post, but please don't get used to long post like these. It's just that the meeting is sooo important and they are going to have true interaction in the next chapter, obviously. Yeah and this is unbeta-d so please excuse spelling and grammatical errors until I can check it over.