(A/N: I've decided to call Karin's alternate version Fandom!Karin in the context of the story. However, the characters will still have to refer to her in other ways. Anyway on with the story)

Disclaimer: Kubo own Bleach

3rd Person pov

Ichigo and Rukia walked in the door at 7:15am. Very cautiously they tiptoed up the stairs. Ichigo got back into his body and Rukia her Gigai. Both then went down the stairs to watch TV and pretend like everything was normal. Ichigo agreed to let Rukia do all the talking. When Ishin finally made his way down the stairs he noticed Ichigo and Rukia sitting civilly on the couch together. Ichigo had, unintentionally and unconsciously, only to be comfortable put his arms up around the couch. To anyone, but him it would seem like he had his arm around Rukia.

"Oi, Ichigo making a move on Rukia-chan are you and so early in the morning?" Ishin snickered.

"What the hell?" Ichigo barked leaping over the couch and kicking his dad in the face.

"Ichigo what're you doing, remember we had something dire to tell your father this morning?"

"Tell me what Rukia-chan?"

"Otou-san where's Karin she's not in her bed?" Yuzu called from upstairs.

"What my little Karin-chan is missing?"

"That's kind of what we wanted to talk to you about dad." Ichigo said getting up.

"Karin's get an early jump on a work study project," Rukia was smiling, "She wanted to earn her own money to get something for herself. She's doing one of those hands on activity projects that schools offer. Right Ichigo?" she jabbed him in the ribs.

"R-right, yeah Karin's fine she's just at her job. Rukia and I had to take her there earlier, her shift starts early." Ishin ran over to the poster of Masaki.

Oh boy here we go, Ichigo thought to himself rolling his eyes.

"Oh Masaki our little Karin-chan's growing up, she found herself a job, you'd be so proud of her." Ishin cried against the wall.

"Well she's only on a three day period she should be back within three days," Rukia said, "But don't be surprised if she acts different when she comes back."

"Different? Different how?" Yuzu asked coming down the stairs.

"Well, how should I put this," Ichigo said rubbing the back of his neck, "Getting a job kind of changes a person, there personality changes over time, sometimes it doesn't take that long though."

"Does it change back?" Yuzu asked concerned.

"Of course it does," Rukia smiled.

"But it generally takes longer to change back," Ichigo said.

"Okay then," Yuzu walked into the kitchen, "I'll make some breakfast then."

"A job? Karin's Eleven," Ichigo glared at Rukia twitching.

"Hey, they bought it." She shrugged with a smile.

"Whatever," he groaned.

Meanwhile Urahara was busy at work trying to get Karin and Fandom!Karin into the same body. Whilst he worked on developing a special Soul Candy Karin and Fandom!Karin exchanged conversation.

"So what's it like being a Shinigami?" Karin asked her alternate self.

"You get used to it after a while," Fandom!Karin answered, "It's pretty dangerous, but it's nothing I can't handle. Although I miss a lot of class, along with Yuzu."

"Huh Yuzu?"

"Yeah, she sort of developed interesting abilities and the ability to see spirits from being in the influence of my reiatsu so much. The same goes for Arisawa-sensei." Fandom!Karin sipped her tea.

"Arisawa-sensei," Karin pondered the last name, "Wait Tatsuki Arisawa?"

"Oh you know her too?" Fandom!Karin asked.

"She's Ichigo's childhood friend. They were trained in martial arts since they were kids." Karin answered.

"Oh that's different from me, Arisawa-sensei taught me martial arts."

"When did you…I mean…I…we…you know what I mean?" Karin was trying to ask what got Fandom!Karin interested in Martial arts.

Fandom!Karin laughed understanding her alternate self's frustration, but was quick to respond, "Well unlike you Yuzu and I don't have an older brother so sometimes felt so unprotected and insecure and so Mom signed me up for martial arts lessons and I've been under Arisawa-sensei's guidance for years."

"Huh she's alive?"

"Of cour…oh you mean, our Mom, yeah she's alive. Ichigo told me what happened with this Grand Fisher hollow, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, we don't blame him for what happened?" Karin said trying not to think about it.

"I think he blames himself though ever since he met me. I wouldn't be surprised if he's beating himself up over it." Fandom!Karin stated.

Meanwhile…

"Ichigo seems to be a little more aggressive today than he was the other day. I wonder what's up." Shinji said as he watched Hiyori and Ichigo spar to help Ichigo develop his Vizard powers.

"Who knows?" Love said flipping open a magazine.

Ichigo slammed Hiyori through a rock formation and summoned his mask, "Getsuga Tensho!" Hiyori used Shunpo to escape.

"Maybe we should have him take a break he is being a little over the top today," Kensei suggested.

"Nah, if it gets life threatening for Hiyori, or if she asks for our help, then we'll interfere," Shinji smirked taking satanic joy in Hiyori's savage beating from Ichigo.

Urahara's shop

"So what's Tatsuki like in this world?" Fandom!Karin asked, "In my world she's a total punk motorbike headband leather jacket the works."

"Wow, that's almost the extreme to what Tatsuki's like in this world," Karin said finding the news interesting, "Tatsuki's just your average tomboy from what I've seen her act around Ichi-nii. Although she can get pretty aggressive when it comes to Orihime-chan so I've heard."

"Ori-hime-chan," Fandom!Karin seemed shaken up as though recalling a painful memory.

"What's wrong?" Karin asked. Fandom!Karin didn't respond. "Oi!," Karin snapped her fingers in front of her face. Fandom!Karin snapped out of it.

"Gomen," she apologized.

"Why did you space out like that, what's wrong with Orihime-chan in your world?" Karin asked.

Fandom!Karin shook her head fast, "I don't want to talk about it."

"Okay, okay I hear you." Karin sipped some juice.

"Oi, Karin-chan's your assistance is required." Urahara said sliding open the door, "Time for test number one."

One day later…

"So does Ichi-nii have any friends?" Fandom!Karin asked Karin when the two finally had a chance to speak.

"Well I know he's friends with Tatsuki, and he and Rukia-chan seem pretty close oh there's also Yasatura Sado, he and Ichi-nii are sort of the tough guys of the high school."

"That name doesn't strike me at all as familiar." Fandom!Karin said.

"Huh, really, Tatsuki should at least know who he is they're in the same class." Karin stated.

"Nah the only one who Tatsuki really hangs out with in class is Uryu ever since he became part of our group." Fandom!Karin answered.

"Huh, Uryu Ishida?"

"Oh you know him to?" Fandom!Karin said surprised.

"I know of him, he's the top student in Ichi-nii's class, why's he in your group?" Fandom!Karin explained to Karin about Quinces.

"Uryu's also the head of the archery and crafts club in my world. He's also the most wanted bachelor if you can believe it. I don't know what the girls see in him. He just looks like a four-eyed geek to me." Fandom!Karin said.

"So when you got your Shinigami powers did Tatsuki teach you any Kendo?" Karin asked.

"Plenty, the moment Rukia and I became friends I went straight to Arisawa-Sensei and asked her if she knew anything about Kendo."

Flashback Fandom!Karin's pov

"Konichiwa Arisawa-sensei," I bowed.

"Nice of you to finally show up." Tatsuki sneered.

"Arisawa-sensei I have a request."

"What is it?" Tatsuki asked her permanent scowl upon her face.

"Do you, know anything about Kendo perchance?"

"You wanna learn Kendo eh Karin-san?"

"Hai,"

"Well I don't know much, but I can help you practice with what I do know?" she tossed me a wooden sword. "We'll start with the basics."

End Flashback 3rd Person pov

"Arisawa-sensei helped me live out my early days as a Shinigami. If she hadn't taught me I don't think I would've made it past some battles. Urahara taught me the rest of my fighting ability and the rest of my strength I just picked up over time."

"It must be pretty cool to be us in your world." Karin smiled.

"Eh," Fandom Karin shrugged, "It's different than just being a regular student I'll give you that."

"Kariiiiiin-chaaaaaans," Urahara called from the other room. Both girls sighed and went to see what he needed them for.

Ichigo's pov

The next morning I woke up and made a beeline for the Urahara shop. Today was the day he was supposedly going to be done with setting Karin up with her alternate self in the same body. Rukia caught up with me eventually. When we finally made it to Urahara's place we walked in and were surprised to find arrows taped to the floor. We followed them to a room where Urahara was standing near Karin.

"Konichiwa Ichi-nii," she smiled.

"Huh, where's the other you?" I said not seeing any trance of Karin's other self.

Karin blinked as her eyes changed from dark gray to dark blue, "Right here, it's almost like perfect fusion."

I looked at Urahara as if to say 'Explain'

"Well at first I thought the simplest solution would be turn one of them into a Soul Candy, but unfortunately I couldn't do that to your sister because you would probably kill me. Secondly if I turned the other Karin-chan into a soul candy it would be your sister fighting hollows, again you'd probably kill me. Then Shinigami Karin-chan brought to my attention that, like you she had been issued a combat pass by Ukitake-taicho so I made a small attachment to your sister's body. Shinigami Karin-chan if you would." Karin turned around and showed a small tattoo on her neck.

"What is that?"

"I call it a Soul Tattoo, with it I can bond two Souls of the same molecular structure into one being. It worked on Abarai-san and his Gigai when I asked him for his assistance the other day so I figured joining your sister and her alternate self would work just the same. The tattoo is removable, so when it's served out its purpose I can remove it from Karin-chan. In the meantime Shinigami Karin-chan can use her combat pass to leave the area, but only if absolutely necessary. Remember, if word gets out to Soul Society that there's more than one Zangetsu around there could be trouble. Karin's eyes returned back to dark gray.

"It'll be fine Ichi-nii don't worry about it, I'll be fine."

"If you say so," I sighed, "Now come on, I'll walk you to school." Karin walked out the door, I shut in front of me. "Have you made any progress on the root of the problem?" I asked Urahara.

"Though you might ask, and actually I have a little bit. What we're dealing with is an Arrancar with the ability to open dimensional wormholes. I only figured as much because of all the hollows that poured through the wormhole along with Shinigami Karin-chan, most likely to get her out of Aizen's way. I can only gather that a similar Arrancar hasn't done so to you because our Aizen probably has already figured that if you're not in his way one of your siblings might take your place and so he'd only be causing trouble for an alternate version of himself. As for the other Aizen, because you don't exist he probably figured that getting Karin-chan out of the picture would solve all of his problems since she's his biggest threat. But this is only a hunch. Still, I'd be careful."

"Hai, Urahara-san,"

"Anyway get going your sister's probably wondering what's keeping you." I nodded and walked through the door

Urahara's pov

I may need to pay Soul Society a visit, if I'm going to send Shinigami Karin-chan back to her world I'll have to get Kurotsuchi-taicho's assistance in regulating dimensional wormholes. It's a good thing I got the data I needed over the course of these last three days. We're it not for that making that Soul Tattoo would've only taken a couple of hours.

"Well no use sitting around here," I sighed and walked over to the closet, I removed my hat and dusted off my old Captain's Hayori. I turned it inside out, put it on and went to Yoruichi's room and knocked. "Yoruichi-san,"

"Yeah,"

"I'm taking a trip, you're in charge till I get back." I said.

"Roger that Kisuke," I sighed and, with Benihime in hand opened the Senkaimon and walked through.

(A/N: Urahara goes back to Soul Society there's a twist. Can he and Mayuri fix things or could getting the 12th Division captain involved only make things worse. Well you won't know until the next chapter. So just be patient. Reviews and everything are welcome. Let me know what you think of this. I know right now this seems more like and IchiKarin story than anything, but just be patient, all will be revealed in time. And don't be shy on questions and predictions I am here for you guys. I live for Bleach Fanservice ^_^).