Hi guys! It's been too long! I'm really sorry... I've been working on college stuff and school work.... (mostly school work I have a few more essays to write for college apps _) anyway I had a 3 day weekend and I used the extra day to write most of this chapter. I think it's shorter, but since i haven't written this in so long I figured I should get SOMETHING out. so here it is! Enjoy!

Chapter 9

Karin marched to Jinta's classroom. She was going to give him a piece of her mind whether he wanted it or not. Maybe even a piece of her fist in his face if she still felt like it.

"Hanakari Jinta!" She walked up to his desk, grabbed his shirt and pulled him across so he couldn't get away. "What the hell did you do to my sister?!"

"What?" He looked at her confused.

"You know what! She came home and locked herself in her room and cried. All day long. She's still there! What the hell did you do?!" She hissed.

"What?"

Karin glared, she was very close to losing it and just punching him, when Jinta's sensei came in.

"What is going on? You aren't in this class Kurosaki-san."

Karin turned around to explain when Jinta took advantage of her distraction and bolted from the room.

"HEY!" Karin and the sensei yelled.

Jinta just ran. He ran out of the school, down the street, down another street, until he stopped in front of the Kurosaki residence. Yuzu's in there. He took a breath then walked up to the door and knocked. No one answered. If Yuzu's the only one home, and she's locked in her room, then she won't answer the door. Jinta closed his eyes and gathered up his courage to open the door. He reached for the knob, but it wasn't there. He opened his eyes and realized he was face to face with Isshin.

"Jinta-san." He was definitely not his usual happy go lucky self. "Why are you here?"

"I... uhh... I wanted to.... um... see Yuzu."

"She's not taking visitors." He was about to close the door, but Jinta blurted out everything, "Please! I need to see her! I need to apologize she was going to confess but I stopped her because I wanted to do it first but she ran off before I could explain and she didn't show up and Karin came and she was going to kill me and she told me Yuzu was upset so I had to see her. It's all a big misunderstanding!"

Isshin smiled, and opened the door wider. "Upstairs, first room on the left."

Ikkaku was in a weird mood. Yesterday he got 5 different makeovers. One from Yumichika, the other four from Mizuho. He was supposed to be overheating from the anger, but today he wasn't angry he wasn't even annoyed. Yesterday he got 5 makeovers and he didn't seem to feel anything.

Yumichika giggled when he saw Ikkaku.

"So, how were the makeovers. Did she make you as ugly as she is?"

"Not really."

"Did she make you wear an ugly dress?"

"No."

"Did she make you wear ugly makeup and ugly nail polish."

"Nope."

Yumichika was confused. Ikkaku wasn't getting angry. He wasn't saying more than one or two words. Ikkaku never shuts up. What's wrong? GASP! Yumichika jumped to the other side of the hall. "You're ill! Stay back! Keep your ugly sickness away from my beauty!"

"I'm not sick Yumichika."

"YES YOU ARE! SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH YOU! SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG AND UGLY!"

"Whatever." And with that Ikkaku walked away.

Jinta nervously stared at the sign on the door that said 'Karin and Yuzu', Yuzu obviously made it, it was in her handwriting and her cut out flowers that everyone used to love back when they were in the same class. He knocked on the door.

"Tou-san?" came a small voice from behind the door.

"Uh, no. It's me."

"Jinta!?" As soon as she heard his voice she forgot everything. Jinta's here! To see me?! She jumped out of bed, pulled the covers over her pillow, shoved all of her stuffed animals in the closet, got dressed, brushed her hair and opened the door in record time. Then when she saw his sorry face everything came back to her. She felt the tears coming back, when she realized this her first instinct was to shut the door and go back to her bed to cry. She was about to do this when Jinta entered her room. "Wha-"

"I like you too."

Yuzu stared. WHAT?!

"I like you Yuzu."

She blinked. "What?"

Jinta leaned toward her, in seconds his mouth was lightly pressed against hers. WHAT?!

He pulled away and said it again. "I like you Yuzu"

"What?" He kissed her again.

"Do I really need to say it again?"

Yuzu stared at Jinta, she touched her lips, where Jinta's lips had just been. She smiled. "Can you say it again?"

"I like you Yuzu."

"I like you too Jinta." And this time she kissed him.

Rangiku happily ate with Renji, Izuru and Shuuhei. Even Ikkaku and Yumichika ate with them today. Yumichika sat as far away from Ikkaku as possible and made a big deal about him having an ugly sickness, it was kind of funny. Ikkaku and Shuuhei told everyone about their kendo match. Renji told Izuru funny jokes to make him smile, since he was taking the Momo thing pretty hard.

Rangiku decided it was time to tell everyone the good news. "I'm back together with Gin-chan!"

Everyone stopped and stared at Rangiku.

"What?" Shuuhei was stunned.

"He was in on what Aizen did to Momo!" Izuru accused.

"No he wasn't. He knew Momo would never believe anyone, unless she saw him with her own eyes. He was the one who set everything up so she'd know the truth! He's sorry about the effect, but Momo did have to know!"

"Rangiku, what about all that stuff you were saying about him leaving you and being such a crappy boyfriend?" Ikkaku asked.

"He apologized and he promised he wouldn't do it again. We talked everything over."

"But what if he does do it again? We don't like what he does to you, Rangiku. You change when things start getting crappy with him. We don't want you to be like that again." Renji said.

"But guys. Gin promised! He never promised before. Things won't be like that again. We talked about everything. What happened, how to make sure it doesn't happen again. We went over that. I'm happy. We're happy. Be happy for me! I promise if things get like that again I'll stop seeing him for forever."

The guys looked skeptical, "I promise."

"You don't seem to notice when things get ugly Rangiku, but when they do I'll let you know. So right now be happy and beautiful." Yumichika smiled. "We're glad you're happy again."

"Thanks Yumi!" Rangiku glomped him.

"What did I say about calling me Yumi? It's UGLY!"

Toshiro waited with Momo's parents in the hospital waiting room. The doctors were giving Momo more tests so they couldn't go see her for a couple of hours. As soon as they heard Momo was in an accident they canceled their work meetings and caught the next plane to Karakura to see their daughter. They had hardly spoken to Toshiro after they found out it was partly his fault that their daughter was in a coma.

"Hitsugaya-san? Hinamori-san won't be able to have visitors for a few more hours. You've been here day and night, go home and rest." Momo's doctor said to him.

"I've got to stay. It's my fault."

The doctor sighed and turned to the Hinamori's "Your daughter is going to need another test, we think we may have found something. Could you please sign this form."

"What kind of test?" Momo's dad asked.

Momo's mom stood and sat down next to Toshiro. "Toshiro-kun. I want to let you know that we aren't mad at you. We are disappointed, but we aren't mad. We think of you as a son. And I want to thank you for being such a good friend to Momo, and for staying by her side when we weren't here, but I'm going to ask you to leave now. We are her parents and we can watch over her now. Please go home and sleep, you look like you haven't slept in a while. You can visit tomorrow, we'll be waiting for you."

"Okay, Hinamori-san. I'll be back tomorrow."

She smiled and squeezed his hand, "You better be."

Orihime hummed happily to herself as she sewed up her mini Rangiku doll. "It's done!"

She got up and skipped to Uryu. "Ishida-kun, what do you think?"

He looked up from his sewing machine and examined Orihime's doll. "Good job Inoue-san. It looks just like Masumoto-san. Are you going to make more outfits for her?"

"Thanks Ishida-kun! I'm going to make three. Then I'll give it to her."

"I suggest a pink long-sleeved shirt with a flower patterned skirt."

"Oh! I agree! That sounds perfect for Rangiku-chan! Do you have some extra fabric? I'll pay you back I promise."

"Here. Don't worry about it." He handed her the pink and flower patterned fabric. "Are you going to eat dinner with the club today?"

"Nope. I'm going to talk to Tatsuki today. She's finally decided to work up the courage to ask Abarai-kun on a date! Don't tell anyone!" She giggled and skipped back to her seat.

"Ishida-san? Did you decide yet?" A first year club member came up to him. "Will you eat with us tonight?"

"No, not tonight. Sorry."

Toshiro walked by the park on the way home. Karin was there angrily shooting her soccer ball at the net, over and over again. He attempted to walk past unnoticed, but she looked up and saw him before he could duck out of view.

"Toshiro. Where have you been?"

"Huh?"

"You know soccer? We haven't seen you all week."

"I've been busy."

"Busy with what? I doubt you've gone off and gotten a girlfriend." She laughed and kicked the ball at him.

"Momo's in the hospital." He shoot it right back at her.

"What? What happened? Is she okay?"

"I don't want to talk about. Ask your brother. Why are you so angry?"

"Jinta got away!" She took a shot at the goal, hit it perfectly in the top corner.

"Hm?"

"He made Yuzu cry. I went to his classroom to give him hell and he ran away. Haven't seen him all day. That coward." She retrieved the ball and kicked it in the net again.

"Don't do that Karin. School fights can end really badly." Like with Momo.

"I'm not stupid Toshiro. I know not to get suspended." She picked up the ball. "The weird thing though is that Yuzu doesn't seem upset anymore. She locked herself up in her room yesterday and today, but after I scared Jinta off I haven't felt anything from Yuzu."

"You and your weird twin powers."

"Shut up! It's not weird!" She kicked the ball at him. He headed it back to her. "Jerk."

"I'm going." He started walking away.

"No, stay." Karin ran after him.

"Karin. I'm tired. I don't have time to play. I've spent all day yesterday, last night and today at the hospital."

"Sorry." Karin stared at the ground. Now she'd have to go home and tell Yuzu what she did. Yuzu's going to be mad. I don't want to go home yet... "Hey, Toshiro? Can I come with you? Have you had dinner yet?"

"No."

"Great! We can eat together!"

Toshiro was to tired to argue or explain that he said no to her coming along. "Fine, but you better cook, I burn everything I touch."

Karin stopped, Crap! So do I! "Uh... maybe we should eat out then."

"No, I want to go home."

"....okay...." You asked for it.

Yumichika secretly followed Ikkaku after school. He was just acting way too weird today. So far it was very unexciting. Ikkaku went to kendo practice as usual, went to get dinner with the team as usual, and right about now would be when Mizuho would show up and cling onto his arm and talk while Ikkaku walked home, but there was no Mizuho. Yumichika was surprised, was that it? Did Ikkaku finally get rid of her? No, if he did then he'd be overjoyed, not weird.

Yumichika noticed Ikkaku sigh as he left the sushi restaurant and walked home. This was when Yumichika decided not to secretly follow Ikkaku anymore. "Hey Ikkaku!" Ikkaku stopped and let Yumichika catch up to him. "Have you gotten rid of that ugly disease yet?"

"I don't know, your the one who seems to know."

"I think I've figured out what disease you have."

"What?"

"You're depressed. What happened?"

"No I'm not."

"Then how come you aren't loud and obnoxious and ugly today?"

"Didn't you say my disease was ugly?"

"Yes."

"Then how am I ugly?"

"It's a different ugly, anyone next to me looks ugly!" He ran his fingers through his hair and flipped it. Sometimes Yumichika fells like he's in the middle of a hair commercial.

"Weirdo."

Yumichika scoffed. "Take that back! You're just jealous!"

"I AM NOT JEALOUS! Why the hell would I be jealous of some weirdo like you!?"

Yumichika smiled, He's baaaaack. "Why wouldn't you be jealous of someone as beautiful as I?"

Ikkaku looked like he was about to explode, but then he suddenly calmed down.

"Ikkaku?"

"What?"

"What happened?"

"Nothing."

"No, something just happened. You didn't lose your temper. You always lose your temper."

"Not today. Not ever. I'm never going to lose control again."

"What?"

"You heard me." They had reached Ikkaku's house. "I've got to go, see you tomorrow Yumichika."

Not going to lose control again? What happened yesterday? Yumichika asked himself.

"Here's your rice." Karin placed a bowl of rice in front of the exhausted Toshiro.

"Didn't you put white rice in the rice cooker?"

"Yes."

"Karin?"

"Yes?"

"This rice is brown. Actually, it's more black than brown."

"Shut up!"

"How did this happen? Even I can make rice! You put it in the rice cooker and press start!"

"Hey! I thought I didn't press start the first time! So I pressed start again!"

"BAKA! You burned rice! With a rice cooker!"

"Fine! Then why don't you make dinner Iron Chef-san!"

"I WILL!" Toshiro stormed into the kitchen leaving Karin alone in the dinning room.

YAY! I've finished another chapter. Since I haven't posted in so long i'm just going to put this up today, I also just wrote it today.... err yesterday since it's 12:29AM now... oops... anyway there it is. sorry for the wait... those of you that were still waiting. I love you for sticking with me even though my chapter updates are so spotty. but hey at least i'm not dropping this story right?

uh anyway that part with Jinta is talking and it's all one run on sentence with no punctuation i did that to show that he was talking really fast... I hope you got that that was what i was trying to do there... and i'm still working on another chadXyachiru thing... if you have any suggestions for that i'd be happy to consider them. :)

oh and by the way, leaving Karin alone is probably a bad decision hehe, you'll find out why in the next chapter!

which i will get out asap!