Two chapters today! Be grateful people! Haha, just kidding. By the way, the other chapter I'm referring to is my new story, "Flashbacks", which I think is going to be much better than this one (I'm not really liking it as much as I thought I would). Anyway, on with the crack.

Hinamori was petrified. And it wasn't the Adjuchas in front of her that was causing her so much fear. He was taken care of with a single kido spell; not much of a threat. No, what was scaring her so much was the thought of the chocolate box she had left haphazardly on Hitsugaya's desk. Had he eaten one? Had he already fallen in love with someone? And what if someone else had tried a piece? Hinamori didn't want to think of the damage that chocolate could cause. How could she have been so stupid? She should never have followed through on this crazy scheme.

"Death by lightning!" Karin cried beside her, and a bolt of white hot energy shot out of the scythe she was holding, incinerating the two Adjuchas that were bearing down on her. She wiped her brow.

"Well, that's the last of them," she said with relief, coming over to Hinamori. "Thanks Momo." Hinamori could only nod.

"Can we go back now taicho?" she asked hopefully, trying not to sound too anxious.

"Sure!" Karin replied. "We've got nothing else to do here and I've got to write up a damn report on all this." Hinamori stuck out her zanpakto and opened a senkai gate. She followed the hell butterfly thought the door, praying that she would make it back to Hitsugaya before disaster struck.

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Unfortunately, disaster was a mild word to describe the situation in Seireitei at this point.

"Damn it," Hitsugaya cursed. "I'm out of good hiding spots!" He had gone everywhere he could think of, but apparently, Matsumoto knew him way to well and had sought him out everywhere he had tried to go to get away from her. And he may be a taicho, but after 1,000 shunpo steps, anyone would start slowing down.

"Taicho!" He could hear Matsumoto call him from a mile away, but it was way too close for him.

"How do I get rid of her?" he wondered frantically. He turned a corner and crashed right into Isshin.

"Hitsugaya taicho!" he exclaimed, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the person he was addressing so jovially had just barreled into him at lightning speed.

"Kurosaki taicho!" Hitsugaya panted. But he didn't have time to chat.

"Do me a favor," he pleaded. "Distract Matsumoto for me." And with that he was gone, turning down the street on the left. Isshin stood there for a moment, scratching his head curiously, when Matsumoto appeared.

"Kurosaki taicho!" she said brightly. "Have you seen my taicho?" It took all of Isshin's willpower to keep himself from bursting out in laugher, but he decided to play along. Hitsugaya was marrying his daughter after all. And besides, if he cooperated, maybe he could force a good story out of him later.

"He went that way," Isshin said, pointing to his right. "He seemed to be in quite a hurry."

"Thanks," Matsumoto said cheerily, disappearing in the direction Isshin had indicated. At that point, Isshin's resolve broke, and he laughed harder than he had in a long time.

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Completely oblivious to the madness that was occurring in Seireitei, Renji was still playing idly with his piece of chocolate. Deciding that it was finally soft enough for his liking (it was practically soup by now,) he licked it greedily off his fingers. He was still fishing the last few morsels out from between his fingernails when he heard a voice.

"What the heck are you doing Renji?" Karin asked, raising her eyebrow at his very curious behavior. Ordinarily, Renji would have realized how odd it was that he had his tongue wrapped around his finger, but at the moment, he was way more fixated on something else.

"Karin, did you do something different today?" he asked embarrassed at these unexpected feelings he was having for his friend's sister.

"Huh?" Karin asked in confusion.

"You know," Renji continued awkwardly. "Like your hair or something?"

"Renji, are you feeling ok?" Karin asked in concern. "Do you have a fever?" Renji blushed.

"I don't think so," he replied. "You just…look nice today." He flushed an even darker shade of red. Karin wasn't sure whether to laugh or punch him.

"Ok, what's the catch?" she asked knowingly. "You either want something, in which case you are going about it entirely the wrong way, or someone put you up to this, in which case I want to know who they are so I can pummel them." Renji's face was the color of his hair now.

"No no, nothing like that!" he defended. "It's just…Karin I…" He didn't really know what to say. How had he never realized how much he loved Karin? She had always been like a sister to him. But she was engaged, and far beyond his reach.

"Well, when you feel like telling me, you know where to find me," she said, turning her back on him and walking away.

"Wait!" he cried desperately, then realized that he had absolutely nothing to say to her.

"I'm in a hurry," she said impatiently. "It's my sparring day with Ikkaku, and I'm already late because of those stupid Adjuchas." She continued to walk away towards 11th squad, but Renji trailed behind her like a sick puppy, not wanting to let her out of his sight.

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"Oi, Ikkaku!" Karin called. No one really cared if she shouted, this was 11th squad after all, it was their main form of communication. "Where the heck are you?!"

"Who's screaming in my courtyard?" said a deep voice. "Do you want to fight?" Zaraki came around the corner, zanpakto in hand. Karin was entirely un-intimidated by his imposing figure.

"I've never wanted to fight you before, Zaraki taicho, and I never will, so don't get your hopes up," Karin said with a smirk.

"Are you afraid of me?" Zaraki asked amused.

"If I said I was, would you leave me alone?" she replied. Zaraki laughed a huge, hearty laugh.

"You're not afraid of anything Kurosaki, never have been. So what do you say? I don't know why, but I'm just itching to fight with you today." Karin shook her head.

"No thank you," she stated soundly. "You don't spar, you fight to the death. I like my life, thank you very much."

"Think you're going to lose?" Zaraki challenged. Karin smirked again.

"No," she said coolly. "But it's not worth the risk. Anyway, have you seen Ikkaku?"

"What do you want Ikkaku for?" he asked, suddenly very defensive.

"To spar with," Karin said casually.

"What!" Zaraki growled, causing the earth around them to shake. "So you'll spar with Ikkaku, but not with me!" Karin laughed.

"What's wrong Zaraki taicho?" she chided. "Jealous?" Zaraki's face turned red for the first time in his life, but luckily for him, Karin was too busy laughing to notice.

"Anyway, I'll see you later Zaraki taicho," she said, and turned to go.

"Damn it Kurosaki!" Zaraki called after her. "You're going to fight me if it's the last thing you do!"

"Over my dead body!" Renji cried protectively, jumping in front of Zaraki with his zanpakto raised. There was no way he was going to let Zaraki fight Karin.

Ok, weird place to end it, I know, but maybe it'll have you coming back for more. Anyway, my hands hurt.