A/N: Hey guys thanks for reviewing and following it means a great deal and I'm glad you like the story so far. I felt inspired so that is why you have this chapter so quick. Here I am going to explore Karin a bit more because things are never what they seem.

Disclaimer: Characters and such belong to Tite Kubo.


Chapter Two

Karin Kurosaki was not the girl that she portrayed in school. In fact, she saw herself as having two completely different personalities. In school Karin was shy, distant, anti-social and kept to herself, avoiding people, especially the boys. In reality, Karin was a tomboy, out-going, extremely confident and ferocious and as she found out early in her life well liked by people, she was just one of them people. The real Karin who people loved was for home life that was all, she never showed it to anyone else except her family. The fake Karin, which she liked to call it, was for everyone else. There was a reason for this, Karin Kurosaki, who oozed confidence, was engaged to be wed, to a boy she had never met. So, for this reason she changed, not because she wanted to but because she had to. Yuzu was always the prettier twin and everyone they ever attended school with or knew them knew that but as Karin got older, she matured in appearance, blossoming into the most beautiful young woman most had seen. This didn't go unnoticed by the boys and she was always being asked out because of her physical looks. Karin decided she would become distant and stay away from people, covering her face with the front of her midnight black hair and only looking up when absolutely necessary. She wanted to be invisible because that meant she wouldn't get to know anyone, especially any boys, meaning she couldn't open her heart and fall in love for the first, which would ultimately lead to heart break. She decided to ice over her heart because that's the only way she knew she could survive until her wedding day. Karin had been screwed over, or that how she saw it and so she made up her mind, pretty earlier on that she hated the boy who was to become her husband. She hated him with every fibre of her being because he ruined everything. Eight months. Eight months until her birthday and then her wedding day shortly after. Since she was ten she had known about her fate and so every year she despised her birthday because it meant she was one year closer. She needed time but time was a lass not on her side.

Isshin Kurosaki, Karin father, had told Karin when she was ten that her mother, who had passed away four years before, had organised the whole thing to settle an agreement with another family. Isshin refused to go back on it and told Karin that she was to do this for her family. Karin had responded poorly to being told this.

"Why is it me that has to be married off to someone I will never meet until I get to the alter. Why is it me who is being forced to do this? Why is it me and not Ichigo or Yuzu? Why me?" Karin had yelled all over the house. Isshin, Ichigo, Karin's older brother, and Yuzu had been sat round their dining room table as he explained to the family the circumstances and that Karin would be married.

"Because Karin the family, who's son you will be marrying doesn't have any other children, just him and your sister is younger than you," Isshin had explained.

"So, what because Yuzu is six minutes younger it means I have to be the one to get married?"

"Yes."

"Why, dad?"

"In the agreement it was decided that our first daughter would marry their son, we did not know until you were born Karin that we were actually having to baby girls. Do you understand Karin you must do this for our family and for your mother?"

"I do." Karin excused herself then and went to her room. Ichigo and Yuzu hadn't said and word, not knowing what to say and how to take in that their sister was being wed to someone they didn't know. Ichigo was furious.

Ichigo, Karin and Yuzu spent four years trying to convince their father to let Karin marry who she wanted and if she ever wanted. To let her experience love. They had been unsuccessful and Karin had come to terms with her fate in a sense but that didn't mean she didn't hold hatred towards certain people, she just never expressed it. With Ichigo getting married a few months ago to the love of his life, Rukia Kuchiki, at twenty-one years old, Isshin had decided to move them to Karakura Town because it was in close proximity to, you guess it, her fiance and Isshin's new job as head of trauma surgery at Karakura hospital. Ichigo and Rukia had decided to come also moving in next door because Ichigo wanted to say close to his family. Karin was a bit confused why he wanted to stay this close, literally he was right next door.

Karin had woken up this morning bright and early, half five to be exact and realised she couldn't sleep. She had taken a shower, dressed in her brand new uniform, thrown her hair up as she usually did, put on her trainers, grab her satchel and headed off to school telling her father and sister where she would be. She needed to release so of the anger within her and calm down, so she ran all the way to school, gone out on the sports field and decided to play football. Her favourite sport. She loved football so much and she was pretty good at it. She loved the adrenaline rush she got from playing it and the thrill of scoring under pressure. It was her release and today she needed it. After an hour or so of playing she notice a dark figure, a boys figure, stood in one of the second floor windows watching her. She had no clue who it was but they stayed there watching her for another forty-five minutes before the bell rang and Karin ran off to reception to meet Yuzu and be taken to her homeroom. Yuzu had scolded her of course for leaving her on their first day but Karin had just apologised and promised she wouldn't leave her again.

Arriving at their homeroom door, Yuzu, as hard as she might of tried, opened the door quietly, which resulted in creaking and the whole class looking at them when they entered. Karin, knew what she had to do and so looked at the floor with her hair covering her face the entire time.

"And this is..."

Karin had not been listening the entire time the teacher and Yuzu had been speaking. She had been thinking about how to go unnoticed after this awkward part, which always happened when you start a new school, especially in your senior year and how she would become miss invisible, so, it took her a second to figure out that she was supposed to introduce herself.

"Karin Kurosaki," she muttered, hoping it was loud enough for everyone to hear and get she was a loner, through her tone. It had work countless time, in countless situations, she hoped this would be no different.

"Wait, your twins," someone yelled. Karin flinched slightly, due to the unexpected outburst but it was small enough that it went unnoticed. Karin breathed what seemed like the first time. Yuzu answered again. She knew she could always count on her.

"Yes," Yuzu answered.

"But you don't even look a like at all," another person in the room stated. Karin continued looking at the floor. Yuzu, picking up that she again would be the person talking. Its a good job she didn't mind being in situations like this.

"We're fraternal twins. Nothing a like really but we love each other anyway," she chortled. Yuzu was her rock and oh how she need her rock right now. Yuzu leaned over to karin and whispered in her ear. "Karin, I know the reasons you are like this is outside but your being rude at least look at your classmates and acknowledge they actually exist."

Karin understood what her sister was saying so with every ounce of her protesting that this was going to be bad she lifted up her head, enough that part of her face was shown behind her hair and acknowledged her classmates by looking at them. Big mistake. From the front view of the class, she could see so of the boys looking at her as if she or Yuzu would be a decent conquest but from the corner of her eye, Karin saw something she had never seen before a boy with striking unique features of white her and teal coloured eyes gaping at her. She would have to squash that immediately because would not be pursued, she had a fiance, that was that.

"Girls, why don't you take the free seats on the front row," the teacher said, getting back on with, well whatever she was going before they entered the room. Yuzu quickly sat next the girl on the middle front row because she was always good at making friends and like to integrate herself quickly. Karin was left with the only option with sitting next to her but on left side next to the boy with snow white hair. Karin sat down looking away from everyone and facing the front head titled down slightly. However, she knew that he was watching her. Staring her down. She could sense it because she had learned to pick up on such things.

"Do I have something on my face?" she asked, quietly, turning her head to look at him a bit more but trying not to draw any unwanted attention.

"No. No. There's nothing on your face," Toshiro quickly answered. He was definitely slightly nervous around her.

"Then why do you keep looking at me?" Karin shot back.

"I'm sorry. It's just... well it has been a while since we had new students her."

"Oh. Okay," she said, looking back to the front of the classroom. She did not need the hastle of being to acquainted with the boy she now shared a homeroom desk with. She ignored hi, sticking with her plan. She refused to break, she knew what she had to do. No one would change that. No one.

"I'm Student Council President Toshiro Hitsugaya by the way," he added.

"Karin Kurosaki," she said, continually looking away from him.

"I know, you introduced yourself earlier,"

"Yeah, I guess I did."

With that she didn't say another word nor did she look at him at any given time that they sat next to each other. After what seemed like a century the bell rang, she knew he had been stealing glance and she hoped he would get over it and take the hint. She rose and started walking out the classroom, the teacher, who she had found out was called Miss Unohana, stopped her briefly and handed her, her schedule, wishing her a pleasant first day. Karin hoped Toshiro would stay away and every other guy who thought they had a shot. Patience would be the key and time was counted down,and whilst she dreaded the clock timing out she wanted it over with so she wouldn't have to hide any longer. Eight Months. The battle just beginning. She needed to be alone and invisible. It was her only hope because she would honour her duty to her family, even if it killed her. Eight months. Just eight. Her heart would stay frozen.


A/N: So what did you think? Review and let me know what you think of Karin and what will you think might happen. :) Hope you enjoyed it and keep reading. ;)