So here comes the next chapter! I hope you guys are excited, and thank you again for reviewing and following this silly story I've dedicated some of my free time to.
CHAPTER 7: Prodigy and Problems
Karin was in her dorm room, getting ready to go to the Grand Hall. The Grand Hall was a giant indoor space that they used for events like the opening ceremonies, or when there was sign up for the beginning of the school year. This time they were using it for the annual squad placement survey which involved choosing squads you would feel the most comfortable being placed in and vise versa.
Karin was just about to put on the rest of her red uniform when she looked down at her abdomen. There was a sore and still slightly opened wound from her fight with Captain Hitsugaya. Karin tried to perform a healing kido on herself a couple days after, but she honestly thought that it made the wound worse. It had been a month since her fight with that frosted bastard and she still hadn't completely healed and the damn thing hurt like a bitch. She would have went to the Squad 4 infirmary that was located on the academy grounds, but they had to report every injury. They would have questioned her about the giant slice on her side, and who gave it to her. Plus, it's not like she could walk in there telling them she had 'a fight with Hitsugaya-Taichou off of school grounds' that would get her expelled.
She finished putting on her uniform being careful not to touch the painful flesh on her left side. It was going to be a long day.
I swear to god they better not have an unexpected spar practice. I've been able to avoid most combat for the last couple weeks and this damn cut is almost healed.
Karin walked into the hall straight into the lineup to talk to one of the placement advisors. She was one of the few student who had been nominated for early placement because she had achieved Shikai and mastered Shunpo. Her marks had been exceptional plus she was able to beat the fourth year exams in Hoho and Zanjutsu, but she still needed a lot of work in kido.
Karin walked up to the desk of an administrator. He was an older man, kinda plain looking with a well kept beard. "Name" He spoke.
"Karin Kuranoma"
He cleared his throat, and shuffled some papers. "Ah, Yes Kuranoma. What Squad are you thinking you want to be placed in or you can tell me what you would like in a Squad and I can give you some recommendations."
"Well I'm not really set on anything at the moment, but all I know is that I probably wouldn't fit very well into squad 4." Karin answered.
He looked down at some of the papers that were on his table. "Hmm. I can see your marks in kido are in need of work."
Karin could help but awkwardly chuckle to herself. 'In need of work', is he kidding? That's an understatement to say the least, thank god my marks are above average in everything else. My Kido skills are horrendous.
"Anything else relating to Squad placement?" He asked.
"Yeah. Out of every squad I do NOT want to be placed in Squad Ten." The tone in her voice got serious.
"Why? Squad Ten is great, and Captain Hitsugaya is a brilliant leader. He's fair, logical and from what I've heard, a great teacher. I've never had anyone specifically say they didn't want to be in Squad 10!" He exclaimed.
"Oh I've met Captain Hitsugaya." Sneering the word 'Captain'. "Personally I'm not a big fan of the guy. I think he's an arrogant douchebag who-" She paused because the guy was suddenly looking terrified with his mouth hanging wide open.
"What?" She barked.
No Answer.
"He's behind me isn't he?" Karin groaned.
She turned around but there was nobody standing behind her. Just as she was about to turn back to face the administrator again she heard the cocky cool voice of the Squad Ten Captain. Obviously the bastard had flash stepped in front of her.
Toshiro Hitsugaya was sitting slightly on the edge of the table, hunched over talking to the guy. "Don't worry. I wouldn't want this ungrateful, unpleasant, irrational academy student in my squad anyways" He hissed.
"Irrational?" Karin repeated the words aloud. She understood the first two comments but she could hardly agree that she was irrational. She was definitely rational, If anyone was irrational, it would be Ichigo.
At this point Hitsugaya had moved off the desk and walked up to her so that he was towering over her his shocking turquoises eyes piercing into her. "You heard me." And then he moved his face towards hers lowering his voice so only she could hear. "Kurosaki."
"Don't confuse me with Ichigo." She commanded staring into his eyes with just as much aggression.
He lowered his head slightly towards her left ear along with putting a hand on her arm so that he could get close enough to whisper to her. She could feel his breath tickling her skin and it was causing her to blush slightly. "You wouldn't want the school to find out about all your unauthorized field trips?"
"You wouldn't"
"I wouldn't? Not even after being called an arrogant douchebag?" He smirked, letting go of her arm, straightening up and walking away.
Karin just stood there frozen to the spot, and she wasn't sure how to respond to the handsome yet evil man. Normally she always had a come back but the way he had grabbed her arm firmly yet gently and whispered in her ear kinda made her jittery. She couldn't put a finger on what she was feeling, but felt like she was being toyed with by the Captain. Karin never would have thought that Frosty could come across so sensual without even trying, and she was pissed at herself for actually feeling flustered for once in her life. Bastard.
Off in the corner somewhere is the Grand Hall, Rangiku Matsumoto and Ikkaku Madarame watched the short encounter between the icy Captain and fiery Academy student. They were both shocked to see the Captain acting the way he did with the same girl from before. If you blinked you would have missed the small smile and glisten in his eyes that flashed across his face when talking to her.
"Did I just see what I think I saw?" Ikkaku asked dumbfounded.
"The Captain sexually harassing a student?" Matsumoto Squealed in delight.
"Ummm yeah."
"I never thought the Captain had any game, but apparently I was wrong." Rangiku bubbled.
"She seems like quite a handful plus she kinda remind me of someone" Ikkaku pondered aloud.
If only you knew she was Ichigo's sister this would be even juicier gossip.
Her captain had told her to keep Karin's Identity a secret as a common courtesy. Matsumoto had chalked it up to her Captain being secretly protective of the girl, or at least that's what she chose to believe. Rangiku knew that the two kids probably didn't know it, but you could slice their sexual tension with a butter knife.
Ahhh to be young again.
After taking a quick lunch, Hitsugaya was back at the academy ready to teach a small specialty class on Kido. Even though it wasn't on the schedule whenever a Captain was at the academy for something they encouraged them to teach a class and drop some knowledge bombs on the students. And yes Head Captain Kyoraku had used the word 'knowledge bombs' when reporting the idea in one of their monthly Captain's Meetings. Hitsugaya even after so many years was still getting used to Kyoraku being the head captain, but he did have to admit that it had calmed the soul society down quite a bit. Everyone did seem happier and more open to share ideas about how to make the soul society function even better than before.
Surprisingly, the turn out for his Kido class was better than expected and he had a large group of student who were ready to be bombed with knowledge.
"Alright break off into pairs, I'd like to see you working on both your defensive and offensive Kido spells. One of you can take the offensive and the other defensive and fire off what you can at their choice of barrier. This is an advanced class so I would like to see you guys using higher levels of Kido." Hitsugaya commanded the class.
Everyone began to pair off and he was making his way around the big class giving pointers to student who needed help till he overheard a familiar voice.
"Come on I promise I won't blow anything up this time, Keita!"
"There is no way in hell I'm being your partner again Kuranoma!" He scolded. " I had to go Squad Four for the tenth time this year, the last time I was your partner."
"What seems to be the problem?" Hitsugaya interrupted their conversation giving Karin an annoyed expression. Karin just shrugged at him like her being a problem was something he should be used to by now.
"Ahh Captain Hitsugaya, Sir, I was just explaining to Kuranoma that I didn't want to be her partner."
"And why is that?"
"Well umm to be quite honest sir, she's terrible at Kido, and dangerous." Keita shuddered obviously recalling a time Karin had accidentally obliviated him.
"Shut up Keita, so what you got hurt a couple times, it's not like Hollows are going to go easy on ya, I'm just preparing you for the real world." Karin snapped.
"I understand. You can go" Hitsugaya said motioning for Keita to leave and find another partner. "What about you?" Hitsugaya pointed to another member of the class; A tough looking guy. "Will you be her partner?" The boy looked at Karin and shook his head 'no' quite forcefully. What the hell did she do to these people in her class? They're avoiding her like the plague.
Karin was standing there with her arms crossed obviously not amused by the lack of volunteers to be her partner "So what am I supposed to do… have you as a partner." Karin half joked. If anything she was hoping that Hitsugaya would just let her leave because he didn't need to see her sad execution of Kido if you could even call it that.
"I guess so... since you managed to scare all your fellow classmates." He Grimaced. "If you're so bad at Kido, how the hell did you end up in my class?"
"How do I manage to get into anything?" She shrugged again. "To be honest, I'm starting to think it's in my genes…" He rolled his eyes.
"Alright I'll take the defensive you take the offensive. I want you to conjure up Hadou Number 33 against my choice of barrier."
"Ei. Ei. Captain." Karin chanted in a sarcastic tone and saluted.
They went a small distance apart so that they could begin the practice properly.
"Whenever you're ready Kuranoma."
"You might want to put your barrier up."
"I think I'll be just fine."
"Okay." Karin mumbled.
Karin had begun the chant of the Hadou Number 33 when her hands started to glow brightly faster than normal. Hitsugaya could feel her reiatsu starting to rise dramatically, so he figured it was about time to get his barrier up when it happened.
BOOM
Karin blew herself up. She was lying on the ground with parts of her hair twisted and tangled all over the place plus she had some new cuts and bruises. The worst part of it all was the she definitely had ripped open her wound again because it was bleeding. She tried to stand up but stumbled back down to her knees clenching her teeth and holding the side of her body.
Hitsugaya could see the blood that was quickly pooling from her left side staining her already red uniform with a darker red. Why was she bleeding so much. It wasn't until it dawned on him that obviously she hadn't gotten her wound from their spar looked at.
"Someone find your regular teacher, I'm going to take her to the infirmary." Captain Hitsugaya announced whilst hoisting up Karin who was completely out of it. She was disoriented from the explosion, and found that her hearing was shot at the moment. Hitsugaya picked her up cradling her in his arms princess style, and flash stepped towards the infirmary.
"Captain we can take it from here." A woman in the Squad Four Infirmary motioned to take Karin out of his hold.
"That's Alright, I'd prefer to heal her myself. Do you have a room I can use?" The woman looked surprised at his request but led him down the hallway to a small private room anyway. He set Karin down on the bed.
"Thank you."
The woman nodded and left the two alone.
Karin who was finally starting to come around and make make sense of her surroundings, chimed in. "Youu- didn't h-ave to bring me h-eree, I would h-aave beeen fine if yoou -just gave me a c-oouple minuttes." She looked like she was in pain wincing at half of the words she had said.
"Mhmm. Seems like it." He didn't sound convinced. "Why didn't you use Kido on the cut on your side, It's probably infected. It's been like a month."
"I did." She winced.
"You did what?"
"Use Kido… But I think I made it worse." Karin Laughed. "Ow." Laughing hadn't worked out all too well for her, Hitsugaya was looking at her his eyebrows raised his regular frown almost tipped upwards at the sides.
"You're unbelieveable." He sighed. "Okay take it off." He motioned at the top part of her school Uniform.
"Jeez Frosty, You could at least buy me dinner first." Karin teased.
"Shut up Kurosaki and let me see the damn cut." He went slightly red in the face but managed to calm himself down. She slowly removed the top part of the uniform to reveal the same black bra that she wore the time they were in the waterfall together. Hitsugaya was slightly annoyed with himself because he remembered what her undergarments looked like. He was very perceptive person but it was unusual for him to pay attention to something like that.
Unusual to pay attention to an attractive girl?
Not the time Hyroinmaru.
Finally, she pulled the material away enough that he could see the wound that should've healed weeks ago. He placed his hands on the sides of the wound. Karin winced. "Sorry, was that too much pressure?" He asked genuinely sounding concerned.
"No your hands are cold" She chuckled.
"I thought the cold didn't bother you?"
"I never said it was a bad thing."
He sighed. "You're a piece of work Kurosaki."
He started a healing Kido. Karin sat there amazed watching the captain make quick work of the wound. He didn't used an incantation, and it was a high level Bakudo and he did it without hesitation like it was nothing. He really is a child prodigy…
"What?" Hitsugaya asked while she looked at him like he had just turned water into wine.
"You make it look so easy. You damn child prodigy"
"Honestly, you make it look harder than it is."
"Yeah, yeah, I get that I'm terrible at it, oh powerful great one." Karin chided, sitting up so that she could put her top back on and was level to captain who was sitting on the other side of the bed.
"It's nice to hear a compliment come out of your mouth for once." Karin lifted an eyebrow. "Even if it's sarcastic." He finished.
Karin pushed him playfully on the shoulder. "Don't get used to it."
"Anyways I should probably finished teaching my class, You just stay here. I don't need anymore problems" Hitsugaya stood up, and walked over to open the door.
"Frosty! Wait!"
"What?" Hitsugaya frowned.
"Thanks"
"Whatever, but can you at least stay out of trouble from now on?" He pleaded.
Karin Laughed. "Probably not."
"That's what I thought" He sighed and shut the door.
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