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An early update this time~
And 3,000+ words this time~
So here comes Chapter 4 of Just, Caught Sight of You.
I hope you enjoy it~
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach
Chapter 4
"I'm sorry Toushiro about that my brother was kind of causing some troubles for you." Karin looked up into the empty sky, sitting next to Hitsugaya on the bench that was located on the rooftop. A soft breeze blew past as the door slammed open.
Hitsugaya swiftly grabbed Karin's chin with one head hand and blocked her view with a huge version of his face. Their faces were close, only a few centimetres from each other. They could feel each other's breath touching their skin. From far away, it was a scene of Hitsugaya kissing Karin. "Fangirls, I guess they will leave soon." Hitsugaya whispered to her, staying in that position until the Hitsugaya Fan Club started to shove backwards.
"Uh… sorry for the disturbance…" They shuffled down the stairs and left them alone. Hitsugaya let go of Karin as soon the fangirls disappeared in their sight. He exhaled. It was the first time trying this 'plan' and he had never told her about it. Karin's face was clearly blushing. It was too sudden and she wasn't prepared.
"I'm sorry Karin." Hitsugaya stood up, "It was a new 'plan' but I forget to tell you. I was going to tell you last night since the holding hands running away didn't work anymore. But Kurosaki will probably slay me if I talk to you secretly." He walked towards the door as the end of lunch bell rang.
"Uh… I guess I'm fine with it." Karin followed behind him, walking to the changing rooms. "I guess I'll see you at soccer training then." She ran off a different direction to Hitsugaya. He went downstairs since the boys' change rooms are a level lower than the girls' change rooms.
He wondered off to the field after getting changed. He made that 'plan' reason at the point; he looked at his hand, which somehow caught onto Karin's chin, which pulled him and Karin so close together. What's that feeling? Why did I even do that? What was wrong with me? He thought deeper and deeper, but he had no answer.
"Yo, Toushiro." Karin shouted out to him, waving to him while running towards the field. He waved his hand and kicked the soccer ball into the field.
"Coach, we're here." Hitsugaya and Karin walked towards the soccer team's coach as he stopped the ball to go any further away from him which was kicked by Hitsugaya.
"I'm sorry for you two to do this but you need to take care of the freshmen that just joined our club. You two will be training them for these few weeks. I need to go and take care of the new student teachers.' He gave Hitsugaya the whistle and ran off to his office.
"I guess that we have to train the freshmen then." Hitsugaya smirked. He took the whistle and blew it once as all of the freshmen gathered together in a line. There were no girls, at all. Since Karin was the only girl in the school soccer team, because she was so good at soccer she got recommended from Hitsugaya to join the soccer team. The school soccer team was supposed to be a full boys team but when Karin joined, lots of the rules were changed. The club change room was really clean instead of messy, because Karin came since to give a good impression towards a girl; the guys weren't allowed to strip after training and practise, they usually do since they will be sweating, this rule was made when Karin came, she is a girl, she needs respect; the game 'On and Off' was banned since one team need to take of their shirts while other team have their shirts on, the team members were chosen randomly and to decide which team is the 'On' and which team is the 'Off', they are chosen by a game at scissors paper rock, so there's always a chance that Karin will end up in the 'Off' team.
The freshmen haven't met the team's taichou and fuku-taichou yet so they won't know about Hitsugaya and Karin.
"I'm Hitsugaya Toushiro, the taichou of our soccer team. Class 2-1." Hitsugaya spoke with the ball under his foot. "This is Kurosaki Karin, the fuku-taichou of our team. She is the only girl in our team. Please respect her."
All of the freshmen shared eyes, confused. "Why's our fuku-taichou a girl? And isn't this supposed to be a full boys team?" One the freshmen spoke, making the whole field silent.
"She's an exception, I recommended her to coach since she's really good at soccer." Hitsugaya replied, as usual, with a serious and cold tone.
All of the freshmen were silent, since their taichou said so. "Karin and I will be training you guys for the following errls until coach is finished with his job for the student teachers."
"Hai!" All of the freshmen replied, lining up waiting for their taichou or fuku-taichou's 'orders'.
"Take off your shirts and run 3 laps of the field first." Karin grabbed the whistle off Hitsugaya's hands and blew it twice, noticing the whole gang of freshmen speechless. "I'll be running in front of you guys so follow my speed." Karin unzipped her jacket and chucked it towards Hitsugaya's direction. Karin only had a white singlet and black short tights. All of the freshmen blushed, since most of Karin's skin, mostly her legs are long and the tights were more than ten centimetres above her knees, were exposed, the outfit outlining her bodyline showing a mature girl. "If you guys don't strip in three seconds, I will force you to." Karin demanded, with a smile on her face. Without hesitation, they started to take off their shirts and chucked them in a pile.
"Oi, Karin, you sure? Coach said that none of our team members can strip since you're here. It's a kind of respect towards girls." Hitsugaya murmured to her while she was warming up.
"It's fine, it's just a part of their warming p.' Karin replied with a bright smile.
Hitsugaya sighed; I'll leave it to you then.
Karin jogged towards the field track with all of the freshmen following behind her.
"Do you think Kurosaki fuku-taichou is going a bit easy on us? Like only three laps? At primary we had to run more." One of them whispered under his breath. Lots of them nodded and agreed to the point.
"I'm not going easy on you guys. You will know why." Karin blew the whistle and started off running. She settled off as she chucked the whistle towards Hitsugaya. Her speed was moderately fast but the freshmen could catch up easily. "Follow up, if you are more than three metres behind me, Toushiro will be ready to run you guys around the school three laps. Full speed." Karin turned her head back and gave them a bright smile.
They were all at least two metres behind her, only a short distance that will lead them to running around the school three laps with their taichou. They moved their eyes towards Hitsugaya, who was warming up waiting for them to run with him. All of them settled off the starting line.
It didn't take long for a few of them to surpass Karin. She grinned. Slowly, she started to increase her speed little by little, once again, being in front of them again. Hitsugaya had already spotted a few freshmen who were three metres behind but just seemed like they didn't notice at all.
It was only two laps, most of them started to huff and puff since they used all of their energy at the start instead of saving it and speeding up little by little. But none of them gave up. Karin was running faster and fasrer, letting the distance to increase between herself and the few that were still in the range of three metres.
"Guys, faster now. I'm going to run my full speed from starting here." Karin turned her head back giving them a small warning. She started to speed up rapidly leaving the freshmen behind. All could be heard was their moaning sound. A few of them were shocked, accepting the life of running three laps around the school with their taichou, who seemed really strict.
It was only a few metres left where Hitsugaya was, Karin ran faster and as fast as she cuuld. She ran pass the line and fell on the ground, looking up into the sky, which was slightly turning into orange. Hitsugaya chucked her a wet towel and a bottle of water when she sat up. "Congratulations, you broke your record by 1.5 seconds today. You could've ended this faster by running faster you know." Hitsugaya checked the stopwatch as Karin twisted open the cap of the bottle, gulping down water.
Karin looked back, there were only a few of them still reaching for the goal but most of them has passed through and lying down on the ground, exhaling and inhaling. Their chests rising and falling non-stop, the sweat streaming down, their hair was all wet.
With a sudden blow of the whistle, all of the attention was drawn to Hitsugaya. "Since it's getting late, we are just going to have two short games of soccer. Choose eight members among yourselves and make two teams. Karin and I will be playing against eight of you for both games." HItsugaya took off his jacket while Karin putted on a T-shirt.
The freshmen were still underestimating their skills. Two against eight?! That's impossible! "We can't underestimate their skills. Although they are one one year higher than us, Kurosaki fuku-taichou is already very skilled from just then. Hitsugaya taichou must be better. So we need to choose wisely." One of them spoke as the huddled into a circle.
"Some of us have been in our primary school soccer teams so at least four of us are in both teams, so it could balance out as we can be attackers and the rest four can be defenders. This could at least compete against taichou and fuku-taichou." Another suggested. Hitsugaya and Karin were just doing some warming up exercise.
"Have you guys decided?" Karin and Hitsugaya were already in the middle of the field, the soccer ball under Karin's foot as if was really impatient of their long conversation. Hitsugaya shooved his hands in the pockets as usual, looking at the gang of freshmen who were concluding the discussion. The coldness passed through them as they gave them all a small shiver.
It wasn't long until they all nodded and eight of the seventeen walked towards the field. One of the freshmen was the referee since his ankle was injured.
The game started straight after a blow of the whistle. Hitsugaya ran and passed the ball to Karin through a kick. The defence of the freshmen were extremely good, blocking Karin to pass it to Hitsugaya who was right across her. She gave him a sign and started running to the opposing goal. The opposing team could get the anytime and kcik it to the goal without anyone blocking since Karin and Hitsugaya didn't have a gold keeper.
The freshmen were confused at the start, paralysed since they don't know who to block.
Karin kept on running til the opposing team's goal was close. She kicked the ball half way to the air and kicked it towards Hitsugaya's direction, who was at the other side of the field. He jumped into the air and blocked the ball by using his chest. Due to most of the opposing team members were at the other half of the field, there was hardly anyone around Hitsugaya which made him easy to scare. To keep it fair, both teams didn't have a goal keeper.
The whistle was blown, one game was over, since Hitsugaya only told the referee that the team who goals first will win. It was relatively short. All of he freshmen were shocked due to how quick the game ended. It was two against eight and the two won instead of the eight.
"For the rest, will you prefer to run three laps around the school or play a game of soccer against us?" Hitsugaya spoke calmly, all of the others were a bit tired but only Karin and him seemed all relaxed and just warmed up.
They didn't reply, "Then let's just play a game of soccer. They can run three laps all together before the training starts tomorrow. It could be a warm up exercise for them." Karin spoke as she patted Hitsugaya's shoulders.
He was quiet. He thought for a few seconds and agreed to her immediately. "Get up and be ready fpr the game." He took a bottle and drank a few gulps from it before starting the last game.
The rest of the freshmen were all watching silently and noticed how good their taichou and fuku-taichou were, the second game has started.
Their defenders and attackers were all spread out along the field evenly. They tried to figure out a way to block them for scoring, but unfortunately, Karin and Hitsugaya scored before they had even thought of a strategy.
The sky started to turn orange. Everyone in the school has left so Hitsugaya decided to dismiss them all. Karin took her bottle and started to swallow down gulps of water until Hitsugaya noticed it was the bottle he was drinking from just a minute ago.
"Karin… I drank from that bottle…" Hitsugaya spoke, fetching up his school bag at the nearby tree shade.
Karin paused, she remembered clearly that this was the bottle that he gave to her right after the warming exercise with the freshmen. She closed the lid and left it on the field alone, pretending nothing has just happened. She grabbed her bag and started to head out of the school with Hitsugaya walking next to her.
He was daydreaming, more like thinking of his actiona at lunch time, or just before soccer training.
"Toushiro?" Karin waved her hand in front of his blank face, noticing he was blanking out for most of the time. He blinked, and faced Karin, looking into her onyx eyes which reflected his outline.
"Your phone, you left it at my place again." She waved a white slide-up phone in fron of his face. He took it from her hands and shoved it in one of his pockets.
"Thank…" He wasn't really paying attention, not that he doesn't wanted to, but it's just he couldn't pay attention to her. He suddenly stopped at one of the intersections of two streets. "I'll be heading this way today, I'll see you tomorrow then." He waved good bye to her and turned at the intersection while Karin turned the opposite direction heading back to her house.
He walked all the way down the street until he reached the grass area which the sunset could be seen perfectly.
He placed his bag on the grass and jumped over the fence. He was touching Karin today, and pulled her so close to himself. He looked at the hand that he used to touch her today, lying flat on the grass, the hand up high covering part of the sunset.
What will happen if he pulled her even closer? What will happen if he remained in that position until lunch ended? What will her reaction be? A bunch of questions just popped out randomly from his mind. Why did I even do that? He thought to himself.
Karin rushed back home quickly, she took a pair of shorts and a shirt and went for a shower, completely ignoring Ichigo, Rukia and Yuzu. All could be heard was the the television and the stomping of her feet on the floor. It didn't take long to have a shower. She dried her quickly as possible, tying it up and heading towards the doors straight away.
She took her sports shoes and fitted them on rapidly, "I'll be back soon!" She called out and exited the house. The three stared at her until she disappeared in their sight, and focused back onto the television.
Karin ran down the street, going straight forward down as she saw the green grass area which has a low fence around it. She calmed herself and walked down until she spotted the white head, who was lying down on the green grass, facing towards the sky.
She jumped over the fence and sneaked next to the white head and sat down silently. "So, what's the problem with that?" She spoke, in a moderately soft tone, looking towards the sunset.
"I don't know what's wrong with me." Hitsugaya sat up, he pressed his hands into the grass, making him to sit up without falling. "I don't even know what I did." He looked down to the grass. He didn't even know why he was talking this person whom he might have never met.
"Follow your own feelings. It's our heart, just follow it, your heart is your own will and dreams." Karin replied. She didn't even know where she got these stuff from.
The sky was dyed in patches of red, orange and yellow, mixing the three colours all together as a few clouds floated across.
"You know what you did, because your will told you to do it." She doesn't even understand her own feelings, why is she telling this stuff that might be incorrect to him? Why is she even caring him so much?
Hitsugaya turned his head towards her, noticing it was Karin. He has been speaking to her for the whole time? He stared at her, noticing that she somehow turned prettier. He just met her just a minute ago. What the hell is wrong with my mind?!
Karin faced him, and smiled.
"Yo, Toushiro."
"Karin…" He spoke softly, barely could be heard. Why is he feeling so relieved? Is it because he was talking to Karin instead of a stranger?
He doesn't get it. He doesn't get it at all. All he has in his mind, was her smile.
Her bright and cheerful side, who has been always being with him since the start of high school life, has already been stitched into his heart and become a necessary for him of his life.
So this is it for Chapter 4~
Please Review for ideas and comments about this chapter~
Next chapter will be in a week~
If I can manage it to finished throughout the weekends, it will probably update at next Monday or Tuesday.
