Hello everyone! Here's another chapter for you all today!

Just to make sure that you all know this, Karin still looks 14, but her hair's longer now.

Anyway, now with the story!

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Chapter 3: Graduated

Toshiro walked along the 1st division hallway. Finally, he came to his destination, stopping at the dabble doors before knocking on it.

"Come in," said a voice from the other side, old with time and age.

Toshiro entered the room and silently closed the door behind him before quietly making his way towards the So-taicho's desk as Chojiro bowed to the young captain. Toshiro nodded in return.

"Hitsuyaya-taicho," Yamamoto began, not looking up from his paperwork. "What may I have the pleasure of your visit today?"

"Yamamoto-so-taicho," Toshiro said in a bored tone. "I would like to have a few words with you, alone, please, if you don't mind." His eyes traveled to Chojiro standing next to Yamamoto.

Yamamoto nodded and Chojiro bowed and excused himself from the room.

Once the door was closed behind him, Toshiro opened his eyes and said, "I have a request I would like for you to do for me, So-taicho."

Yamamoto stopped his work and looked up, putting away his bush. "Oh, and what would that be."

Toshiro opened his mouth and answered, "…"

Karin burst into the room, her eyes lit with flames in them as she stomped over to Leo, who looked scared at her outburst.

"Miss. Kurosaki-" her teacher, Miss. Takarada, pushed her glasses up and tried to stop the girl, but was stopped when Karin up her hand up to stop the older woman.

"Where is it?" she screamed into Leo's ears.

"Like I said," Leo yelled back, "I Don't have it!"

"Then where is it?!"

"Are you looking for this, Karin," a red notebook lined with gold lines and writings appeared in front of Karin's line of vision.

"Hah?" Karin stopped and blinked a few times. She then turned towards the holder of her red book. "Ayaka? How?"

Ayayka giggled. "Leo gave it to me, for safe keeping."

"...You were both in on this?" Karin questioned, looking between her two best friends.

"Well~," Leo shrugged. Karin glared at him. "I don't know what's so impotent about that book. I don't get why you're so worry, Karin. Every single page in that book is blank! Nothing!"

Karin glared at him. 'Thank Toshiro for his careful thinking,' she noted in her head.

"Ahm," Miss. Takarada brought everyone back. "Now that that's done and over with, can I continue with my class now, Miss. Kurosaki?"

Karin blushed before taking back her book and sitting herself in between the giggling Yuzu and Ayaka. "Sorry," she whispered out, embarrassed, before sending a death glare at Leo, who was trying to hide himself behind Ayaka.

"You what me to do what, Hitsugaya-taicho?"

Toshiro's face remained emotionless as he answered, "Graduate Kurosaki Karin with this years students and aloud her to become my 3rd seat, sir."

Yamamoto stared at the young teen Taicho. "And what makes you think she's ready? She is only a 3rd year student."

Toshiro smiled a bit. "Because, she's already mastered her banki completely."

Yamamoto's eyes narrowed. "What?" Toshiro stayed silent as the old man got up from his seat and lean over to Toshiro, looking him right in the face. "What do you mean by that, Hitsugya-taicho? How do you know she has mastered her banki already when she doesn't even have a zanpakuto yet?"

Toshiro showed no emotions what so ever as he answered, "Just because it appears as though she doesn't weld one doesn't necessary mean that she doesn't have one."

Yamamoto moved back into his chair. "So. She has one?"

'More like 3,' Toshiro thought, but replied, "Yes."

Yamamoto sighed and closed his eyes. "...Anything else I should know?" he questioned the young 16 year old teen in front of him. "Like for example; how come you knew she has a zanpakuto while others didn't, perhaps?" Yamamoto raised an eyebrow at the boy.

"... I know, because I was her teacher."

"Yes, I heard you've helped her with her school works and studies."

"No, that's not what I meant. What I meant was that, I was her very first teacher. I was the one who made her into a Shinigami and helped her through the process. I was the one who first trained her, in the human world, while she was still alive."

Yamamoto's eyes widened with realization. "But, when she appeared here, she was in-"

"Her soul form, yes," Toshiro interrupted as he nodded in responded while he closed his eyes.

"...How is that possible?" Yamamoto was shock to fine out such things as a Shinigami appearing as a dead soul.

"..." Toshiro, his eyes still closed, turned around, ready to leave. But then he stopped just right at the door and opened his eyes, though he did not turn around. "Oh, and if you wish to see your wife and granddaughter once again, you'd best to do as I've said." And he opened the doer, and stepped out, ignoring Chojiro's shock face at having over heard their last little conversation at the door.

Chojiro entered the room to find a shock and speechless Yamamoto standing up on his two feet, eyes staring off after the young boy.

"Yamamoto-so-taicho?" Chojiro began. "How come Hitsugaya-taicho, knows about Hime and your wife's mysterious disappearance?"

Yamamoto slumped down on his chair. "It can't be..." he then quickly picked up his paint bush and a new, blank piece of paper and began writing down his orders.

Finally came the graduating day of the 6th years and those qualified to pass the years and ready to become a Shinigami of the 13 Court Guard Squad.

All the graduates were sitting in the front role while the taichos and their fuku-taichos were standing in front of the room in all their growly.

Karin was with the rest of the 3rd years, though she looked up at Toshiro standing at the front of the room for a moment once they'd entered, and Toshiro only closed his eyes at her in response.

Once every 6th years and qualified graduated, the students where about to leave, but the commander told them to sit back down.

"We have one more person who needs to graduate," said Yamamoto.

Everyone turned their heads towards him and his vise-captain, confused as whispers broke out among the crowed.

"Yama-ji, what's this all about," Kyoraku voiced everyone's question.

Yamamoto's only answer was to look at Toshiro, whose eyes were still closed, out of the corner of his eyes. "..."

"Kurosaki Karin," he called out into the awaiting crowd of students and teachers, "please come up here."

Karin made her way up to the front of the class and stood in front of Yamamoto. The old man looked down at her and his eyes soften over. This display of affection did not go unnoticed by those around them as old eyes widened with realizations.

"Congratulations, Kurosaki...Karin, you have graduated. Now, reseeve your position." Karin bowed down before the old commander. "Kurosaki Karin, I hear by bestole upon you, the position of the 10th division's 3rd seat!"

"What?" Ichigo yelled out from his place in line as the 3rd division's taicho. "She can't graduate, old man! She's only a 3rd year student! She doesn't even have a zanpaku-"

Ichigo words were cut short as Karin got up and walked pass him and over to Toshiro. She bowed down to him and he opened his eyes.

"Taicho," she said, a smile on her face as she looked up at him.

"..." Toshiro sighed And reached behind his back, taking out another zanpakuto from its place next to Hyourinmaru, and handed it over to Karin, looking up wards to avoid all the stares.

Karin smiled and took back her red zanpakuto and placing it on the side of her waist. Her zanpakuto, in its sealed form, looked like an ordinary katana with a red cover slash, that had a gold bell tied by a red string, wrapped around the top, and a gold, squared off guard connecting the sword and the handle together. The gold squad was edged with the picture of flowers on it. The handle had a red braid going around it all the way to the bottom, where it reached the gold hint of the sword.

"What the-" Ichigo began. "What the hell! Karin!"

Karin and Toshiro looked his way as the flaming strawberry came towards them, firy in his eyes.

"What's the meaning of this, Karin, Toshiro?!" He questioned them. "Why does Karin have a zanpakuto and why were you keeping it for her? How come we didn't know anything about this? And is that even her own zanpakuto?!"

A tick mark appeared on Karin's forehead and Toshiro backed away from the line of fire, litterly.

Right on cue, Karin's Zanpakuto was out of its red slash and in front of her as she chanted, her eyes closed, "Ten ni noburu, Hikari no Tsubasa!" Her words became louder as she raised her head, opened her eyes and struck her older brother with her shikai's fire.

Flames came out of the blade and ascended to the top as Karin's katana began to change. A red and white cloth came out of the bottom of the hint, both connected to each other by the little gold sun dangling at the bottom of the hint with a red jewel marble inside it. Her sword had grew a bit in length as she now sat on top of her older brother, the tip of her zanpakuto right at his neck.

"You said something, Ichigo?" Karin questioned dangerously.

"Karin, that's enough," Toshiro interrupted. "You've proved your point to him, and everyone else, now let's go."

Karin huffed as she got up off of Ichigo and sealed her zanpakuto away.

"Hyourinmaru, I leave the rest to you," Toshiro said to Hyourinmaru as he and Karin walked away together.

"Where are you two going?" Ichigo yelled after them once he got up off of the ground.

The two young teens stopped walking and turned back to the orange head.

Karin smiled and answered, "Why to see Grandmother, of course. I have to tell her about the fact that I'm a Shinigami now." Yamamoto's eyes widened. "And don't worry, we'll be back on time for the celebration, Rangiku-san." And they started off again as Rangiku cheered from the back and planned the celebration together with Isshin and Kyoraku, both of whom secretly had their eyes on Karin, following her leaving form.

"I'll leave Karin in your care then, Shiro-chan!" Isshin called over in a happily tone of voice.

"You take care of her, Toshiro, you hear?" Ichigo yelled over, defeated as Rukia held him back.

Toshiro turned his head back and bowed, a smile on his face that no one else, but Karin and Hyourinmaru, could see, before walking off with Karin once again.

The teens did not get far before running into Yamamoto, who'd somehow made his way in front if them before they even had time to noticed it.

Karin and Toshiro looked up at him. "Yes, Yamamoto-so-taicho?" Karin asked, confused. "Can we help you?"

"... May I come along?" Yamamoto asked.

Karin's face broke into a smile. "Of course! Come on, let's go, Shiro-chan!" And she processed to dragging Toshiro off with her and Yamamoto.

'She called him Shiro-chan,' thought Hinamori Momo as she watched the two of them leave, 'and he didn't correct her... Just how close are they, really?...' Her eyes grew with jealously burning in them. 'No, I can't let that happen. I won't loss another one. Not to her. Not again... not to that little Hime.'

Hyourinmaru sighed as he looked up. 'A come before the storm in deed,' he thought as the wind blew calmly by outside, and the clouds moved with it, showing a very beautiful day in the Soul Society.

The little boy sitting on the tree branch over looking the graduation ceremony, smiled, before disappearing into the wind.

Karin burst into the house as she dragged Toshiro along by the collar.

"Grandmother, Granny!" she called out. "Toshiro and I came to visit!"

"Oh, Karin-chan, Shiro-chan," said Toshiro's Granny, who was sitting in the room with the white fox laying by her side. "Welcome. And who is-"

"Karin-chan, Toshiro-chan," came another voice that had caused Yamamoto to stiffened up as he turned around and watched the woman enter the room whit a white haired, blue eyes boy behind her, holding on to a basket of tray full of fruits and vegetables. "Welcome back, you two-" Haru stopped once she saw Yamamoto. She became shock before her eyes softened over and she smiled. "Ganryusai," she whispered out the name she'd long forgotten.

"H-Haru," Yamamoto shattered out as he walked closer to the old woman. "It's really you. Haru." He hugged her.

Karin watched with a smile on her face.

"Aniki!" yelled the 11 year-old, white haired boy as he leaped himself onto Toshiro. "I missed you so much!"

"Killua," Toshiro growled out, seemingly pissed as he tried to get his annoying little brother off and away from him.

Sounds of footsteps could be heard as another figure ran into the room, yelling, "Karin-sensei! You're here!" as the blond haired girl ran to hug her teacher and sempai.

"Honoka-chan!" Karin said back to the two pig-tailed girl.

Honoka looked up. "What are you doing here, Karin-chan?" she asked with a wide smile on her face.

Granny and the the white fox watched as everyone got together and Karin told them about her graduating.

"So that means..." Honoka trailed off once Karin finished her story.

Toshiro and Karin nodded as they sipped their tea, eyes closed. Yamamoto was confused. What are they talking about? he looked to Haru for answers, but she only smiled back at him.

Then, Toshiro bowed down before the two of them and said, "Yamamoto-so-taicho, I have another request that I would like for you to hear and, if possible, hear you approve of it as well..."

Yamamoto listened as Toshiro raised his head up and continued, "..."

Karin sat alone in her new room at the 10th division. She and Toshiro had gotten back in time for the party, as did Yamamoto, and it had already finished about half an hour ago now. As expected, everyone, or at lest a lot of them (how came), got drunk and were now sleeping on the floor of the 10th division. Ever Yamamoto joined in on the drinking contest. Toshiro had also been forced to swallow some of Rangiku's bottles as well, since the woman latterly drove it down his trough instead of Karin's when he interrupted her.

Both thanked heaven for that happening and Karin had silently thanked Toshiro for interfering since both of them knew how Karin can be when she's drunk...

Karin sighed. "Well, at lest they won't know what's happening if they're asleep and won't interrupt us," she quietly said as the door to her bedroom slide opened and Toshiro came in.

"Makes my job easier," he said with a smile as he sat down across from Karin. He held up his hand and pulled on Karin's red and white hair ribbon, pulling it loss. He then played with karin's long hair at now reached her mid to lower back. "I don't have to go to the trouble of casting a sleeping spell on them or erase their memories and the documents."

Karin chuckled at that before looking into his eyes, the eyes of the man who she had not seen in a long time, and she leaned into his comforting touch as he captured her warm, red lips with his and they both let in to their long awaited desire as they fell down onto the futon, the light of the full moon watching down on them...

After this, i'm going to do some more time skipping, so be prepare for it.

-Ten ni noburu, rise and ascend into the heavens

-Hikari no Tsubasa, wings of light

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