Since I had so many reviews, I decided to update again!
Also this was kinda hinted in chapter 3 that this would've happened. Chapter 4 just happens to be the results of the end of chapter 3, which I might write a continuation of some years later into the future, calling it, A Night Under The Full Moon, maybe.
Chapter 5: A Long Awaited Meeting Of The Two Souls
All the Students gathered together for the Welcoming Ceremony in the front schoolyard. They were all lined up by their years, staring with the first years on the right side and going down the roll. Once again, Sho was hidden within the crow of students as the taichos and their fuku-taichos stepped up to the stage to start off the welcoming ceremony.
Toshiro calmly walked up to the stage, his eyes closed and arms crossed, hidden within his black sleeves. When all the taichos and fuku-taichos got up to the stage, some giggling, squealing, blushing, and whispers broke out amongst the students.
Sho listened to the conversations of some of the students around him.
"That's him!" a girl whispered to her friend as she pointed towards the 10th Division taicho. "Hitsugaya Toshiro! He's so handsome."
"I heard he's single!" One girl burst out. Sho had to try hard not to laugh at that.
"Yeah, but I heard he's really cold to others around him it's really hard to get close to him, much less make him notice you..." Sho nodded. "Or fall in love with you..." Sho quickly snapped his head towards the girl, a shock look on his face, before staring up to the man who's the subject of the whole conversations going around.
"But I heard that he's really close to his third seat thought," whispered another. "I heard that his third seat's the only one to be able to get him to go off his cold personality and warm up a bit. So much so that rumors went around about them being an item already since they've known each other in the human world!"
"Not only that, but i heard that Hitsugaya-taicho personally asked for her to become his third seat from the So-taicho!"
"Yeah! And apparently, he's kept her zanpakuto for her too! Can you believe it?"
"I also heard about the many times the 10th Division offices doors needed to be repaired because of the over protective older brother, Kurosaki-taicho." Sho chuckled.
"I wonder if he's also taken?"
"Didn't you hear? It seems he might be sneaking around with the Kuchiki princess."
"I wonder what Byakuya-sama would do if it was true…"
Sho winched. 'Probably what all my uncles did to dad…' he shook his head to clear off the dreadful memories of his father almost drowning/suffocating and having to run away from cretin death (all thanks to his mother's overprotective siblings, friends, and family members), away from his head, from his memories. 'Try and end his life…' Sho shuddered.
Then, Sho was brought out of his thoughts as the So-taicho begin his welcoming speech as he stood in front of all the taichos, in the center of the stage.
Yamamoto cleared his trout of get everyone's attention. "Welcome everyone, to a new semester. I hope you all study well this year to become shinigamis fitted to work under the Gotei 13. Also, welcome new students to the school. I hope you all get along and try your best to become masters at what you do best…" Yamamoto went on and on about school stuff for hours and hours, or so it felt like. "Finally, I hope we can have another secessful year. Everyone please work hard and good luck to all of you!"
The students all replied by standing up strait and yelling, "Hai, Yamamoto-so-taicho! Thank you for your words of advice!" and bowed down to him as he and the others leave the stage.
As Toshiro was making his way down, he stared at the small figure of Sho out of the corner of his eyes and smiled a bit.
Once the Ceremony was over, Sho got together with his friends.
"Hey guys!" he waved over to them. "What class are you guys in?"
"I'm in 1-A, you?" Kenatro proudly said.
"I'm in B," Umi stated with sadness in her eyes.
When Ryuji saw this, he smiled and said, "I'm in 1-B too. I guess we're stock together again, hah Umi?"
Umi smiled at him. "Hai, Ryu-kun."
Sho smiled. "Seems like we're separated evenly. I'm in 1-A too!"
"Great! I have someone I know with me!" Kentaro shouted.
"Yeah. That way, you won't seem so stupid or feel out of place, right, Kentaro?" came a females' voice from behind the group. Sho looked pass the preteens around him and his heart almost stopped upon seeing the one figure he'd longed to see more then anything else in the world, once again.
The preteens turned their heads towards the direction of the voice and found a female shinigami of about 14 years of age standing there, with a smirk on her face.
"K-Karin?" Kentaro shattered out. "Y-you. You're here. You're really here!"
"Well I am a Kurosaki. What did you expect?" Karin shrugged.
Kenatro ran up and hugged her. "I missed you," he whispered into her ears.
Karin's eyes grew wide with shock. "Um, I missed you too," she said awkwardly, trying to get him to let go of her.
Kentaro eyes opened wide once he realized what he was doing. He quickly moved away from Karin, blushing. "S-sorry."
Karin laughed after a moments pause. "So, you died?" Karin asked. "How? When? How are the guys, are they okay without me?"
Kenatro shrugged. "By a Hollow attack, about a month after you. And the guys are fine. Though they really missed you..."
"I see." Karin then turned her head to the two shocked faces of her friends. "Close your mouth, you'll catch a fly with it opened like that. You look like a Hoodoo doll or something."
Ryuji and Umi shook their heads to clear away the shock anf close their mouths as well as return their eyes to normal.
"Y-you two… know each other?" Ryuji asked as he pointed at the two.
Karin smiled. "Friends from elementary school. We played soccer together after this guy transferred to my school. We only knew each other for about a year or two since he moved in the 6th grade, but we're good friends. Right, Kentaro?" Karin patted Kentaro on the back.
Kentaro nodded. "Yep, Karin was the first person to become my friend. She helped me, a new student, fit in. You guys know her too?"
Umi nodded. "She's the one who helped us out and tout us how to play soccer," she whispered out.
"Really?" Kentaro asked. "I should've known that it was you're doing Karin!"
Karin smiled. Then, she turned her head towards the still little boy on the other side, who had been silent this entire time.
"By the way Karin," Umi began, "why are you here?"
Karin turned her head back to look at them. "Hah? Oh! I came to see someone!" she answered.
"Us?" Umi asked.
"Yeah, you're in it too."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kenatro asked, confused now along with the others.
Karin chuckled. "How long are you going to stand there like a statue like that, Sho?" she looked towards the silent white haired little boy on the opposite side of her.
The others also looked towards Sho as well, and saw that he had his eyes hidden behind his bangs and a dark oar around was lumming him.
Then, his expression changed as he leaped at Karin, shouting out, "Ka-san!" as he landed in her awaiting arms of wrath and comfort.
Karin laughed hugged the white haired boy into her arms once again. "Sho," she whispered as she hugged him tighter.
The white haired man who was watching from behind the hidden, dark corner smiled.
The three on lookers looked from Sho to Karin and back again and again.
"Hah?" Kenatro began, shock at the new discovery, and a little bit sad too.
"Kaa…san?" Umi questioned, speechless.
Since no one was early making since, Ryuji decided to step in for them and said, "You guys know each other?"
Karin opened her eyes and moved her face away from Sho for a bit. She nodded. "Yep, he's the one I came here to see, and you guys too of course. But I haven't seen Sho since…"
"Since the day I was born," Sho finished for her with a nod of this head before looking up at Karin and they both laughed.
"Oh," Umi snapped out of it. "Um… Kaa-san?"
"Hah? Oh that!" Karin blinked. "He calls me that because-"
"Because that was all I could say as a new born baby in my mothers arms. And it sticks," Sho shrugged in Karin's arms.
Karin smiled. "Yep!"
"Oh," Kenatro sighed with relief.
"What about you're real mother?" Ryuji asked.
"Okaa-san?" Sho questioned. "What about her?"
"Never mind Sho-kun," Uni said. "It's nothing. So, Karin, you were their when Sho-kun was born?"
"Yep!" Karin answered. "And what a night that was."
Sho chuckled. "Yeah, Otou-san almost died from the sear thought of it. Okaa-san almost killed him and render him into nothing but dust."
"Ahh," Karin sighed happily as she looked upwards, "that's a day I'll never forget."
"The holes are still there you know?"
Karin looked back down at the boy in her arms. "Really?"
"Yep! Grandpa never bothered to fix it. He said that it was 'precious memories'."
"Even though his own son almost died that day? Wow… anyways, what class are you in?"
Sho smiled brightly up at him. "1-A!"
Karin smiled. "Alright then, off to 1-A we go!" and she led the group to their classes.
"You be good now, alright?" Karin told Sho before letting him go to class.
Sho smiled and nodded his head. "Hai, hai. Don't worry so much. I'll be fine," he answered her.
Karin smiled warmly at him and hugged him one last time. "Yeah, I know. You're your father's son after all. You'll be fine in everything you do."
"But I'm also your son, mom," Sho reminded her.
Karin blinked away her almost coming out tears again. "Yeah." She let him go. "Now go and study hard. Your father and I will be waiting for you at the 10th Division. Good luck, Shuichiro," she whispered as she let him go once again.
"I will, Okaa-san," Sho whispered back to her as he disappeared into his classroom and sat down next to Kenatro and wait for class to begin.
Karin walked down the hallway of the Academy, alone as all the students were now in their classes.
"3 years right?" she asked into the darkness.
"Ah," came a males' voice as Toshiro appeared within the darkness, leaning on the wall, his eyes gazing upwards towards the bright, blue sky. Then, he looked down to Karin and his green eyes softened over as he reached out to her. "You did great. You can cry now, no one else is here to see it," he told her as he leaned her into his chest, a warm smile on his face as he once again looked up at the sky.
Karin nodded as she let her tears fall and cried into her partners' oddly warm and comforting chest as he held on to her with his great, gentle yet strong arms of the man that he is. Slowly smoothening her with his arms.
"You didn't go see him," Karin whispered out through her tears.
"I can wait," Tosiro answered. "I still have time. What's more impotent is that you and him gets to meet. I can always talk to him in his dreams, so it's okay."
"You cold, heartless bastard."
Toshiro chuckled as he held on to Karin's form and not letting her go, still looking up at the sky. "I'm an Ice Dragon, what do you expect, dear?"
Karin hide her smile under Toshiro's cloth. "Yeah, the cold and emotionless God of Winter indeed."
Toshiro smiled at the old nickname.
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Story Question:
Who do you think are Sho's other family members?
Great-grandmother 1
Great-grandmother 2
Grandfather (Toshiro's father)
Uncle
Aunt
HINT: they all appear in chapter 3 and must live with Sho in the first district!