You didn't think I could just leave you hanging there for a few weeks, it's a 3 day weekend! Anyway enough talk more story:

I don't own bleach :(

Chapter 16:

I Always Win

"Ha, you got nothing." he smirked, and she glared. She was getting her music one way or another. But then a smile spread across her face that made Toshiro have second thoughts...

"I'm gonna do...This."

"Give it back..." Toshiro shook his head, his lips in a thin line, tight, making sure no noise comes from him. "Fine, then!" she said, annoyed.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Toshiro's laugh echoed through Karin's house. Who would have guessed it? The cold ice prince, Toshiro Hitsugaya, was TICKLISH!(1) "S-stop!" he said between laughs, "S-s-stop! F-fine" more laughing, "I give!"

"What? I couldn't hear you." Karin said over his laughs, laughing herself. Well, it's official, the world is gonna end... Toshiro laughed. Karin thought while she looked again at his laughing face, But I think it's worth it, she thought, before quickly pushing that thought to the back of her head.

"I Give!" he said, "Now s-stop!" more laughing, before Toshiro handed over Karin's ipod. When she finally had it in her hands, Toshiro's laughing stopped, and replace by an annoyed grunt and a scowl.

"Oh stop pouting, I won't tell anyone your dirty little secret." Karin teased, looking through her songs, while she sat up (Still sitting on Toshiro) and then she noticed. Her battery was dying! "You listened to my music didn't you?"

"What if i did?"

"My battery's dying!" she punched him in the chest, then came with a realization, "Wait.. you liked my music?"

"So? It's not your music." he sneered, still plenty pissed about the... ahem, incident.

"It's just my type of music." she pushed play on the song on pause, it was on Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Beat Crusaders. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight?" she looked down to him.

"What? It's a good song." he said, in a bored voice. He looked up to her and blushed slightly and looked to the wall, "You can get off me now." Why do I react to her like this? he questioned, but he looked back at her still. She had her earphones on meaning she didn't hear him. He pulled on the wire annoying the hell out of Karin, and he simply gestured to her sitting on him.

"Hold on," she said messing with her ipod. But Toshiro was being impatient and decided to just push her off, making her land on her ass on the floor. "Bitch!" she cursed to him while she got up. Toshiro took this time to look around her room.

She had this room to herself, all over the walls were pictures of people and herself, with a few posters of soccer players. Her walls were a lighter, warmish shade of green, still. He pillows were white but her bed spread was a green that matched the walls. On the floor was a black carpet, a desk with a computer and a small mirror enough to see only your face on the wall. She had soccer balls piled up in the corner and her cleats thrown in the middle. On her drawer was her school uniform.

He finally noticed that she was wearing clothes to sleep in, no duh since it was 9:30. She wore read shorts that went mid-thigh with a simple plain white tee, and purple socks. He hair was down, slightly damp meaning she had just gotten out of the shower, so part of it still clung to her neck, while wetting the back of her shirt also.

"Stop staring, it's rude..." she said while she got up, he hadn't realized he had been staring at her the whole time.

"Where is everyone?" Toshiro said to avoid awkward silence.

"You mean my dad and Yuzu?" he nodded, "Oh Yuzu was making dinner when Goat-chin decided to 'help' and now it's inedible. They went out to eat."

"You didn't go?" he asked.

"Wasn't hungry." as if to prove her wrong her stomach grumbled loudly. She blushed and looked away, and he slightly smiled at her blush. What am I thinking? I'm sure of it now Kurosaki's doing something to me, Toshiro thought inside his head, but he stood up and went to the window and held his hand out to her.

"Come on, lets go get something to eat. I haven't eaten either." Karin looked at his hand and stared back at him. "I won't bite." he said with a smirk and she simply glared There isn't a full moon out... he thought.

Karin took his hand...

and yanked him to the door. "You know there's this neat invention called a' door' Toshiro you might wanna try it." she said. She opened the door and led him down the stairs to the living room, while he again said, "Like I said, what's the fun in that?"

"And like I said, since when do you have fun?"

"Since I met you." he said, in his mind. But he didn't say it out loud, and why he didn't say or even thought that he really didn't want to know.

"Ha! you owe me $10!" Renji said, while he watched Toshiro being dragged out from Karin's house, from the other side of the street in a tree. Ikkaku grunted and handed Renji his winnings.

"You guys put a bet?" Momo scolded.

"I know," Yumichika added clearly offended, "You didn't even let me in," Momo gave each of them a smack to the back of each of their heads before jumping off to follow them saying:

"I'm not bringing you next time!"

Why am I with him again? Karin thought in her head while she dragged him down the street. She stopped and turned giving him time to catch up with her. She walked down the road where coffee shops and small diners were at. It was pretty crowded, Karin was scared she was going to loose Toshiro when he realized she was still holding his hand. Karin blushed and walked fast pulling him in the direction of one dinner where she knew the workers.

"Come on, I know he people who own this place. They're my brother's friends." she said while she opened the door into the diner. A short blond hair and blue eyed girl, wearing a pink fur trimmed coat, black bird shaped cape and red boots waved to Karin.

"Karin-chan! Long time no see!" she said, "Nova! Kurodo! It's Karin-chan!" A guy came out of a door wearing a fur coat, that had aqua blue eyes and soft red hair came in. He appeared big and strong, but when he saw Karin, he nodded his head and put up his hood a blush tinting his cheeks.

"Hey Nova! Don't hide from me!" Karin said playfully, when another man walked in, which Toshiro guessed was Kurodo. He had glasses on and had a thin mustache and two tones hair color, yellow and black, while wear a white button up shirt and a gray tie.

"Karin! What a pleasure to see you again!" he said with a smile. Toshiro immediately felt uncomfortable. No, not because they were slightly odd, he could deal with that. No. It was that they were Pansaas, tools/pets used like hunting dogs to find and trained to kill werewolves. What he didn't get was why they appeared like normal humans, they were usually giant felines, but he was sure of it, they had the same scent. Why hadn't I gotten their scent earlier?

"Ooh," the girl who had yet to reveal her name cooed, "Karin-chan is this your boyfriend?" the blond's blue eyes trailed down to Karin and Toshiro's hands, still entwined. When they noticed, both released, Toshiro stuffing his hand in his pockets while Karin simply crossed her arms.

"No!" she denied, "We're just-" but Karin paused before starting again, "Can we just order something, Ririn, or do we go to another diner?" Ririn smiled and then guided them to a table.

"It's on me." she smiled to Karin, and then looked to Toshiro, giving him a small glare.

Momo, Renji Yumichika and Ikkaku watched from across the street behind the tree, watching Karin and Toshiro.

"You guys need to pay more attention to your surroundings." suddenly a voice called out to them. They all turned around to see a the hunter, karin's sister in law, Rukia.

"What do you need here, Kuchiki." Ikkaku sneered, "You could have attacked us, why didn't you."

"Okay 2 things,1: it's KUROSAKI, or Rukia, either one. And 2: Like I told, you guys, technically Hitsugaya-kun but you were all listening, I'm not here for your pack." Rukia said, politely, but all politeness was gone from her voice when she added, "Unless you hurt Karin or Yuzu of course," before switching back to her normal nice self, "And if you must know, the owners of the diner are my Pansaas." The pack stiffened.

Momo said, "They are humans, they don't smell of your little guard cats."

"New invention, made by Urahrara and Yoruichi." she said, "It's called a Gigai, they're able to transform with a small pill and a fake body. They called me to ask if they should do anything about 'the wolf' with Karin. I came to tell her it was fine..."

"Liar," Yumichika said, "You could have easily called her."

"Then I wouldn't be able to see Karin on her date!" she said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"...wait... what?" Ikkaku said.

"Oh, come on! This is cute! Better me then Ichigo. If I told Ichigo he would have skinned Hitsugaya-kun alive!" Rukia tilted her head at the pack's silence and then rubbed the back of her neck, "What? Wrong choice of words?"

"Yeah... kinda." Renji said.

"Either way, do you wanna come in with me or not? Because I want a better view."

"How can we trust you?" Yumichika questioned.

"You trust Karin." Rukia shrugged, "And you trust others that you don't even know that are involved in all this."

"What do you mean?" Renji questioned.

"You have to ask Urahara about that." Rukia said, "Weather or not your coming, I'm going!" the raven haired girl started down the street to the diner.

"I'm in." Renji said, before the others and followed.

"Me too." Momo said, a bit hesitantly. She wasn't fond of Kuchiki's.. hell they've tried to kill her constantly but one thing she knew was that Kuchiki's no matter what, have their pride. And this Kuchiki would rather be called a Kurosaki. And she trusted Kurosaki's.(2)

"I'm going back to the house. This boredom is giving me frown lines." Yumichika said, before turning around and heading to the house.

"I'm going with you, I don't wanna be around Toshiro making kiss-y face." Ikkaku said, following his friend.

Karin and Toshiro sat down at the booth Ririn had led them too. Karin sat there in silence while Toshiro looked like something was on his mind. What was she expecting, for them to sit down and suddenly go into a deep conversation like normal people? Ririn came and brought them their drinks, so she awkwardly sipped on her's. Just when Karin thought she'd go insane from the silence, Toshiro spoke up.

"Why did you hesitate?" he asked quietly. It was bugging him and he didn't know why, but all he knew what that he wanted to know.

"Hesitate?" she asked, lost.

"When that owner asked if we were.." he cleared his throat, "Together. You denied it, then said we were just..." he didn't finished his sentece, he didn't need to.

"Well," she said sitting back in the booth, "You can't exactly be friends with someone who hates you." she didn't look at him.

"Hate you? I don't hate you. You irritate the hell out of me, call me names and constantly call me short even though your shorter then me," he enphisised on the short joked, which she laughed to, "But hate you? No, I just defend myself since you hate me."

"I don't hate you either. Your a cold cocky bastard... but I don't hate you either. I might not like you, but I don't hate you."

"If you hate cockiness and how I act, why not hate me?" he questioned.

"Momo." she answered simply an took a sip from her Dr. Pepper.

"Of course." he rolled his eyes.

"No not like that." she said earning a look of confusion in his eyes. "I don't hate you because Momo's your sister or whatever, I wouldn't really care if that was the on;l reason, but Momo talks about you often, along with Renji and Yumichika and Ikkaku. Along with some... entertaining stories about when you were younger..." Karin laughed quietly.

"...Like?"

"Oh I don't know.." she said nonchalantly with the smirk of evil she always wore when she tormented him, "Something having to do with 'Wa-wa-melons'..." she imitated in a baby voice.

"I was little!" he defended, blushing furiously.

"And a brat." she added. He muttered a 'whatever' before taking a sip from his sprite in a attempt to cool down his still blushing face. "Hey if I learned to do that with seeds when I was small, I would have killed my brother." she laughed, and their order was brought by the shy red haired guy to hand them two bags with their order.

"Two burgers, to go." Nova said, blushing from simply talking.

"Thanks," Karin said.

"To go?" Toshiro questioned, when Nova had walked stood up and stretched and nodded.

"Yeah, I'm gonna go somewhere before I go home." she said, grabbing one bag. Toshiro stood up after her and took the other.

"Yeah, I think so too. I don't exactly want to go home to Ikkaku with food in hand." she smiled and nodded while they walked out and just before she was going to the opposite direction from Toshiro she turned back to him.

"Oh," she said, "I have to get this out of my system." he was about to question on what she meant, she reached to his head and ruffled his hair. She ran down the road laughing at his face.

"KUROSAKI!" he yelled, but she already turned the corner. He grumbled under his breath along the lines of 'Kurosaki demon...' before turning back towards his house. He stopped when he turned the corner, "Alright come out." there was nothing but the cold wind as his answer . "Now or I will freeze your asses off." with that, there was a ruffling in a near by tree, before 3 figures fell onto the sidewalk.

"Ouch..." came Momo's voice from the heap of people on the sidewalk.

"Your no fun Hitsugaya-kun." he heard an eerily familiar voice. No not..

"Kuchiki?" he questioned. She hides her sent well... I could only smell 3 wolves, why? Maybe something they came up with. Those Pansaas must be hers.

"Hello, Hitusgaya" she said, while getting up and dusting off her dress.

"Hey Toshiro." Renji said helping up Momo.

"Why couldn't I get your scent?" he questioned Rukia immediately, ignoring the other 2.

"You have trust issues don't you?" was her answer, before continuing, "It's a candy thing that Urahara gave me, why don't you think that you couldn't smell me when you first arrived in this town. It's the same ones my Pansaas use." she stepped closer to him and he was able to get the scent of a hunter now. "They only give off my scent when I'm at a little less that a yard away from you."

"Is that how Kurosaki Ichigo hides his scent." he asked. He really had no leads, but he could bluff couldn't he?

"I have no idea what your talking about." Rukia said, before swiftly turning around, "Oh, and Urahara wanted to talk to you alone Hitsugaya," and in a flash she was gone.

"Where do you think you two are going?" Toshiro said to the two werewolves slowly backing away from Toshiro. "Okay, what explanation do you have to why you were following me?"

"I.. um.." Momo said. Renji simply looked at her and Toshiro.

"Screw it." he said before flashing away himself. Wondering why she didn't think of that Momo flashed away herself.

"Idiots." Toshiro cursed before heading to Urahara's.

(1) What did you think I was going to make her do? ;D

(2) I know it's weird for Momo to suddenly trust Rukia, but it's like a hint to show that she's quick to trust people ;)

I'm getting in trouble for being on the computer for this long typing this chapter but at least it's something :3 I have an away game next weekend so I won't be in town, but I'll be writing on the bus! I'll post it when I can and maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to write another before I leave next weekend. My week is busy -_-" when all I wanna do is write~! oh well...

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