This is dedicated to Rain From The Frosted Heavens.

Happy Birthday!

This story was originally intended to be only around 10 chapters, but has since become larger.

I am officially rewriting, meaning some fine touch up and possible changes are going to be occurring.

I hope you all enjoy reading this for the first time, or rereading it.

Time frame: Aizen has long been defeated, Ichigo just graduated high school and Karin is just entering. It is the summer before Ichigo leaves for college.

Karin is 14

Ichigo is 18

Disclaimer: I do not own any bit of Bleach (or my one mention of Naruto) they belong to their respective creators.

It is a typical day in the Kurosaki household, Yuzu is cooking, Karin is playing soccer outside, Isshin is saving lives, and Ichigo is arguing with Rukia.

An intense battle of the mind!

Ichigo leans against his closed closet door, scowl deepening as he tries to intimidate the short girl in front of him. She ignores his efforts as she swings her feet back and forth confidently while sitting on his bed.

"You'll never pull it off," growls Ichigo, trying to sound as convincing as possible.

Rukia smirks and pushes off the bed with her hands, taking a step closer to Ichigo, "Was that a threat? No matter… they are already so close together that all they need is a little nudge in the right direction."

Ichigo can't help but scoff, "No way, Karin would never be into someone like him. Besides, he lives in the soul society, and Karin lives here."

"Are you willing to bet on it? Karin is a substitute soul reaper." Rukia extends her right hand to shake. "One week, I try to get Karin and Toshiro together, you try to keep them apart. Loser has to jump off of the main bridge in soul reaper form, naked."

Ichigo pauses for a moment to think about it. "I know Karin quite well, and I can guarantee my victory." Without hesitation Ichigo clasps Rukia's hand, giving it a firm shake.

Both smile confidently, but neither can foresee what a crazy week is ahead of them.

So Codename PUKAT is born, let me spell it out for you

Pair

Up

Karin

And

Toshiro

In other words, PUKAT. (pronounced like poo-cat)

Day 1

The first step to every good matchmaking plan is to find out how the victims erm… subjects feel about each other. Toshiro's a little far away right now, so Rukia decides to start with Karin. There are only a few places Karin could possibly be, so Rukia heads towards the park.

Naturally, Karin is playing soccer with her friends. Rukia sits down on the bleachers to watch.

Karin has the ball, she dribbles towards the net and passes it to her waiting teammate. He easily one-shots it into the net and goes crazy with excitement. Rukia chuckles to herself when Karin and her other teammates mob the guy who scored.

Rukia is distracted from the celebration when her phone vibrates in her pocket. She pulls it out and flips it open. Inside, a mini map appears with a small light flashing about a quarter mile away. She snaps her phone shut and pulls out her soul candy.

Popping one in, she notices that Karin is looking worriedly at the sky with her phone loosely gripped in her hand. Her other hand is stuffed into her pants pocket, probably searching for her soul candy.

After making sure her gigai was secure, Rukia runs across the field to Karin's side. "I can handle the hollow, you stay here and keep your friends safe."

Karin grumbles a reluctant, "fine," before stuffing her phone back in her pocket.

Rukia shunpos away and goes to exterminate the hollow. She arrives in a timely matter, but the area is strangely hollow free. She pulls out her phone, very confused when it still shows a dot signifying a hollow's presence.

A chuckle echoes across the field and Rukia looks up to see certain carrot top strawberry smirking at her.

"Did you take out the hollow?" she asks, now shaking her phone as if it is broken.

Ichigo's smirk grows even wider as he stuffs his hands into his pockets nonchalantly, "What hollow? There wasn't anything here. Why did you come here?"

A moment passes, then Rukia's eyes narrow in realization. "You messed with the hollow radar!" she accuses and points a finger angrily for emphasis.

"That's a pretty harsh accusation."

"I'll show you harsh!" Rukia rushes across the clearing and promptly slams her foot into Ichigo's shin.

"Ow! Freaking midget… what was that for?"

Rukia scoffs, "You know what that was for, you ruined my chance to talk to Karin. Now she's probably gone. I will get back at you for this Ichigo, count on it. Now, I have to go fetch my gigai."

Rukia shunpo's away from Ichigo before he can respond, heading back to the park.

Back at the field, Karin is surprisingly still there, sitting in utter silence with Rukia's gigai. When Karin catches sight of Rukia she jumps up, relieved to have another person present.

Rukia says hello as she slides back into her gigai. "Did your friends go home?"

Karin nods, "yea, they had to go to dinner. I decided to wait for you since it didn't appear that your gikongan wanted to move, and whenever I tried to talk to her, all she said was "hop"."

Rukia laughs, "She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. That's alright though."

Karin nods and reaches into her back pocket, pulling out her soul candy, "I found it as soon as you left," she says sheepishly.

"I'm surprised you didn't come after me."

"I just, wanted to finish the game…" Karin's voice trails off and she shifts her gaze to the soccer field.

Time to change the topic!

"Karin… do you like playing soccer here a lot?"

"Sure," Karin smiles thinking about all the great times she's had on the soccer field, "playing soccer with everyone is loads of fun."

Rukia nods eagerly, liking what she is hearing. "Do you think there is anything else?"

Karin shakes her head, "I don't know what you mean."

Rukia sighs, "I mean… do you like anyone on your soccer team?"

Karin almost chokes on her spit, "What! No way!"

Rukia busts out laughing at Karin's reaction, "Really? You aren't even a little interested in any of them? Not even a certain white haired captain that played on the team a few years ago?"

A light blush hits Karin's cheeks as she thinks about this, much to Rukia's amusement.

"Toshiro? No way! I've never even thought about him in that way!" Karin blurts out as she forces her blush to recede.

Of course it is obvious to Rukia that Karin is lying.

Having the answer that she wanted, Rukia drops the topic and stands up, stretching out her stiff gigai. "Let's head home." Rukia jumps down the bleacher steps and starts walking towards the Kurosaki home.

Karin jumps up and runs to catch up to Rukia, "Wait up! What about you? Are you interested in any guys?"

Rukia chuckles, "Not really. Boy's in the real world are so dumb, and so young."

"Not even Ichi-nii?" Karin gazes at Rukia curiously, as if this were a sincere question.

Rukia shakes her head, "Not even Ichigo, your brother and I are just good friends."

"Suuure…" Karin drops it, but you can tell she doesn't buy what Rukia said.

The two girls fall silent for the rest of the walk. They arrive home shortly and Rukia says goodbye to Karin before heading up to Ichigo's room. Ichigo is inside, reading the manga "Naruto."

Ichigo peeks over his book, turning his glare on when he realizes it's Rukia. "What do you want?" he asks harshly.

Rukia ignores him as she pops open his closet door and plops down on the small bed that is hidden inside. She leans her head on the back wall and allows a small smile to creep across her face. Ichigo's glare intensifies and he repeats his question. "What? Just tell me midget!"

"Is that anyway to talk to a lady?"

No response.

Rukia's smile grows larger, "she likes him." She says and watches as Ichigo's face contorts with anger.

"Don't make such an ugly face Ichigo."

"You got a definite yes out of her?" The manga book shuts loudly, and Ichigo focuses solely on Rukia.

Without answering, Rukia jumps up and skips out of the room, pleased that she was able to rile up Ichigo so easily. She slides out of the Kurosaki household and starts to walk to Urahara's Shoten. Time to find a phone to the soul society.

Wait a moment… cell phone.

Rukia pulls out her phone and dials the main line.

"Hello?" A masculine, but girly voice comes out of the speaker.

"Rin, is that you?"

"Uh… yea"

"Great, I need some assistance down in Karakura. We have had a lot of hollows lately and I heard that the 10th squad is pretty free."

"One second," Rukia hears a quick tap tap on a keyboard and a few clicks, "Yes they are free, uh… let me talk to the officials real quick."

About five minutes later Rin comes back to the phone, "We are sending Toshiro Hitsugaya and Rangiku Matsumoto to assist you. They will be arriving this evening."

"Thanks Rin, see you around!" Rukia flips the phone shut happily.

With all of her tasks cleared for the day, Rukia heads out to find a chappy store. Who can resist cute bunnies?

That concludes chapter one. All done with the editing!

The next chapter will have the end of day one and all of day two.

Stay tuned!