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Chapter 1: A boring life.

Karin groaned as her teacher stood up from her desk holding a stack of papers. It wasn't even half way through the first week back and the teacher was already giving out homework. She could hear the other students complaining as well but decided to keep her mouth shut for once. Ichi-nii would kill her if she came home with a detention on her first week of middle school. Looking to her left, she saw her twin, Yuzu, looking at the paper with an excited expression. Only Yuzu would find something exciting about homework.

"Look Karin-Chan!" Yuzu squealed "Our first piece of homework as middle school students! Don't you feel so mature?"

Karin sighed but nodded at Yuzu. If her twin was in such a good mood Karin didn't want to be the one to wreck it. She'd leave that job to Ichi-nii and Rukia nee-san.

"Yeah, I guess… fun fun fun," Karin drawled as Yuzu put on her pouting face.

"Don't be like that Karin-Chan, we could always get Ichi-nii to help us. His friends from University might be able to lend a hand too!"

Karin almost snorted as she stood up and began packing her things away. The 'friends' Yuzu was talking about would be absolutely no help with the homework seeing as how they grew up learning how to send spirits to heaven. They knew less than Karin and Yuzu combined, and considering the girls were only 14, that was saying something. None the less, Karin nodded her head and plastered a fake bright smile on her face. It was better for Yuzu to not be included in the Shinigami ruckus. It was too big of a headache for a normal person to handle.

The girls left the classroom together and headed in the direction of their home. Every now and then Yuzu would call out a cheery farewell to her friends and Karin would glare at anyone who looked at her for too long. All in all they were quite a sight to see. One twin had the brightest smile on her face and the other looked as bored as a little kid with no toys.

When they got home, Karin kicked of her shoes and dumped her bag onto the sofa, calling out a loud "I'm home!" as she did so. After taking the plate of food Yuzu handed her, Karin made her way up to her brother's room. Yuzu would always insist on making their brother a snack and leaving it in his room for when he got home. Karin knew that her brother never ate it and gave it to his girlfriend, Rukia, instead. She walked up to the door and gave it a rough kick.

"Yo, Ichi-nii, I've got your snack here!" she called out, waiting for the door to swing open. She must have stood there for at least half a minute before she realised her brother wasn't in there. It was far too quiet. However, she could hear voices coming from the inside and she strained her ears to try and catch the conversation.

"Kawaii! Look Taichou, they have a quiz to predict who you'll marry in the future! Doesn't that sound like fun!" a voice squeaked in a high pitch. Karin raised one eyebrow and pressed her ear further against the door. She was about to stealthily open it when all of a sudden the door was flung open. Karin gave a startled yelp and crashed to the floor as whoever it was on the other side let out a very loud snort.

"Having fun ear wigging, Karin?"

When the voice reached her ears, Karin's eyed widened. She looked up and found herself looking back into mesmerising teal eyes. She couldn't stop the grin that spread across her face like a wild fire.

"Toushiro!" she exclaimed, taking his hand as he pulled her up. When she had dusted herself of, she turned back to the boy and gave him a once over. He looked a few inches taller than when she'd last saw him and his white hair was slightly longer at the front. She couldn't help noticing that these added factors made him look slightly more mature.

Toushiro smirked as he realised Karin only came up to his chin now. That was definitely something he would be holding over her for a while. He was about to say something when he was cut off by a ear piercing shriek behind him. He watched as his fukutaichou, Matsumoto Rangiku, enveloped Karin in a hug and attempted to squeeze the life out of her.

"Oh my goodness! Look at you Karin-Chan!" she sang, still choking Karin in her deadly grip, "You look so pretty! I bet Taichou noticed too, didn't you Taichou? I wanted to climb in your classroom from the window but Taichou said that I'd be causing an unnecessary fuss and that we had work to do! He didn't even care that we hadn't spoke in four months, can you believe it?"

By the time Matsumoto had finished her rant, Karin had turned a pretty shade of purple and was beginning to gasp for air. Her lungs felt as if they were on fire. She tried, unsuccessfully, to untangle herself but only ended up being strangled more. She made a desperate plea for help with her eyes as Toushiro looked on annoyed. He really didn't want to deal with the paperwork for having his fukutaichou suffocate a human.

"Matsumoto." His voice immediately got the older woman to stop squeezing Karin, but she still held the young girl in her death grip.

"Hai, Hitsugaya Taichou?" she asked sweetly, putting on an angelic face.

"Would you mind releasing Karin?" he managed to grit out from behind his teeth, "If you get sent to jail in seireitei for suffocating a human, don't think that I'll bail you out."

The threat was clear in his voice. Matsumoto let out a nervous chuckle before realising the now unconscious girl. Hitsugaya couldn't stop the cry of rage that escaped his lips.

"MATSUMOTO!"

Oh yes, thing's were never boring in Kurosaki Karin's life

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