"Karin." Toushiro said.

He turned to look at her, but it was already too late, she already walked away.

His feeling was torn between following her and tearing four shinigamis who were standing in front of him to shreds. But he knew this was not the time to battle what to do first. So he followed her out.

"Wow! That was something Ichigo." Matsumoto said

"This is why I love you so much, Ichigo Kurosaki. You just know when to swoop in and be damned heroic to save me." Rukia said, and kissed him passionately.

Renji cleared his throat.

"I have one more thing to say."

"And what's that?" Matsumoto asked, looking confused.

"Just run while we can."

...

"Karin!!" Toushiro called after her. "Wait!!"

Karin heard him calling her name, but she didn't stop. She couldn't, she really couldn't. How could she faced him after what happened inside the office.

So she walked faster, didn't want him to catch up with her.

Toushiro knew she didn't want to be followed, but he needed to talk to her. He knew this was the best time to talk to her, if he let it passessd he would never have a chance like this again. So he decided to use the shunpo.

Karin got a surprise of her life when she felt him grab her arm and stopped her.

"Let me go, Toushiro" She said through gritted teeth, still didn't turn to face him.

"We have to talk." He told her, tightening his hold because he knew that she wanted to flee so bad.

"I have nothing to tal-"

"Then hear me out! Stop running away." He yelled at her.

She stopped immediately. turning around to look at him.

"I didn't run away!" She yelled back.

"Then what were you doing?"

Silence.

She couldn't answer him.

When they stopped yelling at each other, they started to become aware of unwanted attention, as many shinigamis were looking at them curiously.

Toushiro growned loudly, he knew sooner or later the news about him and her were going to spread. It was just too strange to see him follow someone. Everybody in the Soul Society knew the young captain of the 10th squad was too arrogant to do something like this, the only person who had been seen with him was his lieutenant, and she was the one who followed him. The fact that the person he was following was Karin Kurosaki didn't make it better; they hardly talked, or met each other. He knew what he was doing was going to start some rumours.

"Can we talk somewhere else?" He asked her softly.

She took some time to think but finally nodded.

...

Toushiro meant to say something as he looked at Karin, but his mind went blank, and as it did, he felt his stomach flip-flop. They were sitting and watching the sky together at very same place where they met each other for the first time. In the sunset, he just thought that the girl besides him looked divine; her eyes sparkled, her long black hair pushed out of her face, and a little smile playing its way across her lips as she was looking at the sun. He just knew right then that he didn't need a truth potion, he was ready to tell her everything.

"Well, I guess this is a good time to explain myself, huh?" Toushiro smiled a little, trying to keep what he promised her in that office.

Karin shook her head and made a comment "You smile again."

"Okay, to make the story short. I kinda like you since I met you here for the first time." He glanced at Karin and chuckled at the look of shock on her face. "Don't make a face like that!"

"Like what?"

"Like this." He imitated her.

Karin was laughing so hard now. The look on his face was just priceless, who could imagine the 10th squad captain looking completely shock with the mouth hung open.

"Stop laughing at me." He said, blushing heavily.

"Okay okay." She said, trying to calm herself. "That long?"

"Yes, that long. But don't tell anyone about this, I have my reputation to keep."

"I guess at first I was just impressed with you. You weren't scared of me when you saw me for the first time. You know, everyone get scared of me even in the Soul Society, nodody wanted to play with me or talk to me, except my grandmother and Hinamori. That is why I love them so much. When I first saw you, I thought of her. You and her were alike, both of you were persistant and try to be nice to me."

"We are different! Everybody knows that." Karin protested, obviously didn't like being compared with her brother's lieutenant.

"Well, yeah..you are right! She doesn't annoy me, but you do." He replied, smirking.

"Toushiro!"

"Are you going to listen to me or what?"

Silence.

"I guess because you are you, you find some ways to sneak into my heart, when other people can't. I don't really know when I like you, but one thing I know, having Yuzu as my subordinate is a really bad idea. Every time I see her, she just keep asking me about you, and tell stories about you. "

"Well, she is my sister, what do you expect?"

Toushiro laughed softly.

"Anyways, what you just said didn't answer the question I asked before." Karin continued.

"What question?"

"Why are you avoiding me?"

"Ahh..that question. It's because I dont know how to act around you."

"You what? Honestly, Don't you have a better excuse?"

Karin smirked as she looked at him.

Toushiro groaned. He never liked anyone before, how could he know what to do?

"Anyways. what are we going to do about them?"

"Them?"

"Matsumoto and Rukia."

"We can't let them get away that easy, you know."

She nodded and giggled.

...

Everything went exactly liked what Toushiro expected, everyone knew about their supposed romance. And he knew, after having Matsumoto as his lieutenant, that the best way to deal with it was just simply accept that it was true. That was why both him and Karin were always seen together.

"Taicho!!" Matsumoto cried when she saw him entered the office.

"Tell me, is it true that you and Karin are now officially dating?"

His eyebrows twitched madly at her question, but he chose not to answer her and walked to his desk.

"Don't be so mean, taicho! You know you can tell me everything." She whinned.

"Matsumoto! How many times do I hav-" His voice faded when he noticed that the tea cup on his table was empty. He knew who drank it. There was just one person who dared doing it, and it was his lieutenant. Smirking a litttle, he chose to ignore her and waited for the right time.

"Ahh.. Matsumoto, Do you know why Kira always comes here?" He asked 15 minutes later, after pretending to pay attention to his paper work.

"He comes to get something, taicho." Matsumoto replied as she was sitting lazily on the sofa.

"And what is that something?"

"It's sake, taicho. It's over there behind you, inside the closet. I put it there so that you canno-" Matsumoto covered her mouth, obviously shocked with what she just said.

Smiling widely, Toushiro walked to the closet and opened it. He was wondering for a long time, how did his lieutenant manage to find sake and get drunk when she was supposed to be working, and he found it. There were at least 20 bottles of sake hiding inside his closet, and he never knew that they were hidden there the whole time.

The vein popped on his head immediately

"MATSUMOTO!! I want these bottles out of my sight."

"It's not fair, taicho!!"

Around the corner, out of sight but not out of the hearing range, Karin was laughing so hard. She couldn't believe that her boyfriend was using a truth potion on his lieutenant. It wasn't like Matsumoto didn't deserve it, but she couldn't believe that Toushiro could come up with a plan like that.

'Well, at least he knew the truth, even it was an awful truth." She thought.

Then she looked at the truth potion bottle in her hand, thinking of what to do with her best friend once she got to see her again.

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Well, this is the end of 'Their perfect scheme', I hope you enjoy it :)

My next story is going to be up soon.. it's HitsuKarin, and Hinamori is gonna be this one too...I will make him choose between them :P that's all I can tell you.

And thanx everyone who reviewed this story, I really appreciate it :)