Title: Enter Hitsugaya Toshiro, the Shinigami of Theatrics!

Summary: Karin thinks that Toshiro should change his title to the Shinigami of Theatrics after witnessing his countless, eccentric, and otherworldly ways of making an entrance. A collection of one-shots featuring Toshiro's entrance methods. Entrance #1: Ceiling. Rated T for language and general chaos.

A/N: Not really sure how this idea was planted in my mind… I imagine it to be like this:

Step 1: I read a fanfic ('The Plan') that convenient has a running gag of Toshiro entering through the window and scaring the hell out of Karin. Seed acquired.

Step 2: Depressed by the number of people viewing my stories. Plan to write a story activates!

Step 3: Read through reviews. Ideas forming in my (somewhat) twisted mind (may have been evil, but you'll never know). Fertilizers~, fertilizers~

Step 4: Ditches the whole think-it-through plan and starts typing this as I think. I'm just writing this story, putting in whatever suddenly pops into my mind, okay?

And… ACTION!

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Hello, readers, author here.

I have bestowed upon myself the right to open up this story, and you readers are the victims of my senseless ramblings.

Toshiro Hitsugaya held the titles Captain of the 10th Division, Child Prodigy, and Shiro-chan. The last one is only to poke fun, mind you, so you might want to refrain from calling him that unless you're friendly with him or you'll end up as a '*insert your name here*-popsicle'.

Then again, I'm digressing. My point is, that Karin Kurosaki discovered another title that suits Hitsugaya quite well: The Shinigami of Theatrics.

Why?

Let's just say that he isn't very familiar with what humans deem as normal entrances… Although that's most likely due to Ichigo's crazy friends (*cough*Rangiku*cough*)

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Entrance #1: Ceiling

Karin was stomping down the hallway holding a lion plushy. She held it at arm's length, dangling it from a rope, determinedly ignoring the muffled protests it made through the gag she forced on it. She kicked Ichigo's door open with barely contained irritation.

"ICHIGO, EXPLAIN WHY THERE'S A MOVING, TALKING, PERVERTED DOLL IN MY ROOM!"

Her brother had been lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling when Karin had made her loud entrance. He jumped and did a double-take after he took one look at the tied up plushy.

"Kon? Why the hell are you tied up and gagged?" He asked. The doll, now identified as 'Kon', attempted to scream insults/answer Ichigo in vain as the gag was pretty effective. Karin's expression immediately grew even darker than it already was.

"Oh, you want to know why? That's because it was in my room, harassing Yuzu, and it had to gall to complain about me being flat!" She violently threw Kon, still tied up, at the Ichigo. He made no move to catch it when it went hurtling past him, which resulted in Kon flying out the window.

Ichigo whistled as he watched Kon cannon through the air until he was out of sight. "And I thought you play soccer. You sure you don't want to try out for the baseball team?"

"Don't try to change the subject!" Karin snapped at him. "Is that some experiment of Urahara's gone wrong or something?"

"Uh, no, he's-"

"If you're talking about that doll that just went out the window, it's most likely a mod-soul!"

Karin was tackled by Ichigo as soon as he heard the voice. She was just about to yell at him, whether about him just tackling her out of the blue or where that voice came from, she wasn't sure, but she shut her mouth when a piece of the ceiling crashed down to where she'd been standing a second ago, revealing the heads of a group of absurd people.

"Yo, Ichigo, long time no see!" It was the same woman who'd provoked Ichigo to shove Karin out of the way when she spoke.

"Again?! Can't you guys just come in the way normal people do? There's a reason for why there are doors!" Ichigo shouted at the strange group of people, already settled comfortably on his bed. Well, that is, except for a certain white-haired captain.

"Toshiro, Rangiku-san!" Karin blinked, taking in the sight of Rangiku holding Hitsugaya in a headlock to prevent him from escaping.

Rangiku looked at her and perked up. "Oh, you're that kid from before! Ichigo's sister, right?"

Ichigo cut in before Karin could reply. "Yeah, she's my sister, but don't think that you can avoid my question!"

"Aw, don't be so mean. Besides, it's Captain Hitsugaya here's fault!" Rangiku said, all too happily pushing the blame onto Hitsugaya.

"How is it my fault? You forced me to go through the ceiling with you barbarians!" Hitsugaya yelled at his lieutenant.

Yumichika appeared to be rather upset when he responded to that statement, "Barbarian is an unsightly word. I prefer… unique."

"Che, what unique," Ikkaku scoffed. "We come in this way every single time, didn't we?"

"I just stated my own opinion. I never asked for yours."

"What makes you think that my opinions are bad?!"

Meanwhile, the six remaining people were in another conversation, completely ignoring the bickering pair.

"How were you going to come in if not through the ceiling, Captain?" Rangiku questioned him. "Surely not through the window? A white-haired elementary school student climbing through a window will turn heads."

"Aren't you stealing my lines?" Renji muttered, but Rangiku waved his comment aside.

Hitsugaya's eyebrow was twitching, and Karin was pretty sure that a blood vessel was going to burst soon. "It's better than just popping into a house through the ceiling, and don't you forget that you broke Kurosaki's light too. Climbing in through the window is civilized compared to that."

"Hey, Rukia, you disappear for this long and you just pop out of nowhere? What're you guys even here for?" Rukia shrugged at Ichigo's answer, examining his closet to see if he was keeping it clean, since she didn't know whether she would be using it again.

"Nothing really, we just came to play. The reason for this group's the same as last time, except for fun," She replied while frowning at all the dust she found.

"Yup, we're here just for fun," Rangiku cheered, clapping her hands together. She turned her head towards her captain. "Oh, and it's rare for you to take a day off, Captain."

Karin was pretty curious about the vein that kept popping up when Hitsugaya got irritated. "You're the one who filed a day-off request for me and dragged me here against my will!"

"Eh, is that so?"

"Don't act like you don't know! Last time was the same too. I ended up getting dragged into coming here two years ago because you thought that it would be 'fun' to tag along with Kuchiki's group!"

"Don't you think it was? We even got to kick some arrancar butts!"

Karin sighed as she watched the chaos growing. "Why do these shinigami's find it necessary to cause such drama every single time they show up?"

Hitsugaya overheard (damn those ears) and snapped his head towards her. "I told you -"

"SISTER, YOU'RE BACK!" Kon suddenly flew into the room through the window, but Rukia didn't even look at him as she argued with Ichigo. Instead, she sent him out through the window again by the means of a strong kick. And all that didn't stop Hitsugaya from continuing either.

"- entering through the window isn't dramatic!"

"And you still think that you aren't the Shinigami of Theatrics?"