Arrancar Watch Ch.4

A/N: Hmmm I don't think I have anything to write that I didn't already write in the description, so enjoy Ch.4!  
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Karakura High Soccer Field     

High school students were sprawled all over the field panting like dogs. Although it was the middle of fall they were all sweating as if they had each eaten the spiciest chili in the world outside in one hundred and ten degrees weather. Only one girl out of all the students were actually standing, and she seemed quite angry at how the other students were all lying on the ground looking as if they might faint.
     
"Come on team! Get off your lazy a**es! (I'm sorry if you don't like the *s but I don't feel right writing it without it)" yelled the girl. All the students groaned.
     
"But, Karin-Taichou, we're tired," complained one student causing all the rest to either nod their heads or say yeah.
     
"Karin, maybe you should end practice now. I mean c'mon, you've had them practicing for four and a half hours non-stop." Suna said to her best friend.
     
"Well, I'm supposed to help by training them so I'm going to train them hard. I haven't had the chance to train them in two weeks." Karin had been assigned to help the coach again for the last day of her punishment, and he had told her that she could help by training the team. "Plus tomorrow there won't be school because of the teachers' meetings and our next game is on Saturday so I have to train the team hard."
     
"Well, considering they're on the ground, panting I think you've trained them hard enough," Suna replied pointing to the team.
     
Karin chuckled. "Yeah I guess I got carried away having fun," Karin replied, which Suna only sweatdropped to. Turning to the team, Karin yelled, "Practice is over! You can all go home now, but ready for Saturday!"
     
"Yes, Taichou!" everyone yelled already half way into the locker room. Watching her best friend walk over to her, Suna asked, "So you gonna do anything tomorrow?"
     
Grabbing her back pack from the bench Suna was sitting on, Karin swung it over her shoulder and replied, "I don't know. Probably go play soccer with Toushiro."
     
Suna giggled causing Karin to glare at her; whenever Suna giggled it never turned out good for Karin. "What?"
     
"Oh, nothing," Suna said walking off.
     
"No I wanna know why you giggled," Karin said commandingly following after the short girl.
     
"Well…" Suna began ringing out the well, "I just find it…surprising-yeah let's go with that…surprising that you're going to be with Hitsugaya-san."
     
Karin shot a death glare that would have sent anyone running, but being friends with Karin for so long had made Suna immune to the glare. "Suna…"
     
"What? I'm only saying how I find it surprising that you are going to hang out with the boy you like," Suna said as innocently as a person holding down a smirk and laugh could.
     
Karin's eye began to twitch, and with her arms swishing around above her head, Karin yelled, "For the gagillionth time I don't like Toushiro! Why do you think that I like him-scratch that. If you answer you'll just be giving me a million answers each crappier than the last one."
     
Ignoring Karin's statement, Suna explained, "Well, you're always with him, you always eat lunch together, the way you look at him, the way he makes you smile-"
     
"Woah, woah, woah! The way I look at him!? The way he makes me smile!? What the hell are you talking about?!"
     
"Oh, admit it, Karin," Suna said, smirking, "You like him; y'know ya do, and I bet he likes you too."
     
"When will you stop spewing crap out your mouth?" Karin asked now very irritated.
     
"I never started," Suna answered closing her eyes and walking faster.
     
Catching up to the short brown haired girl, Karin shook her head and mumbled, "I still don't know how I became best friends with you."
     
"Well, tell me why you don't think he likes you?" Suna asked after a few minutes of silent walking.
     
"Well, we're complete opposites. He can be so silent and I'm not, he's a workaholic and I can't stand work, he-" Karin began to list until rudely interrupted.
     
"And yet you still like him," Suna said not really having listened to what Karin had said.
     
Karin huffed. "Can we just drop the subject and talk about something else?"
     
"Fine," Suna said slightly disappointed. She always did like annoying Karin about her feelings for Toushiro even if Karin never told the girl of having such feelings Suna knew they were there, but, even if it wasn't obviously implied, she also did try convincing Karin to do something about them. "What are you doing when you get home?"
     
Suna could see Karin visibly tense up at the question. "Yuzu's taking me" -Karin gulped- "clothes shopping," Karin answered shuddering.
     
Placing a hand on Karin's shoulder, Suna sympathetically said, "I feel so sorry for you." Now arriving at the Kurosaki residence, Suna removed her hand from Karin's shoulder and ran away, yelling, "I'll pray for you!"
     
Karin slowly started walking towards the door, savoring her last moments of peace. Yuzu was a terrible shopping fanatic; if someone could be addicted to shopping it was Yuzu. She was almost worse than Rangiku.
      
Karin shuddered again at the memory of having to go with the both of them on a shopping spree while Toushiro was out fighting hollows. Yuzu and Rangiku had taken her to a beauty salon where the employees had to strap her down to restrain her, and even while she was down she was fidgeting as much as she could to stop the employees. That day Yuzu and Rangiku had returned to the Kurosaki residence with over fifty shopping bags, dead credit cards, and a very pissed off Karin wearing a sundress, makeup, and nail polish.
     
Surely enough she had avoided ever shopping with the both of them together again. Yuzu still was bad though so Karin ran away from her twin whenever the word shopping came out of her mouth but now she would not be able to avoid shopping because she really did need new clothing for Fall. Karin had tried to convince Yuzu that she could just wear her school uniform but the brown haired girl would not take no for an answer this time.
     
Slowly opening the door a crack, Karin caught a peek at a long strawberry blonde hair. Only one person with hair like that would be at the Kurosaki residence on the day she was supposed to go shopping. 'Rangiku! No, no, no , no, NO!' panicked Karin in her mind.
     
Turning on her heels, Karin ran towards the public sidewalk, but before she could have the chance to run to Suna's house she was tackled to the ground. Karin didn't even need to look up to know who it was. "Get off me, Rangiku!"
     
"Is that anyway to say hello?" Rangiku teased not letting the fact that she was on top of Karin ruin her mood.
     
Wishing she could turn her head to send glares at the older woman but couldn't unless she wanted her face in the older woman's breasts, Karin yelled, "Rangiku!"
     
"Karin-chan," said a soft voice. The black haired girl looked up from the side walk to a brown haired girl in front of her. "You promised! Please don't leave, Karin-chan! We'll have a great time!" Yuzu tried to convince her twin.
     
"That's what you said the first time I went with you two and it turned into the worst day of my life!" Karin retorted. "Besides, what'll Otōsan say when you max out his credit cards again?"
     
As if on cue, Isshin appeared next to Yuzu looking tenser than Karin did before Rangiku found it necessary to tackle the younger Kurosaki (which it probably was). Connecting his fingers together repeatedly (imagine Mr.Burns from The Simpsons), Isshin said, "Y-Yuzu-chan, my precious daughter, I'm going to have to keep my credit cards this time. I-I'll give you some money though-"
     
"WHAT!?" Rangiku yelled now on her feet in front of the male Kurosaki. Narrowing her eyes and pointing at Isshin, she continued, "What do you mean you're keeping the credit cards? We need those to buy all the clothes we want!"
     
"W-well Rangiku-chan I-I need to pay money for the things you put on my credit cards," Isshin, who was clearly intimidated by the blonde woman, explained. Rangiku continued to glare at Isshin for another ten minutes until finally he gave up. Sighing and holding a credit card out to the busty woman, Isshin said, "Alright but you can only use one credit card!"
     
Rangiku snatched away the credit card from the Kurosaki and smiled. "That's better!" Turning to Yuzu, Rangiku screamed, "C'mon, Yuzu, shopping time!"
     
"But, Rangiku-chan, what about Karin-chan?" At this question Rangiku turned to where the black haired girl was last she saw her, and noticed she was gone.
     
"HELL NO!" Everyone turned to Yuzu and Karin's opened bedroom window and saw a very angry looking Karin. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" At the ending to this sentence Karin slammed the window shut, pulled down the curtains, and locked the door to the bedroom. Sighing, Karin picked up a book from her desk and began reading.
     
After less than a minute of reading Matsumoto's head popped open the vent door causing it to fall to the ground. "Does that mean when you come to the Soul Society I can take you shopping?" Rangiku asked still upside down.
     
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE OR DEAD!" Karin yelled. Before she could open the window to jump out Matsumoto exited the air vent and restrained Karin with a hug. Kicking her legs everywhere, Karin began to unceasingly scream, "LET GO OF ME, RANGIKU! LET GO OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY! RANGIKU!"
     
"Karin-chan…" Karin stopped kicking and yelling when she heard the voice. "Karin-chan…" Karin's head turned to the door with a look of worry on her face. "Karin-chan," the voice behind the shut door said again but more weakly this time, "you promised. Please, Karin-chan, come with us."
     
It was Yuzu. A wave of guilt smashed against Karin at hearing her twin pleading; only her twin sister could ever make her feel so guilty even when she did not do anything wrong. Karin could just imagine the puppy dog look Yuzu could be using behind that door. Karin sighed. "Fine."
     
"What?" Rangiku said, her eyes blinking a mile a minute.
     
"I said fine," Karin grumbled. "I'll go shopping… with you guys."
     
Karin winced at the squeals emitting from the older woman hugging her and sister from behind the door. 'This is going to be a long day,' Karin mentally sighed, but then scowled. 'Toushiro'll pay for leaving me here with them.'

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Railing

Toushiro shivered. 'That was weird. Why did I shiver just then?' Toushiro thought, looking up at the sky. The sun was beginning to descend; all the clouds' white color was changing into a golden yellow, the sky was turning a calming orange, and the birds were all flying back to their nests for the night, but Toushiro just could not enjoy the scenery for his mind was elsewhere. Toushiro was replaying his earlier conversation with Rangiku in his mind.

Flashback (This is in third person like the rest because I do not enjoy writing first person as much as this, plus third person is easier for me)

School had ended for the day and Toushiro was quietly sitting on the railing, scowling and tapping away on his phone, when he felt something heavy on his shoulders and two hands cover his eyes. "Guess who," a voice rang out.
     
"Get off me, Matsumoto," Toushiro said nonchalantly.
     
Surprised, Rangiku pulled back. "How'd you know it was me?"
     
"What person would just go up to a random stranger and cover their eyes?" Toushiro replied continuing to tap away on his phone.
     
"Well, Taichou, you are a good looking young man now, so what girl wouldn't try that on you?" Rangiku said winking at her white haired taichou.
     
Still not turning to look at his fukotaichou, Toushiro said, "Knock it off, Matsumoto. I need to finish this report."
    
Rangiku pouted. "Oh c'mon, Taichou! That report isn't due 'till Saturday so relax! Or" Rangiku began in a teasing voice, "are you just trying to send it today so you'll have time for Karin-chan's game on Saturday?" At the mention of Karin's name Toushiro's mind flashed him images of what happened, or almost happened, the day before at the same railing he was sitting at now. Honestly, the memory had been plaguing his mind all day and it is because of that memory that he had been avoiding Karin all day, which is why he spent the school day paying attention to the lesson the teacher was teaching and going out to patrol during lunch. Rangiku giggled watching her taichou's cheeks turn red while the expression on his face stayed the same; she thought it was so adorable when that happened. Pinching his cheek, Rangiku said, "Awwww, is Taichou thinking about what happened yesterday?"
     
Toushiro's eyes widened for a second before what his fukotaichou said sank in and his scowl immediately deepened. Rangiku had followed them again and she saw what! Closing his phone and shoving it into his pocket, the white haired taichou turned to the older woman. "You were following us-again!" Toushiro yelled more like a statement than a question. Matsumoto immediately took her hand off Toushiro's cheek and took a few steps away from him, now realizing what she said probably was not the smartest thing to have said.
     
Rangiku laughed nervously. "Woopsie,"
     
"Why do you insist on following us!?"
     
Rangiku's tone turned a little serious. "Why do you insist on not admitting your feelings for Karin?"
     
"Matsumoto, I-"
     
"Taichou…" Toushiro stopped talking; Rangiku's voice was stern but also soft. When she saw that her taichou wouldn't interrupt Rangiku continued. "Taichou, you cannot try and say you do not have feelings for Karin because I know you do. Karin can make you do things you wouldn't normally do like put off paperwork, play games, she can even make that scowl of yours turn into a smile. I know you refuse to admit it, even to yourself, but you cannot avoid it forever; you love Kurosaki Karin!"
     
Toushiro was silent, his face deadpan. The sternness in Rangiku's voice disappeared but the softness stayed as she said, "Please, Taichou, at least think about what I'm telling you." And with that, the blonde woman left, leaving the white haired taichou to his thoughts.

Flashback End

So Toushiro stayed at the railing, completely forgetting about his report, and just thought about what Rangiku had said. You love Kurosaki Karin, you love Kurosaki Karin, you love Kurosaki Karin; these are the words that have been repeating inside Toushiro's mind. 'Could I really love Kurosaki?' Toushiro asked himself in between the unceasing repeats of flashbacks and words.
     
Memories of Karin and him were popping up in his head, each causing a heavy feeling in his chest to appear. Toushiro always wondered about that feeling in his chest whenever he was near the girl but always passed it off as an effect of staying near a Kurosaki with high spiritual pressure, but now he was thinking hard about whether it was like what Momo described she felt whenever she was with her boyfriend, Izuru Kira.
     
"Oi, mister," Toushiro snapped out of his thoughts and looked to his left. There was a young boy, probably the age of 6, staring at him. "Whats are wous dowings outs at this time, mister? Shouldn'ts wous be home?"
      
"I was just watching the" That is when Toushiro stopped talking because he noticed the sunset was gone and was replaced with stars and the moon.
     
"Whats were wous watchings, mister?" the little boy asked, looking up at the sky to look for what Toushiro was watching.
     
"Nevermind," Toushiro mumbled.
     
"Wous shwould go homes, mister. It's dark ands-"
     
"There you are!" said a woman, grabbing the boy's arm. "Why did you run off like that?"
     
"I wants know why hes was heres by himselfs," the boy said, pointing to Toushiro.
     
The woman looked at Toushiro and gave him a nervous chuckle. "I'm sorry about my son. He just thinks that if a person stays out late monsters will go get them."
     
"Theys will, and I dwon'ts wants anywones hurt," the boy retorted.
     
Again, the woman chuckled nervously. "My son he's always wanting to protect everyone." Said boy started to yawn and wipe his eyes. "It's past your bedtime we should get you home."
     
"No!" The boy said pulling away from the woman and next to Toushiro. "Mes wants ta stay and mwake sures mister gets home safe." The boy yawned again and his eye lids started to drop and he spoke much softer. "And mwes…wants help…Mommy with shop…pwing bags."
      
The boy began to fall and Toushiro caught him before he landed on the ground. Toushiro looked up at the mother, and the boy was right she had shopping bags covering both her arms. "Here I'll…um…" the woman began, trying to make room on her arms for the boy.
     
"I can carry him," Toushiro offered. He honestly did want to help the boy but the boy was more of an excuse for Toushiro to not go to the Kurosaki home where he would see…her.
     
"Are you sure? Don't you need to go home?"
     
"No it is fine," Toushiro replied, picking up the boy.
     
Smiling, the woman said, "Alright then. Follow me…um…I'm sorry but you did not introduce yourself. Heh, I guess I didn't introduce myself either; sorry." Stretching out a hand, which was partly occupied holding a grocery bag, she said, "Hello I'm Seu Winry and that boy you're holding there is Seu Hoshi."
     
Shaking the hand, Toushiro replied, "Hitsugaya Toushiro, but please call me by my surname."
     
"Alright then, Hitsugaya-san, follow me," the woman said, walking away with Toushiro following behind. The pair walked for a few minutes before Seu spoke up. "So, Hitsugaya-san, what's going on in that mind of yours? You look pretty anxious."
     
Toushiro's scowl deepened a little, and he was about to say there was nothing on his mind until he saw the look on her face; it was the same look of concern Rangiku has on her face whenever she was worried about him. 'Well, it's not like I will ever see her again so why not?' Toushiro thought debating whether or not to tell the woman about his problem.
    
"Look, it's alright. You don't need to tell me; I only wanted to know if I could he-"
    
"It is about a friend," Toushiro mumbled softly.
     
Seu's eyes lit up, happy to have him talking, but didn't change the look on her face. "What about this friend?"
     
"Whenever I am around her I have this…feeling….in my chest."
     
Seu started laughing causing the white haired man to glare at her. She continued for a few more seconds, irritating Toushiro, and then said, "A friend of mine said the same thing to his mother when he was your age. Every time he was around that girl he felt as if chest would explode."
     
"How do you know-"
     
"Well, it's pretty obvious, Hitsugaya-san. Now would you like to hear the rest of that story?" Toushiro nodded and Seu continued. "So my friend told his mother about the feeling he had and his mother told him that he loved the girl. This had completely caught him off guard because he had been best friends with the girl since grade school and she was his best friend, so the boy started to avoid her for awhile hoping that if he were away from her long enough the feeling would go away and their friendship would be the same as it always was to him. Now this infuriated the girl so, after three weeks of being avoided, she went right to his house and demanded to see him. She also demanded that he tell her the reason as to why he had been avoiding her. After my friend told her his feelings toward the girl she returned them and so began their relationship as a couple. Time passed by and they went from dating to marriage and together had a beautiful baby boy named Hoshi."
     
Toushiro looked down at the boy in his arms. "But-"
     
"But nothing! Look, Hitsugaya-san, I had the same feelings for the man I love and now he's my husband. The feeling doesn't lie, Hitsugaya-san; you are in love with that girl." Arriving at her home, Seu took Hoshi from Toushiro and said, "Well, thank you for your help, Hitsugaya-san, and I hope I might've helped you a little."
     
Toushiro did not reply he just walked away, heading to the Kurosaki residence. 'Even a stranger thinks I am in love with Kurosaki,' Toushiro mentally groaned. 'Hyourinmaru, Matsumoto, Hebi-san, hell the whole world probably thinks I'm in love with Kurosaki! Next thing I know Kami'll come to me in a vision and tell me I'm in love with her!'
     
Opening the door to the Kurosaki home, Toushiro thought, 'Why does everyone think that I am in love with Kurosa-' Toushiro stopped his sentence upon seeing a woman in the arm rest across from the door. The soul reaper walked over to her only to find out that it was the girl he was thinking about. 'Kurosaki?' Karin was in a pink, frilly sundress with smeared makeup and water on her face. 'Matsumoto and her sister must have taken her shopping again; looks like she tried to take off the makeup.' Toushiro grabbed a wet towel from the kitchen, walked back to the sleeping Kurosaki, and softly wiped the makeup off Karin's face.
     
Gently, to not wake her up, Toushiro picked Karin up bridal style and began to carry her to her room. While walking, Toushiro stared at her face; Karin never really had any special features that would split her from a normal group of high school girls but Toushiro could not help to stare. Little streams of water were still falling down her face. The streams of water were reminding Toushiro of one of his oldest and, though he would not admit it to anyone, precious memories with Karin.

Flashback

Toushiro was a wreck-his mind was in utter chaos, he smelled terrible, and he was weak from lack of eating.  It has been two months since he put Momo into a coma and he did not feel any less guilty. How could he not? He almost killed his closest friend, the one he considers his own sister! He felt like crying but had too much pride to let any tears out, even when he was alone.
     
Everyone tried to snap him out of his depression but all failed-his squad, Ichigo, Rukia, Ukitake, Rangiku, even Hyourinmaru! He declined any help, refused food, and, for the first two weeks, would not do any paperwork-during that time Rangiku did all the work herself to help out her taichou. Rangiku practically had to feed him herself so he would not die from starvation.
     
The second month of his depression was the first month he and Matsumoto were given the "Arrancar/Espada Watch" assignment. Every day of that month was the same; he would go sit at the railing all day and night, watching the sky, and Rangiku would bring his food to him, which he never finished. All days were the same except the last day the day Karin appeared again.
     
Rangiku had brought him his food but he did not move an inch from his spot; he could not care less about the food. He was watching the sun descend when he heard "Hey, you're back", but he did not turn to find out the source of the voice.
     
"Yo, Toushiro, you there!" Now there was a hand waving in front of Toushiro's face, which he simply ignored. "Toushiro!" yelled the voice as the back of his head was hit and he fell to the ground. Standing up, Toushiro saw the one who was calling him, Karin Kurosaki. "Just cause you're a taichou doesn't give you the right to be ignorant!" she roared.
     
When Toushiro just sat back down on the railing without telling Karin to refer to him as "Hitsugaya-Taichou" she began to worry. "Are you alright, Toushiro?" She did not receive a response, but she could tell he was disturbed. He looked the way she and Yuzu did when Ichigo had been missing for all those weeks. Sitting beside him on the railing, Karin asked again, "Are you alright, Toushiro?" Again, she did not receive a response. "Something bad has happened to someone very close to you so now you're depressed," Karin stated in a serious tone.
     
On the outside Toushiro had the same expression but on the inside Toushiro was quite surprised; in the Soul Society it took everyone a week to figure out that he was sad and it only took Ichigo's younger sister less than five minutes and she did not even know him. Toushiro turned his head slightly to the girl; she was looking up at the sky with a serious face and eyes filled with remembrance and concern. What did she have to be concerned about? She was a living, breathing human with a normal life and no cares in the world.
     
This concern in her eyes…this concern that she had inside her…it was enraging Toushiro-the only thing he has felt in two months. "What do you have to be concerned about?" Toushiro grumbled, the most words he has said in two months. "You are a human! You live without a care in the world!" Almost yelling now, Toushiro said, "There is nothing you could be concerned with!"
          
Karin began to chuckle a little causing Toushiro to completely turn his head to face the girl. "You'd think so, but no. Not all of us are care free, not all of us can be that lucky. At least...not my family."
     
Although, Toushiro was curious as to what Karin could be talking about what she said enraged him more. "How could you not be care free!? Your closest friend wasn't severely injured by you because of some d*mn bastard! You didn't put your closest friend, the one you consider a sister, into a coma where you don't know when she'll wake up!" At this point Toushiro was yelling and closed his eyes to keep from crying, which he was close to. "You are not the one whose closest friend will hate you for the rest of your life!"
     
Toushiro felt something land gently on his shoulder. He opened his eyes to see Karin smiling sadly at him. "They won't hate you. If you two are that close that you'd feel guilty enough to smell like this I know they won't hate you." Karin said, attempting to be humorous but failing.
     
"I don't need your pity," Toushiro said, his voice cracking while he attempted to push her arm off but was too weak and tired to try.
     
"It's okay you can cry here. I won't tell anyone."
     
Irritated, Toushiro argued back, "I do not need your pity and I do not need to cry."
     
"Toushiro, everybody cries," Karin attempted to convince Hitsugaya.
     
"I bet you don't cry," Toushiro retorted then went back to watching the sky. Although Toushiro did not know the girl she looked like the type who would never dare cr-
     
"Yeah I do." Stunned, Toushiro turned back to the eleven year old girl. "When I saw Ichigo leave that day to train I wanted to cry because I didn't know what would happen to him, but I knew if I cried in front of him he would have stayed with us-his family-instead going off to train and then to war. I didn't cry in front of him because I knew you all needed him to save your world-to save ours, but when he left I began to cry because…I already lost my mother and I do not want to lose my brother." Karin eyes were shut tight and both her hands were balled up into fists. "It's because of Ichigo that I cried after our mother died. It's because of Ichigo Yuzu, Otōsan, I worried about him for weeks, and it's because of him Yuzu cried all those weeks!"
     
"But...it's alright to cry," Karin's hands began to loosen, "because…it shows you care, and you might as well be a person who has a lust for blood and killing if you don't cry (coughcoughKenpachicoughcough)." Putting her hand back on Toushiro's shoulder and smiling, Karin said, "Now cry because it's pretty obvious you want to."
     
Memories of his and Momo's childhood flooded into Toushiro's head-them argueing, them eating together, them with Grandma, them watching the sunset, Momo leaving for the academy-,and then the memory of him pushing his sword through her stomach, Momo's blood staining both of them, and Momo using the last of her strength to say "Shiro-chan". Toushiro could not hold it in any longer and he began to cry. He stayed there at the railing crying while Karin rubbed his back until midnight. Wiping away the last of his tears, Toushiro said, "It is late. You should go home, Kurosaki."
     
When Toushiro turned his head to face the girl she was sitting straight up asleep. Toushiro shook his head. "If she was tired she should have gone home," the white haired man said. Picking Karin up bridal style, Toushiro flash stepped all the way to the Kurosaki home and inside Karin's bedroom. Toushiro softly laid Karin down on her bed and covered her with the blanket. He continued to stand where he was, starring at Karin. Smiling for the first time since Momo's coma, Toushiro whispered, "Thank you, Kurosaki." Toushiro took one last glance at Karin and then left.

Flashback End

When Toushiro snapped out of his memory he was inside Karin and Yuzu's bedroom starring at Karin, who was in bed with the blanket covering her. The moonlight from the window shined on Karin's serene face making it look like that of a sleeping angel's. 'Kurosaki...' Toushiro thought, his heart speeding up and the feeling in his chest returning. 'No, no, no! I couldn't be!' Toushiro's heart sped up more and more and the feeling in his chest was threatening to tear him apart inside. 'I...I'm in love...with Kurosaki Karin.'