Understanding II: School Daze (Bleach Fanfic)

Hide and Seek

Toshiro opened the door to the kitchen only to have Karin's voice come to his ears. "Can I talk to you now?"

The boy froze and glanced around the kitchen. Yuzu was busy working on the food and her sister was leaning against the counter. He paused a few minutes. "You were waiting for me?"

"Yes. Could we talk about something? And not in front of Yuzu?" The girl had her arms folded across her chest.

Toshiro found himself suddenly paling. "He got mad at her last night and now she blames me." He closed his eyes and smiled at her. "I was going to go do my homework. I've got to do both yesterday's and today's."

"I really need to talk to you about this. You can take just five minutes to talk to me." Karin's tone deepened indicating she was becoming frustrated with him.

"I know that your dad got mad at me and you blame me for him being mad but..." The words came out of his mouth without him realizing he was saying them. Karin quickly interrupted him.

"Dad wasn't mad at me last night. Why would you even think that?" The dark haired twin's voice calmed a little from surprise.

Toshiro's cheeks though suddenly flushed up and his eyes went wide. He glanced to the side, gritting his teeth together. "I need to go."

"Toshiro!" Karin's tone darkened again, only to have the boy suddenly head up the stairs. She crossed her arms in frustration.

The small shinigami though went up to Ichigo's room in time to see the orange haired teenager look up. "Hello Toshiro. Have you talked to the others yet."

"I've got homework to do..." Toshiro walked over to the bed and suddenly flopped onto the bed and let out a deep sigh.

"You don't like doing your homework." Ichigo let out a deep sigh, setting down his pencil in order to speak with the kid. He waited for Toshiro to sit back up which took a few minutes."What is going on?"

"Your sister Karin wants to talk to me about something." Two teal eyes glanced at the ceiling. "I thought it was because she blamed me for getting her into trouble... but."

"Just talk to her." Ichigo spoke up.

"I can't!" The boy blurted the words out again as he crossed his legs on the bed."I have no clue what she is going to say to me, but it honestly can't be anything good. I've been getting nothing but problems from her."

The orange haired teen let out a deep sigh. "You don't know if she is going to say anything negative to you." He then began to fiddle with his folder. "My teacher put this together for you. If you finished your homework each day you can do some of it."

The boy got up and grabbed the folder and glanced through it. Two teal eyes suddenly became wide as they looked at the contents. "This is advanced math problems."

Ichigo watched as a smile spread on his face. He watched as Toshiro walked over to his backpack and dumped the contents onto the bed so he could begin the school work he tended to dread so much. However, as he did so he suddenly saw his Soul Phone and snapped it open. The small taicho took a good look at the incoming calls and saw that he had been flooded since the night before with calls from his fukutaicho.

Letting out a deep sigh, he turned to the substitute shinigami. "I'm going to the roof to call my fukutaicho. I don't know if she's messed something up in the office or has something else to tell me."

With that he disappeared out of the window. He pressed a few buttons and let the phone ring. Suddenly Rangiku's voice came blaring over the phone at him. "Taicho! Why haven't you been answering your phone! You made me worried sick wondering what happened to you! A few more hours and I would have been asking for permission to go to the living world to find you!"