School Stinks [Bleach Fanfic]

Crushed Crush

One: Write a chapter in which a character is caught passing notes in class.

In some ways Toshiro feared Rangiku going off on him about looking at that particular kind of magazine, but in reality she didn't. He also didn't want to ask about his parentage. In truth... in some ways he didn't want to know. It was just one more thing for him to worry about and he had enough on his mind with thinking about the zombie incident. When they arrived at the apartment he was surprised to find Rangiku and Orihime asking him questions about the club. He was also surprised at the ease at which it all came out.

"You must be really interested in this taicho." Rangiku smirked.

"If she's my mother why is she calling me taicho?" Toshiro shook his head and tole them he was going to go to bed. The next morning he arrived at school and sat down. The teacher came into the room and walked up to the board and wrote the words "sports day" Toshiro turned his head to look at Karin. "What is sports day?"

"It's a day where the different classes compete with each other?"

One of Karin's friends spoke up then. "You've never heard of sports day."

"So... these are the categories. Do we have any nominees?"

"Wait..." Toshiro blinked a couple of times as Karin's friends raised their hands.

"You guys..." Karin hissing at them didn't stop them from volunteering Toshiro, his face suddenly paling.

He turned his head to look around the class and noticed a group of girls gossiping with each other, giggling their heads off. A piece of paper suddenly hit his desk. Looking down he saw that it was folded into a triangle. He flicked it away, only to see another. He repeated it again, only to have a third tossed at him. In annoyance he opened it up and read the note.

"Do you like Kurosaki Karin?"

He felt his cheeks suddenly heat up, a deep blush spreading as he crushed up the letter. The teacher of course unfortunately saw him and took the paper from him and read the note out loud. A slew of giggles came from the other students and comments of "he really does like her" as well.

The teacher sighed. "I apologize Hitsugaya-kun, but you're not allowed to be passing letters in class."

"He wasn't the one doing the passing." Karin piped up, causing his face to turn even redder. "That's the third that he received. He really was trying to ignore them."

"So who..."

Toshiro stood up then and slid from the classroom and headed to the roof where he slid down against the wall, pulling his knees to his chest. Eventually he calmed down and dialed the number on his phone. "Ukitake Taicho."

"I want to come home."

"Shiro-chan? Why aren't you in class?"

"I got volunteered for the sports day that is tomorrow."

"That's wonderful. We'll come and see you."

"What?"

"Students families come to watch sports day."

"Yes. But I can't compete. I mean, we can't interfere."

"Nonsense. You're there to have fun."

"You... did you plan this to coincide with this?"

"Yes. We did."

"That isn't the only thing that happened. Some girl tried passing me notes in class and the teacher read them."

"So?"

"What it said was embarrassing?"

"What did it say?"

"It asked if I was... if I liked Kurosaki." The boy let out a sigh. "It asked if I liked Karin."

"Was it embarrassing because you like her or because you figured Ichigo and Isshin would flip?"

"Yes, yes, no."

"Yes, yes, no..."

"It's not as if Taicho would have a problem with me dating his daughter. He..." Toshiro frowned. "He's going to be at sports day, isn't he?"

"Very likely..."

"I'm dead. There is no way I can..."

Ukitake suddenly laughed. "Are you saying that you're going to die of embarrassment?"

"Yes. I think he already thinks of me as his son-in-law."

"Surely it isn't that bad."

"You know him. You know it is likely that bad."

"Or you're seeing things the way you want. Go back to class."

Toshiro stood up and headed back down the stairs. The girl who had been caught passing the note was standing outside the classroom. He blinked a couple of times realizing that it was the girl from the Japanese Culture club. He took a deep breath and stepped into the classroom and bowed to the teacher. "I apologize for leaving the class abruptly like that. I'll take what ever punishment is deemed necessary."

"Hitsugaya-kun... please just take your seat. I apologize for reading the note out loud like that. Next time a student passes you a note let me know instead of reading it, all right?"

"Yes mam." Toshiro went and sat down, only to hear more giggling. His head bowed down as he felt the embarrassment coming on again, but then heard some specific comments.

"He's such a gentleman."

"Kind of like a samurai."

This helped a bit.