My Past Haunts Me

The Hunch

Welcome back to "My Past Haunts Me" I know the last chapter was probably confusing, but I wanted to fit everything into it, so that was the end product. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy chapter 5 regardless of the confusion I may have caused last time.

Chapter 5

Karin held Haru's hand as they followed Toshiro into the police station; the social worker was supposed to meet them. As they got up the stairs, they could hear officers whispering about them. Toshiro ignored them, but Karin quickly got irritated with them, letting go of the child's hand she stopped and turned the officer. The child stopped to watch, but when Toshiro noticed,

"Haru, come with me please," Toshiro spoke gently. Haru looked between the two before listening to Toshiro feeling uncomfortable with all the other people watching him. Karin held her temper until Haru was in Toshiro's office before she let loose.

"What the hell do you think you all are doing! You have cases to solve! So why are you spending your time gossiping like girls!" she barked at the officers immediately following she began giving orders dispersing the officers into the field. In Toshiro's office, Haru was watching by the door. He shuttered at her, yelling at everyone. Toshiro noticed the fear that clouded Haru's eyes as he watched Karin. He patted Haru's head,

"Hey, Haru, don't be scared of Karin. She is one of the nicest, most caring people I know. She wouldn't yell at you like that, so there is no reason to be afraid. Karin yells like that because she cares, she cares for all these cases that we have to be taken seriously and solved," Toshiro explained. Haru looked up at Toshiro in amazement,

"What about my case? Who's working on mine?" Haru asked in his small voice.

"Karin and I are working on it together because you are that important that you get two officers trying to solve it," he said with a comforting smile messing up Haru's hair. Toshiro turned to head to his desk as Karin came in. "You have fun with that?" he asked humorously. Karin sighed as she gave Toshiro a death glare,

"I don't understand why everyone thinks they should be in the office all day, I mean yeah find out a lot of things by reviewing case files, but nothing moves forward if you can't go out and gather information. You take your work home to review," Karin growled before cooling her temper, "by the way, is the social worker here yet? I didn't see anyone I didn't know out there, so is it possible she's waiting in one of the conference rooms?" she asked. Toshiro shook his head,

"No, we would have been told," he replied, sitting down in his chair to look at the DNA results of the forensic evidence collected from Haru. Karin showed Haru to a side room and got out toys for Haru to play with as she and Toshiro talked and began to work on the case, making sure to say things in code so that nothing would trigger Haru. After two hours, the social worker finally came into the office.

"Hello, my name is Chizue Kure. I have been assigned to the child's case," she introduced herself. Karin immediately didn't like the women; it felt like she was coming in and taking her child. Toshiro was surprised when Karin didn't greet the social worker, and when he looked over at her, he could tell that she was watching the social worker and had put herself between Haru and the social worker. He internally sighed as he stood up from his chair, coming out from behind his desk and reaching out his hand to shake Miss Kure's hand. Her grasp was firm as they shook hands.

"Hello, I'm Captain Hitsugaya, and that is Sergeant Kurosaki," he introduced them. The social worker looked in between Toshiro and Karin.

"So, you aren't married?" Kure asked. Toshiro and Karin both blushed bright red as they exchanged glances.

"Why would you think that?" Toshiro asked, flustered. The lady scratched her head.

"One of the workers at the office said she had been given Karin's case six or seven years ago, but never had to deal too much of it because a young captain, I presume, is you Hitsugaya said he knew her family was. Of course, many of the social workers try and follow cases if we can, and she said that Karin came back and was living with him and made us think that you two eloped or something," the social worker answered honestly. This made Karin and Toshiro blush a brighter red. Toshiro was the first to regain his composure.