A/N- Well, hello there. :) I've been thinking about writing this for a long while now and I decided to post this up. Plus, I'm just experimenting on where this would take me and how much you'd like it. :)

Summary- AU After living in America for some time, Karin takes on a challenge that leads her going to an all boy's school back in Japan. She ends up disguising herself as a boy just to meet her all time favorite star, Hitsugaya Toushiro. When she first meets him, everything she knew about him is different from what she had read about in articles so she takes it upon herself to change his attitude and shape him up to the guy he used to be.

"Mizuki-chan, truth or dare?"

"Hm... dare!"

Yuzu, Karin, and their friend, Mizuki, was in the twins room playing truth or dare. They had been previously doing prank phone calls until they got a complaint from one of the neighbors, so they settled for that game.

"Okay. Uh..." Yuzu paused to think of a dare. "I dare you to go kiss Onii-chan on the lips." she said energitically.

Mizuki gasped. "Your brother? ...I don't know."

"Come on. You've liked Onii-chan since ..forever! See it as an oppurtunity to get your first kiss."

Karin looked at her sister and their friend and rolled her eyes. Mizuki had liked their brother ever since they moved to America from their small town in Japan. Mizuki had said it was love at first sight and Karin told her that she was nuts.

Seven years ago, their dad had owned the town clinic in Karakura Town and business was booming. Then one day, a man in a suit came in, saw how good the business of the clinic was, and sponsered them. Who sponsers clinics? So thanks to the business man, the family moved to Los Angeles. It was a good thing that they're bilingual with English as their sencond language, otherwise they wouldn't understand a thing that's going on around them.

Then when they just moved into their new home, they met Mizuki. How they ever met her was beyond them. Isshin and Ichigo were moving furniture into their new home while Karin and Yuzu were putting things away. Then all of a sudden, they heard a crash from one of the upper rooms.

There they found a black-haired girl sprawled on the floor, who must have fallen in while climbing through the window, saying "Welcome to the neighborhood."

Later on, Karin and Yuzu found out that Mizuki happened to be passing by the house when she saw Ichigo. From there, she has been spying on him. The twins had told her that he was going out with a girl name Kuchiki Rukia, but that never stopped Mizuki. She is such a care-free, spunky girl, so rarely anything brought her down.

"Okay." she said eagerly. Then Mizuki stood up from the bed the three girls were sitting on and headed towards Ichigo's room.

"You know, Yuz," Karin started. "Ichi-nii might be upset about it."

Yuzu pouted. "Aw. Have some fun, Karin-chan. We're only seventeen and we're still young."

"Whatever." Karin said, rolling her eyes.

Both girls fell in a comfortable silence until their friend entered the room looking crestfallen. Yuzu went up to her and placed and arm around her shoulders. "What happened?"

Mizuki sighed. "Well, he was asleep when I went into his room. I kissed him and he kissed me back."

Karin and Yuzu's eyes grew big. "What happened after that?"

"I pulled away. When I did, I heard him say Rukia's name."

"At least he kissed you back." Yuzu said optimistically.

Mizuki thought it over and smiled. "Yeah. You're right." Then she looked over at Karin. "Karin, truth or dare?"

Karin sighed. "Dare." she simply stated.

From their past games of 'Truth or Dare,' Karin found the challenges rather boring since Mizuki and Yuzu never gave her a challenging one. It was better than answering 'trivia questions,' as Karin puts it, though. At least the dares challenges her to a certain degree.

Mizuki and Yuzu put their heads together, trying to come up with a perfect challenge. After a few minutes of whispering, they pulled apart and gave Karin a smirk. By the looks of it, they came up with a good one and Karin was anticipating to hear it.

"We dare you to go to the same school Hitsugaya Toushiro goes to." Mizuki stated.

"For the remaining school year," Yuzu added. "and you have to get to know him and be friends."

Karin gave them an incredulous look. This is going to be an interesting dare.

"But he goes to school in Japan in Karakura Town. Also, it's an all boy's school." Karin remarked, stressing out the word 'boy's'.

"Exactly" the both said.

"You, like, love him, Karin." Mizuki said.

Karin rolled her eyes. "It's not love. I admire him. He has amazing high-jumping skills, and he almost made it to the Olympics if it wasn't for that accident he was in. He's still young. I'm sure he can still make it to the Olympics." Karin said matter-of-factly.

Yuzu and Mizuki gave each other a look and looked at Karin. "Whatever, Karin-chan. I still think it's love because you know a lot about him." Yuzu said.

"But you're still going to do it, right?" Mizuki asked, eyeing her.

Karin glanced at the two girls before her and thought it over. It would give her a chance to meet him. She wouldn't mind changing the way she looked just so she could get in the school. Wearing a wig would be hard to keep on so she would settle for a hair-cut.

Plus, a whole school year gone. Well, it was fall and the school year already started. High school in America was giving her a pain in the neck, so a fresh start sounded nice.

Karin looked back at the two who were eagerly waiting for her answer.

"Sure, why not?"

Mizuki and Yuzu clapped their hands together and squealed.

"We need to start planning." Yuzu exclaimed.

Mizuki nodded and the two left the room leaving Karin behind. 'Let the games begin.' Karin thought amusingly as she followed the two out.

Two days later

'I can't believe I'm doing this.'

Karin was sitting on the toilet seat in the bathroom with Yuzu and Mizuki. Karin sat there impatiently as the two were cutting her hair. The raven-haired girl specifically asked for her hair to be right below her ears in layers and the two were doing just that.

With a last snip, Mizuki and Yuzu stepped back to admire their masterpiece. Both of them watched as Karin got up and looked at herself in the mirror.

"I like it." she said with a smile.

Mizuki and Yuzu went on both sides of Karin and smiled brightly. "Thanks, Karin-chan." they both said.

"And to think that we didn't think you'd take this dare seriously." Mizuki exclaimed.

Karin smirked. "Well, once you set a challenge for me, I don't back down. Never."

Both girls nodded knowingly. "Well, Karin-chan," Yuzu started. "Otou-san said that he wanted to bring you to the airport once we're finish with your hair. Are you sure you don't want to tell him why you're really going back Japan?"

When the girls were planning, they had decided to tell Isshin that Karin wanted to go back to school there because she missed the place. That was partly true since Karin didn't remember much of Karakura town when the family used to live there. She was only ten at the time when they had the big move.

Telling Isshin about Karin's 'decision' ended up having them trying to convince him not to let Ichigo join Karin at a local university there since he's in college. Sooner or later, Isshin gave up by weeping and saying how grown-up his kids are getting to be.

"Goat beard wants to take me to the airport? Just the both of us.. in the car?" Karin said exasperatedly while ignoring the question that was thrown at her.

Yuzu rolled her eyes. "Come on, Karin-chan. It's going to be a year since you're ever going to see him again. Us even. Spend some last minute quality time with him, please?"

Karin considered this and sighed. "Fine. So I guess I'll be leaving then, huh?"

Despite the fact that she was going to meet her favorite star, she was going to miss the people she was going to leave behind.

Unexpectingly, Mizuki and Yuzu pounced on her, giving her a tight hug. "We're really going to miss you, Karin-chan!" Yuzu wailed.

"And we're going to miss your grouchy-ness." Mizuki exclaimed.

Karin rolled her eyes at their antics and hugged them back. "I'm going to miss you guys, too."

"Karin-chan! Time to go and time for last minute father-daughter bonding time!" Isshin yelled from downstairs.

Once Karin pulled apart from the two girls, she growled. "It's a 45 minute drive to the airport and I'm going to have to ride with that?"

Mizuki and Yuzu laughed.

"Go, Karin, or you'll miss your flight." Mizuki said with a smile.

With one last hug, Karin smiled at them. "I'll see you guys later then."

She didn't want to say good bye and they didn't want to either. Good byes were just painful and 'see you laters' just seemed more fitting. They are going to see each other again anyways. Just not anytime soon.

With another round of hugs, Karin nodded at each of them and left. She was closing the front door behind her not after hearing two loud "Good luck!"

Once she closed the door and walked over to the car where her dad and her suitcases were, she felt the courage to take on this challenge.

"Maybe something good will come out of this once I'm done." Karin thought to herself as both father and daughter drove off to the airport.

A/N- Just so you know, Ichigo couldn't say good bye, or rather see you later to her because he was at his college and with Rukia. I didn't feel like adding that bit in there 'cause ...I didn't feel like it. x) Should I continue? :)