Beowulf Alternate Ending

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They're lying on her bed. Practice had carried on into the late evening before anyone decided to head home.

"There's no way I'm going back to that office," Toushirou had grumbled, head low and eyes hooded. Karin had grinned and shook her head. "I'll make you dinner. Keep you busy a bit longer before your Division starts missing you."

Of course, Yuzu made dinner, not Karin. Karin can't cook for absolute shit.

Yuzu beams at Toushirou, hugging him without a second thought because she's excited to see "Karin-chan's boyfriend" again. Karin clenches her fist when she sees Toushirou stiffen at the sudden presence of her arms around him, but he graciously doesn't push her away and pats her back awkwardly. "Good to see you again, Yuzu," he says as gently as Toushirou can.
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Toushirou doesn't even turn around - he knows who it is and Karin bites her lip.

Isshin embraces Yuzu enthusiastically, tries to the same to Karin, who accepts begrudgingly, and without so much as a double-take to his presence, ruffles Toushirou's hair. Toushirou mutters something about how "he never changes" and appears to be overwhelmingly relieved when Isshin leaves the kitchen to change out of his work clothes. Karin wonders what he's dreading most: the lecture for making a connection with Karin, the lecture for practically dying, or the lecture about "when a shinigami and a human love each other very much...".

She brings him to her room before her father and his former Captain can return, locking the door and flicking off the