Written by: Ichizawa Tomine
Owned by: Tite Kubo
A/N: This fic is gonna be AU, but I hope you guys enjoy it nonetheless. Thanks to those who reviewed Me and You, and Guns and Roses… Oliviax3 and Jazmin respectively. I really, really appreciate your reviews, and I would also like to apologize that those fics were kinda lame. Gomene! Anyways, back to the story…
The Courtship of Kurosaki Karin
Prologue
Once upon a time, in a faraway dukedom called Karakura, there lived a girl named Kurosaki Karin. Karin was born to the duke and duchess of the land and she had an older brother and a younger twin sister. As she grew older, she began to have many admirers, for her beauty and sweet nature knew no match. But, sadly, after her mother the duchess died, she became tomboyish, cynical and hot-tempered, a far cry from the girl she had been. By the time she turned 17, her temperament and sharp tongue held no contest either.
Now it was a known law in the land that only sons were allowed to inherit the family's property and that daughters should be married upon turning 18 else they would have to earn their own bread. Since women held little consequence in the land, it was going to be a difficult time for the unfortunate young lady, indeed.
Fearing for his daughters' futures, Lord Isshin placed Karin and her sister Yuzu on the marriage market. As expected, Yuzu was taken first; her husband was a young noble named Jinta, who hailed from the neighboring kingdom of Shoten, which, for all its small size, was an extremely rich merchant country. Karin, too, did her part; she amassed a horde of possible husbands, and scared them off one by one. After the twins' partly successful stint on the bachelorette field, it was clear as day that no one was willing to take Karin in as his wife, despite the humongous dowry she possessed.
In an act of desperation, Lord Isshin sends Karin off to the northern kingdom of Sereitei, where his son Ichigo resided after marrying the younger sister of the prominent duke Kuchiki Byakuya, in hopes that no man has heard of Karin's streak and that hopefully, there she would snag a husband.
Whether or not she would succeed, we shall see...
To Be Continued