Within the Frozen Tides, I Call Your Name

by AmberlynneSweet

With a week left until she graduates, Karin Kurosaki has a future in front of her. That is, until she gains her shinigami powers one night whilst protecting the town against a hollow, who turns out to be part of an elaborate and sinister scheme. Who else would she have to partner up with than the Tenth Squad Captain himself! Would they be able to stop this evil scheme for good?

1. Chapter 1

All those years ago, I thought I had no one to turn to.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to go.

No one to really, truthfully, sincerely understand the pain in which I go through.

All the feelings of loss and grief, all the days in which I would constantly lock myself in my room at night, crying myself to sleep because I had kept my emotions bottled up that day.

I, Kurosaki Karin, am a broken soul.

The tough exterior, the "I don't care what you say to me because I'm not affected by it" attitude, was just a cover.

Deep within my soul, I was a mess. And, I was certain that I would be this way forever.

At least, until I found you, Toshiro.

Never did I realize that on that fateful day, whilst meeting you for the first time to find someone for that silly soccer game, how much our destinies were to entwine with each other. Never did I realize that, when you saved me from that hollow, that it was the first time I saw you in a different light.

You were a shinigami, and I was a human.

Two races, two very different worlds, two different universes that were never supposed to have collided with the other.

But, life has a way of planning things that aren't supposed to originally happen, doesn't it?

Well, that was what happened to us.

But, neither of us knew it then, but it wasn't until that day, my last week of High school before I was supposed to graduate, that our paths would cross yet again.

Within the frozen tides, I called your name.

And you answered me.

From then forth, our lives would never be the same again.