Hey! Guess what? It's a HITSUKARIN fanfic!!! ^______^
My ultimate favorite pairing of all time!!! I really hope this pairing gets more fans, and maybe it'll even outnumber the amount of rabid HitsuHina fans (*yuck*)!! Woohoo!! Okay, that's enough exclamation points. But this pairing deserves all the hearts and exclamation points in the WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!
Okay...so read on!
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach. If I did... :)
Chapter One: Creation
Karin gazed into the container, the eerie aquatic light from within reflecting in her inky gray eyes and staining everything else in the dim room a shady green hue. Four walls of glass contained a limp humanoid body, floating dreamlessly in the shimmering liquid within.
She pressed her fingers to the glass, inches away from the lifeless body on the other side.
"It's perfect." she breathed, creating clouds on the glass.
"Damn straight it is," muttered one of her coworkers in a lab coat. "We spent just about the past three years making the damn thing."
Karin whipped around, her collarbone-length hair flying over her shoulder. Fire seemed to spark from her dark gleaming eyes.
"Do not call it "damn"," she snapped, "and don't call it "thing"." She glared at the man dangerously, before turning back around.
"Sheesh," he mumbled. "Chill out, girl."
Karin seemed not to hear his words. Her eyes traced attentively over the body - every line and contour was in place. There were no imperfections, blemishes, or disfigurements: the faultless anatomy, perfectly structured frame, flawless muscles, unmarked skin.....and the face. The face had been a shock. She had not expected this face...it hadn't been in the original plans. Yet it had come into existence on its own, regardless of what the team had designed in the first place. Nevertheless...it was a pleasant surprise. It seemed fitting, anyway, that such an inhumanly perfect body deserved an equally matchless face.
She sighed. Three long years...1,095 days of working minutes off the clock, spending hours overtime, agonizing over delicate and impossibly precise procedures. Little by little, bit by bit, the project had progressed and the body had developed - emerging like a fledgling out of a granite-shelled egg. Cell by cell, muscle by muscle, piece by piece...and now, here was the entire body - whole and intact. Her fingers, tired and cramped from writing down pages of chemical diagrams and numbers, stroked the glass, longing to finally touch her completed project just on the other side.
She hadn't even seen it open its eyes yet.
She wondered what color the eyes were.
"Drain it," she commanded, relishing those words. Three years was a long time.
Several small holes opened up at the bottom of the container, and water slowly began to filter out. The water level sunk, bringing the floating body down with it. Karin watched with satisfaction, bouncing eagerly on her heels as the last dribbles of liquid rolled down the drains, leaving the body, wearing only dark shorts, lying at the bottom deceptively like a sleeping human.
"Yes!" she exclaimed, unable to keep in her happiness any longer. She dashed around the lab room, high-fiving and shaking her coworkers, before finally dashing back to in front of the container.
"Can we take it out now?" she asked, like a girl staring at a puppy in a cage.
"Um, we should send it to the recovery room first, Karin-san," a timid girl replied. "It needs time to adjust after living so long in suspended animation." Karin rolled her eyes and spun on her heel.
"Fine, Ururu. Take it away," she snapped impatiently. Two lab assistants grabbed ladders to climb to the top of the 6-foot container, and jumped in through the open top. They detached the tubes connecting the body to the base and gingerly lifted it out, like it was a porcelain doll.
"Be careful," Karin warned, as they made their way down the ladders. "If you break it, I'll break you, Jinta."
The redheaded guy grinned jokingly. "Calm down, Karin. We made it to be indestructible, remember?"
She didn't answer, but watched like a hawk as they laid the body on a stretcher and carried it out of the lab.
"Well," commented one coworker. "This one goes in the scrapbook."
Karin grinned. "Yeah. "November 2nd, 9:45 P.M., in Karakura Research Lab: First perfect android created." I'd show that to my grandkids."
"But I wouldn't call it an android," one person frowned. "That sounds so...inhuman. Like it's just some robot, or toy."
"I kinda feel like it's a human too," agreed another. "This project is our baby. It's better than any old...tool."
"Mmhm," the other replied, packing up her bag and preparing to leave. "You guys wanna go out and celebrate? Pop some sake? I think this day deserves some kind of ceremony, right?"
"A night club sounds like a good ceremony," giggled another ditzily.
"I'm coming. Karin-san? Karin," Ururu said softly to Karin, who was still standing and facing the now-empty, dark container. "Are you coming with us?"
"Come on," the ditzy one pleaded. "We totally deserve it. I know you don't drink and party much, but...we've worked sooo long and way too hard for this! Let's go!"
Karin turned around, and her eyes gleamed triumphantly as she grinned mischievously. "Damn straight."
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Woohoo!!! My very first HitsuKarin chapter!!! Yes, I know it's not very long...but it's short and sweet. =) I'll try to make 'em longer in the future. kay? When more stuff will actually be going on...hahah.
Btw. Nov. 2nd is my birthday...just in case you were interested. xD
Please review!!! Tell me what you think of this story plot and how I'm doing! ^_^
