Hitsugaya Karin

Summary: My name is Kurosaki Karin. 17 months and some after my brother lost his powers I… died. After training so hard in almost two years to become stronger and protect my family back in Karakura, I needed to leave them after a freaking car accident. But I'm not worried. My life here in Soul Society just began. [HitsuxKarin] Maybe some IchiRuki in the future chapters.

Setting: Karakura Town; 2 years after Ichigo lost his powers

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach and its characters. I just need the Chapter 424 for prologue.

Prologue:Stronger

Normal PoV:

" It's morniiiiiing! Brother! Wake Uuuup!"

"I'm tired..." sighed Ichigo.

"Tada!" shouted Yuzu. Posing in front of her brother to boast her new Middle School uniform.

Ichigo looked on her sister for a long time, and Yuzu waits for a reaction.

"Oh yeah. Today's your first day of Junior High, isn't it?" said Ichigo. " Karin, pass me the soy sauce." He said to his other sister.

Yuzu was angry, and she gave Ichigo the soy sauce with um, more enthusiasm. " Here! Soy sauce!"

Ichigo's sweat dropped. It's very weird to see his "angelic" sister angry.

"What're you upset about, Yuzu?" asked Ichigo.

" I'm not upset! I went to all the trouble of not showing you my new uniform until the big day and now you barely even glance at it! (A/N: Did I say that he did look for a long time?) Whatever! I don't care!" said Yuzu.

Ichigo looked at her and said, "Your zipper's undone."

"Eek!" Yuzu shouted.

"See? I was looking," said Ichigo.

"Dummy! Pervert!" Yuzu again.

Karin, who was eating her breakfast calmly despite of the little commotion, pokes the eyeglass of some random ghost who is looking at the food she's eating. "My glasses!" said the distressed ghost.

Ichigo looked at Karin and asked," What's the matter, Karin?"

"Nothing" She said and sipped from her bowl.

"Yuuuuuzuuuuu!" shouted by someone, the force of the shout pushing Ichigo forward.

"Hey, look, Yuzu! What do you think of this suit!? Which goes better, a regular tie, or a bow tie!?

Yuzu, who was still shocked by her brother's attentiveness told him," Yeah. It's fine, I guess. Whatever."

The shocked father shouted, " Whatever!?"

Ichigo's PoV:

Ichigo got out of the house and starts walking to school.

17 months have passed since the battle. A year and some. I'm in 12th grade now. Apparently, Chad and Inoue told everyone about my shinigami powers while I was sleeping. They said they believe them right off the bat. Well... After all that happened right before my eyes, I guess it wouldn't take much convincing. Still I'm glad they accepted me without much question.

" Morning," said by a smiling Mizuiro Kojima.

But... Now... I no longer have my Shinigami powers. Ever since I lost my reiryoku, Karin's has gotten stronger.

" Brotherrrrr!" shouted Yuzu, who waved at him. Karin passed by without saying anything." See you later!"

Now the high-spec spiritual medium gig is all hers. She seems to think it's a pain but she hasn't said anything to me. I guess she's handling it okay.

"Let's go, Mizuiro." I told the guy who was waiting for me.

"Yeah."

Kurosaki Karin, 13, looked out her window when she felt a hollow's reiatsu. In less the five minutes, the reiatsu was gone. She wondered if her brother was the one who killed it, but, nah, that's impossible because two years ago, her brother's reiatsu suddenly disappears. Maybe it's one of Ichi-nii's friends. Oh, well. She doesn't really care.

"Ka...rin! Ka...rin! Karin!"

Karin looked at the person calling her. She saw her teacher's annoyed face. Uh-oh. Karin sighed. This meaningless thinking gets me in trouble all the time.

"Sensei!" She said.

"Well, Karin-san, because you already know the topic so much, could you please come up and answer the equation in the board?" Her sensei said.

Karin sighed again and goes up to the blackboard. 49=(3x+8)^2/ x^2 Solve for x...Karin wrote down x=2. The teacher looked at her work and nodded. Karin walked back to her seat, oblivious of the admiring glances thrown in her way. Yuzu smiled when she passed by her, and Karin nodded.

Karin sighed. They don't need to look at me like I'm some kind of a freak. (A/N: They're not. They're admiring you.) I already know how to do it because I have nothing to do at my free time other than studying, playing soccer, and… fighting hollows.

Karin's day just flew by without her knowing, she just heard Yuzu calling her when the last bell rings. She stood up and gathers her bag and walked beside her sister. Yuzu was telling her about some things but her mind wondered off again. This time to a certain place where she could sit and stare at the sky and wonder... and of course, to think about the boy who sat there thinking about his best friend.

"...And then, there was this-"

" Yuzu." Karin said.

"Yes, Karin-san."

"Go home ahead of me. I just remember something I need to do"

" A b-but-"

Karin run off away from her sister and told her, " Don't worry! I'll be back before dinner." Yuzu sighed and watched her sister until she disappears from her sight before walking towards home.

Karin dropped her bag on the grass before lying down and putting her arms under her head. She stared in the sky, and let her thoughts run again.

I can't remember when I realize that sometimes, people that I thought is alive, is already a ghost. Maybe it's because I don't believe in them although I could see them. But two years ago, when my brother keeps on disappearing for days, and sometime months, I can't help but acknowledge this ghosts because my Ichi-nii is...was... a soul reaper.

One day, when my brother suddenly disappeared, I saw a flying mammal in the sky and because I don't have anything better to do, I followed it and watched as it burst into nothingness. And then I saw, Don Kanonji, the popular exorcist guy on T.V. , and asked me if I want to join his team that will protect the Karakura Town while Ichi-nii is gone. I was going to refuse but he said that I could be Karakura Red, meaning the leader, and I agreed. What a fool I am to do so?

Karin closed her eyes, and let herself to rest for a bit. She doesn't know why she needs to recount her life since those damn hollows keeps on appearing. She wants to relax but her mind is on a roll.

Two year since my reiatsu suddenly becomes stronger, and it was growing steadily since then. I don't know. Maybe I got them from Ichi-nii but that's highly improbable. I think that my reiatsu was always this high, it was just covered up by my brother's reiatsu so it feels like I don't have that much...

Two years ago...

"Ugh!" Karin suddenly felt something pulling her down like the gravity just got heavier. She looked at Yuzu who suddenly collapsed. "Yuzu!" She crawled towards her sister and tried to get them both up, but she could only stand up with knees bend from the pressure, how could she carry Yuzu back to the house. She tried to drag Yuzu and her self towards the house, and for what feels like a week; all the weird pressures suddenly disappeared. She looked at Yuzu, and she stand up and support her unconscious sister before starting towards home again.

Flash forward...

"Ichi-nii!" shouted Karin, who was the only conscious person in the clinic. "What happened to him?" She asked Chad who was carrying her brother.

When her brother was comfortable in his room, Inoue and Chad told my brother's friends and I about his...adventures. She can't believe that her brother was risking his life not only for the people of Karakura Town but also of this Soul Society place.

People say that I looks like Ichigo, my personality is liked Ichigo, and I have Ichigo's weird ability to see souls and things that have to do with them, too. They could say those things about me but they don't really know me, that's what I think, but when I heard about nii-chan's adventures, I couldn't help but wonder if I could be more stronger... stronger than I am now, because I realized that I want to help him protect people, that I want to protect him, too, instead of waiting for him to come home not knowing what's happening to him.

The next day, After Karin and the Karakura superheroes defeated another weak hollow, she asked Don Kanonji to help her with her desire to become strong.

To her horror, one week after Karin asked, he came back giving her her "schedule". She looked over it and read, " Mon-Wed-Fri: Kendo: Tue-Thu-Sat: Hand-to hand combat; Sunday…"

Don Kanonji smiled and anticipated her reaction when he felt himself flying across the street.

"What the hell is this!?" shouted Karin.

"Th-that's your schedule from now on, you asked me to-"

"I know! But I never said that you make so that I need to train everyday! I have school starting next week, you know!?"

"G-gomenasai, Karin-chan. I'll asked for a better schedule."

"Iie, I'm the one who should say sorry. I'm the one asking you for a favor, and I'm acting bratty. I guess this is okay, too, but can you please just schedule it so that it would be during the afternoons?

Don Kanonji smiled at Karin." Haiiii! Karin –chan! I, the great Don Kanonji will help you in your quest to become stronger and kick those hollows' ass!" Then he disappeared again, complete with a flashy exit.

"Oh-ho-ho-ho!" someone chuckled behind Karin. She was rooted down in her spot, feeling sick of Don Kanonji's exit.

"!" The startled Karin looked at her back and saw a man with a striped hat and a fan. She recognized the damn man. He's Ururu and Jinta's employer.

"Konnichiwa, Karin –chan. I heard from Jinta that you wanted to become stronger." Uruhara said.

That baka! When I see him, I'll make sure it will be for his funeral. W-"What right does he have to tell people about my plans," she muttered.

Urahara Kisuke looked at Kurosaki Ichigo's sister with interest in his eyes. He smiled as he felt the girl's reiatsu growing. " Don't worry about it, Karin~chan. I mean no harm. I just want to help you."

"Sorry, but I already asked someone to help me. Good bye!"

"Please wait, Miss Karin. I heard you talked about your classes before." Karin furrowed her brows. Uruhara continued when he saw the girl looking at him like he's a stalker or something. "I mean I heard you read the schedule before."

"Oh. So what about it?"

"Your list was good, but Karin~chan, do you know how to control your raging reiatsu? Your friend can't help you with it. I know that you could control your reiatsu based on Ururu and Jinta's stories about your…umm…adventures together, but you see, now that Ichigo's reiatsu is gone, yours is growing more everyday. Slowly but it's growing, in a year or so, hollows will going to hunt you." Urahara explained Karin.

"… I knew it! I thought I'm just imagining things but now… I-I… What do you suppose I should do?"Karin asked.

"Well base on your schedule, maybe you could ask Kanonji~san to leave Sunday for me, ne? We'll practice controlling your reiatsu like how shinigamis control theirs, then we could help you more by training you practice flash steps."

"Okay, I will ask, I guess… What's flash step?" Karin.

"It's a step method allowing you to run fast without losing much breath and it will challenge your agility."

"O-okay. I will go set my new schedule up I-I'll just come at your shop with my final schedule."

Uruhara smiled. "I'll wait for you…Karin~chan." He said as he watch the girl walk away.

The next time Karin and Uruhara saw each other, her intensive training began, and two years later, she's still at it but it's not taking her afternoons that much. What could you possibly teach an athletic child with a determination of a bull who sees red? None. Under two years, Kurosaki Karin became an expert in Kendo and Hand-to-Hand combats. She can control her still growing reiatsu, and she can catch up with Yoruichi just fine, with her human body. What will Toshiro~kun think…

Karin squinted her eyes and noticed that she's cold. She got up suddenly thinking her promise to Yuzu. Shit! Its already nighttime! Karin picked her bag and run home. At the last corner she needs to run before their street, an ugly screech was heard, crunching tires skidded, a shout pierce through the night.

Yuzu, who went out to look for her twin sister, watched in horror as she saw her sister's body flew from the force of the car's impact. "Kaariiiinnnn!"

For the next few hours, the soul Karin watched as her sister run to her body. Isshin running out of the house and looked at the mess of a body of his daughter, Ichigo following behind him full of remorse in his eyes, maybe thinking that he didn't protect her enough. She watched as Ichigo carry her body to Kurosaki Clinic, crying and begging her not to die. She watched as her father and sister declared her "dead". She watched as the driver of the car, who only bumped his head in the steering wheel, became aware that he accidentally killed someone. She watched as a gate open in the sky and a person in a black robe muttered something. She was too shocked to realize that the shinigami performed a konso on her. When she woke up next, she's in Rukongai, Soul Society.

A/N: Hello, guys! This story is not entirely mine. My sister decided to type this Hitsugaya Karin story because… uhmm… (what was her reason again?) just because. Apparently, she asked me to upload this on my account. BTW, she has an account of her own, however, being an imouto, she ask me, her onee-chan, to post it on MY account.

So guys, if you want to review and comment.. praise my cute sister.