Disclaimer: I don't own bleach or its characters.
Author's note: I know a prologue is often boring, but it was needed as a backbone to the rest of the story.
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Main characters: Karin and Yuzu
Rating: T
Pairings: Ichixruki - byaxyuzu - hitsuxkarin and many more.
Timeline: Takes place 3 years after the anime end, Yuzu died at an age of sixteen and Karin followed her to death.
Summary: An adventure story about Yuzu and Karin as they climb the rank ladders in the soul society. Each of them drifting off towards their own destined path. They have to fight through it all, overcome heart-break, and keep moving as the most painful battle awaits them.
Chapter One: Prologue
Kido masters…
They were once honored by the thirteen court guards as the foundation of the seireitei. They formed a small group of wise guides to the king; living in their own dimension they did not mingle with soul reapers.
One night, more than a thousand years back – these high ranked mages met their downfall which started with their leader…
But for you to understand its purpose and its connection, we need to deepen ourselves further...
Further where it all started with the kido corps. A young girl, student at the spiritual arts academy, with a talent for kido, was taken in by the kido corps. This military federation was well known for hand-picking their future students; expecting only the best of the best. It was a great honor to be a part of them and bow in surrender. They deluded this poor child with fancy promises talking her into their web.
The moment she entered their grounds - was the moment she lost her humanity. She was to leave everything behind; her identity, her emotions everything that characterized this poor soul. The kido corps did not have soldiers under its command, but weapons.
They would train for intense long hours and in silence they eased themselves every night into their isolated rooms. Not socializing with the rest of the seireitei, nor they were allowed to step outside the kido corps grounds if not because of duty.
Around the same time that this girl was made kido corps officer, a new head captain had replaced the diseased one. He was an extraordinary man; that was what was whispered from every corner. During the grand welcoming ceremony, the kido corps were allowed to meet him. He was their new colleague – you could say. Working together to serve the soul king.
Her fellow officers prepared for the great encounter. Attending such an occasion was a lifetime opportunity. They all knew that afterwords, life would go back to imprisonment. She pulled her pale long blond hair up and watched the woman who stared back at her in the mirror, her piercing gray eyes told a long story of pain - beautiful, but she couldn't recognize herself back in the reflection. That, the kido corps made sure to imprint in their minds.
The kido corps officers bowed before the new head-captain: Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto. And a love rendezvous started between the young woman and the head captain. He fought to make her his wife.
After the storm over their marriage passed, she was left alone for a century before being promoted to a kido master - against her will. She had to leave her dear husband and children; this time his authority couldn't keep her there. She was declared in his eyes deceased and with a sorrowful rejection she left to the new dimension. A dimension between the seireitei and the grand palace. She rejected her pain and accepted her faith as the high enchanter; her duty was now to protect the soul society and the royal palace.
Kido master - she learned - did not bind to the souls society rules – they were beings, a mere symbol that formed the soul kings defense.
Hundreds of years later; the seireitei found itself in despair. A grand war started. And kido masters were not allowed to interfere, their duty was to wait for the thirteen court guards to fail. But the harsh battles did not let themselves be ignored. The king was unreachable as his dimension closed for protection.
Her subordinates became impatient – they had to act. A great deal of them were at the verge of despair as they witnessed death surround everything, they were at wrong – kido masters did not despair and yet she decided to go against her duty…
The kido masters went and joined the fight.
The king was not pleased – but didn't interfere as the high enchanter; Ehla, landed on the grounds of the seireitei – after hundreds of years not to return. She witnessed her son – a captain – fall on his knees and sigh his last breath. Her husband fought for revenge and she protected his broken body. There was no hope. The once beautiful seireitei for which she gave up her family to protect, was covered in red.
The smell that touched her senses betrayed the fact that death bodies had lain around for days.
She took their leader and stopped time – a survivor, her second in command opened a dimension where she entered to fight the leader. That battle being the last she would ever fight as alive, but still she had faith that once he was taken care of, their victory would follow.
The fight was soon over – his brutal power could not touch a sorcerer of her level. Realization struck, that had she acted sooner – lives would have been spared. As she laid dying in her husband's arms, she promised him one day to return. Body vanishing; she managed to rip a part of her soul away, it was an ancient way of surviving and only her kind could perform such an act.
She hoped, that someday she would rejoin her other half...
The knowledge of kido masters died with her that day, and it would remain so for about a thousand years.
A little wooden cottage on a beautiful hill - was where she first woke after the battle. Her face was marked by time and she learned that this was just the beginning of life.
A knock on her door and she opened to see the girl she had waited for so long. Her other half had arrived…
She was now her master – and Ehla had become her sword.
Glad if you gave a chunk of information a chance, the rest of the story will be less narrative and much more active. still have to be proofread once more.