This story has three parts and three stories to it. You have to read all three to understand. This is the first one that i'm publishing. It'll have two chapters so don't ask for more because i'll be getting to that in the third and joined story, the last story but also the beginning story.

And just so you know, I happen to have reasons for all of my title. I hope you could figure out what each of the titles here means.

Well, hope you enjoy!

And PLEASE REVIEW after this!


New Beginnings

Chapter 1: Disappearance

Kurosaki Karin stood beside her fraternal twin younger sister's bedside, watching the younger girl calmly sleeping away through the troubles, innocent to all the things around her only though Karin's protection.

Karin sighed as she watched on. "I'm sorry, Yuzu… If only…" Karin whispered out as she lifted her left hand, which had a gold bracelet with ancient writings carved onto it, around her arms, and placed it over Yuzu's sleeping form. Suddenly, a white light grew as a seal made itself known on the sleeping girls' chest before slowly dissolving away into tin air. "…Sorry."

A tear fell down from Karin's face and she wiped it away as she moved on to her bed across the room she shared with her 'twin younger sister', and placed the pink Japanese enveloped, that looked like a marriage envelop, with the pictures of red Tsubaki flowers down on the right side and up on the left side, on it with a small strip of white paper over it that had gold writings on the paper, and another red string tied into a butterfly note wrapped around it, on top of her white pillow for someone to find later that day. She stared at it for a moment.

"Ready to go, Karin-chan?" interrupted a voice from the opened window, snapping Karin out of her thoughts and for her to turn side ways to face the medium white fox outside the window, hovering above the air.

Karin smiled. "Yes Gin," she replied. "I'm ready now." Karin moved closer to the window and Gin made way for her.

Suddenly, she stopped as she felt the silent whispers of the calm dancing wind.

Karin smiled at the feel of the wind teasing her. "Let's go." And she jumped out the window and into the darkness of the full moonlit night, followed closely by her white fox companion, guard and caretaker, Gin.

A warm wind blew gently through the house, as if casting a spell over it and it's sleeping residence.

Up on a tree near the house, a 13 year-old boy chuckled and eyed the enveloped on the blue bed through the opened window before disappearing into the wind with a happy smile on his face while another boy, who was in the back, bowed to the leaving boy.

-Next Morning-

Kurosaki Yuzu woke up to the feeling of cold breeze blowing in and the blindness of the sunlight from the opened window and certain.

Yuzu shivered at the cold feeling and pulled her blanket over her head as she curled herself up to keep warm.

Yuzu wined out, "Karin-chan~, could you please close the window?"

"…"

"Karin-chan?" Yuzu slowly got up and looked to her sister's bed only to find it empty. She huffed before lazily getting up and went to close the window herself.

After pulling hard on it, she finally got it to close shut with a loud thud.

"Mou," Yuzu said, a bit annoyed. "Did you have it opened for the whole night or something, Karin-chan?"

Yuzu then went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and cleaned herself up before getting dressed and was about to go down stairs to find Karin and start breakfast when her eyes caught something on top of Karin's pillow. Yuzu went over to the pink envelope and pinked it up.

"How pretty," she whispered as she traced her hand over it. "It looks just like the ones you'd give to a newly wed at their wedding!" she then turned around and ran down stairs. "Karin-chan~!"

"Karin-chan! What's this-," Yuzu burst into the kitchen, expecting to find her older twin sitting there, sipping her tea, but instead found only her older brother and her father having their usually greeting fights.

"Morning, Yuzu," Ichigo greeted as he got off of his father.

"Good morning, Onii-chan," Yuzu happily greeted. "Have you seen Karin-chan?"

Ichigo shook his head. "Nope," he replied. "Isn't she still sleeping?"

Yuzu's smile dropped and she shook her head. "No, her bed was empty when I got up."

Ichigo eyed the pink envelope. "What's that?" he pointed to the envelope.

Yuzu's smiles returned. "I think it's a wedding envelope." She held it up. "It was on top of Karin-chan's pillow." She handed it to Ichigo to look at.

Once the envelope was in Ichigo's hands, he felt his powers returning just for a moment before it was snatched out of his hands by his goat face of an idiotic father.

Ichigo turned around to yell at his father, but stopped when he saw the seriousness in the older mans' eyes.

"Daddy?" Yuzu asked.

Isshin stared intensely at the pink envelope. "It can't be," he whispered out before turning on his heels and headed out the door.

"Daddy!" Yuzu called after him. "Wait! What about breakfast?"

"…" Isshin continued walking.

"Mou~." Yuzu wined before her eyes caught on something and she screamed.

Ichigo jumped as he came out of his daze like state and looked over to the door at his little sister. He got up and walked over to her.

"Yuzu, what's wrong?" he asked.

Yuzu pointed out into the streets, her body shaking. Ichigo followed her finger and saw what it is she was so affair of. There, right in front of the house, was a Hollow, trying to eat the spirit of a little girl.

"No. Way," Ichigo whispered.

"Yes way, Ichigo," came a voice from inside his head.

"Zangetsu?" Ichigo questioned. "How-?"

"Later. Right now, we need to take care of that Hollow."

Ichigo nodded. "Right." And he was about to walk off.

"Boss, don't forget your tumbling little sister," came another voice from inside his head.

"Oh, right. Yuzu." Ichigo went back and picked up his sister's tumbling body and took her up to his room.

Ichigo set Yuzu on his bed before taking the sleeping Kon into his grip and squeezed out the mold soul. Once out, he put the little green pill into his mouth and out came his shinigami form.

"What the hack, Ichi-" Kon began to yell at him in Ichigo's human body.

"Kon, watch Yuzu for me," Ichigo instructed him.

"I-Ichigo?" Kon questioned, stunned. "Your powers are back? How?"

"Yeah. Hold your questions. I'll answer what I can after I take care of the small mess outside." And Ichigo leaped away with the sealed form of Zangetsu's zanpakuto on strapped onto his back.


Isshin burst into Urahara's shop.

"Kisuke!" he yelled at the top of his lugs.

"Calm down, Isshin-san," came Urahara's voice minutes later as he came out, flowed by a black cat. "You're too loud. Oh and mind lowering the reiatsu? You're killing me here. And I'll bet those in Soul Society could detect it…"

Isshin breath as he tried to calmed down a bit and brought his reiatsu back to normal, well as normal as can be at the moment. And opened his eyes.

"Kisuke," he repeated, dead serious. "We need to talk."

"Ho~," Urahara raised an eyebrow at the former captain as he hide the lower part of his face behind his fan.

"I'm serious. It's about what happened 11 years ago on the night my daughter was born." Isshin sighed. "I think I know who the girl is now." He held up the envelope and Urahara's eyes widened as he shut his fan closed.

Yuruichi had turned back to her human form once her eyes caught the letter.

"It can't be," the two whispered.

"Let's talk about this inside," Uruhara said and he lead them all in. "Tessai, please bring us some tea and play with the kids out side, would you?"

Tessai did as he was asked and bought in hot, steaming green tea once the three former shinigami taichos set themselves at the wooden table. Then, he went and took the kids outside so as to not interrupt the adults.

Isshin put the envelope in the middle of the table and the three stared at it.

"It really is the same," Yuruichi said minutes later. "I would recognize this kind of envelope being used as letters anywhere. No matter how long the time's been… I'll still remember…"

"I know," Isshin said. "I've seen it many times too. She gave some to me too, you know."

Urahara nodded. "Shoal we open it up and see what's inside?" he asked.

The two nodded and Isshin hesitantly grabbed the envelope and pulled out the letter. He opened it up. "It's the same," he said minutes later. "Same paper, same elegant handwriting and use of the brush."

The two seating across from him nodded at him to go on after he showed it to them.

Isshin read out:

Do not search fro me, because you well not find me unless I want to be found.

I am fine, so you do not need to worry yourselves over me.

You're probably reading this to Kisuke and Yuruichi-san instead of the family aren't you,

Shiba Isshin. That's fine though.

I don't mind, since you did have to talk it out with them the day I arrived in Gin's arms.

Both of us covered in blood and I was a mere inflict at the time.

Though I still remember that day, and the one in Soul Society, well…

Do not worry; you'll have your questions answered when the time is right.

Also, I do not mind if you tell, though I'd rather you not, but that's up to you.

So do what you want, Isshin.

Thank you for taking me in that day and raising me in such a caring family for so long.

Kamisawa Karin

P.S. I've been keeping Yuzu's powers under control for a while now and had just let it go last night.

She will need some training in order to control her powers. Though I'd rather she'd be oblivious to all of this.

P.P.S. I've also returned Ichigo's powers as well. So take care and good luck, all of you!

"So, Kamisawa's her real last name hah?" Isshin questioned and then he pouted. "She could at lest say 'love' in the letter, jeez! Makes me feel unloved!"

Urahara patted his back as Isshin put the letter back into the envelope.

"You know that that's not true, Isshin-san," Uruahara tried to comfort the wipping man. "Karin-san loves you very much. She did go to you're family after all."

"...True..."

"…What are you going to do now, Isshin?" Yuruichi asked as Isshin up the envelope down.

"We'll just have to do what we can until we can get our questions answered," Isshin replied as he stood up with the envelope in his hand. "Until then," he held up the envelope with the letter in it, "no one else is to know about this."

The two nodded.

Isshin then proceeded to head back home.


"So," Kon began once Ichigo got back. "How did it happen?"

Ichigo looked at Kon in his body from his place next to Yuzu, trying to calm her down.

"I don't know," Ichigo replied. "It just happened this morning. Not only that, but…" He looked at Yuzu.

"So," Yuzu began, "those are the things you and Karin-chan see on a regular basis, Onii-chan?"

"Yeah, Yuzu," Ichigo answered. "But not just us. Everyone in our family can."

"Really?" Yuzu asked. "Then why couldn't I?"

"I don't know."

"But I do," interrupted a voice from the door.

All three turned to the doorway to find Isshin standing there.

"It's because of Karin," Isshin said.

"…What?" Ichigo asked.

Isshin walked in to the room and sat down on the bed on the other side of Yuzu, arms crossed and head nodding.

"It would seem that our dear Karin-chan has run away to get away from all of this and, in turn, has transfer her powers to you, Ichigo," Isshin explained. "Or did you not feel it when you touch the envelope? Yuzu too."

"That was what it was?" Ichigo yelled. "But how? How did she do it? Why? Where is she?"

"She's fine. Urahara helped her out."

"What? I'm going to kill him!"

"Wait, Ichigo!" Isshin called out. "If you do that, than who is going to help train Yuzu?"

Ichigo stopped and looked back at his father, his face paled. "You can't be serious." He walked back into the room. "There is no way in Hell I'm making Yuzu go though that!"

"Calm down, Ichigo," Isshin said. "She's not."

Ichigo calmed down and gave his father a look of confusion. "She's not?"

"No. You did it because you were in a hurry. Yuzu can take her time to do it."

"Oh, well that's a relive." Ichigo sighed.

"Um," Yuzu interrupted. "What are you taking about?"

Isshin smiled. "Well then, let's have breakfest, shoal we? I'm starving!"

"Now that you mention it…" Ichigo said.

Stomachs begin to grow.

"I'll get started right away!" Yuzu yelled and ran out of the room to prepare breakfast as Ichigo got back into his body and put Kon back in the stuffed lion.

"We'll have to explain it to Yuzu now," Isshin said. "Don't make the same mistake you did with Karin." And he left out the door.


At another place in Karakura town, an old woman stood under the sky in her back yard, holding a pink envelop wrapped with red strings tied around it as she looked up to the blue sky with a warm smile.

"Karin-chan," whispered the old woman while the little boy inside the Japanese house looked on, having seen everything that had happened up to this point with his familiar, the dark blue panther with butterfly wings sitting behind him and his Mistress, and partner, the girl next to him.

No one, but the old woman, had known that they had an observer in their times reading the letter and coming into contact with it. But then again, no one knew what was to happen.

Not even the little girl in American…


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Also, the reason for this chapter's title is because of Karin.