Hey everyone, this is my first Bleach fic on here and I'm nervous as to how this will work out.
Just a little fyi, it will center around Karin and Toshiro but will have other's point of view.
let me know what you'll think, k.
Love, Maggie Love
Chapter 1: Dad's funeral and the boy with white hair!
As Karin looked around she saw she was at her uncles' beach house. The last time she remembered being there was when her mother and twins sister were still alive. Something startled her….
"Look dad, I found a black rose," called out a seven year old Karin Kurosaki, "Let's go give it to mom and Yuzu," and her younger self ran towards the house.
"Karin, wait!" shouted her father, he looked so young and full of life with this white, short sleeve button up loose fit shirt and rolled up jeans. "I'll go give it to them, okay, wait here," and her father gave young Karin a kiss on top of her head.
"Okay, dad, I'll go and see if I can find another one, okay?" she called out as she ran back into the wooded area, but she never answered. Before she could get any further, the sky went dark and she was not longer a child, but her seventeen year old self. "Dad?" she called as she turned around and before her was her father lying on the ground with a whole in his chest. "Dad!" she shouted and ran to him but the farther she ran the farther he was.
"Dad?!" she shouted as she woke up drenched in sweat. She couldn't understand what was happening, for the past two weeks she's been having nightmares of her father dying in front of her eyes.
"Karin, are you okay?" asked a motherly voice that reminded her of her twin.
"Yeah, I'm fine, sorry if I bothered you," she apologized to her dorm mate.
"No bother, just getting ready to leave," they replied. "Are you going to visit them this year?" she asked.
"Yeah, I probably won't be back till the next semester. I haven't spent any time with dad or Ichigo, since Yuzu. But I don't know," she told her as she got off her twin size bed.
"I think you should," Karin shrugged as she began to look for her toiletries for her morning shower. "Hey Karin?" she called out the raven hair girl before she stepped out the room.
"What's up?" answered Karin.
"I didn't know your mom or Yuzu, but I know they'd want you to be happy," they didn't look at Karin, and Karin didn't face her.
"Thanks, Mo," answered Karin fighting back tears. Karin never understood why her roommate never looked at her whenever she would say something inspirational or referred to her mom or sister, but understood where she was coming from.
After Yuzu and her boyfriend Jinta were murdered, Karin couldn't stay in Karakura anymore. There were just so many bad memories for her. Her mother being murdered in front of her older brother, Yuzu and Jinta attacked and killed in an aperient carjacking gone wrong, and Ichigo and his friend missing for days
only to return bloody and injured. She couldn't take it anymore. She was the strong one, she had to protect her sister, and she failed. She saw how her family was broken up by her mother death, she vowed to never cry again, but when her sister didn't return and was later found, it broke her. All the pain and tears she kept inside escaped. Ichigo was always in an attitude, not to her in general but to everyone. Her dad disappeared for two weeks and the only consolation she received was from Rukia, Ichigo's girlfriend, and Orehime, her cousin Uryu's wife. She did the only thing she could, she begged her dad to let her go to a boarding school out of state, but was sent to one that was only an hour away, the one her parents met, Shino Academy.
She wasn't a loner at the school, though, Ururu, Jinta's older sister, enrolled along with Karin. And to make her feel a little better, her dad's friend's children came to this school too. The only ones missing were Yuzu and Jinta. They were the always together growing up, since they lived in the same neighborhood. But her other child hood friends helped her out.
She liked it there, everything was great but there was always a lonely feeling hanging around her.
"Hey, Lovely Lady," said a childish voice. Karin looked up and noticed she was already in the dorm shower room, and her friend Yachiru was standing in front of her in just a towel and her long pink hair was still wet and down. How Mr. Kempachi Zaraki produced such hot children, she wouldn't know.
"Hey beautiful," Karin answered with a sad smile.
"What's wrong, Rin," she asked as she neared Karin to give her a hug. "Is it Yuzu and Jinta?" Karin nodded.
"And I missed my dad's birthday again, this year. It's hard to go back," Yachiru saw tears in her eyes, and hugged her again.
"Karin,"
'Oh shit, things just got serious, she never uses my name', thought Karin as her friend tightened her hold.
"It's been two years. I know for a fact they want you to be happy and move on," she released Karin and taker her clothes. "I know my situation is different, my mom died during labor and I still have my brothers, but Yuzu was like my sister and Jinta my brother. Yeah we rarely hung out, but that's because we lived so far apart. Ichigo and my brother did, but that's because our dads used to only take them. I'm just rambling now, ugh," and Yachiru laughed a little.
"I noticed," Karin sniffed.
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that, you are not alone, we are here with you and here for you, too, okay?" Karin nodded again. "Good, now go take a shower, get ready and I'll wait for you in to commons for breakfast, okay?"
"Okay," Karin smiled. Yachiru always knew how to make her smile. How she passes all her classes is a mystery. They said their farewells and went their separate way.
Karin was on her way to the dorm when she spotted her roommate. Karin was about to go up to her when she saw three girls that don't like her round the corner. Karin halted her step and hide, but they never passed her.
"Hey, girl, is she in?" asked one of them.
"No, she went to shower. She woke up screaming again," said her roommate in her usual sweet tone.
"Momo, don't tell me you're starting to like her?" said another girl.
"Hell, no," said Momo and scrunched up her nose.
"Did you switch her meds like he said?" asked another.
"Yeah, she'll take them around breakfast, and before she knows what happens" Momo's stopped talking. Karin panicked, thinking they spotted her, but when she took a look, she sighed in relief. Karin saw her friend Nemu Kurotsuchi walking her way. Karin then jumped out of her hiding space, trying her best not to show she heard everything.
"Karin, will you be joining us for breakfast?" inquired Nemu as both girls neared the four girls.
"Yeah, I just have to change and I'll be there, okay?" Karin tried to smile.
"May I go with you to your dorm?" properly asked Nemu. It always freaked Karin out that Nemu always sounded so proper and like a robot.
"I'll just meet you in the commons," Karin told her with an arched brow.
"I will go with you," said Nemu and she made her way to Karin's dorm.
"Apparently I have not say," Karin groaned and followed. She didn't fail to notice the look of defeat on the four girls she overheard talking.
When they entered her room, Nemu made her way straight to Karin's anti-depression and anxiety pills.
"Don't take these no more, here," Nemu picked up the switched pill, stuffed them in her bra, and pull a new bottle from her back pocket. "They switched you pills last night while you were asleep."
"How did you know?" a worried Karin asked.
"Last night that I did a bed check on you and the girls. That's all I'm allowed to say," answered Nemu as she took a seat on Karin's bed.
"Can you step outside so I can dress," asked Karin with an arched brow.
"It's not like I haven't seen you naked before, Kurosaki," answered Nemu. It was true, when they were younger Ururu's and Jinta's mother used to stuff all the girls into the heated pool they owned and used bubble bath soap, and bathe all of them at the same time.
"Fine," huffed Karin, and dressed in front of her friend.
When they left the room Mom and her friends were gone.
The two teens walked in silence. When Karin saw the rest of her friends she grabbed Nemu's hand and ran to the table. No one caught that the quiet girl did a slight node to a white haired boy that was sitting across the way. The boy then made his way to where Momo and her friends were siting and began to flirt.
One thing Karin Kurosaki didn't know about her life was that she was the daughter of the most power mobster in Japan, Isshin Shiba. And he did his best to keep his daughters out of the life.
"So Karin, what do you think of the new student?" asked her friend Kiyone as she motioned to the white hairs male.
"Can't say, I can't see his face," pouted Karin, she was pleased with what she did see. Tall, slender, well built, "Cute ass, tho," she said rather loud.
"Finally, the Great Karin Sh-Kurosaki, finds someone interesting," mockingly praised Sentaro Kotsubaki, Kiyone's boyfriend.
"You, sir, can go suck a dick for all I care," Karin throws a napkin at him. As they wait for Hanataru and Isane to arrive with their breakfast, the whole groups' phones ring. They all muttered their 'Hello's' only to get the worst news of all. They stop and look at Karin. Her normally tan skin was now pale, her eyes huge and filled with tears, and her mouth slightly gaped.
"I-Is he alright?" she stuttered fighting back tears.
"Karin, I sent Uryu and Chad to pick you up," said her uncle Ryuken Ishida.
"I asked if they were alright, Ryuken! How are they?!" she growled into the phone.
"Karin, I will explain things when you get here," then the phone when dead. She stood and ran to her dorm, Ururu and Yachiru followed. Not giving any of Momo and her friends a chance to follow.
"He had two plans and we only knew one," sighed Kiyone as she nudged her boyfriend to leave. Sentaro stood and began to walk to the boy's dorm, the white haired teen followed.
"What happened Sentaro, why did she run off?" asked the transfer student as he discreetly entered his room.
"Didn't your phone ring?" Sentaro asked.
"I have it on vibrate, so it wouldn't interfere with what I was doing," said the teen with an annoyed look on his face.
"Check it," was all Sentaro said before storming out of the other boys room. The teen saw his phone and he had five missed calls from his mother. He called her back.
"Toshiro?!"
"Yeah, sorry I didn't answer, I was working," he replied.
"Toshiro, come home quick. It's about the 'Captain'", said his mother.
"What happened?!" he asked fully alert.
"Come back home," said the other voice and hung up.
Karin arrived at the hospital and ran to the room Uryu said her dad was in. What she saw broke her heart. Her father was broken. She walked to the bed and took his callous hand in hers.
"I'm sorry for not coming home, daddy," she cried and kisses his knuckles.
"Hey, baby," whispered her father and tried to smile. "How's school, did you win the champion ship yet?" he asked.
"Not, yet, I hope you came and see me do the winning goal, okay, goat chin?" she playfully said, trying to calm down.
"How's Ichigo?" he asked, he already knew he wasn't going to make it past tonight.
"I'm not sure yet, I came straight to you," she answered.
"Go see your brother, tell him he did good, okay, for me, he'll understand," smiled Isshin, "go." Karin did as she was told.
When she stepped out of the room, she didn't see anyone she recognized, so she went and searched for her brother. Unknown to her, Toshiro was walking into her father's room.
"Hey Captain, how you feeling?" he fought back tears.
"Toshiro, my boy," smiled Isshin. "I'm okay, just tired, have you met Karin yet?"
"Not yet, sir, we were working on out plan when you were attacked. I'm sorry, dad, I should have been there with you," cried Toshiro.
"Don't cry, protect Karin for me, okay, she needs you now," Isshin told the boy. "You called me dad?"
"Yeah," smiled the teen, "you were always there for me, you acted like my father more than my father did," he released a sob.
"Promise me you'll protect Karin," Isshin told the boy, and received a hug from him.
"You got it Captain," said Toshiro and released Karin's father, made his way to the door, and left before Karin came back.
"Hey, Ichigo, Ryuken told me that even though you're in a coma, you can still hear me," Karin smiled. "Dad said you did well, whatever that means," she shrugged and kissed her brothers forehead. "Please forgive me for running away. I couldn't deal with everyone dying around me. I couldn't be strong like you," she sobbed.
"He understands why you left, we all do," Karin turned around and saw Rukia enter the room. "He was okay with you leaving, you know. Like that he knew you'd be safe from everything," Rukia smiled. "He blames himself you your mom and Yuzu dying." Rukia entered the room and took Ichigo's other hand in hers. "Karin," Rukia was cut off by Karin's uncle entering the room.
"Karin, you dad is asking for you," he calmly said. Karin nodded.
"I'll be back okay?" she told Rukia and kissed Ichigo one the forehead again.
When Karin her fathers' room, his heart rate had slowed and breaths were more shallow. "Can you forgive me for not coming home?" she sobbed.
"Yes baby," whispered Isshin, "I love you, Karin."
"I love you too, daddy," she smile and took his hand again.
"Karin, can you promise me something?"
"Anything,"
"Kill that bastard that killed your sister. Kill Aizen, avenge your mother and Yuzu," his voice laced with venom. "Kill the fuckers that ruined our family, Karin." Karin didn't know how to respond. Her father was asking to kill someone.
"Why not wait for the police to do something," asked Karin.
"They won't do anything. They can be bought off, just like the ones who were in charge of you sister case." Karin was shocked; she still couldn't process everything that was happening today.
"Okay, I'll do it," she reluctantly agreed, what she agreed too she doesn't know. "I love you daddy, and I'll do what you ask," and she kissed him on the forehead. He hears the heart monitor start going off. "D-dad?" she calls her father and he doesn't respond, "Daddy?!" nothing "I'm sorry daddy, I'm sorry," she chanted over and over again, tightening her hold on her father's hand. She didn't notice when her uncle came in, she didn't notice when they took her out the room, hell, she doesn't even remember how she got home.
The next few days went by in a blur. Her uncle Ryuken took over funeral preparations. People she barely remembered came over, her close friends stayed with her. Ichigo hasn't had any progress, sure she had her friends and Rukia, but she was alone, no family.
"Thank you for being here today," she forced a smile as she stood at the podium. "I'm sure a few of you knew the Isshin I grew up with. How energetic, annoying, stupid, loveable," she chocked a laugh, "But you didn't know my dad. Whenever we needed him he was there, even if he had to do an eight hour drive, because he couldn't purchase a last minute plan fair. The dad that would always attempt to roundhouse kick his own son, but miss by a mile and fall out the window. Or when I would kick or punch him into a wall, because he tried to scare off mine and Yuzu's male friends. O-or, o-or," she broke down. All the pain she carried in her short seventeen years of life broke out of its cage. Sure, she cried when Yuzu died, but she had her father and Ichigo then, but now she had no one. She was alone.
Uryu and Chad walked up to her and helped her down and to her seat. Yoruichi cradled her as she cried her eyes out.
Everything blurred again.
"Karin, do you want us to wait with you?" asked Kiyone, as her and Sentaro stayed last to accompany her.
"No, you can wait in the car," she sniffed, "I'll be there in a bit." The couple did as told.
She looked at the graves in front of her; she couldn't help but fall to her knees and cry. There laid her mother, father and twin sister. She couldn't hold the pain in her heart, she was alone. She hardly remembered her mom, Yuzu took over the motherly role to take some stress off their father, Ichigo was always a call away, and her father always did his best for his children. Now her parents and sister are gone and her brother is on the brink of death.
'I shouldn't have left. If I hadn't left dad would be alive. If I had agreed to go with Yuzu, Jinta, and Ururu, they'd still be alive, and Ururu would have her brother', she thought to herself. Her thoughts were broken when she heard footsteps coming her way. She didn't turn to face whoever it was, assuming it was Yachiru, Ururu, Kiyone, or one of her childhood friends.
"Why did he have to leave me, too?", she heard a male voice say.
"He didn't want, too," said a female voice this time. "He loved you like you were his son."
Karin held her breath; she wanted to find out who these people were.
"I shouldn't have asked him to join, he'd still be here, Karin wouldn't be alone," said the male.
"This wasn't your fault, sweetie," said the motherly voice. Karin assumed her word fell on deft ears because the boy kept talking.
"I never questioned him why he never wanted the girls and I to meet," he lightly chuckled. "Based on the stories he would tell me, we would have gotten along great," said the boy. "You should have seen his face when I called him dad. The smile he gave me."
"He had his reason, love, don't question his reasons," said the mother.
Karin saw where the boy fell to his knees crying his heart out; the woman followed and hugged him.
"I promise I'll protect Karin with my life, I will avenge Ms. Mazaki's, Yuzu's, Jinta's, and your death. I will defeat Aizen even if it I have to die," said the boy.
"You be the man he raised you to be, you protect Karin," said his mother. The lady felt someone staring at them and turned to see who it was.
Karin took in her features, she looked familiar but couldn't quit put a finger on it. Strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, spectacular body, in a black slacks, white blazer, and black flats.
"Karin?" whispered the woman, and the boy lent forward a bit to see. He, too, looked familiar, white hair that defined gravity and teal eyes, but it broke Karin's heart when she saw him tried to hide the fact he was crying.
"We thought you had left home already," he says in a stern voice, and turned to see Isshin's grave.
"I needed a moment alone with my family," Karin stood up and dusted herself off.
"You shouldn't be out here alone, it's not safe. Where's your protection detail?" he asked her.
"Toshiro," the woman loudly whispered.
"I don't need a 'protection detail'," she quoted, "how did you know my dad?" she asked both of them as she hesitantly neared. The woman smiled and stood up.
"I was friends with your parents," says the woman and hugs Karin. The raven haired teen gasps, warmth and love surged from the woman to her, "my name's Rangiku and this is my son Toshiro," she released Karin and gestured to the boy.
"She can't be alone on the street," the boy stands. "Let's get you home before an unwanted guest arrives," Rangiku wraps an arm around the boys arm and did the same with Karin's.
"Let's get you both home, I'm sure everyone is waiting to see you both," she sniffed and tugged both teens with her. In the distance, four lone souls mourn the loss of their 'Captain'. The four he had infiltrate and get close to the man that killed his wife and daughter.
When Karin and her guest arrived home she saw that many people were there already, but she only recognized a handful.
"Karin, where are Kiyone and Sentaro?" asked Kiyone's mother, Retsu Unohana.
"Waiting for me in the car," Karin answered and face palmed. "I forgot to tell them I was leaving, sorry Ms. Unohana."
"It's okay, I'll just call them and let them know," the lady smiled and then greeted both Rangiku and Toshiro. "Here you go sweetie," she says and hands both Karin and Toshiro each an envelope, "Mingle and then at around five wait for me at the basement door, okay," she smiled again.
"We don't have a basement," Karin said with an arched brow, but Unohana never answered she just walked off and pulled out her phone. "Well, make yourselves at home, Ima go up to my room. I don't feel like being here," she said as she faced both of them.
"I understand," smiled Rangiku, "Shiro, you should go with Karin, you always wanted to get to know her."
"I wouldn't mind," said Karin, as she shifted her weight from one foot to the other.
"I'm not much of a talker," the boy shrugged.
"Neither and I," smiled Karin and grabbed his hand to lead him to her room.
"I haven't been home in two years, nothing has changed," she said as she ascended the stairs still holding Toshiro's hand.
"Is that you?" he asked as he halted to look at a picture of two girls, one in a soccer uniform and the other in a cheerleading uniform.
"Yeah, before my sister was murdered," Karin smiled at the memory. "It was the championship game, the cheerleaders had a football game but Yuzu skipped it to go to my game. Her, dad, Ichigo, Rukia, Uryu and Orehime became my personal cheerleading squad, and I scored the winning goal," she whipped away some tears that escaped her eyes. "The only thing that was missing then was my mom, but when Yuzu died I gave up soccer." Toshiro pulled her into a hug, she hugged him back, and when her tears were too difficult to hold back, she tightened her hold and cried into his chest.
"Karin, I had promised you father that I was going to protect you and I will protect you, okay," he whispered into her hair. The scent of cherry blossoms invaded his senses. "I will be by your side to the very end, 'Captain'."
"Thank you," she pulled back a bit, "So, um, Ima change I have some clothes that might fit you," she shrugged. The white haired teen took in her appearance. Black tight fit dress, black pumps, and her father's blazer.
"Thanks but I don't think I would look good in a dress," he joked and she laughed a bit.
"It's not my dress, it's my friend Nemu's dress, her and the girls decided what I was going to wear," she chuckled, "Come on," and he followed her. She passed Yuzu's bedroom door and sighed. She turned around and opened the door. She and Toshiro walk in and he was amazed by what he saw. Soccer trophies and ribbons everywhere and enclosed in a case is a soccer ball signed by David Beckham.
"Is it really signed by Beckham?" he asked. He heard a faint 'Yeah' and turned around and saw no one. "Karin?"
"In the closet, give me a moment," she shouted back. He didn't sit down and admired the room. She was gone for two years, and her father kept it clean.
"I like your room, it's not what I expected," he said as he took a set on her bed.
"What does that mean?" she asked when she stepped out of the closet. He was amazed at what he saw, short sleeve black t-shirt that stop just above her navel, low rise black cargo pants, and black and white converse.
"Whenever your father would talk about you, he left out the fact that you played soccer, and by the looks of your room, you're athletic," she looked at her.
"I was," she shrugged and walked over to the bed. "I basically gave up every sport," she crossed her legs and placed her hands on her lap. "But tell me about yourself. Honestly, you look familiar but I'm not sure just yet."
"Well, after my dad left your dad basically took the role of being my father. He did the best he could so I could have the best childhood. Mom says that I met your mother once but I don't remember," he shrugged, "but I'm not sure. He said that we'd meet when the time was right, but this doesn't seem like the right time."
"He never talked about you," she honestly said. "I wonder why?"
"I don't know, the only ones I know here besides you are Ms. Unohana's children and Sentaro," he fiddled with the envelope in his hand.
"You said you asked to join, join what?" she asked.
"I can't say, but I started going to Shino Academy to protect you, and that's all I'm allowed to say," he said as he nervously scratched the back of his head.
"Nemu said the same thing when she told me not to take my meds anymore," she looked away.
"Let's read these things, it's almost five," he said as he pulled out his phone to check the time.
What do you guys think? I know it's mostly dialoge but I'm still working on it, lol
Love Maggei Love