The Panther and the Kitten

By EndlessLove14

Chapter 2

Years Later,

"I can't believe it's been three years since she died it only felt like yesterday when she smiling and laughing with us." Karin said quietly as she now was no longer apart of pair she had once been.

"Karin please stop bring that up I know how you feel since I feel the same way but I wasn't even there in this world when it happened." Ichigo said guiltily with his head hung low as the tears rolled down the tanned cheeks, eyes threatening to release more as they both stared at the headstone of their beloved baby sister.

"Ichigo has she popped up in the Soul Society anywhere?" Karin asked her older brother desperately.

"No they say that it take years for a person with little spiritual pressure to find their way there, plus Rukia's been on the look out and hasn't seen her even with Byakuya's help." Ichigo looked at his sister and smiled at her. "We'll find her Karin, don't worry but it's going to take a while until we find her so be patient with me for the time being."

She looked up at the sunset sky with eyes full of hope saying "I only hope so; I just wonder where she is right now is all."

The Space between Worlds, Third Person's P.O.V,

In the time passed Yuzu had changed with no memories of her life and not even a glimmer of the future, she had grown her light brown hair had grown from chin length to waist length, as her eyes had grown sharper, along with the childishness that had once resided in her face. She was now more feminine she still carried some boyishness in her, she still looked like the Yuzu she use to be but inside there was nothing, or at the very least hollow.

It was just like the outside it had grown and adapted to the life of never ending darkness, the outside and inside may have changed but mentally it was the same person before death.

Yuzu's P.O.V,

In this world of darkness I have grown accustom to the loneliness. At first I though I was being punished so I guessed that was why I was here alone but then I told myself that didn't make any sense because there had to be someone who going through what I was but the fact that person isn't here just told me, I was wrong, so I stopped thinking about it, since that wasn't the reason I was here. My body and mind told me I was waiting for something but I just don't know what it is, so I've been waiting all this time for that "thing". Until all of a sudden I was being engulfed by a bright light and found myself in a room of white with different people there.

"Ahem…," A voiced coughed behind me so turned around I was looking at man with dark brown hair all swept to the back, with only one lock in his face, the man seemed to have an almighty ruler air to him. (A/N: I'm pretty sure you who this is?)

"Ah young arrancar…. Wait you don't have a hollow mask how did you end up here?" He asked curiously, his thumb caressing his lip.

"….." I didn't really how to speak to others seeing as how haven't meet face to face with another person, for what had been centuries to me.

The man seemed a bit annoyed from not getting an answer, then the air all of a sudden got denser, I looked around and some people were on their knees trying to keep from falling, but it only managed to send a chill up my spine which I had gotten use to while in the "that" place. The air got denser then everyone was on the floor except for me, the brown haired man, a white haired, and a dark skinned man with covered eyes. Then there was a voice on my right.

"What hell trying to do, flatten us all to death, goddamnit?" It was a blue haired man that yelled then all the pressured disappeared and everyone got back up.

"Who is this damn kid anyway?" The blue haired man hissed viciously at the brown haired man not really directed to me.

"That's what I want to know, Grimmjow." The brown haired man looked towards me and smirked creepily. "Szayelaporro, I want you to run some tests on the child try not to kill her." A pink haired man approached me.

"Let's make this quick shall we?" He tried grabbing for my arm but his arm began to bend in a very unnatural way and I hissed, his face was twisted with pain, and mine with anger. I didn't want to be touched by this man next thing I knew everything got blurry as I hit the floor.

"Oh goody a new experiment." Szayelaporro laughed, pulling back the pained limb, his fraccion appeared throwing the girl over his shoulder following his master, down the corridors of white into the lab of which many poor souls had to be put through Szayelaporro's tedious and excruciating tests, the doors closed and the screams, and pleas started.