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So! For some odd reason my reviews shot up last week! And I wanted to take the time to thank some of my reviewers: xXShiroiGatsuKaXx this is an old reviewer that I kept forgetting to thank ;) thanks for reviewing! Ichihime123 thank you for reviewing also! I always like your reviews! Jenifer1123 thank you for reviewing! Hakkuchi! Thank you for reviewing and no! Aizen did not create the monster! But that is a really good idea O_o

Now! Onto the story!

Chapter 4

After we left the psychiatrist's office we drove around the town and I was starting to get impatient.

"Karin! Come on! I can't be wasting time like this!"

Karin turned around.

"ichi-nii, patience is a virtue." she said smirking.

"That's not funny." I mumbled.

*10 minutes later*

We finally got home. The car smelled like people... Grimmjow was snoring, Toshiro was being pissed, and Ulquiorra and Yuzu were still having a staring contest. And I was about to scream at Karin.

"Ichigo, come upstairs. I need to talk to you." Karin said after she cut the engine.

"Uh... Yeah sure." I said.

Karin followed me up to my room, I was afraid to open the door. To see Rukia lying dead on the floor.

I closed my eyes and counted to 3. I really didn't want to see this.

I opened the door at 2 and at 3 I looked.

The place was clean and sparkling as though nothing happened.
"w-wha? Karin? Did you do this?" I stuttered. I was so grateful to her.

"Hai. I didn't think you wanted to do it. I mean she was your girlfriend I knew it was gonna be difficult for you to bury her yourself so... I did it for you." she said.

And for the first time Karin blushed.

"Hey, Karin thank you. I don't know what I would do without you." I said, My expression softening up.

I pulled Karin into a hug. At first she was stunned that I hugged her. Then she slowly started to hug back.

"No problem. You are my older brother after-all sometimes I have to protect you." she chuckled.

I laughed.

"Yeah... So what is it that you wanted to say to me?" I asked sitting on the bed.

"Well, I assume that Aizen told you that me, dad and mom knew about your sickness." she said looking up at me.

"yeah."

"were you mad that we didn't tell you?" she asked.

"At first I was... Then, I got over it pretty quick." I shrugged.

"Ichigo, we have to keep this from Yuzu alright?" she said

"um... Wouldn't Yuzu know considering we were at the psychiatrist office?" I asked.

"That's what I thought too. Yuzu believes anything." Karin shrugged.

"Oh"

"Ichigo... Please do remember that this sickness that you have is serious... Alright? You have to take the pills or else bad things will happen okay?" Karin said playing with her jeans.

"Yeah... Alright. I'll try to remember." I answered taking the pills out of my pocket and examining them.

"Good." Karin said getting up to leave.

"Karin! Wait!" Karin turned around.

"Did you tell Grimmjow about... You know..." I asked.

Karin smirked. "Of course not, I told him that Rukia went to go live with her brother. He thinks he's king shit so... I decided to lie to him. I saw how gullible he actually is."

I chuckled. "That's Grimmjow for you..." I said mumbling.

She laughed. "Alright Ichigo. I'm gonna send your friends home. Goodnight." and she left. The room suddenly felt empty... eerily empty.

The room was quiet where Ichigo was sleeping. Way to quiet for anyone's liking... Anyone in their right mind.

In a dark corner of the orange haired teen's room, a shadow shuffled.

The thing now was identified as a human. Or at least something close to it.

It walked towards Ichigo's bed. It looked down and stared. It sat at the edge of Ichigo's bed and traced his features.

"R-Rukia..." he mumbled in his deep sense of unconsciousness.

"Rukia is coming back soon." Ichigo's soft spoken 'protector' whispered.

"...dead..." Ichigo mumbled as if carrying on a conversation.

"Don't underestimate the dead Tachibana." the women whispered. Then she got up from Ichigo's bed side and disappeared into a pillar of dust.

"Uhn... Mom... m-mom" the orange haired boy was in a cold sweat from the dreams that he'd been having.

He didn't want to tell anyone about these dreams he'd had since his best friend Toshiro sister Momo and his mother had died. Now there was a new addition to the dream... Rukia.

"There has to be a reason I'm dreaming about them... Do they have something in common? No, all their personalities were different... Why is this so hard!" the teen was frustrated. Ichigo was at the brink of tears. What the hell was happening to him?

'I'll explain it ta' ya Ichi!'

'Fuck! That voice again.' Ichigo searched blindly in the darkness for the pills he so dearly needed at the moment.

'No Ichigo, You can't just block me. I'll just keep coming back. Over and over again.'

"Ugh!" Ichigo groaned.

"Fuck off!" Ichigo shouted a little louder than he knew he needed to.

"Ichigo!" Ichigo was shocked to see Karin running into his room concern written all over her face.

Ichigo looked up with a confused look on his face. That look made Karin feel pain in her heart.

'It must be terrible what Ichigo is going through.' Karin thought.

"K-Karin..." Ichigo was shaken up. He was stuttering. This wasn't something Ichigo did, unless he was nervous.

"Ichigo... Shhh." Karin mumbled and sat down on Ichigo's bed.

"K-Karin. Can you stay here...? At least until I fall asleep?"

Karin's eyes widened.

"Ichigo... What's wrong?" Karin asked.

Ichigo blushed in the dark moonlight hitting his skin just enough for her to see this.

"I... I don't want to stay here alone... It's... Dark..."

"uh... Okay..." Karin mumbled. Karin got up and sat near Ichigo's bed on his desk chair.

She watched as Ichigo tried to get comfortable in sleep again. Not long after Ichigo fell asleep he still looked very troubled and it angered Karin. Karin got up and walked to Ichigo's bed and sat down near his head. She carefully put her hand into his hair and began to soothe her older brother. Karin and Ichigo's mother used to do this to Karin whenever she was have bad dreams it always calmed her.

Ichigo slowly started to have a more peaceful sleep and stopped tossing and turning.

Karin looked at her older brother in awe as sleep slowly started to claim her also.

So! That's my chapter for this week! It's a little late but at least it's something! So until next week!

-Amaya XoXo