Chapter 5

-Toshiro's POV-

When we came back from the meeting it was almost eight. Yuzu heated up the leftovers for us.

"Where's Karin?" Rukia asked.

"She's in bed. She was really tired when we got home."

At 9:45, I decided that I should go to bed as well.

I woke up in the middle of the night because I heard someone screaming. It sounded like it was coming after Karin's and Yuzu's room. I ran out of my room and into the hallway. Ichigo and Rukia were walking toward me.

"Guess you heard it too." I said.

"Yeah." Ichigo replied. He didn't look too happy with the fact that he got woken up. We walked toward Karin's and Yuzu's room. We could hearing crying and someone trying to comfort the other. Ichigo opened the door and flicked on the light. He stepped inside followed by me and Rukia.

"Everything ok?" Yuzu was sitting on Karin's bed, arms wrapped around Karin in a comforting, sisterly way. Karin was covering her face with her hands. Instinctively, I went to her, sitting next to her on the bed, my arms wrapped around her, pulling her toward me. My right hand gently gripping her chin, moving her head so I can see her face.

"Karin? What happened?" I asked. She looked at me with her red and swollen eyes. She had been crying. She looked into my eyes, like she was searching for something. She looked away from me.

"I had a nightmare and in it I watched you and everybody else die and I couldn't do anything about it." She started to cry again. I try to comfort her as best as I could.

I don't know how much time has past since Karin started to cry the second time, but it was long enough since she is now asleep in my arms. I placed her on the bed and pulled the covers over her. I turned to Yuzu.

"Let me know if she wakes up again."

"I will." Yuzu said as she sat on the bed and combed her fingers through Karin's hair. I walked toward Ichigo and Rukia. We walked out of the bedroom and shut the door behind us.

Ichigo and Rukia looked at me. "What do we do now?" Rukia asked.

"Go back to bed and then we care deal with it in the morning." I said.

"Yeah that's probably best. Rukia go to bed I'll be there in a little while." Ichigo said as I stared at me.

"Alright. Don't do anything stupid, Ichigo." Rukia went to her room.

"Guess I should be going too."

"No, I want to talk to you Hitsugaya." Ichigo said. He walked down the stairs to the living room as I followed him.

"I know there is something going between you and my sister."

"I…uh… I can explain."

"There's no need. Whatever it is it's between you and my sister." His eyes narrowed. "But just remember, you hurt my little sister in any way, there is no force here or in Soul Society that be able to protect from me. Got it, Captain Hitsugaya?" He said as he jabbed my chest with his finger.

"Got it."

"Good. Now let's go to bed, I'm tired." He went back up to his room with me following a few steps behind. I stopped by Karin's and Yuzu's room, they were both asleep.

By the time I finally got back under the covers of my bed, the sun was rising. I sighed.

'I am concerned about Karin's well-being.' Hyourinmaru said.

'So am I.'

'The nightmare frightened her a lot, you should take her out tomorrow and do something fun to get her mind off the dream.'

'Yeah. That's a good idea. Goodnight.'

'Goodnight.'

-Karin's POV-

I woke up before Yuzu did, so that means that it's pretty early. I sat up in my bed. My body still shook in fear from the nightmare I had. Even though Toshiro comforted me last night, I'm still disturbed by the dream.

'It felt so real.'

'That's because it was a vision, Karin.' Kura-en said.

'What do you mean? A vision? Does that mean that… it will come true?'

'No. This vision is showing you what can happen. That's what visions do. What happens all depends on the decisions you make.'

'Those people in my dream, do you know who they are?'

'Yes. They are known as Hone o taberu, bone eaters. They are an ancient group of people who oppose the shinigamis, hollows, and mortals alike. They hate everyone and everything. They will kill anyone who oppose them and show no remorse. They are evil and cruel creatures. They look like arrancars but dress like mortals and have the powers of a shinigami. There are very few of them but enough to make their enemies worry. Though they've never actually attacked anyone, just made some verbal protests.'

'So, they've never attacked anyone?'

'No, that's not true. They did attack the shinigamis once, but they after they were defeated those who were still alive, disappeared. No one has seen or heard from them ever since.'

'So why show up now, after so long?'

'Who knows.'

'I don't understand what does this have to do with me? And how come you know so much about them?'

'I was there. Back when they had attacked us. Hyourinmaru was there too. Our shinigami masters were best friends. The battle was so devastating Hyourinmaru and I nearly died if it wasn't for our shinigami masters neither one of us would be here.'

'What do you mean you wouldn't be here?'

'With our shinigamis, the four of us discovered a way to reincarnate our souls so to speak.'

'So, you're telling me that you and Hyourinmaru are reincarnated?'

'Yes. You see, the spell that our shinigamis used was very dangerous and very powerful. The spell killed our shinigamis and killed sent Hyourinmaru and I to a realm where we had to wait to be reincarnated. Hyourinmaru and I are the only ones that know how to defeat the Hone o taberu. In that realm Hyourinmaru and I were in, we soon realized that we could mess with the events that were happening in the real world, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo. That's why our shinigamis used that spell so when the bone eaters make a come back we would be there to stop them whether or not we were reincarnated yet.'

'You said that the dream was a vision. So does that mean that I might join them?'