I do not own Bleach ~~~~~~~Short Chapter~~~~

"Talking"
'Thinking'

Chapter7

When I came to in the cave it was still noisy above us and I could feel Toshiros own reiatsu somewhere up there, being in this cave I get very disoriented. I look down to see my dragon with her head down, I bend at the knee and pull her mussel, well try to anyway. She opens her eyes to greet me.

"Hello Mistress" sounding tired

"Hey come on, let's go I brought Toshiro with me, let's get this over with so you can get better."

"I'm sorry Mistress but my body's focusing keeping your body that's in your world alive." She turns her head away where I can't see, and then this sickening crunching sound was heard echoing throughout the cave. She turns back and places the scale in front of me.

"What's this for?"

"Take it to him mistress; you're our only hope now." I pick it up and head to the waters edge; I look over my shoulder and smile.

"Don't worry one way or another we will get threw this!" with those as my parting words I dove straight into the water.

It was pretty hard to swim using one hand so I stuck the scale that was palm size onto my mouth the best I could. The cave was dark and murky looking as I passed all the stalactites and stalagmites again, but only this time using her one scale as the only light source. Coming to the opening to the cave was a relief, swimming past an under water mountain and a shelf to get to the top of the ice felt like eternity. Finally reaching the top I began to claw, scrape, punch, and dig threw the ice. Toshiro has pinpointed my location due to my reiatsu and the dark spot; standing next to where I was digging.

As soon as my hand went completely threw the ice Toshiro touched my fingertips indicating that yes he was there, so I pull my arm back threw so we both can get threw the rest of the ice.

Getting a hole big enough for me to fit threw took almost no time at all. I grab his extended hand and he hauls me onto the ice with him.
Soaked from Head to toe I wring my ponytail out a little, but stopped as soon as the heard a roar. I looked around for it and saw nothing until a loud crash had Toshiro and my self falling in opposite directions.

It is cloudy, windy, and to top it all off snowing, it was hard to see anything!

"Karin!" Toshiro screams just as another crash was next to my head. I look up to see Hyorinmaru face was so close to my very own. My heart was on over drive as my clothes and hair move back and forth with every hot breath of his. Trying to figure out where the scale went off to with my hands and keeping an eye on him was difficult task by itself. Just then I spot the glowing green from beneath his first claw, if only I can grab for it.

Hyorinmaru saw this movement and roared in my face, I barely had time to dodge as his snout colliding with the ice making a hole threw it. Ice chips flew in every direction, pounding his foot against the ice once again where I just got done rolling to, constant alternating attacks; his snout and feet was getting in the way from me trying to get my dragons scale. The more he rampaged the further the scale slid towards the opening in the ice where I came threw. I could see Toshiro off to the side yelling at Hyorinmaru, but he wasn't paying attention and I couldn not afford to either.

I thought I almost had it until the foot shook the ice so hard it slid right back down threw the hole and into the water below.

"I can hear Toshiro screaming something else then ice collided into his dragons left shoulder, but it was just enough to stop his attacks on me. Given that opening gave me enough of a shot to dive in after the scale so I can finish this! Going head first into the water I can still see were it was falling, it might be still reachable. I was so close with my fingertip just touching the edge of it, almost! A sharp pain in my leg arose. I look back to see that Hyorinmaru took a nice size bite into my calf while his head was down under the water.

He pulls his massive head out and I'm sure Toshiro can see all the blood as I see him dive into the water right after from the hole we created. I swim the best that I can with a hurt leg to try and find the scale. Looking down all I see in the size of a grain of sand the scale before completely disappearing. The scale being a loss cause I turn around to find Toshiro. Refocusing my attention I try to get over to Toshiro. I see him struggling with the waters current and the lack of oxygen. He needs to resurface soon. It was ironic that he can wield ice, water, and snow, but yet can't endure it in his lungs. I hear a crashing noise resonate throughout the water. Here comes Hyorinmaru coming right between the two of us, I can no longer see Toshiro, instead all I can see was Hyorinmaru's red eyes diving further to where I am at. I noticed I am loosing blood as I stop swimming altogether. Words cannot describe the pain I felt when a dragon a hundred times larger than myself flies into the sky and dives straight threw the ice just to hunt you down. I'm positive I have a concussion.

I see teeth through the right side of my body and I no longer have a functioning right arm as a teeth crush threw the bone. I see a light, is this how I'm really going to die? I have no regrets; I would do everything exactly the same. I close my eyes expecting the inevitable.

Jolting my eyes open as something collides into us; I see my dragon as I am being let free from his mouth. She's swimming and dodging his attacks leading him away from me to the surface. They both breach the water onto the ice and disappear from my sight. I can stay under water, but not loosing as much blood as I am. I feel an arm wrap around me and look behind me at Toshiro. He starts swimming further up with his arm around my waist, but is having difficulty holding his breath; we are quite away from the surface. The closer he leads us to the top; I become very aware that were both probably not going to make it.

I know I don't have much time left, My vision is going blurry around the edges. I can still hear crashing, cracking, and roaring above us. With my good arm I pull on the back of his head to look at me, he struggles against it in his need for air. If I'm going to pass away I want one last thing. I don't want him to see me die this way so pull harder until he faces me and our lips lock. He's a very smart man; He knows exactly what I'm doing, if he runs out of oxygen he'll just go back to Seireite. He deepens the kiss and grabs the back of my head while continuing to struggle with his last breath. Toshiro showing me that in fact he is a very passionate man.

I see a small white light gleam and I'm taken from here, not sure where here is just yet, but I feel no pain here. When colors start emerge I see Toshiro sitting on a bed talking with someone before he pulls this completely naked woman except for a sheet covering her bottom half in to this most passionate kiss. He stands up pulls his zipper up, puts on a green polo shirt, and opens a cell phone only to close it a second later. Takes two steps back to her and grabs her face for one last kiss before jumping out the window. I look closer and realize the dark haired woman or girl I should say; is me! I take a better look at the face, it looks about the exactly like my First Shino Academy picture. I take a look around the room, it were as if I was in a males bedroom with all the blues and greens everywhere. I'm quickly engulfed back into light once more.

Were still kissing and I am crying even though you wouldn't be able to tell. We roughly pull apart and he stairs at me before letting go of his final breath.