You Are Mine
Chap. 7
Previously…
"Toshiro!" Karin woke up with a fright from the darkness, and then checked her surroundings.
She was on the couch and saw it was late, no candles, no kimono on her, and no Toshiro.
Karin began to feel horrible and could feel disappointment and tears come to her eyes.
"It was all a dream…Toshiro didn't…and he's not here…" she said it so quietly and began to sob silently with her hands covering her eyes to hide the tears.
Little did Karin know, Toshiro then appears back in the room and sees her upset, and begins to wonder what happened or what's wrong with Karin and what could make her actually shed those forbidden tears again.
"Karin?" Toshiro asked quietly.
Karin lifted her head up to see Toshiro and shock was written all over her face and the tears were still visible in her eyes.
How was she about to explain this one to Toshiro, especially about her dream…?
Present
"To-Toshiro? Is it really you this time?" Karin asked between little hiccups from her crying.
Toshiro was shocked that Karin was crying again, especially twice in one day. He slowly approached her, being mindful and giving her some space.
"Yeah, Karin, it's me. Why wouldn't it be the real me?"
Karin sniffled and began to look away from him.
"I had another dream…and well you were there in a way and then at the end you weren't there…"
Toshiro studied her carefully before answering.
"Ah, so you had another nightmare?"
"You could say that…" She blushed when saying that.
'It was more like pure heaven; it was a dream which makes me quite sad that it wasn't real. But does this mean I'm really in love with Toshiro if I dreamt him making love to me? I don't know anymore, I can't tell what's real and not real anymore…'
Karin was spaced out and didn't realize it until Toshiro's voice snapped her out of it.
"Karin? Earth to Karin, you okay?"
She blinked a couple of times and turned back towards him, and she saw his eyes were kind of shining bright in the darkness surrounding them.
But she snapped back to Toshiro's question.
"Oh, yeah, um I'm fine. Just getting over that dream that's all…Anyway where were you just getting back from? I can tell that your attire is bit disheveled."
Toshiro blinked for a second and could tell that she was right; his attire was a bit disheveled.
"Hollows, I was out getting rid of some that were close to this area of town, the rest were left to Zennosuke. You know that man with the awkward hair job?"
Karin blinked a few seconds before realizing who he was talking about.
"Oh you mean Afro Dude?"
Toshiro sweat dropped a little at the ridiculous nickname but nodded. "Yeah, him."
Karin made a little attempt to smile, but her thoughts kept coming back to her about if she should tell Toshiro her dream or not.
'Just tell him Karin, this way you can tell him how you really feel! Maybe he feels the same way; I mean he's been here with you for this long without disappearing till the next day! But wait…maybe he already has a special someone in his life, I mean take that Momo girl for instance, he's talked about her before and how Aizen hurt her and crap and how he got badly injured for going on a rampage for hurting her…Let's face it, he probably cares about her more than he could ever care for a tomboy of a girl such as myself…All he sees me as is a friend in trouble…a friend in trouble…a friend in tr-.'
"Karin?"
Karin was brought out of her thoughts by Toshiro again.
"Ye-yeah, Toshiro?"
"You were spacing out again, you sure you're okay? Maybe I should keep an eye on you again tonight." Toshiro was beginning to get concerned, but his facial expression was unreadable at the moment.
"Oh, you don't have to…it's just that dream I just woke up from that's all." Karin said half-lying, she wanted Toshiro to stay.
"I think I'll stay again, probably even till I have to leave for Soul Society, but this dream of yours, would you care to talk about it? I know I'm in it somehow, or is it too personal to talk about?"
Karin pondered for moment, debating once again on telling him or not.
'Tell him! You need to tell him so he gets the idea of how you feel about him. But he could just reject me…and like I thought earlier, he could have that special someone. I just don't know, maybe I should tell him…I have to at least try…'
Before Karin could respond, Toshiro's soul phone went off and he checked it and his face of curiosity went straight to one of seriousness.
"Hollows again, I better take care of it. I'll be right back, Karin. You can tell me about it if you want to or not when I get back."
"Wait, Toshiro." It was too late; Toshiro flash stepped out of her room and went into the night sky to take care of the Hollow situation again.
Karin sighed in disappointment, her confidence to tell him slowly fading, but then something caught her eye; it was beeping and was on the edge of the couch.
Karin reached over for it, and grabbed it. She then realized Toshiro forgot his phone; kind of weird considering he just had it in his hands to check for Hollows.
"Toshiro forgot his phone. Hmm…" Karin was wondering if she should snoop through his phone or not, she was having quite the internal conflicts tonight.
'It would be wrong to look, but it would give me a chance to know somehow if he does have a girlfriend or such. Maybe just a peek…'
With that thought out, she flipped open Toshiro phone and saw he had a new message. She thought for a minute whether to open it or not, but curiosity got the better of her and hit the 'view now' option for the text message.
The message was from Momo Hinamori. And Karin's eyes widened from the message.
It read:
Shiro~
When are you coming home?
I miss you!
When you get back from your pointless mission I'm going to hug you and never let you go!
Because next time my Shiro isn't leaving for another mission anytime soon~
I'll make sure of it.
3 Your Momo
Karin nearly dropped the phone from reading that message, and her heart just sank and shattered.
"H-he does have someone…I should've known…I mean he cares so much about her." Karin stuttered to admit it, but she feared that Toshiro was already was taken and her assumptions were somewhat proven, but she didn't know the whole story.
Karin got up, placed his phone on the couch and thought a cold shower would get her mind cleared.
She walked into her bathroom and began running the water, and while the water was running she began to strip herself from her clothing and walked into her shower under the freezing cold water and let her body soak in it.
"A-A cold shower might help…I-I just don't know what to think or do anymore…Maybe I should turn down Toshiro's offer and let him go home to…to her." Karin wasn't thinking straight and the cold water was making her feel worse because the coldness was reminding her of Toshiro.
Karin got out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her frame and walked over to one of her bathroom mirrors and looked at her reflection.
Her mid-length black onyx hair was sticking to the side of her face because of the wetness of her body. Her eyes were kind of dull and filled with doubt and disappointment and she could only see her flaws in her appearance.
"Who could ever want to be with me anyway? Look at me; I'm nothing but a plain, dirty, tomboy. Maybe I should just go and make sure he never sees my sorry ass of a face ever again." Karin then banged her fist against the granite sink and just wanted to pull her hair out.
Then out of the blue, the figure appeared behind her and was in a black cloak so you couldn't see their face. The figure approached Karin from behind and they had some sort of knife like weapon in their hand.
Karin looked up and saw in the mirror's reflection that someone was behind her and she turned around and did a round house kick, knocking the knife out of the intruder's hand.
"Who the hell are you? What do you want! Answer me!" Karin screamed at the figure.
But all the figure did was smirk and scoffed.
"And what will you do Soul Reaper? It's not like you can fight in your weak emotional state over that Captain, Toshiro Hitsugaya."
Karin gritted her teeth. "You leave him out of this. Now get out of here before I get out my zanpakuto and slice your head off!"
"Is that a threat or a promise? Anyways, I have no time at the moment, but the time will come when I will finally be able to kill you or even kill your precious Toshiro right in front of you, or I could even take him from you. Not like it would matter, because your heart is filled with doubt about him."
The figure then appeared behind her right in front of her mirror and whispered in her ear,
"You love him, but he might not love you, he might love that one girl in Soul Society he usually speaks of, but who's to say?"
Karin's eyes were burning with rage and she turned around and hit the figure but punched the mirror instead; shattering it and leaving Karin's right arm bleeding immensely and pieces of glass cutting her legs and a bit of her face; she had to be in pain.
"Ah-Ah! Ow…Ow…!" Karin grunted from the pain.
The figure gave off a chuckle and appeared in front of her, "See you around, Karin Kurosaki, try not to kill yourself before I'm able to kill you~"
And with that, the figure was gone, leaving Karin bleeding out all over her bathroom floor.
Karin was beginning to lose consciousness from the blood loss and she was getting desperate and tried to stop the bleeding, but no avail.
"He-Help me, To-Toshiro…Please someone, help me!" Karin was barely able to yell that out, it came out a bit muffled but it could definitely be heard through her bathroom door, especially her groans of pain.
'Man that was stupid of me…but who was that person? They made me so angry and emotionally deranged for me to hurt myself, but I meant to hurt him, her, whoever…I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I need help…Toshiro where are you? You should've been back by now…Ow, these cuts aren't helping, I even have cuts on my legs and feet from the broken glass…I shouldn't of taken that cold shower either, I-I'm fr-freezing.'
"Wh-when did I get so stupid…? Toshiro! Toshiro…!" She yelled in whispers and continued to do so.
"Please…help me! Toshiro where are you? I…I…n-need you…!" And with that, Karin lost consciousness on her bathroom floor with a pool of blood surrounding her blood stained, towel covered, and cold figure.
Little did Karin know; Toshiro was on his way back, but he has yet to find out what happened.
A/N: You better hurry Toshiro! Karin is badly hurt and losing a lot of blood right now! Who the hell is this figure person? Why is this person wanting to kill Karin and making her lose her mind? And what up with the doubt again with a text message from Momo? If you're wondering, Toshiro is not having a thing with Momo. Momo is just being Momo and wanting to see Toshiro again, they have a brother and sister like relationship, but a certain Karin doesn't really know that. Toshiro you better straighten things out before anything else happens! Check for my updates of my next chapter, and remember it might be a bit longer because of schoolwork, but I'll update as often as I can ;)
