A/N Hey people, I'm back from a stressful week of school. One thing though, Who's going to go see Underworld 4? I love those movies! Anyway, back to chapter 10.
The Next Day, The Bedroom
Karin opened her eyes and tried to put an arm over her eyes to shield them from the sun but her arm was being restricted by something. "Toshiro? Can you let me go?" she whispered to him, but his grip on her tightened. "Now why would I want to do that?" A voice said, but it wasn't Toshiro's.
She slowly looked up to see Aizen with a huge smirk on his face gazing down at her. She wanted to scream for someone, for anyone, to come and rescue her, but she found that she couldn't. "I see you don't like my spell very much. Zafira's power is hypnosis, so I can make anyone do what I want. However, I find that you are very hard to completely control, you are a strange one." he said, and then everything went black.
Karin woke up with a start and who could blame her? Dreaming about the enemy is not a good thing, and it definitely wasn't on the top of her Favorites list. She looked beside her and breathed out a sigh of relief when she saw Toshiro sleeping peacefully beside her.
His face scrunched up in discomfort, probably from her getting up so fast, and he mumbled something, but even with her Vampire hearing, she couldn't hear what he said. Suddenly, his arm snaked around her waist and pulled her back to him, closer to him, where she felt right to him.
"Toshiro. Wake up." she breathed against his ear, kissing his cheek in the process to help wake him up faster. It worked, until Toshiro grabbed her wrists and pinned her down to the bed, him on top of her. "What do you want me to do now, Mrs. Hitsugaya?" he said to her in a seductive voice, a sexy smirk on his face.
"..." she couldn't think of anything to say, her mind was still stuck on him calling her 'Mrs. Hitsugaya.' He kissed her on the lips harder than they ever had before. And then it clicked, Karin was having her first real kiss, with tongue too. It felt amazing but at the same time, it felt... different. He felt different, his lips felt like sandpaper instead of the soft and smooth ones she had kissed before.*
Something wasn't right, and she had to stop this. She forcefully pushed Toshiro off of her so that he was laying beside her once again. "Who are you?" she asked him. He looked at her strangely and said, "I am Toshiro Hitsugaya, your fiance." he answered.
"Ok then, answer this, what does my inner world look like?" she asked him, her arms folded across her chest, waiting for an answer. He smiled at her and said, "You're a smart girl, you know that?" and then he morphed into Aizen.
Once again, her vision collapsed on her and the world faded into darkness.
"I am so tired of waking up after having dream after dream about him, when will this end?" she thought, hopeful for an answer from someone in her head.
"Are you okay, Master?" said Aruf. Karin smiled a little at hearing her Spirit Animal's voice. "Why am I dreaming about him, Aruf? Please tell me." Karin pleaded her Spirit Animal. "Every Spirit Animal is connected to one another, so Zafira and Aizen are sending a message to you." Aruf informed her.
"And what would that be?" Karin asked as she rubbed her temples. "I don't know, but you need to be on your guard in case he attacks you." Aruf said and then she went quiet. Karin sighed deeply and tried to get out of bed, but she forgot that Toshiro still had a grip on her, so she was flung back onto the bed beside Toshiro, who was now awake.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked as he pulled her closer than she already was. "No. The question is, what are you doing?" she asked as she pushed herself away from him. However, now that he had his Spirit Animal, he was as strong as she was.
A Little Bit Later
Somehow, the position they ended up in was one where Toshiro was on top and Karin on the bottom. The sight before her was actually scaring her. Her, Karin Kurosaki, a girl who stood her ground against guys ten times her size, was actually being scared.
She was most likely having a panic attack from the thought of Toshiro actually being Aizen. She started thrashing and resisting under him, causing him to stare at her in shock. "What is wrong with her, Hyōrinmaru? Why is she acting like this?" Toshiro thought worriedly to his Spirit Animal.
Instead of Hyōrinmaru answering him, it was Aruf. She sounded panicked. "She was having nightmares about Aizen, and when you got on top of her, I don't know! Something snapped in her, and she might attack you!" Aruf said in a hurry. "Why would she attack me?" Toshiro though to Aruf.
"She thinks you're Aizen in disguise. Be careful, and RUN!" Aruf said, and then the blue flame came to Karin's fingers. Toshiro jumped off of her before she could get him and hid behind a chair, thinking of a plan while Karin advanced on him. "Hyōrinmaru, what should I do?" he thought to his Spirit Animal.
"You must attack her, knock her unconscious, but you must be careful with her." "I know." Toshiro thought. "Wait! How would I go about attacking her?" Toshiro thought, and then he noticed Karin above him, ready to strike him with her flame.
He jumped to the corner of the room as Karin cut the chair in half with her flame. "You must use your ice." "How can I do that?" Toshiro thought worriedly as Karin got closer. "Just calm down and empty your thoughts, then you just think about ice and focus it on Karin." Hyōrinmaru explained.
Toshiro relaxed his body and cleared his thoughts, then he thought about his inner world, full of ice, and then he felt a tingling sensation on his hands. He looked at his hands and in his hands sat two giant pieces of ice the beautiful color of his eyes.
"Wow!" he whispered, happy to have finally learned how to use and control his element. "Master! Watch out!" Hyōrinmaru yelled at him, but it was too late. Karin cut him from his right shoulder to his left hip, leaving blood to pour out of the wound and onto the floor.
"Ka-Karin." Toshiro managed to say before he fell to the floor, unconscious. Karin was in shock, she was too horrified to speak, she just sat beside him and healed his wound, silent tears rolling down her face.
"Toshiro. I'm so sorry." Karin said before she too fell unconscious onto his chest, the wound gone, like it never happened.
A Couple Of Hours Later
Karin woke up to a blinding light on her and Toshiro sitting beside her on a bed, still unconscious. She put a hand on her temple and massaged it, relieving the headache she had from using her powers too much.
"I see you're awake. How are you feeling?" a voice said. Karin looked at the doorway and saw Head Unohana with a light smile on her face and her usual braid in the front. "What happened to us?" she asked. She knew what happened to them but she really meant after that.
"Rangiku Matsumoto found you two this morning on the floor of your room unconscious. That is all we know. Would you like to tell me what happened?" Unohana said, but Karin shook her head. "All right, I understand. How are you feeling? Are you feeling light-headed?" she said, and Karin nodded.
Unohana stepped out of the room for a minute before coming back with a tray of food. "Here, this will help with that." Unohana said, and then she layed the tray on Karin's lap. Karin didn't hesitate in devouring the food, her headache completely forgotten as she ate.
Soon, after Karin was done eating and Unohana left, Toshiro woke up. Karin jumped out of her bed and hugged him, crying softly onto his shoulder. He patted her back and kissed her head to calm her down.
"I'm so sorry, Toshiro. I didn't mean to hurt you, I thought you were..." Toshiro kissed her on the lips before she could finish. "Its alright, I don't blame you for it. After all, you healed my wound after that." he said, picking her hand up and making her hand trace where the scar should be, but it wasn't there.
She blushed a little and kissed his cheek. "You should get some sleep, we need to talk in private." Karin said to him. She could feel Aizen was somewhere near, but where or how she knew, that was a mystery.
"All right, I'll see you in a minute." he said, and then he went back to sleep. Karin jumped back in bed and curled up in a ball in her bed before falling asleep.
Their Joined Inner Worlds
When Karin got into her inner world, Toshiro was already there, waiting patiently by the river. He smiled at Karin when she walked up to him and he patted the spot beside him. Karin sat beside him and kissed his cheek before looking out at the river.
"What did you want to talk about?" Toshiro said after a moment of silence. "The wedding." Karin said, looking away from the river to look at his face. "What about it?" he said as he grabbed her hand and stroked her knuckles with his thumb.
"When are we going to have it? We keep having to reschedule it. I want to have it as soon as possible." she said, and then she kissed him on the lips.
They both wanted to freeze time, staying in that position forever, but it wasn't meant to be. They pulled away from each other for air and then they leaned their foreheads together, breathing heavily. "We'll have it as soon as that bastard Aizen is dead." Toshiro said after he got his breath back.
"I promise." he said, and then he kissed her forehead before they both left their inner worlds.
A/N And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Chapter 10 of Vampt Up! I hope you all enjoyed it.
*After Karin brought Toshiro back to their room from Chapter 8, she kissed him on the lips.