You Are Mine

Chap. 11

Previously…

Karin was out on the west edge of the balcony and was trying to stop crying, but no avail. Her heart was broken from Nikui's stunt she just did. She kissed Toshiro right in front of her, Karin was just torn.

As Karin was crying, she didn't notice someone come up from behind her. It was a young man with blue hair and was wearing a tux like most of the guys here, but one little difference was his eyes were red and were starting to glow red, it was the Hollow.

The disguised Hollow approached Karin and grabbed her from behind.

Karin practically screamed, "AH!"

She could sense it was the Hollow from how close it was to her and tried to fight back, but the Hollow had a good grip on her and knocked her out by hitting her in the head and he revealed one of his hands to have claws and scratched her left arm to endure at least some sort of pain when she woke up.

"Karin!" Toshiro heard her scream from inside and rushed outside onto the balcony area to find her.

He turned around to see the Hollow holding Karin in his arms and she was injured and out cold.

"Karin! Get your hands off of her you bastard!" Toshiro yelled running towards the Hollow.

The Hollow jumped up onto to the railing of the balcony and grabbed Karin and hung her over the water. And began to talk in an echo like voice

"You have two choices Soul Reaper…Either you can come up here and kill me and I let this girl fall and die in the water, or save the girl and let me go to devour more souls…What's it going to be?"

Toshiro clenched his fist in frustration and anger.

The Hollow began to laugh methodically and insanely at the mess Toshiro was now in.

'Damn it! What am I going to do? I can't let Karin get hurt anymore, but I can't let this Hollow get away and kill more souls. WHAT THE HELL DO I DO! Karin…!'

Toshiro was in a bad situation. What is he going to do?

Present

"So Soul Reaper? Which is it, this girl's life or thousands of others?" The Hollow smirked at Toshiro

Toshiro placed his head down and reached into his pocket, then looked back up and glared daggers at the Hollow.

"How about this? You let go of her right now, unharmed and just let me violently hack you into pieces." Toshiro then stuck a soul candy into his mouth and went Soul Reaper, sword drawn and everything.

The Hollow's gaze at Toshiro intensified and took notice of his Soul Reaper attire and his smirk just deepened.

"So, a Soul Reaper Captain, this could be interesting. But none in the least, you made a wrong move."

The Hollow then just practically threw Karin down towards the water.

Toshiro's eyes widened and jumped after Karin.

"Karin!" Toshiro yelled. Then he closed his eyes and semi-whispered,

"Bankai, Daiguren Hyorinmaru!"

Ice wings appeared on his back and 3 purple ice flowers above him. He then swooped down as fast as he could and caught Karin in his icy, cold arms before she came within 3 feet of the water.

The Hollow was watching the whole thing and was about to get away, but Toshiro's gigai tackled the Hollow over the railing and conveniently landed on a strip of sand from the beach that was under the balcony.

Toshiro was trying to get Karin to wake up, but she wouldn't budge; she was definitely out cold. He took a good look at her in his arms and everything that's happened to her tonight was making him boil with rage; everything from Karin seeing Nikui kiss him to that Hollow injuring Karin.

He closed his eyes as his spiritual pressure rose, causing a whitish, bluish aura to surround him and Karin.

Then he opened his eyes and glared daggers at the Hollow below fighting his gigai.

"Time for you to pay…" He whispered dangerously.

Toshiro then swooped down; his sword still in his hand; and attacked the Hollow violently.

The Hollow lost his left arm and was pouring out blood all over and his true form was starting to come out as a mask was forming over his head.

"AH! DAMN SOUL REAPER…"

Toshiro handed Karin to his gigai and gave him orders.

"Take her and get behind something, now." Toshiro was being very serious; his gigai just nodded and got behind some rocks along with Karin.

Toshiro turned his attention back to the Hollow.

"You've crossed a line just like that girl inside. You hurt, Karin and no one hurts her while I'm around. I might not be allowed or able to kill that girl who made her cry because there's no justice to kill someone who's not worth it, but you on the other hand, you physically hurt her and tried to kill her. You deserve no mercy…" He said it so cold and threatening

The area surrounding Toshiro and the Hollow suddenly turned cold and ice began to form around the Hollow and his feet were frozen in place.

The Hollow looked Toshiro in the eyes and he could see the anger and seriousness within them. The Hollow smirked at him as if he just figured it out.

"You care a lot for that girl. Well before you try to kill me, I should warn you, Soul Reaper."

Toshiro gaze intensified; a sign for the Hollow to continue and have his last words.

"That girl is in danger. Sure I tried to kill her, but I was hired to find her and kill her. If you haven't notice, those other people I killed for their souls, they were all decoys. That way it would lure her out."

Toshiro flash stepped right in front of the Hollow with his sword against its neck.

"Who hired you?" He asked dangerously.

The Hollow scoffed and shook his head cautiously.

"Beats me, Soul Reaper. It was a figure in black, I couldn't see their face. But it would've been fun to kill that…"

Toshiro then slashed the Hollows head off before he could finish his sentence.

The Hollow groaned out in death to finish his statement, "…bitch."

Toshiro placed Hyorinmaru away as his Bankai shattered. And the Hollow faded away to dust.

"Either way you still deserved to die. Hired or not, Hollow."

He then walked over to where his gigai and Karin were. He placed his hand on the gigai and got in it.

Toshiro looked down at Karin and saw her left arm had blood trailing down still. He took out his pocket watch and opened a secret compartment that contained a bottle of elixir of some sort. He opened the tiny bottle and sprinkled some over her wound. Within seconds the wound began to close up; the wonders of Squad 4 working with Squad 12 with medicines and healing elixirs, but only given when on these kind of assignments.

Karin was still out cold and probably would be for the rest of the night till the next morning.

Toshiro gazed down at Karin and picked her up carefully and placed her in his arms bridal style; a favorite carrying position for him lately when it comes to Karin.

He began walking down the beach with Karin tightly in his arms; he wasn't prepared to let her go anytime soon.

Toshiro came across a wooden stair case that easily lead him off of the beach and back onto the sidewalk of the road back to Karin's apartment.

He thought it be best to haul a cab instead of walking with an unconscious girl in his arms in the city with people watching and most likely call the cops.

Within seconds of holding his thumb out for a taxi, one came up; it was a small, yet cozy, it was white and blue stripes on the side door with the letters of the service painted within the stripes.

Toshiro got in with Karin still in his arms; not caring for the strange look for the cab driver was giving him in the rearview mirror.

He gave the cab driver the address of the apartment building Karin lived at and told him to just drive and not ask any questions; he never took his eyes off of Karin.

When the cab driver got them to Karin's apartment building, Toshiro gave the driver his money and carried Karin into the building and up to her apartment floor.

Once he got to her door, he opened it with ease since it appeared to be unlocked. He swiftly entered the apartment and locked the door and even placed a kido spell over it so no one would disturb them tonight or bust through the door.

Toshiro carried Karin to her room and laid her down for a minute so he could stick a soul candy into his mouth.

He popped out of his gigai and turned to him, tossing a glove to him.

"I want you to go to Urahara's until I come to retrieve you, but you'll know when I do, you're pretty good at determining that. If they ask any questions about what happened tonight, don't answer them; just tell them that the job was done and nothing else. You'll be able to get out the door with that, but lock it on your way out." Toshiro then gazed down at Karin's unconscious form.

The gigai nodded and was about to head out the door, but sent Toshiro a look telling him to wish him the best and that Karin would be okay.

Toshiro sighed and nodded his head slightly at him and with that his gigai left the room and the apartment.

Karin was breathing softly and at a normal pace which was a good sign, but Toshiro couldn't help but worry.

He undid his chain that was holding Hyorinmaru on his back and set Hyorinmaru next to Karin's sleeping body on the empty side of the bed. Then he grabbed Karin into his arms again, and then he laid down on the bed with Karin laid out on top of him.

Toshiro reached for Karin's feet and removed her sandal footwear and placed her in a more comfortable position in his arms.

He placed her head against his chest and spread her legs out from a crouched position to a more laid out position over his legs, but they were semi bent, but in a relaxed way. Then he wrapped one of his arms over her waist and the other over her upper arm and back.

Toshiro was lying down with his back leaned against the bed's frame so he could have Karin close to him.

His hold on her was tight, but not tight enough to cause her discomfort or suffocate her, is was a protective and gentle kind of tightness; the kind you only hold someone you want to protect and someone you deeply care about.

Toshiro couldn't take his eyes off of Karin. His eyes were cold, but filled with guilt deep within. For he feels Karin has been through enough; enough that has just caused her emotional barrier to crumble and allow her to cry and break more than she probably has or will in her entire life. He felt it was his entire fault; he wasn't there when Karin was attacked, both from the figure and the Hollow, she saw Nikui kiss him while he was off guard, but he didn't know if it really did hurt her or not in the way he was thinking, and he couldn't do a thing to protect her from the crap she had to put up with that made her cry.

"Karin…forgive me." Toshiro said in a whispered like tone, but it wasn't soft.

He then reached up with one of his hands and undid her hair and let it fall, it just reached before her shoulders on the side, while in the back it just passed them slightly. Then he briefly ran a hand through her beautiful black, onyx hair and kept the flower he placed in her hair earlier that evening right where he left it.

"Karin, did you really see what occurred with that trash of a girl and me? If so, why would you become upset about it? Unless you didn't want to see a good friend be taken from you, but maybe and I believe it's something different. I know you can't hear me, but is it possible that you like me more than as a friend, Karin? Because if you did, it would be a coincidence, since I care about you deeply and like you a hell of a lot more than a friend. Like, isn't even the word, I would use, love."

He then leaned himself down and kissed Karin's sleeping lips; she tasted like strawberries from the chap stick she put on.

Toshiro pulled away after a few sweet moments so he wouldn't awake her, but her whispered in front of her lips; only a couple of centimeters from them.

"I love you, Karin. Your lips are the only ones I want with mine. I want you and only you."

He then briefly kissed her one last time before pulling away and placing his head back against the headboard of the bed.

He held Karin semi-tighter and placed his head on top of Karin's, while her head was laid against his chest and close to the opening of skin of his uniform.

After about a few minutes of hearing Karin's soft breathing and feeling it against him, he began to close his eyes and let sleep claim him for the night. Just as he was about to fall asleep, Karin gripped his uniform in a light, yet tight manner in her sleep. Toshiro's face had a smile form for a second, but then it went back to being serious, almost as if he looked like a sleeping angry angel.

Sleep then claimed him as he held Karin lovingly and protectively in his arms.

Meanwhile, on a rooftop across from Karin's apartment, the figure was watching the two young ones sleep. The figure clenched its fist, but then let off a smirk.

"That buffoon of a Hollow might have failed in killing her, but I expected him too. This way that Soul Reaper would go into protective mode over her and won't leave her be. Now it'll be easier to kill two birds with one stone. But do I really want Hitsugaya dead, yet that is? Hmmm, it seems I'm still pondering on what to do. No matter, I'll let the little 'lovebirds' have their fun and emotional issues for now, but rest assured, I will be coming to kill you, Karin Kurosaki. This I swear, but not on anyone's grave, because technically I'm already dead and so are my friends and probably my family. Sweet dreams, Soul Reapers~."

And with that, the figure began to walk away and then disappeared into the night.

Morning was beginning to rise, it was pretty early around 6 in the morning, but the sun was shining right through Karin's windows.

Karin was beginning to awake and she felt weird as if someone's presence was wrapped around her body and was not too long ago upon her lips.

As she opened her eyes slowly, she found herself to be in someone's arms.

She looked up, wondering who was holding her, and she gasped when she saw who it was.

She saw gorgeous teal eyes looking right back at her, it was Toshiro.

Karin was in Toshiro's arms and just couldn't believe her eyes or her mind, she thought it was another dream, but when really, it wasn't.

A/N: Awe Toshiro...And hopefully you'll actually tell Karin what you whispered to her when she was asleep. Geez, love is hard work XD. Anyway it's not as long as the last chapter (thank god XD), but it took me a bit longer since of this paper I had to do for a class, but here's the chapter. The next one I shall be working on, but remember, schoolwork until finals~ But I'll leave you all here for right now until I can get the next chapter up. ;) Check for my updates when you can ;) Let me know if you have any ideas for me too! Please Review! ;)