*Humming* DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own bleach!
BTW, do you think some of the five character I put in here should die or live and go back to the rukongai
Theme for chapter: Winter Love by BoA
All my life...I thought I knew why there wasn't a hole in my chest. Once there was a hole in my chest...I lost the definition of love... compassion... emotions... a heart.
Flashback
A small, pipy, young girl named Hankai Kelly. She smiled brightly as she put her torn and patched handbag on the floor along with her straw sandals. She ran to the fireplace, where their food is cook, to see her adoptive parent, Hankai Yuri, grilling a vegetable on over the fireplace."Yuri-San! I am back!" cheered a
Hankai sighed in disappointment, "Veggies again?! Katsu-Kun usual
ly has a type of meat for dinner. Plus I have a lot of reiatsu!" Hankai complained. Yuri turned to see the muddy girl with a few scratches and scars here and there from playing with her friend.
"Now, now, Kelly-Chan. Meat is not an opinion for us, we are not hunters nor do we have the money for such a delicacy. Now come here," Yuri commanded. Yuri is a woman with short, dark purple hair in a small ponytail. She has on a dress similar to Hankai's, but its color is a dark ivory color. She wears the same sandals as Hankai, just bigger, and has ruby red eyes. Hankai did as she was instructed to by standing before Yuri. Yuri kneels down and licks her thumb; rubbing the dirt and mud off Hankai's face. Hankai squinted her eyes as Yuri rubs off all fiith from her cheek, "Oww, Yuri-San, that hurts," Hankai puff out her lips in an attempt to pout. Once done Yuri smiled at the young green haired girl. "Great, now you look beautiful," Yuri complimented. Hankai blushed at the compliment as her face lit up, "I'll call you when dinner's ready, settle in and put your stuff up. Also put up your futon, you left it a mess this morning." Yuri went back to grilling the vegetables for dinner that night, shooing off Hankai.
Hankai nodded and ran off to get her bag and take it back to her futon. After folding it up very nicely and stacking it next to Yuri's futon, Hankai took out her things she collected that day. She first pulled out a shell that has that has 'tomodachi' written in kanji. She beat everyone of her friends at rock, paper scissors to get it, even the master minding Hitsugaya, which was a miracle on her part. "Tomodachi means friend."
"Toshiro! Toshiro! Please wake up!" begged Karin as she hovers over the almost lifeless shell of Hitsugaya. All the color and feeling was drain from both of their faces, one caused by near-death and the other cause by seer shock. Her tears rapidly fall upon Hitsugaya's pale face, sniffing or flinching ever so slightly. Seconds after, a memory popped into her head, but it wasn't her own. The voice, it sound so soft and kind. The voice coming from her own voice, it was different, so innocent and loving.
In reality, her body collapse onto of Hitsugaya, also turning colder than ice. She winced and trembled every second or so, even tears were still traveling so quickly. She mumbled something under her breath to where you would have to be in kissing range to hear her, "T-tomo...dac~hi." her breath heavied deeply as her chest moved up and down quickly and moved very high and low.
While she was passed out, Hitsugaya's wound mysteriously started to stitch itself slowly, being sheltered and covered by Karin's shaking soul. The shine entered back into Hitsugaya's eyes as he gasped for a breath of air and tried to sit up, but was halted by Karin who was lying upon his chest. He was confused why Karin was unconscious and trembling on his chest.
"Karin?" he reluctantly accepts that was Karin. He had never seen her like this before, she always had such a strong appearance, alway brave and never a flash of fear. But this expression, it was completely different. Her eyes were squinted and teeth were grinding against each other. Pain and sorrow and something indescribable was twisted into her face that just torn Hitsugaya apart just to look at her, "Damn, I shouldn't expose that I'm awake just yet. Also, I'm not quite fully heal."
He glanced at the Espada glaring at Yamada, who seemed to confront her with his small zanpakuto, "Yet if I wait too long, Yamada will die and Inoue will kill me. Also I need to move Karin off of me, if she lies on me any minute longer, her body heat will give out. But if I move in the slightest," Hitsugaya mumbled to himself as his eye movement shifted from Yamada to Karin.
DAMNIT!You're an idiot. How?! I feel like an idiot, thanks a lot. Right... Sure...
After a long debate inside his head and a Hyorinmaru, who, for once in Hitsugaya's afterlife, didn't make fun of him in any way at all, that gave him a headache to destroy all headaches, as confusing as that sound. First, he picked Karin's body off of him and placed her next to him and stood tall, dusting off the dirty that lay upon his hamaka.
Running a hand through his light teal hair, his eyes expressed a cockiness with a frown etched into his face, "Hey!" he called to his opponent and comrade. Both their attentions were drawn to him with two Hyorinmaru in his palms, "You'd really think your halfass sneak attack was enough to kill me? I'm sorry to say this, but it's a shameless way to die and a taicho cannot afford to die shamelessly," both of their pairs of eyes landed to the sight of the scar that is barely stitched up by ice and slowly processing.
Kelly glared at the wound in his mid stomach that more than halfway split apart, "You can't fight in that condition, I'll just kill his arrogant shinigami then finish this later," she excused herself then positioned one of Kurushimi's katana to slice off Yamada's head. Hitsugaya interfered by blocking Kurushimi with one Hyorinmaru and swings the other by his side.
"You're an idiot if you think this little cut can stop me," Hitsugaya glared at the green haired girl. In addition, Hitsugaya took his other sword in his left hand and knocked Kurushimi to the ground that left her with one katana.
Kelly switched her katana in her left hand to her right hand and pointed it towards Hitsugaya, "If I were you, I wouldn't dare worry about this man who audaciously took me on. You should be concerned about your girlfriend, she's looking a little half dead over there," Kelly stated, referring to Karin.
Veins popped out of Hitsugaya's head once again, "That's three times now! She is NOT my girlfriend!" he yelled at her with an annoyed expression, again, with the slightest blush. He then mumbled something under his breath about Kelly and curses, "Anyway, Karin is strong. She won't die from a crying a little too much or anything like that. She's just unconscious and she'll wake up, I promise you that," his eyes, they were so strong and so genuine. He was so sure of it.
Just then, Karin hacked out an unbearable cough. She held her chest as if it was able to ease the pain in her chest. Blood spilled from her mouth, but she was still alive and kicking. She trembled with fear and pain. Agony engulfed her weary spirit. In a weak voice, she mumbled out, "H-Hankai, that's your name-," she coughed terrible with more blood flowing out, "R-right?"
Karin's question angered her greatly, "No! My name is Kelly, not Hankai."
Karin chuckled at her ignorance, "I've touch your heart. You are no arrancar, nor Espada. You are neither Aizen's pawn. You are just a lost soul, now," Karin struggled to get on her feet, tripping her stumbling on the ground, but still reluctant to give up. Her stance was weak and she could easily be knocked over by but a strong wind, "I-I can look in your heart and find what your pain is and reverse it."
"Karin?"
Kelly furrowed her eyebrows, "Lost? Lost? I have found myself so how am I lost!? And what is a heart? You human souls just throw that word around without a real meaning!" Kelly was almost at the point of tears as she clenched her weapon with fury. Karin brought her hand to her mouth as she coughed up more blood.
"Why do you think I'm so beaten up. Because I risked my ass trying to save you from your pain. I have burdened your pain for you, but luckily I'm not anything near a hollow," Karin's hair covered her eyes with a small smile plastered upon her face, "About what heart is. You refer to heart as if it is tangible. Heart is unseen by the naked eye, and I'm not talking about a heart that pumps blood to a human's body. It's something that is with you no matter how heartless of cold you are. Finally, heart is... It has no meaning. People perceive heart differently, thinking it has a meaning. When I was young and my mother died, I asked myself what heart was. But during that crisis, I realized that the definition of heart is shaped by a being's perception!"
Kelly didn't understand her explanation, no not at all. Kelly's stance became sloppy and muscles. Just when Kelly was about to strike, she felt herself grow...younger. Her height fell to where she was the same height as Hitsugaya. Then her hole slowly closed, inch by inch, "W-w- I don't-...understand," she whined quietly. Tears shed onto the ground without the knowledge of the owner of the tear. She raised her hand to her chest as she silently cry in shock and relief.
Hitsugaya and Yamada was also stunned by this miracle Karin just performed, "Karin, what did you do?" Hitsugaya asked with pure disbelief, shock, and ignorance. Karin wearily limped next to Hitsugaya as they watch the former arrancar age backward fairly quickly. Karin looked at her with a small smile placed upon her hand.
"She's converting back to the form before she was even a hollow to begin with," she answered with a soft and truly happy voice. When the hole in hole in her chest closed, her body softly glowed a bright white. She was lifted into the air a bit and that's when the glow was at its greatest to where everyone of them. After shielding their eyes, Kelly slowly descended onto the pavement. She laid there as she lost consciousness and the light disappeared, revealing a naked body.
Hitsugaya and Yamada's face turned a bright red, "Don't stand there and look!" Karin yelled at the both of them and slapping the both of them, "Give her something to cover up with!" she shouted at the two while they massage their red right cheek. Hitsugaya reluctantly took off his haori and draped it over Kelly's exposed body.
Kelly's eyes open and shifted her head to her side to see Yamada, Karin, and Hitsugaya. Her eyes looked dull, confused, and tried, "W-who are you?" she muttered with one eye open.
"She lost her memory?" Yamada asked.
Karin shook her head, "Nope, she just just doesn't remember being Aizen's slave," Karin crouched down to see Kelly better and introduced herself, "I'm Kurosaki Karin. This is Yamada Hanataro. You already know him, but he's Hitsugaya Toshiro," Karin introduced herself and the two behind her. She held her hand out to help Kelly up.
Kelly smiled really big as she set her sights to view Hitsugaya, "Hitsugaya-Kun?! You look so different! Your hair, you have wings...and wearing a shinigami outfit?" she impressed look turned into a confused one while her head tilt to the side a little.
"I'm surprise you didn't notice that he's taller," Karin muttered to no one in particular, but everyone heard her loud and clear.
Kelly giggled a little, "Hitsugaya-Kun can never get taller, he's the same height as always," Kelly directed her attention to Karin. All the while Hitsugaya's veins popped out. Kelly looked at him more closely, "Well, now that I look at him..." Kelly walked closer to Hitsugaya and realized that he was the same height height as her, "Oh my god! Hitsugaya-Kun is the same size as me! The world has gone mad!"
That pushed the limit, "What the hell are you talking about. I can get taller or shorter any day of the week, Hankai!" he yelled loudly at the girl with anger. He muttered something under her breath, this time dealing with Kelly, curse, and Karin.
Kelly smiled at him, "Still got your short fuse, I see," she said happily while patting his head. Hitsugaya tried not to kill the girl while he caught her hand, "That reminds me, I haven't told you my name. I'm Hankai Kelly, call me Kelly."
"That was too easy, she must have sense us," Nami suspiciously stated while kicking Inoue's bleed body. With every second, Inoue trembled at least once or twice. Nami bent down to get a good look at her, but nothing suspicious was noticed. She sighed and bend her back backwards and looked at the sky, "Well we should go get Kurosaki, also his sister. She has the power to convert hollows back into human soul and to revive souls. That bitch Masaki...betraying us..."
Katsu rolled his eyes, "Hell to her, she's going to die, let's just make it long and painful," Katsu stepped on Inoue's back where her wound was. He smeared his shoe in the blood, "She's dirty in the ground compared to us. She put up a vain fight and earned the name of descendant of the Soul King. Still we rose victorious over her."
"Damn! You took all the fun, Katsu-Nii, I didn't even get to show her my resurrección!" Nami whine while biting her lip, "I'll just give it all I got next fight," Nami puffed up her cheeks, "Let's get going," she sighed.
"Nami-Chan! Katsu!" there stood Hinamori in her arrancar form. She wore a white dress that ended at her mid thigh. A black line that outlined a button up down to her waist. Hinamori's brown hair grew a little pass shoulder length. She wore black boots with white outlining the stitching.
"Momo..."