Watching Karin

By fate they met in Karakura Town. He helped win a soccer match due to her stubbornness. Luck allowed him to save her life. Now Hitsugaya can't get Kurosaki Karin off his mind. So he watches over her, unfortunately he isn't the only one watching.

Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns Bleach, I don't. I also do not make money from writing fan fiction.

Warning for extremely disturbing content well worthy of the mature rating this story has earned more than once.

Also this story is coming to a close there are only a few more chapters to go.

Before people complained that I made Karin too powerful. I really hope it doesn't bother anyone because I am not going to change the story. I'm only touching up my grammar spelling and punctuation. A note about Karin's powers I don't know where her true limit lies but I do know that she can't function at full power for long without suffering physical exhaustion. Perhaps she is not even that strong and is just able to concentrate her spiritual powers.

Yet again I have veered from the original story I think this is what you might call a partial AU :)

Chapter 38: Mine!

"Are you using flash step?" Toshiro suddenly asked.

"I don't know," She explained, "Urahara never got around to teaching me."

"I wonder how you could be so fast," he sounded impressed.

"Urahara always said I was fast," She smirked. She was deflecting attacks from arrancar, and espada on all sides.

"You're strong, I mean you might give Yamamoto a run for his money," He chuckled, "It is a good thing you're carrying me. I probably couldn't even stand in this condition next to your power."

"I need to put you somewhere safe so I can go kick some asses," she winked at him, "First let's get these chains off you." She sliced through them with her sword and they slid off.

She had an espada rushing toward each side; she ordered her sword to shine and pointed the beam at the closest one. His face was set on fire, "Or maybe we should just run. Shina, Blinding light of virtue shine down from the heavens!" The room was white again. The only two people who were able to see anything escaped and started running down the hallway.

"Karin where are you planning on running to?"

"Anywhere but here."

"Wait we can't leave, they have your body."

"I don't care. It isn't important."

"What, yes it is! Do you know what they will do to it?"

"Kill it? So? I have you," She smiled, "Besides If I'm dead than we are not breaking any rules when I do this," She kissed him. It was awkward, since she was carrying him and running, but there was a pleasant warmth in their kiss.

She was starting to feel drained and they were hopelessly lost. "You're getting tired. We need to find a place to hide and you need to work on suppressing your powers." he looked concerned she was getting pale.

"I don't think I can still carry you unless I have at least some of my powers out. I'm not physically strong enough."

"I think I can manage to run, if you would just put me down. I feel like my own powers are starting to return."

"OK," She didn't want to put him down. Strange, this is really a guy thing, "Toshiro, I just thought of something."

"What?" he looked worried.

"You are my damsel in distress," She put him down and took his hand. She started running before he caught on to what she said.

Again he said, "What?"

"Well I did save you from being held captive from a group of evil men, and I even untied you." She ran with him down the hall.

"Are you trying to emasculate me?" He looked at her.

"No! Why should men do all the saving? Cause you are stronger?" She scowled.

"Well?" He had to admit she had him beat on raw power.

"Just shut-it," She smiled at him, "Hey do you think you could call your bankai if we found a window?"

"Why?" He smiled

"Well if we are very high off the ground I would not want to fall. You can fly. Can't you?" She smiled at him.

"You know I can levitate too right?" He cocked his head at her and grinned.

"No way! That's cool! Well let's stop talking and try to find a window or a door, or something!"

"Right!" He looked back, "We have company."

"Get behind me, OK."

"No way! You stay behind me!" He was starting to get annoyed, "I can take care of myself."

"Then draw your sword," The barked as it attacked. Toshiro reached for his sheath. There was no sword there. The arrancar who had found them had taken it from him while he was busy arguing with Karin.

Toshiro shrugged. He planted his foot in the thing's head and took his sword back. Slicing through the thing's hand in the process. He didn't need his shiaki for this weakling. He finished the pathetic excuse for an enemy quickly, "Let's go! Before more come," He was wiping the blood off of his sword on the things white jacket.

"Right!" She looked around her, "Which way." He didn't think about it but grabbed her hand and started running down a side corridor. It was dark, but that was OK, because he felt safer under the cover of darkness.

"No windows in this place. If we are above ground we must be near the center of Los Noches." He realized she had stopped running, "What is it?"

"Ichigo! I feel him he isn't far," He tried to pull her again, "No not that way. She looked below her feet."

"He's probably here to save Orihime, he doesn't even know we are here!" he tried to get her to budge. He sighed heavily, and turned to her, "Karin, I love you, please don't make me make you leave here. We can't do anything for him. We will just be a cause for distraction."

"But!"

"Can't you feel it. Your power had been drained. It'll come back eventually, but for now you are too weak to help. I am sorry. It is my fault! You saved me, and I was useless! I can't take the risk of losing you," He kissed her, gently, but there it was, his tongue, in her mouth, He pulled her close to him. She was crying, but her body felt like it was melting into his.

"I-I guess you're right." She was his she would follow him anywhere right than, "You sure you don't have the ability to brainwash people?"

"That's not funny woman!" He was smiling, "Let's keep going this direction."

"If you say so Captain Hitsugaya," She sounded very sarcastic, but she was smiling. He loved her smile.

"So when you join the 13 court guard squads what squad would you like to be in."

"What do you mean when, don't you mean if?" They were feeling around the dark. It was hard to see anything.

"Well I was going to ask if you would like to join my squad."

"Would that not be a conflict of interest, Captain?" She teased.

"Well-," he was thinking seriously. They walked along he was still holding her hand. It felt so good to touch her. Her hand was just slightly smaller than his own and softer; which might go against conventional knowledge of the girl. She was after all anything but girly.

"Toshiro would you get your hand off my ass! This is hardly the time or place for you to get perverted."

"I'm not touching your a-" Suddenly there was a cero blast it caught the Captain in the chest.

"Toshiro!" She screamed.

"Hello plum blossom. What did I say about talking about other men. Let alone talking to or touching other men. The small espada brought a hand to her face. It was surprisingly genteel, but it only put her off guard for the rapid succession of punches in her stomach. It was more than super human. She wondered why her own reflexes were no longer that fast.

"You've drained your powers, Remember Bitch!" He grabbed her hair. He pulled her close and kissed her.

"Get off her you bastard!" Hitsugaya climbed up and steadied himself. He ran at the espada who was about a foot taller than him. Karin had to dodge in the narrow hallway, "Karin get behind me, NOW!" She decided she wouldn't argue, for once. She'd really prefer to keep as much distance between herself and the amorous hollow as possible. But the boy espada yanked her back by the hair. She gave a surprised yelp.

Souta held her by the waist whilst fighting off Hitsugaya's attacks. The newest espada was not using her as a shield, but actually seemed to be protecting her from being accidentally hit by one to the two swords. She thought to draw her own, but a surprisingly strong hand stopped her. Souta picked her up and slung her body over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"I'll be taking my woman back, thank you," He said blocking Toshiro's sword with his own. He jumped backward and ran. The soul-reaper followed him. They entered a large hall, much like the throne room, 'Hell, every room looks the same in this place.'

"Yeah I know it gets kind of boring," Souta agreed with his unspoken thought. Toshiro's attention was thrown off. The boy shot off another cero blast it grazed Hitsugaya's head. There was a distinct scent of singed hair.

"So you can read my thoughts? Read this," He released his shikai and launched an attack. The young espada was surprised enough to lose track of the soul-reaper. Hitsugaya retrieved Karin and flash stepped away. She was hugging his neck as the two of them retreated. Neither he nor Karin were really in the shape to fight.

"So how are we going to get out of Hueco Mundo once we get out of Los Noches?" Karin suddenly asked.

"I have no idea," He sort of shrugged, he couldn't accomplish the gesture because he was at that time holding Karin, and trying to increase the distance between them and the love crazed espada, "May I ask, why that arrancar called you his woman?" Toshiro sounded jealous there was no masking it.

"I'm not even sure I know what's going on with that, but I went to school with that boy and as far as I knew he was still very much alive up until the day I came to the soul-society. As far as him thinking I'm his 'woman,' the emphasis on that was said in disgust. Toshiro was relieved; as if he should be worried, "...He is a loathsome pervert. He was kind of stalking me, after you left," She was nervously fidgeting, like he might blame her for that.

"That creep!" Toshiro wanted to put her down and turn around to kill the bastard, but he didn't want to leave her alone, she was more important.

"I wish I had known how crazy he was back then though." She gave an involuntary shiver. Another cero blast flew past their heads. It blasted a wall causing part of the hallway to collapse. Toshiro avoided the crumbling partition easily. The hole created even afforded them a new route. He decided to take it. Again they were in a strange hall. There were a few lower level hollows. These beings avoided the two of them.

"Toshiro?" Karin was looking back.

"Wha-" The boy felt a hit blast of energy directly hit his spine. The pain was unbearable. He thought he would have dropped her, but she was gone.

"How DARE you even think it was OK to touch her. I don't want you to even look at her. I think I'll just behead you right now. Karin was fighting with the espada boy, but at this moment he was stronger than her. He held her wrist. He squeezed until she heard bones crunching together. She moaned in anguish, "Mmmm, I think she likes that, soul-reaper. Perhaps she wants you to see that she prefers me. I can let you watch. I guess that will teach you a lesson." The Captain Hitsugaya was still down from the direct cero blast to his back. He was growling. When he turned he saw the arrancar forcing her to the ground.

"Get off of her you son of a bitch!" Toshiro tried to get up. He was physically spent. Souta smiled at his rival. Then he planted another oxygen depriving kiss on Karin. The soul-reaper watched in horror as she was fighting him off than the struggle increased before her eyes rolled back in her head. She stopped moving, "YOU'RE KILLING HER STOP!"

The new espada number 10 broke the kiss before removing his tongue; he then proceeded to explore her neck with the offending organ. Again Hitsugaya tried to get up. Karin wasn't moving, she wasn't breathing. Then suddenly she started to cough. He was actually to relieved to mask his sadness. He had tears coming to his eyes. Souta grinned hatefully.

"Just wanted you to know what it was like to want something you couldn't have," As if the soul-reaper didn't know this—as if he had not spent the last three months dealing with that very situation.

He moved to in to kill leaving Karin in a now semi-conscious state lying on the floor. He straddled Toshiro's waist grinning, savoring the kill and anticipating his fear…But there was no fear. Toshiro was smiling hatefully at the boy. Souta felt hot steel sinking into his back. The sword reached his abdomen and pushed through. "Shine, Shina shine for the son of a bitch," Her voice was deadly even. With her foot she shoved the espada off of her beloved. Souta was powerless to resist.

Light shown from his mouth and eyes. He tried to move away from the sword, from her. He had a terrified look on his face, but Karin wouldn't let up. There was no pang of guilt in her consciousness, no cries for mercy. Souta's body couldn't hold together from the pressure of her attack. She grunted in pain but kept going. Souta vomited up dark red and black liquid that must have been the pulpy remains of his internal organs.

"I want to erase you!" She screamed in his ears, but he couldn't hear her anymore—he just heard a high pitch buzzing. His eyes fluttered. He stopped moving, but she was still attacking. She had meant what she had said; she wanted to vaporize his body. His body started to dissolve. The sword made contact with the floor and Karin followed suit.

"Karin!" Toshiro watched her collapse unable to reach her to prevent the fall. He was weak, and knew she had used all of her reserves. Karin would not be awake anytime soon, "You big dummy How am I supposed to protect you?" He cried. Toshiro crawled over to her. He tried to gather her up, but He was also too weak to do much of anything.

Suddenly Hitsugaya heard a familiar laugh, "That girl knows how to fight. I think she belongs in my division."

"Captain Zaraki?" Toshiro could not believe his eyes.

The captain scratched his head, and explained, "Yachiru wouldn't leave me alone until I promised to go after you. The head captain can shove-it for all I care," Again he laughed his half grunt of a laugh. The man grabbed the two of them without saying anything more.

"Wait, we have to go back. Aizen has her physical body being held hostage," The captain hated being thrown over someone's shoulder for the second time that day.

"Someone else is taking care of that."

"Who?" Toshiro asked but didn't get an answer.

Rather Kenpachi grunted, "I hate to leave a good fight, but we're just on a retrieval mission." He sounded really annoyed. Kenpachi actually looked like he had been fighting quite a lot. He had blood smeared all over him. None of it was his own, "Kurosaki OK?"

Toshiro tried to see the man's face. It was impossible from his current position, but he could swear there was worry mixed in with the man's usual mania. The small captain shook it off and answered, "Yeah, she just needs to rest, she used most of her power fighting today."

"That so?" again Toshiro was shocked to hear the faintest bit of pride mixed with the insanity that resided in the man's voice.

"Feels like you used up your energy to Captain Hitsugaya. You let a few measly espada beat you up?" Hitsugaya grunted this time. It was bad enough that he had to put up with being manhandled, but he also had to put up with the crude sense of humor of Kenpachi Zaraki, "...And your woman had to save you," He chuckled.

"WHAT!" Hitsugaya was angry, but also his face was crimson. Zaraki just laughed as he carried the two to a destination unknown to Hitsugaya. The boy just hoped he did not get them hopelessly lost.