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I'm a Soul Reaper, but I Love You
Chapter 1: Soul Reaper Guardian
Karin raced down the street, as fast as her legs could carry her. Her legs were pumping faster and faster and her footsteps were heavy. Black hair was flying all over her face as she kept running. She was completely tired and worn out but she had to keep going.
Karin turned her head quickly to see behind her. Dammit!!!
"WHY ARE THEY FOLLOWING ME?!??" She yelled out.
Any other normal person who was walking around the streets at that time would've just seen a girl running down the street as fast as she could. They would've just expected her to be some crazy person, or maybe that she was in a hurry to get home or something.
They wouldn't have seen the Hollow.
She ran even faster, sweat pouring down her face. Aargh!! Why do they keep following me?!?
Karin tore towards Kurosaki Clinic and inside. She pounded up the stairs, straight into her room and slammed the door shut. Karin stood there, against the door, panting for breath.
It wasn't the first time she'd been chased by a Hollow, and it definitely wasn't the first time she'd seen one. But recently, these last couple of days, it seemed that every afternoon and every morning, on the way to and from school and sometimes during the other times she was outside; a Hollow would come out of nowhere and chase her.
Karin knew what a Hollow was, but she had no way of defeating them. The only thing she could do was run. But she was unsure of how long she could keep this up.
Karin sighed deeply and sat down on her bed. Ichi-nii is probably off killing Hollows already… so I can't ask him for help or anything… he's really busy… Karin frowned as she lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling. Crap… what am I going to do??
Suddenly, Karin heard some strange sounds coming from somewhere in her room. She sat up abruptly. What was that?
Next thing she knew, a figure was appearing from the wall, just going right through it, as though the wall wasn't there. Karin's eyes widened. Wait… she recognized that guy.
Karin opened her mouth and shouted, "Toushirou?!??"
Hitsugaya immediately turned towards her and snapped, "Ahh! Be quiet!! Do you want everyone to know I'm here or something??"
Karin jumped to her feet. "What are you doing here?!? And why did you just come into my room?!??"
"Kurosaki!! Listen to me, will you-" Hitsugaya was cut off as Ichigo's loud voice was heard from outside the room.
"HEY KARIN!! You okay?? What's with all the yelling??"
Ichigo pushed open the door to Karin's bedroom, and Karin immediately shoved Hitsugaya into a closet.
"What do you want?" Karin asked testily to her brother.
"I was just wondering what was with all the shouting," Ichigo said.
Karin pretended to laugh. "Ha… shouting… was I shouting?"
Ichigo looked strangely at Karin, who was leaning against the closet door. "Okkaayy…"
"Anyway," Karin said, leaving the closet and showing her brother out the door, "I'm completely fine, now would you please… leave??"
The door closed and Ichigo went away, muttering to himself.
Karin sighed. "Hey, Toushirou, he's gone now! You can come-" She was about to open the closet and let him out, when the closet door flew open.
Hitsugaya looked angry. "Shoving a captain into a closet is-" he started crossly.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it!" Karin cut him off. She looked at the captain in his black shihakusho.
"…why are you here?" she asked quietly.
Hitsugaya looked Karin straight in the eyes. "You're being targeted by Hollows."
Karin was about to say something, but Hitsugaya went on. "Just like Kurosaki Ichigo, your spirit energy has grown a lot and you're giving off a lot more spiritual pressure. When Hollows sense such powerful spirit energy, they want to eat your soul even more."
"So until your spiritual pressure settles down and you learn to suppress it," Hitsugaya said, "I'm here to defeat all the Hollows that are after you."
Karin snickered. "What? Is this really a mission for a captain, Toushirou?"
"Of course not!!" Hitsugaya cried. "Matsumoto made me do this!!"
At Urahara Shoten, Matsumoto and Urahara were chatting.
"So," the hat-wearing shop-keeper said, "Why are they sending Hitsugaya for this mission?"
"Well, actually, it was my idea," Matsumoto said.
"Eh?" Urahara wondered.
"We knew that Karin-chan's spiritual power would suddenly grow, so we decided we needed to send a soul reaper down to defeat the Hollows that Karin would attract. When I heard that they needed a shinigami to come down to earth, I said, why don't we send Tachio?? After all, he and Karin have had a previous encounter."
"Hmm…" Urahara was smirking to himself, as usual.
Matsumoto smiled. "Besides, I'm not sure if he has noticed yet, but Karin-chan is certainly about to become a very special person to him."
Karin and Hitsugaya stared at each other.
"So this means…" Karin started.
Hitsugaya stood there, arms crossed with his permanent serious frown on his face.
"Until you can control your spiritual pressure, I'm staying here with you."
Heh heh… well, that was chapter one. I hope you liked it!! This is my first Bleach fanfic, so I'm getting used to things. But this coupling is my favourite Bleach pairing!! I actually also like Ichigo/Rukia!!
Anyway, this is a Toushirou/Karin fic!! They're my favourite characters so I'm already finding this fun to write!! I hope you think its fun reading it!!
Please read and review!! Next chappie out next week!!