The last chapter was boring, I know. I lost a favorite and follower from it. Hopefully this one will be better to all of you. If not could you tell me why, please. I'm trying to make this story the best it can possibly be.
I am changing another small detail in the story because of something that happens this chapter. Karakura Town is thirty minutes away from Goode High by car and forty-five minutes by walking; the students from Karakura walk to Goode everyday.
Change of plans: this chapter is going be part one while the next chapter will be part two.
Disclaimer-I do not own Bleach or PJO/HOO.
The beginning of a tragedy took place during the first week of March.
In the lunch line at school, a migraine began to form on the right side of Karin's head. She grabbed her plate, though the smell of food made her nauseous for some unknown reason. Paying for her lunch, she headed outside where she knew Rukia and Tatsuki were at.
Out underneath the shady trees was the group she was looking for. A weird bunch that you wouldn't think would sit together made it up. It's obvious that Rukia would sit next to Renji while Tatsuki had her head on his lap and her legs on Thalia's (the two had become really good friends). Chad still continued to eat lunch with them after finding out the truth. He acted as though it never happened. Chad sat across from the quad against an enormous tree that has most likely been there for one-hundred years. Mizuiro was messing around on his new phone while Keigo tried to get his attention by telling a jacked-up story that he claim's true though it never really happened. Next to them was the famous couple of the high school that most of the student body liked to call 'Percabeth'; Percy and Annabeth were holding hands (but not acting lovey-dovey as the group kindly asked of them) listening to Keigo's story because it was both crazy and interesting.
The girls that Rukia and Tatsuki used to have lunch with at Karakura High (Chizuru, Michiru, Ryō, and Mahana) refused to even look at the two after hearing a sob story from Orihime about how Rukia had been dating Ichigo in secret for three years knowing that she [Orihime] liked him. Tatsuki told the girls she knew because Ichigo told her; he couldn't lie to his childhood best-friend. Anyways that little bunch sat a few yards away from the mix-matched group gossiping about the rumors and lies they heard about them.
Karin started to sit with Tatsuki and the others the second day of school. Her soccer mates, which consisted of all guys, didn't want to eat with her for she was a 'girl' in their eyes and didn't know how to speak to her anymore. It was perfectly fine for Karin; she made new friends she grew to love. Renji became the first when he started trading embarrassing stories with her that were mainly about Ichigo or Rukia when they were kids. Rukia's face was as dark a red delicious apple by the end of that lunch.
It took some time for the others to accept her into the group. But one day, when Karin had a mandatory soccer practice during lunch, they realized something important; she had taken over as Ichigo. Without her there, they started to think of theories of what happened to the strawberry and where he was now. The group was glad they made her a member so early; she was the one thing that kept them sane with Ichigo gone.
Karin walked briskly to the group until her vision suddenly became blurred. Her fast paced walk became a staggering mess. Her arms felt like they weighed a thousand pounds as she could no longer hold them up; her food spilled everywhere causing her to step in it and the broken plate. The legs that carried her turned into stone for she fell forward unable to catch herself. She hit the ground face first with her forehead getting cut by a glass shard.
Her friends screamed her name, but to her, it sounded a millions miles away. The screams for her stopped when someone kneeled beside her though she couldn't tell who it was. Voices started going back and forth and to her it sounded like a jumbled up mess. One of them, however, was out of sync with the others; perhaps calling for help? Karin couldn't find out.
She blacked out completely.
When Karin finally came to, her head was all fuzzy so she couldn't make anything out. Finally, her head and vision became clearer after a few long minutes. Surveying her surroundings, she understood where she's at. It might have been the white walls that had no decorations whatsoever, the bed that she was laying on that had a blue blanket covering her, or the man with white hair and a coat to match sitting across the bed at the desk that tipped Karin off that she was at the Karakura Hospital.
With her strength returning to her, she sat up as quietly as she could trying to not get the doctor's attention. The plan failed when the bed made the slightest squeaking noise. The doctor swiveled around to face her. Once he did, Karin briefly recognized him as the man she saw at her 'fake' mother's grave when she was little.
"Good to see you're awake, Karin," the man acknowledged grabbing the clipboard that was on the desk. Checking the documents clipped to it once more and adjusting his glasses, he continued, "You gave your friends a scare when you fainted. Luckily the only damages you got was the cut I patched up and a couple small bruises. Other than that you're perfectly fine."
Karin placed her fingers were she thought the cut was and came in contact with a bandage. "How long was I out for?"
"A little over three hours." He threw the object back on the desk, so he can now speak to her properly. "I was surprised when I found out you were the one called for. I figured one of your friends would called your father."
"He's out of town with my sister," she explained. "I don't mean what I'm going to say to be rude but how the hell do you know me?"
The doctor sighed as he leaned back in his chair. "You don't remember me, do you?" When he got a head shake for an answer, he decided to start from the beginning. "My name is Ryūken Ishida, Uryu's father. I'm your mother's cousin."
"I was told my mother was a goddess," Karin argued, "as in a Greek goddess."
"That is a lie," Ryūken informed, wondering in his mind who would tell her something so stupid. "If it was true then you would have a demigod's scent."
"They have a smell?"
"They have a different kind of spiritual pressure, ones that hollows find nauseating so they avoid them completely."
"Alright then, anything else to disprove it?"
The doctor leaned in so Karin could listen carefully. "I know Masaki is your mother because I was the doctor that helped her give birth to you. She wanted your godfather to be the first person to hold you."
Surprise by the information she questioned him to be safe, "She made you my godfather?"
"Yes, she did though Isshin was against it. Didn't want a Quincy to be your godfather though he was married to one. You weren't baptized or anything religious; it's just a term soul-reapers and Quincies use to identify a person that will take care of their child if they are unable to or die in battle."
"Wait a minute," Karin said to stop Ryūken from going on, "my mother is a Quincy? so I have Quincy blood inside me?"
"That is correct. Your brother got the soul-reaper blood of your father, a sliver of hollow from your mother, and human from both of them. Yuzu was the lucky one out of the three of you as her blood is human only."
"Did you say Hollow?"
Ryūken sighed once again, not having realized he would have to explain so much. "It's a long story."
"I got time," Karin encouraged. "Dad and Yuzu aren't going to be home for a couple weeks. Dad wants to spend some time with her so I don't seem like the favorite with Ichigo gone."
A solution popped into Ryūken's mind. "Since you aren't well enough to stay home alone, I'll let you stay at my house until they're back. I live across the street so if you start feeling ill again you come over anytime."
"Could I come here after school instead?"
"Sure, but I'm driving you there in the morning."
"That's fine by me, but can you promise you will tell me the truth? I'm tired of only getting told lies."
"I promise, only the truth."
The next day everything seemed alright when Karin returned to school. Nobody made a fuss about her being absent for half the day. After a couple hours passed when Karin noticed a certain red-head missing. When lunch came around she asked the group, "Where's Renji?"
They exchanged glances with each other, silently asking each other who's going to tell her. Finally, Keigo answered, "He was expelled yesterday."
"What did he do?"
"He picked a fight with Uryu," Tatsuki explained in a sour tone, biting into her apple. "When attendances was taken the hour after you left, Renji said you were at the hospital. Uryu made the comment that nobody could help you and you were good as dead. Renji went and punched him. Now there's a bruise on Uryu's cheek and Renji's back in the Soul Society."
Karin looked over at Rukia who was trying to poke a hole in her juice box. "How did your brother take it?"
"Surprisingly, calm." After succeeding with getting it, she took a sip before continuing. "He knew Renji was being protective so he didn't punish him."
"Good."
That night Karin was doing her homework in Ryūken's office while he dealt with paperwork that had piled up during the day. Out of the blue, Karin started coughing. Every second that passed it grew worse. All Ryūken could do was sit and watch her. Once a minute passed by, Karin felt something climbing up her throat. Finding the nearest trash can, she promptly vomited in it. Ryūken became alarmed when he saw the vomit was exactly like a hollow's mask except liquefied.
Rushing over to the medicine cabinet, he searched through it throwing useless bottles aside. Finding the medicine he was looking for, Ryūken took a tablet out, ran over to Karin, and forced it in her mouth. The vomiting immediately stopped and the stuff in the trash disappeared.
"What was that pill?" Karin asked breathlessly, falling on the bed. "It tasted horrible!"
Ryūken sighed in relief, which showed as he slouched in his chair. "That was something which helps stop what you have from growing."
"And what do I have?"
"Let's just say, I figured out what type of blood you inherited from your parents and it's mostly from your mother."
"Which is?"
He leaned forward, saying something that broke her heart.
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"You're a hollow, Karin."
Okay, afterRyūken and Karin met it just turned bad. The stuff before that, I wrote at two in the morning. Hope you like the cliffhanger and please tell me if I improved from last chapter. I would appreciate it!
