Been a couple months, but here is the next chapter and it is long!

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The shock filled Karin to the brim, but soon after came the denial. "No!" She shouted in anger, jumping up from the bed. "I'm not a hollow!"

Ryūken's approach was calm. "Then why have your eyes turned gold?"

Not believing him, she walked over to the mirror that was hanging on the door. It was true. Her eyes instead of being white and gray were black and yellow. She watched in horror and shock as her eyes turned back to their normal color.

She turned back to the doctor. "How is this even possible?"

Luckily he had an answer. "It's the hollow that was in your mother. It moved from her to you."

"You said Ich-"

"I said he had a sliver of hollow blood," Ryūken countered. "It is only logical that you inherited it from your mother."

Pacing back and forth when he was speaking, she stopped abruptly and cried hysterically, "How is it logical?"

He walked up to her and place a hand on her shoulder. "First, calm down. Second, if you want to know for sure then I can draw some of your blood and test it. I can have the results by the time you get out of school."

"Alright."


Karin waited eagerly for the day to end. She was extremely happy and worried when Ryūken pulled her out of school. Neither one of them spoke on the way to his home. After pulling into his driveway, Ryūken got out and opened the car and house door for her. Karin walked inside his home slowly, wondering why he hasn't said anything yet.

Leading her to the living room, Ryūken sat in the chair while Karin sat on the sofa.

He sighed before saying, "The results of the blood test showed half of your blood is hollow."

She nodded sadly. "And the other-?"

"It's Quincy," Ryūken confirmed. "So you do inherit all of your blood from your mother. The only thing you don't have is your mother's hair."

Karin laughed at that but became serious again. "So what's going to happen to me? Hollows and Quincies reject each other-"

"I know one thing," he interrupted her. "You aren't going to die. I have the medicine you need to keep the hollow at rest. I promise."


A few days past (It was a couple days into April) and it was the night before Isshin and Yuzu returned from the trip. Karin just finished taking a shower in the guest bathroom and was now staring in the mirror. There was a knock. "Karin?" Ryūken's voice called from the other side of the door. "Is everything alright? I heard a crash."

Her eyes flickered up to meet the one in the mirror, her black and yellow eyes. "Yeah," she shouted back. "I tripped and knocked into the shelf."

Karin waited for him to say something. But once she heard his footsteps walking away, she began to breathe again. Her eyes averted down to her neck. She wasn't wearing a shirt but did have a sports bra on. She raised a hand to touch a certain spot a couple inches below her neck.

A hollow's hole had formed where her heart is.


Karin told Ryūken about it the next morning on the drive to school. He made her two promises; one to find out what was happening to her and why; the other to train her to be a Quincy.

That put her in a slightly good mood although she was still worried. She had to wear a shirt that covered the hole and it hurt when the fabric brushed it. All was going well until someone hugged her from behind at her locker and made the shirt even tighter.

"I missed you, Karin!" exclaimed Yuzu. "Why weren't you at the house?"

Karin rudely pushed her off and grabbed her stuff for first hour. "Rukia let me stay at her place while you two were away."

"Why didn't you tell Dad?"

The raven-haired girl slammed her locker shut and turned to her sister. "He doesn't tell me anything so why should I tell him every little thing about my life?"

Yuzu lowered her voice to a whisper so no one could eavesdrop. "He told you about us not really being twins-"

"That's a lie, Yuzu," Karin argued loudly. Noticing the turning of heads she quieted down, "That whole story was made up."

"How do you know that?"

Walking away from her sister, she shouted, "I have reliable sources."


After school that day when she returned home, Karin threw her bag on the edge of the couch and attempted to get out the door. Isshin stopped her when he sternly called from the kitchen, "Where you going Karin?"

She mumbled a curse word before turning around to face her dad, who didn't look happy with her. "I got a job while you were away," she fibbed. "I have to be there in five minutes and it's on the other side of town."

"Then why did you stop here?"

That question kind of made her mad, so she answered harshfully, "Because I knew you were mad at me for not being here when you came home and I didn't want to make you even angrier."

"You already did when you lied to Yuzu about staying at Rukia."

"Let me guess, you asked Rukia if I was at here place?"

"Yes, and-"

"And nothing!" She yelled loud enough for the neighbors to hear. "You clearly don't trust me anymore so why should I bother explaining myself when you will just think I'm lying to you?"

"Because if you don't, you're grounded for a month."

Karin groaned in anguish before walking to the door and opening it. She glanced over her shoulder and said, "I have nothing to explain to you. By the way, since you are supposedly engaged to my so-called mother, where's your ring?"

She slammed the door behind her as he began to yell an answer. She started walking toward the Karakura Hospital when she suddenly remembered it was somebody's birthday a couple weeks ago.


There was a knock on Ryūken's office door, in which he called out, "You can come in Karin."

She opened the door tentatively and closed it soundly once she stepped through the doorway. She walked to his desk and placed a chocolate cupcake with white frosting and sprinkles on his desk. He raised an eyebrow and glimpsed up at her from his work. "What's this for?"

"Not telling you happy birthday last month," Karin answered bashfully. "I forgot."

Standing from his desk, Ryūken kissed her forehead. "Better late than never." Taking the cupcake, he walked to his enormous bookshelf while peeling the wrapper off. "For the first few days I thought it would be best to have you read about Quincies-"

"So I have a little background information before we start training?" She assumed, sitting on the edge of the bed that was pushed against the wall on the other side of the room.

He nodded, not speaking because of the dessert in his mouth. Grabbing a thin leather-bound book, he tossed it to her, who barely caught it. "Everything you need to know is in there."

Karin opened the book and flipped through a couple pages, recognizing the handwriting. "You wrote this?"

"Yes," Ryūken threw the wrapper in the trash since he finished the treat. "When I have some free time I write in that book. Almost all the pages are filled."

"And you are absolutely sure this will help?" She asked skeptically.

When he nodded, she sighed, laid down on the bed, flipped to the first page, and began reading in her head, The Quincy (Japanese for "Monk of Destruction") in modern terms, were Human mediums, having the ability to detect the existence of Hollows. It all started when they began training to confront Hollows in order to defeat them, the same as Shinigami do. Most of the Quincy were destroyed by the Shinigami over 200 years ago in order to prevent the destruction of the world. Quincy are the polar opposite of Shinigami.


Spirit Weapon, Karin read with the book in one hand and using the other to get her breakfast together. The weapon that Quincy create by gathering the Reishi in the air. The only limit to a Quincy's ability to create and fire arrows is their own stamina and ability to absorb ambient Reishi.

She sat at the table with Yuzu and Isshin, who were wondering why she was so engrossed in the book. "You're to come straight home tonight, Karin," Isshin ordered.

Karin rolled her eyes, "I have work, Dad." She took a bite out of her cereal. Spiritual Awareness: As a spiritual being, the Quincy can sense Hollows and other spiritual beings at a significant distance, and tell in what direction they are in. Quincy have an acute perception of Reiatsu.

"Don't forget, you're grounded," he chided. "And we're having a guest."

"Who?" Gemischt and Echt Quincy:At some point within their history, the Quincy began to distinguish themselves based upon an individual's ancestry and adopted the practice of true-breeding.

"You're mother."

She looked up from her book to glare at him before going back to it. "My mother's dead." Those who were descended from a long line of only Quincy, and so were thought to have a pure heritage, came to be known as Echt (German for "Real", Japanese for "Pure-Blooded"; Viz "Pure Bloods") Quincy, while all others were instead referred to as Gemischt (German for "Mixed", Japanese for "Mixed-Blooded"; Viz "Mixed Breeds").

"Masaki was you're step-mother," Isshin argued.

"If she's my step-mother, then why do I have her smile?" Karin countered. In order to preserve their pure lineage, many families conducted arranged marriages between their own children and only those belonging to other pure families.

"Don't argue with me!" He demanded, his voice portraying his anger.

"Because you know I'm right?" History/Origins: The Quincy were created by Yhwach. He is their King and his blood flows in every Quincy. The Quincy were scattered all over the world at one time. They were relatives of magic hunters who specialized in the war against Hollows.


Purportedly, a Quincy was born every 200 years who was "incomplete" and could not properly harness Reishi; they were killed while young because of this. They were "incomplete" because they possessed the same power-granting abilities as Yhwach did.

"Karin!"

The girl looked up from her book to smile at her brother's childhood best friend and girlfriend. "Tatsuki, Rukia," she greeted politely.

"Why did you're dad call me last night asking if you stayed with me?" Rukia questioned the Kurosaki.

Tatsuki added, "And why did he ask me to keep an eye on you at school?"

"Because I'm grounded!" Karin exclaimed closing the book in frustration. "I wouldn't tell him where I stayed at and I mouthed off to him."

"So you didn't tell him about you fainting?" Rukia deduced as the three of them walked down the hall to the younger's locker.

"Nope!" Karin opened her locker and gathered her things for first hour, not forgetting the book. "I didn't even tell him I found Artemis isn't my mother."

"She's not?" Tatsuki repeated in confusion. "What about that ordeal at camp?"

"It's an act," the twin determined. "They're planning something."

"How do you know for sure she's not your mother?" Rukia interrogated.

Karin closed the locker and turned to the two with a determined look in her eye. "Because Ryūken told me he was the doctor that helped Masaki, my real mother, give birth to me."


Fall of the Quincy, Karin began as she walked into her house and drifted to the stairs. Since the origin of the Quincy, many years passed within Soul Society trying to appeal to the Quincy that the handling of Hollows should be left to the Shinigami. The Quincy refused to accept the situation. As time went on, the number of Quincy increased and the cycle of souls became more unstable, forcing the Shinigami to reluctantly wipe out the Quincy in order to maintain the balance of the world.

Right when she was about to get on the first step, her dad called from the living room, "Karin, our guest is here."

She rolled her eyes, before closing the book and heading back to the living room. On the couch was indeed Artemis wearing human clothes (a short silver dress) with her hair down. The goddess gave her a smile, though she could tell it was fake. Karin sat on the chair as the goddess asked, "How was school?"

"Horrible," she commented opening the book on her lap, "because I had to come home." Failed Reconciliation: The Quincy line was closely monitored over the decades, as their numbers continued to dwindle. Later the Quincy advanced the idea that since they were already among the living and still more numerous at the time, they could act as "first responders" to Hollow attacks: protecting Humans until the less-numerous Shinigami could send a representative to finish the Hollow off. Embittered by the recent war, the Shinigami refused to participate, opting instead to allocate their limited resources to reacting to the most dangerous Hollows and current Hollow attacks. This caused great enmity towards Shinigami. Uryu Ishida's grandfather, Soken Ishida, was the last advocate of this plan, but was slain by a group of Hollows before the Shinigami could arrive.

"Karin!" Isshin chided. The girl looked up and her father continued, "you're mother has been watching over you for so long she deserves you're respect."

Karin turned her gaze to Artemis and asked, "Who is older, me or Yuzu?"

Slightly puzzled, she answered, "You of course."

"What time was I born?"

"11:48 p.m."

"And Yuzu?"

"11:52 p.m. Why-"

"If you are my mother and have been 'watching over me' tell me something only Ichigo knows pertaining to me."

The goddess hesitated before replying, "You were raped when you were little-."

"That was a lie we made up so I can run away and so Ichigo can come get me when he gets into a fight for me." Karin stood from her seat with the book in her hand. "You are not my mother."

Artemis rose from her seat as well, challenging the girl, "I got one question wrong so you think I'm not your mother-."

"I know you are not my mother because you got all of them wrong. Yuzu is older than me because she was born at 11:48; I was born at 11:58. Ichigo is the only one that knows I fell asleep on Toshiro while we were watching a movie because he took pictures. He used to tease me about it before he disappeared."

Karin turned her back to the goddess and headed back to the stairs. Artemis shouted, "Do you have anything else to disprove our relation?"

She twirled around to face her, clearly pissed. "You shouldn't have asked. You claim that my dad fell in love with you when he came to The World of the Living on a mission a couple years before Ichigo was born, right?"

"Yes."

"That is a lie as well."

"How so?"

"Because many many years ago after the ruler, or king if you prefer, of the Soul Society had a son with someone from the Rukon District and she was killed, he created a law where no soul-reaper is allowed to fall in love with a god and/or goddess or else they would be killed, executed. The reason why he created this rule is because his baby had the reiatsu level of a lieutenant. If Dad snuck off to the World of the Living to meet you, the King would have known.

"Except he didn't sneak off to see you because at the time he never even met you. He went there to make sure Masaki, my real mother, was alright after being injured from the hollow she killed when she saved him. He never return to the Soul Society because he was turned into a human to save her life."

"I believe we're done here." Karin opened up the book and walked up stairs. Quincy Legend: History Realized:Within Quincy legend, there is a song known as the Kaiser Gesang (German for "Emperor Song", Japanese for "Praise-Song of the Sacred Emperor"; Viz "King's Hymn") which speaks of a sealed king. According to the song, the seal would be broken and the king would regain his heart after 900 years. 90 years after, his intellect would return. And 9 years afterwards, his power would return. To regain his powers, the king would have to steal the powers of impure Quincy. This legend was proven true when Yhwach stole Masaki Kurosaki's and Kanae Katagiri's powers. However, according to Yhwach, there is an additional part of this song: 9 days after he regains his power, the emperor will regain the world.


May 6th, the twins' sixteenth birthday (they got hold back in elementary school). They were having a party at the park and invited all of their friends. For Yuzu it was almost the whole school. For Karin it was the people she ate lunch with. There were streamers and balloons all over the place to decorate the park. There were many picnic tables for all the guest but there was one folding table.

On the folding table was food and drinks for the guests and two cakes for each of the girls. Yuzu's was three tiered cake with chocolate piping and chocolate coated strawberries to decorate it. Karin's was two tiered, the top white with teal and brown different sized polka dots, the bottom brown with teal fondant strips coming down with teal balls around the bottom.

Yuzu also thought it would be a nice idea for the two of them to wear the same outfit. So there was Karin, sitting on the top of a picnic table with her friends (Renji even managed to show up), wearing a black dress that reached a couple inches above her knees, short sleeves. It didn't have deep cut neckline. It reached up to the bottom of her neck, effectively hiding the hollow hole. (She picked the dress for that purpose.) They were wearing flats that had a bow at the toes and their hair were out of their pigtails/ponytails.

Karin sighed as she rushed to finish the rest of the book. Reishi Heiso (Spirit Particle War-Garb; Viz "Spirit Armor"): Armor I temporarily wore when preparing to save Masaki. While the full set has not been seen, it includes a large bow and a staff hung across the wearer's back with a chain.

"Done!" She exclaimed closing the book for good.

"And it only took a month for you to finish it." Keigo chided playfully which resulted him being smacked on the head just as playfully.

"If you don't mind me asking," Mizuiro began closing his phone and putting it in his pocket, "what was it even about?"

"I really can't tell you."

They turned their heads to her in question. "But I promise I will in the future," she finished. They decided not to argue with her since it was her birthday.

About twenty minutes later, the group was in deep conversation when someone shouted a few yards away, "I never thought I'd see you in a dress!"

Karin stood and turned to see the owner of the voice. She squealed and jumped off the table, running to the person. The whole park was silent once they heard her squealing. She hugged the visitor who gladly embraced her back. "I missed you, Toshiro!" She pulled away and noticed his necklace. "You're actually wearing it?"

"Because I love it," he insisted. Along with his new necklace , he was wearing a black shirt, white pants, and a teal scarf. "Which reminds me, I didn't get you a present because-"

"I don't care," she interrupted. "I'm just glad your here."

"But I can't stay long," Toshiro admitted. "Rangiku is covering for me until I return. She wished you a happy birthday too."

"Oh." Slightly disappointed, Karin said, "You better get going then; don't want to keep her waiting."

The captain sighed. "Alright, I'll see you soon though."

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't you hear?" With a shake of her head, he explain, "The demigod camps are coming to the Soul Society for the summer. You're invited along with the human friends of yours."

"You mean Tatsuki, Keigo, and Mizuiro?"

"Yes."

"Looks like you did have a birthday present for me after all!" Karin exclaimed happily. "I'll tell the others then."

She turned to go to her friends, but paused when he kissed her cheek. "Happy Birthday, Karin."

She turned back, but her friend was already gone.

A few minutes later after Karin return to her friends, another visitor stood before her. "I guess I'm a little bit late?"

She smiled and stood to give the man a hug. "Not at all."

He pulled away and stated, "I came by to give you and your sister a present."

"You didn-"

"I wanted to." Ryūken insisted. He glanced around Karin to see Yuzu walking up next to her. He pulled out a pink box from his coat pocket and handed it to her. "This is for you."

Yuzu opened the present and pulled it out. It was a strawberry necklace. "Thank you."

"And for you Karin." He gave her a white box with a light blue ribbon wrapping it.

She opened the gift and smiled once she picked it up. "A charm bracelet?"

"It belonged to your mother," Ryūken added.

Karin's smile grew bigger as he helped her put it on her wrist. "I love it. Oh!" She grabbed the book from the table and gave it to him. "I finished it."

He put the book in his pocket. "Good, now we can-"

"Ryūken!" He looked up to see a very angry Isshin walking up to him. "What do you think your doing here?"

Ryūken placed a hand on Karin's shoulder and calmly asked, "Am I not allowed to visit my goddaughter on her birthday?"

Isshin, very pissed, question, "When did she meet you?"

"When you were gone," Ryūken answered plainly. "She fainted and got hurt while you were gone with your other daughter. I let her stay with me in-case she fainted again."

"I did not give her permission to stay at someone else's house!"

"So it's better to let her stay home alone?"

At the corner of her eye, Karin saw movement. She moved her head over to see Yuzu walking away and the strawberry necklace on the ground. She jogged up to her sister and grabbed her arm to stop her. "What's wrong with you?"

Yuzu twirled around with a look on anger on her face, which looked bad on her. "What's wrong with me?" she repeated incredulously, knocking her hand off her arm. "What's wrong with you? You've been acting like a jerk ever since Dad and I came home."

"I haven't-"

"Yes, you have," she argued, her voice rising and gaining everyone's attention. "Everything is about you. Karin, the girl who can see spirits, the girl who's taken her dead brother's place-"

"Ichigo isn't dead!" Karin yelled. "And it is not always about me. Those two are always worried about you because you're human and-"

"I wish you weren't my sister!"

Karin paused. Her face became red from the argument but was slowing fading away. She moved her head so she can look at Ryūken. "Can I move in with you?"

When he nodded, she looked back at Yuzu. "Looks like your wish is coming true."


"You will being staying in Soul Society for the summer," Persephone announced to the demigods and humans at Camp Half-Blood. It was the beginning of summer, June 1st, and the campers each had a bag for clothes and other necessities. "You will be respectful to the Shinigami and their zanpakutos. You are not to ask about the scars they've retrieved in battle. Understood?"

They all nodded, anxiously waiting to travel to the unknown place.

"Then let's go!"


Done! Longest chapter I've ever done. Finished this in middle of class.

All information about the Quincy came off of Bleach wiki.

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