Me: okay, here is chapter 9. I am writing this chapter during my summer school class…so if I fail summer school, then just know that it was because I was so busy writing this fanfic
Toushiro: Yes and we truly appreciate that
Karin: oh just shut up!
Toushiro: …K-Karin? What's wrong?
Karin: Nothing! *stomps off*
Toushiro: …uh…well ok then…um…Winter does not own Bleach… *runs off yelling Karin's name*
Me: *sigh* boys can be so dense sometimes (boys, no offence but when you have a girlfriend who is completely obsessed with you, then don't go off and leave her for another girl NO MATTER WHAT!)
Karin: Who're you callin "obsessed"?
Me: *gulp* hold on Karin, I need to say one thing first before you punch my lights out…this chapter is NOT a happy chapter. This one is more between Toushiro and Momo (hey, no flames plz, I know that this is a HitsuKarin, but I just felt the need to write this chapter …and if it helps, Momo's in a whole lot of pain in this story) but I don't plan on her dying just yet…im not sure if she will die yet…oh well now…RUN!!!
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The Test and the Pain it Comes With
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As Toushiro opened his eyes, he knew immediately that he was in his dream world because Hyourinmaru, Karin and I (in human form) were there, and we were standing on an icy plane. I turned to look at Karin and spoke. "I think he's waking up." I said and Karin nodded in response. "H-hey, what are you guys doin' here?" Toushiro asked in a weak voice…but it was the wrong question to ask. "Why do you care anymore? All you now care about it your precious Momo. Would you prefer that she is here instead of me?" Karin yelled at him. I looked at Hyourinmaru and then turned back to Karin and Toushiro. Toushiro looked like he had been slapped on the face, and really hard. "Toushiro, please forgive her. She's…just upset that you left her during the war. She felt that you chose her over Hinamori." I explained. "Oh I see. Well on that note, what did happen to Hinamori?" Toushiro asked. "ARGGG!!! I can't believe you!" Karin screeched. Toushiro looked stunned as he back traced his words. Then he understood. "Karin…Karin please listen to me!" Toushiro begged. "I care for Hinamori because she was my only family, except Granny, when we were younger. I only think of her-" "As your real girlfriend, right?" Karin said. Toushiro shook his head. "No, only as a sister. I cared and still do care for her like my older sister and when Aizen…"possessed" her with his ideas, then I just got protective of her because I thought that she would get hurt." Toushiro tried to explain, but it only made it worse. "But…but she wasn't the only one who got hurt…" Karin whispered, tears streaming down her cheeks. "K-Karin…I…" "Don't!" Karin yelled, looking into his eyes. "Don't ever come near me again, Toushiro! You and I are through! Now why don't you run along to your precious Momo, who is now lying on her death bed!" Karin yelled and then our necklace began to glow and Karin began to fade out of sight. "KARIN, WAIT!" Toushiro hollered, but Karin was gone.
Then Toushiro turned to me. "W-what have I d-done?" Toushiro whispered to himself, falling to his knees and brining his hands up to cover his eyes. I looked at Hyourinmaru, but he just shook his head. Why don't you give him one last chance. Tell him and see what he will do. If he chooses the other girl over Karin, then I have no right to be with you, for I know that this is what it was like for you, except much more worse and for that I am truly sorry. Hyourinmaru said to me through his thoughts. But I just shook my head. No Hyourinmaru. If Toushiro does go to that Hinamori girl, then I still will not reject you, if you are willing to stay with me, then I am willing to allow you to. I replied. Hyourinmaru smiled a sad smile at me and nodded. "Very well." He said, as I turned to Toushiro. "What are you going to do now?" I asked him in a soft voice. "H-how can you still talk to me. Aren't you furious with me, just like Karin? I know that you have every right to be, yet you are still here." Toushiro said, but I ignored most of what he said. "What are you going to do now, Toushiro?" I asked again. Toushiro looked at the ground and sighed. "I…I don't know. Will you please tell me what happened after I passed out?" Toushiro asked. I nodded and explained everything I knew about what happened to everyone…except about one person. As soon as I was finished explaining, I waited for Toushiro to speak, hoping that he wouldn't ask the one question about the person I missed out. If he asked about her, then there would be nothing that I could do for Karin and Toushiro.
"W-what…what a-about…Momo?" Toushiro asked and I froze. I lowered my head and whispered to myself. "I am so sorry Karin." Then I looked at Toushiro with a somewhat fierce expression. "You…just failed the test." I said simply and turned to walk over to Hyourinmaru. "Wait! What test?" Toushiro asked me. I turned to look at him and sighed. "Toushiro. Karin gave her heart to you, and all you can think about was Momo. I told you everything about how Karin saved you from the ice and she saved your life, but again, all you thought about was that other girl." I closed my eyes and shook my head back and forth. "I…I'm sorry…Hyourinmaru…" I whispered. I heard him growl a response, but I didn't hear it so I just shrugged. "Toushiro. What Karin said was true…both things. Hinamori is in fact on her death bed, and she was also not the only one hurt. You broke her heart…Captain Hitsugaya. Maybe you do have a heart of ice…" I said. Toushiro looked ashamed of himself. "I will talk to you later Hyourinmaru. Do not forget, understand?" I asked the dragon. He just nodded and looked away. I touched one of his scales and he started to glow. After a few seconds, he had transformed into a human…Sterling. "I will see you soon." I said to him as he reached out and hugged me. "Very well…" he whispered and my necklace started to glow, making me fade out, just like Karin. "Bye…" I said, and then saw no more.
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One week later
"You are free to go Captain Hitsugaya." Unohana said. "Thank you, Captain Unohana. Please tell me, how is Momo?" Toushiro asked. Unohana stiffened slightly and then relaxed once again. "I am sorry Captain Hitsugaya, but we cannot find an antidote to the poison that is in her body, nor can we remove it, in fear of it killing her. But Captain Kurotsuchi and his lieutenant are doing everything they can possible." Unohana explained. "I see…" Toushiro said. "Well, may I go visit her?" Toushiro asked. Unohana looked at Toushiro for a few seconds before responding. "Yes…but what about Karin? Aren't you going to see her?" Toushiro hesitated. "I will see her after I see Momo." Unohana nodded and then ushered him to Momo's room. When Toushiro saw her, he gasped. She looked terrible. She had tubes down her throat and needles in her hand and everything. "Oh my gosh…Momo…" Toushiro whispered.
"Ah, so what do you think of her now?" I asked Toushiro in a hard and cold voice. Toushiro whipped around to face me, his eyes burning with hatred. "What did you do to her?!" he yelled at me. I sighed and used my light speed to touch Toushiro's sword's hilt. As I touched it and drew my hand away, it began to glow and Hyourinmaru appeared. "Captain Unohana, will you please excuse us for a few minutes?" I asked as politely as I could. "Of course Head Captain." She said, bowed, and then left the room. "Wow I can't believe that you did that to her." Hyourinmaru said. I just shrugged. "Wait…YOU did this to her?!" Toushiro yelled at me. I simply nodded. "Well, I didn't put all those things in her (indicating the tubes and needles), but I caused her to be on her death bed…if that answers your question." As I finished speaking, the temperature dropped down by ten degrees. I simply shook my head back and forth; then I raised my hand and waved it around, then returned it back to my sided. As my hand landed on my waist, the temperature in the room returned back to normal. "H-Hyourinmaru, what is she talking about?" Toushiro asked the dragon, but he just shook his head. "I will not say. I lost the woman that I loved once and I don't want to lose her again." Hyourinmaru said. "So you're willing to take her side over mine?" Toushiro asked with disbelief. Hyourinmaru opened his mouth to reply but I just put my hand on his shoulder blade to get his attention. When he looked at me I spoke. "Don't. I don't want you to have to choose between me and your wielder. You had me back when I learned that you didn't leave on your own free will, but because he was born. When I learned that, I was happy and I gladly took you back." I told him. Hyourinmaru looked at me and then transformed. "What?" I asked him, but instead he just walked over to me and hugged me, holding me tightly in his arms. "Thank you, but just to let you know…I would pick your side over anybodies, any day…" Sterling whispered in my ear and I felt myself blush. "Hyourinmaru…Sterling, please tell me what is going on, I have a right to know!" Toushiro demanded. "Ha! And what right is that?" I challenged. Toushiro shrank back under my gaze. "That's what I thought!" I growled, then I gasped. "Karin!" I yelled, turning around and right in the entrance way was Karin. "I…I don't care anymore!" she yelled. "Just heal her, Kaze Ryuu!" Karin said. "Karin…" I said and then trailed off into silence.
We were all so engrossed in our conversation, that we didn't hear or sense her approaching, but I knew that she had heard the whole conversation. "J-just heal her…so Toushiro can…be h-happy a-again…" Karin said, whispering the last part. I looked at her and I saw that once again, she had tears running down her face as she spoke those words. Then with one final sad and devastated look at Toushiro, she took off running to the 10th squad office to find Matsumoto. "You know Toush-…Captain Hitsugaya, dragon venom is hard to cure and extremely painful." I said, narrowing my eyes. "There is only one cure for it and only the dragon that inserted the venom knows what it is…" I said with an evil look in my eyes. Toushiro's eyes widened. "Well then who is the dragon that put the poison in her?!" Toushiro asked. I smiled, but it wasn't a kind smile…it was a smile that an evil scientist would have before performing a very painful operation to a patient who was wide awake. "Oh…you should know…of all people." I answered. Toushiro's eyes widened. "I…I don't…wait…you said that you were going to…YOU POISONED HINAMORI?!" Toushiro yelled at me. I smiled at him but I was getting frustrated, and fast, so my teeth started to sharpen and it slightly cut my lip. A drop of blood reached my tongue and when I opened my mouth, my fangs got sharper and slightly longer. Sterling noticed that it got much colder in the room and he also saw that my teeth were growing. "Oh no, Toushiro just shut up!" Sterling yelled and ran to pull me into a strong hug. "Shhh…just calm down…please just calm down…" Sterling kept whispering to me, and it worked. I sighed and took a look around the room; the room had "transformed" into an ice chamber. "Ha, I hope she freezes." I mumbled under my breath, but Toushiro heard me. "How…dare…you…" he just barely managed to whisper out of anger. Then I lost my temper. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! I CAN YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SAY THAT TO ME?! LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY WIELDER!!! YOU TRULY DO HAVE A HEART OF ICE. DID YOU KNOW THAT SHE CRIES HERSELF TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT ALL BECAUSE OF YOU, TOUSHIRO HITSUGAYA?!" I roared at him, and then building began to shake. Sterling did the only thing that he could think of to calm me down. He quickly pressed his lips to mine as gently as possible and then just stayed there. After a minute of this, I drew back, but my eyes had changed colors. "Boy, you are in for it now…you made her eyes change colors…" Sterling growled, and I could have sworn I saw Toushiro have the look of fear in his eyes, but that lasted only for a brief second before the look vanished only to be replaced with fierce determination."What does that have to do with anything?" Toushiro sneered. "When my eyes turn different colors, that indicates that I am getting mad, and when my eyes are the colors…like Masumoto's eyes…then that is when nothing good will happen." I explained, but Toushiro just sneered at me. "And one more thing, Hitsugaya…Momo has no chance of living anymore." I hissed through my teeth. Toushiro looked at me. "W-what do you mean?" he asked. "Wow…and I thought that he was the so called "boy genius", but I can see that I was mistaken." I said to Sterling who just held on to me in case I lost my temper again. "Explain." Toushiro demanded. I looked at him and glared. "I am the one who put the poison inside of Momo, and me, and me alone, know how to cure her…even Sterling doesn't know." I explained and then I decided to cast a look at Momo and she started to scream in agony. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HER?!" Toushiro yelled at me, and I smirked. "Oh it's just the poison taking its course throughout her body." I said. "NO! PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING, JUST PLEASE CURE HER!" Toushiro begged, but I just shook my head. "No!" I said firmly. "She is in pain and it's all because of you!" I told him. I looked at him and he had a pained expression on his face. "Don't you think that you are being just a little harsh?" Sterling asked. "Maybe, but this will be his punishment for yelling at me, messing with my wielders emotions and causing her pain after she gave everything she had to him. So this is his punishment: he can watch his childhood friend die right in front of his eyes." "No…please…no…" Toushiro moaned and sank to his knees on the floor. "I am sorry for inflicting pain on you Sterling." I said, but Sterling just looked at me and shook his head. "I feel nothing for that girl, so I do not share the boy's pain…he will have to suffer it…alone…" "Now don't you think that your being a bit harsh?" I asked him. "No…" he simply said. Then I nodded and walked out of the room with Sterling at my heels.
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Me: well sry that this chapter was a bit…depressing, but I'll get back to Toushiro and Karin next chapter. Sry…depressing stories really ain't my style, but I just felt the need to put this chapter up cuz now, Toushiro has to find a way to get Karin back…or is it too late? PLZ REVIEW! If no one does, then I will discontinue the story cuz im not even sure if anyone likes it…so anyways, if you don't want this story to be discontinued, then REVIEW!!!
Karin: *sob* PLZ REVIEW…I PERSONALY WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT JERK! OKAY, I THINK THAT'S ALL! UNTIL NEXT CHAPTER (if there is one…) ^.^