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chapter 6 : past part 2, meeting you.

2 Years had past without them getting any information on the stat of their brother. They eventually let Kon live with the body, taking the name as Kurosaki Ichigo in the world of the living. He left for college in his new found eternal body and had no problem doing so. The ones that cared for Ichigo all knew he was no longer part of the world any way.

Isshin continued as he always did even if deep down Karin knew her dad wanted nothing more than to go back to soul society. He never complained and was happy to spend the time with his daughters, but the way he looked at the sky sometimes, or the little things he did. The numbers of times Karin had seen her father with a serious face over the last five years was greater than in her entire life.

Yuzu was an other story as she tried to forget she even had a brother. She had closed Ichigo's door with a key she soon threw away. She acted as a more mature person if that was even possible and started drifting away.

When the twins entered high school, they never talked about spirits, Yuzu apparently going for the most obvious part as saying they didn't even exist. Karin supposed she lost the possibility to see them, but never dared ask. Yuzu seem to hate anything related to spirits. As hard it was to imagine, cute innocent Yuzu had no soft spot for the abnormal. Even if she knew they existed she hated them, actually it was the only thing she did hate.

They didn't grew apart, but they didn't grow closer either. As Karin continued her tomboyish expression and way of living, Yuzu entered kitchen club and sawing and so on, while Karin took ever classes of sport she could possibly have time for. She didn't negligee her school work but that wasn't the priority. The two girls became more polar opposites as the days passed by.

She had seen the random shinigamis that came to town to watch over them, even if the Urahara people were more than enough. She usually helped them out, but ever since she came back from that trip two years ago, she felt like she just wasn't normal any more. Maybe that was why she felt like she needed to stay with people that understood her.

She had seen the spirit perfectly for some time now, but ever since she came back she could sense them so much better. She new exactly where they were and what level they were on. She could sense the soul reaper and judge how strong they were. It was like the world just changed.

She never mentioned it to anyone, not really thinking there was a problem there. After all, if this was a problem, sure Yuzu would have the same, and talked to her about it. So she just kept on living, always dragging some sort of weapon she could use on the spirits she met.

But one day the normal just couldn't help.

She was sitting with Yuzu eating ice cream after a long day of exams, enjoying the beginning of the vacations. She wouldn't see her twin in a long while as her boyfriend just randomly had invited her with his family to the beach. A nice guy really and perfectly normal. He was just perfect for her sister.

She had sense the hollow a few quarters away, but she had also sensed the soul reaper doing his cleansing job. What she hadn't expect, however, is that the energy of the soul just disappeared. What happened?

Panicking she told Yuzu to go home. Yuzu never seemed to mind that her sister went out wandering after hollows, at least she never said.

Running toward the spot she noticed the spiritual pressure was way bigger than what she had expected. It wasn't a lowlife hollow. This guy was huge and definitely something else as she saw the bloody body of the soul reaper. She didn't stand a chance. But then she couldn't just leave the poor guy there either.

Picking up the phone she waited for someone to answer.

"Huge hollow," she said, not bothering who was on the other side. "This is an emergency. Seriously, I just felt another one near by."

"We're on the way," said the voice she could trace back to Yoruichi, before she speeded up toward the poor man on the grown.

If only Karin could get the attention from the hollow, she could probably make sure the guy survived. Well that's what she thought before noticing the guy was long of his interest radar. The hollow looked straight at her, and he looked hungry. It didn't take long before he started running toward her.

Taking out her football she kicked it as hard as she could. Having mastered more and more how to use her energy with the help of Yoruichi, she actually managed to give him a scratch. The happiness was gone the moment she understood she just pissed him of. Nope, not good.

All the times she had been running in the town fighting hollows, never had she been faced with two, yet one, hollow this strong. What in the world was its problem? Deciding she should start running, she cursed her body for giving in right there. She meet the grown in a loud thud.

Cussing this to happen right now, she tried to stand up again knowing very well that when this happened, she usually needed to stay on the ground a minute or so to regain full possession of her body. Because it wasn't only her senses that had picked up. Apparently her body just wanted to collapse sometimes too.

Behind her she saw the soul reaper running toward the hollows. She wanted to scream that there was another one just behind him.

She saw the blood paint the pavement as the body fell limp to the grown. With all her willpower she managed to take out one of the small blades Urahara gave her in case the hollow was a tricky one, as he said. Putting in all her spiritual energy that was left, she threw the knife right in the blink of his mask.

Miraculous the make cracked and the hollow started to decompose, but she was out of order to function and the one thing she hit was nothing but a low rated hollow showing up out of nowhere. Looking more closely, there weren't just two hollows, there were many. What, were they having a party?

She had difficulties leaving her eyes open. Then it happened, what usually happens when she loses all control of her body, the warmth, the tingling sensation of fire and burn. And the voice, always the voice, but this time it was different, it wasn't a lullaby, it was an order. "Let me," she heard low and clear.

But she couldn't fight back and the black took over. Or rather red, red fire everywhere before letting her drift into sleep.

She could hear whispers not far away but didn't manage to put a name to it. Was she dead? Letting her eyes open slowly she had problems to adjust to the light.

"It still isn't permitted," commented a cold voice she had heard before but couldn't set her finger on when exactly.

"What isn't permitted," she whispered only to figure out she couldn't breath. Lifting her hands to her throat she panicked. It was heavy, the air was so heavy and her muscle sore and really everything just made her feel bad.

"Ah you are finally awake," that voice she definitely new.

"So I'm not dead," she stated as she recognized the surroundings of Urahara shop.

"Well, that depends on what you consider being dead." Feeling a bit better she sat up. The first face she saw was Kisuke's with his odd smile looking at her from under his hat. The other faces where Yoruichi, Jinta, Ururu, Tessai, all the last three watching her as if she had a third head. But there was an other voice, where was he?

Then she screamed.

"Ah you finally noticed," smiled Urahara.

"What is going on?" She said looking back at her beaten up body covered in bruises and burn marks and definitely not her. Why was she looking at herself? The rustling of the chains made her turn to see Urahara pointing to her chain.

"When did it get broken?" She panicked. "So I am dead."

"All depends on what you consider with dead."

"You are technically dead," came that composed voice again coming from behind. Wait she knew that guy. Where had she seen him before. Seeing his soul reaper uniform, she lost all interest. He was one of those.

But in the same time what he said made her angry.

"What do you mean technically dead? Am I dead or am I not? Is that so complicated to answer?"

He looked strangely back at her when she turned fast toward him, good intentions to not let this one slip.

"In you case yes," he said straight back, looking straight in her eyes. Where had she seen those eyes before?

"In my case yes? Then what exactly is my case, all knowing soul reaper?"

"You weren't killed, nor did any one cut you line. Your soul just decided to get out of you body."

"What?"

"It's true," injected Yoruichi suddenly. "When we came to help, you body was on the ground but your soul was at least five meters away. There were no sign of being touched by a hollow, just the burning marks, we still don't know how got."

"Yes. I really want to know how you managed to get you soul out?" Asked the random annoying teen. "Did you use any illegal artifact so you could get out? Why did you get out in the first place?"

"Stop," she screamed suddenly to all the raising questions around her. "I don't know. The only thing I remember is hitting the damn thing and falling unconscious."

"So you did take out one of them then," smirked Jinta from behind. "From your dramatic voice we thought there were more than one for us to handle."

"No, was not," she returned angrily. "I took out one small fry, but there were at least ten there."

"No there were only one. One strong one too, but there were no other." Responded Yoruichi calmly.

But I saw them, she thought internally. Was what she saw just an illusions? The rattling of the chain made her snap back up, just to be meet with teal eyes staring back at her.

"Strange," he said, "from the look of it, your chain of fate has been burned off. What do you remember feeling before you fell. Any breathing problems, any abnormal things?"

She couldn't help to stare back at those eyes that pissed her off more and more. Where had she seen them?

"This isn't the first time you're falling like that, is it?" He asked after a short staring contest. The teen was possibly in his late teens but knowing those souls, he was surely much older. But the single fact that he looked barely older than her made her annoyed when he thought he was so much better than her.

"No it's not. But what is a stupide soul reaper doing here anyway," she asked fiercely back. Didn't they say that a frontal attack was the best counter attack. He raised an eyebrow at that.

"The spiritual energy around this town has increased because of one person. Me being here is because you are just as pathetic, when it comes to control your energy, as your brother." He walk of only to be stopped by a pissed Karin that stood up ready to stand her ground.

"What did you just say, you pompous teen?" It did irk him the way she answered.

"I'm not a teen," he greeted. "And your control is pathetic, why do you think the hollow where there anyway? You believe such strong hollows just randomly comes to the world of the living? They came to pick you up, they wanted you as snack."

"Well nobody told me how to do it, so why on earth should I know how to do it." He refused to back away when she came closer to him. He wasn't that much taller than her, but the single fact she had to raise her head, just a millimeter, to meet his eyes made it complicated to be the strong one.

"Soul society is well aware of your condition and that is why I'm here." He said dangerously slowly and menacing making her strangely back away. She didn't want to back away.

"Since I didn't have much to do, as they said, I was appointed to come since this could be the work for someone with captain or lieutenant level. Since you just so happened to be a Kurosaki, the first division captain wanted someone that could push you to no end and not get intimidated by your petty treats."

By know they stood too close, his face wore a boring expression but his eyes said everything she needed to know: he had no choice but to be here and he didn't like to be. However before she could answered her foot caught something and she felt backward hitting the ground hard.

"I didn't know spirits could hit their heads so hard. Aren't you supposed to feel nothing when you're dead?" Rubbing her head she sat up, feeling more pain than what she had expected. She could feel her arm burn and a rib must have been broken cause it hurt a lot. It was suffocating.

"Ara, ara, isn't this interesting," smiled the shop keeper. She only glared back.

"How did you... do that?" Asked a shocked teen over her. She smirked in satisfaction seeing his face, even if that really hurt. Looking down, she saw she was back in her own body.

"I thought you said I was dead?"

"You are, this just doesn't make any sense."

"But like I said," piped Urahara in, "it depends on how you're seeing it."

The two watched him curious when he started moving toward the cupboard not far of. Taking out three long daggers, he watched Karin a long time before throwing one at her. This one went deep in her upper arm.

"What in the world are you doing, you maniac psycho?" She screamed holding the dagger in pain. Seeing as he raised an other hand she wanted to dodge, but the addition of wounds made her fall back on her back just to get her other upper arm impaled by another dagger.

"Are you trying to kill me?" She screamed again using all her willpower to stand. The spiritual energy suddenly picked as Urahara prepared to throw another knife. This one she dogged by using some how a shunpo. Or well she thought so.

Aiming at the man's face, she suddenly tripped over something on the ground and received the third dagger right in her leg. By now the pain was unbearable. This wasn't even remotely human to sustain. Then she understood why she tripped. She couldn't control her body anymore. Really, twice in a day?

"Do you want him to pay?" Said the voice in her head. You, thought Karin, what do you want?

"I can make you forget the pain if you let me." Not wanting, what ever was trying to take over her body, she pushed herself on her injured hand and miraculously stood up.

"I knew it," came the happy voice of Urahara. She prepared to attack the man when she caught the eyes of the other random person there. He was shocked. "Tessai, please escort miss Kurosaki's body for healing in the other room." The owner continued happily in his charade.

"Taking, my body...? What exactly are you so happy about you bastard of a psycho man?" She attracted angrily, only to feel the pressure at her feet taken away. Looking down she just gaped. Currently in the arms of Tessai was her body, more bruised than before but still, that was her body.

"What in the world is going on?" She spluttered, looking back at her chain of fate still with black marks in the tip of the chain. "Wait, is it suddenly shorter?" She panicked.

Taking up her chain, Urahara watched as the tip continued melting away.

"It appears," he said the head behind his pathetic fan, " that each time you push your body out, you destroy the chain more. I would really test to see if you can do it again, but that could result in you losing your life in the process and turning into a hollow. I rather not have Ichigo after my head," he smiled.

"What make you think I wouldn't personally come kill you if you did that?" She returned angrily.

"That would take years for you to come, while Ichigo is only a gate away."

"Mr. Urahara, the order is to make the Kurosaki stay safe and prevent her from being a hollow. If your wish is to turn her into one I can assure you that your exile is not something you would consider as a pleasant vacation any more."

"Oh, my," said man smiled back at the now grouchy teen," captain have you changed your mentality along with you height? No worries," he said waving the fan, "I much rather train the Kurosakis than have them at my thought." He smiled merrily before returning his attention back to Karin.

"But as I said before mister captain interrupted, you should not return to your body unless you are certain that you wouldn't suddenly hollowfy inside your body, if that is even possible. Captain do you posses any knowledge to what just happened? Something the commander would tell you that could help the girl return to her normal life."

"Make her return to her normal life is not an order neither is it even remotely possible. She possesses too great a spiritual ability for that. But you have the permission to turn her into a soul reaper as you did with Ichigo Kurosaki. However, should you not manage to do that, I must send her to soul society."

"Hey," screamed the last person present in the room, since the other left long ago. "I'm standing right here, don't I have a say in anything?" She scream indignified. The teen just looked sideways at her with a questioning look.

"Do you have anything that would actually be important to know?" He asked sarcastically if that was what you could call his stoic voice and boring eyes. Or was he dead serious?

"It's my life," she said.

"Now, now," said the only adult in the room, "let's all take this slow. Sit down. So we know that your chain of fate broke. By the look of it, the chain seemed to be burned of, and even now when you separated from your body, your chain was glowing, melting the chain away. "

"You also said that you are falling to the ground a lot," injected the teen.

"Have you ever lost consciousness when you apparently trip over your feet," said Urahara sitting across from Karin.

"Not before, but then I never was so exhausted either," she replied arm crossed. When did this turn into an interrogation.

"So Captain Kyoraku was right, you body refuses your energy," said the captain thoughtfully.

"What did captain Kyoraku tell you Hitsugaya?" Asked Urahara with what might actually be polite. Though, it didn't seem like the guy got that as his eyebrow twitched.

"It's captain Hitsugaya, and he didn't say much. That is actually the main reason he wanted me to come here, investigate."

"Because," pushed Karin.

"Do you remember when you were in souls society, if I remember you needed to go to the four division because you used way too much spiritual energy, causing your body to collapse." She nodded. "Well the fourth division told some interesting fact that your body drained all your spiritual energy, meaning it would be the same as if a soul used there spiritual energy. But you are no spirit, so the possibility of you using soul reaper technic is impossible."

"So it was what I thought," they looked at her strangely. "When what's his name found me, he told me I used shunpo, but researching afterward, everyone told me only a spirit could use that, meaning I couldn't use it."

"Well that was what I was getting to. The commander believes your soul used shunpo inside your body creating a sort of chemical reaction between the two entities. It might be why you have lost the function of your body to times. The chain has been severed a long time ago, only know really broken."

"Ara, ara, aren't you a strange one," smiled Urahara sweetly. "Seems like you managed to severe the chain of fate by yourself while using too much spiritual energy on your own body. I guess the soul and the body didn't really liked to be linked like that." He was about to leave when she figured it might be best if she told them all.

"Wait, there is something more that I don't understand."

"Please, do share."

"There is a voice when I collapse. I don't know if it's bad or good, but when I hit the ground, she would either tell me to calm down or stay still." This picked the interests of both men.

"Did you hear it just now too?" Asked captain Hitsugaya if she guessed right.

"Yes. She asked if I wanted her to take care of hat and clothes."

"Hey that's mean," he waved smiling from his position near the door. "Anything else?"

"The last thing I remember before passing out was her voice. I think she said to let go or something. No wait she said, let me. I remember because up until now she had this smooth voice, while this time it was a more hash voice." Urahara looked skeptically for a moment before leaving.

"Try not to kill each other while I go check something out. Oh and if you manage, you should probably sleep."

She looked back at the only other occupant of the room when the door closed.

"Are you going to stay here?" She asked.

"My command is to watch over you, so yes."

She laid down on the floor to take a nap when something hit her.

"Did you buddy survive," she said, her face turned in the opposite direction than the boy. She heard him move. He soon sat down in front of her making her face him. Looking at him more closely she could see concern in his eyes as he looked at her.

"What?" She asked annoyed by the pitiful look he gave her.

"Nothing," he stated in that monotone voice of his. "Just that we might want to consider trying not to kill each other. You may call me Hitsugaya, as you are no soul reaper. But I am Captain of the tenth squad of the gotei 13 and I deserve the respect that comes with the title even if we are in the living world."

She looked at his serious face before laughing. The other occupant clearly didn't think this was fun, but seeing his face go even more sour made her double over.

"Thanks," she said after calming down. "I really needed that laugh." The mirth was still heard in her voice and she did her best to dry the tires. Looking at his face made her continue laughing. "You might want to change your facial expression if you don't want me to laugh," she said between hiccups.

"Look, I don't know what genetic problem you Kurosaki's have to think common courtesy doesn't apply to you, but that is clearly something we have to work on."

She abruptly stopped laughing at his remark. Sobering up, she sat face to him with a stern look.

"Well, just because you are a captain of a division doesn't make you above the law of respect. And just because you know my brother doesn't mean you know me or my sister by that mean. Kurosaki Karin here, but I suppose you already knew that as you seem to adapted to find every flaw in me there is. Don't worry, two can play that game, captain."

Her change of personality made him look at her questioningly. She didn't blame him, most of her friends did to.

"Now I suppose I asked you a question to wish I didn't get an answer. How's your buddy?" She tried her best to put every inch of hate and misery she was feeling at the moment into her words. If she couldn't have fun, than no other would either.

"Gone," he looked out the window before answering. "His body has been taken back to soul society to receive proper burial in his squad."

"You don't seem bother by the fact he is dead," she said blankly.

"Someone in this world actually knows how to hide their feelings," he said looking back at her. Those eyes didn't cease to annoy her. She knew she had seen them before but where?

"You should sleep," he said before she could say anything else. He didn't need to say it twice.

Thanks for reading :) have a nice evening :D

Btw: please tell if there are too many spelling mistakes... I think there are a lot of those... And I really apologies for that.