WARNING! I DO NOT OWN BLEACH NOR ITS CHARACTERS (Other than made up characters)

Chapter 12

Karin woke up and looked around her and saw that she was on a dirt road and some wooden shacks around her. She got up and looked at her surroundings more and felt the weight of her zanpakuto on her waist. She glanced down and saw that she was in her shakusho and then glanced back at the road in front of her, 'well… here goes nothing' she thought as she took a step forward to see if she could find anyone who can help her.

As she was walking around she felt many people stares and glares on her. She even heard some saying "A shinigami…"

"What is a filthy shinigami doing here?" she ignored their detests for shinigamis and just continued to walk until a little boy ran up to her which surprised most people and a frantic mother running up to him telling him to go back and not to get close to Karin.

"Hime-sama!" The boy called out happily. Karin stopped in her tracks and looked at a boy with dark blue hair and sky blue eyes grinning up at her.

"You're that boy I saved" Karin said. The boy nodded his head and looked at her "What are you doing here hime-sama?" he asked, Karin chuckled and bent down to his level and placed her hand on his head and ruffled his hair.

"Didn't I say to stop calling me that?" She asked with a grin

The boy grinned back and said "You did! But to the souls that you have saved, you are a princess to all of us. A warrior princess!" Karin laughed at his words and once she stopped laughing she looked at him and said "Well… this warrior princess has died" The boy looked at her surprised and his mouth was opened, shocked to hear that the great warrior princess has died.

"WHAT!? HOW!? WHY!?" He asked

"Just got stabbed at the back and lost too many blood to live on" She replied with him a smile. The boy looked at her with sadness and Karin then asked "Where am I?"

"You're in rukongai district 98" The boy replied. Karin nodded in understanding and before one of them could say anything, the mother walked up to him and pulled him away from her.

"What do you think you are doing!? Do you want to get yourself killed!?" She asked. The boy looked at Karin and looked back at his mother.

"Don't worry mommy, she's the shinigami that I've been telling you about that saved me" The boy assured her, the mother nodded slowly but still cautiously as she glanced at Karin. Karin nod at her as a greeting and soon many souls came out but most of them were souls that Karin saved and calls her princess.

Byakuya walked around in the rukongai district, he hasn't been here for so long, and the last time that he was here was when he first met his late wife, Kuchiki Hisana. He reached to the 98 district (thanks to his shunpo) he spotted a crowd, he stopped his shunpo and approached the crowd by walking. Many souls saw him and moved away and glared at him but he ignored them. He reached to the center and he was surprised that there were some souls that were approaching and talking to a shinigami happily. The little boy noticed Byakuya and quickly hid behind Karin's legs, Karin tilted her head in a questioning way and then turned her head and her eyes widened. "Kuchiki Byakuya right?" She asked, Byakuya nodded and he glanced at the boy who flinched and hid behind her even more.

"Kurosaki Karin, you are to come with me right now, I'll be taking you to Seiretei to meet the Soutaichou and you will be residing in my mansion until further notices" Byakuya commanded. Karin then looked at him then looked at the kid behind her, she then looked back at Byakuya and nodded. "Alright Byakuya-nii" she agreed

"You should call me by taichou now that you are a full shinigami" He stated

"I may be a full shinigami but that doesn't mean I should call you by the title for I am not in a division" She stated and pulled out her tongue and Byakuya suppressed a sigh and grew a tick mark above his head. Then the little boy tugged on Karin's pants, Karin felt the tug and faced him.

"You're leaving already hime-sama?" The boy asked, Byakuya took notice of how the kid addressed Karin and Karin smiled at him sadly and nodded.

"Yeah, I need to go now" The boy pouted at what she said and Karin ran her fingers through her hair, she then pulled out her zanpakuto which shocked everyone but not the souls that are close to her. She cut some strands of her hair and split it into two, she held out the boy's hand and tied one half of the strand that she cut from her hair onto his wrist and did the same to her own wrist.

"Sorry that I don't have a proper thing to tie but please bear with it" she said the boy shook his head indicating that he doesn't mind one bit.

"I promise that I will come and see you soon" She promised him. The boy's face brightened and nodded excitedly and Kairn grinned in which the boy grinned back at him. Karin straightened and look back at Byakuya and nodded, Byakuya nodded as well and turned around with his haori fluttering and shunpoed away with Karin right on his tail.

Once Karin and Byakuya have reached to Seiretei, they went to the first division and met an old man with a white beard and holding a cane was looking at them. "Welcome Kurosaki Karin, I'm Yamato Juushiro, soutaichou of the Gotei 13" The soutaichou introduced himself. Karin grinned and waved at him, and simply greeted him with a 'hey', Byakuya sighed at her way of greeting while soutaichou just chuckled. "You are definitely Kurosaki Ichigo's sister" He said.

"So is there something that you need from me?" Karin asked in a blunt tone.

Soutaichou nodded and then turned serious "Kurosaki Karin, you are to reside in the Kuchiki mansion for a while until you are in the shino academy"

"Why can't you just place me in the shino academy now?" Karin asked

"Because, Kurosaki, the academy students are now doing their exams so we can't place you in there immediately" Byakuya replied. Karin nodded at Byakuya in understanding and then looked back at Soutaichou, "Even if that is so, you're not planning to have me do the shino academy from scratch right?" Karin asked.

Byakuya and soutaichou stayed silent and Soutaichou motioned Byakuya to get closer and Byakuya did. The two taichous talked, leaving Karin to tilt her head in confusion, the two taichous nodded and then looked at Karin.

"Kurosaki Karin, we will take you to do a test and see which year level we shall place you in" Karin nodded at Soutaichou in understanding and Byakuya then spoke up.

"The test will take place tomorrow, for today you shall rest" Karin nodded once again, Byakuya then bowed at Soutaichou and Karin bowed too and the two of them left the first division to the Kuchiki mansion.

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