Chapter 16: Wandenreich
Summary: My name is Kurosaki Karin. 17 months and some after my brother lost his powers I… died. After training so hard in almost two years to become stronger and protect my family back in Karakura, I needed to leave them after a freaking car accident. But I'm not worried. My life here in Soul Society just began. [HitsuxKarin]. Maybe I'll write stories for another partners, too.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tite Kubo's Bleach, and its characters. I just borrow some scenes on the manga and twist it into something that will blend with my story.
We're now on the end of Academy arc, and here are the list of teachers and the subject they're teaching:
Gengoro Onabara-Hakuda
Fujita Aoi-Hoho
Izuru Kira-Haiku
Ashikaga Yuuta-Kido
Higuchi Isamu-Zanjutsu-Tanaka Rin
Kuchiki Byakuya-Calligraphy
Previously on Hitsugaya Karin…
"First, I suggest that my children should sit down before I continue." Isshin said. His three children looked at him in shock because his words sounded so ominous. When the three of them sat down on the floor, they looked up to their father. "The thing is… the three of you are not really a shinigami… but you aren't human either. Your mother was…
"Are you okay?!" Kurosaki Masaki run towards Isshin.
"Yeah… just a…scratch… don't need to worry… about me… but thanks…" Isshin answered slowly. "I'll never live this down… a captain…rescued by a girl…"
"I'll heal you… lie still…" Masaki ordered Isshin.
"Gotcha… still… how'd you kill…that by yourself…?! You're not just some ordinary girl, are you?" Isshin told the girl.
"I'm… Kurosaki Masaki…" Masaki replied. "A Quincy."
Six years later…
Karin hit the Hollow's mask with her unreleased sword. "What did I tell you about not letting your guard down?!"
"Ah, Karin-chan, gomen." Nanami answered.
"You won't pass the test if you're like this Nanami." Shin added.
"Sorry, I was trying to recall an incantation…" Nanami answered.
The three were currently in the Living World to investigate some weird activities the 12th Division detected. Three years ago, Karin graduated and entered the Gotei 13 as the 10th Division's third seat. She volunteered to do the mission, taking the 'still' Academy students, Kobayashi Nanami and Abe Shin.
"I think that's the last one. Let's go home." Karin said, going to the direction of Karakura. The two followed but before they could flash step away, a large amount of reishi poured over them.
"Ohohoho, three little shinigami are playing around like rats while the cats are away…" A man, with a mask covering his left eye, said. "Wait, this is not where I suppose to end up. Excuse me. Do you know where Karakura is?"
Karin turned around and went in front of Shin and Nanami. "Who are you?"
My name is Ivan. Do you want to know my full name? Ivan Azgiaro. Do you have any other question?"
"Why do you need to know where Karakura Town is?" Karin asked.
"I need to deliver a message… to Kurosaki Ichigo." Ivan grinned. "I'm supposed to take his Bankai from-" Karin kicked the man on the face. "What's your problem?! Suddenly kicking me in the face."
"Are you an arrancar?" Karin asked. "Did you come here to avenge Aizen?"
"Arrancar? Me, an arrancar?" Ivan got up and glared at the girl. "I'm not an arrancar."
A necklace fell down his sleeves, revealing a star shaped trinket. The trinket morphed into a big bow-like thing with four big canon-like things attached to it.
"That's…!" Karin shouted as four shots passed though the three shinigami. "Nanami, call my brother!"
"Hai!" Nanami flash stepped to Karakura Town without looking back. Karin, Shin…
"Oh, someone's running away." Ivan fired at the retreating Nanami.
Karin unsheathed her sword and sliced through the attack. "I'm your opponent."
"I'm here, too." Shin added.
"Oh, you want to sacrifice yourself for your friend? How admirable!" Four shots blasted on Karin and Shin's way again. "I just want to know where Karakura is, but you kicked my face! Well, lowering the shinigami numbers won't hurt, too!"
Karin and Shin dodged. "He's playing with us!" Shin nodded. "Brighten! Taiga Mangetsu!" Karin shouted. Her sword changed into two scythes joined together, facing different ways. The upper part has a chain attached to it, a dagger on the end with a hilt shaped like a tiger's teeth. On the lower part is a sheath for the dagger. "Getsuga Tensho!"
Nanami saw Ichigo and the others coming her way. "Kurosaki-kun! An enemy appeared!"
"We felt the reiatsu. Nanami, lead the way." Ichigo answered. Karin u-turned and flash stepped to the way she came from.
"The man is looking for you, Kurosaki-san. Karin and Shin is fighting him off."
"What does he want?" Ichigo asked.
"He said something about taking you bankai." Nanami answered.
"I'll go ahead." Ichigo increased his pace, following his sister's reiatsu.
Rukongai- District 64 East "Sabitura"
"…There's really no one around…" Yumichika stated.
"Some people were still left when I got the report…it means that things are progressing…" Ikakku answered.
"Maybe they got scared and move somewhere else?" Yumichika asked. "You wouldn't want to stay in a place where people disappear without a reason."
"If they'd move somewhere, the Research and Development Institute would know. We'd get more reports." Ikakku said while looking around the place.
"Third seat Madarame! Fifth seat Ayasegawa!" Someone called. "I searched high and low but… I couldn't find even one child!"
"Everyone disappeared, together with the village… so mysterious. It's as if…" Yumichika wondered.
"Don't be stupid. I'm never gonna settle this matter easily." Ikakku said.
"Well…" The unseated officer hesitantly said.
"Is there more?"
"Actually…there's something I'd like you to see…" came the reply.
The officer led them to a place with footprints huddled together.
"Footprints… they all gate to this same point and then stop." Ikakku observed. "It looks like they went somewhere. It looks more like they were all gathered here to be taken somewhere else…did you notice, Yumichika?"
"Yeah. The footprints are all pairs of a bare foot and a sandal..! It wasn't something like a Hollow…some people from this village in Rukongai…took away other people of the same village..!" Yumichika said.
The unseated officer was shocked. "What…! What does that…?"
"To find that out is our job!" Ikakku answered. "Search the place! There might be other clues!"
"Yes Sir!"
Seireitei- First Division
"…And this is all from the eleventh, and the ninth division…"
"I see." Yamamoto answered.
"Next is the tenth divi-…gah!"
Yamamoto opened his eyes. He glanced on his back. "Who are you?"
Seven men were standing in the room. They were covered from head to toe, with a sash from the left shoulder running down to their right side waist. A black mask covers their faces.
"We meet for the first time. Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, Shigekuni Genryuusai Yamamoto-dono. We came here… to declare a war on you."
"You bitch!" Ivan shouted when one of Karin's Getsuga Tensho hit him.
"Karin!" Ichigo called.
"Nii-chan…" Karin panted. She's feeling the pain from her wounds now that her adrenaline dropped.
"I'll take it from here. Nanami, Shin… Go back to Soul Society and report." Ichigo ordered. "Bring Karin with you."
"B-but Nii-chan!" Karin protested.
"Go, Karin. Shin needs Unohana-taicho." Ichigo said.
Karin looked at Shin and saw him unconscious from the hits he took to protect her. Nanami is giving him a first aid treatment. Karin sighed. She opened the Senkaimon when Nanami finished.
"Be careful, brother. He wants your bankai." Karin told Ichigo before entering the Senkaimon with Nanami and Shin (They're holding Shin by wounding his arms on their shoulders.)
Ichigo watched as the Senkaimon closed. He looked at the battered up enemy. "Now, who are you?"
"So that's your sister. The two of you are too much alike, those were her exact words." Ivan answered. He fired and the Substitute Shinigami dodged.
Uryu appeared behind the man, and pointed his arrow on his neck. "Who are you?"
"Oh, prince! You're here, too. Tch…" Ivan said, a black shadow like thing engulfed him and he disappeared.
A/N: Gomen! I didn't update last night because my cousins used the computer. Anyways, I said that I won't be using the manga anymore but I want to introduce the enemies, and because of Rukia's shikai! I can't wait for the next chapter!
Thank you for these people:
AraShiba
ArtemisKirara7- I want to thank you for your honest and beautiful critique. I was stabbed four times by your list, and I felt like I'm dying. But don't worry, it's a good hurt and it made me want to write another chapter. Alas! It's my sister's time. :D
1. Grammars. Didd23 also mentioned that. I'm so sorry about it. If you could please point them out so that I could change them.
2. Toshiro's corny. Maybe, but they're together for six months already. A little sweetness here and there won't hurt.
3. RenjixTatsuki. I know it's fast but it's a 'special chapter'. I can't make it longer than my other chapters. Also, I've read a novel before, and the characters developed a feeling for each other in two days. But I can't write 200 pages long.
4. Sex. I've read a lot about it but I don't even have my first kiss yet. What do I know? That's why I stopped. I can't do it yet. And Byakuya's OOC-ness. Fan fiction authors always have a problem with that because the characters are not theirs. I'll try to give him back his noble aura.
And thank you for your review. It made my morning brighter when I read it. Great way to start the day. 3
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P.S. The new cover image is Taiga Mangetsu's shikai form.