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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach I only own the delicious characters I make up.

(They're delicious??)

Chapter 1

Soul Society

Karin walked around, stomach grumbling. She had walked around asking for some food but every shop vender she asked stared at her and said you don't need food, Ichigo said it would be alright for her to be hungry but most people weren't. This infuriated her every one looked down on her and stared at her duisgusted like she was a pile of shit.

She was starving and feeling light headed she rapped her arms around her stomach in pain. She had walked a long way looking for food, she hadn't eaten in days, this district was different from the one she had started out in, this one looked richer. On the other hand the place she had started out in was absoloute filth it looked everything was covered in grime and dust and god knows what other things, every one looked like they hadn't bathed in years. Even dogs looked cleaner than them (A/N no offence to dog lovers :3).

Karin could feel her knees buckleing she didn't have enough energy to stand up, she was about to land face first on the ground when suddenly two hands shot out to stop her from falling. It was a young looking shinigami with black hair and droopy eyes and he didn't look to strong either.

"You must be knew here," he said helping Karin up, "you look hungry" the shinigami said sleepily, he handed her a rice ball "here take some."

"Th-thanks" she mumbled while taking it.

She wolfed it down, food had never tasted so good before. The black haired shinigami nudged her to get walking, she shuffled her feet forward going as fast as she could.

"You must be new here" he said smiling, "my name's Hanatarou, I'm a part of the 4th squa-" he was unable to finish his sentence because he had tripped on a pebble, landing face first.

"Are you okay?" Karin asked staring at the hopeless looking shinigami.

"Ahh, don't worry, that usually happens," he replied sitting up, Karin stared at him awkwardly.

She held out her hand to help him up, "My name's Karin nice to meat you," she said smiling feeling somewhat better after eating some food no matter how small the portion was.

They walked through a couple of streets until they reached a small old style Japanese house. Hanatarou reached for the door opening the door slightly and slipped his head in to see if any one was he opened the door wider and began to walk in, but suddenly he tripped on something (god knows whathe tripped on, he trips on the smallest things) doing another face plant.

"Hanatarou!" a woman said sounding surprised, she hadn't looked up from what she was doing, but for some one with that entrance she knew it had to be Hanatarou.

"Uh hi," Hanatarou said getting back up from his fall, he looked sleepier than ever.

"I haven't seen you in years what brings you here?" the women who looked in her mid 40s asked sweetly, her eyes shifting from Hanatarou to Karin as she said that.

Hanatarou took a quick glance behind him to see what the lady was staring at and he noticed Karin " well I was, uh, walking around," he said "to come visit you... and I, uh, came across... uh... Karin was it?" he stared behind him to see Karin nod then he continued " she was about to pass out from hunger and I assumed she was new here, I mean she looked pretty lost, so I was wondering if you might look after her you know be her mother like you were to me."

The lady scrunched up her face weighing out the option. There was a long silence. No one dared to talk, well Karin was the one most afraid of speaking since it seemed like she didn't belong.

Finally the woman spoke braking the tension, "I think it will be excellent if she stayed here, it's been a while since I had company," she was smiling now "My name is Renge"

"Thank you so much. I think I have to go now I'll come visit some time later" Hanatarou said standing up and waving goodbye, Renge waved back.

"I'll see you later then" she smiled at him as he walked out. She then turned to Karin and asked if she wanted anything to eat, Karin nodded slowly and Renge gestured for her to sit down while she went out to get some food.

Karin was still a little shocked about what had happened it had gone so fast, she had forgotten all about her hunger and kept on relaying the events that just happened in her head. She sat there for a while waiting for Renge to come with the food. As her thoughts were wandering around all of a sudden that white haired captain came to mind, maybe when she became a shinigami she would go to his squad.

Renge entered the room placing a dish in front of Karin making her her lose track of thought. It took her a while get her brain working from her daydream state. "Thanks" Karin said digging in to the meal, it hadn't even crossed her mind to why Renge wasn't eating she just smiled.

"So how long have you been here?" Renge asked after Karin had finished her meal.

"I dunno a couple of days," Karin said wiping her mouth.

"Hanatarou said he thought you were new here but i didn't think you were that new." she said. Karin smiled back not knowing how to answer her. Renge continued on, "So I see your one of the special ones, you know since your hungry"

"Special?"

"People get hungry have high amounts of reitsu in their body, but most people like me don't need to eat alot because we don't have much reistu," and so Renge explained everything she knew about soul society to Karin.

Renge was now Karin's 'mother' and she would have many duties to do and Karin would have to get used to tis place and blah blah blah. Karin didn't think she would ever get used to this strange place.

A/N Ok I know it was probably horrible just tell me how it went wrong so i can fix it. R&R.

P.S the first couple of chapters are centered around Karin.