Chapter Two
She struggled at the chains around her wrists uselessly and took another glance at the room she was being held in. the last thing she could remember was being in the world of the living with Ichigo, thanking him for playing a came of soccer with her before the whole place blacked out and she could hear Ichigo shouting before everything went black. She was beginning to wonder what had happened to her brother and the captains who were in that her eyes, she searched the building for Reiatsu, and quickly she came across Ichigo's, his always being easy to trace since it was so vast and it leaked a lot. Stretching her senses further, she could sense two more familiar reiatsu's.
"Hmmm… that idiot Zaraki isn't here… but Kuchiki and Soi Fon are… did they get caught too…?" she thought dully, her eyes glanced towards the door, "maybe I can still find a way out… if I can some how escape-"
Her eyes widened as she felt yet another familiar Reiatsu come through, but this one made her shake and tremble. Ichigo was her brother and the other two Shinigami Captain's she had only briefly met, but this was…Her pulled at the chains once more causing her wrists to blister and bleed, but she didn't care. She needed to get out now. In a furious attempt to break free Karin released all of her spiritual energy in one go, causing the door to unlock and open quickly, a male Arrancar walked through and shot her a glare.
"Don't worry about it Princess, the Prince will be here soon." sneered the Arrancar, taking a step back to avoid a boot to the shins.
"Leave him alone!" shouted Karin, booting her leg as far as it would go but the chains made it impossible to go more than halfway across the room.
"Ah, I think he's being brought here right now," continued the Arrancar, "I'm surprised they would even put him in the same cell as you."
Karin let off a low growl and the Arrancar stayed far back, knowing that if he were any closer he would receive a painful death. He walked out the room and on the way passed the female with the fire type Zanpaku-to, Hitsugaya slung over her shoulder in a lazy fashion
"Aizen-sama requested that they be kept in the same cell," she drawled lazily, "probably doesn't want to let the 'Princess' get lonely."
"Tsk. I think if we left he alone too long she'd go crazy anyway." replied the male Arrancar dryly, walking away.
"Aren't you meant to be guarding this cell, Jugo?" she snapped, appearing in the room Karin was in and dumping Toshiro on the floor before appearing back outside and locking the door.
"Be right back Amelia!"
Karin sat on the ground now and flipped Toshiro onto his back, panic filling her eyes as she looked at the bruising around his throat and the strange way his Spiritual pressure was fluctuating.
"They sealed his spiritual pressure? But if they did why did they take it off?" wondered Karin, her fingers tracing the bruise through his neck and sighed, "probably tried to prevent people tracing him through his reiatsu until he got here…"
Toshiro remained unconscious, his Reiatsu raising and lowering every so often; Karin just assumed he was in a bad dream. She continued to think about things. Why did that guard keep calling her 'Princess' and Hitsugaya 'Prince'? sure, she had no problem with it since she loved the little Snowflake but the whole concept of it just bothered her.
"What the hell do they want?" Karin thought, not knowing that she had actually said it out loud.
"That really depends…" said Hitsugaya, his eyes still closed, "perhaps due to me and you having powerful reiatsu."Karin stared at him and frowned. "Toshiro, why do you keep your eyes closed and not look at me?" she asked."Bakudo hasn't worn off yet." he replied, his hand reaching up slowly to cover his face and then rub over his eyes, "It's fading now."
"That's good." she said, "Care to explain where we are?"
"My guess… Huecho Mundo, from what that Arrancar/soul reaper told me." replied Toshiro sitting up and then looking round, "The idiots. They take a spiritual suppressor from me and they forget to chain me?"
Toshiro already knew his Zanpaku-to had been taken but since he could use his Spirit energy breaking out from here would be easy as pie. He grabbed the link cuff on Karin's wrist and inserted some spirit energy into it until it crack and fell of. He frowned as he saw the blisters and blood but the quickly switched to the other cuff.
"What do you think your doing?"Toshiro froze momentarily before looking up at Amelia through hating eyes.
"Taking these chains off her, what do you think?" he hissed, breaking the other cuff before standing in front of Karin protectively.
"Now now Prince, don't go protective mode on me, its not as if Aizen-sama wouldn't allow me to kill the princess anyway." she snapped, "anyway, Aizen-sama has requested to see the both of you."
After around twenty minutes of struggling, Toshiro receiving yet another spiritual suppressor and various forms of binding spells on him, the had headed towards Aizen's throne room, Karin being dragged by chains while the Arrancar's thought it funny to wrap something round Hitsugaya's collar and pull him like a dog. Amelia took the lead, Karin being forced at her side. When they finally reached their destination, Aizen was in the middle of talking to a very pissed of Ichimaru, who was revived and this time forced to join Aizen. Aizen looked over at the two captives at the end of the room and smiled.
"Why, bring them in now." said Aizen, that fake smile painted on his lips, "I hope you've been treating the well?"
Toshiro let out a full out snarl until someone covered his mouth, Karin remained quiet. Aizen eyes were locked on Hitsugaya for a few minutes before switching to Karin, his smile widening.
"You're unusually quiet. Every Kurosaki I have met are louder than this." said Aizen.
"We're not all the same. We are different." spat Karin, her eyes glaring daggers at Aizen.
"That doesn't really matter, it is not the reason you are here." said Aizen. "You are here to undergo hollowfication."
This made Karin freeze before she began yelling.
"NO WAY ARRE YOU DOING THAT TO ME ND SHIRO, NO WAY!"Aizen appeared in front of her and laid one finger on her lips, silencing her.
"I have chose you and Hitsugaya for two reasons. For you, your brother is a Vizard. He is twice as powerful when using his mask. I want to see what will happen when you have hollow abilities too, but just a regular human with high spirit energy having hollow abilities would be interesting." said Aizen, his eyes now looking at Toshiro, "as for Hitsugaya, I thought it would be interesting to have an Arrancar with the strongest ice-type Zanpaku-to."
Toshiro gave a menacing glare but Aizen only smirked, knowing that Hitsugaya couldn't do a thing against him with so many binds on him. Karin moved her head away and stared at Aizen with disgust. She knew of this man, this was the person Ichigo lost his powers to and then he had to try so hard to get them back Aizen closed his eyes and then cupped Karin's chin gently.
"Are you worried about him?" he asked gently, forcing her to look at him,"Do you want to know if he is alive?"
"I don't know what your talking about." said Karin dryly, her thoughts on something on something else
"Kurosaki Ichigo."
Karin glared at him and then bit his hand. Aizen didn't react at all, all he done was move his hand and looked at the trickles of blood running down it.
"Take Karin back to her cell but keep Hitsugaya here."
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" screamed Karin, getting taken away by Amelia and then caught a glimpse of the snowflake's face before forced to leave the narrowed his eyes but said nothing, due to a hand still being over his mouth.
"Well Toshiro, due to the 'Princess' misbehaving, I do believe the only way she will listen to me is if I torture you." said Aizen smugly, ordering his Arrancar and soul reapers to bring Toshiro forward. Toshiro's eyes flickered slightly before going back to there cold state. A hand was removed from his mouth and then he could finally speak.
"Do whatever you want, she'll never listen to you." Toshiro Snarled, his eyes now looking at the ground.
"We'll see Hitsugaya," said Aizen, "let's have some fun."
A/N: Sorry for not updating, I've been having problems witht he computer and we had to get it formatted due to viruses *sigh* and it deleted my previous chapter so this once will probably seem sucky. Thanks for all the lovely reviews and i hope to see your names again ^^