Karin POV

I was slowly packing everything in my office, and was almost finished with the packing except for a picture that was on my desk that I hadn't touched ever since I came back from New York. As I walked towards the picture I quickly grabbed it and held it towards my heart. It was a picture of me and Rangiku at Tao's bar…we were so happy…and I didn't even want to go but she had made me…I removed the picture from my chest slowly and looked at it.

"Oh…" I said in a whispered choked sob as everything became blurry.

"Karin? You have to do it." Renji said as he stood about two feet behind me. I was shaking, I couldn't…I just didn't have the guts to throw Ran's ashes to the sea…as I turned around I saw that Renji was wearing a black tux, black sunglasses, his hair was picked up, and he was barefoot.

"I-I need a moment alone please." I said as I looked at him and then looked down on the rocky ledge that I was on.

"Alright, I'll wait for you in the car," Renji said as he turned around and walked away towards the parking lot. Once I couldn't hear his footsteps, I walked slowly off the rocky ledge and began to walk on the shore of the beach. I looked down at my bare feet because I still couldn't find it in me to let her go.

"Karin…" I heard a serious voice call out. When I looked up I saw Ran wearing a white loose dress, with a full pregnant belly. "You can't hold on to me forever." She said as she smiled and continued to walk towards me. I felt my eye blur and hot tears roll down my face. "Honey, let me go." She said as she wiped off my tears.

"Alright," I said as I wiped another tear that fell from my face and walked towards the shore, getting hit by the cold icy waves that foamed. I continued to walk until the water hit just below my knees, below my black herve ledger dress. I opened the silver can, and dropped the top carelessly in the water. I tilted the can, and grabbed a handful of grey ash as I threw it into the ocean. "Goodbye."

"Karin?" I heard Sandra say as she knocked softly on the door.

"Just a second." I said as I quickly wiped the fresh tears from my eyes, walked over to the opened box and placed the picture inside. "Come in."

"The last box huh." Sandra said silently as she stared at it.

"Yep pretty much."

"Oh Karin, please don't go…" Sandra said as she looked up at me with teary eyes as they began to stream down her cheeks, and jump off of her jaw line onto her yellow blouse leaving an imprint.

"Sandra-"

"I just…I'm going to miss you too much." Sandra said as she walked towards me and hugged me tightly.

"Me too." I whispered as I rubbed her back and began to feel tears come on. "Well," I said as I pulled Sandra away from me softly and looked at her face, wiped her tears off with my thumbs. "You're going to make me cry if we continue like this." I said softly receiving a soft laugh from Sandra.

"I'm sorry Karin." She said as she looked down towards the floor.

"Hey, you have nothing to be sorry about." I said as I lifted her chin up to face me with my right hand as my left hand held on to her right shoulder. "If you ever need company or anybody to talk to just know that I'm always going to be there for you. You got that?" I asked softly as Sandra began to cry again and nodded 'yes' softly.

"Well then let's go." I said as I let her go, grabbed the medium sized cardboard box, turned around and saw my office for the last time before I walked out of the door into the hallway.

Hitsugaya POV

I walked into Tao hotel's bar and was expecting to find Adrian working the bar and was surprised when I found a man working at the bar.

"Excuse me, where is Adrian?" I asked as I approached the bar and leaned on the granite countertop.

"She's on a break, something about consulting a surgeon." He said as he stared at me.

"Shit!" I said louder than I expected attracting attention to myself. I quickly calmed down and looked up at the man, smiling. "Thank you." I said as I walked away from the bar and out the two automatic doors towards my car.

Karin POV

"This is the last one." Renji said as he carried the last box into my living room.

"Thank you." I said as I walked into the living room with a tall glass of icy cold water in my hand cradled by a paper towel.

"Don't mention it." Renji said as he saw me walk towards him and grabbed the glass, giving me a nod of thanks before finishing it.

"How can I repay you?" I asked as he finished the cup and handed it to me.

"Well there is one way…a date."

"Renji, I-"

"I promise I'll make it worth your-"

"I don't think I can afford to go on a date right now." I said as I interrupted him and walked over to the kitchen.

"Please Karin," I heard him say behind me as he followed me into the kitchen.

"Alright." I said once I placed the glass cup into the sink and turned around to face him.

"Really?" He said with the brightest smile I've ever seen.

"Yes re-"

"YES!" Renji said as he jumped into the air. Once he landed he grabbed me by the waist and carried me above his shoulders, placing me down as quickly as he had carried me. "I promise you'll have a good time." He said as he hugged me tightly and kissed me right cheek softly before running out the door and closing it. I touched the cheek that he had kissed and I could feel the warmth of the kiss as if he were still on it.

"He's so happy." I said as I giggled and walked towards the door to lock it. "I guess I will have a good time."

Hitsugaya POV

I walked quickly into the office; I needed to know if Karin had finally come back. "Hey Sandra, did-"

"You have a patient waiting for you inside your office Dr." Sandra said before I even finished the sentence.

"Alright, thanks." I said quickly as I opened the door to the hallway and walked towards my office finding Adrian on the left wall admiring a painting of a naked woman that I have. Her hair was down in loose curls, and she was wearing a tight black strapless dress.

"Hey…" I said as I walked near her.

"What do you think she's scared of?" She asked as she stared at the picture of the woman, whom was crouched, covering the front of her body, even though it wasn't visible, and looking back over her left shoulder at the audience.

"I don't know, but she's most probably scared of the fact that women as sexy as you exist." I said as I began to kiss her right shoulder. I felt her move as she moved away from me and walked over to the front of my desk and sat down on the chair.

"I didn't come to see you for sex; I came to see you for an operation." She said seriously. I quickly walked towards the back of my desk and sat down to face her.

"Do you want to make your breasts bigger? I mean they are amazing to begin with but D's would make you sexier." I said as I grabbed my pen and was going to write it down.

"No, I'm not here for that." She said seriously as she stared at me. She stood up completely and stared at me seriously. "Would you sleep with me and love me no matter how I looked like?"

"I thought that that was clear that night." I said as I stared at her amused.

"Well…I want you to turn me into a man." She said as she looked at me.

"Excuse me?" I asked incredulously.

"You said you'd still love-"

"Let's get this clear, I'm not gay." I said as I stood up and stared at her seriously.

"I'm not a woman, I'm a gay man." She said as she held her hand close to her chest.

"What?" I said as I sat down flabbergasted.

"Not even my gynecologist knows." She said as she looked at me seriously. "Let me explain, I have always been pretty. Even as a teenager I looked more like a woman than a man. I would always associate myself with all the girls and talk about all the guys. So once I turned 21 I went to a plastic surgeon and became Adrian. But lately I haven't been feeling as though I am a woman. And our encounter proved to me that I'm a man, I'm not meant to be a woman, I-"

"So let me get this straight you came here to ask me to turn you into a man? And to tell me that I fucked a gay man? Get the fuck out of here." I said menacingly as I stared at her.

"So you're telling me that if I were Adrian the woman you'd still be straight, but if I became Adrian the man you'd be considered a fag." She said as s leaned on my table.

"No, I'm saying that in my mind if you were Adrian the man you'd have a bloody nose right now." I said seriously as I stared her and watched her put her right index finger and thumb on the bridge of her nose.

"So you're not going to give me what I want as a patient."

"Of course not, and I don't ever want to fucking see you, hear from you, or know that you exist now can you please get out of fucking office now before I call the cops." I said as I raised my voice a little bit too much. She quickly turned around and walked out of my office slamming the door behind her. I leaned on my desk, placed my elbows on my desk and placed my head on my hands. I grabbed the phone and called Sandra extension. "Sandra can you please put Karin on the line." I demanded as I felt a headache coming on.

"Sorry Dr but she left." She said rather seriously.

"What do you mean she left?" I asked considering her serious tone.

"She no longer works h-" I didn't even let her finish her sentence as I slammed the phone on the receiver, stood up from my chair, opened my door, and ran down the hallway towards Karin's door. Once I opened the door aggressively and let the back of the door slam into the wall, I saw that everything was gone, even the name plate. I quickly closed the door, ran down the hall, opened the door that led to the waiting room and stopped in front of Sandra's desk. Sandra was typing something into the computer, and was wearing her hair up, a yellow blouse, and what seemed like a grey high waisted skirt. I turned my gaze onto the counter top and once I felt her gaze on me I began to speak.

"Where is she?"

"Dr she doe-"

"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?" I asked angrily outraged at the fact that she of all people would leave my side.

"She's at home, b-" I turned around not bothering to listen to the rest of Sandra's sentence as I ran towards the emergency exit door and ran down the stairs.

Karin POV

I was in my grey shirt, that stopped at about three inches from the end of my bra, revealing my stomach, white shorts with blue plaid patterns, and my white Nike socks. I was about to go to attempt to go to sleep since I hadn't been able to sleep for one night ever since...I couldn't even think about her as I began to feel the hot tears run down my cheeks…"Why do I always have to cry?" I wiped my tears and was about to crawl into bed when I heard a loud knock at the door. I quickly walked out of my room, into the hallways and downstairs towards the door before there was another loud knock. "Coming!" I said loudly as I finally reached the door and opened it, revealing the man that I wanted to avoid. He was leaning on the wall, and was wearing a white button down shirt, black slacks and black leather shoes.

"I've come to talk to you about your position." He said as he looked at me and stared into my eyes.

"There's nothing to talk about Toshiro, I-"

"Maybe we cou-"

"Maybe we could nothing!" I said as I interrupted him. "The mute finally speaks! Just so you know when I said I wanted nothing to do with you I meant it. And I want to Thank you. THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A PLAYER! THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN ASSHOLE! THANK YOU FOR BEING SO RUTHLESSLY AMBITIOUS AND FOR SCREWING WITH ALL OUR PATIENTS! SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADEW GOODBYE!" I yelled as I closed the door in his face, but to my luck, he stopped it, opened it, came in and slammed it shut behind him.

"We need to talk." He said as he turned around to face me.

"Toshiro I'm not coming back."

"Yes you are. We've worked too hard to get here and even though you won't admit it you need me, just like I need you." He said to which I looked at him with surprise and began to turn around before he grabbed me by the shoulders and turned me to face him. "Now listen, you're the saleswoman, the planner, you're the talent, we fit, we always have."

"You'll be fine without me." I said as I tried to get him off of me but failed due to the fact that his grasp got tighter. "You can find another partner easily, you don't need me." I said as I finally got out of his grasp and began to walk down the hallway towards my stairs.

"You think this big move of yours will be easy?" He said as he followed me, making me stop at the top of the staircase, turning around to face him as my left hand rested on the railing. "Here," He said as he grabbed something in his back pocket and pulled out a frame with a dollar in the middle. "The first dollar we ever made, isn't it charming?" He asked sarcastically showing me the frame and dollar, before he lifted his knee and held the frame flat breaking it in half once his knee made contact with the frame. He threw the dollar and the remnants of the frame at me.

"WHAT THE FUCK TOSHIRO?" I screamed as he rolled up our first dollar in his right hand.

"I'll be keeping this as a part of our settlement." He said as he placed the dollar in the right front pocket of his slacks.

"What the fuck are you talking about? You know what I'm not going to listen to your bullshit anymore." I said as I turned around and was going to take the last step but was grabbed by Toshiro as he grabbed me by the waist and carried me over his right shoulder towards my bedroom, slamming me on my bed. Once I opened my eyes I saw that he was above me with both of his arms on the sides of my head.

"You signed a contract with me, a corporation contract with me, and in case you forgot the contract states that if the corporation is dissolved which I see now that it is, his/her partner has to buy the other out." He said as he stared at me seriously.

"I don't know what's so hard about wanting a clean start Toshiro, I-"

"Tough shit! You've got one week to pay up, if not I'm getting a lawyer and I'll come after your home, your car, and maybe even your future investments." He said as he continued to hold me down.

"I just want-"

"TRY ME!" He yelled after interrupting me. I quickly went ahead and slapped him across the right side of his face. Making him get off me and look at me in shock.

"No one yells at me." I said menacingly. "I care who the fuck you are but you are NO ONE TO DECIDE WHATEVER THE FUCK I DO WITH MY LIFE!" I yelled as I stood up straight…there was only a foot away from us but it felt as if there was a mile…what just happened?...He nodded his head from side to side and exhaled.

"So th-"

"Get out," I said quietly enough for him to hear me.

"Look-"

"I SAID GET OUT! I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" I yelled amazed at the fact that I would ever yell at him. He slowly backed away, turned around and then walked out into the hallway and down the stairs until I finally heard the door slam. My legs began to tremble non-stop and then I just collapsed on the floor and began to cry…

Hitsugaya POV

I pressed the button to go down to the lobby, and pressed my forehead against the left wall of the elevator…I can't believe that Karin said that…does she really mean it?...

"Toshiro come over here,"

"Yes dad," I said as I walked slowly and scared towards what awaited me.

'Ding'

I opened my eyes the minute that the elevator doors and began to walk, I didn't know where but all I noticed was the fact that my hands were shaking…

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