First Karin K and Toshiro H fan fiction! YAY! I was reading one just a minute ago and decided I needed one! SO *drum roll* Here it is!

"Hey Ichigo, me and Karin are going to go down to the mini mart, is there anything you want us to get you?" Yuzu called up the stairs to my bozo brother, who had his soul reaper friends up in his room for a "Meeting".

"No we are fine, be safe!" Ichigo called.

"Sure! Be back soon Ichigo, and don't forget my game is at five!" I called up the stairs mockingly at my brother who always put himself in danger for the "greater good". "Come on Yuzu, we have to get back before 4:30 because I can't be late.

10 Minutes later in the near the front of the store

"Yuzu, we need long white rice right?"

"Ya and-"

"EVERYBODY DOWN!" A man's voice echoed around the store, I look up to see a man walk in with a fully loaded hand gun as he walked towards us, me and Yuzu didn't move as her reached forward and grabbed my sister who was 10 feet in front of me.

"Anybody come near me, and I will kill her!"

"YUZU!" I yelled as he put the gun to her head.

"Let her go!" I screamed "She is just a little girl! Let her go!"

"Somebody shut her up." He yelled as he walked to the cashiers.

"When he got 6feet from the first one he released Yuzu sending her spiraling to the hard floor.

"Now, women, give me all the money you have!" I watched as my neighbor Mika Higarashi, stood trembling at the counter she worked at.

I watched as fear glazed over her eyes but then they filled with resolve. I knew she was thinking about her husband and unborn child and hatred for this man flooded me.

"No!" She said defiantly.

"What did you say!" he said shooting the corner of the counter right next to her ribs.

"I said GIVE ME THE MONEY!"

"NO!" She said and I watched in horror as he shot her in the shoulder. I knew he was only shooting rubber bullets; but at close range they could kill.

Mika was like a second mother when my mom died and I always would help her with things she couldn't do herself, and there was no way in hell I was going to let her get hurt especially with a baby on the way.

"I-*cough* said no!" she managed out, knowing she was protecting the others around her by taking the blunt of the man's rage, knowing full well that the other cashiers would do exactly what she was, and she was hoping to by time she was done the police would be there.

I watched in horror as he raised the gun again.

"STOP! Don't hurt her! MIKA" I screeched at him running full force as I pushed Mika out of the way. The look on the shooters face was one of absolute horror as I felt as the bullet went through my chest; in that second I knew I was going to die, but I also knew that my sister and everyone else would be alright.

In Ichigo's room with Rukia, Renji, Orhime, and Chad

"So-" I started.

"Oh My god, Ichigo!" Orhime's voice came from down stairs where she had gone to get water.

"What!" a sense of foreboding filled me.

"Come here! HURRY!"

We all go rushing down the3 stairs as Orhime points in horror at the TV screen.

"Breaking news: A man has entered the Karakuta Mini mart and is armed. He has just shot a cashier, oh wait! A little girl has just jumped in front of the bullet"

'Please no! PLEASE!' I thought but all the color drained out of my face as a young girl with short black hair, ran in front of the Cashier I knew as Mika and the bullet went through her chest.

"KARIN!" I yelled and before any of the others could process what happened I was already racing towards the store.

I was at there within seconds (A/N using flash step of course!) and I watched as my little sister hit the ground.

"NOOOOOOO! KARIN!" I screamed pushing through the crowd of people and shoving past the police as I force the doors to the mini mart open and run to my little sister, cradling her in my arms, with Yuzu sobbing next to me.

"I- I didn't mean for anyone- to get hurt…" the shooter said falling to his knees in the middle of the isle.

"Karin…Karin open your eyes!" I begged. "PLEASE!"

I felt them behind me as Rukia pressed a hand to my shoulder.

"Ichigo…she is gone…" Her voice held that of deep sorrow.

"NO, she can't be! Do something!" I yelled as I watched her life-blood leave her body.

"We can't Ichigo; she is already passed over of her own accord. She is gone." Renji said as Rukia pulled out her soul phone and walked only feet away.

"No….why couldn't I protect her! I worked so hard for them to be safe…" I said pressing my face into her soft black hair. "Karin…I am so sorry I couldn't protect you, my baby sister." I whispered into her hair as the authorities started to rush in.

I felt as the paramedics tried to take her away and my grip on her body only tightened.

"She is already gone, let me and my sister take her home." I said looking up at the female who was so persistent on taking her from me "I know you can't bring her back, my father is a doctor and I know; so please."

I watched as pain and tears filled the women's eyes and she leaned down and felt for Karin's pulse, like I knew, there wasn't one. She had died on impact; it hitting her lung and heart, there was nothing they could do.

Standing up with her in my arms I walked home, tears filled my eyes but I didn't stop. I just wrapped my arm around Yuzu doing the best to comfort her as I can.

When I got to the clinic I walked in to the room my father was with a patient.

"Dad-" my voice broke and my heart fully shattered as I watched my father fall to his knees begging it to be fake, to be a sick dream.

In the soul society

Ring…Ring…Ring

I walked over to my desk and answered the phone.

"WHAT!" I hissed annoyed.

"Captain Hitsugaya…" I heard Rukia's voice on the other end laced with sorrow.

"What has happened?"

"You know Karin Kurosaki, correct?" she, the girl who never cried, sobbed lightly over the phone.

"Yes." I asked my stomach twisting into thoughts.

"She- She was just killed…I thought you should know…because you had gotten closer to her as had Matsumoto…"

I felt my whole body tighten as I fell to my knees. 'Karin.' I dropped the phone and it snapped shut. Never before had I felt such pain course through me, not even when I thought I had lost Momo…

"Karin!" I said aloud this time as I stood up and walked to my room where I fell onto my bed and cried for the loss of one of the only people I called a friend.