Greetings! Welcome to yet another one of my stories. I hope you enjoy reading. This story also contains OCs so I hope you like them as well.

Declaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of it's characters (only my OCs)

Looking for… Promises

'Neither of their bodies would move. His seemed dead, but there was still life beating in him. His body faced down, staining the ground with his blood, even so his teary eyes still glisten facing the only reason he survived the attack. Her wound was smaller than his but much more severe. Such it was, that the boy didn't even noticed the chain that hanged from her chest. He tried calling out at her. But not by her name, but as he always use to call her.

"M-…" his trembling voice cut through the sound of his call. He tried again firmly. "Mom…"

It almost seemed as if she hadn't hear him, but he saw her eyes struggling to open, yet still the boy didn't knew if it was alright to be crying to see her "alive".

"Sh-Shi…" her voice recalled.

"Mom…" the boy tried to reach out his hand to find hers, but his body betrayed him and all he could do was close it in a fist to endure his pain. At least the only fist that still remained in his body.

"Shiro…" she called out his name.

"Yes, I'm here…" his tears streamed down.

"Are you… alright?" she worriedly asked him.

"… No… I'm not." He honestly replied to her.

"Why… what is it?"

"I… can't feel my right arm." Her breath was cut through, almost bursting to tears, but she hold them back, just to try and tell her son everything was going to be alright. But she gave up knowing that it was too late to even burn another lie on him.

"Mom…" he called out to her once more. "I'm scared."

Her heart, almost shattered into pieces, couldn't take on much longer to see him in pain. She shut her eyes to hold back tears.

"I'm scared too." She tried to show him a smile, but he could see through her intentions and tear up even more.

For a while she left her tears go.

"Please, mom… don't blame dad for this." he said avoiding her stare.

Confused of what her son tried to say she searched for his eyes.

"N-No… what makes you think I would ever blame him for this? I would never do something like that."

"But you're always mad with him. You don't even like it when I ask you about him."

"That's not true, honey. I still love him so much… and I wanted you to love him as much as I did. But it was so hard on me to never see him. I knew you were suffering too, so I wanted to make you happy and I tried to hide that away from you. I'm so sorry." Her eyes didn't hold back this time.

"But I was happy, even if he wasn't there, I wanted you to tell me even more about him. I wanted to think for once that I had a dad." She kept crying and sobbing barely hearing her son's words, but once she calmed back down, she looked directly into his eyes.

"Shiro… promise me you'll love him no matter what." With deeply frowned eyes, the boy nodded. "… Promise me… you'll find him and tell him." tears continue to stream down the boy's face as he heard his mother's trembling voice.

"I promise." He replied.

"… Please… remember to tell him… that Karin Kurosaki loved him very much." She chuckled and smiled to see she had won a smile out of her son's face.

"I will, mom… I promise."

First chapter is always the shortest but let me know if you're liking it! See ya next chapter!