Title: Snow and Ice
Pairing: Hitsugaya Toushirou / Kurosaki Karin
Theme: #8 our own world
Disclaimer: Bleach does not belong to me. This is a purely fictional story based on the characters and story created by Tite Kubo, to whom they do belong.

A/N: I know, I know. It's been absolutely forever. Feel free to shoot me. I am sorry about the length and any mistakes, but it's all I could do in the short time I had. Please forgive me! *looks very apologetic* Anywho, I hope you enjoy this little piece of fluff! xoxo

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It had been some time since they had seen one another. Him busy with his duties and her enveloped with her intense studies. Though he was never far from her thoughts. The necklace still lay against her neck, having been there for the past six years. It was her reminder that he still loved her. There were days where she felt so insecure that all she could do was lay in her bed, clutching the necklace as devious thoughts raced around her head. Those days rarely happened anymore since she started on her medication. But when they did, it felt like a regression in all the progress she had made. Karin hated being weak, even though she knew it couldn’t be helped. Sighing, she pulled her thick jacket closer around her. He had promised to meet her here, in their spot.

Granted that this wasn’t their actual spot. That would happen when he finally got there. This was merely the meeting place. Pulling her knees up to her chest, her fingers absently toyed with her necklace. Running soft tips over the warm scale, she let a small smile come to her face. It was her connection to him. Someone had once tried to steal it from here many years ago. The story was still infamous at her high school, telling how she hunted down the senior twice her size and had beaten him to a pulp when he refused to give it back. She had fought so ferociously that he had been sent to hospital nursing a broken nose, arm and collar bone that went with an assortment of bruises and a sprained ankle. She had been suspended for two weeks and nearly charged for assault over the matter. When Toushirou had found out, he had been torn between yelling at her for such stupidity and touched she would fight so hard for something so precious.

So lost in thought she didn’t hear the slight movement in the air nor the soft crunching footsteps headed towards her. She started when cool hands gripped her wrists but seeing who it was she melted into the welcome embrace. Breathing in the familiar scent that was uniquely Toushirou, she looked up at him. He was looking down at her, the rare smile gracing his face. Pressing her lips to his gently, then with more force as the sudden need to ravish him overtook her completely. Hands resting on his cheeks, she held him in place as his own wrapped around her waist and entangled themselves in her hair. It was with a distant satisfaction that he had clearly missed him as much as she had.

Pulling back, she knew her cheeks were flushed red. One look at Toushirou showed that he too had a red tinge grace his cheeks. Chuckling, she hugged him tightly for a moment before stepping back without letting his hand go. They were long overdue now, something she knew they would hear no end of. Taking her hint, he grasped Hyourinmaru and they disappeared in a whirlwind of snow and ice.