Once Ichigo woke up in the morning, he left silently to go to Renji's house. Once Ichigo arrived, he convinced Renji to train with him, so they left to the training grounds of Seireitei. Upon arrival, Ichigo flashstepped away from Renji, putting about 10 feet between them, who had already drawn his zanpakuto, and swung his hand over the blade, screaming out "Howl! Zabimaru!!" as the zanpakuto changed into its shikai form, Ichigo, whos blade was in a constant state of shikai was drawn form its bandage sheath, gleaming in the bright suns rays. he grabbed it by its white cloth, spinning it furiously above his head.
"You ready?" Ichigo said to Renji.
"Always man." He replied, charging Ichigo as it extanded and lashed out at the shinigami representative, but was parried flawlessly, by Ichigo who flashed behind Renji, who smashed the pommel of zabiamru into Ichigos ribcage, winding him slightly. but within seconds, zangetsu was high in the sky, and rocketed downwards as
" GETSUGA TENSHO!!" was screamed out as the black reiatsu shot out towards Renji- who blocked barely with zabimaru, but was still knocked backwards quite a distance.
" Wanna turn this up a notch?" Renji glared at Ichigo, who replied
"Sure", taking his free hand to the pommel of zangetsu, yelling "BAN-KAI!!" as the blade turned completly pitch black, and wasa a hell of alot stronger.
" Ban Kai!!" echoed Renji, as zabimaru grew into its huge bankai form, red mane flowing in the wind. its sharp fangs raced at Ichigo as Renji whiped the huge serpent towards him. he dodged it narrowly, and brought his blade down heavily onto zabimaru, sending straight down and smashing it to pieces. the splattered blade reformed back together, whipping at Ichigo.
"Baboon Bone Cannon!!" Howled Renji, and a huge ball of red reiatsu charges forth at Ichigo, who had no chance in hell of dodging, but he didnt need to. the blast engulfed Ichigo, and once the smoke cleared, there stood/ floated Ichigo Kurosaki, wearing his mask of the Hollow.
" Lets go." said Ichigo, voice distorted from the mask as he moved so quickly around renji it looked like 100 ichigos racing around. Renji pulled in zabimaru, encasing himself in it, creating a dome with spikes ejecting from it, but a single shot of "Gestuga Tensho!!" from the hollow smashed it into pieces. he regrouped hes blade, lashing it towards Ichigo, nearly hitting him, but more importantly, deflecting the raging getsuga tensho.from behind Renji blasted out dual getsuga tensho crosed to make an 'x' shape. he sensed the huge force and jumped up accordingly, dodging narrowly, not realizing he fell into Ichigos trap, who flashed in front of him, blasting a point blank blacak getsuga.he gaurded with his bankai blade, but was still smashed backwards, into the side of the wall. Ichigo appeared infront of Renji, disolving the hollows mask. Renji climbed out of the hole, yelling out-
" YOU SON OF A BITCH! THAT WAS CHEAP BULLSHIT!!" he screamed.
" If this were a real fight I wouldn'ta held back..." Ichigo said.
" Yea, but this is only training! you dont have to shoot to kill!!" the pissed shinigami yelled.
"ha, shot to kill... i have better attacks for that sort of thing." Ichigo scoffed. " I was wondering if you'd advanced 'nuff for me to use my other zanpakuto attacks on." he continued, stepping away and facing the other wall.
"oh? new moves?" he questioned, "care to show me"
"sure, but step back a few steps"
"..." Renji stepped back and watched onwards, as Ichigo took a more ready stance.
" Hinote Are Kashous Za Sore!!" as three black flames erupt from zangestsu in a triangular formation, until they twisted around each other and exploded upon smashing into the wall on the other side of the feild, exploding into a massive burst of black flames.
"What the fuck was that??" Renji burst out in suprise, wiping sweat off of his forehead.
"the second attack of zangetsu, i learned the third one to, but i can't do it to well yet, so if i fuck it up, it'l take alot of space just in case..." Ichigo said.
" how much space?" Renji questioned.
"at least 100 feet." he grinned.
"well then, you'll just have to exuse me well i take a few steps back so i can see this..." Renji grinned back. The sky above them turned pitch black and lightning struck down all around Ichigo, as Renji stood stunned, afraid of the most powerful reiatsu hed felt in a long time. then red lightning struck Ichigo's body, as he shouted
"Niiro Hisakata Heru Heki!!" as a think red laser cut the sky, exploding upon impact of the ground, destroying everything in its path of devistation.
"IIICHIIGOO!! DUDE THAT WAS FUCKIN INSANE!!" Renji burst out screaming in exitment.
"yea.. thanks man.." Ichigo panted "I still havent exactly mastered every aspect of it though..." he was still out of breath. Ichigo told Renji he was tired and both returned home, and Ichigo slipped right back into bed next to Rukia, but she woke up.
"Ichigo! you look exausted!! what happened?" Rukia said concerned, worrying he might have been in a fight.
"I was training with Renji and I used showed him my two newest attacks..." he said, just getting his breath back.
"oh..." she whispered understandingly.
"do you mind if I go back to sleep babe?" he asked her.
"no, no, its ok Ichi, get your rest." she smiled at him and crawled over him out of the bed. " ill make you some lunch when you wake back up, 'kay?" she said to him softly in his ear.
"that would be as amazing as you look Rukia." he whispered back at her.
the next day
"morning Rukia" Ichigo wispered in her ear when she woke up.
" Morning my sweet baka." Ichigo just groaned. "what?? to early in the morning to make fun of ya?" she giggled.
"just a little"
"hope you'l be ready for your test later babe." she said slightly concerned.
"hows your Bankai coming along?" Ichigo asked her, in regards to her own test.
"eh, it might be a few days still." she sighed.
"few days? pshhh, if i can do it in three and im such a knuckle head like you say, why can't you do it in less?" he laughed at his joke.
"real funny Ichi, you just happen to have an un-godly amount of reiatsu... and remember what your motivation was for getting it under such harsh conditions..." she winked at him.
"yea yea i know... all the other guys were gettin it and i didnt wanan be left out, so I-" she cut him off:
"bullshit hehe..." she laguhed. " cuz thats not what i remember strawberry boy" she stuck her tounge out at him.
Ichigo scowled at her playfully and said to her " I hate it when you call me tha-" yet again, cut off by Rukia saying
"exactly" and winking slyly at him. Ichigo sighed got up, and went out to the location of where he would soon be tested, for the role, of Capitain of a Squad of the Gotei 13 protection squads.
