Chapter 3: Stories
Ichiru's eyes slowly opened as they adjusted to the light of the new day. He had been living there for a week now, and was already used to seeing everything that was always staring him right in the face.
Over the past week Uruhara and Yaruichi taught Ichiru and his sisters everything they had already taught Ryumaru. They taught them the shinigami terms for example: Hollows, Menos Grande, and Vaizards, Zam pak to, Arancars, Soul Society and Bounts. They also taught them the events that made all the difference in the Soul Society. But, they made sure to only tell each story with initials and not any 'certain' *Air quote* names. To the three kids it was like something out of a fairy tale book.
Sayuki's favourite was when O.I.'s brother ended up being the hollow that was tormenting her.
Sakura's favourite was when the same girl was forced to join the Arancars because she was a supernaturalist, then was forced to fight against her friends.
Ichiru's favourite was the main story that Yaruichi and Uruhara told. Ichiru remembered each and every word as they spoke it. (The story might be different from the original, because Uruhara changed it.)
"R.K. was a girl who was stationed at K. city. One night while she was out patrolling she saw a hollow coming near a boy that was her age. She had just finished fighting a hollow and was somewhat injured. She knew it was her duty to protect the citizens and that this hollow would be tough to fight in her condition. The hollow was just about to hit the boy when R.K. pushed him out of the way. That was about as much as she could do.
'W-who are you? Are you alright?' the boy asked.
The girl replied to him with another question, 'You can see me?'
'Of course,' The boy exclaimed, 'why wouldn't I be able to?'
R.K. was having trouble speaking, 'T-the hollow too?'
The boy turned his head to see the giant hollow coming at them 'C'mon we have to get out of the way.' "
When Uruhara told that part of the story, Ichiru thought, "That was almost exactly what happened to me with Ryumaru."
Uruhara continued, "R.K. could barely move, but she was strong and brave so she yelled to the boy, 'Get out of here! Run' She clenched her Zam pak to and tried to stand up, but, very soon after, collapsed-unconscious, into the boys arms.
The boy felt the need to protect her. As her body came into contact with his hands he felt a surge pass through his body. He stood there in full shinigami clothes with a Zam pak to in his hand.
'What is all this?' the boy wondered, 'A sword… I wonder if I can use this to…'
He gently laid R.K. on the ground then, jumped up and slammed the sword onto the hollow's arm. The hollow laughed at him.
R.K. awoke slightly to see the boy fighting the hollow.
'He's a shinigami…' she asked herself. She then noticed what he was doing wrong.
She shouted at the loudest voice she could, (which wasn't very loud) 'The mask! Hit the mask!'
The boy slammed his Zam pak to onto the hollows mask as it disappeared. He ran over to help the girl up.
R.K. glared at him as she said, 'It would've been helpful to mention that you were a shinigami, boy!'
'I have a name you know!' the boy sniped back.
'Oh, and what's that?'
The boy smiled, 'I.K.!' "
In that instant, I.K. became Ichiru's hero…
Chapter 4: Training Begins
It was the beginning of the second week…
"Alright, listen Up" Uruhara exclaimed, "We'll be training downstairs in the basement Got it?"
"Yes Sir!" The kids smiled as they climbed one by one down the ladder. Uruhara's basement wasn't at all like the kids (excluding Ryumaru seeing as she's been there time and time again) expected. It was a large vast area, with a giant hole in the middle.
"Welcome to you training ground!" Uruhara said happily.
"Wow!" the twins exclaimed as they scrambled down the ladder to run around.
Ichiru jumped from the top of the ladder and landed perfectly on the ground. Ryumaru jumped as well but she slipped. Ichiru quickly came to her rescue as she landed in his arms. Ichiru blushed. Yaruichi saw this and sent a quick smile to Uruhara.
"Show off!" Ryumaru laughed as Ichiru let go.
"You were the one who tried to jump but slipped amateur!" He replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
Uruhara turned to face the twins, "Finding your Zam pak to's will be easier then your brother, so will start with you two!"
"Okay!" the girls said in unison.
Yaruichi pressed a button as millions of different kinds of swords appeared.
"Think of this as a game," Uruhara explained, "If you touch a sword and it shatters then it's not your Zam pak to, although, if you touch one and it doesn't shatter, but, also doesn't glow then it's your twins' Zam pak to. And following that, if it does glow then obviously it's yours. That means that you have the right to ask it its name. The first person to find their Zam pak to ad its name, then runs over to Yaruichi first wins!"
"On your marks…Get set… GO!" Yaruichi shouted.
The twins zoomed through the different kinds of swords. After a few minutes of reaching, grabbing, and shattering Sayuki called out, "Here Sakura this one's yours!" She whipped the sword at her twin, who caught it directly at the hilt as if it were nothing more than a tree branch. The sword began to glow in her hand. She closed her eyes, "Your name is… Kanashimaru!"
Just as she did this her sister held up an almost identical sword and exclaimed, "Ureshimaru!"
The two ran towards Yaruichi as they tagged her.
"I win!" They said in unison.
Just then, a shock passed through the girls' bodies as their souls popped out of their, now lifeless bodies.
"Congratulations!" Uruhara exclaimed, "Consider yourselves shinigami!"
