Preparations

"Please, help me out."

Ichigo was standing in Uraharas shop, asking him to help him train. He only had three days after all and the only man he knew that could accually help him get stronger in that short time was the former captain that was standing in front of him. Urahara looked seriously at him for a while before he answered.

"Have I understood the situation correctly? You want to be stronger in three days so that you can go to this cornation or whatever and bring Rukia back."

"Yes, and I need to figure out where the entrance is."

"Hmm, the highest place around here. Wouldn't that be the Tokyo tower? Anyway, I don't have any means to make you stronger in only three days. And I have no idea how to defeat angels. But you are free to use the training ground on your own these three days."

"Thanks."

With that, Ichigo headed towards the underground training grounds under the shop to start his training. Urahara stood for a minute looking at the place where he had dissapeared, before pulling his hat down over his eyes and mumbling:

"You are already strong enough Kurosaki-kun, but you need to believe it yourself. If you don't believe in your strength, you can never beat angels, no matter how strong you are."

Meawhile, in a dimension completely different that earth, Rukia slowly woke up. She was met by a pair of violet eyes.

"Are you awake princess?"

She sat up quickly and looked in confusion at the person beside her. It was a beautiful woman with long blond hair. But the first thing she noticed was...

"Wings..." she mumbled. She had wings. But they were'nt black, like the person she had seen before, they were pure white. She stared at them for a moment, before she could speek again.

"Where am I?"

The blond woman looked at her gently and smiled.

"You are in the realm of angels Your Highness. In the realm where you belong."

Rukia looked sceptic and started to get up on her feet.

"Your Highness? Why are you calling me that? I'm not royalty. And besides, I don't belong here. I'm not an angel, I'm a shinigami."

"Never the less, you are our princess, born an angel and raised in Soul Society without your wings. But the time for your official cornation draws near, and so we needed to bring you back here." This time it wasn't the woman who talked. It was a mans voice. She looked around and saw a man with ice blue eyes, black hair and pitch black wings. She immediatly recognized those eyes.

"You were the one who brought me here." She suddenly remembered Ichigo. He had been with her. "Where's Ichigo? What did you do to him?"

The black winged angel chuckled.

"I didn't do anything to him. I can't go around hurting my princess' friends now can I? I simply invited him to the cornation. Although I doubt that he can make it here."

Rukia looked at him in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, that since only angels are able to enter this realm, he would have to be an angel to come to the cornation. And I highly doubt that he has the soul of an angel, seeing how weak he is."

"What do you mean? Ichigo isn't weak. He's probably one of the strongest shinigami out there."

The man chuckled again.

"I don't mean his power. In power he would easily beat each and every one of us angels. But his heart is weak, that's why he will never be able to land a single hit on us."

"His heart is weak?"

"Yeah. Really weak. He looses himself to emotion to easily and he doesn't have any real faith in his abilities. So he will never be able to use his full strenght."

Rukia stood there dumbstruck. He accually had a point. Ichigo always worried about wether his strengt would be enough or not, he never really believed in the strenghth within him. But...

"Ichigo... isn't weak... He will come to get me back for sure."