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Ichigo barely managed to get up before Urahara slammed into him again with another swipe of his sword. They've been at it for two hours, Ichigo didn't think he'd be this rusty. There was a small gash above his eye and a few scraps here and there. He used both hands to push Urahara's blade back and shunpo away to attempt to slash his teacher from behind. Of course it didn't work, but it was a nice try.

"Geez Ichigo, you're losing your touch." Urahara blocked the attack easily and spun around which slashing his sword. Ichigo blocked and jumped backwards. Ugh, at this rate I'm not going to get anywhere. He's a captain and I haven't even been able to summon my shikai yet. One thing that hasn't gone away in Ichigo's year and a half break was his speed. He assumed it was because this was something that didn't take that much energy and once you learned it, it was hard to forget. Ichigo shunpoed in circles around Urahara as an attempt to either confuse him or find an opening. He found the latter happened and charged in full force. Urahara's eyes widened and barely blocked. Ichigo pushed harder at impact and sent Urahara flying back into a rock wall. If he ever learned anything from Kenpachi who managed captaincy without a shikai was that sometimes brute force was enough to get past anything, though other methods along with that were always nice.

Meanwhile, sitting atop of his perch, Ginjo watched in amusement. His cell phone in hand.

"So how's my grandson doing so far?"

"Not so bad considering it's his first day in combat. You can see a bit of improvement here and there but he still has a long way to go. After he manages to get his shikai we should be in good shape and it won't take long to get his bankai. We're assuming that once he talks to Zengetsu the rest should come almost instantly and we can teach him the more advanced powers that the royal family has."

He looked down to where the two shinigami were training. Ichigo has yet another cut that is located on his shoulder blade, bleeding quite heavily. As for Urahara, Ichigo finally managed to cut him in the middle of his chest. They both charged at one another, one looking like he was having the most fun he had in a while and the other just plain irritated.

The're blades connected and pulled back three time, neither one getting close to cut the other. Urahara disappeared from Ichigo's sight and he felt a pain on his left arm. He spun around now aware that there was now a shallow cut coming from his shoulder to his elbow. Urahara was still too fast for him to see at the moment and only caught a glance at him before he was kicked low in the gut. So close. He flew back and tumbled on the ground a few times before momentum was lost. Getting into pushup position he tried rise from the ground but only flopped to the other side via a foot smashed into his face.

"Come on Kurosaki-san, you're not putting all of your effort into this." Sitting up Ichigo rubbed his now red right cheek.

"You kidding me, I'm doing the best I can."

"I don't think so. You have loads more determination when Rukia-chan was kidnapped. Does this mean I should go find your beloved and get the into danger somehow only to be rescued by you again?" Urahara smirked knowing that this did the trick, Ichigo's cheeks started to flush out of embarrassment and anger. I can't believe he's still trying to deny his affection for her or even the fact that he misses her.

Ugh, that's it! Ichigo focused all his attention on building up his reiatsu and forcing it into his sword. His bright blue reiatsu was swirling like wind forming a sphere around him growing bigger by the second. When the dust settled he stood there tall and proud and a smirk pulling at his lips with his released zanpakuto in hand.

Hello again Ichigo

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At the end of the day Ichigo was lying down on the ground, his cuts now bandaged up and he was fighting sleep. They were taking a break from training since Urahara was being a 'wuss' according to Ichigo. Let's just say that Urahara got his ass kicked pretty badly after Ichigo was able to achieve shikai. Serves the bastard right for antagonizing him.

"So do any of you know anything about the group that's been attacking my friends?" He couldn't resist asking, if it wasn't for that, he wouldn't have join these people in the first place.

"To start off, they are from the soul society and they're a bit of a different group" Urahara started while slowly leaning back on a rock.

"Che, nothing new there." He figured this will be the typical situation he gets into. A crazed group of people get their hands on some sort of power, ends up 'never seen before.' Somehow they pick a bone with him and he has to fight them all.

"Eh, you have in a way fought people like this before. They are like the assassins who fought you with the bakoto."

"In what way?"

"Well they're assassins."

"Let me guess, they want to kill me somehow because I'm the prince and they're hurting my friends to get me to come out." Ichigo sat up fully awake now, stretching and poking his bandages wounds.

"Cor-rect. Anyway, the weapon that they use is kind of like kido, except they don't have enchantments. Each one of them is able to control a different type of element, like earth, water, wind, ice, electricity, ect. Not much else is known about them except for that."

"An opponent without and materialized weapon huh? Sounds easy enough to fight them."

"Don't underestimate them Kurosaki-san."

"Yeah, yeah." Just by tone alone, Kisuke could tell Ichigo was already doing just the opposite.

They sat there for a while longer, enjoying the quietness. They both know that coming up they won't be getting any of that for a while.

"Well now that, that has been explained, lets go back for some good old training!" Urahara showed enthusiasm by hopping up from his place but his face was hidden by his fan.

"Fun."

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It's been getting so boring around here lately. There's no enemies of any type of threat for the past year and a half. Rudia sighed, leaning on a railing outside of her office. She's now the vice- captain of the 13th division. Her brother finally allowed Ukitake-tiachou to promote her to a seated officer, but never did she imagine to be the lieutenant. I wonder how Ichigo's been doing. She sighed again at the thought of him. Only once did she attempt to visit him.

It was before she was promoted and was sent on a small mission with a few other members of her squad. They finished up early and Rukia couldn't resist to see how her former partner and rescuer was doing. He was actually smiling now... that was rare even when she was around him. He must be a lot happier not having to worry about hollows, spirits, or if his friends are in danger. Must be happier... without me. Now he can find a normal girl to be with, one from his world. Maybe he finally accepted Orihime's feelings for him.

She pushed away from the railing and slowly made her way back to the Kuchiki manor. Without anything to distract her but walking, her mind wandered thinking of how Ichigo's life is now and how much she missed him. Rukia knew that Ichigo wanted to live for once like a normal human, not having to worry about something like the afterlife and all the chaos that goes with, but deep down in her heart she hoped that he missed this place and wanted to come back. He changed everything so drastically around her. Even though she got to know him for only six months he changed everything. She was no longer depressed and blamed herself for Kaien's death. He made such a deep impression to everyone in the higher ranks and helped the society in so many ways. He saved all worlds from destruction, but the only thanks he ever got was to lose all of those powers.

The visords were now allowed to enter the soul society again, to come and go as they pleased. Only Shinji, Kensie and Hiyori desided to stay and fill in positions to help the ranks. Hiyori was currently running the 5th division as temporary captain with Momo as her lieutenant. Once they find a proper captain, Hiyori will become the lieutenant and Momo the 3rd seat. The Gotei 13 figured that the whole entire war affected and stressed Momo deeply and figured best take her down a seat or two and give her some help while they were looking for a new captain. Shinji was now captain of the 3rd division and Kensie was the 9th's. Hisagi was very enthused about having his idle as his captain now.

Other than that, ever since the winter war ended it's just been utter monotony and boredom. Not to mention the paperwork.

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I checked spellcheck and it thinks Ichigo should be Ichneumon. i am so easily amused, what the heck does that mean anyway?

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