Ichigo was beat up by the time he left the training grounds. That was the first time he used two of Zangetsu's non-released abilities. He needed to get Shikai and master it before he could unlock them. As of right now he could only use one, or if he had the reserves saved up, two in a day. It truly was tiring afterwards though and Ichigo was grateful for being able to leave.
He ran upstairs and into his room and crashed on his futon. After quite some time he started to converse with his spirits.
Ichigo opened his eyes to see a garden. It contained a small shallow koi pond and hundreds of white cherry trees in mid-blossom. He looked around and noticed Ossan-Zangetsu and Shiro-Zangetsu sitting at a table with crossed legs drinking tea. Ichigo walked over to them.
"Shinji asked that I only use my fullbring and to have it at its first stage when, or if, I use it. How would I go about doing this?" Ichigo questions his wise partners. Ossan looked over at Ichigo with eye gleaming with pride for finally using the moves more than once a day, alas the question had to go answered.
"There are a few things that have to be done. First of which you must contain the water which leaks then a smaller container you must use." That was the wise words of Ossan. (Everyone in the audience give Ossan a round of applause for confusing Ichigo and wasting time on riddles.)
"Che." Shiro just scoffed at the man. He seemed to want to tell Ichigo the answer.
Ichigo decide enough was enough and starts thinking about the answer. His mind went to what Kensei said when they were talking about reiatsu control.
"First you need to think of you power as a lake or pond. Then block off the pond from the outside. This will mask your reiatsu only for so long though. In order for you to maintain the stress of containing your reiatsu you need to let little bits of it out at a time."
Ichigo then thought of what Ossan said.
"Contain the water which leaks! Aha. I've got it." Ichigo then sat down and forced his reiatsu into a dam. He then made a small spot at the bottom that would collect the water leaking through small spillways in the dam.
"So, this is the power I get to use?" Ichigo looks and feels his new-found loss of power.
"Yes. You will be limited to the power of a 10th seat for now. We will increase the size of the pond as you 'unlock' more advanced versions of your fullbring.
The next morning Ichigo woke up with horrible cramp across his body. He looked at the time. It was time to go to school. He did the normal routine; stealing Shinji's food and hearing about it across town. He got to school and was greeted by his new 'friends'. He saw the interaction between them. They weren't just friends they were a family. Ichigo filed this away for later.
Class started as per usual. Life went on until lunch. Uryu and Karin having a particularly heated argument, as he learned from the others that they got into fights often, when Uryu said he had enough. He wanted Karin to meet him after school for a dual. From the spirit energy he gathered from the argument, one would think they didn't know how to control their own power, Uryu was what Shinji called a Quincy and Karin was a Shinigami, which wasn't so surprising considering their heritage.
Karin got flustered and left, back to class, as lunch ended.
The day went by pretty fast as the mental image of what this fight would look like flowed through the stream of Ichigo's conscience. It had seemed, though, that the others in the group of friends weren't worried about the fight. In fact, they were discussing plans for right after school.
When school ended Ichigo went down the stairs ignoring the looks of question being directed at him. As he walked away he felt a buildup of spiritual pressure from both Karin and Uryu. It seemed that the fight they had planned was for real. He turned around and looked up to the sky to see gargantas opening all over town. A hollow peaked its head out only to be shot by a blue tinted arrow. Soon though hundreds of hollows started to come out. Ichigo saw and felt the hollows go for Karins friend. Deciding not to but in on the challenge He turned around, intent on getting home. What he saw was to say the least disgusting. The hollow in front of him had a large ogre-like face, large white horns stuck out of the top of its head and It had small black streaks across its face.
Ichigo remained composed as the creature went for the attack. Ichigo jumped up and onto the hollows back. He then gathered his reiatsu around his hands until the purple energy resembled gloves. The gloves were black with the cuff shading to a dark blue and the sides of the fingers being red.
Ichigo focused on his energy and pooled it at his fingertips. As he did this, small red orbs started to form and right before the hollow through Ichigo off he released the blast. The blast itself was similar to a bala with it going at high speeds but with the power of a gillians cero. The hollow died without ever feeling a thing. Ichigo landed on the ground feeling a server drain on his reserves. He cursed Ossan for making him use only a small portion of his power. Getting light headed Ichigo decided to take a long nap as he slumped to the ground.
Urahara steps out of the shadows of a nearby building and walks up to Ichigos body. "So, this is where you've been all this time. You could be useful yet." Urahara then picks up the unconscious Ichigo and walks off without noticing Shinji standing on the top of the warehouse watching the whole thing happen. He goes back inside to tell the others that they might not see Ichigo for a while.
