Chapter 4

"First Battle" & "Captain Daniels?"

As Kasey walked through the senkaimon Gate with her new Captain, she couldn't help but feel both intimidated and excited, which was affecting her spiritual pressure and it began to fluctuate from low to high as they walked through the gate.

"We're here," Soifon stated as a light appeared. When they entered it, they were staring at what appeared to be a mountain with buildings on it, the inside of the Seireitei. "No time for sight seeing, come with me!" Soifon barked as Kasey Jumped into attention and followed her captain through the seireitei until they finally reached the second squads quarters. "Here is your shihaksho, and a sheath for your Zanpakuto. Now I will take you to the training ground for your first day of training, got that?" Soifon asked as Kasey put on her shihaksho, pulled her hair back into a ponytail, and sheathed her blade. They then proceeded to the trining grounds and found that another soul reaper was already there, sitting in a meditative state.

"Lieutenant, on your feet!" Soifon barked as her lieutenant jumped to his feet and stood at attention, "Now you two will engage in a sparring match, I'll step in if one of you can't continue, we're going to draw out her true power as soon as we can for the upcoming battle this winter" Soifon finished as Lieutenant Marechiyo stood up and unsheathed his zanpakuto.

"If you say so captain," he sighed as they moved down to the training ground as Soifon sat there observing, "Here I go!" he said as he charged at Kasey, who immediately flinched and fell when he swung at her. The battle wnet on with Kasey running for about ten minutes until she finally unsheathed her sword and Marechiyo swung with vigor and when their two blades met Kasey was thrown back.

"Why am I fighting a Lieutenant, I'm not even seated, much less even know the name aof my Zanpakto!" Kasey sceamed in terror as Marechiyo chased her around the training ground, just like Urahara chased Ichigo when he regained his powers.

"Smash Gegetsuburi" Marechiyo called as his sword changed into a giant mace. He twirled it around above his head and tossed itat Kasey repeatedly.

"I can't keep running forever, I have to face him" Kasey thought after Marechiyo's latest attack, and she took a stance similar to Ichigo's and braced herself as Marechiyo tossed the mace at her and she swung her blade wth al her might.

SMASH!

Kaseys blade made contact with the mace, but the Mace made contact with Kasey's arm, which began to trickle blood from contact, he then repeadtedly stuck her with the mace, destroying Kasey's guard with every single stike until she knocked his Zanpakuto away.

"It's about time you started to fight!" Marechiyo taunted as he withdrew his mace and began to twirl it around his head, when a strong spiritual pressure hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Captain, why are you releasing your spiritual pressure?" Marechiyo asked as his mace stopped spinning under this intense and bloodthirsty spiritual pressure, but Marechiyo noticed that Soifon was awe struck under the same pressure as she looked at Kasey. Kasey stood in her stance, her face hidden by her bangs and when she looked at him she had pure bloodlust in her gaze.

"Now you can finally hear my name clear as day huh?" the woman that was Kasey's Zanpakuto spirit said when she appeared by Kasey.

"Probably, so what is it" she asked as the lady whispered her name and the command phrase into her ear. "Blow everything off the earth, Kazekira!" she said as she became engulfed in a bright light and when the light faded away she was holding a longer blade, which had to be at least 6 feet long. "You die," She said as she lunged at Marechiyo and as he attempted to defend himself she cut clear through his mace and across his chest with her long sword.

"Augh! Augh" Marechiyo said in pain as he fell to one of his knees, "I've never been felt such a spiritual pressure this dense, what is this girl?" He thought as his Zanpakuto went back to normal. He stood upright in his stance; his breathing became heavy under Kasey's powerful spirit pressure, her gaze showing glee at what she was doing.

"Captain, I think you should stop me, because I can't control myself right now!" she said in a bloodthirsty tone as she slashed Marechiyo's shoulder, then cut him right above his left eye. "Come on lieutenant, show me your strength." she taunted him as he jammed his Zanpakuto clear through her shoulder.

"You asked for it kid!" he said as he reactivated his shikai, "smash her to bits!" he called to his mace as he tossed it right at her blade and connected. The mace began to glow light blue as Kasey was blasted a few feet back.

"Hado number four: white lighting!" Marechiyo said as he blasted Kasey's Kazekira from her hands, and in doing so he lowered her spiritual pressure. "Now die!" he said as he tossed his mace at her for the finishing blow…

SMASH!

"That's enough Marechiyo" Soifon said as she held his Gegetsuburi in her left hand and her other hand holding Kasey back as she calmed down from her aggressive state.

"Thank you captain" she gasped as she picked up her now sealed Zanpakuto and sheathed it. Kasey started to wonder what had come over her when Marechiyo bludgeoned her with his Zanpakuto, had it been out of necessity to survive or was it some hidden force hiding inside of her that reached the surface in weakness? She didn't want to think about it as Soifon led her away from the training grounds and bumped into a familiar face, literally.

"Ouch, Geez watch where you're going" the person who Kasey knocked down as he got up and brushed himself off, "Oh, hello Captain Soifon" Hitsugaya said as he bowed his head to Soifon.

"Hello to you as well captain Hitsugaya" Soifon said as Kasey got up from the ground, covered in dirt looking angry and frustrated.

"Watch where you're going you height challenged freak!" Kasey yelled as a bunch of soul reapers came to look at what was happening and soon there were over 200 soul reapers watching what was transpiring.

"Watch your manners, you may have been a 'Code: Ichigo' call but don't let that get ahead of yourself, you could barely breath when the three of us came tog et you, so you'd better learn your place" Toshiro said as he turned his back on her, only to feel himself being spun back around in the same direction…

SMACK!

"How dare you talk to me like that, you could be captain of the whole damn universe and I still would smack you like I just did, who the hell do you think you a-" she said, but her sentence was broken up by her body, excluding her head, being frozen and she could see the Hyorinmaru was slightly unsheathed.

"You had better learn some respect Kasey, if you know what's good for you" He said as he put Hyorinmaru back and Kasey was unfrozen, and he walked away with his subordinates following behind him.

"Kasey, that was a blatant show of disrespect for authority. Have you lost your mind?" Soifon scolded her as she regained balance, but what Soifon didn't see is That Kazekira had appeared to Kasey.

"Watch it now, I know that we have a lot of power here now, but don't get to full of yourself, that Hyorinmaru has a lot of power, possibly more than we know, so don't test it, ok" she pleaded with Kasey, who reluctantly agreed as Kazekira went back into her sealed state.

"Soifon teach your recruit some respect, or" Hitsugaya said until Kasey interuptted as she stepped forward, "I challenge you to a duel, in two days, for your captain rank, in front of your entire squad and my own and in front of the rest of the captains, do you accept 'Captain' Hitsugaya?" Kasey said as her confidence grew.

"Hmph, I accept, I'll teach your respect the hard way" he said as they glared at each other intensly.

"very nice, I think this "code Ichigo" will turn out as an exact duplicate to young Kurosaki" a mysterious hooded figure stood in the distance, observing the events that had just transpired.