Chapter 4 – This Is Where The Fights Begin
The small black cat purred again and started walking towards the girls. Slowly, the cat gained the form of a human, Isshin screamed in excitement when he noticed that the woman wasn't wearing any clothing. Karin almost effortlessly kicked him in the face. With a new bruise on his face, yet again, Isshin decided that he was no longer needed and left the surreal basement of the Urahara Shop. Urahara smirked, "Yoruichi, you really should be more careful about when you transform," The tall, dark skinned woman with purple hair only smiled and the disappeared. Within only a few more seconds, the woman arrived wearing a black suit with no back and no sleeves.
"Give me your zanpakuto," Yoruichi was staring at Yuzu and Karin, they looked back in confusion, "Your swords." The two girls did as they were told and Yoruichi threw them two wooden swords. "Jinta, Ururu get ready. You two, try and land at least one hit on either Jinta and Ururu and you will pass your first lesson." Karin was excited, she quickly dropped her sword from one hand to the other and ran at Jinta in a full sprint. Jinta wasn't surprised and quickly slid out of the way, pushing her onto the ground as soon as she passed her. Ururu and Yuzu only stared at eachother. Yoruichi gave Yuzu a slight nudge, she understood what she was being told. Yuzu moved towards Ururu cautiously, assuming the worst from what she saw from Jinta. Ururu only stood there, expressionless. Yuzu quickly swung her blade of wood down slowly when Ururu caught it with is she said, "Please, fight with everything your hand. If you do not I will forced to attack you," surprised, Yuzu drew her sword back and went at her again.
Both girls went at their opponent for the next few minutes without landing one hit. Now though, Yuzu was starting to have fun, in all of the excitement she thought of a new tactic, she lowered her sword again, just as slow as the first time and when the pigtailed girl caught it again, she raised her fist and sent it rocketing towards Ururu's face. It was a perfect shot, but the Ururu stood there unperturbed, this Yuzu went at her again. Yoruichi appeared instantaneously and stopped Yuzu, "Congratulations, you passed faster than your brother did," Yuzu smiled and bowed, watching her sister and Jinta's fight.
"You suck, how the hell could you be Ichigo's sister?" enraged, Karin went at her enemy again, her efforts were futile. Fed up with playing around, Jinta punched the girl in the stomach as a warning to hurry it up. Infuriated, Karin scream and a burst of reiatsu sprung from her, astonishing Jinta just long enough for her to land a blow with her sword to the side of his neck. He fell down and she laughed, "Take that you pepper-haired bastard!"
Jinta quickly arose, "Looks like you don't suck as much," he spat on the ground and rubbed his neck,"I thought you did," he walked back to Yoruichi when he noticed Ururu doing the same thing. Yuzu had already recovered her breath, but Karin was exhausted, panting heavily. Using her sword as a pseudo-walking stick, Karin leaned against it and looked up at Yoruichi, about to ask what the next test was, but Yoruichi had anticipated this and said, "You both have a lot of work to do with swordmanship," Yoruichi directed her gaze at Karin, "but that is to be expected on the first day. The next milestone we need to establish is your ability to control your reiatsu, I can tell you both have a great deal, but that doesn't have a huge amount of importance," Urahara, who was standing in the corner, overseeing everything quietly threw two golf ball sized objects to Yoruichi, she caught the without hesitating and continued, "I want you to channel your reiatsu into these two objects and try to replicate their shape,"
Yoruichi gave the objects to Yuzu and Karin. The girls carefully examined the devices, they were small black pyramids, aside from that they couldn't detect anything else; no secret buttons, no lights, nothing. Confident in her abilities, Yuzu quickly tried to do what she was told, transferring as much reiatsu she could into the object in her hand, a technique she knew how to do almost instinctively, but she had no success in replicating the shape. Karin stared at her sister anxiously, she had taken much longer than Yuzu to complete the previous test and even she was having trouble with the task at hand. Karin had then cast all fear aside and attempted creating the pyramid like she was told. As soon as she started pouring the energy she never knew she had, the energy that had been locked inside of her since she was born into the object, she pictured a pyarmid in her hand and the image started to manifest itself into reality as the small black pyramid in her hand started to rise and a larger, translucent triangle with a hint of orange in it started to encompass it. Karin screamed in excitement, "Yay!"
Yuzu started at her sister, now disappointed in her lack of ability. Karin felt this, almost telepathically and walked up to Yuzu, "Just picture what you want to make in your head and shape your energy," Urahara interuppted explaining the proper term was reiatsu, ". . . reiatsu to resemble it," Yuzu nodded, not really knowing what she was doing, but tried. She closed her eyes and focused on nothing but the image of a pyramid in her head, soon enough the pyramid in her hand levitated and a faint blue shape formed around it started to form. Her eyes widened, but as soon as the reiatsu pyarmid formed, it vanished and the original object fell. A solemn face slowly appeared on Yuzu, but Urahara quickly intervened, "Ah, do not worry Yuzu, most people can't even channel their reiatsu when they just begin," Yuzu had guessed as much but knew that she had to do better if she was going to save her brother. Unfortunately for her, she was already gone.