Me: Hello people! Sup Hsage.
Hsage: (Muffled cries)
Me: Hehe, he's still under the boulder. So funny. Just wait till ultima-owner gives you your dare in my truth or dare story. Hehe.
Terra: Sup. Whatcha doin Jade?
Me: Ack! What the hell are you doing here?! DRMONA!
Terra: She said I couldn't play with her right now so I came to bug you.
Me: NO! I'm in the middle of my new chapter for my first story, so get!
Terra: No way!
Me: Don't make me get my zanpakuto after your ass! Just wait till I get to the truth or dare story. You're so gonna get it.
Hsage: (Muffled cries)
Shiva: While Jade deals with the kid, she owns nothing so let's get this show on the road.
Chapter 7: Training
Dominique's POV
As we walked to Urahara's Shop we discussed strategies on how we'll deal with the soul reapers when we got into the Soul Society. We unanimously agreed that we would do our best to keep bloodshed from happening. We didn't want to kill anybody. We were just about to enter the store when I saw Yoruichi jump from the roof in front of us. Emma cooed.
"Awwe what a cute kitty cat". She said as she scratched Yoruichi behind her ears. She had a soft spot for animals just like me.
"That's Yoruichi. By the way, Yoruichi, where are you heading to"? I asked the black feline. Here came the funny part.
"I'm heading off to go train Orihime and Chad. I wouldn't mind if some of you decided to join me in their training". My friends deadpanned for a second and then all of them started asking about the talking cat. Yoruichi gave them about as much information that she gave me, which wasn't much. Most of the information I know about her came from common sense and guessing,...and a little bit of snooping on my part.
In the end Jessy, Claire, and Brandon decided to go with Yoruichi so they could help train the others since they were staying behind. Yoruichi led us inside to get our stuff settled down.
We were greeted by Jinta and Ururu. They led us to our rooms. Ichigo and I shared a room. That set off a blush on both of our faces. Emma noticed this and she looked at me questioningly.
I decided that this was a good a time as any to tell her. I all but dragged her down the hall and told her what I'd said to Ichigo. She was practically jumping up and down in excitement. She squealed with happiness
"It's about time you finally fell for someone. I'm so proud of ya"! She said as she bear hugged me. I rolled my eyes as I tried to catch my breath after she released me.
I saw that Emma and Shuan shared a room, Claire, Jessy, and Brandon shared a room, since after tomorrow they would be off to train with Yoruichi. After we all had our stuff put down Urahara called us to the back room. He said that we should go to school for the last day . Then after that the training would begin.
I groaned. I really wasn't in the mood for school. The rest of them looked like their thoughts were in line with mine. I sighed and went to get my uniform on.
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After we got to school, I noticed that nobody asked where Rukia was. The only ones that were acting strange were Uryu, Chad, and Orihime. Ichigo kept staring at me, which would cause me to blush and look away. During lunch he looked at me and we locked eyes. I could feel the blush spreading across my face. His face darkened in color as well.
"Do you want to eat lunch with me, Dominique"? He asked in a quiet voice.
"S-sure Ichigo". I said nervously, which was so out of character for me. We went up to the roof to eat. Surprisingly no one else was there, so we were alone for the moment. I sat against the wall and he sat right beside me. He was so close to me that we were almost touching.
We ate in silence for the most part. He ate an onigiri from a store we passed by this morning and I had a double cheeseburger from WacDonalds. After we finished eating, we just stared at the sky, waiting for the bell to ring for us to go back to class.
We were both tense as hell. Neither one giving an inch or even saying anything. The tingling sensation crept up my arm and spread throughout my whole body even though I wasn't touching him. I kept trying to squash it down. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
I felt something brush against my hand. I looked out the corner of my eyes and saw his hand resting on mine. The blush returned tenfold. I moved my hand, but not away, I moved my hand under his, and I intertwined my fingers with his. When I did this the tingly feeling vanished, but in its place was a full-blown electrical current.
I wasn't even fighting it anymore. I felt like I was touching the electric wire that was used to keep the dogs in the pen at my old house. Only with this, there was no pain, just the feeling of my heart racing and the feeling of wanting to get even closer to him. It was addictive, like chocolate or coffee, and I wanted more.
He turned his head to look at me. I turned mine as well. We were staring at each other's faces and into each other's eyes. His brown eyes staring into my blue ones in such a way that I felt like I was falling.
Before I knew what he was doing, he was leaning his face closer to mine. My own head lifted up of its own accord. His lips met mine, and at first I was so shocked I couldn't react. Then, without my permission to, my lips started to move along with his.
The kiss was electrifying. It felt like I was no longer falling, but flying instead. His lips were surprisingly sweet against my own. He didn't move to deepen the kiss, and neither did I for that matter. Just his lips against my own was enough to send my heart soaring. My eyes closed as I kissed him.
One of his arms wrapped around my waist, his other hand moved to the nape of my neck, and brought me closer to him, to the point where my chest was almost touching his. I wrapped both my arms around his neck and got closer to him still, closing the space between us. My hands tangled themselves in his bright orange hair at the nape of his own neck.
I didn't even notice when the bell rang. I didn't notice much of anything other than Ichigo's lips against mine, his arms wrapped around my body, and the overwhelming feeling of happiness that was coursing through me.
That is, until I heard the laughter coming from a short distance away. I stopped kissing him to see who it was who ruined my happy moment. I turned and saw Emma and the rest of my American friends standing there with different looks on their faces. I saw amusement, shock, and pride coming from my friends. All it did was make my face even redder.
Ichigo stood up and he looked down at me. His face was just as red as mine, but he was actually smiling. I'd never seen him smile for real, and I liked it. He offered me his hand.
I grabbed it and he helped me off the ground. I kept hold of his hand as we walked to class. I didn't even hear the conversations that my friends were having, even though I was certain they were about me.
I was busy sealing the memory of my first kiss away in my head so that I would never forget it. My first kiss...happiness flowed throughout me.
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Later on in class, Keigo ran up to me and Ichigo.
"Hey Ichigo, hey Dominique"! Then he saw that both he and I were holding hands. He yelled, "HA! You do have a girlfriend"! He seemed to be waiting for a rebuff.
"So what Keigo? Why does it matter to you if Dominique's my girlfriend"? Keigo then started freaking out.
"Dominique, why didn't you want me as your boyfriend"? He asked in a mock hurt tone with comic tears running down his face.
"One reason; you talk too much". That made him go into the emo corner and sulk.
"Finally he shut up". Ichigo said with a smirk to me. I giggled at that.
'He called me his girlfriend. I'm so happy'! Joy was rushing through me. But that was when a serious thought came to mind.
"I wonder why no one has asked about Rukia. I think they can't remember her". His eyes widened a little.
"You may be right about that". I looked up at him encouragingly.
"We will save her. I know you'll get your powers back. I believe in you". He smiled at me again.
"Thank you Dominique". I blushed at that, but I felt that something was off. The feeling wasn't coming from Ichigo and it definitely wasn't from me, I looked around and I saw Orihime sitting at her desk with her face turned to the window. Her eyes had gone blank.
'Oh shit! I forgot that she liked Ichigo too. Crap! She probably hates me now'. I'd see if I could talk to her about it later. 'Man! Why is it that every time that I do something that makes me happy, it makes someone else unhappy'? I thought sadly to myself.
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After school, we walked to the Urahara Shop together with my friends. Yoruichi was waiting for Jessy, Claire, and Brandon to go gather Chad and Orihime for their upcoming training. When they left, I went to the room I shared with Ichigo to put away my stuff and to dump my body for a while. I then waited in the back room for the rest of them to get ready for the training. I spent my time stretching and thinking of training methods for the next week. Then I remembered Orihime, I face palmed myself.
'Stupid! I'm such an idiot. I forgot to go talk to Orihime. Damn'. Shuan, Ichigo, and Emma showed up quickly. All we had to do now was to wait for Urahara. We'd all been sitting around for a while when Urahara finally showed up. Shiva spoke up.
'Well took him long enough'. Shirozangetsu then commented.
'He was probably sleeping. He seems the type to sleep all day'. I mentally rolled my eyes.
'Oh so now yall are talking. Yall were sure quiet today. What gives'?
'We hadn't ever seen you that happy. Ever. We may be hollows, but you've rubbed off on us some. Besides, the look on your face was just too damn priceless to interrupt'. Shirozangetsu said superiorly. I sat there mentally fuming and throwing death threats at them until I saw Urahara open a trap door in the floor.
He told us to go down the ladder and wait for the training to begin. I jumped and used shunpo to catch my fall as I stepped lightly onto the ground. All I could see was a crag landscape and for some reason the room looked like it had a sky.
It was weird, but I didn't think much of it. It was a little like the Squad 0 training ground, though the one at the barracks was much better and a whole heck of a lot bigger, not to mention had a whole lot more variety of different landscapes.
Soon Ichigo and Urahara joined us since Ichigo actually had to climb down the ladder. When Ichigo was looking around, Urahara pushed his cane through Ichigo's head and he made Ichigo's soul come out of his body. It was connected to him by a Chain of Fate. He got up and started yelling at Urahara.
"Give me some warning before you do that. ... Why can't I breath right"? Ichigo asked as he clutched his chest.
"When Byakuya Kuchiki stabbed you, he made it so you wouldn't be able to access you're powers. So in other words, you're just another human soul. But in doing so, all he did was remove Rukia's powers from your body and now you'll be able to access your own". Ichigo gave him a blank stare. I'm sure I did too.
'The only way he could do that is if he was a shadow shinigami'. I thought to myself. My eyes widened slightly. What if?
"So to get your powers back were gonna do a three step process. Phase one, fight young Ururu here". Urahara said to Ichigo. He indicated to the young depressed looking girl. She had fight padding on that looked like mushrooms.
Ichigo at first refused to fight the girl. I tried to offer to fight him. Urahara shot me down though. He said that Ichigo had to fight Ururu. He threw Ichigo some plain white fight padding. Ururu then rushed at him. She was faster than I first thought. Ichiro tried to dodge her, but got hit in the process. His speed was way down. He was still having trouble breathing apparently.
He was still trying to get the headgear on, but it wouldn't do anything. Urahara then said that to get the protective gear to activate, he had to say this dumb phrase. Ichigo yelled at him no, then he nearly got hit again by Ururu. He then yelled it out.
"Take the power of justice! The armor and headband of justice"! That made most everyone laugh. I was practically rolling on the ground myself. Urahara then laughed behind his fan.
"I can't believe he just did that". Urahara said as he pointed at Ichigo with a smirk on his face.
"HEY, SHUT UP"! Ichigo tried to get the gear around his head again and it finally latched on. Ururu just kept going at him, while he ran like hell. I could tell that she was holding back though. I knew that if she wanted to she could kill him in an instant. She went to hit him and it looked like she was going to collide with his face, but he was able to dodge just in time.
'So this is what Urahara meant. By pushing Ichigo, we would get his own powers to fully awaken'. I relized.
Ichigo soon went on the offensive when he saw he was getting faster. He jabbed at Ururu, he ended up cutting her cheek. I saw something go through her eyes that sent disturbed chills down my spine. Without thinking, my body moved, just as Ururu punched Ichigo so hard he was sent flying backwards.
I was able to catch him, but the speed in which he was flying sent me careening towards one of the large boulders. My body hit the boulder with a definite crack. The boulder behind me had a huge crater in it from the impact. I was wincing in pain from the stupid rock jabbing into my back, but I checked to see that Ichigo was alright. I'd had much worse crashes than this.
"Are you alright Dominique"? Ichigo asked in an unneeded worried tone. Through my training, I'd made my body well resistant to pain. Still, getting thrown into a boulder hurt somewhat. It would for anyone. I winced again.
'Damn rocks. I swear it's just a repeat of me getting thrown into the tree when I first fought Shirozangetsu'. He looked up at me with a confused look. I gave him a small smile.
"I'm alright. What about you? Are you okay Ichigo"? I asked as I popped my neck to get the crick out of it.
"I'm fine thanks to you. How the hell did you move so fast"?
"I used shunpo. I help teach it to ya when you get your powers back, k"? Urahara then called out happily.
"Well done Ichigo. Lesson one, complete"! Urahara cheered.
"No way. I can still go on". Urahara then said in a serious voice, "Ichigo, Ururu was holding back. She can fight against full-fledged soul reapers. If she would have gone all out on you. You wouldn't have stood a chance. Now, on to lesson two"! Tessai walked over to us and then he cut Ichigo's Chain of Fate in half, and suddenly the ground disappeared underneath my feet.
I reacted just in time to use my shunpo to jump to the edge of the hole. I gave Urahara a dirty look. All he did was hide his face behind that damn fan of his. That fan was ticking me off by the second.
'Hide it'. Shiva said encouragingly.
'Cero it'. Shirozangetsu offered. A much better suggestion I might add.
I peered over the edge of the hole to see what was going on. I saw Ichigo sitting in the middle of the hole, rubbing his head. I then saw Tessai, he held his hands together in some kind of hand sign. Then he called out a kido and Ichigo's arms were bound behind his back with some type of material.
'That's bakudo number 99 part one, Kin'. I thought to myself. Urahara then spoke to Ichigo.
"Welcome Ichigo, to Shattered Shaft. You have to find a way to get out of here before your Chain of Fate corrodes and you become a hollow. If you do not come out of Shattered Shaft a soul reaper within 72 hours, we will be forced to kill you". Ichigo gave him a blank look for a moment. Then the yelling started. The death threats, and curses were all aimed at Urahara, who just sat there waving his fan at Ichigo like it was all empty air.
'He's gonna get it one day'. I thought darkly to myself.
"You better start trying to get out of there". Then Urahara turned to us and said, " You may do as you please until the 72 hours are up. You can spar, train, or just relax for the moment". I went to look at Ichigo again. He looked pissed as hell and he kept trying to run up the wall. I called out to him.
"Good luck Ichigo". He stopped and looked up at me. Then he called back up to me.
"Thanks".
I turned to leave. That's when I heard him scream in pain. I rushed back to the hole to see what was going on. I saw Ichigo's Chain of Fate begin to move and it started to eat itself. Now that was freaky beyond belief. The chain ate a single link and then it stopped. Ichigo stopped screaming, but he was still twitching from the pain. He continued to look up at me. I nodded to him and I left the Shattered shaft. I flew up the ladder and I told my friends what I planned on doing that night.
I planned to fly tonight. I had been itching to spread my wings and feel the wind against my skin. I jumped up onto the roof to wait for nightfall. As the stars came out I stood up. The moon rose into the sky little by little.
It was time.
I let my dark reiatsu flow out and around me, causing my body to go numb for the shortest of moments. When it cleared I was in my half hollow form. I stretched my clawed hands in front of my body leisurly.
I was looking at the blue marking that usually stayed on my back, but they were now wrapped around my arms and legs, ending just at my wrist and ankles. I twitched my wings to see the markings on the back of them too. I rolled my shoulders and I spread my wings. My tail twitched just like a cat's tail would with excitement.
I jumped onto the ground in front of the Urahara Shop. My clawed feet making almost no sound as they landed on the sidewalk. I pulled my mask off my face and put it in my shihakusho. I crouched down and jumped up into the air.
I felt the wind surging under my wings every time I flapped them. I used my tail to keep myself steady in my flight. I twisted and turned, using my body to control the speed and direction of which I flew. I had yet to feel something that felt better than flying this way. Though Ichigo's kiss earlier came pretty damn close.
I then stopped in midair somewhere in the countryside and used my sonido instead of shunpo to stay standing in midair. I moved my clawed hand up and rested it on top of my hollow hole right below my neck. I thought of myself about how I looked in this form and in my full hollow form at that. I didn't even want to think about my vasto lorde form.
It had taken me a full month to get through the training to get to just this form. I had to go through hell from my hollows. I smiled to myself, my black/gold eyes softening at the old memories of me and my hollow bickering all the time, that, and Rose's jokes. Then the question formed itself in my mind.
'Would Ichigo accept you, knowing who, and what you are'?
My eyes hardened at the thought. I truthfully didn't know. Then I remembered the kiss again. My skin, now as white as my hollows' skin burned and I knew I probably looked like I just got hit in the face with a box filled with ripe tomatoes. I knew he would accept me. I would just have to tell him at the right time.
If he was a shadow shinigami, he'd find out himself eventually anyway.
I dragged myself out of my thoughts, pulled my mask out of my shihakusho, put it on my face, and changed into my full hollow form in midair. I stretched my long neck out and let loose a roar into the dark sky. I stood on the air with my long legs, the two horns on my head curving upward into a graceful halo. I pumped my wings and flew off into the night.
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The sun was just beginning to rise. I was on my way back towards Urahara's. I got there quickly and went to land on the ground in front of his shop. Ururu and Jinta were standing there, with weapons. Jinta had some metal club thing and Ururu had a big bandaged bazooka looking thing. They looked like they were about to attack me.
I summoned my red/black reiatsu, it engulfed me, I changed back to normal, and landed on my feet. They looked at me with shocked looks. I couldn't help but smirk at their expressions.
"Don't worry, Urahara knows already". I walked past them and back into the store. I went down to the trap door to go see how Ichigo was. I had been gone for about 10 hours. I simply jumped down the passage way to get to the training room.
I noticed that Emma and Shuan were sparring off in the distance. They were both in their bankai forms. They were complete opposites, Emma; fire, Shuan; ice. Yet they were perfect for each other. The ice storm swirling around Shuan or the raging inferno surrounding Emma. It was quite the sight.
Emma used her Shinku no Chi en no Arashi, with its flaming ruby daggers hurtling at Shuan, who blocked them with Kuro Kori no Arashi's flying ice daggers. An impressive explosion filled the air. Personally I felt pride whenever I saw them fight. After all, I'd been the one who got them into Squad 0. I turned away from the two sparring lovers and decided to check up on Ichigo.
I saw Urahara sitting by the Shattered Shaft, munching on an apple. I went and sat on the other side of the hole. If he bugged me, I would take that fan and then I would burn it with a cero. Shiva and Shirozangetsu laughed at the very thought since it came complete with a mental image of me doing just that.
For the next day and a half, Ichigo's chain would slowly eat itself. Every time it became active Ichigo would scream in pain and I would have the urge to jump into the hole and comfort him. I would go off and talk to Emma and Shuan. They had a few conversations with my hollows and I used some of the time to practice my skills as well.
Jinta saw me summon my hollow mask. I pulled it to the side and set it on the side of my head. I would grin at him evilly. Let's just say that the combo of my evil smile and my black/gold eyes freaked him out.
'Good. Teach that boy some respect'. Jinta would then come down here and he would tease Ichigo saying that if he felt hungry that meant he was getting close to being a hollow. He even got Ururu to play along too. Shuan and Emma soon joined us when it hit the 68 hour mark. Jinta looked like he was gonna bug Ichigo again, but I stopped him by making my eyes turn black and gold.
He backed off. I changed them back and we waited two hours. Jinta had a large platter of food that he was carrying. He jumped down into the shaft before I could stop him. He began to tease Ichigo, saying that time was almost up. Ichigo said that he felt that he couldn't have been in here very long. That he still had a good bit of time before the chain would be gone.
"The last corrosion cycle would be nothing like the others". Jinta said seriously, and with that he jumped out of the shaft.
I leaned over the edge of the shaft just in time to see the final corrosion start. Instead of just one link eating itself, all of the links came to life and were devouring themselves. Ichigo began to scream in pain. This one was much worse than any of the other screams.
It seemed to eat at my very soul. I shivered, but my eyes never left Ichigo. Soon though the chain was completely gone. All that there was left was the hole in his chest; he was about to start the change. Ichigo was quiet for a second and then this white stuff was coming out of his mouth and eyes. It began forming the mask on his face.
His screaming was getting even louder. The reiatsu was so huge that the very ground began to shake. He was struggling against his restraints and then a brace broke in half. Soon all of them broke apart. Tessai began using another kido, from the sound of it; Bankin was the kido he was using.
'Bankin? I think that's a bit much'. I thought to myself. He began using the first and second songs; Shiryu, and Hyakurensan.
White bindings came out of nowhere and it wrapped around Ichigo and then a hundred metal bolts stabbed into his body. It looked like Ichigo was just about to become a full hollow. Tessai was just about to use the Bankin Tia-ho. The huge square pillar was dropping towards Ichigo when the shaft lit up and something shot out of it at super high speed. It crashed into the ground and boulders until it came to a stop farther back and away from us.
A cloud of dust filled the area. I stood up to see better. When the dust cleared I saw Ichigo standing there, mostly covered in that white binding. What made my eyes open in shock was the mask on his face. It was just like mine. I whispered in shock.
"How..."? He was a shadow shinigami obviously, but I'd never once seen two shadow shinigami with the same mask before. Emma and Shuan were at my flanks, the same looks were on their faces as the one on mine. Ichigo raised his right hand slowly and he reached for his zanpakuto. I noticed the usual belt that held the sheath of his zanpakuto was gone. In its place was a red chain like band that hung around his torso. Again, just like mine. Shiva was in shock.
'WTF! Don't tell me he's gonna have the same exact zanpakuto as us too'? I mentally scolded her.
'Shiva Kudo'.
'Hey, no need to say my full name'. Shirozangetsu was completely silent; watching what was happening.
'Behave'. As we were talking Ichigo had grabbed his zanpakuto hilt. He pulled it out. It was his old zanpakuto, and it was still broken. I felt the tension in the room grow as Ichigo stood there with his broken zanpakuto in his hand. He jerked his hand up and he used the butt of his zanpakuto hilt to break the mask in half on his face. Half of the mask fell to the ground and the rest of it stayed on his face.
"Whew"! Ichigo said in relief as he moved the mask to the side of his face much the same way I had always done with mine.
His eyes were the same chocolate brown that I loved. I decided to look at the spirit ribbons. I saw that mine was red, but had a black tint to it, as all shadow shinigami did from the beginning of time. I found Ichigo's...his was tainted black now. He had a hollow inside of him now, but it was dormant. It would most likely stay dormant for now, but it was still there. Shiva giggled.
'He'll probably look like Shirozanny here'. I agreed with her on that, while Shirozangetsu fumed over his pet name that we'd given him to get on his nerves. Ichigo was looking at his hands, as if he didn't believe what had happened. Urahara walked forward.
"Well done Ichigo, lesson 2 cleared! You managed to become a soul reaper"! Ichigo jabbed his zanpakuto hilt forward and repeatedly hit Urahara in the eye.
"Screw you"!
"My eye"! Urahara was on the ground holding his hands to his face, and his fan on his head.
"You should have been praying that I'd never come out of that hole alive. Cause I swore that if I made it out of there, I'd kick your ass"! I could feel the angst just flowing from him in waves. I busted out laughing. Urahara looked up at Ichigo.
"Wow. Well let's take that spirit right on to lesson 3 shall we? There is no time limit. All you have to do is to knock my hat off my head". Ichigo rushed forward and clipped the edge of his had with his broken zanpakuto.
"Bring it on Hat'n Clogs". Urahara drew his blade from his cane and then he began to chase after Ichigo.
For the next few minutes Urahara chased Ichigo around using his blade. Ichigo had most likely thought that Urahara's blade wasn't a zanpakuto. He found out the hard way that it was. He was cut at his shoulder with it. Urahara called out his zanpakuto's name; Benihime. Soon he had nearly destroyed Ichigo's broken zanpakuto completely, only leaving the hilt.
Ichigo started running away. Then I felt something go through me. Like a pulse of energy. It was strange, but familiar at the same time. I knew I was too far away to hear what Ichigo was saying, but then I saw a man in black appear in front of Ichigo.
'Is that his zanpakuto spirit? But wait, only the wielders can see the zanpakuto spirits unless they use the move to forcibly externalize them. Who is that'? I had yet to summon my Zangetsu, I didn't even know what Zangetsu looked like. I was the only shadow shinigami in Squad 0 that was not able to communicate with my zanpakuto, even though I had achieved both shikai and bankai.
I watched as Ichigo saw the old man and called out. It was so strange, like I was hearing the conversation in my head, but at the same time outside of my head.
"Old man"! Then I heard the blade's voice.
"Why do you run Ichigo"? The man's voice was deep and wise sounding. He continued, "You still haven't called me yet. Face forward Ichigo. You should be able to hear it now. Even my other wielder, who has never heard my voice knows my name". Wait, other wielder?
'What's going on here'? I was frozen where I stood.
"What's plugging your ears is only fear". Ichigo stopped dead in his tracks. I for some reason, felt power flow through me. The man continued to speak, "There is only one enemy and one of you. What is there to fear? Retreat and you will age. Be afraid and you will die! SHOUT MY NAME"! I knew his name, it could only be...-
"ZANGETSU"! Ichigo swung his broken zanpakuto hilt around and a bright light filled my sight. When the smoke cleared Ichigo was left crouching towards the ground with his Zangetsu embedded into the ground. I closed my eyes.
'We have the same blade. That was Zangetsu. No wonder I could track his reiatsu with such ease at first. I didn't notice it until now, but his reiatsu is incredibly similar to mine. That man...was our Zangetsu, our zanpakuto'. I opened my eyes again to watch what would happen.
Ichigo talked to Urahara for a moment and then he raised his arm. I felt his energy flow into the blade as his eyes turned a startling shade of silvery blue. I shunpoed out of range just in time to see Ichigo let loose a huge Getsugatensho. A blinding flash of light filled the area.
When the dust cleared I saw Ichigo, leaning against Zangetsu, fast asleep from reiatsu consumption. I also noticed Urahara's hat floating down from the sky. It was ruined.
'Ha! Now that's funny'. I laughed out. Urahara looked at Ichigo's sleeping form.
"Lesson 3 cleared, man that kid's scary. He killed my hat". He was pouting as he put the ruined hat back on his head. I could still see the hint of a smile on his face.
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For the next few days everyone took turns sparring with Ichigo. When my turn came along, I taught him some different techniques that I used with my Zangetsu. Soon the time was gone. I could tell that he had grown much stronger than he had been.
Urahara had stopped training Ichigo for the past four days and he told us that for the next three days, we would have to rest and recuperate for the journey to the Soul Society.
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"Come on Ichigo! We're gonna miss the fireworks". I grabbed Ichigo's arm and I was trying to drag him over towards the crowd of people. He laughed as I dragged him along excitedly.
I was wearing a summer dress with flip-flops and Ichigo was wearing a Nice Vibe t-shirt with a pair of blue jeans, while the rest of his family were wearing old fashioned kimonos.
We got there just in time for the show to start. The sky was lit up in all sorts of colors. I felt Ichigo's arm wrap around my shoulder and I wrapped my arms around his waist while leaning my head against his shoulder. He leaned his head down and we kissed for the second time. It was even better than the first.
We had to break the kiss cause Emma started poking me in my side. I sighed and growled at her under my breath. The look on her face told me that she heard it. She quickly moved out of reach as I glared at her. I leaned against Ichigo and we watched the rest of the fireworks show.
It didn't matter to me that we would be risking our lives in just a matter of days. I didn't really have to worry about myself, but we were having to take more people. I was worried about them, but I knew we would come out of this victorious. He tightened his arms around me and I felt content as I stared up into the brightly lit sky.
Me: So how was it Hsage?
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Me: Wait. Where'd he go?
Terra: Dunno.
Me: Didn't I tell you to get out of here already?
Terra: Yah, but I'm bored.
Me: Go bug Aizen or something.
Terra: I would, but he died again. He ticked me off so I killed him. You go fix'em again.
Me: (Sigh) Oh well. To everyone out there. R&R please. I wanna hear how I'm doing.
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