Hear is chapter 7 hope you enjoy ;)
Chapter 7 Secret training grounds and interesting offers
They had finally done it. All the planing, the preparations and they had pulled it off.
Kisuke, Yoruichi and Tessai sneaked through the quiet identical streets of the thirteen court guards. Every turning exactly the same. An ever similar maze so to confuse the enemy.
Their target was the Sokyoku hill on the far side near the looming white tower. They flitted as silently as shadows using an invention of Kisuke's that masked their reiatsu.
The deathly hill came closer and closer as they approached. They would have to find another way in as they could not use this route in the day time.
Kisuke and Yoruichi ginned at each other loving the thrill of the danger.
They landed in the entrance of the small cave in the side of the hill and gazed about excitedly.
"Its perfect," Yoruichi breathed.
"Still needs a lot of work though," Kisuke mused thoughtfully.
He carefully erected the barrier he had learned from his father's old notes. It apparently could stop time within the area it was placed around. Unfortunately this meant that the rest of the world still moved as normal so Kisuke had altered it to weaken and fade after a week of real time.
Once he was done the three of them turned back to the cave.
"Your old man's a genius you know," Yoruichi said with a grin.
Kisuke shrugged, "It's only science," he muttered modestly.
"Well I couldn't work all those theory's out so if your old man's a genius what does that make you," she teased lightly?
Kisuke shrugged again, "We should get started we only have a week in real time so lets not waste it."
They got to work. First they built a tunnel from the back of the small cave down to where their underground base would be. Then they hollowed out the area Kisuke had marked for them.
He had adapted a simple kido lamp so one would now light up the large space like a small sun.
They created the training space to look like it was outside in the wilderness. They constructed some small rocks and then as an after thought they build some even larger rocky lumps for leaping off while fighting. Yoruichi protested that there was nothing to wind down with after a spar so Kisuke sat down and began to think of something while pouring over his father's notes to see if there was any thing that could help.
He stared to scribble on a clean piece of parchment with renewed vigour. Yoruichi perched on on of the many scattered rocks and watched him with interest. Tessai was occupying him self with rice balls and one of the many pork buns they had brought with them.
Yoruichi frowned it had been a year since she had kissed Kisuke on the hill beyond the forest on her families grounds. Neither of them had spoken of it again but Yoruichi felt her face flush every time she thought about it. She scowled, what was wrong with her? Kisuke didn't look like any thing was bothering him. How did he manage not to be confused about the situation?
Kisuke glanced up at her scrutinising glare and shrugged apologetically, "I'm nearly finished Kitty-cat," he told her.
She shook her head and smiled softly, maybe it was better that he didn't act like it had bothered him. After all it had been a year ago, he'd probably forgotten about it.
Kisuke stood up and frowned, "Yoruichi, what's that crater like rock near the back?"
Yoruichi peered over, "It's a huge rock with a massive hole scooped out of it."
Kisuke grinned, "Perfect," he called.
"What are you going to do, Kisuke-Kun," Tessai asked?
"I'm gonna make a hot spring,"Kisuke announced, "There's a stream that runs underneath this place so I'm gonna make it come up into that rock and make a spring. It's just about the right size."
Yoruichi beamed, "You are a genius," she crowed punching the air in delight!
Kisuke made a large whole in the bottom of the hollowed out tub sized rock and allowed the warm water to raise up. He carefully constructed with a mechanism that would allow it to draw fresh water on its own and expel the dirty water. However he wasn't finished yet. He pulled a large vile from his pack and tipped the contents into the newly created hot spring.
"What's that," Tessai asked?
"Its for healing," Kisuke explained, "It heals your wounds when your In the spring."
Yoruichi peered over his shoulder, "That's amazing! This way we don't have to worry about bringing healing supplies ourselves."
The healing properties would automatically replenish its self so Kisuke didn't have to worry about continuously replacing it.
They stood back and admired their handy work. It was perfect. It was theirs and they'd done it with out alerting the whole Seiteitei that they were there. They were very proud of themselves.
"Now we've done all the hard work, we can take a soak," Yoruichi announced with a grin.
They peeled off their sweat stained cloths down to their undergarments and clambered into the hot water.
Yoruichi let out a contented sigh, "I could get used to this."
Kisuke grinned, "Oh Tessai look at this its a little pampered kitty. What should we do with it?"
Yoruichi gave him a warring glare.
Kisuke ignored it and dunked her head under the water.
She shook him off surfacing spluttering, "I'm getting you for that Goof ball," she cried shaking her fist in mock fury.
They spent several more minuets splashing and dunking each other under the water before they clambered out.
The two boys turned away form Yoruichi to change and she smirked to her self, one day she was going to give them the fright of their lives.
Once dressed they gathered up their wet garments and belongings. Kisuke made a door sized incision in the barrier and they climbed up the ladder they had made to the small cave above. Kisuke carefully closed the gap behind them.
"We still need to plot another route back for day time," Yoruihci said with a frown.
They stood thinking hard.
"If we use shunpo and mask our reiatsu they shouldn't be able to see or sense us night or day,"
Kisuke mused.
"But we need some thing to mask the fact that we are using shunpo," Tessai stated.
The other two nodded thoughtfully.
"Either way is night time now, so we can go home and think about it later," Kisuke said masking a yawn.
The three of them turned to leave leaping from the ledge. They hadn't gone far when they sensed a very old large presence up a head.
Frowning they made to bypass it.
An old man stood blocking their path. The three teens skidded to a halt and stared at him. He felt really old and really powerful. He was bald with a pair of long, perpendicular scars above his right eye. He had long droopy eyebrows and a very long pleated beard. He wore the black slandered uniform of the shinigami but had a white haori draped over his muscular shoulders. They took a few steps back, frightened by his appearance and the reiatsu he radiated.
"I suppose you think yourselves very clever," the old man stated.
The three teens shuffled uneasily from foot to foot.
"Well...um...right up until round about now," Yoruichi muttered.
The old man scrutinised them for a few uneasy moments then let out a loud bark of laughter.
"You brats are really quite some thing," he told them.
"You managed to sneak into the Gotei 13 with out being detected at all. Then you set up a curious barrier witch attracted my attention, it feels different to the normal kido ones we use. I don't know what you were doing in there but I have my suspicions. Your not the first group of trouble makers I have come across in my life time but you are the most successful"
Yoruichi, Kisuke and Tessai exchanged puzzled glances.
"Aren't you supposed to be giving us into trouble," Yoruichi asked eventually?
"Don't presume to tell me what I am supposed to be doing, little girl," the old man scolded.
He snorted and shook his head, "You brats have nerve."
Kisuke glanced fearfully at Yoruichi.
The old man's dry chuckle sounded deafening in the heavy silence that followed.
"I am impressed," the old man admitted, "Have you ever thought about entering the academy?"
The three teens blinked uncomprehendingly at him.
"I own a school designed for people like yourselves. Those with the ability should be taught how to use it."
"So, let me get this striate. You want, instead of giving us in to serious trouble for breaking into the Gotie 13, you want to offer us a place in you shinigami school," Yoruichi asked incredulously?
"You are not the first I have invited but you are the ones who have attracted my attention the most," the old man replied.
"I shall enjoy informing your parents, Shinhouin Yoruichi."
"Are...are you going to tell them about this," Yoruichi asked worriedly?
The old man shook his head, "That is your choice to make."
And then he was gone just as suddenly as he had appeared, like a wisp of smoke on the wind.
Yoruichi gapped, "Do either of you have any idea who that was," she asked horsely?
The two boys shook their heads in confusion.
"That was Yamamoto Genryusai Shigenkuni," she breathed in awe, "and he wants us to join HIS academy," she told them.
Tessai groned and put his head in his hands, "Oh Kami what have we done?"
Kisuke shrugged, "What's so bad about it? We've attracted his attention, so what? It means we're very good at what we do, doesn't it."
Yoruichi laughed, "Only you could say that Kisuke-Chan. You'd say it was all in the name of scientific experimentation or some thing like that."
Kisuke shrugged again, "I wander what this academy will be like?"
Yoruichi shrugged slinging her arm around his shoulder (Tessai was too tall for her.)
"Who knows? But I think its going to be very entertaining," she said with and evil smile.
"And you would just love that, wouldn't you Kitty-cat," Kisuke teased.
She swatted him, "Pot calling kettle, Goof ball."
Author's Note
so hear is the scary captain of first division, I hope he was intimidating enough. I wanted him to be amused at Kisuke and Yoruichi's antics but I hope he came of as stern too. :)
still one more chapter and its on to the main story. :D
thanks for reading silvermonkey
