A/N Well, Yuri is pretty messed up right now and is in a need of a break again. But what of the group that's watching over him? Let's find out.
Third Person View (A few hours later after horde)
Rukia, Rita, and Repede were sitting at the table in Yuri's house while he, now back in his body, was getting treated by Judith again with all his new injuries on top of his reopened old ones. Noba was on the table back in pill form with Rukia and Rita and neither of them said a word to each other for the entire time. Repede got up and walked over to Yuri's bed where he was laying down and sniffed his hand. He was exhausted from the non-stop fighting he has been doing and the fatigue had just kicked in, he will be asleep for a while. Judith stooped for a second to pat Repede's head reassuringly that Yuri would be alright and to stop worrying. Repede whined, then walked away to his own bed and lay down. Rukia glanced towards Repede, but she could only see the scar side of his face so she couldn't tell whether he was asleep or just lying in wait for Yuri's awakening. She got up and walked over to him to pat his head while giving a faint smile. Repede's ears flickered with acceptance to the action.
After a few minutes a knock came at the door and Rukia, swiftly but quietly, opened it while giving a finger gesture close to her lips to stay quiet. Karol and Flynn were at the door and they walked in to see everyone after the recent incident. The door shuts behind him and Karol walks up to where Judith was while she continued to treat Yuri. He made a few hand gestures to ask if Yuri is doing alright. Judith nods and casts an assuring smile to show that Yuri will recover. Karol exhales the breath he was holding and sits at the table with Rita. Rukia and Flynn follow and sit next to him with Rukia's legs and arms crossed and Flynn sitting perfectly straight.
"So what happened while I was gone?" Karol whispered to Rukia.
She turns her head to him with a solemn stare. "He's been fighting so much in the past couple hours. Two hordes with no time to rest took out a lot of energy and his injuries were pretty severe. Thankfully Judith can get him patched up so we are just here to watch out for him."
"And what about you Flynn? Several knights were just killed recently by the attack. Are you sure you can be here with so much going on?" Rita asked.
"I know it's been crazy, but no one knows what's going on so thanks to that the investigation division is taking care of it so I have some leeway in it." Flynn said.
"Not that they would find anything though." Rukia stated. "If none of them are spiritually aware then none of them would find anything that could reveal what's been happening behind the scenes."
"What the hell do you mean by that?" Rita asked quietly but coldly.
"Watch your temper Rita, unless you want to put us in another bind." Rukia shot back trying to contain her anger. "The hollows are attracted to strong senses of negative emotions, when you went spiraling out of control before you attracted the horde and we were lucky to even be able to make it out of it." Rita grew silent, the thought striking her hard that the horde Yuri was forced to fight, and the death of several knights were because of her. But she showed no evidence of guilt about it as she sat down back in her chair with a straight face and snuffed to the side. But internally she was torn about that reality that was given to her the way it did.
"Man, Yuri was always considered to be cursed with his luck but I didn't think that it would be this bad." Karol joked with a wide grin, trying to brighten the situation.
"You'd be surprised how bad it got when he was in the knights." Flynn continued quietly with a grin.
Rukia gave a smile as well. "Bad luck huh, he seems to be doing better than he would have before."
"Indeed." Another deep voice coming from the window spoke. They all turned to see a black cat sitting on the windowsill. "Sorry about the interruption but I am here for Urahara's sake." Karol jumped up in shock and fell backwards on the floor.
"A-A talking cat!" Karol shouted. Rita then threw her book at Karol's head, leaving a sore bruise on his head as he rubbed it with his right hand. "Ow, what was that for?" Rita put up her finger to her lips to signify that he should keep his voice down. Karol grunted, and turned to Judith. "Uh hey Judith, can you,"
"Busy." Judith interrupted, still attending to Yuri's treatment. Karol sighed and got up. The cat chuckled.
"You are truly a remarkable group. Anyway like I said before I'm here on Kisuke's behalf on a request. He would like to meet you all besides Yuri in the outskirts of the city limits to discuss something to you."
"Well I do have some time to give, but what about Yuri?" Flynn asked while turning his gaze to Yuri who was still asleep. Judith finished patching him up and packed up the medical supplies in the container. "You're done?"
"Yes, now he just needs to rest." Judith said to the group "Since the lovely cat seems to be a friend of Urahara, I would like to go and speak with you then about some things." She turns to Rukia. "Since we are all wondering what it is that Urahara wants from us maybe we all should be going. You mind staying to watch Yuri while we are gone?"
"Sure, I'll take care of him." Rukia told with a smile.
Repede rose up from his cushion and walked over to Judith. "It seems I'll take Repede along as well." She said.
"Alright then, come back soon alright?" Rukia asked the group. They all nodded and left the house via main entrance to places unknown.
Zaphias Outskirts…
The group arrived to the meeting place after following Yoruichi outside the city. They were in a dense forest, so they wouldn't be noticed or interrupted since the trees were large and tall. No monsters in the area too, this made things ideal for them. In a few moments after arrival, Urahara came out of the shadows with his signature cane and fan.
"Well now, the gang is all here. Let this meeting commence." Urahara spoke out.
"So what is it that you needed to see us for Urahara?" Flynn asked.
"First I wanted to explain a few things before we can get into the main reason why you are all here." Urahara said waving his fan around.
"Good, because I wanted to ask a few questions anyway." Rita said out loud. "First off, this spiritual energy that Yuri has been using to fight, is that something similar to using aer or mana with a type of device like a blastia or something?"
"Well technically Yuri doesn't use a device. However, using Spiritual Energy has some similarities and differences with regards to using Blastia. Whereas Blastia enhanced techniques by interacting with aer and sending that throughout the body, Spiritual energy requires direct interaction within the body's stamina, though not in the same way of using life force."
"Wait wait wait, slow down a sec. What do you mean by that? The energy being inside of us and we can utilize that?" Rita questioned.
"Wouldn't that be like what Raven and Estelle had to be put through as well?" Karol commented.
"Excess use of Spiritual Energy can only exhaust you, not kill you and a good night's rest or healing via Kido is all it would take to regenerate the spiritual power within the body. Whereas blastia required more aer in order to produce more powerful effects, spiritual power requires one's willpower to be more powerful." Urahara clarified.
Karol gave a sigh of relief. "So Yuri isn't burning himself out then? Good, that got me worried for a sec."
"Another question. When I was standing in front of the so-called A-ranked hollow before my body completely froze. It was like something was being instilled into me."
"The leaking of your spiritual power, the amount of it you can't contain within becomes known as your spiritual pressure; in terms of being in the presence of someone with high spiritual pressure would be the same as having been in the presence of an area with a large density of aer. This effect can be negated if your own spiritual pressure is strong enough to counteract it. In terms of combat, attacks with weaker spiritual power will be overturned by sources with stronger ones as I explained earlier briefly to the two young maidens over there." Urahara points to Judith and Rita standing side by side. Rita casts a glare at him while Judith just giggles innocently. "Magic attacks, like Miss Mordio's fireballs, would be negated and direct combat attacks have the potential to injure the user. In a sense spiritual power could be seen as directly interacting with aer as opposed to using a catalyst to do so, but in this case the aer is your body's own inner strength."
"So that's why I was trumped by that larger hollow." Rita quietly said to herself. "One last question, how do you know if someone is spiritually aware? Does anyone that had used a Bohdi blastia before have that trait?"
"I would say that most bohdi blastia users normally wouldn't be spiritually aware. Yours may have been born through the constant interaction with the Entelexeia and the spirits. In fact I'd say any individual that had any form of contact with those types of beings would be spiritually aware, as well as anyone that happened to be around during the incident on Zaude when the Adephagos returned."
"A large concentration of aer along with the presence of Pharaoh might have triggered it?" Karol questioned.
"Most likely, well as far as I was told by Rukia when she heard it from Yuri." Urahara said to the group. "There could have been earlier instances besides that though. Judith however, being Krityan, should be naturally born with it, the reason why Krityan never noticed Hollows before is because none of them have ever been in combat."
"That makes sense I suppose. So you are saying that I'm natural at this?" Judith pressed on.
"Well, yeah." Urahara said scratching the back of his head with a slight crack of a smile.
Yoruichi walked forward in front of Urahara and attracted everyone's attention. "Getting back on subject we have a proposal for all of you."
"A proposal?" Flynn questioned crossing his arms.
"We know you are all spiritually aware, that's a fact. Now we want to train you how to use your spiritual power that is at your disposal. If you do, then not only will you be able to fight against hollows, but you would also be back at your full strength when you had blastia, perhaps even stronger." Yoruichi explained to the group. Yuri's group gave looks at each other, partly surprised, but also joyful about this news.
Karol was the first to speak out. "If we train, then Yuri wouldn't have to fight by himself anymore right?"
"Well there are things that Yuri can do that you won't be able to even after you train with us. But yeah, you can fight with him again." Urahara interjected.
Karol's face brightened up and ran up to him while fist-pumping his left hand. "Then I'm in! Let's get started!"
"First I have to ask, how exactly are we training?" Judith spoke out, grabbing everyone's attention.
"First off, you need to know some of the fundamentals. We already explained a few, but we'll get into more detail later when we start. Then we will have you adapt that into combat after we teach you basic skills with it. After that, you're all on your own to get stronger." Yoruichi said to the group. Judith had a smirk in the middle of her explanation, but it died in the end.
"Aw, that means I won't have a training partner then." Judith pouted.
"Hey, you could beat down on your boss here then. He seems to have a lot of energy." Urahara joked as he pointed at Karol who was continuing his previous action.
He stopped after the attention was brought to him. "Huh, wait me fight Judith?" Karol began to flail his arms around in anxiety. "Nuh uh, no way, I will drop out of the sky every time I fight her." Everyone has a short laughter at Karol's usual outburst. Repede walked up to him and slapped Karol in the face with his tail to calm him down and barked.
"S-Sorry about that." Karol apologized. Repede grunted and walked back next to Judith. "Anyway, what about you Flynn? You haven't said a thing so far."
Flynn snapped out of his daze and shook his head violently to grab his hold of reality. "Oh, I do have one concern. I would like to do this training but how long would it take to finish basic training and where would we do it?"
"I'm staying in town so we, meaning just the two of us, can train at the outskirts of the city, while Yoruichi here gets the others trained at my shop near Deidon hold. It would take around a week, depending on how willing you are to learn." Urahara told him. "I know that since you're the commandant of the knights that you have to be constantly present. So you can just take care of your duties in the mornings and then you can come out and train with me." There was a slight pause before he continued. "Oh, and Repede will also be joining us since he is needed by Yuri." Repede barked in satisfactory.
"We can take Ba'ul to the shop to shorten travel time. Besides I need to check up on him to see if he's alright." Judith offered.
Yoruichi walked into the center of the group. "Then it is settled. My group will leave tomorrow morning to get things done over at the shop, and Urahara's group will stay here in the city."
"Deal." Yuri's group said in unison.
Yuri's house
Rukia is sitting on Yuri's bed at his side, he was still asleep. Even though she was supposed to be watching him the entire time, she went out earlier to scout around the city for hollow activity. She face-palmed herself realizing how much of an idiot she was to leave him alone, since he is as of now completely vulnerable and any hollow can storm in and kill Yuri in his sleep. But she relaxed herself knowing that Tessai is cleaning house. She rose up and walked over to the table to pick up Noba, who was still in pill form and place it in Yuri's mouth. Yuri's soul was ripped out of his body again and he fell to the floor. Noba, now occupying Yuri's body, is still fast asleep. Which is good considering the body itself was still recovering. Yuri on the other hand, got a rude wakening and stood up, feeling every bone in his body creak as he rose.
"Good, it's about time you woke up." Rukia said to him plainly.
Yuri rubbed the back of his head and shook off the tiredness. "Ow, now that's no way to wake anyone up." Yuri joked. "So what's up?"
"Everyone seems to have gone to speak with Urahara about something. They should be back soon though." Rukia told him. Yuri nodded, sat on the chair behind him, and leaned back. "So for now all we can do is wait until they come around."
"And Repede went with them huh?" Yuri said noticing that he isn't in his bed as usual. "Oh well, I guess Judith and Karol can take care of him." Yuri smirked as he relaxed in his cushioned chair.
The moment was silent, until Rukia spoke out in a low voice. "Listen Yuri, I'm really sorry that this is happening to you."
Yuri sat up straight, in confusion on Rukia's statement. "What do you mean? Things have gotten pretty sour around the time, but hey, we're still here."
"But," Rukia was about to continue, but Yuri's gang walked in and she was cut short. "Never mind." Rukia turned to face the others. "So how did it go?"
Karol walked forward. "Well here's the scenario as it is now." Karol then began to explain what happened in their conversation with Urahara and Yoruichi, along with the support of Flynn and Rita to help clarify things. Yuri, when he was first hearing this, was uncomfortable. But afterwards when they finished explaining he felt a refreshing relief pour over him as his seat became even more relaxing then it already was.
Yuri threw out a sigh of content, and stood up. "I would be more exited, but I'm temporarily crippled at the moment so sorry for not getting excited."
"Wait, I thought you were going to talk us out of it. Didn't you say before that you never wanted us to get involved?" Flynn spoke with a curious tone and concerned look.
"The only reason why I never wanted you to fight a battle that you can never win. If what you say is true, and you can get the ability to fight against the hollows, then I have no objections." Yuri said to the group as he placed his hand on his hip. "It's actually good on my part too. All this time I have always worried about your safety since you couldn't fight them before period. "
"Yuri." Karol said with a mellow tone.
"C'mon boss, don't get all sappy on me now, I just woke up." Yuri joked with a wide grin. "When do you guys start?"
"Tomorrow, we'll take Ba'ul to get to Urahara's shop while Repede and Flynn train here." Judith said to him with her arms crossed behind her.
"I guess I will have to see you guy's off then? You better not leave without me knowing alright?" Yuri said to the group with a commanding tone. All of them nodded in agreement. "Good, now I'm going to take a stroll for now so I'll be back, anyone want to join though?" Repede gave a approving bark, and Karol raised his hand.
Before Yuri could move though, Karol gave out a gasp as if he realized something. He reaches into his bad and pulls out a garment. Upon closer inspection, it was the Dark Enforcer outfit that Yuri was wearing along with his hat, before it got shredded. "I got it fixed up since we changed you into those regular badge pants and shirt."
Yuri's face grew a bit brighter in joy as he grabbed hold of them. "Thanks a lot Karol; this was my favorite outfit too." Yuri places it in the draw to wear later, since he was in soul form and wearing a different uniform now. "Now how about that stroll?"
"I'll come to." Rukia said out loud as she stood up next to Yuri.
"Then it's settled, let's go guys." Yuri finalized and left the room with a company of three.
A/N And thus ends another chapter. So yeah, Yuri's group is going to get some training under Urahara and Yoruichi now. How much strength will they get back or how much more powerful will they become? Find out in the next chapter coming in…hopefully 4 days. Subscribe, Review, Fav, or email. Whatever you feel like doing.