A/N: I have to the The Alchemy Goddess, she is one of my fave reviewers. So thank you. As a reward, you get this chapter. I did have fun writing this chapter. I'm not good at doing fighting scenes so don't judge me. Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Bankai Test: Day One

Hitsugaya's and Brittany sword clashed, sending sparks flying around them. Hitsugaya aimed for his sword to cut Brittany's arm. Brittany dodged it and deflected his sword. She jumped on his shoulders and sent him flying face forward onto the ground. Hitsugaya got up and sighed. "You have definitely improved on sword fighting instead on relaying souly on our zanpakuto. Your upper body strength has doubled since the first day. I would say that now, you are officially ready to take on the bankai test." Hitsugaya brushed off some dust on his haori.

Brittany squealed. "YES!" She yelled. "This is so exciting. Just tell me what to do." She asked.

Hitsugaya nodded. "You will need to notify your captain and him and I will look over the test. We start tomorrow." After he said that, he was gone in a flash.

"YES! Ichigo did you hear that?"

A man walked out of the shadows and smiled. "Yep, that's exciting, Brittany. You get to take the bankai test." He scratched his head. "Yea, I got my bankai within 2 days. Maybe you will get your within a day." Ichigo said.

Brittany smiled and hugged him. "You are really a good friend when you want to be. I can't wait to go home and tell my friends that, if I pass, I get bankai and get to become a captain of squad 6 back in America. That spot has no captain right now. And my best friend is lieutenant of that-" She stopped talking. "Ichigo, why do you looked so sad?" She asked him.

Ichigo put on a fake smile. "It's nothing. Really! I'm glad that you get to take the bankai test. When do you take it?"

Brittany smiled at him. She walked and sat down on a root and patted the spot next to her. "Tomorrow. I needed to talk to my captain so he and Captain Hitsugaya can watch me fight Bailia Aira." She said. "I'll see you later. Bye." And she was off.

Ichigo put his head in his hands. 'What is she doing to me? Always so happy and like a light in someone's life. Her captain is right. Once you get to know her, you can't get enough from her.' Ichigo leaned back into the dirt and thought. Brittany would probably be leaving after she gets her bankai. 'I can't ruin this friendship.' He would just have to wait.

Brittany ran though the streets and searched for her captain. She felt her captain spiritual pressure around the corner. She shunpoed over rooftops and ran into her captain soon enough. "Captain!" She yelled for him.

Jason smiled at his lieutenant. "Hey, Curtis! Why are you shouting?" He said, trying to calm her down because she was jumping everywhere.

Brittany couldn't settle down. "Captain Hitsugaya said that I could take the bankai test tomorrow! He needs you to be there to! Oh, after I get my bankai are we going straight back to America Soul Society?" She finally calmed down enough to ask him.

Jason shook his head. "No, we're not. We are staying her for a month and a half for you to try and get used to your bankai. Then after that, we go home and finish your training there, once you get fully used to it, you become a captain. How is that?" He told her.

Brittany nodded and breathed. "Okay captain. How is Captain Zaraki?" She asked in a innocent voice.

"He is still out. No one knows what cause him to be like that. His lieutenant says that he got into a fight with a powerful soul reaper that can control two elements." He realized what he just said because the only person who zanpakuto can control two elements. He put his arm around Brittany's shoulder. "Brittany, did you happen to run into Zaraki yesterday?" he asked her.

Brittany gasped. "What! I would never do such a thing captain!" She said in her acting voice then laughed. "Yes, sir but I can explain. He wanted to fight me and I fought him." She told her captain.

"Okay. He looked pretty beat up. There is no way you could beat him but then again…." He said to himself.

Brittany giggled. She sighed and stretched. "Captain, it's not my fault he is how he is. Anyway, see you tomorrow!" She waved by to her captain and started running to her favorite spot in the forest.

She settled down on a soft spot in the grass and closed her eyes. She was pulled into her inner world. Bailia Aira was waiting for her. "Hello, child. Is there anything you need?" Bailia Aira asked her.

Brittany smiled and walked over to her and hugged the tiger. "Nice to see you, Bailia Aira, I'm so nervous about tomorrow. What will you do?" She asked the tiger.

The tiger chuckled and lifted it broad shoulders that was meant to be a shrugged. "You will find out soon enough. Now go rest, you will need it for tomorrow." Bailia Aira ran back into the forest, leaving Brittany to herself.

Brittany sat on in her inner world and relaxed. She felt herself being pulled back into her body. She stretched and laid her head on the ground. She drifted into a sleep right there in the meadow of the Japanese Soul Society.

Brittany walked far from the Rukongai Distract. They came to a meadow that belonged to the Seireitei. They were allowed to use long enough to have Brittany take the test.

They stopped and put everything down. Brittany breathed in the fresh air of the meadow. Today, she was going to take the first test of the bankai test. She was so jumpy that her heart was beating really fast. Her hair on the back of her neck was sticking up and goose-bumps covered her arms. She looked at her captain, who was as calm as can be. She looked at Captain Hitsugaya; he had on a straight face and wasn't doing anything except walking towards her with her captain.

Jason watched as Brittany sat down and breathed. He could tell that she was nervous. To be honest, so was he. He didn't want his lieutenant hurt because he knew that she is very close to her zanpakuto.

Hitsugaya walked up to Brittany. "Okay, Curtis. Do you know how to manifest your zanpakuto?" He asked her. She nodded. "Okay, then start when you are ready." He ordered and went over to Jason.

Brittany breathed. 'Okay, Bailia Aira. Time for you to come.' She lifted her zanpakuto so it was in front of her. 'Please come, Bailia Aira.' She thought.

A whooshing sound came from the sword. Brittany looked and saw a lady with a tiger skin on her head and flowed down her back. Her face looked young and covered with blue and red. Her eyes were blue and red also. She was skinning but muscular. She had a tail coming out of her butt that was blue and red also.

Jason looked at the zanpakuto. He knew that Brittany's zanpakuto was a tiger but why did it come out in human form? He wondered.

Brittany smiled at her zanpakuto and walked up to the woman. "Hello. Bailia Aira." She bowed to her zanpakuto.

Bailia Aira chuckled. "Child, you still bow to me when you don't need to." She said in a sweet voice that sounded deep but high at the same time. Bailia Aira looked over to Jason and glared at him, remembering the conversations that she and Brittany had about him. She turned to Brittany. "Child, are you sure you are ready for this task?" Bailia Aira asked her. Brittany nodded. "Okay."

Bailia Aira spread her arms and the fire began to outline one half of the meadow while air outlined the other. The walls were more than 20 feet high. Around were hundreds of boxes of every color, covered with different things. Brittany looked into the eyes of Bailia Aira. "What is the test, Bailia Aira?" Brittany asked her.

Bailia Aira smiled at her. "These boxes represent your heart, child. Each one has a different song. You must find the one that represents you and your heart. When you open one box, I will appear and we will fight until the songs ends. You will have no more than 10 seconds to choose a box. If you don't hurry, a box will just pop into your hand. When you find you soul song, then it will help you win. You will only have a sword. Nothing other than that, child. Try and stab my within my heart. Remember that a song controls how you fight. If the songs speaks to you, than there is a chance that it is your soul song and you will have that time to defeat me." Bailia Aira explained. Brittany nodded. "Are you ready, child?" Bailia Aira asked.

Brittany nodded again. "Just one thing. I want to thank you for this. I will not fail you."

"Then let's begin." Bailia Aira disappeared.

Brittany grabbed a box that black covered with white poka-dots. She opened it and the song that played with: Ke$ha – Dancing with Tears in my Eyes.

Bailia Aira reappeared. Brittany grabbed her sword and the song played in her head. Bailia Aira's left arm was on fire and a cyclone of air was circling around her right head. She threw a tornado at Brittany. Brittany looked at her wide eyed. She dodged at the last second.

'The song isn't fast enough….there we go.' She thought as the song got a better beat. Brittany ran at Bailia Aira.

Bailia Aira threw fire at Brittany who dodged and tired to slice her back but she couldn't. Brittany jump back has the zanpakuto's hand came down behind her. Brittany landed wrong and fell on her butt. A pain came from her arm. Blood was seeping out of the wound. She grabbed her sword and watched Bailia Aira.

Bailia Aira threw fire at Brittany. Brittany dodged but her kimono still caught on fire. She was going to have to change into her normal clothes for tomorrow. Another fire ball went straight for her face. Brittany blocked it with her sword. The song was not even half way done yet. Sweat was beating down her face. A swirl of wind came behind her. She jumped up high enough for it to go under. Brittany didn't notice Bailia Aira was this strong.

Bailia Aira combined the power to make the whip. She cracked it and sent a wave a fire and air towards Brittany.

Brittany dodged the wave. She jumped, the lyrics of Ke$ha's song playing in her heard.

'I'm such a tragedy. With every move I die.' Played in her head. The song had one more minute before it stopped. Brittany stood in front of Bailia Aira. She put one foot behind and took off towards Bailia Aira. Bailia Aira's whips were sword now. Their sword clashed. Brittany thrusted her sword for Bailia Aira's heart. Bailia Aira blocked the sword and cut Brittany's leg a little. Brittany yelped in pain.

Brittany heard the song come to an end and Bailia Aira disappeared once again. Brittany quickly grabbed a box that white with little pink hearts all over. She opened it and the song that played was: George Straight – Carrying Your Love With Me. Brittany yelped has a pained came from her arm. She was knocked to the ground with the song playing in her head. Brittany grabbed her sword and charged Bailia Aira.

The song beat distracted Brittany and Bailia Aira cut her arm again. She cried out in pain. Her sword fell out of her hand and she tumbled towards the wall of fire. Brittany stopped herself and got up. Bailia Aira's whip came around Brittany. She cried as the fire singed her around her and slowly burning her kimono.

Several minutes passed by and the song stopped. Bailia Aira disappeared. Brittany took advantage of this and grabbed her sword but she forgot about the time limit. A box that was white, blue and red popped into her hand. She opened it and American Ride by Toby Keith played in her head. She sighed because this song was okay for fighting.

Bailia Aira's whipped cracked behind Brittany. Brittany turned and stopped the whip from coming towards. Brittany dodged the attacks of the whip but she couldn't attack anytime soon. The beat played in her head. Bailia Aira separated the whip making it become two swords again. She flew towards Brittany. Brittany thrusted the sword into Bailia Aira's heart. 'Yes' she thought.

Bailia Aira smiled. "You may have me in the heart but that song is not your soul song. Try again. You get longer than 10 seconds this time. Choose wisely." Bailia Aira disappeared.

Brittany looked around. A box with skulls on it caught her attention. She decided to open it. The song that played was by Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing. Bailia Aira appeared again.

Ichigo sat around a pond, looking at his reflection. "Who am I kidding?" He said to himself. He put his head in his hands. Two weeks he got to know her. Who would fall in love within two weeks of getting to know someone? He knows that she lived in North Carolina before she died, she was going to college when she died, and she was very close to her dad. He could tell that when she was alive, she was always happy. Nothing could bring her down unlike him. He wasn't himself lately.

Her spiritual pressure felt so familiar but why?

Then it hit him. He remember when he was young, he still wasn't spiritual aware but her could still able to see spirit. He remembered seeing a soul reaper that had bright orange hair like him. Her eyes were blue. She was fighting a hollow that she killed but it injured her and she died.

Could Brittany be a reincarnation of that soul reaper? But how could that be.

He put that thought out of his mind. He thought back to Brittany. The way her hair curled slightly, a smile never left her lips, her blue eyes always shining and iPod always with her, dancing to a song. Ichigo smiled. He never felt love for anyone but this girl comes in and gives him that feeling. He would find a way to thank her. 'I promise that I will thank you, Brittany.' He clenched his fist and sighed and started walking again.

Jason watched Brittany battle her zanpakuto. The day was almost over. Brittany had about 5 minutes left. Several times she succeeded in stabbing her zanpakuto in the heart, extending her time limit. She just needed to find her 'soul song'.

Jason had to fight a few fatherly urges to go and protect her from her zanpakuto. He was jealous at the way Brittany gazed up at her zanpakuto. Almost as if her zanpakuto was her mother. He sighed. Brittany didn't have a motherly figure cause her mother treated her like crap when she was alive. Her mother did show her love sometimes but treated her like a servant. Brittany's father was the only parent she ever felt close to her. He remembered when Brittany told him this. He knew that her memories were fading of her old life, and his too. Within another year, they would only know their life as a soul reaper.

Brittany blocked the zanpakuto's attack. She was sweating and bloody. She had cuts all over her legs, feet, arms, hands, and even face. She placed her sword flat in her hand and blocked another attack. 'What song could be my soul song?' she asked herself.

Brittany lunged to cut her Bailia Aira's arms but failed. Bailia Aira cut Brittany from behind. "You are stronger than this child, think." Bailia Aira advised her. Brittany nodded and her sword clashed with Bailia Aira's. Then Bailia Aira suddenly disappeared. The wall of fire was down and the air one too. Brittany walked over to her captain and smiled.

"I have two more days left?" She asked her captain. He nodded.

Hitsugaya nodded also. "You were very powerful in there. Good job, Curtis." He said to Brittany.

Brittany nodded and walked over to a root. She looked up at her captain who was right behind her. "Did you contact Head- Captain Jean?" She asked Jason.

He shook his head. "I was too busy watching you fight. I'll contact her when you have rested." He smiled and told Brittany to rest for now.

He walked over to Captain Hitsugaya. "What do you think of her fighting ability against something she loves?" He asked the young captain.

Toshiro shrugged. "It looked like she was holding back a while at first then she spiritual pressure boasted and she started fighting better. Captain Aldean, can you answer something for me?" Toshiro looked at the taller captain.

Jason nodded. "Whatcha' need, shorty?" he asked Toshiro.

Toshiro felt a vein throb. "Please refined from calling me 'shorty.' Anyway, Brittany's spiritual pressure feels familiar. It feels like a lieutenant's who died a few years back. Her name was Maylin Heshi. She was loved by everyone in the Seireitei. Her personality seems a little bit like Brittany's.

Jason tilted his head. "Do you think?" He asked the captain.

Toshiro nodded. "Yes, but she died about 15 years back. How old is Brittany?" He asked Jason.

Jason thought for a minute. "She was 14 when she died. That can't really be possible. The time space is impossible. The essence of a soul can't reincarnate that fast." Jason said in a calm voice.

Toshiro shrugged. "As I said, Maylin fits Brittany. Brittany acts like Maylin and Brittany is the lieutenant of squad 8. Maylin was the lieutenant of squad 8 before she died." Toshiro explained.

Jason sighed. "There is only one way to find out." He said.

Toshiro nodded.

A/N: Okay, you have some stuff to think about. Could Brittany be the reincarnation of Maylin? That makes me want to clear up some stuff. In chapters 1 and 6, it said Brittany died a few years back. I decided to change that to a year ago. Brittany could be consider a prodigy or something. She was taught a lot of stuff in that year most definitely. Lets see what happens in the next chapter. "Bankai Test: Day Two". Hope you like the chapter. Please REVIEW!