I Own Nothing
It turned out he had been out for two Weeks. Which, was not neary as bad a it could have been. What really had gotten under Ichigo's skin, was that no one would let him do anything for another Three days. Three whole days; where he was perfectly fine and could have been training.
Ichigo wasn't trying to push himself, but he was running out of time. If he wanted to be back for the start of his 4th year he needed to be able to exist in the world of the living, without disintegrating his classmates. And he missed his family.
Apparently, Yuzu and Karin had been filled in on everything. Ichigo was not looking forward to that conversation. Karin had known some of it but this would be new to Yuzu and correcting whatever elaborate story goat-face had told them would be a pain.
But knowledge was not everything, even if Kisuke brought them to the soul society through his special senkaimon (something Ichigo didn't want to think about) his Reiatsu would crush them. In order for him to see them again he needed to get his Reiatsu under control.
On top of all that, doing nothing all day was starting to drive him stir crazy.
The only reason he had even simi-willingly stayed in bed as long as he had, was because Kisuke had assured him that he had accomplished the original task, be it somewhat haphazardly. Keeping his zanpakuto sealed was not a factor, he just needed to have the skill and ability to do so. Moral of the story was that as soon as he was allowed to get out of bed, Ichigo could begin working on sealing his power.
So, Ichigo spent his days dottling about the house being told to get back to bed and memorizing names. Thanks to a dare from Rukia and Renji, he was also studying Shino academy textbooks. Apparently neither of them though he could pass the graduation exam, he was going to prove them wrong... when the academy reopened. This also lead to him sneaking out in the middle of the night to try out thing he had learned. Such as Hodo tactics, Zanjutsu forms, Kido, and bakudo spells.
To his great surprise and relief, he had a knack for Bakudo. All of the Hado spells blew up in his face, but the Bakudo ones just took a bit of creative thinking and practice. By the second night, Ichigo had soundproof Kekkai around his room.
He was now staying in an old Shiba house in a secluded part of the Rukon. Courtesy of his cousins. When he had passed out in a pool of his own blood, he completely lost control of his Reiatsu. The tent they had been in was destroyed and there was a now a crater a mile in diameter around where he had been sitting. It was a miracle that no one had been seriously injured.
Lucky, everyone else had been far enough away that the 'event' was felt but no no one was badly affected and his friends were strong. Surprisingly strong. In fact, Kisuke had mentioned that their progress was beginning to resemble his own. Rukia and Renji had added that hanging around him was like being back in the Reishi rich air back in the Soul Kings dimension. Just being around him so often was making his friends stronger by the second. Ichigo really didn't know how to feel about that.
After he had somewhat stabilized, they had moved him here just to be safe. All of this added up to Ichigo having his own room, for which he was very grateful.
The nightmares had started and more often than not he woke up screaming. The voices of nameless faceless Shinigami questioning why he couldn't save them, still ringing in his mind. He hated pitiful looks he was always given over breakfast, making it clear that everyone heard him. Therefor, he was beyond relieved when the morning after he tried the sound proof Kekkai, Orihime commented that she was glad he was feeling better. Ichigo felt a little bad for tricking his friends into thinking he was doing better but he couldn't stand them worrying about him.
By the time Kisuke finally announced that he could start training with seals Ichigo was desperate to have something to do. So here he was, listening to a lecture on... "Sealing! While there are numerous seals there are only three that deal with power while allowing the affected individual to continue with a normal life." Ichigo nodded. He had read this yesterday, not that he would tell Kisuke that.
"The first is a seal place by one soul onto another like what I did with Aizen. But, there are several reasons why this won't work for you. First, the casters Reiryoku would have to be greater than your own and at this point, no one like that exist. Second, even if we could where your Reiryoku down to the point someone could cast one on you, you would never be able to break it. The caster or some one else would have to disable it." Ichigo scowled, even if there weren't any current threats but Ichigo really didn't like the idea of being completely cut off from his Reiryoku.
"The second," Kisuke continued. "is the artificial kind of seal that Capstans get when they go the the world of the living. Unfortunately, these will also not work for your. Again Reiryoku would at least need to be sensible and in order to remove it, you need permission from the 12th." Ichigo snorted this time. Even if it was possible, there was no way in hell he was trusting Kurotsuchi with that kind of power. The only thing the creepy capstan wanted was to dissect him.
As if reading this thoughts, Kisuke grin widened. "I didn't think so, thus we are left with option three. The self imposed seal. Theoretically there should be no problems with this. Because it is self imposed sensing your Reiryoku is not a problem and you will be able to release it whenever you want. You needed to be capable of sealing your zanpakuto because the power sealing process is similar, if inverse." Ichigo nodded in acknowledgement and Kisuke continued, suddenly very serious.
"Good, now before we really begin I do have a warning for you Ichigo."
That caught his attention. Ichigo studied Kisuke face a moment before responding with a "O?"
"It is possible to have more than one seal and in your case it is probably going to be necessary. But you need to use as few as possible." Ichigo raised an eyebrow. That was very ominous. Kisuke sighed "When a seal is released, it comes along with a pinching sensation that most Shinigami don't notice because of the rush of Reiryoku. But, when two or more seals are stacked on top of each other, a phenomenon known as Reiryoku Compression happens. Regardless of how much power each seal holds, stacking seals causes each subsequent release to become more painful. If the first release feels like a pinch the second would be a punch and so on and so forth."
Ichigo nodded again. If he was ever in a situation where he needed his power, being incapacitated by pane would not help.
"Great!" the man exclaimed, shifting back to his energetic self. "Now this is for you." Kisuke pulled out a small electronic device that looked suspiciously like a Geiger counter. "Now if you would hold this here." Ichigo complied taking the rod into his hand.
"I have been studying your Reiryoku for a while now" that caused Ichigo to raise an eyebrow but Kuseke ignored him. "and I believe I have created a device that will help track it for you." With that Kisuke pressed a button and the screen began to flash. After a few second a digital 100.00% appeared in glowing green numbers. Kisuke's delight at his invention working was nearly palatable.
"Once you get yourself down to about captains level of Reiryoku I have a few devices to bring you down to the level of a normal human. That will hopefully stop drawing so many hollows to Kudikara town."
Ichigo nodded. He and his spirits agreed that the less power he had the better. Ichigo wanted to stop attracting trouble, Tensa said that working on his Quincy abilities was not a possibly the way he was now, Shiro claimed that there wouldn't be any good fights if they just disintegrated their opponents by standing too close to them, and Miko really didn't care.
"So you have a week, get to it Ichi-kun!"
Ichigo couldn't help got gape. "WHY DO I ONLY HAVE A WEEK?"
"Well if you want to be back by the start of the school year, you have 1 week" Kisuke restored as if it was to most obvious thing in the world
Ichigo quickly did the math be for exploding "WHAT! There is at least three weeks before school why do I have to learn this in one?"
"We need to be sure everything still works properly once you are in your body. If something does go wrong we will need time to fix it. You also work best under pressure." The shopkeeper answered with a grin.
Ichigo grumbled under his breath. He couldn't exactly argue with that first part.
"Now whatever you did to seal your swords you need to do the opposite. Pull your Reiryoku away from your power source and lock it up somewhere picturing a symbol usually helps. Gentei Seiyaku is the command phrase and Gentei Kaijo releases it."
Ichigo nodded, closed his eyes and focused. He had gotten a lot better with this visualization idea thanks to his experimentation with Bakudo. So imagining a chest, heavy and wooden, something that would not break easily didn't take to long. The first symbol that popped in his head was a white crescent moon (Definitely Zangetsus influence). As soon as the image was in his head, it appeared on the lid of the chest. Taking a deep breath Ichigo pulled as much Reiryoku he could from his power source and dumped it into the chest. To his dismay pulling power ways was mentaly much harder than pulling it in. There was just so much of it, his power was unwieldy. Finally when the couldn't concentrate any more he mentally slammed it closed and locked it, with a mental padlock by muttering Gentei Seiyaku.
Opening his eyes, Ichigo's attention was immediately drawn to the device as it beeped and flash 99.99% Ichigo groaned as Kisuke smirked.
"Have fun Ichi-kun!" the shopkeeper sang and he skipped away.
Ichigo sowed. It was going to be a very long weak.
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