I was probably staring at the door that was freshly ajar for about five minutes. I was still trying to absorb what happened, or at least a better sense of it. Did I really make him that mad? Even though the typical person would have used this as the perfect opportunity to roll into sleep here on the floor, I picked myself up. A few moments later, I was sluggishly easing out into the hall way to find the temperamental shinigami. It took a good few minutes to make sense of where the exits were since it wasn't the architecture I was used to with doors and knobs and simple walk ways. I eventually found myself back at the cashier station near the front of Urahara's shop. Despite Renji redressing my wounds, I leaned against the side of the register table, wrapping my arms around myself.

"Ugh. Where is he?" I moaned in frustration as I watched a few colors flash before my eyes on the other side of the sliding glass window panes. "…"--The hell is going on?" I squinted and leapt backwards as a body crashed through the front doors.

"Aaaaaaaaaarghhhhhh!" Renji groaned as he struggled to get himself off of the ground. He wasn't wearing his horribly mismatched clothes anymore. He was wearing his usual black and white shinigami attire, with his hair tied up into its usual spikes. He used Zabimaru as a support system to swing back through the gaping hole that he created. Glass shards scattered across the floor as he flew past.

I stood there awe struck as I watched him fight a gigantic hollow that was shaped like a devilish mammoth that shone like a ferocious bleeding elephant against the moonlight.

"--KISA!" - A large piece of debris of mangled trash cans hit in my direction. I panicked and dove into the opposite direction. I felt blood trickle somewhere in my mouth from where I fell. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? MOVE DAMNIT!" Before I could react, I suddenly felt myself being roughly dragged across the tile floor. I tried to kick my legs against it but it only clung onto me tighter.

10 seconds - I dug my nails into the ground as the force pulled me across the pavement

30 seconds - My blood pressure violently shoots up as I'm being tossed into the air and then suddenly dropped

50 seconds - My jaw, hip bone, elbow, forearm, knees and skull hit the ground with an alarming crash. I feel new sores develop on certain spots on my limbs.

"SHIT!" - The creature had its trunk wrapped tightly around my body. The more I moved, the more pressure was added. I started gasping for air as it tried to suffocate me. I could hardly scream as loudly as I wanted to since the oxygen was rapidly being shut off from my lungs.

The trunk suddenly loosened and I slipped beneath the trunk and started to fall. But Renji was lucky enough to grab me.

"The hell' is wrong with you? You move like you're 400 pounds or something!" He spat into my face, clearly aggravated as he held me and miraculously blocked the creature's trunk-punch attacks with his sword. I muttered 'I'm sorry' to him because at this point, I hardly had the strength to cuss him out, despite everything.

Within at least a few more minutes, I felt my body being rested on the cold pavement as I watched Renji unleash the finishing blow to the hollow's neck, removing its head completely. I smiled at the now blood soaked shinigami as he turned in my direction. I swear to God, his stare was something different.

…I heard the distinct echo of clogs resonate in the distance and when I started to nod off because the pain quickly migrated from tolerable to knock out status. "Renji, can't you do anything right? You weren't supposed to leave her half dead."

"Pffft. You're one to talk."

I suddenly felt my body rising and pressing against a firm smooth chest. I was waiting for the soothing aroma of japanese spice before my nostrils were betrayed with the scent of vanilla mingled with fish. "Don't look so surprised to see me, do you?" she chuckled in a low whisper as she hoisted me over her back as she tried to move back into the shop. However, she didn't get very far.

"ARGH!" She yelled as a large spiked trunk shot in her direction and smashed down on top of her. Yet she managed to roll over just in time, with it barely missing her by a few inches. She whipped her head over my way then stared daggers at Renji, who was currently baffled and cursing at the fact that the once headless hollow had hydra'd itself out and now had 3 new heads.

"YOU'VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME." I sat there, mortified as Renji and Yoruichi each struggled to subdue the savage elephant. Even though Yoruichi was obviously the stronger one, the energy she neatly channeled into her attacks still didn't knock out the appendages coming her way. I had to do something.

Even though every single cell in my body was collectively screaming to stay put or at least crawl way, I pushed my body to ease myself out of my shaded protected darkness. Blood spewed out of my sides as I began to tremble when I finally managed to walk correctly. I didn't even feel like myself. I suddenly felt this natural instinct ……to move forward and fight.

"KISA, WHAT ARE YOU---?" Renji screamed as I drew closer. What was odd was that even though i was internally freaking out, I felt a trickle of calm somewhere in looking up at the night sky for a few moments. The stars twinkled like freshly cut diamonds and the moon gee nerously washed the wreckage and bloodshed in a pale, unforgiving light. As each second passed, the pores on my skin began to tingle as though they were being kissed with alcohol. One by one, little twinkles of my own began to form across my arms. By the time I had tuned Renji's chain of insults back in, the area from my elbows to my finger tips were lightly glowing and fading with color.

It felt as if I had to..put this new found energy somewhere… I raised my arm in the air and a large ellipse formed off of my skin and into the air in front of me. It was about the size of my head. When I tried to touch it, it felt hot to the touch. What was I supposed to do?

"Try firing it off or throwing it!" Yoruichi called over to me while she dodged a series of attacks aimed at her. I hesitated and grabbed hold of the ring and flung it over in the hollow's direction like a chakram. It got slightly bigger the further it went before it roughly smacked into the creature and pierced a large portion of skin on the neck of its middle head. It howled in pain and began to charge in the direction of Urahara's shop. Renji and Yoruichi chased after it but before it was within at least a few feet of the shop, Urahara dropped in front of the shattered sliding door panes from the roof above. He formed a shield like bubble that materialized with every strike the hollow threw at him. He glanced over at me.

A smile spread across his lips. "Ms. Nakata, if you wouldn't mind, I'll need another one of those handy spirit rings." I stood there dumbfounded for a moment before I understood what he meant. I mumbled an inaudible apology as I rose another arm into the air and waited for another one to appear. As commanded, a ring did appear, but it was distinctively fainter than before. I slid my fingers across it and spun it over to him. It flew through the air and landed like a bangle around his wrist.

He moved the ring between both of his hands and with a flick, they were suddenly neatly divided in two. He continued the process until he had about six smaller rings and he twirled his hand around in a circle until they all followed each other in one large ring. Finally, the barrier between him and the hollow subsided and he drew a thick, bleeding gash into the animal. The gash spread through out its entire body and it howled one last time before crashing sideways onto the ground beneath it. A black pool coated its demise.

"….And THAT is how to slay a hollow with a little team work!" Urahara exclaimed, perking up to the disgruntled faces of Renji and Yoruichi as they walked towards the shop. Before Renji set foot near there, however, he towered over me and scooped me into his arms. I felt a combination of utter excitement and disgust as I blushed against the bulging muscles, yet winced at the putrid smell of hot sweat sticking to his skin alongside me.

"Can there be a minute where you're NOT a a damn damsel in distress?" He commented dryly as my eyes fought a bold fight to stay open once we were protected in the comforting shadows of the shop. I eventually lost and the last thing I remembered was the feeling of being laid down on something soft, yet a tad uncomfortable on the floor somewhere………….

~ Urahara's Office ~

"….Aye, I think I'll have to call Orihime down for this." The scruffy blonde sighed as he folded his arms against his chest. Renji wanted to angrily retort at how this was probably all Urahara's fault, but the most he could stab him with was a lazy glare. His wounds were starting to get to him.

"I think its safe to say that we suffered a few figurative casualties in the name of 'science.' " Yoruichi flatly stated.

"Aww, Yoru-san, you make it seem as if you had no faith in me!" He pouted and batted a playful fan at her. Despite her wanting to tear his head off, friend or not, her demeanor relaxed as his had.

"Either way, can we say that we're done experimenting? And the little lab rat successfully passed through the maze, even though it only chewed through the walls to get to the end?" she asked, before adding -…"And I already assume that you're going to tell us what sort of power she was using exactly."

Urahara grinned and actually took off his hat. "I'm not 100% sure of this, but I believe its called 'Cosmic Radiation.' Basically meaning that Ms. Nakata sleeping a room away can harness and manipulate the power of the stars." As soon as he finished, he was met with two faces of questioning, yet equally shocked stares.

"….I saw Rukia trying to do research on that once. There's only 2 people on record that have clarified that it exists. There's hardly even enough data or theory to support it. Someone with THAT kind of power..can't be real." He shook his head and glanced at the open room behind him. " …There's no way. I'll call you out for bullshit on this one, Urahara."

"You act so surprised to hear what it is, even though you each solidify another 'two' people to have seen it with your own eyes." Yoruichi rolled her eyes and arched her back against the wall, like usual. "Well, at least that explains things."

"This also means that her training begins right after her wounds fully heal with Orihime's help in a few days. It became blatantly obvious that whatever she has doesn't revolver around her own critical condition." A light shadow passed over his eyes.

"--It relies on the critical conditions…of everyone else."