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In the practice room, Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko and I were trying to teach Ichigo how to concentrate his spirit energy into the orb. I was getting so mad at this point because he can't do it right. They've shown him how to do it many times, but he still fails. I have no idea how we are going to get him to do it.
"NOOOOO!!! That's wrong Ichigo!!" yelled Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko. I finally gave up on Ichigo and helped Orihime. She was actually able to form a perfect orb!
I stood with the others and watched Ichigo try and strain to get spirit energy out. "Come on, Ichigo! Try harder!" yelled Orihime.
"It's supposed to be nuaa, right?" asked Uryu.
"Nuaa........." said Chad. Ichigo strained more and more. I looked over at Uncle so maybe he can help, but he was to busy picking his nose. 'Gross.' I shivered and turned away.
Since we had been practicing for a while, everyone was going to show us if they could form an orb. "Now you please Orihime." said Koganehiko. She tries it out and succeeding in creating a perfect orb. She earned some praises from Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko.
"Now you, Uryu." said Shiroganehiko. He also tries it out, but making a pod-shaped barrier around himeself. "I'll bet that the shape most likely stands from the boy's own personality."
"Chad, your up!" I yelled to him. He also suceeds in making an orb, but it's unstable. "It's a little unstable, but very powerful........great job. And now it's Ichigo's turn.........even if he does make it, he won't be able to do again." Ichigo tries once more, but fails.
"That's terrible!! Just worthless!!" Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko yelled.
"What is that supposed to be?!" yelled Shiroganehiko.
"It means that you absolutely have no talent for this!" yelled Koganehiko.
"You have no talent at all!!" they both yelled. Ichigo threw the ball at Shiroganehiko's face.
"Shiroganehikooooooooo!!!" Ichigo beat them up and told them to teach him some useful pointers. Nothing I did could help him either. He just wasn't trying hard enough!! I checked on the other two and saw that they would be! out of it for a while.
"There not getting up anytime soon........." I grabbed the spirit orb from the floor and walked over to Ichigo. Everyone watched as I shoved the orb into his hands and hit him on the head. "You just knocked out your only help!! Try harder!" I stomped over to Uncle and plopped myself down. "Damn brat.........he's useless. How does he expect to go into the Sereteii with no skills at all?" It all seemed useless now.........
Later...........
Ichigo still kept trying, but with no luck. He was sweating profusely and refused to give up just yet. He was somewhat making progress, but he never made a big enough orb. I kinda felt bad that he couldn't do it while everyone could.
The doors by my side opened and one of Ganju's fellow boar-riders poked his head in. "Excuse me, bossman. Sorry to interrupt what your doing, but dinner's ready."
Uncle stood up and said, "Guys, listen up! Why don't we take a break, dinner's ready. I bet you guys are starving."
"I suppose we could eat." said Uryu.
"You didn't get to eat in the Rukonga District, did you? Well those guys over there don't know how to use their spirit energy, so their not hungry. So why don't you three go eat."
"Okay, but what about-"
"Never mind about me. Go on ahead and eat. I'll join you guys when I'm done." Ichigo said while panting.
"Alright, if your sure then I guess we will. Come on, let's go and eat Orihime." They started to walk out, but Orihime stayed put.
"Oh Uryu, I'm not hungry at all yet so I'll just hang out here for a while!" Orihime's stomach growled which told me otherwise. "Okay, busted! Maybe I am hungry! This is embarassing...." She scratched the back of her head. 'I'm kinda hungry too now that I think about it.'
"Orihime, go on. It's okay I'll be fine." Ichigo didn't want Orihime to worry about him.
"I know that, it's just that I want to stay and pratice some more. Besides, I'm not really that hungry really!"
"Orihime, please..........do it for me." I sweat-dropped. 'How odd...'
"Okay! I'll do it just because your asking me so nicely. I'm going to go then." she stared at Ichigo's back.
"Orihime, are you going to join us?"
"Okay, let's go eat. I'm starved." She looked back once more before leaving. Once they left, Ichigo praticed again. Uncle and I watch as he tries again, this time making a barrier, but one that isn't spherical. He drops the orb. Uncle grabs it before Ichigo can.
"So, she that important to ya?" Uncle had the ball spin on his finger.
"Huh?"
"That girl, the other Soul Reaper. You know, the one you came to save?"
"Not really." Ichigo grabbed the ball from his finger. 'I'm confused......why would he go through all this trouble to save her then?' I scratched my head and thought. Nothing made sense.
"Huh?" Even Uncle was puzzled.
"Give it here!"
"I know why your doing this. It's gotta be because you promised to save her, right?"
"No, that's not it."
"Then it's money, that's gotta be it! She promised to pay you if you saved her, huh?"
"No way! How the hell am I supposed to use money from here in my world?!"
"Then why go through all this trouble to save Rukia?" I asked. They both looked at me.
"I owe her!"
"For what exactly?" He walked a little ways and stopped.
"You see, she saved my life. I haven't repaid her yet. She gave me her power in order to save me and my family, even though she just met me. Because of that, she was captured. Now she's about to be executed." He turned his head to look back at us. "I don't want to turn into some kind of deplorable guy who had just turned his back on her, understand? What now?" I nodded at him.
"I understand. Rukia was a really good friend of mine and she also did something for me and I never repaid her back. But there is another thing I wanted to say.....................how are you going to rescue Rukia if you can't even make an orb?" Uncle snatched the orb back. "Wow, so mature. I'm acting like the adult here......"
"What're you doing?! Give it back to me!"
"I've got practice myelf." Uncle walked further away with the ball once again spinning on his finger. "So cover your ears, I don't want you to hear my technique. I'm gonna do some work on an old trick I developed for myself a while back." His back was to me and Ichigo.
"But uncle, you know what can happen, right? If he doesn't concentrate his energy, we'll blow up with him! Why aren't you listening to me?!" I had an anger-mark on my head.(The *'s in the chapter means that Sachi is talking in the back while her Uncle is talking about his technique. It's probably obvious but yeah.....................ok back to story!)
"Visualize this...........*I'm leaving!!*draw a circle inside your mind, as dark as possible, then as heavy as possible.*If anyone asks, I have no clue what went on in here.....*Then imagine yourself jumping right into the center of the circle. This is a basic imaging technique that allows you to get in touch with your spirit energy." Uncle creates an orb that fully encases him. "I could cry it's so easy. I didn't even have to practice it." He removes the barrier until it disappears. "Well, sorry about that. Besides since you totally suck, I doubt you'd be able to do it like I can anyway." He threw the orb behind him, Ichigo catches it. "Good luck." He slammed the door behind him.
"That guy is one bad actor." Ichigo mumbled to himself. I still faced the door contemplating whether I should leave or possibly stay? 'If something goes wrong, Aunt Kukaku will have my ass........' I decided to leave, but before I left Ichigo said, "I will rescue Rukia. There's no need for you to worry."
"I know and I'll make sure that you do. I'm going, too." I smiled and walked out of the room. 'Now to get as far away as possible.' I turned to run, but I tripped over a body. "What are you still doing here?! I don't know about you but I'm leaving!" But it was too late.
A loud boom was heard and the house was suffering violent tremors. The arms outside were about to fall. Bright light was coming out from the practice room. Aunt Kukaku came running over to us. "What the hell's going on?! Ganju, I'm talking to you!" Anger was evident on her face.
"I'm so sorry, sis. It's just that, I only showed him once I never thought that it would turn out like this! His spirit energy is strong, but he's outta control!" Now everyone else came running down the hallway. Aunt Kukaku opened the door. I saw Ichigo floating in the air with the spirit orb.
"You stupid idiot! Concentrate your spirit energy!" He does so and finally made a spherical barrier.
"I did it!" Ichigo rejoiced.
"Great! You did it, Ichigo!" yelled Orihime.
"Yeah!" Their joy short-lived as he loses concentration and the barrier starts to crack and break.
"You ignorant dumbass! You gotta stay focused!!" yelled Aunt Kukaku. The barrier blows up shortly after. "What are you?! Freaking deaf or freaking stupid?! Remember I told you if you don't concentrate your gonna blow up!" chided Aunt Kukaku.
"Y-Yes you did......" Uncle Ganju walked up to Ichigo, arrogantly.
"Next time, just be sure not to do this." saying matter-of-factly. Aunt Kukaku beat him up as well.
"Your as guilty as he is, smuck! Both of you, no food tonight!!" I shook my head at the scene.
"But why?!" said Ichigo, hysterically.
"Come on! You can't lump me together with him!"
"Shut up!" Aunt Kukaku stomped on Uncle's head. This kind of thing happened all the time with these two. Uncle always did something to have my Aunt beat him up.
"I told him not to do it. He just wouldn't listen to me............now he's getting beat up and I feel happier inside." I shook my head and looked over at the three.
"Hey you should be punished, too! You could have stopped me!"
"Whatever!! Your stubborn ass never listens to me!"
"You could have what?! My place would be nice and not blown up if you had stopped your Uncle, huh?" Aunt Kukaku slowly made her way towards me. She began to create a ball of energy again. 'Crap, crap, crap!! I had to go and open my stupid mouth!'
I looked at my invisible wrist watch and said, "Look at the time! I must get going, see ya!" I sped out of the room quickly and to the stairs of the entrance. I ran up, looking back to see my Aunt.
"Get back here brat so I can kick your ass!!" A path of fire was left behind.
"No way!! Your gonna burn me up!!"
Meanwhile in Soul Society...........
The door to the first division headquarters opens up. A man with silver hair, squinted eyes and a wide smile on his face walked inside. "So, your here." A voice boomed. Inside the room, all of the 11 divsion captains stand. "Captain of squad Three, Gin Ichimaru." The voice boomed once again.
"An unexpected summons. Tell me, should I be apalled or impressed? And look at this distinguished crowd, the captains control the Soul Society, all here just for me? Or am I mistaken?" Walking in further, he stopped by the Captain of squad Ten. "I see the Captain of squad Thirteen is conspicuously absent. What's wrong? Did something happen to him?"
The blind Captain of squad Nine spoke up. "He's not feeling very well."
"Oh, not again. I hope he gets well soon." Gin said, uncaring.
Another man spoke up. He was the Captain of squad Eleven. "Quit joking around. You know that's not the reason you were summoned here. It's my understanding that he went and played with that Ryoka by your self, didn't you? And I also hear that you failed. Explain yourself! You should have no trouble dealing with four or five Ryokas without back up."
Facing the Captain, Gin says, "I see. So then your saying that they survived?"
"They what?!"
"Well, I was under the impression that they were dead. But I guess my instincts are starting to fail me."
The Captain of squad Twelve laughs. "Stop all this monkey business right now! There's absolutely no way that captain's, such as us, could fail to instantly tell whether an opponent's spirit has ceased to exist."
The Captain of squad Ten looks away. "Oh no, not again. Old fools caught up in stupid bickering."
"Can you not see. Your petty acusations seem to imply that I let him go on purpose." said Gin.
"That's exactly what I'm saying!" yelled the Captain of squad Twelve.
"Shut up, Kurotsuchi! Can't you see I was the one who was talking to him first!" Stepping up as well as Captain Kurotsuchi, the Captain of Squad Eleven says, "Or perhaps you'd rather be done in by me?"
"What did you say?!" yelled Captain Kurotsuchi.
"So stupid~." said the Captain of squad Two.
Tipping his hat, the Captain of squad Eight replies, "Well, whatta ya know? Tempers are running high today."
"STOP!" A voice booms. The Captain of squad One, the one who rules over all the other Twelve Divisions. "Enough of this foolishness!" The room became quiet and everyone averted their eyes to the Captain. "I think the true reason for which you have been summoned here, to stand before your peers, has been made adundantly clear. It is the fact that you acted alone........That coupled with the fact that you also permitted the target to escape. So then, how do you defend your actions, Ichimaru?" The room was once again silenced, intent on what Captain Ichimaru had to say.
Finally speaking he says, "I can not." Rubbing his head, he explained. "Well, you see there's nothing to say. I made a simple mistake. I'm not going to stand here and make excuses. I'll except whatever punishment-"
"Just a minute Ichimaru." The Captain of squad Five spoke up. "I have something that I want to ask you, first." Ichimaru just smiled and said nothing.
Outside an alarm was sounded, calling for all divisions to take defensive positions. "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! INTRUDERS IN THE SEIREITEI! ALL SQUADS GET TO POSITION! REPEAT, RED ALERT!! RED ALERT! INTRUDERS IN THE SEIREITEI! ALL SQUADS GET TO POSITION!"
"Those Ryoka?! It can't be!" said the Eleventh squad Captain in disbelief.