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TheInflictedFinger

XKyuubiDatenshiX

Princess-Lazy-Chan

V1r1d1an

Wulf4life

No note this time for I am too busy haunting Wulf4life.

"If Tamashii no Kyōmei was awakened because of that drug. Does that mean Dokuganryu is going to disappear once they drug is out of my system?"

"Most likely…"

"That's kinda depressing"

I frowned. It's going to be lonely with out his old man voice barking at me when I did something wrong or dumb.

"Who's Dokuganryu?"

"A bird dog chimera that lives in my brain"

"…."

"Wow… were you dropped on your head as a baby?"

"Shouldn't you be licking your genitals or something?" I snickered watching Yoruichi's face morph into disgust.

"I'm going to act like I didn't hear that…" she grumbled sending the laughing Kuukaku and me a fierce glare before continuing.

"First, I want to test out your speed" I blinked frowning. I'm not a fan of running.

"Wait!!!! You're gonna run around in your birthday suit?!" she looked at me funny before changing back into a cat.

"It seems you've failed to notice Bonnie-Chan!" Yoruichi smirked a wicked glint in her eyes. I glanced to my left and sure enough the boar was leashed to a tree staring at my feet with her hungry eyes.

Yoruichi raised her paw above the leash. I narrowed my eyes, Yoruichi just landed herself on my hit list.

SQUEEEEEEE!!

The boar launched at me snapping her jaws towards my ankles. I grinned taking off. I could totally out run a pig… or so I thought.

Bonnie-Chan caught me in a matter of seconds and started gnawing on my foot. Yoruichi and Kuukaku laughed as I tried to drag myself away from the animal.

"Oii! I'm gonna eat cha for breakfast!" I reached into my jacket whipping out my gun attempting to shoot the pig from hell.

Did I shoot her in the end?

Yes, yes I did.

Sadly the little shit didn't die.

"Oi, if I say a verb then shout my name. Will blades shoot out of my hands or something?"

"I highly do-"

"Howl! Karissa Evans!"

Yoruichi sweat dropped watching me strike many different poses shouting random verbs and my name while Kuukaku laughed holding onto her stomach.

"Shoot him dead! Karissa Evans!"

"Go go Extend-o sword!"

"Why would you yell that?!"

"Because every Shinigami I've seen had an extend-o sword! So I figured an extend-o sword would shoot out of my hand…or something cool like that"

"Extend-o sword?"

"Yeah! That Ichimaru guy and Renji both had swords that extended!"

Yoruichi rolled her yellow slits while Kuukaku stared at me with furrowed eyebrows.

"Well I did what I came to do, Slowpoke is all yours" Yoruichi said leaving me behind with Kuukaku.

"You ready?!" she shouted flames burning behind her eyes.

"Yeah!" I shouted trying to be as excited as her.

"Well let's see how strong those scrawny little arms are!"

She shouted punching a tree. The poor thing snapped in half crashing to the ground with a loud thunk.

She gave me a challenging smirked, instantly firing up my competitive side. I grinned and punch a different tree.

Tink.

Pfft!

"Wh-what was that?!" Kuukaku laughed watching me jump from foot to foot shaking my, now bruised, right hand. A light tapping noise made me look up only to have a pinecone crash into my nose.

"Hahaha! You're so lame!"

"Sh-shut up!" I barked holding my nose. I took in a deep breath letting it out slowly.

"I was just messing around!"

"Right, just to let you know I've never had an apprentice before and Yoruichi told me you learn by doing it so…"

"What" Kuukaku stared at my confused face before cracking up.

"..."

"…"

"You little perv!"

"You didn't have to word it like that!"

"You didn't have to think like that!"

"Touché"

"As I was saying, we're just going to beat da hell outta each other until your power awakens in a cliché fashion"

"Sounds like fun~"

"We'll see about that!"

I ducked narrowly missing the prosthetic arm aimed at my head. She sent a kick towards my head, I blocked with my forearm twisting on my heel planning on tripping her. She back flipped out of the way as I expected.

If she's going to use predicable moves on me then I'm going test out my newest trick on her. Besides I've haven't used it in combat, it's probably best if I find out if it's useful or not. I glanced towards the sky searching and dodging at the same time. Yes, I'm a good multi-tasker.

"What hell're you doin'? Pay attention!" she barked slamming her fist o' fire onto the ground close to my feet making me lose balance. I fell backwards seeing her leg above my form ready to swing down and end the fight.

Wrestling instincts kicked in. I turned slightly placing my left palm on the ground focusing all my weight onto that arm while my right leg hooked onto Kuukaku's raised leg.

With my left arm I pushed myself up swinging my knee into her side while using my wrapped leg to, sort of, pole vault myself away from her next attack.

I smirked I found what I was looking for; The North Star.

My right foot was pointed to Kuukaku while I slid my left foot across the ground so it was parallel to my right pointing away from me.

"Right foot; Northeast. Left foot; Southwest"

My fists loosened, one protecting my chest the left closer to my hip, knuckles towards Kuukaku.

Kuukaku brought out her katana with a wicked smirk while I gave her a grin that mirrored the Cheshire cat's.

A straight jab towards my right clavicle. I dragged my right south while my left went north switching my position completely. I reached out gripping her wrist tugging her forward. Switching my position again I slammed my right palm into the back of her neck. She fell, rolled, and got right back up huffing slightly.

"What the hell kinda crazy ass technique is that?"

"Tian family; YinYang Bagua Zhang. It's a mouthful I know but it's fun as shit to do"

"Hmph. I underestimated you, kid. Let's try something a little more complicated. Ne?"

We both smirked getting into our individual fighting stances. I might as well through in another cheap trick.

"Tamashii no Kyōmei"

The Soul Society is made up of Reishi or spirit particles. And what does Tamashii no Kyōmei do? It attaches to spirit particles whether it be in a human, Shinigami, tree, and even a rock. All I had to do was focus.

If I did this properly I would be like drinking a Monster, getting my energy back but I'll crash in a matter of moments.

And if I didn't do it right. I'd faint as you probably know by now.

Adrenaline pumped through my veins and my senses heightened.

"Hell yeah I did it right!"

I gave Kuukaku a cocky smirk making the 'bring it on' gesture with my hand. I could tell she was confused with what I was doing. However, if she used her fist o' flame technique again I might figure out how to do it.

Kuukaku slashed and slashed at me each time getting closer and closer to cutting me. She's starting to see through the technique.

Kuukaku smirked at me as her blade grazed my left shoulder. Yep, she caught on. Time to switch it up again.

As she brought her blade closer towards me instead of deflecting and counter attacking. I just attacked.

Kicking her straight in the chest with a grin on my face.

Simple, I know but it's still affective since she was expecting the previous technique I was using.

"Damnit, would you stick to one thing!"

"Nope~"

"How about stoppin' that damn Tamashii thing it's making me nauseous."

"Not until you do the flaming fist thing!"

I grinned at her placing my hands on my knees panting lightly. She slapped her forehead.

"You sneaky little shit! You don't care if ya awaken some other power! You just want mine!"

"Wrong. I don't want your power. I just want to learn the punch move so I can yell 'Falcon punch!' every time I do it"

"…"

"…"

"You're …joking right?"

"Nope~"

A cigarette hung loosely from my lips as a plopped to the ground followed by Kuukaku. She lit up her pipe and looked to the sky lazily.

The stars were in full bloom right now and I couldn't help but wonder if the rest of them managed to learn how to work the spirit orb.

"This is were people go after the die right?"

"If yer good and don' have any regrets, yeah"

"Oi, if I get killed in there will I re-spawn out here some where in like thirty seconds?"

"Nope. But ya better not go dyin' on me"

I grinned folding my hands behind my head. I yawned rolling to my side closing my eyes.

However, my nap was short lived.

The ground shook around Kuukaku's house making her gasp and jump to her feet hauling ass towards her home.

I sighed placing a hand on my grumbling stomach. Now is the perfect time to raid the kitchen!

I grinned snatching a bag of chips munching them happily while slowly walking towards the practice hall. The vibrations felt kinda nice on my sore feet. It reminded me of the quarter foot massage chairs at Disneyland.

"I did it!"

The vibrations stopped and the tension I walked into seemed to disappear.

"You did it, Kurosaki-kun!"

"Idiot! Don't lose your concentration!"

"Huh?"

The orb Ichigo was in began to crack around his beaming figure and then it shattered completely.

"Weren't you listening to what I said?! I said if you break your concentration, you'd go boom! Didn't I?!" Kuukaku shouted rubbing Ichigo's face into the ground with her foot.

"Yes ma'am, you certainly did"

"That's right Dande-"

"You're just as guilty, you dumbass!" Kuukaku barked punching Ganju in the head. I laughed stuffing a handful of chips into my mouth.

"No dinner for either of you!"

My stomach growled again at the word but it was drowned out by loud snoring.

"What happened?"

"Don't worry, he's just sleeping. More importantly, you kids have a seat there. Ichigo may be sleeping but we have no time."

The four of us frowned slightly confused but did as we were told.

"I will tell you the plan for when we break into the Seireitei. Mind it well and-"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

I jumped at the sudden scream making the chips slid out of the bag and fall around me like rain.

"Oi what hap- Hahaha!"

I burst into laughed pointing at the distressed cat. Ichigo had a firm grip on her tail making it impossible for her to wriggle away.

"Some one get Kurosaki!" Yoruichi hissed staring straight at the Kakaku cannon.

I grinned looking at her tail. I was plotting revenge for scratching my face but she's suffered enough for right now.

"Alright, you're all here." I glanced behind me looking at the yawning boy curious to see what would happen next.

"Yoruichi-san, your tail looks like those really bendy toothbrushes." I laughed while the other three gasped knowing he hit a very sensitive nerve.

"Do you… have a problem with it?" Yoruichi asked glaring flaming daggers at the boy, who flinched and trembled lightly.

"N-no, as usual, it's a beautiful tail."

"Don't you remember?" Uryu whispered looking sympathetically at the depressed cat.

"Oi, he was a sleep. Of course he doesn't remember!"

"What happened?"

"Don't laugh! Get. Him. Off!"

Chad and Orihime rushed to Ichigo's side. Orihime tried shaking Ichigo while Chad attempted to loosen his grip on the hollering cat.

"Try his pressure points" Uryu stated poking spots on Ichigo's arms. I snickered once again at the scene.

"Evans! Get over here and help"

*munch, munch munch*

Thunk!

"Yo-you could have broken his arm!!" Uryu yelled sweat dropping as I removed my foot from his wrist.

*munch, munch, munch*

"He has another one"

"Hey, what's going on with Ganju?"

"If you mean where he is, he's downstairs reading something and mumbling."

"Wait a minute!"

I groaned. It was taking way to long to get in the ball.

"The hero always arrives late!" I looked at the huffing man now clad in green holding an unraveled piece of parchment.

"What the hell is with that get-up?" Ichigo sneered.

I rolled my eyes placing a hand over his mouth while giving Ganju the scariest glare I could muster. He stayed quiet thankfully. Ichigo on the other hand yelled into my hand and then gave it a lick. I shivered at the feeling but kept my grip.

"Hey, Dandelion I wanna tell you why I'm going with you" I groaned plopping down on the staircase. I didn't want to listen to this.

Ganju then went on to talk about some sob story about his, now dead, Shinigami brother and how he wanted revenge on some Shinigami. I ignored the whole conversation looking at the tube starting to get slightly nervous.

"Everyone! Are we ready to go?" Yoruichi asked when Ganju ended his speech.

"Yeah!" we all nodded determination entering our eyes.

"No stopping from here on out, you brats!" Kuukaku tapped the tube making a hole appear in the side of it.

"Come on, get inside."

We all stood in a circle. I was stuck in between Ganju and Ichigo with Yoruichi resting on my shoulders. One of everyone's hand was placed on the orb.

"Dawn is the signal to start the launch procedure." Kuukaku shouted from outside the tube.

"Listen. Once we get into the Court, do not separate no matter what. If we encounter a captain run away without a moment's hesitation"

I snorted. Like I was going to runaway. Yoruichi let her claws sink into my shoulder emphasizing she wasn't budging on this.

"Our objective is Rukia's retrieval, that is all! You must, under, no circumstances, take unnecessary risks!"

We all stayed quiet waiting for dawn to come. The tension soon grew quick and just by glancing around I could tell Orihime and Uryu were afraid.

I raised an eyebrow trying to make sense of the nonsense spewing from Kuukaku's mouth. All I got was something about bronze greed and monkeys.

"Pour in your Reiatsu" Yoruichi demanded. I did so. Trying to put out as much as Ichigo and Ganju.

In a matter of seconds, the blue glow circled around all of us making some sigh in relief.

My stomach did flips and my eyes snapped shut as we launched into the air at a break neck speed.

"There wasn't as much impact as I thought there'd be"

"What's wrong Evans? Scared of heights?" Uryu mocked I snapped open my eyes and glared at him.

"Well in this situation. Yes!" I barked. Uryu was a little surprised when I admitted that.

The ball shifted direction making most of us cry out in shock. My eyes snapped shut once again.

"Snowflake! Take over for me I need complete the incantation"

I glanced at him with a slight frown but did what he asked nonetheless.

Now it was Ganju's turn to spew nonsense about things that didn't go together.

"Tamashii no Kyōmei, Ganju"

"It feels like Ganju is still putting Reiatsu in" Uryu stated giving me a knowing look.

Ganju looked at me funny but continued his chants.

"Kurosaki-kun you're putting in a little too much…"

"R-really? S-sorry!"

"Kurosaki, lower it more!"

"I-I know!" Ichigo snapped closing his eyes lowering his Reiastu even more.

"…Ichigo…"

"Okay! I know! I know!"

"Shuddap! You made me read the same line twice!"

"What the hell?! That's my fault too?!"

"I lost concentration cause you were yellin' and screamin', dumbass!"

"Shouting at him ain't gonna make it better!" I barked trying to keep Ganju and my Reiatsu separated. The last thing I wanted was to be connected to him spiritually.

"Stay outta this, Snowflake!"

"Stop it! This isn't the time to be fighting!" Orihime said having Uryu and Chad agree with her. Ichigo and Ganju continued to fight but I butted out after almost losing my concentration on the orb.

"Hey…look." I glanced behind Chad looking at the white buildings that looked like the Lego cities Ichigo used to build.

"Pour in all your Reiatsu!" Yoruichi ordered. I flinched but did so keeping my eyes on the semi-visible shield.

We crashed into the wall but the cannonball held up rolling against the outside of the shield. The cannonball finally pushed through but once it got to the other side it popped.

Thankfully, we hovered in the air.

"Oi, What the hell!"

"Stay together! Right now, the cannonball has hit the shield and is dissolving. They're only momentarily intertwined. Soon it will begin to whirl, then burst and be destroyed."

"Fuckin' peachy"

"If we're separated at that moment, the shockwave will send us flying in all directions!"

I felt a tug on the hood of my jacket and suddenly my body was yanked towards the ground and everyone else soon followed.

"It's begun!"

I couldn't really tell what was going on from above me but Chad was flying towards me rapidly. I sucked in a deep breath grabbing his collar hurdling him towards the mass of bodies.

"Karissa!"

I flipped them all off before being consumed by a white light and the hurdled in another direction.

I groaned arching my aching back. Of course I had to land on my back on the point of a building.

"Did you hear that?!"

"Something landed on the roof!"

"It's an intruder!"

I smirked sitting up straight. At least I didn't have to go searching for a fight. I slid down to the edge of the roof grinning at the group of Shinigami.

"Freeze!"

"Nah, I don't like the cold"

"Why are you here?!"

"Do you have a death wish?!"

"I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I'm all out of bubblegum."