Sorry about not getting the chapter up sooner. I was kinda reading all the fics that I liked and had been updated recently. Also a little family holiday got in the way as well and the internet where I was was shit soooo I kinda postponed updating until I had better access. I hope to get the next few chapter out soon, I've already begun on the next chapter so just wait a moment.
Karin woke up to see her surroundings to be an endless dark sky, not a cloud in sight but the moon that illuminated the darkness of the world she was in. Karin also felt wet, very wet and as though she were drifting. Closing her eyes once again Karin began to try and fall asleep again only to feel herself bump into something. Karin opened her eyes once again to see the very same woman that had told Karin to find her standing to Karin's right with her foot nudged into Karin's arm preventing the tides of Karin's ocean from moving her any further.
"I see you've finally woken up," the woman said "I presume you know who I am?" the woman questioned. Looking down at Karin as she continued to float.
"Akarui umi no tsuki" Karin said remembering the name that she had called out bringing a small smile to the woman's face.
"Yes, that is it, but you may call me a shortened version while we are in here, outside you must call me by my full name to release me." the woman said to Karin before looking up into the sky, more specifically the moon that shone brightly as though there were a slight disturbance in it's appearance. "It appears our time is up, try to get your brother to teach you a few things as well, I have a feeling that that shopkeeper will only be giving you experience training, which is good in all but you must learn some other techniques and I believe that your brother will be a great source for such things. Good bye for now and I hope you come to meet me again under less dire circumstances that do not involve rescuing any friends"
Karin suddenly felt a slight pulling sensation as she exited from her inner world and began to regain her bearings with her eyes still closed. She felt like crap, note to self, never allow a crazy shopkeeper throw you into a pit with your hands tied behind your back with a chain dangling out of your chest.
"Well, hello there miss, I trust your nap was most comforting" a very familiar voice of a shopkeeper sounded. "Up you get now, we must train if you are to get strong enough to survive in Soul Society" Urahara said. The sound of a door could be heard sliding opened and the footsteps of the man disappearing.
Karin groggily opened her eyes and stretched a bit before standing up to her full height and let out a deep breath. Karin then went out the door that was previously opened by Urahara and closed it behind her, going off to find the training area that she had first entered to regain her shinigami powers. It didn't take long to find as Karin had soon enough entered the small hole in the back off the Shoten covered by a trap door and had climbed down the exceedingly long ladder into the so called basement.
Urahara was standing in the middle of an opening waiting for Karin to approach him, which she did so warily, wondering as to whether or not he would decide to play some more tricks on her. She was happy to see that he was not and was actually serious about training her.
"Well now that you're here I believe that we can begin" Urahara stated holding his cane in his right hand leaning it against the ground with his left hand resting on his right. "First things first" Urahara said before raising his cane and jabbing Karin in the forehead with the flaming skull that rested on the bottom of the cane. Immediately Karin's body burst from her body.
"Hey, hey, a little more warning next time would be appreciated" Karin said slightly annoyed, as she rubbed the spot on her forehead where the cane had hit her. After that Karin immediately looked to her left hip where she found two identical zanpakuto, both of which she drew to get into a ready stance to fight Urahara. Urahara complied by he himself drawing a sword from within the cane he now held to his side. Something felt slightly off about the cane sword, however Karin dismissed it and left it as, she would just assume anything the crazy shopkeeper threw at her would be potentially dangerous or even lethal.
"Well now where would be the fun in life without a little surprise" Urahara responded to Karin. "Step three, take my hat off my head" Urahara said in a relaxed tone his hat overshadowing his eyes as he became slightly more serious than he was before.
"Easy" Karin said before lunging forwards both swords in her hands reared back behind her head ready to strike down. Karin neared her target and struck Urahara's blade and began pushing as hard as she could against it however it didn't budge making Karin become a little frustrated that her strongest swing hadn't even made the man budge an inch and he was only using one arm. "I stand corrected" Karin ground out from her teeth still pushing against Urahara's blade.
"That you are" Urahara said before he swung his sword arm forwards making Karin fly backwards and stumble on her feet a little before righting herself. "Remember you will not be fighting low-level hollows like you have these past few weeks, you will be fighting fully fledged shinigami. Most of them are weaker than you are, but do not let that build up your hopes, for that is where the real challenge lies, the last three positions of power in a squad." Urahara rushed at Karin at what seemed a rather fast past and struck out to Karin's side. Karin then held up her blades to her side but was then surprised when Urahara shifted his centre of gravity around and kicked her undefended side making Karin hurtle backwards even further than before. "Third seat, lieutenant, and captain, the gaps in power between these seated positions are the greatest and most difficult to overcome, you will not only find this because of the ridiculous amount of reiastu one must have but the gender in which you are. I am sad to say this Kurosaki-san but even though you are a strong young girl, men are naturally stronger than women, so you will have to possibly find a different way to overcome them. Of course though you may also get physically strong enough to push a few away and you should strive to get stronger but you should make up for the rest in another area. Just like a certain woman I know, she trained to be the fastest person in all of Soul Society once upon a time. I'm almost certain she still is, but she made up for her weaknesses by getting faster and perfecting her style and techniques, both of which you must do to survive."
"Is that so," Karin paused for a moment standing up from where she landed "I guess then you'll have to teach me how to become faster, Ichi-nii mentioned something about a high-speed movement technique that I should be able to learn from you…or was it Tatsuki" Karin said causing Urahara's face to turn into one of curiousness.
"Just how much does Ichigo know about shinigami…I wonder does he know about his father and mother…no not his mother, he wouldn't know unless somebody told him so" Urahara thought to himself as Karin readied herself once again.
"Heavens weep, Oceans rage Akarui umi no tsuki" Karin shouted and her swords blade changed colour from their usual silver to a dark wavy blue, the hilt was now silver instead of gold covered in a wavy purple wrapping and the guard was now one that looked like the leviathan coiled around the bottom of the blade. Karin then instinctually got into a side stance, her left facing Urahara. Karin brought her left blade far out to the right and water began to condense into a ball on the base of her blade. Karin swung the blade forward and the water traveled up it at high speeds and when the tip of the blade was pointing at Urahara the ball exploded into a giant wave of water that shot straight at Urahara.
"Awaken Benehime" Urahara called out as the water approached and set up a blood mist shield in front of him. The wave of water crashed into the shield and dispersed around it barely putting any strain on the shield. "Well I must say I'm impressed Kurosaki-san, that was a rather large move you made there, although…it seems to put have a lot of stress on you" Urahara said once his shield was down looking over to where Karin stood panting, only being able to stand up thanks to the support of the two resealed zanpakuto she was leaning against. "A tip for that move of yours if your willing to take it, the water had too large of a spread so it had very little power behind it, try concentrating it next time and possibly little less reiryoku in case it's a battle of endurance. Now enough talk let's get back to fighting, a sealed zanpakuto for you though, at least until your reiastu and reiryoku levels are back to that of a fourth seat. And as for your high speed movement technique for now, a basic shunpo will do, all you have to do is gather reiryoku in your feet and think of here you want to go before releasing the built up energy by ejecting it rapidly in a short burst"
Karin nodded to Urahara before once again charging at Urahara both swords ready at her sides. Testing out the premise behind the shunpo Urahara told her Karin built up reiryoku in her feet and released it. Karin suddenly found herself flying through the air at extreme speeds and wound up just to the side of Urahara who looked slightly impressed that Karin picked it up, it was sloppy, but it was a shunpo. Not expecting the results of how fast the shunpo was Karin was slightly disoriented and missed the kick Urahara shot out at her catching her in the shoulder, causing her to tumble a bit before stopping.
"How are my eyes supposed to keep up with that?" Karin asked obviously not that fazed by the kick she got from Urahara "most of it was a blur."
Urahara shrugged his shoulders and said "You'll get used to it, your eyes will adapt and pretty soon everything will appear to go in slow motion when you concentrate on going fast, but while you do that your reflexes will also have to catch up so you don't get your head cut off, now again"
Karin and Urahara continued to fight for Karin's training over the next ten days, while Ichigo and Tatsuki took care of Chad and Orihime teaching them how to use their fullbring and hopefully bringing out some of it's maximum potential. Both groups progressed far, given that the right teacher was given to the respective students.
Right now they all stood in front of a rectangular 'gate' that seemed to be constructed by discarded newspapers that were stacked upon each other to make it look like it was something that was merely improvised on the spot and that in fact it didn't really take ten days to set up the gate and all one would need to do to access the spirit realm was to make a 'gate' out of discarded newspapers and have sufficient spiritual energy.
"Hello everyone and I wish you all good luck on your trip to soul society, Yoruichi can explain and answer your questions on the go so no need to ask me anything now" Urahara said.
"Hey Urahara you lazy bum why do I have to do it?" Yoruichi growled in her masculine cat voice only to be ignored by Urahara as he pressed on with the matter of how they were getting to the Soul Society.
"This here is a special gate" Urahara said tapping the gate they all stood before them "theat allows humans to travel to the spirit realm without exiting their bodies…I made it myself, pretty impressive eh" Urahara said grinning to himself stupidly. Not getting the response he wanted Urahara sighed and continued "Now you only have four minutes to cross through the dangai lest you be trapped there forever, normally that is not enough time to cross through, however no one really ever runs through the dangai sooooo… good luck, off you go now. Tessai-san" Urahara called out to his assistant as he went to stand nearby the gate.
"Hey what kind of explanation was that," Karin shouted at Urahara "you just said there's a extremely high chance we could die" Karin paused noticing that Urahara wasn't even listening to her "hey listen to me"
"Yes boss, I'm ready" Tessai responded standing on the opposite side of the gate placing his hands on it beginning to feed reiatsu into it.
In a moment the gate opened and Yoruichi began to move near it. "Come on let's go, we'll make it if you stay up with me, no slowing down, this is a four minute sprint" Yoruichi said jumping through the gate closely followed by the others as they each jumped through the gate together to leave for Soul Society"
Urahara looked at the gate as the last person jumped through the gate "…Good luck, you'll need it"