Fipp: Guess what everyone! The Fade to Black movie can now be found on YouTube! I watched it yesterday, and it was awesome, though, it gave me the same kind of sadness that I felt when I saw the first movie, and 358/2 Days.
Also, this extra makes a reference to my one-shot Shikai, and there's some foreshadowing for the future.
Drabble: Mastery of Skills
In order to master one's skills, one must work hard and long to grasp what they are fully capable of.
The captains and vice-captains of the Gotei 13 are the most powerful people in the Soul Society.
Despite this, there are various times in their training that they would prefer to forget.
When Hitsugaya learned the Shikai for Hyorinmaru, he was able to quickly grasp the power of its ice dragons, yet found himself constantly tripping himself over the chain that came out of the hilt. He even managed to choke himself once.
On the first real use of his Bankai, Daiguren Hyorinmaru, he was unaware of the ice-petal limits. He learned the hard-way when he was about to finish off a powerful Hollow, then his Bankai suddenly shattered, leaving him very exposed to a painful counter-attack.
Sasakibe's Gonryomaru, when swung in the incorrect manner, had a tendency to spring back, stabbing him in the head. Getting electrocuted didn't help this.
Soifon's Shikai, Suzumebachi, was so light that she often forgot she had it on. This made her curse herself when she accidentally stabbed herself when she folded her arms, or placed her hands on her hips.
When she first shot a rocket from her Bankai, Jakuho Raikoben, she destroyed a mountain one mile away, and ended up crashing into a building two miles away.
Omaeda could not recount the amount of times he ended up in the Fourth because he had difficulty of controlling where Gegetsuburi went when he threw it.
Kira learned his Shikai around the same time Hinamori and Renji. Renji had joked that Wabisuke was supposed to kill giant fish-like Hollows. Kira then smacked him with the flat side of the blade, accidentally doubling his weight, sending Renji to the ground. They all panicked at this and he accidentally crashed it into a very large tree, and caused many heavy leaves crashing down on them.
When he learned Bankai, a good number of his squad members who got caught in it, were sent the Fourth on a twenty-four hour suicide watch.
Ishida was always an expert with his bows. His main problem was the Seele Schneider; since there were times he was close to self-castration.
When Nel became an arrancar, it took her some time to get used to walking on two legs, since her Hollow form had four. When she first used Gamuza, she was surprised to gain back an extra set of legs, and ended up tripping over her hooves, and crashed head-first into a wall.
Inoue's main troubles with the Shun Shun Rikka, was not the abilities, but the fairies themselves, who would often argue over the most trivial of things, like where the remote was, at the most incontinent moments. Inoue would spend a great amount of time acting as a mediator to them.
Pesche's weapon, Ultima, was several times mere centimeters from castrating him.
Dondochakka had accidentally chocked himself on his own weapon.
Ichigo once tried to make use Zangetsu as a fail in battle, like his Hollow did once, but only ended up missing the Hollow, and almost cutting Rukia in half. The welt was twice as large as his own head.
Ichigo had known his Bankai, Tensa Zangetsu, for only two hours before going to fight Byakuya. In this time, he had learned to better watch his feet when running, otherwise the enhanced speed of his Bankai would sending him tumbling forward in very painful ways.
Hinamori was unaware of the kido aspects of Tobiume, and in a sparring match against Kira and Renji, had inadvertently fired off a large fireball, causing panic, creating more fireballs. In the end, she had burned down a quarter of the forest.
Her Bankai was no different, though she managed to burn down the whole forest. In one hit too.
Byakuya was just a boy when he learned the Shikai of Senbonzakura. He hid the fact he knew it for five years because the color it took. Kyoraku, upon seeing it, clapped him on the back and said 'Real men wear pink'.
Before mastering the blades of Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, when he tried to make a sword from it, he could often slice his hands up real bad. And for some reason, his hair would always ended up botched up.
Though Senna had latent memories of how to use Mirokumaru, there were numerous times she had stabbed her forehead and foot, and had blown away herself into the river with a rouge whirlwind.
When Komamura first summoned Tenken, he accidentally smashed the First Division meeting halls.
Because of the first time he used Kokujo Tengen Myo'o, it caused a scare throughout the Sereitei, and now he must call a captains meeting to let them know he will be training with it.
If Iba did not have a good enough grip on his Shikai, the momentum from the blade would often send it flying.
Renji was unaware that Zabimaru could separate into a whip-like weapon, as a result had almost decapitated both Kira and Hinamori, and managed to clear a portion of forest.
He was also not aware that Hihio Zabimaru could be reformed if broken, so when this happened in the short time he had to train before fighting Byakuya, he had tried duct tape to fix it. When he found out, he bashed his head on a rock in frustration.
Nanoa was too embarrassed to even think about her own mishaps with her Shikai.
While Hisagi did not like the shape of Kazeshini, he put large amounts of practice into training with it in order to gain some control over where the blades flew, so he wouldn't cut off any limbs, or choke himself on both chains.
He was very hesitant about learning Bankai. When he did learn it, he caused a three mile long gash across Soul Society's soil.
The second form of Sado's right arm, Brazo Derecha de Gigante, had a sort of 'jet' on the shoulder. It took him several times to learn how to control these jets so he didn't end up flying through several boulders. And Renji, who had the misfortune of being there at the time.
Matsumoto panicked when the blade of Haineko turned to ash, believing that she had broken it. She ran to one of her superior officers crying about it, not noticing that as she ran, the following ash was slicing everything up.
When she first summoned Nenshoufunka Haineko she ran again, but this time in fear because it looked very scary.
The tail Mosqueda gained when he released Draga often made it difficult for him to run, often causing him to trip.
When Yachiru could first call upon Yamaneko, she get so excited that she had a tendency to hurt other members of her division when she hugged them. Namely Ikkaku and Yumichika.
Ikkaku, like Renji, was unaware that Hozukimaru could spilt apart, thus explaining why he had almost split his skull open.
With Ryumon Hozukimaru, he would spend hours just arguing with the spirit to get up and fight, only to have his reiatsu deplete, thus shutting the Bankai off, when the spirit finally was willing to do so.
Yumichika's Shikai, Ruri'iro Kujaku often went straight for the nearest source of reiatsu to drain, and much to his dismay, that would be him.
Mayuri was so fascinated with Ashisogi Jizo that he did not take much notice to poison leaking out of the mouth.
The same could be say for the blades of Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo.
Nemu did not think about her own failures.
Grimmjow had been ecstatic about Pantera, he had spent several hours testing out the agilities and speed that he was granted. He was practicing a spinning move when he flew right through several buildings.
To Rukia's knowledge at the start, Sode no Shirayuki only had once dance, so she, as well as Kaien, who was in the way, were very surprised when she shot a massive wave of ice forward.
When using Tokomizore Shirayuki, the hood would often fall down her face, covering her eyes just as she was about to fire a powerful attack. On one of these occasions, Ichigo ended up in the Fourth for something Inoue referred to a 'Super-Mega-Cold'.
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