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'There's another Hollow by the park,' Brielle said from within Ichigo's inner world. He sensed out to it and realized that she was right, but that was not all, the Hollow was too close to where Uryu is.

Ichigo scowled. "Darn!" He growled under his breath. He turned to leave to go help his powerless friend, but Shinji stopped him.

"I told you. It's because of your reiatsu that they're here." Ichigo turned to glare at the blond-haired man. He knows that it's not because of his reiatsu, because he's keeping a tight hold onto it.

"Just who – and what – are you?! Are you the one that sent those Hollows?!" Ichigo demanded. "Are with Aizen?!"

"No, I'm not with that jerk!" Shinji shouted, but then he sighed, "Fine, I'll show you. But I'm not the one that sent them." He reached his hand up to his face and pulled reiatsu to it to summon a Hollow mask.

Ichigo's eyes widened. "A Hollow mask?"

Shinji smirked. "That right." He lifted his Zanpakuto up. "A Zanpakuto and a Hollow mask. Don't you get it? You're one of us, Ichigo. I'm something that is called a Visard." Ichigo didn't know what to say. He knows that he can't be one of them since the reiatsu is wrong and that he doesn't feel any Quincy spirit energy coming from the Visard. Shinji continued, "Like I said before: join us, Ichigo, let's be friends, or else you're Hollow will kill you, and then everyone you know and love."

Before Ichigo could argue, Brielle said, 'Ichigo, we don't have time to fight with him right now. We need to save Uryu, and then save Kon; Grand Fisher is chasing him. You can demand answers from him tomorrow at school. I'm sure he'll be there.' The orange-haired teen didn't want to wait, but know that his soul sister is right. He turns and runs off toward the park, ignoring Shinji's protest.


It didn't take Ichigo too long to get there, but it would appear that he didn't have to save Uryu after all since Ryuken – Uryu's father – already did it. He heard Ryuken say to his son that he'll train him if he severs all ties with the Shinigami.

Ichigo lands right next to Uryu, and bows to Ryuken in a show of respect – he wanted to stay on the man's good side. "Good evening, Mr. Ishida. I couldn't help but overhear that you wanted Uryu to have no contacts with the Shinigami anymore for in exchange for Quincy training," He greeted.

"Only the Shinigami. You're not a Shinigami," Ryuken explained. "Your only part Shinigami, but also Quincy and Hollow."

"Oh, well, I was going to help Uryu get his powers back with old man Zangetsu's help," Ichigo said.

"You never said anything about that, Ichigo," Uryu stated.

"I was going to talk to you about that, but there was no time. You left school before I could even get to you."

"Do you even know how to use Quincy powers?" It was Ryuken that asked this Question. Ichigo was silent. "Thought so."

Ichigo rubbed the back of his head. "Zangetsu was going to teach me along with Uryu. He said that I should start learning to anyways."

"If you're going to learn, then you might as well train with us." Both Ichigo and Uryu were in shock at what Ryuken just offered.

"What's the catch?" Ichigo asked.

"You're Masaki's son. She asked me a long time ago to help you out with your training," He explained.

"She did? I didn't even know you two knew each other."

"We were cousins."

"…Wait…then does that mean…"

"Yes, Ichigo, we're cousins," Uryu said.

"No wonder why you stopped hating my guts so quickly," Ichigo mocked.

"Sh-shut up!"

"Ichigo, you should take Ryuken up on his offer." Zangetsu said.

Ichigo turned to face his now known cousin, and his father. (AN: Someone please tell me if I got that wrong, or any of that wrong. Thank you.) "Can you two hold on for a moment? Zangetsu wants to talk to me," He asked. They nodded their head to say, "Go ahead".

'Why should I take it?' He asked.

"Ryuken could teach you the basics and how to use some of the tools the Quincy use. I could teach you the things about our history, and some abilities that he doesn't know himself."

'Alright, but do I really need to know about the history?'

"To understand our powers correctly, yes."

Ichigo sighed, 'Alright.' He turns back to the others. "Zangetsu said that I should take you up on your offer, and that he'll teach me things that you couldn't."

Ryuken nodded his head. "That's alright. But know this, I'll be making Brielle's training look like a walk in the park."

"I doubt that. I know for a fact that your training is not going to be nearly as brutal as Shiro's, but Brielle can get pretty bad herself."

"Well, once we're at the end of our training, you can tell me if I'm worse or not."

"That I can do," Ichigo said with a smirk, but deep down he hopes that Brielle's and Shiro's training are worse, because if not, they'll make sure it is. "Anyway, I need to go and save Kon. He's being chased by Grand Fisher. After that I'll have to find a way to get these 'Visards' off me back." He didn't even wait for them to say anything; he just turned and left in the direction of the reiatsu of Kon and the Hollow that has been on his hit list for years.

TBC


I know...it's short. :( I was just not in the mood to write a lot. I'll try to make sure that the next one is longer. By the way, I was thinking of going back and forth with this story and 'It Just Keeps Getting Worse'. That way I can get it done. Kinda like what I did when I first started writing this story.

Ichi: That would be a good idea. You also do need a break from this story. It's been going on for quite some time now.

Enj/Bri: That's why I'm going to be doing it.

Shiro: But I want to see King tell Shinji off! D:

Enj/Bri: He's not really telling him off. -_-

Ichi: You're not going to like it anyways. -_-

Shiro: What are you two planning? :(

Enj&Ichi: Nothing... :)

Shinji: You're up to something.

Ichi: You'll love it, Shinji. ;)

Shin: I will? :/

Enj/Bri: You'll die laughing. :D

Shiro: I'm not going to like it, am I? :(

Enj&Ichi: NOPE! XD

Shin: Please review! ;)