Here's the next chapter, so far this fic is doing pretty well considering this is the first time I've actually written a fanfic this long. Criticism is more than welcome. I'm new at this so I understand. Just don't flame me (whatever that means)
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach as usual, It wasn't mine the first time I said it, it still isn't the next five times I've said it.
Chapter 6- The Captain has Arrived! Training to the Extreme!
Captain Abarai Renji walked up to the struggling spirit.
"Now are you gonna come out?" Renji asked, "Or will I have to chop you up?"
"You'll have to kill me first!" Yami snarled picking up his sword and dashing towards Renji.
"Renji-sama!" Miho cried.
Rei weakly tried to help but she had used too much effort to block Yami's attack.
"Die!" Yami screamed raising his sword.
Suddenly Renji raised his hand. Not to draw his zanpak-to but to aim.
He flicked a small object from his hand.
"Die...ack!" Yami choked as the small sphere found its way down his throat.
Suddenly a transparent silhouette of Yami peeled off of Shinn and withdrew into the shape of a small green sphere.
"Soul candy," Renji sighed, "I'll have to thank the tech department for this one,"
He plucked the little ball of the ground and casually tossed it into his pocket.
He then turned and regarded Shinn's teammates.
"I need to take the kid aside for a bit, can I trust you guys to clean up?" He asked.
Rei nodded wearily.
Renji knelt down and lifted Shinn onto his shoulder and carried his zanpak-to along with his own.
"I'll have him back before the day is over," He said confidently, "This won't take too long,"
Several hours later…
Shinn groaned as he rolled over onto his side.
"Ya," Renji remarked, "Having a spirit shoved into your mind'll do that to ya,"
Shinn struggled up but then leaned over and threw up.
"If you get any on my uniform I'll shove Yami's soul candy up your ass," Renji commented as he knelt down next to him.
"What happened to...Yami," Shinn gasped.
"He's trapped in a piece of soul candy," Renji replied, "You're just lucky Cho decided to call me after he got the medical team over here,"
He knelt down and lifted Shinn's now inert zanpak-to.
"Dangerous little weapon you got here," Renji remarked as he lifted the blade.
The katana once seemingly indistinctive was now radically altered. The blade was a black that absorbed light rather than reflect it. The crosspiece was squared but was a dark blue and the hilt was wrapped in a black gauze.
"This zanpak-to is no ordinary weapon," Renji remarked drawing out the soul candy.
He pressed the soul candy into the sword and it seemingly melted into the blade.
"Why'd you do that?" Shinn asked, "You could've gotten rid of the spirit!"
"Then this sword would be nothing but an ornament," Renji replied as he marveled at the blade's beauty.
"Ornaments are nice," Shinn protested weakly.
"You need to learn how to us your zanpak-to," Renji remarked holding up the blade.
"No I don't! No I don't!" Shinn wailed trying to run away but Renji had stomped his foot onto the back of poor Shinn's uniform pinning him down.
"Yes, you do," He replied not taking his eyes of the sword.
"Um...but I have a lot of chores to do for Rei, my patrol leader!" Shinn asked desperately.
"Nope," Renji replied, "Rei may be your patrol leader but I'm your Captain so what I say goes,"
Shinn groaned as he was dragged off.
Rumors had always been floating around how Renji never went easy on anyone, not even himself. When he had secretly trained to attain bankai he had forced himself to the extremes nearly killing himself, even how he had strained to defeat Kuchiki Byakuya, THE Kuchiki Byakuya. Renji against that captain was like scissors versus rock. Rock always won.
Soon they found themselves in a barren desert outside of the Rukongai.
"This is where we have to train?" Shinn asked confused.
"There's only one way for you to attain enough power to actually be able to control Yamikaze," Renji explained, "And that's learning to manipulate its energy without having to awaken him,"
"So how do I that?" Shinn asked.
"Two ways," Renji explained, "One: we spend years studying the reaction patterns whenever Yami emerges...or Two: Put you in a situation where its life or death if you don't learn how,"
"How'd we do that?" Shinn asked.
Suddenly Renji's zanpak-to, Zabimaru, shot past his head and buried itself into the mountain side inches from his face.
"I'll have to make you," Renji answered grinning widely.
Shinn's eyes widened considerably.
"What are you waiting for?" Renji snarled, "Move!"
He drew back his sword and launched it again.
"Crap!" Shinn wailed as he ducked under the massive sword.
This time Renji tilted his blade so that it drove into Shinn's shoulder.
The blade sliced into his shoulder but the damage wasn't too severe.
"Fight so you'll stay alive!" Renji snapped as he yanked his blade back.
Shinn drew his soul slayer but held it in a defensive stance.
"You gonna fight back?" Renji asked as he twirled his shikai overhead.
"Fight back you weakling!" Yami snarled.
"I can't!" Shinn thought as he ducked under another cut, "He's my captain! He's the captain of the entire 5th division!"
Suddenly Zabimaru flew out and clipped him on the head.
"Didn't think it'd be that easy," Renji remarked as he retracted Zabimaru while Shinn collapsed unconscious.
He sighed and sat down as he waited for what he expected to happen in a couple of seconds.
Shinn slowly felt the burning sears crawl up his neck.
"Damn…he's breaking through!" Shinn thought weakly, but the blow to his head was enough to weaken his mental strength and Yami poured out.
"I'm finally out of again!" Yami cried as he took over Shinn's body.
The black sears covered his face and left arm (Shinn's left-handed) and the wound in his shoulder closed.
"Took you long enough," Renji sighed as he sat up.
"What?" Yami asked, "You have a death wish!"
"Nope, just waiting to beat the crap outta you so I can finally start teaching Shinn," Renji answered lazily.
He got up slowly and raised his hand and beckoned Yami over.
"Come," Renji announced.
"Fool," Yami sneered.
Black energy coated his soul-slayer and transformed it into its shikai form
The black handle gleamed brightly and the silver blade shone in the sunlight.
"Let's take this to the next level!" Yami cried as black energy fused into the blade.
He twirled it around effortlessly then sliced a boulder in half as if it was paper.
"Ready?" Yami sneered as he raised his blade with one hand.
"Just let me fix my headband," Renji replied as he adjusted his headpiece, "The damn thing's been slipping over my eyes all morning!"
"You bastard!" Yami screamed as he ran at him furious for ridiculing him.
He cut down overhead but Renji sidestepped him at the last second.
"Do you know what you're problem is? Renji asked bringing his shikai to bear, "You always put too much power in everything that you do, no finesse whatsoever,"
"Who needs finesse when you've got power like mine?" Yami sneered as he slashed his sword out.
A wave of black needles shot out but Zabimaru twirled in front of Renji repelling the needles.
"See that probably spent more power than it was worth," Renji sighed, "My turn,"
He swung his shikai out that crashed into Yamikaze.
"Erggh!" Yami cried as he stepped back from the pressure.
"If you can't even block that without putting too much effort into it then you're not half as strong as you say you are," Renji sighed.
"We'll see!" Yami cried.
He raced forward but Renji had already raced in and met him halfway.
"What…" Yami began.
Before Yami could bring down his sword Renji slammed the butt of his handle into Yami's stomach and punched him across the jaw.
Yami collapsed too weak to fight. He slumped forward and his soul retracted into the zanpak-to before the sword reverted to its original form.
"Now we'd better wake up Shinn," Renji sighed.
He waited until he believed that Yam's presence no longer lingered and he shook Shinn awake.
"Get up," Renji sighed, "I need to train you,"
"Huh…whuzza?" Shinn mumbled as he was forced up.
"Pick up your sword and let's start," Renji ordered.
Shinn reluctantly picked up his zanpak-to and held it before him.
"Now turn it into shikai form," Renji ordered.
"Um…Renji," Shinn began.
"I've already token care of its spirit, so you should be able to draw out your shikai without disturbing him," Renji added impatiently, "Now activate your shikai!"
"How?" Shinn asked timidly.
"Idiot," Renji sighed, "You used it against that first hollow didn't you?"
"Yeah, but it was kinda in the moment so I didn't really focus on how I did it," Shinn confessed.
"Then I'll just have to make you remember," Renji sighed swinging Zabimaru.
He hurled the blade aiming for Shinn's head.
"Hey!" Shinn cried as he ducked.
"Hey!" Renji mimicked as he stepped forward and kicked him in the rib sending flying into a cliff.
Renji took off after him towards the cliff.
"Ow…" Shinn moaned as he felt several ribs crack.
He immediately spotted Captain Renji diving down on him.
He was able to bat away the hurtling blade at the last second and roll away before Renji's feet could crush him as they landed.
Not even hesitating Renji kicked Shinn's rolling body so that it tumbled down the mountain side.
"Ahh!" Shinn cried as he crashed onto the bottom.
"Hey!" Renji cried throwing down Shinn's sword so that it plunged into the ground in front of him, "Start fighting or your dead!"
Shinn struggled up and drew his soul-slayer out.
Renji jumped down and swung with the added momentum but Shinn put everything into his stance and held against the attack.
Renji immediately swung his feet out and caught Shinn in the ankle knocking him forward before Shinn could land though Renji kneed him in the chin.
"Start fighting you weakling!" Renji snapped as he kicked Shinn's body in the ribs.
Shinn coughed out a glob of blood as he felt his ribs snap again.
Shinn muttered something under his breath.
"What was that?" Renji asked as he hefted his blade.
"I said I'm gonna beat you!" Shinn cried as he snatched his zanpak-to and sliced upwards.
Renji stepped back but he felt the speed of the blade.
Startled he regarded Shinn for a moment.
Shinn's eyes burned with an intense determination.
"I will beat you!" Shinn snarled.
He got up in a flash and sliced forward which Renji could barely block against.
"He's so much faster!" Renji thought.
Renji actually soon found himself enjoying the fight.
Shinn began slicing and swinging even faster but without lacking in precision.
"You're getting better but you're still not focusing on changing your shikai!" Renji remarked as he sidestepped another slash.
Shinn suddenly felt a jolt of energy course through him. It was as if he knew it all along but merely suppressed the knowledge.
He raised his blade and blue energy began coating it.
The blade became incorporeal and shifted into a longer and thicker blade. The handle bended and a trigger formed.
"Burst! Raikaze!" He cried as the sword finished its shape change.
He focused all of his energy around the blade.
Unlike Yami's power blue energy coated the shikai.
"Now this is the true form," Renji murmured.
The blade crackled with the stored energy.
"Take this!" Shinn screamed as he slashed his blade down unleashing a massive wave of blue energy.
Renji blocked the attack and felt his blade hiss and steam at the intense heat.
"Wow," Renji grunted, "You finally did it!"
He decided to start pushing back lest he become cooked alive.
He forced the band of energy back and slowly he added more and more force until he completely shifted its direction.
The wave swung out and dug out a deep scar along the mountain.
"Phew," Renji sighed, "That was intense!"
Shinn stared at his shikai confused.
"This isn't my sword," Shinn remarked confused.
"Well, that's what happens when it becomes a shikai," Renji explained as his blade reverted back into its zanpak-to form.
"No, I mean my shikai's Yamikaze, this is different," Shinn explained, "I know this one's name and how to invoke it but I never used this one before,"
"Because right now Yami is dormant within you," Renji sighed, "He tainted your power and turned it into darkness so it became Yamikaze,"
Shinn stared at his weapon skeptically.
"Now c'mon, I'm sure your teammates are all eager to se you," Renji laughed clapping Shinn on the back.
Shinn collapsed asleep and Renji remembered he was wounded.
"Oh yeah," Renji muttered, "I beat the crap outta you too,"