Well, here's the second chapter, so keep reviewing!

Chapter 2: Control

It was the next day after the whole incident with the hollow. Ichigo was confused. Who was that voice he heard, and how did that voice give the power he needed to defeat the hollow? It all seemed to strange to Ichigo, but he was sure it was even more strange to Kari.

"Oi! Ichigo, you're going to be late!" his father yelled. Quickly Ichigo ran downstairs with his usual school uniform and bag and headed for school. On the way, he saw Kari walking. He caught of with her.

"Hey…" Ichigo greeted.

"Oh, hi…" she responded.

The tension was thick. So thick, that you could cut it with a knife. There was a huge silent gap between the two.

Does she think I'm a freak? Ichigo asked himself.

"Umm Kurosaki-kun?" she started.

"Yeah?"

Kari then put her arms around Ichigo, hugging him. Ichigo was caught off guard by this, and tried looking for the right words.

"Thank you for saving me," she slowly said. "I thought I was going die!"

"Ah, don't thank me! Of course I would save you," Ichigo said. "We're friends, and I'm not going to just sit there bleeding to death, while my friend's about to get devoured!

"But how did you transform into a shinigami?" Kari asked. "You defeated a class B hollow! That's a very powerful hollow, yet you're not even in the academy yet," she explained.

"I don't know. Someone gave the power…what's a class B hollow?" Ichigo asked with a dumb look on his face.

Kari just slapped her head in disbelief. "You don't know what a class B hollow is?" she asked in a demonly voice. She then grabbed Ichigo's hand and started dragging him off.

"Oi, where are you taking me?" Ichigo asked getting scared.

"My house! Time to educate the new shinigami!" she yelled.

"Huh? Don't we have school?" he asked.

"Forget that! Let's go!" she said.

At Kari's house…

She dragged Ichigo up to her room, and threw him on the bed. She then walked into her closet.

"What the hell is she doing in there? And why are we alone in the house, in her bedroom? WAIT! Could it be that she's repaying me for saving her? Are we going to have s…" Ichigo was interrupted with the closet door opening.

Ichigo turned his head to see Kari in a outfit that made her look like a teacher. She then pulled out a huge chalkboard on wheels that was in her closet.

"What's going on?" Ichigo asked kind of disappointed.

"I'm going to teach you the ropes of being a shinigami. Being the daughter of the famous 6th division captain Kuchiki Byakuya, I know a lot about being one," she said.

"Uh huh…" Ichigo murmured.

"Don't act like you're 14 years old," Kari said.

"What?"

"YOU DON'T KNOW THE AGE DIVISIONS? ARE YOU THAT DUMB?" Kari yelled.

"No, wait I do but-

"We'll start from the beginning!"

"No wait! I-

"SShhh, no talking during lessons. Anyways here are the age groups. Babies are considered in these ages. A baby is from the age from new born to 25years old. A child is considered through the ages from 26 to 65. A teenager is in the age group from 66-100. An adult is in the ages of 101-155, and an elder is in the ages of 156-195. Anyone with the age of 196+ are very rare, and are lucky to live that long. They say that the average person, captain or not, can only live for 185 years, 200 max. But the 1st division captain, Lord Yamamoto is about 250 years old. He has aged to the impossible, yet he is still the most powerful captain in the Gotei 13," Kari finally finished.

She looked over too see Ichigo asleep. She calmly walked into her closet once more, and came out and smashed Ichigo's head with a mallet.

Ichigo woke up and noticed he had a huge bump on his head. "Huh?" he said.

"Now Ichigo, how old are we?" Kari asked.

"Are you treating me like a kid! We're freaking 97! But are you freaking making fun of me!" Ichigo yelled. "I aint a kid, and you better not treat me like one!"

"Of course not…" she said patting Ichigo's head.

Later…

"So, the sword we use is called a zanpakto…and it is created from our own spirit energy…?" Ichigo asked himself while walking home. He had been at her house for about 6 hours straight learning the ropes of being a shinigami.

"Ugh, my head hurts…I wasn't supposed to be a shinigami for another 10 years. Now I suddenly aquire the power from some dude who I haven't even seen. My life is seriously fucked up," Ichigo complained.

Ichigo then heard a rumbling. It was a similar rumbling to the rumbling that occurred at the park. Ichigo knew another one was coming. It was another hollow.

Upon a roof of a nearby building stood four people, hidden in the darkness.

"A hollow is coming…" a man said.

"Should we help that little guy out?" asked a smaller person said in a cute voice.

"That's the same guy right Ikkaku?" A huge man asked in a gruffy voice.

"Yeah that's him. He beat a hollow that knocked me out," Ikkaku, a shinigami from before answered.

"That kid seems way to young to be a shinigami, judging by his reiatsu. How did he beat a hollow that knocked you out?" a man with feathers coming out of his right eye asked.

"He's right. That guy has absolutely almost no reiatsu at all. Much too low, even for a weak shinigami," the large man said once more.

"Well, that's him. Hey look, the hollow is here," Ikkaku stated.

Ichigo jumped to side as a hollow appeared from the ground. It was a large centipede, with a white mask, just like the hollow from before.

"Okay, how do I become a shinigami now…?" Ichigo asked him.

The hollow came in for an attack, but Ichigo jumped out of the way. It tried lashing Ichigo with it's tail, but Ichigo jumped right over it. Ichigo was getting worried. Without his zanpakto, he can't kill it. But then Ichigo then remembered something that Kari had taught him that day.

Flashback

"One important thing about being a shinigami, is concentration and focus. To ultimately use your powers to their full potential, you need to concentrate on your power," she said.

End of flashback

"Concentrate…" Ichigo said softly, while closing his eyes. He stood there totally blocking out every other distraction.

"What's he doing?" Ikkaku asked himself.

"Can't you feel it?" the large man asked. "Hid reiatsu is rising like mad," he said.

A large and strong wind picked up. Ichigo's body began to glow in a white aura. Suddenly the glowing and wind stopped, but then a there was a massive explosion.

The smoke cleared to reveal Ichigo, in his shinigami robes, with his long blade over his shoulder.

"Come and get you ugly freak," Ichigo said, releasing heavy wind.

"This isn't normal wind. This is reiatsu, just not visible. Last time he showed off reiatsu that I was able to see and feel. Reiatsu wind is just something you can feel, but supposed to weaker than visible reiatsu. But this is higher than the spiritual pressure he released last time," Ikkaku commented.

"Reiatsu is only visible when a lot is released, but this is pretty high power. It is even higher than yours Ikkaku," the large man commented.

"Yeah, you're right. It's slightly higher than even mine," Ikkaku agreed.

Ichigo jumped high and cut off one of the hollow's hundred legs. The hollow just let out a roar, then went in for the attack. Ichigo jumped on top if its head, and ran on its large body, maintaining perfect balance, not falling.

"He's toying with it. He could've killed it when he jumped on its head, but he wants it tortured," the large man said with a scary smile on his face. "I like his style,"

Ichigo, still running on the beast's body, jumped right before the hollow ate him, making it chomp on its own body. Ichigo then landed on the ground then pointed his blade towards the monster. Blue power engulfed the blade, and suddenly, it blasted out a huge blast at the hollow.

The hollow was utterly destroyed, and Ichigo turned back to his regular clothes. He thought he sensed something else, but the saw nothing, so he headed home.

"That blast was crazy!" Ikkaku yelled out.

At the sight of that blast, the large man's grin got bigger, and more maniacal and thought "It wasn't just crazy…It was at a high level. Almost captain level…