Training for both sides of a coin
Upon returning to the shop after a call from Kisuke regarding Isshin's son, Yoruichi was taken aback by the presence of the bird and Panther standing protectively around Ichigo, the strawberry laying unconscious beneath a blanket, moving by the room housing Ichigo, she spotted Tessai wrapping himself with bandages to cover wounds from claws, stopping with her mind putting two and two together she approached Kisuke as he held ared book in his hands with a frown of confusion.
"Kisuke, you called me in the middle of a training session, what's the problem?" seeing the man look up to her with one of his full scientist stares, he held the book to her.
"You've spent most of you're time stalking him for a fetish, maybe you'll understand what this gibberish means" taking the book while ignoring his teasing of her past times of observing Ichigo for Isshin, she opened the first page to see it blank… before pictures and words melted into view, making her eyes widen at recognising the perfectly drawn picture to show Masaki and a toddler Ichigo sharing smiles. That and the words written were recited in the form of poetry.
"The words are in poem" seeing Kisuke give her a look of surprise he stood up to look over her shoulder.
"The pages were blank, what did you do?"
"I just flipped the page and the words wrote themselves, what were you doing?"
"Lookin at it like an object" turning to the dual toned voice behind them, Yoruichi and Kisuke turned to see the demonic bird and Panther watching them in silence, giving them a look the two animals shared a look before the bird flew to Yoruichi's shoulder, making her blink as it calmly stood over the book, Kisuke spoke with a frown.
"I take it you are Kurosaki's Zanpakuto?" giving the candy seller, the bird gave a snort of amusement as it perked up with pride.
"I'm a part of his power, the parts that are constantly active because of his Reiatsu outlet that we are now feeding off of to maintain our physical form" reaching for the book with a talon gently, he flipped it to a page to show an image of himself with purple lightning.
"My name I will keep to myself until the kid awakens, for now you can call me and mr silent, Griffon and Shadow" turning to Shadow as he growled, he spoke to Yoruichi with a snort.
"He also says you smell nice for a werecat" seeing the woman blush as Kisuke hid a smirk of amusement he suddenly perked up as he turned to griffon.
"What do we call the big thing?"
"Nightmare… just nightmare, the only thing that thing will do is cause untold destruction cause that's the only thing it can do with ease"reaching for the book to close it Griffon hopped off of Yoruichi's shoulder to hop to Shadow as it kept an eye on Tessai who stared back.
Moving back into the room where Ichigo slept, setting himself beside the teens head Griffon rested his head beside Ichigo's, leaving Shadow to approach Yoruichi to give her a small smooch against her leg before returning to guard ichigo from Tessai's weird wake up.
Leaving Yoruichi with ichigo's book she gave Kisuke a look before moving to Ichigo's room to place the book on his chest, giving the teen a look she gave a small smile before moving to discuss plans with Kisuke, failing to see Ichigo subconsciously reach for the book.
Letting out a breath as he fell to his knees, Ichigo looked up in time to dodge to the right via Shadow as a pure white form of Shadow lunged over Ichigo, fading into smoke Ichigo jumped up to see his Zanpakuto casually reading his red book with his own Cane in hand pointed toward Ichigo.
"You are becoming less predictable ichigo…" looking to his wielder with a proud smile he snapped his book shut before approaching a panting Ichigo.
"You may say that, but I still haven't landed a hit on you?" sharing a smile Ichigo felt a hand pat him on the back as the duo suddenly stood in the center of the Library labyrinth where Nightmare stood in wait, the only acknowledgement it knew they were there was the stretch it made before moving aside.
Following the man as he moved to a table as it rose from the floor, he sat down on a chair with one rising up for Ichigo.
"So, what else shall we train you in next, You have so far mastered Shadows dash, and Griffons thunder, all you need to master is Nightmare's Ruin."
Giving a look of thought Ichigo gave off a hum while taking a seat.
"If you say so, so far you've given good advice, anyway since you've mentioned it, how exactly do I train for Nightmare's ruin?" giving a nod the man stood up with his book out once more, stepping to Ichigo's side the man let the red book hover over his hand with Ichigo paying full attention.
"The book, Ichigo, is the true path to achieving Nightmare's power" holding the book to ichigo, the orange haired teen took the book carefully, making Nightmare suddenly surge with power as they stood in a wasteland area like Kisuke's basement.
And standing opposite of them, was Ichigo's Zanpakuto spirit standing atop of his own white variant of Nightmare, sporting a contempt smile as his once jet black hair flowed snow white, his tattoo's absent.
"Remember Ichigo, to fully use Nightmare's ruin, one must let go of restraint as well, So "Go nuts" as you're friend Keigo would say!" gaining his own smirk as the challenge Ichigo jumped onto his Nightmare's back with his nearly restored Cane in hand.
"Alright Nightmare… Let's have some fun" Nightmare's only Answer was a guttural growl before he charged forward upon Ichigo pointing his cane forward, followed by his Zanpakuto spirit returning in kind.
Sitting with a twitch in her eyebrow as Kisuke stared back with a smile, it took all of Yoruichi's tolerance to not throttle the man.
"Kisuke, training two teens is one thing… but handing me a third that you said you were going to train, is pushing you're luck as of this moment"
"Come now Yoruichi, I'm sure you'll have fun spending time with you're interest"
Giving the annoying shopkeeper a look with her arms crossed Yoruichi spoke.
"You're just being lazy, aren't you?" the answer was Kisuke smacking his head tiredly on the table in defeat.
"HIS BOOK MAKES NO SENSE!" giving a victorious smirk as Kisuke's sudden change of demeanor made her stay worth it, moving to speak they were interrupted by a groan from Ichigo as he staggered out of his room, startling them as his hair slowly melted into black along with tattoos melting into his skin.
"Ugh, anyone have the name of the cars numberplate?" looking up to Kisuke to demand a question Ichigo stopped at seeing Yoruichi staring back like a cat caught with a fish in it's mouth.
"Kisuke, whose the model?" giving the shopkeeper A deadly look as she stood up, she spoke with a playful smile.
"The names Yoruichi, Kisuke here was just telling me on what he plans to teach you"
Giving Kisuke a look of confusion Ichigo went to speak if not for a hand being placed on his shoulder, making him turn to his Zanpakuto who smiled.
"I will take care of the first half of his training… Which is the skills I possess, the rest you may resume with" giving the man a look of bewilderment, Yoruichi spoke.
"Are you sure, I could give some pointers in between" opening his mouth to politely object, Ichigo's Zanpakuto had a look of dawning before he came to a brilliant conclusion.
"Very well, When Ichigo is on break from my methods, you may teach him skills of a Shinigami" seeing Ichigo perk up he tried to fight down his blush at seeing Yoruichi smile with hidden excitement.
"Very well, in that case we can begin in Kisuke's basement, I hope you don't mind me observing his lessons to be sure I know what he's missing, do you?" seeing the man shake his head, he spoke.
"Not at all"
With that, the two lead Ichigo into Kisuke's arena/basement, with Kisuke noticing Ichigo's eyes following Yoruichi's swaying hips, making him snort in amusement after they left the room.
Reaching for the red book Ichigo left it suddenly flew after the trio, making Kisuke blink as an astral figure stood before him until it faded into black reiatsu, leaving Kisuke wide eyed.
"What, the hell?"
You all get one guess as to what Ichigo's bankai is, hint they'll all be correct, plus extra.
