Chapter Four is here! Seeing how I had nothing to do today, I did more of this. OK, in this chapter I reveal the name of my zanpakuto, all translations will be at the bottom! So, let's read! Please review as well! Reviews make me want to go on :)


Chapter 4: Time For A Little Training

"What are you doing standing around?! Get back to work!" Lieutenant Hisagi commanded, whilst his Captain had been recovering, Shuhei had taken the training session that the whole squad definitely needed. Shuhei was looking around to see if everyone was doing their part of training. Suddenly, a zanpakuto appeared on his shoulder and a voice whispered into his ear, "You'd be dead right now if that was an enemy, never let your guard down." Shuhei jumped and quickly moved away and unsheathed his own zanpakuto. Then he realised who the voice belonged to. "Captain! You're back!" He said, he smiled at the sight of his Captain being well again.
"Yup! I'm back! You need to be more aware of your surroundings Shuhei. I suggest you practise that in the future." Drakerla told him, like his brother, Drakerla was a very skilled swordsman, and was also very skilled in Kido. "Yes Captain. Thank you for the advice."
"Shuhei you don't have to be so formal with me, I may be a Kuchiki, but unlike my brother, I don't mind people being informal with me, it makes me feel normal!" He laughed, "Follow me Shuhei, just as the rest of the squad need to train, so do we." Shuhei followed Drakerla to a secret training ground that was buried underneath the Seireitei. As soon as they entered, Shuhei couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Is this your training ground, Captain?" He asked,
"No, it's shared by a few of us. Renji uses it from time to time, Ichigo Kurosaki used it once, if I recall. Yoruichi uses it a lot as well, when Byakuya and I were younger Yoruichi used to take us down here to play. Ah, the good old days... Anyways, get your zanpakuto out, there are some people I'd like you to fight." Drakerla told him, Shuhei unsheathed his zanpakuto, and took a stance. "I'll be back in a sec." Drakerla went behind a rock, where he had gathered someone that Shuhei had to fight. Drakerla turned to a blonde haired boy and said, "Izuru, you can go first."
"Yes Captain Kuchiki." Izuru Kira, the Lieutenant of Squad Three, stepped out from behind the rock. He unsheathed his zanpakuto and activated his Shikai. "Raise your head, Wabisuke." Suddenly, Izuru's zanpakuto transformed from its normal sword-like appearance into a sword with a hooked end. "Izuru! So I have you first huh? Great!" Shuhei said, Izuru charged towards Shuhei, who was ready for his friend's attack. Izuru brought Wabisuke down on Shuhei, who quickly flash stepped out of the way so that he didn't get caught by the lieutenant's zanpakuto. "Wabisuke... the zanpakuto with the ability to make anything it touches become double the weight of what it is." Izuru said, Shuhei had come up behind him, and had put his zanpakuto onto Izuru's neck. "You need to be more aware of your surroundings Izuru." He whispered into Izuru's ear.
"Well said Shuhei, I see that you listen to my advice." Drakerla came out from behind the rock, clapping his hands.
"Well how can I learn if I didn't listen?" He said, Drakerla chuckled,
"Well done Shuhei, you managed to beat Izuru. Now for your next opponent." Drakerla disappeared behind the rock, and came out a few seconds later. Izuru said goodbye to Shuhei and Drakerla and left for his squad's barracks. "So, who's my next opponent?" Shuhei asked,
"Why Lieutenant Hisagi, you're looking at him!"
"Captain?! But you haven't long been out of the Squad Four barracks! It wouldn't do any good to get yourself injured again."
"Are you questioning my abilities Lieutenant Hisagi?" Drakerla asked in a rather dangerous tone,
"No Captain, I'm just concerned that's all."
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Let's begin. Activate your Shikai."
"Reap, Kazeshini." Shuhei reluctantly activated his zanpakuto's Shikai. His zanpakuto then transformed into two scythe blades with the two pointy things (I don't know what they're called!) on each blade, with one of the pointy things being inverted so it looked like a pinwheel, there was also a long, black chain attached to the bottom of each blade that connected the two blades together. He looked it at and showed a face of disgust. "I'm sorry Shuhei. I know you don't like your Shikai, but you need to fight at your full power, that will help improve your skills. That reminds me! I need to activate my Shikai!" Drakerla said, he held his zanpakuto so that it was vertical with his face. "Death by fire, reborn. Rise, Moeru Fenikkusu!" Suddenly flames burst out of Drakerla's zanpakuto. Then the flames subdued. Drakerla's zanpakuto had grown wings like a phoenix's on the hilt, Shuhei charged at Drakerla and launched his zanpakuto at the Captain. Drakerla quickly dodged it with ease. He then flash stepped behind Shuhei. Then in front, then to the left and right, then suddenly Drakerla was moving so fast that Shuhei, who was very good at flash step himself, couldn't see him! Suddenly Shuhei felt Drakerla's zanpakuto slash down on his arm, and the wound that had been created breathed out fire! Shuhei collapsed onto his knees, looking at the wound on his arm, and wondering what had just happened. "So now you know the ability of my zanpakuto, a single slash can kill. If my zanpakuto causes a wound on someone, that wound won't normally breathe out fire, it will burn everything in the body, without actually showing any fire. The reason that your wound breathed out fire was because I don't want to kill you, so I slashed you, but my zanpakuto didn't put any fire into you. Well then, should we give everyone a display of what you've learned? Come on, let's get out of here. Quickly get that wound healed by Lieutenant Kotetsu, then meet me back at the barracks. We're having another fight." Drakerla and Shuhei left the secret training ground, once outside, Drakerla left for the Squad Nine barracks, whilst Shuhei left for the Squad Four barracks to get his wound healed.

Half an hour later Drakerla and Shuhei were practising again.
"Reap, Kazeshini."
"Death by fire, reborn. Rise, Moeru Fenikkusu!"
Both Soul Reapers had activated their zanpakuto's Shikai, and were battling so ferociously, that their spiritual pressures could be felt throughout the entire Seireitei.

At the Kuchiki Manor...
"Whose spiritual pressure is that?!" Rukia asked Byakuya,
"It would appear to be our brother and his lieutenant." He stated, Rukia's eyes widened and she gasped, the two spiritual pressures colliding were strong! Byakuya told Rukia that they were going to go and watch. They left the Manor and headed for the Squad Nine training ground (not the secret one, the normal one.)

At the Squad Eight barracks...
Shunsui Kyoraku and Jushiro Ukitake looked in the direction of where Drakerla and Shuhei's practise was going on. "Wow, seems like they're really going at it. Should we go and watch?" Shunsui asked his best friend, Jushiro sat there in thought, then decided that he would go. "Sure, why not? It should be fun!" He said. So they both left to go and watch the fight.

At the Squad Six barracks...
"Lieutenant Abarai! Who owns that strong spiritual pressure?!" One of the officers asked Renji.
"It's Squad Nine's Captain Kuchiki, seems that he is practising with his lieutenant." He said.
"That spiritual pressure's as powerful as our Captain Kuchiki!" The officer exclaimed.
"Yeah, as much as they don't want to believe it, they are quite alike. I'm going to go and watch the fight, look after the place alright?" Renji said,
"Of course Lieutenant!" Renji then left to go and watch the fight.

Back at the Squad Nine barracks...
Drakerla and Shuhei and been fighting for a while, Shuhei was drenched in sweat from all of the hard work that he had put into his fighting. "Shuhei, do you want to take a break? I don't mind stopping for a while you know. Even with this audience." Shuhei shook his head and stated that he was fine to continue. "OK then, but I'm taking it up a notch." Suddenly Drakerla's spiritual pressure started to increase dramatically. Then all the captains that had gathered knew what the young Kuchiki was about to do. Drakerla positioned his sword so that it was vertical to his face.

"BAN...KAI!"

Suddenly a huge wall of flames sprouted up from the ground around Drakerla. Then the flames died down, which revealed Drakerla having a golden armour covering his right arm and hand. All of the lieutenants gaped. They couldn't believe what they were seeing! Shuhei looked shocked, how was it he had never seen his Captain's Bankai? "Moeru Fenikkusu no taito. I know what you're thinking Shuhei. How come I've never shown you my Bankai before? The truth is this is the first time I've used it since I had to show it for my Captain's Entrance Exam!" He grinned, then laughed. Wow, the Captain's faced some really powerful enemies, and he hasn't used his Bankai since his Entrance Exam?! He must be really strong. Shuhei thought. "Anyways, enough talk. Come on Shuhei, show me all you've got!" He yelled, Shuhei swung Kazeshini at Drakerla, who dodged it then flash stepped behind Shuhei. "Captain you can't fool me again with that trick." Shuhei quickly flash stepped to where Drakerla had just been. Drakerla had a smile of joy. "I see that you've definitely been practising Shuhei! Prepare for my ultimate technique, but be warned, if you dodge you will die. You have to block it using your spiritual pressure, you got it?!" Shuhei nodded, he was oozing confidence. "Alright then, get ready!" Suddenly, two wings of fire appeared behind Drakerla. He took a stance which looked like he was about to lunge into Shuhei. "Tobe! Fenikkusu!" Drakerla then flash stepped towards Shuhei, and brought his zanpakuto down ever so quickly, Shuhei saw it just in time and manage to get Kazeshini to act as a shield between them. Then, Shuhei's spiritual pressure started to rise, he was putting everything he had into blocking this ultimate attack from his Captain. Drakerla had then gone past Shuhei, who had managed to block the attack, but he had been left with burns. The wings of fire behind Drakerla had now disappeared, and his zanpakuto had returned to its sealed form. "Well done Shuhei, you've gotten stronger!" He said as he helped his lieutenant up. Suddenly everyone had surrounded the two of them, they were all talking about Drakerla's Bankai and how well Shuhei had done to block the attack. Damn it! I need to get out of here. Drakerla thought. Then he saw an opening in the crowd, due to him being very stealthy in his younger days (another thing that Yoruichi taught him) he managed to slip through the crowd and find his siblings. He looked around and saw them near his office. So he flash stepped over to them.


Translations:
Moeru Fenikkusu = Blazing Phoenix
Moeru Fenikkusu no taito = Rise of the Blazing Phoenix
Tobe Fenikkusu = Flight of the Phoenix
Kazeshini = Wind of Death
Wabisuke = The Wretched One

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