Fearless and Tearless
Chapter 3
The beginning of harsh training
Once Urahara and Karin made it back to Urahara's shop they went to the basement to meet Yuroichi. Once they got down there Karin gasped in amazement, "Wow! Nice place you got down here!" Urahara and Yuroichi just chuckled at her response. "So…what exactly are we going to be working on?" Karin asked as she settled down on one of the boulders.
"Well we will start training on all the basics and then progressing even further into more advanced skills." Yuroichi-san said. "And I also don't take back what I said. There is some stuff that I will have to teach you that Urahara-san cannot. For example, I will have to teach you in hand-to-hand combat and agility."
"Where I will teach you how to use a sword and all that other stuff you need to survive, while Tessai-san here will teach you how to use kido." Right when he said that Tessai appeared almost out of thin air and stood in front of Karin and gave a small salute. Karin just nodded trying not to show that she had no idea what kido was, but Urahara found out by the slight confusion on her face. "Kido has something to do by directing your spiritual pressure into some form of what you humans could call magic." Karin smiled gratefully, but other than that kept her mouth shut.
"Ok your schedule will be, I hope you can remember this: Kido, Agility, Sword, Hand-to-hand, and conditioning. You will always come over at 12 p.m. right after lunch, or you can always eat here for free, but if you need to be somewhere else, just tell me and we can change the time. Also just tell everyone that you are working someplace. Thank the Lord it's summer! Ok, any questions?" Urahara said in a superior tone, which cause Yuroichi to kick him in the nose.
Then Yuroichi just laughed when Urahara had to go to the bathroom to stop his bleeding nose. "So Karin-chan, do you have any questions?" Yuroichi said once she stopped laughing.
"No ma'am, well only one- when do we start?" Karin asked starting to get off the boulder.
"Well, right now. I'll go upstairs while you and Tessai-san start your kido lesson." With that she turned around raised her hand in a form of good bye and went upstairs. Once she left, Karin turned around only to find Tessai staring at her with his glasses all in her face.
"Um…excuse me." Karin said while trying to hide her face from showing her annoyance.
"We will start by doing the easiest kido of all." Tessai said while moving away from her and sitting on the ground criss-cross style. After a few moments of Karin not joining him Tessai looked at her saying, "Are you going to join me?" He said like a robot and Karin sat down. "Alright now all you have to do is try to gather…" And the rest of the two hours go on like this.
After Karin was done with her kido lesson, all of her clothes were almost in pieces from putting too much reiatsu in it and causing the kido spell to blow up in her face. "Oh, Karin-chan what have you done to your clothes?" Urahara asked once he came back into the basement.
"I don't really feel like talking about it." Karin said in a depressing tone, because she couldn't even do a simple kido spell.
Yuroichi-san came in too and took one look at me and tossed me some new clothes. "Go get changed and once you're done we're gonna start some agility lessons!" She said in a drawl. Once Karin changed into some yoga pants and a tank that she was given, she was ready to start. "Ok! Let's start! Wait…" She noticed that Urahara and Tessai were still in the basement, so she kicked them out hollering, "Urahara! You can come down when my two hours are up with this child!" Looking back at Karin, who was all the way across the room, she shunpoed over to Karin.
"Wow! I've seen my brother do that once, but I have no idea how he does it." Karin said amazed.
"Well this is was we're going to be learning today. This is called shunpo. It's when you use your reiatsu to move faster." Yuroichi-san said. "Alright let's see you try. Just imagine trying to move extra fast by adding your reiatsu to your feet. It might be hard at…" she stopped that sentence because right then, Karin was already using shunpo all over the room. Yuroichi started to laugh. "Well it seems that you already got the hang of it. Now come back over here."
"Hai!" Karin said with a smile as she made her way back over.
"Ok, now we're going to race! First to that boulder all the way over there, ok? On the count of three…one…two…three… GO!" And they were off. No one including shinigami would be able to see them race. Karin was a natural and she was about to beat Yuroichi. They actually ended up tying. While both of them were panting, Yuroichi said while smiling, "Karin-san, you're a natural. I don't think I have to help you in speed." For the rest of the hour they just relaxed for the rest of the time until Urahara came in.
"What are you two doing just sitting down? Shouldn't you be practicing?" Urahara said with a face of confusion.
"Hey what are you doing down here? I still have one more hour!" Yuroichi said while standing up.
"Well I wasn't hearing any movement down here, so I came to check up on you guys only to find you resting!"
"Humph! Try versing Karin here in a race, to prove that I have everything under control!" Yuroichi said confidently while ushering Karin off the ground.
"Do I have to?" Karin complained.
"Yes! Don't you want to beat Urahara-san?" Yuroichi asked.
"Fine…but what about you Urahara-sama. Do you want to do this?" Karin said while walking over to Urahara.
"Doesn't matter with me, but I'm sorry Karin, you're going to lose!" Urahara said baiting her.
It worked because she starting giving him death glares that only the Kurosaki's could give and started to go back to the same place where she versed Yuroichi. "Okay, we go from here to that rock over there ok?" Karin asked while stretching.
"Yes ma'am!' He said teasingly.
She gave him one last glare before Yuroichi said go and they were off once more. The only different in this race was that Karin won by a long shot. "Hah! So much for beating me Urahara-sama!" She said with a smirk.
"My, my, I sure am impressed Karin-chan." Urahara said with respect. "Since Karin seems to have mastered this already, why don't we just add this hour to my sword fighting?" He said facing Yuroichi.
"Hmm…well, she does have it already…oh what the heck! Alright!" Yuroichi said reluctantly, and with that she shunpoed off back upstairs leaving Karin and Urahara to train.
"Well now then, I guess we'll start with you getting used to a sword. We'll just be using wooden swords for now." Urahara said walking over to a spot where Karin hadn't been paying attention to, and picked up a box and then came back over and set it down by Karin's feet. "Here ya go! Pick one out." Urahara said gesturing to the box. Karin just shrugged and picked up a sword.
"Now what am I supposed to do with this?" Karin asked holding the sword in such a wrongly fashion.
"Well for starters, you have to at least know how to hold it right!" Urahara said while going over to Karin to correct her hold and fix her stance. "There, now you actually look like you know what you're doing!" He said sarcastically.
"Oh shut it! I've never done this type of thing; will you give me a break?" Karin said frowning.
He just chuckled and got a sword for himself and took a stance. "Now then, try blocking my attacks and I'll fix your mistakes afterwards. Ok, let's go." Urahara swung at Karin and she blocked it surprising him and Karin. He put on a proud grin and continued to lunge and attack. By the time that they were done with the first hour, Urahara wasn't able to land one hit on Karin. "I must say I am impressed once again Karin-chan. Are you sure you never learned?"
"Yes I'm sure!" She said with a grin now plastered on her face from satisfaction.
"Well, you're a natural in this too! Ok, now let's try you attacking and me blocking." He said getting back into his stance.
Karin got into her stance and realized that she had no idea once again what to do. Then she recalled all of the times that Urahara swung at her and tried to copy that. She did an exact match of him and hit him on the arm. "Karin! How did you do that?" He asked with wonder.
"I just tried to mimic you." Karin asked not getting why he was in such wonder.
He chuckled and said, "You look rather confused right now." He said with one last laugh, "The reason I'm astonished is because what I did on you and what you just did right now was a technique I learned long ago and it took me about ten (10) years to perfect that one move."
Now it was Karin's turn to look astonished, "Are you serious?"
"Yes I am…oh well, let's continue." And with that said, they continued like that for the rest of the two hours with Karin trying to figure out what to do, while at the same time amazing Urahara.
Urahara and Karin finished with amazing results. While Yuroichi was coming back in with a sandwich halfway in her mouth, half of it fell out because she was in shock on what she was seeing. Urahara and Karin were going full out everywhere, in the air, to the left, right, just all around the room. They were pushing each other into rocks and blood was being spurted out, and they were doing this with only mere wooden swords! At once when Yuroichi was standing there for about three minutes, Urahara looked over to her and waved. Karin took that opportunity and hit him right on his head full force with a WACK! He went crashing down onto a rock. Yuroichi winced at this and shunpoed over to him. "What the heck is going on here?" Yuroichi asked still in shock.
"Well it seems that Karin is the best swordsman I've ever seen! She's even better than me!" At that, Yuroichi took a closer look at Urahara and saw that his clothes were all battered up and he had blood everywhere, proving that this was not an amateurs fight. He had a bloody lip, bruised cheek, and on his right eye a black eye was already forming. Then she looked at Karin who was making her way over to them and all that was wrong with her was battered clothes, some bruises on her arm and legs, and bloody lip.
"Holy cow! What the hell have you guys been doing?" She said still having no idea what happened. When no one answered she finally registered what Urahara said, "… Hmm…. Well Karin-chan! You've done an amazing job!" She said forgetting about Urahara whom she was holding in her lap now he fell on the ground with a humph! "How did you do it? Can you do it on me? … On second thought, never mind. If you can do that," she said while pointing at Urahara, "I'd rather not, but all the while I give you my congratulations!"
"Thank you Yuroichi Sensei!" She said while she bowed.
"Um… excuse me! I hate to break this nice congratulation thing, but CAN SOMEONE HELP ME UP?" yelled an Urahara that everyone forgot about.
"Oops! Sorry!" Yuroichi said while laughing and both she and Karin helped pull Urahara into a sitting position. "I can't believe that you got owned by a little girl!" Yuroichi said still laughing.
"Well, I would love to see you laugh when you get beat up by her!" Urahara said while trying to fix his hat that was practically torn into pieces.
"When would she beat me? I don't teach sword!" Yuroichi asked.
"Well while Karin over there, and I were fighting she showed a lot of promise in fighting in hand-to-hand." Urahara said looking at Karin while he did.
"I did?" Karin asked.
He chuckled and then winced from his wounds and said, "I'll leave you two to train while I get these wounds tended to." He said when Tessai appeared out of nowhere again and picked Urahara up and left without a word.
"How does he do that?" Karin asked. Yuroichi laughed, but didn't say anything about it.
"Okay! Right now it's about 8:00 p.m. what about after this you can have some snacks and a break ok? You've been going at it for about eight hours straight! You should be tired!"
Now just thinking about it, Karin realized that she was exhausted. "Hai!"
"Alright let's get started! First show me your punch." Yuroichi instructed while she stuck out two of her hands outward extending her arms with just a little bend and putting her hands flat almost like saying 'Stop'. "Hit me."
"Hai," and she started to punch. She was actually used to punching because she always had to deal with her dad extra because her sister would never hurt anyone even a fly, so she got double the trouble.
"Good! You can stop. You have very good technique! Where did you learn to fight?"
"Oh I picked it up along the way…" Karin said while rolling her eyes. Then they moved on to the kicks with better results and then they started to full out fight having almost the same outcome as with her sword fighting.
It was 10 by the time that they were done and Karin looked like she was about to wipeout any second. Urahara saw this when he came back in with a compressor on his head to keep any swelling down, and told her to sit down immediately and take a 20 minute break.
"Hai." She said wearily and sank to the floor, and thankfully she was leaning to a rock earlier so when she slid down, she had a back rest. While she drifted off Yuroichi and Urahara had a conversation.
"Karin is doing a fabulous job, but are you sure that we should continue this?" Yuroichi asked with concern.
"Yes, she wants this too, remember that. Also she has so much potential that she should be able to surpass even her brother, and be the best shinigami in history. I know that it sounds crazy, but it's true." Urahara said confidently.
"It is true, I know. I trained with her too remember?"
"For some reason though, she seems to have something about her that has just way too much power yet to be revealed…do you feel it too?" Urahara asked peering down at Karin.
"You've felt that too? Yeah, it's like…well just like how you just said it." They quarreled for a little while about this until Yuroichi sighed and said, "Well wake her up, 20 minutes has gone by."
"Hai…KARIN!" Urahara yelled in Karin's face.
"What the heck?" Yuroichi asked while smacking his uninjured arm and at the same time that Karin kicked him in the face while still sleeping and both of them looked at each other. "Try again."
"KARIN!" He said 10 times louder. This time she did wake up. "What!" She said startled so much that she was already standing up.
"Calm down! It's okay, but your 20 minutes is already up." Yuroichi said.
"Oh, okay." Karin said still half asleep. Then Urahara came up behind her with a bucket filled of freezing water with even some ice cubes inside and dumped it on her. "AHHHHHHH!" Karin yelled. "What the fuck was that for?" Karin asked turning around to face the doomed person with the death glare that only Karin Kurosaki could make.
"I only did it to wake you up! You'll need to be awake for this conditioning." Urahara said defensively.
Upon hearing those words Karin stopped looking at him and peered around the place. Her eyes widened when she saw an obstacle course laid out before her eyes. "What's this?" She asked.
"Well you see, this here is an obstacle course." Urahara said. That deserved him a whack on the head by both of them.
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious!" Karin said. "I meant what am I supposed to do on it."
"Well you see, with Urahara calculations and my traction, we set up an obstacle course that'll probably take one (1) hour and thirty (30) minutes…"She just kept explaining and eventually Karin did it taking precisely that time, except a tad bit slower because of her soaking clothes.
After she was done she was told by Urahara that hid behind his fan to do 500 push-ups, 100 straight lemons, and 300 pull-ups using a bar on the obstacle course. When she heard this her eyes widened and she almost started to cry, but she sucked it up and did it. After she finally finished her last pull-up Yuroichi said with a wicked grin, "Welcome to the hardest training you've ever been to."
Once she was done and walking on her way home Karin muttered under her breath, "What have I gotten myself into?"
Sorry this was long, but probably crappy because I had no idea what to do for this scene, but please still review thanks!