A/N: took me long yeah and short chapter sorry .

Chapter 7

The next few days were to built up their stamina. Which wasn't much to do for the trained warriors. For the hobbits though, it was hell. They were forced to run the whole entire training area until they drop. The only one that didn't falter was Sam. He was keen on getting stronger to protect his friends. Merry and Pippin were moved by his determination and followed suit after their friend. Frodo however, was weak. Very weak.

Ichigo was pissed off with that annoying excuse of the ring being a hindrance to him. So he went to frodo, grabbed his collar and snatched the ring away from the hobbit. Wide eyed Frodo was screaming, "GIVE THE RING BACK!" his sudden explosion of words caught the attention of the others. And without delay the non-shinigami's grabbed their weapons and rushed in to attack ichigo. But they weren't able to advance further when the shinigami's stopped them, blocking their way.

Boromir and Aragorn had their swords drawn, Gimli with his axe in hand and Legolas with his bow and arrow drawn ready to notch. Their eyes were narrowed. "Move" Aragorn ordered. But none of them budged.

"no can do! You see Ichigo thinks its best we keep that ring-" before Renji finished his sentence he was attacked by Boromir as Gimli charged towards Inoue and Legolas shot an arrow at Chad. "hey calm down! I haven't even finished talking!" Renji's rant wasn't heard. Infact the team actually continued attacking them, until Nel stood between the middle-earth warriors and shinigami's.

Legolas had his arrow pointed to Nel as did the rest with their weapons, ready to slice down the adult shinigami's.

"whyst you fighting? No fighting! Friends no fight!" nel said with worried eyes widening and saliva splattering out from her mouth.

Legolas narrowed his eyes before speaking, "it seems, Nel, Ichigo has succumbed to the evil call of Sauron since he has snatched the ring away from its bearer."

"Itsygo wonts do that! Itsygo wants to help little man train better!" having heard this, Aragorn lowered his sword and took a step towards Renji to apologise. Seeing this, Gimli clumsily followed suit but stumbled upon a rock and knocked over Legolas, making the elf unintentionally let his arrow which was aimed at Nel loose. Granted he was aiming at the child, but he was no monster that would actually kill an innocent child. He righted his footing quickly and was about to save Nel, when Rukia blocked the attack with her own body.

The men had their eyes wide open when Rukia stood between them and her comrades, arrow in her left thigh. Legolas felt a pang of guilt and pain clenching his heart at the sight of his arrow, stuck at the female shinigami's thigh. He had felt attracted to her, yet she was hurt with his own weapon.

Rukia felt no pain at all. But only anger which was shown through her narrowed eyes and radiating silver reaitsu. The elf,dwarf and men lowered their weapons at the sight of their injured raven haired shinigami comrade. Inoue was about to launch forward to Rukia when Uryu and Chad held her back, telling her that it wasn't safe as Rukia's reaitsu was spiraling around her like mad.

Rukia's eyes were closed and she took a deep breath before opening her black and red hollow eyes. The fellowship felt their breath caught in their throat when Rukia opened her eyes and staring through theirs with the monster-like eyes. But that wasn't the only thing that made them shiver in their position.

"was there any meaning into this conflict between ourselves, creatures of middle earth?" her voice was high pitch, laced with suppressed anger and killing intent.

Gimli, being the derision dwarf he is, replied to the menacing creature before him with a voice that showed his fear, betraying his sentiment, "that orange haired took the ring from Frodo! He's succumbed to the evil! He's going to change sides and fight for evil!"

The now hollow Rukia chuckled eerily at the dwarf's comment "if Ichigo was ever the kind to easily succumb to evil,master dwarf, then he wouldn't be here right now. Hell he wouldn't be the king of Hueco Muendo back in our world! What he was doing was merely to store the ring in a barrier made from our reaitsu, so that neither of us could take it while we are in here, training. All he wanted to do was to help Frodo in his training!"

The fellowship shared an ashamed look with guilt at her words. But Boromir wasn't going to back down anytime soon, not until he can assure that Ichigo wouldn't take the Ring. "what if he did take the ring for himself? What then? What would you do should he take the ring from the barrier?" his words were coated with sarcasm and suspicions which were overpowered by Rukia's glare. Nonetheless, she answered him, this time with her normal voice.

"Then, Boromir, I will stop him myself. But I assure you this barrier would not be able to be touched by either of us while we are in here. For it will release an explosion or a painful electrifying effect to anyone that tries to go near it. And by far, it effects us shinigami's greatly and left the victim paralyzed for a week. Imagine what it would do to you normal people."

The fellowship shuddered at the thought of being paralyzed of worst, dead. Besides if that barrier could fry and leave a death god, it would certainly take their lives. Without much being said, Aragorn put down his sword and so did the rest as he went to the shinigami's and apologized, regret and guilt reflected in his person.

Rukia was soaking herself in one of the healing springs at the furthest end of the area when a familiar presence made his way to join her in the spring with of course his lower part covered with a towel.

"Oi, Rukia"

"What?" she cracked one eye open to look at him when she felt the spring water stir a bit as Ichigo slowly sat across her, looking at her with a worried look.

"I, uh was wondering how's your injury. I'm sorry Rukia I was so busy trying to pry the hobbits away from me and I didn't think about the consequences of my actions again. I was-" he wasn't able to finish his ramblings when she placed a hand over his mouth to shut him up. When she had moved next to him wasn't known to Ichigo since he was so busy talking to himself. He felt a blush crawl onto his face at the closeness of him and Rukia but was snap back to reality when Rukia begin to speak.

"It's alright Ichigo. It wasn't your fault. 'sides they were too brash and wouldn't even let Renji finish explaining when they attacked. And I'd take that arrow anytime Ichigo, it was directed to Nel. Though I know Legolas did not mean to shoot but their traits of just jumping to conclusion finally had me spiked my inner hollow." She flashed him one of her rarest smile and ensured him that everything was alright and decided to get out of the spring and go back to the rest and have dinner, leaving Ichigo to follow suit.

Seeing Rukia flowing gracefully into their campsite, Legolas stood up and patted her gently on her shoulder and stared softly into her eyes, he apologized so softly that Rukia almost missed it. She smiled at him and said it was all fine. The elf protested and such but Rukia proved to him it was nothing more than just a scratch. She was already healed and assured the guilty elf that it wasn't his fault. But when he began to protest again, she gave him death glare that shut him up.

(A/N: I'm sorry! Just can't get the training part in cause it just spoil it :P bear with me ne?)

Two months have passed in the training area and yet it has only been two weeks in reality. It was time to leave for their quest. They have mingled too long in there.

Once all gathered, Ichigo grinned at each of the fellowship, less his friends, "Hey! Time to go! Haha ok congrats on completing your training! Now let's go kick ass!" with that they stepped out of the training area, back to Middle Earth.

They were making their way through the misty mountains. The snow was thick and piled up so high that it covered the poor dwarf. Chad helped Gimli by once in awhile pulling him out of the snow which earned him protests from the dwarf, saying it was a blow to his pride and such. However the protests died down as Gimli realized Chad would still help him despite him against it. How the boy managed to carry both Merry and Pippin on him was still a mystery to him. He was like a human with a Oliphaunt's strength!

Suddenly Legolas shot through the edge of the path and tuned his ears to hear better. "Something whispers in the winds"

Ichigo was right beside him in half then a second and eased his body a little to let out his reaitsu without being discovered by others. When he found out what the elf heard he hissed to the others, "Put on a barrier now! The wind whispers of evil!"

Without a moments delay the shinigami and fellowship put on a barrier in groups. The hobbits, Gimli with Chad. Inoue with Nel. Aragorn, Rukia, Renji and Legolas were together when Gandalf was chanting magic incantations to push the enemy back which failed miserably as they were buried with piles of heavy snow. Ichigo had already been by the wizard's side and released a small amount of his reaitsu to melt away the snow that were to befall him and the wizard.

When they emerged from the snow, like popping daisies, the first thing they ever did was argue about the next destination. Hence the decision befell the ring bearer. All eyes were on the hobbit. "We make way for Moria"

A/N: Don't kill me! I know this is a terribly done chapter T-T will rewrite it when i have time T_T