Sono Rinjuu
(The Dying Hour)
By- ShinigamiMania91
Chapter 06:
"I want to see how you fair against me." Keiya said as they went down into her basement, which had a huge training field in it. There was even an oasis in one part of it. "You'll have two months to finish all your training..." She said as they walked around the underground training area. "You'll be spending four weeks in here with me, and the last four weeks in Urahara's training ground, where they will split you up between him and Yoruichi."
"Hai..." Chiyo said as Hisagi stayed near her.
"And when I say in here with me, I mean locked inside this area, and never leaving..." Keiya told her. "You won't get any time for relaxation or shopping as most of you shinigami girls like to do." Both Hisagi and Chiyo thought of Matsumoto in the moment. "So, Shuuhei-san... you might want to move back..." Keiya said pulling out her zanpakuto, "Keeper of thy mind, Doushinsama." Keiya said, her blade turning into a thin long blade with no dull edge. "Don't let anything control you, Chiyo... or else you will lose immidiately." A gust came out of nowhere and knocked Keiya's over robe off, her shinigami uniform showing.
Chiyo jumped back as Hisagi jumped to a rock at a higher level so he would not be injured in this spar. "Show her the light, Hiraishin..." Chiyo said as her zanpakuto turned into a lighting rod, but no clouds rolled in. "Shit..." She said, realizing she was inside where clouds were not located at.
"You're zanpakuto doesn't have a very usefull affect if the clouds cannot come, eh- Chiyo-san?" Keiya said as she let her shikai return to it's normal state.
"Looks like I'm going old school..." Chiyo said holding her zanpakuto infront of her. She closed her eyes, imagining Zaraki Kenpachi infront of her. We are still equal... even if I don't have a zanpakuto I can rely on... Chiyo said opening her eyes and jumping to the side.
Shuuhei looked confused for Keiya had not sent an attack at all. "How did you know, Chiyo-san?" Keiya asked her.
"Doushin hollows are used by Saeki... Everything he commands is through the mind..." Chiyo said, "When you called your zanpakuto, you called it Doushinsama... lord of one mind..." She said, "Which basically is mind control..."
"You are very quick on your feet, Chiyo-san..." She said smiling. "But how about if I step it up a level..." Chiyo's eyes narrowed, "Control...." Keiya said in a whisper as her zanpakuto glowed and suddenly Chiyo was thrown back into the rocks, as she gripped her zanpakuto as she fell into the earthy ground below.
"What the hell...?!" Chiyo said as she felt her body moving against her own will.
"Chiyo-san.... stand up..." Keiya said as Chiyo, trembling as she fought against it, stood up. "Raise your zanpakuto to your throat..." She said coolly. "And if Saeki has this power over hollows, do you think he'll stop it right there?"
"Chiyo..." Shuuhei said standing from the rock he was sitting on.
"Do you think this is enough to really finish me?" Chiyo said as she still held her zanpakuto next to her neck.
"Chiyo-san... you can't use your zanpakuto, and I have your nerves under my command." Keiya said, "How do you think you can-" Keiya's eyes widened as her hair was blown back as Chiyo let out a large amount of reiatsu. Nase-chan... where is your daughter getting all this power from?! Keiya said as she raised her arms infront of her face to block the dirt and reiatsu from hitting her in the face.
"Chiyo..." Shuuhei said as he raised his own arms to block the reiatsu.
Chiyo pulled her sword away from her neck and held it infront of her. "I've trained hard without calling upon my Zanpakuto, Keiya-san..." Chiyo told her, "Don't underestimate me."
Keiya's gaze traveled to Shuuhei who was standing on the rocks in amazement that Chiyo broke free. "Fine then..." Keiya said looking back as Chiyo, blocking her zanpakuto from cutting to her. She pushed Chiyo away, "Control..." She said as she glanced over to Shuuhei.
"No!" Chiyo said as she jumped to attack Keiya again. She dodged using shunpo and Chiyo stumbled forwards as Shuuhei pulled out his zanpakuto.
"Come down here and fight her a bit, darlin'." She told Shuuhei who jumped off the rocks and landed by Keiya. "Don't take this personal." She said with a smile as she jumped up onto the rocks. "How will you beat me now, Chiyo-san?"
"I thought you were suppose to help me! Not have me kill-"
"Attack her." Keiya said and Shuuhei jumped towards Chiyo, forcing her to block his attack.
"Chiyo... I don't mean too..." He said as she jumped back after pushing him away.
"I know Shuuhei..." She said. Keiya stood, pulling out a watch.
"It's time for my medicine... I'll be back in a little bit..." Keiya said as she jumped down. Chiyo turned to attack her, "Shuuhei, continue attacks towards her and don't let her leave this room..." Keiya said, "Or let her come anywhere near killing me." She added as Chiyo brought her hands up to form a kidou but Shuuhei jumped infront of her, grabbing her after he sheathed his zanpakuto. "Ta-ta." She said jumping up to enter her house again.
"Chiyo..." Shuuhei said as he pulled out his zanpakuto again.
"It's okay, Shuuhei..." Chiyo said pulling hers out to and blocking all of Shuuhei's attacks as she moved back with each blow. "Eventually it has to wear down right?"
"Hopefully..." Shuuhei said as their zanpakuto's clashed. "But this is going to help..."
"How so?" Chiyo asked as they jumped apart.
"As she said, Saeki has the power to control over creatures, and if he gets any more powerful with it, then he will eventually be able to control Shinigami's as well." Shuuhei said as he jumped at her again, knocking her zanpakuto out of her hands. "Sorry." He said as he pinned her to a tree, his zanpakuto to her neck.
"I realize that, Shuuhei..." She said, "And I'm sorry about doing this." She raised her fingers to his heart. "I don't want to kill you, but if this will force you to jump away then so be it." Chiyo said, "Hadou 4-white lighting!" She said, and as expected he jumped back, dodging it. She ran and grabbed her zanpakuto and rotated her body blocking him again, as he pushed down on her blade, and knocking her off her feet and onto the grass, she reached out and grabbed his wrist, pulling him onto the grass ontop of her, his zanpakuto above her head, his arm in her grasp so he could not move it.
"You realize that if you let go of my wrist then I have you pinned to the ground and you don't have a way to escape." He told her as his body tried to move on its' own to attack her.
"And even the way we are now, I have myself pinned between you and the ground." She said with a smirk.
He smirked back, "It's been a while hasn't it?"
"I'd say a couple of months..." She told him as she pulled closer to her by shifting her hand up his arm, and stopping at his elbow so he still could not bend it. She straightened his arm more bringing his face just hairs away from hers. She closed her eyes and pulled her head up just those couple of centimeters and let her lips touch his.
Suddenly, he let go of his zanpakuto, his struggle to fight her ended as he scooped her face in his hands, his fingers tangling into her hair as he rested his forehead on hers. "Chiyo-san! I'm back!" Keiya's voice rang, causing Shuuhei to jump off of Chiyo and help her up as the two grabbed their zanpakutos. "Sorry I took so long, I thought I'd let you two fight a little bit more..." She said joyfully as she sipped at a cup of tea.
"Why did you make me fight Shuuhei?!" Chiyo asked her walking over to Shuuhei.
"Control..." She said as Chiyo was suddenly twitching as she fought to stand back up from the ground in which she was thrown too. "Don't let your guard down, Chiyo-san." Keiya said releasing her. "And if I really wanted too I could make you two both fight for the whole month, non-stop, but that wouldn't be any fun."
"You're being a real bitch..." Chiyo said as she was finally able to stand up.
"I'm sorry, but what was that?" Keiya said setting her tea down and pulling out her zanpakuto.
"You're zanpakuto wasn't even in its shikai..." Chiyo said stepping back, her eyes wide.
"If you really do know your zanpakuto, you can use its bankai abilities without even calling it to a shi kai." She said, "You have to become one with your zanpakuto."
Chiyo narrowed her eyes at Keiya as she continued. "A true master of a zanpakuto does not rely on it's shi kai or its ban kai or even its ability. That shinigami must rely on itself and nothing else. They say your zanpakuto is your other part of you. If it is, then you must be able to use it without having to actually use it." She said. She threw her zanpakuto on the ground. "Come at me." She said jumping back away from her zanpakuto. "As you see it is not even in shi kai."
"That's not fair." Chiyo said looking at the blade infront of her.
"Life's not fair, but you don't see anyone stopping the world to fix it." She said. "You have just knocke Saeki's blade away from him, and he is wide open.... Are you going to wait for him to retrieve his blade to kill you or are you going to take this opportunity and kill him?"