Final chapter! = =l|l Dunno if it will be that funny…but if you find it funny, I'll be happy 8D And if you don't, it means my sense of humor sucks. If that happens, I'll try to polish it up in the future. Not really sure how this chapter should turn out. Maybe I should just post an omake, and you guys can vote on whether or not Ichigo can get the hang of kido or not… I'll decide that at the end of this chapter :P And sorry for the really long delay for this chapter. I'm NOT a kido expert, so there may be some wrong facts about how kido is used and stuff…
I don't own Bleach! If I did, Ichigo wouldn't be the main character.
"Kurosaki, I know you want to learn kido, but is there a reason why we have to do this in the basement of Urahara's shop?" The voice showed no sign of irritation, but was slightly puzzled.
"W-well, I don't know of anywhere else where we can train," Ichigo said, scratching his head. "And I guess this place is big enough…"
The white-haired taicho, who was now the substitute shinigami's teacher, sighed. "Fair enough," he said. "Let's start. What do you know about kido?"
The strawberry sat down on a rock, head lowered in thinking. After a few moments, his eyes popped open. "Well, it's a form of fighting… and I guess you can use it to both bind and attack your opponents. I'm not really sure how it works, though…"
"Basically, kido is the controlling of your reiatsu and putting it into a visible and solid form," the taicho explained. "Do you get that?"
"Um, yeah," the teen replied. "But exactly how do you do it?"
"It's a matter of visualization," came the answer. "Basically, if you visualize the kido and then put your power into making it, then it will appear and you will be able to use it."
Ichigo sighed. "That's the reason why I don't get it," he said.
"Are you sure it's not because you're a sucker at controlling your reiatsu?" Hitsugaya replied, raising a dark eyebrow.
"What did you say, you punk–"
Ichigo's voice was cut off when the boy raised a hand to the taller youth's chest and muttered: "Bakudo No. 1, Sai."
The teen fell to the ground flat on his face, arms bound behind his back, a stream of curses flowing out of his mouth.
oOo
After Ichigo had finally calmed down, Hitsugaya had started him on some basic reiatsu controlling exercises.
"I can't do it anymore!" the teen exclaimed as he gripped the Spirit Orb tightly, trying desperately to focus his spiritual energy into it. "I could do it when I went to rescue Rukia, but now I can't…"
"Patience, Kurosaki," came the calm reply. The captain was standing not too far off, teal eyes closed in a sort of meditation.
"Hey, Toshiro, what are you doing?" the orange haired boy asked, staring at the captain with a blank expression on his face.
The boy sighed. "Trying to converse with my zanpakuto. Don't focus on me; just focus on getting that sphere to appear around you."
"I just can't do it," the teen growled as he went back to his Spirit Orb, trying to focus his reiatsu into the palms of his hands. A little seemed to leak through, because a small blue sphere appeared around the orb and began to pulse unsteadily. Narrowing his chocolate-brown eyes, he tried to concentrate more of his power into the orb, and slowly, the sphere grew larger, until it was just about surrounding his entire body.
A couple seconds later, Hitsugaya's eyes flew open, having sensed the change of spirit particles in the air. Staring at Ichigo, he nodded in satisfaction. "Good," he said. "You can release it now."
Ichigo quickly diminished his reiatsu and flopped onto the ground, panting slightly from the effort.
"I assume you have the basics of reiatsu controlling," the taicho continued. "You may be ready to learn now."
And with those words, the white-haired boy procured a number of scrolls from inside haori and dumped them on the ground in front of Ichigo. "Start memorizing the spells."
oOo
"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hado No. 31, Shakkaho!" The cry rang out through the brown rocks of the training grounds, hopefully not waking up any of the people sleeping up stairs. Hitsugaya watched with observant eyes as a small sphere of red light sailed through the air, only to land on a rock and explode. The captain of the tenth division had recommended that the substitute learn shakkaho first, as it was one of the most common kido spells taught in the shinigami academy. Apparently, the substitute shinigami had learned quite well.
"That's enough, Kurosaki," Toshiro said, stepping forward and lowered the teenager's ready-to-fire stretched out hand. "I think you're already prepared enough to try firing more than one at a time. Here, try to fire at least two at me. I'll block it with a higher level kido."
Even though he was a little reluctant, the strawberry raised his hands and repeated the spell again, three more spheres of light firing themselves at the chibi taicho, who raised his hands and silently muttered, "Bakudo. 81, Danku." But instead of one giant invisible wall appearing, three small walls appeared, the 'fire balls' hitting each of them square in the center. Ichigo stared in awe. "Woah," he said. "Toshiro, that kido looks like a waffle!" The teen gawked at the three small walls, each spaced exactly one centimeter apart, and were smoking from the inpact. The young prodigy lowered his hand, looking at the substitute shinigami in confusion. "What?"
"Erm…that kido…looks like a waffle…"
"Kurosaki, what's a waffle?"
"!" The orange haired boy's eyes were opened wide, giving him an appearance of a strange owl. "Toshiro, you don't know what a waffle is?"
"That's Hitsugaya-taicho to you!" came the sharp reply. "And no, I don't know what a waffle is."
"They're the best things ever! Maybe I'll take you out to eat them some time (A/N: I'm so writing a oneshot about that later…). But a person can't live life without eating a waffle!"
"Take me out?" Hitsugaya scoffed. "You're one hundred years to early. I think you have the hang of shakkaho now, you can learn some more basic spells now. You'll probably find them easier to control, since you can already control shakkaho pretty well." The genius was quick to digress, and he soon had Ichigo going back to memorizing kido spells once again.
**Kurosaki Residence**
The female shinigami sat up quickly as her soul pager began to beep. She slid open the closet door quickly, and leapt out, swallowing a sould candy and leaving her body inside. "Renji!" she called, shaking the red pineapple with her foot. "Urahara-san is calling us." Narrow eyes opened. "Huh?" came a disoriented voice. The body gave a choking sound as a soul candy was forced down its throat, and a few moments later, Abarai Renji popped out in full shinigami attire, and looked sideways at his violet-eyed friend. "What is it?" he asked, eyes squinting at the dim screen of Rukia's soul pager. "He wants us to go over to the shop immediately," she replied. "He said there's something interesting that he wants us to see."
oOo
After a few minutes, the two soul reapers had reached the store and slid the door open, only to be greeted by a grinning Urahara Kisuke. His fan was pressed to his mouth and hid its appearance, but he was most likely grinning.
"Oh, you two are finally here!" he said, eyes dark under his green and white striped hat. "Come in, come in! And follow me!"
Without a further notice, the man turned and stalked into his store, the two following just behind him.
"Renji, do you know what this is about?" Rukia whispered.
"No, but maybe Hitsugaya-taicho and Ichigo are here," Renji replied. "They weren't in the room, right?"
Rukia's eyes grew wide in terror. "They weren't injured, were they? Maybe Hitsugaya-taicho sensed the reiatsu of some hollows, and they went out to deal with them, but the hollows were really strong…"
Renji shook his head, his red hair bouncing from the left to the right. "Hitsugaya-taicho is a captain, remember? He won't loose to some measly hollows."
Rukia nodded. "But what could it be then?"
"I don't kno-" The lieutenant of the sixth division's voice was cut off when he smashed into the wall at the end of the hallway. Both Urahara and Rukia had failed to mention that the door was a little to the right of where he was walking. Both of them had gone through the door leading to the underground training grounds. Renji peeled his face off of the wall, his nose red, and quickly caught up with Rukia. "Why didn't you tell me there was a-" But once again, the pineapple's voice was cut off as he stared at the scene in front of him in shock. There was the famous Hitsugaya Toshiro, captain of the tenth division, battling with Kurosaki Ichigo. But the thing was, neither had their swords drawn. They were relying entirely on kido. Ichigo decided not to acknowledge the trio's presence yet, and kept on fighting with the boy, who was effortlessly dodging and blocking all of the strawberry's kido. Ichigo suddenly grinned, despite how idiotic he looked. Thanks, Toshiro, he thought as he fought on. Thank you for teaching me this.
YAY~~ 8D Another fanfiction done! I decided not to post an omake for this one, because Ichigo basically has kido down now! But I'm definitely posting that oneshot about the waffles :3 However, this will be the last time that I will be publishing a chapter in a week, because I have a school trip that will last all of next week DX. I'm trying desparately to catch a cold so that I don't have to go, because, well, I don't want to go. I'd rather stay home and watch anime and read manga :D Anyways, hoped you like this!
*Goes off on otaku rant*
Did you watch HunterxHunter (2011) episode 3 yet? KILLUA FINALLY SHOWS UP~~~ I was pretty happy, but it seems just like the first attempt at a HunterxHunter anime, except for the beginning of the episode. And Shakugan no Shana III Episode 2: AMAZING. And a new Bleach episode came out yesterday~ I haven't watched it yet XD
See you next time~