Chapter 3 – A game of tack: Soul reapers after humans…
Hey everyone ^^
I'm really sorry it's been so long, but my studies took a lot of my time -.-
And just to let you know I'm really glad for all the reviews!
Okay so last time we left the two girls in the hands of five soul reapers, and they teased Ichigo and Hitsugaya.
If you haven't figured it out then let me inform you. Cecilie's favorite person is Ichigo and Elise is just another fangirl who, like many others, likes Hitsugaya.
I just thought you should know xD
A reminder from last:
And then out of the blue Elise looks curiously at Cecilie while asking: "Hey, hey Sille how was it to touch Ichigo's butt?"
It's clear to everyone that she was walking in her own thoughts and just let out what was on her mind. Rukia and Renji have to sit down, doo to the fact that they are laughing too hard. And at the same time Ichigo once again changes color to the same as his nickname: strawberry.
Elise and Cecilie laugh too. Eagerly, Elise says: "Uh let's have a contest! Who can s…."
but she never finishes the sentence.
Start of story:
The light from the sunrise momentarily blinds the two girls. Cecilie looks down, then at Elise. The whole motion seems to go in slow-motion. Underneath Cecilie and Elise is ten meters of air. A tickeling feeling from the free fall nags in Cecilie. She's about to scream, but is catched by Renji. The scream never leaves her mouth, and she looks dumb fooled up at Renji who laughs and asks: "Wish it was Ichigo who catched you?"
Blushing like mad Cecilie turns her head away from Renji, and makes a complaining expression.
" No I just thought why on earth you have tattoed eyebrows."Her comeback makes the red head shut his mouth.
In the meantime Elise has been caught by Ichigo. "I can't say I ain't glad to see you!"
"Don't mention it," He puts her down, and laughs at Renji and Cecilies expressions. Then turns to Hitsugaya and asks: "Where are we going now, Toshiro?"
"To Urahara Kisuke…AND how many times must I tell you, it's Captain Histugaya to you!" Snaps Hitsugaya, obviously still pissed because of the two girls.
"Urahara?" Elise has a questioning look.
"He's a friend of soul society…" answers Hitsugaya, who is already walking towards the destination.
"I know!" exclaims Elise happily, she runs up in front of the group and stops to watch the sunrise. "Waow it's so pretty!"
Meanwhile Renji has put down Cecilie, and they are now walking beside each other. Cecilie is flanked by Renji on her left and Ichigo on her right, who still keeps a distance. Renji watches Elise, and says: "You two are two feisty girls…"
Cecilie is deep in thought while she follows the others, and after a couple of minutes Ichigo venture himself to ask "What are you thinking about?"
Curiosity simply got the better of him.
"I was thinking... Shouldn't Urahara be in our world?" She points at Elise and herself.
"Silly … we are in the world of the living!" Ichigo points towards the river and the bridge, laughing ever so slightly. "We just used a new device Hat and Clogs made to travel between Denmark and Japan."
Slowly they make their way into the city and arrive at a low building in between tall apartment complexes.
"Well… we'r here…" says Ichigo, Renji laughs at Elise's expression.
Elise, who ended up walking beside Cecilie, stops with a skeptical look on her face and says: "This is one weird day…"
To tell Ichigo that she was actually paying attention, Cecilie look at him for a short while, before agreeing with Elise: "Yeah you're right. This is just too weird."
"What's weird? Not my tattoos again?" complains Renji, he looks offended at the two girls.
Cecilie sighs deeply: "No, Renji. It's not allways you I'm talking about."
Giggling is heard and Renji's face changes with a few degrees of red, matching his red hair.
"But I was not the one who thought we was in Soul Society" Renji mumbles a comeback, and then walks over to Rukia.
"Whoops, you made him maaaad" whispers Rangiku, who suddenly appeared where Renji were standing a few moments before.
Cecilie can feel the tiredness rush over her, and cares zero to none about Renji because of it. She looks up at Rangiku: "Yeah just let him be mad!"
It is obiously that Rangiku is watching her Captain, before she, from God knows where, draws up a bottle of sake.
"Psst, this is sake. Have some! It will lighten you up a bit." She gestures to Elise to take the bottle. In that second Hitsugaya stands in front of them, looking even more annoyed than ever.
"Brought Sake with you at work again, Rangiku?" He asks a rhetorical question.
"You can keep it, I'm not in the mood" very politely she pushes the bottle towards Rangiku.
In order to save Rangiku, Elise makes a very drastic move.
"So, Captain Hitsugaya, I'm sure you brought us here for a good reason…" She walks in front of him and pushes him gently towards Urahara's shop, and just before he can turn around, say something or protest Elise continues: "But since you have kept us up all night, in order to come here, for some reason, could you arrange for us to get a room, so we at least can have one hours sleep, and som clean clothes…?"
While watching him, she makes a short pause, before adding: "Please?"
Elise, even though her mind is screaming at her, stops and looks directly into Hitsugayas eyes, letting him know she meant what she said.
Renji and Ichigo have to hold their hands over their mouths to not laugh out loud, and Rangiku stands with her mouth open in disbelieve.
"Hey, you girls really got style!" Rukia makes eye contact with Cecilie before asking, with a teasing look: "Now I have been dying to know the answer! How was Ichigos butt?"
Matsumoto adds: "Yeah i wanna know to!"
Cecilie blushes a million shades of red, and looks down at her shoes, just to realize that she and Elise never had the time to put on any. And now she was walking around in quiet dirty socks.
She sticks her nose in the air, still blushing and says: "I'm dirty and tired, and I want some rest. All that silly chatter can wait till later."
Cecilie walks, pretty fast, towards the shop and knocks on the door.
"Now she sounds like the captain!" Rangiku whispers to Renji who have to bite his own hand, so he would not laugh.
Luckily for Rangiku, Hitsugaya follows Cecilie, and the two of them are now waiting to get inside.
Suddenly a blond man, wearing hat and clogs is standing in the door. Both Cecilie and Elise, knows instantly who he is: Urahara Kisuke.
"Well, well who do we have here?" Urahara asks, but does not wait for an answer, and lets everyone in.
Once inside he bends over to take a look at Cecilie and Elise. Elise jumps behind Hitsugaya and hides behind his shirt.
"So what is it this time?" The irritation is clear in Hitsugayas voice when he asks.
"Nothing of your concern." Elise looks up from his shoulder and says to Kisuke: "Hello, I'm Elise" and then hides again, she mumbles: "He's so weird and a pervert. I don't trust him at all... though he's funny…"
"I'm gonna go back to my house, you coming Rukia?" Ichigo's voice breaks the silence.
"Right, see you all later!" Rukia waves goodbye as the two of them start walking away.
"You really have a nice smile, want some candy?" Kisuke smiles at Cecilie and holds out a bowl, with a lot of weird looking candy. His other hand is holding on to his hat, and a sweet smile is resting on his lips.
Cecilie falls immediately for his charm and a light blush appears on her face. To hide it she quickly looks into the bowl of candy. Sadly Cecilie realizes, she don't recognize any of it, and there for have to look back up, into the gray green mysterious eyes again.
"Eeeerh, no thanks, I'm on a diet. Can we get in and sit down for a bit please? I'm exhausted." Cecilie puts on her most ignorant smile. Urahara seems amazed for a moment, before he walks to the end of the shop and opens a door for the group.
Once everyone's inside Urahara closes the door and asks Hitsugaya, Renji and Rangiku: "So, what can I do for you?"
"We just wanted you to take care of these girls for a while. We have some business to do in Soul Society, and they can't come with us right now" It is clear that Hitsugaya is referring to a serious matter, so Kisuke accepts without any other explanation.
"Well, we better get going. Come you two. We have a lot to do." Hitsugaya turns to walk out again, ripping Elise of her hiding place.
"Aaaw captain, can't we get a nap before work? We have been working all night!" complains Rangiku, as they walk through the doors again. Only an angry mumble is heard as an answer to Rangiku.
"Bye" Elise shouts after them. Slowly she turns to face Urahara, her eyes showing suspicion.
"Well you better get some rest, I'll show you to a room you can use… and then later we'll discuss why you have been brought here." Urahara grabs Cecilie's hand and starts to lead her through the house. Elise is right behind them.
He leaves the two girls in a room. In the room there are two newly made beds and a clean set of clothes for later.
A deep silence falls and Elise is the first to break it: "Finally! They left ... I was dying inside! Do you realize how much my brain stopped working whenever I saw, thought of or heard Hitsugaya ...? It was terrible!" she exclaims and walks over to one of the beds and takes her socks and dirty clothes of.
Cecilie starts to laugh: "Haha, yeah I saw that. It was really entertaining! But okay, I really hope we get to see him when he is a bit less irritated, cause so fare he's been very short tempered."
Shortly after, Cecilie lays down on her bed, wearing a pyjamas and about five minutes after that she drift off to sleep.
They sleep for a couple of hours. Cecilie dreams of someone carrying her, for a long while, and then at some point she hears a distant voice: "Lay her down here and the other one too…"
But that is all her dream shows her, because the next thing she knows is Elise shaking her and saying: "Hey! Weak up!"
"What is it?" says Cecilie, with a tired voice, and turned around to rest some more. She is still way too tired to care about anything else.
"Ichigo's gonna be here in 5 minutes, I just thought you should know…" answers Elise, she grabs some clothes laid out for them and puts it on.
When Elise stands up, Cecilie realizes that Elise is wearing a shihakusho. But before she can ask any questions, footsteps are heard in the corridor and a bit defeatist voice: "Why did I have to wake them up…"
Even though it is faint, Elise still recognizes Ichigo, and just before he can knock on the door she opens it. In the speed of light she pushes Ichigo inside, steps out, shuts the door and runs down the corridor.
Ichigo looses his balance and stumble into the room, just to fall and land in Cecilies bet, on top of her.
An awkward moment flashes before the two, and Ichigo realizes that Cecilie is wearing far less clothes than the day before. While blushing like mad he mumbles: "Eeeerh, there is breakfast in 2 minutes. Kisuke sent me to tell you."
Cecilie who is matching Ichigo perfectly, tries to cover herself up a bit. She straightens up, so Ichigo have to move away.
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute." Cecilie finds that a shihakusho have been laid out for her too.
Ichigo stumbles out of the room, so the awkwardness cannot turn into something worse. "Okay, I will leave you to dress then."
"Damn you Elise... says I have five minutes, more like five seconds! … And what is this for; why do I have to wear soul reaper clothes?" Cecilie is a little pissed off, but nonetheless, she puts on the clothes in a hurry. Another thought creeps in to her mind: who laid this cloth out for us, while we slept?
A still blushing Ichigo leads Cecilie to all the others; they are sitting around a low table, filed up with bread and tea.
Elise is sitting in between Kisuke and Rukia on the opposite site of the table, from where Ichigo and Cecilie enters. Her smile is bigger than ever.
"Good morning Cecilie. I see that you are up and dressed" states Rukia, and it is clear that Elise have not said a word about what happened just moments ago.
"Now come and eat, we have a lot to discuss!" smiles Kisuke, and gesticulates towards a couple of empty spaces.
Cecilie chooses the spot besides Urahara, and sighs relieved when Ichigo decides to sit beside Rukia. His blush is nearly gone by now.
To avoid having to answer any uncountable questions, Cecilie grabs a piece of bread and stuffs it in her mouth.
Rukia looks like she has seen right through her and giggles a little, before she straitens her face and asks: "I guess you both want to know, why we have brought you to Karakuratown?"
Cecilie, who's mouth is still filled up with bread, nods.
Urahara gives both Elise and Cecilie a glance, takes a sip of his tea, then starts to explain: "As you have guessed the story of Bleach is reality. In order to catch the attention of other humans with strong spiritual powers like Ichigo, we asked an author to write about us in a manga…"
Urahara takes another sip of his tea, and Elise takes a piece of bread like Cecilie did. She sends her a quick glance before looking back at Kisuke.
"This have let to uproar in Soul society, and to make a long story short the two of you were selected in order to help the captains, leutantens and Ichigo to bring down the Brotherhood of Tomorrow."
"Wait WHAT?" Elise exclaims and is allmost choked in her bread, out of mere surprise.
Rukia and Ichigo sends each other a look saying: This ain't gonna be easy…
" But, how can this led to an uproar in soul society? Not anyone believes that this story is reality. I'm still not sure wether I'm dreaming or not. So why is it such a big problem?" Cecilie adds to Elise's outburst.
Kisuke looks up from his tea, but still does not answer right away: "The problem is, that the people in Soul Society have the opinion that humans do not belong in Soul Society. Only Soul Reapers and the people who are meant to be here. So of course some people were very upset, when it was mentioned to them. They have accepted Ichigo, and he has done a lot to deserve that respect. But they don't want a lot of humans to fill up the soul society. They mean that they can handle the hollows etc. all by themselves. The problem is, that many of them don't have the strength, so we have to ask humans with unnatural spiritual power."
Now a very telling expression runs across Cecilie's face: "So what you are saying, is that you will only use us untill you have more people who are strong enough? All right I'm outta' here!"
Cecilie stands up to leave the shop. But a hand gently grabs her wrist and Ichigo says with a sad yet serious voice: "No it's not like you think. There is more to this... please listen till the end before judging."
He makes the unwilling Cecilie sit back down, and Urahara continues the explanation: "Well as I was about to say… Some of the Soul reapers have created a brotherhood, with the mere purpose of taking the captains and those who honor the decisions to kill every human with spiritual powers. They have simply misunderstood the purpose of knowing the identity of the humans with special powers."
Elise interrupts Kisuke: "Okay that makes sense, so Soul Society made this in order to keep track on people, right?"
She makes a short pause, and they all nod.
"So that still leaves the main question, why do you need us…?" she asks the basic question, looking a bit scared.
"We need you to mess up their plan, cause they have made a barrier only humans can pass through…" a person from behind Elise explains. She tries to turn in the direction, but ends up falling. When she looks up she is lying at the feet of a person, and with a deep blush on her chicks she says: "Hello… Captain Hitsugaya."
Hitsugaya looks down at her for a short while; he then gives her a nod as a greeting. Carefully he walks over to the table and sits beside Rukia and Kisuke.
After the encounter there is a long silence. Cecilie is feeling overwhelmed and chooses at first to say nothing, but a question is bothering her. She looks into Hitsugaya's deep turquoise eyes and asks him: "How on earth can you tell we have spiritual powers, just by reading a manga about it? It seems unlikely to me."
A sigh is the only answer he gives her, but Rukia clears things out: " Not really, The Department of Research and Development made a spying tool and tracking function on every book and movie…"
The explanation is supported by one of Rukias famous drawings. Both Cecilie and Elise have to concentrate very hard on not to laugh.
Besides from that Elise, who originally sat between Rukia and Kisuke, now ended up sitting beside Rukia and Hitsugay, witch courses her great trouble. And she has to strain herself to maintain focus. She sends Cecilie a desperate look: - Help me please, let this meating end! -
"And now all that's left to do is to awaken your powers." Hitsugaya ends the conversation and looks up at Cecilie, wearing his usual expression, saying: This is serious.
His cool stare makes Cecilie look away and down on her hand, witch to her surprise is still in Ichigo's.
Cecilie draws her hand away from Ichigo's, and makes eye contact with Rukia, who seems like the friendliest person in the room. "Okay now it makes more sense with those guys involved."
Rukia gives Cecilie a comforting smile, before Cecilie continues, now speaking to Hitsugaya again: "And how do you want to awake our powers?"
"The same way Rukia awoke Ichigos…" the answer is concise and exact.
Elise finally finds her tongue again: "But without training we want stand a chance and how can you be so sure that we are even strong enough?"
The question lies in the air for a brief moment and no one answers: "So basically you don't even know that?" concludes Elise.
"No we know that you will indeed be strong enough, but I'm afraid we are not allowed to tell you, doo to the balance of t…" Urahara makes a short thinking pause before ending the sentence with: "The balance of the dimensions."
"No one are stabbing a sword into my chest!" says Cecilie determined.
She completely overheard what Kisuke said.
"It's a Zanpakutou," Ichigo corrects her. This earns him a very angry stare from Cecilie, and he backs away a little.
"Right now, I don't care about the name! I don't want it! Find someone else!"
Hitsugaya makes a loud sigh. "You have to. If you don't, we will have to kill you because you now know too many of our secrets. You have to think about the fact that we would not have contacted you unless it was the only thing left to do."
Cecilie cannot say anything against this argument, and rush to stuff more bread in the mouth, although she is not really hungry anymore.
"Wow you sure eat a lot!" Ichigo sounds surprised, and smiles towards Cecilie.
Elise had just taken a sip of her tea, and almost spits it out, because she's laughing, but she manages to swallow the tea and learns to the side laughing out loud.
The rest of the group looks at her, taken back for a moment, before laughing too. Even Hitsugaya can't help but smile a little.
Cecilie tries to look angry, but she fails miserably, as her cheeks are swallowed out do to bread. At this point the room is filled with laughter. The only person not laughing his or her ass off is Hitsugaya and Cecilie.
Eyeing the opportunity Cecilie runs out of the nearest door. Ichigo is just about to run after her but is stopped by Hitsugay saying: "She will come back. Let's begin with the other one," he turns towards Elise.
"NO WAY NO NONONOONONOO NO!" Elise cries out, when she realizes that they are all watching her. She's half crawling over the floor while she says it, then turns around and runs through the door.
"Come back here!" yells Hitsugaya after her, but Elise never hears all of it, she was far gone from the room by then.
In the meantime Cecilie has lost her tracks and ends up in a dead end. She's standing in a room with a trapdoor on the floor and no other way out. Behind her she can hear approaching footsteps.
Cecilie runs over and opens the trapdoor, to make it look like she went through. From outside there is a lot of noise: -They probably caught Elise. -
"I'm going to check in here," Cecilie hears Higsugayas voice through the wall. So she hides behind the door, just as he enters the room. He walks towards the trapdoor, and Cecilie sees an opportunity.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAA"She pushes Hitsugaya, with all the strength she has. It is not enough to make him fall, but he did lose focus for a couple of seconds. And Cecilie is off again.
And this is how the tack game: Soul reapers after humans started.
Cecilie is close to running face first into Rukia, when she turns a corner, but because of Cecilie's speed Rukia jumps to the side, before setting after her. From the corner of her eye, Cecilie, sees someone walking into a room down in one of the corridors. And it is at this point Cecilie realizes how big the house actually is. - Okay, I don't wanna run after the person down there… - Cecilie looks after another room to run into, and Rukia is catching up on her. She is only a few corners behind her. To her left Cecilie spots a sliding, quickly she runs over to it, and in a matter of seconds she is in a room.
In the meantime Elise has escaped Ichigo and hides herself. She watches as Ichigo and Hitsugaya meet up in the corridor and separate again to cover more land. When they are out of sight, Elise runs back to the deserted room where they all ate. Only the room is not as deserted as Elise would have liked. On the other side of the table, on the spot where Urahara were sitting earlier, a black cat has taken his seat. And it is watching Elise carefully.
Cecilie, by a miracle, ends up in the shoproom, only a few meters from safety. She hears Rukia yell to her: "Hey wait, it's not as bad as you think!"
The coast seems to be clear but when Cecilie takes the first step towards the door, she is caught by a pair of long muscular arms: "My… we can't have you running off now!"
Kisuke is laughing while he takes Cecilie up in bride style and starts to walk back through the house.
"Yoruichi" says Elise in aware, it's hardly over a whisper.
"I'm glad you know my name…" the cat answers as it jumps over the table with ease.
Elise turns on the spot, to run the other way, but accidentally runs right into the arms of Hitsugaya. They fall doo to the force of the impact, and end up on the floor in an awkward position. Elise strokes to free herself, while blushing harder than ever before, but soon comes to the conclusion: I'm clamped, crap…-
Cecilie has gradually given up the fight against the somewhat stronger Urahara. But that doesn't stop her from being surprised when she sees Elise and Hitsugaya lying in a very awkward way on the floor.
Ichigo comes into the room and looks just as surprised as Cecilie when he sees who's on the floor.
"At least I didn't do that to you," mumbles Cecilie to him, none of them can help smiling a little.
Soon after Hitsugaya, just a 'bit' pissed, manages to free himself and stand up.
The girls are separated in two corners, and a guard is placed in front of them. Ichigo is guarding Cecilie and the cat, Elise.
"We need backup. Shall I call Chad and Uryu?" Ichigo looks at Hitsugaya for a brief moment.
"No need for that! Let's just get it over with."
Rukia comes in carrying two swords, she hands one to Ichigo. The sword seems to be made of some kind of liquid material.
"Why do I have to do this?" Ichigo asks, with frustration clear in his voice.
With a teasing smile Rukia answers: "Because only those of captain class are strong enough you IDIOT!"
The two of them start arguing, until Hitsugaya interferers: "THAT'S ENOUGH!"
Rukia self-assembles her formal attitude and looks at Urahara and Hitsugaya, holding the second sword out towards them: "So who wanna do it?"
Ichigo once again faces Cecilie, only this time he is holding a sword.
"No.n.n.n.n. NO WAY!" shouts Cecilie and tries to push the sword away from her. Of course nothing happens.
"And if it's only those of captain class who can do it, why did you do it with Ichigo back then?" She asks Rukia, still hoping some kind of rescue will come her way. Ichigo is slowly leading the sword towards her chest. The tip is coming nearer and nearer with each second passing.
"Simpel, Ichigos spiritual powers were porring out of him already, and back then they used a real Zanpakutou, not riatzu shaped in to the form of a sword." Urahara smiles down at Cecilie: "And don't worry, it won't hurt…."
And that's where he stopped smiling, making it clear that he actually had no clue wether or not it would, and that he might just as well be lying.
Elise tries to climb further up the wall than she already is, which is not really possible.
Ichigo bends down in front of Cecilie and catches her eyes with his: "Look I've tried this twice before, it won't hurt much… I promise…"
His deep brown eyes show no sign of lies, but concern and understanding.
And for the first time Cecilie feels herself trusting the man before her. So she lets her arms fall down her sides, so Ichigo can do what he must.
Elise who, hates sharp things, and watches this panics: "I don't wan't this!"
She gets up and runs as fast as she can, but her sanity has left her, so the first twenty meters she's blinded by fear. Then slowly reality crashes in on her, and tears form in the corner of her eyes, but she blinks them away and proceeds.
"I'll get her…again…" the voice sounds exasperated and someone disappears from the room.
Cecilie still has eye contact with Ichigo, and starts to feel a warm, fuzzy feeling in her chest. It feels as if water is touching her skin and from where it touches the fuzzy feeling spreads out through her entire body. Strange pictures appear in her mind and slowly the picture of Ichigo in front of her dissolves. But his image is replaced by a new feeling, and his presence appears in a new and different way. Like when you ride a roller-coaster, a butterfly-feeling starts in her stomach, and power Cecilie did not know she had overwhelms her. Slowly her vision becomes clear again and looking down at her are three people and a cat.
When Cecilie returns to reality she feels ten times as strong and far more awake than in the seconds before she were stabbed.
Slowly she looks down at herself, just to check that everything is as it's supposed to be. Her shihakusho is looking a bit different and fitting her a bit more nicely. Cecilie glances at the others with a faint smile, before noticing that Hitsugaya is gone.
Elise is still running but can't seem to find a way out. And in the next moment Hitsugaya is standing in front of her, he used flash step to get up in front of her. Elise stops so suddenly that she falls to the ground.
"I'm sorry, but I have to do this," Hitsugaya stabs her before she can react, and the sword is pushed deep in to her chest, though no pain comes from it.
"So how are you feeling?" asks Ichigo while he gives Cecilie a helping hand, so she can get up on her feet again.
"Acutally pretty good, thanks!" Cecilie smiles at Ichigo, who gives her at reassuring smile in return. She looks at the others one after another, as if seeing them for the first time. "Well now that it's done we just need your friend to come back inside" says Urahara and starts to walk through the house, in the direction where Elise and Hitsugaya disappeared.
From a room not to far down a corridor an intense riatzu is felt and it takes Cecilie only a split second to know that it belongs to Elise. Besides from that it's also clear that she have not forgiven Toshiro for stabbing her.
Urahara walks right into the room, without a second thought and grabs Elise. He throws her over his shoulder and starts to walk.
"I think you need to come to my training grounds before you do something really stupid" A soft laugh is heard from him as he leads the way.
"Are you going to follow us quietly this time?" Hitsugaya asks Cecilie, obviously frustrated over the fact, that two human girls could cause this much trouble.
"Yeah, I'm ready for training" Cecilie answers while smiling and then following Rukia and Ichigo.
When everyone enters the traininggrounds underneath the shop it is clear that Elise is more than pissed off.
"LET ME DOWN!" she yells while struckling to get free.
"Wow she sure can change her mood fast!" Rukia sounds amazed, and looks at Elise.
"No she's just embarrassed, can't you tell from looking at her face?" says Yoruichi, she has a teasing edge to her voice, by now she is in her human form and wearing her usual clothes.
"Don't count on that Yoruichi, she's been that color all day." Sighs Hitsugaya, before using flash step to get down to the bottom.
The rest of the group follows, but before that Rukia turns to face Cecilie and asks: "You comming?"
Cecilie looks at Rukia for a short while. "Yeah, sure."
Where everyone else used flash step to reach the bottom, Cecilie used the long latter to get down.
Half way down someone asks her from above: "Hey! Are you going to use a whole day to get down there?"
Looking up Cecilie sees Renji and Rangiku smiling down at her.
"You could be a gentleman and carry me down, you know!" She said this more as a joke than anything else.
But before she can take another step down Renji grabs her gently and in seconds they are on the ground.
"T... thanks." She stumbles over the words and is a bit surprised by the flight.
"Well now, we have someone who is in a bad mood today" A bit scared look appears on Renjis face as he watches Elise swearing and coursing at Urahara and Toshiro.
Obviously Elise is mad, irritated and embarrassed, because of the two. Hitsugaya seems quite surprised and Kisuke slightly startled.
And in the end Elise stops her rant and takes a deep breath before saying: "Now I'm gonna go over there and think things through! And I dare you! I dare you, ANY of you to come over!"
With that said she turns her back on the group and walks away.
"Wow I wonder if Toshiro did more than just release her powers?" Ichigo wonders out loud. He is standing besides Cecilie, and through the corner of his eyes he sends Renji a displeased look.
To Ichigos luck Renji never sees it.
"Yeah, maybe he hit some hidden angry power as well" Renji sounds thoughtful when he adds this comment, which makes all three of them laugh.
"Can we at least begin the training on THIS girl? We don't have all the time in the world."
With serious faces the three gather themselves up.
"All right. What do you want me to do?" Cecilie steps towards Hitsugaya.
In the meantime Elise is standing by herself some meters away from the others. She is glad that the others finally respect her a little and that she can be alone just for at moment, though sad that she upset Hitsugaya.
"I suggest you fight Rukia first!" says Kisuke while smiling and waving his fan in front of his face. "This will be in order to materialize your Zanpakutou. And then we can move on to the next level."
Rukia takes a stance a safe distance away from the others, she draws her zanpakuto and asks Cecilie: "Are you ready?"
But this was just a warning. Before Cecilie gets a chance to answer, Rukia attacks. Instinct makes Cecilie dodge, and she has a funny feeling as if someone else is controlling her and telling her where to step.
The rest of the group have taken the crowd seats and observe the one sided fight.
Elise used the opportunity to stretch her legs and cool off. She approaches a small pond and sits by the edge. The reflection gives away how embarrassed she is. Her consciousness is eating her up from the inside, and it makes her sad.
Rukia moves after Cecilie again, and the only thing on Cecilies mind is survival, and that is only possible if she concentrates on dodging Rukias attacks.
She quickly forgets all the people watching her with interest. Only one of them does not seem amused; Hitsugaya. He actually seems to be a bit bored.
Elise is still a bit tense, and watches her own reflection, sadness showed in her eyes. Her pride is holding her from walking back to the others. She's way too embarrassed by her own behavior.
Then there is a voice behind her: "Are you feeling better now?"
Elise sighs, but does not turn around when she answers: "… Yeah… a little…" is all she manages to say before closing her eyes and takes a deep breath.
Rukia increases her own speed, and Cecilie is barely dodging the blows that are send her way.
"Is that all you got? At least draw your zanpakutou, and fight back instead of running away!" Rukia teases Cecilie, yet she is dead serious.
She moves towards Cecilie again, but this time she uses flash step.
"Zanpakutou? Where is it?" asks Cecilie, and dodges another blow from Rukia.
Yoruichi sits beside Elise, it takes a while before Elise finally looks up at her. A friendly and understanding smile is resting on Yoruichi's lips.
She stands up and asks: "Are you ready to get up and start training?"
Paitently Yuriuchi waits for Elise to make up her mind, but she keeps on smiling.
"That's something only you know!" Teases Urahara, while waving his fan.
In the moment Cecilie glances at him, Rukia uses the destraction to make a blow Cecilie cannot dogde. She is sent flying through the air.
"That's something only you know.." mumbles Cecilie as she gets on her feet again. She can still feel the spot where Rukia hit her. Yet Cecilie also knew that this would definitely not be the last one.
Elise smiles still looks a bit down, but then stands with determination in her eyes.
"Let's get this show on the road!" when she says this she holds out her left arm and grabs something in the air. In her hand a hilt materializes and from there the ova of a sword.
A smirk shows on Elises lips and then adds: "I'm more than ready!"
"Good! Then I will train you while the others watch your friend." Yoruichi stands still for a moment and then attacks. Her first blow is easily averted and Elise says, still looking determined: "Attacks that slow, won't work on me, you have to do better than that…"
After that remark, Yoruichi cracks a smile and the tempo is increased drastically.
Cecilie looks over at Elise and mumbles with wonder: "Hmm, how did she get it?"
She tries to hold her hands as if she's holding a sword, but nothing happens. She tries again and yells: "Zanpakutou, APPEAR!" Still nothing happens.
Sound fills the air, as Ichigo laughs his ass off a safe distance from Cecilie.
Out of the blue Ichigo is hit by a pair of shoes, coming from an unknown destination. But Cecilie notices that Elise is suddenly training barefoot.
Yoruichi sends Elise flying over the heads of the crowd. Elise learns forward and stops midair, a split second before she has to defend herself from a cascade of attacks.
Rukia does not give Cecilie any time to try and draw her zanpakuto. She sends a blow towards Cecilie's stomach and sends her flying, but the landing was not as hard as expected.
Cecilie gets on her feet. " Can't you try and let me focus for just one second?" She is frustrated and out of breath.
"Nope, it's part of your training." Runka smiles, but she does give Cecilie a few seconds before she attacks again.
And this time Cecilie dodges it, she jumps high up into the air, and tries again to grab her sword. She closes her eye and focus. An intense feeling washes through her and something is in her hands.
Still with closed eyes she feels Rukia charging in on her. Cecilie gets out of the way at the last moment, before sending a blow towards Rukia.
She blocks it, and Cecilie hears Urahara say: :" Good, now you just need to master it!"
Meanwhile Elise is giving her all to stop Yoruichi's blows, but she is simply too fast. In the end Elise is sent through the air, she hits a stone. And Elise watches as Yoruichi is coming at her, before she even has a chance to get up.
Her instincts tells her that she cannot dodge, but then a voice in her head guides her next attack. She grabs the hilt of her zanpakuto with both hands and blocks the attack the best she can.
The fights go on and on with hardly any beaks. Then at some point Yoruichi stop the fights. "That's it for today! You have really improved!"
In the past time Cecilie's opponent were shifted from Rukia to Renji, who didn't take the fight seriously until Cecilie sent him flying.
The two girls were nearly too exhausted to leave the training grounds, but hearing that dinner is served made the impossible, possible.
Ichigo is in high spirits despite the fact that he still has marks from the shoes Elise threw at him.
"Renji got beaten by a giiiirl, Renji got beaten by a giiirl!" Ichigo's song dies when Rukia kicks him in the back, and thereby sends him face first in the floor.
"Is there something wrong, getting beaten by a girl, Ichigo?" Rukia asks with a death glare in her eyes.
"No…no not at all!" Ichigo blurs out nervously, but even so Renji were still feeling down.
Okay this was a long one xD
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I hope the next one won't take this long to make…
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