Ichigo's Shugo Akuma
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Last we found that Takeno might be close to unlocking the most important to his becoming a soul reaper... His zanpakutou.
As their time was coming to a close, though they didn't know that, the head captain was beginning to have doubts due the lack of them unlocking their zanpakutou spirits and the duo could sense the uneasy feeling of their teacher and watchers. When the head commanded that their meditation to unlocking their zanpakutou spirits was to be tripled they felt relieved as it gave them time to relax from their intense training and within a month Tensho had discovered his zanpakutou's name was Yōso Rīpā, meaning "The Reaper of Elements."
-Takeno-
I was starting to become fearful that Tensho would surly pass me by but that night as I fell into my bed I came back to my inner world, as he had called it, and as I walked up to the spring I decided to swallow my pride and ask him what his name was. He replied with a serious tone, one much more serious than I have ever heard him use, "if learning my name is a puzzle that you cannot defeat when I have given you the key to solving it then you cannot possibly hope to wield my power for I represent the world in both the light and the dark, I am the two halves of the same whole, I am what you see and yet so much more."
Without hesitation looking at the pond I screamed at the top of my lungs "WATASHI NI SHITAGAU, YAMA NO HARU!"meaning "obey me, mountain spring" When the last syllable died into the distance all I heard was his laughter but there was something off about this laughter, this laughter wasn't one of joy at someone's expense, this was of one of joy like that of a parent finding a lost child.
"I'm glad you got the hint there enough to discern my name and now that you have, I am now your zanpakutou." in the room, Tensho was huddled in a corner trying to simply breathe because the reiatsu pouring off of me was almost enough to suffocate the guy along with the guards standing close by and the captain in the room 20 feet away. As I woke I looked in my hand to find that I held my true zanpakutou, it was about 52'' long with a 12'' handle that was wrapped in a bronze-copper clothe whilst the blade was almost a pure white. Moments later both the guards along with the captain burst in to find me grinning like a school boy because of the treasure I held within my grabst. In the morning after a few more hours of uneasy rest Tensho and I compared sizes and found mine to be just a little longer than his but the difference was almost indiscernible and we didn't care.
Now most of our days was devoted to trying to learn the shikai state of our zanpakutou while the head captain was sitting there glad his choice hadn't been all for naught. Though of course we were still expected to spar, study, and practice everyday but now it just felt better because I had my zanpakutou by my side the whole time.
Their final task was to discover their shikai forms and they took to it with gusto, constantly meditating and talking with their spirits, training and getting to know them in general. Tensho was soon becoming close friends with his zanpakutou and one day he was training with Yōso and felt the urge to scream "Void, Yōso Rīpā!" Tensho nearly dropped his weapon when it changed into a kusari-gama, a weapon much like a miniature scythe but attached to the end was a long chain connecting it to a vicious looking bladed circular weight. Tensho raised his zanpakutou triumphantly and exclaimed "I did it, I unlocked Yōso's shikai." he asked Yōso how to change him back but was surprised to find out that Yōso was one of those rare zanpakutou that once in shikai stayed that way.
What will happen next? Can Takeno achieve shikai and what will it look like? Find out next time on... Ichigo's Shugo Akuma. Jk but seriously thanks for reading and as always please review. Thanks =)