So much to do, so little time ==
I'm going on holidays; therefore i need to finish all my assignments which are due before then. Last week has a whole week of tests, so I've been studying so that's why this chapter came so late =="
Anyways, this would probably be the last time I update before I go on holiday for 3 weeks or so.
Grimm- Oi! I haven't even appeared in this yet, is this seriously a story about me?
Yuki- Kishishi, of course, coz I'm like being detailed I don't like missing parts so I'm going to put in the Soul Society arc in first, kay?
Grimm- Just skip the damned part, and get to me already!
Yuki-Chi chi, don't be so hasty Grimm, I have some special instalments just for you prepared! If I really did skip the first arc, you wouldn't ever get a chance to fight Ichigo.
Grimm- What?
Yuki- Coz he'll be like a normal human and you might end up fighting a guy called Kwan or something weird.
Grimm- *sweatdrops* Fine then, just hurry up with it! I don't like waiting Yuki!
Yuki- Being nice won't work on me! You may do the honours, Grimm.
Grimm- *grumbling* Here's Chapter 3! Finally, I'm in the story!
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It's been a day since that fateful rainy night, when Renji and Byakuya had appeared to take Rukia back to Soul Society. Ichigo had fought with all his power against them, to prevent them from taking her, but in the end he was over powered and left for dead. Kou had watched the battle in the shadows, he couldn't interfere because of the Ayaka's order to follow the mission rules, right before she left to 'investigate' the incident with the Menos Grande. In his heart, Kou knew that he should help Ichigo, because they were good friends and he never wanted to betray his friends, but on the other hand he also knew that this battle would help lead Ichigo into becoming a much stronger and determined person. So when Byakuya and Renji finally left with Rukia, he rushed up to him and carried him to Urahara Shoten.
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"How is there such a big basement under that tiny shop?" exclaimed Ichigo, who had just recently woken up and discovering that his shinigami powers were gone.
"Amazing, isn't it?"
"Of course it is Kisuke, so Ichigo do you feel up to the challenge…of regaining your shinigami powers?" asked Kou. He had explained to Ichigo what had happened, and the fact that it would take a great effort to regain his powers. Ichigo had straight away agreed when Kou suggested that he knew a way, but it would be very complicated and dangerous. With the intention of saving Rukia in mind, not a second was wasted, Urahara had led them to the underground training area where Ichigo will try and obtain shinigami powers once again. He turned Ichigo into a spirit with a spirit chain and the tests began.
"Test one, you have to beat Ururu successfully, but be careful she may not look it but she's very strong! You'd better wear this," said Urahara, chucking him a funny looking head protector
Watching from afar, Kou noted how Ichigo had been surprised by how strong Ururu was but recovered quickly enough to make some quick decisions which were enough saved his life. He noticed Ichigo's ability to see through Ururu's attacks, and put up defence as well as retaliate in a nick of time. Soon he could see that Ichigo was on par with Ururu and had thought of a way of beating her. As he watched from beginning til end of the first test, he was thinking of a quick way to strengthen up Ichigo. A sudden voice made him jump a little.
"Yo! Why do you guys get to have all the fun?" shouted Ayaka in her shinigami form.
"Ayaka! What on earth are you doing here?" asked Ichigo.
"Ahhh...Aya-chan, welcome back, how did the researching go?" said Kisuke.
"Che...there was nothing there that says anything related to the incident, meaning there is so less possibility of it happening that it hasn't occurred once before this!" exclaimed Ayaka as she walked towards them
"I see...something is definitely going on," replied Kisuke.
"Well, since you're back Aya-chan, we should move onto the next stage shouldn't we, Ichigo?" questioned Kou. Hoping down from the stone pillar he had been sitting on, with a sweeping motion, he revealed an extremely deep hole in the ground. "Kisuke and Ururu worked very hard for this to be dug, that's why it is awfully deep."
"It is MUCH deeper than you think, Kurosaki-san."
"What would you need such a large hole for?" Ichigo curiously asked.
"For the next stage of course, which is...to make you into a hollow and from there a shinigami!" said Kisuke as he kicked Ichigo into the never ending hole, with Tessai following closely behind.
"Well, I guess I should go help Yoruichi with Orihime and Chad's training, also check on Ishida a bit," informed Kou. With that he shunpoed off, to do what he said he's going to do.
"I guess it's only us now, Kisuke, Ururu, Jinta," sighed Ayaka, staring into the hole in the ground.
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A.N- Italics = Ayaka's thoughts
Heh...his fighting his hollow pretty well, I guess it is expected of someone like him. His reiryoku is really huge if he can control it properly, it would be great. I guess that's why they asked me to train him. Yosh! I will train him with all my might but I'm afraid that there isn't enough time to help him fully understand his powers and achieve bankai. Bya-kun, Renji, next time you see Ichigo, he won't be so easy to beat anymore therefore be prepared!
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Ichigo had successfully overcome his hollow self and regained his shinigami powers, for the past hour Ayaka have been watching him and Urahara fight it out. While smoothly dodging any attack, Urahara also screamed out the basics of battle to Ichigo with a few tips coming from Ayaka. Ichigo had slowly morphed from a guy who seems to have not touched a sword before to a natural. He had evaded some of Urahara's stronger attacks and this pleased Ayaka greatly.
"Oi! Kisuke, it's my turn now!" yelled Ayaka, after witnessing Ichigo's sudden evasive move which put him out of line from Urahara's attack.
"Alright then," with that he jumped onto a tall rock and said, "His all yours, Ayaka-chan!"
"What do you mean by all yo…" Ichigo had been half way through talking when he was whacked in the head by a bottle of juice. "Who threw that?"
"I did, take a drink and a few minutes break, because if you want to take my training you need to be in your best form!" replied a pleased looking Ayaka.
"Ayaka! Your training? Since when were you a shinigami anyway?" he asked, after realising that Ayaka was wearing something that roughly resembled a shihakusho (shinigami uniform). *Refer to chapter 2 for description of what she looks like*
"Since long before you were even born! I'll tell you who I really am sooner or later, or maybe you'll find out from Kou, but now isn't the time, we have to get you to at least understand a little about how to control your zanpukto and their basic instincts."
"Nani? If you're going to train me then I'll do my best! And yoroshiku!"
"Yoroshiku ne~ Ichii, let's begin." With that Ayaka rushed towards Ichigo with her katana drawn. A big explosion occurred that left so much dust in the air, no-one could see anything but only hear clangs of metal against metal.
Hours later, Ichigo had finally learnt his zanpukto's name as well as unconsciously learning one of its abilities. Exhausted beyond belief he had fallen asleep the second after he fired off the attack. Ayaka laid him down on the floor and plucked his zanpukto out of the ground, its strange rare shape amused her.
This is good, I think we can make it at this rate. His strength was beyond belief and far beyond what a normal shinigami can do in a few days, let alone a few hours.
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"Orihime-chan, to your right! Chad, focus or else you'll be caught off-guard!" shouted Kou. He was doing "image" training with Orihime and Chad to help them understand more about their unique powers. When he first saw Orihime's healing powers, he thought it was amazing and quietly noted at the back of his head that when he got home, he wanted to write it down, so meanwhile he did close analysis on her mysterious power. Chad's power on the other hand seemed like there was a part missing to it, 'the right arm of the giant', Kou made his own assumptions as he continued watching the two train.
"Recording stuff again, Kou?" asked Yoruichi, who had suddenly appeared beside him.
"Yeh, it's a part of my job afterall, I actually think that this type of training is paying off."
"It really is, both of them seems to have grabbed hold of the basics of their powers," Yoruichi replied as she looked at the illusions of hollows which Kou had created when he arrived. They resembled the real thing, in their looks, powers and minds, it's like they were actually hollows, but she had seen them before when she was still in the Gotei 13 squads it was a technique that only the 5-6 in the whole of Soul Society knew. "Well, seems like your illusions are as good as ever."
"Thank you, my skills are actually quite rusty from years of no practice, to tell you the truth, this is a forbidden technique in Soul Society."
"I was informed a few years after I left, I also heard about what happened. It was very unfortunate."
"I see, it was very unfortunate but I believe that one day, we'll find them again."
"Huh, that's very optimistic of you, Kou." Said Yoruichi, as they both turned back towards Orihime and Chad.
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Flashback
"Kou-nii, have you seen onee-chan?" asked a much younger Toushiro.
"No I haven't, but she's probably with Grimm and Yuu-chan," replied Kou
"Okay, can we go find them?"
"Yep, right after we pick out a katana for you to use."
"I want that one!" shouted Toushiro, pointing to a katana with a white and blue hilt.
Laughing Kou said, "It suits you, Shiro-chan! Take it and we can head back."
Grabbing the sword from its rack, Toushiro and Kou ran towards the huge tree, which was in full bloom, white and yellow flower petals floated down from the silver-leaf covered branches. It was a magnificent sight. As they ran closer, they could see a black and red haired girl sparring with a blue haired boy. Both were on par and seemingly pleased with the fight. A purple haired boy was sitting nearby, he had his eyes closed and was seemingly concentrating on doing something.
"Grimm, Yuu-chan, Aya! We're back, Shiro-chan found the perfect katana for sparring!" shouted Kou.
"How can you pick out the perfect katana for sparring? It's not like your zanpukto which will stay with you for the rest of your life," said Yuusuke, as he opened his eyes, he had purple hair and golden eyes. His messy hair which stuck out in random direction attracted lots of unwanted attention from birds to people. Next to him sat a blonde-haired boy who looked very much like a girl with his eyes closed.
"Well, it suits him, look it's white and blue and Shiro-chan has white hair and blue eyes, looky Grimm?" with that Kou bursted out laughing.
"Oi, Kou next time focus on getting a katana his size maybe?" said Grimmjow, looking at Toushiro carrying a katana made for a tall adult.
"But, I like it it's perfect!" shot back Toushiro, while protectively holding the katana.
"It doesn't matter as long as you can fight with it right?" replied Grimmjow turning back to his fight, "Okay let's end this now Aya!"
"Sure thing! Shiro-chan, Yuu-kun will help you, and Kou will back you up. Good luck!"
The air soon became extremely dense as Ayaka and Grimmjow prepared for their final attack. Grimmjow stepped out of the smoke which had arisen with a long gash down his right arm, followed by Ayaka with a few scratches on her cheeks.
"Not bad Aya, but you nearly lost though." Grimmjow finally said as he sat down on the grass and started licking his wounds.
"Don't lick them! I'll patch it up for you. You're not bad yourself, in fact if we weren't best friends I swear you might have killed me."
"Heh...watever."
As Ayaka bandaged up Grimmjow's injured arm, he was carefully wiping the blood off her wound. They both busied themselves with patching up each other until they heard a lound CLANG! Coming from where Toushiro, Kou and Yuusuke were training. All they could see was a plain of ice, dancing fire and lightning sparks as well as flashes of them as they fought.
After a while, all six of them sat down to have some time to relax. As they watched the flower petals fall from the tree, they were all thinking the same thing.
We'll be friends forever, right?
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"This is the door to Soul Society, the Senkaimon Gate, but the main problem is that you will only have 4 minutes to go through," explained Urahara. Orihime, Chad, Ishida and Ichigo had gathered here and were getting ready to pass through.
"Yosh, we're going to Soul Society to rescue Rukia, and all I have to do is win, right?" said Ichigo.
"Right, that's the spirit," replied Yoruichi, "Ayaka and Kou will be meeting us inside Seireitei, they left a bit earlier."
"Kay, let's go!" yelled Ichigo as he and the others ran into the Senkaimon Gate.
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==" finally finished. Spent a week or so on this, it's quite a confusing chapter because I wrote it on different days and my ideas were different. The flashback was less 'epic' than I wanted it to be but wateva.
I missed out on the part where Ichigo and stuff take a break (the 7 days in between time), and skipped all the way to the part when they are leaving.
Finally, Grimm is in here, at first I didn't want to reveal it til later, but I eventually gave up after my friend convinced me to put him in early.
A.N- There are 5 people in the flashback, red-haired Kou, white-haired Toushiro, purple-haired Yuusuke, blue-haired Grimmjow and Ayaka. (LOL at the something haired part, sorry I couldn't come up with better descriptions)
Anyways thanx for reading, and hopefully REVIEWING!