err... yeah... it has been so damn long since i update anything .
well, you see, i got a drawing fetish a bout a while back and i just refused to put the pencil down . and now, i cant write any more *sigh* so, as such, this story is un-edited. well, i cant edit it since my writing skills right now is even worse than this... T.T
disclaimer: i did not own anything, just the plot and the typing i've done...
Ch.5 Beat of awakening
The following morning, ichigo took his daughter to see urahara. In front of the shop stood boy with blue coloured eyes and a blonde hair which goes all the way to his shoulder, he was sweeping the lot while humming a cheerful tone.
"osu.. taizen" called ichigo as he walked to the lot of urahara shop.
"ara… kurosaki-san is been a long time" he said with a tone that rivals an old tender lady. he stoped sweeping the lot and give his attention to ichigo insead.
"Yeah, is your father home?"
"He is, should I call him?"
"Please" said ichigo and Taizen ran to the store while holding his broom.
He opened the front door and called his father while walking through the stack of merchandise.
"Dad, heeeyy, daaadd.." called Taizen loudly.
"I could hear you, you don't have shout like that" urahara walked out of the living room. "What is it?"
"ia… its just..kurosaki-san is waiting for you in front of the store"
"Kurosaki-san?" asked urahara, its rare for him to came over these days, maybe it has something to do with the recent trouble? He opened the front door with his usual smile."iaa—its been a while, kurosaki-san" and he flip open his fan. "Then please come in"
Kibou wasn't sure what to think, her father said that they are going to meet urahara kisuke to start their training and change her into a shinigami but she never expected that they would actually go to a desolate general store...
They were shown to the living room of the urahara shop and they sat. After a moment of glaring at each other, taizen enter the room with three cups of hot tea on a tray. He kneeled and serve the tea to each of them.
"Is there something that I can do for you?" asked urahara
"Well, actually…." ichigo started, but before he continues, kibou intervened.
"Please teach me how to become shinigami!" exclaimed kibou as she bows her head.
the rest of the ocupant was surprised at kibou's sudden declaration. After a small gasp from urahara he composed himself and proceed to make sure.
"Are you sure about this? Kurosaki-san" kisuke said "you may lose your life in the procces"
"if that so, then, I just have to survive right" said kibou as she put on her serious face. she was serious, dead serious. She would do anything to gain power to protect her friends, and to bring tanimoto back, whatever the cost.
"then, how about you ichigo-san, are you sure you will put your daughter trough this?"
"its what she wants, and she can be pretty stubborn at times"
"yare-yare…" sighed urahara as he approve her determination. He closed his fan and shouted."Tessai! Taizen! Prepare the place right away"
"hai!" Tessai said as he hurried and started to prepare right away.
"hai~~hai" Taizen said slowly as he walks away.
As Taizen and Tessai are busy preparing lots of stuff, urahara stand up and opened a tatami panel. There it reveals the secret entrance to the secret training ground down below. "sa.. Shall we go, kurosaki-san" said Kisuke. While Tessai bring a large box down with him.
Kibou was standing in front of the entrance, looking at the hole in front of her. She stood there evaluating the seemingly endless hole infront of her. Before she knew what happened, taizen lifted her slender body ceremoniously.
"then, here i go" taizen said with his usual carefree, lazy tone.
"wa.. Wait!" She squealed and taizen jumped into the hole making Kibou having the scream of her life. Ichigo and urahara was alone on the room.
"I'm sorry for the trouble, Kisuke-san"
"Its fine, were going to trouble her more after she get trough this after all"
ichigo were woried, he is right, once she becomes a shinigami, wheather for good or bad, she's going to be involved with gotei13 and its personels. He sighed, all he can do now is to belive in his daughter.
"I'm counting on you to take care of her"
After kisuke gives his acknowledgement, he jumped down with a hand on his white and green striped hat, leaving ichigo alone on the store. He turned and walk back to his clinic.
Kibou who finally arrived on the bottom can't believe her eyes
"Woah…. Amazing!, is this really below the store" said kibou and Tessai congratulate her for being able to put the expression nicely. Soon Kisuke arrived.
"sa.. Now that were here we shall start the training" Kisuke said, still with his happy-go-lucky demeanor "ah.. Before that, Tessai, could you call Yoruichi to get here as fast as she can"
"hai.. tencho" answered Tessai and he dissapeared. Kibou was amazed by this, she has to blink twice.
"Call mom? What for?" asked Taizen as he crooked an eyebrow.
"For later of course" said Kisuke with a mystery smile. And taizen pouts because he didn't give enough information.
"Now lets get started" Kisuke said with a deeper tone."to be a shinigami, you should awaken your shinigami power, the only way to do it is to use your reiatsu"
"Reiatsu?" asked Kibou as kisuke is busy taking things from the box.
"Yes, reiatsu, you have a lot of it but you cant draw it out, the purpose of the first lesson is for you to draw your reiatsu. now what should you do is to hit Taizen's kidou with this" said Kisuke as he give a metal bat to Kibou.
"What, a baseball bat?" asked Kibou with a croked eyebrow as she looked at the thing that Kisuke has given her. its a silver matal bat, nothing out of the ordinary...
"Taizen, do it"
"fine.." said Taizen thinking it was a drag "hado no.31 shokkahou" then a red ball came out of his hand and shoot out from his hand. It missed Kibou's head for a few cm and explode to the rock behind her. She looked back and started sweating.
"Hey! That's dangerous!" exclaimed Kibou
"Of course, that's why I told you that you may lose your life" said Kisuke
"Che.." said Kibou as she dodge another hado who was targeting her.
"What are you doing kurosaki-san, you should hit it you know" said Kisuke reminding Kibou of the bat she hold. When another hado come by, she tries to hit it but it explodes as soon as it hit the bat. The shock gets her and she was blown two-step behind
"Damn!" she said as she tried to stand
"That won't do, you should put your reiatsu on the bat or it would explode as soon as it hits the bat" said Kisuke from far away
"Reiatsu? How can I do such a thing" she said as she dodge the kido that was hurling towards her. But then I can't keep running forever she thought.
As more and mire kido keep hurling toward her, she started thinking seriously. If this keeps up she's dead. Wait a sec, I think I saw dad doing something similar, there is that blue colored haze coming out from his hand, I wonder if that's reiatsu? She thought. Then she tried to do what her father done. She stopped running and tried to hit the hado but once more she fails. "guh!" she exclaimed as she was being hit once more.
"Nee.. Kurosaki-kun, what is your purpose to become a shinigami?, you better think about that troughly" said Kisuke as he watched from the side line
"Why?" said Kibou. I wanted to save my friend, I don't know what that girl has done to him but, he will never betray us on his own volition, I know him, we all did, he will never do that! And I want the power to protect she thought as she griped the bat tightly. Then, her bat glows light blue "this is!" said Kibou. At that second she knows what it was. Reiatsu!. She stop on her tracks and face the red kido head on. And she swings the bat and it hit. It didn't explode. This time she hit it so hard that when it hit a cliff it created a huge dent.
"Alright! how about it!" she said as she felt victorious. Taizen who saw her power whistles. Kurosaki-san, your power is as crazy as your father thought Kisuke.
"Congratulation Kurosaki-san, you passed the first stage" said Kisuke "then let's move on to stage 2"
The three of them regrouped. Kisuke opened the box and took out some gloves. Then, lets start the second stage, but before that" said Kisuke as he took out Kibou's soul from her body with the gloves he take.
"What the!" exclaimed Kibou as she looked at her own body, and how she has a chain from her chest that connect her to her body. "What is this? And that is my body!" Exclaimed Kibou as she finally understand what's going on and she panicked right away
"what! how!"
"Calm down, the next stage has to be done on this form, so you better get used to it" said kisuke "then I shall explain what you have to do. Taizen will keep attacking you and if you able to land a hit on taizen you passed" then kisuke give kibou apair gloves. The gloves is worn from her fist to her elbow. "use this to protect yourself, then second stage, start!"
After kisuke said that, taizen took out his zanpaktou and are about to slash her she tried to dodge but it didn't go to well, her body didn't move as well as she wanted and she triped. However that trip has save her live as she saw the big rock beside her getting slashed clean by taizen. Kibou who saw this is getting real serious. If he hit me like that, it's all over. She tought. Kibou who was triped is getting back to her feet and taizen did another charge. She did a normal response every people would do, to run. Calm down, just try to focus and dodge she tought. She knows that if she keep running, she would never pass this stage.
Kibou was focusing so that she could dodge correctly, however, ever since she is in her soul form, she has dificulties in breathing. And of course moving her body as well. So the only thing she could do is charge at him so I could end this fast. As taizen charge forward, kibou was on her battle stance as she tries to read her opponent movement. Taizen tried to slash her on the neck, she bowed to dodge and tries to do a rotating punch on his face. But taizen jumped backwards and swing his zanpaktou down. Fortunately for Kibou, she was able to guard with her gloves and move to the left side while crouching to quickly do a counter attack. She uses both of her knee and elbow to give a boost to her punch and she hit him on his right cheek. Alright she tought.
After receiving full blow of kibou's punch, taizen was thrown back and regain his stance right away, but now he doesn't fight anymore, kibou has reached her goal. Kisuke clapped his hand and said "congratulation kurosaki-San, you cleared the second stage."
"eh... Really!, all right!" said kibou "but, what punching taizen has to do with anything?"
"simple really, you could breathe normally don't you. And you could move beter than you used to" said taizen who said it faster than his father.
"what he said" said kisuke then tessai came.
"the message has been successfully delivered" said tessai
"I see. Then shall we procced to the next stage" said kisuke "tessai, if you please"
"Hai.. Tencho" said tessai as he took a large axe from the box and use it to cut kibou's chain
"ah!, what the hell are you doing! If that removed then.." exclaimed kibou who panic once more.
"yes, that's true, unless you get your shinigami power, you won't be able to get back to your body, and be prepared the corrosion is about to start" said kisuke
The chain on kibou's chest started to act, there are mouth comming out from it and begun to eat each other. kibou's was paralyzed due the pain it caused. Kibou could only watch it horrifically. The pain that is surging her body has caused her to lose counciousness and she was out like a light
Out on the training ground kibou's chain was actually corrode much faster than urahara has hoped
"bakudou no 63 sajou sabaku!" he shouted as he seals of kibou with cains that coming from the spell. Tessai also doing a bakudo spell.
It usually took 3 days for it to corrode like this, but to think this happen right after the seperation she didn't have much time. thinked kisuke
Kibou was laying on a sandy soil, slowly, she pull her body up and she realized that she was no longer on urahara store basement, she is on the dessert with pearly white sands. The moonlight is shining brightly that the white sands gleaming with light. There are trees with white leafs that took roots deep within the sand. if you look closesly the white coloured leafs is actually green coloured.
"what just happened!" she exclaimed "this is..what's happening here, where am I!" said kibou, panic
"this is your world, the world inside your soul." said a woman who apeared out of nowhere. She was wearing white long coat and a white long pants
"this is! but then, who are you?" asked kibou
"I am ..." said the woman
"who?"
"I see, my voice can't reach you yet" said the woman. Then the ground start to tremble. And huge cracks begin to form. The sand was pouring down to the black abyss down below.
"what the!" said kibou. As the cracks getting wider, soon she was also falling down to the abyss. How ever, she falls in a slow pace, as if she has been plunged to a mass stagnant air. kibou look around, There is tiny floating sand island all around the place and It's pouring sands like a tiny waterfall. it's dark but she could see just fine thanks to the moonlight that was reflected by the white sands.
"if you want to get your shinigami power you should find it here, during the world collapsing" said the woman and then she disappeared. Find it but how? She thinks then she remembered, shinigami has diffrent reiatsu than others, if I find it... She concentrate. Having learned how to control her reiatsu she was able to focus it to search for her shinigami powers. Then as she focused, threads comming out from her souroundings, and there is one thread that is red coloured and she grabbed it, she knew right away where to go.
Meanwhile, on urahara secret basement, taizen, kisuke and tessai are doing their best to hold kibou, who was about to become a full hollow in a matter of minutes.
"tencho... We should do it now" screamed tessai
"not yet!" said kisuke back."let's wait until the last moment" kisuke said. Yoruichi and shoji who just arrived also give their help.
Kibou on the other side was gliding trough the Darkness until she spotted a sword sticking out on a sand dune, Its a zanpaktou. There! She tought.
"you did good on finding me." said the woman in white. Kibou who was bewildered didn't know what to do "what are you waiting for, hurry and pull me out!" screamed the woman and she pull it out
out in the basement, Kibou is just about to become a hollow. A hole has appeared on her chest. When kisuke are about to pull benihime out and yoruichi is about to go shunko on her, kibou's body let out an explosion of reiatsu, then kibou walks out with her shihakusho. Her zanpaktou which is a little bit smaller than ichigo but it was still big for average shinigami is on her back. A vaizard mask also dangling on the left of her head.
"this is..." said kibou bewildered, one second she was pulling the sword out, the next second she has become a shinigami. Kisuke, yoruichi, taizen, and shoji are surprised too, the place was silent for a moment there until kibou let out a cheerful sound.
"I have done it..., I did it!" said kibou cheerfully "allright! I did it! I just did it" she was too happy that she was jumping around.
"whats with this girl?" asked shoji who just cant seem to understand
"eh... Who are you guys?" asked kibou who just noticed their presence.
"hey, don't you know that you should speak your name before telling other?" asked shoji
"it's fine," said the dark brown skinned woman. "I'm shihouin yoruichi, and this is my son and taizen's brother.
"Ah!" exclaimed kibou who relized that she was that yoruichi that her father told about. She is also kisuke's wife "my deepest apologies" said kibou as she bows to yoruichi.
"Oy.. Oy... You don't have to be so formal" said yoruichi as she thinks that she is one interesting person.
"yes" said kibou as she stand up right "my name is kurosaki kibou, nice to meet you"
"ara.. The little hime is all grown up i see" said yoruichi with a smile and kibou is smiling as she screeched her head. She was walking to yoruichi but then she triped because of her big sword
"uwah!" she screamed as she fall to the ground "ita...ta...a"
"oi, are you okay" asked yoruichi as she help her up
"yes, I'm fine sorry about that" said kibou
This girl is really messed up tought shoji