"You expect to train me to become stronger?"
"Yes, if you truly wish to increase your power you will do exactly as I tell you,"
Trex didn't understand how a 'cat' as it referred to itself, could make him stronger.
"How are you going to train me? You don't even have any hands" said Trex standing tall above the cat and looking down,
"I may be training you, I never said I'd be fighting you," at that the ground shook a little as a figure climbed out of the shadowed side of the plateau. A man stood towering over Trex with armour plating on his left shoulder, a strong square jaw, and his beard in pony tails,
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA," Trex couldn't hold in the laughter after noticing the comical way this giant had styled his beard,
"You have a problem little man?" said the gorilla like giant said as he stooped to eye level with Trex,
"What's with your stupid looking beard," Trex laughed before he felt a sharp pain across his face,
"Ahhhh," Trex cried in pain,
"You have a bad attitude Trex," said the cat its claws out with a hint of red on them, "You've been here nearly five days and you've already got into three fights, two with your taichou and one with your third seat, and your patrol in the living world didn't go well either which got you sent to the academy but I don't think that will work,"
"I hope your going somewhere with this cat," said Trex getting annoyed at this lecture that was painting him in such a bad light,
"I agree with the captain-commander that you would do more by doing, but I think he chose the wrong way to test you,"
"Is this why you called me here?" said the giant looking down at the cat,
"Yes Jidanbo, this is why I called you here," the cat then turned to Trex, "This is Jidanbo Ikkanzaka, one of the four gate guards that surround seireitei, you will test yourself against him to help you become one with your zanpakuto,"
"A second ago you complained about the fact I'd been fighting with everyone, but now your asking me to fight? And you've even picked out my opponent," Trex yelled,
"Unfortunately seeing as a soul slayer is a weapon the best way to commune with it is in battle, you must learn to understand it, its personality, its power, then you will be able to call forth it's true shikai form,"
Trex was getting annoyed with his new life as a shinigami, all that had seemed to happen was a fight every day, two against Kenpachi, a few hollow and an almost fight with Ikkaku, now this 'cat' was picking him out a training partner, getting Trex to fight even more so that he could talk with a sword? But if it meant getting stronger, he would do it.
"Fine, lets get this over with. I doubt it'll work, but if you think it'll make me stronger then I'm in," Trex stood firm and drew his zanpakuto,
"Now?" Jidanbo asked the cat,
"Yes, now," replied the cat, Jidanbo then took twin axes from his kimono top, both looked very sharp and just the blades were as tall as Trex. A worried look spread across Trex's face,
"You can't intimidate me," Trex created a glowing orb in his hand and threw it into the sky, just as he began to feel his oozaru transformation about to begin it seemed to just disappear, Trex looked up to see the cat flying through the air with what remained of his energy ball trailing behind him,
"No transforming Trex, you have to do this in your natural form," said the cat,
"Watch your opponent shinigami!" cried the giant Jidanbo as he brought one of the axes down on Trex with great speed and force,
"I am not a shinigami" said Trex through the dust cloud around him, a released a wave of energy that blew the dust away to reveal that he had blocked the attack, "Get this through your thick skull, and tell everyone that asks you who beat you up so bad that you end up in an infirmary, I am a saiyan warrior, and I Will Prove It!" Trex flung Jidanbo's axe aside and shot straight for his gut with the tip of his zanpakuto, this was blocked by Jidanbo's second axe but it did knock the giant off balance which Trex used to trip Jidanbo up completely with his tail,
"I don't need to transform to take you down, weakling," Trex raised his zanpakuto to bring it down in Jidanbo's chest which brought a look of fear to Jidanbo's face,
"Wait Trex!" shouted the cat, Trex looked round to him, "You don't need to kill him, that isn't what this exercise was about,"
"You wanted me to fight, so I did, we saiyans fight to the death,"
"You were supposed to try and commune with your zanpakuto through battle, not overwhelm your opponent with your power, although, if you're on par with the third seat Ikkaku then Jidanbo was not the best opponent choice,"
"So you're going to go out and find me another weakling to fight?"
"No, I shall be your opponent," the cat jumped down from the rock he was sat on, it began to glow and change shape until it took a human shape then the glow disappeared, Trex stared as before him stood a tanned purple haired, naked woman,
"And exactly what kind of training did you have in mind," said Trex with an insinuating grin as he lowered his zanpakuto and began moving towards the attractive woman, suddenly a great pain erupted on Trex's face as he fell backwards clutching his face.
When the pain subsided Trex looked up to see the woman had put on a black shirt and trousers, an orange kimono styled top and was pulling a pair of slipper shoes from behind the rock she was sat on when she had been a cat,
"Clothes are annoyingly constricting, but apparently their necessary to be training you, my name is Yoruichi,"
"I though you were male," said Trex getting up off the ground,
"Yeh, everyone makes that mistake when they meet me as a cat,"
"Yoruichi-sama, should I go," said Jidanbo looking a little uneasy,
"Yes Jidanbo, you should get to a safer distance," said Yoruichi.
As Jidanbo walked away holding his head Yoruichi took up a fighting stance, her golden eyes flashed for a split second and then suddenly her fist appeared in front of his face, Trex back flipped away and took up a fighting stance himself,
"At least your reactions are good," said Yoruichi stepping out of the pose she had stayed in with her fist straight out and taking a new defensive stance, "Now, when you attack me, try and feel the energy of your zanpakuto and connect with it,"
"You're really starting to get on my nerves," Trex raised his zanpakuto and lunged at Yoruichi, he threw a series of swift swings, which Yoruichi easily dodged with an irritating smile on her face,
"You defiantly have skill, but you're not communing with your zanpakuto, if you were you'd be more powerful," said Yoruichi after flipping over Trex's head while knocking him down to one knee with a single kick,
"I have been trying to talk to this sword like you said, to 'commune with its energy', but it doesn't have an energy, it can't be communed with," Trex stood up and began to glow red, "I can't connect with its energy, because it doesn't have any, Because It's Just A Sword!" with one powerful and fast swing Trex's zanpakuto flew. Yoruichi's eye's widened. The zanpakuto shattered as it impacted against a large stone sticking out from the ground,
"I don't get this connection you people have with swords, and forms, and communing, but I am a saiyan warrior, we fight with our very soul, body and energy, we battle mercilessly and without fear, so sorry if I can't follow your way of life," Trex suddenly swung his fist behind him hitting Yoruichi in the side of the head, "But that's just me,"
Yoruichi flew across the ground quickly recovering her poise, but blood trickled from where Tex had hit her, before she could do so much as wipe the blood away Trex had already begun speeding towards her, propelled on a torrent of his reiatsu, his eyes white, Trex threw powerful punches at Yoruichi, but they were slow and Yoruichi had no trouble avoiding them and throwing a few strikes of her own back, but to no effect. Then, out of nowhere Trex's tail appeared and caught Yoruichi off guard distracting her long enough for Trex to grab her by the shoulders.
Unable to move Yoruichi could only look with a degree of fear as Trex flung his back and then forward crashing his fore-head against hers which cause near to no pain for the saiyan, but the impact on Yoruichi dazed her, and as Trex released her shoulders she fell to the floor.