I didn't know how long I passed out for but when I woke up, Urahara was right in my face. I jumped and my hand flashed out to punch him in the face. He easily moved out of the way. I slowly sat up, glaring at him. He rolled his eyes at me.
"You ready?" He asked.
I stood up. "I guess so."
He snorted at my answer. "You guess?"
I just glared at him and didn't say anything else. Was he naturally this irritating? I noticed he wasn't moving or anything so I started to sit back down when he shook his head at me. I scowled.
"Why can't I sit back down?" I asked.
He just nodded his head towards the ladder and I turned around. Ichigo was coming down. I huffed. That explained why I couldn't sit down. I was a little tensed up. I didn't want to train with Ichigo. If the old guy was hard, how much harder would Ichigo be? I internally cringed at the thought that he could probably beat the crap out of me whereas I would hardly scratch him.
He was already in his Soul Reaper form. I just watched him warily. Especially his giant blade. How come his was so big? And it wasn't even the same shape as mine was. Mine's just a tiny thing that looks like it'd break if his was to hit it hard enough. And just by looking at the thing, it wouldn't take much to break mine.
I think he saw me staring at his blade and smirked. "Scared?" He drew the blade out.
I snorted. "Course not."
He rolled his eyes. "Are you ready to start?"
I sighed. "As ready as I'll ever be."
He charged me and I dodged, the blade actually really did scare me. But in that moment, I forgot to draw Yoso. I growled and pulled her out right as he charged again and I blocked his blade but I got shoved backwards and I eventually lost my footing and landed hard on my stomach. I huffed and got right back up and charged him this time. He swung hard and I ended up flying backwards, barely keeping a hold of Yoso and I slammed into a rock, which hurt.
I managed to get off the rock and made another weak charge. I just got knocked backwards again. This happened seven or eight times before I finally had to stop, breathing hard, my legs shaking and my back was hurting like crazy.
Ichigo was watching me. "You done?"
I looked up at him. "No. I just need a minute to breathe-since apparently you're trying to break my spine."
He snorted. "It's not my fault you haven't released your Zanpakuto."
I frowned. "What do you mean?"
He nodded his head at my blade. "You're blade is still in its sealed form. The first form of release is Shikai. The second is Bankai. But we'll get around to that later. Now you know her name yet?"
I nodded. "Yeah."
"So say it."
"Yoso." I was giving him a weird look.
Suddenly the blade started to change shape and get heavier. I stared at her, totally confused about what was happening. Then I realized that the blade wasn't the same. She'd become three pronged and the blade edges seemed to be sharper and the blades themselves were a little larger than they were at first. And the hilt had become silver and larger, with a snake coiling around it. the hand guard was bigger too.
I was just staring at her, awestruck. Ichigo was chuckling at the expression on my face. After a minute I finally looked up.
"Now attack me." He got into a defensive position.
I charged him, swinging Yoso up and then down hard. I barely made Ichigo move, but it was better than having him block and throw me backwards several times. I was definitely getting pushed back again but not thrown. But that's all I could do for the time being was prevent myself from getting thrown onto my back again.
But then he suddenly moved and attacked from the side and I had to jump out of the way to avoid being stabbed.
I scowled at him and I realized he was gone and right behind me and I jumped out of the way again.
I forgot I had figured out how to move faster but I couldn't remember how I did it. I growled in frustration and then shouted out when Ichigo slammed the flat side of the blade into my shoulder. I ignored the pain in my shoulder when I moved to hit Ichigo but he sent a kick to my stomach and that's when I heard a creepy voice screaming in my head.
YOU'RE GOING TO GET US KILLED YA MORON!
I shook my head but my vision was going in and out and Ichigo had stopped attacking and was just staring.
"IT'S JUST TRAINING!" I screamed out loud at the voice. "I'M NOT GOING TO DIE!"
My vision was still going in and out. And something was starting to form over my face. I dropped Yoso and grabbed whatever was trying to cover my face in an attempt to tear it off. I could hear it cracking and I managed to tear it off. Pieces fell to the ground. They were jet black I noticed. I noticed Yoso went back into her sealed form.
"I think we might want to be done for today." Ichigo looked nervous.
I noticed Urahara was talking on something. His face was completely blank and I was pretty sure he didn't hear Ichigo and I turned back to Ichigo. He was tense.
"He must be talking to Soul Society." He said in a tense voice.
I swallowed and picked Yoso up and sheathed her. I didn't look back at Urahara. I was actually really afraid of what might be the result of their decision.
That's when I heard Urahara. "Well they came to a decision."
