Once I reached the bottom of the ladder, I noticed that Urahara was standing off to the side, rather than facing off with me. I frowned, if it was advanced training, who was I supposed to train with? The answer came to me once Ichigo finally got downstairs after closing the trap door. I watched him, not sure if I'd rather fight Urahara. I felt like I had more of a chance against Urahara. Yoso was all for fighting Ichigo though. She wanted to get an analysis of Zangetsu, so she could understand his relationship with Ichigo. Yoso's curiosity would one day get the best of her, but it didn't matter that much right now, as she deserved to see, deserved to try to understand why we had bonded so easily, compared to most. I wasn't sure if I wanted to know that badly, but Yoso's yearning made it impossible to spark my own. I was getting annoyed that her emotions influenced mine so easily. I repressed it, growing angry with her. I can see why usually captain levels only deal with it. They're probably ready to deal with the mixing emotions. It also explains the extreme rarity of something like our relationship occurring. I shook my head to clear it; I would sort all of this out later, and get these emotions sorted and maybe figure out how to prevent her emotions from affecting mine in the long run.

Ichigo was watching me and I realized that I was frowning at the ground. "You alright?"

I looked up at him. "Yeah, I'm fine."

He frowned, but didn't say anything as he pulled his blade off of his back. I unsheathed Yoso, not willing to put her into Shi kai, mostly since that form is for long range attacks. Yoso's excitement was overwhelming but I shoved her back, told her to stop, and she eased up, realizing that she was stressing me out. I held the blade up, and barely blocked as Ichigo brought Zangetsu crashing down against my blade. I dug my feet into the ground, gritted my teeth, and twisted the blade, forcing the sharp edge underneath his blade and I shoved up, and he pulled his blade away. I charged him this time, swinging in a hard side swing, that he blocked easily and forced me backwards. I scowled and yanked my blade away, Yoso's energy was buzzing loudly, causing my vision to blur. This bond between us could really inconvenience me if she kept this up. I pushed her away, so that way there was a little bit of a barrier between us. She got angry and very nearly disappeared all together, but then she cooled down and just stayed where she was. It helped. I ended up getting knocked flat on my back after sparring with Ichigo for a few minutes. I was able to get up, and eventually Yoso started urging me to release her, she could show me how to be more careful with the attacks.

I did release her sealed form, and stood there, waiting for Yoso to say something. She was basically instincts to me now, that's how she was working. She wasn't a visual I could see in my head right now, she wedged her way into my instincts, which allowed me to fight easier. Who knew how this worked for others, but this was probably good for me. Without having to think about it, I leaped out of the way when he charged at me, and only sent a small strip of electricity at him, which was easily controllable, so if I needed to, I could whip it back and prevent it from hitting him. Even this little thing could probably give him a good 3rd degree burn, if not anything worse. He spun around quickly enough to block it, and once he did, there was a sudden bright flash of light in my eyes, and the room spun violently, and I fell on my back, my body spasming. I had no idea what had happened, no idea what was going on, but it hurt and it hurt bad.

I felt nothing but raw pain ripping through my body. The electricity hadn't hit me; it had rebounded and went into the floor. But this pain had started the minute the electricity touched his blade. I had no idea what it meant, but I was scared out of my mind.

"Saru what happened?!" Ichigo was suddenly kneeling beside me.

I could hardly see him, now black dots were filling my vision. My body was still violently jerking, each jerk sending a stream of pain through my body. Yoso had retreated—she was still in my mind, but far away from where she originally was. Was it her fault? I couldn't put the blame on her, I blamed my electric reitsu. I probably lost control of it. I had to find out what was going on—this pain was something I hadn't felt before.

I felt Ichigo's hand on my face, and that's when I lost consciousness.

I was in my world again, in pain, on the ground. The Hollow had recovered and attacked me while I was training. Yoso hadn't even seen her coming—she was too absorbed in the fight. Now she was keeping the Hollow away from me, while I was trying to move. She'd hit me with electricity directly in the back, probably where there were a bunch of nerves, and did it hard. The Hollow was backing off, loathing in her face as she retreated to wherever she hides.

I still couldn't move. I couldn't function. I was only in this world long enough to see that the Hollow had surprise attacked me. Then blackness swallowed me again.

I regained consciousness, and I was back in my body, lying on my stomach, on the mat I normally sleep on, with my shirt pulled up. I caught a glimpse of Isshin, and then my back was on fire.

I bit down hard on my pillow so I wouldn't scream, my hands clenched into fists. The fire in my back flared all the way into my shoulders and into my lower back. How much damage had she done? Enough to cause my spirit body to seizure. Enough for the effects on my physical body to hurt me nearly as bad.

I felt tears streaming down my face and felt someone touch my back and this time I couldn't hold back a scream of pain, releasing the pillow. There was talking and then I felt someone's hand on my head, turning it sideways so one side was lying down on the pillow, rather than lying face down. It was Ichigo, and he looked upset. I felt someone touch my again and I clenched my teeth, refusing to scream, but it hurt like no other pain I have felt in my life.

"What happened? You started seizuring, and then stopped moving, and when we got you back in your body, you have blood all over your back, and massive burns. You're muscle is exposed in some places." Ichigo sounded even more upset than he looked.

" The Hollow—she surprise attacked me." I told him in a weak voice. "While we were training. I don't know why it happened at the same time the lightning attack hit your blade, but she hit me directly with a massive blast of electricity."

He stroked my face and I just watched him, unable to say anything, tears still streaming down my face. I thought I was stronger than her. Maybe if Yoso and I hadn't been so engrossed fighting together, we wouldn't have gotten caught off guard so easily. Yoso wasn't communicating, but it was probably because I was in my physical body. Her presence was much fainter when I was. I just lied there and heard Isshin mutter.

"I have to put some stuff on. It's going to hurt really bad." He said.

I felt an instant flare up of agonizing pain and I bit down on the pillow.