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~Thirteenth squad guest barracks~
"To think there was this large of a courtyard in here." Rini was sitting on the edge of the deck outside while the other three girls were practicing with there zanpakutous. All three could easily release them into Shikai and Yuzu had accidentally stumbled across Bankai.
While practicing with Zaraki her brother changed into Bankai and Yuzu just repeated what her brother said, not thinking about what it would do. Everyone was surprised, especially her twin, that she was the first of the three to get Bankai. Urahara was surprised at how quickly she had gotten to Bankia. She and the other two girls only had their zanpakutous for a few days now and Yuzu achieved Bankai the same day she achieved Shikai. That had to be a record.
"Come on Yuzu. Show us what you got." Karin teased her sister while they where using shunpo around each other. Their training had turned into a game of tag.
"But I don't want to ruin the courtyard." Yuzu knew how much damage her Shikai, let alone her Bankai did to the area around her. The courtyard was small and had a pond and some trees. She didn't want to destroy it.
"Why don't we go off to the training field then? I'm sure we can find some people from 11th squad that would love to battle the girl who got Bankai in one day. Don't forget you also stood against the 11th squad Taichou. I'm sure you can find some one to practice with." Ayame had stopped moving and was trying to help convince Yuzu to let her power loose a little.
"Ok, but I need a partner that can fight. Otherwise all I'm doing is blocking and the battle would never progress." Yuzu was actually relieved that she couldn't cause any damage while fighting, but she knew that sometimes it needed to happen. So she was secretly practising some attacks, but they did practically nothing.
"Don't worry Yuzu you have me." Karin hugged her twin. Then turned around to look at Rini and tell her what they were going to do. "Oi! Rini! We're heading off to the training field!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. They had gotten pretty far away from the deck.
"Ok! I'm just going to stay here and look around more. I'll probably meditate a bit and relax." Rini had tired herself out yesterday. After she calmed Ayame down and sent Ayame off with Urahara to train she had another kido battle against Hinamori and Izuru. This time Byakuya joined in hoping to see Rini do another split cast. This time she refrained her self from doing that and just used a lot of reiatsu to use an overpowered kido to win the match.
She walked around the barracks several times just looking around and getting a feel for the reiatsus around her. She stopped herself when she felt a faint Hollow presence. She ran towards it and found herself I front of a hut in the main courtyard.
"Is there something you need help with?" Ukitake smiled at her while drinking his tea.
"Sorry for disturbing you. I was just following something that caught my attention." She hadn't realized that the screen hiding the inside of the hut was pulled up and that the 13th squad Taichou was inside. She was mad at herself. Just like all of the other girls that were around the white haired man she couldn't help but blush while being so close to him. 'Why am I blushing. I've never had a crush in my life. Besides who knows how many centuries older he is than me.'
"Oh. What did you find?" Ukitake asked. He was worried that the Espada would decide to invade Soul Society. He and the other Taichous were still trying to figure out the message that Hawk had given Hirako-Taichou.
"A very faint Hollow presence. It seems to be coming from you, Ukitake-Taichou." Rini wasn't sure if she should tell him, but she thought it was probably better to tell him. "The presence feels like one from a parasitic type Hollow."
"I have been sick since I was a child. I think my mother told me I was attacked by Hollow, but they never found it." Ukitake was troubled by this. Was it possible for a hollow to have attached itself to him without him knowing. "Any idea of how to see if that is true?"
"Ayame-chan and I learned how to de-Hollowfy souls. It's more accurate though to say that we separate the Hollow soul from the non-Hollow soul. Usually one of us splits the souls apart while the other gets rid of the Hollow before it can attach to others." Rini wasn't sure if she should be telling him this. Neither if the girls had told Urahara, but they suspected that he already knew about it. "So, if you want to try it out I would need someone else's help."
"Ukitake-Taichou! You asked for me." Rukia flash stepped in front of Ukitake in a kneeling position. Ukitake hadn't asked for her.
"Yes. Abe-san here needs an assistant." Ukitake smiled. His Fukutaichou checked on him regularly to make sure he wasn't seriously ill, or needed more tea.
Rukia looked at Rini quizzically. Rin then explained what she had discovered and what she was planning to do to the Fukutaichou with out letting her speak at any point during the explanation.
"Are you positive this will work and will not harm Ukitake-Taichou?" Rukia was sceptical about the plan, but had agreed to help.
"If he has a Hollow attached to him, it should detach and you should be able to take care of it no problem. If there isn't one, he will just have a sore spot for a week or two. Nothing to serious." Rini had put on an Ayame smile and attitude.
Rini positioned her self infront of the tall Taichou while Rukia stood behind him. Rini concentrated and gathered reiatsu on the palm of her hand. "Evil spirit, Begone!" Rini shouted as her Spiritual Pressure on her hand glowed white and she brought her hand into contact with Ukitake's chest.
There was a brief moment of resistance. Then a Hollow flew out of a flash of light that appeared on Ukitake's back. Rukia reacted instantly and cut the Hollow in half. Once the Hollow left the man's body he felt weak and fell to the floor. Rini only just barely caught him.
"Well, that was interesting." Rukia said, not believing that the human was right. "Are you alright Ukitake-Taichou?"
Ukitake stood up and took a deep breath in. "I feel great!" He was surprised by the results. He couldn't remember when he felt as well as he was now. He stretched his arms and smiled at the sky.
"I thought you said you weren't feeling well, Ukitake?" A tall man with curly brown hair covered by a sakkat and a pink kimono covering his Taichou's haori walked towards the white haired Taichou.
"Never felt better, Kyoraku." Ukitake smiled at his long time friend. "You probably haven't met Abe-san, have you?" Turned and waved Rini forward.
"Abe Rini, sir." Rini bowed since she could tell he was obviously a Taichou.
"Almost didn't realize you were a human there." Kyoraku smiled at her. "Kyoraku Shunsui. 1st squad Taichou and Soutaichou of the Gotei 13." Kyoraku tip the front of his sakkat at her and winked. Seeing her eyes widen at his rank he realized that she didn't expect to ever meet him, and definitely not in this casual environment.
Rini was about to speak when she felt a familiar reiatsu suddenly spike, and she could tell it wasn't going to drop. She turned towards the direction of the training ground. "Ame-chan!" She yelled before she shunpoed to the training grounds as fast as she could.
Kyoraku and Ukitake looked at each other. They both wondered what had the young girl worried. Then the intense killing aura hit them. They both followed after Rini towards the training grounds.
~following the girls~
"Wow." Yuzu was looking at all of the shinigamis practicing. 'The training grounds must be huge.' Yuzu thought.
"So let's go find someone to spar with. Maybe we can find a few people to take on all three of us." Karin started walking towards the field.
Once the three girls got near the field a familiar figure walked towards them. But this time the pinked hair girl he had on his shoulder was waving at the girls instead of just looking at them. "Looky, looky Ken-chan. There's the one that has hair like mine." Yachiru said while smiling at the three girls. "Are they the ones you want to play with today?" Kenpachi nodding with a sinister grin on his face. "Please continue to play with Kenny." She smiled at the girls then hopped down from his shoulder and sat down a safe distance away to watch the fight without being in the way.
The three girls still didn't know what to make of the small child. They had seen her Fukutaichou badge on her sleeve, but still couldn't believe that Yachiru was part of the 11th squad. Then again, no one saw Yuzu getting Bankai on the first day either. 'Maybe it's the ones with no noticeable Spiritual Pressures that are the ones that are really powerful' Karin thought to herself.
All three girls were pulled out of there thoughts when Zaraki drew his zanpakutou. "So. Shall we do three on one this time. I didn't get a chance to fight the other two. And I am quite looking forward to it." Zaraki wanted to tests his skills. He had felt the heat from Karin's release, but he instantly changed his focus to Yuzu when he felt the strength of the earthquake and wind she unleashed. The wind alone had forced him back by about ten feet. Then while he was fighting her and Ichigo, they all stopped when they had felt Ayame's killing aura. He knew he had to fight her at some point as well. This made him even happier when he saw the three arrive at the top of the hill.
"Alright. You're on!" Both Karin and Ayame stared at the blond who shouted at the Taichou with as much enthusiasm as a child would give to go to an amusement park. Yuzu wanted to see what she was capable of in Bankai. Facing Zaraki meant that she could easily increase her defence and he wouldn't get bored by trying over and over again to try and break it. "Rise from the breaking earth, Jiwamaru!" Yuzu was eager to get started. She had gotten control over how large the impact crater was, which was a circle around her with a two foot radius, and she could keep the wind around her in a bubble as a shield while she released her zanpakutou and that way she could release it once her opponent decided to attack and she needed an escape route.
"Alright then. I'm not leaving my twin to take you on alone, Kenpachi. Rage in the fires of hell, Hiwamaru!" Karin had also learned how to control her release enough that the temperature didn't increase by that much, but the ground around her dried up and crack. Karin stepped in front of Yuzu so that she could easily be on the offensive with Yuzu backing her up.
"My turn, my turn, my turn!" Ayame was eager to help. "Remove the pain-" Ayame stopped the moment she lost control of her Spiritual Pressure. 'Oh no! This isn't good. I can't stop it.' She knew this was a problem.
'Maybe you don't want to stop it?' Kagami said, then his brother stepped in, 'Maybe there is a threat?' Chiryo-sha sounded concerned. 'We can't help you if you won't let us' both said at the same time.
'No. I don't need your help at the moment.' Ayame felt her bloodlust increase as she thickened her Spiritual Pressure. 'I just need a little free time.' Ayame was about to drop her zanpakutou when she heard a familiar voice.
"Ame-chan!" Rini had gotten there in two flash steps. She was exhausted but didn't show it. She pulled Reishi from the ground secretly to regain her strength. "Get a hold of yourself!" She wanted to calm her friend down before Urahara had to step in, or worse one of the other Taichous.
"I will give you ten minutes to calm her down." Kisuke shunpoed behind Rini. "After that I will take actions to stop her, permanently if necessary." Urahara hoped it wouldn't have to come to that.
"Ni-chan!" Ayame yelled her childhood nickname for her friend. "Have you come to play with your Ame-chan?" Her eyes were wide and her grin was large enough that it gave her the look of a crazed killer.
"Ame-chan. You need to calm down." She smiled at her friend hoping to calm her enough to be able to knock her unconscious. She saw Ayame about to drop her zanpakutou. "Ame-chan. If you let go of your zanpakutou I won't be able to play with you." 'Crap. This isn't going well' she thought as she felt Ayame's reiatsu increase again. 'I'll have to use one of the higher level bakudos. Who am I kidding? I'll have to use the highest one just to hold her down for a minute.'
"But I want to play a different game" Ayame whispered in Rini's ear after using shunpo to get beside her. Ayame's arm was through Rini's chest.
Rini disappeared and reappeared behind Ayame. "Bakudo number 99 part two: Bankin! First Song!" white fabric surrounded Ayame completely covering her. "Second Song!" pins materialized and stabbed Ayame in multiple places. "Final Song!" A large square piece of rock fell from the sky and landed on Ayame. Rin fell to her knees and was breathing heavily. 'Damn it.' Rini was tired. She knew she had little strength left to subdue Ayame with.
"That was fun!" Ayame had grabbed Rini by the throat and was holding her in the air.
Rini wasn't surprised. She had felt Ayame escape at the last minute. She smiled at Ayame as Ayame's fluffy Reiatsu turned a deep red and soaked into Rini's skin. "My win. Bakudo number 61: Rikujokoro." She pried Ayame's paralyzed fingers away from her throat. She put two fingers on Ayame's fore head, "Neru." With that Ayame was out cold and her reiatsu dropped back down to nothing.
Rini looked around to see all of the shinigami on the field staring at her and Urahara smiling at her. "As you were." Was all she said before throwing her unconscious friend over her shoulder and flash stepping back to the guest barracks as Kyoraku and Ukitake showed up.
"Just how powerful are those two you brought with you Urahara-san?" Kyoraku asked the blond shopkeeper.
"Honestly." Urahara's smile turn into a serious and thoughtful line, "I don't know"
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