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Sakura followed the shopkeeper back down to the basement.

Urahara led Sakura further into the training grounds. Once they were in an open area, he turned to the woman behind him. "Are you ready?" The woman nodded at him. "Remove all of your limiters. Your reiatsu can't be detected from in the training grounds."

Sakura pulled off all five of her bracelets. She smiled as her reiatsu grew and appeared around her. She smiled as flames covered her skin. She frowned at the black that shifted throughout the flames. She always wondered how a fire could have a shadow in it.

"Control it. Don't let it just dance around you." Kisuke smiled as the girl marvelled at her reiatsu as it shrunk around her. The colour died down first and then the black smoke. He didn't doubt that her zanpakutou was most likely a fire based. "It's fascinating to see how much reiryoku you have accumulated. That Gigai isn't suppose to allow you to do that. But I guess it is a good thing that it is faulty."

Sakura felt the warmth of her reiatsu beneath her skin. She knew she could flare it out whenever she wanted to, but she liked keeping it within herself.

"Your getting better." Yorichi sat on a rock an grinned at the woman. "I can barely feel your reiatsu."

"Well I have the best teachers." Sakura smiled at the two people. She knew they were once Taichous of the Gotei 13. So she wasn't surprised at how powerful they were. And how powerful she was becoming.

"You flatter us too much." Sakura was surprised to find Urahara behind her. And also taken by surprise when she felt a pressure on her back. "Now, the real training begins." Urahara watched as the Gigai at his feet began to turn to dust.

Sakura picked herself up from the ground.

*jingle*

Sakura looked down at the sound. She found a rusted and corroded chain attached to her chest. "What is this?" Sakura poked the end, but stopped when it began to turn into dust.

"That would be the explanation as to why you could accumulate reiryoku. Your soul was rejecting the connection to your Gigai." Urahara frowned at the disintegrating chain. It was degrading very quickly.

"What does-" Sakura stopped when she felt a tearing in her chest. She looked down as the chain fell away from her chest. Her eyes widened as a white substance began covering the spot where the chain had been connected.

She looked up at Urahara. He was looking at the ground with his hat covering his face. "Please survive this." Kisuke hit his cane on the ground. A hole appeared beneath Sakura's feet and she bagen to fall.

Sakura looked up and watched the hole of light grow smaller and smaller. 'Survive? Survive what?'

'My take over perhaps?' Sakura looked around as she tried to find the source of the voice. It was eery sounding and malicious. It scared her. 'You should be scared. Because you don't stand a chance against me, Princess.'

Sakura felt her back hit the ground. But felt herself continue on into a greater darkness.

Please leave a comment. Sorry about the short chapter.