"Do you realize how long I've been looking for you!" the girl screamed at him and Yuki had to stare at her for a long moment before he recognized who she was.
"Shino look." he said to his attacker as he pointed at his admittedly small creation.
He watched as Shino turned towards the small ball or red light before pointing at it and looking at him with a confused expression, but before Shino could ask him anything Yuki lifted his Zanpakutō and drew it from its sheath.
Yuki couldn't help but fill his chest grow with pride as he remembered what Kazuma had taught him yesterday, don't hold back and allow the sword to take what it needs.
His Zanpakutō began to let out a bright red and silver glow before it changed its form, rather than a Katana his sword now looked like an oversized butcher's knife.
Yuki wanted to say something to Shino, he wanted to hear her say something about his Zanpakutō, but the glow of the red light that floated next to her caught both of their attentions.
It was easy for everyone present to understand what had happened, somehow by releasing his sword's form, the amount of power that the ball of light had grown.
Both Yuki and Shino knew that this was impossible because he had already released the amount of power that the ball of light now contained and as such it shouldn't have been able to grow stronger but for some reason it did.
"How did you?" Shino asked him as Kazuma placed his hand on her head.
"I won't do anything to you, but please don't attack anyone here, you're scaring the kids." Kazuma said to Shino as he pointed at the children around them who all looked at her with frightened expressions.
"Sorry." Shino said to Kazuma and then to the kids as she realizes what she has done.
'Excuse men but are you the one that has been training Yuki." Shino asked Kazuma.
"No, the only thing that I did was tell him everything that notebook of his had in it, but in simpler words, he did whatever he did on his own." Kazuma answered her.
Yuki began to walk towards the two when he saw Kazuma lift his hand and grab onto a blast of pure reiatsu.
The swirling energy should have destroyed everything around it, and Yuki that whatever Kazuma was doing was the only thing keeping him and everyone around him alive.
The massive blast of blue and green energy turned upon itself as if it was attempting but failing to detonate and it got smaller and smaller by the second.
Everyone including Shino, who had fallen because of the impact, could only stare at Kazuma with wide eyes.
"What is with today?" Kazuma asked himself as he shook his hand and acted as if he was removing some dirt that had gotten on it.
Yuki watched as the man pulled the rope away from the other students who were all shaking but none of them dared to move, yet Kazuma didn't leave instead he walked towards the house and grabbed a small ball of wire before walking in the direction that the blast had come from.
Yuki didn't say anything even as Shino stood back up, ran up to him, and started pulling him in the direction that Kazuma had gone.
The two of them soon found themselves at the edge of a large field with several bushes that made it hard to see if anything was hiding nearby.
They stopped when they found the man standing next to a snake hollow, which was the size of a mansion, the hollow was being held down by the same rope that the children were training with.
They silently watched as the man held the wire in the palm of his hand and said "Bind" they both let out a gasp as the wire wrapped itself around the snake.
The wire began to tighten itself around the snake and the creature screamed in pain as the wire cut into it, but no matter how much the creature screamed neither Yuki nor Shino could hear it, as the rope prevented it from making any noise.
The two of them widened their eyes when they saw their new teacher, place his hand on the hollow and begin to absorb its power into himself.
Yuki couldn't help but think that whatever this technique was, it was the same technique that Kazuma had used to stop and absorb the blast that he had caught earlier.
He didn't know why but for some reason Shino had pushed him into one of the nearby bushes, as he turned to look at Shino he found her covering herd her mouth and pointing at Kazuma as she turned to look at him, with terror-filled eyes.
Yuki turned to look at the man he had decided to accept as his teacher and he noticed that in the time that it took him to turn to look at Shino Kazuma had released his zanpakutō and was now wearing the pieces of jewelry again.
"Why do they keep coming here?" Yuki heard Kazuma as he began to pick up both the rope and wire off the ground.
He was about to stand up and call to Kazuma when Shino grabbed his arm and pulled him back down before covering his mouth with her hands, Yuki wanted to ask her what was going on but he could see the fear in her eyes.
He turned to look at Kazuma but he could only see the man walking in the direction of the house, but as he looked past Kazuma he noticed that several figures were watching him.
Yuki could feel his blood run cold as he saw four hollows glaring at Kazuma.
He wanted to push Shino away, to call to Kazuma that there were more hollows, he wanted to yell to the man that he needed to turn around, but he couldn't as the fear he felt forced him to stay silent.
He turned to look at Shino and he found that she was silently crying and she was biting her lips to keep herself from making a sound, but she was doing it with such force that blood was running down her mouth.
Yuki could feel Shino's hands trembling even as she pressed them onto his mouth, and he could barely understand that this was the same girl he had known for so long.
Shino was always the one that would jump into a fight when it happened, she was the one that would beat up anyone that bullied him and she was the one who supported him when he decided to become a Soul Reaper so that they could finally stop living the way that they did.
Yuki closed his eyes and realized that he was holding onto something warm.
As he opened his eyes he found that he was somehow holding Shino in his arms, he didn't know when his hands had moved or how he had even had the power for them to move, but he was hugging her tightly even as she covered his mouth with her hands.