Chapter 15: Perspectives

A few days after Ichigo told Rukia that he would think about training her, he was approached by his former student now turned squad six captain, Byakuya Kuchiki. Ichigo had a pretty good idea what his former student was entering his barracks for, but decided to entertain the gesture nonetheless.

"Byakuya." Ichigo started as he greeted his former student. "What can I do for you on this very nice day?"

Byakuya smirked and had to stifle a laugh as he already knew his teacher well enough to catch his sarcasm. He stood in front of his teacher and answered. "Rukia has told me and Hisana that you were considering training her." He paused as he saw his teachers smug grin.

"She has courage and shows some interesting skill to her that I can't seem to put my finger on." Ichigo stated to Byakuya. "Same with another kid named Toshiro Hitsugaya. Both of them have serious potential."

Byakuya nodded to his teacher and went to the door to leave. Before he left though, he turned to address one last thing. "Also, are you still coming?"

Ichigo smirked at his former student and answered. "Wouldn't miss it." And with that, Byakuya left and went back to his manor to prepare things for later this week.

Ichigo stifled a chuckle and went back to his paperwork that had piled up recently. If there was one thing Ichigo wishes he could do with his power, it was to get rid of all this damn paperwork.

Las Noches

Yoruichi and Kisuke were just coming off another training session with Aka. They were walking around the massive palace and watching the various arrancar all throughout. They were very confused when they did this after Ichigo left them the first time. They only saw a small portion of Las Noches, but it was enough to get them to question their outlook on hollows. That time, Aka told them that they couldn't go further than the training area nearest to their room, but this time Aka had been more lenient with the two. They were now exploring a good bit of the palace and now had a different opinion on hollows. They saw them being far more 'human' than just mindless monsters that craved souls to feed on to grow stronger. They saw that the hollows they ran into were more or less like the soul reapers back in the Seireitei. Calm, collected, friendly even, and even helpful with directions whenever the two Vizards got lost. They trained like normal, hung out with each other, worked well with one another, even a few loved each other. It was a community that was almost like theirs yet for hollows. The major difference was the leadership. The espada's were more or less like captains while Ichigo was like the central 46 in a sense. Only Ichigo didn't order around anyone into doing questionable and moral things. He didn't order for executions whenever a rogue hollow with some balls attacked the palace. He would simply imprison it and give it an offer later on. Join them or leave and the next time it shows up, he will destroy it himself. When Aka told the two this information and how peaceful the palace is now than centuries ago, their perspective on hollows was starting to change. Even Kisuke was seeing them differently as people and not monsters with souls. Yoruichi was actually enjoying this place more so than the Seireitei.

"I still can't believe that Ichigo was the one to make all of this happen." She started as they past by a large open field with the 'younger' arrancar's running around happily.

"Yeah." Kisuke started with a smile as he looked to the children playing. It was just like their old lives before they were turned, only peaceful.

The two continued on with their walk, passing several arrancar in the process. The arrancar here had been most helpful with the two and they could tell that even without Ichigo's orders, most of them were very docile in comparison.

As the two continued to walk on, they would occasionally exchange passing glances at each other. After the initial change, the two had been a little bit vague with their feelings towards each other. They really didn't know what they wanted and seeing some of the arrancar couples didn't help either. When they stopped next to an open field, Kisuke decided it was now or never. Unfortunately for him, Yoruichi was thinking the same thing.

"Yoruichi I-"

"Kisuke I-"

They both said as they turned to each other only to stop mid sentence. They stared into each others eyes and for that single, solid moment, everything else around them was nothing but a haze. A haze that made everything around them obsolete. They inched closer to each other, not caring that they were out in the open. Since they've seen the arrancar here, they felt natural and like they both belonged to each other. And just like that, they kissed each other. Yoruichi placed her arms around his neck while Kisuke wrapped his arms around her waist. The kiss was filled with passion and love for one another as they stayed like this and wanted to stay like tis for a very long time.

Hey guys. I'm back.

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