- Chapter 8 -

The Battle of Seiretei II : Training for the battle

Toshiro

"Arara! The captain of the 10th division is so cruel!" I heard Ichimaru saying. "There's no need to hit that hard a girl who has lost her mind to her emotions..."

---Flashback---

"Ichimaru... The alarm sure went off the perfect timing... What are you trying to do?" I told him.

"Hah. You are still the same..." I heard Ichimaru saying and I looked at him. "Can't you just enjoy the last alarm quietly? Soon, you won't be able to hear it ever again"

---End of Flashback---

"Not just Aizen... Hinamori too. You made her suffer so much pain to the point that she held her soul cutter so tight, that her hands bled..." I told him, unexpectatly calm.

"Ara? I'm afraid that I do not understand..." he said and I turned to face him.

My face hardened to his words "I told you, Ichimaru. If you made Hinamori shed even on drop of blood, I'd kill you!" I told him and I released Hyonimaru.

"Aa.." he said when he saw me releasing my zanpakuto. "That's not good, captain of the 10th division. If you draw your sword here, I'll have no choice but stop it with mine"

He grabbed his zanpakuto and started removing it slowly from its case. Kira behind him started shaking a little and he looked at his captain with a frightened look.

"Cap- captain Ichimaru..." Kira said.

"Move back, Izuru. Unless you want to die" Ichimaru said.

"Who are you kidding? Get out of here, Kira. Don't stop running even after we have disappeared from your sight.." I warned Kira and showed him the way out of here with my sword. "If you stay anywhere within 7-square miles of this place, I can't guarantee that I won't drag you into this" And with those words, I jumped high and I held my zanpakuto with both of my hands. "Soar in the Frozen sky! Hyourinmaru!"

My shikai was activated. Water started circling my hands and soon, a dragon made of ice appeared round my body. My ice dragon attacked Gin, who was standing calm. A huge splash of water spread in Kira's and Ichimaru's position. Kira didn't move, but I saw Ichimaru on a roof, some meters away. He probably used shynpo.

I made a new attack and he used shynpo to get away. I grabbed Hyourinmaru's chain and I tied it around Ichimaru's hand. Then, his hand started covering with thin ice. He looked at me surprised and I pointed my sword to him, making him a new attack with my sword.

"You're done for, Ichimaru!" I yelled at him and he opened his eyes. His smirk appeared again on his face "Shoot him, Shinsou" His sword appeared through his captain's haori and I dodged it for miliseconds.

"Are you sure? If you dodge it, she will die" Ichimaru warned and I saw his sword moving towards Hinamori.

"Hina-" I was ready to shout her name, when Matsumoto appeared in front of Hinamori and blocked Ichimaru's attack with her sword.

Ichimaru, Kira and I looked surprised at Matsumoto. "Matsumoto..!!" I said surprised. Why... why was she here?

"I'm really sorry. I was going to head back as you instructed, but I felt the spiritual pressure of Hyourinmaru, so I turned around" The middle of her sword started cracking from Ichimaru's sharp blade "Please, put away your sword, captain Ichimaru. If not, I will be your opponent!"

My ice started melting away from Ichimaru's hand as my shikai started getting weaker. He smirked again and he put away his sword. He started walking away, leaving us all of sudden.

"Stop, Ichimaru!" I yelled at him.

"Instead of coming after me, shouldn't you go over there and take care of the Vice-captain of the 5th division?" Ichimaru said and with those words, he shunpoed away.

...

I called a member of the 4th division to take care of Hinamori and transfern her in the 4th Division's Treatment Rooms. She didn't have fatal injuries, but I couldn't risk it. Now, me and Matsumoto were walking towards Rukia Kuchiki's cell.

"If you hadn't turned around, Hinamori would've died. Thanks, Matsumoto..." I told Rangiku.

"My pleasure..." she simply said and looked away.

How much of Aizen's will was rewritten? Using the power from the Soukyoku unsealed in Rukia's execution to destroy Soul Society... Is that part real? If it is... Then, that must be what Ichimaru has been preparing for.

Suddenly, a hell butterfly came in the room and interrupted my thoughts.

"A hell butterfly?" Matsumoto asked surprised.

The following message is meant for all Captains and Vice-captains. The convict, Kuchiki Rukia's execution date had once again been changed. The time of execution has been set to exactly 29 hours from now.

"Captain... This..." Matsumoto said shocked.

This decision is final. The date should not change again. Over and out.

My eyes widened slightly at the unexpected message and then, I started walking away. "Captain!" I heard Matsumoto yelling behind me.

"The execution and the release of the Soukyoku... If it is all part of Ichimaru's plan, I can't just sit here and not do anything to stop it!" I said. "Come with me, Matsumoto. Let's stop the execution"

Miyori

"So we are supposed to get in there?" I asked Renji.

Renji unseathed his sword "Yeap, he must be inside. I can feel his spiritual pressure" Renji said and he used his zanpakuto to destroy a part of the ground. We hoped inside and landed on the underground.

"So, you're hiding here and training for Bankai?" Renji asked.

"That sounds interesting..." I said a little loud.

"Count us in" Renji said and him and I appeared from the dust that his zanpakuto made. In front of me was the orange headed intruder, Ichigo Kurosaki, who was fighting against an old man. Close to them was sitting a woman with purple hair in a ponytail and yellow eyes which looked like a cat's.

"Renji! Miyori!" I heard Ichigo saying.

" 'What are you doing here?' is probably what you want to say. Heh. The reason is simple. We don't have much time left" Renji said, holding his soul cutter. "So we were looking for a place to train in"

"No time? What do you mean?" Ichigo asked.

"Allright... I'll tell you. Rukia's execution date has been changed again" I told him. "The execution will take place at noon tomorrow"

All of them, except Renji, looked me surprised. "I don't really want to admit it, but the fact is that I can't save Rukia at my current level. So, I came here to train" Renji said and walked to another free space.

"Don't worry, he won't get in your way" I told to Ichigo.

"I have reached the stage of materialization of my soul cutter's form" Renji continued. "I'm pretty close to reach my Bankai. Right here, like this, I'll start training, okay?"

I stared at the friends of Ichigo, the woman and the old man. The woman was tall and she had purple hair and yellow eyes, like mine. Her body shape was reminding me Soi Fon's. She was probably a member of the 2nd division. The old man was wearing a black coat and he had black long hair. Also, his hand was holding a long sword, which looked like Ichigo's.

The woman whispered something and a cracking noise made me jump up surprised. I stared at Ichigo's hand and saw an almost broken zanpakuto.

"That's not good. You are the one who suggested this training method, so you shouldn't give up before everyone else!" Ichigo said.

"But Ichigo... What if you still can't get Bankai by tomorrow?" the woman asked him.

"I said it before. We can't waste time worrying about the 'what ifs'. The deadline has been changed to noon tomorrow. So what? All we have to do is finish before noon tomorrow!'' Ichigo said and he cracked the rest of a sword in his hands.

"Well said, Ichigo" I told him and Renji looked at him happy. "Thank you" he simply said.

"Then, let's start training, guys! We have only a couple of hours!" I told them and all of them started training.

How I ended up like this? After Renji and I escaped from the prison, he told me that he wanted to find Ichigo to inform him about Rukia's execution and to train so he can achieve the Bankai level and save her. So, I followed him and I used Ichigo's reiatsu to find him. .We arrived near the forest and we found out that he was training underground.

Now, I must wait for tomorrow,  when the execution is going to take place.

~Shinigami Book~

Miyori: *stares at Ichigo while training*

Ichigo: *ignores her*

Miyori: *stare* ^-^ *stare* *stare*

Ichigo: O.o *ignores*

Miyori: *stare* *stare* *stare* ^__^ Haha *stare* *stare*

Ichigo: *turns angry* The heck do you want? (/o_o)/

Miyori: ^____^ I know your secret

Ichigo: *gulps* Which secret? O.O

Miyori: About you and Rukia *smirk* ^0^

Ichigo: >////////////< You've g-got that wrong! There is nothing between me and Rukia! We are just friends, I see her only as a friend, there is definitely nothing between us and nothing is going to happen-

Miyori: Good, cause I recorded that ^__^ *hols microphone*

Ichigo: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT???? OoO

Miyori: I will show her!!! *runs away*

Ichigo: Come back here you little brat!!! :@

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I hope you enjoyed this chapter, everyone :) I want to ask you really: Is this story good? And by the way, I entered this story in Bleach Watty Awards (@BleachWattyAwards_) !!!