The King's Death

Chapter 19:The Vizard's Training

"Damn it!" She shouts as I shatter her mask again. "Kensei what was the time?"

"About thirty minutes Rukia." He murmurs looking at the stop watch in his hand.

"Rukia it's alright if you don't get it your first few times, it doesn't make you weak." I say touching her shoulder. She shrugs off my touch and I pull away a bit.

"Yeah it took your idiot of a husband how many days to don his for an hour?" Hiyori shouts. I glare at her and shunpo over to where she's lying sprawled out on the floor.

"What'd you say you brat?" I shout glaring down at her.

"Are you picking a fight, Ichigo?" She shouts back donning her mask. The point of her horn is nearly touching my chin. I pull my mask down and grin.

"Maybe I am picking a fight you little brat, it's been a while since I kicked your ass!" I retort before moving away from her and releasing my blade. She does the same and gets in her stance. I twirl my blade by its cloth and throw it at her hitting the rocks that were behind her and pulling it back. People file down to see what all the ruckus is about and look at Hiyori and I in shock as we duke it out screaming curses at each other the entire time.

"Dumb ass quit running away from me!" She shouts using shunpo to follow my movements. I shunpo behind her and hit her with the hilt of my zanpakuto. She turns and slaps me roughly. I growl and land a solid kick to her ribs before using shunpo to land a few feet in front of her.

"Whose running away Hiyori I was just waiting for the right timing, dumb ass!" I retort grinning under my mask everyone stares at Hiyori as she loses her tempter and calls out her Bankai without a word. I do the same and we clash against each other roughly. She pushes and I push back barely breaking a sweat.

"Alright you two enough already Rukia still need to train and Ichigo you aren't going to be able to finish if you keep fighting Hiyori tonight." Shinji shouts up at us. We sigh together and let our masks crack away from our face slowly. Our swords go back to their sealed state and we shunpo to where Shinji is standing. "Feel better now?" He asks in his cheerful voice.

"Yeah sure whatever, I needed to stretch my legs anyway." Hiyori says going back to her spot and letting Hachi heal her wounds. I turn back to Rukia and don my mask again before moving toward her like a predator. She dons her mask as well and circles around me. I watch her every movement closely and catch her foot as she's about to round house kick me. I spin her and throw her to the ground where she slides across the floor and then she stands back up and dusts herself off.

"You've got to be better than that; this mask should enhance your skills Rukia! Are you even drawing on its power?" I shout letting mine fall to pieces. She stares at me confused and I hit my head with the palm of my hand. "Are you afraid to draw off of its power Rukia?" She nods slowly and I walk over to her and touch her forehead letting the mask shatter from her face. "Why are you afraid?"

"What if I can't control it Ichigo?" She questions softly looking up at me.

"Rukia you can't be afraid of this, it is part of you now, and your inner hollow is a part of you. It will give you power and it will give you strength because you are in control of it. You beat your inner hollow, Rukia." I mumble to her so only she can hear.

"Why are you so insistent that I can Ichigo." She mutters darkly clutching my shirt in her tiny hands.

"I know you can control this because you're stronger willed than anyone I know, now I'm going to tell you something every time you feel like your mask is about to shatter draw out your inner hollows power and push it into the mask." She nods and pulls her mask into existence. I touch it and it cracks before healing I keep my hand their and push more spirit energy into it and she keeps adding to it. "See I told you so." I mutter pressing my lips to one of the snow flakes.