The King's Death

Chapter 22:The Vizard Training

It had been three days and we decided to speed up the pregnancy at Rukia's request. Something has been worrying her lately but here is not the time to bring it up. Rose is currently trying to go into his final phase. Shinji and I have both already accomplished that. It took Shinji two days because it was harder for him to connect to his inner hollow.

"Oh come on he needs to stop fighting his inner hollow so much…" I murmur resting my chin on Rukia's head while watching the inner battle go on.

"I agree he won't get anywhere if he doesn't stop. Shouldn't his zanpakuto have made peace already?" Shinji says looking to his watch. I shrug and think for a moment.

"Hey Rose stop fighting so much!" I shout loudly, his head turns to me and then falls to the floor as he goes back into his inner plane. We watch as all three figures appear like they did for Shinji and I and his zanpakuto appears in his hand. The negative version of Rose and Rose duke it out against the hollowfied version of Rose and it seems to be a losing battle. After while they are gaining the upper hand and are partly conjoined at the hip and wrist making it extremely difficult.

I hear a gasp behind us and we all snap our head to the group of shinigami officers who are standing behind us wide eyed. Rose fuses and we snap our heads back to him as his Zanpakuto transforms into its final phase and so does he. He defeats his hollowfied version and falls to the ground in a heap of smoke. We sit still and begin to fidget before Hachi stands and walks over slinging the slightly dazed Rose onto his shoulder. As he walks over Rose's stomach growls alerting us to his hunger. Hachi huffs up the stairs to prepare a meal carrying Rose with him.

"Man I hope I didn't look like that…" I mutter forgetting they were all standing behind me. Shinji turns and laughs at me nodding his agreement.

"I must admit though Rukia was funny when she first saw all the food Hachi made!" Hiyori says rolling with laughter. I hear a throat being cleared and we all turn in shock to see Byakuya standing above us a mask placed on his features.

"You are toying with your hollow selves again?" He says coldly shocking us all. Shinji stands as everyone else does and dusts himself off.

"More or less yes, although it is not toying, we do not play I assure you we study this with our inner hollows and zanpakuto for long amounts of time. However I was wondering why you didn't catch on quicker because of Ichigo's reiatsu strengthening some time ago after he completed his training." Shinji says looking at the Captain. Byakuya looks away and scoffs silently.

"After a while you give up on asking when he grows more powerful." Renji says nudging me. I growl and punch him. He returns it before Rukia stands in between us and glares at us making us both shrink.

"Why were we not informed of this matter?" Byakuya says glaring fiercely. I stand and allow my position to be brought out in my posture and voice.

"What I do with people under my care is not your concern Captain Kuchiki. If I were in your position I would mind your position and realize that the Vizards are under my knowledge and if I participate in such activities I do not have to inform anyone of such matters." I say before walking past them and then stopping and looking to the others. "Are we going up to see Rose or are you all going to sit there with your jaws in the dirt?"

"Uh…yeah come on guys let's go." Shinji says a bit startled at my sudden return to my normal self. They get up and follow behind me. Rukia takes my hand and we walk up stairs to see Rose pigging out on an entire table of food.

"I'm using disgusting manners but this feel so refreshing!" He mutters to us as he eats. We laugh and soon our talking is loud enough to draw attention form some of the people down stairs. Yoruichi comes up to look at us before shaking her head.