Bleach: New Generation

Chapter 18: Training Arc, Inverse No More

Listening to this song for hours. Shinji was feeling romantical

Kazui's POV:

Eyes closed, blood and cuts covering my body, exhaustion building up inside of me. I had nothing to lose. I need to prove myself. I need to become stronger. I need to fight alongside my father.

All I saw was darkness, not anything from the environment in sight. I couldn't even tell what sounds were coming from where. The only thing I depended on was my sword and my power.

I turned around and swung.

SLASH!

Half-expecting to be cut, I blinked one eye opened to see sparks flying everywhere as my blade met Shinji's.

He disappeared and reappeared somewhere else. Instinctively, I went to block it but changed last second to direct my defense somewhere else. I heard my blade clanging against his, and a glimmer of hope was now within my grasp.

"You can see it now, Kazui! You can see through Sakanade!", Shinji exclaimed and looked at me dead in the eye, "You are the second person to be able to bypass my Shikai's inverse effects. From this point onward, this fight is to the death. Good luck, Kazui"

He pressed on harder than before, but I met his determination with strength of my own. I met his blade multiple times as I kept putting all of my strength in my swings. I felt like I could finally beat him. My body felt like it was acting on its own, and my mind was the only thing breaking down and adapting to the powers of this inverted world.

I landed another hit, a fatal one slashing the front of his chest, making him stumble back. This was my opening, my chance.

"Getsuga Tenshou"

I sent my attack flying towards what I felt was where Shinji was going to be, and my intuition was correct. The powerful energy sent him flying backwards and caused him to descend towards the ground. He crashed into a tree, which destroyed the surrounding environment with it.

Shinji coughed, "Good one, Kazui"

"Didn't you say you would kill me?", I asked as I flew down to him, "I had my eyes closed that time, you know?"

"Idiot. Of course not. Your dad'll kill me if I even tried to. I needed you to brute force and push past your limits to improve your skills. And that good several hours inside of my Shikai's effects did the trick", Shinji coughed up more blood and held his chest, "Now do me a favor and get me to Squad 4 before I die"

I scrambled to put away my sword as I picked up Shinji and threw him over my shoulder. I ran as fast as I could, and Flash stepped towards the Squad 4 barracks.

Now, I didn't exactly know where Squad 4 was, so I went back to the Squad 10 barracks instead where the lady with the very revealing uniform was waiting for me while drinking.

"You did that to Captain Hirako!", Matsumoto laughed drunkenly, earning some weird glances and shocked expressions around me, "Well, just keep going down until you find an open area to a place that, uh, looks like a hospital".

"Got it, thanks"

"By the way! A certain Captain is here to train you. Head Captain alerted her as soon as he got the news about your training. Just recover first and meet back here, alright?"

I rushed down to the Squad 4 barracks swiftly. I was met with an open space and a big building with a symbol of a Bellflower, which I assumed was the right building. And I wasn't wrong. As I entered the building, I saw people walking around with medical supplies, along with rooms with hospital beds and machines.

"Hey, hurry up! There's a guy dying here! No need to admire a damn hospital", Shinji grunted.

I ran up to one of the nurses, which turned out to be the Captain of Squad 4, Isane Kotetsu.

"Oh dear, it seems that Captain Hirako has been injured", Isane smiles kindly at me, "Don't worry, I'll take care of him. Meanwhile, I'll get one of the other doctors to take care of your injuries first"

She called one of the doctors nearby. I then placed Shinji on one of the beds to let him rest. The doctor then gestured for me to go inside of one of the other rooms as well.

"See ya, Shinji"

I walked inside the medical room. To recover and build myself back up again for my next training session. One skill wasn't enough to become stronger, I needed to learn more. But right now, it was time to rest.

Shinji's POV:

What the hell just happened? That Kazui kid really has the same potential Ichigo has. He's a total powerhouse. I got absolutely destroyed by him with that one Getsuga Tenshou.

But he didn't notice what even happened to him during our fight. Well, no, I suppose not. Apparently, Kazui said that he had his eyes closed towards the end of our fight. But he was wrong. His eyes were wide open, but they were different. Everything around his pupils were black, and his pupils were bright glowing blue. The sudden change in Spiritual Pressure shocked me so much that I couldn't even focus much during the fight.

Jeez, that was insane. Kazui will become more powerful in no time. I'll believe that.