Fate (A Bleach Fanfiction)

Chapter 19: Kuroki's training is successful! Ichigo becomes a Hollow!

Kuroki's pov

I was now inside of my mind, Kisuke told me it would a good thing if Yuki trained me in how to use and unlock his powers. I was beginning to grow accustomed to the cold, although I still had to wear a jacket. As we started getting ready to fight with each other, flashbacks of Toshihiro flashed through my mind. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and opened my eyes. Yuki charged at me and started to disappear and reappear in various places, I tried to keep up with his movements but he was just too fast for me. He disappeared and I started to try and track down his spiritual pressure, I caught onto it but he dodged my move and slashed me across the back. I knelt down and looked up at him, we had been fighting for over an hour or two. I was beginning to get tired but I knew that if I kept going, I could bear a higher tolerance for endurance and pain. I stood up holding Yuki in my hands and looked up at him, as he smirked and disappeared. He told me they called it flash step, I kept a watch for where he was gonna attack next and quickly caught onto it. He was going to attack from the back, I turned around clashing blades with him. For a moment his eyes widened, but quickly changed his expression and smirked. 

"You catch on quick, Kuroki." He said, "My name is not Kuroki, it's Kuro!" I clashed swords with him, "I see you hate being called Kuroki." He taunted with a smirk, "That's so obvious, Yuki!" I stated, as we separated from each other.

"Fly with the winter wind!" Yuki brought his sword up and then down and I did the same, our attacks collided halfway. "Korudo danmaku!" A small ball of energy surrounded by ice collided with his attack and it started to overwhelm mine, I jumped back easily dodging it. "Fly with the winter wind!" I brought Yuki down again and it started overwhelming his attack, but he found some way of overwhelming my attack and it exploded. I was sent back flying, but I held my ground. But was just sent tumbling down, the wind blew softly and all of the smoke blew away. Something felt off, I heard Kisuke's voice and I was woken up.

"Something's wrong with Ichigo. He's turning into a hollow." Kisuke said, "What?!!!" I shot up and rushed over to the hole, seeing as ichigo was turning. "Kisuke, you have to do something!! Please! Don't kill him! Help him, Kisuke! Please!" I turned to him and then turned to Ichigo, whose mask has formed. Tessai restrains Ichigo using the spell bakudo #99 bankin and Ichigo is restrained. But Ichigo breaks both the kido and restraints, causing a huge explosion of reiatsu that shot out from the pit.

Ichigo appears with a hollow mask and a shinigami shihakushō, draws his broken sword. My nerves were shot as he stood there, I was scared that he had changed. Ichigo used the hilt of his sword to crack off his mask, revealing he has become a soul reaper. "Ichigo!!!!!" I rushed towards him, although I had cuts and bruises all over me. I launched myself at him, smiling up at him.

"Hey Kuro, what's up?" He asked, "You're okay." I hugged him tightly, and he hugged me back.

Kisuke said our third lesson was to knock off his hat, but first I had to continue training with Yuki. Ichigo was left to train with Kisuke, while I trained with Yuki. We took a small break, after an hour of fighting. "So you seemed to have improved your fighting skills. You also have a higher tolerance for pain and endurance. It's time that you learned some new attack moves." He stood up and held out his hand. I took his hand, standing up and we walked off.

"Alright to do this move, you first have to have already used shikia. You first point your sword and conjure up enough spirit energy to make a ball." He made a medium sized ball at the tip of the sword. "Then you conjure up more spirit energy, but not to much just enough to make the ball a little bit bigger and create an ice barrier around the ball to outline it. This makes it even more dangerous." Yuki did exactly what he said, "Then you're ready to fire, you then call 'Korudo danmaku' and the ball shall shoot from the sword straight at your opponent. This blast cannot be dodged, once you fire it it locks onto your opponents spiritual pressure and go straight after them." Yuki fired the blast, it hit a mountain destroying it.

"Whoa." I stared in shock as the mountain was destroyed, it was pretty cool. "Alright then, let's see what you can do." He gestured to me and I nodded, we started fighting and I tried to do the move. "Korudo Danmaku!" I shot the ball towards Yuki, who was hit full on but not affected by it.

"How? How are you unaffected by it?" I walked over towards him, "It only works on who the wielder sees as an enemy." Yuki said and I nodded. We moved on and I started to learn how to control my spirit energy, as the training went on. "You've improved drastically. That's a good thing." He stated, sticking his sword in the snow. "Now, let's work on your hand to hand combat without your sword." He got in a defensive stance, sticking Yuki in the ground and stood in a defensive stance as well. We stood like that for two minutes letting the wind blow, standing in silence just staring at each other and then he attacked. He charged at me and I dodged his punch, taking karate when I was younger with Ichigo really paid off. He kept throwing punches at me, but I dodged each one and stepped back. I jumped back and roundhouse kicked Yuki, but he caught my foot and my eyes widened. 

"You're gonna have to become a lot stronger and faster than this." He stared me down as he held onto my foot, I can tell this training session will be a long one.