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Iu jumped back as he awaited an action from the hollows. The hollows snarled and bit at him as he stood and parried the attacks on his life. His smiled grew as his reiatsu increased. "Will of life." His aura suddenly grew and pushed the hollows back. Within seconds, Iu was on the other side of the group and blood was splattered all over the barriers limit. He began slashing through them again. This time, he forced reiatsu into his blade while slashing, so each time he slashed down it would take 2 instead of one.

A buzzing noise could be heard in his ear. Suddenly, raging pain came over his whole body. "S-S***... What the hell..." Suddenly, reiatsu erupted all around him, consuming the surrounding monsters. Iu then began to reappear around the barrier area and slashed through the hollows, watching the blood splatter. A smile grew on his face as he slowly began to laugh. He began slashing the wind and firing waves of crimson reiatsu at random. His grin not being removed even for a second. His eyes were widened and his intent to kill was awakenings inside him. "Blood..... Blood..... BLOOD!" He shot his head back in laughter as he wildly swung and cut through the hollows. "This feeling! It is exciting! I've never felt like this before! This pure feeling has pleasured me more than any orgasm or any buzz! This is true paradise!"

Iu shot forward and allowed a claw to pierce through him. He licked his lips as blood dripped from the wound. His shoulder became a large blood stain. He grabbed the mask of the final hollow and pulled it close. It let off a high pitched scream that would bring most to their knees. With a strain of his hand muscles, he crushed the mask and the head with just his right hand. "Awaken in me..." His head shot back and his hair shortened. His eyes became a pure white with a red swirl spinning wildly in the middle of his eyes. His arms suddenly grew to a point where it ripped his haori and his gii to shreds. Iu let out a screech as he shot his head back. His skin darkened slightly and his hair turned a light blue. As he panted on his knees from the wound, his breath could be seen clearly as a white cloud. HE stood up and looked at Yamoto. "Aisuyajuu"

After healing himself, Iu stood up and walked around for a little bit. His crimson eyes were now a gentle gaze, not a peircing glare. His state was calm, but a calm to an extreme. His body felt so much pressure from the Zaigou freak out, it could barely move on its own. His gaze looked up at the barrier he created. His began to ponder about the many things in his mind. "I can't train for at least another hour. I might as well think. [Time- 3:43 AM] He began to walk around and pick up dirt with his feet. He sat on the ground and began to talk to himself. "Will this new form really help me that much? I dunno. I hope I don't endanger anyone while in that form." He sighed gently. "In a way, I was becoming scared of myself while sitting back helplessly. The pain I went through for the transformation... will it feel like that every time." Iu laid back and looked deep into the ocean blue sky. "Might as well relax about it. Not like I will need it any time soon."

He sighed again, only this time he smiled gently. "I will leave the Tagg incident alone for now. The others will be joining the fight soon. I'd only get in the way of the greater captains... Am I really strong enough for this title?" He rolled over onto his left side and looked deep into the forest. He watched as Chain fought another shinigami farther out in the other training area. More then likely Chain didn't notice the barrier or that his Taicho has been missing from the reiatsu sensing of everyone in the squad. "Well, at least he's working hard." Iu opened his eyes more. "Which means I have to work hard as well."

He flipped onto his belly and began doing push-ups. "11...12...13..." He began to pick up the pace and do then a lot faster. "33 34 35 36 37." To make it harder and funner, Iu began to spin his body after he came up from every push-up. "68 69 70." His smile grew as he enjoyed the new and easy training he was doing. "It's not a silly little moan..." He sang. "It's not the storm before the calm. This is the deep and dying breath. This love we have been working on." He hummed the rest while smiling.

He had to prove to himself that the way he acted wasn't the real him. That was only the Zaigou and he was not that evil and cold. "Baby you're the only light I ever saw..." He then began remembering things of his childhood. The fighting, the laughter, the betrayal, and.... his mother. "I wonder how she's doing..." He spun again while spitting to the left of him and watching it hit a mid-sized rock a few feet away. "192 193...194..." Iu began to release more reiatsu to return his speed to the quickness he originally had.

A new song rang through his head and he said as happy as before. "Caroline all the guys would say she's mighty fine. But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time. And the other half either got you cursed out, or coming up short. Yeah, now dig this, now even though. You'd need a golden calculator to divide. The time it takes to look inside and realize that. Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!" His body began to move with the music in his head. To anyone looking on, which there wasn't.... He would look like a damn fool. "Better come back down to Mars .Girl, quit chasin' cars. What happens when the dough get so low. b***h, you ain't that fine. No way.. no way.. no way." He smiled showing he was enjoying this more then anything he's done before.

His body began to feel heavier. He smiled knowing he only had a little more time before he had to fully stop. One last song... ran through his head. He found it extremely appropriate for the situation he was facing right now. "416... 417..." He closed his eyes and fell to the ground. "Too bad.... thought I was better than this..." He laid on his back with a single roll to be more comfortable. He then gently began to sing...

"I don't know since when I changed to such a cold-hearted guy
I have to warm this frozen, icy, lonely heart to thaw
I like being wrapped with warmness more than anything else for sure
I'm gonna make my coming days to be filled with laughter and joy

I let myself down that I'm more cruel than I thought I would be
I'm just a loser who ends up by caring for my soul
I don't give my heart to no one cause I don't wanna waste my time
I tried to love this loneliness to slip out of this lonesome hole

Sorrow is what I hate but it's grown my sensations
Regrets taught me how to make any hard decisions
Peace is always by my side but I've never felt it once
Love is not the word only for the sweet romance

Well, I'm scared, scared, scared, scared to death
And I'm scared to keep on going on my way
Well, I'm scared, scared, scared, scared to death
And I'll tell myself I'm special till the end

Recalling my torn, broken, aching heart of these long days
And all the memories I wanted to forget for making leaps
Recalling, breaking, aching, crying, making sure to me
And I take all and grin at my future on the way."

Iu's gazed into the empty area he has called his "home" for quite some time. Blood was stained into the ground. He smiled. "I guess I finally understand what being a shinigami is." He laughed a little as he fell back onto the ground from sitting up. "Shinigami are people who kill things that they think are bad. So simple yet so right..." Iu drew the sign for Squad 4 in the dirt using his finger. "We are the healing squad for people who kill, kill, and kill. More then likely, our enemy has no healing squad. So, why do people look down at us? We are extremely important. Without us, many more shinigami would be dying in sparring and from missions." Iu sighed as he shot a bolt from his finger and hit the top of the barrier. "We are strong too..." He stood up and unsheathed his blade. "Back to work."