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The morning was quiet and peaceful, and the sun was just barely poking through the clouds today, just enough to send a few rays of light down upon the Sereitei and illuminate the snow white hair of the squad eight captain as he walked through the squad training grounds, making it look like the young shinigami had a lightbulb for a head. It was days like this that Tansen couldn't help thinking about getting his captain's hayori altered so that it would have a hood for him to hide his bright head of hair.

Maybe I should just go and get it dyed some other color... Hmm... I wonder if I would good as a red head...?

Letting that thought slip out of his train of thoughts, the young captain let out a small sigh as he reached his destination: A large clearing in the squads personal training grounds. The clear space and strong footing made the area Tansen's favorite training area. The young captain was here today to teach one of the members of squad three how to communicate with their zanpakutou in order to learn shikai. It would be difficult, but far from impossible.

"Now all I have to do is wait for him to show up..."

[Leiko. Don't forget to seperate your paragraphs from each other. If you don't it makes it hard for others to read.]

Turning to face the newcomer, Tansen nodded his head in greeting to the nervous shinigami before speaking up, trying his best to be friendly. He knew all too well what it was like to train with someone of much higher rank. It could be quite nerve racking.

"It's nice to meet you too, Lieko. Sorry about that. A lot of people normally find it difficult to find this place, but I still prefer to train here. I apologize. Now then..."

Turning his back to Lieko for a moment, the Tansen moved a few steps back and swept off his captain's hayori, folded it neatly, and placed the soft garment gently on a nearby boulder. After that, the young captain took his zanpakutou as well and placed it beside his hayori on the stone before rolling up the sleeves of his shinigami uniform, showing off his muscular arms as he made his way back to Lieko.

"...Let's get down to buisiness. Communicating with your zanpakutou is no easy task. To put it blunty, you're only going to hear it's voice if you're truly in a life or death situation. So for that reason, you and I are going to fight. Come at me, and try your best not to die. Use your sword, kido, or any other means to defeat me."

"That is correct. I want you to fight me with everything you have, no matter how vast or little experience you have. As for me discarding my weapon..."

The young captain shifted his body into a traditional karate stance and locked his eyes on his opponent, a dangerous gleam apparent within the emerald irises. To show Leiko just how serious he was, Tansen began letting his reiatsu loose, creating a small crater underneath his feet and causing his eyes to change to a dangerous shade of electric blue as the energy flowed throughout his body.

"...I won't need it. Against someone like you, I might kill you by accident if I have my sword as my side. Besides, I have plenty of other weapons at my disposal. Now...come."

Closely observing the opposing shinigami's movements, Tansen was fully prepared for the feint that Lieko tried when he attacked, and jumped over the blade as it came to slice his legs. Not quite yet finished, the young captain twisted his body in mid air with expert precision and swiftly brought his left leg up to aim a horizontal kick towards his opponents face, enough power to send the guy flying if it made contact. During both his original and spiritual life, Tansen had recieved expert training in Hakuda, and took great pride in his skills with it.

There are three main fighting styles that shinigami are trained in. hakudo, Kido, and Sword techniques. Hakuda is the first and most reliable out of the three due to it's swiftness and strength. It doesn't consume any reiatsu and it's easier to land strikes on your opponent than with a sword.

Tansen was a balanced type of shinigami. He had trained rigorously and achieved great skill in all three fighting styles. Since this was training, he decided to give Lieko a small demonstration of the different styles of fighting as he trained the kid to hear his zanpakutou's voice. It would be a good lesson to him not to rely on just his sword in the future.

[That's perfectly fine. Both scenarios are pretty creative and realistic, so no worries. Just be careful for the future. I'm writing this based on scenario one by the way.]


Tansen clenched his teeth together against the pain running up his leg after connecting with Lieko's sword sheath. For someone who wasn't very confident in his battle ability, the shinigami had done an impressive job of countering the strike. Unfortunately for him however, Tansen's kick, despite being partially countered, still had more than enough force behind it to inflict some damage on Lieko, which was demonstrated by the sickening crunch the poor shinigami made when he connected with the ground.

Landing softly on his feet, Tansen quickly assessed the damage to his leg and judged that the damage wasn't too serious. It would hurt, but not too much. The main problem was that his mobility was considerably lowered. Although...the shinigami captain already had a solution. Raising his left hand outward, palm flat, the young prodigy quickly manipulated his reiatsu and began running through the spirit chant for a kido spell.

"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado number thirty three, Sokatsui."

From the captain's outstretched hand, a deadly flash of blue flame erupted from the limb and soared through the sky at a shocking speed, before connecting with the ground and causing a large explosion all around Lieko and making a large cloud of smoke over the area. It didn't matter if the captain had difficulty moving if he could just attack from where he stood. Skeptical as to whether or not the spell had made contact, Tansen quickly shifted his body back into a defensive stance as he waited for the smoke cloud to clear and reveal the results of the explosion.

[No problem. I'll end the fight here so you can communicate with your zanpakutou. Don't mind the auto-hit, okay?]


Seeing the weakened state the Lieko was in, Tansen slowly relaxed his battle stance and let out a small sigh. Even though he knew that the opposing shinigami wasn't anywhere near his own level of power, he had expected a bit more of a fight from him. Making a mental note to advise Captain Tsukino to find more suitable training for the weak shinigami, Tansen spoke up and adressed Lieko, a sad look in his eyes.

"I seems that you've already reached your limit. Very well..."

Quick as a flash, the young captain shunpo'd swiftly over to the boulder where his zanpakutou was and grabbed the blade before shunpoing over right in front of the wounded Lieko, unsheathing the blade silently as he moved. Standing tall over the shinigami, Tansen brought the blade high over his head, as though to cut Lieko in half.

"...I'll end this here."

Bringing the blade down at incredible speed, the young captain twisted the weapon as he struck, resulting in him merely hitting the guy hard on the head with the hilt of his sword, making a small thud as it made contact with the shinigami's skull, knocking him out instantly. Resheathing his sword, the young captain shunpo'd once again to the boulder and placed his zanpakutou on it before taking a seat beside it on the large rock. Now all he had to do was wait.

"The rest is up to you now. Good luck."

As the hilt of the captains zanpakutou hit Leiko's head everything went black. Leiko had the feeling of falling but at the same time he felt like he was floating, or more like just being there it was like he was floating on nothingness. Leiko noticed a bright light far off in the distance, it seemed to be getting closer, but he was still too far away to see what it was.

Hello, Leiko Kana.

"How do you know my name!? Who are you?"

Me? Oh you haven't realized yet have you.

"Realized what?"

Where you are.

Leiko looked all around him and could see nothing but blackness and a growing light in the distance. "Then tell me where I am!"

You will see young one, you will see.

As the light got bigger Leiko realized it was not just an orb of light in the distance but more like a doorway or a portal inside the blackness to another place. He could see a beautiful blue sky and the orb of light was actually the sun high in the sky. The doorway got closer and closer until it was within Leiko's reach.

Don't you want to find out what's on the other side?

"Of course I do but I want to know where I am first."

Well little Leiko, you are entering your inner world, but you didn't seem to bee week enough to enter straight away.

"Week enough? What do you mean week enough?" Is he saying im too strong to enter my inner world?

You must know that in order to enter your inner world the first time you need to be need death? Well you, were almost there just not quite, so its taken you a little time to reach your inner world. So what are you waiting for? Step through we have much to discuss.

Leiko lifted his right hand and moved it through the doorway and felt strong winds against all sides of it. The wind began to pull on Leiko's hand but he did not resist he was too intrigued by this strange feeling. The wind pulled on Leiko's hand and Leiko toppled through the doorway into a new world.
Leiko was being hurtled upwards by a vortex that was surrounding the scene he observed through the doorway he was going higher and higher until he broke through the clouds, where he just hovered kept up by the upward thrust of the vortex below. He looked around and as far as the eye could see it was just blue sky and the sun was directly overhead, Leiko could see no ground below him or around the edge of the vortex it was just endless, he wondered what would happen if he tried to fall off the top of the vortex.

I wouldn't recommend doing that, it is a long way down, you may never hit the bottom.

"So this, is my inner world?" Leiko looked around again to make sure the person he was talking to wasn't hiding somewhere.

Yes, and im guessing by now you have realized, well not who but, what I am.

"Well if you would stop hiding maybe I would know what you are." A small measure of impatience in Leiko's voice now. He was expecting more like a huge paradise with trees and beaches and women in small bikinis.

You wanted a paradise! If that's all you were looking fore then maybe you should of gone to Hawaii instead. A large dragon erupted from the side of the vortex and circled it following the direction of the spin while rising further towards Leiko each time.

Oh no it can read my mind that's so cheating! Leiko though to himself.

Of course I can, do you really think I can speak. I'm not Mushu you know. My voice is going directly into your mind you idiot! How could you not realize that. The dragon was now right in front of Leiko it had stopped spinning and was just floating a meter or two away from him. It had a long face with tired looking eyes ((quite a lot like Mushu from Mulan actually except like 100X bigger razz )) its entire body from nose too tail was a greyish white and is slightly transparent as if it was made from the typhoon bellow instead of a solid dragon.

"Who the heck is Mushu? Wait no we have more important things like your name?"

My name young Leiko is Kamikaze it means divine wind. Now go and blow them all away, for I have a feeling you will be back soon. Goodbye Lee I look forward to the next time we meet.

The wind holding Leiko in place disappeared and he fell through the centre of the vortex down further and further. Leiko looked down to see the doorway back to the darkness getting closer and closer, he was launched through it and hit something solid on the other side.

His right side began to burn with pain as did his skull and back. He could see a sliver of light between his eyelids, he trued to open them further but only managed another millimetre or two but it was enough to see the captain sitting next to the rock a fer meters away.

((I wasn't sure how to end it I hope that's OK.))