After talking to Haruka, Hikari had made his way into Tabo’s office and sat across from him. Hikari looked over towards the door, Keina and Hyperion were there recently, and he even saw them walk out but didn’t say anything. His time would come for him to meet Keina, but now wasn’t that time. “Haruka wants to learn Shunko, without the bs she told me.”

“I see,” Tabo said tapping his fingers on the desk, obviously more interested in that than what Hikari was talking about. It wasn’t that he didn’t care; it was just that he was genuinely enjoying the tapping. It made pretty noises, he liked that.

“I told her I’d talk to you, to see if you would train her. Along with Bankai she stated that Shunko was one of her goals, and you’re pretty decent at Kido. You can do Shunko atleast, so I thought I’d come to you.”

“I guess I will. It is my temporary job anyways. But no one gets light training from me, you learn everything I want you to learn before I deem you ready for the big stuff,” Tabo replied.

“Understood, I’ll tell her that tomorrow,” Hikari spoke as he stood up and headed for the door before he was stopped by Tabo’s voice, “Speaking of big stuff…”

Hikari turned around with a raised eyebrow as Tabo kept going. “I think you’re ready…You told me that Ken has been silent right? Well that might just be for a reason. Now let’s get going.”

A white cloth had wrapped around Hikari and Tabo, within a white flash they were now gone. Reappearing they were now underground somewhere causing Hikari to blink a couple times before looking around, was this the cave Tabo had worked on? It was a decent sized, but not that big, he wouldn’t question it though. He knew not to. Tabo activated his Bankai with his Bankai looking as if a normal blade, which pointed at Hikari while mumbling something. Suddenly they were in a dark area, though not the cave. Hikari didn’t get much time to look around the place though.

“Jinzen,” Tabo said as he turned around and crossed his arms.

Hikari nodded and sat down crossing his legs placing his Zanpakuto across them. He closed his eyes and took a single breath. Opening his eyes he was now sitting on sand, eyes widening as a large wave of water from the ocean poured onto him. “FUCK! Why do you always stand there so this happens!?” Hikari yelled at Ken before standing up and slowly making his way over to Ken while dripping.

“The sky is like your eyes, the rain representing tears and the ocean representing emotions. Happiness, anger, and sadness. Common in this world, washed all over finally like a late night cry~” Ken spoke as he turned to face Hikari who carried a puzzled face.

“Why…Are you talking like that?” Hikari asked, obviously unsure of what Ken was spouting.

“A cloudy mind does not fair with a clear one,” Ken spoke before turning around again, “Grey and Gray, both have their sides. One is oblivious to what is happening yet seems at peace, the other isn’t but seems to be depressed. Which am I, which are you? What is mixed and what isn’t? Answer me, Hikari.”

Hikari sighed and sat down thinking. Was this why Ken was silent? Because he was talking like this and Hikari wasn’t going to know why? Wasn’t going to know why. A cloudy mind. He didn’t know what was going on so he was obviously the cloudy mind, while Ken was the cleared one. What is mixed…Obviously one of those things was mixed and one wasn’t, it was obvious about the clear and clouded mind. Ken was happy that Hikari was using him more, meanwhile Hikari wasn’t all that happy…He sighed before speaking, “You are the clear mind and I was the cloudy one. You’re at peace and I am the depressed one. Simple, you’re at peace because I’ve started using you more. I’m depressed because of my family…Which goes back to what you said earlier. The ocean is my emotions pouring on me because I hold so much back, I realize that now, why it always pour on me when I enter.”

“Those seemingly at peace still hurt more than you know. Everyone hurts, everyone needs a release. Now let it out, speak with your weapon,” Ken said as he drew his blade. Hikari nodded and stood up drawing his own blade, clashing it with Ken’s causing thunder to strike onto the ground and water. They circled each other clashing blades causing more thunder to strike, causing the winds to pick up around them.

“A world fueled by your hidden emotions is hazardous if you hold them back!” Ken called out, Hikari barely hearing him through the storm and their blades clashing, “Let them all out! Destroy and re-create!”

Hikari narrowed his eyes and swung harder knocking Ken back with each hit, letting his anger out. His spirit energy spiked giving off massive killing intent not noticing the tears coming out of Ken’s eyes due to the rain, the rain the tears had caused. “He made me kill them!” Hikari yelled as tears fell from his own eyes, the earth began shaking and cracking yet they kept their balance. The ocean began rising higher with the rain, “Just for some stupid test! I killed my family for their stupid test! How am I expected to run a fucking clan when they make me kill them all myself!?” Hikari eyes had widened as he slashed harder, each slash causing the ground to crack more. Tornados flew around them, rain hitting them like ice, Hikari didn’t even notice the Tsunami closing in.

“I killed my mother with my own goddamn spirit energy!” He yelled, “Then the same members of my clan that I tried so desperately to find! I finally find them then I have to kill them! And just knowing that it was to build my strength!? How does that not fuck somebody up!? How do you expect someone to run a clan after all that!? After you’ve killed your own people! How-“Hikari stopped speaking once he saw Ken cut up on the ground smiling weakly and bleeding. He began shaking while dropping his blade.

“Destroy and….Re-create,” Ken said before coughing up blood, “You…Let the past out, now…Let it go. Look forward to…The…Future.”

The tsunami had swallowed them both before Hikari had a chance to react, he couldn’t breathe but he didn’t panic. Lightning had struck inside the water, even right near him and onto him a few times. The ground had crumbled and collapsed causing the water and everything inside it to fall into nothingness but was soon picked up by a tornado. Hikari weakly looked around, not seeing Ken anywhere. Destroy and re-create, the words had glued to the back of his mind. He slowly closed his eyes letting the world take over.

Opening his eyes he put an arm over his eyes to block out the sun. He put his hands on the ground and slowly pushed himself up, feeling his hair hit across his back he ignored how long it had gotten. He began walking across the sand soon coming across a random dojo. He walked inside to see Ken there, sitting and looking at him.

“Ken, I thought you-“

“I did,” Ken interrupted while holding out his hand. He soon stood up before letting his arm drop, “Destroy and re-create. You let out your emotions and so did I, you ended up destroying the inner world and I ended up destroying myself. Both were re-created. You let your emotions out finally so you stopped the storms, tornados, and other weather hazards. I also let my emotions out, the ones I held from not being of much use to you.”

Ken stepped up becoming face to face with Hikari, “Now I will be, with what I’m about to give you. It will help you from here on out, I promise you….”

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Hikari sat up from where he lay after hours of training. He had bandages around his eyes, neck, chest, shoulders, and arms. Some on his hands and legs as well. They were from training within his inner world. His hair had also grown longer, he also seemed more tone. That was due to Tabo’s ability, he didn’t know all the details but he knew the time worked differently there than here. What had been atleast a few months was measured down to atleast five minutes in real world time. Hikari began releasing some energy, at the point where he was it was probably for the better that he did otherwise he’d explode.

“Time to get a haircut, long hair really isn’t my thing,” Hikari said before ripping the bandages off his eyes and walking away from where Tabo stood smirking.

Note: I didn't go too in depth with the training because I want to reveal it later, but I think I did a fair enough job showing how and why he got it.

"Hahahahahahaha! I can believe you bought that shit!, Echo just wanted to talk to you man, and you thought I was serious about that being your test. Hehehe, nah your real test will put you through utter hell. You want Bankai? Then you gotta be willing to sacrifice everything for the pack. His male zanpakuto spirit said which made Yu glare at him, before getting grabbed by the arm and shunpoed far into the forest of his inner world, until he came to a tree so massive that the other trees looked like twigs to it. "this tree Yu, represents you in a way. Notice that its immense.... That is all of your potential and now...." He spoke before forming an orb and pushing it into the tree, which made the ground rumble violently. "No second shots on this Yu. You have an hour exactly to get to the top, or else this tree will explode, and as this tree represents your life. That will also come to an end." Saying nothing else the spirit vanished, which made Yu grit his teeth as he attempted to shunpo up only for a force field to block him. "Shit, how else am i suppose to get....." Yu voice trailed off as he looked to spot what would be a pair of stairs which made him yell. "Fuck you!" Yu shouted only to hear laughter, which made Yu dart up the stairs as quickly as possible, soon reaching a clearing yet something stood in his way, quite a lot actually. They all had different hair colors and skin colors, yet they all wore the same mask, ironically it was a wolf mask. "We will be to the point. To get to the next level, you must get past yourself in a way. We all hold your.... future drive in a way. Yet the drive you have now has become jammed, almost as you are uncertain. If you even want to stand a shot at Bankai, this test will have to be passed." All twelve of the men said, as Yu stood there then ran right towards, them only for a wind like force field to slam against Yu, bashing him backwards against the wood floor. Wasting no time he took off again slamming against the wind force field only to again be slammed backwards. Yu then punched himself in the face, and rubbed his cheek and slowly grinned. "I won't lie, when I lost to that Arrancar, my drive went down, and then when Ryuu and...... my previous head captain betrayed us.... I nearly gave up on everything. Yet I realize now, that if I don't get stronger, who is going to show those bastards that fucking with me if a horrible mistake!" Yu then pushed off his feet this time slamming his fists first into the barrier, which tried everything to push him back, Only for Yu to rip it open and walk through the barrier, which made the men that spoke to him smile as they vanished.

As he made it to the next level he saw this giant of a man, who was twice Yu's height and much wider than him. "You lose hope when things don't go your way. There have been many cases of this, and there will be much more. This will see if you give up when things look rough. Or stand your ground even when it looks like the end." Just then and ungodly amount of vines wrapped around Yu and held him against a trunk, squeezing the air out of him as he struggled to move. Yet no more as much he tried pushing off the trunk, he wouldn't budge an inch. Air couldn't find a single way into his lungs which made Yu start flailing as he tried to breath. "..... You know I represent your hope, yet..... You have yet to use me once. Did you abandon your hope when you became a shinigami Yu?" The man spoke again which made Yu's eyes widen as he looked at the man who held a face that looked as though he really wanted to know this question. Yu gasped a bit before tightening his muscles and forcibly started stepping towards the man, his words came out raspy though. "I'm.... sorry. You aren't.... wrong. I gave up.... multiple.... times." Yu then started crouching down before the vines started ripping apart, with air entering his body, then with one push Yu ripped off all the vines and took in a deep breath of air. "I never used you, because I felt that everyone..... just ran through me like I was a insect, so I never bothered with you... As you put it, when I met someone strong, or stronger than me. I gave up hope. I assume that crushing feeling was my hope?" Yu asked which made the man grin. "Indeed it was, and you could only get out of it, by holding onto it again. Go forth Yu, I believe in you.[/b] The giant man said as he let out a hearty laugh before vanishing.

Yu ran his way to the next level wondering how much time he had left when he met a woman with fur covering nearly everything, and could easily stand six feet tall. She however remained quiet, which made Yu blink as he continued walking forward, when suddenly a beam hit hit him upside the head causing him to stumble, then be hit by another one from the front causing him to fall backwards. Yu looked a the woman who shrugged, which made Yu get hit in the back and then the leg. He looked at her again which made her chuckle. "I aint saying nothing Yu, this you have to figure out all on your own. She smirked which made Yu look at her and snap his fingers. "Wisdom, I always use you guys for strategic maneuvers. Hiding you in various places, while I, which I assume represented by you in this case would be distracting, so i take my mind off the other ones." Yu said which made the woman speechless than growl. "Fuuuuuuuck! I tried so hard to. Well you did ace the academy I guess I can't say this would have been hard." She said as she vanished like the others.

On the next floor he saw just a group of males and female all with the wolf getup, yet they lined up in a line, right in front of him which made him stop and tap his foot, when all of a sudden they formed a circle around him. Yu. Us your shikai is destruction at its core, we cause destruction, violence, and even death. To understand this, you will have to realize something, if you get bankai. You will very well hold innocent lives in your hands, so in order for you to realize this We will hit you with the power of a Bankai. All at once. You must know the power of which you will wield." Yu's eyes widen as all theirs arms began glowing, Yu could even feel the power vibrate off him. So when they all slammed their fist against his body, Yu's body violent jerked around which resulted in him puking out blood as he fell to his knees. he gasped quite a bit before standing back up and smiling. "Thats it? If that's the power of my Bankai, then I'm ashamed. Show me the true power!" Yu shouted in which then all smiled in approval. "The earlier tests raised your courage outstandingly! Very well Yu! We will unleash every ounce of power it has!" They shouted in unison as the power poured off them, as they again punched Yu at the same time, this time enough to cause cuts to burst with blood and poor out his mouth and nose. He fell to the ground coughing as he struggled to his feet and shook a bit as blood poured down his body. "I have the capabilities to hold that? Such..... destructive power. Makes me wonder if anyone should even wield that." Yu said as he stepped forward anyway with a smile, which made the group vanish.

Upon the next level Yu saw echo was was sitting there looking at a butterfly. " YU! ITS OBVIOUS WHAT I AM! YOU MUST PROVE YOUR POWER TO ME! IT MUST BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME EVEN MY MIGHT! SO PREPARE YOURSELF! WE TRADE BLOWS UNTIL ONE QUITS! THAT FOR YOU MEANS YOU SUBMIT YOUR LIFE!" Instantly she ran towards Yu and kicked him in the gut which made him cough up blood on her leg, he then raised his hand and was about to swing but slowed down and simply tapped her which made her blink. She then punched him in the chest, which made him stumble back, but he walked back and tapped her again. " Yu. Do you want to die? Sometimes.... things will be rough, and you are going to have to make a choice. If you don't you will not only risk your life, but many others." Echo said in a much more quiet tone before she held her palm out and slammed it right towards Yu's heart, then made his eyes go blank as he felt his slow down. His eyes almost rolled to the back of his head, luckily for him his heart beat picked up again, which made Yu glare as he revved his arm back and gave her a right hook across the face hard enough to send her light frame flying and into a trunk. She got right back up with a big bruise on her cheek and she ran back at him, jumped up and gave him a headbutt. he clutched his head and fell to his knees. It felt at though his skull cracked from the force, and it looked liked she felt the same effects. He sucked in his courage, grabbing her by the back of the head, as he brought her head forward and his knee forward, smashing it right into her skull. This made her roll around on the ground, where she began tapping out, to show she quit. "OW YOU PRICK! BUT YOU DID GOOD YU! I KNOW YOU CAN MAKE IT TO THE TOP! GIVE THAT MEANIE PANTS A KICK TO THE BUM! And give that Red head arrancar bitch a punch just from me. We will show him who is really the punching bag." She said the last more more deviously as he fell to her face seemingly passed out, vanishing.

What shocked him on the next floor wasn't a wolf bout his hollow self. [b]"Heeeeeey bitch, whats good in the Yu hood? Your zanpakuto spirits gave me clear instruction on what to do, so Yu I will ask you this, and respond clearly, I know you probably have brain trauma, but that doesn't matter. Yu the question is simple. Are you afraid? Not of this test, but in general are you afraid? You were so terrified of me, you wouldn't tell anyone about it. Only Hikari knew, and that's cause he had the same quirk. Sure Ayashi knows and Zero, but should they really count? Yet are you afraid, cause frankly I've seen bigger balls on a cat." The hollow Yu asked, which made Yu speechless before nodding. "I've been afraid for a long time.Always wondering what my actions will lead to. Thats why I've been doing paperwork for a good bit. I didn't wan to risk nothing. Yet that wont get me anywhere. Only my actions will, and if they have repercussions...... I'll have to deal with it then." Yu said walking past his hollow self which made him laugh. "Starting to sound like me bitch! Well we are the same after all..... I ain't doing that vanishing shit. Thats retarded as fuck." His hollow self said as he instead jumped off the edge laughing.

Upon arrival at the next floor he looked out the edge to see he was pretty high up he could even touch the clouds. He then noticed a shadow him next to him, not like his hollow self, this one was utterly black. No facial expression no signs of life, just his outline. "I represent your..... evil side, you might say. The hollow us, isn't evil in its own way, I am that dark side that dwells within you. I wont say what I want.... however if I hear anything wrong. You will instantly fail. and as such die.. No back talk now. I secretly still believe in Shinji, I see no wrong in what he did. He has shown me no reason for me to consider him evil, at traitor if you will. Ryuu as well, if anything I consider Juki to be the real traitor. A man suddenly appears saying we are weak, and takes my precious captains seat? The nerve of that man. he has no right to take that seat, and we are suppose to believe in some washed up captains story on Juki being a legendary shinigami. If he was..... why'd he wait so long? Obviously after the first arrancar attack, it showed we were sitting ducks. The days were much better when the rightful people had their spots. Juki can go to hell forever. He will never truly be my captain." The shadow version of himself said, which Yu walked by him and pat himself on the shoulder. "Correct. He never will be, until I hear Shinji's reason myself. I just can't buy what transpired so far, it seems like utter bullshit." Yu didn't even wait for a reply he walked on ahead, as the shadow self vanished.

On the eighth floor, he saw everyone who gave him a test thus far, this time however, they each held a orb. His hollow self started speaking for everyone. "Yu, we felt it necessary for you to experience this, each of us hold a orb. Well all but one, What these orbs are.... is all the damage you have dealt thus far in your life. As you see mine is the biggest of course. Yet mine plus everyone's orb will be sent into you. And you must be able to bear with the pain. You have to show that the damage you caused, you can receive at any given time, for whatever reason it may be. So brace yourself!!! Hopefully Amaya wont scream when she sees blood flying off your body!" He shouted as they all threw the orbs at him, all of them entering his body. At first he was okay, then all of a sudden his eyes rolled back as blood poured out of every cut and out from his eyes even his ears.he then fell to the ground seemingly not breathing. Yet he grabbed one of their legs and slowly pulled himself back up He was now gasping as his eyes came back, where he looked at everyone and grinned. "My enemies.... must be some real bitches." His spirits just shook their head but smiled as they all flowed into Yu, healing his body, restoring all damage done to him. Yu then took off towards the next and final floor.

Once he arrived he saw the main spirits of his zanpakuto standing there as the world began shaking much more violently. Someone only has five minutes left. So Yu, show me just how great you truly are! I wanna see a war between us, that only we can wage!!" They both said at the same time, each holding a shikai blade charging at Yu, who drew his zanpakutos and blocked the shot. The Male swept out Yu's feet though, while the female grabbed Yu's head and slammed it on the hard wood surface, before tossing him up into the air, shunpoing behind him, which he predicted and kicked her away. The male however grabbed Yu's head from behind and bulldogged him to the ground, then proceeded to drag his face against the surface as his left arm covered in spiritual energy. He held Yu in the air with his right and rammed his left fist into Yu's face, sending him flying to the female who was covered in the spiritual energy and kicked him in the gut causing blood to spill out of his mouth. They then put a shell around him, and soon after the Shell filled with fifty Wolves which all exploded against Yu, causing the shell to shatter, and show Yu bruised and clutching his hands as he watched his world start falling apart. "No. I can still win. I refuse to lose! This is my life, and I will die when I choose to die!" I can't die here! Remember what your spirits told you! They want you to be yourself again! Not that piss poor excuse of a being, wait a minute..... that brings me back to wen it was just me and him.... Whenever I had trouble he just told me to..... be myself. Yu Smiled as he held both swords in his hands and looked at his zanpakutos who stopped attacking and stood still smiling. "Thank you guys, all of you. Everyone of you are my..... Bankai!" A swirl or dark purple swarmed around Yu, and as it died down they would see Yu's Bankai look and appearance. "All of us.... We all are Sabējiookami no rūrā. Now can you stop the whole destruction of my inner world?" Yu asked, which they both laughed. "hey you told your daughter if anything red shows up, to wake you up at all cost. She must be shaking your ass pretty hard if she breaking the fucking landscape in your own inner world." They continued laughing, while Yu's eyes widened as he swore and left the world and looked at Amaya, who was punching his chest rapidly. "I'm fine, I'm fine! I'm better than ever actually. But holy hell am I exhausted." Yu said as he planted face first on the floor.

Fumio's (Kazuhiko's) Father

Kenta blinked a few times to regain his vision, though all he saw was darkness. He soon noticed that it wasn’t his eyes but that the area was just very dark. He was stupefied causing him to just lie for a few moments. He was on a bed though he was cold, the bed doing nothing to stop that. Kenta kicked his feet off the bed and sat up, wincing at the wound he carried that bandaged up. He slowly stood to his feet before looking around, letting his eyes adjust to the darkness he could barely tell what was what.

A light! He saw a light in the distance! It seemed to be getting closer, and it was. Within a few seconds it revealed to be a person with purple hair holding a lighter.



“Hope you had a nice rest, Kenta,” Lelouch said as he grew a smirk.

“Who the hell are you?” Kenta said angrily as he crossed his arms, “How do you know my name? And how did I get here? Well, I can take an obvious guess on that last one, but I’d still like to know.”

“I’m Lelouch Tenshi,” Lelouch replied, “As for how you got here, well, that corresponds to how I know your name. Kenta Makoto I have been watching your journey for a while, in fact I know allot of things about you. I know about that Rio girl you like so much…Seems she doesn’t like you much anymore due some things she said when you left, but that’s off topic. I also know about Keina, you burned that cabin down. Interesting fight with that Takara girl.”

“Why have you been watching me!? And what the hell do you plan to do with that information!?” Kenta yelled as he let his arms dropped.

“What do I plan to do with that information? Should be what have I done with that information,” Lelouch replied, “Wanna know why you were taken exactly?”

Kenta grabbed Lelouch by his collar and pulled him close, lifting him off the ground a little, “You had to do with that!? Do you have any idea what I went through!?”

“All apart of the game~” Lelouch said before being punched and sent flying into the wall, though he simply got back up brushing himself off before flicking the lighter on again. “Such a party pooper, no cake for you~”

“Answer me!” Kenta bellowed.

“I had something to do with it,” Lelouch said, “I simply gave them information on you, that’s all. I just told them that you were the closest person to Hikari is all, then they took you.”

“Who are they!?”

“The Five Sicario, and some Shinrai guy. I didn’t get the full details, I actually didn’t care for them or why they were doing what they were doing. I simply wanted to see how your story would play out,” Lelouch replied, “But I do know it had something to do with that Hikari guy, but from what I’ve seen from him I don’t think he even knows of the connection.”

“You’re shady, but for some reason I believe you,” Kenta said which he found weird; there was a high possibility of that being false. But he did know that something was happening with Hikari and the Shinrai clan, also the guy had allot of knowledge of them so it wouldn’t have been too far off. This just made him even angrier. “And the reason for spying on me beforehand?”

“Oh, that’s just my gimmick. I have knowledge on everyone in the Seireitei, and I mean everyone. It’s my hobby, don’t take it personal.”

“I would beat you and heal you just to beat you again, then let you slowly die by flames but I feel you’d just laugh through it all,” Kenta said narrowing his eyes.

“Indeed I would,” Lelouch said, “It would be a pleasant end to the game. My second favorite…Character being the one to end me, such a way to go out~”

“I would also ask what you did to me, but I feel it’d be too disturbing. Either that or you’d lie.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t lie after spilling my guys this much. But I haven’t done anything but help heal that wound~” Lelouch said smirking, “For the first time I’m actually interested in seeing a story play out rather than continue letting the character suffer, atleast by my doing. So all pain that’s dealt further on will no longer be done by me…Your Zanpakuto is beside the bed, also a new shirt.”

Lelouch shut the lighter and tapped it causing the area to lighten up. Kenta looked around noticing they were in what looked to be a cave surrounded by pure metal…And that guy shrugged off being punched by metal into metal like it was nothing. Kenta turned and walked back to the bed, putting on the white shirt and grabbing his Zanpakuto.

“Also about Rio,” Kenta said turning to look at Lelouch with a saddened facial expression, he knew she was mad at him but what Lelouch said was true? “What’d she say?”

The look on Kenta’s face amused Lelouch, but at the same time felt something else he thought wasn’t there. But he was too far gone to actually let that take over, “She said something along the words of you was running away like a coward. Also that you lied about caring about her, you’d understand why she was upset, and she also yelled your name a few times.” Lelouch gave a soft smile.

“…I see,” Kenta said as his face went back neutral and he walked up to Lelouch, “Show me the way out.”

Lelouch nodded and began walking with Kenta close by. After a minute of walking through long hallways and rooms they soon reached the entrance of the cave in which Kenta began walking out before being called at, “Oh yeah! Kenta!”

Kenta looked back at Lelouch who smiled at him, “I really do hope everything works out…”

“Sure you do,” Kenta said as he looked forward again walking away from Lelouch and the cave.