Rising to the Top (Closed – Training)

[kyouzou]

Day Two; Part One; 8:00am – Kido Training – Hiryukurai && Soren Hiryukurai

The sun had begun to rise over the large forest in which Sayurin trained. Around her, the fight from the previous night became apparent, as well as Yuri’s training. Trees were de-leafed and destroyed around the area. Today, Sayurin sits here eating the breakfast she had packed for her training period. “This is good. Those bakers must have used a new recipe.” She said this as she bit into a bread roll about as long as her head. “Senmidori doesn’t seem to be up.” She began to chew some more. “I’ll have to train without her till she’s ready.” She threw the last piece of bread into her mouth and then jumped of the branch she sat on.

The branch was only a few feet off the ground, so her fall wasn’t that detrimental. “What should I train?” She asked herself, not having come prepared for these training sessions. As she asked that question, she remembered the scene from the day before. ‘Could I have done better in that fight?’ She asked herself, meditating as to if she did anything poorly then. It was then that she remembered the multiple times she casted the spell Byakurai, only to fail. “Wasn’t there a Kido like Byakurai?”

Usually she would have pulled the slip of paper she had tucked away in a pouch over her breast, but this time she went to her bag and pulled out the Kido book she had given by Captain Unohana. She flipped the book open and proceeded to the sections that covered Hado. On the page that displayed the description for Byakurai, there was a small paragraph that described a similar, yet more complex, spell. She took note of the page number in which it pointed her to and she turned right to that page. “Hirukurai.. Soren Hiryukurai” She saw the description for the one spell that was described, as well as a stronger version of that.

“Wow, it even mentions Byakurai in the descriptions,” She said as she read through both descriptions. She read the descriptions thoroughly; just like she did for every other spell she read and learned. “This is perfect; if I learn these, I won’t have to worry so much about casting Byakurai and it missing."

“Hado 4: Byakurai!” She exclaimed as she pointed her finger towards a nearby rock. Instantly, a line of lightning shot forward from her finger and struck the rock. She did this to get a feel for the original spell before she attempted the other two. “hm.. They’re just like this, but I can manipulate them. I just need to focus on the flow of energy and control it.” With that said, she placed the book back into her bag. She looked around for something to practice on. Upon walking some yards from her camp, she found a 30 foot drop in the forest. Jumping down to the bottom, Yuri intended to use the rock wall as the target for her casts.

Yuri faced the rock wall before pointing her finger out towards it. “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” She stated with grand ferocity. When she casted, she expected something that felt like Byakurai; she expected the flow of energy to be like Byakurai. There were very few similarities to Byakurai. The energy shot forth far more faster and immediately Sayurin lost control. The line of energy flew from her finger and moved in the most erratic path. It was so bad that Sayurin was forced to Shunpo to move out of its path because it turned on her.

“That.. that was nothing like Byakurai!” She stated, not expecting what had occurred to occur. That’s not to say that she lost confidence in her ability to learn the spell, she just was shocked to find that she needed to control it far more than she expected. Without hesitation, though, she walked back over and faced the rock. With her finger pointed forward, Sayurin attempted the spell again. A lack of control wasn’t new to her, she’s felt this feeling before. She knew that she just needed to quickly gain control of the fast moving bolt. “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” With that said, another streak of lightning shot forth from her fingers.

Unlike the first time, Yuri was ready when she casted this spell this time. She felt for the energy that was flowing through her finger and outwards, as it shot outwards. As she tried to gain control of it, her fingers and hand began to thrash about in accordance to the movements that the streak of lightning was making. Having had read the description, she knew that if it moved too far from her, it would disperse automatically. Knowing this, she tried to at least keep it from going too far, so that she could practice her control over it.

Back and forth, the lightning thrashed. ‘Pull it back, pull it back.’ Sayurin was reminded of a time long, long ago when she was alive in the human world. There was a time when she went fishing with her family. Through trying to pull the lightning back, she was reminded of trying to bring the line in when a fish was caught. The thrashing about was so similar to that time for her. At first the lightning moved with such speed that just the jerking through her off, but over time she found that it was bothering her less and less. She was gaining more control over it. However, after a couple of minutes the lightning dispersed on its own accord.

“Damn, I should have expected that was going to happen.” Sayurin was now experienced with Kido and similar abilities to know that such things didn’t last if they weren’t fed energy. She simply brought her finger up and tried again. “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” She chanted before feeling the lightning fly forth. This time she was far more ready for it and got it under control a lot quicker. She kept working on her control of it, this time feeding it more energy when it felt like it was going to disperse. She gave a breath once to prepare her for her next action. With the sways and jumps of the line of lightning understood well enough, Sayurin predicted the next jump in the lightning and reacted by sending a burst of Reiatsu up it’s line to regulate its movement. With that done, she tried to move it about to make sure she had it perfectly under control. Content with her control, she forced the lightning back a bit, before sending it forward at the rock wall.

Upon smashing through the rock wall, the lightning dispersed into nothingness. Looking at the wall, Yuri saw that there was now a large hole in the wall for a distance. The area around that hole was severely cracked, looking as if it would break apart more if someone just blew on it. Bringing her fingers forward, Yuri tried it again, “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” The lightning flew from her fingers and she forced it into the wall after accounting for some resistance.

She casted the spell again and again, making sure that she could control its movements without worrying about it flying off. Not just that, she made sure to practice with the wall at different directions relative to where she was. She’d have the wall to her back and have the lightning turn completely around to hit it. With the wall to the left, she had the lightning turn upon leaving her finger. It would seem that she had full control over it, but Yuri wasn’t satisfied. “Hm.. I seem to have this one down, but what about the other one.”

Sayurin was referring to the third Byakurai-like spell, Soren Hiryukurai. “This one is listed as an advance Kido; in other words, it is about as strong as Raikoho.” She said this as she held the book, which she retrieved right after acknowledging her success with the first spell. “This cannot be too much harder, it’s just two Hiryukurai.” She placed the book back into her bag before getting back up and running over towards the rock wall.

“White dragon whose potential was sought, gather more of your kind and claim the world as your own!” She said as she pointed her hand, once again, towards the rock wall that the cliff was made of. Once again she underestimated the spell she was trying to cast. Knowing that the spell was as powerful as Raikoho, she forced similar amounts of Reiatsu into it, but it would be the control that causes problems. Two streams of lightning shot forth from Sayurin’s hand. Expecting this, she tried to control them both like she did with the first spell. At first she tried to control both, which seemed to work for just an instant, but immediately problems occurred. She felt herself losing control of the one stream and began to focus on it, but the moment she focused on that one, the other one went out of control. Immediately, she tried to control the second one again, but that finally forced her to lose control. The two streams of lightning began thrash about. At first Yuri tried to gain control of them, but it became futile. Not wanting to risk her life, she tried to cut the energy off so that it would disperse.

It took all of her skill to dodge the two lines of lightning. They were like two snakes trying to snap at her. When Yuri had finally stopped them both, the ground in front of her had been obliterated by them. “I really hope I'll learn a lesson before I kill myself.” She said as she stared at the two craters in front of her, in awe. “This spell is obviously a lot more powerful than the first.”

Just like earlier, this failure wasn’t going to stop her, but what would be different is how long it would take her to at least gain control of them both. “White dragon whose potential was sought, gather more of your kind and claim the world as your own!” She stated, but a moment later she found herself in a similar situation as in the first cast. She tried to control both at the same time, but then lost control of one. She tried, multiple times, to try to gain control of the two bolts.

“Okay, lets recap then.” She said before preparing to cast Hiryukurai. “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” Yuri felt the familiar bolt of lightning fly from her hand and she brought it under her control. She began to move it about without problem, thanks to her earlier practice. “Hm..” She was thinking how to apply what she knew of the first version of the spell to the second spell. She brought her left hand forward and casted the spell a second time. A similar streak of lightning shot out of her left hand. “Huh?” The second stream threw her off for a moment, but she was able to slowly gain control of it over a couple minutes.

“Why is this so much more easier than the other one?” She asked herself. “In either case, there are two of these streams.” She started moving around the two streams. As they moved about, she hoped to find something that would help her improve the stronger spell. She would move one stream, then the other then the first.. “Why aren’t I moving them both at the same time?” She asked before giving it a try. Quickly, she found that it was far more difficult to move them both simultaneously. “That still doesn’t explain why the other one is so much harder to control.” She knew that the other one was stronger and that might have to do with it, but she didn’t see that as plausible enough.

“The only difference is that the other one comes from the same hand… They stem from the same spot, so when I try to move one I might be moving the other.” She reasoned as she continued to move the two lines of lightning about. She thought back to how she was controlling these two; she was sending Reiatsu into them to force them in the direction she desires. If too much is forced in, then it might go up the wrong path and affect the other line. “If that happens, then I lose control of one.. and then when I’m worrying about that one, the other one goes wild.” Yuri moved both hands to her sides, dispersing the streams of lightning in the process.

“White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” Prepared this time, she tried to force the Reiatsu more precisely up the veins of lightning. It seemed like it was working, the trashing of the two began to slow down considerably. It looked like everything was going well before she lost control again. The lightning began to jump about, but Yuri knew what was happening this time. She tried placing a little more Reiatsu in one and less in the other. The balancing was difficult, but she could tell when she was doing well based on how little they moved. She made sure to keep a steady stream of energy into the veins so that they wouldn’t disperse. Just like with the first spell, she tried to get the two streams to move about. Unlike the first Kido, there were more situations to account for.

When she was satisfied with her control again, she recasted the spell, “White Dragon, Whose Path Aims for the North; Realize Your Potential and Destroy the World!” Upon the completion of the incantation, she felt for the flow of Reiatsu and responded in the way she had grown familiar to. She had the two lines of lightning under control and so she went for the attack. Promptly, she shot both forward towards the rock wall and they hit without problem. She continued to cast the spell and use it on the wall multiple times.

“This is looking really good,” Yuri told herself as she proceeded with attacking the wall. Once she was completely satisfied, she ran back over to her bag to look over the Kido book.

Day Two; Part Two; 1:00pm – Kido Training – Rikujōkōrō

"Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!" Yuri stated, as she pointed towards a nearby boulder. Her hand began to glow a dazzling yellow, but what was more interesting was what appeared in front of her. Distorted sections of light appeared in the air in front of her. Not only were they not over her target, the boulder, but there was only 3 of them and they were slowly flickering out of existence. Yuri tried swinging her arm multiple times, trying to get these sad images to move to her target, but they wouldn’t budge. “Come on, move!” She said, ignoring the fact that she did a poor job in forming the spell.

After a moment of no results, she decided to walk over to the lights. One looked like a shard of glass and floated to her left, but just a few feet ahead of her. The second was triangular and floated ahead of her. The last one was the closest to what she imagined they should look like, and it floated to her right and closer to her target. As intelligent a young woman she was, she decided she would touch one to see if she could. Her hand came to the one on the left and simply passed through; the light responded by dispersing into nothingness. “That’s not good.” She said as she walked over to the one on the right, the more complete one. “What about this..” She placed her hand on it and suddenly felt as if her hand was paralyzed.

To her left she noticed the middle light fade away, just as the first did. Unfortunately for her, the final light remained and bound her hand in place. “Hey!” She pulled as hard as she could for a couple minutes – at that point the light faded like the others and returned the feeling in her hand to her. “I don’t know why they turned out so wrong.” She remembered what occurred just a few minutes ago.

After using Soren Hiryukurai rather effectively, Yuri decided to attempt an advanced bakudo. After reading over the various bakudo descriptions, she settled on Bakudo 61 because she thought she had a grasp on how to use it effectively. She did some Reiatsu exercises, attempting to focus her Reiatsu at multiple spots on her body. Of course, being able to focus Reiatsu at points on her body wasn’t enough to give her experience in focusing Reiatsu at different points ahead of her body.

“I figured this would be like Soren Hiryukurai, it seemed similar..” Soren Hiryukurai caused her problems because she had to precisely release energy out a similar point into two flows of lightning. She reasoned that ability was the same, starting with Reiatsu at a single point, her hand, and separating it into multiple points. “I just need to focus more during the creation.” She said to herself, certain that she could learn the spell like she learned every one prior.

"Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!" She stated as she pointed her yellow-glowing hand forward. ‘Focus, focus’ she thought as she imagined the shapes depicted in the Kido book. At first, she imagined the points at which the beams of light would originate. Once she had a feeling for those points, she allowed her Reiatsu to form at those points and she molded it. ‘It’s like forming the wings with Tsubasa no Mitsukai’ she told herself as she sculpted the Reiatsu into the beams. The beams began to form, but Yuri arrived at a problem; one beam didn’t form and 2 were misshapen.

The beams that were created seemed to be positioned well, but the fore mentioned problems were rather major. One of the beams looked like it was left at the halfway point and another had cracks in it. Yuri tried to force the beams towards the boulder, and the completed ones successfully moved, but the unsuccessful ones did not. The ones that moved hit the boulder, but Sayurin was unsure whether they did their task. She walked over and tried to push the boulder, “It won’t even budge.” As she tried to move it, she looked to the beams of light that held it and saw that they discharged energy whenever she tried to move it. “It seems that these ones work – I just gotta get the other ones to form correctly.”

"Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!" She stated once more, as she casted the spell again. She tried, as hard as she could, to get the lights to form as she intended them to. In an instant, the lights appeared, but Yuri noticed something off still. “They all start to form at the same rate, but then some start to fall behind.” She looked at the beams of light, noticing that there were six of them, but two were only half complete. Just like before, she forced them to fly towards the boulder. They all flew towards the target, but the two unfinished ones only flew at it until they reached the spot where they would have stop had they been complete. The length of them, as such, meant that they would only float near the target.

“I’m certain that this is similar to Soren Hiryukurai, so the problem might be similar. With that spell, the problem was I wasn’t balancing the Reiatsu as the lightning was created. There were only two then and I was having problems, but this time there are six beams.” Yuri ran through the situation as logically as she could, to get an answer to her dilemma. “Then, the reason they are lagging behind is because I begin to focus on the others, but not them.” Sayurin began to visualize the creation of the six beams; she wanted to see if she could recall the time when the two broken beams began to be ignored. ‘I’ll focus on all six at one time, and trust that they will be created.' She thought as she went to cast the spell again.

That wasn’t the end to her failure; she had to try numerous times to actually bring herself to not hesitate during the creation of the beams. The problem was similar to the one that occurred in the previous training; Yuri would feel something off in the Reiatsu flow and try to respond, ruining the spell in the process. The only option was to try the spell again and again until she could ignore or react to that hesitation. That wasn’t enough though, once she got to that point, she had to continue practicing the spell until she felt that she could get the beams to appear without problem.

"Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!" She stated as she felt the Reiatsu flow to her hand. Her right hand began to glow with a bright yellow color and she pointed towards her next target, a nearby tree. Six beams of light quickly formed; each of the six was formed to look precisely like those shown in the Kido book. Immediately upon creation, they flew down towards the tree at an astounding speed. The tree was bound in place, but it was more interesting to note that various objects in the surrounding area had similar beams of light binding them. In order to get an idea as to how long the beams would last, Yuri decided that she would cast the spell on everything she could. The first few looked somewhat distorted, but as she went around her task, the beams became far more fine.

After this one try, Yuri walked over to the tree to examine the beams of light. “Hm.. they seemed to be formed alright.” She walked around the tree to see the results of her practice. “They all look exactly alike – the sizes don’t look too bad either.” She said this as she walked over to her bag and picked up the book that she sat on top of it. She looked down at the book and then at the beams of light that littered the place, binding every structure that could be seen. “Looks good.” She turned the page in the Kido book and began to read.

[kyouzou]

Day Two; Part Three; 4:00pm – Bankai Training – Reiatsu Training – Wind Control

“What time is it?” Sayurin heard her zanpaktou ask. Yuri looked up from the page she was reading, unsure of where the spirit was. She scanned the area around her for a moment, finally noticing something to her left. On one of the nearby rocks, that wasn’t affected by Sayurin’s recently learned bakudo, sat Senmidori Kazeakki, the spirit of Sayurin’s zanpaktou. Senmidori wasn’t fully materialized, just enough that Yuri could see her; Senmidori could be seen through and lacked a physical presence. “You slept in rather late.” Yuri pointed out to the spirit, who was currently rubbing sleep from her eyes. “I see.. I was really tired, sorry.” Senmidori said as she looked up to her master, noticing that the forest was lit by the late-evening sun. “Don’t worry about it, I learned a few things while you were asleep. Now that you’re awake, we can do what we planned.” Senmidori looked over the surrounding area, “Are you sure you want to do it here? We may be a far distance from Seireitei, but I’m sure they can track your Reiatsu to this point."

Yuri thought over Senmidori’s logic for a slight moment. “Where do you suggest?.. Is that place we fought at near here." Senmidori responded by looking over the surrounding area again. “I believe it’s over that way,” she said as she pointed to the east. “I see, then we’ll head over that way.” Sayurin began to focus Reiatsu into her back, before letting it burst out her back creating two beautiful, light green angel-like wings. She began to flap the wings hard, pushing herself off the ground rather quickly. When she felt she was high enough, she used her wings to force her forwards. At first she flew at a relatively slow pace, but she soon began to soar at astounding speeds. Yuri wanted to get to the location soon, before night covered Soul Society.

It only took her about 15 minutes, at her speed, to come to the wastelands that she had fought Senmidori at. She had chosen a good spot for the training and landed there. “This place looks perfect for it,” Yuri said as she examined the wasteland around her. It was a plateau that was rather high in elevation. The surface of the area was mostly flat and it gave a superb view of the rising moon. “Now then, Disappear in the Wind, Senmidori!” She stated as she unsheathed the dagger, at her thigh, and released it into its shikai form. Yuri took a moment to take in the sight of her shikai, before going onto the next step. “Bankai!”

A massive amount of energy exploded from Sayurin before powerful winds began to channel around her. In the moment in which these forces came into effect, Yuri’s outfit had changed. She now wore a tight, sleeve-less top with a blue, long-sleeve undershirt. She wore a two part skirt, with the overskirt green and the underskirt blue. Her dark blue hair was tied back into three tails and her face was covered in a mask. Finally, under the skirt were a pair of dark green shorts, and behind it was four katana.

“This is my second time in this form, and it still feels strange.” Yuri said as she looked over her bankai outfit. “You can worry about that later.” Senmidori said, breaking Yuri’s concentration on her own look. “Last time, you learned how to make wind fly from the katana, and how to use the stronger Kyakujutsu. This time the focus will be on controlling those winds." Yuri turned to see that the image of Senmidori had appeared again. “Sit down and relax.” Senmidori mentioned for her to sit next to her.

Yuri walked over, next to her zanpaktou spirit. She placed her hands under her and smoothed the skirt she was wearing before sitting down on her knees. Senmidori’s image now sat to her right. “Okay, first you should do some Reiatsu exercises.” The teal-haired woman suggested. “Okay.” Yuri closed her eyes and began feel for the flow over her Reiatsu. Unlike in past exercises where she would focus Reiatsu to a spot, or multiple spots on her body, she tried to focus Reiatsu in multiple spots around her. She had chosen to do this because she felt that it was becoming an important task in using the advanced Kido she had been learning. “Huh? Didn’t expect you to do that, you’re already a step ahead!” Senmidori pointed out.

“A step ahead?” Yuri opened her eyes to see what she was referring to. When she did, she saw that there were rather small, green tornadoes of wind floating at three points around her. They were about two to three inches tall and danced about at their location. “Our bankai looks kinda small, but that’s because the wind around you is filled with your Reiatsu. While you’re in this form, it probably would be easier to use abilities that require that you form Reiatsu like this. But it’s only this easy for a couple feet!” Senmidori began to explain the whole wind manipulation ability to Yuri.

“Only a couple feet?” Yuri asked, confused at the small distance. “Well, your Reiatsu does cover the wind at a much larger distance and you can even force it to cover a large area, but only the wind within two feet of your body will be this easy to control. The rest, you will need to practice to control. Just continue making those small whirlwinds – if you haven’t noticed, the wind you control turns greenish in tint with your Reiatsu.” With those words in mind, Yuri began to focus on the Reiatsu directly around her body. She didn’t close her eyes this time because she wanted to see that which she created. At first she made multiple whirlwinds – one, then three, then five, seven, 9, 12. She tried stretching the size of the whirlwinds and moving them about. Just like Senmidori said, the wind within about two feet of her body was very easy to control. Though, at one point she tried to force one of the small tornadoes to go further and found that something felt weird. She wasn’t exactly sure what it was, but she figured it was her Reiatsu latching onto the Reiatsu of hers that floated freely in the nearby wind.

As she was playing with the nearby wind, Yuri decided to try something. Instead of focusing on Reiatsu at a spot or in an area, she tried to focus on all the Reiatsu in the wind that surrounded her body. She tried to turn it and it turned, slowly revolving around her. Slowly, she began to speed up the winds that surrounded her. “That’s looking good! Now try to push outwards!” Senmidori said happily, watching her master’s work. Yuri focused on expanding the wind that moved around her. She noticed two things as she pushed outwards; first, that the wind was beginning to feel more awkward to expand because the Reiatsu she was controlling was capturing the Reiatsu of hers in the air, and also she realized that the wind began to spin significantly slower each time she pushed it forward and she was losing control of it.

“Huh?” As Yuri tried to break the 15 feet mark, she found that the wind was far, far harder to rotate around her. “Come on!” She tried to keep the wind spinning, but found that it was slowing down more than it was speeding up. Eventually the wind came to a complete halt; the green tint that signified that the wind was being controlled began to fade away. “What the hell”!” Yuri yelled. “This is why your practicing this – like I said, it gets harder the further away the wind is. You just need to get use to pushing it out further."

Senmidori walked a distance of about 30 feet ahead of Sayurin. She pointed her right palm towards a rock on the ground and it began to float up and then down at a location directly in front of Yuri. “Okay! Make this rock move!” Senmidori said as she ran back to Yuri. ‘Make it move?’ Yuri focused the flow of her Reiatsu in the wind to move towards the rock. At first the wind move rather quickly towards the rock, but the closer it got, the slower the wind got. As Yuri’s wind was nearing about 20 feet, she lost concentration and the wind immediately ceased. “You gotta keep focus! The wind is a part of you right now – Treat it as such!” Yuri thought about that, ‘It’s a part of me?’ She brought her hand up and pointed it towards the rock. She moved her hand as if she was going to grab the rock, and found the wind moving towards the rock. “Why’s the wind moving quicker now?” Yuri asked, noticing the difference.

“The wind is a part of you, so when you direct it with your own body you can control it more easily.” Senmidori confirmed. "You could’ve said that in the first place!” Yuri then forced her hand forward and motioned as if to grab the rock. At the same time, she imagined the wind following the action of her hand. The winds shot forward towards the rock without slowing down, smacking into the rock and sending it flying a distance. “Yuri, don’t stop! Keep hitting it!” Senmidori quickly said. ‘Keep hitting it?’ Thinking over the command, Yuri motioned with her hands as if to hit the rock again, at its further distance. She succeeded in hitting the rock into the air, but then went on to hit again while it was airborne.

That was the exercise that she would work on for a couple hours, pushing around the rock without pulling the wind back. After about two hours of practicing with one rock, she introduced another and used her other hand to control. Over the course of time, she found that it was a lot easier to control with her hands. She also noticed that her practice was doing well to improve her control. Yuri continued on like this for about four hours before Senmidori gave her a new instruction, “Now instead of trying to force your Reiatsu outward, bring the Reiatsu, currently floating around in the air, inward.” Senmidori commanded. “Inward? But what’s that going to do?.. Okay” Yuri prepared to do what she was asked.

She focused on the flow of her Reiatsu. Knowing that the Reiatsu in the air was hers, she tried to feel for a path between the small particles. She moved about a path, trying to feel for a path that reached out a far distance. After a couple failed attempts, she found a path leads as far as forty feet away. “Now for the hard part; grab the rest around you.” Senmidori said. Yuri brought both hands to point at the line of Reiatsu she had formed. She moved her hands quickly to her sides, feelings the Reiatsu she was in the control of cover the area that extended from the angle made by her two arms. She continued to move her arms back until they met at her back. Now with all the Reiatsu particles within forty feet chained, she prepared to pull it back.

Yuri started with her eyes closed, and as she brought the Reiatsu towards her, she brought her hands together in front of her. Light caught her one eye and she was forced to open it to find where the light was coming from. “What’s going on!?” She exclaimed. In front of her, small light particles were jumping around in the air. “Keep going, you’ll see in a moment.” Was the only thing Senmidori said in response. Following what she said, Yuri continued to pull the Reiatsu particles closer to her, and the scene only got stranger. The lights stopped bouncing around, but when she looked down at herself, her body seemed to be vanishing. The more she pulled the particles in, the more transparent she became until she felt she had all the particles well-compressed. At that point she was completely unable to see any part of her.

“Meet your new Shinobi-iri!” Senmidori told her. “Shinobi-iri? But I can’t even see myself!” She said as she tried to find some sign of where her body might be. When she went to place her hands together, she found that she felt nothing covering them, only air. She tried to grab a lining of some sort, but found that there was no. Really, all she could find was air. “Didn’t you think it was strange that you had stray Reiatsu particles flying about in the air? Even if you can control wind, it would make more sense to have start from your body and have you grab the air with your Reiatsu. This is the effect of Choho.” Senmidori began to explain.

“Choho?” Yuri asked, unsure of what Senmidori was getting at. “These Reiatsu particles that stay in the air, while you are in Bankai, are special. They are specially enhanced to allow the reflecting of light, no different than Kyokko or Shinobi-iri. Normally they are too small to be noticeable, but once you collect them into groups, the effect becomes obvious. Everything inside the area gains an effect similar to Kyokko and Shinobi-iri. It all becomes invisible, even to everything else inside the area.” Senmidori explained the process to Yuri. “But what good is it if I cannot see them.” Yuri asked. “Well, they’re standing inside your Reiatsu. In time you will be sensitive enough to know when others are moving around, but for now this is all you have to work with.” Senmidori explained again. “I see..” Yuri didn’t question it much longer. “Okay, now push the particles back and try this again!” Senmidori instructed of her master. Yuri practiced moving the special Reiatsu particles inward and outward for another 4 hours, ending her training around 12am.

Yuri made her way back to the Seireitei the next morning. After her training the previous two days, she planned to use her last day off to rest. Instead she ended up having to do a report about the failed arrancar two days back ((Refer back to Deforestation)).