(Old note) A/N: I've tried my darnedest to make the fight feel intense and exciting. As I've said many times before, the music I pick is only to help provide the feel of the moment. I do not own any of the music, all rights go to their original artists.

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Somewhere in the Seireitei, Morgus was on his way to Captain Aizen's office. He didn't want Kaiorin finding out that he was the one delivering her mail, especially since she suspected him of being a delivery boy and knew she'd never let that die for a while; he'd be her own personal laughing stock for the month.

The Raven-haired man with brown tips sighed from mental exhaustion, at his own thoughts. She's the last person I'd want to find out, about me being the delivery boy... he noted in his mind with another sigh. Looking up at the door that he now stood in front of, he grew nervous from not wanting to get in trouble with Aizen. He knocked on the door before hearing the Captain himself, acknowledge his presence.

"Yes?" Said the Captain's disembodied tone.

"I have a report for you, sir..." Morgus replied from the other side of the door, closed his eyes, and took out a letter from his robes. Opening the door, he looked up to meet Aizen's gaze.

"Do come in," That was all he said, the Captain held a passive smile while gesturing for Morgus to step in, which he did. Aizen shut the door then made his way over to his seat and wrote on paperwork, as the man in front of his desk laid the letter in an open spot before bowing.

"Sir... The others are growing impatient... If we continue to wait it out, they'll eventually grow the nerve to come here out of frustration..." Setsuen mentioned, only to be given a glance by the Captain. Aizen understood what he meant and chuckled to himself before closing his brown eyes in thought.

"No need to worry, they won't come here... It won't be long, I assure you," he replied and took the letter that sat before him, opened it, and read through it quickly. Smirking at the contents of the paper, he closed his eyes in thought. The Captain took out a clean paper and began to write a reply, once he was done he handed it to Morgus.

The said man bowed and started towards the exit until a thought occurred to him. He turned and faced Aizen, with a nearly stoic expression. "Sir... What about Kaiorin's progression...? I thought-" he got cut off before even finishing his sentence when Aizen rose his hand.

"Don't worry, Setsuen... She'll make it before the deadline. Her habit and hobby for fighting will most likely increase her growth," the Captain reassured, before seeing Morgus nod and leave his office. Aizen continued on with the paperwork that got stacked on his desk until another knock occurred on his door. "Yes?" he asked and kept up with his facade. In reply, he heard a soft voice from the other side and smirked at knowing who it was... Momo.

~~~Elsewhere~~~

In Kaiorin's apartment, her arms were folded on the surface of the desk with her head laid down. She was snoring awfully loud with her mouth open and a drool streamed down the corner. It was very surprising, that a fly didn't enter her gaping hole yet.

Showing Kai in view, a finger inched its way from the sideline and poked her shoulder only to make the goth twitch. Showing Ikkaku now, he had a bored look on his face but tried to stifle laughter from within. "OI! KOUMETSU! C'mon, it's two in the afternoon and I've been lookin' all over for ya!" he shouted with demand and a big grin stretched from cheek to cheek as he stood there staring at her still, slumbering form.

With his outburst, Kai made an unattractive snort and twitched once more before raising her head. She groggily shifted her head to look up at Ikkaku only to meet his gaze with her slits. He grinned even bigger, then grasped her collar and hauled her out of her chair, leaving her limp on the ground. "You're not getting outta this Kai, just because you woke up! Now, let's get to it!" the baldy demanded while dragging a limp and motionless Kai across the floor, as well as hearing small grumbles underneath her breath.

After about ten minutes of dragging the goth around across the paths, she finally got on her feet and followed him the rest of the way to the training grounds. The woman yawned with a hand an inch away from her mouth and smacked her lips twice. Scratching her ass like a man, Ikkaku looked over at her and quirked a curious brow.

"The hell's up with you?" he asked, noticing her scratch her hind end like a dude and seeing a bored look on her face.

"What'd ya think? I just woke up from a nap and took me about ten minutes, to get back to my senses..." she replied as she playfully punched Madarame's shoulder.

Finally reaching the training grounds after a while walk, both she and Madarame stood a few distances away whilst doing stretches. A bit of a warm-up was needed so they could fight, Ikkaku took out his blade and held onto his sheathe while growing that wicked smirk of his. Kai grinned her insane big smile and narrowed her eyes.

She leaned over an inch and pounded a fist into her other palm, emitting a sick THACK sound before cracking her knuckles. "Let's go..." Kai's voice was dangerously low, showing her taking out her Zanpakuto daggers and banging the ends of the hilts together. The contact of both ends made a metallic resonance and held her daggers in front of her, keeping her head at the same eye level as her blades.

With one foot forward and the other one back, she rose her head only to let her eyes and fierce grin show just above her knuckles.

They both ran at each other at a full sprint, Kaiorin's literal fire reiatsu rose and engulfed her whole body in non-burning flames. She jumped high into the air and caught Ikkaku off guard for just a second, making his gaze widen a tad.

"SHAAA!" As Kai descended with a loud cry, she prepared a stomp with one of her feet though, Madarame blocked it with his sheathe and aimed to slice at her leg. While still on his sheathe, Kai rose her other foot and kicked him in the jaw, sending him a few inches in the air. Within a second, as he was in slow motion, she kneed him in the gut using the leg that used to be on his sheath. He stumbled forward from contact then grabbed her leg and flung her off a bit in the distance, in a half spin.

Doing countless rolls across the ground with her ponytail gracefully following suit, she managed to do a small backflip with her form in a ball. She caught her footing and skidded backward from the force only to burst out into a full run almost immediately after. She felt herself feeling giggly from the adrenaline, her eyes widened and her grin grew more wicked than before.

Ikkaku had nearly the same smile but with squinted eyes and prepared himself for what would come next. She dashed after him with both her arms going back and forth harshly and once close enough Ikkaku swung his blade, just to make contact with Kai's daggers. She rose both of her arms in front of her face and aligned her blades just right, to block his sword. He aimed his sheathe for her head to use as a decoy so he could make an opening, unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side when she grabbed the sheathe with her own teeth by turning her head just right.

He kept trying to jerk it out of her clamped chompers until she jumped back. He did the same and they both went at each other again. After a few attacks, he swung his sheathe at her only to be blocked by one of her daggers. He aimed his blade for her next, sadly getting blocked by her other dagger. Now they stood there, trying to overwhelm the other with force, as a metallic grinding sound emitted from their connected blades. He took his sheathe back and spontaneously swung again, right after.

Instead of using her free dagger to collide with his incoming attack, she opened her fingers and grabbed a hold of his sheathe. She smirked real big as they both glared deeply into each other's gaze, watching to see who'd make the next move. In mid of her stare down, she heard a strange whisper in her head, it shocked and confused her to no end considering... No one was around to whisper into her ear...and Ikkaku wasn't whispering. Deciding to ignore it, she kicked at Madarame's mid-section after building up enough force in her leg.

Ikkaku flew across the surface, scraping off of it every now and then. He managed to get up on his feet and skid to a halt, but when he looked up...Kai was stunned. Ikkaku grew a bit concerned and inched closer, he got up in her face and looked into her blazing slits. Her eyes seemed to be hazed over, so thus, he stood there and rose a brow with a quick snap of his fingers before her face.

"Hey, what's up? Why'd you stop?" he asked yet, no response was given. He looked around and noticed almost all the Captains were watching the fight, even the Head Captain who was personally invited to come and watch.

"Hey, Captain! I think something's wrong with her! She won't snap out of it!" Kenpachi in the distance just smirked at him. While everyone else either stood or sat in the grass with serious or amused faces.

"It appears she's in some sort of trance right now, give her a moment," the old man suggested as if he knew what was going on. I had a feeling, it wouldn't take long... With her rapid growth... I wouldn't be surprised right now if she heard her Zanpakuto talking to her... he mentioned in his mind. Ikkaku glanced back over at Koumetsu with his head, then nodded. He readied himself as he had before, but held a serious gaze.

~~~Kai's mind~~~

"Do you want power...? Is your heart truly set on fighting ONLY your Captain?" A woman's disembodied, strong, deep, and mature voice echoed through the darkness in her mind. Kai's eyes were wide while her lips were closed, she couldn't see anything but darkness.

"Where the hell am I?! Why is it so damned dark in here?!" she exclaimed in question with an annoyed and risen tone. The mysterious woman's voice sighed and replied back.

"This is your inner world... It's so dark because you have yet, to light it up! Not even my flames can brighten up this darkness... Only yours can," With that, Kai grinned real big with squinted eyes then rose her blazing reiatsu. Her flames lit up the whole area, it looked like a volcano erupted all over the ground and left molten lava everywhere. Nonetheless, she looked around but didn't see anything, but...when she looked up she saw a large dragon.

Its body was made of fire, its eyes were solid red but had a yellow hue in the center making it look like a fiery red amber. Its head had a half-boned mask that covered its muzzle and the top of its head, as well as two long, straight-boned horns that pointed diagonally. It seemed quite similar to a pterodactyl but mixed with a dragon's body. Its incredibly long tail was full of blaze and heat waves, the same could be said with its beautiful fiery wings. From the boned mask, a prehistoric spine could be seen going down its head then to its neck, all the way down its back, and tail. Through the cracks of its mask, flames were reaching out through them and lighting them up.

Kai was in awe at the sight, nothing but beauty was written all over the blazing dragon. The creature was in the air flapping its majestic wings and soon landed softly, looking straight into the goth's slits.

"I will ask you this one more time... Do you want power? Is your heart truly set, on fighting your Captain and no one else?" the dragon, who was identified as a female, asked in her strong, deep, and mature tone. Kai snapped out of her daze and grinned with narrowed eyes.

"No... I will fight my Captain, any time I damn well-please! I'll get my power as I grow, so the only thing I want..."Kai paused for a dramatic effect and kept her grin in place, then lowered her face to show fierceness. "Is to fight and feel the heat of the battle!" a strong voice came from her lips once she answered in a risen tone.

The dragon just stared at her, as if making a decision, stood, and sprawled out her wings in a gesture that only Kai could understand. "I understand, then... Repeat after me...and do EXACTLY as I say...! My name, is-" the blazing beauty replied as if knowing exactly how Kai was feeling during the moment.

~~~Out side of her mind~~~

All the Captains were chatting amongst themselves while only the Head Captain remained focused on Kai. Suddenly, a strange new feeling in the air made all the Captains behind the old man, grow silent and gaze upon the goth. The old man narrowed his eyes while Ikkaku...who was still staring at the woman... Was taken aback a bit, by the suddenly increased reiatsu.

Where's this new strength coming from? Was it something I said or did? his monologue echoed in question with a hint of shock lacing his voice.

https://youtu.be/A4md8w0sFug

(It's her shikai theme! :D)

Out of nowhere, Kai's reiatsu fumed up higher and was far stronger than before. Her grin grew larger before she clung the ends of her daggers together, stood in the same pose as before, then glared intensely at Ikkaku with dangerously slanted eyes.

"BEAT'EM TO A PULP, HONOU RYU!" With that, a massive sphere of fire spiraled all around her frame and grew bigger. The sound of whipping flames occurred in the air as soon as the sphere dispersed, soon fading away.

All the Captains behind the old man acted as if they'd never seen a fist shikai before, cause that's what was on Kai's hands. Black leather fingerless gloves with molten spikes on her knuckles and heat waves danced around them. Kai gradually rose her head above her fists, which were in the same position as she had them in before.

Ikkaku was wide-eyed at the sight until he got more caught off guard when the goth unexpectedly socked him in the face and sent him soaring across the land. He caught his footing easily and used his shikai, since she somehow gained hers. "GROW, HOZUKIMARU!" he yelled and was able to block Kai's next attack within a second after he had released his shikai.

The punk-goth jumped into the air and performed multiple backward rolls. Stopping herself in mid-air, she looked down at the baldy with an insane look to her then rose her fists as if getting ready to punch. Now repeat after me...and shoot! The dragon's voice was heard in her head, teaching Kai as she spared.

(Here's her picture! I decided to draw her with her shikai for this chapter and wanted to try a bit of a manga-thing xD! I know you read from right to left but I completely forgot that when I was making the picture. XD) 

"TANKI-SHAAAAAAA!" she yelled during her fall. Her voice was so loud and strong, that it shocked Madarame. In the sky, Kai rapidly punched the space before her and spat out countless fireballs from her fists.

Ikkaku jumped all over the training grounds dodging them, kept his eyes on the descending goth as she fell from the sky shooting out flames, and heard her laughing like a maniac. Soon, she readied her fist and aimed for the man.

Madarame got out of her way in time and watched her earth-crushing punch make an impact. It crumbled the ground a bit and was larger than when she had done it before, in other fights.

He shot out his shikai towards her in the form of a spear chuck, stabbing her in the shoulder. Seeing how close they were, Kai's crazy, muffled chuckles were heard behind closed teeth. She rose her free fist and did an uppercut, sending him into the air.

She jumped up after him only to get wrapped up by Hozukimaru's link and saw the baldy come falling down after her. He punched her hard in the face, made her crash into the ground below, and caused those loosened earthy chunks from before to fly in the air from her rough landing.

After he landed on his feet, he saw her get up with insanity on her face. Her slits were thinner and smaller, while her grin widened. (If that's even possible at this point...) From the sidelines, everyone who watched was a bit amazed. Though, the Head Captain grew serious at noticing that she was losing control of herself and he knew Ikkaku saw it too.

Ikkaku saw the craze, the excitement in her blazing eyes, and knew she wasn't going to stop so he did the only thing he could do. He flash-stepped, then reappeared behind her and knocked her out with a karate chop on the back of her neck only to fail in the process.

Kai turned her head, her expression unchanging, and bit into his hand that moved towards her. He went to knock her out using his shikai but she caught it with her hand, knowing he wasn't going to get anywhere with knocking her out he decided on plan B... He kicked up his foot and hit her square in the jaw, making her fly incredibly high in the air and fall onto the surface... This time, she was out cold... (Song ends here! \o/)

Ikkaku stood there with a narrowed gaze and showed that he was a bit startled by the insanity she had when he looked into her eyes. Her shikai had already reverted to their dagger form when he walked cautiously toward her. He squatted down and poked her...nothing. He did it again... Nothin' doin'. "Looks like I managed... Damn, what the hell is she...? Captain told Yumichika and me to stay close to Kai, to make sure nothing happens to her... But he never told us why," he calmly stated, feeling rather relieved that she was unconscious. The last thing I wanna do is hurt her to the point where... It'd keep her in squad four barracks, for a long time. he muttered in his mind. Upon feeling someone's presence, he glanced over his shoulder. Seeing Yumichika and Rangiku both standing behind him with concerned looks on their faces.

"Ikkaku... Why did you hold back? You should have fought her with equal power, you and I both know that you're still stronger than her by far. So, why didn't you up your game a bit more?" Yumi questioned as he gazed at Kai's unconscious form.

"Even I would like to know that.~" Rangiku mentioned with worry. Ikkaku sighed and stood, then faced the two.

"If I had kept going on in that fight, it would've risked her sense of reasoning. The look in her eyes was that of someone who was overwhelmed with power and couldn't control it. She would've really gone crazy and out for blood if I hadn't acted," his reply made the two others grow even more worried than before, with a hint of fear.

"Exactly..." the head Captain agreed as he made his way over, the other captains all appeared around the old man and kept their strict gaze on her frame. "Take her to squad four immediately... From here on, she is not allowed to use her shikai until she's able to control the power it provides. Me, training her, should help her learn to control herself in the future when she uses her shikai again. When a fight issues between her and her sparring partner, you must not allow her to use her initial release," the old man felt very strongly about this. After he looked at all the Captains, they nodded and left the training grounds. Leaving Captain Unohana, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Rangiku, Captain Zaraki, and the old man.

Ikkaku was about to pick her up when his Captain came into view and took her from him. He carried her bridal style and turned to face the direction, that the fourth squad was in.

"Captain, you don't have to do it. Let me take-" Ikkaku was cut off by his Captain's harsh voice.

"I'll take her there, you never know when she'll wake up," After a long pause, he rolled his gaze down to see her face. For some strange reason, he couldn't stop staring at her, it was almost like he was slightly dazed. "Tch-... She may be crazy... But that's the best part about her," he continued onwards, leaving a shocked Ikkaku and Yumi behind.

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A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter!~ Don't forget to leave a comment, I'm always happy to hear from my readers! \o/