Fight!

'Cut throught it, Valentine!' You raise your sword, and another command rings out.

"Rend!" The wave of energy is crimson, so very unlike your nearly white spirital energy. It meets his Getsuga Tenshō with a deafening boom that silences the crowd and throws a obscuring cloud of smoke up.

"Frost! Are you ok?"

"Fine, Captain Kurosaki!" The smoke eventually clears, his sword is resting along his shoulder blades and you're still prepared to fight.

"That's it for todays training." To say you are confused would have been an understatement.

"B-But--"

"You've gotten closer to your sword in one training session then most do...train with it, and hope to achieve Bankai one day."

"What about subduing my Hollow?"

"At a later date. First you should trust your sword more before you try anything--"

"Then I'll start my Bankai training the way YOU did!" He chuckled and tapped his sword on his shoulder. "What?"

"Nothing...it's been a while since I've seen determination like that, Frost. Alright, if you want to start your training we'll continue late into the night...but I'm not going to go easy on you."

"You were going easy on me?" Your jaw almost touches the floor as he smiles and holds the blade out. Once again his spirital-pressure almost forces you to your knees as his energy sky-rockets.

"Bankai..." You're frozen in place...a combination of fear and pure awe. When Captain Kurosaki finally appears he's no longer clothed in a normal Shihakusho. He wears a black duster, ragged and torn at the ends. His sword is smaller and pitch black in color. It's almost the save size as a Katana now...why trade such a large sword for this?

'Move!' You don't have time to think before your legs move for you. Rolling away from the spot, it explodes in a pile of rubble...that could've been YOU. Finally your eye's register the Captains standing among the rubble. If not for Grimm interfering when he did...you'd have been dead without a doubt.

"You're relying on your Zanpakutō now...no longer are you fighting alone."

"I won't lose, Captain! It's two against one!" A slight smirk appears on his face...and he disappears. He taps the back of his blade against the hollow of your neck.

"How naive. A Shinigami is never alone...it's never a battle of two against one, when fighting a Captain."

"I'm not just fighting you...I'm fighting your sword." You wheel around and swing your sword. He catches it with his bare hand again. You decide that weilding it one handed won't cut it anymore and grip the hilt with both hands. Straining you pull the blade free...or maybe he let you.

"You are correct."

'You'll never cut him like this, Valentine.' Gritting your teeth you raise your blade and shout 'rend' sending a wave of compressed spirit-energy at him. He bats it away with his forearm, rather lazily you might add. It doesn't even mark his coat...he seems invincible now! 'I said you'll never cut him, Moron! Listen to me!'

You give pause as Grimm's thoughts are filtered into your head. 'We're never gonna mark him, let alone beat him, he's too strong. Our only choice is to try to stay alive until he's let his guard down...' He disappears from your view once more. You move, or try to at least dodge. The path you cut running away isn't anything special.

It's more like you're simply trying to stay alive. He's on your heels the entire time, you know you're not faster, but he's holding back, again. He's forcing you on the defence and you've got no way to come back, only try to survive until he's winded...hopefully.

Your temper flares once more, you're tired of running. Almost growling you whirl around and swing, he leaned back, surprise registering in his eye's for a brief moment before he ducks in under your blade. In your haste you never prepared for this. His blade lays open your side.

A flash step puts distance between you two as you take a knee. The bleeding isn't as bad as you though. 'I'll steam the flow as best I can, but if you're gonna take the fight to him, you need to be quicker!'

"So, you've decided to fight now." Your spirital energy rises again, as Grimm supplies you with all he's got.

'One strike...try to end it with a single strike, Valentine...' You stand and stare at the Captain.

"I've only got one strike let in me, Captain...I'm gonna beat you!" You rush forward, probably moving faster then you've ever moved with a flash-step before. You swing, adding the strength of both hands this time as your blades meet...