at the 5th squad Training ground

Arakasi stood at the end of the training ground watching some of th emembers praticing their kidou standing there he was thinking of the changes the 5th squad had undergone since he took over they where now almost completly a kidou based squad much like the 11th was swordsmen. It had caused some rucus but when he had pointed out the advantages of the whole idea it had been accepted fast allthough some of the 11th squad members still thought kidou was a weak way to fight, one of the squad members slipped as he shoot a nr 33 kidou so it headed straight for Arakasi with what looked like a single strike of his sword the kidou simply dissipeard and emberessed the squad member got up and got back to pratice. And arkasi returned to his thoughts

Mizu masuta (squad 10 captain) wandering around stumbles accross the barracks of squad 5. Mizu walks into the training hall for the squad and sighs. He is aware that the squad specialises in kido and he is absoutly useless at it. Looking for the captain he comes across him in the training grounds, looking for him to assist in kido training he stands and stares at the captain as he dispurces some kido with ease.

Lost for words Mizu standing in the entrance the stands and stares at what he is doing for a while watching as the kido is fired off in all directions.

"good evning captain mizu what brings you here" smiling arakasi stands up and turns to look at the newly arrived captain but before going to him he calls for one of the supervisors that comes running "put up some barriers around the training area itself so no one get hurt from a miss directed kidou," the man looked a little uncomforteble as he replied "but sir that would require that we took several of the high ranked shinigami away from their duty" Arakasi thinked for a while "hm put some of the one training defensive kidou to cast them you can tell them its a part of their training to see how long they are able to keep it up they get some pratice and we get a save training enviorment so we all win on it" the man nodded then run off to do as Arakasi had said. Arakasi himself continued to walk towards the captain stopping just a few meters from him. waiting for a reply to his earlier question

Mizu looks as the subordinate dashes off to carry out his captains orders. "my my they are a lively bunch arnt they" comments Mizu. He looks at Arakasi with an eyebrow raised, then continuing on "well i wa walking about thinking of kido training" he says while wiggling his bare toes against the ground.

Holding his head and laughing he says "well you see im useless at kido... apart from the one the squad 3 captain showed me... and i was thinking about it and ended up here"

Mizu's eyes dart about the area taking in all of what was going on

"well you see im useless at kido... apart from the one the squad 3 captain showed me... and i was thinking about it and ended up here"
oh so he wanted to learn kidou well then he had come to the right place

"hm well see if i cant teach u a few things then i think we should mainly focus on kidou that can back up your fighting style and zanpakotu skills so how about a spar so i see how you usually fight"

Ito enters the squad's training grounds yawning a bit loudly on his shoulder was a almost perfect replica of his original Shikai's form though clearly broken in half. In a speech Mizu would probably never think to hear Ito shifts his manners to a more aristocratic manner. "Good day to you both, Still trying to get your kido up to grade Mizu?"Ito say his voice using rather ancient Japanese that was never used on earth but still used by shinigami nobles usually. "Sorry if I intrude upon any plans but I have a favor to ask of you Fujinsen-Taicho it can wait until your done of course but I would like you to try and repair this broken blade,I would give it to Squad 12's captain, however I do not wish to use something that might explode or poison me,"Ito says keeping the well mannered speech flowing almost naturally from his mouth.

"Masuta-Taicho, if you will before you start fighting I wish to show you something no one has seen since I under went my training, You and Fujinsen-Taicho will be the first to see it,"Masahi says calmly sheathing the broken blade and resting it against a wall before pulling his haori back and unsheathing a odd weapon that was easily as tall as he was and shaped like a massive crow feather. "Apparently my original bankai and shikai where simply half way transformation, As after I under went my most recent training the weapon changed into this while in shikai, its bankai creates a disturbingly similar suit of armor like what I wore as a human during large scale wars,"Ito says his voice remaining calm and proper though a bit confused as Ito didn't know that much about Zanpakutou's beyond what his told him usually.

Mizu putting his hand on his zanpaktuo gets ready to draw it, however Ito entered, listining to him and looking at the feathery blade he gets excited "oh now i must have a go at that" he grins and smiles at Ito. "And your wise not letting my mother near it... she has a habbit of blowing things up, and yea not intentional kido training just followed my feet here" he then laughs at him and pulls out his zanpakuto.

Turning back to Fujinsen he says "well i supose if you need to see my abilities the best way would be with my shikai" Smiling all the while he begins spining his zanpakuto in his hand "drench Umi Kurasshu" spining the zanpaktou in his hand it glows and extends to form a trident, water flows from the spiral shape at the bottom and from the trident end, the water flowing and forming a circle around him hovering just above his ankles as this happens lightning forms and circles the water that was released as well as either end of the trident.

"Ok shall we begin" he grins as he holds out his trident "then next stop that shiny new blade of Ito's" thinking to himself that if Miyu appears then the fun will all be over as she dosnt like him sparing with the other captains. Clutching the trident he redies himself to use shunpo

Arakasi had already sensed ito comming and turned around smiling "aha good day ito taicho" he noticed the broken blade almost imidialty and smiled that would be rather easy to fix. a more intressting thing was that he revealed his true zanpakotu and in a new form non or less.

ah i see your zanpakotu seems like a physical combat type. So id say it takes that form to improve your combat abilities maybe it got the image from your head and thats why it specificlly choosed that armor form.. It wouldent suprise me if it increased all of your physical attributes in that form am i right ?. And this wont take to long i think so you can wait here if you like ito taicho "

The students had left the training ground when they realized it was gonna be a spare between the two captains and did now hide behind the walls observing.

he then turned to face mizu "alright ill release mine to then" he touched the brocsh and said softly "come out shirohane" suddenly arakasi was surrounded by white feathers he makes an opening so mizu can see his face "ready when you are mizu taicho"

Mizu raises his eyebrow at the zanpakuto's release and thinks to himself 'is this annother wind type zanpakuto... only one way to find out his fighting style and abilities and thats to test the waters.' He raises his head and sticks one end of the trident into the ground "please just Mizu... formalaties make me cringe" he laughs a little and then glares through the feathers

As he glares he mumbles "Tidal crash" on this command a massive amount of water comes from the ground spining rapidly around Arakasi, however Mizu was simply using this as a destraction for the moment as he begins to shunpo all around the wall of water slashing the trident through the air. "Dance of blades" he says releasing dozens of blades of lightning into the swirling watercrashing right through it towards Arakasi

the feathers formed a wall against the water giving arakasi enough time to raise both his hands in a swinging motion using the spell Hakkesho kiritateru what was scary was that he did it without incantation or even saying its name. two vide crecents cut through the water as the feathers opened to let them through heading straight towards mizu of course he had held back so they wouldent cause lethal wounds upon impact. quickly he noticed the lightning thinking to himself "oh a double elemental attack intressting if this is his fighting style binding kidou would be very suiting for him. he imidiatly casted Sōkatsui Yari a blue lance shoot towards the lightning to cut through it despite the spell being slow the raw force made it a excellent counter against mizus attack. after this he prepared to cast Sōkatsui Hato creating five doves out of the sokatsui spell channeling them through five feathers that floated above the water wave letting them aim for mizu himself to surround him in explosions

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One of the kido spells hits Mizu durring his shunpoing around caising him to be put off balance. Being forced to slam into the wall by the kido hurting his arm slightly. Using the wall to gain the momentum he needed he places both feet on the wall forcing himself to be propelled forwards into his own water. As he forces himself off the wall the section is destroyed with the force and being propelled at tremendous speed he grins and says "Thunder" the trident sparks rapidly and a masive amount of electricity is released aimed directly into the water and filling the entire area with lightning.

Mizu gets struck by the lightning quite alot but he dosnt even flinch at this as it has no effect on him Mizu thinks to himself 'well this amount of lightning will surely show me his abilities and at least some of it may strike him.' Clutching the trident tight as he is propeled forward he points it directly at the water aiming for the center where Arakasi should be. Breaking through his own water he is aims to continue on through

Arakasi pulled out a little box opening it letting it draw in the electricity allthough some of it still hit him sending jolts down his arm. intressting it was more power than expected in that attack seems like he is getting serious. When only one of his doves hit mizu he made them fly straight into the water and explode instead letting some of the feathers shape into a clone of him he leaped up into the air where he prepared for his next attack after using Sōkatsui Oō wraping it around his body and staff he dived down straight to where mizu where. the heat emited from his Sōkatsui Oō would be strong enough to vaporize the water. he also created five new Sōkatsui Hato that he had hovering around him for the time being observing mizus next move when if he realized that the arakasi that was hiding behind the feathers was a fake.

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Mizu glares at the water as it evaporated. His eye twitches as it does making him growl slightly. Noticing Arakasi standing before him he comes to a complete halt. Thinking to himself 'no captain would leave himself wide open like that' pointing the trident at the 'fake' Arakasi he mutters "Oceans Blast" Sending the sphere of water at the fake dispurcing it.

"Hmmmmph... well you want to analise my power" he says says not looking around him but directing what he said anywere "then there is no point in just shikai... here is some more power... but i warn you the appearance is rather unusual"

Holding out the trident he grins and laughs "BANKAI!" he roars with enough power being released to blow away the kido held above and blow away the debris of the wall, and make Ito more intrested in having annother spar as he was releasing more reiatsu than usual.

The trident glows and beging to deform and twist around Mizu's body forming metalic armour around his chest, arms and forehead. the metal around his hands forms claws on each hand, as the former trident stops glowing and comes to a rest forming his bankai around his hands and body with water and lightning circling and dancing all over the armour "Umi no Kaminari Ryu"
(bankai appearance image in character profile)

oh hes getting serious now well then perhaps i should to all of shirohanes feathers flew up into the are as a carpet to render mizu unable to see exactly where Arakasi was as he came crashing down. He focused more reiryoku into the kidou wrapped around his body and he sent the birds down first to try and get them to explode in a perfect circle around mizu. He himself aimed infront of mizu after all he dident want to kill him as he came crashing down timing would be everything in this attack

Mizu sences the birds coming however he doesnt have time to react as the blasta land exploding all around him he surrounds himself with a tremendous amount of lightning acting as a shield. Through a gap on his arm some of the blast gets through causing him to bleed heavily from the arm. sticking the claws against the wound he stops the blood flow but doesnt close the wound fully.

Next thing he knew Arakasi lands infront of him, still covered in lightning Mizu clasps his hands together "Aqua Light" the sphere forms and Mizu seprates his hands quickly caising the giant sphere to seprate into dozens of smaller ones. Not caring to trap Arakasi he comands them to crash down ontop of him instead. Even though Mizu is in range of the attack he isnt worried as all that will happen to him is get a bit wet as the lightning would have no effect on him

thinking fast he throwed a little box high into the air to absorb as much ligtning as possible at the same time he increased the intensity of his Sōkatsui Oō spell to make it cancel out mizu's lightning attack he dident really exactly sucseeded and sparks could be see over his clothing. he shoot the staff out aiming for mizus stomach making sure to hold back not to kill the man

Mizu watches as the box is thrown into the air absorbing his elements, he thinks 'well that is intresting'
As Arakasi comes at him with the staff he leans to the side and reaches for his arms. Mizu figures that if he could just get hold of Arakasi's arm he could send the charge directly and cut with his claws, rather than having the box absorb his ranged attacks.

However as he grabs he charges the claws with lightning and water so he can transfer the full effect if he manages to get hold of him

aha so he was actually gonna grab my arms perfect just as planned. Arakasi dident move when mizu tried to grab his arms and lowered the strenght of his aura holding back until mizu placed his hands on his arm he also casted protective kidou around his arms just in case mizu would try to send electricity through his body. as mizu avoided the staff arakasi stuck it down in the ground after letting a feather stick to it that he could cast his binding kidou through

Mizu grabs his arm then quickly shunpo's away "aaaaowch that was hot" he says looking at the steam rising from his hands, ignoring it he clasps his hands together "now this will be more fun" he says while still smiling at Arakasi. Guesturing to Ito he says "this is something even the squad 11 captain found intresting" he laughs a little then roars "STORM DRAGON"

A large dragon forms easily the size of a large house made entiraly of water and lightning, the dragon roars and ear spliting roar and Mizu laughs while jumping landing ontop of it's head. From the top of the dragon he stares at Arakasi wondering what he will do next

Running through his head the whole time he is analysing how Arakasi does things 'master kido user with a zanpakuto to complement these abilities, uses boxes to absorb elemental style attacks but these have limits and uses speed to his avantage.... supose that about sums it up' after he is done thinking of this he can be seen sighing from the top of the dragon as if he is trying to come up with some sort of plan

arakasi formed shirohane into a sphere around him as he flash stepped around leaving after images behind while thinking bout his next move that storm dragon seemd like it could pack a punch o well both the water and lightning had natural enemies fire and wind. spinning both his arms to create some wind he casted double spells wrapping around both his arms and hands

Hadō #58. Tenran (闐嵐, Orchid Sky)
and Hadō #33. Sōkatsui (蒼火墜, Blue Fire, Crash Down; letting them merge creating a huge fiery spinning tornado whip from each of his arms. While seemingly letting the feathers covering him scatter but in reality they where discretly starting to surround mizu he shoot both his arms forwards sending the spinning fire tornado whips against mizu and his storm dragon

Ito watches on silently the stray attacks occasionally going towards the walls with Ito walking casually between the wall and the attacks. To protect the younger squad members the stray attacks doing little more than causing surface injuries to Ito due to the lack of power most of them had. His Zanpakutou taking the stronger blows that could actually harm him "Well of course I find it interesting how could I not,but focus less on me and more on Fujinsen-Taicho,"Ito says bluntly.

"Well the armor itself doesn't do anything unless splattered with blood, then again its said a Zanpakutou and its abilities greatly reflect the owners original life and personality and way of life so I suppose it suits me,"Ito says keeping his voice polite and proper. Ito keeps his eyes focused on the two as the continue fighting watching carefully for moments he would need to block stray attacks with his blade.

Mizu in thought receives slashes on his lower torso and legs, burning as it did, not covered by his bankai's armour. Growling as he gets slashed he mumbles "try this then". Without Mizu moving at all the dragon slashes and whips the tornado untill there is nothing left, then it clasps it's giant claws together and several much larger verisions of Aqua Light appears infront of him.

Mizu looks at Arakasi as he notices the afterimages had begun to fade and smiles from the top of the dragon as it spreads its arms in the same manner causing the spheres to seprate into smaller ones, what appears to be several hundred then moves them back to the clasped position

Mizu still looking at Arakasi switches his gaze to a piercing glare, instantly the spheres shift and rotate rapidly in all directions around Arakasi covering all areas including above. "perfect" Mumbles Mizu as he holds his slightly burnt hands out pointing towards the ground. "Tidal Crash" he mumbles causing water to form on the ground of the arena. The water begins moving crashing against the walls giving the appearance that the sea itself had formed bellow them

Aiming to get Arakasi into the air he figures if it gets evaporated like last time he will simply create more faster than it can be evaporated. Taking a defencive position ontop of the dragon's head he waits to see what is coming next

aha the plan worked he was so focused on arakasi he forgot to look at the feathers that had spread around mizu and with a twist of his hand several binding kidous Sajo Sabaku (Locking Bondage Stripes from all the feathers. and thusly end the fight just incase that wherent to work he prepared another kidou that would trigger when the water came crashing down on him Danku, Kakuchu (斷空角柱, Splitting Void, Prism to create a perfect prism around him however this one he dident activate yet

Ito blinks a few times as the water from Mizu's Bankai appears all around him. With a quick jump Ito takes to the air emerging from the water below looking soaked to the bone dripping crimson water off his clothes and haori. In his hand where both the sheathed normal Zanpakutou and his own. "So much for watching from the ground,"Ito says while wringing out loose parts of his clothing.

"How much more serious are you two going to get so I know if I should just let all my reiatsu out so one of you doesn't fry me from a stray attack or something?"Ito asks bluntly while trying to stay calm though aside from looking rather hilarious with his usually shaggy long hair perfectly straight and flat against his face and head rather irritated with the unexpected bath.

"Oh sorry Ito" Mizu says while restraining a laugh "well im sure that heat will dry you off in no time." Not being able to hold it in any longer he laughs at the fact he just soaked Ito by accident. Cutting himself off he notices the feathers "oh crap" he mutters wondering what is coming next.

Figuring that it is some form of kido he shunpo's away getting smacked by what was produced by one of the feathers dazing him slightly. Holding his head "well that was unplesant" he says while looking at his partially bound dragon. Standing ontop of the mass of water now he points one of his clawed fingers "lets try this... low number i think would be wise" he smiles pointing at Arakasi "hado 4 Byakurai" he calls.

The light at his finger tip forms but unfortinatly explodes sending him flying through the air and through the top of another section of wall through into another building. As the dragon struggles against the kido from the feathers all that can be herd from behind the wall is the crashing of broken wall being moved and Mizu groaning "aaaaaowch that was somewhat more unplesant"