Kenichi had been recently promoted into the position of third seat within squad one. Kenichi wanted to speak with captain commander Kaeda, mainly so he could meet the man who leads his squad and the rest of Soul Society, with absolute control. He had entered the first squads barracks, looking around aiming to find the captain commander. After not initially finding him, Kenichi had then entered the captain commanders office, and had looked around. He sighed, noticing that the captain wasn't in here. Thinking about it, Kenichi probably should have expected the captain commander to be somewhere helping other shinigami trained. He had left the captain commanders office. Before he sensed out where the captain commanders reiatsu was. Heading towards the direction of his reiatsu, Kenichi had entered an area where multiple Shinigami were training, the captain commander monitoring them, and helping with their training. Kenichi had walked up to the captain commander, and had asked him.

"Hello sir! It's my pleasure to meet you." He said this, giving him a short bow, before he stood up straight and asked. "May I ask, captain commander sir, if I may get some training with my zanpakuto? I am not pleased with the level I am at currently." He said this, his eyes beaming with confidence, him getting himself ready if the captain commander agreed, by putting his hand behind and over his shoulder, grasping his zanpakuto's handle.

Kaede was in the middle of training some fresh graduates who had joined the ranks of squad one, walking them through some basic zanjutsu drills, and combined techniques when a brown haired young man that stood about a hair taller than himself walked up. It took a moment, but eventually Kaede recognized him, the young man was his third seat, one Kenichi Tatsuhundo. "Hey there kiddo, sure thing." Kaede would say, answering the young man's question before signalling for the new recruits to stop what they were doing so that they could watch and learn from a more experienced person in action, though Kenichi, and the new recruits might be surprised by the fact that the captain commander was without a blade, well any visible weapon at all, especially when he followed up with "Well come at me however, and whenever you want."

And with that said Kaede would just stand there, feet shoulder width apart, arms folded behind his back, basically looking wide open.

Kenichi had smiled, his face becoming extremely confident as he accepted, he hadn't pulled his sword out yet, as he just calmly stood there, watching the captain commander. After a few seconds of no change, one of the other soul reapers had blurted out asking what was happening. Right after he had said that Kenichi began his attack, pulling his zanpakuto off his back, as he slashed his sword straight down, using the kendo form of Ryōdan, only when Kenichi had used the technique, he had concentrated reiatsu into the edge of his blade, as suddenly the slash of his weapon extended to five meters away from Kenichi, sending a slash of his reiatsu at the captain commander.

"Nagaku Iku Ryōdan!" Kenichi yelled as he used this technique. The technique being self taught, Kenichi had hoped the captain commander wouldn't have expected an attack like this for his first attack.


Ability Name: Nagaku iku Ryōdan
Ability Description: Nagaku iku Ryōdan, is a kendo technique where the user of the technique must hold their sword with both hands on the weapon, and then bring their sword down with the force to cut their enemies in half. Well, when Kenichi uses this technique, be it in his sealed state, shikai state, or bankai state, when he does this technique he sends a slash of his reiatsu with the technique, in his own words “Cutting all that stands in his way”. Though the amount of reiatsu isn’t large, and the technique is as strong as a normal slash usually. The idea of using his reiatsu this way is so that he can add more range to his usual attacks, the slash going about five meters longer than his normal slash., he used this technique this way before his Shikai of course, for obvious reason

From where he stood, the red-haired captain commander watched his third seat draw his massive blade taking up a classic kendo stance performing a slash, that released a wave of compressed reiryoku. Kaede just kind of bent out of the way of the projectile slash his arms not moving. "Impressive, nice way to start, but at that range kind of useless against me."

From his new position about two steps to his left he kept his stance, and waited for Kenichi's next move, hopefully this one would be close ranged, if so Kaede would again dodge by the narrowest of margins, though this time one of his arms would lash out in a flash with punch into the side of his blade which would ring out loud enough for the gathered crowd to hear, though even to the most perceptive of them would not even notice his arm move, though the blades path would deviate noticeably.

Kenichi would have laughed loudly after the attack had failed to connect. He had dragged his laugh on for a couple of seconds, before Kenichi had slowed his laugh down to a stop and said. "I thought maybe that would get you somehow... I guess I am still too much of a greenhorn compared to you." He said with a smile, before like he had expected, Kenichi had held his blade down low, as he charged at the captain commander, bringing his blade up again, mimicking the usual stance for Ryōdan. Kenichi had slashed downward toward the captain commander, before appearing even remotely close to the captain commander, Kenichi had in the moment, flash stepped toward the spot right behind the captain commander's back, as he did a diagonal slash towards his waist, wondering how the captain commander would deal with this attack.

While he had been doing all of these techniques at once though, Kenichi had been in his mind planning, and trying to calculate ahead. Trying to imagine a way where he could land as many attacks as possible.

Kaede dodged the range slash, with a minor movement, his rose colored eyes following the third seats movements with ease, including the shunpo around his back. Though this time Kaede's arms moved visibly as he caught the slash between his thumb and index and middle fingers, pinching the blade to a stop. "Now you see how he went for a frontal attack initially to draw my attention before trying to take advantage of the opening that would normally be created, Against alot of enemies that might work, though as I was former squad 2, I am a master at hoho, and was taught similar tactics so I am used to it."

Letting ago of the blade Kaede would backhand the flat of Kenichi's blade before stepping into point blank range and rapping his knuckles on Kenichi's head with his right hand, immediately with his left hand he would point two fingers at Kenichi and shout "Hado #1, Sho" a force of pure energy would shoot from Kaede's fingers and hit him like a strong punch in the gut before sending him sliding back a few feet.

Kenichi hadn't expected the captain to just easily grab his blade, but it wasn't beyond his realm of expectations. As he began talking, Kenichi had planned to activate his shikai. Maybe be able to shrink their difference in power, he was very flattered with what the captain commander had said, actually making Kenichi miss a second opportunity. Before the captain had used the first hado against him. The hado had blown his face back first, before he got sent back, actually doing a full 180, as he landed on his face a few feet away, completely upside down.

The first thought that went through Kenichi's mind as he was face first on the ground was. =Damn... He wasn't joking when he said come at him...= Kenichi thought this, before he put both palms of his hands on the ground evenly, before he pushed down, and hopped backwards on his feet. He looked at the captain commander again with a smile, sighing with the smile as he said. "Phew, I didn't want to use my shikai when you weren't even using your zanpakuto, but it'll be hard to land an attack without it..." Kenichi said this as he lowed his stance, his center of gravity steady as he went quite for a moment, watching the captain commander intently.

Kenichi had taken a second to feel himself up. =Good, his hado didn't have too much of an effect, I mean... If it did that would be embarrassing...= Kenichi smiled at this thought, as he at that moment leaped towards the captain commander he had slashed his sword toward the captain commanders chest, going straight forward with a basic attack.

Kaede watched as the sho, which was supposed to just push the young man backwards sent him faceplanting into the ground, and had to stifle a snicker. Raising a hand quickly to stifle the onlookers as well he would continue his lesson. "As you can see, even a basic spell can be quite effective when used at the right time." By this point Kenichi had readied himself again, and was moving towards him for another slash this time the blade was held in a way that it could have easily been a diagonal slash, but to that Kaede would raise his right hand his index and middle finger extended again though this time he would mutter the words "Bakudo #1, Sai"

Kenichi would feel an invisible force pulling his arms behind his back negating his swing dead, and maybe even having to drop his zan in the process, either way it would create an opening that the captain commander would flash step into poking the young man a few times, once in each shoulder, and once in the sternum, not really hard just enough to create bruises before reappearing behind the man. Though as Kaede passed through Kenichi would hear a whisper "You really should take this a bit more seriously."

Kenichi had barely stopped himself from falling over, as he stood still his arms still caught as he said. "Yeah, yeah... Sorry about that captain commander I was just trying to have a little fun." After he said this, he had inhaled and exhaled. Before he grunted and broke the bakudo using his own physical strength. After doing so he had bent over to pick up his zanpakuto. He had cracked his neck, before he had stretched his arms out. He had finished his stretches with a sigh, before he said, meaning it this time.

"Strike em' down... Nigaihandan." After he had finished saying these words, his reiatsu had spiked, as his sword hadn't changed in length, but had became thicker. As two large holes had been in his now thicker blade. Kenichi had laughed as he turned and made eye contact with the captain commander. "I really didn't want to use shikai against someone without a zanpakuto." He said as suddenly, his blade had been surrounded by his reiatsu. The blade and it's edge mainly being covered in a greyish reiatsu. "But... I ask as a man that you please stop this attack yourself. I want to know if I can push my highest superior at all." He said, a little smile on his lips.


Abilties Name:鉄彎月 Tetsu Wangetsu (Iron Crescent)
Abilty Description:Tetsu Wangetsu, is Kenichi’s shikai ability to charge a large amount of his reiatsu into his zanpakuto’s blade and edge, this usually takes a few seconds, but isn’t much of an issue. After charging reiatsu into his zanpakuto’s edge, Kenichi can slash his zanpakuto towards where he chooses to send his attack, after that a large slash of grey reiatsu is shot out towards where he slashes. Kenichi can either use this technique without needing to charge the attack, or he can charge his Tetsu Wangetsu in one post. If he is to not take the time to charge is Tetsu Wangetsu, Kenichi's attack is only comparable to the attack power of a cero. If he does charge this attack up, then Kenichi's attack will hold the power of two cero's, and it's size would be almost 30 feet.

Abilties Name:ヒ鉄彎月 Hiru, Tetsu Wangetsu (Heel Iron Crescent)
Abilty Description:This technique of Kenichi’s, allows him to while using the normal power of his shikai Tetsu Wangetsu, except allow the reiatsu to instead leave the blade, surround and sharpen his weapon, covering it with a large amount of reiatsu. Same charging rules, and power as the normal Tetsu Wangetsu.

Kaede watched as his third seat finally released, his blade changing to some holey wavy thing, which was definitely unique in design, though aside from that things were not super impressive yet, though Kaede still has not yet seen what he can do, so who knows just what it can do. "You see there is something to keep in mind, Do you think I got to where I am without being able to deal with you, Shikai or no? Also something to keep in mind, I am never without my zanpakuto, even if you can't see it."

With that said Kaede would flashstep forward, using an advanced hoho technique, Senka, though rather than using a blade he would just use his fingers jabbing Kenichi hard where his soul chain and soul sleep would be shattered. He also tapped Kenichi's blade as he passed through with the attacks. "You know this makes too large of an opening, but as you wish."

With that said Kaede would return to where he started staring at the young man waiting for the attack to come, raising his hand catching the blade just like he had previously, The impact itself would create a small smoke screen around them as dust would be kicked up with the blow, though as the smoke would clear Kenichi would see something completely shocking if he was not familiar with the story's of the captain commander, as a copy of Nigaihandan in it's shikai form would be held in Kaede's hands. "So basic energy projections, interesting yeah you would need to combine more skills than just your zanjutsu to actually get much use out of this. At least until you get stronger."

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