Special Training (Part 1)

Urahara Shop, underground training ground.

Kurosaki Ichigo had just descended the long staircase when he saw that the place where Shopkeeper Urahara had once trained him to regain his Soul Reaper powers was now enclosed within a heavy barrier.

A black-haired figure sat quietly cross-legged at the very center of the barrier.

Outside the barrier stood the burly Tessai Tsukabishi, his hands formed into seals and his expression incomparably grave. About five meters behind Tessai, the figure in a green-striped bucket hat, holding a paper fan, waved at him.

"I was wondering why there were only Ururu and Jinta in the shop upstairs. So the shopkeeper and Tessai..."