A Power Awakening: Takeshi Tetsuo Survives

Previously: The Will of Fire Lives On: Return to Konoha

Survival
Takeshi limped slowly through the forests of Narita, searching for the warp circle to Shadow Island. He had survived Ikasoruke's explosion, thanks to his Hakumei Soshite Hinankan, one of Aisuhigure's abilities, but it still had taken a lot out of him.

He searched and searched, and eventually, he came upon the warp circle and warped away.

Training Begins
Takeshi stumbled out of the trees, and stared at the ocean surrounding Shadow Island. Eventually, his legs gave out, and he fell into a dreamless sleep...

Takeshi woke with a start and looked around. He then remembered where he was and relaxed. He then noticed a box a few yards away from him that he hadn't seen on his first visit to the island. He realized the tide must have washed away the sand that had buried it.

He walked over and opened it. Inside were multiple scrolls and a note. It read:

''To Whoever Finds This,

If you have found this, you are either very lucky, or the tide revealed the box to you. In this box are multiple scrolls on powerful techniques that you can use. I hope you use them well.

- Seireitou''

Takeshi realized that this box could help him reach a power level that could help defeat Aizen. For a moment, he hesitated, he did not know if he could handle that kind of power. But he got over it, he didn't want to let everyone down. He looked through the scrolls and found one that caught his eye. It read: House Scroll

Takeshi opened it. It read: Put your chakra into this scroll, and a house will appear. Takeshi followed the instructions and a house appeared. He walked in with the box, sat down on the bed in one room, and looked through everything else in the box. He knew he had much to learn. But he knew that time flowed differently here, he had months to practice.

He pulled out a scroll that said Bankai on it, walked outside, and began to train. And he trained, in the name of his friends.