"....You should sleep now...."
A voice was heard, indistinct and monotone.
Yet the voice still somehow managed to feel encouraging as if the words themselves have emotions...
.....
Chest rising and falling in rhythm...
Snores were heard from a figure on a bed. Its volume drowning out the outside world. The morning was high.....
Another figure quietly enters the room.....
They paused deliberately as if waiting for something but then a helpless expression mares their face. "Didn't think you would be pretending like this so often." the standing figure comments.
The snores stop on a dime, the sleeping figures eyes open steadily. Bright purple iris within the sockets "Let me grieve for a bit longer..." the sleeping figure solemnly said quietly.
"...Its been 4 days.....and your way of grieving is pretending to sleep for hours on end?" The standing figure questioned with a sigh.
"different people...different cope...." the sleeping figure imparts his own created wisdom.
"...fair enough...I won't force you to do anything but sometimes its better to stop your mind from getting the chance to think constantly by just doing things. Atleast.....it worked for me." The standing figure replied solemnly.
...
After a long pause the pretend sleeper quietly gets up, grabs the asauchi laying on his bed and draws it half way.
The gleaming blade reflected a different figure on both its sides.
On one side a figure was completely in black uniform with black hair to match and on another a figure with a mop of bright green hair with red and black attire.
Yes, this was shiba kaien and nemure rinkai respectively!
"...maybe if I could fully control reiatsu, maybe if I was a better swordsman...what if I was stronger.....What if i didnt agree to his proposal." The self deprecating words flowed like a river with no obstruction
"Those thoughts are not healthy....The events already passed. You couldn't of known what would happen and not many would have been able to do better in that situation you were in, in the first place." Kaien with a bit of helplessness tried to impart these reassuring words like he has done for the last 4 days in hopes of bringing a poor soul out of its funk.
SHINK~
Kaien's words were met with a loud clack of the blade being sheathed "I know.....haaaaahhhhh" Rin directly stated before sighing with weight.
The room went quiet again.
"....The academy entrance exams is tomorrow....you want to become a shinigami right, I see you have the potential." Kaien states, In an effort to change the subject and hopefully shift the mood.
To that rin stood and asked with a small grin "What if I don't want to be a shinigami and just want to sleep in everyday and do nothing?"
"To that I would say, I didn't go out of my way to save a freeloader bum. Atleast get a job and pay me back." Kaien playfully demands in jest.
Rin scoffed in amusement and fake indignation "Worth a shot..."
"....doesn't seem like you believe in your own words anyway....." kaien states, a little more serious.
Rin remained silent.....'Ofcourse I don't! Aizen, Yhwach and even those minor but still major threats below them....you expect me to stay weak and not be able to defend myself through all that.....this is a matter of survival! Rin's thought wearily.
The room went silent again...
"Come on. I'll instill in you some basics so that you don't embarrass yourself in the exams." kaien states before turning and walking out the room....hoping the kid would follow.
Rin proceeds to follow, despite the momentary uplift of mood, character was still diminished.
"How's your wife doing, anything happen?" Rin asked.
"What's with you and my wife?.....you into her or something?" kaien replies exasperated, staring at rin with suspicion.
Rin musters a small smirk "She's nice and can cook good food, what do you think." Rin skillfully deflects the actual reason for the multiple inquiries with a smirk.
'Maybe if I can atleast prevent her death, kaien would get a way better ending by default....The least I could do for my savior' rin thought.
"Sigh...she is a definitely taken. Try someone more your size" Kaien suggests playfully as he grins...
...
Within the court yard of kaien's personal stronghold, he spent the rest of the day going over the basics of controlling reiatsu with rin, rin already had the fundamentals down from when he fought that hollow so it was more so just a matter of polishing what he had, therefore progress was smooth and fast.
"alright! you should have no problems holding your own now, the you right now wouldn't have a problem in taking down that hollow in a fair one vs one fight. Just keep practicing and you can only go up from here, you are already very talented." kaien praises sincerely.
"Oh? Am I really? doesn't feel like it." rin dismiss his praise like a breeze running over him.
"It may not feel like it because you have no one to compare yourself to. In truth, even 3rd and 4th years of the academy would struggle to fight and not die against that hollow. That hollow was pretty above average after all....." Kaien deliberates.....
".....I fought an above average hollow??" rin asked with slight confusion.
"Well you yourself are very much above average. I sensed your reiatsu, I measure your reiryoku rank at 8th class and you haven't even joined the academy yet, I even sense that its still growing at quicker pace than normal. You definitely have the potential to become a high level seated officer...maybe even a vice captain..." Kaien analyzes.
"...Guess I don't have enough experience to measure true strength, how troublesome~" I say before giving my asauchi more proper swings again, with the benefit of better control over reiatsu and pacing the sword whistles through the air with insane speed and power, creating small shockwaves in the wind.
Reiatsu is like water and a a hose with the tank being the reiryoku. Using a figurative valve, a certain amount of reiatsu can be expelled from the tank as the shinigami chooses, its ultimately up to the shinigami what their hose ending would be like in the moment. The hose ending determines how the reiatsu flows, shinigami can make their reiatsu soft but pressuring for intimidation, tough and heavy like a shield, edged and sharp like a blade, etc. Its all up to the Shinigami's imagination and focus.
"Oh! The pretend sleeper is finally awake." An elegantly cheerful voice sounded out from a distance, pausing rins practice.
"Ah! If it isn't the wonderful miyako-san. Everyday I ponder how this guy managed to win your heart~" Rin lazily deliberates while pointing at kaien.
"Oi! I can still kick you out! just you watch!" Kaien wouldn't take such slander on even a good day.
"hehe~ I see you still have a way with words. Don't worry kaien has his ways~" Miyako chuckles softly while covering her mouth.
"I'm a reliable guy. You got that brat!" Kaien snorted.
"...only when miyako-sans around I guess." I mutter with a shrug.
"Haaahhh..." Kaien slumps at my words. Miyako pats him on the shoulder with a cross between a sympathetic and a mocking face.
"I'll go cook something up for you all~" miyako almost sings out as she walks inside.
"Our goddess!" X2
Both men preached causing miyako to turn to look at them with a sheepish and bashful expression.
....
On this day, the gates of seireitei opened. Ready to accept new shinigami candidates into the fray. Grouped up on the outside were a bunch of shinigami hopefuls gunning for a chance.
"Listen up you hopefuls! We'll first be measuring your reiryoku before you can head in, can't have a student who's unable to handle the pressure of ambient reiatsu in there. Then we will test your physical skills and strengths once your in!" The entrance examiner shouts. "The lowest we can go is spiritual class 20-thats the bear minimum. If your feel like your not ready, back out now and save yourself the embarrassment!" The entrance examiner continued.
No one moved.....
They all thought they were ready, rin included.
"Hihihi~" Rin looked towards the direction he heard that strange chuckle from and what met his eyes was a shorter one-a girl with a bandana like head covering masking most of their hair besides their white bangs and a complete light blue shihakusho inspired ensemble....
She had this weird out of place smile on her face.....one that could easily put you as unnecessarily crazy...She wore a creepy expression in general!
Rin quickly labelled her as one to avoid, she genuinely looked like trouble!
He had this plan to quietly shuffle away but it was like she had a form of sixth sense too! instantly turning towards rin, her expression went back to normal, though her expression quickly went back to weird after a short while of observing his stature.
"Oooh~ which poor asshole did you kill to get that special blade~" her voice was smooth like water unlike her strange laugh from before.
"hah?-Oh! No comment!" after a moment of confusion and quickly scanning the girl again rin spot that she also already had an asauchi! and from what she said he could only surmise she got hers from killing the previous holder unlike me who just lucked on one. He was right to put her on avoid list.
'Life's too long to be wrapped up with troublesome women for the most of it!' Rin thought grimly.
Before she could make another comment, the examiner spoke up again.
"Line up so we can test your reiryoku!" Using that distraction I subtly slip out of her range before she could bring her attention back to me.
"Pttp..." I hear a light snort from another voice, this time male I turn to look. This time the person was more normal. dark blue hair and a stylish white kimono top and blue hakama.....accessories in the form of an earing on his left ear and white bracelet on his right hand looking too valuable to come from rukongai, obviously a noble.
"Good job fleeing from her. You made the right choice." He compliments.
"You are?" Rin asked.
"This experts name is kira rikujo-you better remember it." He answered.
I nod and return the courtesy "Nemure rinkai, just your regular sleepy guy." Rin added. "you seem to know a bit about that girl?" Rin continued
Rikujo answers rin's question with a dramatic story while looking far off into the distance with a blank face.....you could swear his just doing it to look cool! "A long while ago there was a girl who hailed from a far off district called zaraki, a ruthless district you could say, one where killing and thieving is like a sport baked into its society. A complete lawless zone of which this girl thrived in, there was no other explanation needed.....she had a talent for fighting.....no matter how harmless she looked at times, there was no denying the fact that her true skill lied in cutting down whatever obstacle blocks her path....and couple that with her one strange hobby of preserving the bodies of some of the ones she's killed until they eventually return to the surrounding reishi....." The more his story went on the more morbidly interesting this girl seems.
"One day in that same zaraki district, a hollow appeared. A group of dispatched shinigami entered zaraki, one split off to investigate obscure areas.....that one shinigami came across a girl, no one knows what happened there but it was found out later that the shinigami was found dead and his asauchi taken, his body was in mint condition as if taken care of. The rest of the shinigami fell into conflict with that hollow they've been searching for, suffering heavy loses, the situation looked grim until that same girl appeared....she wielded the asauchi like it was made just for her and relentlessly attacked the hollow, eventually killing it. One of the surviving shinigami, who was a noble, was awe struck by her talents and decided to adopt her into the family right then and there...or so is the information that the noble family decided to make public knowledge anyway, there could be more they haven't said." Rin was definitely captured in the interesting tale rikujo was weaving 'a blood lusted girl from a lawless district being adopted into a noble family? how would that work out?' Rin pondered intrigued.
".....That girls name was-" Before rikujo could get off his epic story telling finish he was interrupted by the examiner himself's shout.
"Azashiro shirakami!" with the calling out of that name that same bandana wearing girl calmly walks out stepping in front of the examiner, eyes roving over the examiner as if sizing him up "Hmpf! take this and hold it, it will measure your reiryoku." the examiner noticed her actions but played it off, distributing a device in her hand.
"Alright." She simple smiled a smile that looked one step away from predatory as the device reacted in her hands instantly.
The examiner observed quietly for a bit. "7th class reiryoku, you passed. Stand over with the second examiner." Rin watches the procedure in silence 'The way she observed the examiner as if she found something valuable in his being she wanted to take care off.....WAIT SHE DID THE SAME TO ME!?' From head to toe rin shuddered as the realization struck 'Rikujo's story outlines that her hobby is to preserve the bodies of some she killed. Was there really anything interesting about the examiner's and my body....This will definitely keep me up at night!' Rin had a worried look on my face for a time.
Another guy standing with us chimed in "7th class reiryoku! that's actually pretty good and that's before she enrolled. She's bound to be very strong soon!" Rin and rikujo turned to the speaker.
"That's just reiryoku, other skills and talents need to be taken into consideration before we can claim one would be very strong-Actually scratch that she's from the famed zaraki district! She's bound to be crazy strong." Rikujo commented before cutting himself off to correct his flawed understanding.
"Starting off with reiryoku like that can definitely carry you far right itto!" Rikujo confirms with the the one that first spoke up.
".....That definitely seems like a good starting point." I comment, revealing nothing.
"Ah! My bad for not introducing myself, this humble one is kyouraku itto, I just couldn't bear to interrupt Riku's well put together story!" Kyouraku itto introduced himself with a light bow.
I smirk "Its a pleasure to meet such noble figures. This humbler one from rukongai is nemure rinkai, please bear with me." I introduced myself with played up flair while bowing a notch deeper than itto did.
Itto and rikujo laughs "This one sure knows how to kiss ass, and its working!" Itto laughs out.
Itto had brown hair and black eyes dressed in blue patterned haori and with the black kimono top and white hakama.
"This guy knows how to butter up people, we are good friends now rin!" Rikujo continues.
"Well, my mother has disciplined me well. I suspect she was a fallen noble from a special family that banished her to rukongai." I winked at them, an obvious sign that it was a joke.
"Such decorum! she must of been from the kuchiki!" Itto and rikujo played along as the examiner kept calling out names and calling out their reiryoku class.
"Ten'nin daku. 14th class reiryoku!"
"Kihitora. 14th class reiryoku!"
"Mamoru kachigata, 17th class reiryoku"
.....
This pattern continued until our group was finally called up.
"kyouraku itto" Said person stepped up grabbing the device like all other examinee's before.
"10th class reiryoku!" The examiner shouts. Just like others he nodded and went to stand with the second examiner.
There were a whole bunch of failures where the device didn't react at all or gave off such a weak reaction that reflected their below 20th class reiryoku. To that the examiner just sent them on their way without any form of comfort. Their dejected looks scream out like they're trying to say society is plotting against them...
"Kira rikujo!" The examiner shouted and rikujo turns to me with a smile.
"Don't worry this dashing noble will protect you until you catch up to us." He mimed walking up and taking the device. I watch him with an eyebrow raised until the examiner called out
"11th class reiryoku!" Rikujo still smiling walks to stand with the second examiner.
"Nemure rinkai!" The examiner called my name.
I calmly walked up to him and took the device.
The device reacts strongly "8th class Reiryoku!" He shouted before muttering "impressive for a non-noble...." He motioned me to the second examiner and I obliged.
Walking over to the second examiner I am met with the shocked faces of both itto and rikujo. "You were hiding this for so long!?" Itto complained.
"I take back what I said. Your protecting us instead until we catch up, damn you!" Rikujo complains with a played up bitter expression.
I look at them mockingly while offering comfort. "Hey, that Azashiro girl got higher reiryoku anyway, its not like I'm special-"
"We don't talk about her. She is an entirely new breed of soul!" Rikujo cuts me off, denying my comfort.
"Enough chatter! Lets head inside and continue the exam!" The second examiner commands, leading the entire group of academy entrees into the seireitei.....
Observing my surroundings, I am met with structured, uniform buildings that seem to have history behind them.
It really is a sight to behold-IF I WASN'T ON THE VERGE OF DROPPING ASLEEP ON MY FEET!
I am not proud of how much my feet were dragging at this point. I can feel the looks from even the examiner-
"YAWN~" I let that one rip unintentionally.
"What the hell....." I hear a random academy entree.
"This kid forgot his milk when he got out of bed this morning? Tch." I hear another academy entree mock, this one has a haughty voice, most likely one of those types of nobles.
"...After the examination, you will be lead to your dorms where you can settle down until classes begin." The examiner explains monotonal, his words most likely targeted at me.
"Oh...we get to sleep after the exam? sounds like heaven." I curse my own thick skin sometimes.
They all glance at me and then look away like I'm not worth the hassle. "Hmph." They let off.
Except one!
'Don't look at me! I'm stare shy...only when it comes to you!' I complain. 'I will not, in any way, be eye candy for a predator serial killer! Tear your eyes away shirakami!' I feel the sweat fall on the back of my neck.
"Can we pick up the pace here, I need to catch up with a bed!" I asked with urgency.
"Quiet!" The examiner didn't even look back as we walked.
"haha~ I think bed-sama can wait, its only just morning." Itto says casually.
That's when I see that zaraki district girl look in another random direction finally.
I sigh.
"If you find my body in pristine condition please deliver it to the shiba family...specifically kaien..." I warily plead to Itto.
Itto look genuinely flustered "p-wh-what are you talking about??? Your buddies with the shiba???" He looked really surprised at that.
"Just do it if the time comes! " I urge.
"Jeez.....What are you killing yourself off for?" Rikujo sighed. There's a good story to be told about this. It-" Rikujo was in his story telling mood again but I cut him off.....
"I think I'm on that girl's-" before I could finish I was interrupted
"Form up we will be upon the training grounds very soon!" the examiner commands and we obviously follow suite, my worries of impending death forgotten for now.
...........
On the training grounds.
"Alright! we are going to go through a few exercises here that should determine your fitness level and talents. Please be aware that this examination would also affect what class you would be put in to some extent so put in your best effort!" The examiner explained.
"We start with basic endurance run." The examiner continued. "The edge of this entire circular training ground is the track. Atleast last 15 mins, else failure, we stop at the 1 hour mark." The examiner set a timer as he says this.
"Anyone caught slacking is instant failure." I see his eyes move towards me.
"Begin!" We hit the jet at full force on his command.
It was not really a race but as young immature souls some of them can't help themselves.
competing for a non-existent position just for the sake of pride.....
I ran comfortably within the pack while others go plus ultra ahead! burning through their stamina like it was infinite...last time i checked they weren't naruto.....
But nonetheless they weren't entirely hopeless as those ones atleast lasted more than 15 mins despite they're reckless dash.
Me? I ran for the whole hour at a respectable pace, one not too tiring.
Most others did the same.
The examiner nods, writing stuff down.
"Next I'm gonna need you all to fetch a wooden sword from the rack." He points to the rack on the left hand side of the training ground. "We are doing basic sparing. Reiatsu use prohibited! we are only testing basic swordsmanship skill and base physical power!" He continued.
we followed his instruction and picked up wooden swords one by one.
"Most of you don't have any basics down yet, so your sparring partner will be me, I will evaluate you all mid-spar." The examiner dropped that bombshell on us. having some of the would-be students fretting.
Rin sighed in relief, because honestly if we were sparring each other there was a chance I would end up with that troublesome looking shirakami as a sparring partner.
The examiner posts himself with his own wooden sword "I call your name you come up and we spar!" He commands "Ten'nin daku!" He shouted
"Yes!" Said figure shouts before coming up.
"Your lead." The examiner states, his meaning clear.
Daku looking a bit anxious, brandishes the wooden sword very amateurishly and dashes in.
He swung with all his might, almost like he is trying to funnel all of his energy into that one strike...of which the examiner bats the strike away with ease causing daku to lose balance and fall over face first.....
Before daku could scramble up to continue the fight, the examiners wooden sword was already at his neck...the examiner shook his head, his critique obvious....
Daku unnecessarily overextended himself with that one strike and even recklessly put all his power into it without leaving himself an out in case the opponent was able to deflect it leaving himself with no way to defend himself when a counter comes, even worse the sudden deflection caused him to lose his posture easily and hit the dirt face first! That would of been an embarrassing way to go out.
Regardless the examiner quickly noted down the information and moved on to the next examinee. daku getting up and scrambling off to hide in the crowd.....his face mimicking that of a tomato among the mocking stares and murmurs of the crowd
"Kihitora!" The examiner shouts.
Said person simply walks up silently, a black haired, wild looking youth who some how had a calm edge to him.
"Your lead!" The examiner continues, same as before.
This time was a waaaaay better showing than what happened with daku.
Kihitora slowly circled around the examiner with his sword held by both hands at his center, his eyes moving constantly over the examiner from various angles as if to sus out an opening, evidently someone with more foundation under his belt.
The examiner nods to himself and that seemed to have been a signal to kihitora as he dashes in hoping to catch the examiner mid nod.
Kihitora arrives on the examiners left swinging from his right diagonally. The examiner calmly blocks the swing steadily "Hm." kihitora grunts but he wasn't done showing his moves as he quickly steps to the left and makes another swing from the left-also blocked.
It was clear that kihitora had been instructed some in swordsmanship and foot work already.
The sounds of wooded clacking reverberate through the grounds as kihitora kept up the aggressive pace but never fully committing to a strike willy nilly like daku as there was no real opening to take advantage of on the examiner.
The spar continued until the examiner decided that it was enough.
CLACK!~
The examiner sent kihitora's sword flying with one strike. He give kihitora a nod of acknowledgement which was like a silent command to step away as kihitora walks off to the crowd panting a bit.
Souls in the crowd eyeing him with respect and recognition, even some of the nobles.
From there the spars continued each person either putting on a poor showing or a glowing performance and some in between.
"Nemure rinkai!" rin heard his name.....
Rin drags his feet a little before settling into a proper walking stance.
a few murmurs were heard.
"That the same guy who was falling asleep while walking?" Rin hear a rando mock him
"seriously, if your not gonna take shinigami profession seriously why even get out of bed for this? hehe~" another rando.......
"I'm telling you he just forgot his milk today." That same noble...
'Man you guys are heartless.....' Rin thought standing before the examiner.
"good luck rin!" Itto shouted with a salute.
"Your escapades shall make a good tale, no matter the outcome." Rikujo looked ready to start writing a story book at this point.
'Atleast I've got some supporters~' Rin smiled but then that smile turned strained as he felt the eyes of someone troublesome on him. 'Shit she is really staring now-' Rin cuts himself off as...
The offender is holding an odd terrifying expression now!
'WHAT THE-' Rin thoughts were cut of by the examiner this time.
"Your lead!" The examiner commands, bringing me out of my stupor.
I gather my wits and brandish my wooden sword.
Without warning I walk leisurely towards the examiner, sword in hand.
The examiner watches quietly until there was a flash and the tempo changed.....
The examiner quickly pulled up their sword to block Rins incoming swing.
The wooden swords bounced off each other and rin redirects his swing to the left knee of the examiner of which the examiner simply lifted his leg up and back.
Rin tried for a quick feint upward slash but shifted it into a horizontal slash at the examiners midsection of which the examiner blocked again. Taking advantage of the opportunity rin used the block to disengage and circle the examiner to attack from behind.
Rin went into a simple thrust towards the examiners back, the examiner simply twisted his body out of the way and counter attacked by swinging his wooden sword down in an overhead strike of which Rin leaped out of the way of.
The spar continued until just like kihitora, the examiner felt it was enough and forcefully bat my wooden sword out of my hand with a forceful swing.
the examiner nods at me and I return to the crowd of souls who have been murmuring for a good while now.
"I knew you had it in you, big brother!" Itto exclaimed with excitement, to which I gave him a look....
"What? Too soon?" Itto laughed out.
"Your getting familiar with me way too quick, Yawn~" I yawned as if ready to sleep, that is until I feel the hair on the back of my head go prickly. The stare intensified....and I chose not to turn at look back at her.
"Kira rikujo!" The examiner shouts.
"You guys better document this, it will go on the latest news like the greatest stories ever conceived!" Rikujo demands before walking up and brandishing his wooden sword.
"No promises." Rin lazily lets off.
"Guess I will." Itto shrugs.
"Your lead!" The examiner commands.
Rikujo dashes in starting with a left side swing which was blocked before doing a stylish twirl and following up with a right side swing only to be blocked again. "Tch." He let off.
'What? did he expect that was gonna work?' As I thought this rikujo backs off and then proceeds to dash and do a sliding cut to the examiners legs of which they simply jump over.
rikujo quickly turns and goes for a flashy long wind up overhead strike to the examiner but......
The examiner changed tempo and immediately countered with a swipe of his wooden sword to rikujo's gut that knocks the air out of him........
That one also sent him flying and coughing after a moment "There are no opponents, I reiterate, NO OPPONENTS! Who are going to play along with your over the top theatre like swordsmanship!" The examiner shakes his head in exasperation after saying that before motioning to the crowd, his message clear.
Rikujo's skin must of been as thick as mine as he walks back with an easy smile amongst the murmurs and ridicule of the rest of the souls......
"I've documented every part I could even the final bits-" Itto was cut off.
"Leave out that last part and keep the rest and it should make a good telling~" Rikujo advised and I comically sweat dropped after that.
"Kyouraku itto!" The examiner shouts.
"My turn to get knocked around, it seems." Itto jests before walking up.
After the usual 'your move' from the examiner, Itto went into a combo string of horizontal swings, each of them blocked.
Itto also demonstrated decent beginner footwork shifting to the side to avoid a quick counter upward swing from the examiner, its unfortunate that the examiner doesn't leave enough of an opening to capitalize on else Itto would of scored a direct strike on the examiners throat but it was blocked like always.
The examiner applied greater targeted force on his block and eventually sent itto's wooden sword flying.
The examiner nods at itto and watched him walk back to the crowd before shouting another name.
"Azashiro Shirakami-" He was cut off as said person was already before him with impatience.
"Finally got through the wastes..." She didn't even sugar coat her words. Leading to some outrage
"Watch-" Before the examiner could even get off his reprimand that would of sounded something along the lines of 'watch your words'........
Shirakami was already upon him!
A powerful thrust aiming for his throat, looking very dangerous despite the fact it was a wooden sword........
"Ge-" The examiner quickly snapped out of it and twisted quickly avoiding the strike by a hair.
.......The examiner, as if noticing something, decides to begone with his half-heartedness and got somewhat serious. You can notice it with his shift in stance and his expression.
They both dash to each other clashing their wooden swords. one side not overpowering the other......which is a crazy thing considering that girl isn't even an academy student yet and is already applying this much pressure to a seasoned shinigami.
Shirakami, easily the wilder of the 2, twists her sword to wrench the examiners sword to the side, before following up with a horizontal strike that looked like it had the ability to cause some actual harm. A absurdly fast strike that was easily displacing the air!
The examiner, not wanting to be disgraced, quickly backpedals dodging the strike quickly.
Shirakami, with a barely suppressed predatory look on her face, steps in about to deliver another absurdly fast thrust.
"That's enough!!" The examiner commands letting loose a bit of reiatsu so that the message was loud and clear that this spar is immediately over!
Shirakami halts in place "Tch." Not affected by the reiatsu at all but still lowers her wooden sword with disappointed look on her face.
The whole crowd of would be academy students were silent.......WITH THEIR JAWS HANGING ON THE FLOOR!
Most of them could barely follow the silhouettes of the 2 fighters much less make out the nuances of the swordsmanship........
AND THAT WAS WITHOUT ANY REIATSU EMPOWERING THEIR STRIKES OR MOVEMENTS!!!
All of a sudden, shirakami eyes rove around the examiners body as if searching for something........her expression became even more disappointed looking when she was done as if she didn't find what she was searching for in his body??? She quietly walks back to the crowd.
The examiner looks at her strangely for that but he quickly ignored it as if recognizing how weird she can be.
There were a lot of murmurs of disbelief and even anxiety.
Rin meanwhile couldn't help but be indignant 'Where is she getting that monster physique from??? From where is that body providing all that power???' Rin couldn't help but think towards a hitsugaya situation.
"That's a whole scary thriller story waiting to be told if I've ever seen one." I hear Rikujo comment beside me as he looks down to the side, eyes closed......What is he trying to look cool for?
Nonetheless the examiner quickly and finished the rest of the spars in a timely manner.
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"I've evaluated you all as fairly as I can! You will be notified of what class your in in the coming week. For now, I'll lead you to be setup in your dorm rooms." The examiner stated.
"Finally, I can meet bed-sama again." Rin muttered lazy, picking up a slouch.
The examiner lead us to a 2 large buildings facing each other stating one side is for female students and the other is for male students. Of which obviously Rin and his possie were lead to the male dorms while girls like shirakami were lead to the female dorms.
Rin was honestly very thankful about the fact that we don't share rooms here. He really couldn't take anyone just randomly disrupting his sleep casually..........
Sitting down in his own dorm room rin drew his asauchi from his waste and began meditating again. With the increase in control of his reiatsu he has properly learned to funnel his spiritual energy into his asauchi in an attempt to engrave the asauchi with his soul hoping to turn it into an actual zanpakuto.
For a while there was silence.........
Rin all of a sudden awakens from his meditation........
"...........Now that I have the peace and quiet to think, I feel like I'm forgetting something here...........I heard a voice in my dream before I woke up yesterday but there was no face or body to speak of for where that voice came from....trying to remember is drawing constant blanks.........I'm having trouble remembering what that voice even actually said. I ignored it for so long that it fled from my subconscious it feels like." Rin clutched his head as if it was in pain. It felt as if it was something he should draw parallel to the bleach series with but he honestly was having trouble figuring it out, but as of right now all he remembered was a voice and nothing else.......
"Whatever I'll just sleep......" Rin placed his asauchi leaning upon the side of his bed laid down and.......
SNOOOOORE~
That's right instantly knocked out...........................
Phew....sorry this one took so long, I had other things to focus on for a while but hopefully I'll see myself free of distraction for the next one. I find the power system of bleach to be very interesting in a different way to naruto's. The importance of name and the relationship to that one who gave you its true name being the catalyst for greater power just speaks to me in a different way than say ninjutsu, chakra control and hand seals.....and ofcourse you cant just look at a BANKAI awakening and say mid, that stuff always has supreme aura. Anyways I'm feeling a bit playful today because you wont even see rinkai's shikai for a good while so I decided to give a simple hint to the power of his shikai to see if anyone figures it out......the power of his shikai.........is literally in his name......That is the biggest hint I've given you.......see you next chapter