Castle Upon This Hill

by International Uzumaki

Deep within the human world there is a castle, a castle that is the home for the most bazaar squad the soul society has ever seen. These were the outliers, these were the members of squad 101. For better of for worse, this is their story. And the story of their king. Based off of Tekking101 Zanpaktou contest.

1. The Contest Does not Equal the Apocalyps

Chapter 1! The Contest Does not Equal the Apocalypse!

In a far off land, deep within the world of the living, there was a castle. And this castle was built for one purpose, and one purpose only, to house the division of the King, squad 101.

He stood there, lanky and with his black suit blowing in the wind, proudly looking down and the people gathered below from his view at the castles balcony. "Hello everybody!" he said calmly "I want to discuss something very interesting with you guys for a second." He paused "The apocalypse!" he went on about the world ending and the symbolism, something about a trumpet and demons? Who really knows, most people there weren't very religious and were getting annoyed by the delay, they had waited long enough already. "Now I know what you're thinking, why the hell am I discussing the apocalypse when the title of the invitation clearly indicated something else." He gestured to the outside of the letter he had picked up "Or maybe it's on the inside, I don't know they change their format so many times." He put the letter down and picked up a large blue book "Well, the reason I'm opening like this is because all that stuff I just mentioned, the four horsemen ridding in, bring death to the entire country side, demons rising out of the ground! That's stuff that normally would never happen. So when that stuff does happen, people are like, oh dame, end of the world." Some of the people in the crowd murmured at that, they had seen some pretty weird stuff, demons and guys on horses were the least of their problem. "And, the thing that I'm about to tell you guys, right now, if I just came out and said it, you would probably also assume that was something you would never hear in a million years, and you might, uh, believe the world was coming to an end. So that's why I had to open this gathering like this. Just to let you guys know that what I'm about to say does not signify the end of days." He paused, looking around. "K, you good? Just giving you a second to prepare there." There was a moment of silence again. It was a thing with the king, random pauses and run on sentences, a writer's nightmare. He took a deep breath, centering himself and adjusting the book in his hand before screaming at the top of his lungs, "I'VE FINISHED THE CONTEST!"

The crowd screamed, some in terror, some in delight, and some hysterics. Many thought the world was ending, they had been waiting for so long, so long to see if they would gain what they desired most in the world.

Even the king screamed, slamming his book down onto the stone floor his was standing on. "YES! YES! FUCK YES! WE RE GETTING DRUNK TONIGHT!" there were sighs just under were he stood saying that if you were underage you can't drink, clearly someone had thought ahead.

"My God." He said, calming down. "That is not a simplification, because I have been working this for," he stopped himself to check his watch. "a little bit over four months now." He went on thanking the people for their patience and all that bull. "If I had a nickel for every time the contest was brought up in a message, I would own a castle. In fact, that's why I now own this castle, because I got a nickel for every time I was asked about it." The crowd murmured. It was a very nice castle, very spacious.

"But enough of this crap! Finally, I shall announce the winners right here. First things first though!" he quickly read off short list of names, that somehow included a panda, who had helped him through the four grueling months. It was these selected at random people, and a panda, who were responsible for choosing the 20 winners. The people who would be getting a spot in the Kings division. Squad 101. "Now, you all have really cool Zanpaktou, and multiple ones have Bankai. So, obviously we're not a regular division. We are the only division based in the human world, of course humans cannot enter because of the barriers but that's besides that point. We are the gifted squad. All of us here are very strong, but we do not fit within the walls of the Seireitei. We are the people who cannot or will not conform to their hierarchy. Of course we still in service but our structure is lacks. I am your captain but I'm not really going to be ordering you around too much, or at all really." He clapped his hands together and picked up the book he had thrown down earlier "Let's begin shall we?" He pulled up a chair and motioned for everyone to sit down, this might take a while.

He started off at the bottom "the 20th seat of the great squad 101 is, Naruto Ino with her Zanpaktou, the Niji no Kami or Rainbow god." There was a scream in the crowned as a girl with long blond hair jumped up and danced. "Congratulations Naruto, please make your way to your right side for your prize and proof of seat badge. 19th seat is Amulet Cloveress, and her Zanpaktou White Fox. Uh, there is a way of pronouncing it in Japanese but I can only make out Shiro." Everyone's head turned to find the girl who had just been called. She stood near the back, trying to make her way over to the side where the chosen were supposed to meet. Her sword was dangling at her hip, but the blade was made of glass, making it hard to tell if it was really there or not. Not many were really looking at her sword anyways, her uniform was rather tight fitting. "18th seat! Soul R. PS the third! Their Zanpaktou called Evil Justice and I can't read the Kanji." He paused, looking up from his book to see Soul trying to make their way to the other winners "Both Soul and Amulet have mist like abilities. So you two are friends! I'm not bossing you around, but I'm your captain, so you know, play nice. Or maybe you can be rivals, how about that?" Amulet looked down at Soul, they were very short and Amulet was very tell, giving them a quick look over before turning her head to pay attention to the captain.

"I don't think he should be telling them about our power." Amulet commented under her breath. It seemed like something they should have to figure out for themselves.

"It's not like anyone here's going to betray us," Soul replayed, not facing the girl. "We're all going to be in the squad, we're just the lucky ones who get seats."

"Yeah well I wish I could get a seat, my feat hurt." Naruto complained loudly.

"Shhh!" Amulet scolded.

"17th seat is Tenchi Cokai, and the Zanpaktou Undō-ryoku or Kinetic force. Now Tenchi, don't try and stop any meteors while you're here, I'm looking at your file and that won't work." Tenchi looked disappointed but went to grab his prize anyway "16th seat is Jim Smite! Zanpaktou is Tetsu Ōji no Hidari or The Left of the Iron Prince. That is an awesome name." He went on talking about something but no one was really paying attention because on his way to the side, Jim had managed to trip and land face first on top of some poor girl's large chest. He was really shy and awkward about it to, trying to apologies and continue on only to fall again away from her and into the dirt. "He also has Bank- Ok I need to take this off its extraordinarily hot up here." He struggled to take off he jacket and a couple of people whistled for the hell of it. Nearly everyone had missed Jim even had a Bankai.

"Uh, sorry." He muttered as he tripped over his own feat and toppled into Naruto.

"Nah dude, it's cool." She smiled.

"15th seat" King went in "Mercury Venus! Zanpaktou is Moeru Oni or Burning Demon." He paused, reading through his book "Umm, is the blade is smoking, run, run as far and fast as you can. Oh, uh, big weakness, not going to share it. You, uh, might want to get that checked out there Mercury. That seems like it's going to cause you some problems in the future, both Shikai and Bankai. The Bankai is called Honō yarinage or Flame Javelin. Which again, is a freaking awesome name."

"Guess us boys have to stick together!" Mercury yelled as he grabbed Jim and Tenchi over on the side. Wile he was short, he wasn't as short as Jim, though Soul was still the shortest, so he didn't have to reach like he did with Tenchi, who towered over them all.

"Uh, what about Soul?" Jim said, trying to get out from Mercury's grasp.

"I'm not sure Soul is a male, but if even if, I don't want to get to close with a Zanpaktou with that kind of name." Tenchi said, simply lifting the arm off his shoulder.

"Hey, what about my Zanpaktou?" Mercury cried.

"God, you're annoying." Tenchi muttered before getting elbowed on the side by Naruto who had suddenly gotten really close and wanted them to shut up.

"14th is Daphne Herring." The King continued "Her Shikai is called Shi Kokyū or Breathing Death. It is a wind type Zanpaktou." A very beautiful, tall, Latino girl stood up to make her way over to the winners. Many of the on lookers were shocked, such a beautiful lady with such a dark sword name. Daphne went over to Jim and gave him a nice nod, she was the one he had tripped on when trying to get over to the side. Suddenly the King stood up and went behind the curtain, only to return a moment later with a giant bottle of 7up in hand "By the way," he took a swig of the drink "official drink right here." He put his drink down and continued on with the announcement, only to realize he had spilled some on the name "uh, 13th seat." He tried to rub the liquid off only to smear the ink "names Tom, uh, Pouter"

"That's not my name!" A tall skinny guy with shoulder length yelled.

"To bad! It is now!" Tek yelled back before returning to the book. "His Zanpaktou is Naite Akuma or Crying Devil." He clicked his tongue a couple times "Hey, Tom, are you the super gory guy who's was sent here because squad 11 didn't want you?"

"Yep!"

"Glade to have you! Work on your stamina!" He took another swig of soda "Uh, where were we? Ah! Seat 12, Mu Brigs. Zanpaktou is Kaminari Himei or Lightning Scream. Just a warning, we have a lot of lighting people. Do with that information as you may. Ok, hey Mu!" he looked up from the book to see the medium sized girl trying to get past the rows of bodies "Find a medic and stick with them!" She gave a quick wave and trying to hop her way to the side. Only her movements were stiff which was odd since she clearly had muscle. "Oh cool, your Bankai makes you a knight." He flipped to the next page "Our 11th seat is the squads' medic. XV Shadow and her Zanpaktou Mizu Otome or water maiden. So X, go find Mu. Alright, the 10th seat, Mr. DB and his Zanpaktou, Piasushīrudo or Piercing Shield. Another knight and you to are not allowed to go after meteors."

When Mr. DB and XV managed to get over to the side, DB grabbed Tenchi's arm and pulled him down to his height, both the 10th and 11th seats were tall in their own rights, but Tenchi. "Wana do it anyways?" DB whispered.

"Hell yeah." He smiled back. XV just shook her head, her long brown hair swooshing in the air. She did not want to clean up that mess but knowing she eventually would.

"9th seat" The king continued "Is, uh, God dame it I can't read your name," he squinted and held the book up to his face. "Detracost Bleacher. That's your name now!" it was so wrong but Det didn't even try correcting it as they got up to join the others. "Zanpaktou is Kyōki no Saundo or Sound of Insanity." Some of the winners turned to face the new comer, a sound based ability was rare, and difficult to deal with. "It's another disorientation effect so go hang out with the mists and rainbow over there." He read through the weaknesses "Oh, and find the Medic!" he laughed and looked down at his book again "Looks like you have a Bankai, very morbid and festive. How nice." He smiled. "8th seat is Raven Kisomaru with her Zanpaktou Ankoku or Darkness!" A girl stood up with two swords strapped to her hip, another rarity. "Has a Bankai." He paused and looked up at the girl's bright purple hair carrying an umbrella "your kind of like a vampire aren't you?" She just shrugged and joined the others.

Daphne came over to great her, "Mind if I join you?" she asked, referring to the shade. Raven looked at the tan girl before moving her umbrella over to cover them both.

"Ok, 7th seat, Sky Crown. Zanpaktou is Sybankai lateninia. I am pronouncing that wrong but whatever. This one specializes in hand to hand combat so do try and not get into any fights or go assassins creed power." he laughed. A kid with eyes bright blue eyes and shaggy brown hair in a ponytail popped up from the crowd and sprinted to the side. "Alright, 6th seat, we're almost done! This one goes to Wan Nola with his Zanpaktou Jereseo! It's a kido type blade and goes off of emotion so don't piss this one off. Be Zen Wan, be Zen"

"Will do King!" Wan yelled as he made his way over to the side to join the growing army. He was the only one even close to Tenchi's height but still fell short.

"5th seat!" he yelled as he took another swig of his drink "Enzi Anma with their Zanpaktou Reisu Kaminari or Thunder Wraith." A person stood up and tried to get through the crowed, what most noticed about them though, was the lack of a sword, and the long pink hair that made some think the boy was in fact a girl. Though they would be wrong. "4th seat is, uh 4th seat is," he paused to take a sip of soda only to make a face before swallowing "4th seat is Rensa Forsuto and his Zanpaktou Fanshi Shicucu. Butchered that terribly. It's another kido type so the first guy won't be alone. And he has a Bankai so that's cool." He took a breath a stretched. A Native American male stood up and nudged his way to the side. "Alright everyone top three! If you didn't make t don't worry because everyone here is now a member of the elite 101 squad so give yourself a round of applause. But if you made it this far them you should be really thankful because I probably lost a lot of sleep over you."

Everyone clapped but the seated members sounded the most genuine. "Who do you think it'll be?" Wan asked.

"I don't know, but they have to be something if they beat me out." Rensa laughed, adjusting his sleeve. The it was one of those kinds that aren't actually attached to the rest of the outfit but instead warn like armbands, similar to how Raven's uniform was cut, but instead of drop crotch pants he had no back to his uniform.

"Third seat! Of squad 101! Is Neo Blade the Eighth and their Zanpaktou Inazuma Senkō or Lightning Flash. Now keep in mind there are to third seats so Neo, you will have a partner." Neo went over to get his prize and waiting for his partner. A lot of the crowd stared at his as he went because instead of a standard black shihakushō, his top was white. Completely missing the first layer of the uniform. He was also one of the taller ones, just under Wan in height. "The other third seat Laugh Panda. And yes, that is their real name." he quickly added. The crowd quickly spotted the oddly named third seat trying to jump over some guys' head only to hit him with one of his two swords at her waist.

"Sorry." She mumbled, her brown eyes sparkling in the sunlight, partially hidden by her long brown hair. She was fairly short compared to her partner but in the medium height range with the rest of her squad. So that was the animal who had helped pick out the winners, odd that they would be so high up in positions. "Her Zanpaktou is called Tsuki no namida or Tears of the Moon and they do have a Bankai and its duel swords. Squad 101 does not conform to the rules! You could have 8 swords!" he paused to think about it "Well, maybe not because that might be a little difficult to use but whatever. Anyways, they are a water type and the other third seat is a lightning type. I did that for a reason. Because technically speaking, you could combine your power and kick ass."

The two third seats quickly got together and linked arms "Destruction?" Neo asked. His blue eyes looking down at her.

"Destruction." Laugh answered.

"Ok! So here we go! I'm almost done! I'm one entry away from finishing this four month long contest! I want to thank everybody, I want to thank the academy for doing this, I want to thank the person who I decided, to be my lieutenant. It took me three weeks to decide this!" he took another sip of the 7up. "The lieutenant," and another sip, "of squad 101" and another "second in command" and another "is" and another.

"Get on with it already!" someone yelled.

"Atticus Rez and their Zanpaktou Raito Kurai or Light and Dark!" the King said happily.

There was a scream from the crowd as a girl jumped up, dragging a black hair male with her and hugging him "You did it!" she yelled before shoving the male to the side.

"Sorry." He muttered since he was pushed in to Enzi "Sister."

"And they have a Bankai!" He yelled. Closing his book, he stood up and spread his arm out. "That is it! Thank you all so much for being so patient and I welcome you into your new home! Those who made a seated position, please join he in the throne room. Everyone else, please make your way to the dining hall to get your sleeping arrangements." He turned, grabbed his soda, and walked behind the black curtain. There was some commotion among the crowd before they started towards the castle.

"Wow," Det breathed out as he walked into the castle and taking off his grey headphones "This is amazing." The entrance hall alone was big enough to fit the entire Kuchiki estate with in it. The walls and floor were made up of tightly put together stones and the ceiling was so high up it was impossible to see the detail in the design, though there appeared to be some. Straight ahead was a large staircase with a sigh at the bottom that had an arrow on it saying go up the stairs and to the right to get to the throne room and to the left to the dining hall.

"Come on, we need to hurry." Sky said, trying to push Det out of his way and up the stairs.

"Race you to the top!" Enzi yelled as he ran past the two and headed for the stairs. His long pink hair almost getting caught in some wall decorations.

"You're on!" he laughed back, pushing past Det to get in front of the forming crowd. Det just shrugged and ran after them, or tried to. His movement was rather stiff. The three followed the sighs each trying to best the other in speed while trying not to crash at the sharp turns the castle provided. When they finally did reach the throne room they stopped and took a breath. The room was stunning, but in an oddly plane way. The stone that was used to make up the walls and floor was a lighter color and there were windows on each side, making the room appear to be like a floating bridge in the center of the castle. Enzi and Sky walked over to the windows and looked down to see a lush garden below and a random black horse drinking from the fountain.

Slowly, Enzi reached up and gave a sharp tug of Sky's short pony tail. "Ow!" he yelled, rubbing his head and glaring at Enzi who just smiled in return. "Fine, be that way." He mumbled and let down his thin brown hair so it would hang just above his shoulders. Det just rolled his eyes and went over to the long white table that took up the majority of the space in the room. There were 18 tall seats and one bench, each with a hole near the top forming a number. At the opposite end of the table from where he was standing was a small set of stairs hat lead to a tall white throne that had three bars sticking out of the top, one in the middle and one on each side.

Eventually everyone made their way to the room, which took a while because most didn't feel like running, and took their seat. The two third seats sitting in the large bench. "This is nice." Rensa commented, "kind of plain but nice."

"Yeah but I could do without all those photos behind the epic chair up there." Mr. DB said from further down the table as he pulled out a flask.

"Where did get that?" Tom asked "Can I have some?"

"No, mine." He said, pulling the alcohol close to his chest. Instead, Rensa pulled out some strange drink in a decretive bottle from his fanny pack.

Slowly Tom reached for it. That sized bottle shouldn't have fit in that small pouch. "Should I ask what this is?"

"No."

Suddenly the door to the left of the throne open and the King walked in and sat down. "Welcome everyone, I asked you to come in here today, one because I wanted to show off this awesome throne room, and two because I though you deserved to know a little bit about your captain. Now technically I don't have my Zanpaktou with me at the moment, my dark self stole it. More on that later."

Soul raised their hand "Uh, King?" they asked in an unsure voice.

"Please, call me Mat."

"Do you mean there's a dark version of yourself just wandering around the human world with untold power?"

"It's not untold, I'm explaining it to you now."

"That's not the point king." Amulet cut in. "You mean to tell us that's there two of you?"

"No, there's six."

"Ah man." Atticus wined "My job just got a hell of a lot harder."

Jim leaned forward "So, are they here? In the castle?" he asked in a shaky voice.

"Yes, well, some of them, but back to the point. Actually, you might need to know this if you ever run into him, oh by the way, if you ever meat my dark self, run. But uh, once you know what I can do, it'll make more sense why I picked Atticus as my lieutenant. Now, I'm deliberately leaving a bunch of stuff out, but that's for your own good." Mat pushed a button and a large transparent blue screen rose up from the table, spanning from one end to the other. On it appeared a really crappy drawing of a bunny dressed in a suit and tie with a sword in its hand. "My Shikai command is eclipse and my swords name is black sun or Kuroi Taiyō. So, basically it has the ability to control light and darkness, which is kind of what Atticus's does, but it works a little bit differently. Its abilities lay in spheres." The picture of the bunny zoomed in on just the sword, which was turned upside down. Along the blades edge, spheres of "now I can use it as a regular sword to but I can use the spheres to. To summon the spheres I would call Kuroi Taiyō Alpha. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and so on. Kuroi Taiyō Alpha summons one sphere at the tip of the blade, and I can use these in different ways. I can merge it with the sword for an energy bust, I can stab the ground and release an earth quake. I can swing and send the sphere off so it can explode. I can summon more than one sphere at a time, but I have a limit of five." The rabbit drawing acted out each action "And the same thing with the dark side of it, but instead of controlling light, or ire, or heat, it controls gravity and I would say Mávros Alpha." The rabbit moved to the left of the screen and a chart was pulled up "The ratio of power is if I'm at 100% reishi, each light sphere would take up 3%. If I'm using a black sphere it would take up 9%. I have a chart of energy that I can use, if I have 80% or more of my spirit energy, I'm stable. 60-80 is mildly exhausted, 40-60 severely exhausted, 20-40 I'm unconscious, anything below is very bad. Like coma or death bad." The chart moved away and the buddy laid down pretending to be dead. Slowly the screen was lowered.

"Is that it?" Mercury asked "Is that all you're going to tell us."

"Oh, and I have a Bankai." He added.

"No shit Sherlock. You're the fucking captain." He leaned back in chair and yawned "So are we done here 'cause I am fucking hungry."

"Yeah, you can leave." He said nonchalantly and got up to leave himself. "Oh, one more thing. The sleeping arrangements. Every three seats are together up until the 12th seat, then 11-3 are put in pairs and Atticus, you're on your own."

"It's a castle. And you're making us share bedrooms." Wan complained, slouching down to the point where he was practically laying on the table.

"Yes but you should see the others." He laughed "Four to a room and only two community bathroom on each floor." The group of 20 mumbled before pushing off from their seats and following the small of food. The dining hall was fairly big and still pretty busy, but near the center was a long empty table with plates and a letter with a number on each spot.

They all quickly got in line to get their food and settle down at the table. Tom looked over at XV "Umm, X?"

"Mh." She answered as she took a drink of water.

"Why do you have 7 glasses of water?"

"Oh," she looked down "Well uh, my ability is based around water."

"And?"

"Where do you think that water comes from."

"Oh." Tom looked down at his own food "That kind of sucks." He picked at his pasta on his plate. "Hey, has anyone opened the letter yet?"

"Raven has." Daphne said, as she ripped a piece Bolillo. "It's the key to our room and a map of the castle." Tom looked over at Raven who was busy taking a sip of some red drink. One by one the group finished eating and headed up to their room. They ended up on one of the top floors, Naruto Amulet and Soul went into the room closest to the door. Tenchi, Jim, and Mercury went into another. Daphne, Tom and Mu went into their own room, however they immediately kicked Tom out and pulled XV in. Tom was left with Mr. DB.

They were about to close the door when Mu ran out and grabbed Raven and dragged her in as well. "We expect the bed as well." She said only to look over her shoulder and into the room to see there was 2 extra beds. "Never mind. Hey Laugh, you wana join us?"

"Nay, I'm good. I got a curtain." She said and closed her door.

"Suit yourself." Mu said and closed her door as well.

Det shrugged and went over to Sky's and Wan's door, who had already gone in, and asked if he could sleep in their room since he preferred being around people at all times. Enzi and Rensa walked Atticus to the end of the hall before saying goodbye and turning in for the night.

Atticus sighed and closed the door. On one of the bed was his giant suitcase, he sighed again and shoving it onto the floor before pushing the second bed next to the other and getting into it. Today had been a good day. Tomorrow seemed like it would be a little bit harder.