A peaceful silence had settled over the ShinÅ Academy, broken only be the lectures of the teachers (or the crack of wood upon wood, in the kenjutusu training room). A few students did have free time on their hands, and included in this group was Sakura Isudu, a first year student who had already completed two years work of courses in the past six months. Surprisingly, she was not alone in that feat, for three others shared the accomplishment as well; Ryuku Hajime, Akemi Isano and Hayato Nakamura. The four young prodigies were sitting in the courtyard, doing their respective tasks.
Sakura was drawing in her sketchbook, her homework assignments strewn idly around her. Her long, dark blonde hair was tied back in a loose ponytail, but a few strands had escaped, hanging in front of her narrowed, icy blue eyes.
Ryuku had a book in front of his face, pretending to be reading. His sharp, blue grey eyes were closed as he attempted to get some sleep. His wavy, light blue grey hair was as messy as always, just barely hanging in his eyes.
Akemi was making an origami dragon, her gentle and nimble fingers working their magic, folding the paper quickly and accurately. Her soft blue eye was trained on her work, the other hidden behind her honey coloured hair.
Hayato, as stoic as ever, was the only one actually bothering to do work. He had to constantly keep brushing his wild and long, spiky dark purple hair out of his cold amber eyes. His hand moved quickly, his pencil flying across the paper.
"Hayato...What are you doing?" Ryuku murmured sleepily, glancing over at his friend.
"Work." Came Hayato's monotonous and simple response. Like you and Sakura should be doing." He added.
"And Akemi is excluded from that why?" Sakura enquired, however she didn't look up at him, too focused on her drawing.
"She finished it in class."
Ryuku sighed, and sat up, setting his book down. "I guess it would be good to get it out of the way..." He yawned, and started to scribble in answers.
"I'll finish it later...I want to finish this picture first." Sakura muttered, drawing furiously.
"Sakura, the last time you said that, you ended up staying up the entire night to finish something." Akemi pointed out quietly. Sakura rolled her eyes.
"That was a project, Akemi, not a sheet of paper... Besides, I'm almost done."
"Yeah right!" Ryuku scoffed, leaning over to take a look at the drawing. "You've got hell of a lot more things to do! You've just finished defining each person." He added, and then continued to do his work.
Sakura opened her mouth to send a witty and insulting retort back, but the bell rang, cutting her off. Ryuku grinned and laughed, prompting Sakura to hit him on the head with her hardcover spiral bound sketchbook. Akemi laughed quietly, watching as the two continued their little dispute, and Hayato allowed a small smile to grace his lips before heading to class.
"Just like any other day."
A/N: Sorry it's so short, but I figured it would be good to just introduce the characters and give a general feel of their personalities before going too far into the plot. Anyways, I'd really appreciate it if you could point out any flaws and/or mistakes that you see.
Thanks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, it is owned by Tite Kubo. No copyright infringement intended.
