Greetings my name is Antono Rosamaro I'm a high school student living in Japan my father was from England and when he died a year ago I've bin living in Japan with my mother. I had no idea that coming to live in Japan would be as adventures as its about to become.
"Antono, Antono"
A ruler then came flying through the air and hit him on the forehead.
"Ow, what was that for" Antono shouted
"You shouldn't daydream in class you know, for that I want you to read from page 42 from your history book I'm sure you've learnt Japanese writing by now"
That's Haruhi she our teacher she quite weird and has a my way or high way personality.
"Knowing that half bred slum he barley knows Japanese"
That's Hideki he's so up his own ass sometimes its unbelievable.
Antono picked up the history book and threw it at Hideki hitting him right in the eye and knocking off his chair.
"Can you read it now" Antono said laughing
"Why you son of a-" Hideki jumped at Antono
The two of them started punching it out and the teacher Haruhi just stood there watching.
"Shouldn't we stopped them miss" said Matsuo the class rep
"Those two are top of the class in karate if you want to get in the middle of them go ahead"
"You two stop this at once your acting like children" Matsuo shouted
"Who asked you, you ugly cow" shouted Antono
"What!"
The fight ended with Antono on top of Hideki and Hideki face down on the ground with Antono pulling his arm behind his back trying dislocate it. But then someone hit him over the head with there bag.
Antono jumped up turned and grabbed them by the neck.
"What was that for" he shouted in their face
He let go when he saw who it was, it was Yuna
"Yuna I'm sor-"
Yuna slapped him hard round the face
"So you should be, you've messed up my make- up" she shouted putting her hands on her hip and turning away closing her eyes but keeping one open looking at Antono's reaction.
Antono might as well have steam coming out of his ears he picked up a table lifting it over his head, Yuna cowered as he took at step towards her but he then did a 180 and hit it over the head of Hideki who had just gotten up and was about to hit him with a chair. With Hideki on the floor Antono was too hit with something hard and hit the floor.
"You too are at it again"
"Kouta sensai!" both Hideki and Antono said together and quickly got to there knees and bowed
Kouta the Karate master grabbed them both by the hair and pulled them screaming out of the room.
"Is it over said Haruhi, right lets get started again"
With Antono and Hideki of kneeling Kouta starting shouting at them the same things he's shouted at them in the past and Antono and Hideki were just daydreaming pretending to listen.
After he finished Kouta stormed off unknown to him he had written on his back 'insert manhood here' with and arrow pointing down.
Hideki looked at it and then turned to Antono, Antono grinned, Hideki laughed and gave him a one arm hug. "Come on lets get some lunch"
"So the baseball tournament is this Saturday" said Yuna who had joined them
"Where?" asked Hideki
"Somewhere, in the east of Japan and this time we'll win because we got Antono"
"Why do I have to play" said Antono
"Too late I put your name on the list your part of the school baseball team" shouted Yuna
"I'm gonna kill you"
"What do you think Hinta" asked Hideki
"Um I don't mind" she said quietly
"So this Saturday meet here and the coach will take us to victory, oh and if your late you'll suffer the penalty" with that Yuna ran off
On the day Antono was supposed to meet at the school for the tournament he slept in on purpose he thought that if he didn't turn up they'll get someone else or just forfeit how wrong he was.
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" Antono had just had a bucket of cold water thrown over him by Yuna
"What are you doing get out of bed now!" she shouted as she dragged him out of bed onto the floor
"Wait I'm naked"
"You sleep nude you pervert"
Surprisingly she doesn't seem to bothered by the fact he had no clothes on Antono thought to himself
After being dragged outside with only his trousers on and a bag that Yuna had stuffed full of whatever she thought necessary he found they had made the coach take a detour to his house.
On the coach Antono had gotten properly dressed but was pissed of because he could hear Yuna making jokes about him and you can guess what about and believe it or not the class rep was on the team as well and shouted at him for not only being late but half dressed Antono didn't realise but she was blushing while shouting at him. The class rep Matuso wanted to seat everyone by sex no girls and boys together but with nobody listening she eventually gave up but Matsuo kept and eye out for anything she thought inappropriate.
Antono was seated next to Hideki who didn't travel well.
"Don't worry I took my travel sickness tablet today"
"That didn't help last time"
Hideki laughed, he remembered full well what happened we threw up all over Antono while he was talking to Yuna it just so happened to be the first time he met Yuna.
As the they travelled for longer and longer Hideki turned more and more pale.
That's it I'm sitting somewhere else Antono shouted as he jumped into the seat behind right next to Matsuo.
"What are you doing?" she shouted
"Shut up he's gonna be sick and last time he was sick all over me"
"I don't care go away" she went to slap him but he grabbed her wrist and put his face right up to hers so their noses were nearly touching "I do care and I'm sitting here weather you like it or not"
Yuna looked over and thought they were kissing
"Antono your getting it on Matsuo" she shouted
Everyone looked at them and started laughing and teasing them.
Matsuo wouldn't admit it but she kinda want to kiss Antono.
Hours went by as they were stuck in a traffic jam, Hideki hadn't been sick yet but was still feeling bad Antono was reading his manga and Matsuo had fallen asleep.
Antono looked over at Matsuo, she seemed so peaceful when she was asleep. She always seemed uptight, she then shifted and rested her head on Antono's lap.
He was about to push her off but then put down his manga and went to sleep himself.
Matsuo woke up before Antono to find she was cuddling up him with her head against his chest and his arm round her. Her face went nearly completely red, she was about to move when someone touched her shoulder. It was Yuna who was now sitting next to Hideki.
"Shhh you look so cute like that" she whispered
Matsuo didn't say anything
She started to blush even more when Antono them cuddled her with his other arm as well.
Yuna was taking pictures, Matsuo wanted get up but Antono although was sleeping had a firm hold on her. He then started mumbling something
Yuna and Matsuo strained their ears to try and hear, tears started coming down his cheeks, 'don't leave me' is all they could make out of his mumbling.
Matsuo then started to gently shake him.
"Wake up" she said
Antono than came to he looked around then what he was cuddling he looked at Matsuo for a couple of seconds then, screamed, she screamed back then Yuna screamed then Antono screamed at Yuna and Antono jumped out the window. Luckily the coach had made a pit stop.
Antono ran into the petrol station and can face to face with Hideki who wasn't so pale anymore. "Oh good you're here I got you some ice tea"
Antono took and walked out with Hideki and told him what had happened.
"I know I saw you too cuddling up to each other I couldn't stand to wake you up, ah your so lucky, Matsuo she so hot" "But she's so annoying she's always complaining about me and hitting me"
"So maybe that's her way of saying she likes you"
"Fat chance" Antono stormed off back onto the coach
Antono was going to sit next to Hideki's seat but Hinta was there, he didn't want to mean and tell her to move so he walked over and sat next Matsuo. Avoiding her eyes he picked up his bag that was by her feet and pulled out his manga. Matsuo was trying to hide the fact she was blushing and avoided looking at him though it was uncomfortable that everyone on the coach was looking at them.
The rest of the journey was done in silence everyone was getting fed up with coach journey, but Matsuo finally found her voice.
"So what are you reading?" Antono jumped slightly he didn't expect her to talk to him again so soon and this casually
"Pretty face"
"Any good"
"Yeah its quite funny"
"What's it about?" Antono gave her the quick version on the book
When they finally arrived at the hotel they were allocated rooms in pairs, and Antono was again stuck with Hideki.
"This rooms not so bad, ooh mini bar" said Hideki in delight
"You know they charge you for that"
"Come on a little sake wouldn't hurt"
Matsuo was sharing a room with Yuna
Matsuo was reading and Yuna daydreaming she looked at Matsuo
"Wanna know how big Antono is"
"Waaaa what did you say"
"Bet your interested"
"Yuna that's completely-"
"Come on I know how you look at him and watch him playing sports" she right up close to her
"Wait how do you know his size"
"Hehehehe I dragged him out of bed this morning and he wasn't wearing anything do you wanna see it"
"Err"
"Ill distract Hideki while Antono's in the shower and you go have a look"
Strangly one of the things going through Matsuo's head was 'don't the boys usually peek at the girls.
Yuna dragged Matsuo to Antono's and Hideki's room they stopped when they heard a lot of crashing and banging and yelling. They banged on the door but no answer eventually the hotel staff arrived and had to break down the door. When they got in they Hideki banging Antono's head in the closet door he stopped when he heard everyone come in but this gave Antono a chance to grab Hideki's privates and pull him to the ground and rammed his head into wall again and again he eventually stopped and when he noticed everyone watching.
After the commotion calmed down the staff member put them on probation for the damage and charged the school for repairs and Yuna and Matsuo had to tend to their injuries. Both had cuts to their heads.
"So what was the fight about this time" asked Yuna as she bandaged up Hideki's head
"A card game" Hideki replied
Matsuo was wrapping a bandage round Antono's hand she looked up at to see him watching her face.
"What!" she said firmly
"What about what"
"Your looking a little to hard and I don't like it"
"Like I care what you like"
The two of thyem glared at each other.
"I'm going to have a shower" he got up but tripped and landed on top of Matsuo his hands each side of her head, they looked at each other Antono wanted to kiss those lips that seemed to be inviting him and Matsuo wanted thim to also but.
"Someones getting excited" said Yuna with a grin
"Shut up im gonna have shower"
"Make it a cold one"
" Shut up"
He shouted slaming the door behind him.
"Matsuo go on go in there" said Yuna smiling
"What no way"
"Is that why you two came here" asked Hideki
With that Matsuo stood up and stormed out of the room
"Now that we're alone we could have some fun" said Yuna to Hideki
"What?"
"Just kidding" she said tapping him on the nose
The next day they were alowd to go and explore the town since the basball match wasn't till tomorrow, Antono decided to take this time to be alone and think, but as fate would have it nothing last for ever just as he turned a cornor.
"Ow" Antono had just fallen over after walking into someone
"Hey you should watch where your going"
"What do you me mean me you should watch where your going"
Antono stood up and sized up the stranger he was taller than Antono with orange hair he carried his bag over his shoulder and he was wearing a school uniform so Antono thought he wasn't that much older than he.
"I havent seen you before who are you?" he asked
"Antono Rosamaro I'm from another outside of town im here for the baseball tournament, and before you ask anything else I wish I wasn't here, and you are"
"I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, so if you don't want to be here why are you"
"I was dragged here by our captain she didn't even tell me till the last second that I was part of the team"
"She huh, you got pushed around by a girl"
"Ichigo what are you doing we've gotta!" shouted a girl from across the street
She was smaller than Antono with black hair.
"Yeah Rukia"
Antono smiled and said "being pushed around by a gril huh"
Ichigo smirked at the coment "Later"
"See ya"
"Wait, Antono was it"
"Yeah?"
"I think you dropped this" he said holding up his manga
"Oh thanks"
When he took the book from him it was like a bolt of lightening went through him he went dizzy and nearly fell over he had to lean on the wall for support.
"You ok" asked Ichigo
"Yeah im fine"
"Ichigo!" shouted Rukia
"Yeah!, see ya"
Antono then after he felt better started walking of in the different direction 'what was tht' he thought to himself, after walking around for hours he got completely lost and guess what it statred to rain.
"Oh bugger what do I do now"
He looked around but all the shops were closed there was nowhere he could go to get shelter, until he saw a sweet shop open, he ran in side.
"Hello anyone here"
With that a man came round the cornor wearing a white and green stripped hat and a green robe he covered half his face with a fan which Antono thought was kinda weird.
"Welcome" he said
"Do you mind if I crash here until the rain stopped im not sure where my hotel is and im not to fond of walking around in that rain" asked Antono
"Mmmm no problem ill get you some tea"Antono could see his eyes were scanning him quite intently. The man went into the back and nearly a second later a little girl appeared with some tea.
"Here you go" she said in a sweet and quiet voice
"Thanks"
He sat there for what seemed like forever he tried to talk to the girl but she only gave one word answeres.
After the rain finally stopped he got up to leave.
"Do you know where your hoel is"
Antono turned to see it was the man he saw when he first came in.
"I know ruffley where it is, oh and thank you for letting me stay here" Antono said with a bow
"Na na don't mention it im sure ill be seeing you again very soon" he said with the fan again coveriung his face.
"Thanks again" Antono said as he went out the door 'what a starange guy' he thought to himself as he walked in the direction he thought his hotel.
2 hours later he arrived back at his hotel.
"Where have you been you missed practice" shouted Yuna as he stepped in the room
"What are you doing in my room" he shouted
"Waiting for you so I can shout at you when you got back where have you been"
"Nowhere special just bin walking around"
"Antono im glad your back" said Matsuo though she didn't look up from her book
"What are you reading?" he asked
"Nothing really"
"Is that my manga"
"No"
"It is isn't it"
Antono then started tickling Matsuo to get it back even after she had dropped it.
In the morning Antono had a rude awakening by Hideki.
"Good morning Antono todays the day of our match get up"
"Go away!"
Eventually they did get Antono out of bed though he slept on the bench whenever he could.
"Right this is out last chance we're 5 points down we can win" shouted Yuna
When it got to Antonos turn to bat they 3 points behind they needed a homerun to win
Yuna then had a great idea how to get him to play better, she grabbed a few of the girls from they're school that come to watch and Matsuo and Hinta and they changed into cheerleading outfits. Antono then stepped up to the base he then spotted the cheerleaders and his eyes quickly found Matsuo who though wasn't cheering as much as the others he then got a good look at her figure.
The pitcher threw.
"Strike one"
He threw again.
"Strike two"
"Antono what are you doing swing god dammit" shouted Yuna very annoyed
"Oh ive missed one" he said
"You've missed two
"What?!"
The pitch threw, Antono quickly swung his bat and hit it in a near straight line all the way to the out fielder hitting him in the face.
"I did it" he thought to himself
"Don't stand there run"again Yuna shouted
Antono ran as fast as he could but then it was like a explosion went of at the seats where th audience sat. Then another and another then he saw what it was a huge black creature the size of a house rampaging through the staduim it had a white mask on.
"What the hell is that" Antono shouted pointing at it
Hideki ran to him.
"Antono are you ok" he asked
"Hideki can you see that thing"
"What thing"
Hideki had a look of confusion on his face
"Come on we've gotta get out of here" he shouted
Hideki ran off Antono was still in shock what was it why was it here
"Can I offer a hand of asistants"
Antono turned around, it was the guy from the sweet shop with the greend and white stripped hat. He lifted he cane to Antonos head and pushed him with it.
Antono felt a wird change it seemed like his entire body suddenly shifted his clothes were different he was wearing hakama and straw sandels.
"Just as I thought" he said "Right now destroy that thing"
"What? You kinding" Antono shouted then he realized a body slumped on tne floor, and saw it was him.
"What the fuck is that im there but im here" he shouted
"Never worry about that if you don't hurry that thing is going to eat everyone"
Antono looked around and saw that the creature was advancing on a girl who had fallen over, he then saw it was Matsuo, he charged of to save.
"Use your weapon that's on your back" shouted the in the hat
"Huh" he thought but he didn't have time to think he rushed over just as the creature was about to grab Matsuo he grabbed her him self and jumped about 20 feet away.
He looked back at the distance and thought 'shit I could never do that before'
Mastuo then started screaming.
"Ahhh somthings got me"
"Hey Matsuo its just me" he said trying to calm her down
"Its no use when your in that form she cant see you" the guy with the hat had appeared in front of them "Use your weapon and go kill it"
Antono put his hand behind his back and pulled out a long pole that would be part of a scythe but at the end was a samuri sword. "Ah yours is the form of a scythe sword gon on ill look after your friend"
Matsuo had fainted from all the shock and comotion, Antono then turned to the creature that had set its eyes back on them and was advancing.
"All right you bastard you tried to hurt Matsuo your dead" with that he charged at full speed right towards Antono was noticing something different he was faster he then clashed with the creature the creature had gone to punch him but Antono stopped it dead with his weapon he then jumped onto the creatures arm ran up it and cut of its head. It let out a cry for a few moments then evaporated.
Antono ran back to Matsuo.
"Don't worry she's fine, and before I explain anything let introduce myself im Uahara Kisuke" he went to leave "Hey wait a minute where are you going I need to ask you a few things" Antono shouted after him
"Come by my shop tomorrow and ill tell you" he replied "Oh and if you wanmt to get back in your body push up against its back"
Antono tried this and sure enough he was back in.
The next day the news blamed a gas leak for the exposion and all the baseball team was told to stay in the hotel, Antono was luckily enough able to sneak out and as he made his way to the shop thought kept running though his mind 'what was that creature, why couldn't anyone see me' why could he' why did I gain all these special abilities' how long have I had them' why cant I do it anymore. Before he new it he was outside the shop there were two kids sweeping outside one he reconised as the black headed girl who brought him tea when he was here last the other was a red headed kid about the same height.
"Hey kids is this Uahara's shop" he asked
"Yeah who wants to know" said the red headed kid
"Oh welcome back" said the girl with a bow
"I'm Antono im here to see Uahara"
The girl showed him in.
"Make yourself at home I'll go get the manager" she said running of into the back and minutes later Uahara arrived.
"So who are you" he asked
"Don't tell me you've forgotten me already"
"Im kidding it was a joke to break the tension, so have a seat because what im about to tell you will be quite a bit to take in"
Uahara began to explain about what the monster was thye two different types of spirits and a brief explanation on the soul society pretty muh what Ruikia told Ichigo when they first met and this being a fan fiction im aloud to refer back to that stuff so shut up.
Antono just sat there looking at him.
"You know you shouldn't stare at people like that"
"Your expecting me to believe this" said Antono
"The fact that you fought one yesterday shouldn't make it too hard to believe"
Antono sat there in thought for a while.
"So how'd I end up with these abilities?"
"I'm not sure of that yet and to answer your next question you should go back home and do what you feel you need because you have two choices ahead of you" suddenly he got more serious "You can either choose to usde you powers to protect the lost souls and the sous of your friends and those you love, or you can choose to ignore it and let hollows go on the rampage, just remember the soul society cant be everywhere at once holes and hollows can be hard to track sometimes" Uahara glared at Antono
"Well that's an easy decision im gonna fight these hollows I cant let anyone get hurt especially those I love like my mother and Matsuo"
"Splendid then lets get started" said Uahara getting to his feet
"With what?"
"Your training" Uahara lifted a trap door on the floor to reveal a ladder
Well you couldn't call it a basement and to save time and effort im sure you already know what it looks like.
After briefly going throught the basicson how to fight, Uahara drew his own swor and lunged at him Antono needed many times to be treated for first aid for two days he trained until his body was so exhausted he colasped and had o be taken back to the hospital.
But before they parted Uahara gave Antono a mobile phone that can detect when hollows are near and be able to contact him and a soul substitute pill.
Yuna wasn't to happy that he had bin missing for two days nor were the teachers they had had the police out looking for him though Antono was to exhausted to care and he slept all the way back on the coach. I know im skipping a lot here but I cant be bothered to write it impatience is a virtue.
Uahara also told him about the soul berial which sends lost souls onto the soul society, for the next two weeks Antono spent his time jumping in and out of his body to fight hollows it seemed they would pop up at moments when he was relaxing. But one day everything got turned upside down it started when Antono was walking home.
"Antono wait"
Antono looked round to see Matsuo running after him.
"Hey Matsuo you alright"
"Yeah I wanted to ask you if your feeling ok" she asked
"Yeah why"
"Well ever since we got back from that trip you've seemed kinda different"
"No im fine its just-" suddenly a truck mounted the pavement behind him he turned to see it coming right for them Antono tried to push Matsuo out the way and get out the way himself but to late. He was thrown at 10 feet away from the spot the was standing, but amazingly he was fine he checked himself but he wasn't cut or anything ' that was lucky' he thought he looked for Matsuo but she was nowhere to be seen. The truck had stopped and people were crotching down looking under the truck, Antono ran over.
"Hey is there someone under there" nobody responded
He looked under the truck himself to Matsuos blooded face starting back but not just hers his aswel, he then realised he was wearing his hakama.
"So wheres Matsuo spirit" he said outloud
That was the only thing he could think of he didn't even think that he had just died aswel he kept thinking ill deal with that when the time comes. Antono ran around for hours around the spot where the accident had occurred then he ran into town to her house to the school everywhere but he couldn't find her. For days he searched non stop the hollows he encounted along the way he just cut aside, did one of them get her, he thought for a moment but then he pushed that thought from his mind. Then weeks went by, then a month. When he finally stopped looking, he cried, it rained.
Weeks went by and Antono developed a monogamous daily pattern he would patrol each part of the town at different parts of the day as the north side from midnight till six the south from six till twelve the west from twelve till six in the evening and the east till midnight he had to change this often and the amount of time he spent in each area as the hollows eventually started to catch on to his routine. So he spent everyday hunting hollows sometimes he even made one hunt last a whole day just to put some fun in it even seeking out the strongest hollows but there was no hollow that could match him, his skill was improving fast with every kill he felt as though he was stronger, little did he know that there were beings only too near that had abilities far beyond his.
Antono was doing a patrol of the western side of the city which was unusually quiet but then it didn't last long he spotted a hollow running along an alley he was about to attack it when he saw something he'd never seen before.
The hollow was runnig along when suddenly a girl wearing the same hakama as him jumped out from and alley with a sword and tried to slice it but it jumped and started scaleing a wall Antono watched as other people all wearing hakama stared to gang up on it but none of them seemed to know what they were really doing some were using spells of like a falsh of red to destroy it but nothing was happening eventually Antono got so fed up watching them he jumped in and sliced it two with one stroke.
"You guys suck" he said most were on the ground injured in some way
"That's right you did a very crap job" some yelled from above them
Antono looked up but could only make out the outline of the figure, it then jumped down and landed in the middle of them all she was quite a small women with short hair with long pigtails that ran down her back and had gold rings attached to the ends, she wore a hakama as the rest but had a long white jacket on with the symbol 2 on the back.
"Captain we're sorry" one of them said
Many were bowing
"Well its time for us to go" she said "You whats your name" she was looking at Antono
"Antono Rosamaro" he replied
"I don't remember seeing your name on the list of applicants" she said
"Really I had no idea I had to apply to be a shinigami" Antono replied with a grin
The captain looked at him puzzled the others had no idea what was going on.
"What year of the academy are you in" the captain asked
"Oh there's an academy"
"So I guess your not from soul society" said the captain
"Bingo, Yatzee, well they don't call you bullet for nothing" Antono new that the captain was annoyed at that because he saw a her eyes narrow but he kept smiling.
"Later" and with that Antono jumped off the building they were on and disappeared
"Should we go after him captain"
"No, I'll report this to the commander"
Antono spent the next few days as he would any though he was happy that something new had happened, 'now that they know about me they may come after me ah bring them on I havnt had a good fight in a long time' he thought to himself. As he said that his phone went off with the detection of a hollow, he followed the reading to the river but it disappeared when he arrived.
"Huh whats wrong with this thing it said it was right here"
"I'm interested to know where you accuired that device"
Antono looked up and saw a familiar fugure.
"Your that woman from the other day" Antono said
She jumped down to the river bank where he was standing.
"So who are" she said
"I would have thought that to be my line but since you asked first" Antono cleared his throat "I am Antono Rosamaoro the shinigami of this town, though ive only been an shinigami for about a couple of months" he then began to explain how he came to be in the situation he is now about the first hollow he fought about Uahara and the accident but he left out Matsuo.
"So ive told you my story so whats yours"
"My name is Soi Fong captain of squad two of the 13 court guard squads, and im here to take you to the soul society"
"What! Why?"
"You have been a shinigami for only a small amount of time but your skill have grown ingreadably the comander whats to see for himself if you should continue as a shinigami or take you powers and you'll live as a normal soul.
"I guessing I cant refuse this request" Antono said with a tone
"Its not a request" she replied
They both stood there watching each other Antono didn't know what to expect from her was she strong could he out run her, she wouldn't be a catain for nothing so she has to have skill. ' I think ill take my chances and fight her' he thought. He grabbed his scythe-sword of his back and lunged at her he was about to connect when she disappeared and reappeared behind him.
"No way" he said
"I guess that means your not coming quietly" she said
Antono quickly brought his wepon round and it clashed with hers. The two started to exchange blows but Antono could see she was going easy on him.
"Don't fuck around" he shouted as she then started to not deflect his blows but dodge them with simple steps and each time he swung to slice her she would punch him anywhere there was and opening, then she brought out a saringe and injected something into his neck "What are you doing"
"The more you fight the more it will hurt"
Antono pulled away and staggerd along his legs became week he couldn't stand up his body and mind hurt he then slumped on the ground trying to crawl she appeared in front of him. "You should have come quietly" she said then blackness.
The next thing he new he was lying in bed and he was wrapped in bandages, he looked around he was in some sort of hospital there were other people beong treated for wounds then a girl wearing a pink hakama came up to him and looked at chart at the end of his bed, she then noticed him watching her.
"Oh your awake that's good" she said
"Where am I-" he then realised he was tied down he could move his arms or legs or get up.
"Im sorry about this but captain Soi Fong insisted I'll go get captain Unohana" and off she went "Great another captain" he thought to himself
And soon enough they were back she arrived so sudden that it made him jump but there stood a tall women with a much more kind looking face than Soi Fong's.
"I don't think these are necessary" she said and with a wave of her hand the restraints came loose. Antono got to his feet and looked at her, all she did was smile back.
"So where am I" he asked
"Your in the squad 4 barracks witch is a hospital" she replied "I've bin told that once you awake I'm to take you to see the commander please would you come with me"
"Where's my scythe sword" he asked
"Oh your Zampakto its safely in storage don't worry you'll get it back" She replied
Antono reluctantly followed her and another women through the barracks and outside. The sun was bright and blinded him for a few seconds as he walked he got given a lot of strange looks it was a though he stood out like a saw thumb, eventually they reached the centre which he was told was called the seritei all Antono could think was.
"This place looks bigger than it lets on"
Eventually they reached the captains hall.
"Inside is where the other captains are waiting as well as the captain commander, word of advice be polite" Unohana said as she pushed the door open
Inside there were 12 other people which he assumed were the other captains he only recognised one that was Soi Fong the one that beat him shitless before coming here as for the other captains he could feel their eyes as he between them towards the commander he was a really ancient looking person he always squinted through his eyes and had a deep voice when he spoke.
"So you are the human shinigami" he said
"Yes, well I'm not human anymore my body got crushed under a truck" he replied firmly
He could tell the others didn't like his tone he looked Unohana she closed her eyes and shook her head.
"You still have the manners of a child" the commander spoke again "Do you wish to continue with the duties of a shinigami"
"Yes"
"Then you will have to earn it, fight one of our seated members if you fight well enough you may get to keep your powers, we will give you one day to prepare so by tomorrow be ready"
Antono was escorted back to the squad 4 barracks where he received his Zanpakto, Unohana was also kind enough to get Antono a training partner, the squad six vice captain Renji.
At the training ground is where they met.
"Pleased to meet you Renji" Antono said
"Yeah whatever don't thank me id much rather not be doing this so attack me lets see what your made of"
Antono took his stance Renji just stood there he wasn't bothered that Antono's Zampakto was a different design to a normal one and he obviously didn't expect anything from Antono. But was he wrong.
Antono moved with all his speed and took Renji of balance he had too move quickly to block Antono quickly made a follow up attack he wanted to keep Renji on the defensive so he kept attacking, but then Renji jumped into the air.
"I didn't think I should do this but I want to show off a bit Roar Zab'e maru"
His blade changed shape it was bigger and it had spikes down one side then it extended and went right for Antono, he was able to dodge it but he thought if that had hit me I would be dead.
"What the hell was that how'd you do that" Antono shouted
"Just as I thought he cant even ask his Zampakto its name" the training field erupted in laughter. What was he on about a name, they name their swords is that what happened that made his sword transform if that's the case how do you ask it its name. but Antono didn't have time to think about that Renji started attacking him and as you can imagine Antono couldn't match him in speed or strength. Eventually Antono had taken such a beating that he couldn't hold onto his Zanpakto. "Your pathetic look so you don't look like a complete loser ill teach you a bit of fighting" Antono went through the stances and how to hold his weapon and to Antono's amazement these few changes made it easier to wield.
At the end of the training session Antono was incredibly exhausted he was aloud to sleep in the squad 4 barracks and there were members from squad 11 to keep guard to make sure he didn't make a run for it. As you can imagine he didn't get much sleep the thought of tomorrows test dwelled on his mind, who would it be, will I be even able to land a single blow. "Aaaah who am I kidding I'm gonna die" the shinigami outside laughed after hearing this "Shut up" he shouted at them though its not like they listened.
When dawn came Antono was already up and stretching he was almost excited about the prospect of a fight and when the guards came in to escort him to the training grounds he thought "Well here goes nothing"
When he arrived at the training ground it was already packed with other shinigami that had turned up to watch the fight, the captains all stood together with squad members around the field.
"Antono Rosamaro step forward" shouted the captain commander
Antono stepped he was carrying a small black bag over his shoulder and his Zanpakto in the other he walked out onto the field there was a lot of whispering as he approached the centre of the field.
The commander then spoke again. "The test to see if you are worthy of being a shinigami shall begin your opponent will be the 5th highest ranking student in the academy"
As he spoke this a tall black haired man started to approach him from the other side of the field with his Zanpakto over his shoulder, he stopped when he arrived in front of Antono.
"So you're the one that everyone's talking about the human who became a shinigami, you look like a commoner wearing a dress to me there's no way a low life such as yourself could beat me Koutaro, a member of a high ranking family" he said
"I can beat you easily because Ive got this" Antono reached into his bag a pulled out something nobody was expecting as he did he started to sing.
"Ive got a jar of dirt, Ive got a jar of dirt, Ive got a jar of dirt and guess what's inside it"
"What are you doing" said his opponent
"It's a joke we have in the real world"
"Take your stance" shouted the commander
Both stood accordingly.
"Begin!"
There was a great gasp as the fight had finished as quickly has it had begun, Antono had in a blink of an eye using shunpo attacked his opponent with the handle part of his Zanpakto hit him in the chest breaking the rib cage. He slumped on the floor completely motionless, members of squad 4 quickly gathered around him and started treating him.
"Well that was boring" he said
Suddenly Renji appeared next to him.
"When did you learn shunpo" he asked
"Is that what you call it, I learned it ages ago while fighting hollow in the real world"
"Why didn't you use it when we were training yesterday"
"Dunno"
"The second part of the test shall now begin" shouted the commander
"What a second part how many parts are there" Antono shouted at the commander
Before he got an answer there was a guy from the other end of the court running at him Antono grinned and charged him there blades clashed the other shinigami brought his blade round to slice him but Antono was faster and sliced across him across his chest. Before he had time to breathe two other attacked him from, different he had to shunpo to avoide them though it didn't work for long these were members of the 13 squads and knew shunpo too so it was a case of who was faster Antono was able to use one of the shinigami as a shield against the other at one point and then counter attack. After many others Antono slumped on the ground he had defeated 6 opponents, he was exhausted but he was only given a 5 minute break before his next fight. His next opponent was supposed to be someone from squad 11 the best fighting squad of all the others.
His wounds were being tended to by a member of squad 4 when he got an unexpected visitor.
"You seem to be coping well"
Antono looked up "Unohana"
"When you become a formal shinigami you'll have to call me captain Unohana" she said with a smile "You've made quite an impression nobody expected you to win your first match"
"I don't know if ill be able to defeat my next opponent I heard he's part of the best fighting squad" Antono said looking at the ground
Unohana walked up to him
"This fight was requested by one of those members he wants to test your abilities, so do your best" she said then turned and left.
When time was up he was called onto the field again there was one guy standing there waiting for him he was a quite tall with a balled head he stood with his sword over both of his shoulders with his arms hanging over it.
"I'm Ikkaku 3rd seat of squad 11 I'm your next opponent" he said with a big grin
"3rd seat huh, is that high" asked Antono
Ikkaku's face went a bit annoyed
"Its higher than you'll ever get"
"Really lets see"
Both took there stances and charge at the same time Antono was going as quick as he could Ikkaku fought with his sword in one hand and the sheath in the other he kept switching throughout the fight so it was hard to predict his attacks.
"Since your Zanpakto is a range type lets make this interesting extend" his Zampakto then lengthened into a spear he charged Antono again, Antono only just blocked he seemed faster than before.
"To think he must have improved a lot if he can go one on one with the 3rd seat of squad 11" said Soi Fong
"Hardly Ikkakus only toying with him" said Kempachi the squad 11 captain he was a giant of a man with his hair styled into spikes and countless scars throughout his body.
Antono and Ikkaku continued there fight.
"I've had enough" said Ikkaku his Zampakto then split into three part connected by a chain and in three moves he stabbed Antono ion his leg rib and hit him round the face with the blunt part of the Zampakto. Antono clasped face first on the ground he had reached his limit.
"Dam" he said over and over again
"Let me give you a piece of advice, get to know your Zampakto before you use it learn its name" Ikkaku then turned to leave
Antono looked at his Zampakto, 'its name, what's your name' he closed his eyes suddenly all his injures didn't hurt anymore he opened his eyes to see he was in a desert with grey sand and a black sky.
"Antono" a voice said behind him, he turned
"Matsuo!"
He ran up and hugged her "I searched for you, for so long" tears ran down his eyes as he said this, then Matsuo stepped away. "My names not Matsuo anymore I cant explain it but I've bin with you ever since you started looking for me, I don't know how it happed but I've bin fighting with you.
"No way you're my Zampakto" said Antono
"Yes! Now hear my name it's --"
Antono got closer
"Its --"
Antono strained with all his might to hear her.
"It's"
Antono was back at the training ground, he got to his feet.
"LUCRECIA!!"
Antono spirit energy exploded it surrounded him like he was on fire his eyes had gone yellow his Zampakto had gone though a massive transformation it wasn't a scythe sword anymore it was a sword shaped, the blade looked as though is was ripped from the jaw of a massive wolf it had teeth running up its blunt side and the sword itself was twice the size of a normal human but it was incredibly light. Ikkaku had turned round and had a grin from one side of his face to the other "Brilliant" he said Antono used shunpo and appeared right behind Ikkaku he swung his blade aiming for Ikkakus head but he dodged left and Antono only struck his arm Ikkaku countered but Antono was able to block it "Have you gotten slower" asked Antono
"Don't get too cocky" replied Ikkaku
Their blades clashed again then Antono was able to strike another blow on Ikkakus right arm, Ikkaku jumped away.
"Somthings wrong here" he said to imself holding his right arm "That strike wasn't any closer from the last time head struck me but its deeper, how come" Ikkaku thought for a moment "That's it it, the cut is three times deeper, I blocked him twice since he last cut me so that's his blades ability the more time you clash with it the deeper the next time he cuts you"
"Have you figured it out" shouted Antono
"Yeah"
"Good its no fun other wise"
The two charged again and started clashing Ikkaku was making more effort to dodge rarther than clash his blade.
Antono then jumped back to put some distance between him and Ikkaku and startewd to put all his spirit energy into his blade he wanted finish it of in one blow, a grin grew across Ikkakus face he started to do the same.
The both charged each other they cryed a battle cry as the charged they were 10 feet away when both suddenly stopped, Antono couldn't move he was imprisoned in a energy filed that had six energy blade surrounding him there was a man standing next him he was a bit taller than him he was wearing a captain jacket and a strait face and was holding two fingers in Antono direction Antono guessed he was the one who cast the spell Ikkaku also had the same spell surrounding him.
"The fight is over" said Unohana who had just arrived at there side "Antono you pass"
Antono was feeling more annoyed because the fight was interupterd and Ikkaku seemed to agree with this assesment but there was not much they could do. Antono Zampakto retured to its normal form and the binding spell was released.
Later Antono was summoned to the captain commander.
"Antono Rosamaro you will be inrolled into the roul reaper academy to learn what it truly means to be shinigami"
"Academy? Just when I thought I had escaped going to lessons im pulled back, oh cruel fate why hath thou stote me in this terrible way" Antono then remembered where he was "Oh thank you for accepting me, one question what will happen when I graduate from the academy" he asked
"IF you pass you will be assigned to one of the 13 court guard sqauds under one of these captains" answered the captain commander
Antono turned to look at the captains all watching him intently though he couldn't tell with the captain of squad 7 since he wore armor over his head.
Antono was given living quarters in the academy and he wasn't pleased about his roommate.
Koutaro glared at him as Antono entered the room.
"It just had to be you didn't it" said Antono
"This is inconsevable how can a commoner like you get to share a room with me" when he looked back at Antono he had already settled in his bed.
"Hey Listen to me when im talking to you"
"Look im tiered alright so can you nag at me quietly" Antono rolled over and went to sleep
The next day was his first day at the academy and everyone seemed to look down on him the moment he set foot in the class door even the lectuer.
"Right turn to page 11 we'll pick from where we left off the other day" said the lectuer
Antono looked at the page it was about how a hole becomes a hollow the entire lesson that to Antono seemed completely pointless was all about memorizing facts and learing about what's the best way to hunt and kill hollow. He was told the next lesson was on kidou though he had no idea what the hell that was though it sounded more interesting than the last lesson.
The lectuerer was a bit more athletic looking than the last one.
"Right today we're gonna practice the kidou number 9 red blast"
There were a lot of moans, Antono raised his hand. "Ah sensai this is my first kidou lesson"
"Aha your that human I saw fight the other day" the sensai interrupted
"Uh yeah"
"Good lets see if you can control your kidou as well as you control your Zampakto" the sensai pushed him forward.
"But how do I" asked Antono
"Just builed up your spirit energy and concetrate it into your hand then sound the incantation, kidou number 9 red blast, got it"
Antono did as he instructed he held out his hands one over the other with his palm towards the target about 20 yards away, as he built up his spirit energy he could feel it becoming a ball in front of his palm. "Kidou numb-" the blast shot forward and destroyed the target and everything in a 10 feet raidious.
"That wasn't kidou number 9, that was Cero" said the sensei 'but only hollows can use that' he thought to himself
"Whats Cero" Antono asked
"A very powerful kidou attack only high ranking hollows can use it"
"Hollows?" Antono said confused
The sensai went to the captain commander to tell him about what had happened.
"It seems we'll have to keep a closer eye on this one, let me know if anymore strange behaviour occurs"
"Yes Captain Yammamoto"
Next they had a Zampakto traing session,
"I'm not training with him" shouted Koutaro at Antono
"Tuff you've bin pared up as the 5 highest ranking student you shouldn't have a problem" shouted the sensai he knew perfectly well what happened at the test the other day.
Koutaro took his stance, Antono stood normally.
"Don't worry I wont use shunpo" he said
Koutaro charged which Antono thought he was being rather slow, kotare came in with a high attack but Antono just side stepped at the last second he brought his sword round so Antnono ducked he took the opportunity to kick him in the face.
"Your sopposed to use your Zampakto" he yelled
"But its more fun to kick the crap out of you without using it"
"That's no way to train" said a voice behind him he reconised
"Ikkaku?" Antono turned to see him standing there with his Zampakto drawn
Antono faced him with his battle stance Ikkaku did the same.
"Oh no you don't I saw what happed at the last fight you two had I don't want to be the one clean up blood and mess that will be left behind" shouted the sensei
"Shut up" shouted Antono as he charged Ikkaku.
The two started exchanging blows they were both just warming up but they were still moving faster than anyone else on the training field eventually as they got faster they were using more force and before they knew they had released their Zmapaktos.
"Roar Lucrecia" Antono shouted as charged Ikkaku whop had also released his Zampakto.