"Watatatata!!!!" A girl with her strange green tinted black hair in two pig-tails as she slid down the freshly mobbed floor in the academy. She was on one foot and the three books she carried in her arm threw off her balance much more than she wished as she slid from one foot to the other, trying to figure out how to stop. The halls seemed empty in the late afternoon after classes, and so she felt there was no end of her sliding torture until she would hit a wall. She then seemed to collide with another person whom she didn't seem before as her books flew up into the air and the two fell to the ground.
The books sprawled out around the two as the girl looked up to see the young man with short above his shoulders white hair. "Ah- Ukitake-senpai!" She said quickly standing up. "I'm so sorry!" She said picking up her books quickly. She put them in a stack before helping her senpai up. She was saying many things at once towards him, saying her apology over and over.
"Keiya-kun." He said stopping her rambling spree. "It is all right." She looked away from him, a blush on her face. "I have done the same my first years as well..." He said with a small laugh.
This caused her to blush more, "Ukitake-senpai... why are you still at the academy?" She asked him after a second of silence.
"I had to talk to Yamamoto-sensei." He told her after another second of silence. "What of yourself?"
"I stayed in class to study for tomorrows final. I'm not that good at kidou, and I've known that for a while, so I've been staying after school everyday for the last month to try to get better." She explained, moving the black hair out of her dark emerald green eyes.
"If you ever need help with anything, Keiya-kun, don't be afraid to ask any of your senpais. I'm sure they'd love to help." He told her with a smile. "Are you leaving back to your house, Keiya-kun?"
"H-hai." She said nodding.
"Why don't we walk together? If I remember correctly you're only a block away from me." He smiled.
"H-hai..." She said blushing as she nodded.
Chapter 01
"So how did you do on your finals today, Keiya-kun?" The young man, Ukitake, from the day before asked surprising the young Keiya.
"W-what!?" She asked startled that he was talking to her durring school hours. "They went well. My sensei has said with the extra practicing that I've been doing that I have been getting better."
"So that means you passed them then?" He inquired.
"That's right." She nodded.
"Well, don't be late to your next class, Keiya-kun." He said as he stopped at his classroom.
"H-hai... Ukitake-senpai." She said nodding.
"Please, Keiya-kun, just call me Jyuushiro." He said and she nodded a small blush creeping out again.
"H-hai..." She said before leaving down to her class.
"Oooh, Keiya-chan! Was that Ukitake-senpai of the five level?" A girl shot up next to Keiya.
"Y-yeah. Why?" She asked shyly.
"Is there something going on between the two of you? He gave you permission to call him by his first name! How lucky!" The girl said.
"Nase-chan... It doesn't mean anything." Keiya told her friend. "And anyways, I'm a third level student..."
"You know, with shinigami, it doesn't matter what the age is." Nase pointed out to her.
"Yeah, but still. Right now, Nase-chan, we're suppose to be focusing on more important things! Like school and becoming a shinigami!" Keiya said determined.
The bell rang and Keiya let out a small yelp. "You should start by being on time, Keiya-chan!" Nase laughed, "Let's go or else Yamamoto-sensei will be upset." Nase grabbed Keiya's hand and the two ran to the training room.
"Yuchime Nase, Sotura Keiya... why are you late?" Yamamoto-sensei said to the two girls.
"I- we- uhm..." They stumbled over eachother words.
"Both of you, grab a wooden sword. For being late, you're punishment will be to go against me. Try to land a single hit on me and not my sword." He told them as one of the other students handed them their wooden swords.
Nase and Keiya looked at eachother. "Go ahead. You go first, Keiya." Nase said pushing her friend forward.
"H-hai..." Keiya said nodding as she stepped forward. "Are... are you ready... sensei?"
"Let's hurry this up, Sotura-kun." He said and she nodded running towards him. She jumped up and went to hit his shoulder. He blocked her with one hand on his sword and tossed her to the other side of the room. Nase took this chance to go in to hit his bare open right side. He moved quickly and poked her in the back, making her lose her balance. "Get up! Don't give up." He told the two girls.
Nase breathed heavily as she stood up. Keiya stood next to her. "You take the right, I'll take the left. Teamwork is essencial if we want to win this exerise." Keiya told Nase.
"Right." Nase nodded.
"Let's go." Keiya said as the two split, surrounding their sensei. "Nase! Go now!" She called to her friend who went in to attack on their sensei's right, giving the opening Keiya had hoped for. She went to hit his side but next thing she knew, the white over-robe he wore was off him and the two girl collided. "Yamamoto-sensei! This is not fair!" Keiya said as she rubbed her forehead that had a knot building on it from colliding with Nase.
"Will you say that to a hollow that is using quicker movements than I am right now?" He called to her. "Are you going to give up so easily, Sotura-kun?"
"I never said I was giving up!" She said, "Nase- let me try alone."
"Right." Nase said stepping back.
"Every student has given up before, Sotura-kun." Yamamoto told her.
"And I'm not like the other students." She said narrowing her eyes on him. "I will break this tradition of not being able to hit you, Sensei!" She said jumping up in the air, landing behind him, she went to attack but used a small form of a flash-step as he turned to block her, she went and swung towards his open side. he turned quickly and blocked, pushing her back, but she would not budge. She turned quickly and dropped to the ground, going for his legs.
He lightly jumped, allowing her sword to slide under him, without a single touch. She then thought of something, "Got'cha!" She said under her breath as she jumped back and quickly went in for another attack.
"You're style is not working, Sotura-kun. You need to-"
"Hadou 4- white lighting." She said pointing her fingers at his arm. He pushed her back and barely dodged the attack. The sleeve of his top was burnt as the lighting shot thorugh, missing his arm. "Dammit..." She cursed to herself as she pushed herself off of the ground. "I thought that would have worked..."
"Sensei! She used kidou! Isn't that against the rules?!" One of the students said.
"He just said land a hit on him. He didn't specify that it had to be the wooden sword or not." Keiya said pointing her sword at her sensei.
"Only a few have seen through that." Yamamoto said as he opened his eyes and looked at her, "And yet none have still been able to touch me."
"And it's still not over!" She said running towards him again, "Bakudou 1- first restraint obstruction!" she said sending him into the binding spell. "You're left open, sensei!" She said as she landed a light tap onto his head so it would not hurt. "Looks like I'd make a pretty decent shinigami, wouldn't you say so yourself, sensei?"
He broke out of the restraint and stood up straight. "Ah- how you've learned your kidou well, and your style is getting ever better Sotura-kun." He said with a smile, "You're building qualities of a captain in you."
"Really?!" She said, her eyes growing wide.
After class was over with, many of her fellow classmates were talking to her, getting tips on her style of landing a blow on Yamamoto-sensei. Nase was in awe as she bragged how she was best friends with the imfamous Sotura Keiya, the first student to be able to land a hit on Yamamoto-sensei. At lunch time, Nase and Keiya went out and sat under the cherry blossom trees as they brought out their bentos.
"That was so amazing, Keiya-kun! How did you think of it?" Nase asked her.
"I was thinking of all the openings he had when I was fighting him, and then I was thinking if only I could use kidou! and that's when it came to me. I remembered what he said, and remembered that he didn't say I couldn't refrain from using kidou." She said smiling. "I can't believe he said I was building the qualities of a captain..."
"That means when you graduate...You might become a captain!" Nase said throwing her hands in the air. "Choose me as your vice captain! All right?"
"I don't think I can go straight into being a captain right after the academy, Nase-chan." She laughed. "That would be really odd for such a young captain."
"UGH! Live a little- just once! Don't make everything so logical!" Nase said, "Why can't you just think what it's like to be captain as a graduate?"
"Because if you dream of something that you know isn't going to happen, it only hurts when it doesn't happen." She explained, "If you don't expect anything, it's a lot better. It's like, for your birthday, you really wanted some new robes, but instead, you get a shopping spree galore, and you get even more than just a couple of new shinigami robes."
"You're a very strange one." Nase said, "But you're still my best friend Keiya-kun!"
"And what's with the kun now?!" She asked her friend.
"Chan is for little kids! You're imfamous now! I'm telling everyone to call you Keiya-san!"
"You're joking...right?" Keiya said looking at her friend who didn't drop her huge grin. "Please tell me... you're kidding about the whole san..."
"Keiya-san! I want to go under your training so that maybe I can go and land a hit on Sensei when I take his class tomorrow!" A guy asked coming over to them.
"I'm going to kill you...Nase..." Keiya said letting her eyes darken. She then turned to the boy, "Sorry, Kyon-kun. I'm not that good of a teacher, and you know as much as I do. Just use your instinct, and think about everything that you have learned."
"Boy- thanks Keiya-san!"
"Please! No san!" She called after the boy.
"I'm going to head off to my next class. I'm going to take you out to dinner tonight to celebrate." Nase told her friend before leaving. "Have a nice day, Keiya-kun!"
"You too, Nase..." Keiya said letting out a sigh.
"Hey there." She jumped up into the tree at the sudden voice that appeared. "Keiya-kun, are you okay?" She looked down to see the white haired Jyuushiro with a friend his own age.
"H-hello." She said jumping down from the treebranch she jumped into.
"I think the whole school has heard about your victory today." He said smiling.
"Yeah...seems that way..." She said shly while rubbing the back of her head. "I don't see why I've all of a sudden become imfamous, and everyone's calling me Keiya-san instead of the usual chan..."
"Do you prefer Keiya-chan?" He asked her.
"Yeah- well, better than -san... I only know three people that use the honorific -kun with me... That's you, Nase-chan, and Yamamoto-sensei... but he uses -kun with everyone." She told him, then she looked over to his friend that was staring at her. "Uhm... hello?"
Jyuushiro turned to his friend, elbowing him in the ribs, "This is my best friend Shunsui. We're the same year." He told her. "This is Keiya-kun, the girl everyone is talking about."
"She's a lot cuter than what you described her as, Jyuushiro." The boy said smiling at Keiya who blushed madly.
"I...I..." She looked down at her hands, pushing her fingers together nervously, a habit she picked up from Nase. She glanced up, a blush on her face still, before she went back to her fingers.
"Don't be embarressed, Keiya-kun." Jyuushiro said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"I should... I should head off to my next class..." She said stepping away and picking up her bento box. "It... It was nice to talk to you again, Ukitake-senpai..."
"Jyuushiro." He said.
"H-hai- Jyuushiro-senpai." She said before stepping back again. She tripped backwards over a rock and tumbled backwards down the hill.
"Keiya-kun- are you all right?" Jyuushiro asked as he reached her first. He took the bento box and the two books that layed next to her and handed them to his friend. He then took her hands and pulled her to her feet. "You have a really hard time with balance, don't you?"
"Oh geez..." She blushed, "I'm terribly sorry! Why do I keep doing these petty little tumbles?!"
"At least it wasn't in the hard hallways again." He smiled a laugh towards her, trying to get her to be more comfortable.
"I'm still terribly, terribly sorry about that Shiro-senpai..." She stopped, "I mean Jyuushiro-senpai..." She said quickly.
"I like that- Shiro-senpai! Has a ring to it." His friend laughed.
"I- I need to get going." She said before quickly turning and leaving them there. She turned around and walked back. "Forgot my books and bento." She blushed as Jyuushiro went to hand them to her.
"Why don't I carry these books to your next class for you, Keiya-kun?" Jyuushiro offered before he set the books in her hands.
"No- I couldn't have you do that, Jyuushiro-senpai." She said blushing as she went to take her books.
"I insist." He smiled, not giving in. "Now, which way to your class, Keiya-kun?"
"Oi- Shiro-kun, don't be late to our next class. Toinaka-sensei doesn't except us being late." Shunsuiyelled to his friend as they left.
"Don't worry. I'll make sure I'm there on time." The white haired boy commented as he smiled reassuringly to his best friend. He turned back to the young girl he was walking with, starting a conversation with her. "I'm pretty sure that you're tired of having people ask you how you were able to land a hit on Yamamoto-sensei, so I'm not going to ask you about that..."
"Thank you." She said smiling a smile of relief.
"But I do have a question for you..." She looked at him to continue, "Captain... do you ever want to be one?"
"Well, isn't that what every shinigami strives for?" She inquired him.
"I would imagine so, but is it what you want?" He asked her.
"I want to work my way to it. I don't want it just handed to me. If it's just handed to me, where is the fun? where is the growing experience? If anything, I wouldn't want a seat officer when I join a squad. I just want to be there, and work my way up through the seats." She said smiling about it. "Then, I'll be a vice captain... and maybe one day- a captain. But I want to be someone greater than a captain, but I can't imagine anything that is greater than that."
"There is always Captain Commander." He told her.
"But that belongs to Yamamoto-sensei. I think they're has to be something higher than that..." She said, her eyes staring up as she thought about it.
"Is that your aspiration?" He asked her.
She looked at him, a smile on her face, "Of course it is."
"So what class do you have right now?" He asked her as they turned down another hall.
"I have study hall on tuesdays and thursdays after lunch for two hours." She told him, "I have a pretty easy class list for a third level."
"Really? What is it?"
"On mondays and Wednesdays I have kidou for the first two hours, then I have a half hour break, then I have spirit theory for an hour and a half, then lunch. After lunch I have hollow experience courses with the sixth years that take us into the hollow similators. Tuesdays and Thursdays I have an hour of kidou in the morning before I go to skills training with Yamamoto-sensei, then lunch, and study hall for the remaining two hours. I usually go back to kidou practice everyday though after school. On fridays, I have kidou for an hour before lunch, then hollow experience course for two hours after lunch, and that's my list for this semester."
"Sounds kind of like my classes my third year." He laughed. "Looks like this is your stop."
She looked up at the door, "Yep... looks like it." She said, "I'll take my books now."
"Ah-ah." He shook his head. "Where do you sit?"
"No- Jyuushiro- you don't have too, honnestly. I don't want you to be late to your class." She said blushing a bit.
"I insist." He said with one of his sweet smiles. She knew that there was no way for her to win and so she went in and to the last table in the back. "I'm surprised Nase isn't in here yet." She said commenting on the lack of her friends being. She realized Jyuushiro was still there. "Thank you, now hurry up before you're-" the clock struck one and she hit her head, "I'm so sorry! Ack! You're late!"
"It's all right." He said smiling. "I don't mind."
"You should! You only have a year and a half left before you graduate, you should worry about your grades." She told him.
"I do. But I will see you after school then, Keiya-chan." He said with a small wave as he left. He passed by Nase who turned and looked at him.
"He's carrying your stuff to class now too?! He's such a sweet guy! And he's so much older than you are, Keiya! Going for the older men now?" Nase teased.
"Nase!" She blushed. "Jyuushiro-senpai is just a friend. He's really nice and he's actually helped me out a bit too."
"Then why do you blush at the mere thought of him?" Nase caught.
"I do not." Keiya argued.
"Then explain to me why your cheeks are red." Keiya covered her face with her hands. "It's okay Keiya-kun! I still love you!" Nase said hugging her friend.
I don't know why, but I thought I'd do an UkitakeOC story! YAY!!! Well, I forgot to put the disclaimer at the top so here it is: Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. I claim no rights to owning Bleach. Nase, Toinaka-sensei and Keiya are all my characters, along with any other that is not apart of Bleach. That is all... :D have a nice holiday!!!
-ShinigamiMania91