Hey there! Ms.D, or Bri if you would please, here! Yes.. I started yet ANOTHER story, although IHUD will soon be over... and I highly doubt I'll write a sequel. I hope you like my new story, though! Feedback is great... just no flames. And YES, there is a difference between constructive critism and flames. Flames, are mean and make you look stupid. CC is nice and tells you what you need to finx and make better...
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Bleach whatsoever. If I did... do you think I'd be making a stupid fanfiction about it?!
Supernova, noun: a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process
"A ball of gas giving off light and finally taking its curtain call." –Anonymous
"It's said less than 1 percent of stars will die this way in their life time. How long it takes for this supernova to take place is unknown to all." –Unknown
"This is the greatest energetic outburst in the history of all things of the universe. Science may not have been around but for the past millennium, but by evidence gathered, nothing else can be as bright as a supernova; the death of a star." –College Professor
"How big the star is, it matters not. How bright the star is, it matters not. How the star dies is not of its importance. But how the star lived is all that we should care about." –B. Young
We all know of the stars. They shine in our night sky and make the darkness seem brighter, even just for a moment. They make us feel safe, and know that something is watching over us. The birth of a star is a very long and hard process. All the gases and particles must collect before… Bam; It happens. A star is born and makes out sky shine much brighter; but when the time for the star comes to die… that that is called a supernova. There are many things in our world that we could never, and probably will never, understand.
Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why does everyone look different? Why does war fill our lives? Why is bloodshed a daily thing for so many? Why do we kill people so they get why killing people is bad? So many questions, yet so little time to ask, and then find the answer to them. This is life. It's too short to live if by the rules. Break a few every now and then, and let the consequences come. Everyone makes a mistake; it's the only way to tell you're human…
They say it's only once in a lifetime that you get to see a star born. They say it's only once in a life time that you get to live. They say it's only once in a life time to fall in love. But what if you have many lives, so many that they seem all jumbled up and confusing, yet you still remember your lover even after death. They say it's impossible to live more than once, but where do the souls go once their dead? So they go to nothing?
Or do they actually get to go back and have another chance at living like they wanted…?
So little time to ask questions, yet even less time to answer them. It seems fate and destiny like to play around with people's lives just for the fun of it. It's like they don't have enough to take care of. Death, Hollows, Blood, and Births. Why is it that those four things are what mainly surround a person's life?
Love…
It follows until death. It hollows out into nothing. It takes blood to a whole new level at night. It is born into the world as a living and breathing creature to actually see the sun rise and fall everyday; to breath in over billions upon billions of breaths every year; to love those that love him and take care of those that took care of him; to feel the pain of what it's like to lose someone special; to feel that hole in your heart being mended when a certain someone comes into your life.
The birth of a star takes so long to happen, yet the death can happen in seconds. Why is that? And then again, why is the sky blue; the grass green? A star has been birth for so long, and now it's coming to its end. Even though the process takes awhile to happen and fully lose all energy left within it's being, this star has a story to tell.
She's seen many things, things she isn't proud of. She's killed many people, by violence and heart break. Why must it seem that death is so much quicker and less painful when it's the most painful thing in one's life?
A Supernova is the death of a star. The birth has happened, and many have seen her shine brightly through all her years of being there. Now it's her time to explode and make new stars that will help make the night sky shine brighter than she ever could. This is Her Supernova…
The cherry blossoms of the trees that surrounded a quite large sky seemed to flutter in the small breeze that pushed through the early morning there. Teachers were already getting ready for their students, and one certain teacher was quite proud of two of his students of six years. These two students would become, today and not a day early or later, members of the newly appointed Gotei 13. These two men would become so important, that many would kneel at their feet and kiss the ground they had walked. Spirit pressure was rare to come on these days in the Rukongai. These two seemed to be just a miracle waiting to happen.
It was spring, mostly near the end of spring. Anyone could tell it was spring by the way the mornings heat up so fast, and the reason why the cherry blossoms did not have their freshly bloomed smell. Of course, the morning was peaceful, other than the few shuffling feet that came from the rooms of the large school. The morning was peaceful, and nothing could ruin it…
…or so thought.
The time for the graduation ceremony had begun, and all things were in their place. Not a single thing was out of place or missing. All sounds had come to a stop when the founder of the Soul Society academy, Yamamoto, stepped up to the stage and all attention was placed on his aging face.
"I would like to welcome you all to the first ever graduation of the Seireitei Academy's. It brings me great pleasure to say all students who had entered just six years ago, are now becoming of ranks to help protect our homes and the Living Realms. Now, let us get this on with, and let me welcome up to the stage our first graduate…"
The crowd clapped, parents and families cheered as soul after soul came up to have their badge and uniform handed to them. After doing so, only eleven students were left, standing just below the stairs of the raised platform.
"And now, I would like to congratulate with my deepest honors, and most respect, those who have been selected to become the ever first captain's of the Gotei 13!"
Cheers echoed as the ten men and one woman walked calmly up the wooden stairs and stood with proud looks on their faces and their uniforms firmly pressed to their bodies. Only one thing was amiss…
"Where is that bloody girl?!" Only three students heard what their former-sensei had said, and all of them couldn't help but let out a small silent laugh. This 'bloody girl' Yamamoto was talking of was no ordinary girl. She was quite the opposite…
As the old, wrinkling man turned to give his departing speech, and sudden skid was heard, and the spot that was formally empty of any presence, stood a tall head-held-high woman, that everyone knew the name as Shihouin Tale. Being as the certain head of the noble house Shihouin, she has been placed into the Academy the moment she was announced with spirit pressure. Her tanned skin was the darkness in the crowd, other than he brother's, and her dark violet hair was held up tightly in a high ponytail with her bangs framing the golden-yellow eyes that scanned over the crowd.
A white haori was pressed without wrinkle to her thin body as she stood with feet shoulder-length apart, and hands clasped tightly behind her back. A mischievous grin was placed on her lips as she was thrown a glare from her sensei, and he turned back to the hushing crowd. Finishing up his closing speech, and a few more cheers for the graduating students, the crowd began to disperse and congratulate those needing it.
Shihouin Tale took her leave from the stage, and toward her widely grinning younger brother. He himself was a student, but only beginning his fifth year when classes started back up again. As the dark-violet haired woman neared her brother, many of her former classmates clapped her in the back and said their 'congrats', her only nodding. Once only a foot away, Tale was taken into a large huge by her younger, yet much taller, brother. Both laughed and the white haori that sat on Tale's shoulders flapped in the air as she was spun around.
Finally being set down, Tale wrapped her arms around her brother's neck and kissed his cheek.
"You better watch it, little brother. Soon you'll be a graduate and under my rank, so you'll have to follow my orders."
"As if I don't do that enough at home, Tale." He answered with a laugh and a wider grin. The new captain only followed so and released herself from the hold she put on him. Turning to face the other students that were pushed into the small area for the ceremony, she couldn't help but see many familiar faces.
"Asa! Asa, over here!" Waving to get a blackette's attention, the short and stout girl turned at the sound of her name and squealed when she saw her friend.
"Tale! Oh my kami, you're a captain! I'm so happy for you!" The two hugged and giggled and chatted about the ceremony, Tale finally being asked the reason she was late. "So… why were you late? It looked as if Yama-sensei was going to strangle you once he got the chance!"
The Shihouin's Head noble only laughed at this, slung an arm around her friend's shoulders, and whispered into her ear. "If I told you, I'd have to kill you…" The two giggled and chatted a bit more, before the captains were called to meet their subordinates and pick their lieutenants. Waving and hugging her friend goodbye until later, Tale stood in front of the 30-odd graduates with a stern look on her face.
"I would like to welcome you to the Second Squad's commands, and congratulate you all into passing your exams." Tale's hands were clasped together tightly behind her back as she said her 'congrats' to those now under her. "From now on, you are no longer students, but soldiers fighting to protect those in need of protecting! You will learn from others and yourself. The Second Squad will not tolerate disobedience or disloyalty! If you understand me, please do answer me accordingly!"
"SIR!" A grin spread across her lips as she got a mischievous glint in her golden-amber eyes. Nodding to the many shinigami before her, she answered with a few swift words and turned to begin her adventure to her barracks.
The many shuffling of feet echoed behind her as she practically, but barely, skipped to the large white building that would be her home, office, and life. Those in needing of help would ask their follow squad members, but as Tale ventured across the grassy courtyard, she grinned at the sight of two familiar faces and walked up behind them.
"Good day, Ukitake-san, Kyouraku-san. Congratulations on becoming captains. I had a feeling you would the moment I saw you two. How are you two today?" The brunette and white-haired captains turned at the sudden voice and smiled at the noble woman. She was grinning back at them, but they both knew she had something up her sleeve. After all, she was known for a jokester back in the academy days.
Chapter one, Whoo! I'll have chapter two out in a couple days... I so wanted to write this story that I even though about it when I was in the middle of a roller coaster ride today! (I went to Six Flags: Over Georgia, and got a really bad sunburn.... and here I hate roller coasters...) I hope you liked it, and if you would please review/alert/fave/etc! It helps boast up my majorly-unheathy small ego... I have no ego really... But help me get one, please!
-Bri