Thanks for the review from the next chapter and sorry for late update! I'm pretty busy this week, so I try to find my spare time and write it. Next week is Exam week in my school, so sorry if I can't write the next chapter soon. I'll still try to write it. At first, I really confuse about what will the lesson for the first time for them…!
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Light Lamperouge
Disclaimer: Bleach is mine if Light finally lives happily ever after with Misa and Hero is mine if I hold both the Seiten and Maten scriptures.
3. Cost of the Awaken Dragon
Otoko nara dareka no tame ni tsuyoku nare
Ha wo kuishibatte omoikkiri mamorinuke
Korondemo ii yo mata tachiagareba ii
Tada sore dake dekireba
Eiyuu sa
If you're a man, get stronger for someone else
Clench your teeth and protect them to the end with all your heart
It's okay to fall down, just be able stand up again
If you can do that alone
You'll be a hero
This was the first day of the student to study. Zakura Ryu was walking to his class. Standing not far and stared at his students from outside class. Zakura smiled to himself, they reminded him about himself years ago. Finally, Zakura entered the class.
"Ohayou, class", he said with cheerful voice.
"Ohayou…., Zakura-sama", they said.
"First, I will know anything about you all. Introduce yourself, start from you", he pointed Aoki Mirai.
"Aoki Mirai, like reading, hates singing, favourite steak, Hates cabbage"
"Daigo Akagi, like training kendo, hate lazy person, favourite yakiniku, hate nothing"
"Aya Itsuka, like writing, hates reading, favourite onigiri, and hate scrambled egg"
"Hitsugaya Toushirou, like nothing, hate summer, warm, childish attitude, favourite
Amanatto, watermelon, hate dried persimmon"
And the list went on…..
"So, can you tell me what's the basic combat of shinigami", Zakura asked.
"Zanjutsu", Daigo said.
"Good, Daigo-kun"
"Kido", Kei said.
"Fine, next…"
"Hakuda", Agata said.
"Last…"
"Houhou", Akira said.
"Yes. Zanjutsu, Kidou, Hakuda, and Houhou. We will learn all of this. But, do you know what's the most important than them…?" Zakura asked with childish tone.
"Power…", Takura Daruga said.
"Reiatsu…and Reiryoku", Akira said
"No…."
"Controlling reiatsu….", Kei answered.
After at last 15 minute, almost all of them tried to answer this simple-difficult no one got true word from Zakura. Just Hitsugaya, who didn't care about the question, didn't answer. He just looked at the white board in front of the class, bored as they didn't start from how to controlling the reiatsu.
"Now, let me ask Hitsugaya-kun, who don't try to answer my question…, Hitsugaya-kun, how do you think?", Zakura asked.
"Pardon me?", Hitsugaya asked back since he didn't pay attention to his teacher.
"What's the most important thing that shinigami should has, all the answer of your classmates are still wrong", Zakura asked again.
"Knowledge…, may be…", Hitsugaya answered with I-don't-care-anything-of-this tone.
"Correct", Zakura said with smile bloomed in his face, and rest of the students suddenly murmured.
"Everything that I will teach you is about knowledge. How to use zanpakutou, how to use shunpo, how to use hakuda and zanjutsu, also about Reiryoku and reiatsu", he said.
"Also, we will learn the organization in Seireitei, include Gotei 13, Central Camber 46, Onmitsukidou corps, Kidou Corps, and The Royal Guards," Zakura added.
He was glad, saw his students like this. Not so quiet and not too noise, he thought. Good.
"Today, we will learn about reiatsu. Please read your books from page five now. Raise your hand if you have question. After you read, I will ask the describe of your reiatsu and this day, you will learn how to control it", he said, made a pressure in "how to control it", which he knew would make all of the students did it right, even for Hitsugaya.
"Reiatsu (, Spiritual Pressure) is the physical force/pressure that a person's Reiryoku creates when released. Most Shinigami and Arrancar, even Quincy and Bounts can manipulate the release of their reiatsu. Captain Commander Yamamoto, Byakuya Kuchiki, Sosuke Aizen have vast amounts of Spiritual Energy, which they can emit in the form of Spiritual Pressure with…..", Hitsugaya looked at the book, when he read it in his mind. He did it twice before. Last night he had read it.
After took at last twenty minutes to read thirty pages, they stopped by Zakura, and Zakura himself ask them one by one about what their reiatsu's behaviour that they expected.
"Aya Itsuka"
"Cheerful and sometimes cruel", she said with no doubt.
"Aoki Mirai"
"Funny and loves a good fight", she said. Half of the students giggled, and she heard Akira whispered to Agata, who sat next to him.
"She must be in Eleventh Division after all. I've heard that the taichou in Eleventh Division is kinda big stupid brat who doesn't know his zanpakutou name", Akira said.
"Akira stops to talking smack about each other. Especially with Zaraki-taichou. I'm very pretty sure that you ever can't stand over him in 10 km gap", Zakura said intensively since he knew that Akira Yume had ever badmouthed for at least two students, but for Zaraki-taichou, he won't give him forgiving. He admired Zaraki as he thought that the taichou is a good fighter but also had a proud of fighting for Eleventh Division.
"Akira Yume"
"Elegant and proud. And also had high self-regard, and see another people as trash", Akira said with muttered himself.
"Agata Shichi"
"Cool"
"Daigo Akagi"
"Don't care about myself"
"What was Akagi-sama said? Does he want to embarrass himself?", Kei asked Hitsugaya who sat beside him, "That's none of your business", Hitsugaya said.
"Hitsugaya Toushirou"
"Cold"
"He's not creative", Agata commented," I said cool, he said cold'.
"Keisuke Ando"
"Calm and want to protect each other", some of the students laughed cause of his answer. Kei wondered why those stupid words could come down from his own mouth.
"Kei-kun, would you like to fight other people?", His sensei was asking him. Kei doesn't want to answer this, but he just could hear his own voice tried to answer.
"N..No", he said. The laughing was louder than Kei had expected. His face turned to red.
"There's no way to acknowledge his strength, you know", Hitsugaya suddenly said. Kei hoped that Hitsugaya wouldn't say other stupid things.
"He could be placed in Fourth Division", Hitsugaya said.
"The Fourth is the weakest among the other", said Aya.
"Well, let's see how long you can stand against Unohana-taichou. In fact that she's even stronger than Zaraki-taichou. Plus, Kyoraku and Ukitake-taichou respect her well. You will know if you had read this stuff in books", Hitsugaya said clearly, also had given the source where's he got these information, as all people in this room stared at him with shocked in their face, included Zakura.
"Well, at last. I know that one of yours had read all the books until the last pages and he doesn't miss anything that have written there", Zakura once again, smiled at him with proud bloomed all over his face.
First Break
At class, Hitsugaya soon began to really dislike Akira cause Akira always stared at him with strange and hatred look, make Hitsugaya felt uneasy than he had expected. However, he tried to enjoy this day in Academy, since he had force to being shinigami, and that meant he should study all of these things such as hakuda, houhou, kidou, zanjutsu, zanpakutou, and about the organizations in Seireitei.
He walked over the class and sat in the terrace, as Kei came and sat beside him.
"Arigatou…, Hitsugaya-kun!", Kei said weakly.
"For what?", Hitsugaya stared at him with strange expression.
"Thank you for defend me…, from other students", Kei explained. Just knew that person next to him was so forgetful. Or humble.
"Oh, that's…. Doita…., Kei-kun", he replied.
"Did you really read all of the books?", Kei asked much to Hitsugaya's annoyance.
"You know, spend my time", he said, likely not serious.
"Wow…", Kei whispered, felt his friend was so amazing, and Hitsugaya most likely ignored him.
"Kei-kun, Zakura-sama will arrive immediately. Let's come in", Hitsugaya said and the two entered the class just before Zakura arrived.
Class, again….
"Well, now let's try to control your reiatsu. First, sense your reiryoku inside your body. Sense them. Close your eyes and don't care about anything. Blank your mind. All your focus just for relaxe yourself and then, you can find it", Zakura said.
"But, where?", Chiaki asked. He's the boy with copper hair.
"Yes, where actually we can find it?", Xian, a girl who sat next to Aoki asked.
"I don't know", Zakura said, ignorant tone, as he read a magazine and sat in his chair.
"What! Are you crazy or something? Better for me if Chianzi-sama or Taro-sama teaches me! Not you!", Aya blamed, and Aoki tried to clam her.
"Answer her, Hitsugaya-kun!", he commanded the silver-white haired boy.
"Cause it's your own body! Why the hell I or Zakura-sama as you expect, can find it? It's your body! The words you must say to him is, 'that's none of you business, Zakura-sama' ", Hitsugaya felt very angry. 'Why is the girl always so annoying?', he said to himself.
Aya felt embarrass when she saw both Hitsugaya and Zakura. 'Two of them may be father and son. Or brother', she wondered cause they two looked like have telepathy.
"Please begin!", Zakura said. The class was suddenly quiet. All you can hear is the sound of slow breathe.
At first, Hitsugaya tried to understand his body, he could feel all of his body rhythm. Searched out, and searched, and searched….Finally he could understand it. It's always there. His own body was the reiryoku itself. " Fit with definition, Reiryoku is the amount of energy a being has stored within their body or soul, whereas Reiatsu is the pressure that a person's Reiryoku exerts", he said to himself calmly.
Realized by the fact that all of his students could find their reiryoku yet. Zakura began to say.
"Now, try to get it out. Come in it. And try to control it out little by little"
Aya's table suddenly broken and Chiaki who sat next to Aoki, felt herself bleeding in her back. But Zakura, instead of stopped them, just stared at them well, and then he back to his magazine.. While, Daigo's and Kei's didn't do anything to his friends, the room was cool by the wind cause of Agata. Then, other things happened as they tried to control and get it out of their body. The room began to warm and suddenly Kei, Daigo, and Hitsugaya had thrown from their seats to the wall. 'See another people as trash, another people he means is his share room's friends. That's quite interesting', Zakura said in his mind.
Crack…The ice began to covered the wall, as well as the floor. The wind was cold and cruelly jumped to the students face. Even outside, the snow began to fall.
"What the hell happen here?", Agata asked.
"It's just like the entrance exam day, snow in the summer", Aya said happily.
The ice now covered not just this class, but surely it covered all of the academy classes, the wall and floor. Also the practice areas from zanjutsu, hakuda, houhou, and kidou was completely covered by ice and the field too, with the snow on top of ice. But Zakura didn't do something. He just fitted his kosode and still read the magazine.
"What are you doing, Zakura?", an angering voice came from Taro Atsuki, walked toward Zakura. Another seconds, Kaio Akiura, Gazushino Kooki, and Chanzi Daigeku came, you could see their angering face, except Chanzi, and he just smiled.
"What? Am I doing something wrong?", Zakura said.
"One of your student's reiatsu scatter everywhere. Freezing anything outside and inside. The practice areas indeed", she said.
"Huh?", Zakura seemed not understand.
"Would you like to see around you, Zakura-san?", Chanzi asked with smiled.
"Ah, this…", he said, now fully understood what's they said before.
"Aya, Aoki, and Xian. Please help Daigo, Hitsugaya, and Kei. Wake them up", Zakura commanded the three girls.
"And Akira. Try to control it. You can let it out anyway if I'm the one who you deem as trash, or would you like other people know. Try in this situation, if you really deem soutaichou as trash, when you don't like him. Anyway…", Zakura said just before Taro cut it.
"Is he who had caused this all? You know damn it, you all will practice zanjutsu after this class and cause your fault, we can't use the training hall, it covers with ice now!", Taro said. She was very angry.
"No, Taro-chan. That's not his fault anyway, uhm... well I can say that it's his fault', Zakura said.
"You're confusing us, Zakura…" , Gazushino said.
Zakura didn't say anything. Just after Daigo, Hitsugaya, and Kei woke, he asked.
"Would you like to apologize to them? Especially Hitsugaya-kun whom you threw hardly to the wall", he asked Akira.
"But why…?", Akira asked. Still hated by the fact that he should apologize them, especially Hitsugaya which he hated so much.
Author : Akira hates him cause Zakura was interested in Hitsugaya and Zakura gave Hitsugaya extra attention
"If you don't apologize that. The ice won't melt forever. Could you...", Chanzi asked politely.
'Well, gomen….then….guys, For Hitsugaya-kun, I'm sorry", Akira said with innocence tone.
"Yeah", they three replied.
The ice melted suddenly, the water also began to evaporate in the air quickly. Left the floor and the wall as well as before. The snow stopped to fall and the sun shines brightly.
"Now, let's go to the Zanjutsu Training Hall", Zakura and the other shinigami walked out and the students from classes follow them. The class 1 chatted with other to guess who between Daigo, Hitsugaya, and Kei had cause such things happened.
"It's Hitsugaya-kun", Aoki said surely.
"He said his reiatsu is cold", Xian also agreed.
"But, I think its Akagi-kun, he said that his reiatsu doesn't care himself. It's naturally when we can say 'cold' ", Aya argued.
"Whatever. At last, it's not possible if Kei-kun", Xian said.
"Yeah"
They went to Zanjutsu Training Hall. After 5 minutes tour from Zakura, now all of them held same swords.
Zanjutsu Training Hall
"Just try to drain your reiatsu into your sword, and after that we can practice in pair, use nadegiri but don't hurt each other", Zakura said loudly. The room began quiet, and when each student had drained their reiatsu, they start to practice with their pair. They try to use Nadegiri or "Clean Sweep" or "Killing Several with One Sword Sweep" technique. The Hall now fulfilled with the sound of steel. Akira was with Kei, in fact that made Kei very proud of. While Hitsugaya was with Daigo. And cause this was their first time, both Hitsugaya and Daigo tried not to push theirselves. Suddenly, the room was filled with scream. Aya and Xian, did it.
"What are you doing, Akira-kun? They said you can't hurt your pair", Aoki asked Akira who just took deep cut in Kei's back and chest.
"They? Where are they? They don't care even if I have killed this trash", Akira said and giggled. He was right, none of their teacher came up to stop this
"Mine is blood-thirsty sword", Akira added as he walked to Kei.
"Shit…Akira…", Daigo whispered. He put his sword on ground, ran and carried Kei as soon as possible before Akira came but, he was late. Akira cut and his reiatsu threw Daigo far from Kei.
"Don't let me to kill you, Nii-chan", Akira said and grinned.
"He's the one I want", he added and he directly put his sword to Kei's chest. When he stabbed Kei, he just wondered why this silver-haired boy is the one that stabbed.
"Shit", Hitsugaya cursed.
"Why you always stop my way? Little brat, or shall I call you, Shorty..", Akira said and smiled cruelly.
"If you don't step aside from my way. I just can simply kill you..", he said again.
"Kill me if you can!", Hitsugaya replied. He actually could feel that his lungs didn't fuction as well as usual. His heart, he could guess, was damage or something as when it beats, Hitsugaya painfully tried not to scream. Blood came from her mouth and fell down to the ground.
"Hot-headed aren't you?", Akira grinned and with full power to push through Hitsugaya's chest. And when it had done. Hitsugaya couldn't sense anything more. His vision began dull and finally all over was dark. Once he saw the light and it as thunder is crashing down on him and he saw a a gigantic, ice blue, serpentine ice dragon with large wings and an echoing voice in front of him. That was the blue icy dragon in his previous dream. That was the dragon who tried to talk with him. That's the voice that he would hear after can control his reiatsu well.
"Child, you are…", the voice is still didn't clear after all.
"I must control it", he said to himself and tried to control his reiatsu, and almost failed cause of it's very large and cold.
"My name is…", he was afraid if it wasn't clear like his previous dream, but now The dragon said.
"Hyourinmaru…", as the dragon said, Hitsugaya found that the dragon's voice softer and cleaner than before.
Akira lifted his sword from Hitsugaya's chest. He wanted to stab both of Hitsugaya and Kei, just before his sword touched Hitsugaya's body, another sword blocked his attack.
"You are stubborn, Shorty..", he said.
"Sit upon …..The Frozen….Heaven", Hitsugaya said slowly.
"What did you say? Sit…upon…the…frozen…hell, brat!", Akira laughed.
"Hyourinmaru…!", Hitsugaya screamed, suddenly stood up and slashed Akira's left arm , while his sword change, extended slightly in length, and gained a crescent-shaped blade attached to its hilt by a long metal chain. His slashes created an immense amount of spiritual power which overflows from the tip of the blade, creating a flow of ice shaped like a Chinese dragon. The dragon flew towards Akira and freezing him instantly when just the next second, Zakura, Gazushino, Chanzi, and Atsuki arrived and then another second, Hitsugaya fell down to the ground, was unconscious, and the dragon disappeared
"He always gives us surprise. Isn't he?", Chanzi said with smiled. While Taro managed to free Akira from the ice, Zakura, Gazushino, and Chanzi helped Kei, Daigo, and Hitsugaya, brought them included Akira, to the Academy Hospital.
"Zakura, what do you think about them? Especially, Hitsugaya-kun?", Gazushino asked.
"He knew his sword name and even used shikai when it's first time to him to train zanjutsu. What the hell….you do to him?", Taro asked with little laughed.
"How dare you? Laughing in this time", Chanzi said.
"You also smile, you know", Taro looked at him.
"Stop, guys..." Zakura said before they two argued, Taro and Chanzi stopped suddenly. All of them just waited Zakura's opinion about his student.
"Hitsugaya Toushirou, very impressive…", he murmured.
Well, this is Chapter 3! Sorry for my poor plot, since I don't have any idea what will happen in first day of academy? Actually, this chapter is longer than I had expected. The title of the chapter is from Soryuden Dragon Brothers (my favourite manga). Thanks anyway for the review from previous chapter. I hope I can write the next chapter soon, but next week is the exam's week in my school so I'm not sure I can do it. At last, please give the review so I can write this fanfic better!
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