Kaigi stared at the hand, unsure of what to do. He took a slight gulp and tentatively reach for the hand, but at the last second he dropped it.
"Isshin, um, what is your last name?" The dark hair man looked annoyed and turned his head away.
"None your business what my family name is." He grunted, "All I care to say is that I am considered an uncultured embarrassment to them." He glared at Kaigi who turned away from the comment.
"My apologies." Kaigi placed his things on his bed and was trying to unpack as steadily as he could.
"Damn Kurosaki, why the hell are you so sensitive?" Isshin barked at his strange roommate.
"I am most sorry-" Kaigi tried to defend himself, but Isshin cut him off.
"Stop it. If you are going to be living in here, don't freakin' say sorry or apologize every second!" He snapped, not wishing to hear listen his roommate excuses.
Kaigi froze, not sure what to do. He should apologi- no, that would just make this man angrier. He gulped, and started to shake more. He tried to unpack his remaining clothing, but he felt a hand go on his shoulder and flinched from it.
"What the hell Kurosaki?" Isshin looked at the man in front of him with curiosity. "Why are you shaking?"
"It's nothing." He stammered, and bit his lip. "Say, aren't we needed to be somewhere?"
"Shit, you're right!" He swore as they were late for their first class. He turned to the door and looked over his shoulder. "Well, aren't you coming?" He turned his head away so he missed the brief look of joy.
"Su-sure Isshin." He stuttered, and followed the man. It did not take them long before they arrived at their first class: basic training. It was obvious they were late when their sensei stopped in mid-speech and glared at them.
"Since we have two late students, apparently, I want all of you now to do laps until it is time for your next class." He glared at the two youths. "You missed where I said I will not tolerate any form of lateness, understand?"
The man did not give them any chance to say otherwise as they were swept up in course of bodies running. They were not well received as most of the students either tried to run them down or try to run them off the track.
As the time began to pass, most of the students were beginning to pant and struggle to keep up. Surprisingly, the only two students that were still going strong were the ones responsible for the laps. It was probably due to the fact they were talking to each other. Or to be more precise, the black hair youth was talking and the brown hair youth was listening. The sensei saw this and was tempted to split them apart, but due to time running out, he simply dismissed the class to their next class.
The rest of the day followed similar: the students would appear to class, Isshin would be talking to Kaigi and Kaigi would numbly agree. The sensei were also tempted to split them up, but they choose not to for odd reasons, mostly due to the fact it seemed to benefit them both to be together.
As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, the day came which every student feared. It was the day that the all the students would be evaluated to decided whether or not it was worth continuing their education.
The Headmaster had to sign off on all the papers to make sure there was no mistakes, which he normally just took at face value to avoid the massive work. As he massed through the mind numbing work, he noticed something odd. Or make it two things odd. Taking the two odd reports, he went to the evaluator to get information for these two students. The evaluator was sitting at his desk with even more papers that he would need to sign off.
He did ask why Kurosaki Kaigi and –damn, he could not make out Isshin's family's name due to an ink blob- were both put on the failing list even when they had both received good marks.
"Sir, it is not they are bad students, far from it, but it is the fact they are only good together." The evaluator said, running through the pages, satisfied that he was already prepared for this. "I have reports that shows that Isshin is a terrible pupil when he is not near Kurosaki, several sensei have tossed him out because of his attitude. Kurosaki is no better; he is a complete mess when he placed without Isshin near by. He has no confidence in himself and barely do anything right on his own." The evaluator paused, looking up at the man. "It would be best to let them go."
To this, the headmaster gave a hmm. It was not a good hmm, it was a bad hmm. The kind of hmm that means one is about to be expelled.
Then, it happened. A loud shout came from the halls, causing the men to rush out to see what the noise was about. To their surprise, both Kaigi and Isshin were sparring with wooden staffs with a crowd of students watching.
"HALT!" The evaluator roared out, causing the crowd to disperse. Only Kaigi and Isshin did not flee. They were too absorbed with their match to notice. They did notice when the sprit pressure caused them to go down on their knees.
They both, Kaigi more of course, gulped as they saw the headmaster and the evaluator glaring at them. Only the later did it, the headmaster however…
"You two, go back to your rooms, I will dispense a proper punishment for you afterwards. I have important work to attend to." He snapped out, surprising the boys who thought they were to be sent out right then and there. The evaluator waited until they were out of sight before he asked an important question.
"Why didn't you expel them on the spot?" He demanded, knowing that fighting in the hallways was forbidden.
"Did you not see it?" The headmaster asked, turning his head as he walked back to his office. "They spared very well for first year students, almost good enough to be thought as fourth years or maybe even sixth years. It would be a complete waste to let them go."
"But-"
"I have a feeling that we have another Kyoraku and Ukitake, and you remember how much trouble they were."
And thus it is was settled, the path to becoming a soul reaper was a step further.
While it is a very short chapter, I have found that they really do work for me and I will most likely do only short chapters unless I really need to. So here's to another short chapter on the same fanfic website, same fanfic story