"Kai, over here!" echoed my voice in the field. Me and my friends decided to play with a Frisbee. Kai, and me were on a team and we were against Aki and Yukiya. It was sunset and we finished all of our lessons for Monday and we decided t meet up and have some spare time to just have fun and take our minds of studying. The game was going on for a long time but it was really enjoyable.
"Coming!" she shouted back and I jumped up but Yukiya was taller and caught it before me. The rules of the game were that no one can run with the Frisbee or is allowed to hold it for longer than 5 seconds. Aki jumped and waved to throw the Frisbee to him but I pushed him and it flew into Kai's hands. Even though the rules were simple, we still broke them and cheated.
"That's not fair, you can't do that!" shouted Akiyoshi at me and I simply shrugged. Kai through the Frisbee to me and I flung it with full power at Akiyoshi who fell back with the force of it hitting his stomach.
"Sore loser!" I chanted and helped him stand up. He took the Frisbee and threw it to Yukiya who caught it perfectly and soon threw it back to Aki. The sun was at the peek of the horizon and the sky was a light purple and blue.
"Guys, could we have a sit down? I am exhausted!" Kai said and fell back onto the floor. I joined her and soon all four of us sat down on the damp grass. We stared at the sky as the stars began to show.
"What should we do now?" Akiyoshi asked. I let my head down in thought and Kai leaned on my shoulder.
"Curfew is soon, we should go back," Akiyoshi muttered and looked back at the Academy.
"Get a life Aki, all you do is follow rules. Right Kai?" I asked and looked at the oddly calm Kai who was leaning on my shoulder. She blushed a bit as I just asked her to disagree with her crush, Akiyoshi.
"Hmm?" she asked and I could feel her warmth of her cheeks on my shoulder.
"Never mind," I said when I could feel that Kai was getting angry. We sat there until all the colors drained from the sky.
"I think we should go back now," Kai's voice broke the pleasant silence Most agreed but I still had objections.
"You guys go, I still want to stay out," I said to them and they walked away.
"Iza, just remember that I am not to blame if you get into trouble!" Aki called out to me and I walked in the other direction.
The outside always attracted me in a way I could never explain, I just always felt free to do what I want and not feel like a puppet of the cruel system. I was walking without an aim and my feet led me to the corridor I was afraid of yesterday. I slowly stepped inside and walked down it, once again the weird feeling came back and I held onto the hilt of my Zanpakutō. The well polished floor reflected every move I made which made me b afraid even of my own reflection. I was able to distinguish a quiet distant noise that sounded like a tap dripping. I picked up my pace and hurried to my room, I was scared. Memories of my parents flashed before me and I started to tremble with fear. My feet were independent and started to sprint to my room. Once I was there I smiled to myself and opened the door.
I creped inside and undressed ready to go to sleep. I sat on my bed pondering about why I was so always so afraid of that hallway. I finally decided to leave my deep thinking for tomorrow and focused on getting to sleep. I cuddled up in the warm blankets of my bed and I felt my heavy head sink into the pillow, I finally was doing the thing I wanted to do since I woke up at 6 today morning, sleep. It felt like I only shut my eyes for five minutes when a distant voice started to call my name and shaking my shoulder.
"Iza! WAKE UP!" at the sudden loudness of the voice I opened my eyes and set them on my roommate Kai who bending over above me and shaking my shoulder.
"What time is it?" I asked when my hazy vision of Kai sharpened.
"It's six thirty. There was a notice sent to every one. It said, do not leave a room unless told to do so," Kai mimicked a low voice that should resemble a teacher.
"Weird, well let me get changed and I will send a note to Aki and Yukiya to ask about this." my voice was sore. I climbed out of my bed and got changed as quickly as I could and ended up looking scruffy.
"How are you going to message them then? We can't go out of our rooms." Kai said looking quizzically at me.
"I will use my Shikai," I said and looked down at my left hand.
"All you can do is animals right?" Kai said and still looked confused.
"I will just use more energy to create 2 fake hell butterfly so we can communicate," I said and I was pretty impressed by my quick thinking. I picked up my Zanpakutō and started spinning it on my finger tip. Since the last time I used it I spent some time training with Akiyoshi and learned how to control it a bit better and activate it quicker.
"I never seen your Shikai. Oh I forgot to tell you, I got one myself," Kai said and I smiled at her.
"I would love to see it but not today, instead you will see mine," I said and my Zanpakutō stopped spinning on my fingertip but still was balanced perfectly on it. "Queen of Rain and the Goddess of sea combine. Kazetori!" I chanted and a swirl of wind melted my hand and Zanpakutō together creating a fan which was oddly colored. "This is my Shikai,"
"Wow, what can it do?" Kai asked and grabbed my hand to observe it closer.
"It can control the wind,"i explained in the shortest way possible.
"Huh? I thought it summoned animals," she said and let my hand go.
"It can create an animal, watch," I said and prepared myself to use it. "Princes of wind Kazetori!" I said with enthusiasm in my voice, eight hurricanes appeared and messed up our room. "King of the ground, Tori!" I said and the hurricanes joined to make a bird, which was the first animal I could think of. I wanted to make the wind stop as soon as possible so that our room would be clean or at least less messed up.
"That was amazing, way better than mine. But it's a bird," she said and I looked at with a scowl.
"Do you think I am blind?" I pointed the fan at Kai and made the bird fly to her and start tickling her which she started laughing and rolling around on her bed.
"Ok, ok then do something else. Just make this stop Hahahaha!" Kai rolled around and I made the Bird stop.
"I just need to transform it and divide it," I said and focused on the image in my head, making a magical animal was tougher than I thought but I kept focused until I felt the tension on my body rise and I opened my eyes. The four creatures that I found before me were exactly like the on e I seen in textbooks. They were all black and had a red outline on the bottom wings. "Are you satisfied now Kai?" I asked sarcastically.
"Yep, but how do you use them?" Kai asked and looked up at me after staring at the butterflies for a minute or so.
"You'll catch on quickly, just talk to it and listen, that's all," I said and made one butterfly go to kai one to me, the next to I needed to send to Aki and Yukiya which were further away. "Rampage Kazetori!" I said and the two butterflies sped of to their destination.
"Rampage?" kai asked and played with her butterfly.
"I use it to make them travel long distances in a short time." I explained and lifted the butterfly. I could hear two muffled voices that were coming from Aki and Yukiya. I lifted the Butterfly to my lips and spoke. "Hey Aki and Yukiya, I am using my Shikai to contact you, do you know anything about what happened today?" I asked the butterfly. I felt weird like I was talking to myself.
"Iza? I never knew that you could make magical creatures!" I heard Aki say loudly and clearly. I looked at Kai who nodded that she could hear well too. I was impressed by my own ability and spoke again.
"There is lot's that you did not know, so have you heard anything?" I asked again.
"No, all we got is a note saying not to exit the room unless instructed too by a teacher," Aki said and Yukiya gave a sound of agreement.
"Same here, what lesson are we going to miss?" Kai asked and I checked my planner.
"Sword skills," me and Aki said at the same time and all of us laughed.
"Guys I can't keep this up much longer, it is taking up to much power," I said as I noticed that the audio was weakening and that my fan hand spun slower than usual.
"We'll see each other in class then, see ya," Kai's voice was the last thing heard from the fake Hell Butterflies. I made the ones that were in Akiyoshis' room return and made them all join up to make a blue bird. I sat down on Kai's bed and started to play around with her dark hair, I was often jealous of it as it matched her perfectly and it didn't attract attention. I braided it carefully not paying much attention to the surrounding area.
"Kai, you really like Aki don't you?" I asked her and she nodded and blushed. "if you want, I can talk to him for you," I said, I wanted to thank her for letting me borrow her cloths and just being there for me. This was the perfect occasion to do so.
"Are you crazy?!" kai shrieked and nearly stood up but I pulled her hair down . "I wouldn't be able to look him in the eye if he knew what I think and feel for him!"
"Ok, sorry," I said back at her outburst of thoughts.
A loud voice from the fall entered the room, it was the voice of the head teacher, "Attention all students, classes will take place as usual starting from third period. you are now permitted to exit your rooms," droned on her voice in a boring tone that sounded as if she could not care less about her life. All students hated her for all the reasons you could think of, even her looks turned into chants and songs with many insulting words. I put my own hair up in a ponytail and pinned up my fringe.
Me and Kai walked to the hall to sit down as it was raining outside. We searched for Aki and Yukiya which we couldn't find. We still had an hour until our third lesson started so sat down next to a window and looked outside on the chilling weather.
"What does your Shikai do Kai?" I asked starting up a conversation.
"It controls water, I really like it. The sword doesn't change into anything like yours, it just makes water appear," Kai responded enthusiastically. I smiled and looked at her.
"We both have a element one can train together from now on, me and Ak..." I quickly covered my mouth when I realized what I was about to say, I was not meant to tell anyone about us sneaking out and training in the woods.
"Hmm?" Kai responded and I made a relief noise, she did not hear me.
"Nothing, what lesson do we have next?" I asked changing the subject.
"I think we have Kido, not too sure though," said kai and I took my planner out and checked and nodded. "When is you birthday?" Kai asked and now was staring at me.
"I am not sure, I can't remember," I said and a image of my father giving me a birthday present flashed before me. "I can only remember that it is in winter, February I think, when's yours?"
"My birthday is on the 22 of June. Yours is next month right? How come you can't remember exactly?" she asked and I frowned and looked down on my knees.
"Lots of things happened since the last time I celebrated it," I said and the image flashed once again before me.
"Ok, are you hungry?" she asked when she saw a food trolley near us.
"Actually yeah, are you?" I only noticed how hungry I was when a sweat scent o cupcakes filled the air.
"I sure am, wait here," kai stood up and walked up to the trolley and bought two cupcakes. "Here you go," she said and gave me one.
"Thanks," I said and took the wrapping of and bit it. "This is good,"
"Yep, I think we should start to walk back to our lesson, at least we only have three lessons left today," he walk to our lesson. Kido was a subject I had trouble to control as I always let my spiritual pressure overflow and ended up blowing up six targets instead of one. Kai, Aki and Yukiya were really good at it.
