Chapter 10

AN- Yes I am back! Quick update was it not!

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OC characters. The epicness which is Bleach belongs to a Japanese guy in a money Hot tub.

After two bloody weeks I was finally discharged by Unohana. Due to her constantly, almost magically showing up when ever I am about to do something "Unsuitable for a patient", I have come to learn why three quarters of the Gotei 13 are scared shitless of her. The good thing about my incarceration in the Fourth Squads barracks was Kasumi. You know, Kasumi the embarrassed fast talking medic. She was in charge of treating me and often did little things to make my stay more pleasant.

"AHA! Do not deny she would make a worthy third wife!"

"SHUT IT! We are just friends!"

"Sure, that's what they all say."

I found out she had been a Shinigami for over 20 years and had a large sweet tooth.

My time their was basically fine. Just one thing freaked me out. Okay, TWO things freaked me out.

"Guuy's youthful visit was the second."

The first thing was the note. A few days after I woke up, Kasumi came running up babbling that she was sorry. Apparently she had noticed a slip of paper in my pocket and it had been soaked in the wash.

"What note?" I asked.

"The note you left in your pocket on washing day" she replied.

The strange thing was I NEVER put any notes in my pocket that day. When I asked for the remains of the note she handed me a damp piece of plain paper. On it in bold, curly, Gothic scripture I read the only legible words left unwashed.

"Remember...Begins when...Fifth... Sleep."

"Odd words. Maybe Daichi playing a joke."

Speaking of Daichi, all my friends visited me the day I woke up and every day since.

I remembered it like it was only two weeks ago.

"It was only two weeks ago!"

Flashback

I was in bed when they came. Daichi, Akimi, Mika and Hayato all dashed in like they had just ran a marathon. Daichi was panting heavily. "We..Ahuh..We came ... as soon as we... heard you were up!"

"Yes, we chose to speed up our visit" said Hayato neutrally. I could tell he was worried though. He kept fiddling with his glasses, which he only does when nervous or worried.

"As you can see, Marc, we decided to visit you." Mika said grinning, clearly happy I was awake.

The only thing missing was Akimi's shouts of "IDIOT!" or "STUPID!"

She was unusually quiet.

"Thank you." she said. "Thank you for saving my life. If you had not distracted it I would have been killed." she bowed her head meekly "Thank you."

I scratched my head modestly and said "No problem"

"I would apologise as well for the injuries but you would just shrug it off."

"That I would. I would take a blow for you any time." I said honestly.

She blushed, then hid it by coughing weakly and turning round. Daichi then pulled me into an epic Man hug!

"Either way man, well done. That was absolutely bloody epic! You kicked that Hollows ass in the most epic way evaaar! All we needed to do was put some epic music on in the background and it would have been well BAD ASS!" I loosened myself from his hug.

"Thanks man! It was pretty awesome. Mad, stupid and painful, but awesome.

Hayato then came up with a plastic container.

"Here. You often say Spaghetti Carbonarra is your favourite dish, so I cooked you some!"

"YES!"

"You deserve it. You managed to lead us pretty well."

"Of course he did!" Said Mika bluntly. "He's our leader. It's his job to get us out of situations like that."

"HEEY! Who said I'm the leader? I'm the new guy here!"
"SO?" said Akimi even more bluntly. "As much as I hate to admit it you idiot, you are our leader."

""True." I said. "But what's a leader without his comrades" I looked at my friends. They had all been there for me. We had fought side by side, they were practically family.

"Heeey! Marc, of course we're gonna be there for ya! We're your bezzy mates, yeah!" Daichi said energetically.

Hayato then said a quote that would stay with me for the rest of my life. Especially later on when all the major shit went down.

"You're our Alpha Male, and we're your pack."

"HELL YAA! We da wolves yeah!" shouted Daichi.

Unohana appeared at the door, an evil glint in her eye

"Noise down please." she said with a smile. We all bricked it.

"Yes captain!"

"Good."

She slunk off.

My friends prepared to leave.

"Oyy! Where are you going."

"Your pack needs feeding. You got your dinner, now we shall have ours!" Joked Hayato.

"Hayato joking! End of the world!"

"Shut it Javan!"

My friends left then. I truly knew then that they would always be there for me.

Flashback end

Either way I was finally free from the dreaded hospital.

That book Aizen left me was quite good. I managed to finish it. Some of the Kido in it was pretty damn epic. If I learnt them I may not even need to get Bankai. Unfortunately it was a lot more difficult to learn and perform than the ones we were doing in class. I decided that I needed at least one strong final attack. From the book I determined a relatively simple one to perform.

Hado No 63: Raikoho (Thunder Roar Sear). This Kido basically involves forming spiritual energy into a small, compact, concentrated ball then firing it at the opponent. Cue giant explosions and mass destruction.

"AAAHHHH! I can not wait for the time when you can perform mass destruction techniques. I hope your Shikai and Bankai involves explosions."

I decided that with three weeks till term restarts, I would follow the good, extremely scary, doctors orders and refrain from strenuous activities for another week. I would then use the remaining two weeks and practise this Kido until I can do one or two good shots with it, without spending too much of my limited academy level Reiatsu.

Another spell I was thinking about was Hado No 54: Haien (Abolishing Flames)

A good Bakudo I would also work on was Bakudo No 63: Sajo Sabaku (Chain link, Chain Bonds)

It is basically a larger better form of Bakudo No 4. I mastered that ages ago. This one should be quite easy.

"Focus on Raikoho and Sajo Sabaku. If you train hard you could learn them in two weeks due to the similarities with other techniques."

"Right"

Either way I still had a week to go until I could start. Also I would only have those two weeks due to the fact that other students would show up. If I continued I would only draw more attention to myself.

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The week passed quickly. There wasn't much to do at the academy so we often just hung out. We officially made our spot the tree in the mini garden in South Block.

While I could not do training, the others could.

Daichi could often be found sparring with Akimi. When this happened he actually stopped being perverted for the duration of the fight.

"Probably due to the threat of being castrated."

I nodded in agreement. "Being a pervert when Akimi has a sharp object is just suicidal."

Hayato also looked at more powerful Kido. While I had been focusing on 50 plus, his focus was on the 40's. None of these spells had been shown in the actual anime. It would be interesting to see what they do.

Mika had focused on her Hoho. She seemed to be focusing on increasing her speed all round.

Enough with them. Time for my own training. I went to a small Kido target area behind the main block. It was basically a reinforced wall with some targets crudely painted on.

I started chanting "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle!" I tried focusing my energy into a ball. I shouted "Raikoho!"

The ball of energy appeared and all, it just exploded in my face.

After recovering I saw that even a failed one had caused a small crack to appear in the apparently reinforced wall.

"Quick, to the forest!"

"Agreed". The forest was the better location. I could blow up as much crap as I wanted.

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Two weeks flitted by in a flash, and I was honestly smug with myself. After 72 explosions, 600 dead trees, 3 surprised hikers and an encounter with that cabbage selling man from chapter one, it was finally done! I had learnt the giant lightning thingy of doom! MWWAAAGHH HAHA HA!

I also pretty much had that chain Bakudo in the bag.

"Aaah! Life is sweet when you have a giant explosive lightning bolt by your side!"

"That it is. That it is."

Students were flocking back, teachers were returning by the dozen and all was normal at the academy. Life quickly went back to normal. Daichi copied homework, Hayato would get stressed, Akimi continued tutoring me and Mika looked happier than ever. I even met Kasumi again when she came to do a one off lesson for the last year on healing Kido.

One funny thing that happened was that Bully dude

"Gurou"

"Guru duru, who cares?"

"You're just doing this for a repetitive joke, aren't you?"

"That I am Javan, that I am."

Anyway, that bully guy tried to jump me with some of his friends. I promptly kicked their ass and left them screaming for mummy.

There isn't much to do at the academy, as I said before, so I continued my training. I would take an hour in the woods after tutoring but before dinner. In this time I would work on Practising my Kido and in doing exercises designed to increase spiritual power. I even did a Gai and put some training weights on. It was tough but useful. It definitely increased my muscle power. Guuy tried to persuade me to wear a green tracksuit, but alas I had standards. He was disappointed at my unyouthfulness but he quickly got over it by yelling at his rival, a Zanjutsu teacher with a headband over one eye, with that thing where you have two different coloured eyes.

Overall the fourth year was difficult. Much of the work was more difficult but later on I would consider this year to be the best in my life. The year before a masked man would come and change everything I thought about the world of Bleach.

AN- Hey everyone! Major foreshadowing at the end of that chapter! I know it was short but that was basically just a filler. This was a rest for me after doing that long Ambush chapter. The next one will be really juicy! Oh yeah, I have picked the Zanpakuto ideas for all my characters except Akimi. If anyone has any ideas feel free to leave a review or PM me. Usual thanks for reading and following can be inserted here. Please review! Until next time. Undying Soul out.