Disclaimer is in the Summary! Saguru is mine. Blood bandages are not mine either apparently.

Warnings- Insomnia, isolation, slow fall of sanity. Should I bump this story up to M rating, or should I hold off?

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Saguru POV

-Dreams

Maybe if I stare hard enough, I'll develop telekinesis.

"What are you doing, Saguru-kun?" I hear from my left side.

"Shhhh, I'm trying to levitate the fish." I answer.

"…Do I even want to know?" Sosuke asked, sounding amused, sitting down next to me on the river bank. We were near the river that was on the other side of town, farthest from our shack we called home. That was why it was rare for either of us to go here, as it was so far away.

"We have this energy in us, so why not use it?" I grumbled, staring at the river harder.

"I don't think it quite works like that Saguru-kun." yup, he went past sounding it, he was flat out amused now.

I turned my glare from the water to him now, scowling at him. After he just gives me a small bemused smile, I can't help but sigh.

"…Just wanted to bring home some dinner…" I mumble.

Sosuke, of course, heard,

Before I know it, I hear what sounds like a small explosion. Looking up, I get a face full of fish.

As my reflexes are much faster, I'm just barely able to keep a hold of it, as the fish is about a foot long or so.

We'll be eating good tonight!... As long as I can keep a hold of it.

"How'd you do that!" I just know there are sparkles in my eyes, but come on! My brother just cause an explosion and caught dinner. And lunch for tomorrow if we're careful.

"While I can't levitate a fish, I can calculate when and where to add the pressure at the precise moment to… encourage one to come out." My brother says, talking smart and making me feel like a moron.

"So you exploded it out of the water at just the right moment?" I asked, getting the gist of it.

"Basically."

I can't help but stare for a bit, but not for long as I beam, one arm holding the protesting fish, while the other wraps around my brother.

"Have I said how awesome that is, Sosuke-nii ?"

"No, you have not."

"Well, I'm saying it now; that was so awesome! You have got to teach me that, you hear?"

"Of course, Saguru-kun. But you'll have to pay attention and be patient."

"I can do that if it means making things explode!"

"…Maybe this isn't such a good idea."

"Eh? Why?"

- End Dream

"Here is your meal, 0021. I will collect it in 25 minutes." one of the many bastards that works for Zora says, waking me up from remembering the better days. Watching to make sure he's gone, I move from the corner of my cell that I was sleeping in to the food left on the plate.

Manually shoving food into my mouth as it doesn't have a taste to enjoy, I can't help but have my thoughts take a wistful turn.

Ever since I came here, I have started to be wary of sleep, because I haven't had any proper dreams like I used to.

Because instead of dreaming, I remember.

My most current dream is from when Sosuke and I had just been in this world for a few months, before I realized just a little about how screwed I was. Catching fish with Sosuke always makes up some of my fondest memories, though they are few because we can't really rely on fish as a stable source of food. That had also been the day that he had started teaching me about the energy that came natural to him.

For me, it was a process. It was lucky that I had such a good and patient teacher.

Finishing my tasteless morsels, I sigh as I wait for the hell that is my day to become. Will I be taken out of the cell, or will I be left to rot today?

Both have there ups and downs. If I go out, it's a guarantee I'll be in for some pain. On the other hand, being left here means that I'll be isolated, alone, with only myself to keep amused/sane.

It's getting to be a toss up which is worst.

After the eating time limit is up, my plate is taken away, and I'm escorted out of my cell. Great, pain for me today! You should have given me time to clean up a bit, get out of this bloodied grey kimono with rips in it. Maybe even let me cover up the multiple blood bandages on my chest, arms, and legs or even the bags under my eyes? No? well, if you insist.

Can't you tell I get the best service here?

I am taken to a room, where another man with long, silvering black hair in a lose ponytail is, dressed up finely, a frown on his face, his black colored eyes dim. The frown gets deeper, making his sharp features more severe, when he sees me.

"You may leave." the man's gruff voice announces, directed at my escort, who obeys.

After a stare down of doom, where I frown just as grumpily back at the man, he sighs.

"For one so young to be here just sickens me." he says, his left hand pinching the bridge of his nose. I can't help but blink on the man, surprised. So others probably don't agree with the old bitch, huh? Interesting…

I am brought out of my thoughts by his next words.

"I am to teach you how to fight with a Zanpakuto, so that you might be a better challenge for the more 'evolved' experiments. We will start from the top with a nameless sword, then work from there. You're rather lucky; you have quite some to learn as Zora desires for all her subjects to acquire Shikai before she gives them training." The way he says 'evolved', 'experiments', 'subjects', and the old bitch's name would make one think he's talking about shit and-

Hold the message, come again?

I'm getting a Zanpakuto?

A wild OC has appeared!

(AN)- So, apparently blood bandages have already been thought up in a manga called Silver Diamond. As I have plans, I'm giving credit where it is due, but hopefully mine are different enough to be slightly original.

On the plus side, at least I have a new manga to read.