I had so many problems for this chapter that I would have filled a page with my rants about the many issues I had in writing this chapter. That's the main reason for the delay. I also think that this chapter was much too rushed, without much character building or details. If that's the case, please inform me so I can improve future chapters. I'm sorry if this was not that great, but I simply had too much issues in getting this chapter out. Alright on to the story…
The long-awaited...Keitaro's adventures in Soul Society! Though in my opinion, this chapter was not that great...but I'll leave that up to you to judge.
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Chapter 3 – Welcome to HeavenKeitaro wandered the streets of his new home, gazing upon the new sights that greeted him in wonder. The workings of Soul Society were strange at best, but it was quite an interesting change from the real world.
Soul Society was set up like feudal Japan, with old-styled houses. There was nothing really modern there; everything was old-fashioned. The clothing, buildings, and even the air had a strange feeling of nostalgia.
Keitaro had expected heaven to be a bit more like those cloud-filled paradises so clearly depicted in paintings. Everything was so…Japanese…
I wonder about the Souls who die in other countries…maybe there is a different area for them? Keitaro thought, dodging around a pair of young kids who had been playing on the street.
Keitaro had only arrived in Rukongai earlier that day. He was quite confused at nearly everything around here. People bustled around much like they did in normal life. In fact, it would have looked like a scene from some movie set in feudal Japan.
"Oops, sorry sir." A girl's voice said. Keitaro turned around to see a cute girl with long pale hair apologizing to a man that she just bumped into. The girl bowed quickly before running off to wherever she was going to. Keitaro shrugged before continuing his long walk.
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Keitaro had been walking for nearly the entire day. He had yet to find a proper place to stay yet, and whenever he asked anyone, they never really told him much, only to go look for anywhere he wanted.
"Damnit… I didn't think it would be that complicated when I died…I thought it would be like paradise…" Keitaro muttered, slowly drifting off into a dream where he was bouncing around in the clouds and being surrounded by angels…
Suddenly a girl's scream pierced the air and instantly woke Keitaro up from his daydream. He started searching around franticly for the source of the voice, before he took off in a direction he thought were it came from.
He ran as fast as he could toward the scream to see a young girl being chased by a pair of men.
"Oi! Get back here bitch!" one of the men called. The girl screamed, "Help!" at Keitaro, who reacted at instinct.
He immediately leapt over, and without any questions, he threw his fist back and punched the man, who stumbled back holding his face. Before he could recover, Keitaro jumped again and punched him once again. The man who Keitaro had punched started bleeding and gasped, holding onto his face.
"You'll pay for that bastard!" the other guy said and swung at Keitaro. Keitaro, who had the slightest of training getting beat up by Motoko, ducked under the attack. The fist missed by a large margin. Keitaro grinned but his foot slipped and he fell down, throwing his feet up.
It was his luck that his foot had hit the man's… special place.
The man groaned and then collapsed to the ground. His partner, nursing a bleeding nose, helped him up and started running away.
"You'll pay for that bastard!" He screamed before fleeing. Keitaro paused for a moment. Did he really just beat up 2 guys bigger than him? He had never won in a fight before…
"T-thank you." The girl said to Keitaro and bowed. Keitaro blinked before replying "Y-yeah, no problem…"
There was a brief pause and both Keitaro and the girls blushed deeply. Keitaro racked his mind for a topic to break the uncomfortable silence and finally found something to say. "Umm… what were they after anyway?"
"Umm…well I originally wasn't from this section of Rukongai, but then I managed to move here…with some help from some of the local gangs…and well, they wanted me to pay them back…"
"What? There're gangs here? In Soul Society?"
"You didn't know?"
"Nope… No clue…"
"You must be new here." The girl said, before sitting beside Keitaro, but with a lot of space between. She turned her head to face him "I guess as thanks, I'll explain Soul Society to you."
Keitaro nodded and began listening, quite interested in what she had to say. Soul Society was actually there to maintain the balance with souls; they would die in the real world and be sent to Soul Society where they would ultimately die as well, and be sent back to the real world with no memories, a new body, and essentially a new soul, therefore having no relation with the person they used to be. Actually, the only thing from the soul that was transferred to a new body was a blank empty soul, with no relation at all to the original soul. This of course confused Keitaro, after all, he thought that once he died, he would stay dead.
The girl then explained about Rukongai and how each soul would be placed in each section of Rukongai depending on the purity or righteousness of one's souls. They would number off from 79 to 1, 1 being the best and most comfortable of Rukongai while the 79th would be the worst and most dangerous of Rukongai, usually reserved for murderers and other sinners. They were currently in 22nd Rukongai, one of the best sections for any soul sent from earth, while the anything higher than 15th Rukongai would be reserved for the residents of Soul Society; those who had been born in Soul Society and for the 4 noble houses of Soul Society and the extremely righteous souls who had not even the slightest bit of darkness in their souls.
"I see…in that case, why did you want to come to the 22nd Rukongai? Where did you originally come from?" Keitaro asked, curious about this girl.
The girl looked sad and Keitaro apologized before she finally said, "I was originally from 65th Rukongai. It was better than some but it was still a terrible place. For someone like me, I was in constant danger, and was often without food. Yes, souls still need to eat and drink in Soul Society."
"You were in 65th section? What for?"
"I…I…I betrayed my friend's trust and did something I shouldn't have while I was a ghost." The girl kept quiet, clearly uncomfortable. Keitaro silently cursed himself, mad at himself for upsetting this girl.
"By the way, since you're new here, you don't have anywhere to stay right?" the girl said shyly, a blush forming on her face. Keitaro nodded. "Well, in that case, I live alone in a residence not too far away from me…and I don't think you're a bad guy so if you want…you can…umm…stay with me…" The girl said with a giant blush on her face.
"Eh? B-b-but…I'm a guy and…well you're a girl…I think that's…" Keitaro trailed off, with a blush on his face as well.
"Oh that's not a problem here in Soul Society. Souls usually live together in the same building, and the one I live in happens to be abandoned by others…so…you know…" The girl looked away, clearly embarrased by the idea of inviting someone to live with her, even though she was dead in a sense.
"Uhhh… in that case…sure." Keitaro replied. The girl seemed to light up in happiness, truth be told, she had been quite lonely once she came to Soul Society, ignored by nearly everyone and not having any friends.
"So, what's your name?" the girl asked.
"Keitaro Urashima."
"Aisaka Sayo." The girl said, indicating herself and gave Keitaro a small smile. "Come on, let's go home."
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"Get out here you bitch!"
"Yeah, you owe us!"
"Come on! Come on! Get out of there before we burn your little house down!"
Male's voices rang throughout the area, all of them screaming for Sayo to come out. Sayo was cringing and shaking in fear, while Keitaro had been standing up tensed.
Keitaro was just ready to sleep, when suddenly several men came along, all of them bearing brightly lit torches.
"I-it's t-t-them! The gang I went to help me get here!" Sayo cried out fearfully.
"Come on out bitch! Don't make me come in there and drag you out myself!" Sayo looked ready to listen but Keitaro who shook his head no stopped her.
"You don't know what they'll do to you Sayo-chan, they might kill you." Keitaro said. He had known Sayo for about 2 weeks now, exploring Soul Society until he finally adjusted well enough to get around on his own. Though he didn't really know too much about the girl, he still considered her to be his friend.
"B-b-but!"
"Don't worry Sayo-chan. I'm sure they won't-" Keitaro said before the door was forcibly kicked open, filling the room with angry gangsters. They dragged Sayo out screaming and threw Keitaro to the floor.
"That's him! That's the bastard who protected that girl!"
"Get him!" the mob yelled and started beating him up, kicking him while he was on the ground.
Sayo screamed and struggled wildly, but her captives held her tightly. Keitaro gasped and curled up in pain until finally the kicks subsided.
"Ha, that's what you get, asshole. Burn the place to the ground!" A voice called out and the gang chorused their cheers, throwing their torches at the building.
Sayo screamed loudly but was only restrained tighter. "Keitaro!!!!"
Why the hell is this happening to me? Just when I finally made a friend…and it's all because of me! Keitaro thought, refusing to blame his new friend at all I can't believe it… Sayo said she was my friend and I let her down! I can't give up now! I won't let it be like this! Keitaro suddenly screamed and stood up, a strange blue light surrounding him. I won't let this life be crap either…
Suddenly, the flames from the torches were extinguished and the gang members turned around at the sudden new presence.
Blue light illuminated the entire place, forming a swirling tempest of air.
"W-w-what the hell is this! This reiatsu…it's like a shinigami's but…much more powerful!"
"Let her go." A deep voice called out. The gangsters looked to see Keitaro standing, at what seemed to be the eye of the storm, reiatsu flowing around him.
"The hell is with this reiatsu?"
"Who the fuck are you?"
"Put her down and leave now" Keitaro said the last word with such force that the reiatsu in the air multiplied twofold, causing the gangsters the fall back on their feet.
"Don't make me repeat myself! Leave Now!" This times, the group of offending men started running away in fear, yelling back their apologies, leaving Sayo back on the ground with a look of awe on her face.
"Keitaro…What just happened?"
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Several Weeks Later…"Keitaro, be careful during today's field trip! Don't forget what happened on your first day to the academy!"
"Haha, don't worry Sayo-chan, I can handle this!" Keitaro laughed. Several weeks after the incident, Sayo and Keitaro had met with a shinigami academy student, who after talking to for several hours, they both somehow decided to join the academy.
After many long rigorous reiatsu tests, their reiatsu levels were deemed high enough to join the academy immediately. The academy accepted nearly any soul, as long as they had sufficient reiatsu. Keitaro's reiatsu was more than enough to join the academy while Sayo just barely made it.
Within 2 months of arriving in Soul Society, Keitaro had been accepted into the Shinigami academy, something that had been unheard of. Normally, souls would have to stay in Soul Society for quite a while before gaining enough reiatsu, that is, if their souls had any form of spiritual power at first. Keitaro's initial reiatsu was relatively high, though nowhere near the level of a high-ranked shinigami.
Keitaro was put in the more high-level class, while Sayo had been placed in the lower-level class since her reiatsu level was only barely enough to join the academy. This was all based on reiatsu levels, and the first initial test they had on entering the academy.
His first day had been quite disastrous. He managed to strip 31 girls of their academy uniform and landed into the breasts of 18 unfortunate girls. Then he somehow landed on top of hot teacher with suspiciously large boobs leaving them in a rather…compromising position. Needless to say, he had quite an interesting first day.
And a painful one. Sayo took about 3 hours to fully bandage all the numerous bruises he had.
Now today was the first training trip that the first year higher-class students would go through. On the field trip, they were to be accompanied by the 6th year students, who would watch over them, as they would be transported into the real world to take out a few dummy hollows. The security measures had been increased in the years due to an incident in which a training trip went wrong after several Hollows had attacked a group of young students.
Now they had more shinigami on standby, ready to jump into the real world at the first sign of trouble.
Keitaro's school life had been rather dismal. He had no real friends in the academy besides Sayo, since all the female students hated the pervert and most of the male population feared the females way too much to befriend the unlucky pervert.
His academic life was a little much better. He had mastered the basic demon art spells with little difficulty at all and he always won the sparring matches in the academy, which was strange to him because he was never that much of fighter in life.
Keitaro stood at the meeting ground for the field trip for his class. His fellow students were gathered around a certain spot in the middle, where a shinigami stood, working on something. Then, out of nowhere, a strange door opened, similar to the traditional Japanese sliding doors. Slowly, it slid itself open revealing a bright light.
"You guys can go in now. Please slowly walk in and do not crowd the portal." The shinigami said. The students started whispering and one by one they slowly walked in the portal.
Keitaro paused and then entered the portal himself. The academy of course had taught him about the inter-dimensional portals and how they were made, but it was extremely complicated and rather useless as well as extremely boring. The light through the door shined brightly and Keitaro suddenly found himself on the other side of the portal to find that he was somewhere in a large forest. Due to the recent increase in construction and population in the human world, the areas where they could have their training field trips were restricted. Since then, they normally had their field trips in a secluded or abandoned area where normal souls would not get involved.
Gathered next to a large tree were the seniors that were presiding over the trip. Around them were all the first years that were on the field trip today, most of them looking excited while some seemed a little worried. The hollow dummies that they were practicing on weren't dangerous, but they could go berserk, being machines and all, and there had been isolated incidents with problems with the dummies.
"Today, you will be using your skills that you have learned in the academy to take out a dummy hollow. Each one of you will be assigned to a three man team, which will be decided by the number on the piece of paper that was given to you." The 6th year student began speaking, once all of the students had gathered before them.
Keitaro looked at his slip and saw that his number was 7. Then 6th year student went on to explain about several things and some last minute pointers involving teamwork. Keitaro ignored this and then began to look for his teammates, who by his luck, ended up being 2 girls. Girls that hated perverts.
"Excuse me, you have number 7 right? I'm on your team, my name is Keitaro Urashima, and it's a pleasure to work together." Keitaro cheerfully said, raising a hand in greeting.
"My name is Akira. Don't try anything on me…" The girl named Akira said and looked witheringly at Keitaro. Keitaro apparently had accidentally tripped on her and managed to strip off her academy uniform in front of everyone. Needless to say, she lost all trust or respect for men for the rest of her life. She seemed to be one of a more tomboyish type and looked remarkably like Motoko, except that she had shortly cut hair.
"I'm Yuki! Yoroshiku!" the other girl cheerfully declared. She had long brown hair reaching to her waist. She was a much more girlish person than Akira and had an enormous grin on her face. Yuki looked and sounded cute while seeming rather innocent.
Akira looked at him with distrust and dislike while Yuki just seemed…cheerful and happy. They soon found themselves in their assigned spot in the forest, spaced apart from the rest of the students.
Keitaro chatted with both of them for a while, hoping to warm up to them a little. Akira returned with her cold disposition, while Yuki cheerfully talked back. Keitaro found that Yuki and Akira were best friends, despite having conflicting personalities.
"Alright! Please be prepared to start, the dummy hollows will be let loose shortly!" The voice of the senior in charge rang out throughout the empty and silent forest. Keitaro and his new team tensed and prepared for it.
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"Haddou no Sanju ichi! Shakkahou!" Yuki's voice rang out and a small ball of red energy was shot from her hands at the fake hollow. The blast missed and the hollow crawled through the smoke from the blast. "Akira! It's coming!" Yuki called out.
"Got it!" Akira shouted and drew her training sword given to her by the academy and swung down on the training hollow that was quickly approaching her. She missed by a wide margin and the hollow sped past her. "KEITARO! You better get that or else I'll kick your ass!"
"Hai, Akira-chan!" Keitaro cried and swung his own sword at the hollow but missed. The hollow continued to move and Keitaro, fearing for his own life at Akira's hands, started chasing after the hollow, swinging his sword wildly.
"Come on! Please come back!"
"KEITARO! YOU IDIOT! I'LL KILL YOU!" Akira screamed chasing after Keitaro. Yuki only laughed while she chased after her two teammates.
Finally, after chasing after his hollow for nearly 20 minutes, Keitaro managed to kill it by accidentally tripping and dropping his sword right on the hollow, cutting it in half. Such luck for our unlucky perverted ronin…
After getting a beating from Akira for him being the reason that they were the last team to finish, they all gathered at the very place they came from and waited for their next set of instructions.
"Congratulations on succeeding. The next objective is to…" The senior never got to finish those last words. A gigantic spike from nowhere had impaled him and now he was floating over the speechless first years, his lifeblood dripping all over the ground. Behind him, was the shimmering outline of a huge hollow with blood dripping from its nearly invisible hand. And that's when all hell broke loose
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"RUN!" Another senior yelled, as another hollow appeared in front of him. Just moments after the hollow brutally slaughtered the senior, the rest of the students started to panic and began fleeing in all directions. That's when another group of hollows sneaked up on them and started attacking.
Before they knew it, they had been surrounded by a group of hollows and the slaughter began. What was worst was that the hollow had managed to jam communications with Soul Society and they weren't even able to send a signal for help.
"I DON'T WANNA DIE!" A panicky first year screamed as more and more hollows arrived. Similar screams echoed through the forest, screams of pain, fear, and absolute panic.
Keitaro managed to stay in the group with Akira and Yuki, who along with several other students tried to play hero and fight back. They only got slaughtered as they tried to fight back.
"Shakkahou!" Keitaro cried and fired a blast of red energy. That was pretty much the only thing they could do, as rushing in to attack in close quarters was suicidal.
"Damnit! What can we do?" Akira cried to a cowering Yuki who despite shaking in fear had held her own by firing the basic demon art spell again and again.
3 more cries of "Shakkahou" sounded from the three students and three blasts hit the same hollow, stopping its charge at the students. The attacks weren't effective enough to hurt any hollow, they could only slow them down.
Just then, a humanoid hollow's hands changed into whip like tentacles and flew at the group. Keitaro yelped and started to charge up his Shot of Red Fire as well as Yuki and Akira, but they were too late and the hollow's tentacles wrapped around them. Yuki and Akira were pulled back toward the hollow screaming, while Keitaro was flung to a tree hard.
Keitaro fell to the ground dazed, with an injury on his head spurting blood fast. He felt his consciousness began to fade and soon his vision faded to black as the hollow's tentacles flew at him and wrapped around him, slowly devouring his soul…
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"Yo, kid. How you doing?" Keitaro woke up the sound of an old man's voice. He looked around the place he was at right now. He jumped up in shock as he realized where he was.
He was standing in front of the old crumbling Hinata Inn; it still stood in its old glory, with an ethereal atmosphere and sakura petals falling from the surrounding cherry trees. He never thought he would ever see this place again.
Keitaro slowly walked to the entrance but the closer he seemed to get, the further the inn seemed to go… along with the figure of a running brown haired girl.
"Narusegawa! Please wait!" Keitaro yelled and chased after the girl, but no matter what he did, he could never reach the inn. After what seemed to be hours of chasing after the inn, Naru finally turned around to see Keitaro, a look of pure annoyance and disgust on her face.
"Stupid idiot, how long are you going to chase after me until you finally catch me?" the girl said exasperatingly. Keitaro looked at her and pinched him to make sure this was real and not just a dream.
"Narusegawa! W-w-what are you doing here? What's going on and why am I here?" the brown haired girl just laughed before saying
"I'm not your friend. My name is not Narusegawa. I simply took the form as your famed promise girl because I felt you would be the most familiar with that shape and form."
"N-n-narusegawa is the promise girl?" Keitaro asked in bewilderment, his memories of the hollow attack immediately shunted aside once the mention of his promise girl came up. "H-h-how do you know that?"
"Yes she is. I have been with you since the beginning, after all, I am the part of your soul that represents your shinigami powers. And I remember everything about your life, though I do not understand you at all." The girl who looked like Narusegawa said, in a monologue business like tone. "I chose this form because I believe you trust this form the most, though I usually prefer this form…" Naru suddenly changed into a man in a business suit, currently rolling some dice in his hands.
The man had short cut black hair. He had a roughly handsome face and was looking at Keitaro with a mixture of disdain and amusement.
After a moment of silence, the man threw the dice onto the ground and muttered, "Damn" as he picked the dice up once more. Keitaro didn't even notice him at all, still too busy standing in shock at discovering his promise girl.
"Hello? You there? Can you see me?" The man waved his hand in front of Keitaro's face, who only stood there with a happy expression "Umm…Are you there, Keitaro?" A bit of spit dribbled down his mouth.
"WAKE THE HELL UP!" The man yelled pissed, and threw his dice at Keitaro hard, waking him from his stupor.
"What the hell are you doing? Are you that excited at discovering your promise girl?" The man asked exasperatedly. Keitaro could only nod, a happy smile plastered on his face spreading from cheek to cheek.
The man sighed and motioned toward the inn "Shouldn't you be worried about that right now?" Keitaro looked up to see the old building in flames, slowly burning the old inn away. Keitaro's eyes widened and he tried to run into the inn to put out the fires but no matter how much he ran, the inn never got nearer.
"Stupid. You can't enter that inn." Keitaro looked at the man, who was currently throwing his dice again "That inn represents your memories in the Hinata Inn, including your prized memory of the promise girl. This place is one of the main areas of your souls, the place that represents your memories."
"What?" Keitaro asked, clearly confused. The man sighed, "Your soul is organized into several parts, the 3 main parts being your memories, desires, and feelings. This place represents your memories, the Hinata Inn, where most of your most precious memories occurred. Your desires are represented by the place you wanted to go to the most, Tokyo University, which is over there in the distance." The man pointed in a direction, where Keitaro found Tokyo University that was also burning like Hinata Inn.
Keitaro was about to run over before the man continued, "Your feelings are not that easily represented and I'm afraid that your true feelings have yet to manifest in a form." He tossed his dice up in the air and caught it, smiling "Picked the right number that time. Well, anyways, there's also another main part of your soul, which represents Shinigami powers. And that part would be…me" the man pointed to himself, leaving Keitaro even more confused.
"So that would make you…"
"That would make me your zanpakuto." The man simply said. Keitaro stared at him in shock. His zanpakuto? The suited man continued on, ignoring Keitaro's awestruck look "And the reason those buildings are burning" the man motioned toward the buildings "is because a hollow is currently trying to devour your soul."
"M-m-my soul?"
"Correct. He will forcibly absorb most of your soul before devouring you himself."
"T-t-then what the hell am I doing here? I need to get out and escape!" Keitaro panicked, looking around for an exit.
"Maa…relax, in here, time has little influence. Though I gotta say, you should hurry up and find a way to escape, because once those buildings burn down to nothing…you die as well as me."
"T-t-then what do I do? How do I get out of this?"
The suited man threw his dice once more before grinning "Easy. You find out my name."
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In Soul Society…
"That's odd, we've lost contact with the academy group. Maybe we should…" A man clad in Shinigami robes spoke to himself, seated in a room where various instrument whined and bleeped. Just then, the door to the room was burst open as another shinigami ran in.
"Sir! Our detectors pick up a large amount of hollows!" The leader in charge looked surprised before asking back.
"How many?"
"I believe…a total group of 43 hollows!" The man seemed shocked before quickly replying
"Send a message to Soul Society! We need about 4 entire Shinigami teams here ASAP!" The man shouted before another person entered the room, causing both of the occupants already in the room to fall silent.
"My my…having some trouble are we? Need me to lend a hand here?" The two shinigami in the room just stared, their jaws dropping to the ground.
"Y-y-you are…"
TBC
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A/N How rotten of me? I'm late on updates and then I leave a major cliffhanger…Sort of mean isn't it? Oh well.
You wouldn't believe the many troubles I had writing this chapter. I rewrote the chapter about 6 times due to extreme suckiness. So many many troubles… And then I had to rescrap about 7 different ideas for this fic. IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING! So many issues…
Problems with the timelines, how to get Keitaro to become a shinigami within the timeline, and then so many other issues…THAT was amazingly tough. Believe me, it was hard to write this chapter. Too hard. And I'm not even sure I wrote this chapter properly. Did I write this chapter well? Seriously, so many of my previous ideas sucked that I'm not sure if this was even good…please tell me…
One of my main issues… Keitaro's zanpakuto, the thing that I'm tearing my hair apart for. I had about 4 ideas for his zanpakuto, each of them extremely powerful. I had to scrap every one of them too… So I was mostly going to base Keitaro's zanpakuto that involves his own luck. If there are any suggestions for his zanpakuto, I'm more than willing to stop tearing my hair out and listen to them.
But since I left such a cliffhanger, I'll just say that his zanpakuto involves luck. That's all I'll say.
I felt that the hollows was the easiest way to implement Keitaro's zanpakuto early in the story, though there are many other ways, I thought this might be the easiest, so there might be a little deja vu from both the anime and how Motoko found her zanpakuto.
Oh by the way, the Sayo in this chapter is the Sayo from Mahou Sensei Negima. Why? I hate making OC's so I just decided to make character based on another character from Akamatsu. But she will play a part later on, just nothing big.
And now, to inform you early, several of the more mysterious characters in LH (Namely Haruka, Granny Hina, Seta, etc...) will be much more intertwined with the world of the Shinigami than you think... just remember this is an AU, so don't be pissed if they are weird things...
I believe that the Shinigami academy only requires 6 years of training, I read that somewhere. While I think that Keitaro got in way too quickly, that was the only way I could bring him into the Shinigami academy without hassle with a 10 year timeskip... Sorry if it sounds weird and all, but please just ignore how fast Keitaro got into the academy.
Voting for fights is still on. Though some of the fights I can't really implement, but Su will see lots of action (Why does everyone want to see her fight so much?) and I'll try to keep the fights more of the Bleach style. That means the good guys won't always win. In fact, most of them won't win...against Captains and stuff.
Anyways, I hope I didn't disappoint. Leave a review on your way out.
And now... next chapter, Keitaro finds out his zanpakuto's name...and about his own name. What the hell is Granny Hina doing in Soul Society? See in the next chapter!