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Not one, but TWO reveiws!!
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Viashino Wizard gave another very awesome and very VERY very helpful reveiw! 3 Much love! 333
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And thanks also for your reveiw, WolfChick11, I hope some reveiws fly your way too x3
Chapter 3 Training
"Takashi Taicho..." Seifer gazed upwards to locate the voice refering to him. He found a short dark-haired boy, looking very nervous, the vice-captain insignia tied rather ackwardly on his sleeve.
"Seifer-san is fine." He said, interupting. He disliked titles, especially when people reffering to him were older than him or around his age.
"Yes...sir...um... Seifer...san, There's a message for you." He bowed deeply, his back in an almost 90-degree angle, both hands outstretched holding a small parchment tied with a bright red string. Seifer slowly got to his feet, carefully placing his lunch, a delicious peanut butter and banana sandwhich, on a small table-looking contraption.
"A peanut-butter-and-banana sandwhich. YumYum." He said, casually accepting the roll of paper from the boy. "Ever had one?" The boy shook his head uneasily.
"N-No, sir."
"No? Your mom never made you one?" the boy nervously shook his head no. Seifer sighed.
"The nobles miss out on all the good food." He grinned at the boy. "You don't have to keep bowing."
"Y-Yes, sir." He heistantly stood up. Seifer mentally sighed. Apparantly this was the boy's first time as vice-captain, recently upgraded in rank high enough to earn the honor for a week. Takashi Seifer, Taicho of the Twelvth Squad of the Gaito, worked his vice-captain hard, giving them may tasks. With all the experiments he conducted, as well as general needs such as the production of many of the medicines Dia used, there was good reason. All these tasks would wear anyone to a state of comple exaustion and breakdown, so Seifer rotated out vice-captains, shifting the top 20 ranks or so in and out of the position weekly. Most of his shinigami squad were glad for the system, too. With the honor of being vice-captain for the week, came many responsibilities and tasks, much more than any one of them could handle for too long. Usually by mid-week, they were waiting for Saturday, and the end of their turn, eagerly. It had been this way for a while, since his last permanent vice-captain had died. She was a rare spirit, managing to handle all the daily stress without complaint or strain. But she was gone.
He scanned the paper. Normal orders from Dia, standard medicines that were running a little low. He rerolled the parchment, Placing it in one of the many pockets in the long white haori he wore.
"What's your name?"
"Uhm...Tat-Tatsuno Kai, sir." Seifer smiled good-naturedly at the boy.
"Many thanks. You may have the rest of the hour to yourself. I'll expect you in the east lab at the 6th bell. Dissmissed." Kai clasped his hands together, bowing, as he exited.
The boy now gone, Seifer returned to his self-cooling bottle of sake and his sandwhich. Mmm, peanut butter...
"Today you will be learning some basic Kido." dictated the tall girl with bright orange hair, the senior teaching today's class. "The incantation is being handed out to you now." she gestured at the two senior boys who were busy handing out leaflets.
"The move we will be using is a simple form of hado, the type of Kido used for attacks. You will be aiming at those targets over there." She said, motioning to the painted targets that were held upright by wooden sticks.
"You are encouraged to try and hit the center red circle of each target, but do not be discouraged if you fall short, or miss the target entirly. It takes years of practice before good aim can be acheived with Kido. Now say it with me."
"Ye Lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation," The voices, some male, some female, some children, and some nearly adults chorused together.
"Flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man!" The orange-girl's voice barked out louder than the rest
"Inferno and pandemonium, The sea barrier surges,
March on to the south!
Shot of Red Fire, shakkahÅ!" She extended her arm fully, her left hand pointed desivly at the target in front of her. The other students followed. Red balls of energy shot out towards the targets. The tall girl's decaptitated the target, leaving a large hole through the center.
However, the new students did not prove to be such an amazement, with only a small percentage even hitting the target.
"Aww man! It didn't even go past two meters!" Mercy whined in contempt at her Shakkaho, a small tennis-ball shaped sphere of energy that had traveled less than ten feet.
"Yay! Mine hit!" yelled Suya with glee, pointing at the small indention on the edge of one of the targets. Mercy glared at the boy, who stoped his cheering,
"Oh...sorry..." Suya said. "Hey cheer up, you'll get better at it with time!" Mercy stuck her tounge out at him.
"Nyaaah!"
"Nyaaah!" Suya said. He stuck his tounge out back at her, making a face.
"You two quit that!" Came a gruff male voice. They snapped out of their face-making contest, facing directly in front as stiff and straight as a soldier.
"Yes sir!" the squeakd in unision.
"I'm sure you've noticed that your group is much smaller than the others. Have you wondered why?" Silence. It was what she had expected. She glanced around at the half filled lecture room. Dia mentally chuckled. "We took all those that did exceptionally well on the tests and grouped them into this special class. The courses taken here will all be accelerated, many more advanced than normal courses. In this class, you will learn all that is needed to pass the graduation exams in four years, instead of the usual six. If start falling behind, come talk to me. I may be able to help you catch up, or in the event that one is so far behind, I can switch you to a normal class." She paused.
"Though your knowledge will not be enough to pass the tests imeadietly, I encourage all students to take them at the end of the year as practice for your third or fourth year.
Enough of this, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty. I will finish teaching all the basics you need to know today, so that you may go straight into training tommarow.
I suggest you take notes. I will cover alot of material in a short amount of time, and you may find a need to reveiw later. I will occasionally stop for questions, but only then will you be permitted to speak." Dia walked over to her desk, pulling out a set of chalk.
"Firstly, Kido." She pulled out two peices of chalk; one white, one red. She carefully wrote two words on the black board, each in a different color.
"Hado." She said, pointing at the red word with a wooden stick.
"And Bakudo." pointing at the other word writtein in white chalk.
"These are the main two catagories of Kido. Hado are destructive spells, and Bakudo, binding spells, though they may also be used for destruction on occasion." Lyrae's emotionless eyes seemed focused only on the teacher and the blackboard, her hand moving rapidly, scrawling down everything the teacher said as well as copies of all diagrams in her notebook in a handwriting that seemed unusualy messy for this girl who never seemed to make a mistake, as accurate as she was distant, often blunt.
Dia moved on to discribe the different souls, plusses and hollows, moving through each group quickly. Once done, she began describing a shinigami's duties, and specifics on hell butterflies. She moved quickly through the many subjects, describing each in detail.
By the end of the session, Lyrae's notebook was more than half full. She would have to buy more soon, It seemed her small supply of ten notebooks would not be enough.
"She wants to talk to you."
"Yamamoto-sama, is it nessesary?" The
"Yes. She has taken a great intrest in you, it seems."
"She said I resembled her son." Yamamoto nodded, His great shaggy beard moving up and down.
"She yearns for her lost boy. She likes to pretend sometimes that you are him, it eases her suffering."
"But it is just a dream. Wouldn't it be better for her if she never saw me at all?" Yamamoto stared into the fireplace, watching the embers fly about. He liked the fire. It soothed him.
"She's old, soon she will fade from her world and join ours. But she has many memories." Yamamoto turned to face the figure.
"I will send you to collect the souls she has gathered. They are many as she is a powerful miko." the person, hidden in the shadows, nodded.
"I will do as you command, Yamamoto-sama." He bowed respectfully before leaving through the bamboo doors. Yamamoto turned back to the fire, inhaling deeply. The insense burning in the fire gave off a sweet aroma.
Mercy is going to suck at Kido, poor thing x3
That's enough for today. I've got a good plot idea! -happy dance-
I was going to introduce it now, but I wanted everyone to be a little more settled before I introduced the idea.
and yes, Yamamoto-sama is here. He'll prolly be just about the only name you should recognize from the series. He's ANCEINT ..
Yoriyuchi (I know I spelled that wrong...-sigh) might come in somewhere as Dia's sister, (keyword MIGHT) but I haven't decided yet.
Tommarow, we get to meet Kuchiki Byakuya's ancestor. Byakuya takes alot after this guy -wink-
-evil laughter- This guy is going to be one of my favorite characthers, I just know it x3
I'll give you a hint to his name. his last name is Kuchiki!
But I'm sure yuo figured that out already xD