"So you're telling me that the lieutenant's wife has gone missing?" Rukia asked the 3rd seat urgently having just found out after dropping Ichigo off at the examination hall.
"Yes, though we do think that she might be involved in ki-"
"Then where's Kaien?" she asked, forgetting formality in her panic.
"He's just getting ready with the captain to sort out the situation"
"Thank you!" she said, before rushing of hurriedly to catch up with her lieutenant before he left.
The third seat couldn't help but watch her go worriedly, knowing that this wasn't really the kind of situation Rukia could handle.
Meanwhile as Rukia was panicking over her lieutenant's situation, Ichigo was being told that he'd passed the test before he'd even begun the written.
"What do you mean I've passed?" he asked the man stubbornly, unable to comprehend how he could have passed without taking the full test.
"Well you have a very high Reautsu rating so I thought it would be best if I just passed you as soon as possible" the man explained, seeming a little nervous under the child's penetrating gaze.
"And what the hell is Reautsu and how could you have rated it? All you did was suddenly say 'you passed' as soon as I entered the room!"
"Yes well you see, it's a bit more complicated than that and at the moment I don't really have time to explain it, just be happy that you've passed and come with me!" The man said impatiently, motioning to the door behind him.
"Fine" Ichigo replied defiantly, making sure that the man knew that he was not happy at having passed in such a weird way.
He trailed after the man, taking in the scenery, this being one of the first times he'd been outside since he'd been confined or 'kidnapped' as he called it. Only stopping once to hand Ichigo some white robes with a blue stripe across it, telling him it was what he would be wearing from now on. Ichigo could only stare at the uniform, irked that such a place could be so old fashioned.
"Ok, we're here!" the man announced, opening a door to what Ichigo supposed was to be his new room, though from the looks of things it seemed that he'd be sharing "this is where you'll be living from now on" the man said, confirming what Ichigo had been thinking "Now go in there and get changed, so I can bring you downstairs for lunch" the man then shut the door behind him, leaving Ichigo on his own.
The room he was now in was quite cramped, the two chests, desks and beds barely fitting inside of the room. The side he was standing on was pretty bare and undisturbed but anyone could easily tell that the other side of the room was inhabited as the bed sheets were crumpled and paper was covering the desk and for a moment he couldn't help but wonder what kind of person his roommate could be.
Just then he heard a loud rapping sound against the door and assumed that it mean the man wanted him to hurry up, he quickly changed into the robes, then joined the man outside.
"You'll need these" the man announced as he exited from the door, tossing a key in his direction "It's for your room" he added, seeming to feel the need to state the obvious.
Several long winding corridors later they found themselves in a large hall, filled with a few other people also wearing the same white uniform as Ichigo, though he did notice that they all seemed far older than him, the youngest of them appearing to be around 15-16. He looked around, unable to stop himself from being a little discouraged that he would be competing against such an older group of people. He turned around to ask the man about it but found that he had disappeared; using his common sense he decided to grab a tray and queue up with everyone else unaware of his teachers suffering.
Rukia stared into the eyes of the man she'd always admired, loved; terrified as she felt her sword slide into in between his ribs, so distraught that she was unable to even hear his last words.
"Thank you"
She collapsed onto the ground, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably as she was attacked by a fit of grief, no longer able to take comfort in the fact that Kaien had promised to always look out for her.
It was not long until her captain, Jūshirō, found her and brought her and Kaien's body back to the seiretei, where the news of Kaien's death spread like wildfire, after all it wasn't everyday that a lieutenant got 'killed' by one of his own officers.
"I heard that lieutenant of the 13th division died today" the silver man said grinning to his companion.
"What of it?" the other man asked coldly.
"Well Aizen, I was wondering it had anything to do with that experiment you were telling me about the other day" it seemed though, that in the end Aizen didn't get to reply as he suddenly felt the presence of another.
"Who are you?" he asked, putting on a sincere voice for the child who had appeared before him "And what are you doing here? Don't tell me you got lost?" the boy nodded slowly and the captain realised that the boy wasn't speaking because of the strain of being surrounded by such high density Reautsu "The dormitory rooms are that way" he said smiling as he pointed to a hallway on his left, the boy nodded thank you then walked away as quickly as he could "What an interesting child" he mused as he watched the boy walk away hurriedly "I'm impressed that such a small child could even stand in front of both of our presence"
As soon as the two strange men were out of his sight Ichigo stopped, leaning against the wall; he began to pant heavily. Trying to understand what had happened when he'd got close to them, the feeling of suffocating still fresh in his mind. It had taken almost all he had just to walk away. The seiretei, he had come to realise when he'd encountered the two men was not as safe as he'd thought it was, there were still scary people like them that had made him want to bow down by just simply existing. They had made him feel helpless in a way he never wanted to feel again.
After a few minuets of rest, he finally pulled himself away from the wall, deciding that it was time to try and make his way back to the room he had been shown earlier.
It seemed that the man called Aizen hadn't lied, the pathway he had set Ichigo along led him directly to his room and he opened the door to find a peculiar person inside.
For a few moments the two red heads just stared at one another, taking in one another's appearances, both of them almost instantly deciding that they disliked the other, thinking that the other boy had a strange fierce look in his eye, which could only mean trouble.
"Who are you?!" they both asked fiercely in unison, their eyes starring angrily into the others.
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Well the chapters are getting shorter rather than longer and I'm now three weeks behind with heroes and I just realised that I took exactly one moth to update…I couldn't be any happier.
Now on other news, it seems that I've made a character younger than he actually is in the bleach storyline! I should be burned at the stake! Anyway the point is that I had to do it so that Ichigo could have a canon friend in the academy instead of some random OC dude. The reason I didn't actually start him at the academy last chapter was because I was still debating over whether or not I should do it.
And yes it probably is full of errors as I haven't had a chance to look through it, I was too desperate to release this before a month had passed. Well I do have an excuse this time since I had an english essay due in for my course work but I doubt you lot care about that anyway PLEASE REVIEW!