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It was another long wait before Kira finally came back in, his clipboard still in his hand and the fake smile back on his face. "Ok. We have decided which classes to put you in. I will call out the names in each class and you can go together to meet your teacher." He explained after getting the groups attention. They were all pretty hyped up after passing the 'exam'. I smirked at him slightly as our eyes met but he didn't acknowledge me, only looked away and began to call out the higher class. I frowned as he finished the calls for that class and moved onto the lower set, wondering what the hell was going on.
My frown turned to a glare as he failed to call out my name for the lower class either and I turned my eyes on him as he lowered the clipboard. His smile had gone and he was looking at me with hard eyes.
"What gives?" I asked in annoyance, not showing any politeness anymore. He frowned at me before sighing.
"It seems you are to be privately tutored." He explained, walking over to me as the others were led into there classrooms by their respective teachers. My eyes narrowed.
"Ok…so what?" I said, not failing to show my growing impatience.
"As you are so advanced in some areas but lacking in knowledge in others you are to be tutored privately by two teachers. One will teach you kido and the other will teach you Hakuda and Hoho. You will be joining the sixth year's advanced class of sword fighting for half of its lessons but, since you don't have a Zampacto yet, you will spend the other half of those lessons working with me in the third squad barracks." He told me, watching as my eyes widened at the last part of what he said.
"I'm going to be a shinigami straight away?" I asked in amazement. Kira shook his head.
"Not really. You'll be doing some of the paperwork to get used to it. they seem to think that when you graduate you will be assigned to either a third seat or a lieutenant so they want you trained in that department also." He told me, looking me straight in the eyes as he explained this. I was amazed. Was it really going to be that easy? Or was it just that they expected me to work hard and get in? What ever it was, I wasn't complaining.
"Cool." I replied, a grin spreading on my face as I thought of the possibilities. Then, I remembered something.
"Hey, Izuru?" I spoke up to the blonde curiously. He looked down at me expressionlessly. "Toushiro, which captain is he?" I asked, kind of hoping he would be third with Kira. The shinigami raised an eyebrow before answering.
"Hitsugaya Toushiro is the tenth squad's captain." He told me, his voice wondering and curious though his face remained unchanged. I looked down, a little disappointed and realising that I had already known the answer really; Matsumoto had been his leutenant.
"Oh." I said before cursing myself mentally. I had tried not to sound so disappointed but it sounded depressed even to my ears. Damn. What an idiot am I? Kira looked at me strangely for a moment before gesturing for me to follow him and walked out of the room, me at his heels. As he led me through the corridors of the academy I tried my best to remember which way I had come. I had never been very good and finding my way around places like this but I felt it might be a little easier if I remembered the views out of the window; all of the walls looked the same.
We were silent as we walked through the corridors, the cream coloured walls bright against the black of Kira's clothing and the bright sky bluer than I had ever seen it before; shining sapphire in the light of the sun. It was a beautiful place, the soul society; more beautiful than even Rukia had told. It made me smile slightly and as we walked and when we arrived at an old fashioned sliding door Kira turned to me with a slight smile.
"Your teachers should both be in there by now. You can go back to your house or wherever you came from tonight and your room will be ready for you by tomorrow. I'll get someone to show it to you in the morning." He told me before waving his arm in the direction of the door. I gulped slightly before nodding and gently pushing the door open. Behind it was another of the old fashioned school rooms that I had been in earlier only this one was smaller with less benches and had only one small blackboard at the front where as the other had had three large ones nailed to the walls. When I looked back to ask Kira a question, the blonde had gone. Little bugger. Turning back to the room I studied the two people inside.
A lady that looked a few inches taller than me who had wavy black hair that fell out of the rugged bun it was up in and onto her shoulders and amber eyes that were staring at the man next to her with raised eyebrows and an annoyed expression. Said man was also tall, at least 6ft, and had short bronze hair that hung nicely round his face and chestnut coloured eyes. His lips were twisted into an idiotic grin and I assumed he had just said something that was idiotically stupid but he found amusing. That was confirmed by the punch he received shortly after I had opened the door that sent him flying into the opposite wall. I covered my mouth in amusement, failing to remain quiet as the woman turned to look at me with curious eyes.
"So, your Karin I take it?" she asked, her voice as smooth as honey and just as sweet but it was a sour sweetness of someone who was annoyed but trying their best to hide it. I nodded slightly, eyeing her before turning my gaze to the man groaning on the floor as he struggled to sit up. They were both wearing the shinigami uniform though neither of them had Zampacto's on them.
"Was that entirely necessary Yuki?" he asked, rubbing his head with his hand as he looked at the lady with a sour expression. She glared at him.
"Absolutely." She told him snippily before turning back to me, her eyes and expression cold. "I'm Humienta Yuki and I've been told I'm teachin' you Hakuda and Hoho. The idiot be'ind me is Uhmeda Yoshiro. As I'm sure you've been told 'e teaches kido." She told me, a slight accent to her speech I couldn't recognise. I nodded at her slightly, unable to decide whether or not to like her yet before she vanished, flash stepping from the room. I caught five steps before she was invisible to me.
"Please excuse her rudeness; she was annoyed at me. I will be tutoring you this morning and not only on kido. I will be working with you on your Zampacto as well, spiritually training you before and after you get it; helping you discover its name and powers. But today, we will try kido, ne?" the man, Yoshiro, asked with a smile. I turned to him with raised eyebrows.
"Why was she annoyed at you?" I asked, the informality of the question caused him to raise an eyebrow but he said nothing of it, only scratching the back of his head guiltily. He had, by now, gotten up of the floor and looked as if nothing had happened.
"Well, see she's easy to tease and I guess I went too far…" he explained before his eyes turned serious. "Now sit and I'll teach you the basic's behind kido and how to control it." he told me before gesturing for me to sit and launching into a detailed explanation of how kido worked and how to control it. For once I found myself listening to my teacher intently; this shinigami stuff was more interesting then I had thought it would be.
Yoshiro's lesson took us up to lunch and he had even started going through the chants for a few of the Hado's. As the bell signalling the end of lessons for the morning rang, I got up; not entirely sure what I was supposed to do.
"I have lunch for you here today." Yoshiro told me before throwing me a box which I easily caught. Inside was a bento; slightly messed up but still in good shape. I grinned at him before digging in. I hadn't realised I was that hungry.
"What would I usually do then?" I asked through a mouthful of rice. He frowned before swallowing his own mouthful and answering.
"You should really start calling me sensei. Yuki won't tolerate you not and it really is proper." He said before his face smoothed itself into a smile. "But normally you would go down to the dining hall with everyone else. Today we thought it easier if you had it here so Kira made you lunch." He told me. I frowned slightly. When had Kira been able to give him that? Or even make it in the first place?
"God that new class is annoyin'." Yuki said as she flash stepped in before grabbing the last box and digging in hungrily. Kira was a really good cook.
"Why's that then?" Yoshiro asked with blatant curiosity and amusement. I was curious too so I also listened intently, watching her as I spooned the rice into my mouth with the chopsticks. Yuki huffed slightly as she popped a meatball into her mouth and chomped on it viciously. Swallowing, she answered.
"All of 'um are a bunch of pusses. May 'ave the talent but they sure don't 'ave the brains or the perseverance to put 'um to any good use!" she moaned, crossing her legs and lounging over the bench she was sat on. I hid a grin and decided to like her, for the time being at least. Yoshiro chuckled slightly.
"Well, I'm sure you won't have the same trouble this afternoon. She's been very attentive." He informed the woman, causing her hard eyes to fall on me; studying me as I continued to eat, all the while keeping my eyes on hers. Then she grinned.
"We'll see now wont me. I'm sure I'm not as kind as you when it comes to these kind o' things." She said a hint of a threat hidden underneath that sugary voice.
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Hope your liking this and hope you continue to like it, the kid genius she is. Oh, also remember that she is 17 now and will have developed some girly tendencies. I'm also going to have made Toushiro grow a bit as he was the same height as her when she was, what 10? 12? Dunno. But yes, growth spurt for Shiro-chan!
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