BLEACH –Again–
Chapter Two: New Teacher
Ichigo walked down the street towards the school in a brand new black suit. Tapping his dress shoes to make sure it was comfy; Ichigo tightened his tie, took a look at a nearby window, and then loosened it a bit, unbuttoning the top button. Nodding to himself, Ichigo blinked at the bandage on his left cheek. He then remembered attacking the Hollow last night.
"Geez, and that was the 5th Hollow in one night… Is there anybody in this school from Soul Society?" He wondered to himself as he walked further down the road. Looking around at the kids around him, he smiled at their innocence (yeah right) and oblivious nature towards the spiritual world. Seeing all the girls suddenly made him think twice about attending this school as a teacher, since a majority of them seem to be taking peaks at his direction, a few blushing and many gossiping. Sighing, Ichigo muttered again before something crashed into him from the behind. Looking behind him, he found the same girl and kid from last night.
"Ita-ta-ta…" The girl mumbled, Ichigo remembering her name to be Asuna, and the kid Negi. "As in onions?" He wondered to himself before bending down and offering his hand. "Hey, you ok?"
Asuna looked up and blushed to see the same man she met last night while chasing down Negi. "Ah, um, uh, y-yeah, I'm ok!" She hesitantly said; standing up like a spring as the man blinked in confusion. Looking back to pick up Negi, she found the boy tip-toeing away with his staff at hand. Growling, she grabbed the boy and smiled apologetically at the man. "I'm sorry, Mister, I'm in a bit of a rush!" She said, rushing off with Negi in hand.
"Ah, no problem," The man called after her as Konoka giggled Ako and the twins watching on confusingly. "Sorry about my friend. Our teacher just seemed to be in a somewhat odd mood," She said as the man looked at her direction. "Oh, is that-, huh, that kid's a teacher?" He asked, flabbergasted as Konoka giggled again, "Of course!"
The man frowned. "Isn't he a bit too young to be teaching a bunch of teenage girls?" He asked as Konoka only giggled. "I guess so~!"
After answering, Konoka took this time to study the man. If her memory served correctly, she saw Asuna talking to this same man last night before running off towards where Negi left. Looking at him closer this time, she found that he has the same orange hair as Asuna, although more brighter, and soft, yet hard-as-rock, brown eyes that seems to be holding some sort of power or sense of protection. His scowl also seems to be part of his face, although Konoka found it a bit cute. He stood at least half-and-a-head or two taller than her and spoke with a slight Kanto accent.
All in all, Konoka found the orange head to be a better candidate as a husband than those she met so far, and that's just by looks!
"Ah, I'm sorry! My name is Konoe Konoka! Nice to meet you!" She greeted herself as the twins immediately got up on her face about how she's trying to get closer to a hot stranger, much to the man's embarrassment.
"Narutaki Fuuka!" The hyper one introduced herself as the meek one hesitantly said, "N-narutaki Fumika…" Looking up and seeing the etched scowl on the man's face, Fumika immediately drew back. Ako laughed at the twin's antics. "Izumi Ako. Nice to meet you, Mr…?"
That seemed to have gotten the man out of his stupor as he blinked. "Huh? Oh, sorry. Kurosaki Ichigo, nice to meet you all…" He said.
The four girls blinked, looking at each other before Fuuka suddenly laughed. "Strawberries? You're named after strawberries? That's funny! Ahahahaha!" She laughed as Ichigo felt his ears growing hot due to the blood. "Fuuka! Don't embarrass Kurosaki-san!" Ako scolded as she tried to hide her laughter as Fumika giggled. Konoka seemed to laugh as well. "Don't worry, she's joking," Konoka tried to reassure the orange head. "I'm sure it means 'He who Protects', right?"
Ichigo blinked. "Wow, that's the first time I've seen anyone but my Dad say that. I always figured it meant 'First Guardian'…" He said as Konoka giggled.
"Guess I have a knack in finding people's name, huh?" Konoka jokingly said, making the others laugh as Ichigo smiled. "Ah, oh man, I'm gonna be late for the meeting with Konoe-san…!" Ichigo suddenly said, looking at his watch. "Ah, you're meeting up with Grandpa?"
"Yeah, I'm meeting up with-… Huh?" Ichigo looked at Konoka in confusion as Fuuka seemed to be giggling even more. "Take the first hallways to your right, then take the second left turn, after taking the fourth turn to your right you'll find his office. I should know, since I always took that route as it's the fastest," Konoka directed as Ichigo blinked. "Err, thanks… uh… huh…"
Ichigo walked down the hallways after saying his farewells to the students. "They seem pretty nice, if not, a bit of a jokester." He thought, looking back at the twins. Seeing the two reminded him of a certain pink head who always hung out with the most blood-thirstiest man he has ever met in his whole life. He shivered a bit, not wanting to bring back memories.
(Later…)
Meeting up with the old man wasn't very lengthy nor was it interacting. Konoe just briefed the carrot top his job as a Math Teacher, as the previous teacher was transferred, and where his dorm would be before handing Ichigo his keys. Thanking the Headmaster, Ichigo left the room with a few books in hand and Takamichi walking with him.
"Arigatou, Takahata-san," Ichigo thanked his fellow teacher. Takamichi chuckled. "No problem, Ichigo-kun," The older teacher said, "You're not the only new teacher around here."
"You mean like that Negi kid, right?" Ichigo asked as Takamichi blinked. "I'm surprised; you already met Negi-kun?" Ichigo chuckled. "Yeah, I met him yesterday night, along with three other girls. I think two of them were Asuna and Konoka. The third one, I don't know her name," Ichigo answered as Takamichi inwardly sighed in relief that Ichigo didn't witness the Magical fight between Negi and Evangeline. "Although for some reason, it was pretty cold that night," Ichigo continued, having Takamichi hold a bead of sweat. "Oh Negi-kun, what am I going to do with you…?"
There was as bit of silence between the two before Takamichi turned to Ichigo. "By the way, Ichigo-kun."
"Hai?"
"Have we met before?"
Ichigo blinked. "Eh?" The orange head turned down to memory lane for a bit. "Not… that I remember," He answered the older teacher. "Is there something wrong?"
"N-no! Nothing at all, hahaha," Takamichi reassured the orange head. Ichigo looked skeptical for a moment before dismissing it. Takamichi sighed, still wondering where he met Ichigo. After they reached Ichigo's new homeroom, Class 3-D, and introducing him to the Intermediate 3rd Year students, which involved a lot of questioning and, thankfully, not as much touching as what he had heard from the rumors circling around Class 3-A. It made sense seeing as his class has been dubbed the "Tsundere/Talented" Class.
It wasn't very long until his first period ended when Ichigo bid goodbye to his first class and headed off to his second class. Walking to Class 3-A, he noticed a depressed red head and recognized who it was. "Negi?" He wondered as he approached the kid. "Oi," He called out as Negi looked up and turned to Ichigo. Needless to say, Ichigo almost freaked out seeing the gloomy face of a 10-yr-old kid (an age where one should never have a gloomy face). "Ah, you're…" Negi began.
"Kurosaki Ichigo. I'm a new teacher here in Mahora," Ichigo introduced himself.
"Ah, Kurosaki-san," Negi greeted, "Nice to meet you, welcome to Mahora!" He said with a cheerful, yet, gloomy tone. Ichigo frowned. "Is something wrong?" He asked as Negi flinched, quickly shook his head. Maybe too quickly. "Ahh! N-no! Nothing wrong at all! Ahahahaha… N-nothing…" Negi said, quickly feeling gloomy. Ichigo held a drop of sweat at the look on the boy's face. "You sure?" He asked as Negi nodded slowly before slowly walking off, hitting a few walls along the way.
"Poor kid…" Ichigo thought. "Wonder what got into him."
He almost missed the familiar hair of orange and twin tails as Asuna ran after Negi. "O-oi! Where do you think you're going?" He yelled after her, only to find her gone already. "She's fast…!"
Staring off after Asuna, Ichigo sighed and entered the classroom, noting that the girls here are even more energetic than his previous class and homeroom. He sweat-dropped at the rowdiness of the girls as he thought, "Somehow, I'm kinda regretting taking this job…"
Walking to the pedestal, he tried to get the girls' attention. "Oi!" He called out, falling to empty ears. "Oi! Listen up!" Once again, he was ignored in favor of who will be "Prince" Negi's partner.
"What are they, kids?" Ichigo wondered, eyes twitching. "Geez, I didn't want to do this, but…"
Bringing his hand up and slamming it onto the pedestal with a loud bang, nearly breaking it, he roared, "I said, SHUT UP!"
All activity immediately ceased as everyone turned to the bright orange head adult. Immediately, a majority of the class' thoughts were "HOT!"
Few were only non-energetic as their classmates.
"Who's this carrot top?"
"I sense great power in this one…"
"Finally they shut up! But who's the guy with the orange head?"
"A new teacher?"
"Another orange head? Oh Kami somewhere in heaven, please let this one not be like that rude Saru (Monkey)!"
"I-i-i-i-it's h-h-him!"
If a majority of your readers (and I know who you guys are, you can't fool me) are thinking about who the last thought was from, your guesses are exactly correct.
Miyazaki Nodoka. 3rd Year student here in Mahora Gakuen, part of Class 3-A. Age 15 and a shy girl of the Librarian Trio of Class 3-A. Her androphobia is a prime suspect of her fear for men in general, usually shying herself off from the male side of the world (which is literally a half of the world I must include). Hobby includes reading books, reading from books, reading to books (occasionally), and reading about books. Books are her whole world, until Negi-sensei came along.
But since we're not focusing on who Nodoka is and her love-road towards Negi, we're gonna go back to her focus on the orange head that she seems to be so familiar with. "Wh-wh-wh-what is he doing h-h-here?" Nodoka continued to repeat in her mind. "I-i-it's been f-f-5 years, and y-y-yet… I-I didn't even g-get his name since that time…"
Nodoka once more glanced at the scowling face of the orange head.
"I wonder if he remembers me…?"
Ichigo sighed as he looked at the glistening eyes of the more opposite-sex-chasing girls of the classroom. "Alright, now that everyone calmed down a bit, I'd like to introduce myself," Turning to the board behind him, he picked up a chalk and quickly wrote his name in Kanji, "黒崎 一護" Placing the chalk down, he said, "My name's Kurosaki Ichigo, and NO, it does NOT mean strawberries!" He lightly growled, directing his mild glare at the twins he remembers meeting this morning.
The girls quickly bit their tongue, not wishing to anger this new teacher, even if they think that he was hot looking. Before any of them could stand up to ask questions, baring their courage, however, Ichigo continued on.
"I am 21 years old. I'm from Karakura Town in Western Tokyo. My likes and dislikes are for you to find out and my birthday is something I don't want public either," Looking at the girls who seem to want to say something, he interrupted saying, "No, I do not have a girlfriend," Seeing the glistening eyes of the girls, he continued, "Nor am I interested in finding one." He finished, some girls looking down.
"For the remainder of this year, I will be your Math Teacher, sorry if Takahata-san substituted for me, my annoying Dad has been keeping me occupied…" He growled out the last part before focusing back. "I don't mind if your guys do whatever you want, but if it crosses the line I drew, I will do something about it, understood?"
"HAI~!" A majority of the class chorused.
"Great. I'm sure we'll get along just fine," Ichigo said, grinning. Although it didn't exactly fit the whole "scowl-forever" face, it still made a few girls' heart flutter.
"Now then, please turn to page 58 in your textbooks," Ichigo said, opening his first book with a chalk in hand.
Notes:
And so starts Ichigo's teaching days.
If you guys are wondering why I didn't place Ichigo as the T.A. for Class 3-A is pretty much obvious. To put it bluntly, the T.A. idea is pretty much cliché. Hence why I had Ichigo become a homeroom teacher for a different Class, specifically Class 3-D (which, I have to say, it pretty funny since it may be messed with 3-Dimensional, lol).
Class 3-D won't be revealed until later on, since I'm having trouble deciding whether to make my own characters, or reuse characters I have, or use characters from different Media.
Going back to chapter one; to explain about the similarities and differences between Magic and Reiryoku. Basically, the similarity is that both Magic and Reiryoku is more balanced out to the natural world, in other worlds, the spiritual world, because everything around us have Reiatsu, thus, having Magic (if not only a tiny micro-bits of it). Both Magic and Reiryoku can be accessed similarly, since the Spells of the Mages and the Kidos of the Shinigami are similar, yet different.
The difference of both of these energies is pretty much who uses them and who can have access. Magic is pretty much available for everyone, while Reiryoku is available for the dead. This doesn't mean that Humans and Beast-Humans are not able to use Reiatsu or Kido and vice-versa. On the contrary, it should be simple for the opposites to use their respective opposing spells and energies.
This means that Mages and Beast-Humans will be able to use Fullbring and Kido, while Shinigami and Fullbringers will be able to obtain Pactio and use Magic. The only problem will be that the strength power of both respective powers won't be at full strength, neither will be the effects of Fullbring and Pactio bring about the same effects as the rest of its kinds. (If my wording to any of the explanation confuses you, you can review or PM me to elaborate)
The power level difference between Mages and Shinigami? That will be included in the next chapter.