Six Shinigami Chronicle
Disclaimer: I do not own the insult "cross-dressing cockroach". It's from Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban, the movie…I think…
Chapter 6
Zanpakutous and Chopsticks
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"Today class, you will be given your Zanpakutou."
In front of the thirteen students lay, in a neat row, thirteen swords, each a carbon copy of the other. As the fascinated students walked between the swords, touching them and running their hands over the blades, Sanada started to lecture them.
"These swords are nothing but empty vessels. As the weeks pass, I will demonstrate to you the uses of a Zanpakutou and you will then be allowed, under strict supervision, to put your reiatsu into these empty vessels. The Technology Development Bureau has created them specifically so that they are exceptionally receptive to reiatsu. But before all that happens, I will issue you with your Zanpakutou."
With that, Sanada shooed the oohing and ahhing students back to their seats before gathering all the empty vessels. As he zigzagged through the seats the students were sitting at, our six friends were at the back chatting about one thing or another.
"Omo~, I wonder what my Zanpakutou will look like!" exclaimed Hiyori.
Saiko puffed her chest up and bragged, "I bet my Zanpakutou will be the Winner of All Failures!" her voice dropped to a lower tone and she grinned.
Mochi, Tifa and Hiyori started to crack up at the ridiculous title while Shioru sweatdropped and proceeded to tell Saiko that it was a contradiction, unless of course, her Zanpakutou will be the most failing Zanpakutou ever, which she really shouldn't be boasting about. Hoshika, on the other hand, decided to completely ridicule her imaginary, as she hasn't received it yet, Zanpakutou.
"If it's the 'Winner of All Failures', I'm sure it can't do much," she said offhandedly.
"Your face can't do much," Saiko retorted.
Everyone sitting at the desk thought, such an original comeback, sarcastically.
"If my face can't do much, then I wonder about yours, Kira," Hoshika's voice dripped with venom.
"Mine is the Winner of All Wins!" Saiko smiled brightly.
Hoshika raised an eyebrow before faking a coughing fit. "I'm sorry," she said with a sickly-sweet smile plastered onto her face. "I just choked on some air, what was it that you were saying?"
Saiko just glared at her and said nothing because Sanada was just a few desks away, handing Shioru her empty vessel. Shioru bowed politely before examining her empty vessel. Hiyori did the same and Mochi too. Tifa though, commented on how 'un-right' it felt in her hands.
"Of course, as these are empty vessels without your reiatsu, it is not moulded to your requirements. Once, however, you have put your reiatsu into these empty vessels, it will fit perfectly, as if you have wielded the sword all your life."
Tifa nodded her understanding and Sanada turned to the two troublemakers. The two, namely Wakanao Hoshika and Kira Saiko, were having a glaring contest, completely ignoring the teacher, and so Sanada left it to them, leaving the empty vessels on their desks, sensing that it was wiser to let them go on rather than get caught up with the rainbow-seizure eyes that Saiko was glowering with but were completely ineffective against Hoshika's sky blue ones.
Mochi decided to add fuel to the fire and said loudly enough for the two to hear, "I wonder who's gonna be able to put their reiatsu in first?"
"Yeah, after all, Sanada-sensei did say 'under strict supervision' which implies that it is dangerous or something to that effect," Tifa prodded the fire with a stick and the fire devoured it greedily.
"Omo~ Let's have a bet," Hiyori said jumping up and down. "I bet—"
"10 on me!" Saiko stood up in the middle of class and waved her arms around. All surrounding students leant ever so slightly away from her, because they didn't really want to end up in the 4th division's healing centre with a hairline fracture in their skulls.
"Che," Hoshika folded her arms and leant back on her chair, smirking ever so slightly. "15 on me, because whatever you can do, I can do better."
Shioru glared at the two loud mouths. "Sit down, Saiko! Both of you are too loud for your own good." She added under her breath something about needing aspirins and killing someone— correction, two people— with her Zanpakutou once she'd put her reiatsu in.
"Point," Sanada's voice flowed across the classroom sounding irritated and obviously not at all happy. "Kira, Wakanao, outside, NOW!"
Both of the girls exchanged a scowl before stalking out the door and into the silent corridor. They did not look at each other, rather they had their arms folded and directed their eyes pointedly in the opposite direction, chins and noses in the air.
Sanada looked down at the two girls, a scowl on his ageing face, "You two are just far to irritating for me to endure in there. Stay out here until I call you back in, and for heaven's sake, stay out of trouble, or I might just call Yamamoto-sama down here to sort you both out for good," he finished speaking, eyed them both carefully, then sighed and walked back inside, closing the door with a air of intense weariness.
"This is all your fault, Bakawaka," Saiko said through gritted teeth
"I don't respond to Bakawaka, you loud-mouth, good-for-nothing, all-brute-strength-and-no-skills, and I quote Kanda, 'metaphorical brick wall'," Hoshika huffed.
"Oh you… you freaking…" Saiko searched for the right word.
"Me what?" Hoshika smirked again.
A long period of silence followed, and during this period, two things happened. Saiko clawed at her face and tried to remember a word that would fit, and Hoshika… She just stood there, and waited. And waited. And waited.
"You, you freaking midget-y Little One!" she shouted.
"Is that all you got?" Hoshika quirked an eyebrow at the shorter girl and continued, "just because I'm younger than you, that doesn't mean that I'm any less then you. In fact, I feel as if I'm the superior one and you, the inferior one, you short, measly, unappreciable, arrogant cross-dressing cockroach-brat who thinks that she rules the world and that she is the best when really she fails!"
"…" Saiko didn't even bother trying to understand the long string of words that Hoshika had just spewed, knowing that it only contained unintelligent babble about how Saiko was in general, a bitch, and instead, she reached for her ever so handy pair of chopsticks so that she might gouge Hoshika's eyes out.
"You are so dead, Bakawaka!"
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"And that is the very first lesson of the Zanpakutou chapter. For homework, you are to read through the chapter again and answer questions one to twenty. You are also advised to practise with your empty vessels, whichever way you wish, be it slashing at falling logs, or cutting as many leaves as you can as they fall. The questions are due in—"
CLASH!
"Ow!" Hoshika's voice could be heard through the classroom door, shrill and angry. "Watch where you wave those chopsticks! They belong in your endless supply of ramen—"
More clashing interrupted Hoshika and the students in the class gazed at the door in awe and fear, wondering what their fellow classmate would look like after the terrible bashing being received right now. Sanada tried to ignore the loud noise that cut into his mundane speech, which he had to deliver, but couldn't concentrate when the whole class was staring at the door and not paying attention to what he was saying.
"TARUNDORU! (1)" Sanada roared, and he headed towards the door. His reiatsu flew so high that even Saiko, who was not very sensitive to reiatsu, though she went through the same training as say, the person most sensitive to reiatsu, could feel it and cowered in fright when Sanada flung open the door. "What's going on here?"
"Kira, here, was trying to murder me with her chopsticks," Hoshika glared at the accused, her body marked with red lines where she had been too slow to dodge the onslaught of Saiko's chopstick attack.
"Chopsticks confiscated. Hand them over."
Kira narrowed her eyes as she slowly handed them over. Her clothes and hair were decidedly quite messed up, probably from charging at Hoshika, missing, and damaging whatever was behind her at the time, which unfortunately, were walls. "She was the one who started it! Her mouth should be confiscated!"
"Don't be absurd Kira, it's not like you can confiscate my mouth," Hoshika said, looking at Saiko weirdly, as if she was an alien with extra eyes.
"Tarundoru!" Sanada growled before massaging his temples. "If it wasn't for the fact that the principal will have my neck if he finds out that there are two uncontrollable girls here that I can't control, you'd have been sent to him many days before, if only for knocking Renji-dono down.
"I would also think that giving detention is a good idea, what do you say? Two hours after school.
"Letting you two out of my sight is a mistake that I will not make again. And making me angry is a mistake you will not make again, clear? Inside, both of you. I now realise that I can't possibly trust you to be outside on your own and not fight."
The two girls that had just gotten scolded bowed and nodded their understanding before filing into the classroom and resumed their seats at the back. They threw furious glances at each other, but otherwise did not do anything to provoke each other, and quickly skimmed through the chapter that they had missed. The book talked about Zanpakutou being from the wielder's soul, an inseparable partner who will guide you.
When Sanada snapped his book shut, creating a loud boom that echoed slightly, everyone's head shot up to attention and listened carefully. Sanada, after repeating his instructions, dismissed the class. At once, the classroom was filled with chairs scraping, loud voices calling to each other — notably Kira's, who was asking Mochi about the badly bonded book she was reading under her desk— and people hurrying towards the door. But before the first person could even reach the door, the air in the room suddenly changed to stuffy, thick and hard to breathe in. Though the reiatsu pressure wasn't bad, the abrupt change made the whole room stop, heartbeats thumping loudly in each student's ears as the waited for something to happen.
"These look like classrooms. We're lost again," A loud voice boomed ahead.
AN: If you may have forgotten, Kanda is Mochi's last name, I'm referring to the sentence Hoshika says, '...and I quote Kanda...'.
Tarundoru is basically a superior snapping. It means, "That's enough". It is also Sanada Genichirou from Prince of Tennis' catch phrase.
Sorry to the readers who were looking forward to knowing the other characters more indepth besides Kira Saiko and Wakanao Hoshika, we will be resolving the issue soon...we hope.
Yes, larrmon, Zanpakutou must be capitalise, because in my dictionary, Zanpakutou is a proper noun, therefore it must be capitalised.
(The cycle has begun again!)