A couple days passed since the lecture, and Yamaru still spent most of his time alone. Zanjutsu and Hoho classes were fun, but not very productive since he had nobody else to practice with. The only advantage of being left alone was that nobody bothered with him; even the bullies left him alone.
Today Yamaru's class was having their first Kido class after lunch, and he was anxiously anticipating this class. His has been doing well in Zanjutsu and Hoho classes, learning the new stances and movements with relative ease, but it seemed to create an invisible barrier kept the other student away from him. The first half of the day, they studied the theory and incantations for some low level kido, and after lunch they were going to be allowed to practice.
The bell rang, snapping Yamaru from his thoughts. He gathered his things and headed off to Kido class. Yamaru arrived and took his seat, waiting for class to start. The room extended out from the Academy, the far wall opened to reveal a field with targets and straw dummies set up. As the last few students entered the room, the instructor entered the room in a flash, appearing at the front of the class.
"Alright," The instructor said, drawing the class's attention. "Today shall be your first Kido lesson and practice, so I shall now explain to you why Kido is an important skill for all Shinigami. But just to make sure I have your attention, Hado #4, Byakurai!" She extended a hand and pointed her index and middle fingers towards a target at the far end of the field behind her as a pale blue bolt of lightning sprang froth, leaving a black scorch mark where the target was. All the students snapped their heads towards the scorch mark and back towards the instructor. "That is one of the three types of Kido, Hado; Way of Destruction. Hado are all offensive, Shinigami use these to slay hollows when their Zanpaktou can't reach, or as a distraction. All kido require incantations to active, these incantations can be very long and take a while and focus to recite, leaving you vulnerable until you finish. You can active a kido with merely the Art, Number and Name, as I just demonstrated, but it significantly weakens its power." She looked out to the field and then moved to stand in front of a row of dummies. "Hado #31, Shakkaho!" A red ball of energy shot from her hand and smashed into the first dummy, exploding. After the smoked cleared, all the students could see a hole burned straight through the dummy. "Now for at same one except with the incantation." She held out her hand, and closed her eyes, focusing. "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hado #31, Shakkaho!" A similar ball of red energy erupted from her hand with greater speed than the last one. It whizzed past the first dummy she hit, connecting to the second dummy and exploding with much more force that the first. After the smoke cleared what little was left of the second dummy imbedded itself into the third, a mere stick which use to hold up the second poked out from the ground.
The students' mouths dropped seeing the comparison in power. "Next is Bakudo, Way of Binding." The instructor continued. "As you can guess form the name, they are use to bind enemies as well as defensive measures and support. And lastly we have Healing kido, obvious used for healing, I doubt I have to say much more than that. As these are difficult to demonstrate I will instead allow you to become accustom to the few Hado spells you learned earlier today." She released the class as they all headed out into the field, each picking a target or dummy to practice on.
Yamaru was left with one of the dummies closer to the class, as everyone ignored him as usual, which didn't bother him since the extra replacement dummies were in the storage of the classroom anyways.
"Which one should I start with?" He thought to himself. "Sho? Byakurai? Tsuzuri Raiden?" He pondered the thought and looked at the rest of his class. Most of the students were able to fire off some kido that fizzled before hitting their dummies. Some were actually able to successfully fire a weak kido, barely damaging their dummies, and others had their spells backfire in their face. "Let's try to avoid that." He thought, seeing the scorched faces of those who kido backfired. "Okay, let's give it a try." He stood ready, pointing his index and middle fingers towards his target, a pale blue light emanating from them. "Hado #4, Byakurai!" He stated, as the light faded, and nothing happened.
Some of the on looking students snickered at Yamaru's failure. He heard slight whispers of him not being all powerful as they first thought. "At least it didn't backfire." He thought, relieved. "Maybe I need more reiatsu." He took his stance again, the light reappearing around his fingers. "I'll give it all I got, for good measure." He thought, hearing some of his classmates mock him some more. The light shone more brightly, catching the eyes of everyone in the class now. "More, everything I got." He thought, pouring more reiatsu into his spell, the light grew, his form disappearing in the light to the on lookers. "HADO #4, BYAKURAI!" He yelled, the light shone even brighter for a moment before disappearing, a cloud of smoke filled the area and room alike.
"What the hell just happened!" The instructor yelled, lost in the chaos. She flared up her reiatsu, pushing the smoke away to reveal a confused class. "What happened?" She said again, all the students looking at her now.
"He did it!" Several students said in unison, pointing to Yamaru, or at least, where he was.
"Where did he go?" The instructor asked, looking around.
"There." A student said, pointing to the classroom.
Everyone looked in complete shock, seeing that next to the door, there was now a hole through the wall, directly behind where Yamaru was. The class ran overlooking through the hole, to their amazement, which extended through two more room. At the other end hole lay an unconscious Yamaru in a pile of splinters and boards. His right arm was completely charred and seemed to be dislocated and his head was bleeding.
"Call for a stretcher, we'll have to take him to Squad 4 barracks." The instructor order, running around to Yamaru's side. "Hold on, we'll get you fixed up."
"Well, that was fun." Yamaru said aloud, opening his eyes, finding himself in a world of golden light. "Where am I?" He asked, again to no one in particular. He looked around a bit, and found the light relaxing. Since he was floating, he adjusted to a laying back position, as he closed his eyes. "Am going to feel a lot of pain when I actually come to." He said to himself, dread wearing a playful mask in his voice. Suddenly he heard a voice, almost a whisper within a whisper. He sat up and looked around. "Hello? Is there someone else there?" He asked, as the light began to fade. His left hand grabbed his right shoulder as pain pulsated through his body. "Yup, there's the pain." He smirked sarcasticly. He closed his eyes and felt a cushioning feeling against his back and a pillow under his head.
Opening his eye, he stared at an unfamiliar ceiling, still a bit blurry, he looked over to his bandage arm. "Strange roof and proper medical care, I must be in the Sogo Kyugo Tsumeso." He said to himself weakly, his head pounding in pain. He placed his left hand on the side of his head, "I liked the light better, reality sucks."
"It seems you are doing must better." A woman's voice said from the foot of his bed.
Yamaru sat up in bed, look at a woman wearing a black Shihakusho with an obi and a white hoari and waist length hair braided in front of her. She held a clipboard, flipping through the papers on it.
"So, how badly did it go, ma'am?" He asked, holding his right shoulder with a small grin.
"A dislocated should, multiple fractures on the right and left arms, a couple fractured ribs and hair line cracks and fractures on the skull, vertebrae and collar bones." The woman replied, reading the chart. "I'm surprised you didn't split your skull." She smiled gently at him.
"I protected myself with my left arm." Yamaru replied. "How's the damage to the Academy?"
"It's fine." The woman replied surprised. "You broke through a couple walls, but they are being repair as far as I could guess."
"I'm Yamaru, Kireajiha Yamaru." He said, smiling brightly.
"Unohana Retsu, Captain of the 4th Squad of the Gotei 13." Retsu introduced herself.
"Unohana-taicho? I'm sorry ma'am, had I known I wouldn't have addressed you so casually." Yamaru said, trying to act more formal.
"A patient under my care is to be more relaxed so to recover more quickly." Unohana said, softly and sweetly, yet and undertone that was more of a threat than causal suggestion.
"Yes ma'am, Unohana-taicho." Yamaru said, unconsciously frightened of the unseen danger.
"Right now, I'm a medical physician, not a Captain of the Gotei 13." She said, genuinely gently this time. "There's no need to be so formal."
"Unohana-sensei?" Yamaru asked, receiving no reaction. "Unohana-san then?" She smiled gently again, nodding slightly. "How long do I have to stay here, Unohana-san?"
"Well, we've healed all the fractures and cracks throughout your body." She replied, "Your shoulder will be sore for the next little while, but other than that, just stay here the night for observations and you are free in the morning. Just don't over exert yourself for the next month , okay."
"Yes ma'am." He said, relieved to hear the new. "You have a visitor as well, from the Academy." Unohana said as she slid the door open.
"Who is it?" He asked, though the answer was clear as his kido instructor entered the room.
"How are you feeling, Kireajiha?" She asked as Unohana closed the door.
"I found a new way of Kido." Yamaru joked. "I call it 'Tomodaore', mutual destruction."
"Well thanks to the arrangements worked out for you, you have a nice area to practice you Tomodaore over in the Kido Corps in one of their less frequently used training areas." The instructor informed him. "The Headmaster worked out the details, but you are free to do so whenever, but only the one building."
"I'm to be separated from the class?" Yamaru asked.
"If a student had been behind you, how do you think it would have turned out?" She chided. "It's for the safety of everybody." She said reassuring him.
"What about instructions?" Yamaru asked, accepting the facts.
"You know the basics, all that's left is practice and training." She answered. "I will give teach you the spells you don't know when you get a handle on the ones you do."
"Yes ma'am, I understand." Yamaru said.
"Good, then get some sleep." The instructor replied, exiting the room.
Unohana was still standing outside Yamaru's room when the instructor exited the room, reviewing the charts.
"Unohana-taicho, is there something wrong?" She asked.
"I think one of my nurses may have gotten this wrong." Unohana said, showing the instructor the chart.
Zanjutsu - Shinigami - D
Haduka - Asauchi - D
Hoho - Asauchi - C
Kido - Asauchi - E
Bakudo - Asauchi - E
Hado - Asauchi - E
Medical - Asauchi - E
Reiatsu - Shinigami - C
Reiryoku - Asauchi - E
"His reiatsu is indeed high for a first year student, but in order to create such a powerful backfire would take a high seated level of reiatsu and the same level of reiryoku he currently has. There's no way he could hide his reiatsu either, I don't understand what's going on." She said, looking back at his door. "Who is this young man?"
NRawk's Notes:
So, another chapter down, and in case you guys are wondering about the frequent posts, no I don't have anything better to do with my time, well maybe work on another fanfic with a friend, so be sure to look forward to it :) Anyways, hope you guys are enjoying this so far, so please R&R and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Also, I know Soul Society has a grading system for Captains, but it doesn't apply to non-captains, I think so I'll explain the system I created.
Asauchi - People who have Zanpaktou but can't hear the spirit, or can hear their Zanpaktou spirit but can't manifest a blade.
Shinigami - Graduates of Shinoreijutsuin who remain unranked, they have Zanpaktou but cannot always hear their Zanpaktou's spirit.
20th - 11th seated officers - Shinigami who reached Shikai or just as powerful.
10th - 3rd seated officers - Powerful Shinigami who have Shikai, get their own rooms in the barracks and are leaders of assault squads.
Vice-Captain - Elite Shinigami who have Shikai, have the ability to gain Bankai, and help run the Squad.
Captain – The top elite Shinigami who have obtained Bankai. They run Squads and help govern play a larger role in shaping Soul Society.
Ranks:
Ranks are divided into 6 groups, E, D, C, B, A, and S. Each title holds its own limit to how high the rank can go, so once a skill reaches that limit, it upgrades to the next title. A character with a high title can have skills in a lower tier obviously, but will still be referred to as their current title and vice-versa.
S = 10 E Only Captains can obtain this rank
A = 8 E Only Vice-Captains and higher obtains this rank
B = 6 E Only Seated Officers and higher obtain this rank
C = 4 E Asauchi and Shinigami can only reach to this rank
D = 2 E
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