Chapter 7!! TT_TT thx so much to everyone who's read this far and especially to everyone's awesome reviews! :) and with that, time for the next chap and a lil extra (heart)
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"Captain are you sure that you should have just left them there like that?" One of the men asked Toushiro.
Hinata frowned. "Left who where?" She asked in confusion.
Toushiro smiled evilly. "You really want to know?" Hitsugaya told her exactly what he did. He had it plotted for awhile actually.
A group of merchants walked along the little road to the next village. They laughed and entertained each other on the way. An older man stopped and the rest stopped with him to gawk at them.
Along the trees were soaking wet men in full clothing tied to the trees, hair and clothes covered in ice. A small sign was stuck in the ground saying 'do not assist until thawed'!
"P-p-p-please u-u-untie us." One man stuttered.
The baffled group of merchants hurried on, leaving the frozen group there to wait for the next person to come down the road.
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Now to chapter 7!
Hinata vision
I tugged on the skirt of my uniform. The uniform was a white and red kimono with the academy symbols on the chest. I looked at myself in the mirror for a second.
Two days ago we arrived at the seireitei, almost immediately I was dragged to the academy to enroll. The headmaster had agreed to put me in the third year class since I had already discovered my zanpakto, Miharu. Though, I was to attend extra classes, to catch up with my classmates.
Thing is Toushiro had come with me to enroll and we ended up getting a lot of attention. So much for people not knowing that we were acquainted. I sighed heavily.
Today will be my first day of classes, I would find my room that I would be sharing, go to classes, and from then on I will be living there. I felt nervous. I heard knocking on the door and I called for whoever it was to come in.
Toushiro popped his head in. "You ready, Hinata-chan?"
"H-hai." I stuttered. He started staring at me. "W-what?"
"Nothing really." He replied.
A red headed woman burst in and came over to me. She took my hands in hers and stared into my eyes.
"C-can I help you?" I asked. I could see Toushiro put a hand on his forehead.
"Matsumoto, why are you here?" He grumbled, I noticed that he reverted back to serious mode.
The woman, Matsumoto, looked over her shoulder at him. "This is her, right? The one that you were looking for? Hello there, I'm the lieutenant of division 10. You're Hyuuga Hinata, right? The girl that made my captain go out of character right-"
Toushiro snapped his head toward her. "I did not go out of character! And you still haven't answered me!"
She pulled her hands, and mine, toward her. I suddenly noticed that she had an abnormally large breast size. "No wonder, you are so cute! Besides that you are short too, about his height."
"Are you listening to me?!" Toushiro yelled.
"Ah! Has he given it to you yet?"
"G-given what???" I asked. My mind was whirling from all the sudden activity.
"He hasn't?! He got it just for you. Shiro-chaan!" She finally released me, and ran over to Toushiro. She grabbed him under the arms, picked him up, and carried him over.
"MATSUMOTO!!" He yelled angrily. "PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW, and DON'T CALL ME THAT!!"
"Ok fine, here." She set him down in front of me "Go on go on give it to her." She pushed his shoulders to urge him on.
He scowled at her. Glanced at me and looked away.
'Uh oh he's mad.' I thought to myself.
Miharu laughed. 'He looks so funny when he's pouting!'
"Come on what's with you, give it to her!" She began but she stopped. "Oh wait." She walked out of the room popping her head in to say, "There now you got some privacy." And left us alone.
It was silent for a minute.
Toushiro groaned. "Stupid Matsumoto." He pinched between his brows, annoyed.
"She certainly was… spontaneous." I put in.
He glanced at me, sighed, and crossed his arms. "I'll give you what she was talking about but you have to close your eyes!"
I flinched and obeyed.
'Fufufufwa. His face is red." Miharu giggled.
I heard his footsteps come toward me and something was slipped onto my head.
"Ok open them."
I opened my eyes in time to see him leaving the room. I stared at the door for a minute wondering what he did.
'Hinata look in the mirror.' Miharu told me. I turned and gasped.
His present had been a red headband that had two little bows on it. It matched the uniform perfectly, and was very cute.
'He…got me a headband?' I fingered it, still looking in the mirror.
'Looks good on you Hinata!' Miharu said happily. 'He must have specially picked it out.'
I blushed at the idea and shook my head. 'No he wouldn't do that. He probably just saw it and thought I'd want it.'
'Isn't that almost the same thing?'
'No it is not!!'
Miharu laughed at me. I looked at the time, grabbed my zanpakto, a small bag that had my things in it, and headed out to the academy.
Toushiro vision
I quickly left the room and passed by Rangiku. She trailed behind.
"How'd it go? She like it?" She chimed.
"I don't know." I responded coldly.
"Don't know?"
"I gave it to her and left."
"…You didn't even wait?"
"No."
"You're rude Shi-"
I pointed at her. "Call me that and you'll regret it."
She rolled her eyes at me and we continued on.
'Aww. You were so embarrassed you didn't even look back.' Hyourinmaru teased.
'Shut up already.'
Hinata vision
I found the girl's rooms and walked down the hallways looking for the number of the room I would be staying in. I followed directions and soon found myself in front of my room that I would be sharing with another girl. I took a deep breath, made sure Miharu was of sight one last time, and knocked on the door.
"Come in." I heard a girl call out. I slid the door open to see a girl with long brown hair sitting on a bed near the far wall. The room had two beds, a desk, and a closet. An oil lamp sat on the side table between the two beds, though it was unlit because the sun was shining through a window."WHO are you?" She asked rudely.
I looked away from her and twiddled my fingers; apparently I was picking up the habit again. "H-Hello, I'm the new s-student. Are you my roommate?"
She scoffed. "Well, duuh, why ELSE would I be here, baka. What's your name? And close the door already!" The girl barked at me. I obeyed, she reminded me of a mix of Sakura and Ino. Just a whole lot more mean and not any of the niceness.
'You got that right.' Miharu observed.
After I introduced myself, she told me her name was Teshigahara Chitose, but she told me to call her Teshigahara-san. Nothing else. As I made myself at home she chattered about the academy. All the cute boys, girls she hated, apparently just 'weirdos' like me, whose boyfriend she was secretly dating, how far she'd 'gone', and all kinds of stuff like that. At some point I stopped paying attention.
Chitose continued with her one sided conversation and when it was time to go we walked to our first class together. I had left Miharu in the room for now, according to Miharu we wouldn't be able to communicate. Our first class was sparring practice. The instructor had everyone pair up. Right then Chitose ran across the room to pair up with another girl. I was beginning to become worried when another girl with shoulder length black hair patted my shoulder.
"Hey, new girl, want to be partners?" She asked.
"Ah! Hai!"
She smiled. "Good, nice to meet you I'm Fujiwara Kaede, you?"
"I'm Hyuuga Hinata. Nice to meet you, too."
We started talking a bit about the academy and stuff when she asked who I was 'bunking' with. When I old her it was Chitose she paused.
"Hinata-chan, I'd be careful around her if I was you. She's not the most trustworthy person." She warned me. I was going to ask her about this when the instructor called for us to grab a practice zanjutsu and begin sparring with our partners. After grabbing one of the wooden swords each we found ourselves an open space and began sparring. I felt slightly off balance since I hadn't often actually used a sword. Carrying one around was one thing, fighting was another. Kaede soon realized that I wasn't experienced so she went easier on me, though not that easy.
"Stop swiping so lightly, put some more muscle into it!" She told me. I tried what she said to do but when she parried the blow I felt completely unbalanced. "Geez." She sighed, watching me wobble. "How'd you get into the third year class???"
After I fuddled pathetically, she stopped and showed me the basics. "No no no!" You're doing it all wrong! Like this: left hand at the bottom, right near the hilt. Keep your arms bent and ready." She coached me. Before I knew it, it was time to put our swords up for the next session. (apparently in the third year, half the day was spent practicing fighting techniques) .
The next part was about kido, focusing on Hadou, destruction spells.
"Okay, today we will be practicing a number 33 spell called sokatsui. As beginners you will have to recite the whole chant, but more experienced reapers have been known to just say the name to activate the kido. Now listen closely to the chant because I will only say it once." The instructor recited the chant and demonstrated on a dummy, a blue bolt hit the target, causing several chunks to fly off it. "Now pick a dummy and practice."
Chitose came forward. "How do you expect us to remember such a long chant?! I've never even heard of this one before-"
The instructor waved his hand at her. "Do you think that if you're fighting a hollow that'll it will wait for you to remember the chant to a kido spell? As a soul reaper you must be able to memorize and be able to recite without thinking. If you can't even learn the chant to such a simple kido...well I pity the poor squad you'll be assigned to. Now get practicing."
Chitose huffed and stomped away toward a dummy. I turned and saw Kaede waiting for me. We walked to the end of the line of dummies outside. She recited the best she could but only managed to get a small spark.
"Arg! This is annoying. I can barely remember the chant! Your turn Hinata-chan." She motioned to the dummies in defeat.
I closed my eyes and thought back to when the instructor taught us the chant and repeated. "O Lord, mask of flesh and bone, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man, truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws!" I copied what he had done, pointed at the dummy, I felt energy go through me and a big bolt of blue energy flew out and hit the dummy.
I smiled happily and turned to see everyone staring at me. "What?"
The instructor gaped. "Have you…ever done this kido before?"
"No, I've never done a kido before in fact." I told him. Then I realized what the big deal was. In Konoha, I had done special fighting techniques passed down in the Hyuuga family that specialized in dealing out excessive amounts of chakra. I was trained to memorizing hand signs to the fullest degree of accuracy. But everyone else here had probably, before joining the academy, had never done the special training I had been doing for as long as I could remember.
"And yet…you remembered it perfectly…and you were actually able to conjure one that well developed. I'm impressed." The instructor remarked, giving me a look of praise. "Continue on everybody, the lesson hasn't ended yet!" He turned and walked to check the progress of the others.
Kaede ran over and gave me a high five. "Sweet! I can't believe it! You actually did it! No wonder you're in year three. Sure, your zanjutsu needs improvement, but dang! You were able to do a kido so well your first try!" She put an arm around my shoulder and pointed at the instructor silly-ly. "What was that damn chant again??? "Lord of flash and bone….fluttering things, named after man, truth and something…. Sinny dreams that unleash wrath of your claws?" She joked, laughing to herself. Suddenly a blue bolt shot out towards the instructor. Some kids yelped, alerting him, and he ducked in time. Everyone looked at us again, with Kaede's arm around my shoulder and her hand pointing toward the instructor.
"…what… the…hell?!" She muttered.
Five minutes later…
"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO BLAST YOUR TEACHER?! OUGHT TO PUNISH THE BOTH OF YOU!!!" The headmaster scolded us.
"I-I don't even know how it happened! I didn't even say the chant right!" Kaede protested.
"Th-that's right! She said 'Lord of flash and bone, fluttering things, named after man, truth and something, sinny dreams that unleash wrath of your claws'." I repeated just like how she said it.
Kaede looked at me with admiration. "You really are good at remembering things, aren't you?"
The man huffed. "Well, if she didn't even say the right chant, how did the kido form, hmm? Was it you, Hyuuga-san? I heard that you performed it very well just a minute before your instructor was almost vaporized-"
Kaede stood up. "Hinata-chan didn't do anything! Neither of us did! We have nothing to do with what happened!! You have no proof!"
The headmaster groaned. "…Fine. I'll let you two off with a warning this time. Next time something like this happens you both will be punished. Now get back to your lessons." He said, dismissing us.
On the way there she sighed loudly. "Maaan! What the heck happened back there anyway?" She pointed to the wall and repeated the chant she said before with no results. "Darn it, this makes no sense!!"
I tried consoling her but once we were back in the practice hall her mood soured more when everyone started whispering and making teases about how we got in trouble.
"You two arrived at a good time." The instructor growled, still not forgiven us apparently. "You can be the assistants I need to demonstrate Hakuda!" He grabbed our arms and dragged us to the sparring area. "Hakuda is essentially," He let go of us, "hand to hand fighting including martial arts. Few master it and it is not nearly as popular a fighting technique. But several important roles in the seireitei require hakuda. Not I will show you the proper ways of fighting in this style. Fujiwara, you're first!"
Kaede gulped, looked at me, and stepped forward.
"First off, let's show how to incapacitate someone!" He ran forward, grabbed Kaede's arm, and then twisted it, turning Kaede, and pinning her arm behind her back, she squeaked. "That is one simpler method. Now let's see this one." He straightened her arm then twisted it to the side, and yanking it upwards causing her to bend over, making her yelp in pain. "This is another method of keeping someone from moving." After three more humiliating methods he finally let her go. "Now, Hyuuga, how about you help me demonstrate the combat portion?"
My mouth dropped open. I reluctantly stepped forward, waiting for what he'd dish out. But I already made my mind up. No matter what he dished out I wasn't going to take it sitting down. I would give them at least a good show.
"Now first class I'll show you how to knock an opponent to the ground to lead to an easy victory." He turned to me and ran forward. I waited until the last minute, then spun on my heel and sidestepped him.
He halted and gawked at me. Then gave me an angry smile. "You're not going to behave, Hyuuga?"
"No, sir! I'm sorry, you must have run by me." I lied.
"Ok then…. Let's try this again!!" He ran toward me again. This time I ducked right when he was in front of me. He looked down; I took the element of surprise and hit the bottom of his jaw with the palm of my hand, Hyuuga style.
He wobbled back a few steps, massaging his chin. He examined me. "You're experienced in hand to hand fighting, eh?"
I shrugged. "I guess you could call it that." In actuality, the style of fighting the Hyuuga's employed involved a type of martial arts known only to the Hyuuga's. We used it to fire chakra at our opponents and over such tasks. Who knew it'd be useful at a time like this?
He smirked. "Interesting, new student. I was doubting your abilities during the zangetsu practice, now I see why they put you in this year..." He looked toward the class. "Okay, that's enough for today. You're all to practice on your own for the rest of the day."
My classmates gawked at me, then slowly left to practice. Kaede ran up and started asking me if I'd teach her how to fight like that.
Afterwards Chitose walked up and another girl did too. The other girl introduced herself as Kaede's roommate, Akaya.
"Can we trade roommates? I want to bunk with Ayaka, and now that we both have roommates we can trade, how's that sound?" She suggested the idea to Kaede. She thought about it for a minute.
"Only if you move in our room and I get to move into yours." She said.
"Deal. I'll go get my stuff now!" Chitose giggled and ran back to the room.
I walked with Kaede to her room. "Why do they want to trade so bad?" I asked. She gave me a 'are you stupid look'.
"Ayaka is Chitose's closest stool pigeon. Ever since we started at the academy Chitose has been putting pressure on me for Ayaka to become her roommate." She rolled her eyes.
"Why do you always refer to Chitose like that? She really can't be that bad! I haven't seen her do one bad thing." I said to her.
She mumbled under her breath. "Wait until later."
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So my first day at the academy ended with Kaede becoming my roommate, a new headband, new interest in the classes, and a Miharu laughing at my expense. Though little did I know that the day I enrolled would cause me more trouble than I expected.
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The next morning I woke up to Kaede's yelling. I sat up sleepily. "What's all the fuss about, Kaede-chan?"
She turned to me, very angry. "Look what someone did to our door last night!!"
I got up slowly and walked over to her. I gasped and slowly read what was written on it.
GO AWAY OVER ACHEIVER!
STAY AWAY FROM HITSUGAYA!
LOW CLASS!
PISS OFF FUJIWARA!
GO DIE!
Messages like that were scribbled all over. I stared in shock. "W-who would write such...?!" I stuttered.
Kaede looked at me coldly and walked back inside our room. "Try asking Chitose and her group. The ones that say 'go die' and 'stay away from htsugaya' are in her handwriting."
I looked at the door again in confusion. "Why would they do something so mean?"
She shrugged. "That's just how people treat outsiders like us. My family lineage is 'low class' and I do not do what they tell me,and you are talented and have a connection to a famous shinigami. What did you expect? Quite honestly they wanted to trade also so they could target both of us at once. Couldn't do this if me and Ayaka still shared a room. Wouldn't be surprised if Chitose went through your stuff while you weren't there."
I looked over at where Miharu was hidden under the bed.
'Don't worry, she didn't. But I'm not going to tell you what she was saying about you when she was moving out.'
"Anyway, we better get ready for classes. Today we're studying, not practicing." Kaede continued, walking toward her stuff.
I watched her. "How are so calm about this?"
"What? About this?" She rolled her eyes. "Trust me, people have done a lot worse things to me than writing threats on my door. This doesn't bother me much. Just that we have to be the ones to paint over it now. And don't take them seriously." She smiled a me. "They're just a bunch of childish cowards."
I laughed and got ready for class as well. I said bye to Miharu and we went to today's class, talking about what they usually studied.
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The next few weeks blurred into several months. Over time me and Kaede got Chitose and Ayaka back by putting rotten eggs under their beds, Kaede schooled me in zangetsu and I helped her with Hakuda and Kido, and before I knew it almost six months had passed since I first joined the academy, and since I last saw Toushiro.
I had been so busy that I really hadn't thought about him at all. During lunch one day I wondered how he was doing.
'Miss him?' Miharu teased.
'No!' I blushed.
Kaede looked over at me. "Why is your face red?"
"N-no! It's nothing!!" I were currently eating outside, apparently close enough for me and Miharu to communicate.
Kaede thought about something for a minute. ""Hey, Hinata-chan can I ask you something?"
"Yeah, what?"
"What IS your relationship with Captain Hitsugaya?" She asked.
I nearly choked on the apple I was eating. Miharu started laughing at me in the back of my head.
"You ok?!" She asked.
"F-fine..." I got out. "W-why you asking?"
"No reason." She shrugged. "Been meaning to ask you for awhile but I thought now might be as good a time as any. So how do you know each other?"
I thought of the best way to tell her. Already deciding to edit out most of the details. I just didn't feel comfortable telling her everything. "Well, when I died he saved me from a hollow. And he also recruited me afterwards."
"Ohhh!" She smiled. "So that's why he came with you to get you enrolled. Also explains that zanpakto you're hiding under your bed!"
"You know about Miharu?!"
"That it's name? And yeah, duh, I am your roommate, how would I NOT notice?" She asked rhetorically.
'She's right y'know.' Miharu agreed.
She stood up and brushed the back of her uniform. "Let's get going, class will be starting soon. We're doing that target practice in the living world today again, I think." She held out her hand and helped me up.
YAYS! Trust me, it's going to get interesting in the next chapter! ^^- hope you liked it. Wasn't nearly as funny as the other chapters but from the beginning it wasn't meant to be. Anyway, make a review, give advice on how to make it better, and comment on it. Etc.