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Chapter 7. New Friends
Kuchiki Rukia had been chosen as Hinamori's roommate, because they were closest to each other by their family names.
Rukia was a few years older than Hinamori, but she had just joined that year, so she was in some of the same classes as her brown-eyed friend.
They sat side-by-side at a desk in their room that both of them could sit at with room to spare, considering that they were both so small. They looked over their schedules together; the light of the rising sun aided the brightness of the light in their room.
Hinamori's first class was history, where she guessed that they would learn about the history of Soul Society and all of the different spiritual worlds and all of that. Her second class was battle skills, followed by kendo training. Then, at 11:30 was a lunch period. The next class was Zanpakutou practice and training, and finally Kidou class.
Each class, including lunch stretched for an hour and a half, with a few moments to get to the next class in between, the day started at 7 and ended at 4. Hinamori and Rukia had 4 out of the 6 periods together including lunch, their Zanpakutou and history classed were just switched.
Now, the two of them walked side-by-side down two flights of stairs until they were on the first floor, they each carried their own schedules, along with a few notebooks and pens.
They crossed the grassy courtyard and stepped onto the cement sidewalk surrounding the school, other students were headed that way as well. The two girls entered the school building and glanced through the long hallways, partially filled with other students, all searching for which locker was theirs.
Since Rukia and Hinamori were roommates, then that also meant that there was no one with the initials between them. Therefore, their lockers were right next to each other. Once they had found their lockers and made sure that they opened, they heard a bell ring.
"I guess that means we have to get to class." Hinamori said. Rukia nodded and both glanced at their papers to see where their first classes were.
"See you in an hour and a half." Rukia told her. "Good luck." She turned and started to walk the opposite of where Hinamori had to go.
"You too." She called after her.
Then she made her way down the hallways, turning corners and glancing at room numbers until she finally found the history class.
She stepped through the door and took an empty seat as the bell rang; it was going to be a long day.
Hinamori sat down at a small bench.
It was lunchtime now, and her battles skills and kendo classes had taken a load off of her energy. Rukia was no better; she was sitting drearily beside her, with her shoulders hunched and head drooping.
What surprised Hinamori about lunch was that it was held outside and inside, tables and benches were set up around one grassy courtyard area, but there was also a large indoor cafeteria.
However, the two friends liked the outdoors, and wanted to take in all of the fresh air that they could get, so they sat outside together as they stared up at the sky. Rukia sighed.
"Those last two classes really took it out of me." She breathed.
"I'll say." Hinamori agreed, recalling how quickly her friend had devoured her food with a ravenous gulp.
Then, Rukia glanced away at someone as her name was called. A boy with baffling red hair was calling to her; Hinamori recognized him from her history class. Next to the red-haired boy, was a slightly shorter boy, with blonde hair who looked as though he would not stand a chance sparring against a cat. Rukia smiled at the sight of the taller boy and called back.
"Hey Renji!" She waved.
"Who is that, Kuchiki-san?" Hinamori asked, with a confused look at the boy, Rukia and back again.
"He's a friend of mine, we used to live together back in Rukongai, but we didn't see each other during the exams. And I thought that I told you to call me Rukia." Renji and the other boy walked over to the girls and they stood up.
"It's been a long time Rukia!" Renji grinned.
"No it hasn't baka. We saw each other two days ago!" She laughed. "Well I'm just surprised you passed!" She kidded. "Oh this is my friend, Hinamori Momo."
Said girl bowed to the boys.
"Pleased to meet you." Then the blonde boy bowed as well."Izuru Kira. It's my pleasure." He said politely. Then Renji hit him on the head.
"Cut the crap Izuru! Just greet people like a normal person." He grumbled. "My names' Abarai Renji." He told Hinamori and she smiled and nodded. Then he spoke to Rukia. "Well, well Miss I'm-Not-Going-To-Make-Any-Friends, looks like you contradicted yourself." He said. Then Izuru started a conversation with Hinamori.
"Weren't you in my battle skills class?" He asked.
"Hai, I knew you looked familiar." She replied. Just then, the bell rang out once again, signaling that they were all to get to their next classes.
"Hopefully we'll see each other again soon!" Hinamori called after the boys as they walked away. The girls' next classes were near each other, so they walked together. "You know," Hinamori spoke to Rukia. "I have a friend like that too. Like you and Renji, and you used to live together."
"Oh really?" The raven-haired girl looked interested. "What was his name?"
"You mean what is his name." Hinamori corrected her.
"Oh sumimasen." Rukia shook her head.
"His name's Hitsugaya Toshiro, we lived together until I came to the Academy a few days ago. He lives with our Obaa-san in the first district of Rukongai, and I hope I'm going to visit this Sunday."
"That's good." Rukia smiled. "1st district huh? That's about as good as you can get, next to Seireitei itself. Me and Renji, we came from district 78."
Hinamori heard sadness and pain in her voice and she could not help but to place a comforting hand on her friend's shoulder. But then Rukia shook her head, forgetting all of her past problems. "But anyway, what do you mean by, our Obaa-san? You're not related are you?"
"Oh no not at all!" Hinamori shook her head vigorously. "She's his Obaa-san not mine. It's just…when I first came here to Soul Society, I was all alone, because I died alone as well. And then, he was just standing right there when I opened my eyes, him and his Obaa-san. And from then on we just lived together, and we thought of ourselves as one family. And so his Obaa-san became my Obaa-san."
Rukia nodded in understanding.
"That's sort of like me. I didn't spend much time in the World of the Living either. And then I just lived with Renji and a bunch of others until we decided to become Shinigami. I died alone too." She lowered her voice.
They stopped walking in front of their classes, which were right next door to each other.
Hinamori gave Rukia a small hug and both smiled at the other.
Then, they each went their separate ways to their class.
Hinamori and Rukia sat on their beds in their nightclothes, getting ready to go to sleep.
Hinamori had found out that Renji and Kira were in her Zanpakutou training class, and all four friends were together in their Kidou class.
All in the first two days, Hinamori had made three new friends, and discovered many things about herself. She had found out that she was more interested in history than she thought, her battle skills were decent, as was her swordsmanship, she was not bad at her training either.
But what amazed her and everyone else the most were her Kidou skills. She had perfect accuracy and precision, even from very far distances. Her sensei for that class had said that she could hit a gnat in a tangle of bushes 500 miles away, although she thought that he was over exaggerating a bit.
All she had done was hit a bull's-eye, what was so special about that?
Kira had blown his to pieces as well; she saw nothing special at first.
She thought that anyone could do that.
But apparently she was wrong, very wrong.
Only a handful of the hundreds of newcomers had managed to even hit a corner of the target, but Hinamori had smashed it into pieces from hitting the center.
"Wow." Rukia told her presently. "I still can't believe how good your Kidou is!" She praised.
"Arigatou." Hinamori blushed a bit, and pulled her sheets over her head.
Since the dorm rooms were so large, they did not use bunk beds, but separate beds, on opposite side of the room. Hinamori heard Rukia yawn and then her friend's voice saying a phrase that sent stabs of pain through her chest.
"Oyasuminasai, Hinamori-chan." The muffled voice met her ears, and a single tear trickled onto the pillow of the brown-haired girl.
"Oyasuminasai." Hinamori repeated.
However, it was not only Rukia that she was wishing good night to.
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