I'm floating in nothingness. No, wait, it's not nothingness. It's water. I'm floating in water. It's nice. Peaceful. I can feel slight waves, like I'm in a pool with someone else. I move with them. I move with the waves. Suddenly, I'm knocked into the air, and facedown into the water. I sat up, or at least the best someone could do in deep water, and then treaded water, sputtering. I heard a female laugh, and I looked around. I was in an ocean. Off to my left, a small, grassy island waited for what seemed like training. Swimming like a fish, a small girl wearing flowing blue clothes circled me. She smiled, and we made our way to the nearby island.
"Hi! I know you have two names right now, Ageha, or Payton, so which do you want me to call you?" She asked politely.
"Uhm, it doesn't matter. I'll answer to either one," I replied, honestly not caring.
"Ok, I'll think about what I want to call you," The girl nodded.
"So, where are we?"
"In your inner world," She answered. "I am your Zanpaku-tou." I nodded, and she smiled, and we climbed up onto the small island. "My name is Mizuiki." My eyes widened a considerable amount, and she frowned slightly. "Is something wrong?"
"No, I'm just surprised. My friend, Kenichi, said that it's rare for someone to hear a Zanpaku-tou's name just like that."
"Belief in that will make it impossible to hear a Zanpaku-tou's name the first time he speaks it."
"Hmm," I hummed. "So, why exactly did you call me into my inner world?"
"Your friend, Kenichi's reiatsu today scared me enough to think that you needed some protection. Shall I show you how to use me?" I nodded eagerly, and she showed me some basic moves, and a single powerful attack. She showed me her release, and I found it slightly strange that my Zanpaku-tou was so trusting of me. She looked at me after some training, and winked. "Maybe you should get some sleep." I yawned unintentionally, punctuating her statement. She nodded, and the world faded from view slowly.
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I yawned widely, utterly bored while some 'authority' figure was yelling at our strange little group of friends. I stood in the dead center of nine people, off to my left stood Ichigo, also looking really bored, Keigo, who had a "why me?" look on his face, Mizurio, who had a "can I leave now?" look on his face, and Chad, who's face I could only describe as "Chad-like". To my right, Ageha, who had a similar look on her face as Mizurio's, Rukia, who looked like she was about to cry, Orihime, who looked worried about something, and Tatsuki, who was looking a different way then the rest of us, came to rest. I yawned again as the faculty member; I don't think that I could call him a teacher, started yelling at Ichigo.
"So, you're getting bored?" He said, turning on me.
"'N all honesty, yes."
"You where involved in this too, don't think you and your friend here are getting away from this."
"Uh, Mr. Kagine? I get why the rest of these guys are here, but Orihime and I did nothing. We're going to leave for class now." Tatsuki said, grabbing Orihime's arm and dragging her out of the room.
"Well, there they go," Ageha muttered, the first time in a long time I had heard English.
"Yup," I replied. "Now time for Rukia's acting."
"What are you two talking about over there?" the faculty member yelled.
"Nothing."
"Suuurr…" Mr. Kagine started, to be interrupted by Rukia.
"I'm so sorry," She cried, and after that, I just stopped listening, just trying to get my butt out the window.
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"Hey!"
"What do you want?"
"No need to be so hostile."
"Why not?"
"Why so? I'm not one of them."
"Not yet."
"What does that mean?"
He squinted at me and suddenly reached near my neck, and grasped something. "Your Reiraku is red." He muttered before releasing the red ribbon in his hand.
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Cliff hanger! Muahahahahaha! xD