The class passed by in a blink of an eye. The captains and lieutenants sat next to the wall on the far side observing us as we answer questions that were put to us. People really put their best foot forward today. People I've never heard answer a question before are now fighting to impress. However for me, atleast for today, I kept quiet and watched them instead. There had to be a reason for them to do this. Never had I heard of captains sitting in on classes before. But, my mind was drawn away from that thought when Mieno elbowed me.
"Whats up with you? You're never this quiet," He glanced at the Captain Aizen as he spoke. I followed his gaze and snickered to myself.
"I have no need to impress. When time comes to graduate, that's when I'll impress them." I gave him a smirk as I returned my gaze to them. Lieutenant Ichimaru seemed to be a little more smiley than he normally was and for him, that was saying something, seeing as he always has a smile on.
"Ok thats the end of this class, if everyone would head to the outside training ground, your next class will be out there. Captains and lieutenants you may go ahead and head out ahead of the student." The teacher tone changed when addressing them. They all rose from their seats and headed out. After a few moments the teacher released us.
"Try not to set everyone on fire this time Akashi," Mieno elbowed me and laughed at him.
I glared at him as I gathered a few items from the desk, "For your information I've gotten quite good at setting only a few people on fire instead of everyone." My glare changed to smile and we both burst out laughing. A few students gave us funny looks but didn't say anything.
We made our way down the aisles and into the hall, but stopped as we watch students cross the hall all the way to the other side to avoid lieutenant Ichimaru who was leaning against a wall. It was like ants avoiding a drop of water. Fuck that. I thought as I watched Mieno follow suit. I walked the same as I would normally. I walked passed him as if he was another student. I caught of a few students giving me awed looks as I did so. I couldn't help but to smile. Though I knew how to respect elders and higher ups, avoiding them like a plague, is not a must.
I was so caught up being proud of myself that I hadn't noticed that the Lieutenant has started walking right beside me. I looked at him and then back down. Not sure what to do. Why on earth was he walking right next to me? There was no rhyme or reason for him to do this. We walked in silence but I could feel his smile getting wider and wider as the walk to the field grew closer. Meino was about 5 feet behind me, unsure what to do about this situation.
What seemed like forever, we finally made it to the field. Before the Lieutenant departed he put his hand on the small of my back and whispered in my ear, "Thanks for the walk." Before I could respond to this he was already next to his Captain. I stood frozen as the students filed in.
"Are you ok? What the hell happened?" Meino whispered to me as the teacher began his talk.
"I have no idea…" My eye glanced as the Lieutenant who seemed unfazed by what had just occurred. "Maybe he was just trying to freak me out?" I look back to the teacher trying to figure out.
"Yea, maybe that's it." But to be honest, it didn't freak me out, well not like 'ew thats gross, stop' freaking out, but it was 'I don't understand this and I have no idea how to respond' kinda freaking out. I shook the thought out of my head as I noticed everyone was looking at me. My face tinted pink as I tried to figure out what had happen.
"Well Miss Akashi since you weren't listening, I'll have someone else demonstrate." I dropped my gaze as my pink cheeked turned a little on the red side. Mieno bumped my shoulder trying to reassure me.
She called forward another student and I slumped a little lower in my spot. As the demonstration started and I turned my attention away from it. Honestly I wasn't feeling this today. Not being at class for one day can't hurt right? I took very slow steps back as I edged my way out of a crowd. Soon I was at the door and ran through it as quickly as possible.
Letting out a huge sigh, I walked down the hall glazey eyed and staring at the ground. I turned a few corner absent mindedly. I wasn't talking very fast so when I ran into someone I just kinda stood up against them. At first I didn't react but a few moments passed and I was broken from my haze.
"Oppps, I'm sorry I wa…" My words fell short as I looked up to see that fox like grin that for the last few hours I had grown used it.
"Oh you're quite alright, to be honest I let you do it," Lieutenant Ichimaru's smirk grew as he watched my reaction. I just stared up at him not sure how to process his words. I'm not sure how long we stood there but he reached out his hand and I took a step back and put my hand behind my head.
"Well anyway, sorry again Lieutenant," I took a few steps back but he took his own steps to keep the same distance.
"Like I said, you are quite alright," I stopped moving and looked behind me.
"Well I need to be going, places to go things to see," and before he could say otherwise I flashed stepped away toward our compound.
As I moved, my mind wandered through the events that had taken place today. It was such an odd day. With the captains and lieutenant showing up today in class. And for the Lieutenant to take such an interest in me. Is that was it was? Interest? No, it had to be something else. Perhaps Captain Aizen asked him to look into for me for some reason? Yea, that had to be it. Maybe when I was with Kani he noticed something odd about me and wanted to make sure I wasn't.. well she normal girl trying to be a soul reaper. Yea, thats totally it. I laughed a little to myself as I got to the gates of the compound.
Walking I saw Kani walking through the garden, not paying attention to where she was going. I had barely managed to catch her before she fell into the pond.
"Kani what are you doing?!" I let her go and dropped down to her level.
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