My body is still weak, even as I train under the vigilant eye of this eye patched wearing psychopath who's likely to kill me as he was to train me, there isn't much I can do about the weakness of my flesh, if it can even be called that, as I am already dead, and a spirit to boot.
"Come on boy! I know you have something better than that!" The psychopath, also known as Zaraki Kenpachi, shouted from his place as he kept training me, I had, apparently, surprised him with my reiatsu once, and that made me interesting enough to train so that he could beat me up later, my sword could barely be called that, just a thick piece of metal that Kenpachi ripped off from somewhere before he gave it to me, deigning sufficient for us.
Kenpachi's presence around me was suffocating, as his pure Reiatsu almost killed me once, when his rage raised it enough that I had collapsed to the ground, my hands on the ground trying to push myself, my fear of dying for a second time giving me just enough of strength to handle not dying, which had made him interested in the first place; But at the same time, it was very much liberating, as the people from the 99th district, Kusajishi, would dare not to mess with me or my sister Matsuri because of Kenpachi, even if he's not even a Shinigami just yet, his power more than enough to deter any attempts at us, which has previously been more than once, as we were just special enough to warrant an kidnapping attempt, as twins are just so rare somehow, weird to say this aloud, isn't it? I'm not sure.
I'm strong, at least stronger than any child I know of, which solely means my sister because I don't think there is any other child in this district, and I have half a mind that reminds me that I can't remember if Yachiru is an actual Zanpakutou spirit or God knows what. Which brings me to my training, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that I will either die like a bitch against Aizen's bullshit or die while fighting Quincies, as there's no other option besides simply going out of my way to stay weak, run away and hope that no one kills me for whatever reason, although I was already a target this entire time due to the fact that I have a high quantity of Reiatsu in my being, making me extremely delicious to any Hollow, damn it.
I don't even answer as I continued to push through Kenpachi's spartan training, as saying anything would simply 'prove' that I had energy to speak back, so I had the energy to continue. He hasn't taught me any sword techniques, Hado, anything, his training was simply on suppressing my Reiatsu and how to brawl, which yeah, sure, if I had his size and strength, I wouldn't have needed anything, but I wasn't, so damn you, I wanted some Kendo lessons you dick, but nooo, you need to forget about Kendo so that when you get in problem against motherfucking Nnoitra, you conveniently remember that you only use one hand, and then one shot him.
Dick.
As I continued attacking the giant blaze of nothingness, as no creature or human, indifferent of how stupid they might be, would never ever even try to reach anywhere that Kenpachi's gaze could perceive. So we continued this routine for the next few hours before Kenpachi got lazy and decided to go kick something's ass, not that I had any idea of how he can do that when he's easily the worst when it comes to directions at all, with the only one worse than him in that aspect being Zoro, who's not even from this universe! Even if memes suspect that he could easily get here via losing himself across the multiverse as if he was an SCP character.
Laying down on the ground, I tried to think of what I should do with my life, but instead of anything actually worthwhile, my mind simply went to tits and ass; Somehow I doubt I can be someone who only does it for sex, although at the same time, it would be very awesome if I managed to somehow become someone who's recognized by everyone as unbelievably strong and allowed to have my own harem. But I'm not strong as of right now, so it doesn't make any sense for me to be thinking about this kind of thing. But imagine though, now that would be a treat for later me.
Shame really that I don't have any 'cheat' besides meta knowledge, but even that is more than enough due to me already being aware of my Zanpakutou's name and the Bankai, that's why I've been training so hard because Fujimaru was supposed to get stronger faster than expected via training and fighting, but only one of those two options were anywhere viable as of now.
Well, something else that I've been at least trying to learn is the 'how' of skills like Kaido, Bakudo and Hado, as we're never given an explanation on how someone just spontaneously learns it. Is it something everyone can do? I assume so because there's no mention of it, and I should be relatively good at it for Fujimaru managed to learn Soren Sokatsui which is an advanced Bakudo spell, but yeah, as I'm not yet at the academy, there's not much I can do about it unfortunately.
A genius poor child has much less resources than a retarded rich asshole, which was saddening to learn as it then forced my hand at trying to get adopted by Seigen Suzunami, the current acting captain of the fifth squad, could I've done it with anyone else? I would say that it depends, but Seigen is noble, even if a minor one, which can't be said about everyone, and he's also owner of a good heart, even if it became corrupted due to Aizen's manipulations.
Sometimes, in the few times I was truly alone, I've wondered if I was 'alone' in this world, wondering if there was someone else with the same memories of a world that doesn't belong here, if I had a companion that I could trust for he was from the same world as I, but that wasn't the case, at least, if there was any, it certainly wasn't in this time period, maybe. Other times I wonder if this is the world that follows the same timeline as 'canon', or if there's something else to this world, such as crossover, expies or any other type of explanation for people that realistically shouldn't be here.
It certainly would've made things more interesting for me in this new world, but it's not like there weren't several other interesting people running around, even now that it's one hundred years in the past before 'canon', besides, I can always meet up with the Captains, Soi Fon, even the kids such as Rukia, Rangiku, Momo and Toshiro. Now that's something to look forward.
But that's all I could plan before I felt that ugly reiatsu, the Reiatsu of a hollow, strong one too, coming to us. Kenny has already left, so this meant that I was rather fucked, but I couldn't just give up, so I grabbed the weapon that he had 'gifted' me, and ran, I ran as one could because even in my feeble ability of sensing Reiatsu, I could tell, perhaps because fate works strangely like that, that it was coming for my sister.
Mad Eater, an intelligent hollow that could for whatever reason speak the common tongue and issue command to other hollows made me understand that the being was not like the others, a possible artificial hollow maybe, but then again, given that the hollow had been around enough to be considered an ally of Arturo Plateado, it's possible that it was simply a Hollow who decided to not evolve into a Menos, and that was a bit scary itself.
Reaching the 99th district, I could easily see the Mad Eater in the streets, trying to find my sister perhaps, the already bungalow houses were wrecked, with several sporting missing roofs, broken walls, and the bodies of the inhabitants who attempted to fight back the Hollow. The Yusajishi district was never one to 'protect one another', we didn't have a sense of community, but if 'fighting to kill something' was something very common for us, unfortunately the Hollow was much stronger than some of the Shinigami who had tried to abuse their power in this district as I've come to see with my own two eyes, their bleeding corpse with spit on their clothes as the inhabitants wiped their blades and other weapons used to make work of him.
Mad Eater was huge, perhaps about twelve feet tall, green with red hair that also served as fur in other parts of his body, and he slowly turned, grinning as he turned his body into my direction, as I steeled myself, hoping that I would be able to handle this creature until the Shinigami came by, hopefully.
"Oh? You're not the one I was searching… But you're the other half, aren't you?" It laughed, the air feeling heavier as it tried to blast me with pure spiritual pressure, but unfortunately for it, I'm used to heavier shit, so instead of answering any of his questions, I went for an attack. Zaraki only taught me to fight dirty, going for the feet, arms, the eyes, obstructing it's vision with sand, that kind of stuff was a bit harder when hollows could regenerate themselves, and it really worked because Kenny was strong as shit, and although I knew it to be a trap, I kept fighting, as the hollow continued to laugh.
"You're strong kid," It said after some time before it used one of it's claws to cut through my stomach, and I was barely able to avoid making it a bigger mess, as I was already bleeding heavily from this hit.
"Yeah? And you're not a normal Hollow, are you, you can speak," I stated as the hollow nodded.
"I am the Mad Eater, I've eaten all kinds of souls when I used to walk alongside the true king, Arturo, but after he had been sealed by the Shinigami, I've been wandering for perhaps too long, until I became hungry, wanting a taste of twin souls, and look what I had just found," The hollow states as his head began to spin in three hundred sixty degrees, his hair slamming against me, perfurating with it's points as I felt increasingly difficult to keep breathing steadily, or you know, my body from collapsing to the floor as I had no more energy to keep fighting, I cursed myself mentally as I had really expected to be able to fight it off, at least this time around.
"At least," The hollow said as it walked towards me, as I thanked God that Matsuri was still hiding, or at least I hoped she was hiding or simply ran away some time ago.
"Until I found myself able to bring a certain thing to people, a special kind of poison that no one was able to handle it, but let me tell you the best part of it," The Mad Eater said as his head was inches away from my own.
"It makes all of my food taste so much better," The hollow said as he grabbed my head, opening it's mouth to vomit something inside of me as my innards felt like burning, as I screamed in pain, Reiatsu flaring as I my body tried to reject it, don't think, just fight back, I tried to bring my arms up, but the hollow had it under his legs and admittedly, they're probably broken to say the very least.
"Seems like I will have to put this banquet for later, pesky Captains are following me, you know? Shame that I won't be able to eat you, but it's not like you're going to live anyways, I have better chances with your twin later down the lin-" It was by then that my I wasn't able to do anything else but close my eyes, falling apart as I felt like dying for the second time ever.
Or so I thought, for I found myself in a futon, a very comfortable one, but then again, when you're poor as me, anything would be comfortable just by comparison, the bedroom was rather simplistic, a single painting put on the wall, and I found myself able to walk, slowly of course, but still, I stumbled my way into a conversation between who I could only assume to be Urahara, my sister, Seigen and Konoka, Seigen's sister.
I was so hungry, I haven't eaten anything in a long time, having too much Reiatsu also forces one to eat more than they're supposed to, you know?
"Ah, seems like your brother's finally awake," Urahara stated as I looked at the man for the first time, and yeah, now that I'm seeing him as it is, I can understand why people would eventually come to the conclusion that I must be related to him in some way, our facial features were very similar, although his skin was much paler than my own… And I'm more handsome, of course.
He gave the two of us some apple, to which we had admittedly, very greedily devoured it all, an instinct of an urchin kid who was never given anything. Urahara's eyes were twinkling as he said that we might have quite a lot of energy if we were still hungry, which I admittedly was as my stomach rumbled, 'quietly' begging for more food as my sister nodded her little head.
"Well, since they seem to have a high spiritual pressure, and they will only get stronger as they get older, why not repay Miss Konoka's gesture and work up as Shinigami?" Urahara asked as I nodded, I understood that he was probably trying to guilt trip us, or maybe he had a plan for us, but regardless, I was already planning in entering the Shinigami Academy, I was already planning in becoming strong, and even if I'm a bit afraid of what in the seven fucks did that poison do to fuck with me, I would still train and fight, not only because I was some knight in shining armor, because Shinigami don't wear armor, but because I don't know what other destiny is there for someone like me being being poor as shit.
"I will," I state, as my chest becomes heavier from the lingering phantom pain.
"I will become a Shinigami," I state as my sister, my cute little sister even if she's technically my twin, nods enthusiastically as she gives us a one thousand gigawatt smile.
"Me too! We can be the twin shinigamis!" She says enthusiastic as we're given more apples, to which we devoured in less than a minute again.
So this is how I began my path as a Shinigami, and to a lesser extent, a noble.