It has been around a year since I got completely fucking wrecked by the asshole also known as Mad Eater, with Seigen and Konoka teaching us manners and other rules that we're supposed to follow while we're trained to be Shinigami.
Thankfully, no one cares that much about the fact that we're lesser Nobles, at least not to the same extent that I've seen some people harass the Rukongai residents, considering them 'lesser', the only reason why they can't fight back is that the Nobles were already trained from the beginning, which is 'frowned upon', but that's just a way to weasel out, because no it's not, I sighed, rolling my eyes at the obvious corruption that was here, it was probably true that these assholes of nobles are capable of 'retiring' unlike so many others who are simply locked up.
There are three 'factions' in this school, with the bigger families, greater noble clans and all that, being the group that acts like they're the most important, they're also the second biggest group; Then there's the Rukongai residents, who most are already hardened by the life out there, so they come here because it's their way into being important, rich, or something to that effect, they are the biggest group through sheer number, but also the group that ends up leaving the academy the most due to rampant illiteracy across the districts; And then there's people like and Matsuri, who are part of the smallest group, the 'lesser' nobles, which were Nobles who at some point were screwed by the bigger families in one way or the other.
In my case, we're lesser nobles because a greater noble clan felt slighted when lady Konoka had refused the hand of their heir, not that they could pull that much weight since Seigen was already a Captain, or so I heard from lady Konoka, who didn't seem to mind that much that they were not considered a greater clan anymore, as there weren't many people to be considered 'great' anyways, preferring to simply relax as she has been doing.
There weren't many lesser nobles to begin with, and birthrate is a bit complicated to explain when we're all spirits, but there weren't many babies being raised in this world in comparison to Earth, for example. Ah, the teacher was apparently saying something that I didn't hear because I was doing my internal monologue again, oh well.
We were put onto a class, and I swear to fucking God that I saw someone that looks exactly like a fucking Kimetsu no Yaiba character, which frankly makes no sense, unless I'm dealing with expies, which well, I wouldn't mind some of them, if only because I'm still a guy and I would love to see Mitsuri with her giant… personality, however I'm more likely than not to only see man, because shonen worlds don't use girls for much besides fan service, but thankfully, this is the world of bleach, one with admittedly a lot of filler involving fan service. Granted, not as much as Fairy Tail, but damn, it's quite a lot.
"If you found an wandering spirit in the human world, what are you supposed to do?" The teacher asked in one of the many theoretic classes, with hypotheticals, we weren't taught in history for whatever reason, not that I thought about it that much.
"We verify the perimeter to check if there are any hollows on the prowl, and eliminate if there is any, after it, we're to use the butt of the zanpakuto to perform konso onto the wandering spirit so that they can come to Soul Society," And get dumped into the rukongai district since the nobles don't want to share space with those who died, which is unbelievably weird to imagine. Just because you were born already here, that makes you better? Someone smarter would've made a commentary on immigrants, but yeah, no, I'm still not that well versed on spirit politics to make commentaries that would be useful in the real world.
Theory class was stupidly easy, you only failed if you were legitimately stupid, or were blind and deaf to not understand how the Shinigami really worked out there.
I wished I could say I recognized any of these poor sods I was taking classes with, but besides my own sister, I would've been a liar. And it's weird, right? Apparently, everyone's already an adult, a child, or their parents haven't even been born to begin with. Times like this makes me wish I was already in canon time, I could've been shittily flirting with girls that would never give me the time of the day had I been in my old body, but at least I would've had a bathroom all things considered.
I tried to be friendly too, you know, unfortunately the Rukongai kids thought I was doing this as a prank, and the Noble kids thought I was a despicable piece of shit because apparently all these fucking clans are interconnected in some way, so my adoptive mother was basically excommunicated from and yeah, they won't interact with me. Which makes no fucking sense! They're talking with my sister right now, don't even act like you're not a bunch of horny bastards AAAAAAA!
It's so unbelievably annoying to see it happening, it only caused me to train like a psycopathic bastard that has nothing else to do on my day-to-day basis, which yeah, it's somewhat true, since there isn't much to talk with my sister since she shares the same classes as me.
Then we had classes to test our aptitudes for Hakuda, Kido, Kaido, and all that. I was one of the first to offer myself for Hakuda, it was one of the things I've been training the hardest as I just know that my unsealed Zanpakutou would benefit from Hakuda training instead of Zanjutsu.
The other person to be put in front of me was a noble child, had I been anyone else, I would've tried to go easy on him, but I won't, especially when I can see that smug look on his face.
"Hajime!" The one overlooking our fight said as he jumped backwards as I entered a position that I doubted any of them has seen. I used to fight before I died, you know, not enough to be a pro, but I got just enough of my ass kicked to not be that pissy about getting hurt like others do. I noticed the other guy entered a pose that I simply couldn't recognize, but every two steps, I simply answered with a leg kick and a step back, before launching simply one-twos, and while people booed me, they couldn't help but notice the ugly swelling on his leg as the prick now likely felt pain just from existing.
The moment he grit his teeth as his hand goes to the swelling is the moment I jumped into it, grabbing the kid by the back of his neck, forcing him down as I threw knees, ignoring the coughing and puffing as the instructor took us apart.
"Fujimaru is the winner!" The instructor ended up declaring as the kid cried, not that I felt any guilty about it.
"Don't worry about it Tsuyashiro-sama, we will teach this traitor his place." …Oh God, was that little shit related to the Tokinada from the novels? I should've beaten him up more, teach that moron that his position doesn't make him any fucking special.
Unfortunately for him, and the other kids, I was not a nice person when fighting, with either clinches, body locks, body throws into the fucking floor, and mostly me punching kids that never got punched in the face before, I found myself the victorious before I even knew it. Which was boring, I was somewhat hoping to find someone to be my rival, but maybe that would happen later on when they get older. I mean, with the amount of death stares I received, maybe I would get my rivals.
Then there was the Bakudo section. Which I just did about average, which is far from what I wanted, the issue is that I couldn't really figure out how the hell one learns it! From all my lessons so far, it's mostly 'control reiatsu, use the words you say as a focus, and then unleash it', as if it was that fucking easy! I swear I'm not stupid bro, the only ones who managed to really get it were the noble kids, which yeah, probably received especial training. Dicks.
"For the next part of the training, we will be giving you your Zanpakuto, please make a line and await to receive yours." I didn't run unlike some of the other kids because I was maybe too giddy from the idea of getting my Zanpakuto, how would it be? Would it be Ryojinmaru as I suspected? Would it be a new thing because I'm me? Would it be a fusion? Dual zanpakuto spirits? I've been thinking to myself for so long that I didn't notice the instructor calling upon my name as I grab the zanpakut-
"Oh, the body stealer's here," I was accused, and as I turned to look at myself, horrible luck if I'm being sincere, I notice that the other Fujimaru is the only one here, or the only one who deigned himself to appear maybe, it's not like White appeared alongside Yhwatch's younger self.
"You're…" I pause as I fish the answer.
"The actual owner of the body, until something happened and I found myself here, stuck here, melding with what should be my Zanpakuto spirit… What even are you?" He asked me as frown, not knowing exactly what to answer.
"An outsider, I guess, the explanation would be too long and overly complicated for me to do it, but if it means anything, I'm far from evil," I tell him as he shakes his head.
"I saw your memories, did those things… really happen? That this lady Konoka healed me from near death, looked after me and Matsuri, and then she died because of the Central 46?" I nod at his words.
"It's not a pretty thing, and frankly, I don't even know how much that would be repeated, but if you can see my memories, then you probably understand the situation we're in, and that many people you would've called friends will die if we continue weak, that's why I've been pushing this body to its limits, whatever they were." I told him as I frowned.
"People always commented about our potential, your and your sister's zanpakuto being the primary argument for anything, but somehow, neither of you were ever considered geniuses, I also wanted to change that," I said as left my arms wide open.
"So if you want to punch me in the face or anything, then just do it, I have my convictions and I won't tell you to give up your own. But please, lend me your power Fujimaru, so that I can protect the few things I care after," I said as he immediately punched me square in the nose, and sure, it might be broken, but that was just in the mindscape.
"You know that this isn't all of your power now, right? Especially since we're two souls… 3 if we count Matsuri into this, I think?" Fujimaru asked in a confused matter as he tried to think about it, before deciding that it was a waste of time as he shook his head, focusing on present matters.
"Besides, don't call me Fujimaru anymore, that name belongs to someone else now," He stated with a grin as I felt myself going somewhere else.
"Call me-"
The instructor didn't know what had happened to Fujimaru after receiving the Zanpakutou, sure, zoning out the way he had done for the few minutes like he had done was protocol for someone bonding or merely speaking with their Zanpakuto, which wouldn't be out of place if you know, the child didn't just receive his Zanpakuto. And as he tried to move the child out of the way so that no one bumped onto him into this possibly important moment, the kid snapped out of it, grabbing the sword and unleashing an impressive amount of Reiatsu for someone so young, wait, what was he planning anyways?!
"FLASH! RYOJINMARU!" The kid shouted as the ground shook as the child, in barely minutes after receiving the Zanpakuto, that was unheard of, who knew so much about themselves that they barely had to take a minute to unleash it's name, but somehow, in the poor instructor's heart, the grin in that child's mouth promised that it was barely the beginning.
"FUCK IT, BANKAI!-"