Bleach: Fall and Rise

17: Rainy Day Asauchis

Hisagi's POV 

Trudging into the classroom along with the rest of the stragglers, collectively agreeing that we're all miserable after running straight here when it started pouring but even more so when we saw the bin of blank slate swords in the center of the room' couldn't it wait until the rain stops?'  I thought.

"Hey, oh, the rain caught you guys by surprise. Explains the miserable feeling coming off of you in waves." Hasine said," shut up or I'll throw a mud ball in your face." I grumbled," good luck with that." She said," if that happens I'm running for the hills." Iba said," she only had one mud fight when she was 5." Rukia said" did you not see her put the teacher and Yamamoto Soutaicho in their places with her skills? He's going to get floored." One of the students said.

"Good point but there's a chance she could go easy on him?" Renji asked," thanks for the false sense of security, if that doesn't happen I'm never letting you live it down." I said" ok class, sit down and we'll get into today's lesson, I know it's pouring rain and you're miserable but we have to do this, unlike the wooden swords I can't throw these at you, or I might severely injure you. 

We'll still be training with the wooden swords but whenever there's time use your asauchi and imprint on your sword, from this day forward you will be spending 24/7 with your sword but please don't snuggle with it when you sleep, I don't want you coming in with nasty gashes on your body.

By next Spring your zanpaktou spirits will be born and manifested, so let's get a couple of you up here to spar." She explained, we all looked at each other with wide eyes with the exception of Hasine who looked like she's done this 1000s of times before but the look in her eyes screams it all; I don't want to kill any of you guys, are you crazy?!

"Can I say something? Are insane!? You're risking one of us either getting injured or killed in here when we haven't even been in the field yet! Hasine can do it with her eyes closed no problem." Iba yelled" if I was going to kill you I would lob your head off, the sword would be against your neck. I don't want tot to kill any of you." Hasine said.

"Anyway, back on topic, in a year you're all going to know the ways of Konso and how to send an earth-bound soul here, how many of you have actually seen it?" She said" I have, the Soul Reaper in charge of my town explained it to me and my friends, I even tried it once when I was 14 after carving the symbol into a cylinder of wood even if I shouldn't have.

It worked out surprisingly and ran into him the first week I was here. Go ahead and have a meltdown, my friends did." Hasine explained scratching the back of her head sheepishly.

The rest of us looked at her like she was insane" oh my god, you are insane, any ordinary person who can see ghosts and tried it ended up making the soul do soul suicide and made them go boom, you're one out of a few people in the history of this academy who actually did it a succeeded, I'm not judging you but the captains are the ones who are you going to have a meltdown." She said shakily.

Going over to the bin she handed me and Hasine our asauchis, after she handed everyone their swords she went back to the center of the room and singled out Hasine and me out of the bunch,' oh boy, I hope I don't die.' I thought hesitantly turning to her, same with her but she doesn't have a look of fear and apprehension, it was more like regret, apprehension, and a look of 'I'm sorry but we have to do this.'

She jabbed at me, I swung it away and we got started being more cautious than we were with the wooden swords until we got somewhat comfortable with them but it was a matter of time before she overpowered me, a few minutes later she kicked the sword to the floor and held it to my throat, took it away and dropped it" thanks, never make me do that again to a friend." She said picking up her sword and going to sit down.

"I'm sorry but you might have to do just that, you look to have done this numerous times before." The teacher said," I never sparred with the people closest to me, you've heard my story the first day I came in here and you're going to say we have to harden up to an extent for the next several months to that effect. 

Look at these guys, they're all friends and it's going to be just as hard for them as it is for me, think before picking a pair of friends to spar with each other and potentially get injured." Hasine explained sternly" I'm with her." I said going over and picking up my sword.

"I really didn't think this through, why am I always on the other side of the building instead of listing the groups of friends in here? I'm stupid." She said," just pick 2 random people for each bout until the hour is up, easy as that." Iba said grumbling irritably.

"If that's what you want, alright then but you're still going to have to spar with each other after hours, I'm not forcing you to go against each other unlike the other teachers are undoubtedly doing." She said picking random opponents.

8 hours later 

"Why the hell are we sparring in the rain? It's miserable out here?" I asked" hey we're not going to be fighting in the most optimal conditions, this being one of them, we could be fighting in a blizzard in Russia mind you, and getting soaked, pelted, and frozen with snowflakes and covered in mud with rainstorms like this or in the monsoon season in India or hurricane season in the newly established New Orleans, it's not going to be a pleasant job." Hasine said.

"Why do you have to be right every time, ok. Let's go." I said as Hasine stepped up to the plate looking more confident that she was not being forced to do this, same with me and got down to it being more fierce and putting our skills into it moving deftly in the shifting slippery surface when another set of clashes and clangs sounded alerting me to Rukia and Hinamori doing there own sparring along with Renji and Iba.

No sooner had Hasine whipped the sword out of my hand did we heard a yelp and a weight crashing into my back sending both of us into the mud.

Hasine's POV 

Whipping the sword out of Hisagi's hand is when Rukia yelped going in to jab at Hinamori but she got the sword out of her hand and she just crashed into Hisagi sending the 2 of them face-planting into the mud catching the other 2's attention" are you alright?" I asked trying not to laugh out loud" what do you think? I need a shower." Hisagi gritted lifting his head from the mud.

That was my last straw as I burst out laughing my ass off as the brunette scrambled off the suffering raven-haired man" need any help?" She asked," no, I can get up myself, will you stop laughing?!" Hisagi demanded scrambling to get up and failing the first few times before finally managing to do so and charging after me and managed to hit me in the back of the head with a mud ball making me shriek and stagger.

"Seriously? You're on." I said and chaos broke out.