Bleach: Fall and Rise

130: muddy kids

Nanao's POV

Looking up to the sky, dark clouds are moving in, and rain is no doubt moving in and will start pouring down at any minute I walked through the forest near the execution grounds and was tempted to run back to the 8th division barracks.

After a few minutes, I walked into a clearing, and surprisingly enough the entire place has been cleared like there were numerous sparring sessions here, that or it's because there was a smaller cliff to the giant plateau on the other side when thunder roared above.

Quickly making my way to the other side and under a little overhang just as it started to pour is when I saw a boy around my age or a little older jump down not even caring if he gets soaked and started stomping every puddle he saw and not even caring if he got splattered with mud when he turned and saw me" hello, who are you?" He asked as he ran over.

"Waiting for the rain to stop," I said," why not put the book down and romp with me and get a little dirty or are you not comfortable with it?" He asked holding out his hand, palm covered in mud, my eyes widened as I thought it over,' Hasine is eons old and she acts like a teenager with her friends.' I thought, after thinking about it I put the book down" it can't hurt, let's go." I said and we ran out of the cover and got soaked within a minute.

We ran around stomping in puddles and chasing each other around and after a few minutes into this he introduced himself as Akon when I tripped, yelping I face-planted into the mud" are you ok?" He asked, getting onto my hands and knees my hands sunk into the mud as I turned back to him and sat down realizing I'm sitting in a mud pit when he burst out laughing" will you stop laughing and help me up!?" I yelled.

"I'm sorry but that's hilarious! Here." He snorted walking over and holding out his hand, I grabbed his hands and pulled, and he shrieked being pulled and face-planted himself, I snorted when he got to his hands and knees himself then looked over at me" not cool." He said flatly.

"You asked for it," I said then yelped when he threw a mud ball and it hit me in the shoulder, retaliating I threw a heap of mud at him chaos broke out after scrambling out of the pit and lobbing mud at each other, shouting and laughter filling the air and not caring about the meltdowns from our respective captains when we get back, we're just having fun.

"Hey! What's going on down there?" We stopped and then looked up at Yachiru crouched at the top of the cliff" having a mud fight, that's all." Akon said, she grinned" count me in." She said jumping down and the chaos resumed.

Shunsui's POV

Looking out of the window as the rain pours down, Nanao said she was going to go for a walk as I got up and walked outside to bring her back thinking she maybe hightailed it to the closest division to wait out the rain but I shook my head since I've been trying to get her to act her age and wondering if a division member took her out to play in the rain.

I smiled a little remembering a mud fight I had with Jushiro and accidentally hit Yamamoto in the face with a mud ball, that was an epic mud fight.

Flashback

Walking out of the school the rain soaked me within seconds, jogging across the courtyard I made my way back to the barracks when I saw Jushiro standing there like he didn't care and was soaked, smirking I bent down, grabbed some mud, stood up, zipped over and stuffed it down Jushiro's shirt, he yelped turning to me" really? Is that how you play?" He asked.

I shrugged smirking and he lunged at me I dodged throwing a mud ball and hitting him in the stomach, and he retaliated with one in my face and tried to tackle me again I took off laughing hysterically, Jushiro charged after me and after a little, he managed to tackle me and we started wrestling as soon as he managed to stuff mud down my uniform to get back at me.

A couple of minutes later I managed to pin him and dropped a mud ball in his face as Jushiro tried in vain to turn the tables before giving up" ok, you win." He huffed starting to laugh, same with me as I rolled off of him and Jushiro threw a mud ball into my shoulder, I threw one back and made a large mud pie.

Shooting up I ran off when Jushiro threw it and I shouted when it hit me in the back and round 2 started, 15 minutes later I threw a wad of mud to distract him and then tackle him and wrestle again, he ducked and threw his, I deflected it when we heard a grunt when I threw another one and making us freeze, we turned to see Yamamoto standing there, mud covering his face.

'Oh crap!' I thought" sorry about that!" I called as he wiped as much mud off as he could" you weren't watching where you threw that, I understand but..." He said then shunpo'ed somewhere, we looked around and then at each other wondering where he went a clump of mud was dumped on my head, I yelped as Jushiro received the same thing" bring it on." He said.

We looked at each other with wide eyes then smirked:" here are some ground rules, don't use shunpo to level out the playing field." I said" deal." He said when really I was using it as a distraction when Jushiro dumped a mud ball on his head and we were off" come on guys!" We heard one of our classmates yell charging into the chaos along with the rest of the class and pandemonium started.

Flashback ends 

I grinned at the memory, no one else knows but Yama secretly wants a round 2, and has been for the past several hundred years, pretty sure the only ones who know about it are Chojiro and Unohana, maybe Hasine since she might've noticed the mood change in his reiatsu, Unohana still laughs about it, Chojiro on the other hand really wants to take a shot at it.

I remembered watching that mud fight and Unohana booted him into the mud pit and I shunpo'ed straight out to where I thought Nanao is, a couple of seconds later I appeared at the sparring ground to see the kids messing around in there, Yachiru sunk up to her stomach and laughing hysterically when Nanao slipped, having been tripped by Akon, stumbling she face planted and he cannonballed into the mud pit.

Once Yachiru shunpo'ed out of the mud pit their mud fight continued as I fist pumped, a small grin coming to my face before deflecting a mud ball" sorry!" Akon yelled" hey." Nanao said starting to walk over to me" what's going on out here when it pouring ra-whoa! You 3 looked to be having a blast!" Isshin said before snorting upon seeing the 3 mud monsters.

He shouted in surprise when a mud ball hit him in the face and a second one hit him in the forehead, he grumbled then jumped down, me following after abandoning my pink kimono and ditching back of our haoris and the chaos continued.