School Stinks [Bleach Fanfic]

Detention

Six: Write a chapter in which a character bullies or is bullied during or after school.

Toshiro reached down to pick up his sock and shoe off the floor and slipped it on before hobbling the first two steps after the other four boys and the teacher. None of the other boys were happy about the situation and they all took seats in various desks. The teacher went and sat up at the front and looked out the window while his head lay in his arms. His eyes glazed over and he wished he had his piece of string.

He could hear the three boys whining about the situation, only to hear a loud thump of someone slamming their feet onto the top of the desk and the yelps the three boys let out. He turned his head to see Jinta was glaring at the three boys. Hashigami glared at him. "I don't get it. Why did you stand up for that cosplaying freak?"

Jinta's eye went up. "Cosplay?"

"They saw me in my Shinigami form." Toshiro piped up with his head still on the desk.

"Shinigami form?" Ino began to laugh. "That's what you call your stupid cosplaying?"

The red head cracked his knuckles as he made a face. "Need some memory modification about the subject of seeing Shinigami?"

Hashigami began to stammer again. "Seriously... why are you standing up for him?"

"Why indeed?" Toshiro sat up and leaned on his elbow, glaring at the three boys. "Do the three of you understand what it means to see Shinigami?" He couldn't help but notice that the teacher wasn't paying any attention to what was going on. "It implies that you can see ghosts."

Kaneda paled. "Nuh-uh. How can that work?"

"Are you guys idiots? Shinigami are ghosts."

Hashigami sighed. "You two are just trying to pull our legs. We don't... we don't see anything like ghosts."

"Really..." Toshiro turned his head away and pointed his finger at Ino who was eyeballing a ghost that had just come into the room. "He's staring at one right now."

"That's just Ino's thing." Hashigami laughed nervously.

"Yeah!" Kaneda replied only to be also staring at the ghost. Hashigami turned his head to see the ghost and stare as well.

"Uh-huh... sure." Jinta rolled his eyes. "Hitsugaya's right. The three of you do see ghosts. You're all morons."

Ino suddenly startled and to look at the red head boy. "You're only agreeing with him because it allows you to bully us. Normally you bully him too."

"Bully him? You have got to be kidding." A glare from the teacher who was busy reading caused him

Hashigami glared at Jinta. "Oh come on. He acted nervous when you talked to him in the locker room."

Jinta twisted up his lip before turning his head to look at Toshiro. "What was that about? When you first saw me?"

"You had a growth spurt in the last year, I didn't." Toshiro turned to look out the window.

"Ah... your height complex." Jinta let out a laugh. "You were jealous. You're actually jealous which means that the reason you threatened me was because you stood no chance with the Princess."

The temperature in the room dropped. "Oh... well you're rather right calling her a princess. She is after all a daughter of the Shiba clan after all." Toshiro turned his head to see Jinta suddenly pale. "Should I add she's the daughter of the head as well?" He then turned to look at the red head in the eye. "The Shiba clan is family to me. Even if I didn't know she was a member of the Shiba clan I owe Kurosaki and Kurosaki that much. Got it?"

Jinta swallowed this time. Kaneda blinked a couple of times. "Wait... I thought it was Hitsugaya who was afraid of Hanakari, not the other way around."

Ino pushed his glasses up. "Come on... he's smaller then us."

"Yeah... well... looks can be deceiving. I mean..." Jinta suddenly froze as Karin appeared in the doorway.

"To...shi...ro!"

The boy blinked a couple of times. "Kurosaki?"

"Don't Kurosaki me! Orihime called the house asking why you weren't home. I get here and find out your in detention. You've also got a black eye! What the hell happened?"

"Nothing..." Toshiro looked away.

"Well, I've come to make sure you get your butt home, got it."

"Ms. Kurosaki..." The teacher snapped his book closed. "All five of them are in detention. I can't let him go."

"Toshiro's got a black eye. What did he do to any of the guys here?"

Ino pointed at Jinta. "Hitsugaya was helping him bully us."

Karin quickly moved over to Toshiro and began to pull on the boy's cheeks. "To...shi...ro!"

"I'm fine."

"A black eye?" Toshiro looked away. The girl frowned. "Yeah... I thought so. That isn't the only injury. You stupid idiot!" Her foot quickly came down onto his injured foot and he let out a yelp, pulling it away from her. Her eyes widened in surprise. "Looks like I got lucky. Let me look at it."

"What ever for?" Toshiro felt his eyes starting to water up only to have the shoe yanked off.

"Sheesh." The girl placed the foot back on before hiking her thumb at Toshiro. "If you don't mind I'm going to take him to my dad's clinic." She then turned to look at Jinta. "Did the teacher actually catch you guys doing anything bad?"

"Nope?"

"Then why are you all here?"

"The teacher said we had detention." Ino piped up.

"Well... you four are idiots, but you Toshiro... you didn't do anything wrong. Why did you let the teacher put you into detention?"

The boy frowned, thinking about it carefully. "I guess I was bored. So... I just went with the flow of things."

Jinta heard the answer before bursting out in laughter. "Gosh! You are so naive!" The boy paused. "Wait... you sure we can just go?"

Karin looked at the teacher. "What did you see?"

"I saw five guys roughing each other up."

"And what is your definition of that? Did they punch each other?"

"Hitsugaya had a black eye and was being lifted up off his feet by Hashigami."

"Sounds like you've got a case with those guys..."

"He doesn't." Toshiro stood up. "I very well could have gotten a black eye some other time and he could have been simply roughing me up with no intention of ill intent. Even the other thing may not have been them."

Karin sighed, glaring at the front of the room. "You guys are lucky. Come on Toshiro."

The two headed out and ended up at Isshin's clinic. The man took a look at the boy's foot. "Toshiro..."

"I'm fine."

"Yeah..." The man wrapped the foot up. "If any of the kids at Karin and Yuzu's school are bullying you, then you need to speak up."

"I don't want the trouble."

"He also skipped P.E. to go and hunt down a Hollow."

Isshin took a deep breath before patting the boy on the head. "You know... it is all right to show of your abilities. You've always been good at athletics, academics... everything."

"Yeah... and that just ended up getting me bullied as a child."

Another deep breath was taken by his taicho. "I think you and I need to talk."