Kai was forcefully turned over by student, before they started healing his face using healing Kidō. The swealing began to gradually reduce, until it completely disappeared.
Once Kai quickly re awoke he was met with the head of three people standing over him. Two of which were Shido and Hikone?? The third he did not recognise, but she appeared to have been the one to heal him.
"Hikone?? When did you join? And your wearing the boys uniform?"
Shido laughed at him as he said, "I was confused myself when I saw him. I couldn't really tell but I never bothered to ask about it."
Kai's eyes then drifted over to the girl who healed him. She was girl of slightly above average height with a fair complexion. She had large violet eyes and long, dark hair reaching down past her shoulders with strands that frame her face, tucked behind her ear on the left side, and cropped bangs that falls over her forehead.
Once he saw her, he immediately looked away while covering his face. Despite how much he tried to hide it, he was turning bright pink.
"Kai? Aren't you going to thank her?", Shido asked.
Without even looking at her, Kai muttered "Thank.. you.."
Shido began to wrestle Kai, as he tried to get him to look at her, but he adamantly fought back while refusing to do so.
"No way? Love at first sight? With Aikao?"
"Shut up!"
He locked eyes with the girl and confidently shouted, "THANK YOU!"
Then not even a millisecond later, his face completely turned red, as steam started to flush out of his ears and nose. He immediately stood up, and ran away from the group leaving behind a trail of dust.
"Where the hell is he going?", Instructor Ryu asked.
The three just shook their heads without a clue in the world.
--The end of the day
After sometime passed, the group of Kai, Shido and a new member met back up in Kai's dorm.
Kai did not know this person. They had a large build, similar to Shinten and their Spiritual Pressure was similar too. However they were much younger and lacked the dignified facial hair which Shinten had.
"Who is this guy?", Kai asked Shido.
He made a face of shock, "Can you not tell, or did you forget how to sense Spiritual Pressures? That is Shinten."
No way. Shinten used to look like a drunk father in his late 30's, but this guy was at least in the prime of his early 20's. As he tried to rationalize this, tears started to fall from his eyes.
"They took away the beard which I had cultivated for so long! That damn Shinigami women's association!!"
He got onto the floor, and started rolling around it like a toddler as he cried, while shouting,
"My manhood! MY MANHOOD!!"
While struggling to read his Seireitei bulletin collection, Ito threw one his his magazines at Shinten, getting him to shut up. His childish tantrum was disrupting him in his reading and so he wanted him to shush.
"So what happened to him?" , Kai asked.
"The female students felt uncomfortable around him because of his older appearance, so he was asked to trim his beard or get rid of it entirely, but he refused. Eventually, the complaints made its way to the Shinigami woman's association, and then one night...."
Shinten suddenly grabbed Kai by the Shoulders while still crying. Snot drizzled out of his nose, as he expressed emotions of loss.
"This sexy temptress seduced me into the dark corners of Seireitei! Before I even noticed what was going on, she tied me up with Bakudo! SHE FORCEFULYY SHAVED MY BEARED!!! SHE TOOK MY MANHOOD FROM ME!!!!"
Kai felt a little bad for him, but at the same time this new look suited him much better. I guess he was just that kind of guy?
Shido then asked Kai,
"So why were you late today? You said you got held up?"
"I was approached by a group of third years, that were interested in my Zanpakutō's. They were a crazy bunch."
Shido got a little worried for him for a brief moment. He asked if one of them were battle hungry, which Kai said yes too. In this case he was referring to Senjuro.
"Man you almost died. Those 3rd years have made a name for themselves as abnormalities! Kitagawa Haruki, is so good at Kido, that he made his own Kido spell in only his 2nd year! Yoko Shizagawa is so talented at Hakuda, that instructor Ryu started to teach her his personal fighting style, and finally Senjuro Takami is a beast of a swordsman who survived alone in Hueco Mundo for 6 months!"
"Hueco Mundo?? That Hueco Mundo filled with hollows??"
Kai had a close brush with death by encountering that group. Just thinking about how badly he would've been beaten almost made him sick. He vividly re-called the strange Spiritual Pressure which he sensed from Senjuro and concluded that it must've been because he was there so long.
"I hope that we don't have to fight them at the Tekken Event. We won't live till the end of the school year if we do."
"The Tekken Event?", Kai asked curiously.
Everyone in the room was a little flabbergasted. Kai has been incredibly clueless about the hierarchy in the school, and now he doesn't even know about it's biggest event?"
Taking pity on him, Ito answered to resolve his ignorance,
"The Tekken event is a celebration ceremony which takes place within the Seireitei once every school year. At that time, even citizens from the Rukongai can come and watch. It's meant to promote hope in the future generations other something like that."
"Okay? But what actually happens?"
"Did I not make it obvious enough? It's a fighting tournament."
The whole thing sounded cliche, but nevertheless Kai was a little interested in it. He thought about how he could get his revenge on Yuki after embarrassing him today. Being beaten in front of your peers, he was going to teach her that feeling. He could already feel the praise
Shido decided to go more in-depth on what Ito had already explained,
"The tournament will be only be 1v1's within each year. But then after that, the school picks out a random number of fan favourited students and has them fight against the other in a bracket. The winner is then given the opportunity to join one of the 13 court guard squads, regardless of what year they are in."
Suddenly a spark ignited within Kai. This was his ticket to get promoted to a Soul Reaper as soon a s possible. Ito crushed those ambitions when he said very arrogantly,
"Don't get your hopes up. You still need to beat monsters like Yuki and me if you event want a chance."
"Yuki is understandable, but you?? Even Hoshino could take you out in a couple minutes."
"I'll have you know that I'm no push over. I just happen to have discovered my inner talent for Hakuda recently. When the tournament arrives in 3 months, I'm going to climb to the top of this school, and then even further beyond!"
Kai laughed at Ito for his arrogance, but that didn't seem to change his mind. Shinten then gave a helpful suggestion,
"I heard that the lieutenant of squad 11 opened up a dojo recently around here. How about we go visit it sometime soon?"
Everyone except for Ito unanimously agreed to head there for tomorrow.