*2 Months later*
*1st PoV*
This past two months had gone in a flash. After the incident with the hollow nothing of interesting had happened. Everything had fallen back to the usual routine he had previously. The days had even become more boring as his now grandma had forbidden him from training for a whole month and he almost banged his head to the floor due having nothing to do.
"Oni-san, should you really go?" Well maybe except that he found himself having a little brother which was a new experience for him and that's saying a lot as he had lived two lives.
After the departure of Kaien. There had been a conversation which had changed the number in their small non-blood related family.
*Flashback
"Kiba-kun, why don't you greet your saviour?" Mikasa urged the little boy which I now knew to be named Kiba.Then Kiba stepped up.
"Thank you for saving me Uchiha-dono." Kiba said timidly while bowing his head. Looking at the child Infront of me. I could not help myself but to smile as I knew that even though I almost died fighting a superior opponent it was all worth it at the end.
"Don't worry kiddo. I could not leave you to be the hollow's meal when I could do something." I replied to him with a smile to alleviate his worries.
"but nevertheless I am very proud of your actions today kaito-kun." Mikasa said with a smile as she was happy that her pseudo grandson had performed such an admirable action.
After those words there was a comfortable silence which settled between the three souls as I pondered on the events that happened today.
" Kaito-kun, I almost forgot to tell you that Kiba-kun will be staying here with us." Mikasa removed me from my previous thoughts as I turned my eyes towards Mikasa and Kiba with a raised eyebrow in curiosity.
"Do you have a problem with that kaito-kun?" Mikasa said with a smile that I had only seen on some moms face that practically said ' object to this and see yourself suffer the consequences'.
"No I am good with that." I quickly replied while raising my hands in a surrendering manner pondering how I could stand to fight a hollow but was unable to argue with an old woman.
"Good. Be a good older brother and help Kiba-kun to adjust in this house." Mikasa said after she narrowed her eyes towards me as if searching for something.
*End of Flashback
Ever since that day me and Kiba had helped Mikasa in the stand which had facilitated her work with another person to help.
I was also doing this to teach Kiba how to properly handle the fruit stand as he will be the only person who will remain here with Mikasa as I would leave to go attend the shinigami academy.
"Yes, I am going to attend the academy in order to become a shinigami so that I can afford to bring you and obāchan to the seireitei." I said with a smile as I ruffled my pseudo little brother's hair.
While my main objective was to become strong enough to be able to face future threats. I had also thought of another goal to help me in my quest for power.
I had grown also fond of Kiba in this two month as the boy looked up to me as an older brother and I did not want to dissapoint those expectations. That's partly why I wanted to go to seireitei to build my reputation and power. So that I can afford to bring my close ones (Mikasa and Kiba) to a more safer rukongai districts and for them to live happy lives.
"Don't worry otōto. When I finish my studies at he academy I will come to visit you." I said while putting on my most comforting smile to ease the now depressed child.
"Good because if you don't come to visit us. I will personally come to seireitei to give you a proper slap for breaking a promise." Mikasa came from the inside of the hut with a smie but he knew not to trust that smile as he could feel a shiver ran up to his spine at the 'gentle' threat.
Kiba must have felt him shiver as he quickly covered his mouth to hide a little smile which led to him glaring at him mockingly for laughing at his expense.
"At least the brat is happy." He thought to himself as Kiba had been depressed for a few days since the time for his leave was fast approaching.
"Anyways I wish for you a safe journey to the seirietei." Mikasa said now with a far more gentle smile. I proceeded to hug her which prompted Kiba to also join in.
"Wish for you a safe stay and otōto help obāchan in her work and continue to train regularly." I said as I was separating from the family hug. After I was allowed to train by Mikasa, she had forced me to take Kiba with me to go train. This had led to me teaching Kiba about reiryoku even though Kiba had normal amount for a rukongai soul so it was unknown if he could be a shinigami or not but I had trained with him.
*3 weeks later*
I was happy that I had taken the initiative to go a month earlier to the academy as it was a very long journey from my former district to the 1st district. Of course I did not just go without taking a break. I would travel for the whole day and stop when it was dark where I would sleep and rest wherever he arrived.
During the trip I had time to clearly think on the events that surrounded his situation. Even though 11 months had already passed. It was still hard to accept a reality that I was reborn in a fictional world.
Of course as someone who was your average teen and who viewed anime. Some part of me was glad that I was reincarnated in a fictional world with the ability to wield supernatural powers and more so with meta knowledge of the future.
However, the more rational part of my mind however stopped me from fully enjoying this situation. I wondered which omnipotent being thought of thrusting me into a world where one of the most perfect anime villain existed without even a single ounce of advantages.
I always hated reading about those gamer systems stories due to them having an easy way of gaining power and safety or they even started their lives with op wishes but now my hatred was amplified due to my jealousy towards those systems. Atleast they knew their purpose from the start of their lives but I was stuck with guessing the purpose of my rebirth.
I was pesonally theorising that may be it was the one named the soul king. I wished that I had read the manga as I had only watched the anime. I knew that the soul king was someone whom Aizen wanted to overthrow and was some kind of divine king to bleach world who was responsible for governing the placement of souls in the bleach universe.
I thought that maybe he had picked me from my own world into this bleach world. This was impossible as it would seem that I was some sort of prophetic individual with some divine purpose which would have me atleast being born with some kind of advantage such as being born in a Noble family or with a strong spiritual pressure but I was born as a commoner.
The other theory was perhaps this was the proper afterlife of my world and I was not aware of it but it was heavily debunked through the fact that someone had wrote a manga which explained the world building of the afterlife and they (soul society) had allowed it to be released publically as in the manga they wanted to keep themselves hidden.
So therefore I had passed the last three weeks of my life doing absolutely nothing other than debating with myself theories of my reincarnation which led to I had concluded that whatever method of my reincarnation should be put aside for now and I should train and search for a way to gain power as I was in no hurry to get back with almost no precious in my previous life.
One thing was certain though I would never air out my situation of coming from another to anyone of this world as that was the best way to properly say 'I am crazy beyond repair so kill me or I am the perfect guinea-pig to dissect in order to gain knowledge from the future'.
The only way I would be using my meta knowlege would be to navigate through any obstacle that the bleach world would throw at me. I will not even be playing the hero as I knew one false move and I am finding myself being tortured for information or maybe killed and I wanted to atleast enjoy this dangerous second life.
I stopped my running as I arrived in pathway with many properly arranged houses on the left and right sides of a pathway. The houses were made of stones and wood.
This houses looked like to be properly taken care of as their paint was a proper cream colour and there were little to no scratches compared to the other district he had been.
I walked the pathway while observing all of this and I could see people who were wearing proper and clean clothes.
It took almost an hour to arrive in what appeared to be a zone of marketing which had restaurants and some sort of hotels. Atleast it was not like the 4th district where you could see brothels in broad daylight as though it was the most normal thing.
I entered one of the restaurant and sat on a table in the cornel.
A waiter came to me and asked, " What will be your order, sir ?" The waiter looked unaffected by my poor clothes compared to the other clients. This was a little of a suprise for me as I had been getting a lot of his stares from the other souls.
I looked at the menu which was attached at the table and quickly scanning through and I saw something which he knew was addiction to someone else. I wanted to taste and see if the hype was for real and it was affordable.
Mikasa had given me some pocket change in order to use on my journey and I had barely used it due to not wanting to waste time on the road and to arrive on time for the entrance of the exam.
"I want 2 bowls of instant ramen noodles." I said while holding up 2 fingers to indicate the number of bowls.
"Of course sir." The waiter nodded while writing down on a small waiter then turned around and left.
This left me sitting there awkwardly as I waited for my meal to be prepared. That's when 3 young men of average build wearing normal kimono walked in (Average let them be called random 1, random 2 and random 3) in the restaurant.
"Hey, I heard that you will be participating in the entrance exam of this year again?" Random 1 said to random 2 as they took a table which was beside his.
I perked up when hearing about the accurate time of the exam as Kaien had only left me with a timeframe. I wanted to hear if they were more to the exam than what I knew.
"Yes, this will be my third trial and last if I do not pass I will not be able to enter the seirietei." Random 2 answered the previous question with a sober expression.
"Do not worry [random 2's name, you have improved your spiritual power from the last year surely this will be your year and I heard that if you pass that part of the exam the other parts are nowhere near as challengingas the first." The random 3 assured random 2 with an encouraging smile.
"Well I hope the training I put in was worth it." Random 2 said with his sober expression vanishing replaced by one of those protagonist grin with his full sets of teeth out.
I turned around as I saw the waiter coming towards me with my order as I processed the information he had just acquired. Atleast now I knew that the exam was tomorrow morning.
"Here is your order, sir." The waiter said as he placed the 2 bowls of ramen on my table and they were smoking showing that they were hot as needed.
I tuned down the conversation as now I knew that the exam was tomorrow morning.
I took the two chopsticks and separated them and started feasting on tthe ramen. It only took me about 5-7 minutes and I was done. After I was done the waiter came to clear the table.
"Thanks for the delicious food." I thanked the waiter as I gave him the money. I proceeded to walk out of the restaurant to find out a place to stay as the exams were tomorrow and it was getting dark.
*Hours later*
After hours of walking through the district I had been able to identify a sort of hotel which was at an affordable price.
It was a small building with 5 rooms which were rentable to a small price and I had taken one of the rooms for myself.
*In the morning *
*knock
*knock
"Ahhh keep it down. I am coming." I groggily woke up to the loud sound.
"I forgot how fucking annoying landlords are." I had rented a house in the 1st district for a night and even paid now the landlord wanted me due to my time in the house being over.
I opened the door while trying to adopt a smile but it came out as a strained one.
"Good morning to you too landlord." I said to the landlord failing to keep my sarcasm off my tongue.
"The time has come so off you go." The landlord screamed in my face and I felt disgusted by the smell of alcohol.
"Damn I knew hygiene was a problem here in Rukongai but this guy took it to a new level." The landlord appeared to be a male in his late 40's with an almost bold but his was still hanging on the few strands of hair he was remaining with.
The guy was completely wasted as it appeared he was even swaying while standing up.
" What are you waiting for, get out of my house?" He continued screaming in my face and I felt myself become annoyed but I quickly suppressed my annoyance. Atleast by the end of the day I won't be dealing with a problem like this.
"Tch." I stepped back into the house as I slammed the door shut.
*knock
*knock
Was it alright to lock out the owner of the house? No. But that's what he got for waking me up early and screaming in my face. Screw me if I was moody, no one would be happy after being woken up so early a drunk screaming in your face.
Of course I did not have anythung as I knew that at the academy we will be given everything. This was just to spite the landlord by making him wait for atleast ten minutes.
"Open up."
*Boom
After what felt like ten minutes of the landlord demanding that I open up, the knocking had turning into loud banging to the door. I was wondering why the landlord hadn't tried to forcibly open the door but he thought that he wasn't capable of repairing it.
"Oh well time for phase two of pettiness." I approached the door and kept it quiet. The moment the landlord was going to bang on the door and I opened the door forcibly while I step sideways evading the falling body which fell forward to the floor.
Never in my entire life (and afterlife) had I felt extremely proud for doing something so petty.
* Hours later *
I found myself gathered in large crowd which was standing infront a large gate and wall which stood at an absurd level of height. After I had left the rented house I had gone to a nearby river and washed my face.
That's when I had comeback in the district to find a large crowd of people walking towards the same place and I knew immediately that they were gathering where the exam would take place.
I could observe that the crowd was made of large variety of people of different age group from young teens to people who looked like they were in their early 30's.
"...Bakudō #77: Tenteikūra. Attention everyone. I am 10th seat Ken Inosuke from the 7th Division. I will be the one to supervise this year exam and this is Danzōmaru the gatekeeper of the north gate."
A man wearing a normal shinigami shikahusho appearing to be in his late 20's with an average build with short maroon hair and blue eyes voiced over the crowd as he pointed towards very large man, easily towering above most Shinigami. He has light bushy eyebrows and his head is shaven bar a patch in the centre where his hair is dyed in an alternating pattern of light and dark.
"How is he able to project his voice over a crowd this large?" He was left asking himself but further observation he saw the bizzare tattos which were running across the shorter shinigami's forearm and he remembered the kidō that the lieutenant of the 4th division had utilized while informing wveryone of Aizen betrayal.
"In this year we are going to be using different examination parts different from the previous years as before you had to enter the seireitei and you would take the exam at the Shino'o Academy but now..." He turned to the other taller shinigami and nodded.
The gatekeeper then proceeded to lift the large gate with visible struggle but not much. After the gate was raised above for atleast a 7 ft guy to pass through with no problem Ken turned towards the gathered wannabe shinigami and his body glowed a light blue colour.
At that moment a pressure never felt before slammed on my shoulders equal to perhaps 5 times the normal gravitational force and I felt my legs buckle to almost fall on my ass but I steeled my nerve and gathered myself to put in action a trick I had fallen on when I was training my reiryoku.
By gathering some reiryoku and properly distributing it around my body and expelling it from my body using some imaginary poles. I could exert some sort of pressure on the environment. I had done it while trying to recreate the reiatsu effect of bleach characters.
"...This is the first part of the exam anyone who will pass through this gate within the next 30 minutes will be qualified to take on the other 2 parts of the exam." The examiner said with a little smirk as he was observing every individual but his eyes lingered on me for a moment.
*3rd PoV*
Ken was a successful shinigami who had risen from rukongai and trained his ass off to achieve the rank of 10th seat. He was satisfied with the life he had as he got paid pretty well and he was due to a promotion soon as he had mastered his shikai to new levels.
Not only that but he was about to marry a beautifull girl, daughter of a noble family. No matter the low rank of the house but he was about to gain more wealth to his name.
So all in all he was happy with his effort. Even though he was given this mission of evaluating this year's entrance exam, he was expecting a boring day but he was pleasantly surprised to see someone from the Rukongai able to harness reiryoku and exert reiatsu to counter his reiatsu as only the scions of Noble family were taught this trick before entering the academy. Of course he was not using all of his reiatsu as he had lowered it down to a 4th year student to allow only promising student to pass.
The boy who looked to be in his late teens standing at 5' 7-6" with black hair reaching his shoulder and purple eyes. The boy was exerting a reiatsu almost equal to his.
This was a great suprise as he knew that the boy was special immediately as everyone around him had fallen down or were unable to even move and he doubted that he himself could have succeded if it was their exam in his course this test was not simply a test for amount of reiryoku but also willpower to continue on no matter the odds.
*1st PoV*
I felt myself regain the ability to walk after I had expelled almost all of my reiatsu. Then I moved forward past everyone and I could feel the suprised gaze of the two shinigami at the gate more so for the gatekeeper.
I passed by the gate feeling relieved that I could not feel the pressure again. Looking back I could see that the pthers were still struggling but some had stood up showing that they would maybe pass.
I walked towards the desk which was placed in the middle of clearing of pavement designs. Behind the desk, a female shinigami appearing to be in her mid 30's with straight dark blue hair and black eyes wearing your normal shikahushō.
"Your have already finished?" She asked me with suprise as she was scrutinizing my form. I shrugged as I played it off as though it was nothing. I saw that the girl was a beauty who could pass of as a model in my past life with the face card she had and I wanted to leave a good first impression as it mattered heavily.
"Yes." I said with a bored as I could trying to make it nonchalant as I could.
"Confident are we huh?" She said as her suprised face changed into a small smirk. I smirked right back at her.
"Write your name on this paper." She said as she handed me a piece of paper with a pen and I wondered how they had pen in the afterlife while living in what appeared to be ancient Japan but nonetheless I shrugged it off.
I took the pen and wrote my name on the piece of paper as she took a transparent globe and placed it infront of me. I gave her the piece of paper after writing my name.
She tore a piece of paper from the large paper and wrote and pass behind. She gave it to me and pointed towards the large opened gate with the kanji for shino'o Academy on a white cardboard on top of the gate.
"Go towards that gate and they will receive you." She said to me and I took the paper while nodding my head.
I walked towards the large gate and passed through to see a different view.
To be continued...