"Damn, damn, damn."
I continued to mutter to myself as I stomped up the stairs from the basement.
"Eleventh squad morons...always making a damn mess..."
I sat down on front of the TV, guzzling the soda in my hand, finally able to rest after cleaning up the downstairs. Eleventh squad always made a ruckus. At least this time, the prettyboy fifth-seat had been there to keep a lid on things. Weird as he was, he was probably the only tidy one in the bunch.
Oop, maybe I ought to explain. I'm a student, living alone, and when I'm not dealing with the troubles of this world, I'm wrapped up in the troubles of the other one.
'Cause I've got Shinigami in my basement.
Not on a permanent basis, mind you. They just camp out down there when they're around town and need a place to crash, usually after a fight, or when a group of academy students are sent live side for a training session.
Okay, maybe I should start from the very beginning. One day, walking home, an abandoned building comes crashing down when I'm walking by. No big deal, right? Wrong. It's fuzzy as hell, but I can see something huge stomping around through the smoke, and several smaller fuzzy things running around it. I ask the guy next to me, but he doesn't see anything, and doesn't seem to hear anything when it lets out a roar. So, thinking it's just a serious lack of sleep, I almost turn and walk away when the smaller blobs start to move past me. Mind you, obliging insanity isn't on my to do list, but neither is ignoring something that's staring at me right in my face. So I follow them for a minute, trying to focus on them and failing miserably. As soon as I turn a corner and no-ones around, I walk up to the lead blob and swing my arm at it. You can imagine my surprise when I hit something solid. Turns out to be Madarame Ikkaku, 3rd officer in the eleventh squad of the Gotei-13. After a very strange conversation in my living room, and getting a bit of extra Reiatsu transfered into me to help me see them better, the shinigami of the 11th squad, combat specialists, went and crashed in my basement after a long, hard day of killing hollows. Weird, huh?
Since for whatever reason, I had more spiritual potential in me than the average human, and my contact with the shinigami was awakening it further, I was now 'on the radar' so to speak, when it came to hollows. Apparently, they like to eat the souls of people like me. Swell. So, I made a deal with them. They would show me how to develop and use my power to defend myself, and in exchange, whenever any shinigami that were in the city needed a place to rest, they just knocked on my door, and anyone passing by would see me open my door, say hi to empty air, stand aside for a few moments, then close the door.
Follow me so far? Good.
Before I can get to bed, the doorbell rings. Not the regular doorbell, the one the shinigami had installed that only they or someone with a lot of spiritual power can see and touch. So I tromp downstairs, open the door, and in an instant a ball of energy is formed and almost on it's way before I look past the skull motif and see the robes of a death god.
"Sorry. Though you were a hollow for a sec. Hey, cute hat."
The man only sneers at me and brushes past, the kanji for '12' on the back of a white coat. A girl, damn cute, follows behind, another '12' on an armband she's wearing. She bows and thanks me for my hospitality before an irate voice tells her to stop dawdling and hurry up. I bow and smile to her in turn before finally heading upstairs for some well-earned sleep. If I recall correctly, 12th squad was the research division. Even with the extra soundproofing I had put in when I had the basement refurbished, I don't really care what division is downstairs, just as long as they're quiet.
Tomorrow is a school day after all.
To those it may concern, while the first chapter does feel kinda one-shotty if you want to stop reading here, I feel I can have alot of fun with this. It will be a semi OC/self-inself/drabbly...thingy. Basically, it will follow the bleach storyline, but will be only connected by reference to the main storyline, more or less my own little corner of the bleach universe.