It had seemed like mere minutes since Haruka had fallen asleep when she heard a commotion within the room. She opened her eyes and sat up to face a girl slightly younger than herself, with rather...impressive breasts.

“...Who are you... and were you talking with a hollow just now...? Nah.. that can't be right.” She said, still pretty groggy. Then she stopped and thought for a second. Wait, what’s going on...? Oh right shinigami academy....

She looked back at the girl as she began to speak. Haruka took a moment to study the girl, ignoring what she was saying for the time being. She had black hair with the occasional gray streak, and green eyes. Well, a green eye as one of her eyes was covered by an old looking eye patch. Haruka focused on the green eye and caught part of what the girl was saying.

“-talking about my sister.”

Sister? There’s only one person sitting here.... Haruka thought.

“Your sister? Where is she? I don't see her anywhere.” Haruka skeptically eyed the rest of the room.

“I'm right here, dumbass.” The girl, whose name she had missed, moved the eyepatch to the other side, revealing a much more intimidating gold one.

Haruka was shocked at first. She allowed her eyes to widen for a second in fear before regaining her composure and analyzing the situation.

The share the same body...she realized. I've never seen this before, and Rukongai’s got some weird things....

Then Haruka realized she had been called a dumbass.

“I”m not a dumbass, idiot.”

”And I'm not an idiot, bitch.”

“And I'm not a bitch, whore.”

“I'm not a whore, damnit! Take that back!”

“How about you take back calling me a bitch, first?”

“Not a damn chance!”

”Heh, you really are a whore.” She opened her mouth to say more when Satine walked out of the bathroom in a towel.

“Ah, that was such a nice shower....Haruka you should really take-”

“Shut up!!” the two other girls yelled in unison.

That was when Satine saw the newcomer. “HOLLOW!” she screeched really, really, loudly.

“Dammit, don’t scream so fucking loud! You want me to kill you?!”

“Oh my god, no! I’m so, so, so, so sorry!” Satine began to pace. “I-I just...”


The “hollow girl” sighed and moved the eyepatch over to reveal the green eye.

“Um, excuse me miss?”

Satine turned to look at the girl. Realizing that she wasn’t a hollow anymore she jumped about five feet into the air. Unfortunately this caused her towel to slip down a bit, revealing part of her chest. Her eyes widened further, and her face turned bright red.

“Satine, just go back into the bathroom,” Haruka said calmly.

“Uh-huh,” Satine squeaked and hurried back into the bathroom.

“Sheesh!”

The “hollow girl” was back.

“Hey shithead, I never caught your name.” Haruka said.

“Tch, Shino. Sendo Shino.”

“Hmph.”

Haruka lay back down on the bed and closed her eyes. Hm....I better not let this girl get to me. I’ve got my fist day of training tomorrow after all....And with that she-

“Yo asswipe! What about your name?”

“Call me master.” Haruka mumbled before dropping off to sleep.

“Asswipe it is then.”

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It was early next day that the students were awoken. A loud, melodic bell resonated throughout the building signaling the students to wake up. Of course, none of the newcomers woke up readily. Most just rolled over, shoved a pillow over their ear and went back to sleep. So, one of the upperclassmen was sent to search through each room to make sure everyone was awake. She was not as melodic as the bell.

“Up!” said a shrill voice.


“Uhn....It’s not even light out!” Haruka complained.

She opened her eyes to see a plain looking woman with braided brown hair. “I recommend to tie your hair up in some way so it stays out of your way,” the woman continued disdainfully, looking pointedly at Haruka’s long black and red hair.

Satine and Shino were waking up now, with Shino complaining about how “fucked up” the whole situation was. Once they were in a sitting position the upperclassman who had come to wake them seemed satisfied and left.

Haruka was the first one out of bed. She quickly threw on one of the uniforms, and then went to stand in front of the mirror.

How to tie it up...

She began fiddling with various hair styles, but none seemed right.

“ Vain, ” Shino sneered as she walked into the bathroom.

“Yeah whatever,” Haruka sighed as she finished tying her hair into two loose pigtails. “There,” she said satisfied.

‘ Yeah, nice PIGtails, freak. ”

“None of your concern, slut.”

And with that, Haruka made her way into the hall. It was bright there, with various lights lining the ceilings. Haruka looked down at the uniform she was wearing. She could see it better now that she was out under these lights.

It's white and...bright red! It wasn’t that Haruka disliked red, but she disliked things that looked too happy. And this uniform...definitely looked happy.

! I CANNOT let people see me in this! she moaned to herself. But it was too late. Her feet were already working against her will, carrying her further from her room and to the training room before she was late.