new friends

(*fun fact, this was what chapter four was supposed to be about but it got deleted so I had to change things up)

It's been three days since I last fought those shinigami, during these short few days a lot has happened, first I needed to train to hide my spiritual energy and after an hour it worked, and now I didn't have to worry about any shinigami being suspicious about me again, or at least for now.

I've tried learning different techniques, but I still couldn't do anything with a sword (he took the dead shinigami sword) it was as if swords hated me and wouldn't follow my movement, I even somehow managed to get cut a lot of times from trying simple moves luckily they healed after a few minutes, so sadly no progress was made on using a sword, but in utilizing reishi it was as simple as breathing, although the bleach was where I currently was at I wanted to try a lot of Narutō abilities I remembered to make, into kidou like abilities since most of the bleach ones were unique to one person and I wouldn't be able to use it, although some worked and some didn't, I was able to make

Reishi shurikens, which were just me throwing reishi attacks that were shaped like shurikens,

And Reishi strings were my favorite. I just created a long string of multiple reishi through my fingers and made it as hard as possible. It could easily cut through trees. It took me hours to create.

Those were the main ones that were successful the others were still a work in progress, I tried creating a Chidori version of reishi, but I wasn't able to convert reishi into electricity, I knew it was possible because in the anime it was shown that Certain members of the Wandenreich possessed the ability to produce blue flames composed of condensed Reishi, but sadly it seemed like I didn't have enough of an understanding of reishi to creating lighting or any other elements, I decided that I was going to try again after entering the academy.

One big thing that happened to me was I met a girl on the second day, she was older than I was in this new body I looked to be 11, but she was probably 15 the age I died, she had short black hair and dark eyes she was way taller than me who was only 5,0; she seemed to be a good 5,6 which was tall for a girl

she accidentally bumped into me while running with a basket on her head, I helped her clean it up, but she kind of forced me to help her carry it home, although I wasn't a pushover I still did it because I didn't have anything better to do besides training when we arrived at her home her dad was waiting outside and seemed to be stressing out until he saw her

She quickly handed him the basket as an old man walked in and paid using some olden copper coins with holes in them for the basket that was filled with clothes. It seemed they were some sort of tailors (endless drip).

After the old man left, the daughter and dad duo started speaking about fabrics and some clothes that I didn't understand until finally, they looked my way and the daughter said,

"oh yeah, she's someone I met on my way here,"

5her dad told us to come inside, I followed suit they led me towards their small but humble house which was only one story tall but in good condition when I got inside it was a very spacious place, daughter and dad sat down so I did the same

" my name is Jericho, and this is my dad, but you can call him Louis "

before I introduced myself, I thought to myself 'should I use a different name since this I am a different person, or should I keep Ryo' I decided to say

"my name is Ryō I just got here a few days ago "

Louis answered, "you must be a new soul"

"Yes, I still don't know much about this place at all"

After a few more minutes of conversation, Jericho convinced her dad to let me stay with them since I didn't have a place to stay or a family yet,

she even said "I always wanted a little sister" I didn't bother correcting her, when her father agreed she instantly started giving me a tour of her house, she showed me her room her father's room his office, and kitchen until finally, we settled back in her room, she was pretty hyperactive

We talked for a bit she was shocked after I clarified that I wasn't a girl and that I was a dude (femboii?) after she calmed down I decided to tell her I was going to take the test so I can join the shinigami academy she looked sad at first explaining that she took it 3 times already and she was going to try for the 3rd time again since she wanted to be able to help support her father; I decided to check her spiritual; pressure. It was honestly minuscule, but even though I knew that, I still encouraged her by saying.

"yeah, the third time is the charm. " honestly with my reserves, I could boost it up, but as I stated before, I'm not a pushover. After that, we talked for another hour.

During our talks, I learned a lot more about stuff in soul society that wasn't explained in the anime such as that most souls don't eat since barely any of them have spiritual energy (yeah it was a kind of explained), and through our talks, I also learned what some of the tests were, basically at first they were put in a line outside of a big tent than when they reached inside they were made and told to hold a crystal ball and if it turned

Bright blue that meant they passed, but hers was only a small dim, so she and a lot of others failed

She didn't know about any of the other tests, but she heard there was a written one too so I was at a loss for the other ones but at least I now knew the first one and a clue to the second after that she quickly fell asleep, on the last third day I spent my time helping the family in its chores and cleaning although during the early morning and late-night I would sneak out to train

Finally, today was the day I woke up extra early. It was time for me to take the recruitment exam... TO BE CONTINUED.