Reapers Academy

[Kyo and his friends are hanging out near a busy street, skipping school. They're egging him on to do something dumb, laughing.]

Friend 1:

"Come on, Kyo! Bet you can't cross the street blindfolded!"

Friend 2:

"Yeah, or are you chicken?"

Kyo:, grinning, totally unimpressed

"Oh, please, you guys are weak! I did crazier stuff in my sleep. Watch this."

He snatches a scarf, wraps it around his head, and steps out into the street with an air of indifference.

Friend 1:

"Dude, you're nuts!"

Laughs resound across the two.

[Suddenly, Kyo is sidetracked by a stray cat darting across the road. He falters, turning toward the commotion; then, a deafening horn sounds.]

Truck Driver:

"MOVE!"

Sound of screeching tires, a split second of mayhem.

Kyo (looking up at last, his eyes wide with surprise):

".Wha-?"

[The impact happens. The screen goes black. Silence.]

[Scene: Kyo finds himself in a foggy limbo, groggy. He looks around confusedly.]

Kyo (groggily, rubbing his head):

"Ugh, where… am I? Was that… a truck?"

[A figure draped in a black robe, the reaper of death, appears before him, holding a scroll.]

Reaper:

"Takahashi Kyo. You died."

Kyo (blinking, then laughing as if it were some kind of joke):

"Hah! You're funny, motions to himself, but I wont die until I have se- Wait… you're serious,, I mean, I'm standing here, talking, aren't I?"

Reaper (deadpan, completely serious):

"You are dead. But congratulations. You've been accepted into Reaper Academy."

(The reaper extends the scroll to Kyo, who stares at it blankly.)

Kyo (snatching the scroll, half-irate):

"Reaper Academy? Sounds like a bad dream. Look, I don't know what this is, but I think you've got the wrong guy. I've got, like, zero interest in school. Especially a death school or whatever."

Reaper: (unfazed, ignoring Kyo's protests)

"You have no choice. You either become a reaper-in-training, or… well, the other option is to be sent to the Abyss."

(Points ominously at a swirling dark vortex in the distance.)

Kyo: Stops, looks back at the vortex and then back at the reaper, finally catching on,

"Wait… you're serious, aren't you? I… I really died?!"

Reaper: Cold but with just a tint of a smirk in the tone:

"It happens."

Turns to leave, but stops for a brief moment.

"You'd better prepare yourself, Takahashi Kyo. Reaper Academy is… chaotic."

Kyo: To himself, mumbling,

"Chaotic? Great. Just what I needed… I can't even catch a break when I'm dead!"

Kyo unwillingly tailed the reaper to the Academy, the towering gates of which he could already perceive a long ways away.