Finals Anxiety {Solo}

[yozoraeiko]

The sound of pencils hitting the paper on wooden desks silently tapped across the room. Final exams to graduate the academy were taking place. Practical tests were first and already done. Eiko naturally did not excel but did well enough. Average in Kido, barely average in Zanjutsu and Hoho, and below average in Hakuda. Better than what Eiko ultimately expected, Eiko still needed to pass the written portion with an above average score to graduate though, which wasn't ideal, though the temperamental soul had learned to use the written portion to keep his head above water these past few years, every year he was just a taaad bit better. Just better enough to not fail the year.



Yozora Eiko rummaged his way through the answers to each and every question. Most questions had cookie cutter answers. The purpose of each division of the Gotei thirteen, the history of it and noteworthy captains and what those captains did. All answers that were simple enough to answer. Eiko felt confident he had a near perfect score on all these questions, they were only drilled into his head as he ran through them like nothing. Descriptions of Hollows, Gillians, Adhuchas, and Vasto Lorde, how hollows are born, the process of a Konso...in excruciatingly inane and redundant detail.



"Hey hey, don't make a mistake now. You can't really afford it can you? Heh heh heeeeh," the voice echoed in Eiko's head as his faced contorted and shifted, showing natural irritation and frustration, knowing he knew all these answers and that the voice had served no purpose but to torment Eiko as he went through the test. "If you weren't so pathetic you wouldn't be in this position you know," the voice echoed, as if it were a macabre shadow over his shoulder, Eiko could feel as if four eyes coming from the shadow staring back at him in the madness, it was as if a hand was on his opposite shoulder, another hand on his head forcing him to focus on the test as it mocked him like it was some sort of torture experiment. A shadowy demon nobody else could see but Eiko.



"Shut the fuck up," Eiko quietly muttered so as not to disturb anybody else or get kicked out, though a few nearby classmates looked over with concern at the quiet outburst. Eiko's eyes were wide with anger, frustration, fear, anguish, angst...stress. His pupils shivering in his eyes as he answered the next question on hell butterflies and their functions, purpose, and how to use them. The mouth near his ear chuckling as he continued through the test, testing Eiko's rapidly dwindling patience as Eiko neared the end of the test, completing a few final questions before getting up and handing it over to the instructor. "Finished Yozora-san?" the instructor overseeing the final asked? "Y-yeah. I'll excuse myself now," Eiko replied before walking out the door and closing it behind him.



Eiko walked a fair distance until he got to a quiet hallway and sat down in the corner and curled up into a ball, breathing heavily as he tried to calm himself down, the voice in his head continuing to torment him as the shinigami student rocked back and forth where nobody would see him. He'd have to wait until tomorrow for the final results. Hopefully everything went well enough. "It's not like it matters if it did, your just going to end up a meal for some ugly monstrosity," the voice in his head mocked as Eiko gritted his teeth. "I told you to shut the fuck up."

[yozoraeiko]

Eiko let out a yawn as he entered the classroom for the final time. Or at least what he hoped would be the final time. A ton of the stress and anxiety was already gone but there was always that lingering angst that lurked in the back of his head, especially with an actual voice mocking him and beating him down nearly twenty four seven. Everyone was merely stopping by to receive their final test scores and what division they would be in if they hadn't been scouted already Most were ecstatic, or at the very least relieved they had passed and graduated. There weren't many, but a few had their heads down in despair. Eiko was hoping to avoid being one of those few heads. Very few who made it to the final grade actually failed, at this point everything had been beaten into your skull that it was very difficult to actually fail unless you were physically lacking. Unfortunately, Eiko was one of those physically lacking students, and he wasn't particularly efficient in healing methods either to make up for the lack of physical ability. Getting Ds and Cs in all the physical aspects meant a top score score in the written portion was near required.


Eiko eventually got to the board where all the grades were posted and looked for his name. Once he found his name, Eiko breathed a sigh of relief as he saw his score. 13th highest score on the written test and an easy A. Definitely enough to get a grade that allowed him to pass through to becoming a shinigami. "Hooh, lucky you, you get to die eaten alive by a monster, keheheheheeeeeh," the voice in Eiko's head muttered out. For once though, Eiko kept a calm demeanor, just happy for the mental ordeal to be over as he turned around and headed towards the room where he would get his deployment information. Once he got to the desk he went through the whole formal bureaucratic spiel to get his papers. Offer his name to the woman at the desk, filling out forms, and finally getting an answer. The third division. He'd report for duty 1 week from today. With this information in tow, Eiko headed off to his dorm room to start collecting what little things he had there, before reporting to his family the news he was never going to have to deal with them again.

[Kitai Yoru]

Since you did not specify what you were going for, I will say you gain TP.

Since you wrote an odd number of paragraphs, I can only count 6 of them, since training points are given for every two paragraphs written.

30 TP awarded.