It was a quite boring, normal day at Yasogami High School, or at least it appeared so to Yosuke and the others while they were heading to their classroom for another tedious school day.
"I may be wrong, but the others appear quite excited, don't they?" the brunette was looking at their classmates chatting with enthusiasm before yawning soundly
"Dunno, maybe there's a concert of a famous idol nearby?" answered Chie, not interested at all about those gossip things. Souji, as always, shrugged his shoulders and stayed quiet.
"Aw man, come on! Be more talkative sometimes…" complained the Junes boy after sitting at his desk
"I mean, school is boring but at least we…who is he?" asked taking a frown
The others turned to the teacher desk to see what Yosuke was talking about.
A boy, with light brown hair, brown eyes and a pair of black glasses was standing in front of the blackboard waiting for Morooka who was talking to another teacher about something
"Another transfer student?" Chie looked at him with a sort of interest
"Wow, three in a year…this is a record!" said Yukiko, also interested in the new boy who looked quite uncomfortable for all the glances that he was receiving
"Shut the hell up!" shouted Morooka, unfortunately he had finished to talk with his colleague
"Hurry up and introduce yourself!" commanded at the new boy that jolted surprised by the rudeness of the teacher
"Ehm, my name is Kayth Yuki nice to meet y…" he wasn't able to finish his introduction that Morooka started giving him his "special" welcome
"This brat comes from the city like those two" he looked disgusted at Yosuke and Souji
"And he was kicked here, in the sticks, to pollute our town… Now hurry up and take a sit! I don't want to waste any other time for you!" he yelled at the boy that nodded scared and sought with a glance an empty seat that was, unfortunately, in the first row on the left
"Poor boy, it must be traumatizing to be welcomed by Morooka" said with a sympathetic tone looking ad Kayth who was looking at his desk, fearing to meet everyone's gaze
"Totally" groaned Yosuke remembering his "special" welcome "But he'll be fine. Morooka will forget him as a new student sooner or later, right Partner?
"Mh…" muttered Souji as if it was a good answer
"Geez man, a statue is more li…"
"CLOSE YOUR TRAP HANAMURA!" yelled Morooka and tossed a piece of chalk on the brunette's head
"Now, after a waste of thirty minutes, let's start the lesson with Philosophy"
The lesson was a less boring than usual due to Morooka trying to embarrass the newcomer with tough questions, and when the bell rang for lunchtime a sense of relief spread through the class.
"Awwwwwwwwwww man! I'm hungry let's eat on the roof!" yawned Yosuke stretching his legs and arms with lazy movements
"Today I prepared a bento for everyone so let's go" Souji smiled and took up an enormous lunch box
"You are the best partner!" the drool started descending from his mouth
So they headed out the classroom but, when Yosuke was about to close the door, glanced Kayth who is all alone having his lunch with a sort of relief spread on his facial expression.
The rest of the school day flew flawless and the Investigation Team was waiting near the gate for Kanji that have no cognition of time. After several minutes he managed to arrive with his carefree attitude
"Hey Senpai" greeted them with a smile
" Hey? That's all you can say? We were waiting for you for ages!" complained the brunette with an irritate tone
"Yeah yeah I know, it's just…well never mind. Let's go!" and without waiting their answer he started walking
"Oh man, I hate him when he acts like this" muttered Yosuke but he started to walk as well.
They had almost reached the crossroad in which everyone took a different way when they noticed the newcomers was a few meters behind them. Suddenly they overheard a conversation between two passing-by old ladies
"It's him, the Yuki's son…yes, the ones who have just transferred"
"Oh, I heard that his parents work as engineers for the project of an highway near the town"
"Oh my! This is supposed to be a quiet city!"
The team looked at him, but he didn't notice it and overtook them with bowed head, his face revealed no emotion
"I was wondering if it was him" muttered Yukiko breaking the awkward silence
"The highway project is not so popular here, and it was barely accepted after a forceful fight between the locals and the enterprise interested in it"
"Actually, everything is not accepted in this damned town, if you ask me complained" Yosuke a bit upset for the extremely conservative attitude of the townies. No news is a good new. What a lame common expression that can represent exactly Inaba natives' mind
"Let's go home, we have al lot of homework to do" said Souji with the intent to change topic and this was even worse for the Junes boy who groaned and nodded resignedly.