"Miss Esposito," she continued to stare out of the window,"Would you please read the last paragraph."

Hana took a moment to look away from the window and turned to her teacher in front of the classroom. She easily ignored the giggles and stares she was getting from other classmates.

"No." Hana ignored the hushed murmurs coming from around the classroom.

"She's so stuck up."

"Does she think she's so much better than everyone else?"

"I bet she's never even had a boyfriend before."

She turned back around to look out the window She could careless about the puny insects around her. None of them were even worthy to be acknowledged by her. The only thing she really cared about were the beautiful Sakura Blossoms growing outside her window. Hana placed her elbow on her desk and rested her chin in the palm of her hand as she watched every detail outside.

The spring breeze blew through the branches in the trees outside her window. The Sakura Blossoms fell from their branch and slowly fell to the ground in graceful manner. She would love to walk under a bridge way of Sakura Blossom trees and watch as the window blew and let lots of Sakura Blossoms fall on top of her.

Hana felt relief wash through her when the bell rang for the release of all students. She didn't feel like going to after school Karate and Judo practice. She would just ditch. She was feeling rather docile and preferred to go home and relax. She began to gather her belongings and a fast yet fashionable manner. She didn't bother to look at the girl who stood next to her.

"Hana," she sighed,"You really need to participate more in class." Hana moved past the girl and began walking to the door and down the hall. Of course she followed.

"If you don't your grades will fall." Hana gave her a small smile.

"My grades are fine Rina." Hana opened her locker and ignored the letter that slipped out as she reached for her shoes. Rina Ishikawa was a friend of hers she had met a year ago. Hana had protected her from a man who was trying to sexual harass her on the train on her way to school. Ever since then Rina had stuck to Hana's side like she was glued there.

"What's that?" Hana closed her locker once everything was out and unaware of the fact that Rina had taken the letter from the ground.

"It a threat letter," she yawned. She heard Rina gasp and then a sound of ripping. She had opened it.

"Hana this person is threatening to kill you!" Hana turned her very naïve friend and took the letter from her hands.

"Don't be stupid," Hana said as she tore it to pieces and put it back inside of Rina's hands,"No one is going to kill me."

Hana began to walk out of the school doors and out of the school gate with Rina still behind her.

"Hana I wish you would take things more seriously." Hana began to tune the girl out as she began to go on and on about people and their dangers. She loved nature. Nature was so peaceful and it always made her calm.

She could get lost in thought and just breath. She sometimes wondered to herself if she was some sort of animal in her past life or something. She would always prefer to be outside no matter what the season or the weather.

"Voooi!" Hana jolted at the extremely loud and disturbing noise. Hana usually tried to annoy anything loud or anything that made her skin crawl. Those types of things made her twitch involuntarily. Although she regretted it she turned to the noise. It had come from under a bridge way that they always walked past on their way to school.

"Hana someone's in there," she heard Rina say as she shielded herself behind Hana. Hana began to walk away from the noise until Rina protested.

"Wait Hana what if someone needs help?!," Rina stomped at her angrily,"You can't just leave them there!"

Hana's shoulders slouched. If she had let this go on any longer Rina would never let her live it down. She could see them now. Two old ladies sitting under Sakura Blossoms in the spring and sipping tea. Then out of nowhere Rina would say, "Hey remember the time you didn't help that man who was being attacked on our way to home. He's probably dead because of you. Ah~. good times."

Hana quickly put her backpack down by a nearby tree.

"Stay here no matter what." She left Rina by the tree as well as she made her way to the scene. An old man was sitting on the ground and two men were standing in front of him. This seemed like trouble.

"Hey old man," Hana called out,"Do you need some help?" Hana ignored the glare of the two odd men in front of her. One of them had long white hair that rivaled Hana's in length, he had gray eyes, he wore a black jacket with matching black pants, and he had a long blade attached to his wrist. He seemed like a odd character. He was glaring daggers at her but the eyes that caught her attention the most were the eyes of the man next to him.

He had red eyes that were very intense. He had black hair that spiked up and he had scars on his forehead and left check. He turned to her and gave her a disgusted look. It was as if he had seen some kind of scum in front of him.

She turned her attention to the old man in front of her. He was badly beaten, bloody, and terrified. He was shivering and whimpering as he stared back at her.

"Old man answer me when I speak to you," Hana said as her voice rose in irritation She didn't like repeating herself. It was unnecessary. She sighed when he finally answered her with a wavered and weak "Yes".

"Ok," Hana said to the two men,"I'm going to ask you to leave this man alone." The long hair one looked angry and turned to her with his blade up.

"Vooooi! Who do you think-" Hana flinched and covered her ears.

"Ugh, that sound is absolutely repulsive!," she shouted at the loud man,"I would appreciate it if you stop that at once!" The man jolted and growled at her. He really was a repulsive beast.

"I'll kill you brat!," he shouted at her. She scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"Look the old man doesn't want any trouble so just leave," Truth be told she didn't want any trouble either but that's what it seemed it was going to come down to.

"You don't know anything brat! So stay-"

"Squalo..." This time the man with red eyes spoke up. He was the one she had to watch carefully. He had a gun in his hand. The gun was odd-looking though. It had a red "X" on it.

"Leave now scum, or I will kill you." Hana sighed in anger. She had never been called scum before. She had been called a lot of things by people but scum wasn't one of them. She actually felt insulted by this.

"No." Hana was a strange girl. She knew that. Some people would have already ran by now or even scared but she wasn't. She never was really scared of much. Hana watched the man hold his gun up and aimed at her. He had his finger on the trigger which meant he wasn't joking around. She smiled.

"Are you crazy brat?!" That man was awfully loud! He was becoming a nuisance.

"Hey," she chuckled,"I bet I can dodge your bullet." This brought an expression to those intense red eyes. It looked like amusement.

"You think so huh?" Hana watched an odd smirk appear on the man's face.

"A single bullet travels 9.8 meters per second each second and they are 39.36 inches in a meter. It'll be fairly easy." Hana grinned sweetly at the two men. She was starting to get excited. This was very thrilling.

"Interesting..." Under the bridge way it was very quiet. The only thing she could hear was her own accelerating heart beat and the wind. The loud man was watching, hypnotized. He too wanted to see if she could pull off such a feat. Hana kept her eyes trained on the man in front of her. She watched his finger. The moment it twitched and it moved she moved.

The bullet expelled itself through the chambers and came at her. But to her it was if it was going in slow motion. But the bullet was different. It was a bit faster and it had a sort of flame surrounding it. With swift movement Hana moved to her right and down. She hurled herself at the man with the gun and spiraled herself over him.

She used the balls of her feet to skid to a stop and ran to the man with the blade on his wrist. She grabbed him by his upper arm that supported the blade and pinned it to his back. She kicked the back of his knees and brought him to them. He grunted in pain when his knees hit the hard concrete with such force.

Hana quickly turned to the beaten man behind her and with a loud voice she wasn't comfortable with using and shouted at him.

"Leave old man!" She quickly turned her attention to the man with the gun. She listened to the man's footsteps as he ran.

Hana tossed the man she held to the ground and ignored his vulgar vocabulary. She took a few steps away from him.

"The cops are already on their way so I sugg-" Hana gasped and quickly dodged the blade that was aiming for her face.

"You fucking Brat!" She frowned at him. He was really set on killing her. Hana's eyes widened in surprise when the man's blade came at her again. This time, as she tried to dodge it again, it cut open the front of her school uniform shirt and bra. She quickly covered her chest as she bounced away from him, her back hitting the wall behind her.

"You're dead you brat. I'll kill you for sure!" The loud man brought his sword up, ready to attack her. Although that wasn't what happened. The loud man was punched in the face by the man with the gun and sent to the ground, skidding. She watched him with a look of confusion on her face. The man had turned to her and grabbed her by her already torn uniform shirt.

Hana gasped as he pulled her from the wall, turned her around, and slammed her into the wall. Hana let out a loud cry as he shoved her to the wall with such force it knocked the air from her lungs. One of his hands had kept her there and she felt unable to move.

"What the hell are you doing-" The loud man was interrupted by the man behind her. He seemed angry. Well she kind of knew why.

"Shut up!" Hana gasped when she felt him grab the back of her shirt and rip it off her body. Hana involuntarily let out a shriek of surprise. Her torso was completely exposed. She held her arms over her chest defensively.

"Is that-?"

"We can't harm this girl." Hana frowned to herself. She wasn't ungrateful for their decision but she wanted to know why.

"This brat is Esposito's daughter?!" Hana gasped and looked over her shoulder and at the men. They were staring at her back and sadly she knew why. She pushed away from the wall and the men, still holding her chest. She moved back a few feet.

"How do you know my father?" The two men continued to stare at her.

"Squalo, let's go." The man with the black hair put his gun away and began to walk away from her along with his loud companion. Soon they disappeared and she frowned. If they knew her father that was bad. Very.

"Hana!" Hana turned to her friend. She ran to her and covered Hana with her shredded top. Although she wasn't interested in her exposed chest anymore.

Who were those men?

How did they know her father?

And what did her tattoo have to do with anything.

As the wind blew Hana's hair from her back it exposed her tattoo. A dragon. And its dangerous past and secrets it held along with it.