Author's Note: I decided to start a new story I had in my head. Don't worry! I'm not abandoning the other one! Have fun reading and I hope you enjoy! By the way, I like the idea of the Royal Princess. So I'll be writing with her a lot. And just a heads up, this is when Hitsugaya enters the Shin'o Academy. Tee-hee! By the way, I edited this a few days after i posted it. Sorry!
~PotaotesRule
I remember that girl I met. So many years ago. Why had I run away? It's all my fault she's gone and I know it. I was in love wasn't I?
I look at the names of the accepted students for the Shin'o Academy. As I make my way through the crowds of tall souls, I hear my name being whispered.
"Hey, who's this Hitsugaya guy? He must be big and strong."
"Yeah, I wish I were him. He got a perfect score!"
T-Top score? What? People back away from me as I get closer to the board. I'm used to it. In my district, I was all alone. Nobody would talk to me and they would shy away. Except Bed-Wetter Momo.
Anyways, I get to the board and the crowd is two feet away from me. it's like I'm in a bubble and they can't get inside the bubble. I ignore them as I point to find my name. I'm next to the one. I'm at the top. Along with someone else.
Her name is Kashikoi Kimiko. Or KK.
Hehe.
No.
I hear a rumbling sound. I see a Royal Carriage and a young girl, about my my age, steps out. All the people starts to whisper and as she passes, they bow. She comes by me and I bow. Who is she? Is she the Royal Princess?
She looks at the board and points to a name at the top. Kashikoi Kimiko. She smiles and waves off her servants that drive the carriage. She smiles at me.
A voice booms over the crowd, saying, "Please head to the main building for the orientation."
I rapidly blurt out, "Pleasure to be in your acquaintance young Princess."
She looks at me and starts to head off. I scurry off as well and I see people trying to make friends with her. She stays silent and they continue to talk to her with honorifics, trying to brag about how good they are. Why is she not accompanied by guards? If she will become the Queen of the Souls then she must be prevented from getting hurt! She must have hated it and denied them the right.
Sigh.
I reach the large room with many seats. I still see the Royal Princess being crowded and her followers bowing. She seem to be annoyed.
"Would everyone please sit down? No moving seats after I sit!" she says.
All the students surrounding her sit. I sit in the middle of the middle section (the seats are divided into three groups: right, left, middle.) Everybody avoids me and try to it in the right or left. Only a few are sitting in the middle section but they are far away, purposely avoiding me. Why are they so afraid of me? I glance around.
Once everyone is seated, the Royal Princess decides where to sit. She starts to come up the row, toward me. What? Her beautiful kimono is filled with vibrant flowers and butterflies. It seems that I can touch them as they flutter away. She has the blackest hair I have ever seen and I as I look at it, I feel as if I'm falling into a deep chasm. She sits and puts out her hand. i shake it
"Hello, I am Kashikoi Kimiko," she introduces with a smooth voice.
"I-I'm Hitsugaya T-Toshiro," I stutter.
"Oh! So are you the one who had excelled in the entrance exam?"
"Yes, Royal Princess."
"No, call me Kimiko. What shall I call you?"
"Y-You can call me T-Toshiro."
I glance into her eyes. They are electric blue. I feel that they are alive.
"Why does everyone not sit near you?" she asks.
"I-I don't know, Kimiko-sama."
"It's Kimiko, okay?"
"Y-Yes, Kimiko."
"Good."
"I-I t-think t-that they are scared of m-me."
"Would you stop stuttering? I am just a soul, as you are. Our values are the same. My life is worth the same as yours. My status and position are higher, but that doesn't mean I'm more important."
"Yes, Kimiko."
"Thanks. So why are they afraid of you?"
"I don't know. Maybe because of my silver hair. Or my blue eyes. Or maybe it's my distant attitude."
"I love the color of your eyes and your hair. It makes you stand out. My hair and eyes are bland," she sighs.
"Your hair is the blackest, richest color I have ever seen. And your eyes seem as if they're alive."
I blush and she smiles.
"Thank you."
The orientation begins and we listen. Well... she listens. I don't. It's like blah, blah, blah.
"Hitsugaya Toshiro and Kashikoi Kimiko, please come up," the announcer calls.
Kimiko grabs my hand to leave. We go up to the stage and they hand us the standard white uniform. Kimiko's has red lining and mine has blue. They hand us a black card.
"This is the card to your dorm. Because of the numbers of student attending, we decided to put the two of you into the same dorm, although you are opposite genders. You are young enough not to 'try' anything."
"Try" anything?
"Kashikoi Kimiko, the Royal Princess, if you have any complaints, we will see to it. Thank you for blessing us with your presence."
"It is my pleasure," Kimiko says.
"You may head off to your dorm. You have been selected into the Special Accelerated Program, also known as Class 1, due to your scores on the entrance exam," the man states.
"Thank you," I say.
He gives me a stern look and begins to walk away. I can hear him muttering "my pleasure," but clearly, he is not pleased. He must dislike me. Another person to add onto the list. As if I didn't have enough. I just wanted to make friends with people yet they all turn me away. Why?
"Let's go!" Kimiko says.
She smiles at me and grabs my hand. I blush, again. We run off. As we pass by others, they kneel on the floor and bow, but Kimiko minds them no attention. We finally reach the wooden door. We enter and I see two wooden desks, two small beds, and shelves along the wall.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
Kimiko puts down her bag and motions for me to leave to our class.
"Toshiro, I'll be your friend," she says as we walk.
My eyes widen. She looks at me with a serious expression.
"Toshiro, I promise that I won't forget about you when we part ways. I'm not afraid of you."
"Kimiko, we're so different..." I begin.
She hugs me.
"Toshiro, it's okay. I'm sorry you've been alone all your life," she says.
I hug her, silent. I feel like she has read me. She is the only one to ever say that. I hide myself from everyone. I'm alone. The she comes. She has changed my view on others in just the thirty minutes I have known her.
"Kimiko, I...Thank you."
"Friends?"
"Friends," I say.
We enter the classroom and everyone bows. Except me.
"Please, treat me like a normal student," Kimiko says. "My name is Kashikoi Kimiko."
"Hello, I'm Gengoro Onanabara, your sensei, and congratulations for getting into Class 1," a tall, bald man announces. "First, we will do kido to test your skill level. Hitsugaya and Kashikoi-sama, please sit here."
Again with the biasm.
"Please head out his way."
We exit on to a field. We get into rows on ten, as there are ten targets.
"Okay! Recite, Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado number thirty-three, Sokatsui!" the sensei says.
We are the Accelerated Class, so it make sense to perform a medium level kido. Kimiko stands beside me. We are in the second row of the three rows. As the first row performs, I look at how successful they are. Most of them miss the target and a few barely hit the target with very low force.
"Good job! Your aim shouldn't be perfect. In fact, close to zero that I have seen get to shoot into one of the few inner rings of the target! Most of the other class' student have this spell blast up in their faces. Even if they have performed kido before. For your very first kido, that was very good. Next row please! Recite Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado number thirty-three, Sokatsui!" the sensei says.
I recite his words and a shock of blue shoot towards the target. It hits the exact center of the target before the target explodes. And as our targets explodes, so does the other half of the field. The same exact thing happens the Kimiko. Sensei's eyes widen. And now we can't do any kido target practice. Because we blew up the field.
"Now since we don't have a field to practice on, let's have lunch," sensei mutters.
We go back into the classroom as all my peers come up to congratulate "us." More like Kimiko. It goes like this:
"Kimiko, why are you so good at kido?"
"No, I'm not that good. Toshiro here is alot better," Kimiko says.
"No, we're the same level," I say.
And then they walk away, muttering "great job!"
Why do they hate me? Guess I'll never know.
"Hitsugaya and Kashikoi-sama, please come up," sensei calls.
We head over to Sensei.
"You two are exceptionally skilled. The power of that kido already rivals a lieutenant's power. You are prodigies, exceptional young geniuses. I look foward to more work with you two."
Great. Just what I needed.
Why is it that I ran? When we had become such great friends? When I had been honored by the presence of her.
She chose me.
Yet I chose to run that dark, black night.
And I broke my own heart.
Author's Note: Wasn't that a good chapter? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No. Sorry. They are young. I don't want to bother wasting time explaining everyday like this or else I'd be dead by the time I finished. I will only put the necessary items in. I might not write in this one as much, because I want to start yet another story. I hope to see you next time! Is it see? Or read? How do I read you? Or see? Then I think it would be "I hope you read this again" or something like that.
UPDATE: By the way, I changed this chapter to a flashback!
Hasta la vista,
~PotatoesRule
