Chapter 1
Written by LongHairedMan
Hideko or just Hide for short, sat in his chair with his face planted on his desk. As usual, Hideko was avoiding the teachers lecture in the hopes of getting some sleep. He was a 19 year old male who had ocean blue eyes and short brown hair. Although his name is Japanese in origin his birth parents we're Canadian's who moved for his father work as an archaeologist. Thinking ahead, they decided to give him a Japanese name to avoid being bullied in school. They figured being the only student with western origins in an all Japanese school would make it hard enough for him to make friends.
The cool feeling of the desk's surface was soothing and just as Hideko was about to fall asleep, his teacher began shouting at him.
"Hideko! Hideko!" Mr. Matsuo shouted from the front of the class. Hideko slowly lifted his head and met eyes with his teacher. The man was short and skinny, having brown eyes and long black hair.
"Yes Mr. Asshole *cough* I mean Matsuo." Hide said, awaiting the classrooms reaction. As expected the classroom as a whole started laughing and Mr. Matsuo slowly walked down the row of desks until he reach the one belonging to Hideko.
"If I catch you sleeping in my class one more time-" Mr. Matsuo warned but was cut off.
"What? You'll send me to the big scary office?" Hideko asked with a smirk.
"-Fail you. Don't think I wont. As I recall, If you fail the high school entrance exam again you're going to be living on the street. So please, give me a reason to fail you." Mr. Matsuo whispered with a smile. Hideko eyes narrowed as the argument he had with his mother earlier filled his head. "Hide, if you fail your high school entrance exam again, you can find a new place to live. I just can't take it anymore!"
"Yea whatever." Hideko let out, giving Mr. Matsuo a dirty look.
"Just remember whose house your living in boy." Mr. Matsuo warned before he turned around and began walking to the front of the class.
"I can't believe my mom is dating that asshole. It wasn't even a day after my dads funeral when he started trying to make the moves on her." Hideko thought, picking his pencil up and pretending to stab Mr. Matsuo in the back as he moved to the front of the class. While he did this the girl in the seat behind him giggled.
"Now without further interruption." Matsuo said before turning around, looking right at Hideko.
Hideko released his grip and the pencil dropped on his desk. Mr. Matsuo just scowled at him before beginning his lecture again. Hideko turned around to the girl behind him, the one who giggled. The girl's name was Ayumi. She had wavy shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes and had a major crush on Hideko.
"Hey Ayumi, got any plans for tonight?" Hideko asked, knowing full well how she felt about him.
Ayumi blushed intensely as she fumbled to find words.
"Uh no. Not tonight Hide!" Ayumi said, stuttering her words.
"Mind if I crash at our house tonight?" Hideko asked.
"Yes she does! Right Ayumi?" the Eri said, sitting to the right of Ayumi.
"Um." Ayumi said, still blushing.
"Oh come! On that guy has to be at-least 18." Yuka said, sitting to the left of Ayumi. Eri and Yuka are Ayumi's two best friends and from what Hideko had seen, never left her side.
"I'm 19 actually, and I'm right here." Hideko stated, but was ignored.
Ayumi looked back and forth between her friends and they both just stared at her with a very serious look.
"...and to conclude, I will be leaving and this class will be becoming a self-study." Mr. Matsuo finished.
Finally after looking back and forth a few more times, Ayumi's head turned to Hideko.
"Sorry Hide." Ayumi said, avoiding eye contact.
"Great, there goes my backup place to sleep." Hideko thought before noticing the sound of Mr. Matsuo's voice had ceased. Hideko turned around and standing next to his desk was Mr. Matsuo.
Mr. Matsuo just stared at Hideko with a singular look of annoyance.
"Hey, I wasn't sleeping." Hideko stated with a smart ass grin.
"Hide, you have failed your high school entrance exam three times now. Everyone hear that? Three times and he's about to have a forth because he's going to fail again!" Mr. Matsuo announced to the class.
Hideko's grin turn into a frown and he jumped out of his desk, meeting Mr. Matsuo face to face. Hideko practically towered over Mr. Matsuo at 5' 9'' but that didn't stop his teacher from staring right back up at him. As the two stared the class went completely silent .
"Oh is that right?" Hideko asked, not backing away an inch.
"Yea I do. You know why? Because you're a screw up kid. A screw up. I'd love for your father to see you now. The son of one of the greatest archaeologist of our time, can't even pass a high school entrance exam. It would have eaten him aliv-." Before Mr. Matsuo could even finish his sentence Hideoko curled his hand into a fist and punched Mr. Matsuo in the face with all his strength. Mr. Matsuo slammed into the row of desk with enough force, he flew over the desks and landed in the row on the other side, flat on his back. The class as a whole just let out a gasp at the sight.
"Why the fuck would I have to stay awake if it's a self-study anyway?" Hideko asked. Mr. Matsuo rolled around on the ground, holding the side of his face Hideko hit.
"Hideko! What have you done!" A female teacher asked in horror, peaking her head in the door.
"Uh oh." Hideko let out, looking over to the teacher.
"Run Hide!" Ayumi warned.
"Ayumi! Don't help him! Didn't you see what he just did the Mr. Matsuo?!" Eri and Yuka shouted.
"A student just assaulted a teacher in room 3-C!" The female teacher shouted into her radio.
For Hideko, reality finally clicked back in. Realizing what would be the consequences of what he just did, Hideko ran for the door.
"HEY STOP!" the female yelled as Hideko ran out of the room and into hardwood floored hallway.
"Sorry lady but no thanks!" Hideko shouted back, running down the hall further.
After running for 20 seconds Hideko reached the end of the upstairs hall and at it we're the stairs that would take him down. Quickly Hideko grabbed on to the cold steel railing and ran down the steps as fast as he could. Upon reaching the bottom Hideko heard someone call his name.
"Hide!" Another teacher shouted from down the hall to the right. The teacher was Mr. Satou and Hideko knew him as a family friend. Mr. Satou worked and was friends with Hideko's father. Friend or not the last place Hideko wanted to go was the office.
Avoiding Mr. Satou, Hideko started to run down the hall in the opposite direction, left.
"I just wanna talk Hide!" the teacher shouted but Hideko wasn't stopping for anything. Even the odd teacher or student that just so happened to be in the halls on his way to the front of the school. His running continued down the hall until he made it to the front doors. Looking back Hide made sure no one was following him. After he was certain, he lean up against the white wall next to the double door entrance to the school and relaxed.
"The son of one of the greatest archaeologist, can't even pass a high school entrance exam." Mr. Matsuo's words echoed in Hideko's head and instead of bring a feeling of rage, like in the class, it brought sadness. Hide reached into the collar of his black school uniform and felt around for the last reminder he had of his father. It was an artifact his father found on one of his archeological digs and in his last moments before he died, he gave it to Hideko.
Hideko followed the feel of the cloth necklace until he felt the stone texture of object attached to it. Pulling the necklace off and raising in front of his face, Hide examined it. It was a stone that looked like it was only half of what it use to be. It had a completely straight cut down the one side and red markings on it that looked to be half of some Japanese symbol.
"Dad, I really hope you can't see me right now." Hide thought, tightly clenching the stone in his right hand.
Suddenly the schools P.A. system screeched to life.
*"TO ANY TEACHERS WHO SEE MR. ANDERSON, ESCORT HIM TO THE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!"*
"Time to dip." Hideko said to himself, once the overhead announcements finished.
Hideko leaned off the wall and charged at the door. Shoving it open, the light from outside temperately blinded Hideko, making it impossible for him to see what was coming. Out of no-where something small slammed in the Hideko, causing him to fall over and lose hold of the stone in his hand.
