Summary: AU. Fate Academy, a normal high school with normal students, sounds boring huh? Well, for Shin Saeta and Emiya Shirou, classroom life is going to liven up with the arrival of two new transfer students!
Warning: Major AU and possible OOC-ness (THOU HAST BEEN WARNED)
Small note: The story is mostly told from Shin (Fate/Extra MC) and Shirou's perspectives. However, it may shift to other characters at some point as well.
Chapter 1: Chance Encounter so Soon?
(Shin)
Morning
Agh…I don't…wanna get up…
"Oi! Shin!"
Go away, Emiya…I don't want you to wake me now. Not when I still got more than ten minutes for once in my entire freaking life-
…never mind, I'll get up, today being the first day and all. Getting my lazy butt of my bed, I poked my bed-haired head out of the window. Yeah, that guy, that red haired, super-hero wannabe is standing outside my house waving to me as he wore our school's usual brown uniform.
Shirou Emiya, and as I mentioned very slightly earlier, wannabe super hero (please don't ask, details are VERY painful). Basically, he's sort of like my best friend. Actually, he's one of the few close friends that I actually have anyway. Plus, we got a lot in common as well…
Like him and I being neighbours for the fact.
Oh, that's right, you must be wondering who I am, wouldn't you? I don't really like introducing myself, but I guess I can….
"Brother! Breakfast is ready~"
Crud.
From that little, cute and pouty voice, I sense possible and imminent danger creeping up behind me-BUAGH!
A strong force tackled me down to the floor before Shirou and I could continue shouting at each other. Another person I recognised all too well…argh, I'm going a little too fast with the introductions here, but not like I care, seeing as their popping up one after another.
The weight of the person above me crushed all air from my lungs. Damn it…I must…get, person…of me!
"Brother! You actually managed to wake up!" the girl with long brunette hair and an apron teased me, "come on, breakfast will get cold if you laze around like a bum."
"Yeah, but, first things first, Shizu."
"Huh?"
"GET THE HELL OF ME!"
Yeah, this is Shizuka Saeta, my younger sister by a year. People do say that, which I do agree very much, that we look like fraternal twins. As you can see, she's really, really active…too much for me sometimes. It does get annoying and I scold her sometimes, but she's the one with the cooking skills, so I better learn when to shut up, or I don't get anything.
Oh yeah, myself. I'm Shin Saeta, second year to be (in about less than an hour) in Fate Academy. Aside from attending school, I don't really do much except the occasional part time job. See, mom and dad work a lot, so its no surprise that Shizuka and I are left at home a lot. We're…also slightly more well financed than most students, so money isn't a big issue.
What's an issue is that today's going to be Shizuka's first day of high school, and I don't want her to get any strange concepts from those anime and drama she's always watching.
After convincing Shizuka to get off my back, I threw on my dull brown uniform and headed towards the toilet to wash up a little. Down the staircase, I could hear Shirou and Shizuka chatting away, mostly it was Shizuka and how excited it was for her first day in high school.
I could even hear her mutter something about anime…that slightly disillusioned girl…
"Oh, hey Shin," Shirou greeted me once again with a little wave, "Shizuka is rather uh…excited about today isn't she?"
"I can hardly, wait, Emiya-senpai!"
"Whoa-hoa, calling him senpai already?" I raised my hands in mock surprise, but only for a moment before returning to my usual tone, "Listen up closes, Shizu. High school is not a playground or anything like that. It's very different from middle school."
"Oh save it, brother…"
"As I was SAYING," I stressed the last word, "it isn't all fun and games. There's gonna be lots and lots of homework increase that you will find compared to middle school. Secondly, seeing as you were from an all girls middle school, try not to fool around with the males as you do with your female friends. That INCLUDES you 'Emiya-senpai'."
"Hah? Why am I an example?" Shirou pointed to himself, "I didn't do anything wrong."
"Not yet maybe. Last but not least," I raised my finger in conclusion, "don't let random guys get into your pants. It's not going to be healthy for a young girl like you."
"Hey!" my little sister pouted again, "what are you trying to imply, that I like to flirt around with all the guys back in middle school? For the record, those guys kept coming to Shizuka so its not my fault!"
Shirou only watched in mild amusement as the two of us continued our pointless bickering, "Oh yeah, I remember that time Shinji tried to hit on Shizuka, back when we were in our freshman year and when she was still in middle school."
"Urgh…don't bring that guy up," I palmed my face at the mention, "I wanna haymaker that guy everytime he opens his stupid mouth."
"Come on, Shin, he's not that bad. He just has some minor issues here and there is all."
"Minor my eye, superhero. You're just being made use of by him, can't you at least see that?"
It's mostly like this every morning, Shirou gets up really early to make breakfast for himself before coming to our place to make sure I wake up. Occasionally, one of our school teachers, Taiga Fujimura, and a certain other girl I wasn't really familiar with would go to his house to help out (THEN he would come here).
Wow, thinking back, how many years has it been since we were doing these kinds of things…
"Brother! Stop spacing out and eat your breakfast! Omelettes don't taste good once they've gone cold and yucky."
"Huh? Oh, ok."
Stuffing the omelette down my throat after noticing that I was the only one who hadn't finished breakfast, I grabbed my things and locked the door. Luckily, Fate Academy wasn't very far from our houses, so it was a pretty short walk to school.
Worst case scenario would be for me to just ride a bike there, but that's only if I'm going to be late of course.
"Ah…but I don't really see how second year is going to be much of a change from being a freshman," I groaned midway through the journey, "its just that maybe not everyone treats you like dirt anymore."
"Oh yeah, speaking of which," Shirou palmed his fist, as if he remembered something important, "Fuji-nee said she saw our classes. Apparently, you and I are in the same class as before."
Well, that was good news.
"Not only that, but Fuji-nee mentioned something about two transfer students coming to our class."
Oh? That was new, "Local or foreign?"
"She didn't say anything about where they were from, although she did mention something about blondes and twins."
Twin blondes? Could they be American? Not necessarily though, a lot of people even in this country have blonde hair as well. Whatever it is, we'll find out later.
Oh, I forgot, HER house is nearly just a few steps away from school as well. I just hope she won't come out and jump on me again, it gets REALLY embarrassing when she does that. Noticing the look that I had as more houses slowly came into view, I saw Shizuka break into a smirk.
"Hey, brother," she snickered a little, "isn't that your 'wife's' house? Why don't you go over and say hi to her, hmm?"
"Knock it off Shizu, she's not my wife, I don't even see why she thinks that…"
"SSSSHIIIIIIIN!"
Oh my god…
"Shirou…"
"I really can't help you with this one Shin," Shirou shrugged his shoulders, "even I'm scared to get in her way, considering that, well you know…"
"She is not my wi-BUAAARGH!"
All things good and holy, please don't let any of my bones break, I prayed to God as I was (once again) rammed into the ground again. I swear, these things happen so often, but I will never EVER get used to all of this nonsense.
"Good morning, my dear husband~"
That's twice I got rammed down this morning, I'm really not confident my body is able to take this anymore. I could only watch the girl above me as she latched herself onto my body, her light pink pigtails and blue ribbons flowing all over my face.
"Argh, Tamamo! Could you…please get off me? I've had enough of this for one morning….ACK!" I managed as she squeezed my tighter.
"Oh come on! You know you love it, my dear husband."
"Shirou!" I struggled for air, "would you MIND?"
After a whole minute, with the help of a Shirou that had chuckling fits, managed to get Tamamo of me. Me and Tamamo have…sort of a really weird history that I honestly do not want to bring up now, so let's just leave it at that alright?
Oh and…seeing as Tamamo launched at me from the school gate…
"Tamamo, have you seen the class postings for this year yet?" I asked.
"Mhmm! Lots of familiar faces, like both you and Shirou," she tapped her hand on her chin, "there're only two names that I don't recognise there…"
I'm guessing those two to be the transfer students, from my guess. Knowing Tamamo, she probably memorised every name in our level already.
"Ta…Tamamo-senpai!" Shizuka called out to the equally bubbly girl.
"Ah, its little Shizu," she smiled as she patted the shorter brunette's head, "so, you decided to apply to this school? Don't worry, Tamamo-senpai will be nice to you. Come here."
Shirou and I watched as the two girls walked away from us, talking about more random things we didn't really need to hear.
"Man, those two are pretty similar eh?" Shirou commented, "don't you think so, Shin?"
"I'm afraid my sister would ram guys down just like Tamamo, that's what I think, Shirou."
Walking into the school compound, we saw a large crowd gathered in front of the school's main notice board. I'm guessing that its to check for class arrangements. Forcing our way through a few students that were screaming in despair, we managed to get to the front.
Wow, that is A LOT of things to look through.
"Hey Shirou, can you find our names? Because I don't see them anywhere," I squinted my eyes as I ran my hand through a few class lists.
"I'm pretty sure its on this one," Shirou pointed to the first list of class 2-A, "see? Emiya Shirou and Shin Saeta."
Good gosh how did I miss that?
I scanned down the list, tracking down any familiar I knew. Indeed, as Tamamo said, a lot of familiar faces. Her, Issei Ryudo, both Shirou and I…
Eh?
The last few names that weren't in alphabetical order would usually be for transfer students. So I'm guessing their names should be down here…hmm? The names end at Z?
"There's no continuation from here. Maybe there was a class recording error?"
"Well, we'll be seeing them in class, so we can always ask right," Shirou replied, his eyes looking at the clock, "come on, let's get going, we'll be late for morning assembly."
Ugh…morning assemblies are just…urgh.
It just so happened that our principal was the priest of a local church, Kotomine Kirei. Man, I hate that guy in almost every way possible. He acts like such a nice guy in front of everyone, but I know him personally, and let me just say one thing.
He's like Gin Ichimaru, or worse. Sly, cunning and really, master of sarcasm to boot (the last one is why I REALLY hate him). Truth be told, dear readers, how people managed to choose him as a priest was just way beyond me.
"Hrgh, it's like he's in love with his own voice are something," I rolled my eyes as Principal Kirei went on with his speech about 'the well being of every student', "I mean, have you seen the way he looks at us and give us those smug looks."
"Calm down Shin."
Not against him I won't.
After a short prayer that Kirei did for us, some random teacher came up to give the announcements. I don't really listen to the announcements and such, so I sometimes rely on Shirou to make sure that I don't forget.
Ah, contradicting myself…
I just wanna get lost in thought for awhile…
"Whoa! Shin! You're going to miss a step!"
Huh?
Being unable to gran me fast enough, I somehow was able to miss a step and BOOM, down the stairs I went. Thank God that no one was in the way, or they might've been hit pretty hard.
Oh wait, who was that coming out…!
*CRASH*
AH CRAP! I hit somebody? Damn it, I was pretty sure that no one was in my line of vision, maybe they came from the side…?
"Ah…darn," I rubbed my aching head and turned towards the person which I crashed into, "Um…I'm sorry, I probably wasn't looking where I was going and I hit you. I'm really, really sorry-"
Why I cut off my voice when I gazed at the person before me I had no idea. Like the other girls in the school, she wore a typical school blouse and skirt. Time seemed to stop as I gazed into her deep, emerald eyes, her golden locks tied into a bun by a red ribbon….
"You would do well to watch where you are going," the girl brushed of my apology with a little snide remark before continuing, "however, if you would be so kind, I would like to know where the teacher's lounge is."
She sounds like one of those rich, stuck up foreigners.
Well, whatever, I can stand Shinji, I can stand this, I thought. Giving her directions, I gestured with my fingers as I explained, "Just go down the hallway and turn towards that direction, there would be a room which says teacher's lounge on it."
"At least have the gall to tell me where 'that direction' is!"
Geez! What was with this girl, I mentally palmed myself as I told her, "Down the left."
Without even so much as a thanks, she stood up, not before someone came running to her, "Sister, are you hurt?"
"I'm fine, Arturia, just a little fall. Who do you think I am?"
The other girl that came running towards her wore-wait a second…they look almost exactly the same, twins maybe? In fact, the only immediate difference I noticed was the blue ribbon instead of a red one.
"Come on, let's leave this boy. I know where the teacher's lounge is."
With one final huff, the girl walked off without another comment. Her sister followed behind her, bowing quickly towards us before going of as well. The random students who were watching the scene dispersed as well.
Nosy…
"Hey Shin!"
"About time, Shirou…"
"Come on," he tugged me to my feet, "let's get to class."
"Yeah, don't want 'Tiger' to be yelling her butt off at us."
Classroom
Aaaand, bling. Guess what? Tige-Miss Fujimura isn't here yet! And she's the one who's always scolding us for being late.
It seems that through some methods purely unknown, the rumour that two transfer students are coming to our class had somehow circulated. Taking our usual seats, Shirou and I sat back and watched the everyday babble of student life unfold.
"Hey, did you hear? We got two transfer students coming to our class."
"Really, are they hot?"
"Can't say for sure. Hey, are they guys or girls, or maybe even one of each?"
"Idiot, would I be asking around if I knew?"
"Really," I sighed as I fiddled around with my pencil, "all this talk over two transfers? Is it really that amazing anyway?"
"Well, it is rare for us to get any transfers," Tamamo chose that moment to plop down beside me, "that aside, I hope they're not girls. I don't want anyone trying to take my Shin away! That would leave poor me so lonely."
And she latches onto my arm.
Great…
"Oi, Tamamo! We're in class, in class! Let go of my arm."
Despite my protests, Tamamo still clung onto me like a magnet. Somehow, if this was some screwed up alternate game world, I could really picture her with fox ears and a tail…ugh, I don't even want to picture such a disturbing thought.
"Some students say they've seen the transfers already," Shirou joined in the conversation, "they say that both look nearly exactly the same, with both their hairs tied up in a little bun. The only way you can tell the difference is through their ribbon colour."
Uh-huh…that sounds really anime cliché-ish…
Hah…did he just say…
Red and blue ribbons?
My thoughts were forced to stop as Ms Fujimura entered the room, causing everyone to scramble madly for a seat.
"Good morning everyone, I'm your homeroom teacher, Taiga Fujimura," the familiar teacher with well rounded brown hair and a long apron-like gown greeted us, "sorry for being late, its just that something held me up a little and some last minute work came in, so I…well I-"
…
Insert silence here.
So much for not being late.
"A…anyway," Taiga coughed into her notebook, "as some of you might already know, we'll be having two new transfer students joining our class 2-A this year! Be nice to them, alright?"
"We get it, geez, just let them in," I heard a male student roll his eyes and mumble.
"Alright you two, come in and introduce yourselves."
And that's when my jaw dropped.
"It's…no way…"
"What, Shin? Do you know these girls?" Shirou asked.
I watched as the two girls I had met previously walk into the classroom, the red ribbon and the blue ribbon respectively. I took a glance over at some of my male classmates.
Actually, isn't kind of rude for you to ogle at a transfer?
The girls took turns writing their names on the board, before turning to our class. Now that I look carefully, there were more differences between the two girls. Red ribbon had a more smirk-ish expression on her face, whereas blue ribbon looked more stoic and calm.
"Good morning, classmates! I'm Nero!" red ribbon introduced herself as she set down the marker.
"Arturia Pendragon," blue ribbon bowed a little.
"Please take good care of us."
"But don't hold back your praise for us. I know how hard it is to hold in your river of compliments!" the one called Nero added.
Compliment what now...?
Taiga looked at them both up and down, before nervously continuing, "Oh…kay…? Either way, there're empty seats behind both Emiya and Saeta. You can sit there."
I did a mental face palm as Nero walked past me and took the seat behind me, that arrogant smirk (for who knows why she did so) never leaving her face. The one called Arturia took her seat behind Shirou.
"Alright then…let's begin with homeroom…"
I tried to ignore the presence of the girl behind me…
Only that it wasn't possible when she kept tapping my back.
"Hey, weren't you the one I bumped into just now? You still owe me a thousand begs for forgiveness."
Wha….I just…didn't I already apologise to you…?
Letting out a sigh, I slumped back into my seat. Well, this is definitely going to be an interesting year, I thought with a slightly audible groan.
And what an interesting year it would be…
You must be thinking "AUGH, Irisu-Zerone, WTF ARE U DOING NAAOOOOO!"
Or not. Anyway, I just wanted to try this out. You'd be surprised how much I find AU's amusing.
Review, criticise and what not (flames will be used to burn Shinji once again.)
Ja-ne!