School Days & Love
Prologue
When Ichimatsu opened the door, now as the school nurse instead, there was an onslaught of familiar sights and sounds that hit him all at once.
He had grown, quite a bit, since the last time he was even in this office. He barely remembered the old school nurse when he attended, but he remembered the white sheer curtains. He wouldn't take it down. He remembered the way too sterilized environment whenever he stepped in. He would keep up the image. He knew all about image. He remembered his old image.
The school still was an all-boy school, a tradition that started to change in recent schools but, for some reason, never changed here. He didn't question it. It was okay with him. There wasn't a need to change tradition since so many schools had already gone co-ed.
The newly appointed school nurse took the time to look around. He remembered when he was a student, rather, a delinquent. His head had been shaved and modified his looks to presumably look scarier. He also used to speak in actual gibberish – nothing defined and he somehow rose in the ranks of the Cat Burglars, the name of his little gang, with his garbled speech.
His memory of the place would've easily embarrassed most people of their high school selves but Ichimatsu didn't feel that bad towards himself. He had his fun when he was young and had made great friends. Granted, he made stupid decisions as teenagers were wont to do and fought for little to no reason.
He chuckled as he fiddled with his tie. The tie itself was given to an old comrade of his from those days. It was a dark purple tie with a skull and crossbones. From what he could tell, the school had cleaned up from its previous image – now the students seemed like even though they were lower income, they wanted the prestige of a private school. They were actually studious, although it seemed that the tradition of the delinquents seemed to be picking up again. He could tell that some of the students were uncomfortable with his tie, especially since he walked down the familiar hallway towards the infirmary.
He couldn't help but find amusement with that. He really shouldn't since he's a respectable adult now. After he found his will to study, he studied extremely hard. Eventually, he got rid of his facial markings and grew out his hair – to hide the scars that remained. He still wasn't truly used to having hair back on his head again, thus it was always messy but he tried to style it at least.
He often wondered if the students today could tell he used to be a delinquent. Unless he lifted his newly grown hair, no one would be able to tell. He laughed at the thought. He wanted to have an image of a kind, but sort of lazy, nurse who worked in the silence in the corner of Akatsuka High School.
He didn't expect anyone on the first day of school. The opening ceremony had ended and all he wanted to do was settle in his new office.
He walked around the infirmary as he reminisced. Once he made it to the window, he opened it and took in the cool air that had both the coldness of the remaining winter and the dawn of new beginnings. He closed his eyes as he didn't expect the wind to blow through his face but he also didn't hear the sound of the door opening behind him.