Attention: Do not read if you haven't read Sun Senshi Awakening!
A/N: So, if you read my original first chapter, I feel like I let off Daniel way too easy. I've decided on a new first chapter, and it may be short, but I want to see if I had more of a response. I'll write more when I know my Sun Senshi Awakening readers are reading its sequel.
With no further ado, enjoy!
"I'm sorry, but are you trying to get me to kill you?" I asked Daniel. He'd followed me to the first day of the school I was currently attending, and excited about.
Except for the tiny fact that he had been constantly trying to get me to understand something I just couldn't.
"Will you listen to me?" he asked back. I rolled my eyes, smiling coldly.
"Hmm, let me think about this question for the-what is it, eighth time? Umm, thinking, thinking..." I feigned being clueless. "Oh yeah! No." I finished flatly.
"Arien, I really need you to understand-" I cut him off.
"What?" I asked, continuing the walk to school from the new apartment Katsumi allowed me to rent. "That you killed our son for no reason? And me afterwards? There's no justifying that, there just isn't. Now, I'm gonna need you to get away from me, before I kick your ass." He grabbed my shoulders, but I shrugged him off nonchalantly.
"I can't exactly do that. We're enrolled at the same school, if you didn't know."
This wasn't something I was aware of. I cursed Rei for withholding this from me. The rest of them continued to interact with him, to my disbelief.
"Okay. Your point? It's a big school. In any case, I thought Darien was in college. Is someone not the sharpest tool in the shed?" I jarred. He shrugged.
"Actually, Darien happens to be a crazy genius. I also never had a registered birth certificate-very troubling for the orphanage-so, they put me in school too late. I'm in my last year, so I'm not too far away from him." he explained. I rolled my eyes again.
"Whatever. My point is, you stay away from me." I replied, then, hugging my new books to my chest, I ran off towards the school.
I had opted toward going to a different school than the others, finally being honest with myself. I was different. None of the others were nearly as hot-tempered as me, or powerful either. Yes, I enjoyed their company, however, there was no way I could be classified as one of them, blending into each other like a portrait, composed of different paints, but combining to fit perfectly.
I certainly couldn't be classified with the Outer Planets, either. They're absolutely set against me.
Haruka hated me rabidly, and wouldn't let me near any of her fellow allies.
I walked into my new homeroom, and immediately recognized that I was still the different one. I guess I'm just meant to be unique. I swear, each person I passed on the way to the only open seat was staring at me. Openly. The teacher wasn't there yet, so most of them were sitting on desks, talking and laughing at jokes, until I came in. Then, the whispers began, and the thoughts as well. I was unprepared, due to the new facts from Daniel.
Who is that?
Look at her!
I couldn't tell whether these things were coming from their minds or mine.
"Excuse me!" I heard a voice shout from the opening of the room behind me. I quickly found an empty seat without turning around. "You are all being incredibly rude!" the voice shouted again. The class went silent, but then I heard a whisper.
"Yes, they are being incredibly rude." The person next to me whispered.
"Damn it, Daniel, let me be!" I shouted, then recoiled realizing I spoke aloud. The silence continued; the teacher didn't even say anything. Yet.
"And your language, young lady! That was not necessary. There are certainly going to be changes around here, because this kind of language won't be tolerated. Now-" she started as she walked down the row to the front of the room, and I noticed her pitch black hair, pulled into a long ponytail and mocha legs from her pencil skirt.
"You're the one who sat down here. Hey, but if you don't want to sit by me, your loss. I just want to explain myself. Maybe I can write a note?" Daniel continued.
"If you mention it again…" I left the question open-ended.
"When I am talking, what I have to say is the most important thing to hear." The teacher said, now whirling around to stop us. I rolled my eyes.
Until I saw exactly who it was.
She had a heart shaped face, with familiar features: Red lips, button nose.
Round, hazel eyes.
Mother?
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