I am currently writing this at the same time as Demon's Love.
The Cursed
My name is Aino Minako, age 16. I live with my cousin, Tsukino Usagi, and her parents because my parents travel all over the world. I was recently transferred to Crossroads High, a school in Azabu District, Tokyo. Moving in with my cousin wasn't as hard as some people think, although I miss my father very much, I can't say I miss the witch of a women he married.
The drive to the new school was short, since we didn't live very far away. The campus was huge, much bigger then I was used to. I had also noticed that Crossroads was one of the very few Japanese schools that did not require its students to wear a uniform; however I can imagine a pretty strict dress code looking at the long skirts on most of the girls and button-down shirts on almost all of the boys. I looked over at Usagi who was smiling her usual smile and continued to walk down the halls of the school.
Usagi led the way to homeroom. After a few wrong turns and being five minutes late we reached the right room.
"Girls," The teacher looked to be in his late-forties, he had short graying brown hair and dull blue eyes. His plaid shirt made him look more casual then his students.
"Gomen, Sensei, I was showing my cousin around," Usagi stated gesturing to me.
"Hai, Gomenasai sensei," I bowed respectfully as the teacher flipped through his book.
"Of course, Aino Minako-san, correct?"
"Hai"
"Please try not to be late all the time like you cousin," He turned to Usagi, "I will see you after school, Tsukino-san, in detention for being late."
Usagi took her seat next to a red-haired girl who was probably her friend Naru, whom she talked about almost all the time.
"Excuse me Aino-san; I seem to be missing my seating chart. Let me think," He looked off into the room of students. "I don't think anyone sits next to Hino-san."
"There's an opening here," One of the boys offered the seat next to her. The teacher nodded.
"Very well Kou-san," I took my seat next to the silver haired boy. While the teacher made some announcements, the boy turned to me.
"Steer-clear of Hino," He gestured behind me. I turned back to see a black haired girl sitting all by herself at the back of the classroom. She was reading instead of listening to the teacher. "She's trouble,"
"What's so bad about her?" I asked as he gave a small smile.
"She can do all this strange physic stuff. I hear she's so accurate when she tells you your future. It's pretty spooky." His green eyes sparked with realization. "Excuse my manners; I'm Kou Yaten, pleasure to meet you."
"Aino Minako," I blushed lightly before turning back to the teacher.
Classes went by quickly and before I knew it, it was time for lunch. Usagi and Naru were sitting on a bench chatting wildly, before I could walk up, Yaten stopped me.
"Would you like to have lunch with me, Minako-chan?" He asked politely.
"Sure, why not." I stated as he led me toward the roof where he stated we were going to meet up with his two brothers, Seiya and Taiki. I looked up to see a familiar figure.
"Hino," I recognized the flowing black hair and pale flawless skin. I could just make out soft features and her stunning obsidian eyes as she looked over the ledge.
"She's up here all the time," Seiya stated, "No one's ever with her, thought, she never comes over here either."
"Mine as well jump," Yaten murmured under his breath. I looked at him, stunned for a minute and then looked back at the girl.
"She's in my music class and she's not half bad, in fact she's pretty damn good." Seiya stated as I continued to watch the mysterious girl. While Yaten and Seiya bickered I walked over standing a foot away from her.
"Excuse me," She didn't move, "Hino"
I was unsure as to what horrific I could use. I was watched as she turned locking her near-black eyes with my own.
"What do you want?" She asked as though she had a bad day. I flash a smile and said.
"Can you do a card reading?" Her eyes widened slightly and I could catch a spark of interest.
"You want me to do a card reading?" She asked cocking her head to the side.
"Yeah, I hear you're super accurate." I state eagerly as she looks at me, confusion in her eyes.
"Why?"
"What do you mean 'why'?" I asked.
"No one ever comes to me unless something's wrong and they want to know what's going to happen to their pet cat or something." She snorted as I giggled lightly, catching her attention.
"I just want to see how accurate you are." I state as if it was a challenge. She took out her tarot cards and shuffled them as we sat on the ground. She lay nine cards, 3 by 3, face down on the ground.
"Pick two cards," She stated as she watched my hand as I looked over the cards. I pointed to the top right card: The Fool. Frowning, I also pointed to the middle card: Hanged Man. I looked up at Hino to see her eyes filled with interest as if I had struck oil.
"Well," I ask eagerly as she studies the cards.
"Looks like your go with the flow personality will lead you to discovering something new." She looked up, "Not much of a reading."
"Something new," I pondered for a minute. "What do you think that is?"
"I don't know," She shrugged. I thought for another minute before I heard Yaten calling me over.
"You should get back," I could just catch the slightest bit of disappointment in her voice.
"Yeah, before I do," I looked over at her. "What's your name?"
"Hino Rei," She stated as she picked up the cards and stood up, helping me up as well.
"Rei-chan," I stated, testing the name so I didn't forget it. "See you around?"
"Hope so," Rei stated glaring at Yaten as he walked up.
"Come on Minako," He stated taking me by the wrist and pulling me away. I glanced back to see Rei back in her normal position before turning to him with a glare.
"That was rude Yaten-kun," I state as he turns to me.
"I told you to stay away from her." Yaten barked as Taiki and Seiya looked at him as though this was normal for him.
"You can't tell me what to do." I held his glare for a few minutes before I walked past and down the stairs to head to my next class.
The rest of the day was OK; I didn't see Rei-chan the rest of the day and was stuck with Yaten in all of my pm classes. After school I was about to walk outside when I passed the art gallery. A dark haired figure caught my eye as I turned to look in. A smile came to my face as I walked in.
"Rei-chan," I called as she turned around. "I wanted to apologize for Yaten being a"
"Asshole, don't worry too much about it." Rei stated as she hung up another picture in perfect alignment with the others on the wall.
"Did you do any of these?" I asked as she looked at me.
"This whole wall," Rei stated. The wall contained five pieces; a painting of a field of white roses with the crescent moon shinning, a sketch of a wolf howling at the full moon, a pastel of a dusk mountainous landscape, a charcoal picture of a black rose, and a painting of a forest with a tombstone under a large oak tree. The details were stunning and full of emotion.
"Amazing," I breathed as a smile appeared on her face.
"Funny, that's not what everyone else says." She turned and looked at the line of pictures.
"Screw everyone else then." I state as she looks at me with amusement as I giggle. "I'm still trying to find out why everyone's afraid of you."
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
Big bad wolf
Big bad wolf
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
Rei reached for her cell phone as she looked through the text message.
"Looks like I'm not finishing this gallery today," She murmured as she put the cell back into her pocket.
"What's up?" I asked as she picked up her backpack.
"My grandfather needs me at the shrine." She stated, "That's where I work after school."
"Oh," I stated as she started out the door, "Hey Rei."
"Hm?"
"I think I found out what my reading meant," She turned and looked at me, "My new discovery…I think it was you."
I wanted to write this for a while. I wanted to know also if anyone could guess that Rei and Yaten are? HINT: not 100% human. I hinted at Rei's most of this chapter, especially with the ring tone of her cell phone and her artwork.
Any way I love reading your feedback so please R&R.
This is being written with my friend, who's also a big Reinako fan. She's also beta-reading (To the best of her ability).
ALSO fixed this chapter, I meant to make the characters younger in this chapter. (-2 years) but switched it back to 16 to aviod doing a time jump.