Dlbn: Hey everyone! It's me, Queen of random one shot posting!

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Dlbn: Shut up! My sister and I have decided that we thus far like how this story is going, so we're going to post it.

Nbld: But get this! It's a MULTI-CHAPTER fic with the SAME plot spanning all the chapters, instead of a bunch of one-shots (such as our last Halloween fic was).

Dlbn: So without further ado, here we go!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Loveless or any characters, places, organizations, terms, and/or themes contained within. They belong to Yun Kouga. And I, sadly, am not her. Therefore, I don't own this. I just have fun writing it. I make NO money off of writing this work of non-canon fiction.

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Twelve year old Ritsu Minami sat on the office floor of his father, Saichiru Minami. His father had given him battle strategy books to read and ignored the boy in favor of working on his computer. Ritsu brushed silver bangs from his eyes and looked up at his father. "I've finished." He said simply.

The man nodded once. "Your fighter is coming." He informed.

"Today?" Ritsu's emerald eyes widened. "Why the sudden appearance?" He stood quickly and practically bounded to his father's wooden desk. "What's his name? How old is he? Why is he here without warning? Why?"

"First off," His father's sharp voice scolded, "Do not act out so irrationally. Second, your fighter is a female."

"Female?" Ritsu chuckled. "I thought there weren't any female fighters."

"The number of female fighters has grown alarmingly in the past few years. There are a dozen or so. You happen to be plagued by one."

"Plagued?" Ritsu wondered. "But I thought male and female were equal in the wordspell world."

"Maybe as sacrifices." His father snorted.

Ritsu didn't say anything more, knowing his father was getting agitated. There was no need in pissing of Septimal Moon's number one. The younger Minami's tail swished back and forth in excitement, though his ears were flat against his head. His fighter was coming? He was a little nervous. What should he say to her? What did she look like? Would they get along? Were they the same age? How tall was she? Would she listen to him? Was she properly trained yet? A million questions were floating through his head, though some couldn't be answered until later on.

"When is she coming?" Ritsu asked at last.

His father sighed in frustration. "At three." He said. "That's two hours. Go get lunch or something. I have work to do."

"Okay, father." Ritsu nodded a couple times, before leaving the desk and then the room.

He shut the door behind him and leaned on it, sighing to himself. He had waited for this day for so long. Well, okay, he'd only been waiting since he was five, when his father started training him. But seven years was a long time when you were waiting for your soul mate. Since his soul mate happened to be a female, he wondered if he'd be her soul mate in a relationship sense. He didn't get to think too long, as people began walking down the halls. Students leaving class to go back to their dorms or the lunchroom, and teachers leaving to escape the students in the faculty lounge for lunch. After a few minutes, Ritsu spotted some kids from his grade. He blended into the crowd, eavesdropping on the teens as he walked. After deciding that they had nothing interesting to say, he went to the faculty room. Using the key his father let him have, he unlocked the door and walked in. His blue lunchbox was sitting up on one of the counters, just waiting for him to fetch it. Ritsu pulled a chair over to the counter and climbed onto it. He grabbed his lunch box and hopped down, before pulling the chair to the table and sitting down to eat. He'd eat in the cafeteria with the other students of Seven Voices Academy, but he didn't have any friends. No one wanted to be friends with the Principal's up-and-coming-sacrifice son. He was on his own except for a couple miscellaneous sacrifices that hung around him sometimes. They didn't have fighters yet either, so they hung with him for protection. No one would go after the principal's son and, therefore, they were safer with him. He wondered how they'd react once they learned that his fighter had been found. Maybe they would be happy for him. Or mad that their scapegoat was going off without them.

"Why don't you ever eat in the cafeteria?" Ani-sensei asked him.

Ritsu looked up at her. "I have no reason to." He answered. "No friends."

She shook her head. "A boy your age should be making friends left and right."

He shrugged. "I'm the principal's son." He opened his lunch bag.

"So what?"

"No one wants to piss him off, so they don't bother with me." Ritsu shrugged, taking out some of his food. "It's no big deal. I prefer solitude."

"Aren't you going to take over for your father one day?" She wondered. "You're going to need to learn to work with others if you're the head of Septimal Moon."

"Only if I best him." Ritsu shook his head and bit his sandwich. "Which I doubt I ever will."

"You need to have more confidence in yourself, Minami-kun."

"Father received his male fighter at age nine." Ritsu said. "My fighter is a female. I'm twelve and I haven't met her yet."

"What does gender have to do with anything?" Sensei asked.

"Father says that there is no equality amongst the genders when it concerns fighters. The best fighters are males." Ritsu said. "By having a female fighter, I am severely weakened." He flushed at his sensei, remembering that she was female. "No offense to you or your gender, ma'am."

She rolled her eyes. "Sure sounds like an insult to me. Directly from the lips of your father." She slammed a fist on the table, making Ritsu and the other teachers jump, before exiting the room.

Ritsu sighed. She'd understand one day.