Today is about to end...and its first day of school too. I wished it was the first day of school everyday. Then the teacher would never give us homework and just do some 'get-to-know-the-students' thing. Though, that wasn't such a good idea for me, but I was covered.

Right now, I am standing in a crowd of practically a thousand students. Temperature: one thousand degrees. Where do I stand? At the middle.

I'll leave you to do the math.

The headmaster was babbling and I think he knew at least seventy percent of the students were ignoring him but he just continued. Good man...The not-so-good part is how he dressed. I mean, if Anna saw this, she would have cried blood!

He was wearing a green, frilly-on-the-end jacket, with pink pants and ballerina shoes. After living with Anna for years, I wanted to cry too, but not as hard as she would have.

I was about to doze of, just a tiny bit when all of a sudden-

"Princess! I've come to get you!" a voice shouted from the back doors. Students' heads turned. I would have recognized that voice anywhere. Hell, it was the voice that always whined when no food was left for him if he were 'bad'.

You must remember the position I was in so I don't think anybody could blame or object to my reaction towards the annoying voice.

"Tsubasa!" I screeched, while I walked towards him. The students formed a line for me, probably due to my anger. If I wasn't pissed, I was sure I would have sung something, somewhere along the lines of 'I'm king of the world!' or queen at least.

Tsubasa was holding both his hands out in front of him, trying to calm me down, but we both knew that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

"P-princess, c-calm d-down. We m-must act r-rationally here." And what part of barging through the door when an assembly is going on is rational?

When I reached him, I had to grab his collar and drag it down so I could see his face. "What the hell do you think your doing here, huh, Tsubasa?" I was ready to kill him anytime soon. He never learns...

"Sorry, princess, I didn't know. Please don't kill me. I was just trying to pick you up from school like Imai told me to or else she'll sell those photos that..." And that's where I stopped caring for whatever he had to say.

"Please don't kill me," he said again, after finishing his babbling, but this time, it sounded more like a squeak.

"You better hope I don't." I gave him the most evil glare I could manage and that was pretty easy to do.

Heads turned again when the headmaster spoke through the microphone.

"Assembly is over. You may go now. Those who stay here for fifteen seconds will be punished severely."

All of a sudden, the seniors all ran for the nearest door. I wonder what was the punishment. But whatever it was, it sure got the seniors to get out fast with tails between their legs. Seeing this, the juniors also ran due to seeing the fear on the seniors' face.

I was about to run too but the headmaster said "Except you, Miss Mikan Sakura," he said without using the microphone since we all knew his voice would echo when the hall was cleared.

I let go of Tsubasa's collar, sadly, and walked to the headmaster and the other teachers beside him. Tsubasa didn't need telling from me to follow. He kept his mouth quiet this time because he knew if he didn't: We would be eating delicious food with him tied to a chair, not able to eat or drink anything we're eating or drinking. For Tsubasa, that was worse than being stabbed in the chest.

When I arrived to the place where I was standing until a certain somebody showed up, I grab my bag and continued walking to the stage.

Tsubasa stood beside me while the headmaster pulled a chair for me to sit in.

The headmaster, Narumi, bent a bit forward to me (he was sitting in front of me) and we began.

"Firstly dear, who is that man beside you?"

I had to choose my words carefully now. "This man here is nothing you should be concerned with. Please forgive him for his rude actions." I bowed my head a bit to make it clear. Tsubasa probably saw this and bowed his head too.

Narumi chuckled a bit. "No, its fine. Uhh..." He looked at all the teachers around him. "You may all leave now. I want to have a private talk with this lady here. In fact, we should go somewhere more private, no?"

The teachers looked like they didn't want to leave but after seeing Narumi's serious smile, they obeyed.

He didn't need an answer from me to know that I wanted to talk at somewhere more private as well. Tsubasa carried my bag and the three of us walked to the headmaster's room. It didn't take much time because the faculty building was right next to the hall.

On my way there, I couldn't help thinking this man here knew my secret. Something that would cost me if it was revealed to normal people.

The room was nice. There was a sofa facing each other with a glass on the middle, a comfy chair and a desk in front of it with his name on a gold platter on it.

I sat on one of the sofas while Narumi took the sofa in front of me, making us face to face. Tsubasa closed the blinds before standing behind me.

"Miss Mikan-" he started but I cut him off.

"Please sir, just call me Mikan." I corrected him. After years of people calling me that, it was still weird to for me to be called so formally.

He smiled a dazzling smile; I couldn't help but smile too. "Very well then, Mikan, I believe you recognize this?"

He took out a letter from his jacket and I immediately put up my guards. It had the emblem of Japan's Prime minister.

"I was given this by a man yesterday and was told to give it to a girl named Mikan Sakura. He said that you were a girl that was very defensive and rarely took your guard down. He said the minister trusted my judgment to make sure you were the right one before giving this to you. Judging by how you answered me when I asked you who the boy besides you was, I think you're the girl."

He extended the letter to me and Tsubasa took it. They always do. After making sure it wasn't a fake, he gave it to me for me to read it.

Dear Mikan! How are you, my little niece? Are you doing well there? I'm sorry I can't see you more often; I'm very busy, as I'm sure you would understand. Now, I know you don't like it when I tell your headmasters about your identity but Narumi can be trusted. Trust me on this one. I have to go now. I'll see you later. Take care!

Your uncle,
-KazuYukihara

I folded the letter back and gave it to Tsubasa to keep for now. He was an idiot but he guarded well.

"So, when can I have an official introduction from you? I was given one yesterday but I'd rather hear it from your mouth firsthand." He gave an apologetic smile.

"No worries. Tsubasa, tell the others to be here, ASAP." I didn't look at him when I said it.

And five minutes and thirty-four seconds later, all of the members of the Guild were behind me, all lined up. They must have come through the opened window.

I heard someone gasp. Must be Anna.

I twisted my body to see and it was her. Thankfully, Nonoko managed to catch her before she fell flat to the floor. "Thank you..." she muttered. When she was able to stand up again, she turned her back on Narumi-sensei. From his face, I didn't think he knew why.

"Did you guys come from the house?" Tsubasa asked.

"Yeah. And seeing as Mistress called us today, you must have done something, didn't you?" Misaki was glaring daggers at Tsubasa.

"N-no! I didn't do it this time! Honest! It was Master's doing again!"

Misaki seemed to get it and returned to her cheerful self. Punching Tsubasa in the stomach must have helped.

"I'm gonna get you for this when we get back..." He was shut up by Hotaru. His hands were held down by Misaki.

"Try me," Misaki dared him.

Tsubasa's retort sounded muffled. Misaki seems to like Tsubasa not being able to say anything back. Masochistic much?

Ignoring the married couples fight —well not really since the husband couldn't do anything—, I gave my attention back to Narumi after a hearing soft 'thump' from Koko, I guess. Oh well, at least Tsubasa won't be conscious for the rest of the day.

"My name is Mikan Yukihara Sakura. These are the nine members that live together with me. We serve Japan through the underground world, as a group called Guild."

I took a short break for a dramatic effect plus trying to lift up the mood a bit but after a while of still feeling tensed behind me, I knew that was lost cause.

Oh well. "It's so hard to get a good mood these days..." I muttered a bit. I knew they could hear me. I wanted them to.

Continuing from a stupid failed dramatic effect, I said "These nine people are my friends. They are Natsume, Hotaru, Ruka, Koko, Anna, Nonoko, Misaki and Tsubasa."

(Narumi'sPOV)

Interesting. She didn't point to the people when she says their name. Probably for protection purpose. She really is defensive. Just like her mother.

"Okay. Well, I think that's all I need to know. However, I do have a request to make."

"What kind of request?" She still looked calm.

I let my smile down and tried to put a serious face. It worked from the changing of emotion in Mikan's face.

"Recently, there have been some attacks in this school. Students are being harmed. Some of them are seriously injured. Day by day, the rate of the attacks is getting higher. If it would not be too much, would it be okay if you looked into this a bit? I don't want to involve the police because from what the students said, they are not gangsters from other schools. They are likely hired and when I heard of you, I thought you would be the right ones to solve this."

She took time to answer me but then she said; "Of course. This is now my school so I'd rather it's not tainted by blood. Is that all you wish to talk about? I have some things to take care of."

She began standing up again. I copied her. "No, that's all. Have a wonderful day. And please, try not to give that unconscious young man a hard time. He looks pretty beaten up."

She gave me a smile. I thought she looked like an angel when she did it. She takes it from Yuka I guess.

"Of course we won't. Later, Narumi-sensei!"

She looked so childish when she waved her hands like an excited little kid. So cute! I ran up to her and hugged her.

"Ahh!Narumi-sensei! What are you doing?" She tried pulling me away but I hugged her more tightly. I could swear the temperature rise a bit.

I didn't say anything and keep hugging her until "Narumi-sensei! C-cant br-breathe..."

I snapped out from my la-la land and let her go. The temperature went down a bit. Is there something wrong with the air conditioner? Seeing her stricken face, I apologized. Sort of. "Sorry! You looked so cute just now! I couldn't help it. You looked so much like a cute teddy bear I saw the other day during the teddy bear exibition. One of them reminded you of me;the one with the student uniform. It's-"

"Narumi-sensei!" she cut me off in a haste.

I blushed and gazed at the floor. "Sorry."

"Don't worry. I'm used to it..." Used to it?

"Well, Sensei, gotta go now. Let's go guys..." And they all took off from the window...

A boy stayed behind and had a goofy smile on his face. "Sensei, I think you shouldn't do that again if you don't want to get killed. Oh and, if you make Anna almost faint again, I'll be honored to do it instead of Natsume. Later!"

And the boy disappeared as well. I guess nothing changed there- boys threatening to kill me with a smile on their face.

Oh Yuka...I miss you and them... so much...