Chapter 1-

The New Girl

I saw a girl, mostly hidden by the shadows of buildings and the darkness of the night. All I could see was her silky, dark hair and her beautiful eyes. She was soaked in the moonlight, appeared to be hurt, and was covered in blood. I watched as she got up. She got up slowly, staggering at first. Then she steadied herself and walked toward me. She held a knife over her head. At first I thought she would throw it at me, but i was prepared. Then to my surprise, she threw it passed me and i heard a grunt from behind. I turned around to see who she had hurt and everything went black as she mumbled something, and I think it was a message for me.

My eyes shot open. I wasn't scared. Instead I was left completely confused. I had the dream millions of times, specifically every Friday night. I started keeping track after I had the dream for about a month straight. Now, I usually just ignore it and get ready for school. I never told my friends about the dream, after all it wasn't like me to pay this much attention to some stupid dream. Most of them weren't even that close to me. Only one- Daichi Fujikawa- was really my friend. All the others tried to be my friend to help their reputation- or ruin it. Depends on how you look at it I guess. Even though I told those idiots at school I didn't want to get involved, they made me the leader of the school delinquents. Just for beating the crap out of some idiot who tried to threaten me and for skipping a lot. I just figured I'd go along with it until they lost interest though. Better than beating them until it got through their heads. Not worth the time either.

I walked into the classroom to a rather large commotion. "What the heck?" I mumbled to myself.

"Hey Arashi!" the class rep started, "There's supposed to be some new transfer student today! They're saying she'll be in our class and that she's REALLY pretty."

"Ok? Why the big commotion over some transfer student?"

"I guess it's just 'cause we aren't used to new students?" he replied awkwardly. "By the way, Daichi-kun and your sister Kumiko-chan are gathering things the teacher needs for class today."

I sighed. This was gonna be a long day. I could tell already. The teacher walked into the room right as the bell rang. "Hello class!" She said. The whole class stayed silent while she looked at their faces. She stopped on mine. "Nice of you to join us today, Arashi. Are you done skipping school for a while? It's not like there's anything to do while Daichi's in school still." she smiled falsely at me. I rolled my eyes at her and she glared at me. She scanned everyone's faces again- this time avoiding mine. "Well I can see you've heard about the transfer student judging by the impatient looks you're giving me. First I'm going to say that if ANY of you are even CLOSE to being mean to her you will be severely punished," She told us smiling sweetly- which to most kids is scary when she threatens them. "She's my dear niece, the daughter of my older sister."

This one had everyone confused- especially me. That would make the new girl Daichi's sister. And he only has 3 sisters- one who's out of school and 2 in elementary. "Her name is Aly Fujikawa. Aly-chan! Come in now!" Mrs. Star hollered out into the hall.

A young girl who looked to be about 15 walked into the classroom. She had silky, jet black hair and beautiful, bright blue eyes. She looked oddly familiar- but I had never met her before. I was sure of that.

"We're ba-" Daichi walked back into the classroom but stopped mid-sentence when he saw the new girl.

"Something wrong?" My sister's voice came from behind him.

"Why is- ..." he trailed off again.

No doubt. He knew her. I saw him look at the new girl for a moment and then look back at her aunt. What the heck was going on?

My little sister soon voiced my thoughts- sorta. "What the heck, Daichi! Move! This is heavy!" He stiffly walked forward and set Mrs. Star's things on her desk and looked at the new girl then straight at Mrs. Star. When Kumiko entered, she paused for all of 3 seconds. Then, she abruptly set the teacher's things next to her desk and practically tackled the new girl. "WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN ALY! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU FOR OVER A YEAR!"

"Wha- ?" And when I looked around the room - for whatever reason- everyone was staring at me. "What? Why are you staring at me?"

"Well we kinda figured you'd know her too since they do.." the class rep trailed off.

"Well I don't so leave me out of this."

Aly's view

I felt a little weird being in a new place again, but since Daichi was there and Kumiko gave me a ... warm ... welcome I calmed down a little, but them being here was also half the reason I was scared. I thought they might cause trouble or something- but then I remembered that I'm me and I don't have to act like anyone else this time. My mission: BE A NORMAL GIRL AND LIVE THE LIFE YOU WOULD HAVE HAD IF YOU HADN'T BEEN TRAINED AND BROUGHT TO BLACK ROSE HIGH. It had been given to me about a month ago, and as soon as my other mission had been done with, I had erased any existence of my fake identity and gotten home. Maybe I should introduce myself. I'm Aly Fujikawa and I attend the Black Rose High School for Girls- a genius and spy school. They gave me the orders to attend the high school I would normally have gone to if Black Rose hadn't found me and discovered my 'talents' which I've always hated having, though they often come in handy. One major problem: I'm not too good at the whole be yourself thing. Of course I can act out just about any personality on the planet, but be myself? Not so much. I hated "being myself" because that involved being around my father who hates my guts. Personally, I would have been happier if they had given me orders on how to act and an alias for my name. It's a lot more comfortable for me that way. I'm just too used to that kind of thing.

After school I escaped to the roof for fresh air. Gosh, I have always hated school. They were teaching stuff I could do in my sleep. In fact, Kumiko, Daichi, and - I'm not sure about this- I'm guessing Daichi's friend could too. It's all too easy for kids like us. Especially when we've learned it all a million times before. Even everything Black Rose taught me was stuff I had learned over and over again.

"Well, well. What's the transfer student doing in a place like this?" I turned around and instinctively held my hand close to my bag where I had easily concealed both a gun and a knife (along with a lot of other small weapons) from the school's security. I relaxed a little when I saw Daichi's friend. What was his name again? Well it didn't matter to me. I was never go to talk to him. Or anyone for that matter. "Hellooo? I know you can hear me and see me or else you wouldn't have turned around. Can you just not talk?"

I followed with silence. I turned around and ignored him. I walked over to the large grey wall with the door off the roof and leaned against it. I let the breeze run through my hair and I stared out over the trees. I was such an outdoors person if I had no access to a computer, and sadly at school I didn't.

Apparently by this time Daichi's friend was just really annoyed. All of the sudden, he slammed me against the wall and glared at me. I stared back. Blank-faced with no emotions. I pushed him off and into the railing around the edge of the roof. I was slightly surprised. Not because he went that far, but because pushing him actually hurt my hand a little. I stared at my hand. When I looked up, he was in my face again. Ugh. I hated it when people got in my face. I tried to push him away again, but this time he wouldn't budge. He smirked at me. "Did you think I'd fall for that a second time? I'll admit I was a little surprised you were that strong in the first place."

I rolled my eyes and looked away. Then he pushed me against the wall and smirked again. "Not too many girls can piss me off that easily, but you just did. Now talk before my anger takes over and I smack you, now that I know you can defend yourself more than adequately." After a few seconds of silence I could see he was getting more and more annoyed. Then his facial expression calmed down. He leaned closer.