Kamijo Touma opened his eyes, looking around the room. He was sleeping on the ground in his student dorm. "Morning already?" He stood up and stretched. He rubbed his hand through his hair. His hair was a dark blue and spiky. He hated sleeping on the floor, but do to a certain person, he had no choice. He walked over to his bed, looking down at the girl sleeping in it. She had light blue hair and wore pink pajamas. Touma poked her. "Hey, Index. It's time to wake up." Index shifted a little but didn't wake up. "Hey! Index!" He pushed her a little harder.
Index's eyes popped open and she shot up. "Touma?" she asked, looking around. Her green eyes stared at Touma. She yawned and stood up.
"I'm going to prepare breakfast." Touma said, walking away. "Get dressed." He yelled back. "And why does it take me yelling at you to wake you up?" he mumbled to himself. He walked into the kitchen and took out some equipment. He turned on the stove and started to fry an egg.
Index stood up, yawning. She donned her usual attire. She wore a nun's outfit called "The Walking Church". It was white with gold trim. It protects it's wearer from any physical harm. Or at least it used to. That was before it came into contact with a certain zero's Imagine Breaker. Now it is held together by pins.
The Imagine Breaker is a power that resides in Touma's right hand. He is able to use this hand to cancel out any supernatural abilities. This includes esper and magician abilities. He was able to save Index's life using the Imagine Breaker. The church had put a seal on her, so that she couldn't use magic. They tricked two magicians into wiping Index's memory every year. Index holds 103,000 grimoires. These are books that possess secret knowledge on many types of magic. Index memorized all 103,000 of them with her "perfect memorization" ability. Although Index was still part of the English Puritan Church, the church left her in Touma's care. So she has been staying with Touma ever since he saved her.
They sat down and ate in relative silence. "I have school today. What are you going to do while I'm gone?" Touma asked, finishing a glass of milk.
"I'll just wait her and play with sphinx. But you better take me somewhere when you get back!" Index said, turning her head. Sphinx was a brown and white stray cat that Index found. She took the cat in and named it "sphinx".
Touma stood up. "Well, see you later, Index." He smiled and waved at her as he walked out of the door.
She smiled and waved back. "See you after school! Hurry home!" She yelled after him. The door closed behind Touma. He turned around and locked the door.
School had gone just like usual. He had daydreamed some and been reprimanded by his teacher, Komoe. It didn't help that she looked like a child with pink hair and pink eyes. "I guess I'll grab something to eat before I go home. Or should I go get Index first? Then again, she eats so much that I don't think my wallet could handle it." He was walking down one of the more crowded streets in Academy City.
Academy City is a city of science. The technology used in this city is around twenty years more advanced than what the rest of the world uses. Most people here are "espers". Espers and people who have special abilities awakened through scientific or other means. There are six rankings in Academy City's system. Level zero through level six. Level zeroes have no abilities. Level one through level six progress from the weakest abilities to the strongest. Nobody has ever achieved level six. There are currently seven level fives in Academy City. Touma is a level zero. Even though he has the Imagine Breaker, the system scan doesn't detect it as an ability, therefore he is given level zero.
"Sphinx! Sphinx, wait up!"
Touma looked up. He swore that he just heard Index's voice. Probably just my imagination. He continued walking.
"Sphinx!"
He turned his head. A girl in a white nun's outfit was chasing a brown and white cat around.
"Index?" Touma asked. She was drawing a lot of attention. Most people had stopped and were now staring at the site.
"Touma!" Index ran up to him. "Hurry! I need you to help me catch Sphinx!" She said urgently.
"Such misfortune." Touma mumbled. He handed Index his bag. "Leave it to me!" He yelled as he started chasing the cat. Index smiled and waved after him. He ran down various streets, chasing the agile cat around. Everywhere he went, people stared at the boy who was chasing the cat. "Come on Sphinx! Wait!" He yelled, still running.
Before he knew it, he was in the school district for girls' schools. "Oh crap. This is where the rich girls' schools are. I hope I don't draw too much attention." He looked around. There were only girl's around in their uniforms, watching him as he chased Sphinx. "Such Misfortune." He chased Sphinx in front of the dorms for one of the schools. Sphinx ran by the door, while a girl stepped behind Sphinx. "Ah!" Touma let out before he ran into the girl. He opened his eyes. "Ouch." He was on top of a girl with pink hair. Her hair was pulled into twin tails. "Shirai?" Touma asked, recognizing the girl.
Kuroko looked up at him. "Kamijo?" She looked at the position they were in. "Would you mind getting off of me?" She asked kindly. Why is my heart beating faster? Touma sensed murderous intent behind her kindness.
The door to the dorm opened and a girl walked out. Something fell to the ground next to them. They both looked. "Gekota?" Touma asked, recognizing the character the cellphone was based off of. He looked up, as did Kuroko.
A girl with short brown hair stood there, speechless. "Y-You… K-Kuroko…" She stumbled. "What…" She took a step back, electricity flickering around her head.
Touma jumped up, grabbing Kuroko's hand and bringing her up as well. "This isn't what it looks like. I just bumped into her!" He said, defending himself.
"You expect me to believe that!?" Mikoto yelled. She grabbed at the electricity around her head. It formed a ball in her hand, electricity sparking all around it. She threw it at Touma. The area around them burst with a bright light. The smoke started clearing as a gentle breeze blew.
Kuroko looked up. "Kamij-"She stopped, staring in wonder. "How…?" She whispered.
Touma stood there, his right hand held out in front of him. He was completely unscathed. He looked up at her. "This isn't the place to be doing that, Misaka." He put his hand down.
"Ah!" Misaka yelled. "Why don't my shocks work on you!?" She stomped her foot on the ground, ranting.
Kuroko stared at the boy. He's able to block onee-sama's electricity. That time that he was in our room, I couldn't teleport him out. The rumor of the boy who has the ability to cancel other abilities… He couldn't be…
"Ah… Onee-sama." Kuroko said. Mikoto stopped her stomping and ranting and looked over to Kuroko.
"What is it, Kuroko?"
"Kamijo is telling the truth, Onee-sama. He just bumped into me by accident." Kuroko explained. "It's not his fault."
"Well, if you say so. But I still don't like him." She said, turning her head away.
"Oh, I know." Kuroko said happily. She looked at Touma. "How about you treat me to tea to make up for it?"
"Treat you?" Touma asked. "Like a date?"
Kuroko's smile dropped. "N-no! Not like a date! Not at all! It's just a way to make up for running into me!" Her face felt hot.
"Okay, okay." Touma said. "Let's go." He looked at Misaka. "Would you like to come to, Biribiri?"
"My name's Misaka Mikoto!" She yelled. "And yes, I'll come to make sure that you don't do anything weird to Kuroko."
"Great!" Kuroko said happily. Sheesh. I wanted to be alone with kamijo to talk to him about his ability and that rumor. Well, I guess that can wait. Anyways, since it's onee-sama, it's okay.
The three walked down the streets, looking for a good place. They finally settled on a fancy looking coffee shop with an outdoor seating area. The tables were covered with cloths and they had umbrellas over the table to block the sunlight.
Kuroko and Mikoto ordered some expensive-sounding tea. Touma just settled for what Kuroko had gotten. "Misaka looked uncomfortably at Touma. "Hm? Something the matter, Misaka?" He asked, noticing her awkwardness.
"No. It's nothing." Misaka said, looking down at her tea. Most people were staring at them. Considering that there were only girls around, it was strange to see Touma there. It was especially strange to see him drinking tea with Tokiwadai students, and not only Tokiwadai students, but the Ace of Tokiwadai, Misaka Mikoto.
Touma looked around, noticing the stares. He looked at Kuroko. "Um, Shirai. Is it just me or is everybody staring at us?" He asked, raising his cup of tea and taking a sip.
"Well you are drinking tea with the Ace of Tokiwadai, Misaka Mikoto onee-sama. Plus, it's not exactly normal to see boys around here. All the schools in this district are for girls only." She explained, gracefully sipping her tea. "Well, this had been great, but it looks like it's almost curfew. We'll have to excuse ourselves now." She said politely.
Kuroko and Mikoto stood up. "Thanks for the tea, Kamijo." Kuroko said.
"Yeah, thanks." Misaka mumbled as they walked away.
Touma stared after Kuroko as she tried to cling to Misaka, who just pushed her away. I hadn't noticed when she was threatening me about Misaka, but she's actually cute… and nice at that. He smiled and took a look at the bill. He put his cup down, took out his wallet and opened it. His gaze drifted back to the bill. "Such misfortune." He said, lowering his head.
Touma walked back home, his head low. "I was glad that I was able to have tea with shirai, but it was so expensive. Shirai's really nice and sweet compared to Misaka. I hope I get to see her again soon." He said to himself, cheering up a little.
He unlocked the door to his room and opened it. "I'm home!" He said, closing the door behind him. "Huh?" He looked up. Index was standing there with Sphinx by her feet. She was tapping her foot and had a very irritated look on her face. "Is something wrong Index?"
"You never came back, Touma. I had to go and search for over an hour, by myself, to find Sphinx!" She yelled angrily. She jumped on Touma's back, biting the top of his head.
"Such Misfortune!" Touma yelled.