Hidden Leaf High huh?"
The social worker shrieked as a fist suddenly crashed down onto her desk almost snapping it in two.
"P-Please Yurei this is for your own good. We only want to do what's best for…"
Standing up angrily the girl spun around and stomped to the door, flinging it open with barely concealed rage.
"Don't give me that crap! You just want to ship me off to the fire country so you and the village won't have to look at me every other day!"
The girl stopped for a moment as her head dropped, speaking in no more than a whisper
"…It's always the same"
SLAM!
"(Sigh) I knew she'd take it badly…at least this time she managed to not totally obliterate my desk…TT"
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Stepping out into the rain, the teenager began a slow walk towards her small apartment wrapped her long coat around her.
Yurei Tsukiko wasn't like the other people in her village. She had known it since she was very young. She was reminded time and time again just how out of place she was. She behaved differently, she spoke differently, and the most obvious, she looked different.
For a start she was by no doubt the tallest girl in town. At 5'10 she was powerfully built for a woman: strong shoulders, long toned legs and arms, a long slender neck, and curves that caught an uncomfortable amount of male attention.
Her hair seemed to be the centre of many comments by her classmates and village folk, it stretched far down her body, flowing wherever the wind swept it, a blanket of midnight pouring out behind her, yet there were always odd comments about the cluster of pure white hair that framed her sculptured face. No matter how many times she had said it, they never believed it was actually naturally that way. This grated on her often as it was just another reason for them to whisper behind her back. However little do they know that the very girl they tried to secretly insult could hear every one of their hushed words.
That was another thing that caused friction between her and the others, since birth Yurei had lived with enhanced senses, superior to any other around her. She had hearing more profound than that of any bat, smell 1000 times better than that of a dog (which could sometimes be a pain on her part), sight that could see the tiniest detail in anything and with one touch can tell if a person is lying simply by a tiny beat of their heart. What Yurei failed to tell anyone is that, apart from her superior senses, she also had other abilities that others would only believe existed in fairytales.
Because of that air of mystery around her, no one would dare look her in the eyes, even if they needed to talk to her. She guessed that having glowing green eyes was something to do with it too.
Reaching her destination she rummaged clumsily through her bag looking for the key to her door.
'To think, this is the last time I'll be doing this (sigh)'
After climbing the stairs, careful not to alert her overly curious landlady, Yurei was relieved to finally be home and to take a long relaxing bath.
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After a good long soak, she dried off, slipped into her night clothes and fell onto her bed with a long sigh. Turning her head she looked sadly at her best friend.
"Well Isamu, at least we'll finally be leaving this god forsaken place for good"
Looking up to the ceiling Yurei let out another long sigh
"Let's just hope those people can see me as a person…"
With that she curled up under the covers, making sure not to kick the large dog snoozing carelessly at the end of the bed, and fell into a long dreamless sleep.