Chapter 1: The First day
The night was filled with the sounds of crickets as a young man was trying to find sleep with school starting in the morning.
Ichika rolled over on his side and started at the ceiling of his room while lying on his bed, " Alright, I guess it's time to sleep." He told himself he shifted to another side of his bed and closed his eye beginning to count sheep, then threw off his blanket and scratched his head.
"Ugh, well maybe if I eat something." He got up and made his way to the kitchen, on the way to his fridge he picked up the remote and flicked on the T.V. and began to flick through the channels.
"Win a brand ne-"
"With just 19.95 a month you can-"
"-group of teen's said that they didn't realize that the I.S.-
"-n't do it Rin, don't use Satan's power to…."
Ichika paused and flicked back to the previous channel, did the lady say something about I.S's? When flipped back Ichika saw a group of boy's!
" –Along with Kenshi, this group of boy's all demonstrated being able to activate an I.S. and operate it after being caught in a warehouse filled with them. When they were questioned about it all them replied "We don't know what we were doing only that the machine's moved and we climbed inside of them and got out of there as fast as we could."
Ichika watched in utter shock and disbelief, there were other males that could pilot an I.S.! His heart sped up and he kept his eyes glued on the T.V. screen as it showed the profiles on the screen,
One had brown hair in a spiked fashion and had a mischievous smile that told you he was not someone to turn your back on, at the same time he also had kind playful violet color eyes almost like Charlotte's only a shade lighter he looked to have average height though.
Another was a little shorter than the brown haired one but he also was a scared looking kid with a red eye and the other blue and black hair and besides his eyes he didn't look to be anything special.
The last one profile made Ichika's heart stop for a brief second, just his face was enough for Ichika to know he was not someone that you mess with or that you would ever forget. He had white long hair and grey eyes that almost seemed that you were looking through them and made you shiver. The boy's face had a small scar along the nose and a serious expression that would have made the toughest man waver.
"All of the boy's here have currently been enrolled in the IS Academy, most of the public is still in shock and awe as this came as surprise to the boy's themselves. What's more is that fact that the boy's are not all from Japan but different countries, when asked why they were in Japan they simply said that they were looking for someone."
Ichika bit his thumb as he started to wonder what they had come for, it wasn't long however before sleep finally took over Ichika.
Images and people speaking all flashed through his dreams and he kept hearing these notes playing in his dream..or at least he was hoping that this was a dream, the notes played low then got higher and then lower repeating themselves.
"What's going on here?" Ichika thought to himself, when he went to move his arms all he do was barley move them a inch before his whole body felt weighted, a sudden feeling of uneasiness started to come when the music notes started to take a sharper turn and he turned to look behind him only to see a bright light and something attaching to his back.
"ICHIKA!" he turned to see Hoki and the others in front of him, he smiled but stopped when he saw that their faces were worried and seemed scared urgent almost.
"TAKE OUR HAND'S!" They all stretched out their hands for him to take, he reached for them but his arm felt even more weighted and it wouldn't respond. He looked at them panic and saw the same amount of panic as a white light behind him started to glow brighter and brighter until…..
"How many time's have I told you not to sleep on the couch?" Ichikas eyes flew open, just as a book tapped him on the face, or as any tap from Chifuyu would be. Grabbing his face in pain he sat up and groaned,
"What the heck happened?" Ichika rubbed the sleepiness from his eyes still rubbing the stop Chifuyu hit, "Oh yeah!" he turned to his sister, "Is it true those boys are going to school, or was I that sleepy?" he looked at the T.V. thinking of what he had heard last night.
"More importantly shouldn't you be getting to the train station?" Chifuyu said raising an eyebrow at her younger brother still in Pajamas, then she grabbed her duffle and left the house.
"What did she mea-" Ichikas heart stopped in his throat as he looked at the clock as saw that it was 7:59, the train leaves at 8:00! He ran to his room and threw off his Pajamas and threw on his school uniform, grabbed his duffle and ran out the door tripping on his way out.
"Crap, crap, crap, crap!" Ichika ran down the hill of his house and to the train station, on his way he noticed that two other males running while a third was being dragged ahead of him, all in the sam uniform as his.
One of them half dressed in his school uniform while his the other half of his uniform was in his hands along with his duffle, the other dragging a smaller scared looking child along with a piece of toast in his mouth , and the child was smiling widely while listing to something on his headphones and didn't notdice or even didn't care that he was being carried but he was content.
"What…..I bet these guy are the new males student's." Ichika picked dup his pace to match the two in front of him, and then was a little shocked when they quicken their pace and he had to catch up to them again, and once again they picked up their pace.
This went on until the reached the train station breathless and a few seconds to spare before the train was supposed to leave.
"Man you guy's run quick." Ichika said breathless as he boarded the train with the other three behind them,
"Wait you mean you aren't one of the teachers chasing us?" the one who was half dressed asked his head turned sideways and his grey eyes looking questioningly at Ichika.
Ichika looked at him abd was about to answer before he turned bright red and grabbed his hand then ran to the coach in the back and threw him in along with pants the breathed a sigh of relief, the other two followed him with a questioning glance until they saw the pants then they laughed and shook their heads.
"That's Rylin for you," said the one with spiked hair, "Always unprepared for normal stuff unless it's a fight." Then he laughed and looked at Ichika "By the way I am Leyon, America's rep. and given that you are also a male, you must be Ichika Orimura." He held out his hand to shake and Ichika took it and smiled.
"Yeah I am, nice to meet you Leyon." When he let go he heard a few girls coming down the corridor and heard them say,
"I know they are here somewhere, I saw Orimura get on the train with the new males-"
"I wonder what they are like-"
"Did you see the one with no pants!?"
Ichika tensed and grabbed both Leyon and the smaller boy and opened the door and threw them inside and closed the door behind them right as the ground began to rumble.
"Hey whats the big idea!" said Rylin zipping up his pants and looking skeptically at Ichika who was closing the blinds to their windows.
Ichika looked back at them and put his finger to his lips telling them to be quiet as the rumbling became louder and louder and voice soon followed,
"ORIMURA! COME OUT WITH THE NEW GUYS!"
"WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE SOMEWHERE!"
The other boys eye's grew wide as they looked at the door in fear, the little one began to shake and tear up a little bit as they started running down the hallway of the train. Leyon put his hand on the littler ones shoulder and smiled at him giving him a thumbs up.
"Man, hopefully they won't nodice that this is the only closed compartment and look here." Ichika cursed himself for being so stupid. When the rumbling stopped he took a deep breath and told the others to keep silent while he checked to see if they were gone, they all nodded and Ichika got up slowly and lifted the blind slightly.
At that moment he really wished that he hadn't because the moment he did he saw a whole flood of eyes staring at right back into his followed by a knock on the door. He slumped his shoulders and turned then sank to the floor sad and defeated.
"What's wrong?" Leyon asked his expression getting tense as he stood up, "Who's at the door?"
Rylin and the little one were watching him with tense face's as well as Ichika sat on the floor,
"Prepare yourselves is all I can say…..and if we survive this lets meet sometime at school ok?" Ichika was able to say that before the door was kicked down and a whole flood of girls came in and grabbed them and the new guys were lost in the waves of them
Rylin just glared at them and the group advancing toward him stopped dead in there track's for a few seconds until someone scream for him to glare at her again and he was charged again and tackled to the floor,
Leyon they stood around and gawking at him until one girl with flaming red hair hugged him and the rest started to protest and all began to crowd him, much to his credit however he didn't fall down he just stood ther looking at them in amazement and wonder.
The little guy however looked as if he was going to have the worst of it, the girls surrounded him and started asking him questions at such as fast pace, he started to shake his eye's wild until a girl stepped forward and offered him her hand. He looked as if he was going to take it but stopped when he saw her evil face.
So Ichika thinking that the other two could handle themselves pushed and squeeze through the crowd of them until he was standing in front of the kid and offered his hand, "Come on, let's get out of here before they get any random idea's trust me they can be pretty weird sometimes."
The little kid looked up in Ichika in wonder and then smiled nodding his head and taking Ichika's hand, Ichika then charged through the crowd of girls, through the corridor and didn't stop until he reached the very front section of the train breathing heavy he stopped to catch his breath and looked at the young kid and really studied his face.
"You ok big brother?" he asked in a quiet but gentle tone, "You look rather tired." He looked worried and Ichika couldn't help but smile,
"Now I see why all of the girls were after him." He put his hand on the kid's head and rubbed it, "It's alright I'm fine." The kid looked shocked and then began to smile as he closed his eyes. "He seems so sincere." Then he stopped and looked down at the kid "I'm sorry to ask this but I never got your name."
"That's ok, my name is Axel and I am the male rep for England." He gave Ichika a such strong confident smile that Ichika would have thought that he was a different person compared to the kid he just saved.
"Ichika! There you are!" Before Ichika had anytime to react at all he was pulled into his childhood friend Rins hug and squeezed roughly
"He- Hey Rin how are you?" He tried to give an apologetic glace to Axel but he wasn't able to mostly due to the fact that Lin was squeezing the life out of him,
"Haven't seen you in over a year and that's all you can say." Her expression went from one of joy that of annoyance and Ichika felt a her grip tighten around him causing him to gasp for air.
"Get your hand's off of my Ichika dog!" said a much more haughty voice the voice that could only be Cecilia Alcott. "The only one aloud to squeeze him like that is me." She crossed her arms over her chest and walked towards the two her blue eye's blazing with determination.
Lin glared down at Cecilia and let go of Ichika, "Well I got here first so back off you ugly cow." She pointed at her, almost immediately Ichika heard s shuffle of feet followed by his arm being taken by Hoki Shinono,
"There you are." Before Ichika could even give her an confused look she blushed and make her face even more serious then normal, 'It's just that I've been looking for you that's all." She then blushed even more as he looked a little shocked and pressed her body against his arm and screamed at him "D-Don't look at me like that."
"H-H-Hoki they are touching me." Ichika felt his face start to heat up and he couldn't help but looking down as Hoki glared at him and turned around covering her chest and calling him a pervert.
Axel started to laugh as he watched Ichika's expression, "She must be the Tsudere huh?" as soon as he said that Ichika picked him up and ran as fast as he could into a new compartment and into the bathroom.
"Do you have a death wish?" he said looking at Axel with a look worry and shock, "First thing about this Academy is not to point out anyone's flaws, especially not Hoki's if you want to live to see your homeroom."
Axel looked at him with a look that told Ichika he wasn't listening, "Well I thought you knew, I mean you also have those two Yandere's did you see the way they looked at that Hoki girl when she pressed up against you?"
Ichika was so surprised he was listening that he didn't hear a word that Axel said, "I thought you couldn't hear me with those headphones on." He stared in wonder at Axel and then grabbed one of headphone's and Axel knocked his hand away.
"Trust me I may not look like it but I listen a lot more then people give me credit for." A slight hint of sadness in his voice.
The door to the bathroom opened and Ichika cursed himself for not locking it, when he turned around however he saw both Leyon and Rylin standing with their body's pressed against the door barricading it.
"Th-t-Thank you for throwing us to the dogs!" Leyon said with an hurt and annoyed tone in his voice, "I don't think I have ever been hugged so much in all my life! Rylin poor guy was like an open ki-" the door behind them lurched forward as the girls on the other side began to kick the door down screaming that they weren't done yet.
Ichika felt cold sweat as he looked at the door, "We are finished, and before I to hang out with these guys." he walked up to the door and put his hand his hand on the handle
"What are you doing if you open, we are finished and Axel looks to young to exspeance anything that those girls do to him." Said Leyon pointing to a annoyed Axel,
"Bloody Hell Leyon I am older than you Im 16 your fifteen." He said, then he sighed "Before you open the door hold on there is something that I want to try as a last resort." He reached into his duffle bag and pulled out something that surprised all of the boy's
"You" started Ichika
"Cannot be" Continuted Leyon
"Serious…." Finished Rylin
Only seconds later was the door kicked down and four surprised looking male cat's with paw's looking at them with fear and surprise in their I.S. Operation suits and only the smallest dared to pose in his.
"This will never work, girls love Neko human, and what's worse id that we are the only boys here so they wont just 'watch' as Axels hoping, well might as well play the part.." thought Ichika as he began to move to get hair out of his eyes and immediately wished that he hadn't
All eye's shifted to him and took a step back in fear tripped and more hair fell into his face, he started to blush as he put his hand up to his chin and he gave them his best (which was hard) cat eyes, then raised his paw and gave a off tune and meek "Meow."
"Oh….my…god…THEY'ER ADORABLE!" they took as step forward towards Ichika that's when Axel took a step forward and smiled and took a step forward directing their attention to him .
That's when Ichika noticed that Axel's head phones turned into neko ears and they started to play a very familiar dance song as he began to move his hip from side to side while putting his paws up on his head
"Vi undrar är ni redo att vara med
Armarna upp nu ska ni få se
Kom igen
Vem som helst kan vara med
(Vara med)
"Good god not this song." Said Leyon his exspression saying that he knew this song all to well, as well as Rylin who shook his head .
Ichika nodiced that they girls were looking a little bit like they would love to have Axel in their clutches as some started to drool and wiggle their fingers and move closer , so he got up and then stood next to Axel and started to dance with him.
"Big brother…" Axel smiled and then Leyon dragged Rylin as they started to dance and the music rang out through the bathroom.
Så rör på era fötter
Oa-a-a
Och vicka era höfter
O-la-la-la
Gör som vi
Till denna melodi
"Hopefully this hold out." Said Axel under breath, Ichika didn't really care all he wanted was to make it to school on one piece and not have to hear anything else from anyone else, Luckily though as the song hit the last verse the train slowed down and behind them they could see the platform.
"One the count of three," said Leyon as the four of them took a step back, "One, two….THREE!" Leyon jumped out of the window and Rylin followed when it was time for Ichika to get out he jumped out head first and landed face first onto the ground.
(Oh-wa-ohwa-ah)
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen.
With that Axel jumped out of the window and landed on top of Ichika causing him to get the air knocked out of him, unfortunately he didn't have time to think about that due to the fact the girls were trying to get through the window as well as coming out of the train.
"Crap we've gatta go now!" Ichika grabbed Axel and ran past Leyon and Rylin who followed after him,
"Uh Ichika we forgot-" Axel started to say, but was cut off my when a large black I.S came speeding towards them and a girl with silver hair and brown eye (the other covered with an eye patch) and confident smile piloting the I.S. Unit. "R-R-REALLY B-BIG I.S. WITH A CREEPY GIRL POILTING IT"
"Don't worry dude, my I.S. is with-" Then he looked behind him and saw what he was talking about and then attempted to run faster, he was unlucky and lucky at the same time.
Lucky because he was able to get inside of the dorm building along with his other males but unlucky because he ran smack dab into Charlotte and landed on top of her, he put his hand up to push himself up but ended up making it look like he was pinning her down.
"I-Ichika…." She said looking into his eyes and blushing slightly, ''I know that we haven't seen each other for a year but this is…"
Ichika turned red and scrabbled off of Charlotte and helped her up while stammering his apology, the other males were in a group huddle and watching them while walking about them in both awe and amusement in there exspression.
Before anything else could be said, he felt a murderous aura coming from behind him where the door was and turned slowly to see both Rin and Cecilia standing at the door way with a hollow look in their eye's and a killer aura coming off of them.
The first day of school…great…
This is the end of my first chapter hope that you enjoy I do not own any Official Infinite Stratos Characters. IS Infinite Stratos is a Japanese light novel series by Izuru Yumizuru with illustrations provided by Okiura and CHOCO. As of April 2011, 7 volumes have been published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label.