Prologue
Lilly wandered down the hallways of Okashi High searching for a restroom. Her hall pass read "8:25" and it was already nearing 9:00. Her five minutes were more than used up.
"I could have sworn the restroom was this way," Lilly went to clutch her stuffed bear Poko, but she couldn't feel him. She glanced down and saw that her school bag was open and several things were quickly forming a trail behind her. "Oh no! My belongings!" Lilly exclaimed, "And my poor Poko! Where has he gone?"
Lilly quickly rushed down the hallway and found a door that may or may not have been familiar to her.
"Have I been this way?" Lilly asked out loud. "Maybe I left Poko there." She pushed the door open slowly and realized that it lead outside. She was about to turn around when she heard laughing. 'Maybe they've seen Poko' she thought. She walked outside and found that she had wandered onto the roof. She quickly found the source of the laughter. It was two girls, obviously from her school for they were wearing her uniform 'and on the roof' she thought.
"Pardon me" she walked up to the girls with her arms behind her back. Noticing their strange hairstyles and alcoholic drinks in their hand, she suddenly became very interested in her shoes.
"Yeah, what do ya want?" the blonde, whose hair was spiky and short, slurred at her, obviously drunk.
"I-I was w-wondering-" Lilly began, but the girl cut her off.
"Wondering what? Can't you see that we're busy?" the blonde yelled. Lilly could feel the tears beginning to sting the corners of her eyes. No one had ever spoken to her like that.
"Leave her alone," the other girl finally spoke up. Her hair was long and layered. It was brown with red highlights that seemed to catch the light.
"But Kuri, she was trying to crash our party," the blonde whined.
"Madoka, just shut up already," Kuri moaned and rubbed her head with her hand. "Just let the little mouse go," she turned her gaze to Lilly, "We don't want her getting gobbled up by a wolf, now do we?"
"W-wolf," Lilly stammered.
"Figure of speech, sweetheart," Kuri smiled. "Now go run along before you get in trouble."
"Thank you. Kuri-san, thank you!" Lilly shouted and ran back inside.
Scene 1
Standing in front of two gigantic black doors gives the high class Shinigami, Megumi, the shivers. The carvings of a black Hawk like bird holding a syth cover the gigantic doors displaying the symbol for all Shinigamis. Megumi hesitates to knock on the black doors knowing that her boss lies behind them. It's been quite some time since she has had to come to him for an assignment. Being one of the oldest and high-ranking Shinigamis her experience gives her more time to do other, easier, assignments. She enjoys going around, checking up on newer trainers and their trainees. The boss thinks that with all her knowledge and skills she can help and improve Shinigami system of collecting souls. After pondering for quite some time Megumi, taking a deep breath, bangs her fist against the doors giving it three good knocks.
She then yells, "Master class Shinigami Nikkou, Megumi reporting!"
With a loud creak of the doors and the voice of the boss yelling "ENTER" Megumi slowly enters a massive office. Even after so many years, the presence of the boss still causes her to fold her ears back and cause her tail to become stiff. Her folded wings behind her are covered by her long braided black hair, which is tied with a bright red ribbon. Hoping that her glasses wouldn't fog up, she places herself directly in front of the bosses' desk.
"You called for me sir?"
"Yes, I have a new assignment for you." Not surprised, Megumi watched as he tried to finish up a pile of papers on his desk. "This assignment will be done by the appropriate time." A small file then floated over to her. Taking the file she opened it to skim over what seems to be a file on an older women. The file reads Terasu, Suzuka and it seems that her soul is scheduled to be collected on the second week of September for the next year.
'Will I be taking a soul? It's been a while,' she thought while closing the file to finish for later. Just then a couple of hard knocks were heard from behind.
"Come in!" As his voice echoed throughout the room the two doors opened to then reveal three figures. From her distant she was unable to identify two of the figures yet Ginta, one of her fellow Shinigamis, stood out like a sore thumb.
"Does he still always have to wear that bright orange bandana?" After a little giggle the two other figures began to reveal themselves. Adjusting her glasses she realized that two young girls follow Ginta into the room.
"Good timing Ginta, you may go." He then ushered Ginta to leave the room. Bowing toward the boss he quickly left to finish other business. The two girls wearing what seems to be Japanese junior high school uniforms still stood beside Megumi. Megumi still didn't understand the purpose of the two girls, looking back at the boss she waited for an explanation.
"Now Megumi, I want to introduce you to Ijiwaru, Kuri and Shizuka, Lillian. Both soon to be Migoto, Riku and Houki, Lulu. You will be training these two from today on." With a shocked look on her face she look at the girl Lillian on her right than Kuri on her left and then back at the boss wondering 'What the hell!' Finally able to release some words she said in a medium loud tone,
"Two of them! But sir you didn't mention anything about training…"
"Silence!!" She was interrupted by his loud deep tone that echoed throughout the room causing all three girls to jump in unison. "This is what I have decided and all my decisions are FINAL! I hope that you can carry this assignment without any problems. AM I CLEAR!!" Slightly bowing her head she responds,
"Yes boss." With that she gestures for the girls to bow as well then grabbing them by the wrists she dragged them out of the office leaving the boss in one of his foul moods. When the black doors where shut behind her she released a sigh of relief. Then with a smile she looked at the girls and said, "Well lets not do that again. Follow me." Megumi began walking down the hall when she realized that she hadn't introduced herself. Stopping suddenly the girls bump into her causing Megumi to almost fall forward. "Forgive me girls I haven't properly introduced myself. I am Megumi and I will be helping you with your training so you can just call me Sensei. Now lets get a good look at you two." Both girls seem to be about the same age wearing the exact same uniforms.
"Do you two know each other?" The girls looked at one another and shook their heads.
"This seems to be the first time we've met." The smaller girl said in a quite tone. "You must be Lulu." The girl nodded her head.
"Here." The girl next to Lulu handed Megumi two small files. "That Ginta guy told me to give this to you." The two files contained the information regarding the two girls.
"And you must be Riku." Riku looked at Megumi with the "duh" expression on her face. 'Well it looks like all their memories of their past had disappeared', she thought. Then without warning Megumi pounced on the two girls yelling "KAWAII!!!" as well as a lot of cutesy babble.
"Ewe" Riku mumbled as she tried to pry herself from Megumi's grip.
"What? Don't you like me?" Megumi tired a cutesy face with her bottom lip puckered out to win over Riku yet all she said was,
"Umm let me think…Yeah! I don't like you." Clutching Lulu Megumi cried out,
"Wah! Riku-Chan doesn't like me!" Tears began pour out of her eyes. Still in a quiet tone Lulu said under Megumi's arm,
"Sensei. Sensei." Releasing Lulu, just a bit, Megumi looked down at her with her big catlike eyes.
"Yes Lulu-Chan."
"I like you sensei." In an instant Megumi's eyes glittered with happiness and she attacked Lulu with more cutesy babble. Riku looked at them with disgust. After Megumi released Lulu her hair was complete ruined. Her black and white hair, which was put into two adorable buns with curly strands of hair coming from the middle of the buns, were now wet and messy from Megumi's tears. Looking down at Lulu, Megumi realized that she held a small teddy bear that had a zipper on the back.
"Lulu-Chan"
"Hai sensei."
"Who is that you have with you?" Holding up the little bear, Lulu said with a smile on her face,
"This is my little Poko. Say konichiwa Poko." Taking the little bears hand she gestured it to wave at Megumi.
"Yeah ok weirdo." Riku whispered behind Megumi and Lulu. The girl Riku had more of the rebellious look. Her hair was layered with red streaks showing though her dark brown hair. A lollipop hung from the corner of her mouth giving herself the look of trouble.
"Awe Riku, its ok. You'll learn to like a little stuff animals soon enough." Megumi gave Riku a large grin. The two girls looked at each other with confused looks wondering what the hell she was talking about. Opening the files again Megumi began to read over their info to see where they will be staying. "Ok girls. It says here that you two will be bunking together over at the dorms. So lets head over there now to get you guys settled in." Megumi lead the girls down into town to the Shinigami Towers, the dorm rooms. Many new Shinigami students spend their first year or so in the dorms before they find places of their own. After she lead the girls to their quarters and helped them settle in, Megumi gave them a few comforting words, told them where everything was and departed for the night. The girls were left in a decent size room with soft cream color walls. The peaceful room held a large oak dresser, two beds, and a pair of desks. It looked like a normal dorm. The room had a private bathroom, which is rare because most of the students share a community bath, so the girls were lucky. After a long day the girls were tired and decided to end their night. The girls found pajamas on their beds, and towels in the bathroom. Before turning in for the night the girls washed up and changed out of their uniforms. As Riku finished changing into her pajamas Lulu called out to her.
"Riku-Chan."
"Don't put Chan at the end of my name! You'll use San instead!"
"Hai, Riku-San. Could I ask you a question?"
"Yeah. Go ahead."
"What do you think being a Shinigami means?" Riku thought for a couple of seconds but couldn't think of an answer.
"How the hell would I know? I just got to this damn place as well. Now just go to sleep." Lulu crawled into bed and tucked her bear Poko in for the night.
"Oyasumi-nasai Riku-San. Oyasumi Poko."
"Hurry up and sleep!" As the girls closed their eyes they both wondered what the next day would bring. Soon both of the girls slipped into a deep slumber and the night began to past by bringing in the morning rays.