Before you read, may I tell you... I am not human. In fact, no characters that are in this story are human. Well, not your kind of human. We are not of your race, we are not of your species. If you say aliens, you are wrong. We are heroes. Not like Superman or Batman. We are REAL heroes. We are the Chobatsu, and we are legion.
"Kusurio!" A yell was heard from a small brown-haired school girl running swiftly towards a school bus with a lunch box in her hand, where a medium sized 15 year old boy with bright blue eyes and messy brown hair was walking down a driveway towards a yellow school bus that had come to a stop at his house. "Kusurio, you forgot your lunch..." The little girl said in a small, quiet tone, "It's a vegetarian sushi platter, because I know you like the stuff." She handed the bright red lunch box over to Kusurio. He quickly un-zipped the lunch bag and stuffed the entire container of sushi into his mouth. "Thanks Julia..." He said with a stuffed mouth. "Yeah, no problem bro..." She replied, as she quietly walked away back into her house, "Pig..." She quietly muttered under her breath.
Kusurio boarded the overly-crowded school bus, and the school bus immediately departed for Kagemura High, the finest high school in his region. He made his way across the many children throwing paper airplanes and talking on the school bus, to sit next to a short, 14 year old kid with black hair. He always had one part of his hair covering his soulless black eyes. This boy was Daniel Yoshida, one of Kusurio's best friends since childhood. He was 1 year younger than him, although that didn't seem to make a difference to either boys. Daniel's hairstyle and "emo" personality made everyone almost too scared of him to befriend him. Kusurio never seemed to mind, and that usually meant Kusurio was his only friend to look up to. As the bus was slowly departing for the school "Kusurio..." Daniel whispered quietly, "Something really scary happened to me last night and--"
"Hey Kusurio!" He was cut off by one of the jocks at the back of the bus, a large, muscular jock with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. "Did you have your mom make your lunch today? Oh wait-- you HAVE no mom!" He obnoxiously laughed with five other jocks. "Ugh!" Kusurio scowled. "Shut your mouth. I'd rather have no mom than have yours. She obviously doesn't love you if you have the time to smoke weed after school."
Buten then stood up out of his seat, his blue eyes staring Kusurio straight in the face. He held up his fist, and was about to punch Kusurio. "Okay kids, we're here! Get to class!" Yelled the bus driver. "We'll finish this after school, ladies." Buton smirked, and walked out of the bus. "What a jerk..." Kusurio stated, "What did you wanna say, Daniel?" Daniel opened his mouth to talk, but the bus driver, Mr. Yoshi walked up to them. "What did I say? Get to class, you'll be late!" He exclaimed. "Sorry !" Apologized Kusurio. The two boys got off of the bus in a hurry, and opened the doors into the school hallways were a white colour, with checkered blue and white tiles. The lockers were a navy blue colour, and most of the lockers were banged up and damaged. "Kusurio, you don't need to put up with that jerk!" Suggested Daniel, "Kick his ass!" Daniel joked. "Daniel, this is serious. I mean, I could tell someone, but Buton will probably deny it all." Kusurio wondered. 'Ring! Ring!' The bell went off. "Okay, I need to get to class, I'll see you later." Kusurio shuffled to homeroom.
Kusurio made his way to his math class. His math teacher, Mr. Yaro, was standing at the door, tapping his foot. "You're late." He said. "I-I'm sorry Mr. Yaro. I'll get inside now--"
"Ah-ah-ah-ah" Mr. Yaro cut Kusurio off. "There is an exam today, and you are late. I will NOT tolerate tardiness in my class, especially during test time. It is the middle of June, you should know better."
"But sir! I--"
"You will wait OUTSIDE of my classroom this morning. You will take the exam tomorrow, and you will be marked down 1 letter grade." Kusurio stared blank-faced at Mr. Yaro. Mr. Yaro shut the door to his classroom, and Kusurio waited outside for his class. After several minutes of waiting, he heard a voice whispering in his ear. "Hikari... Kusurio..." The voice whispered gently. "Huh!" Kusurio leapt up. It kept repeating itself. "Hikari...Hikari...Hikari..." Kusurio took a deep breath in, and rested his face in the palms of hands, and the sound seemed to go away.
3:00 finally came. Daniel and Kusurio were doing everything in their power NOT to go outside, and risk being beaten up by Buton. "Daniel," Kusurio whispered, "I was... Hearing voices at math class today. It was saying, 'Hikari, Hikari, Hikari', and it wouldn't stop, the whole time." Daniel wasn't answering. He seemed to be staring into space. "Daniel? Daaaaniel?" Daniel started to talk in his daze. "Kurai...Kurai...Kurai...Kurayami no naka de attÅsa re masu ...The...Mask..." Kusurio looked confused. "Daniel! What the hell!" He yelled. Kusurio was suddenly grabbed by the collar of his shirt. It was Buton. "Aha! I told you we would finish this. I'm going to kill you, Kusurio!"