Hey everyone! My name is ModalFern and this is my first KS fan fiction, by the main character of this story you can guess who my favorite heroine is, and even though I like her innocent personality, I have always imagined her as the tough tsun dere type of girl. This story occurs in the same time the game does, starting three days before Hisao´s arrival, in the story, Hisao will follow Lilly´s route even though Hanako is the main character. Let me know what you think on the review section and I hope you like it.

Symbology: soundtracks are marked with blacky and cursive, chapter or scene names with blacky only and sound effects or world sounds with cursive.

Also, if these symbols {} appear between divisions in a small text, it means this is a point where Hisao has to make a decision, and a bit of his thoughts from his POV are introduced

Prologue

Rose with thorns

Raindrops and Puddles

I wake up in my bed barely keeping my eyes open, I decide to get up before the laziness of the moment makes me crash down to my pillow. Then sit up on the edge and look groggily at my window

Well, I am Hanako Ikezawa, I have some pretty bad scarring on almost my entire right body, product of a fire during my childhood where my parents died as well. I spent about a month in the hospital after the accident and then lived in an orphanage, going to a public school. Even though the other kids laughed at me, they soon began to fear me because I had become the type of person that won´t hesitate to bring you down to the floor at the smallest sign of offense, and I did, I remember to KO five boys with my bare fists, and also breaking three annoying girls' arms. Also, part of that fear is caused by my strong build and my uncommonly high tallness, I am even taller than some guys of my age.

When I was 15, the staff of the orphanage brought me here to Yamaku Academy for impaired teens, and I remained with my rude personality here as well, but here I also had to be more careful about who am I treating with. I don´t want to kill a guy with crystal bones syndrome because he stole my chocolate bar, right?

Anyways, let´s begin with the day

I slip to the boys´ uniform, I wear it because it is more comfortable than girls´ and my small fights are better suited in this uniform. I like to use a coat as a complement as well.

I look at myself on the mirror
Ugh, bad hair day

Meh, ain´t got time to fix it, so I grab by bag and move along the other wave of students before I get late to class

…

Stride

Well, it seems that I wasn´t as late as I thought, I actually arrive the third, with the two annoying girls of the student council first. God, I would love to smash their heads to the lockers

I resist my temptations as I go past them to my corresponding seat, settle my stuff down, and go to look outside the window. There´s when I notice an extra seat is placed next to where Shiina (Misha, for the folks) is supposed to be. I hear footsteps
Speaking of the devil

"Hi, Hanako! ´Sup?"
She makes me frown, and I begin to focus on my breathing to calm myself down before I put what I´d like to think it´s my calm face

"What is it Shiina?"
Straight to the point with her so she can let me be

"Geez, can´t I just come here to say hi?"
For the untrained, it would seem she is happy to see you, but I know her well enough to know she is teasing me

"Go talk to Shizune if you want to speak to someone, I´m busy"

Music off

"You´re not, you´re just looking outside of the window"

The blue haired hobbit that seems to be with her at every time for the rest of her life ticks Shiina´s shoulder and signals something to her, resulting in a very awkward conversation

"-To be doing something is to be busy- Of course not Shicchan!"

And she did it again, Shizune managed to tease Misha well enough to make them enter in a sign challenge, Shizune loves challenges, if she had voice, probably I would´ve hit her several times by this year because her troublemaker nature

I use this advantage to make a little prank, since the teacher isn´t here yet and the class rep is arguing, I´ll write something on the board

What should I write? The typical [Hanako was here] would get me in trouble, and [The answer is banana] seems odd… I got it

[I must not write on the board]

When I walk back to my place, I realize the full class is here, and everyone saw me write that.

I think I´m in trouble

Hokabi

Just when I expected the worst, they all begin laughing and pointing to the manifesto, and three of the guys stand up to high-five, wich I accept with a grin.

Pleased, I sit down in my typical relaxed position: leaning on the lockers, one leg extended and one hand on the desk and the other on my side waiting for Mutou to arrive

He is here a few moments later, and when he looks to the board, he facepalms in a way so funny that makes me laugh quietly. Mutou turns around and asks who did it, and none response is heard. He just gives up begins with his routined monologue.

Bell ring

Daylight

Inmediatly after the bell rings, I yell "DONUT FRIDAY!" and bolt out of the classroom, arriving at the cafeteria in no time, being the fourth on the line to the delicious food of the gods

When I am second in the line, a guy a bit shorter than me, probably second-grader, pushes off the girl in front of me, they seem to be in the same class and they´re in the typical case of bullying, because she just gets behind him without saying a word. I must teach a lesson to this asshole

High tension

"Hey, that was not cool" I call out and push him, making my intentions clear

"Oh yeah? Watcha gonna do leather skin?" He pushes me back and I look away

I´m done

With all my strength, I throw a hook straight at his jaw, taking him down and making him bleed through his mouth, then I throw myself down to him with another jab, hitting him on the eye, cutting it

From then, I begin to throw one punch after another, making the representation of a UFC fighter while making him scream and drawing even more blood for some moments before a nurse separates me from the poor bastard, KO since two hits ago.

Music off

I just turn around and

"A chocolate donut, please"

Common and uncommon things

Concord

"I´m here Lills, sorry I´m late"

And she´s Lilly, I dunno how she became my friend (better said her personal bodyguard), because she is pretty much my opposite, while I am fearless, she is cautious, and she somehow changed my personality from an aggressive one to that of a protective one.

"No problem, what was the cause of your delay?"

I don´t know how to answer, should I tell the truth and disappoint her? Or lie to her to disappoint her even more when she finds out? Words spread quickly at school, so it´s only a matter of hours before she knows

"I… I knocked out a g-guy who was… b-bullying a girl" I am tramming and blushing, good thing she can´t see it

Her expression is hard to read, probably she´s debating herself about how to react, consider it correct or incorrect. If you ask me, that dumbass deserved it.

"Ok, let´s eat before the bell rings"

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Afternoon

School´s done for the day and I need to get back to my room and change my clothes ASAP, I need to keep up my routine

What routine? Well, I attended the school´s gym to keep myself in shape in the afternoons, this is because I was part of a football team here in the city, I am a DT, or Defensive Tackler, I´m the one who is in front of the line of scrimmage on defense, earning my way through the other guys to sack the Quarterback about to throw a pass, or stop the Halfback of running through.

Cool thing is that the adversaries ALWAYS underestimate me, since I am the only girl on the team, and at the end, I always prove to be as capable as my teammates.

About the gym, I attended at least 3 times a week since I entered first grade. Nice, isn´t it? That´s how I earned my uncommon strength for a female.

My usual clothes, a gray sweater and sweat pants, I also carry a small bag with a bottle of water and vends, just in case.

It´s on the auxiliary building, where the nurse´s offices and the rest of places for physical therapy are located, on my way to the gym, a familiar face shows up

Ah Eh I Oh You

"Hey, Hanako, how are you today?" the young man greets me with his never-ending smile

"Hey, nurse. I´m doing fine, just getting ready for Sunday´s match, we´re going against the Tigers of Hokkaido, it's not this week`s Sunday, but the next one, when the festival`s here at the school. Around 3 PM"

"Well, best of luck to you. I´m happy you already seem to have your life sorted out, and please be careful, football is a very rough sport"

It´s always fun to see the reactions of people after I tell them my sport. Some of them praise me as a model for gender equality, some are loyal followers of the professional matches and give me advices, and most of them are like the nurse, warning me about the dangers

"Heh, I´m not made of crystal, dude. Seeya"

And with that, I take my leave, it´s half an hour of warm-up and one or two hours of weight lifting

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114…

115…

Hokabi

"Hanako!"

"Gyah!"

All of a sudden, a guy from second grade catches me off guard shouting in my ear, making me drop the weights on my chest, throwing the air out of my lungs.
I remain helplessly until the boy –Shaoran, I think- helps me up

"What was all that about?"

He´s laughing so hard tears are dropping off his eyes, he reminds me of Misha for a brief moment

"No-nothing –still laughing-oh, yeah, it´s nine thirty, you should –and still laughing- you should go home"

"Dammit! Thanks, Shaoran, seeya on Sunday"
He´s the team´s Wide Receiver, fastest guy I´ve met

After I leave, the sky is painted with dark and shiny stars are going up, making a beautiful sight. Even though I´d love to stay longer to admire it, I need to get going.

While I cross the floor 1´s hallway I sing to myself

Special music

"At any time you feel the pain
Hey Jude, refrain

Don´t carry the world
Up on your shoulders"

"For well you know that it´s a fool
Who plays it cool

By making this world
A little colder"

"Geez, Lilly, you scared me"

"What´s wrong? You like to sing don´t you? Now let´s go"

"A'ight"

…

"Na-na-na nananana, Hey Jude"

I don´t know how I even got here, singing Hey Jude next to other three girls on the way up to the stairs. Lilly being one of them, the other two are from my class, Miki Miura and Suzu Suzuki.

Eventually, the latest two separate from us leaving me and Lilly to go to our corridor

"Would you mind if I give you a couple of advices?" Lilly speaks to me with a small smile

"Hm? Oh, sure thing"

"First is if you avoid fights, you can keep your notes high, so please try to avoid conflicts in the future"

"Yeah, sorry Lills, it was that kind of things you just can´t ignore"

"I understand you feel identified with these victims but be careful"

"I will, I promise"
My answer creates a sigh of relief from Lilly

"Second thing… Would you mind taking a shower? You smell horrible"

I can´t help but laugh at this sudden comment, I answer when I recover well enough

"Yeah, yeah, I was just going to do that"

Without another word, she lets me pass to my room to get my things ready, turning her head when I pass next to her

Well then, welcome to Yamaku I guess, a school pretty much just like any other