Chapter One: School Bells are Ringing
There was a pause, before the tall girl blinked and clapped a hand of surprise to her mouth, taking in the sight before her with awe.
"Holy crap," she muttered, her blue eyes sweeping over the gilded gates, "is this actually supposed to be a school?"
Behind the gates there was a huge building with students streaming in and out, each of them laughing in their own groups as they did so. Taking a step back, Luka gulped and a hand went to her pink hair nervously before she reminded herself that this was no time to be self-conscious. She'd come to this school on a promise, and she intended to fulfill that promise whether she thought it was a good thing or not.
Besides that, she reasoned, why should she care if people judged her on her looks? Those who did that wouldn't be worth befriending or talking to anyways. Proudly, she flung her long hair over her shoulder only to hear a muffled, "Gack!" as it came into contact with something.
Whirling around, she looked on in horror as she saw that her hair had all but knocked out a guy wearing a uniform of the school. Long purple hair contrasted greatly against the gray of the sidewalk, and his pale skin was only amplified by the dark blue of the blazer he wore. She noticed all this as she knelt down and said in a panicked voice, "Are you okay? I didn't mean to-"
His eyes opened swiftly at the sound of the voice, nearly causing her to bite her tongue in surprise at the sudden gesture. As he sat up and rubbed his head, looking around in a confused manner, a yell from a few feet away caused both teenagers to look up. A young man with spiky blue hair ran towards them, a girl who was also blue-haired at his side. As the two reached the gates, the girl peered down at the boy and giggled. In a high pitched voice, she asked, "As clumsy this morning too, Gakupo!"
"Sh-shut up, Miku!" The boy on the ground said, looking embarrassed as he was pulled to his feet by the other boy. Brushing off his blazer and khaki pants, the boy muttered things under his breath while the blue hair girl turned to look at Luka as she stood up and straightened out her skirt. With a flustered look, Luka started to apologize when the girl giggled and shook her head.
"If you're trying to apologize, don't!" she said cheerfully, her twin tails blowing in the wind while she held out her hand for an introduction. Jerking her head over her shoulder, she said, "I'm Miku Hatsune, and those are my two good friend Kamui Gakupo and Kaito Shion. What's your name?"
Slowly, the taller girl took Miku's hand and said, "I'm Megurine Luka. But I go by Luka."
With another giggle, Miku released Luka's hand and pointed at the boy Luka had knocked down, exclaiming, "It's nice to meet you Luka! You can call him Gakupo, and you can call the other one Kaito!"
"Oy," the boy with spiky blue hair growled, ruffling Miku's hair, "Where do you get off telling other people what they can do?"
"Aaaahhh, Kaito stop it! Don't do that!"
While Miku fussed with her hair, Luke took a step back and eyed them warily before saying, "Well, I guess I'll just head to the headmaster's office then…"
Hearing that, the three teens looked at her before Kaito asked, "Are you a transferring student or something?"
Feeling like an oddity, Luka began to turn pink as the three stared at her. Backing away, she put her hands up defensively before saying, "Yeah, and what of it?" She immediately felt bad for thinking they were picking a fight when Miku pointed at Gakupo again and smiled, saying, "He's the student body president, he can take you to the headmaster's room and help you get everything organized before you're assigned to a class!"
As her hands fell slowly to her side, she looked over Gakupo who reddened a little before straightening up. Walking past her, he muttered, "Come on then, let's go."
"Bye! I hope you get put in my class, Luka-chan!" Miku called out, waving as the two taller teens headed onto the school grounds and disappeared inside the building.
They walked side by side in silence until Gakupo cleared his throat and smiled, saying, "I'm sorry you had to see me so flustered, it's just that normally I'm not that clumsy." Just as he finished his sentence, he stepped on a pencil that had been lying in the middle of the hallway. With yelp of surprise, he slipped and fell on the ground once more as two female students ran up to him, apologizing profusely.
"Sorry, President!" the two girls cried, hands put together in apology, "We dropped this earlier and forgot all about it!" Propping himself up on his elbow, Gakupo gave them a smile which had them blushing as he replied, "Oh, it's no problem! You two should get back to class!" As he stood up and brushed his pants off once more, Luka stared at him. For such a good looking guy, he was every bit as clumsy as he claimed not to be. Luckily, the two made it to the headmaster's room without any more incidents, and as he set off down the hall waving Luka shook her head before turning to the large oak doors that stood in front of her.
Then, with a determined expression, she pushed open the doors and stepped inside.
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Bowing low, her hair scraped the ground as Luka pleaded, "I wish to attend Kaisei Academy, despite it being so late in the year."
The headmaster, who looked more like a grandfather than anything else, peered at her over the top of his spectacles before musing in a worried voice, "Well, I suppose you could be a transfer student, but you do realize this is a private school my dear? I mean…" He trailed off, sounding embarrassed although Luka knew what he was referring to. Though Miku and the two boys hadn't mentioned it, Luka's clothes were full of patches and looked somewhat sewn together. She supposed that they'd ignored it out of politeness, but all the same it had caught the attention of several other students as she'd been led down the halls by Gakupo.
Still bowing, Luka replied, "Headmaster, I want you to know that I have funds to attend this school." Straightening up, she dug into her bag before producing an envelope. As she held it out towards the confused man, she said confidently, "In here is a deposit check with enough money for tuition for the next three years. Please allow me to attend! I'll take placement tests, or whatever it is you'd like, but I beg of you to let me come to this school!"
Looking over Luka's desperate features, the headmaster frowned a bit before asking in a concerned voice, "Certainly my dear, but why do you seem to so bent on attending this school? Is there a certain reason?"
Meeting the headmaster's gaze, Luka smiled a little sadly before saying, "I…I'd just like to graduate from an esteemed school is all…"
Unsure, the headmaster looked her over again. She didn't appear to be telling the whole truth; there was obviously a pressing reason she was so desperate to attend this particular school, though it was obvious she wouldn't tell him. Still, she didn't seem dangerous, and if anything she appeared to be hard-working and generally honest. Signaling her to come forward, he held his hand out to accept the envelope before saying, "There is no need for a placement test as we have no scholarship for students here, so I'll call our student president to come here and help you arrange everything for your entrance to this school. I expect great things from you, Miss Megurine."
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"Where's Gakupo?" Miku complained, swinging her legs as she sat on Kaito's desk and played with her hair. Kaito looked up at her with some irritation before sighing and saying, "I don't know. I heard he got called up to the headmaster's room for something; you don't think that he actually let that girl transfer in?"
Miku shot Kaito a disapproving look before turning her attention back to her hair and muttering, "Kaito, it's not nice to judge people just on their appearance." Her friend opened his mouth to protest when two more of their friends walked in. With a happy smile, Miku shot her arm into the arm and waved them over. The two of them (near identical despite being fraternal twins) turned before giving her grins and heading over. Bouncing back and forth on her heels, the girl smiled before saying, "Good morning, Miku!"
"Morning, Rin!" Miku said enthusiastically, while the boy twin sat down and threw a grin at Kaito. Begrudgingly, Kaito muttered, "Mornin', Len." The boy just grinned before leaning over and saying, "Are you copying my spikes, Kaito? I mean, I know I'm good lookin', but-" Kaito interrupted the blond boy with a growl before leaning forward and complaining to Miku, "Why do we put him? Rin!" Turning to the girl, Kaito pointed at her brother and complained, "Fix your brother, he's way too conceited."
"Conceited?" Len said, sounding outraged. "Me?" As he and Kaito fell to arguing loudly, Miku and Rin exchanged shrugs before the shorter girl looked around the classroom with a troubled look. Blue eyes blazing, Rin asked, "Where's Gakupo? I'm supposed to remind him that the student council has a meeting after school today. He has to say it during morning announcements or half of the council won't show up!"
"Look at you being all worried about a meeting," Kaito teased, as he held a struggling Len in the crook of his arm. "Don't worry Secretary Rin, I'm sure you'll have at least one other person attend. I mean, our school rep Len here can't exactly skip out and leave his precious sister to do all the work for the meeting!"
As Len growled and attempted to claw his way out of Kaito's grasp, the teacher came in and called everyone to order. Letting go, the friends all retreated to their separate seats before straightening out their outfits and casting glances over at the empty desk at the back corner of the room where their friend Gakupo usually sat.
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The two sat in awkward silence as Gakupo watched the tall girl sort through the stack of papers he'd given her for enrollment. Finally unable to stand the silence, he coughed before attempting a conversation.
"So you uh, got into school here with us I see," Gakupo said with a weak smile, falling silent as Luka ignored him and kept rifling through the papers before her.
Inwardly he winced, reflecting on how stupid he sounded. Already he'd made a terrible first impression on her; being clumsy all morning hadn't done much to endear her to him. For as popular and well-liked by everyone as Gakupo was, he was a total klutz when it came to girls. Unlike his two friends Kaito and Len, he couldn't keep a girl's attention for more than five minutes, earning him the nickname "virgin president" among the guys at the school. Although every guy who called him that said it in a good-mannered sort of teasing, it still make Gakupo flush with shame as he thought of the fact he was the only guy among his friends who had yet to be with a girl.
He hadn't even kissed one, let alone dated one the way every other guy in the school had.
He wanted to make a good impression on this girl in the hopes of finally being able to win someone over; Gakupo wanted to show her that not only was he an intelligent and friendly president, but could also play the role of the popular, good-looking guy. Unfortunately, his friend Kaito had already made it a point to let him know that his looks could only take him so far. Far more than impressing just this one girl, Gakupo wanted to be like his two friend Len and Kaito, both of whom claimed they could make any girl fall for them. The two were the most popular boys in the school; Gakupo was noted by most for being studious, although with all the other boys' teasing he was quickly becoming known for being unnoticeable by girls.
While Gakupo fidgeted awkwardly in his seat, Luka's blue eyes sorted through the papers as she picked up a pen and signed stacks of agreement documents. Most of the 'contracts' with the school had to do with following the rules and being a good student, but she wasn't taking any chances on allowing them to weasel more money out of her than necessary. It was bad enough that she'd given up all the money she'd inherited from her late mother; she wasn't about to give up her living expenses either. Finally satisfied and having signed all the papers, she neatly restacked everything and pushed it all over to Gakupo, who had been working up his courage for another attempt at conversation.
Standing up, he cleared his throat and coughed, "You can get your uniform fitted after school today in the student council room. I'll have our secretary, Kagamine Rin measure you and take it down before sending everything out to the tailors. You'll be in Class 2-B, with me and the two others you met this morning." Realizing that he sounded somewhat robotic, he tried to smile encouragingly at her before holding out his hand and saying, "I-I look forward to having you in our class!"
Luka gave him a somewhat surprised look before taking his hand hesitantly and replying softly, "Thank you…" For a second Gakupo reflected on how soft her hand was until she jerked it back swiftly, causing a blush to arise to his cheeks as he realized that he'd been staring at her hand. Turning quickly on his heel as if to divert her attention from how strange he acting, he muttered, "I'll show you the way to the classroom after I give the morning announcements. Follow me."
I really should get better at these disclaimer things. Oh well.
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