Hello! Now I have a personal weakness for high school au's, and while on the whole Magi can rub me the wrong way sometimes its got some great ships. So this is just a short little drabble for me to showcase my favourites.
some pairings include; jukou, hakumor, casali and others to come.
And as you can probably guess, I do not own Magi or any of its characters.
Sindria academy was one of the most prestigious educational facilities in the world, the students who were accepted ranged from child prodigies to children of world leaders, to potential laden rising stars that no one else would have noticed. They came to academy bundles of potential and they graduated ready to change the world.
However during this particular couple of weeks the only thing on everyones mind was the upcoming school dance.
There were three essential parts to the school dance experience; the night itself, preparations, and of course, asking who you were going to go with.
This was the dilemma Ren Hakuryuu found himself in two weeks before the big night.
At this current point in time he was sitting at his usual seat in the cafeteria. He briefly lifted his eyes from the food he'd been pushing around his plate to cut a glance at the table across from where he was sitting to look at his cousin Kouha eating lunch with his three girlfriends. They were happy in their own little bubble, while Jinjin, Junjun and Reirei fawned over Kouha like they always did, he sat a little more upright, talking with them languidly and even slapping away their hands when he felt like they were getting to affectionate. When the decision had been made for the three youngest Rens, who had been homeschooled all their lives, would start attending Sindria academy, Kouha had been thoroughly, strictly and harshly lectured by his older brothers that his usual behaviour would not be accepted outside the house.
From that point on he had acted as cold and reserved at school as was possible for him, behaviour that was quite the opposite from what Hakuryuu considered to be his true nature. That being said Kouha still managed to scare the crap out of all his classmates, not that he seemed to care.
"So you going to go?" asked a feminine voice from across the table.
Hakuryuu looked away from Kouha and in front of him to Kougyoku, his youngest cousin and the other member of the Ren family who had been enrolled in the academy along with him. Like him she was eating a homemade lunch (did it still count as homemade if you had a personal chef?) from a tupperware box, and drinking tea from a thermos cap, the tails of her strawberry hair that hadn't been tied up in her usual loops, fell like ribbons against the light blue of her swim team jacket. Everyone else in the cafeteria including him had shrugged off the extra layers of their uniforms due to the days warm weather, but since she'd been made captain of the swim team Kougyoku had taken to wearing that jacket like armour every time she went out in public.
"Sorry?" he asked,
"Are you going?" she asked again insistently,
"...Going where?"
An irritated looked sprung onto her face as she scrunched her nose and furrowed her eyebrows together, he laughed awkwardly and offered an apologetic smile, apparently his inner musings had muted him to serious topic of discussion on Kougyoku's part. "The dance! Are you going?"
At that he pulled his lips into a nervous line, "Well, uh, isn't everyone?"
Kougyoku's expression did a 180 and her eyes were suddenly shinning cheerfully, "Really?" she squeaked "That's great! Who are you going with? Have you asked anyone yet? Has anyone asked you?"
Hakuryuu dropped his utensils and started waving his hands in front of him awkwardly, "Uh well, n-no one's asked me yet... and uh, I ha-haven't quite-"
"That's nerd speak for 'he hasn't worked up the guts to ask out Morgianna yet'" said Judar as he appeared out of nowhere behind Kougyoku, she let out a tiny yelp of surprise as he leaned his chest against her back a reached an arm over her shoulder to pluck the peach from her lunch.
As he felt the heat creeping up his neck, Hakuryuu wondered for what had to be the millionth time why he was friends with this guy.
Judar wasn't technically a member of the Ren family, but he'd lived with them for as long as Hakuryuu could remember, and was treated like one of the family regardless. He also had not been officially enrolled in this school along with Hakuryuu, Kouha and Kougyoku, but in their first week he'd shown up out of the blue because... well, like most of Judar's reasonings, it was a mystery to Hakuryuu.
Said mystery, threw himself into the seat next to Kougyoku, juices dripping down his chin as he bit into the peach, lounging like a cat.
"Morgiana?!" Kogyoku whined, not because she didn't like Morgiana, actually the two of them had never been alone together before so they'd never felt the need to forge a relationship, content just being the friends of each others friends.
Hakuryuu jumped forward in his seat a little, a panicked look on his face, "Don't say that so loud!"
Kougyoku scowled at him a little bit, she hadn't been that loud, and the cafeteria was swarming with noise as usual, no one was paying attention to them. That didn't stop Hakuryuu from twisting his head around to look across the room to where Morgiana, Aladdin and Alibaba were sitting together. The girl in question was siting with her back to him, while Alibaba and Aladdin conversed animatedly in front of her.
Where his cousins hair was red like wine, or strawberries, Morgiana's red mane was like a blazing sunrise, contrasting nicely with her warm brown skin. She was a little on the smaller side, stature wise, but her arms and were well and muscled from her career as the ace of Sindria's Martial Arts team. He imagined the look she might have had on her face at that moment, probably her usual calm and passive expression, but when he saw her shoulders twitch slightly he imagined the quirk of her lips as she let out a small laugh and let herself be outwardly happy for a moment. Like back when...
"Oh you're not going to do this to yourself again, are you?" Kougyoku's voice snapped his out of his thoughts and he turned back to face his cousin, who was now looking at him with a concerned if slightly sad expression.
"What do mean?" he asked,
"It's just that last time- I mean, when things didn't... that is..." Kougyoku was slowly shrinking into her jacket as she fumbled with her words, trying to find the right way to phrase it without offending Hukuryuu, all the while worrying about doing just that.
Seeing how his cousin was torturing herself (again) Hakuryuu let out a sigh before telling her. "You don't have to worry about me."
Kougyoku's eyes perked up and she straightened a bit from where she'd unconsciously been leaning into Judar's side while he was continuing to pick food out of her lunch (carefully avoiding the vegetables), "Oh?"
She had of course been referring to the generally unspoken of incident that had taken place over summer, when Hakuryuu had confessed his feelings to Morgiana and she'd rejected him. He fought to keep his face neutral as he remembered standing on the beach with her, the feeling of her hand in his, and the tears that had welled up in the corners of her eyes...
"We better not have to. The way you moped around last time was pathetic enough, I have to watch that again it won't be half as funny." Judar said with his usual wicked grin.
Hakuryuu scowled at him while Kougyoku squawked and began shaking her hands in denial. "No, no, he doesn't mean that. We just don't want to see you get hurt again."
"Because it was pathetic." Judar insisted,
"Because we care about you."
"Because you're a loser."
Kougyoku finally turned around and started swatting at Judar while she reprimanded him on his lack of empathy, the boy whom Hakuryuu was 80% sure was a psychopath in the making just grabbed her hands in his and chuckled manically at her agitation.
Satisfied that the topic had been dropped, Hakuryuu looked away from the two in front of him and continued to eat his lunch as he once again retreated into his thoughts.
Unaware that a pair of red eyes across the room were watching the way his shoulders slacked and was imagining the fair away look his eyes were probably getting at that moment.
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