The Memory and The Transfer Student

"Give it back, please…I'm begging you, please, give it back…" the little girl screamed, aiming to grab the doll from the boys, only to fall and cut her knee, as mud painted over her. She sat still on the muddy ground and cried, realising she was weak and couldn't defend herself.

"This is hilarious. Baby Yuuki is crying." The boys continued to taunt, "You're 6 years old and still play with dolls, how silly?"

The little girl named Yuuki cried louder. She'd never done anything wrong, but she was always bullied at in school, for a simple reason - she had no mother. The other kids her age thought she was weird without one and isolated her. Dolls were the only friends that would play with her, but the others picked on her for it too. It was always loneliness that Yuuki felt at times like these. No one would stretch out their hands and help her, no one. Today was the same, she was expecting to cry for so long that they eventually tire and leave, but it was different………

The doll fell to the ground, with a light thud. One by one the boys that were bullying Yuuki were also being hit and pushed to the ground, by somebody, someone, that was helping her? She continued to watch in silence as the group of boys ran with tears in their eyes, one or two of them, holding their bleeding noses. Wiping her own tears away, she stared up to look at the boy who helped her, only to be mesmerised by his light violet eyes and fair white skin. He was the same age as her, skinnier than some of the other boys but the way he thrashed them up, showed how strong he actually was, which somehow made Yuuki's heart beat a bit faster. He bent down and picked up Yuuki's doll, patting it gently to get rid of the dirt. His voice was soft compared to what Yuuki expected, "this is yours, take it back." He placed the doll back in Yuuki's hand since she didn't move, "if you don't want to be bullied or made fun of then change yourself."

Yuuki blinked, "Change?"

The boy began to walk away. Although Yuuki wanted to be with him for longer, she was embarrassed to express it and could only let his last words stay in her heart, the exact words that changed Yuuki Cross's life; "Don't fear anyone and become stronger than anyone…"

(That was the first encounter of the Delinquent and Nerd)

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[12 YEARS LATER ~ VAMROSE ACADMEY]

It was the beginning of the third month into the new school semester of Vamrose Academy. Unlike the usual peaceful days, the ever shocking news of a new transfer student stunned and disrupted the Academy's harmony. It wasn't excitement; it was pure trepidation as everyone spoke of her,

"-have you heard?"

"She's here already, now!"

"How terrible, what should we do?"

"Why this school? I mean it's so not logical."

"Hope she dies on the way here…"

The entire class continued to question and discuss the topic of the arrival of the new transfer student, aside from the one guy that sat at the back, alone, silently reading a dictionary, which found no interest in the news, but only wished for tranquillity. He adjusted his specially desgined black glasses, that covered his eye completely, so that no one has ever seen the colour of his eyes. He shifted himself a little in his seat, being more drawn to the dictionary than the classroom gossip, only wishing his classmates would soon be quiet.

The class quietened down as the teacher entered grimly. He stammered in his words, "Err…a-as the e-entire school staff has d-decided, t-the new student shall be in t-this," a gulp, "this class."

Shocks and gasps filled the room, which silence came after as the new transfer student stepped into the room, slamming the door so hardly, it felt as though the wall shook. She grabbed the pen from the teacher, shoving him to the floor during the process and wrote directly onto the board her name. Turning around with a death glare, that chilled the other students, she hissed, "My name is Yuuki Cross. REMEMBER IT - UNDERLINGS!"

The young guy who ignored the melodrama and continued to read his dictionary, in peace, stopped momentarily upon the word, 'Delinquent.' Unlike his classmates who were now scared and feared to silence and unmoving, he closed the book and began to pack away, feeling he would be able to consentrate better elsewhere. His swift motion caught everyone's attention and that of the delinquent. He regretted it very soon as Yuuki Cross approached him, a consequence he didn't want.

"Who are you?" she hissed with a more intimidating tone, "where do you think you're going?"

Some of the students couldn't help and started to whisper, "that's the nerd."

"-what is he thinking?"

"He wants to die. Nerd afterall."

"Is that Zero Kiryuu - the nerd?"

Yuuki grabbed the bag of the guy that everyone in the classroom seems to call nerd and thrashed it across the face of the other guy that sat diagonally to him. "SHUT UP!" she screeched with anger in her voice, making everyone silent again, even the teacher trembled in the corner at the front.

"Please give me my bag back?" the so called nerd Yuuki was confronting suddenly asked, which surprised her, as no one dared speak back to her before.

She threw the bag back onto his desk, "they called you Zero Kiryuu right?"

There was no answer. Yuuki clenched her fists, "do you want to die?" she asked him.

In this silent classroom everyone, even the teacher looked on with interest and expectance of something horrific, but no one would step out to do anything.