"What's our next move?"
A bearded man with long hair and, intimidating eyes said to the man who asked this question, "My agent has already breached the school. Within the next few days, we can eliminate him and its tricky ability from the picture."
"How will she defeat him?"
"Patience, Sinatra. I have full faith that she has the element of surprise on her hands."
Hisao woke up. He was still in the bed that was his home for the last few months. Iwanko had stopped coming and contact with his last school had came to zilch.
"Are you alright?" his mother said, "You seem to be sweating"
"Just a weird dream." he replied, "I probably shouldn't have read so much of that manga last night" he thought to himself.
A doctor came in. "Unfortunately, due to his condition, we request that Hisao change schools."
"What do you mean?" his father asked.
"It will be hard for Hisao to adjust to living with this condition. But it should be easier if we transfer him to Yamaku Academy, which specializes in dealing with students with physical conditions."
"Hisao has arrythmia, but he's not a freak!" exclaimed his mother.
"Easy, mom." said the doctor. "The students at this school, despite their physical handicaps are virtually as mentally sound as anyone else."
His mother started arguing for what seemed like an eternity with the doctor, which Hisao drowned out by reading.
Eventually they agreed to transfer Hisao to Yamaku.
Hisao's first impression of Yamaku was that it had a rustic charm to it. It was surprisingly welcoming for what was a school for the disabled.
After being introduced to the class, he sat down in a nearby desk
Hisao's homeroom teacher got them to arrange the desks into groups. While he was trying to decide where to go, he was miraculously pulled towards two girls.
One had piercing blue eyes and short dark hair while the other had pink dyed hair that could probably drill through concrete. Hisao swore he saw something next to the pink-haired girl and rubbed his eyes in astonishment.
"You noticed it? You must also have a st-" she said before the other girl's hand rushed for the pink-haired girl's mouth.
"C'mon Shizune. Why can't we talk about them?" she said while using sign language, probably to illustrate to Hisao that Shizune was deaf. He was wondering what the other girl had, his best guess was a broken fingernail.
Shizune signed back.
"She thinks it's too dangerous. Pff. Like I care. Glad to see that we aren't the only ones who have them."
Hisao was utterly confused about what she said.
"My friend here is Shizune." she said. "And I'm Misha, her interpreter. What's your name?"
"I'm Hisao." he replied.
"Well, Hisao." said Misha. "Wanna join the student council?"
That was a big question right out of the gate
"Uh. That's a bit much at the start. Don't you think?" Hisao replied.
"Nonsense. It's totally the it club."
"I'll think about it." Hisao said before starting to work with them on the problems.
They decided to have lunch together. "Oh man, I could eat a horse, hooves and all." exclaimed Misha.
She and Shizune then signed at each other. It was extremely awkward since he didn't know sign language at all.
"She thinks I wouldn't be able to do it. But between you and me. I could do it." Misha told Hisao.
Shizune shook her head.
Hisao was very tired after being slung around by the student council for most of the day. He was ready to go to his room.
He thought it was a good idea to greet the student next to his room. When he opened the door, he already lost.
"Hello, I'm Hisao Nakai, I'm living next to you."
"I would be careful if I were you, strange people came into that room," the scraggly teen with glasses thicker than an Ayn Rand novel said to him.
"Those were my parents."
"Maybe. Can't be too careful, spies could be everywhere."
"Spies?"
"Women who have infiltrated the school for the sake of their feminist agendas."
Just as he was saying this, another boy with golden hair and an eyepatch on his left eye passed by him with a couple of bath towels. "Don't let his BS get to you. This is why he has no friends."
The boy whispered, "I gotta go before I give Joshiro more weaponry, he has…connections," and with that he slithered back into his room.
"He didn't even give me his name." thought Hisao.
The next day, the school was bustling with activity.
"What's going on?" asked Hisao.
"The school festival is at the end of this week," Misha replied. "All the organizations are preparing for it."
They were interrupted by a girl leaving suddenly. She looked like she had burn scars on the left side of her face. Hisao was surprised and even more surprised why everyone treated that as normal. He then asked Misha,
"Am I required to join an organization?"
"No, but it's highly encouraged. How about…Student Council."
"You just asked me that yesterday. I need some time to think."
"I'll take you to our room later if you want."
"Okay, fine. I'll check you guys out later."
Hisao went to look for the library. He entered a room he thought was the library, but it was an empty room. It looks like it's prepared for tea or something, but it hasn't been used in a while.
He finally found the library and looked through the books for something to read. As he was looking, he startled a girl who happened to be the girl that left suddenly from his class.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Hisao said to her
"T-that's fine," she replied
She stood up for a second, "You haven't seen Lilly anywhere have you? Y-y'know…Tall, blind, blonde hair."
"Don't know. She's in 3-2, which is mainly visually impaired students, isn't she?"
"Oh right! You're in my class. I was just…w-wondering where she went…she's been…"
She briskly left before she finished her thought. He grabbed a book to read and as he was leaving, he ran into a very distracted girl.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." The girl said.
"You're alright." Hisao said as he is picking up his book. "You're the librarian, right."
"Yep, that's me…unfortunately." she said. "Just call me Yuuko."
"I was wanting to check this out."
"Okay, let's get this over with," Yuuko said as she put the book he was borrowing in the system. "Don't worry about Hanako."
"What do you mean?"
"The girl you were with before she ran off. She can be…sensitive."
"She was alright to me."
"She's gained a couple friends but otherwise she's still unfortunately very timid," Yuuko replied, "she's improved drastically though."
"Thanks, Yuuko." Hisao said as he got his book.
"Always a pleasure to get some appreciation," she said. Hisao was starting to wonder if she was okay emotionally.
He headed down to the Student Council room when someone suddenly blocked his eyes. When they uncovered his eyes Shizune was in front of him, with Misha running around to the front.
"Hi, Hiichan!" he said.
"Never approved of that nickname, but whatever," he replied.
"Come, let's show you our room!" Misha said.
It looked like a normal classroom, with a strange amount of games and other forms of entertainment strangely in the corner.
"Homely," he said.
"This is basically our home, considering we are here most of the time." Misha said as she pulled out a game from the corner. "Wanna try some Risk?" she said.
"Sure, why not?"
They set up the game and he and Shizune started playing. Even though Shizune couldn't express it in words, she was obviously devoted to this game.
"My empire will be victorious!" Hisao said
Shizune signaled to Misha and she told him, "Slow down, Hisao, you're losing!"
Hisao knew his aggressive maneuvers were gonna cost him the game so he decided to start playing defensively.
Unfortunately, he was too defensive, as it led to the perfect opportunity for Shizune to lay the final blow.
The blonde boy from the boys' dorms, Joshiro, came in during the latter half of the game. "You playing Risk?" he asked.
"Yes, we are!" Misha translated for Shizune.
"Can I play the next game?"
"Sure thing!" Misha translated.
As the next game went on, they took the opportunity to ask him who he was.
"I'm Joshiro Sanjo. I'm from class 3-2. They rely on me and Kenji a lot since we relatively have the best eyesight. I'm only blind in my right eye, and he's only legally blind."
"Isn't that the weird kid with glasses?" Hisao asked.
"Yes." Joshiro replied.
Joshiro's style of playing was much different. He played much more agressively than Hisao could ever play, while simultaneously keeping established defenses long enough to secure a surprise victory.
Shizune was shocked and signaled to Misha, who said, "Wow, Joshiro! That was close! I'm impressed!"
They looked around and found that Hisao must have left in the middle of Joshiro's game. The last game was so tight no one could have noticed.
Shizune signaled to Misha, "Hey, are you considering joining the Student Council?"
"Sure, why not?" Joshiro replied.
"Ok, our first order of business…" said Misha, "is to give you a nickname."
Shizune didn't like where this was going.
"Let's see, 'Sanjo'…'Joshiro'…'jo'…'jo'…"
She signaled to Misha, and she snapped as in an epiphany struck them.
"JoJo!" Misha yelled excessively loud.
"Okay…" Joshiro said, "It's a bit corny."
"It works, alright?" Misha replied
"Well. See ya!"
"See you tomorrow, JoJo!" Misha said as Joshiro began heading back to the dorms.
Joshiro woke up early the next morning. He decided its too late to try and go back to sleep and puts on a tracksuit and decides to get some exercise.
Turns out, he wasn't the only one who had the idea. A youthful looking girl with prosthetic legs was running down the track.
He started about moderate speed, however, eventually starts speeding up, almost matching the girl's pace.
"Oh, hi Joshiro." the girl said as he was gaining on her, slowing a tad to maintain conversation.
"Morning, Emi." Joshiro replied "What are you doing running this early?"
"That's what I would ask you," she replied. "The only times I've seen you around the track is in the afternoon- floating in while the track team is practicing."
"Well, I woke up early and decided to take a jog instead of sleeping some more."
"Well, I was told by the nurse to look for some 'messy-haired transfer student who looks like he's kinda lost'."
"Well, I've been here about a year, so I'm out of the question."
"Your hair is not really that messy either."
After saying that, she accelerated quickly. Joshiro made an attempt to keep up but she was just too good.
After about a mile, they both slowed down. "Hey, that was pretty good. We should do that again some time." Emi said
"I honestly didn't think I had it in me." Joshiro replied. "I guess I get more competitive 1 on 1".
"You were certainly giving me hell," she said. "I think this can work. Same thing tomorrow?"
"Let's." he replied, breathing heavily.
"Man, I wish JoJo was in this class. He adds so much to the whole Student Council trifecta."
Shizune signed to her. Misha signed and said, "Yeah, I guess you're right. JoJo did only join yesterday."
After Shizune signed, she said, signing. "No, I don't want to go there, that's too far away and expensive."
Seeing that that trying to make sense of their arguments would be pointless, Hisao decided to go talk to Hanako.
"Oh, hi Hisao," she said, ever so slightly smiling.
She stood up with her bags, about to leave. "I'm sorry if I'm startling you again."
"N-not at all…" she said. "I was waiting for Lilly for a second, but something tells me she isn't here. Plus I don't think it would be good for Lilly to come in here."
The door opened and she was wide-eyed at seeing blonde, but it was actually Joshiro.
"Oh, JoJo, we were actually talking about you earlier." Misha yelled out.
"Hmm, hmmm," he replied cautiously. "Anyway, Lilly actually came back today. She looks a little off but all's good right now."
"That's great!" said both Hanako and Misha, while Hanako was overjoyed by this, Misha looked sinister.
Shortly after, Lilly came in to the room. She began glaring at Joshiro and started advancing towards him. However, she was stopped by Shizune and Misha in typical Shizune and Misha fashion.
"Hello, class representative!" she said for Shizune.
She continued glaring.
"Glad you're finally back. We need to talk."
"What about it?" she asked, crossing her arms together.
"Well, there are four days 'till the festival and your class is one of only a couple who don't have their's turned in."
"Well no shit," said Lilly "I just got back."
Hanako gravitated towards Joshiro, who was just as perplexed at Lilly's unexpected language.
"Well, excuse me," Misha replied. "You could have at least contacted some of your classmates to send it in for you while you were away."
"Well you can tell that bitch that you can wait on your goddamn budget until after I deal with my urgent business."
"Excuse me!? I don't think your in the position to use that kind of tone, representative. What has gotten into you anyway?"
"Well you don't realize how important this is to your stupid fu-"
Joshiro intervened between Lilly and Shizune. "Guys, guys, let's just calm down. We can take care of this."
Shizune was confused. Misha nodded in approval
"It's gonna be okay, Lilly. What do you need done? I can take care of it if you need to focus on catching up on the budget."
Lilly laughed "My, my. You would be a good help. But I suppose I should just leave. I can't do anything with this damn ruckus."
After Lilly left, he went straight for Hanako who cried on his shoulder. "It's okay, Hanako. I don't know what's gotten to her. But I don't think it's good."
Hanako wiped her face off. "I'm gonna be okay," she said with a slight smile of reassurance.
"We couldn't have resolved this without your help, JoJo," said Misha.
"You and Hanako are close friends?" Hisao asked Joshiro.
"Let's just say that we go way back," he replied.
"Lunch is on us." Misha said for Shizune. "I think we finally figured out where we should go. Hanako can come too."
Hanako nodded.
"Do you wanna come too, Hiichan?" she asked.
"Nah, I'll just eat in the cafeteria." He replied.
"Ah, no fun."
When they left, Emi tapped on Joshiro's shoulder as he left, "Gotta deliver these papers!"
"You do know you're not supposed to run in the halls!"
"Party pooper!"
As they were walking to the restaurant. Misha asked, "JoJo or Hanako, whoever can answer this better, has Lilly ever acted that way?"
"No" said Joshiro. "Even under pressure, she always kept her cool. She especially wouldn't swear that much. Damn."
"Her trip along with…being confronted about the budget must have p-put her over the edge." Hanako added.
Shizune looked downtrodden for once.
"Shizune says she feels bad for thrusting that on her all at once. She should have at least waited until tomorrow," said Misha
Joshiro nodded.
They entered the Shanghai and were greeted by Yuuko of all people.
"Please. Sit wherever you like" she said.
They sat down and Yuuko asked them. "I don't remember the last time you and Hanako were with the Student Council."
"It's been a rough morning for Hanako, so the Student Council, with JoJo now being a part, is treating her to Lunch!" Misha said.
"What's been going on?" Yuuko asked, concerned.
"Lilly has been acting weird since she came back from a regular trip to Scotland." Joshiro replied.
"She was supposed to come back in a week, but it ended up being a month." Hanako added.
"That's weird indeed," Yuuko said. "Anyway what are you having?"
"Chai with lots of cream and sugar and a ham sandwich," Joshiro said.
"Ooh! That's sounds good. I'll have the same," Misha replied while supposedly signed the order to Shizune, who nodded. "She wants the same as well…along with cake."
"Just a chicken salad sandwich and water, please." Hanako said.
While they were eating, Joshiro asked, "So. How much hell is there going to be as the festival is coming up."
Shizune nodded as Misha translated.
"Lots." Misha replied.
"Lovely. It has to be fun with just the two of you and now me as well."
"We make it work. Are you alright, Hanako. You look a little uncomfortable."
She looked a little shocked. "Oh! No, I'm okay. It's just…I don't usually get to be this friendly with you two."
"Yeah," said Misha "Shizune and her cousin never really got along for obvious reasons."
"Must make it really awkward if she can't use the only method Shizune can communicate and have to rely on Misha, who, no offense, is much different." Joshiro said
Misha looked a little down after that. "Yeah. I guess so."
Over the next few days of stalls and the occasional take-out dinner, they would labor over the festival. One of Joshiro's classmates gave him a budget for his class and he gave it to Shizune, who told him "This will work."
Eventually, it got to Sunday, where he woke up bright and early to help with last minute preperations. However, Misha and Shizune met him right at his door and said. "We're ready, let's have fun!"
"It's nine in the morning!" said Joshiro. "Don't we have a couple things to take care of?"
"We took care of that two hours ago!" said Misha.
"Wow, you guys are more extreme than I can compete with."
"Well, you sure are running yourself thin with pretty girls."
Joshiro blushed and did a facepalm. "Let's just go."
At about noon, Hisao woke up. After avoiding Kenji, who wanted to barricade himself from the action, he headed towards where the festivities were taking place.
He passed by the art room after checking with a teacher and he heard weird noises coming from the room and looked in. He saw a girl with no arms and a male uniform resting on a table while periodically eating some food he presumed was from the festival.
"Hello," she said.
"Hello…" he replied. "What'cha doing?"
"Resting," she said. "I spend pretty much all of last night on a mural. I barely had the strength to go up here to get some peace and quiet."
"I see."
"I'm Rin. How did you get up here?"
"Meeting a teacher before going to the festival…"
"No. I mean the school."
"Well…"
"Your pants, isn't it?"
"What? No!"
Joshiro came in as Rin made that weird remark, "Hey Hisao. Hi Rin"
"What are you here for?" asked Rin.
"My eye," Joshiro replied.
"No. I mean right now."
"Oh, Shizune asked me to get some last minute stuff before the festival begins proper."
"I see," she said before lying down.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," said Joshiro. "Shizune would get pissed if she saw you 'defacing school property' like that"
"Okay, sorry."
"You're fine," he said as he grabbed a bucket from the corner of the room and leaving.
"It's arrythmia. Heart disease. Not a problem with my pants," continued Hisao, embarassed to have to spell out a delicate subject like that.
"I see," Rin replied. "Emi's probably wondering where I am so I might as well go. Wanna come with me?"
Curious about Rin, he said, "Sure, I'll go."
She went out and showed him the mural she was working on.
"Wow. I wish I was as good as that," Hisao said
"There is an Art Club you can join that I'm in. Just pop in any time."
Emi came running up. "Found him."
"Took you all week to find that 'messy-haired transfer student who looks like he's kinda lost' kid," Rin replied.
"It didn't help that he was never on the track," Emi said "It would help to exercise some."
Hisao sighed.
"Wow, Rin. That turned out much better than I expected!" said Emi.
"There's some parts I wanted to do more but time ran out."
"It's still awesome!"
Rin nodded her head slightly confidently.
Joshiro actually manages to knock down the bottles with the ball.
"You did it, JoJo!" Misha said.
He gave the prize doll to Shizune. "It really fits you," he said.
She blushed after Misha translated that.
"Man, I'm starving after having to run to get that bucket," he said.
"I'll get some food and we'll eat on the roof!" said Misha.
She ran off. Leaving Shizune and Joshiro.
Shizune grabbed a notepad and wrote to him saying, "Thanks for all the help this week."
He tore off that page and said "You're welcome :)"
Shizune smiled more than ususal.
As they were heading up, it was getting a little dark. They saw Lilly in the hall after Joshiro had barely seen her all week.
They paid little attention to her glaring as they went up the stairs to the roof.
Misha had sandwiches and drinks for the occasion. "Bottoms up," she said.
"Okay…" said Joshiro. "Thanks."
As they were eating on the far end of the roof. Lilly made a surprise appearance as night fell.
"Lilly!" said Misha. "What are you doing here?"
"Taking care of business," she said. "Alys will be pleased to see you dead, Joshiro."
Raising her cane as a white aura surrounded it, a blast of energy was about to consume Joshiro, before a force pulled him back.
"We will protect you!" Misha said. "With The Hand and Shizune's Emperor!"
Misha was accompanied by a strange-looking pink and white spirit only seen before in manga. Shizune had a bizarre chrome handgun."
Shizune fired at Lilly with Emperor but all of the bullets vaporized in thin air and she looked frustrated.
"Don't bother anything. Neither of your stands nor Holy Diver, has a chance to get close to take out Superstition," said Lilly "I have established a barrier around you."
They noticed several faint white lines around them and the roof.
"You have no chance. Now die!" Lilly said as she pulled her staff up again to fire a blast at them.
"Holy Diver can't counter, eh?" Joshiro said. A yellow and black stand with an angular head and goggles appeared next to him. "Then I'll show you Holy Diver's true power" A red blast of energy filled the roof, making Lilly completely still and the effects of Lilly's stand wore off.
He approached her and analyzed her. He noticed something on her forehead. He parted her bangs and used Holy Diver to pull out a squid-looking thing.
He chopped it with the side of his hand and the creature disintegrated as orange energy surged from his fingertips.
As this occurred. Fireworks started going off and Lilly suddenly looked less vicious and passed out.
"You didn't tell me you had a stand too!" said Misha. "You had everything under control."
"Well. That matter is on a need-to-know basis," Joshiro replied. "Especially since I don't know who else is working for Alys around here."
Hanako burst through the door and came to Lilly's side. She woke up.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You tried to kill me, for one thing," Joshiro replied.
She stood up and wiped off the blood off her forehead. "Alys must have used my blindness to ambush me and take control while I was in Scotland."
"Who's this Alys guy?" asked Misha.
"An ancient vampire who is responsible for the loss of my right eye," said Joshiro. "I tried fighting him and I barely made it out."
Hanako hugged Lilly vigorously. "I'm sorry," said Lilly, crying with her.
"What a night." said Misha, looking at the fireworks.
"Our little bizarre adventure is just beginning," Joshiro said
=To Be Continued=
STAND NAME: HOLY DIVER
STAND MASTER: Joshiro Sanjo
ABILITY: Interrupting a target's flow of time and stopping stand abilities
Power: A
Speed: A
Range: C
Durability: B
Precision: B
Development Potential: C
STAND NAME: THE EMPEROR
STAND MASTER: Shizune Hakamichi
ABILITY: Fires unlimited ammo that can be controlled
Power: B
Speed: A
Range: B
Durability: C
Precision: C
Development Potential: D
STAND NAME: THE HAND
STAND MASTER: Misha Mikado
ABILITY: Erase anything, including space that it touches
Power: A
Speed: C
Range: D
Durability: C
Precision: C
Development Potential: C
STAND NAME: SUPERSTITION
STAND MASTER: Lilly Satou
ABILITY: Generate energy and use energy and act as a second sight
Power: B
Speed: B
Range: A
Durability: D
Precision: C
Development Potential: B
