Revolutionary Girl Utena: War of Roses

(I do not own Utena or anything like that, though I do own the following OC's and all schools except Ohtori-Academy.)

Chapter one: A New Round, a New School, And a New Bride

"One person once said that the more things change, the more they stay the same."

Once upon a time there was a little princess and she was very, very sad, for her mother and father had died. Before the Princess appeared a traveling prince riding upon a white horse, who had a Regal bearing and a kind smile. The Prince wrapped the Princess in a Rose scented embrace and gently wiped the tear from her eyes. "Little one," he said, "growing up alone is such deep sorrow and despair, yet not shedding a tear is indeed noble. Never lose that strength or nobility even when you grow up. Here, take this ring of mine in order to remember me. This ring shall lead you to me one day, for we shall meet again

He kissed her forehead gently and smiled, turned to leave, and vanished into the nigh. Perhaps the ring he gave the girl was an engagement ring—just perhaps—but the Princess was so impressed by him that she vowed to become a Prince herself someday.

Sitting under a tree in deep though was that Princess as she thought of all that had happened. She tried to become a Prince and had failed, as she nearly had lost her life and spent nearly a whole year in the hospital. There, she met someone: a kind young man who became one of her closest friends. He explained to the Princess, once she got better, if she still wanted to go to school. She could transfer to the one he went to since she was expelled from her old school. The princess agreed and now she was better, and was at this gorgeous new school. Sadly, she had few friends in this new place and was lonely. Her fiend that convinced her to come was her only friend. He was a kind boy with long blond hair put over to one side and a warm smile. His name was Inukai, and he was the same age as her. She had thought about many things when she was under her favorite tree, about the friends she had lost, the honor she had lost, and how betrayed she had been by her best friend. She thought about the two boys she was closest too, and yet how the Prince she longed to see had become a Devil in disguise. Truly, she had done so much in the short time she had—truly being that of which she dreamt. Inukai walked up over to the sleeping Princess and smiled. "Hey, hey, lazy," Inukai announced to her with that warm smile she liked, "Time to wake up or you'll be late on your first day…and you don't want that, do you Goofy-Gal?"

That smile was one of the things she liked about him: no matter what, he was able to sincerely smile. She arose and began to run, followed by Inukai, as he said she didn't want to be late.

Meanwhile, back at Ohtori Academy, the elevator to the student counsel was going up to the meeting room, for they had gotten a new letter. As they gathered, the President—Touga Kiryu shouted as he walked into the room with his ever arrogant and yet elegant stride, and began his Mantra: "If it cannot break out of its shell, the chick will die without ever being born. We are the chick; the world is our Egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we shall die without ever truly being born. Smash the world's shell—FOR THE REVALOUTION OF THE WORLD!"

He turned to his fellow members—Miki, Saionji, Juri, and Mitsuru—and he smirked as this long haired redhead explained to his fellow members, "I have received a new letter from end of the world. It is instructions for us all. They are starting a new round of dueling despite their leader falling from a window and dying. We are to not interfere for now. Apparently, the first few rounds will not be here. We are being cut as the main dueling grounds. End of the World stated that they believe us inept and incompetent, and thus they have moved their headquarters across the sea to our sister school, though they have not told us which one, (as you may or may not know we have four sister schools!)"

Clearly, even he was stunned by recent events.

Juri nodded in agreement as Miki nodded, looking at his stopwatch, and Juri said, "Yes, yes; I was aware of this. Shiori transferred to one with Taru a few years ago, so I was aware we had more than one. But this is an outrage to us, calling us such things! Still, we had only just figured out who the group's leader was and now he is dead. Yet, how can they start a new round with the Rose-Bride missing?"

Miki, (the second youngest member,) checked the time on his stop watch and explained, "Two minutes and fifty three seconds total time, and I concur. It seems odd that they would try to do such a thing without Akio or Anthy. Without the Himemiya family involved can the duels even happen? One minute twenty six seconds!"

As always, Miki timed every second spent during the meeting and taking notes on every key point. The tall slender man with long green hair stood, a scowl on his face, and thundered, "Well is Anthy is not in it? Then I see no need to duel! I have no Rival to defeat, to eternity to grasp, and no Bride to defend! I refuse to join in at all! They call us inept; well, I call them decrepit, and I shall not stand for this! Kyoichi Saionji is not going to take this laying down!"

He then swung his sheathed blade across the table knocking the vase with red roses onto the floor, and stormed off in a rage, his ring remaining on the table.

Back at the other school, the Princess had gotten her class schedule as she walked down the hall getting stares from everyone. she could even hear them whisper: "Hey, hey! That's the girl who got kicked out of her old school for nearly killing the principle! No, no; I heard she was having sex with him and his fiancée found out. Wow, would you look at her! Why is she wearing a boy's uniform from another school?"

She could hear all of them, but she had learned long ago to not let people who had just met her judge her make her feel hurt. Feeling hurt over such trivial things was not her style. She was her own person, and she would not let them tell her otherwise. Inukai sighed as he walked beside her; people like that had always made him sick. He hated such people. They walked down the hall to their home room as both had gotten the same teacher, which meant they would be seeing each other every day. They walked in and took their seats next to each other as a tall man with a blue, done up lab coat, and a scruffy white beard and long white hair walked in. He tilted his glasses up from the middle of his nose and looked at the class with a cold stare. He seemed to look at them like he was viewing an amoeba through a microscope, with the eyes that said to you, "I am here to observe, here to study, here to manipulate and guide."

He cleared his throat and then glared at the class again, announcing with a loud and commanding voice that yet lacked emotion, "Greetings freshmen; I am your Literary Arts and Science Teacher, Professor Sohma Nemuro. I am not here to be your friend, nor your enemy: I am here to teach and nothing more. If you have a question I shall answer it to the best of my ability. However, I am by no means a pushover: treat me with respect and I shall treat you in the same manner, understood?"

As he spoke, it was like listening to a machine. Utena sighed as she looked at her new teacher. To her, he seemed familiar, yet at the same time not. "Great!" she thought, "I got some kind of drill sergeant as a homeroom teacher! Oh well, this should still be better than that hag of a guidance counselor I had to deal with at Ohtori. Still, I just get the feeling I know him, but from where?"

Utena wondered this as the odd older man began his lesson. He was indeed a knowledgeable person, not even needing to check the teaching aide manual. Time seemed to fly by as lunch rolled around. Utena was looking around for Inukai who said he wanted her to meet someone. As she walked around the hilly and green area's around the school, she looked down and saw a large tranquility garden with a large nicely designed fountain in the center. Roses of every color decorated the area. Utena smiled as she picked a pink roe and smelled it. It reminded her of her best friend: a girl she hoped one day to see again.

Nearby, a man with a low but very long red weave tail that went down to about his tail-bone, dressed in a red uniform with a white and black trim and a tall lanky body, grabbed a small frail looking girl with blue curled hair—hair that framed her face and eyes as blue and pure as the sky—and slapped her! Utena gasped and ran to the boy, shouting, "What the heck are you doing? You don't hit kids, you jerk! How old are you anyway? She must be half you age, you jerk!"

The girl just shivered and hid as the boy glared at her and walked closer and shouted, "How dare you! You have no idea who she is and who I am! I am a member of the Student Counsel, and I demand respect!" He then smacked Utena and smirked as she fumbled to regain her balance. "You…you Teme:" she thundered, "You are just asking for it!"

She stood and glared back, the boy smirked again as he whistled and the girl walked over, and he kissed her. Then he slapped her again, and then the two walked away! "Go ahead and try girl," he shouted to Utena smugly as he walked off, "I am untouchable to the likes of you!"

She balled up her fists and tackled him, hitting him in the face. She shouted, "OH YEAH? WELL JERKS LIKE YOU DON'T SCARE ME! I HEARD ABOUT YOU: YOU'RE ON THE INTERNATIONAL FENCING TEAM, SO I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!"

This person was everything she hated, and everything she had sworn to never turn a blind eye against. The Boy smirked and said, "Very well then, we shall duel. Come to the schools east block by the memorial pillar at five Pm!"

The boy then walked off with a stride brimming with arrogance and overconfidence. Utena sighed as she looked at the two walking away. Utena then thought, "Why do I always stick my nose in other peoples affairs? Now I have a duel, and it's been about half a year since my last one, though this won't be too bad. I mean, it's not like End-of-the-World is involved. He is just some arrogant fool from school!"

Utena then walked to the club and borrowed a practice sword so she could get some training in before the match.

In the Blossom Blade Student Counsel room everyone had gathered as they began their Mantra: This world is dying. For what can be seen in the past is Anger and Hatred that seeps out from the depths of the Darkness of our hearts. What can char these frozen hearts is only the burning of true hatred like the fires of hell! Bring down upon these hated sinners the lightning of judgment! Let the Prayers of the Choirs be heard! The future is now, for we shall break the chains of hatred for Revaluation of the world!"

Everyone exclaimed in unison as they all sat. the President was a beautiful somewhat frail young woman with light purple hair and a white ,purple, gold, and light blue trimmed boys uniform similar to those worn by the Ohtori counsel, only with the white being in the trim and the uniform itself being a light lavender. All the members had colored trim uniforms that were similar yet different from the Ohtori style. The President then explained, "Now Hishima, I understand that you accepted a duel from some random freshmen. As those chosen by End-of-the-World, we must act elegantly and nobly as we will be those seeking to change this world. Yet you, you treat your bride so roughly and look down upon everyone! This is not how one on the counsel should behave!"

She only got a smirk from the same red head Utena had challenged. He then said, "This young girl is mine! I won her! Do you want her? Well then take her! Defeat me in an official duel, or otherwise, stay out of it!"

He then turned and left with the young girl.

The hours passed, and it came time for the match. Utena had walked across campus and came to the Memorial-Pillar. It was one of the four odd pillars that had been put over the school, and Hishima had all ready gone inside. Yet, it was locked, and locked from the inside. She said to herself, "Damn! I can't seem to get the door open…why? Why is it locked? Did he decide to not fight me?"

It was then that she spotted a letter tacked up on the door with a rose seal on it. She opened the letter and inside was her ring; the ring she had thrown away. She looked at the door again and seemed confused as the ring began to glow. The door unlocked, and now it was opening by itself. She gulped and walked in, coming upon an elevator, starting to get a severe case of deja vu.

(The following is to set the mood and explained the context, and sub-plot—or so I suspect—but they were needed because of the others. Thus, prepare for the shadow, boys!)

Throughout the school was heard laughing, and upon a large wall, as the sunset, three shadows of young men appeared. Each had a different hairstyle as they began to set up something—a large stage. Amaru said with his shadow on the wall, but his form not showing, "Hup, hup, hey, hey I am Amar! This is Bmareu and Cmaru. We are the student Gossip and Drama Club, and with President-Dmaru, we will let you know how it all goes!"

Amaru then stated as he pulled a huge beam of wood to the unfinished staged,"Hup, hup Yo ,yo ,Hey, hey! have you heard the news? They say there is a duel in one of the new Pillars here and now!"

Bmareu helped him with the beam as Dmaru shouted with a megaphone from his place on the stage, "REALLY? REALLY? WOW, WOW! AFTER TEN YEARS, WE ARE BACK ON TRACK!!!"

Cmaru nodded as he hammered in nails, some held in his teeth, and said, "Yes, yes, it has been so long! We still need to get ready! We need to hurry and fix the old stage, or we can't get much done!"

Amaru and Bmareu both nodded in agreement, placing the board beam in place and running to get another. Dmaru smirked as he yelled into the megaphone as another beam was put into place, "True, true; it has been so long! Wh,y the last time we had a big duel was Ten years ago when we lost our right to fight, because our champion broke his leg before the final match, and the guy in charge got ma—,so, very, very, very sad!"

The night began to fall as they still were working.

Utena walked down the single path in the pillar and was creeped out by the darkness in the pillar. As she came to a large white classically designed elevator, she pushed the button. As the elevator came down, she stepped inside as the doors closed and it rushed up quickly. She looked down at her hand and did not know when or how, but the Rose seal ring was now on her ring finger. She gasped and then took hold of the rails as she held her stomach. It was so fast and she was so nervous, that now she was starting to think she would be unable to hold her lunch down. Just then it dinged and stopped as the doors opened, and there, on a large white plateau, surrounded by a large and pure starry sky, stood Hishima. He smirked as he saw his opponent and how sickly she now looked. Hishima then said, "I see I was right about you. Since you were able to follow me here, you must have been the one in the letter. I am glad that you were! I was afraid my new rival would be someone tough, yet, look at you—ready to fall over! Ha! How laughable, though at the same time cute!"

The young girl walked out with an elegant regal dress of white, walking over to him and placing a light red rose in his lapel. Utena gasped as she knew this well. She took a closer look at Hishima's hand as he had a Rose-Crest ring on it. This school was under Akio's influence as well, or so it seemed to the pin haired princess as she managed to stand, still feeling ill. Perhaps it was more than the ride! Some of her wounds still ached, and she herself was very nervous about this match now even more so.

The girl walked to Utena and kindly smiled placing a pink rose on her Lapel as she said, "Good luck, Champion of Dios."

The girl then walked to the center of the area, Hishima walking to her with a smirk. He then dipped her as if they were dancing, as a bright blue light flashed and a hilt appeared in the small girl's chest. Hishima lightly kissed her on the lips and grabbed the hilt. He then shouted, "GRANT ME THE POWER TO WALK THE PATH OF REVALOUTION!"

He then pulled a shimmering blade from the girl. It was long with an aqua colored hilt and a shining blue sheen. The girl smiled and crawled to the edge of the field, sitting in a fetal position. Utena was shivering as she went somewhat into shock; it was happening again—all of it was happening again! He then ran at her as she shivered, and he slashed at her and cut off a lock of her hair as he glared at Utena. Hishima then shouted as he kicked her to the ground and darkly glared, "RISE! RISE, AND FIGHT ME! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MATCH, SO RISE AND FIGHT ME! RISE, OR ELSE YOU DUMB, GIRL!"

He shouted again, as he was not getting tired of this, ready to grab her by the hair and just cut the rose clean off, "AWWWWWWW! LOOK AT THE SAD LITTLE PRINCESS CRYING WHERE IS YOUR NOBILITY!"

Utena shivered and looked up at him, and then she remembered. She remembered the day she had met Dios—the day all of this had started. She then thought, "Little one, growing up alone is such deep sorrow and despair. Yet, not shedding a tear is indeed noble. Never lose that strength or nobility even when you are grown"

It then came to her: she had forgotten…she had forgotten what she wanted to be. The memories were there, yet she had forgotten what she had felt, all eclipsed by her fear and failure. She rose up, grabbing the practice rapier. Hishima smirked as he ran at her and, just like that, it was over in a flash as she clutched the blade and slashed at him, his rose being cut, and his blade vanishing. He turned in surprise, now feeling ashamed as he had been trapped by his overconfidence, "Amazing…truly, truly amazing! I have never seen anyone see through my defenses like that before! I…I actually lost damn!"

He thought he was better than everyone else, and here he was down on all fours, having lost his precious trophy. Utena turned her practice blade, having broke it with the powerful slash. She dropped the hilt, and walked away, saying, "I am back to who I was. I have found what I had lost. Thank you, Hishima!"

She then walked back to the elevator, the girl now having vanished.

After leaving the elevator, she sighed and looked at the starry night time sky. The stars no longer made her sad. No longer did they fill her heart with despair. Now to her they meant hope. As she walked, the young girl walked out and smiled now, back in her uniform. The girl then said, "Hello, Miss Utena: you did very well! I belong to you now I am the Rose Bride of Aquos."

Utena nodded she had already expected something like this.

To be continued.

~Omake Theater and author notes~

Mithos: Ohayo hi, hi! Good to see you all again! It's me, Mithos the Author! Hope you all liked Chapter one! I know it was kind of long but hey what are you gonna do, right?

Akio: Oh shut up! I still have yet to forgive you, and in Chapter one, you kept making references to my fight with Utena, yet you didn't even use my name!!!

Sage-Boy: Silence! Please Milord, I actually liked it! Personally, I hated your whole god complex, and I shall become Dios again…thing…so turning thee focus from you to someone else was great!

Akio:........................*get up and drives off in car*

Mithos: Geez! What a Drama-King!

Sage-Boy: Yes, yes I agree! So other than me, who have you got?

Mithos: Well I got Hishima, and Student Counsel President Amalia Ekhart!

*Amalia and Hishima walk in and wave*

Hishima: Glad to be here! Man, that duel sure was a work out!

Amalia: Why am I even here you didn't even say my name the entire Chapter?

*Mithos sighed*

Mithos: Because your both cool, and you will have a bigger role next time, I promise. Anyway, any of you guys wanna say something?

*They both shrug*

Mithos sighed again

Mithos: Well since you don't have anything to say, guess I will just call it a night then. To all you people reading: see you later! XD

Special thanks to :Paladin313, On Soaring Wings, Fullmeatal Knight, Jac the Riddler,

XxTwilight HimexX, and Love and War Mistress Kurohi

Bye-bye!