Author's Note: Going to level with you guys...I want to keep this story going, but I'm in a bit of a bind with classes and other things going on, so I want to know exactly how you feel about this story. I've got a whole bunch of ideas and I'm curious to know what you guys think!

With that being said, let's get going with chapter 2!

And just to forewarn, not much action in this chapter, it's like a two-parter where part 1 sets everything up and part 2 takes it to the next level!

Enjoy! XD


[On the rooftops...]

"Sir, the mission to retrieve the BurstDriver was unsuccessful..." the female figure bowed as a hologram of a person appeared.

"And what of Akoumori?" the hologram asked.

"He was terminated..." she responded, "...by the wielder of the BurstDriver..."

"Oh, so the professor found someone to use its power?" the hologram asked with intrigue.

"The wielder is actually the..." she responded as she quietly stated the rest of her message.

"Hmm...this is quite the development!" the hologram began to chuckle.

"What are your orders?" she asked him.

"We shall give him a test!" the hologram exclaimed, before stopping himself, "Await for instructions until then!"

"Yes..." she replied as the hologram disappeared. She then turned to her companion, who was cracking his knuckles, "Are you ready?"

"After you..." he gestured with a slick grin as she rolled her eyes before the two vanished into the night.

...


[In complete darkness...]

"Is anyone there?!" a distressed Hiro shouted as a strange ball of light phased through his body, and he let out a blood curdling scream. As it happened, an image appeared in his head. It was of him, Takeda, and Masaru when they were younger. He knew the sequence of events in his head all to well...

"We need you to come with us..." a woman in a white suit tried to sweet talk the three youngsters.

"My dad said never trust those who appear out of nowhere..." Masaru responded before sticking his tongue out at her.

"Take them..." the woman simply stated as others in the white suits began to chase them. Due to their flexibility and speed, they were able to keep evading the white suits. It was then one pulled out a taser and shocked Takeda.

"AHHH!" Takeda screamed in pain for a few seconds before he doubled over unconscious.

"You bastards! Take-" Masaru yelled at them before a white suit came from behind him with a handkerchief and cover his mouth and nose before he passed out as well.

"Ma'am, we have the third one restrained as well!" one white suit said, showing the younger Hiro being held by both of his arms.

"Good, let's get them to The Facility," she said before she felt herself being lifted from the ground. She turned to see Hiro, who had both of his restrainers in the air themselves, look at her with a unyielding anger.

"LET...THEM...GO!" Hiro shouted as he let out a burst of his powers send them flying in all directions, and causing some of the environment to distort.

"I have no time for this...!" the woman sucked her teeth before pulling out a black USB with a letter of 'G' that looked like magnets. She then pulled her sleeve to reveal what looked like a connector on her forearm, before pressing the button on the USB.

GRAVITY The USB called out before she jammed it into the connector on her forearm. The results were her transforming into a creature that looked very strange. The main feature was that one arm was blue and the other was red. She then put both of her hands in front of her and caused Hiro to begin to strain as he struggled to walk forward.

"This is getting nowhere!" she gritted her teeth before she moved a metal pole over to Hiro so it could slow him down.

"THAT WON'T STOP ME!" Hiro shouted again as the pole began to bend away from him and one of the points became sharper and opening his eyes, the pole jettisoned towards her.

Before she could blink, the metal pole had pierced her shoulder and she started to bleed. She then looked to see Hiro was already on the ground, in a large crater due to the overuse of the Gaia Memory, unable to move. She stopped her transformation before activating a communicator, "Requesting backup. We have obtained the subjects."

The last thing Hiro could faintly hear was that his power could be harnessed and change the world.

...

"NO!" Hiro's eyes shot open as he got up only to hold his gut in pain before looking around and seeing he was in a hospital room. He then looked to see Masaru and Takeda looking at him worriedly, along with a few bandages on them as well. Having no clue what to do, he just asked, "What happened?"

"Jeez! Don't scare us, you dip!" Masaru sighed in relief as he shook his head.

"W-We're...in the...hospital...?" Hiro asked as he looked around to see he was still in his hospital bed and his roommates were his friends.

"Oh great...now's he's gone stupid on us!" Masaru deadpanned as he threw his hands up in slight defeat and irritation.

"Leave him alone!" Takeda said as he threw a pillow at Masaru, "He's been asleep for a good number of days!"

"So were we and we didn't scream out of our stupors!" Masaru blew a puff of air.

"No, but I specifically remember you talking in your sleep about a cat-girl maid catering to every one of your sick and perverted whims!" Takeda said with an evil grin as Masaru started stuttering incoherently.

"You have no pr-" Masaru tried to defend before he looked at Takeda in horror.

[CLICK] Takeda had a tape recorder in his hand and it began playing back something.

"You've been very naughty~! No amount of purring or begging will stop what I am going to do-" Masaru's voice was heard in a dream-like state and it was clear he was very happy.

"You just don't get Grade-A blackmail like this anywhere..." Takeda smugly said as he began to dodge all the pillows Masaru began throwing at him.

"Good to see you guys finally back!" a voice stated as their room door open to reveal Daichi, who had a cast on his arm. He was followed into the room by Hanabi, Kenji, and Hayato.

"It's you two again!" Masaru realized as Takeda noticed that Masaru's tone was signifying a definite confrontation.

Taking a note of what could possibly happen, Daichi began to speak, "How are you guys holding up?"

"Just a few nicks and bruises," Takeda played it off, before looking at the girl he saved, "Are you okay?"

Hanabi nodded, before speaking low, "Thank you, Takeda-kun!"

"Room's kind of stuffy, wanna go grab a drink?" he asked her after he stretched.

"Sure," she replied as the two left.

"Just leaving me in here!" Masaru grumbled as he followed the two out the door.

"Hiro-kun, are you sure everything is alright?" Kenji asked him, still worried about the fact the Driver was merged with the person's body.

"For the most part..." Hiro trailed off, as the recent memory of Ishida's lifeless body sprung in his head, "If you don't count the fact I killed someone who I considered an 'older brother'..."

"Calling your parents was a nightmare!" Daichi snapped him out of his thoughts, "When they got here, that lioness nearly ripped my head off!"

"Yeah...my sister can be...frightening at times..." Hiro chuckled as he thought of Mayu pummeling his injured senior.

"Hiro-kun, there is something we need to discuss with you," Hayato bluntly stated as he walked over to the door and locked it.

"Make it look like a interrogation, why don't ya?" Kenji sarcastically joked as Hayato rolled his eyes.

"To make a long story short: we need the Driver back!" Hayato stated.

"I thought you would've taken it already when I was taken to the hospital..." Hiro said, with no knowledge in was in his body.

"Kind of hard to do if your body absorbed it," Kenji jokingly scratched his cheek before getting slapped in the back of his head by Hayato.

"What...do...you...mean?" Hiro asked before he looked down to his waist before the Driver materialized, causing him to fall back in shock.

"So it finally found a suitable user..." Hayato summarized.

"I think I'm going to be- *mph*!" Hiro started before feeling the urge to hurl. He raced over to the trashcan in the room before releasing the contents of his mouth and stomach into it.

"Kenji, Daichi, I will handle this..." Hayato told the two before escorting them out of the room. He then turned around to see Hiro holding himself up, with the Driver in full view, and sporting the 'thousand-yard stare'. Approaching the situation as delicately as possible, he started to speak, "How did it feel to actually transform?"

Hiro looked over to Hayato, who had a calm expression on his face. He then finally decide to start, "It...was...e-exhilirating!"

"The person who was the bat creature..." Hayato started to say, and noticed Hiro tensed up, "...Ishida-san, right? Takeda and Masaru were saying that you guys were friends, correct?"

"He's dead...isn't he?" Hiro asked, even though he knew he was the one who caused his death.

"It must've been hard for you to do that," Hayato chimed in, as Hiro now started to slide to the ground.

"I tried to talk him out of it..." Hiro said as he clenched his fist, "I w-wanted to-"

"Listen..." Hayato then moved closer and patted Hiro on the shoulder, "...if you need time, it's okay. You still need to rest, but when you can, drop a line..." He then pulled out a business card and put it on the table for Hiro. He walked to the door, and turned around to see the Driver vanish back into Hiro's body, before sighing to himself, "He really might be our last chance..."

For a few minutes, Hiro just sat at the wall, thinking. All that happened to him seemed to move fast through his mind. The main issues in his head was this power he used and the possibility of others like Ishida. He hoped that after escaping The Facility their plans would be completely destroyed; yet, after the incident a few days ago, he couldn't be more wrong. They were still after him, and now that he was reunited with his family, a dangerous idea came into his head: what if they went after his family? Four images of his father, mother, and siblings in a pool of blood raced through his mind. He clenched his head in frustration and fear as he tried to erase those images from his head. Before another thought creeped into his head, something in the room snapped him out of it.

(BGM: Kingdom Hearts OST- Kairi's Theme)

"Are you oka- AHH!" a girl's voice asked as she tapped his shoulder and he shot up surprising her and causing the papers she held to scatter everywhere.

"I'm sorry!" Hiro apologized, realizing he just scared someone, and began helping her pick them up.

"No, it was my fault..." she told him as she picked up papers until they both reached for the same paper.

As they both looked up to each other's faces, it was almost as if time stood still. Hiro had the urge to pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. The almond-haired girl looked at him like she was recalling a lost memory. It wasn't until Hiro noticed a familiar bracelet on her right wrist that he realized who was standing in front of him.

"M-Misaki..." Hiro softly muttered as he froze.

"R-Right! That's who I am!" she fidgeted as she got her name-tag, "Hiro-kun, correct?"

"Yeah..." Hiro said as he felt deflated. It was just a delirious thought in his head to think that the girl that was left behind at The Facility was in front of him. It was, until he looked up to her face again to see that she had unshed tears.

"I-I c-can't...believe...it's y-you..." her voice began to break as she put the papers down and hugged him.

"So I'm not dreaming? Ishida-sempai was right..." Hiro said in disbelief as he returned the hug, "H-How did you escape-?!"

"A few months after you escaped, Ishida-sempai snuck me out of there and found my family back in Zawame City..." she began to explain, "He told me that he had to stay at The Facility..."

"Why didn't you contact us?" Hiro asked, "We were worried about you; I was-"

"Hiro! We got something other than hospital...food...for...you..." Takeda barged in cutting Hiro question short when he saw who the nurse hugging Hiro was, "No way..."

"Some of us still have to get...through...the...door..." Masaru pushed Takeda through the door frame before having the same reaction as him, "M-Misaki!?"

As she got up and straightened out her nurse's outfit, she bowed to the three at the door, "Masaru, Takeda, it's good to see you again..."

"But...how?" both of them asked at the same time.

"Takeda-kun, who is this?" Hanabi curiously asked as she looked at the nurse with confusion.

"Right!" Takeda snapped out of his surprise, "This is Misaki-chan, a friend of ours who we haven't seen for a while..."

"And this is Hanabi, Takeda's not-exactly-girlfriend!" Masaru pointed to the now flustered girl, as Takeda shot him a dark look.

"Anyway, why are you here?" Hiro asked.

"My family and I just moved here; although it was sad to see what had happened to Ishida-sempai..." Misaki answered, the latter part, making the three boys drop their heads, "...I'm starting up classes soon and I'm taking an internship here! So, how are Inoue and Shin?"

"They're in their hometowns; but since they probably saw what happened the other day, they may be worried..." Takeda summarized as the small group continued to talk for a few minutes.

(BGM Ends)

...

[Outside the room...]

"You only contact me like this when it's a major issue, Ichi..." the voice on the phone said.

"Well, my son was attacked by that man who became that bat creature! Would you not think I, at the very least, would be concerned?" Ichiyama-san replied back to the person on the phone.

"We need to get in contact with Professor Yoshi's students; it is imperative we have the Driver secured..." the voice told him, "And I still feel as though you should come back to-"

"I am afraid I can't do that; I need to spend as much time with my family as I can..." Ichiyama-san told him.

"I understand; just remember, your seat will always be open, Ichi..." the voice said before the line cut off.

"I know...Sempai..." Ichiyama-san thought before closing his phone and entering the room. He then saw his son with his two friends up and about and was happy to see that Hiro was up and about, "Hiro! It's good to see you're back to normal!"

"Dad!" Hiro sighed in relief.

"We were watching you about to compete before the attack happened," Ichiyama-san told his son, "I'm grateful that you three made it out safely!"

"Ichiyama-san, did you hear though? Apparently, someone donned an armor and fought off the bat creature," Takeda asked, causing Hiro to inwardly flinch.

"Maybe there is a new Kamen Rider..." Ichiyama-san vaguely told them.

"Aw, not you too!" Masaru groaned, "Come on, these are just urban legends and myths!"

"Hehe, it may be so, Masaru-kun..." Ichiyama-san began to chuckle.

"Well, I'm off; internship and all..." Misaki said as she headed for the door before turning around and bowing to Ichiyama-san, "It's a pleasure to meet you, and it was great seeing you guys again!"

"You too!" Ichiyama-san told the young woman before she left, and he turned to his son and his two friends, "That...wasn't Inoue-chan, was it?"

"No, it was someone else..." Hiro let a small smile out as a tear left his eye.

"Right..." Ichiyama-san noticed the look on his son's face, but decided to dismiss it for the moment, "I just finished talking to your doctor, you guys should be fine to head home!"

"Finally! No more crap food!" Masaru shouted in elation.

"Hanabi-chan, I-" Takeda was about to saw something to her, but before he realized it she kissed him on the cheek, stunning him.

"I will see you at school!" she chirped before leaving the four in the room.

Masaru, not one to undermine a good opportunity to take a jab at his friend began laughing, "Looks like Mr.'Can Talk Himself Out Of Any Situation' finally got tongue-tied!"

"Heh...let's get you boys home!" Ichiyama-san chuckled as he got the boys out of the hospital.

...

[At the front...]

"Nii-san!" Hanabi was running towards a young man with messy black hair. He was dressed in casual clothes but the most distinguishing features he had were the bandage wraps that covered his hands all the way to his forearms and the piercing snake-like yellow eyes he had. Hanabi made it over to him holding her knees as she caught her breath, "Souji-nii-san...I'm...r-ready..."

"Are you sure you're okay?" her brother asked, "You may still need to rest..."

"I've been resting for a while now!" Hanabi pouted, "And I finally want to sleep in my own bed!"

"Fine, fine!" Souji chuckled at his sister's antics, "Let's get you home..."

As they started to leave, Souji spotted a person at the corner of his eye. It was an older man smoking a cigarette. There was nothing completely significant about him, but upon further inspection, one could see a very odd-looking tattoo on his hand. The man smoking looked up to see Souji leaving the hospital and gave him a nod. Souji sent him back a confirming nod before he smiled, baring a sinister aura along with his fangs.

"Nii-san?" Hanabi turned to see her brother acting a little strange.

"Come on, let's get you home!" Souji shrugged off as the two left the hospital.

...


[Back at Ichiyama's house...]

"Good to know you guys are okay!" Shin's voice was filled with relief as he talked to Hiro on the phone.

"Yeah..." Hiro replied back dryly.

"So...that was Ishida, wasn't it?" Shin asked him.

"Yes, I still can't believe they came back..." Hiro said, gritting his teeth.

"I want to head out over there and help you guys out, but my teacher has a conference with my parents soon..." Shin groaned.

"Just be glad you have it easier..." Hiro scoffed.

"As if! Saburo-sensei always goes into long and boring tangents about 'friendship' in class all the time!" Shin sounded a bit annoyed, "It's at the point where he's driving me bonkers!"

"Well, I catch up with you later!" Hiro told him.

"No problem, and I'll make sure to let Inoue know as well..." Shin said before the phone went idle.

"Hiro! It's time for dinner!" his mom called out to him as he put his phone down.

"Coming!" he yelled back as he looked into the mirror and saw the belt around his waist before he closed his eyes, letting it go back into his body. He opened his eyes to see it was gone again, sighing before thinking about what Hayato said earlier...

"When you can, drop a line..." Hayato's voice sounded as clear as day as he picked up the card that he was given. He then put it next to his phone before heading downstairs to see his family waiting to eat.

"Holding up well?" Kura asked his brother as he took his seat.

"What do you think?" Hiro put up a facade as he grinned at his brother as he flexed one of his arms.

"Just be careful..." their father warned before putting down a newspaper with a picture showing a person, or what used to be one, covered by a cloth, only showing their bloodied hand. According to the paper, it stated the person was most likely slashed in a vicious manner, "...with something like this going on, I expect everyone to be home early until the situation is resolved, understood?"

"Yes!" his three children answered.

"Hiro, I would appreciate it if your...friends...wouldn't interrupt us when we came to see you..." Mayu began speaking.

"Uh...r-right..." Hiro stammered as he remembered what Daichi told him earlier.

"She wasn't so mad when the calm one began talking!" Kura laughed, making Mayu choke on her food a little, "What was his name again? Hayate...no. Hayao...not that either..."

"Put a sock in it!" Mayu then stuffed a dinner roll into her little brother's mouth as she tried to hide her already red face.

"So, whose this Misaki girl?" Hiro's mom asked slyly, having all the attention focused on him now.

"N-No one...in...p-particular..." Hiro stammered as he could only look down at his food.

"Doesn't seem like it's no one in particular..." Mayu snickered, glad she wasn't in the firing range anymore.

"Was she someone from The Facility?" his dad asked, making his head shoot up.

"Y-Yeah..." Hiro's voice was very low.

"Well, that's enough messing with Hiro, let's eat!" his mom said as they finished eating.

After it was all done, everyone got from their seats and readied themselves for bed. It was then that a knock was on Hiro's door, revealed to be his mother, "Mind if I come in?"

"Not at all..." Hiro answered as she walked in.

She whistled as she walked in marveling at what was in his room until she stopped in front of his board with the silhouettes, "Never thought you would actually have something like this!"

"After that placed vanished, I was curious to know who saved us..." Hiro admitted.

"I never told any of you this but when I was younger...I was taken from my home," she told him.

"Why?" Hiro was shocked to hear something like this come from his usually cheerful mother.

"Because of this..." she answered vaguely as she extended her hand, causing a glass of water on his desk to completely evaporate. As she looked back to Hiro, she saw his jaw was dropped.

"You're an ESPer!?" Hiro exclaimed in an almost loud whisper.

"Not in the same vein as you..." she answered, before rolling up her left sleeve to reveal what looked like a worn-out eyeball tattoo, "I was taken by a group of people in white suits. When I came to, I was in this quarry-like slum area and this was imprinted on me. Eventually, I found out a man by the name of Dr. Prospect took us...quarks, because of our special abilities, and were going to be used as soldiers. It was then that a mercenary group came and rescued us. Although, most of us in the end didn't survive..."

"How come?" Hiro asked.

"This..." she showed him the tattoo once again, "...it was a failsafe; if we tried to leave the village without the doctor's permission, we were killed. As I was making the escape, I was knocked out before I could leave. I guess you could say I was lucky..."

"But you're here now! That must mean that Dr. Prospect guy was defeated!" Hiro thought aloud.

"Yes, it turns out the leader of the mercenary group was a Kamen Rider. Yet, the next time I saw him again, he was terrorizing the citizens of Fuuto. He may have been a bit stand-offish, but he seemed nice. I never really knew what could've caused him to go to such extremes..."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"When you three were taken, I was horrified that you may have been subject to the things I had to go through..." Hiro now saw that his mother was beginning to cry softly, "...I couldn't bear the possibility of losing you like I lost the people I cared about in The Village..."

"It's alright, I'm back!" Hiro tried to cheer her up.

"I know..." she began to smile at him as she wiped her tears.

"Does Dad know about this?"

"Yes, I told him on the first date I had with him~" she began to giggle.

"Nice conversation starter..." Hiro deadpanned as she began to stifle her laughter.

"I've already kept you up long enough!" she then got up and hugged Hiro, "Time for bed!"

"See you in the morning!" Hiro told her as she smiled back before closing his door. He thought about what his mother just told him before he decided to finally pick up the business card and called the number.

"Yoshi Egg Enterprises, Hayato speaking!" the voice answered after the phone rung a few times.

"Uh...Hayato-san? This is Hiro..." he could only answer quietly.

"Hiro! I wasn't expecting the call this late; what do you need?" Hayato sounded a bit surprised.

"I wanted to talk about everything going on..." Hiro responded.

"Would you happen to have any free time tomorrow?" Hayato asked.

"Yes!" Hiro answered before running to his door to make sure his loud response didn't disturb anyone.

"Drop by company tomorrow after school; I'll be waiting..." Hayato told him.

"Okay..." Hiro answered before closing his phone. He placed it on his desk before turing his light off and dropped on his bed to fall asleep.

...


[In one of Rail City's alleyways...]

An injured man was running away as fast as his feet could carry him. He didn't dare look behind him, knowing he could end up like those he was hanging out with. Holding his arm, the crimson liquid escaped at an alarming rate. Before he could get any further, he tripped and fell to the ground with a tremendous force.

"NO! NO! PLEASE HAVE MERCY!" the man screamed in terror as he continued to crawl backwards.

"Sorry we seem to be fresh out of 'mercy'! But we do have plenty of 'pain' and 'untimely death'!" the figure that was chasing him cackled before it revealed a tiger. However this tiger was more ectoplasmic in body structure and through the clear liquid, one could see the skeletal system of it. With one devilish roar, it then pounced on the man.

"AHHH-" the man's terrified scream was cut of as the tiger cut the man's neck and began to ferociously slash the man's body.

A few minutes later, the same man from the hospital was standing next to the bloody mess that was once human next to him and began to light another cigarette. As he put it to his mouth, he heard the footsteps of someone approaching. As the person walked the footprints he left caused the ground under him to decay and when he touched the light pole, it effectively short-circuited it, causing the light to completely break.

"Virus-sama..." the man said as the person came into a much clearer view. Virus, as his name was, donned a jet-black and gold armor, with purple laser lines connecting to the center emblem on his chest. The helmet he wore bore a blue jewel in the center of it and the fins it had looked akin to a cobra head. He walked over to the gore before he squatted and examined it before going into a laughing fit.

"Man, I knew you were ravenous but this is too much!" Virus laughed as he started to hold his sides.

"Him and his friends were getting on my nerves..." the man simply said as he took another inhale of his smoke.

"Fragile beings...aren't they?" Virus asked as he picked up a discarded bone.

"I hear you and Umbra failed in the mission to retrieve the BurstDriver..." the man said as he dropped the cigarette and stepped on it.

"Umbra decided to go train...I, on the other hand, want to have some fun with this!" Virus said in a way one would almost be able to see the smile on his face if it wasn't covered.

"If that's all you have to tell me..." the man began to walk away before Virus caught up to him.

"Your next assignment is to do whatever you can to draw out the wielder of the BurstDriver!" Virus told him.

"Simple enough..." the man huffed before leaving, "...he's probably not even worth the challenge..."

"Don't get too cocky..." Virus whispered to himself before he placed his right hand on the center of the belt and the fangs bit him, reverting him back to...Souji!? "My sister's classmate is after all...The Emperor!"

...


[The next day at school...]

"Earth to Hiro! Hello!" Masaru waved his hand in front of Hiro's spaced out face, "This is getting irritating!"

"Ever think to just, you know, leave him alone?" Takeda sarcastically asked, making Masaru stick his tongue at him.

"Alright, everyone settle down!" their teacher walked in quieting the noisy classroom, "We have a new student joining us, I want you all to make her feel welcome!"

Just then, a girl with shoulder-length hair walked in wearing their school's uniform. Most of the guys were in a trance as they were muttering how pretty she looked. When she stopped to turn to the class, three of them looked in surprise at who it was.

"Hello, my name is Misaki Kyoyama, it's nice to meet you all!" she said happily as she bowed to the class.

"It's the apprentice nurse from the other day!" Hanabi pointed out as Misaki noticed her and gave her a peace sign.

"It's official...I'm confused..." Masaru said as he felt his head spinning.

"Are you sure it's just not another day for you?" Takeda snickered, "You know, we never really asked what her last name was..."

"Takeda! Masaru!" Misaki saw the two near the back of the class, surprising the other students.

"You actually know them!?" one of the girls asked.

"Yeah, we used to hang out a few years back...but their families left for Rail City..." Misaki 'explained' to the class not hinting about where they really were.

"I'm sure you all will get the chance to be better acquainted with Kyoyama when there is free time!" the teacher interrupted, "Right now, we need to begin class. Kyoyama, take your seat next to Ichiyama."

"Yes sir!" Misaki gave him a salute before moving to her designated seat, which was right next to Hiro.

"Alright, now..." the teacher's voice began to fade away as Hiro suddenly felt himself enter his own world. Although he was relieved to finally find out that Misaki was alive (not to mention being in the same class as him), he couldn't help but feel something eating at him. It was around this time he looked outside of the class to see a man that gave off an incredibly foul aura. Before he had any time to react, the man was gone in an instant. He began to shake off his worry as his teacher's voice came back into hearing, "Ichiyama! Now's not the time to be spacing out!"

"R-Right!" Hiro felt slightly flustered as he bowed his head.

"Hiro-kun, is something wrong?" Misaki asked him, slightly worried.

"N-No, it's fine..." Hiro shrugged it off as he hid his face in his book.

...

[On the other side of the school...]

"Gah!" Daichi yelped as a small shock hit him as he was working on something.

"You know you don't have to keep working on that, right?" Kazuya told him as he closed his book.

"You know if I don't do it, Kenji will never get it done..." Daichi said as he bandaged his finger.

"So, Hiro is the one who can use the BurstDriver?" Kazuya asked.

"From what I've heard..." Daichi said blankly, "I was knocked out; Kenji and Hayato said he was pretty good!"

"I've should've been there..." Kazuya gritted his teeth.

"Don't sweat it..." Daichi got up and patted him on the shoulder, "Come on, we got class..."

"Right..." Kazuya grabbed his belongings and something in his bag that resembled a belt buckle was stuffed in as the two headed for their class.

...


Closing Note: Like I said before guys, not a lot of action, but I hope it's enough to keep you interested! Constructive criticism always appreciated!

That company name, right? If you can't tell, I make plenty of jokes and references to things I like! I'm going to stop talking now...

Ryuzaki: No! No! Keeping going! I was completely interested...(heavy sarcasm)

Me: Still butt hurt about losing the bet?

Ryuzaki: You two jerks cheated! I will have my- *OMF* (gets gagged by a towel)

Souji: Just hurry up! He's talking too much!

Me: Alright, see you guys again! (hopefully real soon!) XD