Chapter 2: A fresh start at Frontier High School, a meeting by chance or by fate
It was a bright morning over Shibuya, the sun had fully risen and traffic was once again busy as people were on their way to work, school or their destined place. But on a bus that driving down a road sitting at the back was a teenage boy with brown hair dressed in a Gakuran high school uniform with a blue lining, with bag containing school supplies beside him. This teenage boy was Takato Matsuki and it was the first day at a new high school for his second semester, he had just transferred from his old school in Shinjuku about a number incidents caused him to change schools, he had to try and make new friends and hopefully a fresh start.
After 20 minutes on the bus Takato had finally reached his destination as he got off the bus, as he stood there on the opposite side of the street stood the large facility that was Frontier high school. He just took a deep breath holding the strap of his bag as he then started to walk across the road to the other side, the school gates were open as students dressed in the same uniforms, Gakuran for the boys and Sailor Fuku for the girls were walking into the school courtyard, socializing with their friends, in their groups just talking or heading into the buildings, Takato stood in front of the gates with students walking past him, like he wasn't there.
"Okay... Let's do this" Takato told himself in a quiet tone as he headed into the school, he slightly glanced around to see the students mingling with their friends as his expression showed a mixture of slight envy and sadness as he continued to head towards the main building of the school
As Takato was walking across the courtyard towards the main building, inside the building among the students inside, three friends stood out, they were just standing on a staircase that led up to the next floor. One was a beautiful girl with long blonde hair, slightly pale skin, and green eyes, the bow on her uniform was red one, and she had a lilac pink backpack on her shoulder. Beside her was young man, overweight, with spiky brown hair and eyes, quite fair skin, his Gakuran uniform unlike Takato's had a red lining instead of a blue one. Finally in front of them was another boy with lightly tanned skin, darker brown hair and eyes than the other boy.
He was wearing the same uniform as his friend, and he had a crimson backpack on his back, at frontier high, the different colours in the female students ribbons, and the lining on the male students uniform symbolized the grades of the students. Blue was for the first years, red for the second years, and yellow for the third years, these three were all second year students while Takato was a first year. They appeared to be laughing at a joke that the large boy had just told them when the main doors opened as Takato walked into the building, he started to look around as he looked a little confused, as he then pulled out a piece of paper looking at it.
"Where's my homeroom again...?" Takato quietly asked him as he was looking a paper which read his timetable and where his homeroom was but he didn't understand it as slowly started to walk with the paper in front of him blocking his view
"I see you guys after first period I've gotta go and get something from the reception desk" the teen with the darker shade of brown hair told his friends he started to go down the stairs, but he was looking at his friends and not ahead of him, Takato and this boy weren't looking where they were going when they suddenly bumped into each other but this boy was taller that than Takato as he fell back to the ground
"Oh jeez! Ah man hey I'm so sorry I wasn't seeing where was I going?" the boy as he quickly knelt down as he took Takato's hand helping back up as they both standing up, the boy paused as he was just staring at Takato's face as Takato just looked up as he stared at the boy
"Uh... I'm so sorry, I had the paper in front of me and I..." Takato had instantly bowed slightly in front of the boy in an apologetic tone as the teen looked confused and then just smiled
"Don't worry about it, we both weren't looking where we going... Hey is this yours?" the upperclassmen asked as he crouched and picked Takato's timetable as he stood back as he examined the paper
"A timetable...? I take it that you're new to Frontier high? I haven't seen you here before?" the older teen asked Takato who just paused, as the boy examined his timetable
"Uh... Yeah, I... I'm new here, I transferred from Shinjuku" Takato nervously said while the boy read the paper
"I see... Well it looks like that you're in homeroom A2 and that's just down this hall, I can take you down if you want?" the teen offered pointing in the direction of the down the hall
"Oh okay, thank you very much..." Takato stated slightly bowing once while older boy looked a little embarrassed and confused as he just smiled
"Ah come on there's no need for that, your new here so don't worry about it..." the youth told Takato with a bright smile as he then extended his hand out to the boy
"Welcome to Frontier high, my name's Takuya Kanbara. I'm a second-year student here, and it's nice to meet ya" the youth introducing himself as 'Takuya' with a faint smile on his face as Takato just stood there
"A second-year student...?" Takato was confused this boy didn't that older than he did, Takuya then pointed at the coloured lining on his uniform while Takato's expression was a little confused
"Yeah, these different colours on our uniforms incident the grade different... You've got blue on yours, so you're a first-year, and red like mine is a second-year see" Takuya briefly explained to him
"Oh I see... Well it's nice to meet you Takuya, my name's Takato Matsuki" Takato said finally shaking Takuya's hand showing a faint smile while Takuya had bigger grin on his face
"Nice to meet you Takato, come on then, let me take you to your class" Takuya stated as he and Takato started to walk down the hall, while they walked Takato slightly glanced at Takuya, but then he quickly looked away
"So you transferred from Shinjuku to start your second term here?" Takuya asked Takato who just nodded while Takuya's eyes showed the slightest sign of curiosity
"Well your gonna like it here, most of us here are friendly so don't be afraid to try make friends" Takuya said as Takato had a faint smile as they then turned into another hall
"Alright, A2 just down there, it's the last door on the right hand side" Takuya pointing over to the door as Takato looked over at the door and then to Takuya
"Thank you very much Takuya... I didn't think I'd be able to find my class" Takato thanked Takuya once again who just smiled as then patted Takato's head which made him blush faintly
"Ah it's fine Takato... Nice meeting you, I hope you settled in your class" Takuya stated slowly taking his hand off Takato's head as he turned around and started walking
"And I hope we can be friends in future ok... I'll see you around" Takuya said as he waved at Takato with his back turned as eventually left Takato's view who just stood there for a moment
"Friends huh...? I guess... It's a start then" Takato said quietly as he then turn back to the view of his classroom door as he then walked over to the door and then entered the classroom
"Takato Matsuki huh...?" Takuya was standing in the hallway as he looked back in the direction where he had just left as he then smiled before continuing on back to his class
About ten minutes later the bell had rang as the students were all heading into their homeroom classes, the courtyard was now empty and so were the halls inside the buildings. Back in Takato's class the youth was standing in front of his new classmates, his name had been written on the large chalkboard in the traditional Japanese writing, he had bowed slightly for a moment after introducing himself to the class. After he took his seat and his new teacher filled out the register, five minutes after that the bell for first period ran throughout the building, and the halls were filled with students once again heading to their next class.
Takato was worried at first about where his next class would be, but luckily he had a free period first, so he could take this time to look around and find all his classrooms. Ten minutes after the first period bell had rang there were only a hand full of students in the halls as Takato was walking down a hallway carefully reading his timetable paper, he had been able to find two of his classes, his maths and history class. Once he found the rooms where all his classes were it would make it easier for when it was time for his lessons to start. Eventually after 15 minutes he able to locate all of his classrooms, and he was now in the library.
He was a little nervous about socialising with other students, there a common room for students to do a little work and a have a little fun, but Takato instead decided to go the library to have a peace and quiet, and to be alone. He had taken out his sketch book from his bag and was now drawing something, on the table where he was sat on his right was a small stack of books that he borrowed from the library that he would need for his next lessons, his expression was a plain, simple one as seemed to be in his own world. There only about two kids aside from Takato in the library, just then the 2nd year he met Takuya just entered the library.
"Hmm..." Takuya seemed to be looking for someone as he slowly looked around the library until his eyes saw Takato sitting alone as he faintly smiled as he headed over to the youth who was focused on his drawing
"Hey there buddy!" Takuya greeted Takato who looked up to see the upperclassmen standing on the other side the table in front of him as Takuya smiled, while Takato had a slight curious expression and a faint smile
"Oh, uh here there... Takuya was it?" Takato asked as Takuya nodded with a grin on his face as he took the seat opposite to Takato as the freshman student was focused on the older student
"Yeah it's Takuya, Ah did you already forget my name Takato?" Takuya jokingly said slightly pouting as Takato had an awkward smile on his face as he then suddenly bowed his head slightly
"Um, I'm so sorry about, I didn't mean to forget" Takato stated in a hasty and forgiving manner as Takuya looked confused but then taking advantage of the position that Takato was in he reached over while his head was still bowed as gently patted Takato's head as he opened his eyes as Takuya then started to stroke his hair
"Hey, it was a joke okay pal, don't be so serious kay, there's no need for that" Takuya said in a softer tone as Takato face which luckily for him was still facing down on towards the table was blushing faintly pink
"Anyway... I saw you a little while ago just before you came here, I assumed that you must've had a free period first so I thought you liked to hang a bit until your next lesson" Takuya explained why he ended here with Takato as he had taken his hand away from Takato as he was now facing him
"Um really...? Okay, I guess if you want to" Takato said as he was slightly stuttering slightly as Takuya smiled
"I can see that you're nervous talking to me, and you probably came in here to be alone I guess... So why we just share some things about each other, tell me a little about yourself and I'll do the same" Takuya suggested to Takato who smiled for second and then nodded in response to his idea
"Alright good, I guess I'll start and then you can go after..." Takuya said as he then began to speak while Takato sat there and listened to his new friend share some details about himself and his life
(Meanwhile)
The location was in central Tokyo, the city was overcrowded with people of the streets going in different directions, and the roads with other vehicles driving up and down. But in the crowds of people a familiar youth was walking down en route to the subway in the city, he was wearing green headphones that were plugged into an MP3 player, he was wearing a green sleeveless jacket over a black long sleeved shirt, grey jeans with green and white shoes. It was Henry, his hair was slightly longer and he had grown a few inches as well, his expression was a plain and slightly emotionless one, as his mind seemed to be elsewhere as he continued to walk.
End of Chapter 2
Hey, hoped you the people who have reviewed, followed and favourite this story enjoyed the new chapter, it's over a month since I last updated this story as well any of my stuff. Since I was last active I was completely busy with college you guys, the Christmas I was finally able to breathe and get a break, haven't worked on any stories since the middle of November. But I'm getting off topic now, I off until the 5th of February so I'm adding a new chapter to at least four of my stories.
But more on this story, please leave your reviews telling me what you thought of the new chapter, I'm really liking how this story pace is going so far. I'll get to work on the next chapter on the weekend as I'll be updating another story tomorrow, in the next chapter Takato and Takuya's friendship starts to grow as Takato begins to enjoy his life at Frontier High, but he tries to ignore the feelings that he begins to develop for Takuya unaware that he's hiding something for him...
Bye for now!