This was turning into an interesting day.
Chapter Two- Kyo's Pov
I slumped my head against my desk, landing heavily on my folded arms. I was exhausted. The rain sucked all my energy out, draining me of all life, all consciousness, until I couldn't take it anymore. I was almost asleep when a bang about an inch from my ear made me sit straight up in my seat.
I looked up to see the teacher looking down at me, her eyebrows raised questioningly. "Long night Kyo?" I glared at her, looking at the text book she had slammed down on my desk. She rolled her eyes and turned away from me, snatching up her book.
"Now, as everyone knows, term paper time is here. I will be assigning you partners, as well as topics. No complaints, and if you're not with your friends, I have absolutely no pity for you. Alright, Hanajima will be with Momo when she comes back, Yuki is with Haki, Tohru is with Amaya, Chi is with Sayomi, Tora is with Yoi, Dai is with Kato, and Kyo is with Mika. Now everyone please send one person from each pair to get your topic from me." Before I could get up, Mika was already out of her seat, and heading gracefully to the front of the class to get our assignment from our teacher.
I was almost glad that I had been paired with her; maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I mean, this way not only do I get to find out more about this girl, but I had a strong hunch that we had the same beliefs about school.
"Our topic is the bombing of Hiroshima." She announced, sliding the slip of paper over to me, releasing it with her long pale fingers. I nodded in acknowledgment. Hiroshima was an interesting enough topic, although if I had a choice, I would've just skipped the entire assignment.
"When should we meet for research?" I asked. Mika looked at me. "We have to meet?"
I nodded. "That's usually what happens for term papers. Haven't you done one before?" She shrugged.
"Anyways, I'm busy from about midnight to five." She told me.
I looked at her. "With what?" I asked.
"Things that require a little more darkness than any other part of the day provide. But I can spare some time at about five in the morning until school time, or maybe I could slip in some time for you from the end of school to about seven. Would that work?" She asked.
I slowly nodded, still dwelling on the fact that she was actually up and doing something in the middle of the night. But then again, I was usually up in the middle of the night, having the spirit of the cat, and my life was probably a lot more abnormal than hers, so I couldn't really say anything without being a hypocrite.
"But we don't need that much time anyways; I already know pretty much everything about Hiroshima that we'll need." She sighed, leaning back in her seat nonchalantly.
I raised an eyebrow. "Fine, then what was the date of the bombing?" I asked. Not that I actually knew the answer either.
"August seventh, 1945, a Monday, then there was another bombing on the ninth, but that wasn't in Hiroshima." I stared at her.
"You have that memorized?" I questioned.
"Private tutor." She shrugged her explanation.
I raised my eyebrows, glancing at her. She was diffidently hiding something, I didn't even know anyone that had a private tutor, and I was from the Sohma family.
"So anyways." I started, hoping to get anything out of the girl, or else this was going to be a very awkward rest of the day.
"What?" She raised an eyebrow, irritated that I was still talking to her.
I didn't even know why I was bothering. If she was anything like me, she wasn't going to warm up anyone anytime quickly. And I was quite sure, that she was very much like me, but she was slightly more hidden.
"Alright, lunch time everyone. Please make sure that you set up a time to meet with your partners before you leave, or sometime today. Thank you." The teacher dismissed us.
"So tonight after school?" She questioned, pulling on her now dried coat.
I nodded. "Where do you want me to meet up with you?"
She shrugged. "How about your house? I can bring my laptop, it has internet." She suggested.
I nodded again. "Sure, my house is"
"It's that one in the woods, I've saw you when I walked past once." Mika then walked out of the classroom.
I pulled out my lunch bag, a plain brown bag, and removed the rice balls Tohru had just made this morning. They were packed full of fresh salmon, pink and delicious, perfect. Tohru had probably gotten it from the fish market yesterday morning. "So, who's the new girl?" Uotani asked.
I looked up to see the blonde looking at me, Tohru behind her, and Yuki next to Tohru. "What is this, an interrogation?"
Uo rolled her eyes. "No, we just want to know baka."
I shrugged. "Just some girl, her name's Mika, you know that. That's basically all that went on. Oh, she had a private tutor at some point in time, and she knows a lot about Hiroshima." I sighed somewhat sarcastically. All I wanted to do this lunch period was sleep; the rain was still coming down hard. Maybe I should just go home.
And it seems like someone else shared that idea.
"Where is she anyways?" Yuki asked.
I looked around for the black-clad girl, but saw nobody who matched her profile.
She was gone. I got up from the table, everyone's attention on a story that Uotani had begun telling. I walked over to the glass window that lined the lunch room.
And there, in the rain, I spotted a set of icy blue eyes, watching me from the darkness that dripped down from the sky. Then, they were gone, into the rain.
