First Day of School

Sleeping in his brother's room was probably the worst thing Reiji had ever experience. He didn't get a good night's rest at all. Reiji lied in bed with his red eyes wide awake, yet they were restless. His bloodshot eyes proved the fact that he didn't get a good night's rest. His right eye started to twitch in annoyance.

"That sloth, he's not even awake yet is he."

Despite the lack of sleep he got, Reiji managed to get himself to sit upright.

Today was the first day of school and unlike a certain person, he wasn't worried. Finished with his morning routine of brushing his teeth and washing his face, he went to his own room and laid out his school uniform on his own bed. More precisely, he laid out his uniform on top his brother. Reiji's uniform consisted of black pants, white dress shirt, black jacket, and a red tie. Fully dressed in his uniform, he began his mission of waking his brother up.

"Don't worry you say yet you are still asleep." Reiji sighed in annoyance as he towered over Shu, who had a peaceful expression on his face while drooling, and prepared to yell as loud as he could, "Wake up already!"

"Zzz…..."

"I guess there's no other choice then..." With a small smirk forming on his features, Reiji pulled the blanket off of Shu which resulted the blonde in face-planting on the floor. Reiji grabbed his brother's ankles, dragging his brother towards the bathroom. His brother didn't mind one bit though. He was still sleeping peacefully while drooling as the rough carpet floor rubbed against his skin.

"Master, is everything okay? Is there anything I could—" The servant was lost for words at the sight of Reiji dragging the blonde towards the bathroom.

"Please do not worry, I will handle this matter myself."

"Master what are..."

"I am merely splashing him with water to wake him up, so please do not worry about it."

"Don't you think that's a bit to extreme, Master..."

"No, not at all."

Yui lied in bed with eyes wide open and stared up at the brown wooden ceiling with blood shot eyes. She didn't get as much sleep as she had intended to. She sat upright and let out a yawn as she rubbed her tired blood shot eyes. After stretching out her sore limbs, she climbed down the small ladder and began her task of waking her browned haired friend from his deep slumber.

"Yuma-kun wake up," she whispered as she shook him by the shoulders.

"Zzz…tomatoes…."

"..."

Yui didn't really want to go through with the plan, but she had to. Besides, they had to arrive early to school in order to search for their classes ans explore the school.

"The rats are at it again! They're killing your precious baby tomatoes!"

"Little fuckers, I'm-ow!" Brown eyes flashed wide open, but soon scrunched up in pain when he bumped the top of his head against the bottom of the top bed. "Fucking Yui, stop saying shit like that!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm really sorry, but we have to get ready for school." Yui tossed Yuma's school uniform at him, letting the clothes droop over his head and around his shoulders. She went into the bathroom, applying tooth paste on her toothbrush, and hurriedly rushed out the bathroom.

"Geez, at least think of a better way of waking me up…" Yuma sat upright, soothing his head.

"It was the only way..."

"Ha? What did you say," with his brown eyes full of energy, Yuma jokingly threatened. Unlike Yui, who had dead tired blood shot eyes, his eyes was very well rested.

"N-nothing..n-nothing at all."

With that said, Yui went out the house and towards the nearby river. Unlike the city, all houses in the villages didn't have water pipes that would supply them with water.

After brushing their teeth and washing their face with the water the river provided them with, they headed back home and changed into their school uniform. Respectively, they changed into their school uniform in different rooms. Yui occupied the bathroom while Yuma chose the bedroom which wasn't really considered a bedroom since it was just a bunk-bed placed in a living room.

"It's almost the same as wearing all black, do they know what a sun is," Yuma complained. His uniform consisted of a black jacket worn over a white dress shirt and black pants.

"I think the jackets are optional, but their uniform are nice," Yui chirped, opening the bathroom door. Her uniform consisted of a red bow, black skirt that ended above her knees, a black blazer worn over a black vest, and a white dress shirt worn under the black vest.

Fully dressed in the standard uniform, they grabbed their school bags and rushed out the door. An apple was held in Yui's hand and the same went for Yuma. Since Yui didn't cook breakfast like she usually did, apples would be able their breakfast for today.

"Oh? It's Yui-chan and Yuma-kun."

"Good luck with school you two."

"Don't get lost!"

"Stay out of trouble you two!"

Still facing the road ahead of them, Yuma and Yui waved the back of their hands at the villagers to bid them farewell. Waving the hand occupied with the apple, Yui faced the villagers and shouted, "Don't worry, we won't get lost or get in trouble!"

Of course they wouldn't get lost in a school where they had never stood foot in. Totally.

And of course they wouldn't get into any types of trouble considering the fact that Yuma loved to get into fights with the rich. They totally wouldn't get in trouble.

...

"Are you serious Yui, we could have slept in a bit more."

Arriving at school didn't take very long. From their village to the school it took about ten minutes or so. They arrived to school at seven twenty and classes was going to start in about thirty minutes.

The school they were attending was Jewel High School; a school that was mostly filled with rich students. Jewel High School wasn't specifically made for the rich nor was it specifically made for the poor. It didn't matter whether the students were poor or rich, Jewel High welcomed them with open arms. The school had an amazing principal and amazing teachers as well, but unfortunately the faculty nor the principal had the authority to put and end on how the wealthy students treated the poor students.

In Jewel High School, in most schools in the city, students of same social class stuck together and there was no such thing as the rich being friends with the poor or vice versa.

"We have to find our classes, that's why we're here so early."

Blindly walking around the unfamiliar and ridiculously huge school, they searched for their classes. It was quite a huge school for one that was located near their village. But then again,it was also located near the city. If one would follow the dirt path, it would send them to a wide bridge for vehicles and a small bridge for pedestrians that would lead them into the city.

"Why do we have to find our classes right now, it's so early." Yuma might have been exaggerating and all, but it was still pretty damn early.

To stop Yuma from complaining, Yui brought up an embarrassing memory from middle school, "Ah!...remember that time where you-"

"Okay, okay! I get it. Lets hurry it up already."

...

"Ah..fifteen minutes to spare," Yui mumbled as she stretched her arms.

Finding their classes wasn't as difficult as Yui thought it would have been. They had also encountered a few teachers that were going to be their teachers for the entire school year and they were unexpectedly really nice. Hearing that Jewel High School contained mostly rich students, they had thought the teachers were going to be rude jackasses. More precisely, it was Yuma who had thought that everyone in the school were going to be rude assholes while Yui had thought the opposite, only thinking up of positive thoughts about the teachers and the school.

After checking out where their last class was they both headed to their first class, which was located right next to each other. "How lucky! All of our classes are pretty much next to each other."

"Yeah and we have the same classroom for our last class."

As they both walked through the now crowded hallways, towards their first class, they encountered an unsightly scene in the hallways that made Yui gasp in horror. "How awful..."

A student of high class was tormenting a low class student.

"Eh~ Can you repeat what you just said, why can't I get it myself you say? I merely asked you to fetch a bottle of water and you start complaining." A student, more specifically an aristocrat, sneered as he started spitting saliva on a boy who was trembling in utter fear. The rich student started kicking and verbally attack the poor guy. "Seriously, this school should just only be a school for the rich. Know your place already you commoner."

Curled up on the ground, the poor student apologized several times in a shaky voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

Other students just stood by the sidelines, watching the scene unravel before them. Wealthy students were snickering and laughing, enjoying the scene that was currently being played out before their eyes. Poor and middle class students could do nothing but watch as their fellow friend took a beating. "It hurts s-so please stop. P-please stop."

The rude brat didn't stop. Ignoring the pleads and apologies, he kept on kicking and kicking and enjoyed the cries of pain he was emitting from the bruised up kid on the floor. "I'm serious, know your place already. When I order you to do something, you must obey me. It's that simple."

Yuma was straight-out pissed. The scene playing out right before him made him sick to the pit of his stomach. Brown eyes was burning with red hot anger, eager to teach the bully a lesson. Forming a fist with his right hand, he clenched his jaws and fist in anger. He badly wanted to rush up to the arrogant bastard and beat the living shit out of him, however Yui's tight grip on his arm prevented him from doing so.

"Calm down Yuma..." Relaxing to the soothing sound of Yui's voice, he calmed down a bit.

It wasn't that Yui wasn't livid, she just wasn't as livid as Yuma was. Anger only consumed her for a short amount of time and dissipated rather quickly. Anger was overshadowed by worry. She was concerned about the battered student curled up on the floor and wanted to rush the boy to the nurse.

"People like you are just mere servants who serve aristocrats so don't ever think of disobeying the orders of an aristocrat." The boy kicked at the battered student several times before stomping on the student's cheek.

Something in Yuma snapped; his blazing anger resurfaced once again.

"Fucking bastard, why don't you say that straight to my face!"

Releasing her grip on Yuma's arm, she couldn't endure it any longer either. The small amount of blood that stained the light blue floor made her feel sick to the point of throwing up. It was a miracle that she could keep herself from throwing up right there and then. Dismissing the sight of blood in her mind, Yui managed to squeak out her words despite her voice was quaking in fear.

"P-please st-top! Y-you're going way too f-far! There's b-blood on the floor already!"

Both Reiji and Shu arrived to school soaked in water. Well, on the bright side they weren't completely drenched. Shu's hair was thoroughly soaked with water as well as his white dress shirt. Reiji's hair was also soaked with water but not completely drenched; his sleeves were wet from his wrist to his elbow. Not bothering to dry nor change into dry clothing, they both headed towards their first class and as expected, they had the same classes at the same time with each other.

"It's too noisy over there…"

True enough, the direction they were heading towards was crawled with annoying voices that rivaled the sounds of a large army of crickets chirping.

"Indeed it is, let's go the other way."

They turned back, heading towards a different route towards their first class. Just then, a sudden realization occurred to Shu. That would mean meeting his mortal enemy since his first year of being in Jewel High School—the bloody god damn stairs.

"Reiji...I don't want to walk up the stairs..." Shu stopped walking.

Reiji dragged the blonde along with him, regardless of his brother's hate for the stairs. "At least we won't hear any noisy chattering."

Seated at the teacher's desk was Beatrix Sakamaki looking at a list of names on the paper she held in her hand.

"Yui-chan and Yuma-kun are in my class...I'm glad..."

A peaceful yet regretful smile rested on the woman's lips.