Second chapter re-wrote! Enjoy!

Chapter 2

Chihiro and Serebi got to the school just before the bell.

"Here's the reception. I have to go to class, I'll see you later! Bye!" Serebi opened the door, and waved goodbye.

"Oh, okay thanks!" Chihiro walked up to the lady at the desk (who was called Miss S. Miyo, judging by her nametag).

"Yes, can I help?" Miss Miyo smiled at Chihiro.

"Yeah, I'm Chihiro, the new girl? I'm here for my class info."

"Oh, Chihiro! Yes! Here," Miss Miyo sorted threw the papers on her desk, and pulled out one with Chihiro wrote on the top. "Your class is 4-A. It's on the second floor. Would you like someone to take you up?"

"Yes, please" Even though she had toured the school, Chihiro still didn't know where all the classrooms were.

"Okay, sweetie." Miss Miyo turned and called to a girl in the back office. "Allie! Please could you take the new girl up to class 4-A?"

Allie nodded, and smiled at Chihiro. "Follow me, youngster!"

She opened the office door, and walked towards where the stairs were, pointing out places to Chihiro.

"Here are some toilets, the dance hall, the entrance to the sports hall, and here is the assembly hall." Allie and Chihiro reached the stairs, and started to climb.

"The first room is the staff room. And this here is your room. See the sign? It says 4-A. Now, if there is any trouble, ask for Allie René from class 6-B. got that? I usually hang out in the office, because I'm the junior receptionist. Anyway, let's go in!"

Allie knocked on the door, and then opened it. The teacher walked over. "Yes?" She said.

"Hi, this is Chihiro Ogino, the new girl in your class?" Allie motioned to Chihiro.

"Ah yes! Welcome, Chihiro! My name is Miss Parker; I have a western name, see? Now, would you like to introduce yourself? Then you can sit next to Serebi over there. Chihiro turned and saw the girl she had walked to school with sitting right at the back on her very own, far away from anyone. Serebi waved franticly, and Chihiro nodded politely at her.

Allie left, and Chihiro started to introduce herself.

"Hi. My name is Chihiro Ogino, I'm ten years of age, and I like reading and writing stories… I just moved here because my old house was being knocked down to make flats… Umm… Well yeah. That's it." Chihiro blushed and squirmed under the glares of many other students.

"Thank you, Chihiro! Would you like to sit down next to Serebi now?" The teacher smiled, and pointed to the seat.

There were a few mean mutterings from some girls, mostly about how the new girl must starve herself, she's so skinny, and that she would catch the weirdness if she sat next to Serebi. Chihiro ignored the comments, until she fell flat on her face. A girl smirked at her, obviously the one who tripped her.

"Oh my, new girl, do watch where you're going, you could have broken my bag, and then you would have had to pay for it, wouldn't that be a shame?" The girl turned to her friends, (who all looked like clones of her) and they all giggled.

Chihiro walked right up to her, and stood on her foot, making a satisfying crack as the bone shifted slightly.

"Hi! What's your name then? I'm sure we can get along well." Chihiro fake smiled at the girl, who just muttered something about her being a 'stupid weirdo'

Chihiro sat down n the seat, and turned to Serebi, who was beaming hugely at her.

"Hey! You just stood up to Marilee! She's the meanest girl in the class! Good on you buddy!" Serebi held her hand out for a high-five, which Chihiro delivered.

"Thanks! But why did they all call you a weirdo? You're not that weird." Chihiro was curious. She knew that they were just jealous of the fact she had a great skinny body, so she paid not attention to the anorexic comments.

"Oh, I'm weird all right! I'm an otaku. Don't get much worse then that!" Serebi smiled, but Chihiro could tell it was a sad smile.

"What's an otaku?" Chihiro had never heard this word before.

"An otaku is someone who loves anime and manga, and pretty much worships it." Serebi was flinching, as if waiting for Chihiro to start mocking her.

"I don't see how that makes you different! I believe in spirits, does that make me the same as you?" Chihiro was starting to get annoyed that her new friend was treated different because she liked different things.

"Chihiro! Quieten down! Please, don't make me send you out on your first day!" Miss Parker and all of the other girls were looking at her.

"Oh, sorry!" Chihiro put her head down.

After the class was over, Chihiro turned to Serebi to talk, because they had a 5 minute break until the other teacher got there.

"So, who do we have next then?" Chihiro looked at her timetable, but was confused by all of the initials.

"We're still in here. We don't move round classes, yeah? We have Mr. Nushi next, who teaches world history. I think we are learning about how spirits have an impact on the world, before and now. You will like that, won't you?"

Chihiro nodded, and was suddenly much exited for the next lesson to start. Serebi pulled out a box of Pocky with a cute drawing on, and held it out to Chihiro, offering one to her.

"What's this?" Chihiro looked at the packet.

"You've never eaten Pocky before? Where do you come from, anyway? Everyone has eaten Pocky at least once!" Serebi said, bemused.

"Huh. Well, I'll try one, I guess." Chihiro shrugged and pulled out one of the pink chocolate sticks with little strawberry pieces. She bit off the end, and her eyes widened in joy.

"Wow! These taste amazing! It's like a mini party in my mouth!" Chihiro picked up the packet, and looked at it. On the front was a cute little anime character. "Who's the character on the front, she looks so cute!"

"It's cool, isn't it? This packet is a limited edition strawberry flavour; the character is Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew. I could lend you the discs one day...?" Serebi looked hopeful.

"Okay. Hey, here's a deal! I'll teach you about spirits, and you can show me what being an otaku is about. Deal?"

"Yeah! Promise?" Serebi held out her pinkie finger.

"Yep!"

Chihiro linked her pinkie with Serebi's, and they both chanted.

"Pinkie pinkie promise, if I ever break it I will have to swallow a thousand needles!"

The two friends smiled at each other.

"Hey, so does this mean were best friends?" Serebi looked over to Chihiro as she put her Pocky box away as Mr. Nushi had arrived.

"Yep! Best friends!" Both girls smiled at each other.

"Okay, 4-A! Please settle down! I have a fun lesson planned for you today! We have a person who is coming in to talk to us about spirits; you could call him a priest. Unfortunately, he is running late, so we will do some quick book work while he is getting here."

Chihiro looked worried. She didn't have any books. She put her hand up.

"Yes?"

"Umm… sorry sir, I'm new here, today is my first lesson, and I don't really have any books, could I please borrow one?" Chihiro was very uncomfortable; she was yet again drawing unintentional attention to herself.

"Oh, a new girl? What is your name?" The teacher didn't look like he would bite her head off, so she answered.

"My name is Chihiro. Could I please borrow a book?"

The teacher smiled, and grabbed a book and walked up to her table, and put it down.

"Welcome to world history, Chihiro! Today we are carrying on last lesson, which is about spirits. We shared run-ins with spirits, and such. Do you have any experiences?"

Chihiro could feel all the eyes of the girls boring into her soul. She didn't want to lie, but it would be better then being interrogated or laughed at later by the other girls.

"No, I haven't." Chihiro lied.

"Oh, that's too bad! Well, welcome anyway!" He turned, and walked up to the front. He flicked his ginger hair, and then started to talk.

"Anyway, please open your books to page 14 read and then answer questions 1-14. Please start!"

Chihiro already had a book to write in, so she got that out, along with a pen. Serebi had out a cute pencil case, with more of the cute drawings on them. Her pen matched, and there were stickers displaying names on her book.

She looked at the first question.

'How many years have there been reports about spirits?'

She started to read, when the door was flung open.

In walked a boy.

"Sorry I'm late, sir! May I start to teach?"

Chihiro's eyes widened.

There we go! Bet you want the next chapter soon? Lets see, 5 reveiws and I will update, okay? Heheh :)