"Good morning students, my name is Uta Kobayashi. I'm the principal and founder of Keisetsu High school. As you know, we have 25 scholarship students joining our schools this year. These are exceptional students selected by all the teachers and I …"

Kaoru looked around as the principal continued with the speech. The large hall was specifically made for ceremonies and assemblies. On the balconies, parents were seeing the whole event. All the students were in perfect form. Kaoru was wearing her uniform – a white full sleeve shirt; a loose black ribbon; her id card; a black blazer and to her annoyance, a knee length black skirt. She also wore black knee-length socks and shoes.

"Students, the applications for club activities are open from today onwards. Please join the clubs that you prefer. I hope you have a great year." The principal finished her speech.

"Matsubara-san, we have to go back and keep our blazer back in our room before joining class." Tanaka said to Kaoru as they headed out the class.


"Everyone please welcome Kaoru Matsubara. She will be with us for the rest of the school year. I hope you get along." The class teacher said as she asked Kaoru to sit beside Aimi Tanaka.

Kaoru looked around at her class. It was a huge class with wooden, dark washed lockers at the back of the class for each student. Like the typical classroom, it has two sliding doors; a whiteboard; a locker next to the board for the teachers; the teacher's desk. However unlike her old classroom, it was an air-conditioned room. Kaoru looked at her future seat and saw Tanaka Aimi sitting beside her seat. She also noticed the quiet and hushed whispers and murmurs as the students talked, glancing at her once in a while.

'This may not be what I expected,' Kaoru thought to herself as she walked pass the students. Sitting down, she looked at Tanaka, who gave her a small smile. Kaoru smiled back, thinking, 'She's not giving a genuine smile.'

Lunch break:

Kaoru carried the tray, containing her food to an empty table. Passively chewing her food, she looked around.

'So the general theory is that everything should be huge, huh?' Kaoru thought, looking at the large canteen.

The canteen was domed shaped with benches and seats lined together. The students ate while chattering away, leisurely eating their food. Confused, Kaoru took out her handbook and was surprised by the fact that lunch was for one hour.

'That's a lot of time!' she thought.

"Mastubara-san, do you mind if I sit with you?" Kaoru heard a soft voice behind and turning around, she found Tanaka smiling sweetly at her.

"No problem," Kaoru replied with a smile.

"Lunch breaks are really long here. It's so that students don't feel sluggish after lunch and can fully concentrate in class." Tanaka spoke first. After few moments of silence she continued, "I hope you haven't forgotten about the tour."

"No I haven't. But when are we having it?"

"Well…after we finish lunch." Tanaka replied, smiling.

Walking down the stone covered path, Tanaka helped Kaoru with everything.

"School wise the rules go like this: students should always reach on time. Each student can take part up to 3 club activities in their first and second year but has to drop to one club activity in the third year. The school is a five storey building and each storey has an infirmary. Students are allowed to work part time on weekends.

Now coming to the dorm rules: the dorm for male and female are two separate buildings and no matter the circumstance, no boys are allowed to enter the female dorm and vice versa. I have already told you about the password. You will be in trouble if you don't remember the password. The students can visit their parents on the weekends and on holidays; however they can stay back if they want to. If required, the teachers will stay back for the students to help them with their students can either stay in the infirmary in the dorm house if they are sick and can't go back home, however, they're not allowed to stay in their dorm room. The dorm room will be cleaned every three days by the non-teaching staff but one student must be present as even the non-teaching staffs are not allowed to know the password."

Kaoru looked at Tanaka, "That's a lot."

"Yes, I know but these rules should never be broken." Tanaka replied.

"Okay, I'll keep it in mind. Tanaka-san, where is the registration area for club activities?" Kaoru asked.

"In front of the school building. Are you joining in any activity?" Tanaka asked, smiling sweetly.

"I'm planning on joining for soccer, dojo and kendo. How about you?"

"Unfortunately no. I have tried to keep my work after school to concentrate on my studies as much as possible, so joining any club will only make it harder."

"I see. So it's pretty tough for you huh?"

Aimi looked at Kaoru slightly surprised but replied smiling, "No. It's because I love my work."


Kaoru walked down the stone covered path leading to the school building. She noticed the hushed murmur and sighed in her mind, 'This is not pretty.'

"Do you want to join for the kendo club?" Kaoru turned around to find a brown eyed and haired boy ask her, holding out a paper.

"Yes," Kaoru replied, taking the form when she heard a snicker coming from the boy. She looked up to see a blond headed boy looking down at her, smiling smugly at her.

"What are you trying to do Natsuki? Why are you asking such people in joining our club? You know that we need strong men," the smug faced boy looked at Kaoru, "not some man impersonator."

Annoyed, Kaoru glared at the blond haired boy. Seeing her glare deadly at him, he gulped nervously but his face fell when he saw Kaoru smirk at him. Angry, he took her registration form and tore it in two.

"Oops, now you can't join." He said, smiling smugly at her.

"Ren. Stop it." Natsuki replied as he gave Kaoru another form, "Sakura is absent today; we are doing the work for her. And what she wants is more members in the kendo club. Not to drive any away."

Ren clicked his tongue and looked at Kaoru in annoyance, expecting to see her victory smirk. Instead, he saw a green eyed girl glaring at him with such dark aura that he thought he saw thousand ghosts behind her.

"Do you do kendo?" Kaoru asked him, calmly.

"Y-yes!"

"Then I challenge you to a match." Kaoru said, looking at Ren straight in his eyes.


"I can't believe it! The green eyed girl defeated Ren-senpai in one blow!" one of the girls squeaked from the crowd. Ren felt the flash of a camera go off for a moment.

Looking up, he saw Kaoru looking at him with her ever victorious smirk of hers.

"Now this is a fair fight" Kaoru said, bowing and returning to fill in her form.

"That was a good fight," Natsuki replied.

"Thank you. Are you the kendo captain?"

"I'm in charge of the boys and Sakura Ito is responsible for the girls. It's a two captain club. Matsubara-san, I apologize for my teammate's rude behavior." Natsuki bowed in apology, "I'm Nastuki Urawa. Please contact me if anything happens like this from my teammate.

"Thank you. But I think I can handle myself"

With a chuckle Natsuki replied, "It's true"


"So what is the commotion about?"

"Well, Hime-sama, it seems that Tanaka-sama's roommate has defeated Ren-sama in a kendo match."

"Oh… that girl's really a boy!" Hime replied, cackling, covering her mouth with the back of her hand.

"A-a-a-and it's rumored that the girl and Urawa-sama became friends." The girl said, her voice shaking.

The shrill laughing which had echoed in the room stopped abruptly and Hime looked at the girl, startled.

"What?!"

"I-i-t's a rumor!"

Slamming her pink nail polished hand on the desk, Hime glared deadly into the distance, cursing.

"That girl. I'm going to kill her."


That's the end of the chapter.

As the story I'm writing involves school, I added more characters. The characters are Ren (the blond who mocked Kaoru); Tori Suzuki (The president of the newspaper club a.k.a the camera girl); Sakura Ito (the captain of kendo club) and Uta Kobayashi (the principal of the school).

Hime and Natsuki Urawa are not my characters. Natsuki Urawa is one the characters who came in the manga of ppgz.

I hope you like the chapter. Do review.