I don't own Infinite Stratos or any of its charaters. I do own Neo Ichimaru. Other OC's were submitted by Silver-Sakura-Blossom17 and others. Thank you all so much for you help and support. The story is told from Neo's POV, but will change occasionally.

(Neo's POV)

In IS Academy,a 16 year old boy was squirming in his own seat. He has messy white hair and gray eyes. He wore the new IS academy blazer for boys, which only two were made.

'The IS or Infinite Stratos as some know it as, is a very complicated, yet interesting device. Invented by the world renown genius, Tabane Shinonono, who is the only one who know how to make an IS core. There are only 467 cores in the world, which have been divided by the government to avoid abuse. For some unknown reason, the IS can only be operated by woman. That is, until they found Ichika Orimura, a boy who can pilot an IS. He's not the only one though. I can too. My name is Neo Ichimaru, and right now, I'm in the scariest school of all time. Why? Well I might as well tell you. It all started this morning…'

(A week ago, Friday,6:00 am)

I was waking up in his bedroom, scratching my white hair as i got up and got dressed after a quick shower. When I heads down stairs, I sees my mother asleep on the couch.

' Ha, another long patrol for Mom huh?' I thought as I came up with a prank to wake her up. I got the air horn from my closet and got ready to the trigger.' She's gonna be so mad, but its going to be worth it.

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" AH!" yell my mother as she flashed he eyes awake and fell on the floor. I was on the floor laughing my self till I looked at my mother, who was NOT happy with this,

" Neo, are you done laughing!?" She said with what I consider to be, the scariest face a parent can give their child.

"...Yes" I said.

" Good, now if you don't want to be grounded for two months," she said as she handed me a piece of paper." you'll read what's on this paper.

This was something she punished me and Dad with when we pulled a prank. She would threaten us, then make us say an embrassing note as punishment. reminds me of the time Dad had to tell mom that she was the president of his life, and honestly, she was. I really didn't feel like being grounded for two months, or having my butt tore off, so I read the note.

" I, Neo Ichimaru, am sorry for pranking you. You are the greatest mother I could ever hope to have. Next time, I will be used as practice for criminal capture for the IS police force. There, happy?"

" Very. By the way, where is your father?" my mother questioned as she made some coffee. I was pouring a bowl of cereral as I answered.

" He left early cause he had an important client, he said I could stay here and to lock the doors until he came back. So, when are you going to show me your IS, you promised I'd get to see it."

"(huff) Fine, if you come by the station at 7:30 pm tonight, I can show you. But, you have to swear that you won't tell anyone, even your father. Promise?" she held out her hand.

I was done with my cereral and shook her hand. "Promise." I got up and started to walk to the door.

"Hm? Where are you going?"

"You know." I go there every week. My sister's grave.


I was at the graveyard, standing in front of a large black coffin. Ingraved on the side are the words: Here lies Yumi Ichimaru. Lived as she died, helping her brother.

"Hey Yumi. I'm glad to see you're still the same. I wanted to tell you that I'm finally going to be able to help track down your killer." I put my hand on the coffin. "That's the promise I made to myself. Mom and dad still haven't figured it out, and I think it's better that way. I just wish you would come back. See ya later, sis."


I then started to walk around town as I normally do. I decided to drop by Shinn and Ara's house. Shinn and his sister, Ara, were some of the few friends who stuck with me after Yumi's death. I knock on the door. "Hey, Shinn!"

"Hold on." Someone said as they opened the door. Shinn was just as old and tall as I was. He had dark blue hair with his bangs to the side, and dark green eyes. He had on his gray track suit on, and also a... football helmet?

"Shinn, why are you wearing a football helmet?"

"I kind of pissed Ara off, but luckily, she's at the gym right now."

"How many times have I told you this? Your sister is very yandere."

"And I still don't know what that means." The truth is, Ara is very yandere. With her long red hair, and lively green eyes, she looks like princess, but if you piss her off, then you're done. You've basically signed your death will.

"Look, I want you to hide in her own room."

"Are you nuts? That is the first place she'll go." Shinn said.

"Not according to crime reports. See ya." I then let Shinn to his own devices. He'll live.

(Haptemas police station, 7:28 pm) I had hidden behind a dumpster for the last 3 minutes when my mother came out looking for me. I came out of my hiding spot and she called me in.

"There you are, come in, its right down here" she said leading me to a room with a bunch of IS units. Hers was the same Valkyrie model as the others. but hers was painted blue instead of the stock green. The armor was very streamline, but her's had 4 wings instead of the normal two.

"Wow, its amazing." I had managed to say from the sheer glory of its design. Suddenly, we hear a voice.

"Renowa, is that you?' the voice said coming closer. I had backed up and my hand had touched a wall and it started to glow, until I look and saw what I touched wasn't a wall.

"Renowa, what are you doing here? Did you forget somethi-" the woman stopped and both her, my mother and me were shocked at what had happened. The unimaginable had happened to me.

I was in my mother's IS.

"Neo, what did you just do?" My mother asked.

"I-I don't know."

How is this possible?

"What is he even doing her, Renowa?"

"He said he wanted to see my job, then he asked about the IS. I just wanted to show him a quick glance of it."

"You know that only members of this squad are allowed back here."

"Um, can I interject?" I said as I raised my hand, unintentionally activating the wrist rochet launchers. The rocket launched and hit the ceiling, causing pieces of the roof to fall. "Look out!" I then cover my mother and her co-worker. The IS's armor protected the three of us. "So, I guess this make up for this?"

"..." Both of them were silent.

"...Guess not."


(Yeah, so after that little event, the woman called the rest of the squad to have me held up in a cell, and some tech guys over to have me scanned. I still can't believe I can pilot an IS. I thought I was about to become government material but then some woman came over to my cell.)

I had a good look at the woman. Black hair that reaches her neck, a formal business suit, Dark brown eyes that seem to be staring at my soul. Does she make everyone feel that way? I think she has two reasons for being here. A:She's here to interrogate me, or B: She's my new jail warden.

"So, you feel like talking, or are you going to sit in that cell all day?" She said after what seem like an eternity of silence.

"I have nothing to say. Go ahead and ask away Miss..."

"Orimura. Anyways, looks like you've gotten yourself and your mother in serious trouble."

" I know, don't remind me. Now, because of me, mom's probably gonna lose her job." I was so angry at myself for my idiot mistakes. If only I could fix all this so that none of this happened. 'Yumi, I'm sorry, I couldn't keep my promise.'

" Well kid, I have a proposition for you." She said. What possible deal could she have for me? " Here's the deal: You come with me to IS Academy, and I'll make sure your mother keeps her job, and I'll even have you given a personal unit. What do you say?" I was amazed with the deal. There was no way I could say no. Wait, was there a catch? I have a feeling I'm in for more than I think. But, that's a chance I'll have to take.

"Okay, what's the catch? This seems too good not to have one"

" I can only protect you from the government for the four years that you'll be staying at the academy, and we go by my rules. So kid, we have a deal?" she then held her hand through the bars.

I reached and grabbed her hand with my own. " Deal, and it's not kid, its Neo Ichimaru."

"Alright then, Neo. You're train will be here in a week to pick you up. Be ready.


( 1 week later)

A week had passed since then. During said week, I told Shinn and Ara what happened. They both gave me their regards and best of luck to me. I packed all my essentials, and got on the train. When I finally got off the train I saw Ms. Orimura and a strange purple haired girl with a small dress, and robotic rabbit ears, wait what!? I rubbed my eyes and blinked twice." Yeah, I'm not seeing things."

The rabbit girl then ran at me and we were face to face. Okay, why is she in my face like this? She seemed to be examining me, looking at me for every detail." Okay, can you stop examining me, you're kind of creeping me out" As soon as I said that, she stepped back and started laughing.

"Hahahahahahaha, he's just like you described Chi-chan." the girl said before Chifuyu took what looked like an attendance book and smack her upside the head." Ouch, Chi-chan is so mean, anyway bye-bye Neo-kun." the girl then pulled a remote out of her pocket and out off nowhere in the sky falls a giant, metal carrot. She hops in it and it fires its thrusters and it flies off to only god knows where. 'Okay, can this day get any weirder?' I look at Chifuyu and decided to ask. " So who was that girl anyway?"

" Tabane Shinonono."

"What? You mean, the creator of the IS? ...Are you sure you're not drunk?" She then hit me on the top of the head. "Ouch!"

"Shut up. Now follow me, I'll show you to the school." she said as we walked to the school grounds, where I can officially say that this is the biggest school I have ever been to. Chifuyu then hands me a slip of paper with some info on it and said" Welcome to IS Academy." before walking away. I read the note and it said:

Room: 782

Class: A-1 7:00 am

"Don't be late, or you'll be doing 100 laps around the school, no breaks

-Ms. Orimura

" I have a feeling that this is going to be a long, long school year." I said to my self as I roamed the halls, trying to avoid as much female contact as possible, which is near impossible. I managed to get to my room and went to lay on my bed. But I heard the shower on, then it turned off.' Crap, what do I do now?' I had three options: stay and get beat up, hide until she leaves, or leave the room now and pretend I was lost. seeing as the second and third options will absolutely fail, I now wait for my imminent demise. I sit on the bed on the right side as the girl come out of the shower in a towel and bra. The girl had long black hair, and the most beautiful pair of green eyes I have ever seen in my life.

" Hmm?" She looked at me with those eyes and was blushing as we both turned around, backs facing each other.

" I-I didn't know there was another male pilot beside Ms. Orimura's little brother. So, are you my new roommate?" she asked me.

" Y-Yeah, I'm Neo, Neo Ichimaru. Sorry for coming in unexpected." I responded.

" Well, I'm Miyako, Miyako Shirakumo. I hope we can get along." I heard her changing into some night gown, but I didn't check as my fear of violence stopped me.

" Well, thank you for not hurting me Miyako. Well I might as well go to sleep. Tomorrow's my first day."

" Yeah, Don't want to be running a hundred laps, now do we?"

" Ha, I'm surprised she hasn't gotten the "World's hardest working Gym teacher" award."

We both started to laugh at that, and I loved the sound of her voice. She was so, angelic in my eyes.

" Well, good night Miyako." I said as I wrapped my self in the sheets of my new bed.

" Yeah, good night Neo." She said as she flick the lights off.

(Monday,6:35am, in Neo's dream.)

"Huh, where am I?" I had no idea what kind of dream this was, but I had a bad feeling from it. I was standing in the middle of what looks like an arena. Ash-white seats that were empty, dark grey skies with no clouds in sight

"Neo." I heard, it was a voice I never heard before, but it was strangely familiar. I search around the arena, then I finally noticed the other person on the other side of the arena. It was a girl about my age, maybe younger. She had brown hair just like my mother, blue eyes like dad. She was in an IS that had a shadowed look to it. I could make out a few detail though. It had pair of cannons attached on the hips, a buster sword on the back holster, while the girl carried a double barreled rifle with seemed as if it could split. I was only when she spook again did I recognized her." Long time no see, big brother."

' No! This-this is supposed to happen. Why do you haunt me like this, even after death? Yumi, why are you-' I couldn't finish my sentence when she pulled her rifle and aimed it at me.

" Bye-bye" she said as she pulled the trigger, a single blast right through the chest.

" AAAAGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHH!" I yelled as I woke up in my dormroom with Miyako right next to me.

" Neo, are you okay, you were tossing and turning, and your heart was beating really fast."

" I'm-I'm fine. Ugh, what time is it?" I said as I take a look at the clock.(mental crash)" OH CRAP! Miyako, go on without me, I'll catch up." I said as I jumped out of bed, took a quick shower, got dressed, and was rushing to class so fast, you could mistake me for a speeding bullet.

I found my class, with Mrs. Orimura and another teacher standing outside. The teacher looked about 20, maybe 21, with green hair in a yellow dress.

"You're cutting it a little close, aren't you Ichimaru. Its 6:57." Chifuyu said.

" Yeah, I know." I said as she came and smacked me with her gradebook. " Ouch."

" Just make sure you get here quicker." She said.

" Yes sensei." I said.

" Umm, excuse me, Ichimaru-kun? I'll be your teacher for the year, so go on in and take a seat." The other teacher who introduced herself as Ms. Maya Yamada.

I took a seat in the first seat of the second column, right next to the only other guy in this school.' Hmm, so that Ichika Orimura. I'm sure glad I'm at least going to have a little bit of back up against any sort of girl mob. While everyone was being introduced, I had fallen asleep.

" Umm, Ichimaru?" said Maya.

"ZZZZZZZZZZ..."

"Ichimaru!"

"Huh! What?"

" Its your turn to introduce yourself to the class." said . Why didn't I see this coming? Well, I stood up from my chair, and luckily, I can prepared." Hello, My name is Neo Ichimaru. I'm pleased to meet you all. I hope we can all be very good friends." I said with the fakest smile I could make. As I expected, most of the girls screamed and some were talking about me. Luckily, I had put earplugs in before I got up. I sat down and took them out.


I sat through, what has to be, the most excruciatingly boring four hours of class in my entire life. And I have to do this every day? Fan-freakin-tastic. Just then, a girl with long, blonde hair wearing the IS academy outfit, that was modified to look like a frill dress, stood in from of my desk.

"Hello."

"Um, do I know you?"

"What? How could you not know who I am?"

I think I remember her now. "Wait, I do remember you."

"Hm, well, at least you know who I am."

"Yeah. You're that girl from my gym class who keeps throwing the dodge balls at me. Jena, was it?"

"No, you imbecile! I'm Cecilia Alcott, England's Representaive!"

"Oh. Yeah, I've heard of you."

"Hmf, good! I'm glad that you at the very least have some part of that dead brain working.

'And I already don't like her' "Yeah. Have fun with that." I then got up from my desk and walked in the exit.

"Hey, where are you going? I'm not done with you yet!" I finally got out of her hearing range.

"(Huff) I'm gonna have to resupply on escape plans."

"Hey, Neo." I look behind me and see Ichika come out of class. " I'm glad to meet you, but right now, we want to run."

"Why?" I then see the swarm of girls staring at us. "Never mind, RUN!"

We started running from the scream mob of fangirls.

"Neo, please wait!"

"We just want to ask some questions."

' And be completely violated? No thanks' " Please tell me this isn't what you go through everyday?" I asked Ichika with hope.

Unfortuantly, Ichika's face only confirmed my fear. "You have no idea."