Author's Notes:

This chapter is mainly dedicated to helping establish Reiya's personality. That being said, I was only able to do so much before I decided to end the chapter.

One of the things I'm really looking forward to, is showing how Reiya interacts with the world around her. I've always been fascinated by the characters in other stories because it allows me to see things from another perspective, something the Persona series does very well. Plus well, I'm kind of a sucker for all things Persona in general (I even have my own Persona style tarot deck). All in all, I like were I'm heading with this, and hope you guys enjoy it as well.

Until we meet again, Farewell.


Chapter II:

Ordinary School Life


Reiya Pov


I woke up to the sound of someone knocking on my door.

"It's Yukari. Are you awake?"

I honestly contemplated ignoring her going back to sleep before I realized that I still had school. So I walk over and opened the door for her.

"Good mor-phht." Whatever else she had to say was cut off after she got one good look at me and started laughing.

"*sigh* I've got bed head don't I?" That only served to get her laughing harder as I went to check on myself in the mirror. Sure enough, my pale-blonde-almost-white wavy hair was managing to defy gravity as though someone vigorously rubbed a balloon in my hair. It seriously looked like I had a messy afro or something. I could see the annoyance in my yellow-green eyes through the mirror as I pulled out a brush and tried as best I could to straighten out the bush growing on my head. Just as I was making progress (-why couldn't I be born with straight hair-) and Takeba managed to get a hold of her self ( -pretty sure she was going for a good five minutes straight-) she finally got to the point of why she was here.

"Mitsuru-sempai asked me to take you to school. It's getting late so..."

After sighing for the umpteenth time i responded with "give me a like five minutes and I should hopefully be done". Now having finally gotten my shoulder length hair to obey physics, I walked over to my closet and pulled out my uniform, along with my jean shorts to put under my skirt.

"Alright , but don't take to long. We still gotta catch the train."


Shortly after I got myself decent (and ate my hastily put together breakfeast) Takeba and I headed out to catch the monorail that was supposed to take us to our school. That's just about when the awkwardness began to kick in. Despite the light-hearted start to this day, Takeba found out pretty quickly just how social I was. Which is to say... not at all. It was clear she still remembered last night (almost pulling a gun on someone, real or not, doesn't exactly make for a good first impression) and my general lack of responses towards anything she said likely made her all the more uncomfortable. Eventually we reach a point where she either ran out of things to say, or just stopped trying. Once on the train though, I decided I could at least TRY to act polite and started asking questons of my own. It was when we got to the topic of our school that actually took an interest in the conversation.

"Wait, Kirijo Group? Does our sempai have any relation to that?"

"Yeah, Mitsuru-sempai is the only child of the current head of the Kirijo Group."

"...She must have a fair amount of influence in our school if her father owns this place. To say nothing of how big her allowance must be."

"You almost sounded jealous there for a second." She said in a teasing voice.

"I'm more worried that living with someone who MUST be pretty well known is going to attract a lot unneccesary attention towards myself."

"You really don't like having the spotlight do you?"

"Let put it this way Takeba-san, experience has taught me that more attention mean more problems. There's a damn good reason why I don't enteract with other people very often" (-It's called "I'm pretty sure I belong in a mental health institution instead of going to high school like an ordinary SANE person!"-)

Takeba seemed a little unsure of how to respond, but soon noticed something out the window that got her attention. "Oh! Look over there! You can see our school from here."

I did look and my jaw more or less hit the floor when I saw just how HUGE this school was. "THAT'S our school!? I mean, I knew this place was funded by a big, successful company, but..."

I trailed of when I heard Takeba give off a light laugh to my reaction. "It's not just big. It's got just about everything you'd expect from such a highly prestigious high school. There's a little something here for every one I think."


"Well, we're here."

And here I thought my jaw couldn't drop any lower. This place is even BIGGER up close.

"Welcome to Gekoukan High-School! Hope you like it."

"...How the hell am I suppose to NOT get lost in there!?"

"*giggle* You'll figure it out eventually. It took me awhile to memorize the layout of the campus myself."

"You don't understand Takeba-san! My sense of direction is practically non-exsistant! It's a miracle I managed to find our dorm as quickly as I did!"

"Wait, is that why you were so late?"

"Actually, my train got delayed but that's besides the point."

As if to add on to my misfortune, it's right around then that I noticed the shear amount of people who kept greeting Takeba. (-Great... so she's also popular too. And all these people have seen me walking to school with her. For crying out loud I can already hear the rumors spreading! *sigh* So much for remaining anonymous...-)

Once we got inside, Takeba started talking again. "You're okay from here right?" No. No I'm not. "You should see your homeroom teacher first. The Faculty Office is right there to the left... and that concludes the tour. Any questions?"

After thinking it over for a moment I asked "Do you know what class you're in?"

"I dunno, I havn't looked at the classroom assignments yet." she then paused for a moment "...Hey. Don't tell anyone what you saw last night... okay? See you later"

Once she left, I started to move in the direction she pointed (and thank god she did point or who knows how long It would take for me find the Faculty Office on my own) Soon after I walked, a brunette teacher in pink seemed notice I was there. "Are you the new transfer student" I nodded. "Hakuno Reiya. Eleventh-Grade correct?" Another nod. "Wow, you've lived in a lot of places haven't you? Let's see in nineteen ninty-nine, your foster parents - *gasp*!"

I rolled my eyes at the expected reaction. "I'm so sorry, I've been so busy to read this before hand."

"It's not a problem miss, I'm use to this by now."

"A-anyways, I'm Ms. Toriumi, your homeroom teacher. I teach Composition in class 2-F. Welcome to our school."

"Nice to meet you Toriumi-Sensei."

"My, you seem rather polite." (-Only when I'm in a good mood...-)

"Let's head over to the auditorium. The Welcoming Ceremony should be starting soon. Follow me."