Chapter 3

The next day…

When Minato woke up the next day, he got off the bed, take off his pajamas and put on his casual yet nostalgic clothes (which is a short sleeve white T-shirt with a long sleeve button up thin black jacket over it, long grey pants and brown shoes on his feet) before he heard someone knocking on the door and he unlocked and opened the door and saw that it's Sae-san.

"Good morning, Arisato-kun. Good to see that you're already up and this room doesn't look bad after you cleaned it and unpack your stuffs." said Sae with a nod of her head to Minato.

"Good morning, Niijima-san. And thanks for the compliment." said Minato as he nodded politely to her.

"Alright, now come along and have breakfast with me and Makoto before I bring you to Shujin Academy to enrolled you." said Sae in a firm and serious tone of voice to Minato before she turned and walked down the hallway toward the dining room. Minato stepped out and closed the door behind him before he followed after Sae toward the dining room and he soon saw Makoto sitting and finish eating her plate of bacons, toasts and scrambled eggs at the dining table before she glance at him.

"Good morning and nice to meet you, Minato Arisato-kun." greeted Makoto politely to him.

"Yeah, nice to meet you too, Makoto Niijima-san." greeted Minato politely back to Makoto.

"Sis was right, he does seem like the polite, mature and quiet type of guy. I hope that he's stays that way and not give more trouble to my sister and if he did, he'll be sorry about it. Or maybe I could keep an eye on him tomorrow after he's enrolled into Shujin Academy since I'm the student council president there." thought Makoto to herself as she gave a small smile to Minato before she stood up, picked up and take her plate to the sink, wash it then wipe it dry with a cloth before she turned and left the dining room and head into her room.

"So that's Niijima-san's younger sister, Makoto Niijima, huh? She seems quite the intelligent and pretty girl but she also seems like the type of person who knew about other people doing bad things to others but turn a blind eye to them and also had no choice but to do what adults told her to do before it escalated into more rubbish or trouble." thought Minato as he glance analytically at Makoto as she head back into her room and closed the door before he and Sae sat down and ate their plates of bacons, toasts and scrambled eggs until they finish them before taking and putting the plates in the sink before they bade farewell to Makoto and left the apartment, went down the stairs to Sae's car and they both went into the car and Sae started the engine before she drove out of the apartment and toward Shujin Academy.

Once both Sae and Minato stopped by the side of the road near Shujin Academy, Sae turned off the car engine before she and Minato stepped out of the car, went down a street and toward and into Shujin Academy.

"So this is the school where I will attend for my third and final year of student life, huh? As expected of an elite boarding school as large and up-to-date as my previous Gekkoukan high school back in Port Island but for some reason… it gave off an unpleasant feeling of being in a prison for immates." thought Minato to himself as he take a throughout and solemn look of the interior of the school while he followed Sae up the stairs and into the principal's office to meet the principal and his homeroom teacher (who's a short black-haired, brown-eyed man wearing a grey business suit and matching pants with a black necktie around his neck and brown shoes on his feet).

"Good God! This is the first time that I've seen such a bald-headed and overweight man like him in my entire life, even worse than my previous principal by fat standards. As for the man who'll be my homeroom teacher standing next to him, he seems slightly troubled but decent enough, at least." added Minato with a calm look on his face while he mentally grimaced in disgust after seeing the principal.

"Greetings to you, Minato Arisato-kun, correct? We've received and heard about how you went from one school after another and managed to have excellent scores on each schools that you attend before coming here and also on how you lose your parents and nearly lose your life in an accident more than 10 years ago on a bridge in another city called Port Island." said Principal Kobayakawa pityingly to Minato (which make him twitch his eyebrow in annoyance a little at him for talking out loud about his parents accident and death and about his life after that) before he gave a small, polite smile to him. "Regardless of your circumstances, we will be sure to welcome you to Shujin Academy with open arms, Arisato-kun." added Principal Kobayakawa to Minato before he glance at the man standing to his right. "Before I forget, this man will be in charge of your class."

"Hello and the name's Kyosuke Kanakubo, your homeroom teacher for the year." said the teacher as he introduced himself while giving a small polite bow to Minato before he take something out of his pocket and hold it out to him. "And here's your student ID, make sure that you don't lose it and don't forget to read and obey the school's rules and when you came to school tomorrow, come to the faculty office to meet me so I can take you to your classroom, understand, Arisato-kun?"

"Yeah, I understand, sensei." said Minato as he take his student ID and nodded to Kanakubo-sensei.

"As much as I hate to be rude but are you all done and can Arisato-kun and I get going now? I'm sure you know how busy I am as a prosecutor, principal." said Sae in an annoy tone of voice to Principal Kobayakawa.

"Oh, of course, Niijima-san. Sorry to take up your time. But I must say, it's quite commendable of you to look after a promising young man like him other than your equally promising younger sister, especially at your age!" said Principal Kobayakawa as he smiled a bit widely at Sae (who scoff and ignore his words).

"Ugh, geez, now he's trying to suck up to Niijima-san to get on her good side? And he call himself a principal? I just can't believe it." thought Minato, feeling disappointed at the principal's action and words before both he and Sae bade farewell to both principal Kobayakawa then they turned around, walked out of the office, went down the stairs to the front entrance and left Shujin Academy.

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Meanwhile, in the courtyard of Shujin Academy…

Soon after both Sae and Minato leave Shujin Academy, Kyosuke Kanakubo left the principal's office, went down the stairs and bumped into Sadayo Kawakami (who had a tired and solemn look on her face) before they decided to went out through the door of the school building and walked across the courtyard toward the practice building.

"Hey, Kawakami-sensei. I've just heard about your troublesome situation. Too bad for you, isn't it?" said a slightly deep male voice from in front of Kawakami and Kanakubo, causing them to glance up at her fellow teacher (a tall, slightly tan-skinned, dark brown-eyed, broad-looking man with short black wavy hair and a broad, square jawline while he wore a short sleeve white sport T-shirt, long dark blue trousers with white stripes on it, white shoes on his feet and had a whistle around his neck).

"I can't believe that principal Kobayakawa would pushed someone with a record on me. A male teacher would be better suited for this…" said Kawakami with a tired frown look on her face before she glance at Kanakubo. "I heard that you've also got yourself a transfer student too, Kanakubo-san. Is there any chance that we could switch transfer students, you can have mine while I have yours?" added Kawakami in a slight pleading tone of voice to Kanakubo.

"Sorry to say this but we can't do that, Kawakami-san." said Kanakubo with a shake of his head to Kawakami.

"Well, it was worth a shot." sighed Kawakami.

"Why in the world was someone like that admitted here?" sighed the male teacher as he briefly close his eyes, lowered his head and put his hands on his hips in disapproval.

"Who knows? It was the principal's decision… I was told that it's for the school's reputation." said Kawakami.

"And here I thought that my volleyball team has contributed more than enough to cover that." said the male teacher as he straighten himself and glance at Kawakami.

"That's certainly true." said Kawakami in agreement to the male teacher.

"Yeah right. More like increasing your ego and others instead of contributing for the school." thought Kanakubo as he mentally scowled at the male teacher.

"Be careful, OK?" said the male teacher in a concern tone of voice to Kawakami as he raised, moved and stretch his arms a little. "Then again, if anything were to happen, I'd kick out a student like that right away."

"I guess we'll see on how he's like. I kept wishing that he'd just end up not coming to school. Still, that's not something I should be saying as a teacher…" said Kawakami as she run her hand through her hair and shake her head a little.

"Don't worry, Kawakami-san. Who knows, maybe he's not as bad as he look." Said Kanakubo reassuringly to Kawakami (who glance and smile a little at him).

"Yeah, he's got a point, Kawakami. Well, I should be getting back to practice now." said the male teacher.

"Oh, that's right. The tournament's coming up, isn't it?" said Kawakami.

"Hehe, having such high expectations placed on you by others is quite the problem in itself. We'll have to work hard to make up for the track team too." said the male teacher before he chuckled and smiled widely at Kawakami.

"Yes… that's true." said Kawakami as she nodded tiredly to the male teacher (who nodded back to her before he turned and walked down the left courtyard). "Why'd it have to be my class…? Then again, it's better than him being in Suguru Kamoshida's class. Well then, I'll be going too. See you, Kanakubo-san." Kawakami added to herself before she and Kanakubo bade farewell to each other before Kawakami walked down the courtyard toward the practice building while Kanakubo turned and walked down the left courtyard.