お姫様

Ohime-sama/ Princess

"As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place."

The first day of school was now over and the students were now left scrambling to look for their dormitories in which they would be living in for their stay at the academy. Renji, accompanied with Izuru strolled and spotted Rukia staring blankly into space. With her guard down he lifted his foot and kicked her backside, though of course not too hard. She let out a startled scream.

"Hey don't do that!" she shouted.

"C'mon it's our second year and you're still spacing out like that." He noted. "What are you staring at anyway?"

"It's that girl over there." She said pointing. It was Michiko being guided by Captain Ukitake. "It's odd I've never seen that girl before. What's even weirder is that she's with a Shinigami captain." She continued. They looked over and saw the girl she was mentioning.

"I think I've seen her before." Izuru said. "She's a second year but she was in private classes and taught by real Shinigami. To top it off she's placed in the advanced class."

"Really, amazing…" Rukia said, astonished.

"Pfft. I heard that's the girl from the Michishige Clan, one of the four Noble Families. She's just some spoiled Ohime-sama that's passing because of her wealth."

"Renji, you shouldn't say such things about people." Izuru interjected.

"What? You know it's true, that's how it is with most of those damn rich snobs."

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The sun began to set and the sky was painted with many hues of orange, scarlet gold and violet. Rukia strolled about the girls' dormitory, looking for her room. She slipped past a few students and found the room she was to be staying in. She opened the door and saw someone already inside. Her short hair was dark ebony and tied in pigtails. She was busy unpacking her stuff on the floor, but she turned around when she heard Rukia's footsteps.

"Oh, hello." She greeted with a smile.

"You're Renji's classmate right? Anyways, my name's Rukia, it's nice to meet you." She introduced.

"It's good to meet you also. I'm Hinamori Momo, I guess we're roommates."

They then heard the door behind them open again. The two girls who came in were Yoko and Michiko. Rukia recognized the smaller one as the Michishige she had noticed earlier. She looked at their necks. They were both wearing a Kajihi choker (Fire Scarlet Choker) with the clan's emblem on it. Rukia glowered in her mind with a sense of worry. Ohime-sama she thought with worry and disgust. After hearing what Renji said, she was worried that two princesses to deal with would be a pain. But, Momo was grinning.

"Michi-chan, I didn't know you were here!" Momo exclaimed with glee. Michiko glanced over and leapt into her arms.

"Hinamori-kun!" she exclaimed.

"I'm glad to see you too." Momo said, patting the younger one's head.

"So is this your first year?" she asked. Michiko shook her head.

"My first year was spent with the Shinigami, so my second year is gonna be spent here."

"Amazing! You're here two years early; you're a little prodigy just like Shiro-chan." Momo praised, messing up Michiko's blackish blue locks. Yoko then remembered the promise she had made to Toshiro and started hysterically screaming and pounding her head against the wall.

"GAAAAAAAAAAH! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!" she repeated at the top of her lungs as she continued bashing her head into the wall. Rukia became startled and all she could think was WTF… what in the world is wrong with her?

"Uh… um are you alright?" she asked timidly. Rukia was suddenly grabbed by the shoulders.

"No! Nothing is alright!" she shouted uproariously, scaring the wits out of her again. "Mi chaaaan! I'm so sorry! Please forgive Yoko-chan!" she lamented and begged, bowing on the floor and trembling.

"Huh?" the three girls said in unison, gawking at her.

"Hitsugaya Toshiro is in the same class as me. When class was over he said he was the Shiro-chan you were friends with and said he missed you greatly! When I said I couldn't find you he was heartbroken so I promised that I'd bring you to him as soon as possible! Now I broke that promise and I broke his heart!" she expounded loudly and started riotously whimpering.

"Hey what the hell is going on?" they heard someone roar. It startled them; Yoko nearly hit the ceiling when she jumped with fright. She crawled under the bed and stuck her head out from the covers. Their door was opened with a loud slam. A girl with long shiny silver hair and fiery red eyes came barging in. She was Kuroda Hikaru, a student in the sixth year advanced class, and dormitory mother.

"S-sorry Kuroda-senpai." Rukia apologized.

"Just keep it down will you?" she requested, this time in a calmer tone, leaving and shutting the door.

"Anyways I'm sorry about her outburst and I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier. I'm Michishige Michiko, but you can just call me Michi-chan if you want." She introduced herself to Rukia. It wasn't the greeting she had in mind.

"I'm Rukia, nice to meet you." She said simply, shaking the smaller ones hand. Yoko pulled herself out from under the bed.

"And I'm Michishige Yoko, her cousin; it's great to meet you." She greeted. Rukia smiled. Perhaps they weren't the stuck up princesses that looked down on people.