"Dan…Dan…Dan! Wake up! Dan!"

"Huh…eh? What's going on here? Why did I just get waken up!"

"Dude you're gonna be late for school! Come on lets go!"

I wasn't used to getting up this early at the moment, so I was kinda surprised to see Akihisa here. I slowly got out of bed and got dressed. I thought I looked quite spiffy in this uniform. I grabbed my bag and headed out the door with Akihisa. We ran so we made sure we arrived on time. Iron Man was just preparing to call role when Akihisa and I ran into the room. I slid on my side halfway across the classroom to get to my table. Iron Man gave me a mean look and proceeded to call role. I couldn't do anything but give Akihisa a thumbs up, which he gave a smile in return. Once Iron Man was finished with role call he called me up to the front of the class.

"Dan, may you come here for a second?"

"What for?"

"Well, since you have just started here, we need to get you authenticated into the ESB system; which means we need you to summon your avatar. So I am activating the field now!"

"Okay!"

I needed to think of a cool way to summon my avatar, as everyone else had such. I put my fist up in the air with my eyes closed. Once I said 'summon', I opened my eyes and opened my hand, which my avatar was standing on once I was done. Everyone saw that my avatar was wearing a hakama, with the top being white and the bottom being black, and wielded a katana, which was always sheathed. Everyone was amazed with how it looked, and how cool it was. I was actually very surprised. It jumped down onto the floor and stood there. It had black flowing hair, just like me, which was pretty cool. Eventually Iron Man closed the ESB field and got class started. It was group study, so while he was gone we actually discussed war strategies. Yuuji told the class about the strategy we came up with the night before, and shared opinions and such.

"Dan and Muttsulini, you two are the sneakiest in the class. We need you guys to do some reconnaissance. Go to class A and check if they're discussing any strategy. Hideyoshi, go along with them as well. If one goes down, at least we'll have 2 others back."

"Roger!"

We all started to walk towards their classroom. Once we saw that one of their students was walking out of the class, we quickly hid behind walls. Once he passed by, I quickly grabbed him and dragged him back to our room, where our class would interrogate him. I regrouped with the others and headed towards the room. Once halfway there, we split up. I shimmied from window to window on the side of the school, with Muttsulini hugging the wall. Hideyoshi, being the smallest, went through the vents as quietly as possible. We all had microphones on, which allowed anything said to be recorded.

"Now, since we have our teams covered and defenses, now we have to have a strategy for taking out their leader." Yuuko was saying.

"Why would we need a strategy? They're probably gonna just rush in." Aiko Kudou had said. Yuuko had a grin on her face, which wasn't normal for a time like this.

"You're right, Aiko, cause if we did have a strategy…" she had proceeded to say, then threw pens at the ventilation shaft, going through and almost hitting Hideyoshi. It made him lose focus, and made him fall through the vent. "…they would send some rats to spy on us."

I quickly grabbed my communications device and radioed in to the classroom.

"Yuuji! Yuuji!"

"Yes Dan? What's wrong?"

"Hideyoshi's been spotted and captured by class A."

Muttsulini also got on the comms and gave me an update.

"Dan, you need to move, they're walking towards the window now."

Once I heard that I quickly shimmied back into the window from which I came from and ran back to the classroom.

"Damnit! Now they're gonna keep Hideyoshi as a hostage."

"Well we have this guy."

"Indeed we do, so how about this, we move the battle to today. That way, we can quickly get Hideyoshi back." Akihisa mentioned.

"That won't work…I still need to take my recovery test, and we will need to change up teams since a leader won't be there."

"How about Minami and I split Hideyoshi's team? We can handle the extra people." Himeji had suggested, which was a good idea. Yuuji agreed, and then I told him my plan.

"Yuuji, if we do move it to today, we know I won't have time to study and take a recovery test, so here's my idea…if we get Kirishima's health low enough…I can end it."

"How will you do that?"

"Just leave that to me…I will need Sugawa and the Inquisition with Akihisa and I, however."

"Ah, I think I see your strategy…"

Everyone else was confused except Yuuji and I. We were on the same page I believe, and even if we were not, I wouldn't care. I had the plan in my head. After that little exchange of words, I left the class to use the bathroom. On my way there I saw Yuuko in the hallway, like if she was waiting for me. She stood in the sunlight at an angle that made her look beautiful…but just the fact of her standing there was creepy…

"Dan…"

"What do you want?"

"I really don't want to fight you anymore…I've came to accept you for who you are…and I want you…" she was saying, moving closer to me and clenching on to me. She looked up into my eyes and told me that she wanted to feel happy again. It touched my heart…but I had to decline for now.

"I can't now…"

"W-Why not?"

"Even if you do love me, you still talked down to my friends, and as I said, I don't tolerate that…so if you still feel about me that way, I'm still up for that dinner after the war."

"I understand…"