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Chapter 3: The Three Russian Gods


There are three large buildings separating the grade school, the middle school and the high school departments. Cherry trees align the front gate and under those trees are the screaming and over-excited cheering of both teenage girls and boys. There are some other students looking out the windows of their rooms as they watch us make our way towards our department building. I smile shyly and give a small nod at them while Kai just continuously ignores them and Tala walks behind me with that carefree pose and large Cheshire grin on his face. I sigh and after a few walks (although it felt like thousands) of walking, we reach the building.

Five-stories high, walls are painted in a light hue of blue and white, large glass windows, floors are sparkling marble with some of the pathway covered in soft red carpet, the ceiling aligned with small fluorescent chandeliers. Did I enter the wrong building? This school is too classy for my taste. I know, I've lived a life of luxury being a music icon (not to brag but well, it's the truth) and such but classy stuff still doesn't suit me. I mean, I still like simplicity. Get it? Come to think of it, I feel like every place I get into, it's either that place is shining with gold and diamond or beaming with high-class stuff. Is there anywhere here that's actually normal?

"What's up" I hear a big voice call to us. A lilac-haired guy approaches us. He's at least two feet taller than Kai and a little taller than Tala. I'm kind of taken aback when he neared. He has this 'I'm the bully around here' aura surrounding his whole body. Without actually noticing it I grabbed Tala's arm and kind of pulled him close to me. The moment I did that, he shoots me a murderous glare. Eek!

"Stop scaring him Bryan" Kai snorted. Bryan? Wait, that name sounds familiar.

"That's right Bry, he doesn't mean anything by clinging on me, so stop giving him your death glare" Tala said patting my shoulder. "He's actually nicer than he looks" he whispered.

"Humph" the said guy called Bryan sniffed then brushed his hair. "I'm Bryan Kuznetsov, Tala's boyfriend" he said irascibly stretching a hand to me. Well he doesn't have to stress the boyfriend part to me. I get it already. "I don't care if you're some big shot celebrity or something but don't you dare get all clingy to my Tala" he warned (stressing on the MY part again). I'm not actually sure if he's introducing himself to me or threatening me. Maybe both.

Regarding the boyfriend thing, why I'm not surprised is because Tala already confessed to me on our second day of meeting that he's gay and has a boyfriend named Bryan. He did say I'd meet him soon but this Bryan is a lot different from what he had told me. A LOT different actually.

"Uh, right. I'm Rei Kon" I nervously shake his hand. I'm not at all worried about the clinging to Tala part but he still gives me the creeps like he's gonna crush my bones anytime with those looks. As soon as he releases my hand, Kai pulled Bryan with him and I walk back to Tala. "Is that what you mean by 'nicer'?" I whispered raising an eyebrow.

"In normal circumstances, he would have already jumped on you and strangle you by the neck the moment you grabbed my arm" Tala chuckled. I gulped. Am I supposed to laugh at that too?

"You have nothing to worry Kitten, Kai's there to protect you!"

"Oh joy" I say sarcastically. Yeah right, as if. And did he just call me Kitten?

"We're here. Let the teacher call you first before you enter" Kai said. I look up at him then the classroom we were in front of. Class 2-A says the sign on top of the door.

"We'll go ahead now Rei, have fun making friends" Tala cheered as he and Bryan walk up the stairs to the fourth floor where their classroom is. The two of them are in a higher year.

When I heard the teacher say "You can come in now", I breathe in deeply then slowly open the door. It's too quiet. I could feel 29 pairs of eyes on me. Whew. Okay Rei, you'll be alright. Just keep it cool. Keep your eyes on the way. Breathe in, breathe out.

"Okay class, as you are all aware of, we have a new student joining us for this semester" the homeroom teacher, I believe her name is Miss Campbell, said cheerfully then looked at me with wide glittering eyes. "Although we probably know you already, please introduce yourself Mr. Kon"

Breathe Kon, breathe. I smile politely at her and nodded. Turning on my heels, I face the whole class. They have excited eyes and wide grins on their faces (except for Kai who's just looking at me with his stone face and bored eyes). I take one last deep breath and open my mouth.

"My name is Rei Kon, seventeen years old and I uh, just transferred to this school from China. Umm, I've never really been in an actual school… well uh, because I've been home tutored since I was small so… I'm not familiar with these kinds of things. Uhh…I really hope to be friends with all of you and please take care of me!" I say the last words quickly with a quick bow. I shut my eyes in embarrassment. They're quiet. Way too quiet. Oh shit, did I just say something stupid? Was that wrong? Now I hear my heart beating so fast. Shit, this is the end Kon. Say goodbye to 'graceful perfect Kon' and say hello to 'Stupid crackpot Kon'. I wanna evaporate now. Someone, kill me!

"Good morning!" a rather loud greeting snapped all the attention of the class away from me. I cautiously looked up from my bangs and see this blue-haired Japanese boy with brown eyes jumping his way around the classroom and to his seat.

"Granger!" Miss Campbell shouted irritably, "Can't you greet the class in a much calmer and softer way? Didn't you see someone introducing here in front?"

"Oops" the kid apologized but was still grinning.

"Tyson!" another kid comes running. He's blonde with matching big cute blue-green eyes. Wow, he's cute! Okay, did I just think that?

"Tate, you're late again!" Miss Campbell screeched putting a hand on her hips.

"Sorry Miss" Max pouted. Aw, ain't that the cutest thing? Miss Campbell shakes her head while rubbing her temples.

"I'm sorry for all this Mr. Kon, you can take the seat over there" she said and pointed to the vacant seat on the third row.

I bow at her again and walks over to my seat.

"Okay class, let's begin our lesson for today, get your Literature book"

While in the middle of the discussion I receive a piece of torn paper on my desk. I look to my right and see a smiling blonde waving at me. It's the cute guy. I smile back. I open the folded piece of paper and read the message.

'Cool you're Rei Kon right? That famous violinist? By the way, I'm Max Tate'

I lightly giggle and take a pen and write a reply. Hey, is this what I think it is? I found new friends!

'Yup, that's me. Nice meeting you Max'

I pass the paper back and once he received it and read my reply, he looked overjoyed. I simply smile inwardly seeing that big smile on his face. He tugs that kid who made his loud entrance earlier and gives him the piece of paper. The said kid beams ardently and grabbed the paper, took his pen and wrote on it. I watch him then he turned his head and flashes me a super friendly smile (with all his front teeth showing). I blinked thrice in surprise. Then I receive the paper again.

'I'm Tyson Granger, awesome meeting you Mr. Tiger. So what brings you to this school?'

Mr. Tiger? I write a reply again.

'First, it's Rei not Mr. Tiger. I'll really appreciate it if you called me by name and not some nickname. And second, well it's because my Uncle left me here to attend to some matters abroad.' – Rei

I'd like to leave being called by something else other than my name to Mr. Sourpuss, he's so good at it.

'Right, sorry about that Rei. He-he' - Tyson

'Ooh, well do you like it here?' – Max

'Yup, I sure do. And apology accepted Tyson. ' – Rei

'Cool! So you wanna hang out with us later at lunch time?' – Tyson

'Sure, that'll be awesome' – Rei

"Yay!" Max cheers loudly throwing his arms in the air and jumping up from his chair. His act quickly steals everyone's attention from the lecture our teacher is currently discussing. Miss Campbell I so red of annoyance. Oops.

"Tate! Granger! Stand in the hallways!" she screeched

"What? Why me as well?" Tyson whined

"Because I know that you've been passing that piece of paper around"

"But…But… Rei's also in it!" Tyson pouts pointing accusingly at me. "So it should be, Tate, Granger and Kon out in the hall way!" He insists.

"Because it's Mr. Kon's first day, I'm letting him off the hook. Now leave the room now before I think of sending you both to detention!"

"Fine" Tyson sighed, "Let's go Maxie" and with that he pulls the pouting blondie out.

"And Mr. Kon, please remember that if this happens again, I'll have to include you in the punishment" Miss Campbell said

"Understood Miss" I smile at her. I'll remember to apologize to Tyson and Max later at lunchtime. Kai who was two seats from me rolled his eyes and returned to listening to the lesson. What?


"Ow, my feet hurt" Tyson cries caressing his swollen heels. We're up the rooftop eating our lunches. I don't know why exactly but Max said it's been a habit of theirs to eat lunch up here.

"Oh c'mon Ty, don't be a crybaby" Max muttered opening his bento box.

"Yeah, says the person who was crying his eyes out half the punishment time" Tyson teased and Max sticks his tongue out at him. Aw they look so cute I can't help but giggle. They're like a couple in a love quarrel.

"Oh by they Rei, you said your Uncle left you here. Where are you staying at then?" Tyson then asked grabbing some shrimp from his bento box and slamming them in his mouth. I don't want to be the nerdy-clean-freak but that's just a bit gross. He's even got some sauce on the sides of his mouth. Should I tell him to wipe them off? Well, it actually looks funny on him so I'll let it stay there for a while longer. I'm so evil.

"You're probably staying in some grandiose hotel huh?" Max said eating a small price of shrimp.

Actually, it's way better than a grandiose hotel.

"I'm staying at the Hiwatari mansion" Saying that earns me a front seat privilege of watching Tyson choke to death with his food and Max spitting his drink. I pat Tyson on the back.

"H-Hiwatari?" they ask in chorus

"Uh, yeah"

"Oh my god, you're living with Kai?" Tyson screamed

"Duh, how many Hiwataris do you know of here in Japan?" Max rolled his eyes, "Anyway, I can't believe you're actually living with the Kai Hiwatari! That's totally awesome Rei!"

"Yeah no wonder you came here riding his black limo and walking with the three Russian Gods" Tyson rubs his chin.

"Three Russian Gods?"

"Oh well since you're just a transfer student, you wouldn't know about them"

Well duh?

"Tyson just shut up for a minute okay? Well then I'll explain it to you Rei. This school is funded by none other than the Hiwatari family meaning Kai is practically the one ruling this school. But he doesn't actually let people know about that. We just know because, well we've heard from it and the others just gossiped about it. We made our own researches and confirmed it. The three Russian gods are those students who have the highest possible grades in this school and probably the richest. Tala Ivanov, a third year high school student is the top of his department. Since he has such great looks especially with his icy blue eyes and fiery red hair and everyone's just crazy fantasizing the pants off him, he's given the title the Lord of Splendor. Next to him is Bryan Kuznetsov, another third year student. He may not look like it but he's the second top of his department, obviously after Tala. Because of his scary figure and muscular body build, everyone's afraid of him and avoids having arguments or fights with him as much as possible. He's known here as the Lord of Terror. And then the last of them, the top student of our department, the Lord of Excellence Kai Hiwatari. I don't really have to explain to you anymore why he's one of the gods. Living with him must surely already give you a hint" Max explained.

Now that's what I'd call explanation. And the school is funded by the Hiwataris? Superb much. And yeah, I've got a pretty good idea why Kai is considered a god. I mean, just his appearance is enough. And that doesn't mean anything. I'm just complimenting him. No other reason. Got it? Good.


Fourth period has just ended and our subject teacher asked me to deliver some papers to the faculty room. I follow obediently and make my way to the faculty room up on the fourth floor. While walking the corridors, students whisper to each other and constantly say hi to me and ask for an autograph. I gladly sign on their notebooks and after I do so, they run back to their friends giggling.

People are so odd. I still don't get why they become so happy with just a simple marking on a piece of paper. Sure they see me on TV whenever I have my recitals broadcasted and I'm a known figure in the world but that doesn't mean I'm that different from them. I'm actually tired of this kind of life. Tired of all those people praising me or treating me as someone or something higher than them. If I could only just shout at them and tell them I'm also a human and not some god walking on earth. So actually, this situation caused by my Uncle is something I've always been praying for to happen. Me living a normal teenage boy life. Meeting ordinary people, hanging out with them and making friends who don't only care for fame and money. I really think I'm gonna love this new life.

As I turn around a corner I bump hard to someone and throw me to the floor and on my butt. Ow! The papers fly and scatter to the floor.

"Shit" I cursed, "I'm really sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going" I apologized and quickly gather the pieces of papers

"No harm done" a gentle voice replied. I look up and see two beautiful hazelnut eyes. He reaches out a hand to help me up and gives me some of the papers. "I'm Hiro Granger, nice to meet you Rei" he smiled. Granger?

I voice out my question. "Granger?" I asked, "Are you related to Tyson Granger?"

"Yes, he's my younger brother. Why?"

He's completely different from Tyson. He has a gentle face, a cool and soothing voice and a beautiful smile. Actually, I think it's the exact opposite of Tyson. No offense Ty.

"Oh because we're in the same class. And nice to meet you too" I smile back at him

"Oh, then I bet you're already having some laughs here"

"I sure have. By the way, could you help me find which faculty room Mr. Namihara is? I need to deliver these papers to him"

"This is some coincidence; I'm also on my way to his office now. Let's just go together shall we?" he invited. I nod and follow him.


Talking to Hiro is kinda nice. He's been telling me a lot about the school. On our way back, it's still the same, students approach me often times asking me to sign on their stuff. That's when I saw Tala and Bryan standing by the window. Tala saw me as well.

"What're you doing up here Rei?" Tala asked as we approach them.

"I had to deliver some papers to a teacher"

"So I bet he helped you find him" Tala smirks and looks at Hiro.

"Always the helpful and responsible Granger" Bryan teased

"It's my duty Kuznetsov" Hiro sneered back. Oh Hiro also told me that he's student council president. Then while they're busy talking I heard a very soothing sound coming from one of the classrooms. I Slowly sneak out from the others to try and look for where the sound is coming from. Then there I saw in an empty music room, a tall beautiful person with glimmering red hair holding in his arms a golden brown violin. His eyes are closed and his pinkish lips are curved to a sweet smile. The notes he makes with his violin are amazing, as if they're piercing through my heart. When he reached his final note I couldn't help myself but clap my hands. Because of that he finally opens his eyes and reveals two bright shimmering emerald stones. He stares at me and I look back at him. Hey, wait a minute. This person… No way!

"It's been a while, Rei" he said.

It can't be. "Brooklyn?"


End of Chapter 3.

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