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Chapter Four

Yoshiro, Sakura, and Satoshi were walking in the maze that some people called hallways to the Academy. Luckily, there were big, huge signs that directed them to where they wanted to go.

"Jeez, how could people get lost here?" asked Sakura is annoyance. "I mean, they have big, huge arrows pointing to wherever you want to go. Gosh, how dumb can you get?"

"Nervous?" Satoshi asked, raising an eyebrow.

Sakura's eye twitched.

"The Kuchiki heir is nervous!" Yoshiro exclaimed. Satoshi smirked. "Or was it the Kurosaki heir?"

"Urausai!" Sakura snapped. "You guys can't tell me that you're not nervous either!"

Satoshi and Yoshiro looked away sheepishly.

They walked in silence.

Yoshiro sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "Wonder how the Academy will be like."

"We'll probably get picked on." Satoshi said, putting his hands behind his head.

"Teachers would probably expect a lot from us." Sakura said, her eyes on the ground.

The three of them sighed.

"Man, why did we want to go to the Academy in the first place!?" Yoshiro cried.

"Because," Sakura started, but then rubbed her head. "Ano, Sato-kun, why did we want to go to the Academy in the first place?"

Satoshi blinked. He rubbed his head. He crossed his arms and thought. "Ano, eto..."

"You don't know either, do you?" Yoshiro dead panned.

"Er, no."

Sakura sighed and they started walking again.

A few minutes later, just as they were getting sick of the never ending white walls, they came across the Academy.

Huge like the Kuchiki Manor, it was colored black and white, which seemed to be the signature color of shinigami.

"It's like home." Sakura said, remembering the Manor.

Satoshi and Yoshiro blinked. They looked at each other, smirked, and ran off towards the building.

Sakura shook her head at them, sighed, and followed, walking like Kuchiki Byakuya, if, perhaps, a bit less up tight.


"Yosh!" Yoshiro and Satoshi slapped their hands together. "We've got the same room!"

"I've got my own." Sakura said, looking at the paper in her hand. "I think we've got the same schedule. Kido, Hakuda, History of Soul Society, sword fighting, and free period."

"Hai, I got that." Yoshiro said, looking at his paper.

"Me too." Satoshi told them. He lifted up his blue uniform. "Jeez, one of these can make about two shinigami uniforms. What a waste."

He looked around before looking at Yoshiro. "Where'd Sakura-chan go?"

Yoshiro blinked. "I...don't know. I was studying the map."

"What for?"

"Just in case any of the classes get too boring." Yoshiro had a devilish smirk on his face.

"......."

"What?"

"Iie, it's nothing." Satoshi waved it away. "I think Sakura-chan went to the Kido class already. She was never one for waiting."

Yoshiro rolled his eyes as they began walking. "Psh. Sakura-chan was never the one to wait. She would be icy and cold and detached just like her oji-san. Only when we get her provoked she'll act like a kid." He crossed his arms in front of his chest. "She's just like Tou-san."

Satoshi smirked. "Personally, I think that she's turning into her oji-san. I don't think she's that cold yet. After all, he isn't the Ice Prince for nothing."

"Nah, Kaa-san makes him blush. Trust me, I've seen her teasing him."

Satoshi pulled Yoshiro's cheek hard. "Like you're one to talk. Aren't you the one who's always going 'KAA-SAN!' whenever she teases you?"

Yoshiro slapped Satoshi's hand away. "Don't act like you're older than me, bakayaro."

"Excuse me? Last time I checked, I was the oldest out of all three of us."

"By a month."

"At least-"

"Boys, how nice of you to finally show up." interrupted an icy voice.

The boys looked up to meet the irritated face of Takashi-sensei, who was teaching the Kido Class.

Out of the corner of their eyes, they saw Sakura leaning back in her chair, with the smallest of smirks on her face. They both got red tick marks.

"Well, where were you?" Takashi-sensei asked, who also had a big red tick mark on his head.

"Ano, we were trying to find our way here?" Yoshiro said, so unsure that he made it sound like a question. Satoshi got a huge sweat drop on his head.

Takashi-sensei seemed to buy it, but as the two boys went to their seats besides Sakura, he said, "Tsk, tsk. I expected more from you two. You are prodigies, but it seems that only one of you got here in time."

When Takashi-sensei turned his back, Yoshiro and Satoshi glared at Sakura.

"You could have backed us up!" Satoshi hissed.

"But what benefit would I get?" Sakura asked, smirking.

Yoshiro and Satoshi blinked.

"She is turning into her oji-san." Yoshiro remarked to Satoshi, who nodded in agreement.

"Hitsugaya-san! Abarai-san! Stop distracting your classmates!" Takashi-sensei shouted at the two boys.

They glared when Sakura snickered.


It was free period now, and Yoshiro and Satoshi had forgiven Sakura for Kido class.

"What're you reading?" Yoshiro asked Sakura from his spot under the tree. He had his arms folded behind his head like a pillow.

"'Halloween Murders' by Minamoto Masami." Sakura replied. She was sitting on a tree branch with her back against the trunk.

"Isn't that supposed to be all gory and bloody with death in every chapter?" Satoshi asked, confused. He was leaning against the tree trunk.

"And there's thirty chapters." Sakura nodded.

Yoshiro and Satoshi blinked. They looked at each other and nodded. Satoshi jumped up and grabbed the book from Sakura's hand.

"Oi! What was that for!?" Sakura shouted as she jumped down from the branch.

"Someone as young as you should not be reading this type of stories." Satoshi said, hitting her on the head with the spine of the book.

"Like you're one to talk. You're practically the same age as me!" Sakura said, annoyed.

Yoshiro patted her head. Even though she was a week older, he was still taller than her.

"We're not giving it back." Yoshiro said as Satoshi tossed the book in a random direction. They faintly heard an 'OW!'

Sakura scowled before sighing and shrugging. She jumped back up on her branch. "Whatever. I already read that book about five times already."

Yoshiro and Satoshi shook their heads at her.