(The third Surge! I Hope that you guys enjoy this as well!)

Surge 3

Sora was enjoying his time in the academy. Though it had been just a few days since he had joined, he was really enjoying the classes here and learning more about stuff that he didn't knew like how almost every hierarchical city has this thing called a cauldron that was used for something that most people don't know yet. He hasn't really made any new friends yet and he was perfectly content with that. Most of the people here were from the richer families and almost all of them had stuck up attitudes and even if there were those who don't have such attitudes, his policy with humans makes interacting with them...quite difficult. But those are not what are bothering him right now. The thing that is bothering him right now is...

"WHAT IS YOUR SIR NAME SON!" Shouted a teacher who sounds more like a military drill instructor rather than a person who should be giving knowledge to people. Sora just gave his name to said teacher and he is demanding him for this supposed sir name that has been annoying him for the past few days. "I don't have a sir name sir." Sora replied as the teacher simply shook his head in frustration. "YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME A SIR NAME SON! RIGHT NOW!" The teacher shouted as the whole class shook with his voice.

As the scene grew in front of the class, Noel couldn't help but feel sorry for him. "Why is everyone being so harsh about him not having a sir name?" Noel innocently asked Hunter as he himself was wondering about that. "I don't really know myself, but I guess that having a sir name is a big deal to everyone." Hunter just replied as he continued to observe the scene. Makoto herself wondered what it's like to not have a sir name. She wondered if she was born in the world not as Makoto Nanaya but just Makoto and it made her sad.

"YOU BETTER GIVE ME A SIR NAME SOON BOY! NOW GET TO YOUR SEAT!" The teacher shouted as Sora just walked back to his seat. He heard the chatter about him not having a sir name...especially from the three girls that talked crap about him from the first day onward. Ignoring their stupid voices as he would like to reference them as, Sora sat at his seat and just focused on the lesson, grabbing his stuff needed for it.

As he did so, he felt a pair of eyes focus on him for a few seconds as he looked up to see his beastkin neighbour Makoto looking at him once more. " Having a rough day so far huh?" Makoto asked as he simply shook his head. "Trust me. I've had rougher days." Sora replied as the lesson began for the day.

His mind focused on the lesson with good intentions, blocking out the various noises in the background that mostly talked about him in general.


The bell rang as it signaled the time for lunch, Everyone in the classroom didn't head for the cafeteria just yet as they were just talking amongst their groups...well everyone except Sora who just spent his time alone, taking notes from the class. "Geez...look at him actually working" One of the students said which he could hear but pretended that he never heard them. Noel, Tsubaki and Makoto looked at him with a little bit of worry while Hunter himself remained indifferent though he also showed some concern for the guy.

"Maybe we should invite him for lunch." Noel innocently asked as Tsubaki and Hunter were a bit skeptical about the idea. Makoto however was a bit reluctant about the idea as she was still trying to know him better and didn't want her friends to influence this. 'I got to make friends here...I have to try to do it on my own.' Makoto said to herself as they noticed Sora leaving the classroom at his own leisure.

As soon as he left, the PA system installed all around the class came to life as the voice that spoke through it sounded like someone who was going to fall asleep at any moment. "Everyone...please take note that...*Yawn*...The cafeteria is selling it's once in a month melon bread right now. It's in limited supply as usual so good luck." The moment the person behind the box stopped talking. Everyone went from talking in the room to barging out of the classroom like a pack of hungry wolves.

" OH MY GOD! I GOT TO HAVE THAT MELON BREAD!" One of the students shouted as the stampede continued to run out of the room and into the hallways of the NOL Academy. Tsubaki felt the urge to shout at the stampeding group of students to slow down but knew all to well that she would just get trampled by the crowd if she did so. "Melon bread? Sure sounds good." Hunter said casually as Makoto's eyes shined greatly. " Of course it is! That melon break is supposed to be one of the rarest things you can get from the canteen!" Makoto said as her stomach grumbled loudly

"And that stomach doesn't lie Makoto." Noel said as she was about to hug Makoto's tail but Makoto was quick to react. "Not this time Noellie!" Makoto teased as Noel Pouted cutely making Hunter chuckle. "Oh mistress...you sure love that tail of Makoto's" He mused to himself as Noel made a small blush. Makoto noticed this and for a split second became sad before she decided to tease Noel. "Oh? Tickled pink now huh?" Makoto teased as Noel turned even more red.

"There there mistress. We should get to the cafeteria now before it gets too crowded for us to eat." Hunter said casually as Noel, Tsubaki and Makoto realized that Hunter was right to say that. "Oh Crap! He's right Girls! Let's go!" Makoto shouted as she charged out of the room as the rest couldn't help but chuckle a little bit at the sight of their friend running out of the room in excitement. Walking out of the classroom at their own pace, the sight that will greet them at the cafeteria will blow their minds.


The Moment that Makoto reached the cafeteria, she bared witness to the biggest pile up in history. Literally the whole student body was piling at the counters as they fought for the right to even get one of the mythical melon bread. " ONE MELON BREAD OVER HEARGH!" One student desperately shouted before he was consumed into the sea of crowds like he was prey. 'Poor kid. I wish him good luck in the afterlife.' Makoto thought as she clapped her hands and offered him prayers for the poor unfortunate student who fell to the vicious cycle of the melon bread.

As soon as she finished, Noel, Tsubaki and Hunter arrived in the room and witnessed the carnage in front of their eyes. "Why isn't the student council doing anything about this!?" Tsubaki loudly questioned as they saw two pairs of arms waving wildly in the crowd. "SOMEONE! PLEASE HELP US!" Taro shouted as Akane himself was smothered by the crowds of girls to even dare speaking right now or risk being called a pervert. Jin himself stood away from the crowd as he observed the crowd calmly.

"At this rate, even if we did anything we wouldn't be able to budge this group by much." Jin calmly and at the same time with a semi cold voice said. As the four of them went to Jin, Noel making slight eye contact the same time he did and immediately shrinking afterwards. "Ah Tsubaki. Is something the matter?" Jin asked as he did his best to not focus on what he considered a nuisance to his eyes and instead focus on his childhood friend Tsubaki.

"Isn't there anything we can do about the crowd?" Tsubaki asked as Jin sighed in frustration, not at her but at the crowd. "Honestly, I have tried a lot of things to thin down this queue but so far it isn't working." Jin said as Hunter looked at the crowd. "That sure is a lot of people for just a melon bread." Hunter remarked as to his own shock the cashier shouted. "TO EVERYONE IN THE QUEUE! WE ONLY HAVE ONE MORE MELON BREAD LEFT!" The moment that was said, the crowd became wild as people literally began fighting each other like a pack of wild animals.

Noel wanted that melon bread badly so that everyone can share it. Then she came up with the most briliant idea ever. "Ummm...Hunter. Can you please help us get the last melon bread." Noel innocently asked as Hunter himself felt a sense of obligation. "I will try...but I doubt that I would make it out alive." Hunter said as he slowly made his way to the vicious crowd. Reluctantly stepping into the black mass of the crowd, he soon found himself being sucked in as his arms flailed violently

"UUUUUAUAAAAGGGHHHHH!" Hunter yelled in shock as the suddenness of it caught him off guard as he futilely made his way through the crowds before getting sucked right into the crowd. As the screams of Hunter Long and any other unfortunate victims echoed through the cafeteria, Sora walked into the room and saw the crowd. "Wow...that sure is the line." He muttered to himself as he noticed the empty line and simply walked to there. "Excuse me. Do you have anything that has no water in it?" Sora asked as the cafeteria lady looked at him.

"We only got the melon bread and it's on the last piece." The cafeteria lady as Sora passed her the money as the bread went to his hand. The moment that happened everyone focused their eyes on him as he paid the cashier. Looking at the group of people staring at him intently. Sora himself was scratching his head at the sight as Sora slowly walked back to the entrance of the cafeteria. "HEY NEW KID! LET US HAVE IT!" One of the students shouted as Sora himself was scratching his head.

"Ummm...Why though?" Sora Innocently asked as the crowd dispersed and surrounded him, leaving a twitching Hunter on the ground as the girls rushed to nurse him back to a standing condition. "THAT IS THE RARE ONCE IN A MONTH MELON BREAD!" another student shouted as a student actually tossed cash to Sora's feet as he picked it up. Shrugging he actually kept the money in his pocket as the students continued to toss cash at his feet.

"IF YOU'RE TAKING THE CASH AT LEAST GIVE US THE BREAD DAMMIT!" a girl student shouted as Sora managed to keep a grand total of 500 Platinum dollars or Blaybloo as he liked to refer it as. He then just looked even more confused as Sora just questioned, "Then why are you tossing cash at my feet?" Sora questioned as the student body looked like they wanted to chase after him. Sora noticing this, decided to run for it as all the students chased after him.

"COME BACK HERE!" The whole student body shouted leaving Noel, Tsubaki, Makoto, Hunter, Jin, Taro and Akane in the cafeteria as Cajun, Mai and Shiori entered the now desolated area. "It's interesting to see how people go crazy over a piece of bread." Cajun noted as she wrote it down on her book. "Can you just please stop writing what you see...and just help me up..." Hunter weakly spoke as Makoto looked at the sight with a little pity. "Hey tell you what. I'll go save our usual spot at the hill." she said as they agreed with the idea and she left.

As she exited, they didn't notice the split second thinking that Makoto had on her face as she bumped to three all too familiar girls. "Oh! It's you again beastkin." One of said girls said to her as Makoto decided that they was not worth her time and walked past the group. Annoyed by this action the girls just looked at her with cruel eyes, "Don't think you can just brush us aside beastkin!" Another one of the girls said as Makoto just blocked out the rest of the cruel words that were aimed not only for her but her race in general. 'Just get to the hill...they are not worth the time.' Makoto thought as she increased the pace of her walk.


The winds at the hill of Torifune are usually a good place for anyone to get a good rest. It was more specifically a favorite place for Noel, Tsubaki, Hunter and Makoto to go and spend their break times at because of how relative peaceful it is there and how quiet it is. Makoto favorite part of the hill is how it gave her a full view of the city in general. ' I am glad that I am not alone anymore...' Makoto sadly thought as she thought how she behaved to humans before.

She remembered how she harshly treated every single human that was near her. Nice or not, she thought all humans were out for themselves. Growing up at the poor streets of The 11th Hierarchical City of Shinatsu, She learnt the hard way that she had to fend for herself in a harsh world. Trusting almost nobody but herself and her family, She fought for her right to even be alive in this world. 'But things are now different...I have friends...Friends who see me for who I am.' Makoto thought once more as she saw a figure at the distance.

He had his hands on his pocket and his white hood over his head as he sat lazily on the tree looking at the city. Makoto herself realized who it was and was reluctant to approach said person. 'Then you should try being his friend.' Hunter's words from before echo in her mind as she found some courage in her and walked up to the guy with her usual attitude. "What you doing here new kid?" Makoto asked as the person turned his head a little looking at Makoto revealing them to be Sora.

"Oh...It's you Makoto." Sora asked as Makoto took a seat next to him. "What do you mean it's just me?" Makoto questioned but Sora just shrugged her off as she realized that this was going to be trickier than she had originally thought. Sora made himself comfortable on the tree as the wind blew quite slowly. "What do you think of the Academy so far?" Makoto asked again as she stood next to Sora at the tree as he looked at her with curiosity.

Sora didn't know why a girl like Makoto would ask her these kind of questions to a new kid in the school. He wasn't obliged to answer her questions but for some reason, he felt a warmth in her that he had never felt before. "I just find the Academy average." Sora casually replied to Makoto's question as she actually felt herself becoming more and more relaxed around him. The main reason why it was hard to talk to Sora was because he emitted a certain type of aura that made most people feel uncomfortable inside and actually back off. Like he didn't want to talk to you and you were just being a nuisance to him.

"Average huh. I'm just curious, why are you staying at the girl's dorm?" Makoto asked as Sora scratched his head a little bit. "Funny story about that...The room I was assigned to was umm...frozen solid as they said." The moment Sora mentioned that, Makoto knew what he was probably talking about. Keeping her mouth shut, Sora continued. "After that...the only place that they could assign me to is the basement which is only at the girl's dorm." as soon as Sora finished, Makoto herself wondered how on earth did the school came to that conclusion.

As Makoto thought for a while, she noticed Sora was looking at the town with rather distant eyes. Feeling comfortable now, Makoto found the courage to sit next to him. Sora himself looked at her a little bit before his eyes went for her beastkin tail. Looking at it with curiosity, he went behind her as he hugged the tail. "Hmmm...this tail is so much bushier than Otou-san's." Sora mused to himself as Makoto couldn't help become curious at this.


Makoto: Otou-san?

Sora: Oh yeah. My Otou-san's a half beastkin.

Makoto: Half beastkin?

Sora: Something I call him. He's...unique in a sense.

Makoto: So your mother is human?

Sora: Nope. A cat beastkin.

Makoto: Huh?! Then...why are you so human looking?

Sora: Ahehehe...we're not a family in the normal sense.

Makoto: Huh? But you said that you have a pops and mom?

Sora: We are actually not related by blood...we just call each other that.


Makoto was quite shocked to hear that. "You guys must be close huh..." Makoto asked as Sora looked back at the town while gently holding her tail. "Yeah...we have been for the past year." Sora continued as Makoto began to think back to how humans treated her before shaking her head furiously internally. 'NO...I don't want to remember those times...' Makoto thought to herself as She felt her tail being stretched...realizing what was going to happen.

"I wonder..." Sora said as he yanked on Makoto's tail hard. "OOOOOWWWWWWW!" Makoto yelled as she gave him a hard punch on the head which made him lie down on the hill. "Yup! Your tail's attached as well." Sora said as he actually smiled which made Makoto a bit mad. "You know that's it's rude to pull a beastkin's tail like that!?" Makoto questioned as Sora sat up still keeping his smile. "Of course...but I'm just so curious that I just do it anyways." Sora answered back shocking her with his straight forwardness.

"Geez...you are just too straight forward." Makoto stated out as Sora looked back at the Academy once more. A Wind blew on them as they felt the refreshing breeze hitting their faces. "Wow...Today's wind really does feel so nice...I just wish that everyone could feel this right now." Makoto said to herself as Sora managed to hear it and began to think about it himself. The wind was so nice today that he agreed, But he had nobody he could enjoy this wind with. He didn't have his Otou-san, Oka-san, Pikaka and most important of all...his Nee-san.


He then suddenly had a flashback to when his Nee-san was alive as they sat down on the public library of Otsu. As they stared at the Japanese kanji book with Alice looking at said book with utter confusion. "Why is Japanese Kanji so hard to learn." Alice said as she placed her head on the table and rubbed it. Sora on the other hand was practicing writing his kanji which was pretty good. "It can't be that hard to speak Japanese right nee-san?" Sora spoke in Japanese which confused Alice.

"Please little bro...don't speak Japanese too fast." Alice replied back in Japanese as he stuck out his tongue in embarassment. As the hours pass by, Alice stumbled on a word that she found interesting. "Minamikaze? A wind that comes from the south." Alice said loudly to herself as Sora noticed the word as well. "Are you trying to learn this word Nee-san?" Sora asked as Alice just shook her head.

"It's not that, I am just interested in this word." Alice replied as Sora stared at the word himself and became intrigued by it. "There's even a name for a wind...that's interesting." Sora said as Alice smiled at Sora. He noticed the smile as Alice explained, "I'm just happy that you are learning so much right now Little bro..." The moment she said that, it made his heart beat happily as Sora looked back at the word as the word lingered on his head.


"Minamikaze..." Sora said to himself as the flashback ended. Makoto heard the word and was shocked. "You know Japanese?" She asked as Sora decided to speak in Japanese. "Yeah I do...I actually find it easier to speak in Japanese rather than english." Sora said as Makoto to his shock replied in Japanese as well, "Me too. I find english too hard on my voice, Japanese feels so much easier on my throat."

As soon as she said that, Sora felt the wind blow once more as he finally realized the answer in his mind. "Minamikaze...Minakaze...From now on...my full name is Sora Minakaze." Sora said as he confirmed to himself and unknowingly Makoto as he is now known as Sora Minakaze. "Sora Minakaze huh...sound cool actually." She replied as Sora looked at her for a while before making a small smile. "Hehehe...Let's just speak Japanese...It's easier for us anyways." Sora replied in Japanese as Makoto nodded at the suggestion.

Sora then stood up as he started walking away from her, "I'm heading back to class. Oh yeah...Here you go." Sora said as he tossed a piece of bread to her hands as she stared and saw it was the melon bread. "!? Why are you giving it to me!?" Makoto asked as she noticed that half of the bread were torn off and most likely eaten by Sora. "It's a gift. Enjoy it Makoto." Sora said as he walked away from her looked at Sora's direction before looking back at the bread as she took a single bite of the melon bread. Only one word was heard as the wind blew gently.


"DELICIOUS!"


GREETINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION! As you can see, Makoto and Sora can speak Japanese. I have decided to make their conversations unique in a sense so from now on, all of their conversations will be in Japanese from now on. I hope that you all like this change as I continue to experiment with various conversations bubbles. Anyhow How will this small bond between Sora and Makoto grow...Find out next time! Also Thank you Sora for having a sir name right now! SO FAREWELL!

P.s: Bold+Italics: Japanese conversations