I woke up the next morning refreshed. Opening my eyes, I saw that the sun still didn't rise from the horizon. But, I'm wide awake. Sitting up and stretching out my arms, I slowly got out of bed and felt the fuzzy carpet under my feet. Then looking around the dark room, I didn't sense Spirit's presence.
"Wait, he was with Kotaro before I had that match with Musashi. He probably went to sleep with him." I said mentally.
Standing up from the bed, I went to my dresser in the corner of the room and opened the middle drawer. My mom must have put my stuff away because everything was organized. Picking out an athletic crop top and tight leggings, I put my hair in a high ponytail, and tied my adidas. Slowly walking to the sliding door separating the guys room from my room, I slightly opened just wide enough for me to look through it and see Spirit sleeping next to Kotaro's head.
"Wow. All the guys sleep in here?" I saw three bunks with all of the guys on them. And the room itself was bigger than I thought it was.
The first bunk, which was all the way on the other side of the room, looked like Musashi was sleeping on the top and Munenori on the bottom. The second bunk, which was on my left side of the wall was Sasuke on the top and Saizo on the bottom. And the third bunk was next to the door, on my right, was Goemon on top and Kotaro on the bottom. With a… hawk? It looked to be a spotted, artic hawk. Very rare, I heard they were. And next to the hawk was Spirit. Who was fast asleep.
"Psst. Spirit." I whispered as loud but as quiet as I could. "Spirit!"
He finally opened his eyes and as he saw me, his head shot up and looked really happy. But as I thought he was about to come to me, he floated to the hawk and shook it softly, waking it up. It looked at him then at me. Then both Spirit and the hawk flew to me and as they went through the door, I quietly shut it again and motioned the two to follow me. We walked out of the building and into the dewy morning atmosphere. Looking around, I found a path that looked to go around the academy and then looked back at Spirit.
"Could you change now?" I asked him. Nodding, he floated down to the ground and started to transform. Into a human.
"Hey." He said to me as he finished transforming.
Spirit can turn into anything. But I mostly have him into a dragon or a human. In human form, he is tall. Like six five! I just don't know how he's that tall but he is. And he is also a little transparent. But I can easily tell his beautiful features. Bright blue eyes, naturally light rose lips, his light brown short hair that covers his ears, his tanned body, amazing arm muscles, visible collarbone, his hard abs, and his v lines. I know right. He's like that perfect guy that every girl wants. But I'm not really interested in him. He's just my fifth element and friend. And also my coach.
"Long time no see Spirit." I punched him on the arm playfully and smiled.
"You too Yay." He extended his hand and ruffled up my hair.
"Hey! I had it up." Letting my hair fall, I combed it again with my fingers and put it up in a high ponytail again.
"So, we gonna go for our run?" He asks me as I finished up.
"Aye sir!" Then running on the path, Spirit and I took a lap around the academy. "So how did Kotaro treat you?" I asked Spirit after a while.
"He's a nice guy." He said. Then paused a few moments before continuing. "He has a pet hawk, Hyosuke, I think his name was." Then I remembered.
"Didn't Hyosuke follow us out?" I stopped in my tracks and looked around.
"Huh. I think he did." Spirit stopped next to me and also looked around. "Maybe he went back inside?" As he said this, we heard a screech from a bird and looked up to see a hawk sitting on a tree branch.
"Found him." I walked up to the tree and extended my hand up towards Hyosuke. Whistling to him, he flew down from the branch and onto my hand.
"Hey Hyosuke." Spirit gently stroked the bird with his finger and talked to it. "We're still doing our morning run, would you like to join us?" The bird looked at him and nodded.
"Talking to animals again?" I smirked at him as we started running again with Hyosuke over us.
"Yeah. Because it's a ability that I could do." We both lightly laughed and went back to running.
We ran around the academy five times before stopping and taking a breather. Hyosuke was also a little tired because he fell on his back on the bench as we stopped and was breathing hard. Picking Hyosuke up, we walked to the gym. The sun was barely rising when we finished our morning run and as we got to the gym, it was halfway over the horizon. The gym was a nice place. It was also cool so we weren't so hot from earlier. They also had awesome equipment that I wasn't gonna wait to use. The first thing I went on was the treadmill. Pushing the start button, it was so smooth! I walked on it first. Then going up to a jog, I didn't feel it bounce to my every step. I ran on that treadmill for half an hour before switching to weights.
Going to the weights station, Spirit had already set a bar for me and added forty fives on each sides. I smirked when I adjusted the bar on my shoulders. Picking it up, I took a step back and took a deep breath. Squatting down low, I looked up at the ceiling in front of me and balanced on the heels of my feet before going up again. I repeated my back squats five more times before asking Spirit to add a ten to each side. I did another six reps of those before racking up and taking a five minute break.
"You have been improving on your weight training." Spirit says as he sat next to me.
"Yep. Joined a gym and got a bodybuilder to train me to get higher in my weights." I said as I got up again.
"What else do they have here?" He asked. I looked around and saw a sign pointing in a direction of a door saying "obstacle course". Getting excited, I walked through those doors and gasped as I saw a huge obstacle course in a giant gym. They had rope bridges, bars, uneven steps, and slides. Things that ninjas would train on.
"Wow." Spirit's eyes widened as he saw the course in front of us.
"I'm in deep love!" I started running around in a circle from excitement and jumped around.
"Settle down girl." Spirit shook his head and smiled at my excitement.
"Sowwy." I said to him innocently.
"So, how are we," He got interrupted from me running off and screaming my head off as I jumped from the uneven steps at the starting point.
"Woohoo!" I did aerials and flips as I rushed to the top of the wall and looked down as I saw Spirit trying to catch up.
"I didn't say start yet." He said breathing a little hard.
"Doesn't matter unless we have fun." I looked at the next obstacles behind us and saw a rope swing.
"You got this?" He asked me as we got into position and got a good grip on the rope.
"Totally." I jumped off the ground and wrapped my legs around the thick rope. "Woo!" Getting close to the ground, I jumped down and landed with a summer salute and jumped up, making my way to the rock wall.
I started climbing the seven meter wall and getting to the top, ringing the bell. Getting onto the top and seeing the tightrope walk. I wasn't an expert at it but I knew I could make it to the other side. So taking me first steps, I slowed my pace down and felt the rope under the soles of my feet. Before I knew it, I was on the other side, running up a hill and jumping onto a bar. Doing a quick double front flip on the bar, I stood up and jumped to a higher bar and swung myself up into a handstand.
"Showing off, aren't you?" Looking down, I see Spirit standing under me with his hands crossed over his chest.
"Just working out." I said back to him then swung down. "Head up!" Letting go of the bar, I fell straight down into his arms and he caught me in his tight grip.
"I think we should be done with this for now. It's already seven and we need breakfast." Putting me down on the ground, we walked out of the room and back into the equipment room.
"Yeah. I'm pretty hungry myself." As I said this, my stomach loudly growled. Pointing itself out that I did need some breakfast. "Hehe...yeah…"
"Yep. Let's get back. We both need a shower."
"Aye sir!" Then we both walked back to my room. But before I opened the door, I hesitated.
"What is it?" Spirit asks me.
"Where's Hyosuke?" We both widen our eyes until we both heard a bird screech behind us. Looking back, Hyosuke was flying towards us furiously, like we forgot about him.
"Hehe sorry Hyosuke. Looks like we forgot about you." Spirit says to him as he landed on his shoulder. Hyosuke rolled his eyes and let out another screech.
As I entered the room, I kicked off my sneakers and went into my bathroom to take the first shower.
"Don't use up the hot water!" I heard Spirit say through the door.
"No promises!" I turned on the shower and stripped myself before entering the warm water. I really didn't notice how sweaty I was until I let down my hair and felt how wet it was from all that workout. As I enjoyed my shower, I just thought of something. "Wait, why would Spirit take a shower if he doesn't sweat?" I asked outloud.
"Maybe because I want to act like a normal human." I heard Spirits voice in the bathroom and jumped.
"The hell you doing here?!" I poked my head out of the shower but kept my body covered, and shouted at him.
"Got bored just sitting in the room." He said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"That doesn't mean you can come in here and look at me naked!"
"I'm not looking at you naked." He said coolly. Then changed the tone. "Unless you want me too." He said innocently.
"Ugh!" I went back to taking my shower and tried to ignore the fact that a guy was in my bathroom while I was taking a shower.
I took another few minutes before turning the water off and grabbing a nearby towel to cover myself before opening the shower curtain. Stepping out, Spirit was stroking Hyosuke to pass the time that I took. I just quietly walked out of the bathroom and shut the door behind me. Leaning against the door, I let out a sigh of relief before drying myself off and getting ready for the day. I put on a tight tee with loose jeans and black converse. Brushing my hair, I put it in a fish tail and added some lightly natural colored eyeshadow and black liquid eyeliner. As I finished up, I heard a knock on my door.
"Hey Yay. It's Shinju." I smiled and walked to the door.
"Hey Shin." I greeted him as I opened the door.
"Hey. Are you coming to breakfast?" He asked me.
"Well I don't really know where the breakfast room is so," I was interrupted by Shin as I was about to finish my sentence.
"I could walk you there. Let's go." He was about to turn around before,
"Hey Yayoi!" Spirit called out of the bathroom. Making me drop my head.
"What?!" I shouted back at him.
"Did you bring my clothes?" He asked me as he walked out of the bathroom with only a towel around his torso.
"Spirit. You know you don't need to wear clothes. You can just get clothes on your body like that." I looked back at Shin and saw that his eyes were widened when he saw the half naked guy in my room. "It's not what you think." I said plainly.
"Who's he?"
"I'll explain later." I looked back at Spirit in annoyance. "Are you ready yet?!"
"Let's go." He walked up next to me with a backpack and Hyosuke on his shoulder. Dressed in a v-neck and skinny jeans with some rips on the knees.
"Okay. Let's go Shin. Lead the way." Shin looked a little puzzled as he kept staring at Spirit but turned around to walk us to the cafeteria.
"So," He looks at me after a few moments of silence.
"Hm?"
"Who is this as I may ask?" He looked back at the tall guy walking behind us.
"This is Spirit. He's my fifth element." I said to Shin.
"Your fifth element?" He repeats.
"Fire, water, air, earth," I point at Spirit. "Spirit. You will usually see him as a dragon or in his human form." I explained.
"He can shapeshift?" He looked back at Spirit in surprise and Spirit just looked back at him like he was naïve. Which he is.
"Yeah. Into anything pretty much. But only Yayoi can make me." He said to him plainly.
"So you're like his master?"
"Uh yeah, pretty much." I nodded a little as I thought of it that way.
"That's really cool."
"Yeah yeah." Spirit and I say in a unison.
"Oh here we are!" We stopped in front of double doors with a sign above it labeling 'cafeteria' and we entered the room.
The cafeteria looked to be about two stories tall with stairs on both sides of the large room. And for some ninjas, there is a rope ladder and a fireman's pole for a faster way down. The railings on the top floor were made with glass and the tables were just normals kind of tables the you would eat on at a campus or school. In the middle of the room, there was a booth that looked like the place where you got the food. Well it wasn't like a booth but like a grill or something like they have for food trucks. And they also had a drink station next to it.
"Cool isn't it?" My thought were interrupted by Shins question.
"Yeah. It's really cool." I looked around the room again in awe. Then Hyosuke let out a screech and flew off of Spirits shoulder.
"He probably found Kotaro." As Spirit said this, he transformed into a dragon again and followed the bird.
"I'm gonna get my breakfast." I told Shin.
"I gotta go anyways. Hanzo needs some help in his office. Bye." We waved at each other before he disappeared through the door.
"Alrighty then," I said to myself as I walked to the breakfast line. Picking up a menu, I read it to myself until,
"I like the sunny side with bacon and grilled toast." Letting out a small scream, I jumped and turned around to see Sasuke behind me.
"God damn it!" I yelled at him.
"What? Did I scare you?" He looked at me quizzically and tilted his head to the side.
"No shit Sherlock." I shook my head and slapped him with the menu on the forehead.
"So what are you getting for breakfast?" Sasuke walked past me and up to the counter. "Can you make the usual?" He asked the cook and the cook smiled back at him.
"Sure thing Sasuke. But right up!"
"Thanks man." Then looking back at me, he had an innocent smile on his face.
"Uh, can I just get scrambled eggs on toast. And then also on another plate, three over easy and four sausage rolls." Another cook wrote down what I said and looked at me a little confused.
"You gonna eat all that little lady?" The second cook had a thick southern accent and crossed his arms.
"No, I have a friend who is a big guy so he eats a lot."
"Alrighty. Coming up." And he went straight to the pan.
"Who's your friend?" Sasuke asked me.
"Spirit." I answered him as I took a cup to go get some sweet iced tea and another cup of Pepsi.
"Huh?" Sasuke looks at me confused as he filled his cup with root beer.
"You will meet him later." As I took a sip of my drink, I heard a light ring coming from the front and saw two trays. One with Sasuke's dish and the other with both of my dishes.
"Oh, it's ready. Let's go. I'll show you where we sit." He took his tray and I took mine and balanced it on one hand as I followed his to a rectangular table with the five other ninjas chatting and eating their breakfasts. I also saw Kotaro at the other end. He had Hyosuke set on his shoulder and Spirit curled around his arm. "Hey guys. Found Yayoi." Sasuke said as he took a seat next to Saizo.
"Hey. Nice seeing you again." I took a seat next to Musashi as he greeted me.
"You too, Musashi." I set down my tray and he looked down at my second full plate.
"You gonna eat that?"
"No. That's Spirits breakfast." I lightly whistled and got Spirit's attention. He uncurled from Kotaro's hand and floated to me. "You are not eating your breakfast like that." I shook my head at him and I saw him roll his eyes at me. Landing on the floor, he went back to his human form and grabbed the nearest chair to sit down and eat is food.
"Thanks Yay." He said as he went for the sausages.
"Yep." I finally noticed how silent it went and looked back at the six men staring at the both of us in surprise. "What?"
"How did he turn into a human?" Sasuke asks.
"He's my fifth element. He can form into anything when I tell him to." I said as I ate some of my egg.
"So this is his human form?" Saizo asked me.
"Yeah. He's a male and this is his only human form he can take."
"Now that cool." Goemon said with interest.
"Yeah but you guys should just act like it's normal to have him around." I told them as I took a bite of my bread.
"Why?" Musashi asks.
"Because he will probably be with me twenty four seven."