Miku took off her regular school uniform and exchanged it with a T-shirt. The words Rikiryou ran across its back, her skirt was replaced by uniformed shorts.

"Is it necessary to wear these?" A voice called out from behind the wall of lockers that ran across the center of the girls locker room in rows of three, each having a bench in between.

Rin and Miku stared at each other, their eyes glinting in anticipation. They slowly tiptoed their way to the direction of the voice. They peeked and saw Luka, she looked far different from her usual.

It was the last subject of the morning, P.E. So far during this subject, the class had just talked about topics like the history of the Olympics in class. Not today though, today teacher decided that the class had to have some 'real' physical education.

"We're just going to do some simple exercises right? So I don't see why we have to wear these…" Luka said staring at her shorts.

Rin and Miku stood behind her,

"Hey don't worry! Nobody except the people from our class will see you!" Rin burst out in attempt to cheer Luka up.

"Uh…thanks….I think."

Miku placed a hand on her shoulder, "She's just trying to calm you down, don't worry it's not a big deal. It's the uniform so everyone has to wear it sooner or later"

Luka nodded in agreement, "Y-yeah I guess you're right. I'm just surprised I guess…I didn't have to wear anything like this back in my old school."

"You'll get used to it soon trust me…" Miku smiled at Luka then turned her attention towards her pink hair, "By the way…"

"Yeah?"

"Girls have to tie their hair for Physical Education class here in Rikiryou."

"Uhhh-W-why?"

This time Rin answered, "It's because girls hair tend to get caught in their faces, distracting them. That's why it helps to have short hair like mine!"

"Oh I see. But I don't have anything to tie my hair with." Luka put on a fake disappointed look.

At this Miku grabbed something from her locker and grinned,

"Don't worry here you can borrow one of mine. I always bring an extra for emergencies!"

Luka grabbed the hair tie from Miku and tied her hair in its usual bun.

They made their way to the gym where they discovered some kind of obstacle course had been constructed. It consisted of just a few 'simple' obstacles such as a few tires laid on the floor, a few low hurdles, an indoor rock climbing wall ( the portable kind) and at the very end of the course were two ropes with bells on top.

Most of the student sighed and grunted at the sight, knowing what was coming to them. As if to stress the mood the coach came in blowing his ear deafening whistle to catch the student attention.

"All right everybody!" he began, " As you can see here I've devised a special obstacle course for you to complete. This made the students grunt, "Now, each of you will be going against somebody in your class. As I call your name please line yourselves into two…" He started calling out the names. All the while Kaito had started a conversation with the girls .

"Ugh what a drag I can't believe he'll make us do something like this as a first activity." He told them slumping his shoulders.

"Well it's not as if we didn't see it coming. I mean… they did give us these uniforms for a reason." Miku told Kaito. Before he could say anything his name was called and he lined up for his turn on the course.

The three girls watched as he whizzed through the obstacles, hopping through the tires and jumping over the hurdles seemed easy enough but as he began climbing the wall it was becoming obvious that he was beginning to feel a bit tired.

"Kaito's pretty athletic." Luka uttered turning to Miku

Miku nodded, "Well…he should be. I mean since he's on the basketball team."

"Uh I didn't know that. No wonder he's so good. Her attention returned to Kaito who was now at the top of the wall, preparing to rappel down.

At a time of 4 minutes and 39 seconds, Kaito had the fastest time on the course so far. His shirt had gotten wet with sweat and he wiped his hair with a towel.

"Woah! Kaito that was so good you got the fastest time!" Rin exclaimed

"Thanks! But it wasn't a big deal, this course is pretty easy if you ask me."

While the other three had been chatting, Luka had noticed the coach talk to one of the other students, she had braided blonde hair and seemed really tense, the fact that the coach was talking to her made it seem worse, she kept fidgeting with her fingers and looking down.

Lukas tapped on Rin's shoulder,

"Uh Rin that girl over there…the one coach is talking to…"

"Huh? Oh that's IA. She's a nice girl but not a lot people talk to her."

Luka raised her eyebrow, "Yeah… I've kinda noticed that…but why?"

Rin became thoughtful for a moment thinking of the right choice of words,

"Probably because she's… how should I put it… uhmm…" she placed a hand on her head, "…hard to approach."

"I see."

Luka nodded and turned to IA's direction again, coach was walking away from her now and checking the students. He took his whistle hanging from his neck and blew it catching everyone's attention.

"Okay then next! Luka vs. IA, both of you please take your place on the starting line!"

"Perfect timing!" Luka exclaimed with a smile.

She walked to her spot and waited for IA to take her place, as she got closer Luka examined her from head to toe. Her hair upon close inspection revealed pink highlights and although she kept looking down, Luka noticed her bright blue eyes.

"Okay! On your mark. Ready! Get Se-"

Just then the gym doors opened and a senior came bursting in, "Huff… huff… coach…t-there's somebody here to see you!"

"Huh? Alright I'll be there in a minute, excuse me girls. We'll get started as soon as I get back" he left the gym and followed the senior.

After they had gone out the doors Luka turned back to IA. She was still looking very shy and while the other students had taken this time without a teacher to spark small talk, IA just stood there her eyes glued to the floor.

Luka took a step closer to her, this made IA jump a bit and take a step back.

"U-uh…I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you." Luka explained

"N-no it's…it's okay …" She stopped unsure of what to say next. It made her feel uneasy that someone was talking to her. She gulped hard and tried to open her mouth hoping something would come out.

"Hey, are you alright?" Luka moved closer and bent down to inspect her face.

"H-huh? What?"

"I asked if you're okay? You look kinda pale." IA looked up, her eyes catching a worried looking Luka.

"I…I am fine. T-thanks …"

"Are you sure?"

IA nodded and smiled a bit, "Y-yes."

Luka stood upright, " You sound nervous."

IA looked up at Luka then moved her gaze to the obstacle course before them.

"I-it looks…difficult…"

"It's only difficult if you think that." Luka smiled, "Don't be so nervous, you can accomplish anything if you stay positive. Don't you think?" She winked at IA.

"M-Megurine…chan…." IA muttered.

This made Luka giggle, "Don't be so formal call me Luka, alright?"

"Uh…uh…a-alright." She gulped hard, "I-I'm …You c-can call me IA."

The doors opened and the coach came in, "Okay, let's go everybody! Luka and IA take you positions."

The two girls took their positions ad as soon as the coach blew on his whistle, they went whizzing pass the obstacles. Both girls were doing good at the tires and hurdles but IA found it quite difficult to secure herself to the rope of the rock climbing wall.

Luka was already halfway to the top by the time IA began climbing,

"This is actually harder than it looks." , Luka was panting, she reached the top of the wall and prepared to rappel down. Fixing the rope she checked the hooks and made sure everything was okay. She slid down with ease and unhooked herself from the rope, she looked up and saw IA preparing to rappel down.

"She's faster than I thought.", Luka grabbed the rope to start climbing, but a snap made her look back.

The rope holding IA was breaking but no one seemed to notice amidst of the noise, Luka tried to warn her but before she could get a word out it snapped.

IA was now falling to the gym floor.

Hello fanfiction people!

Sorry I know it's been a while since my I posted the last chapter. I'm sorry if you guys had to wait really long for this. I've just been preoccupied with stuff lately and I haven't been able to write a lot. I'll try my best to post the next chapter as soon as I can, hopefully it will be sooner than this one. So anyway thank you for reading my story, please review it and like I said before I do accept criticism just please no swearing.

- Kitty Vampire11