now just to state the obvious: it's a new chapter.

And I finally have something about Ryoma. not much but it's a start.

Well hope you'll like it^^


"What is happening?" Atobe said in the calmest possible way.

Oshitari looked amused. "I think we're in the mirror world." He had been there before. "Which means Yagyuu is doing something."

Atobe never really understood Yagyuu's talent because it was such a rare one.

"I was always impressed by the few rarer talents. You as well right Atobe?"

Atobe would never admit he wanted a rare gift. He had one of the more common gifts, he could however use it exceptionally good.

Seaki, Yagyuu, Niou, Shiraishi, and Tachibana had rare talents. They were pretty nasty to have against you.

"So what means this?"

"Being trapped in the mirror world?"Oshitari asked. "Well that depends how far and how long you're in there."

"Meaning."

"Remember last year. When we had the finals against Rikkaidai."

Of course Atobe remembered. Oshitari and Choutarou had been trapped in the mirror world for almost half an hour and when they came out they were in a daze for almost a day and after that they kept reacting weird for almost a week.

Atobe remembered that was a little after he got Rikkaidai's hate directed towards him, when he had forced Kirihara to help him hurt Yukimura.

Oshitari knew all gifts of everyone in the school. He knew which people he had to be careful around and he knew which people didn't mean a thing. He also knew their motives and so he knew that they were probably doomed.

Atobe looked down. "What's happening?" He said his voice slightly panicked.

Oshitari looked up. "One of the things about the mirror world is that it turns around your emotions. So when you're feeling brave it turns in to fear. You weren't scared?"

Atobe didn't reply.

"If you know this you can usually keep it away for some time." He didn't tell Atobe about the other things this mirror world held, it could wait.


Kirihara looked at Atobe with mild interest. He was still new in this school and he knew no one.

"It isn't that hard. All you have to do is read his mind and tell me if he thinks of something interesting."

"But his mind is boring." Kirihara whined. "I don't understand any of it."

Atobe smirked. Right now he was the only one in the school who knew Kirihara's gift.

"What did he do anyway?"

"He mocked Ore-sama's authority."

"Tch." Kirihara looked up.

"You've done this sort of things before right?" Atobe asked raising an eyebrow.

"Off course." Kirihara said.

Atobe had only got Kirihara because he won't stand out and was a professional.

Kirihara had earned money by invading thoughts and selling them. "Well I take it I'm in his group then."

"Of course. Ore-sama took care of that. You have to invade the thoughts of Yukimura Seiichi the bluenette."

"Sure."Kirihara said uncaring.


"You okay brat?"

"I'm fine Niou-sempai."

"Have you trapped them in the mirror world?" Tachibana asked.

"Yes." Yagyuu replied. "I'll release them in a bit."

Kirihara shivered. "I pity them."

"You do?" Yagyuu asked surprised.

"No." Kirihara now smirked. "It's just that I wouldn't want to be there in their place."

"No one would."

"Kuranosuke." Tachibana said surprised.

"Why didn't you ask for my help?"

Kirihara felt completely out of place. He knew for one that all these people could be extremely scary when wanted.

"Because it's Ann who'll suffer when I make a mistake."

Shiraishi smirked. "So little trust in your friends?"

"We should get out of here." Yagyuu suddenly said.

"Why?"

"Because if people are trapped in the mirror world for a long amount of time the world will grow and absorb things around the place it was released." Yagyuu answered. "I can keep it in this room for about a hour."

"You didn't plan to trap them for more than 15 minutes right?"


"So what're you going to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're just doing what Atobe asks of you?"

"What do you know? You know nothing stupid brat."

"Tch."

"Ryoma?" Yukimura looked surprised. "Ah you must be my new roommate. I'm Yukimura seiichi. You must be Kirihara Akaya."

Kirihara smirked. "I am."

"Nice to meet you."

"Yes." Kirihara replied.

Yukimura looked at Ryoma.

Ryoma immediatly understood the look and smirked. "Nothing gets past you."

"Of course not." Yukimura replied.


Fuji looked at the ceiling dazed.

Kenya had asked everyone to leave when he told Fuji about his feelings.

Fuji looked at the ceiling and wondered what he would do now. His ever wandering thoughts came back when someone knocked on the door. "Come in." He didn't even bother to look up to see who it was.

"Are you going to confess?"

"Ryoma." Fuji said softly. "I don't think I can."

"Why not?" Ryoma said.

"I might've unconsciously thought that it was a cupid's doing." Fuji sighed. "It's different to know I'm actually in love."

Ryoma rolled his eyes. "I don't see the problem."

"Ever been in love?"

Ryoma didn't reply for a while. "Yes."

"Did you tell that person?"

"No."

"Isn't that the same?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"That boy hurt my parents."

Fuji was somewhat happy to hear Ryoma liked boys. It took a while before the actual message sunk in. "Who was it? What did he do?"

"Tch." Ryoma turned away. "Get over your childish fears and just confess."


"Are you okay?"

"Yes I'm fine."

Yukimura examined the scratch on Kirihara's arm. "How did it happen?"

"Taki."

"Ah, he controls plants if I remember right."

"What sort of plant was it?" Yukimura asked.

"How am I supposed to know?" Kirihara spat. "I don't know anything bout plants. All I know is that it was purple and had thorns."

Yukimura looked surprised. "Marui, can you get Ooishi for me?"

"Sure." Marui said while focussing on a random point in the air where not much later Ooishi appeared.

"What am I doing here?" Ooishi asked surprised. But he didn't jump like any normal person would do. He had been long enough in this school to understand how everything worked.

"Can you heal Kirihara. I think he's poisoned." Yukimura said.

"What?" Kirihara asked surprised. "I don't feel anything."

"The plant is purple!" Marui said annoyed. "I've never seen a purple plant that wasn't poisonous."

"I've never seen a purple plant." Jackel said in a pretty toneless voice.

"They're ugly." Kirihara said annoyed.


"Yukimura-san. We have to write a report about how fear influences you gift."

"Is that so?"

"Do you know how it works? I tried looking for books but I can't find anything."

"You looked in the library?" Yukimura asked surprised.

"Yes."

"Well. For as far as I heard fear can cause a gift to backfire. So for example if you're fire master you can actually accidently burn yourself with the fire."

"Really?"

"Well yes. But I'm not quite sure how it works." Yukimura seemed to think. "I believe I once heard about a Surfer who drowned himself. And a priest who summoned a spirit that killed him. I even heard that the firemaster burned his own wings and he crashed to the ground from I don't even know how high."

"Really?" Kirihara asked surprised. Now he understood why he could get paid so much for his gift.

"Yes."

Kirihara searched through Yukimura's thoughts searching for a fear.

"Kirihara-kun, do you like this school?"

Kirihara looked surprised. "What do you mean?"

"Atobe is just using you to get revenge on me."

"How..?"

"I heard Ryoma talk to you." Yukimura sighed. "Kirihara you don't have to."

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! YOU'RE A PRINCE! YOU ALWAYS GOT EVRYTHING YOU WANTED! YOUR LIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PERFECT. YOU DON'T KNOW."

"I know. I understand. I'm not sure what Atobe promised you but I understand that it probably seems best to just do as he asks. There're always different options."

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"Kirihara said not even bothering to read Yukimura's mind. "YOU SHOULD JUST GO ROT AWAY IN HELL!" Then the entire scene changed for Kirihara. What was light before was dark now, he couldn't use his talent. Frightened he looked around. He felt terrified his first time in the mirror world.Ryoma looked bored at the walls of the building. He hated it here and he hated everything about this place. That was until Tezuka came. He owed Tezuka yet he couldn't do anything to help him. He was still impressed that Fuji dared to risk his life for someone he barely even knew at that point. He admired Fuji in a way. He might've also liked Fuji in a way but he promised himself to not fall in love again. Not after the first time. Not after how it ended all messed up. Not how he got here in the first place. He thought about Fuji and how even though Fuji had almost created a war he at least made this school a somewhat pleasant place.


Fuji had just found a problem a just fought it head on.

Ryoma smiled. He admired that. He felt strangely happy when thinking about Fuji.

A strange happy feeling washed over him when his boyfriend handed him a towel after their dual.

"Do you want ice cream?"

"Thought you would never buy an ice cream?"

"Think fast."

Ryoma had never felt as happy. He had never imagined it would be his downfall.


Atobe fell to the ground. "How? Why?" He was on the verge of tears.

Oshitari knew it was an effect of the mirror world but it still surprised him.

Taki was fine because he was afraid at first so he acted all brave now.

Kabaji was strange enough unaffected.

"How stays Kabaji unaffected?" Oshitari asked amazed.

"He isn't." Gakuto said. "He's just hiding it. He always did and he will do so in the mirror world as well." Gakuto who had also been afraid at first was unexpectedly calm. He had been curious at first and was now completely uninterested about everything around him.

Hiyoshi was also cowering in fear.

Jirou was wide awake and that was frightening. He had been calm and sleeping when he entered the world which means he was now awake and frightened. He was sobbing.

Oshitari looked suddenly at Jirou. "Why are you awake?"

"Isn't that part of the mirror world?" Gakuto asked bored.

"Yes."Oshitari said. "But first it's only the emotions. It takes a while before your actions actually change." He was worried for a second before the mirror world also took that emotion away.


"Shouldn't you let them go?" Sanada asked.

Yagyuu looked up from his book. "I should." He focussed and released his spell. He blinked sleepily. "I'm going to sleep."

Niou sighed. "I'll stay with you or you might get in trouble with Atobe."

"Thanks." Yagyuu said with a yawn. He felt completely drained trapping so many people in the mirror world.


"Ryoma."

"Hn?"

"Have you found a solution yet?"

"No."

"Can't Akaya help you?"

"No. Atobe doesn't know so it isn't an option."

"And Senri?"

"No thank you." Ryoma said annoyed. "I already have a hard enough time to keep him out my past."

"Doesn't he know?"

"I don't know." Ryoma shrugged. "Maybe he does. He just never told anyone."

"Marui?"

"Won't work. His powers are still limited."

Fuji sighed a bit lost. "I don't know. But there must be a way to figure it out."

"Yes for me to do what Atobe asks of me."

"You won't?"

"No. It'll start a new war. That and my secret will leak and that makes it all the more difficult."


Atobe was slightly dazed his body reacted opposite to how he felt.

Oshitari told that that are the side effects of being trapped in the mirror world. Oshitari had learned to deal with it. He had practice after all. He had read a lot about the mirror world after being trapped there. He had learned some things to keep you sane for a certain period of time. He read people actually got out completely crazy if they were stuck in there more than a day. Your whole body got messed up. Your feelings didn't match you actions, your actions didn't match your thoughts, your feelings didn't match the feeling you're supposed to have, your feelings change pretty much none stop. That and things are changing all the time and it's almost completely opposite form the real world. That and you couldn't use your gift or contact your Angel. Well at least you didn't lose your mind slowly, it happened fast very fast.


Well I hope you liked it. I liked it^^ please review and tell me what you think about it^^