As Leah was getting her stuff out of her locker, she felt someone pushed her stuff down on the floor.

"Hey!" She proclaimed seeing that it was a group of girls and boys (I don't feel like giving them names, okay?). They all look tough, like they were from different gangs, "Uh.. hi?"

"You da new college student?" One of the gang members asked in a tough deep voice.

"Yeah, I transferred here a month ago," Leah told the guy picking up her books, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be going to lunch." However, the others stopped her by one buy grabbing her by the nec of her collar, "Oi! Let go!"

"Word on the street is that you're from a gang of bandits called Tantalass."

"It's called Tantalus."

"Whatever!"

"What's a grade A bandit like doing in a fancy school like this?" A girl from the group asked Leah.

"I have my reasons. Now, put me down," Leah demanded.

"Oh, I'll put you down," The guy with the deep voice threw Leah against the lockers and leaving her to the ground as they laughed at her.

Then, she stood up and put her stuff down. "Hey!" The woman yelled at the gang who turned around when they were about to walk away. "You wanna know why Tantalus is the grade A group of thieves?"

"Oh? Why?" Another guy with a deep voice asked as Leah ran towards him and tackled him square to the ground.

"'Cause when you mess with the gang, you get your ass kicked!" Then Leah began to punch the guy in the face.

"Hey, let go of our buddy!" A girl with teal hair said grabbing Leah by her arms who angrily bit the girl by her left arm. Making her yell in pain before elbowing Leah in the face.

At lunch, Mai and Mikoto were eating by themselves. Mai then saw Natsuki running through the halls yelling, "Fight! Fight! The new girl is fighting with the Otome gang!"

Most of the people ran to see the fight along with Mai and Mikoto as Mikoto grabbed her sword getting ready to fight.

"She's been here for over a month and she's always getting into fights," Mai sighed.

"She needs help, Mai," Mikoto strictly told her.

"Yeah, I think you might be right, Mikoto. We gotta hurry."

In the hallways, Mai and Mikoto saw a huge crowd of students in Mai and Mikoto were able to get through the crowd and saw Leah fighting against the girl with teal hair, another girl with red hair that's in four pigtails, and another girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. They saw Leah was winning when Natsuki explained to Mai and Mikoto that Leah knocked out three of the guy members of the Otomes. As they continued to watch the fight, their was only the girl with tealed-hair left.

"You think you're so tough 'cause you knocked out all of my gang members. Well, you're wrong, newbie!" The girl with light aqua hair said, "You're messing with Tomoe Marguerite! Leader of the Otomes!"

Leah didn't reply to that but spat out blood from her mouth who felt blood continue to run down from her head and nose before saying, "I don't care who you are." As Tomoe felt Leah punch her square in the face, then kicked her in the ribs, causing Tomoe to fall on her front after spitting out blood unconscious.

Everyone was surprised and shocked at what happened as Leah sat on the ground with a tired look on her face.

"Well, tat was a waist of time," Leah muttered looking down at the Ko-ed girl name Tomoe, "I'm going to get something to eat."

The crowd of people cleared a path for the teen who was about to go to the cafeteria until the crowd saw Tomoe slowly stand up. However, unbeknownst to Leah, Tomoe snuck up behind the dark-eyed woman with a switch knife in her hand who was about to stab Leah with it until she grabbed it by the blade, stopping Tomoe from doing anything else with it.

Unfortunately, the blade of the knife went through the center of Leah's hand.

Blood came out from the severe flesh wound and began hitting the floor as Leah grabbed the switchblade away from Tomoe and looked at the detail. The switchblade was covered in Leah's blood, but it looked a bit old and dime with no shine towards it. The holster of it was dark blue and black as it looked like the switchblade hasn't been used or treated correctly more than a year or two.

"You call this a knife?" Leah said lightly laughing, and pulling the blade out of her hand with a few grunts and murmurs of saying 'ow', "It looks like you haven't polished this switchblade in years. I have a dagger better and sharper than this thing."

Tomoe was now steamed at how the girl was ridiculing her in front of a crowd. She was about to say something when she and Leah saw Shizuru walking their way with a calm looking smile on her face.

"Ara, ara. What's with all the commotion?"

"Hey. You're the tea drinking woman with red eyes," Leah said dropping Tomoe's switchblade. She also saw Tomoe stare at Shizuru with a timid look on her now blushing face.

"G-Good Afternoon, Shizuru Kaichou (President)," She shyly said.

"Good Afternoon, Tomoe-san," Shizuru said looking at what occurred before she came down the hall, "What, pray tell, happened here?"

"Oh. Uh, well, you see..."

"Tomoe's gang decided to jump me," Leah interrupted Tomoe.

"Ara, that sound dreadful. Is this true, Natsuki?" Shizuru asked the brunette.

"Huh? Oh, uh, y-yeah. Tomoe and her gang decided to fight with Leah over here," Natsuki told her with a blushing face.

"Hmm. I see." Shizuru looked again at her surroundings who then closed her eyes and heard the faint sound of something dripping as she opened them and saw blood still dripping out of Leah's hand. "Leah-kun, you're bleeding."

"Oh. Yeah. Don't worry about it, though. It'll heal," Leah said.

"That wound?" Shizuru examines the hand would for a quick minute before calling, "Natsuki." Making the emerald-eyed girl and her friends Mai and Mikoto walk to where the honey-haired girl was standing. "I want you to go with Leah-kun to the nurses office."

"Okay," Natsuki said as the four girls left the fighting area and walked to the nurses office.

Again.

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There, Youko looked at Leah's hand.

"Well, this sucks," Leah told the three girls and the nurse who still didn't let her go to lunch.

"Sorry, kid, but I can't leave you with that kind of injury," Youko said as Leah sighed in understandment.

"Well, it's your own fault for getting into a fight like that," Mai said.

"Whatever. You're not my mom. I can do whatever I want," Leah huffed seeing Youko bandaging it up as best as she could after cleaning her would with rubbing alcohol.

"There. It might take a while for it to heal, and lucky for you, the knife didn't hit any vital veins or nerves, so you'll be fine," Youko said.

"Thanks again. Now, I can eat."

"Are you sure?"

"I'll be fine. Now, please, let me go so I can eat," Leah frustratingly replied walking out of the nurses office and going to lunch.

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Later that same day at the dorms, Leah was still up looking at the moon while polishing her dagger. She felt her right hand not feeling so sore or in pain as she looked at the wound slowly healing.

"As usual," She muttered when she removed the bandages from her severe gash, "I wonder if Nao got enough money tonight? It's getting pretty late." Then she heard the door open to see Nao walk in the room. Leah could tell that the red head was in a good mood which meant that she scored big money. "Hey, Nao."

"Oh, hey, kid. You're still alive," Nao replied with a smirk.

"Very funny," Leah remarked as Nao laid on her bed after stripping down to her bra and underwear.

"I heard you got into a fight with the Otomes."

"Yeah. Tomoe stabbed my hand, but it's getting better," Leah said.

"Whatever you say, kid. I'm just happy that I scored some rich pig into a huge amount of money."

"How much?"

"Around 30 to 50 thousand dollars."

"Nice." Leah laughs while looking at the moon.

"Geez, Kid, you're a walking troublemaking thrill-seeker, you know that?"

"So I've heard from Cloud and the others. And will you stop calling me Kid?"

Nao lightly smiled at that in the dark. "Hmm, nope. I think it suits you."

"Eh, whatever. I'm going to sleep."

"Alright. Night."

"Goodnight, Kid."