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So take my hand; Come on let's fly- Falling

"I'm fine Mana, please stop fussing" sighed a very annoyed Kisara as her friend prodded and peered at the red mark on her friends face, indicating the impact of a hand across the girl's left cheek. Kisara pushed Mana's finger away from her face gently and moved from the ground to her bed.

"Why does all the bad stuff happen to you?" Mana whined sitting next to her friend on the bed and placing a comforting hand around her waist "When's it my turn to get some action, Dammit?" Mana finished, flashing a grin at her friend in an attempt to get the smaller girl to laugh, successfully. Kisara let out a small giggle and sighed, leaning her head on her best friend's shoulder.

"Sara, I did come here for another reason" Mana started suddenly, breaking the silence that had fallen over the duo as they sat together. Kisara blinked wearily before answering the girl with a questioning "Mmm?" Her friend shifted, feeling slightly uncomfortable with what she had to say next, causing Kisara to lift her head off of her friend's shoulder and looking into her eyes inquisitively.

"It's about the, err, the 'Dark'" Mana said awkwardly, fiddling with her shirt. Kisara recoiled slightly, taken aback by the mention of the elusive group. The 'dark' was a group of repulsive and treacherous beings that lurked in the shadows. They were commonly humans with the ability to use magic and summon their Ka from the recesses of their souls. Kisara had not come in contact with the dark for a long time and the thought of having to fight them once again was a terror that she had not realised was still present in her mind.

"The academy, they want you back so that they-" "No" Kisara cut her off with her blunt answer, looking at the girl, seriousness written clearly in her deep sapphire irises, "No, I will not fight them, I will not be used as a tool" Kisara concluded folding her arms defensively over her chest. Mana held her best friend's hands and pleaded, "Please Kisara, it's a matter of life and death here, not to mention the fate of all of us."

Kisara sighed and pulled her hands away from Mana's staring out at the window where her friend had emerged a few hours ago. "Mana I... I don't want to go back to the way things used to be, I mean, call me crazy but... I'm having a better life here than I ever did at the Academy and besides, I haven't used my magic or released Blue-Eyes in a long time, I'm basically useless..." she trailed off and stared out the window, breathing calmly.

Mana dropped her eyes and sighed at her friend, who had clearly spaced out. "Think about it, please? We need you, Kisara." Mana sighed.

When Kisara turned to her friend she had disappeared, leaving Kisara to get changed for bed. With her PJ's on she began to brush her hair in the mirror, combing the long light gold locks and staring intently at her reflection. Kisara, this isn't you she thought to herself, tossing the brush aside and tying her hair back into a ponytail.

Kisara woke the next morning to the sound of buzzing on her alarm clock, indicating that it was 7:00 in the morning and requesting in digital code that she'd better hurry up and start getting ready for school. She snapped her hand down on top of the annoying machine and sat up, rubbing the tiredness out of her eyes and tossing the doona off of her legs.

She trudged out to the kitchen and grabbed a piece of bread, smearing strawberry jaw on top and biting into it, tasting the sweetness of the jam touch her tongue. It felt strangely refreshing and new, contrasting greatly to the bitterness of my everyday life she thought to herself, smirking at the poetic line.

She walked to school slowly, getting out of the house at 7:30 gave her plenty of time to enjoy the scenery on the way to school. She barely noticed the approach of two girls on either side of her body, who stayed silent as they flanked her until Kisara snapped her head up to look annoyed at the two girls.

"We-we recognised you from class! You're name is... Eve Tatsumi, right?" The taller girl clarified. She was pretty, with hazelnut brown hair that framed her face and hung to shoulder height. Her eyes were blue, lighter than Kisara's but welcoming. In fact this girl reminded Kisara a lot of Mana...

"Miho wants to talk to Eve too!" protested the girl from the other side. This girl stood at the same height as her friend with blue locks that cascaded down her body to her waist. Kisara attempted to shrug off her new acquaintances. "Wait, wait, wait!" the hazelnut haired girl cried out, grabbing Kisara's arm gently "We haven't formally met. My name is Anzu Mizaki and this is..." Her friend jumped on Anzu's arm, glee filling the girl's chocolate brown irises "Miho Nosaka! We're in the same drama class!"

Miho extended a hand toward Kisara, who simply stared at the gesture until Miho's hand disappeared from her line of vision. "Pleased to have met you, now if you'll excuse me..." Kisara sidestepped the two girls and continued to walk off into the distance, leaving Miho and Anzu to exchange a look of both perplexed and concerned natures.

Kisara walked into her homeroom class and threw her black bag to the floor and sat at her desk, turning to see if Kaiba had bothered to show up yet. Finding his seat empty, she turned back to the front of the class to see the teacher walk into the room, an excited grin on her face.

"Everyone, attention please!" the teacher called loudly, stopping students playing card duels and last-minute homework. "We have a student from Osaka Sentaku Wado Acedamy here observing this class for a week, please make her feel welcome"

All eyes turned to the student that walked into the door, and the minute she did, Kisara's head hit the desk with a barely audible "bang"

Because the girl who had walked in, wearing her black school blazer and dark blue skirt, was Mana.