Sorry I procrastinated with posting this, so I won't procrastinate in getting to the disclaimer, I own nothing.
Koakov was up at 5, ready to go in his human disguise, but it wouldn't fool anyone yet. General Pai had developed a formula to give their pale skin color, dull their canines and claws, and shrink the ears, the only bad thing: it had to go directly to the blood stream via needle. He sighed holding the needle in his shaking hands. He had to get to work soon, he absolutely couldn't be late, but he couldn't stab himself either.
"Koakov, shouldn't you be leaving for work?" Saeka asked, standing in her pajamas with Zou in her hands in the common area.
"Oh, Saeka, what are you doing up?" he asked, hiding the formula behind his back.
"I was gonna take a shower," she said, "I'm sorry if I interrupted anything."
"No, you aren't," he said with a smile at her, she noticed her hadn't taken the formula yet.
"Sir, are you having trouble with the formula, or did it not work? I'm sorry for prying, I just am curious, for Gran- General Pai."
"I'm sure the formula is fine, and you can call him Grandpa, with me anyway," he said comfortingly.
"Do you need help?" she asked, seeing he was trying to hide the needle behind his back. He blushed and nodded. She smiled a little, and rolled up the Sergeant's sleeve, she tied the upper arm and sterilized the needle and the spot in the crook of his arm where she would inject the serum, she looked at him apologetically and he closed his eyes and let her pop it in and out quickly.
"Aren't you going to do it?" he asked, his eyes still tightly shut, not even feeling the transformation.
She laughed, "It's done," she said and properly disposed of the needle.
"Thanks Sae-chan," he said and gave her a kiss on the cheek, then looked at his watch, "Shit, I have to go," he ran off. She raised her hand to where he had kissed her, he had always done this sort of thing, but lately it had more of an effect on her. She shook her head, he was thirty-two and she was sixteen, it wasn't right.
She looked at Zou, "What am I thinking? How could I think such idiotic thoughts?" she asked him. He responded with a blink, Saeka laughed, set down the snow shrew and injected herself with the formula and got ready to take a shower.
"Saeka?" she heard someone ask.
She turned around, her eyes wide, "Coventry, I-I d-didn't see you there! How long have you been up?" she asked.
"Long enough, why didn't you tell us you and the Sergeant were together?"
"Because we aren't, though if it's left up to General Pai we will be," she said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, well if you'll excuse me I'd like to take a shower," she ran off, leaving Zou in the family room.
"Hey," Recruse said, leaning against the entry way.
"Hey," he responded with a nod at her.
"What's got you so tense?" Recruse asked, she had become incredibly good at sensing emotions.
"Nothing," he said, he didn't want to leak this, he would let Saeka tell the others when they were ready.
"Quit lying," she said, she noticed the slightest change in pitch in his voice, one that no one else would have noticed, but her loss of sight changed her hearing ability. She knew pitch slightly rose when someone was lying, and now she saw color at each pitch, his tone had been purple when he said hello, it changed to lavender when he said nothing was bothering him.
"I'm not," he said, his pitch remaining lavender.
"Coventry, your base color is purple, not lavender," she said, she had explained the color thing to him before.
"Nothing gets by you, huh?" he teased, with a small smile.
"Not very much, come on, your tone got lower, what's bugging you?" she pressed.
"It's not my place to say, Re-Ru," he said, "well, I'm gonna go get ready," he said and returned to his room.
"Recruse, what are you doing out here on your own?" Kota asked.
She had a flash of green, "Sorry, did I startle you?"
"Yeah, just a little," he said, his voice returning to a forest green.
"As for the answer to your question, just thinking, getting ready to shoot-up?"
He rolled his eyes, "If you mean take the formula so I can go to school, yes."
"I'm gonna go get ready," she said and walked off to her room. He quickly "shot-up" and left, passing a fully ready Hibiki who was about to get his dose of the formula. The aliens were all a little anxious because Koakov had assigned them each a school and a person they were to get to know, it was rather nerve-wracking because if they could they were going to kill the mews hardly having to fight seriously at all.
"Today, we have a new student, her name is Jijo Saeka. Jijo-san tell us about yourself, where are you from?" Suzuki-Sensei said looking a notebook, copying down the day's objective while a girl with light brown hair in bunches wearing a headband stood at the front of the class, her head slightly down like she was embarrassed.
"Well, I transferred here from a school in France. My mom wanted me to stay with my grandmother who lives here in Japan, she's sick so that's why I'm here, to help her and get to spend some time with her before she passes away," the girl explained earning several comments, question, and lots of awed expressions.
"Very interesting, you may sit down next to Ottosson-san," he said in a tone that clearly suggested he wasn't really interested, "Ottosson-san, raise your hand," he instructed.
Ana raised her hand and smiled at the new girl, "It's nice to meet you, Jijo-san," she greeted her kindly and then paid attention as the teacher did a roll call. The bell rang and everyone got up, Saeka was a little confused by her schedule and had no idea where her next class was. Ana saw this and smiled at the girl, "Do you need some help finding your next class?" she kindly offered.
"Oui- I mean Hai," she said, correcting herself, "I'm sorry, I'm still learning Japanese, it's abit of a challenge," she apologized.
"Wow, that' really cool, it's no big deal, let me see you schedule and I'll help you out," she looked over the girls agenda and was surprised to see they had most of the same classes, with the exception of P.E and Art.
"Well I can help you out, we have the same classes for most of the day, well, except two classes, but I can help you find the gym, though I have no clue where the art room is," she confessed and the two made their way to Geometry.
Ana made her way back to the café, she had done what she could with the work out, substituting the cardio for what her doctor had recommended for physical therapy. She was nervous, even though she followed the diet to the t, but the exercise wasn't what Ryou had said, not that he would notice one day's worth, but she wouldn't be able to do cardio for a long time.
The day was a relatively easy one, or it would've been if they all didn't have problems, it was indeed slow, for which they were all grateful, but they knew it was because the café was just starting out. At the end of the day everyone had a stunning realization as they shared stories about their days, they all had a new student today, rather peculiar in their minds.
Sorry this one took awhile to get updated.