Minato stared at his two female companions with disinterest; he was a bit pissed off that Yukari forced him to go to school together, not only that but she knocked on his door very early in the morning. He was also annoyed that even though it was so early, the two still had large energy reserves, especially Minako who was really giddy and excited to their first day of school.
"We have to take the monorail to get to school," Yukari explained enthusiastically as she kept on looking out the window of the monorail. "This is my favorite part! It feels as though you're gliding on the sea."
Minako gleefully nodded her head, agreeing with Yukari's sentiments, Minato on the other hand didn't. He didn't really feel anything special looking at the sea while the monorail moved above it; sure it wasn't really that common to build rails over the sea, but that didn't make it special to him.
After a few minutes of traveling through monorail and walking, the trio finally arrived at their destination; Gekkoukan High.
Looking at the school, Minato visibly awed at how enormous and spacious it was, even if the school had a stature among other schools, it was still large, a few acre too big.
Minato was thrown out of his reverie by a sudden push from his back, looking at the source; it was Minako who seemed annoyed at his daydreaming which delayed their tour. He half-assedly apologized and followed Yukari towards the school.
Arriving inside, Yukari looked towards the 'not-so' twins and asked,
"You guys ok here, right?" The two replied by nodding their heads, and Yukari continued. "You should see your homeroom teachers first. The faculty office is right there on the left."
Yukari pointed towards the hallway on their right, opposite of the stairs on their left, she then energetically clapped her hands and said, "And that concludes the tour. Do you guys have any questions before I go?"
Her instructions were very clear, so both of them didn't have any questions. But before she left, Yukari stepped closer to the two.
"Hey…" She whispered at the two, carefully looking at the other students. "About last night… Don't tell anyone about what you guys saw, okay?"
Minato realized that she was talking about the incident, when they had arrived at the dorm last night. He wasn't going to tell anyone about it, even if he did, no one would believe a farfetched story like that, and from a transfer student none the less. People would just think he had a chuunibyou or was crazy, so he just nodded his head.
After saying goodbye, Yukari went off her way to the other side of the hall, towards the bulletin board which had a bunch of students examining it. Minato was going to survey his school a bit, checking where the restrooms or the cafeteria were, but Minako suddenly held his hand and dragged him to the hallway on their left.
"Come on, slowpoke!" Minako yelled as she continued to drag Minato. Again, Minato was amazed by how easily he was being dragged by this girl.
"Quit dragging me around!" Minato annoyedly yelled as he felt agitated that Minako holding his hand; he was too keen to people invading his personal space.
"Then quit being a slowbro and pick the pace!" Minako yelled back as she continued to pull the bluenette.
'This girl is going to be the death of me…' Minato mentally sighed, feeling exhausted by being pushed around by this tomboy. Though, he was a bit relieved that someone was at least interacting with him. His previous classmates would start avoiding him when they see his brash and cold personality first hand, but Minako was different, she still stayed even with that; he felt a bit happy to know that she wasn't fake like other people. 'Though, I'll be first caught dead before I admit that.'
After a few seconds, they arrived in front of the faculty office. Stepping inside, the duo saw that there were almost no teachers inside, except for a lone female teacher who was dressed in a light pink attire and had short light brown hair.
"Oh, are you two the new students?" The teacher asked, surprised by their sudden entrance. "Minato Arisato and… Minako Arisato? Are you two twins?"
"No, we aren't related at all." Minato answered simply.
"Oh, sorry…" The teacher apologized; feeling a bit embarrassed by her question, but composed herself after a second. "Both eleventh grade, correct?"
The two nodded their heads in reply as the teacher flipped through both their files.
"Wow, you've both lived in a lot of different places, and again, in the same place as the other." The teacher commented, feeling that it was a bit too much of a coincidence. "Are you sure you guys aren't related at all, maybe distant cousins or something like that?"
Minato exasperatedly shook his head, while Minako answered with a simple 'No'.
"Alright anyways…" The teacher decided to drop the subject and continued reading their files. "In 1999, that was what, ten years ago? Both your parents…"
The teacher gasped as she read the accident that Minato's parents were in, but he was surprised to know that Minako lost her parents the same way and in the same year as his, maybe it could have been the same day and place as his too, he just couldn't remember if that was the case.
"I'm sorry…" The teacher apologized as she bowed a bit for her carelessness. "I've been busy, I Didn't have time to read these beforehand."
As he looked at her, Minako just smiled at the teacher and said that it was alright, but Minato could see the tinge of sadness inside her eyes; he respected Minako for that. If he was alone, he would have glared at the teacher for even mentioning it, but stopped himself after seeing Minako so strong even after being reminded of something so painful.
"I'm Ms. Toriumi…" The teacher introduced herself as she tried to segway the topic away from before, which was appreciated by both of the students. "I teach Composition. Welcome to our school."
Minato was still a bite sore about being reminded of the incident, so he settled for a simple nod.
Minako on the other hand tried being polite, she bowed and said, "Pleased to meet you."
The teacher was surprised by her sudden tact and happily said, "My, aren't you polite. Girls like you should be an example for others."
Minato mentally scoffed as he reminded himself what this girl's attitude was when with him. 'She should be how NOT to be a good student.'
"Have you seen the classroom assignments yet?" Toriumi asked. When the two shook their heads, she answered with, "You both are in 2-F; that's my class. But first, we need to go the auditorium. The Welcoming Ceremony will be starting soon. Follow me."
The teacher got up and marched out the door, with Minato and Minako in tow.
Minato thought that he was fortunate enough to not leave his trusty music player anywhere away from his person, or else he would have suffered the same fate as the other students inside the auditorium; listening to the principal's speech.
The principal liked to ramble on about certain things while using proverbs and difficult words to make himself seem intelligent, but that just made him boring to listen to.
As Minato was deep in his music session, someone tapped his shoulders. Taking off his headphones and looking at the source, it was a male student behind his seat.
"Hey, you're the transfer student who came to school with Yukari and the female transfer student, right?" The student asked. "I saw you three walking together."
"Yeah, what's it to you?" Minato said with a hint of aggression; he knew exactly what this guy wanted, either info on them or to threaten him to stay away from them. Minato started on the offense to show that he wasn't much of a pushover to easily threaten.
"Hey, I have a question…" The student said, oblivious to Minato's vicious glare. "Do you know if either of them have a boyfriend?"
Minato was right on the mark; the student wanted info on them. Even if the mentioned girls were annoying to him, he wasn't just going to spread their info to others, and also, he didn't know if they were single or not.
"I don't know, why don't you ask them yourself?"
"Oh, I see…" The student replied, disappointed that he didn't get his questions answered. "I thought you might know, but…"
"I hear talking!" A strict old teacher angrily said, cutting the student off as he stiffened. "I believe it's from Ms. Toriumi's class."
Ms. Toriumi then scolded Minato and the student behind him, feeling annoyed that she was snitched by the old teacher. Minato was annoyed as well, he heard other students talking and they weren't being reprimanded or scolded. He just shrugged it off and drowned out the rest of the speech by putting on his headphones again.
Classes were fairly normal for Minato. After he and Minako introduced themselves, regular classes kicked in. Minato sat behind Yukari and in front of Minako, making his other male classmates green with envy.
Almost every lessons were easy for Minato, he either already studied it himself a while back or he grasped the concept fairly easily. Because of the lack of things new interesting topics, for the remainder of the day, he slept the classes away.
After a few hours, Minato was awoken by something prodding him repeatedly. Looking at the finger it belonged to, he saw an annoyed red head who was glaring at him.
"Hey! This is a school, not your personal sleeping area!" Minako scolded him angrily, making Minato wish that he was still asleep.
"Sup, dudes?" A student said behind them, stopping Minako from her rant. The student was wearing a cap with three interjecting circles in the middle. "You two having a sibling quarrel here?"
"Who are you?"
"What do you want? And I'm not related to this tomboy."
Minako and Minato asked respectively, the latter feeling tired of another person mistaking them of being related.
"Woah, one at a time…" Junpei said jokingly, grinning at the two. "I'm Junpei Iori, nice to meet you two. I transferred here when I was in eighth grade. I know how tough it is bein' the new kid, so wanted to say, 'hey'."
The two blankly looked at Junpei, surprised by his friendly introduction. Minako then took his hands and shook it, saying,
"Nice to meet you too! I'm Minako Arisato, but you already know that by my introduction!"
Minato looked at Junpei and thought that he was just being friendly so that he could talk with Minako; he looked like those types who would miserably woo the opposite gender even if they clearly don't see them as prospect.
While Junpei was busy being flustered by Minako's introduction, they heard a sigh from behind them, which was Yukari looking annoyed.
"At it again, huh?" Yukari commented, as she gave Junpei a tired look. "Honestly, is there any girl you wouldn't hit on? Did you ever think you might be bothering someone?"
"What? But I was just bein' friendly!" Junpei retorted as he tried to look all offended.
"If you say so…" Yukari said, not believing Junpei at all. She then decided to ignore him and talk Minato and Minako. "Anyway, some coincidence that we'd be in the same homeroom, huh?"
"Yeah, I know!" Minako energetically replied.
Minato replied by shrugging his shoulders, not really into the conversation.
"Funny, huh?" Yukari said, giggling a bit.
"Um, hello? Did you guys forget that I'm in this calls too? C'mon let me in on the fun." Junpei interjected, feeling a bit left out as he still looked a bit offended, and then he looked at Minato with a grind and wrapped his arms around his shoulders. "By the way, I heard you three came to school together this morning. Dude you building a harem or what?"
"W-What are you talking about?!" Minako and Yukari said, surprised by his statement.
"Personal space, don't invade it…" Minato said annoyedly, giving Junpei a glare, which made him remove his arm off Minato's shoulders. "Also, the three of us just live in the same dorm; I have no affiliation with any of these two."
"Y-Yeah, that's right!" Yukari hastily said, agreeing with some of Minato's sentiments. "Why are people even talking about it?! Now you have me worried…"
After that, Yukari suddenly whispered something to the 'not-so' twins.
"Hey, you didn't say anything to anyone about last night, did you?"
Unfortunately for Yukari, her voice was still loud enough for Junpei to hear. The two realized this and just gave Yukari a stare that said 'Really? You talked about it now?'
"W-What?" Yukari said, confused by the look the two were giving her, looking at Junpei she gasped at the realization.
"L-Last night?" Junpei stuttered, not believing what he was hearing. His face changed from surprised to envious. "Dude you liar! No affiliation my ass! You had a threesome with them, did you?!"
"W-Wait a minute!" Yukari hastily cut Junpei off, frantically waving her hands as she tried to get Junpei's attention. "Don't get the wrong idea! We just met yesterday, and there's nothing between us!"
Yukari sighed as she felt drained from the conversation, "I gotta go. I've got something to take care of for the archery team. But, you better not start any rumors!"
Before she left, Yukari gave Junpei a death glare, making Junpei gulp and tremble in fear.
"Ah I was just joking around…" Junpei sighed as Yukari left the classroom, shaking his head in frustration. "She's so paranoid…"
"Well, you we're being a total dick back there,"Minako said as crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks. "I mean, have a little decency around girls next time, huh?"
"Yeah, ok, sure… I'm sorry bout' that," Junpei apologized as he scratched his head in embarrassment. After a few seconds, after seeing Minako smile a bit at his apology, he grinned at the two. "Anyways, it's your first day here and people are already talking about you guys! This is going to be a fun year, I can feel it!"