Minato and Minako were walking towards the dorm, on their way there Minako started to talk about the blunette's good deed a few hours ago, which he didn't really want to talk about.

A while ago, during class, Ms. Toriumi was ranting about how she would rather teach about Utsubo Kobota. She praised his talents in singing and the world of literature; which was the reason Ms. Toriumi was enamored to the man.

As she talked about teaching it to her students tomorrow, she saw Junpei looking out the window with a bored expression on his face. The short haired teacher got furious and yelled at the capped student, making him flinch. As punishment, she asked Junpei what was the name of the person she liked the most in the field of literature.

Junpei paled at the sudden question and hastily scanned the classroom to find someone to help him out. What he saw was a general consensus which said that his classmates didn't care about him or wanted him to fail. Minako was one of those fellow classmates, just giving him an amused look and a cute giggle. He then looked to his last resort, his last hope of not making a fool of himself; Minato Arisato.

Feeling a sudden gaze on his person, Minato looked at Junpei with a blank and bored stare. He knew instantly what he wanted when he saw the gaze Junpei was giving him. Fortunately for Junpei, Minato was listening to Ms. Toriumi during her rant, but unfortunately for him, Minato wasn't in a generous mood.

The two started to have a conversation, using just their eyes; Junpei was the first one to speak.

'Dude, you gotta help me on this!'

'No.'

'What?! You would intentionally leave a brother behind on the battlefield?!'

'Yes.'

'Please you gotta help me! I'll be at your beck and call for a week if you help me.'

Instead of giving him a response, Minato gave him another blank stare, but inside he was a bit surprised. He didn't think that Junpei would be this concerned about the teacher asking him a simple question.

After thinking about it for a few nanoseconds, Minato sighed and mouthed the answer to Junpei, much to the relief of the capped student.

"I'm so proud of my 'Twin'," Minako said in a teasing tone, poking fun at the blunette, much to his annoyance. "Finally dropping his cold façade, and being the good person that he is."

"I only did it so he would stop annoying me for the answer…" Minato said, giving the red head a slight glare.

"Yeah, like that did anything," Minako snickered, poking Minato's side, which made him flinch a bit. "Not only is he going to come for you again next time, but you've also made yourself quite a name because of that. Our other classmates are gossiping about you, saying things like how smart and kind you are."

Instead of replying, Minato clicked his tongue; he knew that Minako was right, he heard his other classmates whispering about it just after giving Junpei the answer. He didn't want to be in the center of attention; he wanted to be away from it as much as possible. He needed to lie low for a bit, maybe sleep through class for the next week straight.

After a few minutes of walking and constant bickering and teasing, the latter most being done by Minako, the 'not-so twins' arrived in front of the dorm. Upon their entrance, Minato saw an unfamiliar man talking with Yukari in the lounge. The man looked sophisticated with his glasses, black turtle neck shirt and brown coat. The man also had very long brown hair and a scar on the side of right side of his forehead.

"Oh, they're back." Yukari said when she heard the two enter.

"So, this is our new guests…" The sophisticated man said as he carefully examined the two.

Seeing as it was their cue, the two sat on the opposite sofa from Yukari and the man. Minato looked at the man with the same scrutiny as the man gave them. From the way he talked, Minato thought that the man was either a school official or the dorm's supervisor.

"Good evening." The man said as he gave the two a smile, which Minato thought seemed a bit creepy. "My name is Shuji Ikutsuki. I'm the Chairman of the board for your school. 'Ikutsuki'… Hard to say isn't it? That's why I don't like introducing myself. Even I get tongue-tied sometimes…"

Instead of smiling at his obvious way of lightening up the mood, the two just looked at him with a bored expression. Minato thought that his comment wasn't very necessary and just seemed out of place for a person with such a stature.

"I apologize for about the confusion regarding your accommodations." Ikutsuki stated looking at the two with a somewhat serious expression. "However, it may take a while longer before you receive the proper room assignments."

Again, Minato was annoyed that he was promised stay here from the start and was going to move again in a few days or weeks. Why send a flyer saying that he would be staying at a specific dorm when he would just move to another one after a few days? Minato thought that the school wasn't really handling their transfer papers well.

'So much for a prestigious school.' Minato said to himself.

Looking at Minako, he saw that she too was a bit furious about the room assignments. She was looking at Ikutsuki with draggers in her eyes, glaring at the man.

"Is there anything you'd like to ask?" Ikutsuki said, oblivious to Minako's death stare.

Minato simply said no, while Minako shook her head, albeit a bit stiffly. She was making her contempt obvious, but the man simply ignored it or didn't know of her frustrations.

"Then, I hope you have a successful school year." The chairman commented, giving them another creepy smile. "Now if you'll excuse me… You two should be tired from all the excitement; you should go to bed early."

"As they say, 'The early bird catches the bookworm'!" The chairman joked, chuckling a bit to himself, clearly amused by his own joke.

"You guys will get used to his lame jokes…" Yukari said as she sighed, feeling ashamed that their chairman's behavior.

After their talk, Minato and Minako said their farewells and went straight for their rooms. Reaching the second floor, Minato started to walk towards his room, but he instantly stopped when he heard Minako whisper something in his ear.

"Whatever you do, don't trust him fully…" Minato turned around to face the red head, but he saw that she was already halfway up the stairs.

He scratched the back of his head, confused by what Minako said. Yes, the gentleman was a pretty odd person, more so since he was the chairman for their school, but he didn't sense any hostility or anything to say that he was bad person. He was then reminded of the scar on Ikutsuki's left forehead.

'Maybe her chuunibyou's acting up again…' Minato sighed as he decided to keep Minako's advice with a pinch of salt.

"…Master…" Minato heard in his sleepy state, the voice rousing him from his sleep. "Master Minato Arisato…"

Opening his eyes, he saw that he wasn't peacefully tucked inside his bed, nor was he inside his room. All around him was darkness, nothing insight except for a lone blue door. Seeing that this was his only way out, he opened the door.

On the other side of the door lay an elevator like room, except this room was spacious and large. Inside it was a mysterious old gentleman with a peculiar long nose. The long nosed man was seating in front of a table and a chair opposite of him and the table.

Walking towards the table, the long nosed man gestured for him to sit on the chair. Oddly enough, Minato felt at peace inside the room and in the presence of the long nosed man, so he sat on the chair.

"Welcome to the Velvet room," The long nosed man said in strange tone and accent. "My name is Igor, I am delighted to make your acquaintance."

'Velvet room, huh…' Minato thought as he examined the room. 'It suits the place well, what with this lavish amount of blue.'

"This place exists, between dream and reality, mind and matter…" Igor explained as a piece of paper magically formed itself on the table. "Only those who have signed the contract can enter this place. Henceforth, you shall be welcomed here in the velvet room."

'Wait, does that mean that Minako has entered this place before?' Minato asked himself, remembering that Minako already had a contract like his before he even signed his. Before he could ask this question to Igor, he had already begun talking.

"You are destined to hone your unique ability, and you will require my help to do so. I only ask one thing in return…" Igor said, still talking in that sophisticated and strange accent. "That you abide by the contract, and assume responsibility for the choices you make."

'Does he mean that I don't regret my actions and stand by them?' Minato asked himself, reading the contract one more time. 'If so, then that's pretty easy. Though, there's something I want to know…'

"Is this a dream?" Minato asked, wanting confirmation on his current status.

"Precisely… You are fast asleep in the real world as we speak. This visit of yours is merely a dream," Igor answered. "However, you will come here of your accord sooner or later."

"Hold on to this…" Igor said as he gave Minato a fancy blue key that somewhat glowed a bit. "There's one more resident of this room, who unfortunately could not be present for your arrival. But I'll make sure you two are properly introduced. Another time, perhaps. 'Till we meet again…"

Minato still had more questions for the long nosed man; how was he ever going to enter this place again if this was only a dream? What was the purpose of the contract? What ability he was talking about? And did he saw a rude red headed girl before?

But before he could have his questions answered, his vision started getting blurry and his eyes felt quite heavy. Before he knew it, Minato feel asleep again.

Waking up from the chirping of the birds behind his window, Minato slowly sat up from his bed and recollected his thoughts. He feels that he had a peculiar odd dream last night; he could only remember it faintly, bits and pieces. All remembered was a strange blue elevator room and a strange long nosed man. Shrugging it off a mere odd dream, Minato started to prepare for school.

After school, Minato was reminded of his bad decision of helping out Junpei yesterday; he was dragged by the capped student off to a nearby mall known as Paulownia Mall. Even though he wasn't being forcefully dragged around like with Minako, he was still irked that someone was dragging him around again.

"Whenever I hang out with the guys from school, we usually ended up here." Junpei said as they started to walk around the mall.

The mall was pretty small, only having one floor and a few shops in it. The only thing that stands out inside the mall was the three fountains; two on each side a large one in the middle which had a few benches around it.

"There's a karaoke box, an arcade, and oh, this is where you come to rent out CDs, too." Junpei said as he pointed to each and every establishment inside the mall. "Then there's that club over there, but of course I haven't seen the inside…"

Even though the place was pretty small and only had a few shops, it was still buzzing with students enjoying their after school time. Minato decided that he would peruse the place a bit more in the future.

After his little detour at the mall with Junpei, Minato got back to the dorm with Minako after bumping into her at the station. Apparently, they weren't the only ones to go at the mall; Yukari showed Minako around too. Though, he was surprised that he didn't catch either of them when he was there.

Inside the dorm, the two saw Yukari, who had left early, and Mitusuru, who was sitting near the window behind the front desk.

"Welcome back." Mitsuru greeted the two as they entered the dorm, she looked out the window admired the full moon. "The moon is beautiful tonight. It might be nice to read a book by moonlight once in a while."

Minato appreciated Mitsuru for her elegance; he thought that maybe she was brought up by a wealthy and influential family. Though, he was still a bit wary of her previous actions, the night he and Minako first entered the dorm.

Minato politely nodded at his Senpai and left to go back to his room. Minako had the same idea as she followed Minato up the stairs. Much like last night, before he could turn the corner to the hallway, he heard Minako whispered something again.

"I hope you're not a heavy sleeper, something is going to happen tonight..."

This time he didn't bother turning around to face Minako, he knew that she was going to be already up the stairs, so he just started walking towards his room for some well deserved rest.