Date: 4/11
Location: Leblanc, Yongen
I was glad not to of woken up in the Velvet Room, but waking up in Leblanc was still strange. 'Ugh. I wish I didn't have to get up soon.' I crack an eye to see that it's still night, reaching for my phone to check the time, I didn't realize that I was on the edge of my bed. 'Where are you phone…. quilt save me'
With a thud, I laid there for a few moments, wrapped up in a cocoon of my quilt. "Owww… fucking stupid kind of small bed." Then I spot something familiar.
"What you are doing under the bed phone?"
Grabbing it and checking the time, I find out that I have an hour before my alarm is meant to go off.
"Might as well get up."
Changing outfits never took me as long as most girls my age, but the main problem was always my hair, even though it was just past shoulder length it was a pain to style it. My hair always seems to end up in its usual style, parted on the left side with the odd tip of red sticking out.
With enough time left before I have leave, I went over my plan on how to get to Shujin. 'Yogen-Jaya to Shibuya, then transfer to the Ginza Line, then on to Aoyama-Itchome, let's hope that I don't lost on the way.'
As I make my way towards the stairs to grab my school, I notice the diary that James had thrown there the night before. I pick it up and place it in my bag and check to see if I had everything. 'Pencils? Check. Notebooks? Check. Textbooks? Check. Wallet. Check, right let's hope that's everything.' Shouldering my school bag, I head towards the stairs.
Arriving downstairs to see James standing at the bar with a plate of curry and a glass of milk. He looks up at me with a surprised look upon his face.
"Oh, you're actually going to school?"
"Yes. Yes, I am."
"In all honesty, I was thinking that you were just going to ditch school and then I get the enjoyment of kicking you out of here." He tells me with a slightly angry tone.
"I'm not that much of delinquent." I say in a joyful tone.
"Anyway here," He nudges the plate of curry forwards a bit. "I'll feed you; just make sure that you're finished before any of the customers start arriving."
I'm wasn't the greatest lover of curry, but having curry for breakfast new to me. I must have had a look of disgust.
"What? Don't you like curry?"
"I don't mind curry… it's just that I've never had curry for breakfast before."
He sighs "Just eat it."
'I hope that it's not too spicy.' I pulled the barstool opposite James out and place my bag on the floor next to me. The first bite of the curry was not what I was expecting. It was delicious. I could taste the complex flavours within the bold spiciness, before I knew it the curry gone and the glass of milk was empty.
"You best leave now if you want to actually get to school"
I look up at James, then to the clock to the right of him. 'Shit, time to go.' With a bow and a thank you to James, I ran out the door and headed towards the station before he say anything else.
Location: Shibuya Station
I was hoping that the rumours about the Tokyo subway being crammed weren't true, but unfortunately I was wrong. It was so crammed that I could see what game another Shujin student was playing on their PS Vita (some American RPG about a bunch of teenagers being able to go into a TV).
Losing interest in the game I look at the LCD screens that are placed above the doors and windows of the subway car, it seems like there were still some lingering effects from the accident yesterday. 'I hope that no one was too badly hurt.' When the news starts talking about the weather, I turn my head towards the window to my right and let my mind wander for the rest of the journey.
Arriving at Shibuya, I knew the problem straight away. This place a maze and I had to transfer to the Ginza Line. 'Time to follow the signs.' Standing at the top of the stairs that lead to Station Square, I realize just how much I hate the subway system. 'Why do they have to close an entire pathway just to clean it?'
I took a moment to look at my surroundings and saw an LCD advertising Rise Kujikawa's new album and I start to remember all the time that I spent helping her grandma out at her tofu shop back in Inaba and meeting Rise herself and her boyfriend Yu. After my trip down memory lane, I spot the Teikyu building and I dashed towards it hoping that I can still catch the train.
Location: Aoyama-Itchome
Standing under an awning outside of a (rather small) Junes store, in the rain, slightly wet and cold, that I realize that I forget one thing to put in my school bag this morning. And that was my umbrella. It was a shame that Junes was closed or I would have brought a new one.
Pulling my phone out to check the time, I found that I should have enough time to wait for this patch of rain out before the homeroom bell rings. I went to open the map app only to see that strange eye icon again 'What are you? …And why don't you stay deleted?'
Before I could do anything with the icon, out of the corner of my eye, I saw what I can only assume was to be another Shujin student (judging by the blazer that she was wearing), walk up and stand next to me under the awning, what catches my eye first is her beep purple leggings and the black ankle-high boots.
It wasn't until she pulls her hood down that I see a head of black silky hair tied into pigtails, which was when I notice the cutest pair of cat ears. Ever. Even though they were nearly flat against her head and with the downtrodden look on her face, I just wanted to hug her tightly and tell her everything will be ok.
She must have known that I was looking at her because when she turns to look at me I see a smile playing across her lips and a flicker of happiness behind her eyes. Before I could do say hello, she turned away and looks up into the sky. It was peaceful, standing here outside of a Junes store (with the rain slowly coming to a stop) with an attractive cat faunus nearby.
I stick my hand out to feel the rain against my skin, when a car pulls over I start to panic. 'I weren't trying to flag a car down.' When the passenger car window, there behind the steering wheel, sat a bull faunus, wearing a blue tracksuit.
"Good morning." He said in a booming tone. "Do you want a ride to school? You're going to be late." A slight toothy smile forms on his face and I can't help but feel sick just looking at him.
"Sure, thank you." The cat faunus replied as she moved towards the bull faunus's car, he then looks at me and I knew that he was checking me out but the look of disgust that crosses his face means that he has seen my scar. 'Let's hope that deters you, you creepy shit.' His smiles returns when the cat faunus finally seats herself down in his car, he then looks past her and straight towards me.
"Do you want a ride as well?"
'Fuck no!' "No thank you, I should be fine." I said hoping that he would just leave.
"Suit yourself, just don't be late." Then the window rolls up and as the car begins to pull away I could hear the tell-tale sounds of someone running in this direction. 'Probably another student trying to get there on time.' I was half right, as it was a student running but he stopped just away from me.
I could tell he was monkey faunus just from looking at his tail. What stood out more was blond hair. 'Either he's dyed it that colour or he got unlucky with gene pool.'
"Dammit… Screw that pervy teacher" There was enough venom in the guy's voice to make a snake blush.
"…pervy teacher?" 'That would explain why he was checking me out, so does that mean that…'
"What do you want? You plannin' on rattin' me out to Taurus?" I didn't see that the monkey faunus had walked right up to me.
"Taurus? Who are you talking about?" 'I'm going to say bull faunus?'
A brief flicker of sadness washes of over his face before anger replaces it. "Huh? He was in that car just now."
"Oh! The bull faunus!"
He sighs heavily. "Yes, the bull faunus."
"So what's the problem with him?"
"He does whatever the hell he wants. He acts like he's the king of a castle."
"I wonder which castle he belongs to?" I think aloud with a slow smirk gracing my lips.
"Uh, it's just a… Not funny dude." Then anger is written across his face. "Wait. How do you not know who Taurus is? Are you for real? You're from Shujin, right?"
"Yes?"
"What? No other high school's got a uniform like this." I watch his gaze travel down.
"My eyes are up here dude." I see his face turn red from embarrassment.
"Woe, I weren't looking, honest." He rubs the back of his neck and looks down. "I noticed the badge you're wearing; we're the same grade then."
"Oh?"
"If you are Shujin student, I've never seen you before." There's silence from him for a minute, then he's face lights up like a lightbulb. "You must be that new transfer student with the criminal record, then no wonder you don't know him."
"Wait?" I grab his arm as he before he could turn. "How did you know about my record?" The look in my eyes must have been intense as he pales a couple of shades whiter.
When he doesn't answer, my anger flares up. 'Wrong answer.'
"Tell me!" I tighten my grip on his arm as pain is written on his face.
"Aaah… fine, I'll tell yah, just… just let go. Ok!" He starts to rub his arm after I let go. "It was leaked online last night, so the whole school should know by now and no, I don't who leaked it, but my guess would be that Taurus did it."
"Why would a teacher do something like that?" 'Isn't there a law against this?'
"He hates students' like us." The smile he wears is infectious as I feel my own start to form and I can't help but feel a bond forming between us.
"Any who, we better hurry or we'll be late." He said as he turns to carry on walking down the path.
I make about 5 feet before a sharp pain rang through my head; I grabbed my head with my free hand hopping to try to stop my head from exploding. Looking up, I saw the monkey faunus doing something similar. When the pain stops, the only thing left was a ring sound in my ears that was slowly fading, whether or not the "monkey boy" said anything to me was neither heard.
"Hey! You comin'? I know a shortcut." I look over to where "monkey boy" was only to see him further down the pathway. 'If we get there on time then I'm happy.' With a quick jog, I caught up to him.
"Lead on then." I said as we walked a couple more feet before he turns left and heads down an alleyway/ 'Suspicious much?' I let the monkey faunus walk ahead of me by several paces for safety.
The only time that I've had that foreboding feel was when I was walking down one of the side streets back in Inaba, the night I tried being the hero. I wasn't expecting to get it after stepping in a small pudd…
"What the…?"
Hearing that, I rushed around the corner to catch up with the monkey faunus, only to find him standing there dumbfounded before a castle.
"I take it that's his castle?" I say with as much humour as possible given the fact that there's a castle before us and not a school. 'Shit'
Author Notes
Riddle me this.
How can the number four behalf of five?