Chapter 1
It was the first day of school for the school year at Toyama High School
(THS). And everything was busy as normal. Jenna Hino and her energetic
friend, Mina Yuuki, where ready for action.
With her now braided, knee long, raven hue hair, Jenna's tan, china doll
face looked angelic. Her lavender toned, blue eyes stood out like jewels
underneath her dark lashes. Mina's long blonde hair swept at her knees as
well, but some of it at her lower back, due to the red bow that held her
hair in a half ponytail. Her pale skin still showed signs of the summer sun
and her blue eyes we're filled with sleep at the moment.
"Boy am I tired." Mina said with a yawn. Her expression proved this to be
true. Even her body didn't look right in the flame yellow 'HOTTIE' shirt
and non-regulation shorts (that showed every curve in her body) she was
wearing. Unlike their last school, this public school didn't have uniforms.
"Why? Didn't you do to bed early last night?" Jenna asked in an unusual perky voice. "Yeah. But that ancient guy came to me in a dream again last night. He said." "To watch our backs. The enemy is around every corner and the time to join the other Ronins will soon come. Right?" she cut her friend off. "Yes. How long do you think that will be?" Mina asked as she opened the door to the office. "Possibly within the next few days. I can feel the other armors are really close." Jenna followed her in. She smiled when the lady behind the front desk spoke up. "How may I help you two lovely ladies?" She looked in her fifties; traces of gray hair on her head gave that away. "Yes, thank you. We are here for our schedules. Our last names are Hino and Yuuki." Mina said her face lit up like a Christmas tree. The lady searched though several piles of papers before she handed them each one. "Mina Yuuki and Jenna Hino... here you go girls." They accepted them and with a wave they left. "By the way. I like your outfit!" she called after Jenna. She glanced down at the khaki shorts and lavender top she was wearing. She figured the lady must have liked the studded 'Silver Angel' logo that was in the center of the chest area. "What's your home room, Jenna?" Mina asked after they were way down the hall. "162. Let me see your schedule." The teen demanded in a gentle tone. She compared the two for several minutes before speaking again. "We have almost all of the same classes but our lockers are on total opposite sides of the school." Jenna handed it back over a little disappointed. "Well we better get going." "Yeah. See ya later girl!" Mina dashed off to the other side of the school. Jenna waved at her before heading to her own locker. A ways down the hall Mina wasn't paying attention to anything around her except the locker numbers. As she looked to her right again she felt her body crash into some one else's. "HEY! Watch where you're goin' would ya!" she screamed at the other figure. "I'm really sorry miss." A male voice with a slight British accent apologized. Mina looked up into a pair of sparkling blue eyes. He helped her up. "I'm so sorry." "It's okay." Mina said, blushing while she grabbed her stuff. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was goin'. I'm the one who's sorry." Her face felt even hotter than it had a second ago. "My name is Cye Mouri." The boy said offering her his hand. "I'm Mina Yuuki." She shook Cye's hand. "Excuse me, but could you tell me where I could find locker.487?" she asked after taking a quick glance at the paper in her hand. "Yeah. It's right next to mine." Cye answered leading her down the hall to a set of sea-green lockers. As they walked, Mina studied him. He had pale skin, with the similar summer effect of her own, and his auburn hair also looked sun kissed. She loved the color of his pale blue shirt. He had well- structured legs and arms that showed he worked out sometimes. "Well I've gotta go. See you around." He dashed off down the hall, and waking her from her dream. "Bye. Thanks!" she called after him, hoping that her handsome, new friend heard her. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Meanwhile one the other side of school Jenna was having some trouble getting her locker opened. "YOU STUPID PIECE OF JUNK!!" she yelled in fury before kicking the locker door. * If I knew I wouldn't get in trouble I would burn this thing with my Firebird. That would teach it! * "Hey. It's dead already." A boy said from behind her, interrupting her thoughts and stopping her mid-punch. She spun around to look into a pair of deep tiger blue eyes. "Let me get it." The boy looked at the paper and began to work the combination. Jenna stood back and looked at him. He had jet-black hair that rain in a V- shape on the end and lay softly on his neck. He was about four inches taller than she was and was well built throughout his arms and legs. Jenna fell in love with the red flamed shirt he had on. But she sensed something about him. *What is this? These vibes I'm getting from him seem so familiar. They're like the ones from the visions that I've been getting. * When the boy was done she snapped out of her daydream. He stepped out of her way and leaned against the other closed lockers. "Thanks." Jenna said in a shaky voice as she hung some decorations up and closed her locker. "I really appreciate it." She knew that she was blushing like her cheeks were red-hot volcanoes but she couldn't stop it no matter how hard she tried. "No sweat. I'm Ryo Sanada." The boy said. He extended his right hand to the girl in front of him. "Jenna. Jenna Hino." She said shaking his hand. *Wow. His skin is really soft. * "Do you know where I could find room 162? It's my first day here." Ryo asked standing up straight. Even though he was a little taller than she was, Jenna could easily see into those amazing eyes. "Yeah. As a matter of fact that's my home room." Jenna replied. "No way! Same here." Ryo said. He looked as if he was going to say something else but the warning bell cut him off. They looked at each other before dashing down the long twists and turns of the hallway and came screeching to a halt in front of their homeroom. Jenna's cerulean-lavender eyes quickly scanned the room. They locked on to a head of really long blonde hair in the back. She leaned closer to her new friend. "Will you sit with me and my friend?" she breathed into his ear. He nodded. "Yeah. But I promised two other people that I'd sit with them, too." He warned her. "Okay. Cool. Mina won't mind. She would probably love to meet you. She's a blonde but a really nice one." Jenna said as the two of them walked over to where Mina was sitting. "Hey girl. Sup?" "Not much Jenna. Hey who's your friend?" Mina asked referring to Ryo who sat behind Jenna [cattycornered from her]. "His name is Ryo. Ryo this is that blonde Mina I told you about." The two of them shook hands. * She looks so much like Sage it isn't even funny. And I sense something about the both of them but I can't tell what it is. I feel as if I've met them before. * Ryo thought. Then he and Mina both spotted Cye at the door. * About time. It took them long enough. Rowen probably got them lost. * Mina fought the urge to yell out and get Cye's attention, and then she heard Ryo do it for her. "Yo Cye! Rowen! Over here." It didn't matte that he yelled, for the room was noisy any ways. As the two of them made their way back to the back of the class room Mina grabbed Jenna by the arm and pulled her closer. "You didn't tell me that Ryo knew Cye." She accused her friend in a very angry tone. "I didn't know who the guy meant when he said he had promised he'd sit with to other people. And I can pretty much guess that one of those dudes is Cye." Jenna said eyeing the two teens that were a few feet away from them. Cye took a seat behind Mina while Rowen sat on other side of Ryo. "Mina you didn't tell me that this was your homeroom class." He said and gave her a questioning look. "Well you never bothered to ask. Oh. By the way, that's my friend Jenna." Mina said pointing to her friend. "Hi. I'm Cye." He whispered. "And the dude beside Ryo is Rowen. And I guess you already know wonder boy here." "Yeah. I do. Hi Rowen it's nice to meet ya." Jenna said and shook his hand. "Same here." Then the bell rang. A teacher walked into the room and it got really quiet really quick. "I'm Mr. Sakae. I will be your home room and for some of you math teacher this year." A man dressed in a business suit said. "This is going to be a loooonngg year." Rowen said. "I'm glad the three of us are in Spectra." "No way. We are too. Sadly." Mina said. "Cool. Hey will you two lovely ladies sit with us at lunch today. We want you to meet some of our friends." Ryo said. "More boys no doubt." Jenna said. The three of them eyed her and she sunk back into her chair. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The first half of the school day went on like any other, boring. When the group reached the cafeteria they were one of the first ones in line. After they all took a seat at an empty table three more boys walked over to them. * A blonde a red head and another blue freak. This could be a really interesting friendship. * Jenna thought as she studied them as they traded high fives and 'Wha up's' to the other guys. "Hey Ryo. Looks like you three caught yourselves some babes." The other blue haired guy said with a look that said he wanted to know who they were. "Oh guys these two girls are Jenna (points to her) and Mina (points to her too)." Ryo said after laughing. "And these three goons are Sage, Kento, and Anubis." "Yeah, gotta watch out for Kento some times. He is literally a bottomless pit. He probably sat a new world record on how much one person can eat at a meal at breakfast this morning." Rowen said. The two girls laughed, Jenna's a tomboyish one and Mina's a princess's giggle. "So. Anubis was it?" Mina asked the boy across from her. "Where's your homeroom?" "The rest of are across the hall from you all." He answered, throwing his long hair over his shoulder in an annoyed tone. "Oh." Mina and Anubis then began to talk about what classes they had in the afternoon and come to find out they were in some of the same ones. Meanwhile Jenna instantly became a good friend with Sage and Kento. When they found out that she was the granddaughter of the caretaker at the Cherry Hill Temple, all of the guys almost flipped their lids. "So you've been there?" Jenna asked. "Well only Cye and Sage have but I was planning to go with them this weekend." Ryo admitted. "Great. If you all come I could give you the grand tour." They all agreed on it. "I've been there thousands of times in the last year, yet I've never seen you around the place." Cye said in a wondering voice. "Oh we've been studying abroad in the US for the last year in a half. It was for credits at the private school that we used to go to." Jenna said, shuddering at the thought of uniforms. "And you walk from Tokyo to here?" Kento asked. "No. We catch a bus about a mile from the school. The school buses don't go as far as Tokyo and the high school there is WAY crowded. So we went to the board of Education and got permission, along with about 70 other teens, to come here for schooling. The only catch is that we must transport ourselves until the winter months." Mina explained as fast as she could, for having said it a lot to her friend's back home. "That's gotta get really expensive." Anubis uttered under his breath. "No not for us. Since the Temple is a historical landmark in Tokyo, City Hall is always giving us free stuff to do what we need to do to keep it up and running. That includes bus tickets, because my grandpa can't drive and neither can I." Jenna popped open a can of soda, trying not to spray Ryo with it. "But what happened to Chad? You know, the part time care taker." Sage asked. Jenna and Mina stayed silent for a minute before Mina spoke. "He was killed by a hit and run attack 9 months ago. It happened while Jenna and I were home for a small vacation." Silence fell upon the group totally. Jenna was having a hard time to fight back tears. Still, she missed him. Underneath the table, where no one could see, Ryo placed his hand on hers to let her know it was okay and that he was sorry. The look on the others faces also said the same thing. "I wish that I knew. I thought that he got a singing job again. I am truly sorry to hear that." Cye said in a low voice. "He was a great guy. I wish that the rest of you could've met him. He had a personality that could make you laugh at what ever he did. Right Jenna?" Mina saw the look on her friend's face and tried to cheer her up. "Yeah. But he wouldn't want anyone to miss him." She said in a fake cheerful voice. "Well we better not waste the rest of the period talking about us. What bout you all? Whatcha's like to do on a regular basis?" From then on the rest of the day went on pretty well. Just like any regular school day. When it was time to go the group said good-bye. "See ya's tomorrow!" the boys waved as they got on the bus, being that they didn't know that they could drive their cars to the school or not. "Alright! Bye!" the girls called over their shoulder as they began to walk to their bus stop. All of them knew that this was going to be a great friendship.
"Why? Didn't you do to bed early last night?" Jenna asked in an unusual perky voice. "Yeah. But that ancient guy came to me in a dream again last night. He said." "To watch our backs. The enemy is around every corner and the time to join the other Ronins will soon come. Right?" she cut her friend off. "Yes. How long do you think that will be?" Mina asked as she opened the door to the office. "Possibly within the next few days. I can feel the other armors are really close." Jenna followed her in. She smiled when the lady behind the front desk spoke up. "How may I help you two lovely ladies?" She looked in her fifties; traces of gray hair on her head gave that away. "Yes, thank you. We are here for our schedules. Our last names are Hino and Yuuki." Mina said her face lit up like a Christmas tree. The lady searched though several piles of papers before she handed them each one. "Mina Yuuki and Jenna Hino... here you go girls." They accepted them and with a wave they left. "By the way. I like your outfit!" she called after Jenna. She glanced down at the khaki shorts and lavender top she was wearing. She figured the lady must have liked the studded 'Silver Angel' logo that was in the center of the chest area. "What's your home room, Jenna?" Mina asked after they were way down the hall. "162. Let me see your schedule." The teen demanded in a gentle tone. She compared the two for several minutes before speaking again. "We have almost all of the same classes but our lockers are on total opposite sides of the school." Jenna handed it back over a little disappointed. "Well we better get going." "Yeah. See ya later girl!" Mina dashed off to the other side of the school. Jenna waved at her before heading to her own locker. A ways down the hall Mina wasn't paying attention to anything around her except the locker numbers. As she looked to her right again she felt her body crash into some one else's. "HEY! Watch where you're goin' would ya!" she screamed at the other figure. "I'm really sorry miss." A male voice with a slight British accent apologized. Mina looked up into a pair of sparkling blue eyes. He helped her up. "I'm so sorry." "It's okay." Mina said, blushing while she grabbed her stuff. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was goin'. I'm the one who's sorry." Her face felt even hotter than it had a second ago. "My name is Cye Mouri." The boy said offering her his hand. "I'm Mina Yuuki." She shook Cye's hand. "Excuse me, but could you tell me where I could find locker.487?" she asked after taking a quick glance at the paper in her hand. "Yeah. It's right next to mine." Cye answered leading her down the hall to a set of sea-green lockers. As they walked, Mina studied him. He had pale skin, with the similar summer effect of her own, and his auburn hair also looked sun kissed. She loved the color of his pale blue shirt. He had well- structured legs and arms that showed he worked out sometimes. "Well I've gotta go. See you around." He dashed off down the hall, and waking her from her dream. "Bye. Thanks!" she called after him, hoping that her handsome, new friend heard her. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Meanwhile one the other side of school Jenna was having some trouble getting her locker opened. "YOU STUPID PIECE OF JUNK!!" she yelled in fury before kicking the locker door. * If I knew I wouldn't get in trouble I would burn this thing with my Firebird. That would teach it! * "Hey. It's dead already." A boy said from behind her, interrupting her thoughts and stopping her mid-punch. She spun around to look into a pair of deep tiger blue eyes. "Let me get it." The boy looked at the paper and began to work the combination. Jenna stood back and looked at him. He had jet-black hair that rain in a V- shape on the end and lay softly on his neck. He was about four inches taller than she was and was well built throughout his arms and legs. Jenna fell in love with the red flamed shirt he had on. But she sensed something about him. *What is this? These vibes I'm getting from him seem so familiar. They're like the ones from the visions that I've been getting. * When the boy was done she snapped out of her daydream. He stepped out of her way and leaned against the other closed lockers. "Thanks." Jenna said in a shaky voice as she hung some decorations up and closed her locker. "I really appreciate it." She knew that she was blushing like her cheeks were red-hot volcanoes but she couldn't stop it no matter how hard she tried. "No sweat. I'm Ryo Sanada." The boy said. He extended his right hand to the girl in front of him. "Jenna. Jenna Hino." She said shaking his hand. *Wow. His skin is really soft. * "Do you know where I could find room 162? It's my first day here." Ryo asked standing up straight. Even though he was a little taller than she was, Jenna could easily see into those amazing eyes. "Yeah. As a matter of fact that's my home room." Jenna replied. "No way! Same here." Ryo said. He looked as if he was going to say something else but the warning bell cut him off. They looked at each other before dashing down the long twists and turns of the hallway and came screeching to a halt in front of their homeroom. Jenna's cerulean-lavender eyes quickly scanned the room. They locked on to a head of really long blonde hair in the back. She leaned closer to her new friend. "Will you sit with me and my friend?" she breathed into his ear. He nodded. "Yeah. But I promised two other people that I'd sit with them, too." He warned her. "Okay. Cool. Mina won't mind. She would probably love to meet you. She's a blonde but a really nice one." Jenna said as the two of them walked over to where Mina was sitting. "Hey girl. Sup?" "Not much Jenna. Hey who's your friend?" Mina asked referring to Ryo who sat behind Jenna [cattycornered from her]. "His name is Ryo. Ryo this is that blonde Mina I told you about." The two of them shook hands. * She looks so much like Sage it isn't even funny. And I sense something about the both of them but I can't tell what it is. I feel as if I've met them before. * Ryo thought. Then he and Mina both spotted Cye at the door. * About time. It took them long enough. Rowen probably got them lost. * Mina fought the urge to yell out and get Cye's attention, and then she heard Ryo do it for her. "Yo Cye! Rowen! Over here." It didn't matte that he yelled, for the room was noisy any ways. As the two of them made their way back to the back of the class room Mina grabbed Jenna by the arm and pulled her closer. "You didn't tell me that Ryo knew Cye." She accused her friend in a very angry tone. "I didn't know who the guy meant when he said he had promised he'd sit with to other people. And I can pretty much guess that one of those dudes is Cye." Jenna said eyeing the two teens that were a few feet away from them. Cye took a seat behind Mina while Rowen sat on other side of Ryo. "Mina you didn't tell me that this was your homeroom class." He said and gave her a questioning look. "Well you never bothered to ask. Oh. By the way, that's my friend Jenna." Mina said pointing to her friend. "Hi. I'm Cye." He whispered. "And the dude beside Ryo is Rowen. And I guess you already know wonder boy here." "Yeah. I do. Hi Rowen it's nice to meet ya." Jenna said and shook his hand. "Same here." Then the bell rang. A teacher walked into the room and it got really quiet really quick. "I'm Mr. Sakae. I will be your home room and for some of you math teacher this year." A man dressed in a business suit said. "This is going to be a loooonngg year." Rowen said. "I'm glad the three of us are in Spectra." "No way. We are too. Sadly." Mina said. "Cool. Hey will you two lovely ladies sit with us at lunch today. We want you to meet some of our friends." Ryo said. "More boys no doubt." Jenna said. The three of them eyed her and she sunk back into her chair. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The first half of the school day went on like any other, boring. When the group reached the cafeteria they were one of the first ones in line. After they all took a seat at an empty table three more boys walked over to them. * A blonde a red head and another blue freak. This could be a really interesting friendship. * Jenna thought as she studied them as they traded high fives and 'Wha up's' to the other guys. "Hey Ryo. Looks like you three caught yourselves some babes." The other blue haired guy said with a look that said he wanted to know who they were. "Oh guys these two girls are Jenna (points to her) and Mina (points to her too)." Ryo said after laughing. "And these three goons are Sage, Kento, and Anubis." "Yeah, gotta watch out for Kento some times. He is literally a bottomless pit. He probably sat a new world record on how much one person can eat at a meal at breakfast this morning." Rowen said. The two girls laughed, Jenna's a tomboyish one and Mina's a princess's giggle. "So. Anubis was it?" Mina asked the boy across from her. "Where's your homeroom?" "The rest of are across the hall from you all." He answered, throwing his long hair over his shoulder in an annoyed tone. "Oh." Mina and Anubis then began to talk about what classes they had in the afternoon and come to find out they were in some of the same ones. Meanwhile Jenna instantly became a good friend with Sage and Kento. When they found out that she was the granddaughter of the caretaker at the Cherry Hill Temple, all of the guys almost flipped their lids. "So you've been there?" Jenna asked. "Well only Cye and Sage have but I was planning to go with them this weekend." Ryo admitted. "Great. If you all come I could give you the grand tour." They all agreed on it. "I've been there thousands of times in the last year, yet I've never seen you around the place." Cye said in a wondering voice. "Oh we've been studying abroad in the US for the last year in a half. It was for credits at the private school that we used to go to." Jenna said, shuddering at the thought of uniforms. "And you walk from Tokyo to here?" Kento asked. "No. We catch a bus about a mile from the school. The school buses don't go as far as Tokyo and the high school there is WAY crowded. So we went to the board of Education and got permission, along with about 70 other teens, to come here for schooling. The only catch is that we must transport ourselves until the winter months." Mina explained as fast as she could, for having said it a lot to her friend's back home. "That's gotta get really expensive." Anubis uttered under his breath. "No not for us. Since the Temple is a historical landmark in Tokyo, City Hall is always giving us free stuff to do what we need to do to keep it up and running. That includes bus tickets, because my grandpa can't drive and neither can I." Jenna popped open a can of soda, trying not to spray Ryo with it. "But what happened to Chad? You know, the part time care taker." Sage asked. Jenna and Mina stayed silent for a minute before Mina spoke. "He was killed by a hit and run attack 9 months ago. It happened while Jenna and I were home for a small vacation." Silence fell upon the group totally. Jenna was having a hard time to fight back tears. Still, she missed him. Underneath the table, where no one could see, Ryo placed his hand on hers to let her know it was okay and that he was sorry. The look on the others faces also said the same thing. "I wish that I knew. I thought that he got a singing job again. I am truly sorry to hear that." Cye said in a low voice. "He was a great guy. I wish that the rest of you could've met him. He had a personality that could make you laugh at what ever he did. Right Jenna?" Mina saw the look on her friend's face and tried to cheer her up. "Yeah. But he wouldn't want anyone to miss him." She said in a fake cheerful voice. "Well we better not waste the rest of the period talking about us. What bout you all? Whatcha's like to do on a regular basis?" From then on the rest of the day went on pretty well. Just like any regular school day. When it was time to go the group said good-bye. "See ya's tomorrow!" the boys waved as they got on the bus, being that they didn't know that they could drive their cars to the school or not. "Alright! Bye!" the girls called over their shoulder as they began to walk to their bus stop. All of them knew that this was going to be a great friendship.
