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Renge Reborn, Chapter 1
==========Hanabishi's House==========
"He'll be late if he don't get up in 10 minutes," a male voice said, as he climbed up the stairs to the second floor, a little kid followed behind him. The little kid's tie was in the grown-up's hand, as he tired to tie it as he walked up the stairs.
"Koganei, think it's about time you learn to tied your own tie, huh?" He turned back and asked Koganei Kaoru, little kid of Hokage.
Anyone ones to make a wild guess who this grown-up is? No, it's not Mr. Hanabishi. Take another guess. Will it help if I let you on to some clues? Ok then. He's tall, slim and has short hair (That would put Mikagami out of the list huh?) A red burn scar is visible under his hair.
"But Kurei-nisan!" Koganei started. " I want you to do it for me!"
Kurei signed as he passed the tie back to the little brat. "You'll always stick to Recca and me, huh?"
"He he. want to you think? Both of you are the closest to a family I would ever get!" Koganei smiled as he waits for Kurei to open the door to Recca's room. Inside, Hanabishi Recca is still in dreamland, snoring away and making kissing noises at his pillow "Hmmm. Hime! Yanagi~~~~" He screamed into mid air. The two at the door stared at him. Slowly, Kurei gave Koganei an understanding nod and bend down. Koganei, on the other hand, started to run behind the door. Operation Wake Recca Up is on its way.
Koganei ran as fast as he could to gain a bit of speed, then, using Kurei's back as a spring, he jumped and landed on top of Recca! Recca, suddenly having at least 40KG of weight added on top of him, choked on his saliva and got up, grasping for the air he losted when the weight attacked. Needless to look, he know that that weight belongs to Koganei, and the laughing sound outside the room which the trio shares belongs to his half- brother, Kurei.
"Can't you guys find a safer way to wake me up?" Recca complained as he shakes Koganei off and starts looking for his uniform.
"Well, will you respond to it?" Kurei asked. "Hurry up! I got a class this morning and I need to send two little brats to school before I can make it to the university. Let's not be late on the first day, ok?"
Walking down the stairs and passing Kagehoushi, who's cooking in the kitchen, he can't believed how 1 year had passed since Hokage was...erased from History. After he and Koganei had gone back in time, he thought that they would both stay there until their death. Who knows that the spell would rebound on them and pull them back to present time? Since then, he had been living with the Hanabishi family. He was glad that now, he would have a family and a normal life which he had always wanted. Recca wasn't such a pain in the neck after all. Now a student at the local University in his second year, studying History, he couldn't ask for anything more.
But, when he walked passed a mirror, a reflection greeted him. The scar on his face. It was still as clear as it was since the day his only love left it on his face. "No," he whispers to himself. "There is something I would like to ask for, and yet, that something, I can never have." He touched the scar on his face. "Kurenai."
"Kurei! Come on! We need our driver here!" Recca called out as he took his bento from his mother, and step out of the house. Shaking his thoughts away, Kurei followed suit. Kagehoushi gave him a worried look. She knows want Kurei had been thinking about in front of the mirror. He took his bento from her, and gave her an understanding smile. "Daijoubu yo! Kagehoushi-san. I'll be okay." He said and exits the room. Koganei and Recca are at the back sit of the red BMW Kurei proudly owns. The start of a new school term awaits them. and someone they never though they would meet again will appear before them..
==========Outside Recca's school==========
"So, Kurei! Will you be coming over to Yanagi's place after class? We are throwing a big party for Fuuko's birthday! And Fuuko had asked Raiha there. I mean, if you don't want to come, I'll understand, but at least, try to be there?" Recca asked when Kurei pulls into the school's driveway. He decided that this was the time to tell him about Fuuko's birthday party and about Raiha going. He was hoping that Kurei would agree, as it had been a long time since the ninja saw his master. Recca can understand that kind of feeling; after all, he is a ninja too.
Kurei was silent. Meeting Raiha again is a good thing. He missed Uruha very much, and hopes to see at least some of them to remind him that at his worst period of time, he still has this group of friends behind him. But meeting them will bring back memories that he sometimes wishes to forget. One would be Jishou. Another would be his angel.
"Kurei?" Recca asked. Dammed! He thought to himself. Shouldn't have opened my stupid mouth. Now Kurei may just throw me out of the car!
"Why not? Kurei finally said. As he pulled over in front of the school. "But I'll be late. My class ends at 3pm today. And then I'll have to get something for that mad-woman." He continued.
Recca signed a sign of relive. "Ok! Just get the mad woman a little pushy that looks like Fujin! She told me that she had been looking around for one in the pass year. Looks like a lot of us still can't put the pass down, eh?" Recca said as he got out from the car. He closed the door and waved good-bye to Kurei. Kurei waved back, and began driving out, to the university. "Still can't put the pass down." Recca's last words rang in his mind. "Yes, I still can't put the pass down. I'm still hanging onto part of it which I did not want to ever forget." He thought.
Driving on, he can see lots of students going into school. A big tanned figure suggested that Domon will be on time for school today, and a sliver hair guy who walked a crossed the road, with that cold unemotional face in deep thought, missed him. When he reached the end of the school zone, and hears the bell rings for the start of school, he knew he better be off too, or he maybe late. "Ahhh!!! Late late! Late on my first day1 No way! The director will kill me if he get a notice on the first day of school saying that I'm late!" a voice called out from the front. "Looks like someone will be late this morning." Kurei smiled as he continued driving. Strange thing is that, the voice sounded so familiar, like he had heard it before somewhere. Well, maybe he could get a glimpsed of whoever's late.
Suddenly, a girl in uniform, the same school as Recca, ran passed his car. Kurei had almost pulled over when he saw the girl. Not because he had almost ran her down or anything, but it as her face. That face.. Kurenai. It was his Kurenai! She.
Stopping the car, he got out and started running behind the figure, but, as sudden as she had appeared, she was gone once again.
"Kure.. Kurenai?" He asked. No one reply, and he was late for his first day of class. ==========Class 3A==========
Tokiya Mikagami was bored. This is the last year for him in this stupid school, he was hoping for a change of form teacher. After all, who can stand stinky (Stinky mouth teacher, ref. To book 2) for 2 years? But no~~~ he got that stinky again.
"Class!" Stinky roared, and Tokiya felt a bit of pity for the students sitting at the first row. "Welcome back to another school year. This year would be the year all of you are working for! This year, your results in the nationals will determine our school's national rating, and also your future. So far, I can only tell that one of you," he paused and look at Tokiya "Would be able to make it to Todai (Tokyo University) easily. The rest of you are hopeless!"
"Gee, he's biased!" Someone behind Tokiya whispered.
"And, to begin with, we will have a new student here in our class. Hopes that she's good, or I will be running down her neck. Late on the first day, must be one of the bad students.."
Just as Stinky was scolding the not- seen- new student, Tokiya feel a familiar aura outside the classroom. He looked up and was just in time to see a girl open the door and falls in, head first, into the classroom. The uproar from the class surely embarrassed the girl who made a grand entry on her first day of school. Standing up slowly and trying to rearrange her long hair, which is in a big mess, she couldn't even look up. Stinky, at this point of time, decide to introduce her to the class.
"Class, this is Renge Kobashi. She stays at the Kobashi Orphanage and is joining us this year to take the nationals. Hmm.. Think you'll go well with Mikagami at the back, but mind you! I won't accept a bit of BGR in this class! It's just that Mikagami is the only one I am sure that would not lend you astray!" He looks at the new girl again. "And go take a seat! Next to the long hair boy there!"
"Hai! Sensei!" The new girl responded when she finally tidied her hair. When she lifted up her face and faced the class, a loud wolf whistler from one of the boys greeted her. True, her face was one to die for. Sweet and innocent. To the other guys, she is another 'target' they can try for this year, but to Tokiya, it was sheer confusion. Renge? As in the clone Renge? She does look like Renge, in fact, he was sure that she had keep two bangs running down the side of her face for a reason. When she took the empty table besides Tokiya, and greeted him with a sweet 'Ohayo', he could feel no hatred for him. It was almost like.. Like she's a different person from that insane clone he know. But then, what the insane clone was like, he didn't know. He only heard as much as a needle from Kurei about her, but what he knew for sure is that Kurei hated Renge because she looks exactly like Kurenai, and he feel that it was an insult to her.
"Eto.. Mikagami-san. Mikagami-san?" Renge said, and got Tokiya back to real life. He didn't notice that he was starring at her. "Mikagami-san, are you ok?"
"Emm. nothing, nothing really. Sorry about that" he said as he got back to his books.
"Well, Sensei's breath really stinks. I feel like I could have fainted if I stayed there for another minute!" She exclaim as she went back to her book. That period, Tokiya couldn't listern to what Stinky had been saiding, as he tried to figure what is happening.
==========Recess, on the root top==========
"Yanagi-chan!" Recca shouted as he enters the rooftop with a bang. Team Hokage was already eating their bentos and messing around with each other. Fuuko was screaming her head out at Domon, who is trying to apologize under all her screaming. Yanagi was drawing something, and Tokiya, as usual, was in deep thoughts.
"Oh! Recca-kun! You're finally here!" Yanagi said as she put down her pencil and walk toward her ex-ninja, and now love. Recca gave Yanagi a light peak on the check, which would usually get Tokiya mad and starts going on how Recca is taking advantage of Yanagi. But today, he just sat at the far corner of the roof, and stared into mid-air.
"Mi-chan?" Fuuko asked. "Mi-Chan, are you ok?"
"Huh?" Tokiya suddenly got out of his daze. "Me? I'm. fine.."
"Well!" Fuuko exclaimed as she stops ranting on Domon, who signed a sign of relieve. " Hope everybody is coming to my Partly at Yanagi's place. Sorry to hold my partly at your place, Yanagi-Chan, but my house isn't big enough for this gang to crash into."
"Don't worry Fuuko-san, my place is just nice for the gang." Yanagi said as she returned to her sit, and took out a small bento from her bag. " Recca- kun, although my cooking isn't as good as Kagehoushi's, do you want to try it?" She asked.
"Love to, o-Hime-sama!" Recca joked. And took a bit of her bento. By now, Tokiya would have drawn out the Ensui if it was still around, but there he was, back into the daydream he was in.
"Oh yes! Fuuko! Kurei said he would be at the partly! Although he would be late, but, yeah! He would be there!" Recca said. At the mention of Kurei's name, Tokiya stood up and walked over to Recca, slowly.
"Great! Better call Raiha to tell Neon!" Fuuko said as she took out her hand set and went on to dial Raiha's number. Tokiya, ignoring this, went straight for Recca.
"Hanabishi.." Tokiya stated. " Did Kurei tell you anything about Renge?"
"Well," Recca, shocked by the question, thought about it for a minute, then answered " No, he don't really tell much of his life before we got together.. All I know is that he once had this major fight with Renge, but yar, that's all I know. Why the sudden interest"
"Nothing" The swordsman answered.. "I just hope that it's not trouble," He thought as he head on first to his classroom.
Author's note: Well, that's chapter one and the prologue for you. How is it? Know it's slow, but just wanna let the story build up slowly. still can't decide on the pairing. should it be Renge X Mikagami or Renge X Kurei? Maybe some other pairings.
==========Hanabishi's House==========
"He'll be late if he don't get up in 10 minutes," a male voice said, as he climbed up the stairs to the second floor, a little kid followed behind him. The little kid's tie was in the grown-up's hand, as he tired to tie it as he walked up the stairs.
"Koganei, think it's about time you learn to tied your own tie, huh?" He turned back and asked Koganei Kaoru, little kid of Hokage.
Anyone ones to make a wild guess who this grown-up is? No, it's not Mr. Hanabishi. Take another guess. Will it help if I let you on to some clues? Ok then. He's tall, slim and has short hair (That would put Mikagami out of the list huh?) A red burn scar is visible under his hair.
"But Kurei-nisan!" Koganei started. " I want you to do it for me!"
Kurei signed as he passed the tie back to the little brat. "You'll always stick to Recca and me, huh?"
"He he. want to you think? Both of you are the closest to a family I would ever get!" Koganei smiled as he waits for Kurei to open the door to Recca's room. Inside, Hanabishi Recca is still in dreamland, snoring away and making kissing noises at his pillow "Hmmm. Hime! Yanagi~~~~" He screamed into mid air. The two at the door stared at him. Slowly, Kurei gave Koganei an understanding nod and bend down. Koganei, on the other hand, started to run behind the door. Operation Wake Recca Up is on its way.
Koganei ran as fast as he could to gain a bit of speed, then, using Kurei's back as a spring, he jumped and landed on top of Recca! Recca, suddenly having at least 40KG of weight added on top of him, choked on his saliva and got up, grasping for the air he losted when the weight attacked. Needless to look, he know that that weight belongs to Koganei, and the laughing sound outside the room which the trio shares belongs to his half- brother, Kurei.
"Can't you guys find a safer way to wake me up?" Recca complained as he shakes Koganei off and starts looking for his uniform.
"Well, will you respond to it?" Kurei asked. "Hurry up! I got a class this morning and I need to send two little brats to school before I can make it to the university. Let's not be late on the first day, ok?"
Walking down the stairs and passing Kagehoushi, who's cooking in the kitchen, he can't believed how 1 year had passed since Hokage was...erased from History. After he and Koganei had gone back in time, he thought that they would both stay there until their death. Who knows that the spell would rebound on them and pull them back to present time? Since then, he had been living with the Hanabishi family. He was glad that now, he would have a family and a normal life which he had always wanted. Recca wasn't such a pain in the neck after all. Now a student at the local University in his second year, studying History, he couldn't ask for anything more.
But, when he walked passed a mirror, a reflection greeted him. The scar on his face. It was still as clear as it was since the day his only love left it on his face. "No," he whispers to himself. "There is something I would like to ask for, and yet, that something, I can never have." He touched the scar on his face. "Kurenai."
"Kurei! Come on! We need our driver here!" Recca called out as he took his bento from his mother, and step out of the house. Shaking his thoughts away, Kurei followed suit. Kagehoushi gave him a worried look. She knows want Kurei had been thinking about in front of the mirror. He took his bento from her, and gave her an understanding smile. "Daijoubu yo! Kagehoushi-san. I'll be okay." He said and exits the room. Koganei and Recca are at the back sit of the red BMW Kurei proudly owns. The start of a new school term awaits them. and someone they never though they would meet again will appear before them..
==========Outside Recca's school==========
"So, Kurei! Will you be coming over to Yanagi's place after class? We are throwing a big party for Fuuko's birthday! And Fuuko had asked Raiha there. I mean, if you don't want to come, I'll understand, but at least, try to be there?" Recca asked when Kurei pulls into the school's driveway. He decided that this was the time to tell him about Fuuko's birthday party and about Raiha going. He was hoping that Kurei would agree, as it had been a long time since the ninja saw his master. Recca can understand that kind of feeling; after all, he is a ninja too.
Kurei was silent. Meeting Raiha again is a good thing. He missed Uruha very much, and hopes to see at least some of them to remind him that at his worst period of time, he still has this group of friends behind him. But meeting them will bring back memories that he sometimes wishes to forget. One would be Jishou. Another would be his angel.
"Kurei?" Recca asked. Dammed! He thought to himself. Shouldn't have opened my stupid mouth. Now Kurei may just throw me out of the car!
"Why not? Kurei finally said. As he pulled over in front of the school. "But I'll be late. My class ends at 3pm today. And then I'll have to get something for that mad-woman." He continued.
Recca signed a sign of relive. "Ok! Just get the mad woman a little pushy that looks like Fujin! She told me that she had been looking around for one in the pass year. Looks like a lot of us still can't put the pass down, eh?" Recca said as he got out from the car. He closed the door and waved good-bye to Kurei. Kurei waved back, and began driving out, to the university. "Still can't put the pass down." Recca's last words rang in his mind. "Yes, I still can't put the pass down. I'm still hanging onto part of it which I did not want to ever forget." He thought.
Driving on, he can see lots of students going into school. A big tanned figure suggested that Domon will be on time for school today, and a sliver hair guy who walked a crossed the road, with that cold unemotional face in deep thought, missed him. When he reached the end of the school zone, and hears the bell rings for the start of school, he knew he better be off too, or he maybe late. "Ahhh!!! Late late! Late on my first day1 No way! The director will kill me if he get a notice on the first day of school saying that I'm late!" a voice called out from the front. "Looks like someone will be late this morning." Kurei smiled as he continued driving. Strange thing is that, the voice sounded so familiar, like he had heard it before somewhere. Well, maybe he could get a glimpsed of whoever's late.
Suddenly, a girl in uniform, the same school as Recca, ran passed his car. Kurei had almost pulled over when he saw the girl. Not because he had almost ran her down or anything, but it as her face. That face.. Kurenai. It was his Kurenai! She.
Stopping the car, he got out and started running behind the figure, but, as sudden as she had appeared, she was gone once again.
"Kure.. Kurenai?" He asked. No one reply, and he was late for his first day of class. ==========Class 3A==========
Tokiya Mikagami was bored. This is the last year for him in this stupid school, he was hoping for a change of form teacher. After all, who can stand stinky (Stinky mouth teacher, ref. To book 2) for 2 years? But no~~~ he got that stinky again.
"Class!" Stinky roared, and Tokiya felt a bit of pity for the students sitting at the first row. "Welcome back to another school year. This year would be the year all of you are working for! This year, your results in the nationals will determine our school's national rating, and also your future. So far, I can only tell that one of you," he paused and look at Tokiya "Would be able to make it to Todai (Tokyo University) easily. The rest of you are hopeless!"
"Gee, he's biased!" Someone behind Tokiya whispered.
"And, to begin with, we will have a new student here in our class. Hopes that she's good, or I will be running down her neck. Late on the first day, must be one of the bad students.."
Just as Stinky was scolding the not- seen- new student, Tokiya feel a familiar aura outside the classroom. He looked up and was just in time to see a girl open the door and falls in, head first, into the classroom. The uproar from the class surely embarrassed the girl who made a grand entry on her first day of school. Standing up slowly and trying to rearrange her long hair, which is in a big mess, she couldn't even look up. Stinky, at this point of time, decide to introduce her to the class.
"Class, this is Renge Kobashi. She stays at the Kobashi Orphanage and is joining us this year to take the nationals. Hmm.. Think you'll go well with Mikagami at the back, but mind you! I won't accept a bit of BGR in this class! It's just that Mikagami is the only one I am sure that would not lend you astray!" He looks at the new girl again. "And go take a seat! Next to the long hair boy there!"
"Hai! Sensei!" The new girl responded when she finally tidied her hair. When she lifted up her face and faced the class, a loud wolf whistler from one of the boys greeted her. True, her face was one to die for. Sweet and innocent. To the other guys, she is another 'target' they can try for this year, but to Tokiya, it was sheer confusion. Renge? As in the clone Renge? She does look like Renge, in fact, he was sure that she had keep two bangs running down the side of her face for a reason. When she took the empty table besides Tokiya, and greeted him with a sweet 'Ohayo', he could feel no hatred for him. It was almost like.. Like she's a different person from that insane clone he know. But then, what the insane clone was like, he didn't know. He only heard as much as a needle from Kurei about her, but what he knew for sure is that Kurei hated Renge because she looks exactly like Kurenai, and he feel that it was an insult to her.
"Eto.. Mikagami-san. Mikagami-san?" Renge said, and got Tokiya back to real life. He didn't notice that he was starring at her. "Mikagami-san, are you ok?"
"Emm. nothing, nothing really. Sorry about that" he said as he got back to his books.
"Well, Sensei's breath really stinks. I feel like I could have fainted if I stayed there for another minute!" She exclaim as she went back to her book. That period, Tokiya couldn't listern to what Stinky had been saiding, as he tried to figure what is happening.
==========Recess, on the root top==========
"Yanagi-chan!" Recca shouted as he enters the rooftop with a bang. Team Hokage was already eating their bentos and messing around with each other. Fuuko was screaming her head out at Domon, who is trying to apologize under all her screaming. Yanagi was drawing something, and Tokiya, as usual, was in deep thoughts.
"Oh! Recca-kun! You're finally here!" Yanagi said as she put down her pencil and walk toward her ex-ninja, and now love. Recca gave Yanagi a light peak on the check, which would usually get Tokiya mad and starts going on how Recca is taking advantage of Yanagi. But today, he just sat at the far corner of the roof, and stared into mid-air.
"Mi-chan?" Fuuko asked. "Mi-Chan, are you ok?"
"Huh?" Tokiya suddenly got out of his daze. "Me? I'm. fine.."
"Well!" Fuuko exclaimed as she stops ranting on Domon, who signed a sign of relieve. " Hope everybody is coming to my Partly at Yanagi's place. Sorry to hold my partly at your place, Yanagi-Chan, but my house isn't big enough for this gang to crash into."
"Don't worry Fuuko-san, my place is just nice for the gang." Yanagi said as she returned to her sit, and took out a small bento from her bag. " Recca- kun, although my cooking isn't as good as Kagehoushi's, do you want to try it?" She asked.
"Love to, o-Hime-sama!" Recca joked. And took a bit of her bento. By now, Tokiya would have drawn out the Ensui if it was still around, but there he was, back into the daydream he was in.
"Oh yes! Fuuko! Kurei said he would be at the partly! Although he would be late, but, yeah! He would be there!" Recca said. At the mention of Kurei's name, Tokiya stood up and walked over to Recca, slowly.
"Great! Better call Raiha to tell Neon!" Fuuko said as she took out her hand set and went on to dial Raiha's number. Tokiya, ignoring this, went straight for Recca.
"Hanabishi.." Tokiya stated. " Did Kurei tell you anything about Renge?"
"Well," Recca, shocked by the question, thought about it for a minute, then answered " No, he don't really tell much of his life before we got together.. All I know is that he once had this major fight with Renge, but yar, that's all I know. Why the sudden interest"
"Nothing" The swordsman answered.. "I just hope that it's not trouble," He thought as he head on first to his classroom.
Author's note: Well, that's chapter one and the prologue for you. How is it? Know it's slow, but just wanna let the story build up slowly. still can't decide on the pairing. should it be Renge X Mikagami or Renge X Kurei? Maybe some other pairings.