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2: Trouble along the way
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Cye stood in the office of the high-school principal, Mrs. Usagi Michi. Principal Michi was well known for giving two chances to whomever before they slipped up, started fights or performed an act of vandalism against the school. Her pale green eyes twitched at the neatness of his uniform, his frizzy brown hair that seemed to be the only thing out of place and the proper attitude in her presence.
Cye dared not to move under the woman's pricing eyes, her short hair came to her jaw, her bangs her spiky clinging to her forehead, she wore a tight business suite with a skirt that showed more leg than his mother's semi-mini skirt did, so he tried to stare at her top instead of her bottom. "Please sit down, Mr. Mouri," She said rising from her spinning chair.
Cye jumped slightly in alarm when the woman's voice broke his train of thought, he nodded vigorously making his way toward the chair, flopping down onto it's cushioned seat Cye relaxed a bit. Principal Usagi ran her fingers through her damp hair leaning up against the wall beside her window. "So," Usagi began, briefly glancing at Cye. "Your the new exchange student from England, if I'm not mistaken?"
Cocking an eyebrow she awaited his answer, her fingertips drummed against her arm. Cye looked up from his hands, and nodded. "Yes, ma'am, I am," He said rather quickly. "Cye is my name if you didn't know." He chuckled nervously, blushing. I hope I don't fumble this interview.
"You English is excellent, you don't seem to have any criminal record on your file," Usagi strode back to her desk picking up a file with his name on the front, Cye fiddled nervously with the end of his jacket, he felt extremely uncomfortable around this woman, he was wishing that the Mina would come crashing through the door on a bike to rescue him. "You passed all your classes in England with flying colors, so I suppose I shouldn't tell you what could happen to you if cause trouble in my highschool, do I, Mr. Mouri?" Her pale green eyes seemed to flare lifelessly with menacing look in them.
Cye shook his head quickly. "No, Mrs. Michi, please call me Cye," He said calming down a bit, the woman had more talk in her than a chatter box on Christmas morning, he just wanted to get to his class already. Usagi placed his file into her drawer while staring at him.
Cye glanced the other way causing the woman to smirk; she had given him a fright on his first day, this was good. He knew all the rules, and not to question her authority. "Well, then Cye, have a good first day," Principal Michi said in a cheerier tone of voice surprising the boy out of his trance, she held her hand out toward him. "I'll try Mrs. Michi, thank you," He said gripping her hand.
A sudden chill ran up his spine, time seemed to stop, the room became shadowed and the only thing that remained seen was the desk that Principal Michi's hand rested firmly upon. Cye looked up at her and sensed something unnatural and unbalanced within her being, a smile spread across her face as her other hand touched Cye's wrist.
He snapped out of his trance with a gasp, the room returned, sounds of teenagers outside the door filled his ears. "Are you all right, Cye?" Usagi asked with a smile. The 16-year-old nodded weakly letting go of her hand, the feeling retreated and he relaxed again. With a quick bow he quickly gathered his backpack into his arms, fleeing the room in a hurry. Usagi smirked and rested herself into the chair, crossing her legs.
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Mina followed all her class mates toward the first subject of the day, Algebra-II, her least favorite subject in highschool and usually ended up passing her math tests with a B- or an F, which angered her parents greatly, her oldest and only sister, Junya teased her everytime she'd come through the door with her test paper in hand.
Mina frowned upon the memory as she passed the locker of the school genius, Rowen Hashiba. She noticed the blue haired boy wasn't at his locker, this of course made her wonder where in world the 17-year-old would be, at this time. Everyone was going to their classes already. "This would be the first time, he'll be late," She thought stopping for a moment, noticing a bunch of girls around in one corner, and spike of blonde hair above their heads.
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of her head, while her eyes became wide with humor. Sage Date, was the highschool pretty boy, probably the tallest Japanese boy she'd seen next to Rowen and Ryo Sanada, who was on the highschool's soccer team and was praised by fewer girls while Sage was praised almost by the entire female population in the highschool (minus the tomboys).
She concealed a giggle as Sage came walking out of the corner the girls with rosy cheeks, his uniform was neat slightly, the green jacket was half way buttoned the top buttons were left alone, while the collar of his white shirt was also unbuttoned showing his collar bone and part of his chest, all the girls followed behind him squealing and giggling to eachother.
Mina watched him pass by, he gave her a quick wave and sly smile before running off. She watched him disappear through the crowd, with his cult of fans following after him. "Eh?" Mina blinked her unnatural coalbolt blue/green eyes in question before being shoved into the classroom by other students that wanted to get through the door.
"Oi-ya! Watch it, I'm living being as you are, stop trying to make me roadkill!" She snapped at several students. They all apologized, as Mina was rushing toward her assigned desk with her name carved into the back of the seat. She hung her backpack on the chair, reaching inside of her desk to grab her Algebra tex and notebook, when a leg brushed passed hers. She didn't pay it much attention until the person spoke up. "Hey, what luck your in my class again Mina!" The male voice cried.
Mina rose from being bent over, she turned only to be surprised that a raven-haired boy planted a kiss on her cheek. Mina almost slapped the figure before realizing who it was that kissed her. "Ryo!" She exclaimed angrily pull on the ends of his hair, Ryo let out a yelp and begged for Mina to let go several times before she did so.
Ryo gazed at her with puppy-dog eyes tears brimming in them, Mina waved him off with a smirk. Being the soccer team's star player, Ryo loved to think that he and Mina were an item and Mina refused to give into her feelings for him, though she had no feelings for him at all, she'd let Ryo flirt and kiss her on the cheek for his benefit only.
"I wouldn't call that luck," She said sitting down. Ryo rolled his eyes, and settled into his chair, placing his hand against his cheek cocking his head to the side lazily staring the black board riddled with Algebra problems, he knew he was gonna flunk this class why did he even bother to come in the first place. "You know exactly why you do, Ryo Sanada!" His mind scolded him.
"You love to be around Mina. Your first and only highschool crush," Ryo nodded to himself, as the last of the students entered the room. Ryo's head suddenly raised in interest of the boy that came into the room at the last minute, the same one that caught the soccer ball earlier! "Hey, it's that kid!" He mumbled to himself. Cye bowed to the teacher, for being only a minute late, though class hadn't started yet. Their teacher, Mr. Hashini was an expert in Algebra, and didn't take too kindly to failing. "Everyone, I'd like you meet our new student from England, please introduce yourself to the class," Mr. Hashini said.
The brown-haired, robin blue-eyed boy bowed before everyone before raising to meet Ryo's confused look, he ignored it as best he could and introduced himself. "Hallo, I'm Cye Mouri, it's a pleasure to meet you all," Cye said politely as he could muster without sounding nervous. Mr. Hashini directed him over toward the seat beside Mina, Cye made his way over with a smile on his face directed toward the dirty-blonde girl and rested himself in the seat.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" Mina joked, nudging Cye in the arm. The boy laughed wholeheartedly getting a giggle out of her. Ryo's face turned red with furry, as he watched the two joking around with eachother. "He's trying to put a move on my girl!" He through jealously, balling his hands into a fists. Mr. Hashini cleared his throat to get all of his students attention including Ryo's.
"Excuse me class, you have work to do," He said sternly. "Please open your books, and we'll get started." Cye opened his book, with some from Mina who put on the lesson they were learning, giving him a shiny new sharpened pencil as well. Cye nodded in thanks glancing over at Ryo who was still fuming as he began to write in his notebook.
He couldn't shake the feeling that he knew him from someplace. Ryo felt Cye's gaze on him and balled a pice of paper from his notebook throwing it over Mina's head, popping Cye on the cheek. It wasn't a direct hit but it was satisfying enough for him. Cye glared at the raven-haired boy, before returning to his work.
"Mr. Sanada!" Came, Hashini's voice. Ryo's heart almost ceased it's beating, when he looked up realizing that Mr. Hashini was glaring straight at him. Sanada raised his eyebrows in question with innocent expression upon his face, Mr. Hashini however wasn't buying it. "Ryo, since you love throwing paper so much, you have the privilege of staying after school," He said sharply. Ryo almost fell out of his seat, when the sentence reached his ears.
"A-after school, but Mr. Hashini, I've got soccer practice then, I can't stay after school!" He exclaimed in horror. Mr. Hashini was about to open his mouth and correct Ryo, when Cye stepped into the fray. "Mr. Hashini don't punish him all he did was throw a piece of paper; a nice British way of saying 'would you like to be my friend' is all," He lied with a smile on his face.
The teacher was dumbfounded, yet skeptical. Throwing paper was the birtish way of telling someone you wanted to be their friend, all this time the children in his class threw paper at eachother was they wanted to be friends....?!! Mr. Hasini pardoned Ryo for his mistake, and the class continued on with their work. Ryo couldn't believe what he had just heard; the new kid backed him up, with newfound lie. "I think, I could get used to this kid!" He thought, writing down an answer to his work.
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Rowen Hashiba rushed into the school building like a madman with his books in his messenger bag that bounced against his side, all the halls were empty as his footsteps echoed throughout the corridor, he was late for the first time in his whole entire life! His lateness caused by being locked in his bedroom by his roaring drunk father.
He stayed there until 9:00am, he picked the lock rushing out of his bedroom, and out of the hosue before he glanced at his father dead-sleep on the couch with a liquor bottle in his hand. He wore a wrinkled blue uniform given to him by his mother by request that he'd have a different color from all the other uniforms that were Green, white, and gray. Rowen's uniform was, a Blue suit jacket, white dress shirt, and vanilla colored pants. The sleeves of his jacket were pulled up past his elbows, his father's old blue tie was around his neck underneath his dress-shirt collar untied, and his shirt was untucked hanging out.
His blue hair was wild and untamed slightly, the only thing that kept it out of his eyes, a blue head band given to him by his mother on his 13th birthday. Rowen often wondered where his mother was since she usually on an airplane without a permeant place to stay as far he was concerned. The 17-year-old skidded to a halt at the door of his class that worked on the subject of biology, he favorite subject next to astronomy.
He peered inside through the window trying to focus on what was going on inside the class room, the door opened without warning, Rowen tripped on his feet and landed head first, his chin resting on a woman's foot. "So, kind of you to join us Mr. Hashiba," The woman spoke dryly. Rowen looked up gazing upon the beautiful teacher, Mrs. Taku Kazi, a biology teacher the boy had since 5th grade. She had fair brown hair that stopped at her shoulders, brown eyes, slim body, and brown skin.
She had recently come to teach here and Rowen was surprised to find her teaching in the same highschool he was attending. Mrs. Kazi, kneeled in front of him, Rowen caught a glimpse of her underwear and grinned sheepishly as she helped him up. "I'm sorry Mrs. Kazi, I overslept after studying really late at night," He lied stepping into the room. She accepted his excuse.
Several students giggles caused him to bow his head in embarrassment, he didn't want anymore attention directed toward him. "Please sit next to, Mr. Date please, he has the same assignment as you Rowen," Mrs. Kazi returning to her desk. "The modern theory of evolution." Rowen sat next to the blonde, getting a strong familiar feeling from him for some unknown reason.
Rowen opened his biology book and skimmed through the contents for chapter 29: The modern theory of evolution. His blue eyes shifted toward the blonde, his biology book was face down with his tex book beside it on the right, his finger placed upon the page underneath the possible paragraph he was reading, his violet eyes moving back and forth in interest: A grin appeared out of nowhere on his face.
Rowen arched eyebrow in surprise, he was sitting beside someone who actually enjoyed reading biology almost as much as he did. The blonde was so caught up in his read, he didn't even feel Rowen's pencil poking him in the arm. "Pst! Blonie, what's your name?" Rowen whispered, leaning over.
The violet-eyed boy's gaze shifted toward the blue-haired boy in question, his lips formed a thin line indicating he was either annoyed by Rowen disturbing him or curious, wondering why he wanted to know his name. The blonde stared forward, Mrs. Kazi's back was turned, he returned his attention to Rowen with a more relaxed expression.
"Sage, Sage Date," He said, returning to his reading. Rowen sighed, this kid was harder to crack than a nutshell, he tapped Sage again, the blonde turned this time in annoyance. "I'm Rowen Hashiba, nice to be meet you Sage," He held his hand out, Sage reluctantly shook his hand. Rowen nodded when he heard Mrs. Kazi place the chalk on the small mantle below the chalkboard, the two quickly returned to their work as Mrs. Kazi turned to face to her class.
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Lunchtime had come, and Kento Rei Faun stood in front of his locker staring at the horizontal lines on the top of it, wondering how he could open his combination lock after he had forgotten the code over night after repeating it over and over in his head several times. His lunch was inside and without food he couldn't think, much less survive the day without it.
He certainly didn't want to eat the lunch food in the lunch lady served. "Man, that's the last time I buy a combination lock!" Kento shouted, punching his locker. He left an enormous dent in the locker, to Faun's surprise the lock was destroyed and the door swung open, revealing all the contents inside including his lunch bag.
Kento grinned like an idiot, grabbing his brown paper bag. He shut the dented door placing the broken lock on it, he noticed the odd warped shape the lock held but payed it no attention, he quickly rushed down the hall toward the exit of the building, it was too much of a beautiful sunny day to stay cooped up inside the school building. "Now, I'm jammin'," He thought to himself.
Inside the cafeteria, Sage sat at the table that resided in the center of the lunchroom accompanied by Rowen who was talking his mouth off about the stars at night and how he loved them since he was a small child, mainly trying to lure the blonde 17-year-old into a conversation wanting to get to know him better. As far as Sage was concerned, Rowen was saying Blah, Blah, Blah.
It didn't seem to be working though as he watched Sage chew on his strangely rough turkey in the sandwich, his mother packed him for lunch, along with V8-vegetable drink, a small bag of chips (given to him by his little sister, Satsuki by ten years), and Danimal's yogurt. Rowen found this a very, very odd thing to be eating for lunch, but said nothing of it. "Uhh, so tell me about yourself, Sage," Rowen piped up after examining his lunch.
Sage swallowed a bite of his sandwich taking another, he glanced at his blue-haired friend and explained partial things about his life, skipping over his history of fragile health as a child told Rowen of his rebellious streak, family, love for fast cars, kendo and the reason his hair covered his right eye. Rowen of course could see why all girls flocked toward him, or at least part of why they swooned when he was around, but was nonetheless pleased about whar he had learned about him.
"Anything else you'd like to know?" He said, annoyed. Rowen shook his head, stealing a chip from Sage's bag. The blonde wacked the blue-eyed boy upside the head, as he popped the chip into his mouth. Rowen choked on the rippled salty fating potato in his mouth managing to swallow it painfully.
He stared into Sage's eye, receiving the weird yet familiar feeling again. Sage poked him when an arm came around neck, and lips placed themselves on his cheek. Both boys turned to see who it was. Two medium sized gray eyes stared into Sage's face, strands of blonde hair brushed against his cheek as he soon realized who it was, when she spoke. "Hiya Sage!" The small childlike voice chirped.
Rowen stiffled a laugh, at the surprised look on Sage's face. 7-year-old Satsuki Date, unwrapped her arms from around her brother, walking around him she placed herself between them with a friendly smile, before she turned to the boy Sage was sitting with. "Who are you?" She asked grabbing Sage's bag of chips. Rowen touseled the girls hair that was up in a ponytail. "My name's Rowen Hashiba, nice to meet you," He said shaking her hand.
Satsuki giggled munching on her brother's snack. "I'm Satsuki," The gray eyed girl said with a mouth-full of chips. "Your the first boy, Sage has befriended, if I'm not mistaken." Rowen rolled his eyes at the girl's comment, he was sure Sage had plenty guy-friends, but then again he probably didn't due of his magnetic pull on girls. Sage stared at his little sister with narrowed eyes as he drank his V8. "Shouldn't you be in school, Satsuki?" He asked, cocking an eyebrow at her.
Satsuki turned around to face her brother, she stuck her potato chip covered tongue out at him, before returning her attention to Rowen. "No, mom says I could have the day off," Satsuki said reaching for her brother's Danimal's yogurt. "Sage doesn't have any non-family friends, I'm glad he met you, though I've got this strange feeling that you look oddly familiar Mr. Rowen." The blue haired boy fought the urge to laugh at the girl's energetic personality.
Sage moved his lunch box away from her grabby little fingers shutting it. Satsuki's lip quivered, her eyes became big and watery; Sage knew she was going to cry if he didn't give her the yogurt and he didn't want to be known as the boy who made little girls cry. He quickly opened his lunch box, he hadned her the container with a defeated sigh.
Satuski smiled snatching the yogurt from her brother opening the container. "Thank you Onii-san," She quipped, drinking the substance inside the container like as though it were a drink. Rowen and Sage exchanged glances before, they closed their lunch boxes.
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Cye sat outside underneath a shady tree, eating his sister's homemade hamburger with everything on it (minus fish), with Mina and Ryo up in the tree sitting on a branch sipping on her diet-coke, the raven haired boy munching on a candybar. He watched the students run around in circles mainly, making himself dizzy. He blinked a few times to relieve his dizziness as he finished off his hamburger, as shadow cast itself over him.
Cye looked up in question to whom it was, several boys stood behind a muscular boy that stood an inch taller than they did. "Hello, what can I do for you?" He asked kindly, before he felt himself being hoisted up by his shirt. Cye was a bit taken aback by the boy's sudden action, he couldn't feel his feet on the ground anymore, his back was slammed against the tree.
The 16-year-old was wondering what he had done wrong, to deserve being slammed up against a tree while biting back the pain. He cracked open an eye glaring at the bully before him. "W-what did, I do?" He squeaked out. The bully shrugged bringing his arm back, balling his hand into a fist ready to punch Cye.
Cye turned his head on the right shutting his eyes awaiting for the blow, he heard the sound of the bully's fist colliding with something but it wasn't his face, peeking Cye found a shaggy haired boy between himself and the bully, his hand held the bully's fist. Mina came jumping out of the tree, followed closely by Ryo crouching on the ground, to find out what the commotion was all about.
"Get outa my way, Kento!" The bully, know as Yuy Iori hissed between his teeth. Kento shook his finger at him before pushing him away from Cye and himself. Yuy's grip on Cye's shirt loosened, and he fell over onto his bottom with a grunt. Ryo came next to Kento ready to fight, while Mina checked Cye over for any serious injuries or even minor ones. Ryo glared at the group of boys who were helping Yuy up. "Take a hike creeps," Ryo snapped. Yuy spit on Kento's orange shoe and walked away with his would-be friends following.
Ryo glanced at Kento with a look of confusion. Kento offered his hand to the raven haired boy, Ryo gladly shook it with a cocky grin on his face. "Nice, move," He said releasing Kento's hand. "Thanks, I'm Kento Rei Faun," The dark gray haired boy replied smugly, shoving his hands into his pants-pockets.
Ryo was susprised to see the boy wasn't wearing a white-dress shirt, but a orange T-shirt instead with the words 'Mountain dew live wire' labeled onto it, tucked insid his pants. "Ryo Sanada," He said, as he pointed toward the two behind him.
"Her name's Mina Kojiya, and his is Cye Mouri." Kento could tell this boy had a habit to introduce other people. Cye came up beside Ryo, Mina following closely behind. The english-accented boy bowed to Kento, the gray haired boy became confused. "Thanks for helping me out," He said sheepishly.
Kento's confused expression turned into a proud and brave one. "Just call me 'mr. helpful'!" He replied, before pointing his thumb at the bullies reteating backs. "Besides, they love to pick on all the new kids for no reason at all." Cye nodded clamping his hand on his shoulder, messaging it. Mina was busy packing her brown paper bag that once held her lunch into her backpack, throwing one strap over her right shoulder with a sigh.
2: Trouble along the way
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Cye stood in the office of the high-school principal, Mrs. Usagi Michi. Principal Michi was well known for giving two chances to whomever before they slipped up, started fights or performed an act of vandalism against the school. Her pale green eyes twitched at the neatness of his uniform, his frizzy brown hair that seemed to be the only thing out of place and the proper attitude in her presence.
Cye dared not to move under the woman's pricing eyes, her short hair came to her jaw, her bangs her spiky clinging to her forehead, she wore a tight business suite with a skirt that showed more leg than his mother's semi-mini skirt did, so he tried to stare at her top instead of her bottom. "Please sit down, Mr. Mouri," She said rising from her spinning chair.
Cye jumped slightly in alarm when the woman's voice broke his train of thought, he nodded vigorously making his way toward the chair, flopping down onto it's cushioned seat Cye relaxed a bit. Principal Usagi ran her fingers through her damp hair leaning up against the wall beside her window. "So," Usagi began, briefly glancing at Cye. "Your the new exchange student from England, if I'm not mistaken?"
Cocking an eyebrow she awaited his answer, her fingertips drummed against her arm. Cye looked up from his hands, and nodded. "Yes, ma'am, I am," He said rather quickly. "Cye is my name if you didn't know." He chuckled nervously, blushing. I hope I don't fumble this interview.
"You English is excellent, you don't seem to have any criminal record on your file," Usagi strode back to her desk picking up a file with his name on the front, Cye fiddled nervously with the end of his jacket, he felt extremely uncomfortable around this woman, he was wishing that the Mina would come crashing through the door on a bike to rescue him. "You passed all your classes in England with flying colors, so I suppose I shouldn't tell you what could happen to you if cause trouble in my highschool, do I, Mr. Mouri?" Her pale green eyes seemed to flare lifelessly with menacing look in them.
Cye shook his head quickly. "No, Mrs. Michi, please call me Cye," He said calming down a bit, the woman had more talk in her than a chatter box on Christmas morning, he just wanted to get to his class already. Usagi placed his file into her drawer while staring at him.
Cye glanced the other way causing the woman to smirk; she had given him a fright on his first day, this was good. He knew all the rules, and not to question her authority. "Well, then Cye, have a good first day," Principal Michi said in a cheerier tone of voice surprising the boy out of his trance, she held her hand out toward him. "I'll try Mrs. Michi, thank you," He said gripping her hand.
A sudden chill ran up his spine, time seemed to stop, the room became shadowed and the only thing that remained seen was the desk that Principal Michi's hand rested firmly upon. Cye looked up at her and sensed something unnatural and unbalanced within her being, a smile spread across her face as her other hand touched Cye's wrist.
He snapped out of his trance with a gasp, the room returned, sounds of teenagers outside the door filled his ears. "Are you all right, Cye?" Usagi asked with a smile. The 16-year-old nodded weakly letting go of her hand, the feeling retreated and he relaxed again. With a quick bow he quickly gathered his backpack into his arms, fleeing the room in a hurry. Usagi smirked and rested herself into the chair, crossing her legs.
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Mina followed all her class mates toward the first subject of the day, Algebra-II, her least favorite subject in highschool and usually ended up passing her math tests with a B- or an F, which angered her parents greatly, her oldest and only sister, Junya teased her everytime she'd come through the door with her test paper in hand.
Mina frowned upon the memory as she passed the locker of the school genius, Rowen Hashiba. She noticed the blue haired boy wasn't at his locker, this of course made her wonder where in world the 17-year-old would be, at this time. Everyone was going to their classes already. "This would be the first time, he'll be late," She thought stopping for a moment, noticing a bunch of girls around in one corner, and spike of blonde hair above their heads.
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of her head, while her eyes became wide with humor. Sage Date, was the highschool pretty boy, probably the tallest Japanese boy she'd seen next to Rowen and Ryo Sanada, who was on the highschool's soccer team and was praised by fewer girls while Sage was praised almost by the entire female population in the highschool (minus the tomboys).
She concealed a giggle as Sage came walking out of the corner the girls with rosy cheeks, his uniform was neat slightly, the green jacket was half way buttoned the top buttons were left alone, while the collar of his white shirt was also unbuttoned showing his collar bone and part of his chest, all the girls followed behind him squealing and giggling to eachother.
Mina watched him pass by, he gave her a quick wave and sly smile before running off. She watched him disappear through the crowd, with his cult of fans following after him. "Eh?" Mina blinked her unnatural coalbolt blue/green eyes in question before being shoved into the classroom by other students that wanted to get through the door.
"Oi-ya! Watch it, I'm living being as you are, stop trying to make me roadkill!" She snapped at several students. They all apologized, as Mina was rushing toward her assigned desk with her name carved into the back of the seat. She hung her backpack on the chair, reaching inside of her desk to grab her Algebra tex and notebook, when a leg brushed passed hers. She didn't pay it much attention until the person spoke up. "Hey, what luck your in my class again Mina!" The male voice cried.
Mina rose from being bent over, she turned only to be surprised that a raven-haired boy planted a kiss on her cheek. Mina almost slapped the figure before realizing who it was that kissed her. "Ryo!" She exclaimed angrily pull on the ends of his hair, Ryo let out a yelp and begged for Mina to let go several times before she did so.
Ryo gazed at her with puppy-dog eyes tears brimming in them, Mina waved him off with a smirk. Being the soccer team's star player, Ryo loved to think that he and Mina were an item and Mina refused to give into her feelings for him, though she had no feelings for him at all, she'd let Ryo flirt and kiss her on the cheek for his benefit only.
"I wouldn't call that luck," She said sitting down. Ryo rolled his eyes, and settled into his chair, placing his hand against his cheek cocking his head to the side lazily staring the black board riddled with Algebra problems, he knew he was gonna flunk this class why did he even bother to come in the first place. "You know exactly why you do, Ryo Sanada!" His mind scolded him.
"You love to be around Mina. Your first and only highschool crush," Ryo nodded to himself, as the last of the students entered the room. Ryo's head suddenly raised in interest of the boy that came into the room at the last minute, the same one that caught the soccer ball earlier! "Hey, it's that kid!" He mumbled to himself. Cye bowed to the teacher, for being only a minute late, though class hadn't started yet. Their teacher, Mr. Hashini was an expert in Algebra, and didn't take too kindly to failing. "Everyone, I'd like you meet our new student from England, please introduce yourself to the class," Mr. Hashini said.
The brown-haired, robin blue-eyed boy bowed before everyone before raising to meet Ryo's confused look, he ignored it as best he could and introduced himself. "Hallo, I'm Cye Mouri, it's a pleasure to meet you all," Cye said politely as he could muster without sounding nervous. Mr. Hashini directed him over toward the seat beside Mina, Cye made his way over with a smile on his face directed toward the dirty-blonde girl and rested himself in the seat.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" Mina joked, nudging Cye in the arm. The boy laughed wholeheartedly getting a giggle out of her. Ryo's face turned red with furry, as he watched the two joking around with eachother. "He's trying to put a move on my girl!" He through jealously, balling his hands into a fists. Mr. Hashini cleared his throat to get all of his students attention including Ryo's.
"Excuse me class, you have work to do," He said sternly. "Please open your books, and we'll get started." Cye opened his book, with some from Mina who put on the lesson they were learning, giving him a shiny new sharpened pencil as well. Cye nodded in thanks glancing over at Ryo who was still fuming as he began to write in his notebook.
He couldn't shake the feeling that he knew him from someplace. Ryo felt Cye's gaze on him and balled a pice of paper from his notebook throwing it over Mina's head, popping Cye on the cheek. It wasn't a direct hit but it was satisfying enough for him. Cye glared at the raven-haired boy, before returning to his work.
"Mr. Sanada!" Came, Hashini's voice. Ryo's heart almost ceased it's beating, when he looked up realizing that Mr. Hashini was glaring straight at him. Sanada raised his eyebrows in question with innocent expression upon his face, Mr. Hashini however wasn't buying it. "Ryo, since you love throwing paper so much, you have the privilege of staying after school," He said sharply. Ryo almost fell out of his seat, when the sentence reached his ears.
"A-after school, but Mr. Hashini, I've got soccer practice then, I can't stay after school!" He exclaimed in horror. Mr. Hashini was about to open his mouth and correct Ryo, when Cye stepped into the fray. "Mr. Hashini don't punish him all he did was throw a piece of paper; a nice British way of saying 'would you like to be my friend' is all," He lied with a smile on his face.
The teacher was dumbfounded, yet skeptical. Throwing paper was the birtish way of telling someone you wanted to be their friend, all this time the children in his class threw paper at eachother was they wanted to be friends....?!! Mr. Hasini pardoned Ryo for his mistake, and the class continued on with their work. Ryo couldn't believe what he had just heard; the new kid backed him up, with newfound lie. "I think, I could get used to this kid!" He thought, writing down an answer to his work.
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Rowen Hashiba rushed into the school building like a madman with his books in his messenger bag that bounced against his side, all the halls were empty as his footsteps echoed throughout the corridor, he was late for the first time in his whole entire life! His lateness caused by being locked in his bedroom by his roaring drunk father.
He stayed there until 9:00am, he picked the lock rushing out of his bedroom, and out of the hosue before he glanced at his father dead-sleep on the couch with a liquor bottle in his hand. He wore a wrinkled blue uniform given to him by his mother by request that he'd have a different color from all the other uniforms that were Green, white, and gray. Rowen's uniform was, a Blue suit jacket, white dress shirt, and vanilla colored pants. The sleeves of his jacket were pulled up past his elbows, his father's old blue tie was around his neck underneath his dress-shirt collar untied, and his shirt was untucked hanging out.
His blue hair was wild and untamed slightly, the only thing that kept it out of his eyes, a blue head band given to him by his mother on his 13th birthday. Rowen often wondered where his mother was since she usually on an airplane without a permeant place to stay as far he was concerned. The 17-year-old skidded to a halt at the door of his class that worked on the subject of biology, he favorite subject next to astronomy.
He peered inside through the window trying to focus on what was going on inside the class room, the door opened without warning, Rowen tripped on his feet and landed head first, his chin resting on a woman's foot. "So, kind of you to join us Mr. Hashiba," The woman spoke dryly. Rowen looked up gazing upon the beautiful teacher, Mrs. Taku Kazi, a biology teacher the boy had since 5th grade. She had fair brown hair that stopped at her shoulders, brown eyes, slim body, and brown skin.
She had recently come to teach here and Rowen was surprised to find her teaching in the same highschool he was attending. Mrs. Kazi, kneeled in front of him, Rowen caught a glimpse of her underwear and grinned sheepishly as she helped him up. "I'm sorry Mrs. Kazi, I overslept after studying really late at night," He lied stepping into the room. She accepted his excuse.
Several students giggles caused him to bow his head in embarrassment, he didn't want anymore attention directed toward him. "Please sit next to, Mr. Date please, he has the same assignment as you Rowen," Mrs. Kazi returning to her desk. "The modern theory of evolution." Rowen sat next to the blonde, getting a strong familiar feeling from him for some unknown reason.
Rowen opened his biology book and skimmed through the contents for chapter 29: The modern theory of evolution. His blue eyes shifted toward the blonde, his biology book was face down with his tex book beside it on the right, his finger placed upon the page underneath the possible paragraph he was reading, his violet eyes moving back and forth in interest: A grin appeared out of nowhere on his face.
Rowen arched eyebrow in surprise, he was sitting beside someone who actually enjoyed reading biology almost as much as he did. The blonde was so caught up in his read, he didn't even feel Rowen's pencil poking him in the arm. "Pst! Blonie, what's your name?" Rowen whispered, leaning over.
The violet-eyed boy's gaze shifted toward the blue-haired boy in question, his lips formed a thin line indicating he was either annoyed by Rowen disturbing him or curious, wondering why he wanted to know his name. The blonde stared forward, Mrs. Kazi's back was turned, he returned his attention to Rowen with a more relaxed expression.
"Sage, Sage Date," He said, returning to his reading. Rowen sighed, this kid was harder to crack than a nutshell, he tapped Sage again, the blonde turned this time in annoyance. "I'm Rowen Hashiba, nice to be meet you Sage," He held his hand out, Sage reluctantly shook his hand. Rowen nodded when he heard Mrs. Kazi place the chalk on the small mantle below the chalkboard, the two quickly returned to their work as Mrs. Kazi turned to face to her class.
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Lunchtime had come, and Kento Rei Faun stood in front of his locker staring at the horizontal lines on the top of it, wondering how he could open his combination lock after he had forgotten the code over night after repeating it over and over in his head several times. His lunch was inside and without food he couldn't think, much less survive the day without it.
He certainly didn't want to eat the lunch food in the lunch lady served. "Man, that's the last time I buy a combination lock!" Kento shouted, punching his locker. He left an enormous dent in the locker, to Faun's surprise the lock was destroyed and the door swung open, revealing all the contents inside including his lunch bag.
Kento grinned like an idiot, grabbing his brown paper bag. He shut the dented door placing the broken lock on it, he noticed the odd warped shape the lock held but payed it no attention, he quickly rushed down the hall toward the exit of the building, it was too much of a beautiful sunny day to stay cooped up inside the school building. "Now, I'm jammin'," He thought to himself.
Inside the cafeteria, Sage sat at the table that resided in the center of the lunchroom accompanied by Rowen who was talking his mouth off about the stars at night and how he loved them since he was a small child, mainly trying to lure the blonde 17-year-old into a conversation wanting to get to know him better. As far as Sage was concerned, Rowen was saying Blah, Blah, Blah.
It didn't seem to be working though as he watched Sage chew on his strangely rough turkey in the sandwich, his mother packed him for lunch, along with V8-vegetable drink, a small bag of chips (given to him by his little sister, Satsuki by ten years), and Danimal's yogurt. Rowen found this a very, very odd thing to be eating for lunch, but said nothing of it. "Uhh, so tell me about yourself, Sage," Rowen piped up after examining his lunch.
Sage swallowed a bite of his sandwich taking another, he glanced at his blue-haired friend and explained partial things about his life, skipping over his history of fragile health as a child told Rowen of his rebellious streak, family, love for fast cars, kendo and the reason his hair covered his right eye. Rowen of course could see why all girls flocked toward him, or at least part of why they swooned when he was around, but was nonetheless pleased about whar he had learned about him.
"Anything else you'd like to know?" He said, annoyed. Rowen shook his head, stealing a chip from Sage's bag. The blonde wacked the blue-eyed boy upside the head, as he popped the chip into his mouth. Rowen choked on the rippled salty fating potato in his mouth managing to swallow it painfully.
He stared into Sage's eye, receiving the weird yet familiar feeling again. Sage poked him when an arm came around neck, and lips placed themselves on his cheek. Both boys turned to see who it was. Two medium sized gray eyes stared into Sage's face, strands of blonde hair brushed against his cheek as he soon realized who it was, when she spoke. "Hiya Sage!" The small childlike voice chirped.
Rowen stiffled a laugh, at the surprised look on Sage's face. 7-year-old Satsuki Date, unwrapped her arms from around her brother, walking around him she placed herself between them with a friendly smile, before she turned to the boy Sage was sitting with. "Who are you?" She asked grabbing Sage's bag of chips. Rowen touseled the girls hair that was up in a ponytail. "My name's Rowen Hashiba, nice to meet you," He said shaking her hand.
Satsuki giggled munching on her brother's snack. "I'm Satsuki," The gray eyed girl said with a mouth-full of chips. "Your the first boy, Sage has befriended, if I'm not mistaken." Rowen rolled his eyes at the girl's comment, he was sure Sage had plenty guy-friends, but then again he probably didn't due of his magnetic pull on girls. Sage stared at his little sister with narrowed eyes as he drank his V8. "Shouldn't you be in school, Satsuki?" He asked, cocking an eyebrow at her.
Satsuki turned around to face her brother, she stuck her potato chip covered tongue out at him, before returning her attention to Rowen. "No, mom says I could have the day off," Satsuki said reaching for her brother's Danimal's yogurt. "Sage doesn't have any non-family friends, I'm glad he met you, though I've got this strange feeling that you look oddly familiar Mr. Rowen." The blue haired boy fought the urge to laugh at the girl's energetic personality.
Sage moved his lunch box away from her grabby little fingers shutting it. Satsuki's lip quivered, her eyes became big and watery; Sage knew she was going to cry if he didn't give her the yogurt and he didn't want to be known as the boy who made little girls cry. He quickly opened his lunch box, he hadned her the container with a defeated sigh.
Satuski smiled snatching the yogurt from her brother opening the container. "Thank you Onii-san," She quipped, drinking the substance inside the container like as though it were a drink. Rowen and Sage exchanged glances before, they closed their lunch boxes.
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Cye sat outside underneath a shady tree, eating his sister's homemade hamburger with everything on it (minus fish), with Mina and Ryo up in the tree sitting on a branch sipping on her diet-coke, the raven haired boy munching on a candybar. He watched the students run around in circles mainly, making himself dizzy. He blinked a few times to relieve his dizziness as he finished off his hamburger, as shadow cast itself over him.
Cye looked up in question to whom it was, several boys stood behind a muscular boy that stood an inch taller than they did. "Hello, what can I do for you?" He asked kindly, before he felt himself being hoisted up by his shirt. Cye was a bit taken aback by the boy's sudden action, he couldn't feel his feet on the ground anymore, his back was slammed against the tree.
The 16-year-old was wondering what he had done wrong, to deserve being slammed up against a tree while biting back the pain. He cracked open an eye glaring at the bully before him. "W-what did, I do?" He squeaked out. The bully shrugged bringing his arm back, balling his hand into a fist ready to punch Cye.
Cye turned his head on the right shutting his eyes awaiting for the blow, he heard the sound of the bully's fist colliding with something but it wasn't his face, peeking Cye found a shaggy haired boy between himself and the bully, his hand held the bully's fist. Mina came jumping out of the tree, followed closely by Ryo crouching on the ground, to find out what the commotion was all about.
"Get outa my way, Kento!" The bully, know as Yuy Iori hissed between his teeth. Kento shook his finger at him before pushing him away from Cye and himself. Yuy's grip on Cye's shirt loosened, and he fell over onto his bottom with a grunt. Ryo came next to Kento ready to fight, while Mina checked Cye over for any serious injuries or even minor ones. Ryo glared at the group of boys who were helping Yuy up. "Take a hike creeps," Ryo snapped. Yuy spit on Kento's orange shoe and walked away with his would-be friends following.
Ryo glanced at Kento with a look of confusion. Kento offered his hand to the raven haired boy, Ryo gladly shook it with a cocky grin on his face. "Nice, move," He said releasing Kento's hand. "Thanks, I'm Kento Rei Faun," The dark gray haired boy replied smugly, shoving his hands into his pants-pockets.
Ryo was susprised to see the boy wasn't wearing a white-dress shirt, but a orange T-shirt instead with the words 'Mountain dew live wire' labeled onto it, tucked insid his pants. "Ryo Sanada," He said, as he pointed toward the two behind him.
"Her name's Mina Kojiya, and his is Cye Mouri." Kento could tell this boy had a habit to introduce other people. Cye came up beside Ryo, Mina following closely behind. The english-accented boy bowed to Kento, the gray haired boy became confused. "Thanks for helping me out," He said sheepishly.
Kento's confused expression turned into a proud and brave one. "Just call me 'mr. helpful'!" He replied, before pointing his thumb at the bullies reteating backs. "Besides, they love to pick on all the new kids for no reason at all." Cye nodded clamping his hand on his shoulder, messaging it. Mina was busy packing her brown paper bag that once held her lunch into her backpack, throwing one strap over her right shoulder with a sigh.