The crashing of flames as they roared. The fury they brought as they burned everything in their path way. A scared figure of a young boy was stuck in the middle of it, surround and no way to escape. He was paralyzed with fear as he couldn't find his way out. Looking around desperately and saw another figure trying to get to him.

"HELP ME PLEASE!!" the trapped boy shouted trying to get to the running figure.

"I'M COMING!! DON'T WORRY!!" the other replied.

The fire was getting worse as the running figure was getting multiple burns on his arms and the fire was enclosing on the poor boy to scared to move. As the running figure was almost an arm reach distance to the scared boy, something cracked from above. A wooden pillar was coming down towards them fast. Before the running figure could think, he was pulled back by and held tightly.

"LEMME GO ARASHI!! LEMME GO!! I HAFTA SAVE HIM!! ARASHI!!"

Arashi struggled to hold in the boy, but he saw that a blue blur was heading towards the scared boy and nodded. But then paled when the blur made it to the boy, but the pillar came crashing on top of the two of them. Arashi used his other arm to shield his eyes from the blast and looked. Both were afraid but it was too late. There didn't seem to be any signs of life and they had to get out of here.

"We must leave now master." Arashi said sadly taking flight.

"NNNOOO!!! ARASHI HE'S STILL ALIVE!! I KNOW IT!! NANASHI!!"

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" NANSHI!!"

The figure in the bed sprang up sweating breathing rapidly. His dark blond hair was stuck to his face by the sweat and raising a quivering hand to his face trying to recall the dream. He shook his head and looked at the electric clock by his bed.

'Two in the morning? Damn. I haven't been getting enough freakin sleep lately.' He thought. He looked at his arms as they were still bandaged from his wrists to the middle of his arm.

"Why. I know he didn't die!! Azul wouldn't let him but what happened!! Is that damn nightmare always haunting me because I couldn't save him!?" he shouted to no one and fell back onto his bed. His green eyes glaring at the ceiling.

"Two years. Two whole damn bloody year!! I know I'll find him one day." He muttered as he slowly fell back to sleep.

"I'll find you little brother." Sighed Vincent

~~~The Next Morning~~~~

"Ohayao Minn~a!!" chirped a rather perky Kristy Maxell. She waved to Averus who was at the stove and grinned at Trista who just sat down at the table.

"Ohayao Kristy. I'm almost done with breakfast and we can eat as soon as Vincent is here." Smiled Averus as he turned off the stove and placed some freshly made bacon and pancakes.

"Yummy!!" grinned Kristy.

"Hold you horses Kristy!! Averus said we had to wait for Vincent." Said Trista.

"But I can't, on account that you're the one that has a horse." Smirked Kristy.

"Oi!! Are you making fun of Dominion!?" shouted Trista.

"If that's what you think." Replied Kristy.

"Why you." growled Trista a

"Okay, okay. We don't need this so early in the morning you two." Stated Averus.

They two just growled at each other again and sat down. They waited a few more minutes and a tired Vincent walked in rubbing his head. He was rubbing his forehead and slowly got his coffee and sat down across from Averus and next to Kristy.

"Damn." Muttered Vincent still rubbing his forehead.

"Vincent, what's wrong?" asked Kristy eating her pancakes.

"I haven't had a decent sleep for a while and it's starting to get annoying." Grumbled Vincent as he tiredly drank his coffee.

"Maybe that's why you're drinking coffee powder, you forgot to add the water." Stated Averus.

"Wha? DAMMNIT NOT AGAIN!!" yelled Vincent as he went to the sink and spat out the coffee power and added hot water to what was left in his mug. Trista and Kristy had stopped eating and looking at their leader.

"Are you sure you're alright? You seem really out of it Vincent." Said Trista as she finished up her pancakes.

"Yeah. Usually you don't utter a word to us in the morning." Added Kristy as she bit into her toast.

"It's nothing." Grumbled Vincent as he finally got the coffee he needed ate his breakfast. The others looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders and finished eating their breakfast quietly. Once they finished and were cleaning up, Vincent got up and muttered something and was about to leave the apartment.

"I always wondered where you go, can we come Vincent?" asked Kristy.

"KRISTY!?" shouted Averus and Trista.

Vincent looked at them for a minute and sighed.

"Don't lag; I won't slow down if you do. It's gonna take a while so keep up." Was all he said and walked out the door.

The other three just stood their wide-eyed that Vincent actually agreed with Kristy. They got over their initial shock and started shouting for Vincent to wait for them, as they grabbed their shoes and jackets and ran outside.

"OI!! VINCENT CHOTTO MATTE!!"

"Geez, you think we'd be use to this by now."

"Well, I am rather curious into where Vincent disappears to."

They saw Vincent disappear around a corner and shouted,

"HEY WAIT FOR US!!"

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"Vin~cent, where are we going?" moaned Kristy, "are we there yet? I'm getting hungry"

"Oh stop your complaining Kristy!!" replied an annoyed Trista. Kristy glared.

"This coming from you, the person who was muttering curses of why she bothered to follow when she could have stayed home?" Kristy replied.

Then a heated argument erupted from the two girls again and it was still in the morning. Averus stared at the girls and then tried to act like the peacemaker.

Vincent sighed. He should have known better than to let Kristy and the others go with him, as he knew Kristy didn't enjoy long walks. Especially to destinations unknown.

"Will the two of you just be quiet for more than a damn hour!!" shouted Vincent. That shut the girls up pretty quickly and Averus sighed in relief and as they continued walking, Averus got in stride with Vincent.

"So where ARE we heading, if I may so bold as to ask?" Averus asked.

"..my old neighborhood." Was all Vincent said and quickened his pace, leaving Averus gaping.

'His old neighborhood!? For as long as I've known Vincent the most he says about his neighborhood is /that place/. Why would he want to go back there?' thought Averus confused as he then went to catch up to Vincent.

Trista and Kristy stopped their glaring when they saw Averus run ahead and noticed how far behind they are to the two of them.

"OI!! WHAT'S WITH THE SUDDEN RUSH!!" shouted Trista running.

"GUYS!! WAIT FOR US!!" added Kristy running after Trista.

As everyone finally caught up to their leader, Vincent suddenly halted making Averus crash into him, Trista into Averus and Kristy into Trista.

"Hey Vincent, why'd you stop?" asked Trista rubbing her nose.

"It's this school." Vincent said growling.

Averus looked around the corner to take a peek at the school. He whistle, it was huge. It was about three or four stories high and was attached to two other buildings on each side. The outside sports fields were enormous. In front of the buildings was a huge grass field with trees and a rather large black gate surrounding it.

"So what's wrong with this school?" asked Averus. He really didn't see any problems with the school, actually in his own opinion it looked like a NICE school.

"It's not THE school, it's a someone inside. Remember that time when I said I was going to buy the supplies, since it was my turn that one week?" Vincent replied.

"Yeah. You were wearing that school uniform and looked pissed." Trista replied back.

"Well the thing is. That school is very demanding at wanting kids exceeding and they're very strict when it comes to education." Vincent stated.

"And that would have to do with you and the supplies.how?" asked Kristy confused.

"Well, I had finally found all the things on the list that Averus had given me that day and as I was walking back from the store." started Vincent.

****Flashback***

It was early in the morning and Vincent was coming back from a store for supplies for his team.

"Well, It is my turn to get them." He said to himself. As he rounded a corner he saw a huge school and a large black gate. A lot of kids were piling to get through the gate.

"Okay, I think I got everything." Vincent said talking to him self as he carried two plastic bags in his hands and looking at the list in the other hand. As he was walking by a familiar black gate a man wearing a suit and glasses walking by the gate on the school's field and saw Vincent walking by with the supplies.

"Hey you!! Kid!!" shouted the man walking to the gate.

Vincent stopped and raised an eyebrow as he saw the man walking towards him.

"What?" Vincent asked bluntly and annoyed.

"How old are you kid?" replied the man. Vincent just stared at the man.

"Why should I tell you old man?" he replied frowning.

"Ho.how dare you!! I'm the highly and respected Principal Domino Hajime of Serikyuu high school which." boasted Principal Hajime.

"IN WHICH I DO NOT CARE IN THE LEAST OLD MAN!!" shouted Vincent pleasantly pissed at the principal.

Principal Hajime stared back at the pissed Vincent and straitened his tie and asked some more questions.

"What's you name?"

"I ain't tellin' ya old man."

"Where do you live?"

"In an apartment."

"Who're you family?"

"None of your business"

"Are they with you now?"

"They've disappeared for a while."

"So you live alone?"

"Not exactly."

"Then you live with your parents."

"No. I live with some others. My team."

"Your team? I'll ask you again. How old are you?"

"*sigh* Fine. If it'll shut your damn flapping jaws I'm fifteen years old."

When the principal heard this he was applaud.

'Fifteen!! And this kid is living by himself with some OTHERS!?' Principal Hajime thought to himself and jumping to conclusions.

Principal Hajime walked up to the annoyed Vincent and started to pull him into the school. Vincent protested and started to get out of the man's grip, it would've been easier if he didn't have the supplies but he did, and couldn't get out of the grip as easily as he would have usually been able to.

"Hey old man!! Let go of me right now!! I have to get back to my apartment!! My friends are waiting for me!!" shouted Vincent, causing people to stare at the blond.

"Why's Principal Hajime pulling that struggling boy into the schoolyard?"

"I dunno, but he can't be from this school or any other, 'cause he doesn't have a uniform."

"I don't care really, who he is, but he's HANDSOME!!"

"Old man let go!! My friends are expecting me!!" Vincent said kicking the principal in the shins, releasing him from the grip.

"Don't you EVER drag me anywhere!!" shouted Vincent. All the principal did was just staring at him smugly.

"You know, I could always call the POLICE and have them deal with a young fifteen year old not in school and had just 'bought' supplies." Replied Principal Hajime folding his arms.

"What're you implying?" Vincent retorted glaring.

"I'll just have them come over and take you away and YOU can explain why you're not in school." Principal Hajime told.

"WHAT!? YOU BASTARD THAT'S NOT RIGHT!! I PAID FOR THESE AND I HAVE THE RECIET TO PROVE IT!!" Vincent yelled making a fist and getting ready to punch the teacher out.

"Yes, but who do you think they'll believe more? You or me?" he replied smugly.

"You damn city bastards are all the same aren't you? Always looking for a quick way to win." Muttered Vincent angrily and followed the smug principal to the office.

'What!? I can't go to the police for a thousands reasons!! For one they will need my parents and I can't exactly say that they're not here and if they hear that, then they might send me to some stupid foster home. Kuso!! Street better not hear of this or else someone's gonna get hurt." Vincent thought darkly.

They entered the office and the principal took Vincent to the secretary.

"Now Mizuki-san will take you though the process to get into the school." Said Principal Hajime and he walked towards his office and Vincent gave him the finger while his back was turned and then glared at the secretary.

"I saw what happened and I can't blame you. So don't take it out on me please, I'm nothing like that man." Replied Mizuki-san as she turned towards her computer.

Vincent eased up on his glare but still didn't trust the woman quite yet.

"Alright, fill these out and answer the questions." Said Mizuki as she handed him a test book and pencil.

Vincent promptly sat down and put the bags down by his feet and opened the book and started filling in answers.

'What the? This stuff is easy!!' Vincent thought as he went through the book rather quickly and then handed it back to Mizuki-san. She took it and ran it through the computer and raised an eyebrow.

"My. You're quite smart. Your score is perfect you got every answer right. Did you ever go to school?" she asked.

"I was home schooled." Replied Vincent leaning back in his chair. 'When the hell can I get outta here!?'

"Okay now to fill out your student Id. Name?" asked Mizuki-san.

"Vin.Joshua Arashi." Replied Vincent.

//WHAT!? MASTER VINCENT! WHY'RE YOU USING MY NAME!?// wailed Arashi from his blade.

//Arashi not now and don't be such a baby!! It's just for now!!// Vincent mentally shouted back.

"Alright, age?"

"Fifteen years old."

"Home phone number?"

"Not available."

"Parent's name?"

"I don't wanna talk."

"*sigh* I guess we can leave that info out. Alright, here's you schedule and your locker number and also your school uniform. There's a bathroom right there and you can go and change in there." Replied Mizuki.

"...arigatou Mizuki-san." Was all Vincent said as he got up and left the room and went into the bathroom.

//Master Vincent why don't you just leave now? // Arashi asked.

// I would, but unfortunately it would look a bit suspicious of a student was suddenly seen leaving the building. The school is too damn huge!!// Vincent replied back.

//You may have a point. The school is a bit ridiculously huge. I wonder how Street would react if she saw you here and wearing that. // Arashi grinning.

//Don't you DARE even mention this to ANYONE!! I'll tell it if I want to alright and I KNOW of your conversations with Dominion, Kittefae and the others.// growled Vincent.

//But Master Vincent, you never told me what STREET would think. // laughed Arashi.

Vincent only growled and walked out of the bathroom. The school uniform was just a long sleeved buttoned up collared dark blue shirt and dark blue pants. He looked at a near by clock and saw that he still had some time before the first class started and went walking towards his locker and ignoring all the stares he was getting as he made it to his locker and dumped the supplies in there and raised an eyebrow as he saw all the books he'll need in here. Then he walked off to the class and talking with Arashi, which he slipped into his pocket.

//She'd probably ask why I got caught by some stupid old man and laugh at me wearing this damn uniform.// muttered Vincent turning red in embarrassment as he thought about Street finding out about this.

//Yes, and how your rival would think if he saw his opponent being dragged by some aging adult. // smirked Arashi.

// DAMMIT ARASHI!! DON'T EVEN MENTION THAT BAKA KOINU ALEXANDER TO ME!! AND IF YOU EVEN MENTION A WORD TO HIS BIT-BEAST TRANSECX YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT ME MAKING THOSE MOOCHI CAKES YOU SEEM TO LOVE SO MUCH!!// Vincent roared back at Arashi turning red in the cheeks in doing so.

// Awww Vincent!! You used that ADORABLE nickname for Alexander again!!// smirked Arashi. Then he remembered the other part of what Vincent had shouted to him. // He~ey wait a minute..AHHH VINCENT THAT'S HITTING BELOW THE BELT!!// he said whining.

//Then shut up before you distract me. I'm in front of the classroom.// Vincent said and knocked on the classroom door.

"Come in!!" the teacher said.

((Kristy: Vincent, what's the whole point to this?))

((Trista: Just listen you baka!!))

((Averus: So why do you hate this school so much?))

((Vincent: I basically ignored everything until that damn Principal came looking for me, and said some things to me that really pissed me off.))

It was lunch break and everyone was outside eating and talking, everyone that is but Vincent. He was sitting by himself eating an apple underneath a Sakura tree. Then a small kid that looked to be about a freshman came running towards him.

"Umm.ano.Arashi-san." he asked.

"What is it?" Vincent asked, looking at him. He didn't mean to sound so cold to him and he gave the kid an easy look and he relaxed.

"It's the principal Arashi-san, he's looking for you." He replied.

"Feh. The old man. Now what does he want." Spat Vincent standing.

Apparently the kid didn't have to reply, because the principal came right towards him, with Mizuki-san right behind him and she was trying to stop the seemingly angry principal.

"JOSHUA ARASHI!!" he shouted and stopped right in front of him and the kid backed away and went next to Mizuki-san who was glaring at the principal.

"What is it old man. I'm here aren't I?" growled Vincent.

"Why didn't you give the two most important info for Mizuki-san?" he asked.

"Because I didn't want to talk about them. The phone number would've been invalid and I'm not about to talk about my parents to YOU." Replied Vincent hotly.

The principal smirked.

"So you really were abandoned weren't you." He said smirking. That hit a nerve, but Vincent didn't say anything. This only egged the principal on insulted Vincent.

"PRINCIPAL HAJIME!! THIS IS A VOLIATION OF THE STUDENT'S PERSONAL LIFE!!" shouted Mizuki disgusted. The kid next to Mizuki could only watch on as he didn't have any words to say.

"So they just dropped you off and left on some little fling, or maybe they were tired of a little brat like you and just got up and left." Grinned Principal Hajime. Every single word bit into Vincent like a bad sting and making Vincent more irritable and more furious. Suddenly the principal said the worst thing he could've said to Vincent finally making him snap.

"Or maybe you so called father was a stupid drunkard and your mother was nothing but a damn whore where she." Principal Hajime said, but was cut off by someone punching him in the jaw.

"SHUT UP!! SHUT UP YOU STUPID FUCKING BASTARD!! HOW DARE YOU..YOU KNOW NOTHING!!" Shouted Vincent enraged by what he had said about his real parents, Squall and Kari Kojii and catching the attention of every student in the school yard.

Vincent punched him in the jaws and the ribs repeatedly and kicked him away from him. He stomped over and grabbed the man by his collar and growled at him.

"Don't you EVER come within my sight again, or I'm going to kill you." Growled Vincent nearly choking him and dropping him down. He walked back to the tree and grabbed his stuff and headed towards the gate.

"St.stop him." Gasped out the principal but Mizuki just turned her head away from him.

"You deserved every single one Principal Hajime. Come on Tori let's go." Stated Mizuki.

"Hai sensei." Replied Tori sadly for some reason and followed Mizuki.

****End of Flashback***

By the time Vincent had finished telling them the story, they managed to pass the school with out any disturbances and were now walking down a street and nearing a neighborhood. Averus, Trista and Kristy all looked at the houses that were around here. They were all two stories and very nice. But when they made it to where Vincent had stopped they just stared.

"Vin.Vincent this was your old house." Questioned Trista gawking.

"Are you sure?" added Kristy.

"Like I said. This is the house in which I use to live in.with my family." Vincent replied as he muttered out the last part and started walking towards the rubble and started rummaging through it.

The other followed him and started to follow Vincent's example as he was moving the burnt wood and dusting away ashes.

"What're we looking for Vincent?" asked Kristy as she and Averus lifted up a rather large piece of wood and Trista looked under it as they through it aside.

"This is the last time I'm coming here, because I picked up everything I could that was left here. There's only one more thing I hafta find. It's a stuffed doll. Don't ask just look for one." Replied Vincent.

"You mean this thing?" Kristy asked as she held up a slightly burnt stuffed doll that supposedly looked like an angel at one time.

"Yes!! That's the one Kristy. Thanks. Now I just have to repair it." Vincent said smiling and looked over the doll.

"Yo.You.repair that? As in sewing?" Trista and Kristy asked, and imaging Vincent trying to sew.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! THAT'S JUST TOO HILARIOUS!!" laughed Trista and Kristy to tears.

"Just thinking about it is making me laugh!!" Trista said giggling.

"I can imagine him getting frustrated with just the thread!! AHAHAHAHA!!" added Kristy.

Averus sweat-dropped as he looked at the laughing girls and Vincent turning dark. Suddenly he looked up and was smiling maliciously at the girls. Who sweat-dropped and starting backing away.

"I SHOW YOU FUNNY WHEN I GET YOU TWO!!" shouted Vincent and started chasing the laughing Trista and Kristy back to the apartment.

"GET BACK HERE YOU TWO!!" shouted Vincent waving his fist around.

"SORRY VINCENT!! I JUST CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU SEWING!!" shouted Trista.

"YEAH!! I MEAN COME ON!! AVERUS ALREADY COOKS AND YOU SEWING WOULD MAKE YOU TWO MORE FEMININE!!" added Kristy laughing more at the thought.

Now Averus was loosing his cool and started running after them with Vincent.

"MAXELL!!! KANASAKI!! GET BACK HERE!!" Vincent and Averus shouted.

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End of Chapter One

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