Almost two years had gone by since she started attending the Winds Academy for the Magically Gifted. For her, the years seemed to have gone by in a flash, and the last term of the year had ended. With the term now ended, a few days rest was in order before returning. Now, it was time when all the masters decided who had made the level and rank, who needed to stay longer and who just wouldn't make it ever. Time to post the results of the exam every second year student had taken.

Miki rushed through the empty halls of the Academy, pulling her reluctant twin sister along, impatient to see her scores. She knew that only a handful of second year students ever earn masters rank in any color. She also knew that hardly anyone went for white nowadays, they tended to go for the more passive, moderate colors. Daring to be different, she tried to go for the white.

Still racing through the halls, Miki ignored Luna's muttered protests. Luna was Miki's long time friend and fraternal twin.

Giving Luna's arm another pull, Miki panted, "C'mon, Lune! Hurry up!"

She turned around a corner and almost flung Luna into someone.

"Sorry," Luna yelled over her shoulder as Miki continued to drag her along like a ragged doll.

Miki finally slowed down as she neared the end of one hall. Releasing Luna's arm, she took a few wobbly steps as her legs tried to cramp up on her. Her ice-blue eyes quickly caught sight of the famed message board next to the Grand Master's office door. Quick, fluid steps brought her to the left-hand side of the board as she scanned each page to locate the test scores. Finally spotting the results page, a long, slender finger slowly skimmed down the list of names as she read off the names.

"Boggs,… Charleson,… Davids,… Florence,… Kazuyama,… Geeze, who would have heard of these people?" Miki muttered under her breath.

"Evidently not you. Nose stuck in books that students aren't suppose to be reading," Luna muttered. The comment earned her a quick glare from her sister.

Miki shrugged, a twinkle of mischief in her eyes, "Who cares? I didn't get caught, now did I?" She turned back to the list, "Panick, Quince, Satsune?" Miki frowned.

"What is it?" Luna asked.

"There's a male on the list," shock making her sound calm.

"WHAT?!"

Somewhat exasperatedly, she pointed at the name and said dryly, "Here, look! Satsune, Daemon."

Luna's frown mirrors her sister's, then, she smirks, "He could have been the guy you almost ran over back there." She points over her right shoulder with her thumb in the direction from which they had just came. "What's his rank, if he has any?"

"White. Same as me," surprise registered on Miki's face, "I made masters!" Elation filled Miki and she grabbed Luna. Overjoyed, she started dancing with her sister.

Luna laughed at her overly excited twin, "Calm down, Miki."

"What's so exciting?" an amused voice asked from behind Miki.

They stopped dead in their antics when they realized that the voice belonged to a male. Miki released Luna's hands as her face went white. The only male that they knew of in the school was the Grand Master and that voice did not belong to him. This one sounded young and had a smooth quality to it. Luna peered over Miki's left shoulder to take a quick look at the intruder. Her face went white.

"What?! Who is it?" Miki whispered harshly.

Gulping, Luna whispered just as harshly, "It's the guy you almost ran over."

Miki slowly turned around and stopped.

"What was so exciting?" he asked again, the smile on his face was slowly fading. It's her, the girl from the library five weeks ago.

"Umm… Well,… I, uh, I made masters…" Miki's eyes widened slightly as she quickly checked him out. Tall, well muscled, short dark brown hair, and blue-green eyes. Eyes that made her feel like she was looking into an ocean. As she stood there, she couldn't help but stare and all the while she felt butterflies in her stomach. God, he's gorgeous. I've never felt this nervous before, she thought, And it feels like I know him from some where. But where, I have no idea.

"Miki? Miki?!? You okay?" Luna shook her sister and her eyes kept shifting from her frozen twin to the guy and back again. "Miki, close your mouth. You're attracting flies!"

Miki shut her mouth with a click and shook her head, snapping back to the present, "Huh?... Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to stare like that," she said hurriedly. Looking back at the list, she continued to Luna, "Hey, Lune, I'm one of two that made it to White Masters!"

"Really? That's cool," Luna said with a bored voice as she rolled her eyes, "Can we go now?"

"Wait a sec… I want to see my score…"

The stranger stepped up to look at the list also. His shoulder accidentally brushing against Miki's as they stood there. "Hmm… Looks like I made master, too," he murmured as his finger slid down the list, only to stop on a name.

Miki paled slightly and tried to get her throat to swallow it was so dry.

His smile returned and Miki paled a little more. "Same as you, it turns out," he offers hand, "Daemon Satsune."

Miki cautiously accepted his hand and responded in kind, "Miki Urameshi. My mother teaches one of the Brown classes," she tipped her head at Kit, "That's my twin sister, Luna."

Daemon looks at the girls as if Miki was joking. Miki had hair the color of fire, ice-blue eyes that seemed somewhat at odds with the fire-red color of her hair, and was somewhat shapely in all the right places, seemingly like a nymph. Luna, on the other hand, had chestnut brown hair and hazel eyes. She, too, looked more like she was a dryad.

"Our father is one of ten casters in the world. Half of which are minor…" Miki continued as if she didn't see Daemon's expression, "It's rare that a guy would want to be a full caster."

Daemon shrugged in response, "I was born in to it. Besides, my mother was as normal people would say a witch."

All the while, Luna had noticed the expressions on both Miki's and Daemon's faces. Her hazel eyes, though always keen to notice these things, had never betrayed her thoughts. A half smile formed on her lips as she interjected, "Seems to me that Miki likes you."

Miki's own eyes widened in shock, "LUNA!" It was clear by the expression on her face that she was aghast at her sister, "Fine! We can leave now."

Luna shrugged and linked arms with Miki. Together, they started to walk back the way that they had come. Before they had gone too far, Luna turned back and called over her shoulder, "It was very instructive," her lips twitched, "and a pleasure to meet you, Daemon."

"The pleasure's all mine, ladies," he called back.

Turning back, Luna continued her stroll down the hall at a leisurely pace despite Miki's quiet insistence to go faster. They rounded a corner and were out of sight.

Waiting a few seconds to make sure that they were out of hearing range as well, Daemon let out an explosive sigh and leaned against the wall. He had been as surprised about the red-haired mage named Miki as she seemed about him. Daemon was also pleased that he was able to keep that surprise well hidden better than she did.
Miki pushed their pace even more as they got past the corner. Meeting that guy back there had certainly thrown her for a loop. Fed up with her sister's mood, and unable to keep her own teasing away, Luna grabbed Miki's arm and brought them to a halt. Squeezing hard enough to get Miki's attention, but not hard enough to bruise, she forced her sister to look at her.

"What?"

"Will you chill out? Jeeze Louise! You just met that guy and you're going gaga over him!"

"I am not!"

"Are too!... Ah! Stop! We don't need to act like children right now," she rubbed Miki's arm in a silent apology for squeezing so hard. "Besides, I'm worried a little bit."

Miki looked at her sister with a slight frown, "Worried? Why are you worried?"

"Because!" she shouted, then toned down, "Because I don't want you to rush into something with someone you JUST met and get hurt again."

Surprised by Luna's sudden outburst, Miki remembered what had happened a long time ago…