A/N: Okay here's the next chapter. I hope you like it. You'll meet more of the RK characters here, and you might find out more about them and our narrator. You may even find out who 'they' are. I don't really know so you are just going to have to read and find out. Get finding!

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If you were to look at our 'school' for the first time, without any prior knowledge of what the buildings were, you would've probably thought that it looked like any old community college. Minus the electrically charged barbed-wire fences and the guards patrolling with sniper rifles, of course.

The campus was made up of four main buildings: housing, educational, athletics, and the nutritional hall. There were also a bunch of smaller buildings, which consisted of the infirmary, the faculty houses, and offices.

There was also one more building, situated on the eastern side of the grounds. It was the only building that looked like a normal house, or should I say, mansion. It had four floors and huge gardens surrounding it. It was where he lived.

When I say he, I'm referring to the Emperor, which is what he had ordered everyone to address him by. He ruled of about three quarters of the world minus North and South America, the only places in the world where people still thought they could beat him, who still thought they could win. We all wondered why poor fools didn't they realize that they didn't stand a chance against four continents of people.

Even Australia, which had held on to freedom for about five years, succumbed, too weak to withstand the war any longer. In reality, the only reason that the Americas hadn't been captured was because they were protected on either side by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But it was only a matter of time before he had them too.

Every time I passed this house, I got goose bumps. Even though it was constantly bustling with servants and foreign guests, it had a haunted feeling about it, and I always felt like someone was watching me from the windows.

I had heard many rumors about the Emperor from servants, students, and even some teachers. Except for a few people from before the War, no one had ever seen him and it was said that even during meetings he sat behind a screen. Some say he was horribly deformed at birth. Others say that he suffers from hideous burns from an assassination attempt and that his body is covered with bandages. The only thing that they all seem to agree on is that he is a monster who is too ugly to see the light of day.

A monster named Shishio Makoto.

"Kenshin! Hey Kenshin, over here!"

I turned around to see a spiky-haired kid waving at me. I smiled and walked over to him.

"Hey midget." I got a glare for that comment. Yahiko was an okay kid, he'd agree to just about anything, like he was always trying to prove himself. The only subject he was touchy on was his height. He had a fierce pride, for a ten year old that is.

"You do know that you're only about a couple of inches over five feet right?"

"Touché," He was right; I was easily the shortest person in my level. "What's up?"

"Can you help me with my English at break? I get the whole speaking and reading parts, but my grammar sucks and Yamagata-san said that if I don't get my act together, he'll give me extra work, on top of my chores." He looked at me with these big puppy-dog eyes and I couldn't bring myself to say no.

"Sure."

"Alright Kenshin, thanks! You're the greatest! I'll see you then." He gave me a big grin and ran off to the academics building for assembly and joined his class. I followed him and got into place.

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A/N: Just so you know, I had this chapter prewritten which is why I'm updating this fast normally it takes me much longer. I'm not too sure when my next update will be due to the fact that school has started. From the looks of things, this year's going to be much harder than I expected. I'll try to work on my stories during a free period or something.

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