Sorry about not updating for awhile, i tend to get writer's block easily. Anyway, thanks for the reviews and i hope that this chap. lives up to your expectations...

Chapter 2

A woman with short, brown hair with a thin pink strip of cloth wrapped around the back of her head sat at her desk in the Seitow staff room. She sat there, reading her roll book for the umpteenth time in the past twenty minutes. She felt as if she knew them already, even though she'd only read their names and seen their faces due to their pictures next to them on the role. School started on Monday, only two days from now, with all the grades changing for the next school year. She couldn't wait to meet her first students; it was all to exciting for her.

As said before, she'd already read her role book a thousand times, and she had already planned out the entire weeks lesson plan. She was bored, but she couldn't go home yet, it was only eleven o' clock after all. She sighed. She leaned back on her rolling chair in front of her computer and yawned. Perhaps she'd have a quick nap before going out to lunch somewhere in town. Maybe I'll go to that new Italian place that's just opened, oh, what's it called…

"Sumimasen," a polite female voice called from the open doorway behind her, "could you please tell me where the music room is? I seem to have forgotten where it is."

"Hai," our teacher replied as she turned around, "it's…" she paused as she finally got a good look at who was talking to her.

The woman in question had long, jet black hair that would have probably reached all the way down to her thighs, had it not been in a tight bun at the base of her skull. She wore half-moon spectacles that accentuated her deep, black eyes perfectly. She was also wearing a white, sleeveless, button blouse with a long, navy blue skirt. "Seiko-chan?" our teacher breathed, barely audible, even to herself.

"Sumimasen? How do you know my name?" The woman asked as she herself looked at our teacher in confusion. That is, until she noticed the cloth wrapped around her head. "Fuko-chan?" she inquired tentatively, praying that it was her old school friend, Kuzuha Fuko. Our teacher nodded.

Silence pervaded the room for a few seconds. Suddenly, the two women ran towards each other and embraced like the old friends they indeed were. Fuko spoke first. "Wow Seiko-chan, you've really changed. I almost didn't recognize you with your hair all in a bun and those glassed you're wearing."

"Well, look at you Fuko-chan. You're taller than I remember and you don't have that curl in your hair anymore. I doubt I would have recognized you if it wasn't for that cloth you always wear around your head," Kasuganomichi Seiko replied.

The two women finished their embrace and decided to sit down for a bit. As it turned out, Seiko was the new music kyoshi at Seitow and had just arrived from the principal's office where she had gotten her homeroom roll. "I've always liked music, I simply decided to act upon it now," Kasuganomichi explained. "But what about you? What are you doing here? Teaching, obviously, but what subject?"

"Hai, I'm the new Biology kyoshi here," Fuko's stomach began to growl after saying this, "Perhaps we could discuss what happened after high school over lunch? I'm kind of hungry at the moment…"

Amawa sat in his old room at Gochiso, mulling over all that Ba-chan had gone over with him earlier that morning. One of these things was the death of one of the original tenants, Kuji Tofu. He had died a week earlier, just before rent was due apparently. While Hibiki never truly understood what was going on in the old man's head, he was still saddened at the death. He had always considered Tofu a friend.

Koji Mori, another tenant of the house, and the only other one Hibiki knew about at the moment, had indeed gotten himself another job, this time at another newspaper. Ever sense Tofu died, however, he'd stay out drinking all night and came home around midnight according to Ba-chan. Tofu was Mori's best friend before he died after all.

A growl suddenly erupted from the pit of Hibiki's stomach and jolted Hibiki back from the recesses of his mind. Hmmm…I am rather hungry, and it is nearing lunchtime. Maybe I'll go to that new Italian place Ba-chan told me about…

Sorry for the relatively short chapters...My mind tends to think it spurts...