A/n: I'm back again. I try to make the updates faster to make up for the times I haven't been updating the old one. Please review people. The first chapter might be boring but please don't be discouraged in reading it. I'll make the following chapters interesting. Thank you for the people who reviewed my story. Anyway let's get on with the story…

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Chapter Two: Takemori Reito

Takiko walked slowly down the road to the direction of her new school, her small bag clinging to her wrist loosely. She wasn't that at all excited since she expects everyone will instantly hate her but she do felt a tinge of nervousness and anxiousness in her. As she rounded the corner, she sighted the school in a few minutes she will soon be going in. It was bigger than her former one and she noticed that it was also mixed up of boys and girl too unlike her old one, which only has girls.

(Ok, maybe her old one in the original story is not all girls but in the manga I saw all of them are girls so I assumed it was.)

She entered the gate slowly and stopped at the entrance to look at the long piece of parchment hanging at the door to find her room. Finally after a good few minutes, she saw her name listed and so she made her way walking through the long corridor passing countless rooms.

She entered the room and found a whole bunch of students formed into small and large groups, all chatting busily taking no notice of her existence. She was cut out of her sight seeing when she realized she was blocking the door entrance and saw that someone was already pushing her lightly to move.

She mumbled an apology and stepped aside. The guy stepped in and to her surprised, greeted her.

"Hey."

"Hi…" Takiko greeted nervously.

"You're new here, right? Come on, I'll show you where your place is."

She flashed him a smile as thanks and followed him. It was only then she noticed, that the class silenced and was now looking at the pair of them.

They stopped at the left window side in the middle of the room where the guy told her to sit down, and afterwards settled himself to a seat beside her.

"What's your name, new girl?" The guy asked.

"Takiko…Okuda Takiko…I'm from Morioka…" Takiko said.

"Name's Reito, Takemori Reito. I'm from Hokkaido, but I've been studying here for two years already." The guy said. (I don't know if Hokkaido already exits or if that was already the name of the Island back then at Takiko's time but just go with it ok:P)

Their conversation was interrupted when a bunch of students crowded around Reito.

"Hey Reito-kun, we've been looking over for you…"

"Is that the new girl in our class?..."

"I wish I could switch places with her so I get to sit beside you…"

"Did you talk to her already?"

"How come I didn't saw her coming?"

"She gives me an odd feeling and I think we shouldn't go too near towards her…"

The whole chat was stopped when their instructor went in.

"We have a new student in our class. Her name is Okuda Takiko, everyone I want all of you to make her feel welcome. Ok, now get your naginatas out and follow me outside. Now."

The students began to rush towards the doors carrying their naginatas with them. Takiko grabbed her own and was among the last to exit but was joined by Reito.

"Hey, I'm sorry about awhile ago. I know what they said was a little bit too rude."

"It's ok. I'm used to that even back then in my old school. I just wish people should not jump into conclusions like that though." Takiko said flashing a faint smile at him which made him blush.

He tried to look at the opposite direction so she wouldn't see him blushing. When he finally got over it, he turned to her.

"Come on, let's go." Reito said taking her hand and pulling her outside the doors towards where the whole class was gathering.

It was now Takiko's turn to blush. She had never met a guy like Reito, being so nice to her, even if she was more of a stranger to him.

Reito, however was feeling very drawn to her although he knew not why. The moment he saw her, he just felt as if she was the one he had been looking for, the one she searched everywhere for.

"Gather around everyone. Now as usual, choose your partner and start practicing. I will be back in fifteen minutes to test all of you. Good luck everyone." Their instructor said and left without saying any more words.

People went all around looking for partners as a whole lot of people hurried towards Reito's direction. Reito, however, turned to face Takiko.

"Takiko—"

"Ne! Reito-kun! Can we be partners today?" "Didn't you say you were going to be my partner this time Reito?" A bunch of people were saying all at once.

Takiko saw Reito trying to turn them down all so nicely, and to her surprise afterwards, he turned to face her and asked her to be his partner in front of everybody.

"Eh!" Takiko gasped.

"Come…" Reito said gently taking her hand and leading her towards the middle.

Takiko blushed slightly but managed to hide it from him. She still couldn't recover from the shock that the fact he chose her.

They took out their naginatas and they started to practice with everyone watching them.

'kkk!— she's good at this…I could lose to her if I wont take this seriously…' Reito thought to himself. He was getting fond of her so fast but he still won't admit it to himself.

'He's so cool…I never met someone so tough and yet so cool…I wish time would stop now…I know he'll start ignoring me sooner or later…' Takiko thought.

The point of the naginatas clashed for the twentieth time and both of them dared not move.

"You're so good at this." Takiko said.

He smirked. "So are you."

And without warning, he jumped high and landed behind Takiko. He thought he was about to win when he suddenly saw her positioning her naginata, the tip of it barely touching his side even with her back turned to him.

Both of them jumped surprisingly when their instructor returned and yelled. "Soko made!"

They lowered their weapons and whispers were heard from the crowd of students watching them.

Reito walked slowly towards her as she turned to face him. "I can't believe you tied with me. You're not like anyone I've met."

Takiko flashed him a smile and they walked together back to the crowd.

Dismissal came and Takiko went out early saying goodbye to everyone while Reito was being held back from going by a lot of people who were crowding around him.

"Reito, what's the hurry?"

"Can't you stay and chat with us?"

"Look guys, I'm sorry I really have to go. Please let me through." Reito said firmly after a lot of naggings to him.

The crowd parted and he immediately grabbed his bag and went off hoping to catch up on Takiko on the way home.

He smiled to himself when he finally saw her walking down the street. He was about to walk up to her when suddenly a fast bicycle passed her as she was crossing the bridge, hitting her hard, making her fall off the bridge down ten meters from land. Reito tried to catch her and prevent her from falling but he missed.

"TAKIKO—--------!"

"Kya-!" she gasped.

All of a sudden, she was blinded by a light and a quick trance of snow. And someone repeating the same thing: "Genbu no miko……Genbu no miko……Genbu no miko……Genbu no miko……"

A/n: sings and dances around the room another chapter is done! It took me days to finish it especially when people around here always chucks me out from using the pc! --o

This chapter would've been longer but I decided to cut it here! Lol! Thanks for the reviews! Please review people so I'd know what you think of the story and I'd know if people are reading it. Thanks everyone! Chapter three is almost finish, I'll post it in a few more days!

Translations: (not exact but will do)

Hokkaido- the north island of Japan

"Soko made!"- used for ending fight etc. meaning "Stop right there!"

Genbu no miko- priestess of genbu

The other translation such as naginata or Morioka can be found at chapt. 1. Look there, I won't repeat translations everytime I post a chapter since I wrote it already.

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