Kyo had taken his time to try and find the school, but it had still taken him about one to two hours to find the school. Kyo had had a hard time finding his way through the shrouded darkness, but ended up running into the polished wooden door, "My nose…" He muttered as he walked in.

But his walk was once again interrupted by the decoration in the school's entrance hall. Everything was rather plaited in smooth brown tile, or black shining marble. He walked in; examining every inch of the room and ignoring the 'look-not-touch-rule'.

But his scanning stopped when he heard some distant rhythmic thumps. Thump… thump… thump… He stood his ground only to find that it was an old man about in his seventies. He was dressed in long robes of earthy brown and lush meadow green; these of course must have been the school's colors. He carried a smooth, sanded, polished, mahogany cane, with had many knots in the body, but a large one at the very top where the man held it.

"Who's there?" The old man asked in a raspy dry voice.

Kyo just blinked, "Er… I'm new here; sorry I got in so late."

The old man walked slowly up to Kyo, but he had to squint to see him in the candlelight, but basically all he could tell was that someone was standing there. "So you came to apply to school?"

Kyo nodded, but the man didn't reply. He rolled his eyes then said, "Yes-I-am-new-here." He said it slowly and clearly for the man's ears to swallow.

Over the few minutes, the man finally nodded, "Follow me." He grabbed Kyo's hand."

Kyo tried to keep hold with the man, but it was difficult to keep to his level of height seeing that Kyo was about a foot and a half taller than him, but that was how it was with him with most people. He was just too tall for his own good.

As he walked, he accidentally tripped over the man's cane as he walked; Kyo fell all over himself into a heap on the floor until he recollected himself.

"Watch where you step." The man said simply to Kyo's stumble.

"Ow…" He limped for a second; his ankle had jammed into the wood, making a dent in the man's cane. "Oh s-"

"Shh… There are other pupils here sleeping you know."

"Yeah but-" His foot rammed into a flower pot, which was complete iron, "AH! CRAP!" He held his foot.

The man hit him in the head with his cane, (As if Kyo wasn't beaten up enough,) "Must I remind you to BE QUIET?"

"Oh god, you'd be screaming too if you hit your- OW!" The man hit him with the cane again.

"Well then watch where you're going.."

"Well yeah but," But then it hit him. He had an idea, a brilliant idea, "I can't tell where I'm going because… I'm blind." The lie just rolled off his tongue.

"Ah…" This didn't seem to strike the man as surprising at all. "Well you sure looked like it." He said stubbornly.

"Stupid old man…" Kyo muttered.

As they reached the end of the corridor, the man walked left to a long hall way, with many doors left and right, all with a number engraved above the door in golden letters. The man stopped in front of room number 813. "You will be bunking in this room, it is currently available."

"Oh… So does that mean I get the room to myself?"

He shook his head, "No you will have a roommate."

Drat it… He followed the man in. Kyo looked around the room, where there were many unraveled scrolls, parchment, empty ink bottles, and calligraphy brushes. But in the middle of the floor, he saw a lump, sleeping lazily.

"Wake up Sana…." The man said, poking her with his cane. The lumped stirred annoyed. A hand popped out and did thumbs down. "Get up." The man repeated, jabbing the lump harder this time.

"Ow! That was in the ribs!" Out of the bed emerged a girl about 15, with long brown hair in a ponytail as she rose from her bed from an interrupted sleep.

Kyo's jaw dropped, A GIRL! WHY A GIRL?

"Sana this is Kyo, your roommate."

Sana rubbed her eyes and looked at him with drooping eyes, but then they popped wide open, "Er… Sir I apologize but…. This is a boy."

"Yes, and as one of our best students, you shall be helping him around the school."
"Well, no offense but… Couldn't one of the boys help?"

"Well no offense, but boys aren't always the most mature when helping a disabled student." He said it so freely, "For you see, Kyo here is blind."

Sana blinked, "Oh…." She didn't know what to say.

"Just help him around the school yes?"

She nodded uncertain that she still liked the idea of a boy as her roommate.

As the man left, the room went silent. Kyo found his way to the bed, (Sure not to hit anything,) and got into his bed. Without looking back at Sana, he slowly fell asleep, hoping this was just some bad nightmare.