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"So like, you're asking me to go to this place, for few months, and then expect me to look after some yahoo that think he have issues with himself and a bunch of girls who just can't seem to think for themselves?" Ryota was speaking back to someone, a male teenager, who appeared to be slightly older than him. The male teenager sported short blonde hair, and he appears to be quite strong for his height. Next to him is a white Nissan Skyline GT-R, 2 generations older than Ryota's, although it is now wearing the front end similar to the model Ryota had.
"Relax bro, you're taking it too seriously," Kazuo replied to the teenager's complains about something. "Remember, we got a lot too uncover from that place."
"Yeah right. The last time we are in such deep !# is when that fag decided that he will take matters into his own hands, and then decided to let that criminal go?" Ryota is not exactly amused by what Kazuo said, as his voice grew even louder than the rumble of his Skyline's exhaust. "And see what happened? It nearly cost us our lives!"
"Dude, you seriously need to chill out," Kazuo tried to stop Ryota from becoming increasingly angry.
"Chill out? You're expecting me to &#ing chill out?" an unfavourable response from Ryota comes after that. "That fag, Negi Springfield, seriously needs to learn that there is more to life than becoming an emo fag over 'OH NO, I WANT TO BE LIKE MY FATHER' and move on."
"If I ever see him going emotional because of that, he'll know what hell is."
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Chapter 03: Newcomers
As she finally makes her way back to the room, Yuuna is already yawning from the sheer amount of work she did for the day. She was not exactly looking forward to more homework, but apparently the school system of the 3 school placed a lot of emphasis on academic and co-curricular activities of the students. It was a fact that Le Rim have one of the easiest club establishment systems around, and it is this fact that all sorts of clubs have been growing like mushroom all over the school.
Opening the door, a girl sporting long dark maroon hair, dressed in the St.Miatre uniform is doing some of her homework at the table. She seems to be similar in height to Yuuna's, although she appears slender for her height.
Seeing that Yuuna entered the room, she immediately greets her.
"I can see that it is a long day, Akashi-san," the fair-skinned girl, easily noticed by the twin-tails she ties on the sides said.
"Yeah, sort of, Miss Minami Remi," she speak to the girl, although sounding sarcastic, the other girl was true.
The system in the Strawberry Dorms, also known as the Ichigo-Sha, is that 2 girls will live in the same room. Usually, girls from the same school and the same year will stay with each other, which mean, for example, a girl from Year 5 of Spica will stay with another girl from Year 5 of Spica. Despite that, there are several rare cases where girls from different schools, or sometimes different years, stayed together in one room in the dormitory. Yuuna and this girl, Remi, are one of such rare cases, as it is unusual.
Landing herself on the bed, Yuuna looks for a while at the ceiling, wondering what would happen the next day. It will be the day when the new teacher will begin lessons, and she wonders what subjects the new teacher will teach.
"Eh Akashi-san, still wondering the news about the Mahora girls coming to our school, to Spica?" Remi suddenly said, without turning to the girl lying on bed.
"Sort of," she replied in a simple manner. "I'm wondering who could that be, I used to see a lot of students in a single year, so chances is that they're someone I do not know."
"Oh really?" Remi replied, and then turned to Yuuna. "Because I was really surprised when one of the new girls going 'Do you know this girl in Le Rim? Someone by the name...Akashi Yuuna' to any Le Rim students they saw just now."
"Wait...wait...WHAT?" she suddenly jolted up on bed, and then looks straight at a smiling Remi.
"Not only that, they are going to be introduced to everyone at dinner after this," Remi continued on about what she knew about the newcomers. "So I think chances are that you'll get to see them soon."
"OK...alright...this is weird for me," Yuuna then replied, trying to back down from the surprise she had. "In the mean time, I got some problems in my Maths homework, care to help me?"
"Sure, it's fine with me anyway," Remi replied with a cheerful expression on her face.
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As Sayaka parked the massively loud car at the car park; she stepped out of the black coupe to see several small apartments. She closes the door, letting the timer to do its job in shutting the car down. Low noise is not a strong point of the car, but for her, that is to be expected from a car one has spent millions of Japanese Yen on. The car is a perfect example of what one does for their free time.
She looked for the building with a certain alphabet.
Hmm...which one...notes say that I'll stay in block 'B' or something...
She then walked around to search for the apartment building, but to no avail. Minutes later, she sees a female teacher jogging her way back to the apartments, before she goes to stop her.
"Erm...excuse me...do you know where..." Sayaka quickly bows to the teacher, who seemed to be slightly older than her. She seems to sport blonde hair, which is quite curly.
"...is Block 'B'?"
"Oh?" the women replied. "I'm actually heading back there, care to follow me?" she added in a kind tone, although everyone in this school, teachers or students, are expected to behave perfectly.
"Thanks!" Sayaka nodded few times to express her gratitude.
"Well, actually, the block is at..." the women points to a block, the block where Sayaka parked her car at.
It was then Sayaka felt that she herself was being dumb, and felt like she was hit by a hammer.
"What...in...the...world..." she tried to regain her composure, as the other woman looks at her with an amused look.
"You must be new right? Well, follow me then," she said, leading the way.
Several minutes later, Sayaka was led to a room with a perculiar number by the teacher. She was carrying some of her stuff, namely clothes, books and such.
"Well, I stay here...you?" the other woman said.
Sayaka remained quiet. She looks at the paper given to her by the Sister in charge of the school, and looks at the room number again. This process was repeated several times.
"I think..." Sayaka said, showing the paper to her. Whatever is written in the paper certainly surprises her.
"So you are the one who is going to be my new roommate? Awesome, I'm Iida Yuka, staying here since months ago," the woman said in glee. "Well, come in."
She opens the door, as Sayaka slowly goes into the room. The first impression is that the apartment is well-equipped, with all the typical amenities and all required to do their work. One unit seems to have about 3 rooms and a bathroom, a living hall, and a kitchen to do some cooking.
"OK, let me show you where your room is," Yuka said, and quickly led Sayaka to where she was supposed to stay in.
The room was an empty one. One bed, windows, lights, a table, the usual things a room must have. Sayaka looks around, and is not a really special room, but that will make do for her after she gets all her things inside.
Sayaka sees that the woman have already went out of the room, and she decided to step out to get more things...only to see Yuka unzipping her sweater in the middle of the living room, literally exposing whatever she was wearing underneath. Sayaka was shocked at what she sees.
"Oh, sorry about that, I've forgot to tell you that I'm kind of open when it comes to things like...this. Oh, another thing, we teachers don't have that rule about the colour of our underclothes, so you don't…"
Sayaka immediately shut herself in her room, not about to see someone stripping their clothes in open, especially front of her.
"Hey, why are you...whatever..." Yuka sweat-dropped after she sees what her new roommate did.
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Sayaka does not want to know what her housemate is going to be doing outside her room, before she takes a look at herself on the mirror after she arranged several of her belongings. Touching her own face with her hand, she then thinks about something.
Is this really me?
Looks like I'm really getting used to being like this…
She then got to her table, where she placed a figure of a neatly finished model kit, a 1/100 scale Master Grade GAT-X105 Strike Gundam with AQM/E-X01 Aile Striker, by Bandai, on a stand that resembles a launch pad. As soon as she finishes setting the pose for the model kit, Yuka suddenly opens the door and steps into the room, much to Sayaka's surprise.
"Huh, you play with those stuff?" a surprised Yuka said, seeing the model kit. She was wiping her wet hair with a towel.
"Well…it's my hobby," she answers in a shy and docile tone.
"Wait…you're telling me that you watched SEED and Destiny?" Yuko then suddenly changes her tone.
"Erm…sort of…why?"
"Who's your favourite character? Tell me!" an excited Yuka suddenly asks Sayaka about the show that features the Gundam. "Is it Athrun?"
"Er…he is not very good in SEED, and Destiny they made him looked stupid before he runs away from…"
"No one says bad things about Athrun Zala! He's awesome! Not even Kira can touch him!"
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Everyone at the dinner is abuzz with the news that the new students will be introducing themselves at dinner. Everyone can't seem to wait, but there is times when patience is an important virtue.
Usually at dinners in Strawberry Dormitory, students sit together according to their schools, and everyone is required to be in their school uniform. Every dinner is considered a formal occasion, and that is where important announcements by either the Student Councils or the Étoile will be announced.
It was all fine, except that the Étoile has not been doing her job well in these recent months. Everyone still hoped that Nagisa Aoi manages to actually get the Étoile out of the current state, seeing that she is the closest to her.
Yuuna was busy chatting with Remi…or she is trying hard to chat with Remi since they are facing each other's back in dinner. After hearing that the new students knew her, she tried to extract as much information as she can from poor Remi, but to no avail. The only answers she got is that 'they both have dark hair' and 'one looks cheerful, the other looks serious' from the dark maroon-haired girl.
It was then one of the Student Council presidents stepped out.
"Shhh, quiet, Shion has come for the announcement," Remi signals for Yuuna to be quiet.
A blonde girl, who looks rather shrewd then stands up from where she is and moves to the middle of the dining hall. She then looked at everyone with a serious face, as everyone goes quiet. Somehow, she appears to be more happy than usual.
"Ahem," the girl called Shion says. "As we have known, we are getting a pair of new faces to be part of our school here," she starts with a serious overtone. "I'm happy that they will be students at the lovely St. Spica, so we should be grateful for that," she added.
"Now both of you can come in…everyone, I shall introduce to you…" she then begins to make the introduction of the new students.
"Konoe Konoka and Sakurazaki Setsuna."
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In case you are very unsure how Remi looked like, refer to Asuka Watarai of Oretsuba.
Other, the new students have now been revealed. How is the girls are going to acceot the new environment? Will Shizuma, the Étoile be disturbing their introduction?