Notes:
RA- Resident Assistant.
the bold italics at the end of paragraph 10 was meant to be written in a smaller text to indicate a whisper.
Pairs are pretty much mentor and mentee. Kind of like the Onee-sama system from Mai Otome.
The stadium Chie mentions is the one from the manga.
Vice Principle's office
The sun shone brightly through the large windows onto the empty desk in front of them. The quiet room was casually decorated with a small bookcase along the right wall, and a light purple couch along the left wall with a small, glass coffee table in front of it. In the middle of the room were three wooden chairs set up in a sort of semicircle just in front of the desk. In the middle chair sat a girl with thick black pigtails wearing a white, blue collared shirt and blue skirt (the standard middle school uniform).
The expression on her face was bleak, one of regret, one of shame for what she had down. In her own eyes she deserved the harshest punishment that the school could offer, and why not? If only I had been paying more attention instead of staring you… she thought holding a silver rectangular locket, which hung loosely around her neck, in her hand. She would suffer and she would make sure she did herself.
As the door behind her opened the girl quickly stuffed the locket into her shirt and turned to face this year's Student Counsel President as she walked into the room.
"You are Nina Wang right?" the president asked walking up to her flicking her long black hair over her shoulders. The president was the idol of the school. Any guy would kill to go out with her, even though she didn't seem really interested in men. Her uniform was the standard high school one, with the exception of the light tan vest which identified her as the president and the hooded shirt she had always worn since coming to Fuuka.
"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" Nina cried kneeling in front of the surprised president, "Whatever punishment you have in mind I'll take it one hundred fold!"
"Calm down!" the president said putting her hand on the girl's shoulder, "It's not that big of a deal."
"But…" Nina stuttered in shock. She couldn't believe how lenient the president was acting.
"Last time I checked, bumping into someone isn't against the rules," the president said signaling for her to stand up.
"But I caused you spill your drink onto your important papers this morning. For that I…"
"It was only an accident. Plus that's not why I called you here this morning," the president said walking behind the vice principle's desk.
This caught Nina off guard. Why would the president want to speak to her if it wasn't about punishment? Also why would she call her to the vice principles office, instead of the student counsel's board room?
"The real reason I wanted to speak to you was to ask why you had declined to be your class's representative," the president asked nonchalantly sitting in the vice principle's chair, "It's not very often that someone withdraws after winning their class election, fifty five percent right?"
Nina nodded. The president had obviously done her research. "I just thought that Tamoe Marguerite would do a better job," Nina lied; in a way she knew the president knew that she had too. But she couldn't let her know why, she couldn't let anyone know.
"Really? Ok fine, I guess I can't force you," the president replied opening the laptop on the desk, "I just have one more thing to discuss with you."
Nina was shocked that the president would touch the vice principle's laptop. All sorts of important documents were probably stored on it.
"I was wondering if you do anything special after school," the president said sitting down in the vice principle's chair comfortably.
"Nothing really, I just go back to the dorms and talk to my friends," Nina replied nervously. She had no idea what the president was doing with this line of questioning, but it wasn't making her comfortable.
"Really… nothing else?" the president asked sitting up and leaning forward.
"Nothing," Nina replied trying not to long as uneasy as she was, Could she know my secret?
"Ok, then you wouldn't mind helping with a few things after school every now and then would you?" the president continued, leaning back again.
"Sure I guess President Kuga…" Nina replied relaxing again.
"Just Natsuki is fine," the president replied with a smile.
"See you later!" Aoi called as Chie and Mai walked out of the door, on their way to class. The new student hadn't arrived yet which was fine by her since the longer she took the more class she would get to miss, and she already had no hope of seeing Midori's surprise. So Aoi just took a seat in the small lounge area near the door and flipped on the TV. There wasn't anything on that she was really interested in but she had to do something while she waited.
In a way she looked forward to giving the tour, and not just because she was going to miss class. Some weird things have happened at Fuuka over the years and she couldn't wait to tell the 'cover up' stories behind them to the new girl. It was going to be enjoyable to watch the new girl's reactions to some of them.
Then again she had a feeling this tour would also cause some problems for her. If things didn't go well and someone mistakes this tour for something else, there would be some major issues she would have to deal with. But she wasn't really worried about that happening; she had already informed everyone who had to know about the tour so everything should be fine. Plus the real person she was worried about was very understanding; it was just that her friend that might cause the trouble. Maybe she was over-thinking things; they were second year middle-schoolers after all. If they couldn't understand…
Her train of thought was interrupted by a girl with long brown pigtails running into the area from the hallway. She didn't recognize the girl and she was too casually to be a student. "Your name wouldn't happen to be Arika would it?" she asked curiously as the girl came to stop in the walkway.
"Yes, Arika Yumemiya," the girl replied.
"Oh, I've been waiting on you. I'm your one woman welcoming committee," Aoi replied giggling.
"Sorry for making you wait," Arika apologized. Her face was full of anticipation, and curiosity. Aoi could tell she was excited to start school, "Oh, it's no trouble at all; you could've taken longer…"
"Huh?" Arika asked curiously.
"Oh nothing. Nice to meet you, I'm Aoi Senoh, your RA for this year," Aoi said clapping her hands together nervously, "I guess I'll show your room now."
Mai and Chie made their way through the large crowd through the hallway of the school's main building. Most of the students were chatting excitedly about their plans for the year.
"Chie-senpai!" a short young girl cried running into Chie's body. She had short straight black hair with a short ponytail on the side.
"Good morning Yayoi," Chie said gently placing her hand on the girl head. Behind Yayoi stood a girl with medium length mahogany brown hair with an indifferent look on her face.
"Chie-senpai how is Aoi-senpai this morning?" the girl asked smiling.
"She was a little irritated that she was going to miss the surprise that our class is supposed to have this morning. Other than that she was ok, so don't worry about her Lilie," Chie said smiling.
"So are two this morning?" Mai asked walking over to Lilie.
"We're both doing fine. Just a little shocked though," Yayoi replied looking up at Chie's face, "Nina was called to the vice principle's office this morning. It seemed like she was in trouble."
Chie's eyebrow rose, "Wasn't she number one in your year last year? That's a surprise."
"Yeah, according to her roommate this year's Student Counsel President told her to meet her there," Yayoi continued, "She had been acting a little strange last night too."
Mai was a little surprised, "If Natsuki was behind it, I don't think she was in trouble. I think I saw her eying that girl a few times near the end of last year."
"You think she had an ulterior motive?" Chie asked.
At that moment an excited look appeared on both Yayoi and Lilie's faces.
"Could this mean that the president wants to make Nina her mentee? Neither of them are paired up with anyone right?" Yayoi shrieked clenching her hands together.
"Hmm I always thought Nina would've paired up with Nao-senpai since I've seen them speaking a few times before," Lilie added rubbing her chin, "Speaking of which, aren't you free Mai-senpai?"
The thought had never really crossed Mai's mind. "Yeah I guess so…" she replied mulling it over. It was Mikoto's first year of high school so technically she wasn't paired with anyone.
"Ah, maybe you should try Tamoe, she isn't paired with anyone either," Yayoi suggested excitedly. These words earned her a light punch on the top of her head from Lilie.
"You're forgetting that Tamoe has turned down senpai after senpai. I think she wants to attract someone in particular to be her mentor."
"Either way, class is going to start soon so we have to go," Mai said placing her hand on both of the younger girls' heads.
"Ok, don't you forget the promise you and Aoi-senpai made us Chie-senpai!" Yayoi said running off with Lilie.
Yayoi's words caught Mai's attention. "Promise?"
"I don't know…" Chie began thinking. She really had no clue what Yayoi was talking about, unless… "Aw shit, I forgot we promised to show them the announcer's booth at the stadium during lunch today."
"You mean the one Haruka paid for?" Mai asked.
"Yeah but, I don't know if Aoi will be able to come with us," Chie said scratching her head.
"Here we are!" Aoi announced as they stopped in front of a white door. Hanging from the door handle was a small sign with the words 'Welcome new roommate!' written on it.
"Wow, my roommates must be really nice," Arika said reading the sign. "Most of the girls here are," Aoi said removing a small silver key from her pocket and opened the door.
Arika was struck with awe as she entered the large room. There was a set of bunk beds and a single bed in the far right corner with three white dressers at their feet, three desks evenly distributed throughout the room, a small round table in the middle of the room and a small closet-like kitchen on the right wall. There were also two small windows along the far wall and a small bathroom. One of the first things she noticed was her bags which were sitting on the top bunk. Also there was a suit bag and a neatly pressed white and blue middle school uniform hanging in front of the bunk bed with a note attached to it.
"I'll let you get changed now and then I'll show you around the campus, ok?" Aoi said handing her the silver key, "I'll be right down the hall in 501, you can't miss it. See you in a little."
As she left Arika walked over to the beds and read the note attached to the uniform that was hanging up. 'Sorry about going through your bag but, since you were coming in the morning we decided to prepare a uniform for you. Also, we hope you don't mind taking the single bed.' That was nice, she thought looking at the uniform, well, I better get ready.
"Is this our surprised?" Chie sighed staring at the empty desk at the front of the classroom. No Midori, no nothing.
"I guess she got lost in her research again…" Mai said from behind her.
"That woman…" a boy with short blond hair sighed as he sat down in the desk next to Mai.
"Oh, Good morning Tate, how are you this morning?" Mai asked amiably, "The new uniform looks good on you."
Tate looked down at his all black uniform with red trim. He still hadn't gotten use to wearing yet, and he really wished he didn't have to wear it. It made him stand out too much. "Fine I guess," he moaned wearily.
"Tired already Mr. Vice President Tate Yuuichi?" Chie smirked, turning around.
He hadn't gotten use to people calling him by the new title either. It was going to take a few more days he figured.
"Oh, you be nice," Mai said trying to hide her smile.
"So shall we begin?" Aoi asked scanning Arika in her new uniform; it really suited her in her opinion.
"Sure," Arika replied as the two girls walked down the stairs in front of Aoi's room.
"Oh, before I forget, how did you get in the back of the dorm this morning?" Aoi asked curiously.
"Back of the dorm… wasn't the entrance behind the building the entrance?" Arika asked confused.
"Who told you that?"
"A girl I met outside," Arika replied.
"Did she have medium length, cherry red hair, wearing a high school uniform and texting rapidly on a cell phone?" Aoi inquired curiously.
"Yeah, how did you know?" Arika replied.
"I see you've already met my roommate," Aoi giggled, "Don't think too badly of her, she was unusually nice to you."
That baffled Arika, "That was nice?"
"She didn't send you to the male dorm, did she?" Aoi pointed out.
Arika just stared at the girl in bewilderment.
Midori's office
The place was a complete mess. Open books and loose leafs blanketed the entire office. In the middle of the mess sat Midori, head resting on top of papers, asleep. Her blue jacket and red tank top were soaked with sweat. The ponytail, she kept her long red hair in was drenched and spread out over face. She had been up all night deciphering the ancient text which told the many stories of Fuuka's long history. It was all she had researched since college and just recently she had discovered a new story, one she hadn't seen anything like before. It was so unique that she planned to present it to the chairman whenever she discovered all of the facts behind the story. She didn't really know why, but she had a feeling the chairman would be interested in it, even though from what she had deciphered so far it didn't seem very important.
"Midori-chan," Akane's voice came from behind the door.
"Wha… what?" Midori yawned raising her head from the mess. She wiped the drool from her lower lip, and walked to the door, and opened it. "Akane, why are you here?" Midori asked, yawning, "Shouldn't you be in class."
"Midori-chan, I'm in your class…" Akane replied, with an nervous smile on her face, "Shouldn't you be teaching right now?"
"Touché," Midori replied, rubbing her eyes, "Anyway I'll be along in about 5 minutes ok?"
Arika and Aoi walked along the sidewalk just outside the entrance to dorms, carrying their book bags. As they came close to the main gate to the school Aoi ran ahead and stood facing Arika with a smile on her face.
"Welcome to Fuuka Academy!" she announced cheerfully.
Arika gazed at the sight behind the gitl. Now she understood why Fuuka had such a good reputation. It was simply amazing. The campus was beautiful. Directly behind Aoi was a huge garden with a long grey pathway surround by evenly cut patches of trees which led to a large brown and white building with a small glass dome-shaped building in front of it.
"Wow!" she cried in excitement.
"You haven't seen anything yet," Aoi said grabbing her by the arm and pulling her down the pathway.