A sunny morning just like any other reared its head as the clouds cleared out for the blue sky to peak through. crisp clean grass rustled in the wind as kids made their way out of their houses towards their schools and two silhouettes walked down the path in the distance.

Soon their voices could be heard ringing out "did you remember your homework?" one voice being a stern voice with a familiar regale presence.

Another voice responds "er yeah- yeah of course! I mean absolutely..." this voice just as familiar, but much more rough and relaxed although the air of panic could be heard in each of their words.

"Then show me" the stern voice replies as the silhouettes draw near and we begin to recognise them "show me your homework Ryūko."

Satsuki in all her brilliance walked side by side with Ryūko, her long black hair and pale blue eyes shone brightly in the morning sun, similarly Ryūko's red line in her hair caught the light as they strolled their way down the road. The two wore what appeared to be high school uniforms, being black skirts with black knee socks and white laceless shoes and a black jacket with red and blue lining and three buttons running down the middle, while a bow coloured with a similar red and blue was tied at the collar of their white shirt. Ryūko tried to avoid meeting her sisters gaze as Satsuki appeared to stare into her soul.

"oooooooooh Ryūkoooooo" suddenly a projectile at unexpected speeds came flying towards the two girls, Ryūko buckled under the pressure of the impact, and revealed that Mako was now holding onto her with both her legs and her arms with a wide smile on her face her auburn brown hair and her plump face glistened with joy.

Ryūko met Mako's smile with her own "hey Mako" Ryūko picked up the joy filled girl and placed her on her feet, "you're just as energetic as usual"

Mako replied with vigorous speed "I'm even MORE energetic today! when i got up this morning my mom said its finally time, then she let me drink coffee! it tasted really good a bit bitter though but I still really enjoyed it-"

Ryūko cut her off with a look of mixed amusement and concern. "Jeeze what the heck was she thinking...?"

Satsuki smiled politely at Mako "good morning Mako."

Suddenly the voracious Mako jumped to Satsuki hugging her tightly, Satsuki began to blush as Mako smiled replying "Good morning satsukiiii! you look even more pretty today! did you use a new hair conditioner? you gotta tell me!"

Satsuki calmly placed a hand on Mako's head before closing her eyes and smiling warmly at Mako continued rambling in the background she said, "It's good to see you too."

Ryūko looked far more relaxed now saying "well we better get going so we don't be late to school..."

This caused Satsuki's gaze to shift towards Ryūko looking sternly in expectation "Don't think I've forgotten about you Ryūko..." Ryūko's face returned to dread as the three girls approached a school gate ready(ish) for the day that awaits them.

Upon opening the front door to the school, the sound of students chattering overwhelmed all other noise in the background, with the sounds of steps and closing lockers underlying their words. The three approached their lockers, replacing their regular trainers for brown smooth shoes, Satsuki opening her locker was met with overflowing letters falling immediately out. Satsuki ignored them placing her shoes calmly in the locker. Mako appeared to pull out various pieces of food out of her locker including a chicken leg and a large slice of water melon.

Ryūko watched in semi confusion but mostly out of fulfilled expectation as she sighed with a smile placing her shoes in her own locker. "Mako are you sure its a good idea to stuff all that crap in your locker?"

Mako seemed unbothered by the question replying "Yup! aren't I so smart? if I stuff my food in my locker then I don't have to sneak it into school!"

Ryūko nods in odd agreement while Satsuki looks rather confused asking "But don't you have to sneak it into the locker in the first place?"

The conversation is seemingly interrupted as three girls giggled and ran past them while one bumps into Satsuki "oh! I'm sorry Satsuki!"

Satsuki replied with, "It's quite alright."

The girl then runs away to catch up with her friends, Ryūko looking curiously in the direction of where the girls ran to, "is there a festival going on today or something?"

Satsuki looked calmly with her usual stern face in the same direction, "If there is this would be the first I've heard of it."

Mako looked as well in bliss ignorance as the three begin moving again towards their classroom. They climb up a flight of stairs passing two boys in black trousers, black jackets with red and blue lining and a white shirt with a red and blue tie, chewing bubble gum and placing cards on a window sill that they are sitting on.

They move down the hall passing various other students having conversations and walking towards their various classrooms. The three arrive at their classroom door beneath a sign displaying "6C" they open the door and are met with the view of various other students sitting at desks doing various activities. A young man with a fair number of freckles sat his desk with a book standing at the front of the desk while the boy played with various figures. Ashy looking girl with frizzy hair sat at her desk buried in a book seemingly trying to avoid being noticed by everyone else in the classroom. Satsuki, Ryūko and Mako sat in their desks at the right middle side of the room, and as they sat down the three girls that ran past them in the hall stepped inside and sat at their own desks on the left side of the room.

The three girls then loudly discussed with one another captivating the attention of other students in the class causing Ryūko and Satsuki to overhear what they are talking about. "so what about this new kid?"

Someone had quickly cut in, "I heard they're American!-"

While another interrupts, "no way, I heard they're French!"

One of the male students asks the three girls, "Is it a dude or a chick?"

But before the girls had a chance to reply a female student not part of the group of three girls asks, "Are they hot?"

But again the girls have no chance to reply, this time however is due to a tall man entering through the door to the classroom, he wore a grey jacket with white shirt and black tie, along with grey trousers, he had dark brown messy hair, and large bags under his eyes with a poorly shaved chin. He appears to have a permanent tiredness locked onto his face as he stumbles to the podium at the centrepiece of the room. A red haired girl at the front right corner of the room immediately stands commanding all the other students to "Stand!" as well then says after the students follows this she says "Bow!" with the students doing so as well, then finishing with "Sit!" causing all the students to drop back into their seats.

The teacher speaks up with a low pitched commanding voice "well I hope you had a nice weekend, I spent most of mine marking tests which was a pain in my ass but you did have homework so I'm sure you can empathise."

A heavy groan seemed to flow through the class as Ryūko sweated profusely feeling Satsuki's gaze on her from the desk to her left, looking expectantly in regards to the homework.

It wasn't long till the teacher spoke up again, "Alright everyone pull out your textbooks and get ready for today's lesson." Ryūko then noticed him mumbling under his breath; "Damn it they're supposed to be here by now..." although she shrugged it off and proceeded to pull out her textbook.

Suddenly, the door to the class on the right side of the room by the blackboard, swung open with a violent crash bringing it to the attention of all the individuals in the classroom.

The teacher looks confused for a moment before realising who it was, "you're late." He said with an annoyed tone.

A voice from out the door replied with a quite shy and embarrassed tone, "I-I'm sorry... I... I got lost."

The voice's resemblance hits Satsuki and Ryūko like a gun shot.

The teacher replied with a sigh, "Its fine since you are new but I expect you to be mostly on time from here on, now come in and introduce yourself."

The origin of the voice stepped inside the classroom as the epiphany made its approach on Ryūko's and Satsuki's faces. What stood at the front of the class was a young girl, she had long flowing hair that reached even down to her feet, she had a warm smile, the same style of uniform, a white Japanese style eye-patch and one bright shining blue eye.

She spoke with the eerie resemblance like a ghost that had clawed its way out of the past, "Hello! my name is Nui Harime, nice to meet all of you!"