A few weeks after this story's prequel, A Year to Remember Me By
Heights and ages at the end of this storyKai Hiwatari- 18, 5' 6"
Rei Kon- 18, 5' 5"
Tyson Granger- 17, 5' 4"
Max Tate- 17½, 5' 6"
Kenny- 16, 5' 3"
Hillary Tatibana- 17, 5' 4"
Salima- 18, 5' 5"
Mariam- 17, 5' 6"
Mariah- 18, 5' 4"
Hitoshi Granger- 19, 6' 0"
Now for the original characters
Lily Hirotome- 18, 5' 6½"
Leo Hirotome- 9, 4' 8"
Lea Saikoiyo Hiwatari- 18, 5'5"
Molly Haikomo- 17½, 5' 5½"
Mark Haikomo- 17½, 5' 6"
Daisy Sanchez- 16, 5' 3"
Just so you won't get confused later...
"blah blah blah"- people saying stuff out loud
"blah blah blah"- people thinking stuff
'blah blah blah'- telepathic messages from bit beasts
Blah blah blah- Narrator's notes, flashbacks, etcetera
!-Blah blah blah-! Beginning and end to chapters
Disclaimers- This applies for the rest of the story. I don't own Beyblade. I never owned beyblade, still don't, and never will. I do however, own my OCs and as far as I know, Takao Aoki owns Beyblade, for that's the name on the manga!
!-Chapter One-! So it Begins
It was a bright sunny day. The birds chirped merrily in their branches at the morning sun.
That's not rightIt was morning, but it was still dark enough outside to look like night. It was a gloomy day, rain pelt the streets on a dark spring morning.
That doesn't work either...
It was a typical spring morning. The sun was rising slowly in the sky. The clouds still tainted with the bright colors of sunrise. It was the middle of April in Japan. The partially blue sky littered with clouds, their morning colors fading away to white.
It was a deeply calm morning, about six in the morning. Some were already up, getting ready for the day. In a mansion, on the outskirts of the city this particular story takes place in, several teens were preparing for their first day of school.
Down a flight of stairs in the mansion flew a female bearing in her late teens. Long gold brown tresses flew in her wake consider the speed she was going at. She wore a blue uniform belonging to the senior high she was attending. This would be her first year attending there, and her last since she was graduating that year.
The girl ran into the nearby kitchen, spotting yet another girl about her age. She was wearing the same uniform they would be attending the same school. Her lengthy purple hair was kept in a thick braid. She was sitting in a chair balanced on its back legs, back of the chair resting against one of the brightly hued walls. Her arms were crossed and eyes closed.
A burgundy eye opened lazily to stare at the girl with brown hair.
"Lily, next time you hurdle down the stairs, don't jump at the bottom, I was trying to rest."
The girl, known to be Lily, grabbed the back of a nearby chair and spun it to the side and sat down, resting an arm over the back of the chair.
"Sorry, Lea. I happened to wake up energetic this morning." She waved her other arm in a graceful gesture.
"Hn." The fore legs of the chair the purple haired lass was sitting in slammed to the ground as she stood up.
Lily stood up as well, instantly more serious, "So, how well do you think we'll be able to pull our usual prank at the end of the year?"
"It depends on Aru's security. It won't work if it's worse then last year."
"True. But we do have a full two hundred and forty days before then. Should we get cooking?"
"I suppose so."
The oddest thing about their conversation, besides the matter discussed, was that they constantly were switching languages. They had started in Japanese, gone through English and Russian before ending in Japanese again.
In short order there were several wooden boxes stacked on the table. They were all nearly identical, finished maple in an oval shape. The only difference was the brass plates on the side with names written in kanji engraved on the side.
Into the kitchen came a shorter girl. She had tea shaded skin and large brown eyes. Her black tresses were kept in a ponytail in the middle of her head, a thick braid following after the brown hair tie. She adjusted the orange striped cuffs around her wrists as she finished buttoning her blue jacket. Her uniform was the same as the other two.
"Something smells good. What do we have for breakfast?"
Lily looked over at the petite girl of Hispanic and Chinese descent, "Oh, Daisy. Good morning." Both girls had been speaking Spanish.
Two more teenagers walked into the kitchen. They appeared to be related, if not twins. Both had blonde hair and extremely blue eyes that looked violet. One was a girl, her yellow tresses being wavy. The other was male, had one earring and his hair was abnormally strait and worn in a thin pony tail at the nape of his neck with bangs in his face. They too wore the uniform of Aru high school.
"Shouldn't we be trying to speak Japanese instead of going back and forth between languages?" The blonde girl asked, speaking Japanese.
Daisy looked over at the two twins, "Molly-san, Mark-san, ohayougozaimasu." She spoke, instantly switching her dialect of choice to Japanese.
"I think we're all proficient in Japanese, Molly." The purple haired girl said as she dropped a stack of plates on the table. Lily put chopsticks next to the plates.
"And Daisy, our breakfast is rice and sausages."
"Can't make a traditional Japanese breakfast?"
"Iie."
They all ate some of the prepared food and drank some random drink from the refrigerator. They then grabbed the maple bento box with their name on it and walked out of the kitchen after putting their dishes in the sink and wrapping their bento box in a cloth of their favorite color. On a table next to the front door were several carrying cases. The majority of them were Aru generic cases, although there were a few odd colored ones. They took their own bags and put on their shoes that were resting on the brick foyer.
Walking to their senior high as one large group they continued talking, occasionally making outbursts in other languages or just switching when they got bored of a language. Lea, Lily, and Mark were the quietest out of all of them, only speaking when they felt it necessary,
Soon enough they arrived at Aru. It was a fairly large building. In it there were three gyms and over one hundred fifty classrooms. The whole school was surrounded by a cement wall with trees and bushes all over the edges and in the eight class courtyards, and four general court yards.
"Woah, that's a huge school."
Molly snickered at her brother, "Its just your average Japanese high school."
The group walked into the school taking in their surrounds, Lily, Lea, Molly and Mark found the listings for the senpai homeroom assignments and Daisy found the kohai listings.
As Lily stared down the list she finished shoving her foot into the brown female school slipper.
"Lea, looks like you, me, and Mark are in the same homeroom. And Molly's by herself."
Molly looked down her homeroom listing. "Yes, looks like it." Then she noticed some other names on her homeroom listing, "Maybe I'm not as alone as I thought."
Smiling, Molly looked at the rest of her team. "Later!" She shouted over her shoulder as she ran off.
The calmer Mark, Lily, and Lea decided to walk off quietly to their homeroom. Lea sat down at a desk in the room. Mark stood off to the side. Lily stood near a window and looked outside at one of the senpai class courtyards.
Very much elsewhere at seven in the morning, about the time the group was heading out of the mansion, life was waking up at a small dojo on the outskirts of the town. The first two awake were an old man in charge of the dojo and a male teen. Quickly the boy dressed in a dusk blue high school uniform. He felt extremely uncomfortable in the uniform. He narrowed his red eyes as he looked down at the clothing.
"I really hate uniforms."
Growling slightly, he brushed slate bangs out of his face whilst mussing the navy strands at the back of his head. A few moments later, a boy wearing the same uniform walked out. Long black bangs feel to the side of his face, framing it nicely. His golden eyes gave away the fact that he was a morning person.
"Good morning, Kai." The black haired boy addressed the other.
"Rei." Kai glanced over at the point-eared boy. While Kai had been awake for a while longer then Rei, and was equally awake, he wasn't much of a morning person, well it was more like he wasn't much of a people person.
Kai walked over to the kitchen area in the dojo. Rei followed with a lack of anything else to do. His long black hair kept in white banding that started at the base of his neck and trailed down past his knees. A small tuft of black peeped out from the end of the banding.
In the dining room there was already some food waiting out on the table. In a small pot next to the head of the table was white rice. There were glasses on the table with some juice in them. Kai picked up a bowl, opened the pot and scooped some rice into the bowl. He covered the pot again and kneeled in front of a setting. He finished his food quickly. Rei had stopped following Kai and walked over to a pond.
When Kai was about to leave an old man with gray hair kept in a whip like ponytail walked in. His navy hakama fell loosely around his legs and made a faint swishing sound as he walked. He tightly grasped a wooden training sword.
"Yo, Kai. Where are you going, dawg?"
"School." Was his terse reply.
"Well, don't forget your lunch, homie. Its over in the corner."
Kai picked up an oval finished maple bento box with a brass plate and walked out. He walked along the path to the school and eventually stalked to the side of the road, coming into a small ravine with a tiny stream in the middle. He took a metallic blue blade out of his pocket and put it on a small launcher.
After a few minutes he put the blade back in his pocket and continued walking to the Aru school. Entering the building her got his shoe locked assignment, took off the black dress shoes and replaced them with the black boys' slippers. Finding the senpai senior homeroom assignment, he walked to his homeroom.
He walked into his homeroom and walked to the windows, standing a few feet away from a girl already standing there.
"Ah, Kai, you're going to Aru as well?" She turned her head slightly to pin her silver eyes on him.
Know your JapaneseSan – honorific. Its equivalent in English is "Mr." "Ms." "Mrs." Etc. Although its used more often then its English equivalent.
Ohayougozaimasu- good morning
Senpai- senior
Kohai- junior
