Makoto walked to her class feeling flustered and very confused as to why Kawakami would say something like that. She was walking to her class when she bumped into her friend Haru.

"Oh hello Makoto." Haru says slightly surprised. "You look upset what's wrong?"

"I just have a lot on my mind I guess." Makoto responded. Makoto never told haru about Akira. She tried her best not to think about him during school otherwise she would break down in front of the school and she would never allow that to happen.

"Do want to talk about it?" Haru asks.

"I guess that's fine." The brown haired girl says.

"Ok let's find a spot to sit." Haru says while she drags Makoto to a nearby bench. "So what's on your mind."

"Principal Kobyakowa wants me to tutor a new delinquent transfer student." Makoto half lies to avoid the subject of her best friend being a criminal.

"Why would he do that? What if he hurts you? What if he..." Haru went on listing all the things the transfer student could do to her friend. Makoto didn't like any of the scenarios Haru had imagined.

"I have to meet him tomorrow will you come with me to meet him?" Makoto asks nervously.

"Of course I will." Haru comforts her friend. "And if I need to I will beat him up!"

"That won't be necessary Haru." Makoto says in between laughter. The friends talk some more and then return to their class.

The next day the duo meet up before school and walk into the principals office waiting for the transfer student to arrive. Except he's not here. They wait a little longer and soon an hour passes. Then another hour passes. Makoto thinks to her self 'of course he wouldn't show up' And then finally Ms.Kawakami walks in with a tall messy raven haired boy with glasses.

"AKIRA!?"

"MAKOTO?!"

"Do you two know each other?" Haru asks feeling very confused. But the two didn't respond they just ran up and hugged each other with Makoto crying a little. She then punches him in the arm and says.

"You scared me! What happened? Where did you go?" Makoto proceeded to bombard Akira with questions while the principal, Haru, and Kawakami just watched bewildered.

"You have no idea how much I missed you. I thought I would never see you again." Makoto said in between sobs.

"I was scared too Makoto." Akira did his best to calm his friend down...he wasn't very successful.

"Ok Mr.Kurusu." Kobyakowa interrupted the reunion. "You seem to already aquatinted with Ms.Niijima here and she will be tutoring you after school."

"Oh that sounds great." Akira says "If that's ok with you Makoto?"

"It's ok if it's you Akira." Makoto answers with a light blush.

"Ok then it's settled. Now get back to class you three." Kobyakowa says calmly. The three kids all walk back to their class. Makoto and Haru guide Akira to their class room and they finish what was left of their school day. After their classes the three met up and the best friends caught up with each other and filling Haru in on everything.

"That's a terrible thing that man did to you!" Makoto said in an outrage.

"Yeah but it worked out I still get to share a school with you." Akira said. He didn't tell Makoto about the other world him and that Ryuji kid found earlier and he didn't tell her about Arsene or Igor. He thought she wouldn't believe him. "I got to go I have to meet up with a friend before we leave." Akira then leaves and heads up to the schools roof.

"Why did he just leave like that I haven't seen him in a month after he got taken and when he comes back he just leaves like nothing happened. I think something is going on and I'm gonna find out what." Makoto states feeling furious.

Haru nods and agrees to help Makoto. The two sneak up to the roof of the school and press their ear against the door. They can hear Akira, another person, and why sounds like a cat? They listen closer and can make out Akira say the words palace and other world but they have no idea what he's talking about and then it goes silent. A few minutes of silence goes by and Makoto decides to look to see what happened. When she opens the door Makoto and Haru find no one is here?! They disappeared!

"Where did they go Makoto?" Haru asks.

"I don't know Haru." The ruby eyed girl says sounding very confused.