Sakuchii: I'm back! Hellowa you guys!

Aiko: Oh, it seems that a new school years is starting. I wonder what's going to happen.

Yukiko: Tears, breaking ups, suicide attempt...

Sakuchii: YUKIKO!

Yukiko: Prom, confessions, new relationships, love, smiles.

Sakuchii: JUST STOP WILL YA!

Yukiko: Eh? But I was telling the good things.

Sakuchii: Even if it's good, please don't spoiler.

Yukiko: Fine... Now enjoy the chapter!

The Uncried Tears
Tear Nine: Her Arrival

Mirai tied up her red checkered ribbon and brushed her hair. She tied up the end of her hair into a ponytail and checked from the mirror if everything was alright. The girl reached her hand towards the mirror and touched it by her fingertips. A deep sigh escaped from her lips and she then went to pick up her bag. Another school year was starting; the different checkered skirt and new school uniform was a sign of that. That stated that two years had passed by since that day. For two years she hadn't been able to see his smile.

When she was finally ready, Mirai stepped out of the house. She headed towards the hospital to visit Shirou. Only after that she planned to head towards school. It had already become a routine to visit him the first thing in the morning, and she could not ask for better blessing than seeing him.

When Mirai finally arrived at the school she wasn't only greeted by tired and sleepy voices of the second and third years but in addition she heard the excited and cheerful cries of the freshmen. They were most likely the only ones who couldn't wait to know their classes and befriend with new people. That's how they always were, as enthusiastic as one could be. Though, Mirai didn't remember acting that way on her first day.

She was walking towards the bulletin board when she suddenly heard familiar voice calling for her. Mirai turned around and saw three persons who all had either purple colored ribbon or tie. "Mirai-chan! It's so good to see you!" Hannah waved her hand as she ran towards the rust-haired girl.

Mirai showed a weak expression and she then glanced at the board. "We should check our classes…" the girl mumbled, completely ignoring the fact that Hannah was hugging her. The trio agreed with her and walked closer to the board.

The four of them were wearing similar uniforms. Mirai had dark blue short sleeved blouse, while Hannahs was light blue. Akari had changed her blouse into red one to match her red checkered skirt and Mai was still sticking to the cream colored one. She also was wearing white knee length socks. Akari and Hannah had black stocking while Mirai had cream colored ones. They all had brown leather boots with a buckle.

"I'm… I'm…" Akari mumbled while scanning trough the classes to find her name. Mai was the first one to discover her new class.

"There is it! I'm in 2-A," the girl announced happily.

"Ah! I'm in 2-C!" Hannah suddenly yelled. Akari looked troubled. She had browsed through all the classes, but still hadn't managed to find it. Even Mirai was faster than her, when the girl suddenly mumbled that she would be in the same class as Hannah.

The girl was already getting desperate when she surname finally caught her eyes. "There is it!" Akari said cheerfully and scrolled up to get to know her class. "2-D…" Akari was clearly disappointed that she wasn't in the same class as her friends. Hannah glanced at the girl and smiled.

"Don't mind it so much. Your class is on the next-door, so you can always visit us during breaks," the girl tried to cheer up her friend.

Akari smiled, feeling better of Hannahs words. She then felt as Mai wrapped her hand around Akari's next. Mai flashed a wide smiled the girls shared a moment of laughter.

Hannah glanced at Mirai and reached her hand towards the girl. "Please take care of me again this year." Mirai at first averted her eyes away, but slowly took Hannahs hand and shook it.

She then closed her eyes and exhaled loudly. She had extremely bad feeling about the upcoming year… as if something bad was going to happen. Something would definitely change…

-OO-

Mirai and Hannah walked to their classroom 2-C and sat down to their seats. Mirai was once again seated next to the door on seat number 32. Hannah on the other hand was sitting next to the winder on the last row. Her seat number was 7. The seat next to Hannah was empty. The girl found this quite strange. Empty seats usually meant transfer students. So was someone going to transfer into their class?

The classes' front door opened and a woman with blond-hair – obviously dyed - entered into the classroom. She walked to her desk, placed down her belongings and fixed her black rimmed glasses.

Out of a habit Mirai stood up spoke. "Stand up!" everyone immediately listened to her and stood up. "Bow. Sit down." the student council president carried out her class representative duties. Hanako Shizuka, known as Hanasama by her pupils glanced at Mirai and smirked.

"I will be in your care for this year class-iinchou." the woman told and Mirai bowed lightly before sitting down. "And now for the boy representative," Hanasama scanned through the classroom. The boys gulped loudly, not wanting to be chosen. Finally Shizuka stopped, "Anba Itou."

"Eh? No way! I don't want to!" a boy with black-hair and dark brown eyes complained. He shut up when Hanasama's glance pierced right through him.

"You do it, or you're repeating a year!"

"Hai…" the boy mumbled, sighing loudly in disappointment. He had heard rumors of the cold hearted student council president. There was a rumor going on that she had beaten up a group of third years so that they had ended up in hospital. But no matter how much he was afraid of Mirai, Hanasama was more scarier. He didn't want to end up repeating a year…

"Now what else there is…" the woman thought aloud. "Ah! Right! Fubuki-chan, come in." she finally remembered and turned towards the door.

Hannah was surprised when she heard her surname being called, and turned to look at the person who shared a surname with her. The door slowly slid open and a female student walked in.

The girl glanced at Hanasama who nodded as a sign for her to introduce herself. "I'm Fubuki Yuuki. I'm transferring here from Hokkaido,"

Hannah's eyes glazed at the mention of Hokkaido. Why it sounded so familiar, especially when coming from her mouth? She only now took a good glance at the girl and realized that they looked similar. The girl had waist length purple-gray hair and kind gray-blue eyes. Her school uniform was much like Hannah's to the point that she even had purple ribbon around her neck. Great, yet another person to the already so full music class.

"Good Fubuki. You can sit next to the other Fubuki. Ookami, you're taking care of the transfer student." Hannah could swear that she saw Yuuki's eyes flashing when Mirai's name was mentioned. She till girls' facial expression showed no change. She just calmly walked to her seat.

"Fubuki Yuuki. It's nice to meet you." the transfer student introduced herself and threw a candy to Hannah. Hannah who barely managed to catch it, sighed of relief and then thanked Yuuki.

"Fubuki Hannah," she then told her name. For a split second Yuuki's expression froze, but then she started to laugh.

"So you have the same surname, huh?" Hannah decided not to answer to the girl. There was no point stating the obvious. She just nodded and the girls turned to follow the lesson.

After what it seemed like an eternity the school bell finally rang. Mirai told everyone to stand up and bow. Only after that the class was dismissed.

Hannah, not knowing anyone else in the class, headed towards Mirai. The girl was about to call her name, when a figure suddenly ran past her. That same person embraced Mirai tightly.

"To-chan! It's been so long! I've missed you!" Yuuki cried on Mirai's shoulder. Hannah eyes widened. It couldn't be. Why Mirai knew this person? More like; DID she even know her? Hannah glanced at Mirai, hoping that the girl wouldn't react to Yuuki. Why she felt that way, Hannah didn't know.

"Korake?" Mirais' expression didn't change even a little when she said the girls' name. She only glanced at Yuuki with stiff look.

"You know each other?" Hannah couldn't help but to ask. Mirai changed her glance from Yuuki to Hannah, but did not answer the girls' question. After a while she just averted her eyes. Yuuki on the other hand smiled widely.

"Yes. To-chan is Korake's childhood friend." Yuuki suddenly spoke in third person. She looked little surprised of her own words, but tried not to mind them. Mirai glanced at the girl and sighed loudly.

Why was this happening to her?

-OO-

"So we have one transfer student in second year, two in third year - if you count in Kageto, and to add to that sum four exchange students. I'm so lucky." Yukiko sighed at herself as she entered the student council room. There currenly the only member of student council as well as the four exchange students were waiting for her.

"I'm so sorry that we're troubling you." Aldena Fideo smiled widely, which almost made Yukiko to feel bad. She showed a forced smile and replied that as a vice-president it was her duty to take care of them.

"But isn't the president supposed to take care of things like this? I think I haven't seen her yet, where is she?" Urupa Rococo stated the most obvious fact there could be. Yukiko let out a loud sigh.

"She currently has personal problems and cannot accomplish her duties. Meanwhile I'm upholding the discipline." the girl shrugged like it was nothing.

"That's Okazaki Yukiko, as reliable as always." Valtinas Edgar sneered. His words made Yukiko to blush hard and all of sudden a girl, who had been hiding behind Fideo all this time, burst into laughter.

"So even Okazaki-san can blush," Cecara Mimi laughed as she dried her wet red-colored eyes. After that she pulled back her curly pink-hair which was getting on her way.

"I do not appreciate your words," Yukiko pouted hair at first, but then she burst into laughter. "But I'm glad that you're finally able to relax," the girl smiled. Mimi was extremely shy person, and didn't trust people so she often hid behind her childhood friend, Fideo. That's why Yukiko was glad that the girl was finally getting used to the people surrounding her.

"Um, I wouldn't want to interrupt you, Iinchou but we need to head to the classrooms," Kidou who was the secretary and currently the only other council member, suddenly interrupted. Yukiko stared at the boy for a moment and all of a sudden her eyes widened.

"AHH! Oh my- GOD! I completely forgot… Thanks Kidou-kun, I can always rely on you!"

"I'm glad that I'm able to help you," Since Yukiko mostly did all the work, Kidou as the only other member, tired to lend a helping hand anytime he only could. The president was still refusing to complete her duties and they still hadn't found new secretary and general affairs manager to replace the old third years who had retired.

"So Fideo, you're in 3-A, Endou Mamoru will be taking care of you there. You also picked up language as your elective subject. The third year representative Raimon Natsumi will look after you there. If there are problems, you can always go to either one of them." Yukiko continued without giving herself or anyone else who was in the classroom.

"Yes, Okazaki-iinchou."

"Yukiko fixed her glasses and continued, "Cecara Mimi, 3-B and art class. I'm in both of them so you'll be in my care." Mimi nodded, without saying anything. She was disappointed that she couldn't be in the same class as Fideo, but understood that there was no way they could be always together. Especially when he already had a girlfriend… and now he could see her everyday… At the thought of the girl, Mimi immediately tightened her grip on Fideos blouse.

"Urupa Rococo, 3-C and Sports class. In the class Raimon Natsumi will be taking care of you, and during sports classes you'll be in Endou Mamoru's care." His caretakers where reversed of Fideo. Actually, Gouenji and Kageto where in same class and had picked up the subject as him. But the boys had refused to lend a helping hand, saying they needed to concentrate on their own studies as it was already the last year. Because of that Yukiko had had to find someone else.

"I wonder what kind of guy Endou's grandson is," Rococo smiled.

Yukiko then turned to glance and Edgar and gulped. She really had something against this Englishman, but tried her best to talk to him. "Valtinas Edgar, 3-D and Language. In language Raimon-san will take care of you and in your class, Kidou will be looking after you," the blue-gray haired male smiled kindly, which made Yukiko want to vomit. She really was bad dealing with people like him.

"You have any questions?" she then asked. When everyone shook their heads she told them that they were dismissed and could go to their classes. She had called each other the host students to bring help to the classrooms. The only person she wanted to stay was Fideo.

"Yes?" the boy asked kindly when he heard her calling for him. Mimi, who was waiting for Yukiko to lead the way, still refused to let go of Fideo's blouse. She glanced at the indigo-haired girl and waited for her to speak.

"I wonder if you would like to become our general affairs manager?"

-OO-

"Aa-ah. It's only the first day of school and I already want to go home," Aiko sighed loudly while falling on the chair. She stretched her arms, checking if any of her joints would click. The girl was completely exhausted from the brain work and wanted to runaway.

"You always want to avoid studying, Ms. Zero points." Junko grinned after entering the club room. She had completely changed her school uniform to match her second year status. The girl was now wearing light red blouse and blue ribbon as a sign that she was member of sports class. Her skirt was pleated and red checkered. Under it she had brown stockings and brown leather boots.

Aiko flashed an angry glare at the brown-haired girl who gave a light smile as an answer. The indigo-haired girl was wearing oversized, old and plain cream colored sweater and matching red checkered skirt. Her black woolen tights seemed extremely hot in blazing summer days and her knee length combat boots made no relief to ones image of the girl. To this completely mismatched uniform Aiko had added her purple checkered necktie which was tied up in wrong way as the girl had no idea how to do it.

Aiko was quite famous for failing her entrance exam. If it wasn't for the fact that she was scouted, Aiko most likely wouldn't have been accepted to Raimon Jr. High. She had only her work as an idol to thank her. After all, the girl was an extremely poor student.

"Yeah! You should take an example of your sister. She does her vice-president duties perfectly and manages to do most of presidents' work as well. After all that person is still absent. And while doing all this Yukiko-chan still manages to study properly and gets high scores in exams." Yura smirked, making Aiko to glare at her with offended look. The light brown-haired girls uniform was much like Junkos' but she was wearing blue blouse, black knee length socks, black leather boots and the ribbon around her neck was purple colored; the color of music class.

The indigo-haired girl mumbled something between her breaths, stating that she obviously wasn't happy being compared to her sister.

Junko and Yura were surprised that Aiko actually took their words seriously and they had effect on her. After all that girls seemed to be cheerful airhead and rarely took things seriously. Junko then shrugged. "And even now you're here complaining about school while your sister is helping out the freshmen and exchange students."

"Moo. I'm disappointed in you Aicchi! You're already missing a lot of school because of your work… and still you dare to complain while your sister works her ass off for school more than anyone here," Yura told, getting more and more irritated as she continued scolding her friend.

"SHAME ON YOU!" the duo yelled at the Aiko at the same time. Only when they saw the indigo-haired girl staring at them, trembling as her eyes watered, they finally realized to stop.

Yura glanced at Junko and they stared at each other awkwardly. They weren't completely certain why that had just happened and why they had said all those hash words to their friend. After some time they just weren't able to stop themselves. Aiko seemed to be so full of herself, that she sometimes lost touch with earth. But it seemed that that had been even too much for Aiko; who usually was so cheery and outgoing person.

"I think I better get going." the indigo-haired girl stood up and whispered between her breaths. She sobbed loudly, but tried to hide her tears. She was about to head towards the classrooms door and Yura and Junko tried to come up with something to stop her. Before anyone was able to do anything a shadowy figure entered the room, dashing towards Aiko and hugged her.

"Love-Child!" the small figure yelled, squeezing Aiko so hard that the other one cried in pain. Yura and Junko started at Aiko, who was hugged by a blonde girl, with stunned look. What exactly was going on? Who was that person?

"Ra- Rapunzel?" Aiko immediately reacted to the same she had been called by. After all there was only one person in the whole world who called her by her names English meaning. To correct, she called Aiko "Love-Child" only on their first meeting after a long separation; respectively Aiko called her Rapunzel.

"Wha- What are you doing here?" Aiko stammered looking at the blonde. When the other girl finally let go, Aiko realized that she was wearing Raimon Jr. Highs uniform. A creamy short sleeved blouse, light blue checkered pleated skirt, brown tights and leather boots. By the color of her skirt and the black ribbon around her neck it was obvious that she was a first year student. The girls emerald colored eyes shined as brightly as her braided ankle length blonde hair.

"I'm attending here, of course!" the childhood friend of Aiko, Sato Razel laughed. She announced it like it was the most obviously thing in the world; which it actually was taking into account her uniform. The girl spun around proudly to show off her new uniform.

Aiko smiled of the sudden happy news. With Razel there, the school year would be even more awesome than the previous one. All of a sudden Aiko's eyes caught a red-colored hair tress standing out from Razel's blond hair. She let out a heavy sigh.

"Umm… I don't want to be a mood breaker, but may I ask who is she?" Aiko snapped out of it when she heard Junko's voice asking.

"Right, you guys haven't met before!" the indigo-haired girl remembered, being completely recovered from the earlier scolding. She acted as if it did never happen. That was most likely one of Aiko's good points; she snapped easily, but she also didn't hold grudge. She was a person who forgot things easily in most cases anyway.

Aiko stood to face her two friends. "She's Sato Razel, someone I would call a childhood friend. The last thing I know about her was that she was supposed to be in Russia. But it seems that she's back."

"Sato Razel from 1-D. Rada poznakomitsha." Razel bowed deep as she spoke in a language which Yura and Junko didn't know. By Aiko's story they assumed that it must be Russian.

"It's nice to meet you too," the confused duo answered in union. Aiko smiled happily and then walked to Yura and Junko.

"And these two are my best friends, my most trustworthy comrades!" Aiko smiled. She was really acting as the thing from minutes earlier hadn't happened. Razel turned her head to face Yura and Junko.

"Endou Junko 2-B. It's nice to meet you." Junko introduced herself.

"Noble Yura from 2-A. I guess we will be hanging around from no own." Yura followed Junko's example. She ended up smirking at her own words.

"RAZEL!" a sudden yell interrupted the introduction. The girls turned towards the door and saw a young boy puffing. Never have seen him before, they assumed that he was a freshman. His light blue checkered trousers and black tie proved their guess right.

"I finally found you!" the boy mumbled between his breaths. He looked as if he had searched through the whole school for the girl. And that particularly was what had happened.

"Tora-chan!" Razel cried in happiness and walked to the boy. She, for her best luck, didn't see Aiko's widened eyes.

"BANANA BOY!" the indigo-haired girl yelled so loud that most likely people from old school building heard her. Her expression showed mixed feelings of fear and irritation.

The boy looked up and when he saw Aiko his mouth dropped. "You crazily weird person!" his words made absolutely no sense at all.

"Eh? You know each other?" Razel tilted her head. If she remembered right, those two supposedly had never met. At least she had never introduced them to each other.

"I do recall something like that happening. Let's go Razel. You'll get badly influenced if you hang around with an idiot like her." the boy dragged Razel out of the room as the bell finally rang. Razel looked around confused, wanting to know how her two dearest person were connected to each other. Where exactly had they met?

"Idiot?" Aiko's vein popped hard as her started to flame. Dark aura suddenly surrounded her and the girl walked out of the clubroom. "Let's go you two. I'll show to that shorty who's an idiot." Yura and Junko exchanged glances and then followed Aiko while smirking.

"This surely is going to be interesting year," Junko giggled.

"Couldn't agree more, Jun," Yura let out a loud and eerie laugh.

-OO-

"Nee- Nee To-chan!" Yuuki called for Mirai. The rust-haired girl glanced at her childhood friend. Hannah, who had wanted to stick around her friend, too turned to Yuuki.

When the transfer student was sure that the other two were listening to her she continued. "You know, I live in an apartment. It seems that there's a hot senpai living my next door."

"Eh? You mean from our school… Do you know his name?" a certain person popped into Hannah's mind. She quickly shook him off and was confused at herself. Why he was coming into her mind at a time like this? It's not like she was in love with him, right? After all he was still yearning for Aiko…

"I don't know his name yet, but he has a spiky pink-hair and is in language class." Mirai's eyes widened. So there was actually a boy who had chosen language class. It was rare; actually if she remembered right, he would be the only boy who had chosen language as his elective subject.

"Did he look like that guy?" Hannah suddenly pointed at a person who had spiky pink-hair and was wearing green checkered pants. Yuuki's eyes widened in excitement and she ran towards the person.

"Senpai!" she yelled.

The pink-haired boy turned around, wondering if someone had called for him. Hannah was just about to follow him when a trembling hand suddenly grabbed her arm. she turned her head and saw Mirai gasping for air as her face was sweating.

The rust haired girl tried to open her mouth to speak, but no voice came out. Her throat was dry. Why was that person here? Why they all had to appear before her eyes… and at a moment like this? Hadn't she transferred to Raimon in order to escape them and her past which kept haunting her?

"ATSUYA…"

"15 years old, I first met you. 16 years old, I fell in love. 17 years old, can you forgive me?"

Sakuchii: I'm finally done! I'm sorry if there's any grammar mistakes I'll be sure to check them later. At the moment Imma kinda in hurry.

Aiko: So just few explanations about the nicknames. Or to say about Yuuki's nickname. Yuuki can mean a lot of things; but here we decided to use the word "Courage." Korake, seems much like what Japanese would use of the written form of the word. Or at least that's what Mirai is using.

Yukiko: As for the reason why Mirai turned into "To-chan"... you'll now it someday.

Sakuchii: That's it for this chapter. Next time we'll see what going to happen when Mirai and Atsuya meet... and how do they know each other? Oh, you guys know it already, right?

Aiko: See ya again!