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"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

Author Speaking

Chapter 3

The sun shone high in the morning sky as Natsuki and Koyuki walked along the hallways of the freshly cleaned high school, polished and prepared for the oncoming stampede of destructive teenagers.

"This is great Natsumi!" Koyuki exclaimed joyfully with a bright smile, "I can't believe we're in the same class this year!"

Koyuki had shining green eyes and dark green hair so it almost looked black, over the past four years she had cut it to a shorter, more manageable length, but still clipped it back with a light red bow. She had stopped being so open about her ninja background after Dororo left, she had still been practicing her techniques at home, but in public for all anyone suspected she was a normal teenaged girl.

Natsumi and Koyuki arrived at the classroom early so they could pick spots next to each other, so while they waited for class to start they chatted a bit and watched the steady stream of new and familiar students trickle in.

"Oh! Saburo!" Natsumi called as the white haired boy passed through the doorway.

He looked over and waved their way before going to sit with his friends in the back of the classroom.

"Hey guys! What's up?" He said with a smile, clearly happy to see the two of them again after a long summer vacation.

"Not much, just hanging out." Koyuki said jokingly with a sly smile, Saburo laughed light heartedly and Natsumi couldn't help but smile at her friends ninja pun.

Saburo still wore his cream colored beanie hat with Kururu's signature yellow spiral marked on the front, though it was starting to show some wear after all the adventures he'd been on. The frogs disappearance hadn't hindered any excitement he'd seen, in fact he was probably busier than ever! Since the five of them went missing, he's been using the seemingly magic 'reality pen' that made anything he drew on a flat surface come to life, to search not only this world but also other dimensions for their froggy friends.

'He's still skipping class, but at least now he's skipping for a good reason...' Natsumi thought with a sigh.

All too quickly the bell chimed and the teacher entered the room telling everyone to sit down so class could start.

"Alright class, I'm sure some of you know each other from last year but just to be sure we don't leave any new students out, let's go around the room and everyone say your name and one interesting thing about yourself!" He said with that overly happy attitude teachers seem to always have on the first day.

Everyone in the room grumbled and sighed with quiet whispers of, "What are we, six?" and, "Do we have to?"

The teacher ignored everyones obvious distaste for the activity and began by calling on the kid sitting in the front left desk, "Ito Haru, you go first."

So the list went on as the trail snaked around the room till it finally came to the three of them, "Mutsumi Saburo?"

"I'm Saburo, I wont be in class very often, so please excuse my absence as best you can." Saburo announced calmly to the whole class.

Everyone could see the gears turning in the teachers head as he realised Saburo had just admitted he was going to skip class.

Before he could get questioned or yelled at Natsumi quickly introduced herself to move the subject away from his comment, "I'm Hinata Natsumi and I like sports."

A kid a few seats away very visibly flinched when he heard her name, and she couldn't help but glare at the back of his head, 'What! Does he not like my name! That's just rude!'

Of what she could see the kid had cold black eyes and red hair that spiked up over his dark red headband decorated with a small yellow skull. He was wearing a red jean jacket over a dirty white tanktop with some kind of dog tag hanging from his neck, and a black belt with a silver buckle held up his baggy cargo pants. But his most noticeable feature besides the fact he looked like he had just escaped a war zone, was his left eye which was trailed over by a long thin scar that lead from his forehead to the bottom of his ear.

Natsumi's heart skipped a beat and everything except the strange boy blurred from sight, 'That scar looks just like… like...'

"Next is, Azumaya Koyuki?" The teacher said tearing her from her racing thoughts and snapping back to reality.

Saburo gave her a quizzical look from his desk beside her and in response she silently mouthed, 'It's nothing.'

"Hello! I am Koyuki and I like muffins!" Koyuki exclaimed happily.

'I guess I really am going insane...' Natsumi thought darkly, but she couldn't stop staring at the red haired boy, no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't take her eyes off him.

The rest of the introductions went painfully slowly as she waited for the teacher to call on the scar-faced boy, the rest of the world moved at a snail's pace and she felt like if she had to wait one more second she would start flipping desks.

"Shubo Keiji," The teacher called out.

"I'm Keiji, and I love building Gunpla models!" A green haired kid with dark brown eyes said as his name was called.

Keiji had a tan-ish hat with a small red star embroidered on the front and dog-ear flaps that hung low down to his shoulders on over his loose green hair. He was dressed in a dull green jacket that covered his bright green t-shirt with a yellow star sewn onto the front and a leather belt that held what looked like mini cans of model paint and a pair of tiny shears for cutting out Gunpla pieces. Though Natsumi didn't take notice of any of these incredibly obvious hints because she was so focused on the Giroro look alike.

'Just two more!' She thought impatiently but also excitedly as her heart beat grew quicker.

The teacher called out another name, "Kagaku-sha Kurou?"

"Yes, I'm Kurou and I like curry." Said a yellow haired kid, large orange headphones covered his ears and his intense crimson eyes seemed to study everything around him in boredom from behind his shaded glasses, which if seen in the right light seemed to have spirals marked on them. He wore a yellow hoodie over a white shirt marked with a red spiral on the front and a pair of black pants.

'So close!' Natsumi thought, unaware of when she had become so desperate to hear the strangers name.

"Asashin Daichi," The teacher droned on.

"Present. I am Daichi, and I love nature," The light blue haired boy said in a cold tone, he had deep sky blue eyes and a white scarf that covered the bottom half of his face, at the base of the long scarf which hung just so it was just brushing against the tiled floor was a yellow four pointed star with a hole in the center. He was dressed in navy blue sweatpants and and a plain black tank top with some sort of holster slung across his back.

Natsumi could feel her heart pounding in her chest so loud it felt like everyone in the room could hear it.

"Senshi Ginjiro?" The teacher called out and the world froze.

Nothing moved and everything was silent for a moment that seemed to stretch out into a million years.

"I'm Ginjiro, I like high class military weaponry." She couldn't think straight as the sound of his voice hit her and memories of so many fleeting moments spent with the small red frog came rushing back to her mind,

She could hear the teacher talking but she couldn't make out what he was saying.

Her head spun and she tried desperately to sort through her whirling thoughts, 'He is Giroro… It can't be… He is Giroro… Why is… He is Giroro… How could… He is Giroro…'

Then Natsumi blacked out.

DUN DUN DUN! Cliffhanger time! :D

I tried to pick human names what sounded like their keronian names like Ginjiro/Giroro and Kurou/Kururu, and their surnames are just Japaneses words like Asashin means Assassin and Shubo means leader.

As for the "Saburo's been searching other dimensions" thing, just watch episode 298, and while you're at it watch episode 229, I love that episode...

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