A New Threat
Author: For many years I did not like the ending of the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. I thought it ended to abruptly with too many unanswered questions, I finally have decided to write a fic as a continuation of the series. WARNING: This fic DOES involve some original characters, due to the nature of the series, AND contains yuri and yaoi of all sorts. Anyhow, I hope you all enjoy the fic! Please R&R.
Chapter 3: The Will to become a Diamond among Rocks
Utena sat in a desk in a cold room. She was the only one in the room, except for the teacher, who was a lady that didn't seem to care much for anything but filing her nails down evenly. She had her legs propped up on her desk and she sat back in her chair, relaxed, unlike Utena who was now struggling on the math section of the test. She scratched her head with the eraser of her pencil and continued on.
"Grade 6 to the senior year of an undergraduate college, huh? No matter why some of this stuff is so tough!" she thought. She then let her thoughts wander to the times when she and Anthy used to study together in their dorm. Just then she heard a little tap at the door. Utena then saw that the little girl she had met earlier, Hamako, was there. Hamako waved. "What is she doing here?!" Utena muttered. She then turned her attention back to the test.
A half an hour passed and Utena was on the last question. It had it's own separate section. It asked the following: What is most important to you? The answers read the following: Loyalty to the ones I love; Personal goal; Other.
"What kind of question is that?!" Utena thought. She then looked back at the door. Hamako was still there, apparently waiting for her to finish. Utena let her thoughts drift back to the test. She thought for a moment and then filled in the circle next to "other." She then picked up her test, got out of her seat, and left her test on the teacher's desk. "Try to not bite your nails." Utena said, smiling cockily. The teacher snapped out of her daze and looked at her nails.
"She's right..." the woman said to herself, quietly. Utena left the room. Utena then looked down at Hamako. Unlike before, Hamako was now looking back up at her. She had overcame her shyness.
"Hi Utena-sama!" Hamako cried.
"Hey, how do you know my name anyway? And why have you been following me?" Utena asked, a bit suspicious.
"The principal told me to find you and take you to your dorm! It's pretty far, so I hope you don't hate walking!" Hamako said, giggling.
"Oh, thank you, Hamako." Utena smiled.
"Come on! The dorming hall is this way!" Hamako began walking down the hallway towards the entrance of the school.
Utena followed closely. They trekked down a path that was located on the side of the main building past the statue of the knight she had seen earlier. The dorming hall was actually a bunch of completely separate buildings located behind the main one. Hamako assumed the position of a tour guide, talking about the sites they saw around them.
"Since Miharu Academy has students as young as 6th graders, each grade has a building. Right now we are by the girl's dorms--if you wanted to see the boy dorms, you would have to go further... See that building? That's where the youngest students dorm... And the one next to it is the building where the 7th graders live! I live there!" Hamako said, pointing the building out. Utena looked at them. They were all modeled after the main building. Utena wasn't all too interested in Hamako's tour. The campus reminded her of Ohtori Academy, which was something she didn't want to think about. They continued walking. They approached the building for 8th grade female students. Utena stopped.
"Isn't this where I would dorm? I was in 8th grade at Ohtori Academy..." Utena mentioned. Hamako scratched her head, looking a little confused.
"Well the principal told me to not take you there, but to the elite dorms..." Hamako answered.
"Huh? Why there?" Utena asked.
"I'm not sure. Only the school's elite lives there..." Hamako said.
They passed five more buildings, the last two being the largest. Hamako mentioned that the last two buildings housed the 12th graders and college students, which was why they were so big. At one point Utena turned to Hamako and asked her a question that had been bothering her for a while now.
"Hamako, how old are you?" Utena asked.
"Hamako is 14 years old!" Hamako responded.
"Oh! I thought you were 10..." Hamako looked at Utena, annoyed. "Sorry, Hamako." Utena apologized, not meaning any harm.
"It's okay! Hamako gets that all the time!" She said.
They finally reached the elite dorms. It was small compared to all of the rest of the dorms but it was beautiful. The entire building was different from all of the others. It only had two floors and the building was not made of red brick, but white concrete. The front was decorated with four Corinthian pillars. About twelve small windows and two large windows on the bottom floor covered the face of the building. The entrance was two large dark walnut doors which sat at the top of three steps. Utena looked at it in awe.
"I've never been here before..." Hamako said. "It's so pretty!" She paused. "Can I come inside with you, Utena-sama?"
"Uhh, sure, Hamako! I don't think anyone would mind..." Utena said. They walked towards the building. They didn't notice that someone was in the most top right window, watching them. They entered inside. They entered into the main room, which had a large staircase leading upstairs, and two long hallways on each side with many closed doors. No lights were on; the room was simply lit by daylight. No one seemed to be around.
"Hello?! Hello?!" Hamako cried out, cupping her hands around her mouth.
"I don't think anyone is here... Everyone must be in class..." Utena suggested.
"It's kind of creepy... Oh well! The principal said that your room is in the basement of the building..."
"Basement?!" Utena seemed a little annoyed. "Well, basement or not it's a room!"
"And one in the elite dorms, too!" Hamako added. "The stairs leading to the basement is actually behind the main staircase that leads to the upper floor. Kinda cool, right?" Hamako said as she began walking towards the stairs. She went to the left, around them. "Found 'em!" she cried. Utena decided to follow. She saw Hamako already starting on the stairs. She also noticed that across from these stairs was a door with the elite's crest carved into it. She looked at it for a moment or so and then began going downstairs.
They went down the stairs behind the main staircase to the basement, where they hit the door. Hamako took out a key.
"This should work!" Hamako claimed. She put the key into the keyhole and then twisted the doorknob, opening the door. They stepped into the room. In the furthest right corner of the room was a large bed, plump with plush bed sheets that had the elite's crest on it. On top of the bed was some kind of small package with a note attached. This caught Utena's attention. Next to the bed was a coffee table with a small lamp. Across from the bed was a bookcase, filled with some textbooks and some old classics like "The Old Man and the Sea." Next to the bookcase was a desk with a chair pulled up to it, with another small lamp on top; perfect for studying on. There were two more doors on the same side of the room where the bed was located. Both doors were opened slightly; one was the bathroom, while the other was a small kitchen. "What a lovely dorm!" Hamako cried as Utena approached the bed. Since there were no windows, Utena turned on the lamp next to the bed and took the note off the small package. Hamako, curious now, ran over to her. "Hey, let me see!" she said as she tugged on Utena's arm. Utena sighed and then decided to read it aloud.
"Dear Miss Tenjou," she started. "Here is your uniform. K.O.M.A.'s crest has already been sewn onto it. If you haven't guessed it already, you have been accepted into K.O.M.A. We all welcome you to our home, Miharu Academy. Please make sure to make brief visits to all of your classes today and then meet the rest of your dorm's members, K.O.M.A., in the room located underneath the main staircase. The door has our crest carved into it. Thank you for complying. Sincerely, Sasame." Utena finished, thinking to herself. Hamako gasped.
"Sasame wrote you a note?!"
"Who's Sasame?" Utena asked.
"Sasame is one of the elite! He works in the principal's office! Didn't you see him?!"
"Huh? Did he have white hair?..."
"Yeah! He has this gorgeous, long white hair and these clear, blue eyes! Almost every girl in school has a crush on him! He is also really polite, but most of the time he doesn't speak... He really only hangs out with the elite and his older brother, the principal, Mr. Jun..."
"Oh, so they are brothers?... But wait! Isn't he a student though?!" Utena looked confused.
"Yeah! Weird, huh? When I first came to Miharu Academy I couldn't believe that a student was working for the principal but I heard that Sasame is a real genius!" Hamako takes a breath before continuing. "I can't believe you will be dorming in the same building as Sasame! So lucky!" Hamako cried, a small hint of envy in her voice.
"I guess I'm lucky." Utena said, not all too interested. Utena then opened the package. She took out the uniform. It was a plain, female's uniform with the crest sewn onto the front. "This will not do..." Utena sighed.
"What?!" Hamako looks at her, confused.
"Hamako, do you have any sewing supplies?" Utena asked.
"Yeah, I have some in my room from when I had to fix my uniform when I--"
"Perfect! Could you bring them over? I got a great idea!" Utena said, smiling at the uniform now.
"Umm, okay, Miss Utena..." Hamako said. She then ran off, running up the stairs as quick as she could.