I do not own La Corda D'oro or any of the characters. I just own this storyline.

The twists and turns of the corridors used to throw me off when I first came here, but if you were able to wonder the halls aimlessly as much as I had, you would realize that there were many shortcuts to one single destination. So taking the quickest shortcut possible to my fourth class of the day, I could only hope that Reiko-sensei would let my tardiness slide for the day.

"You little twerp! Who do you think you are walking around these corridors as if you actually belonged in them?"

"Yeah!"

"I—I am sin—sincerely sorry senpai."

"Speak up stupid!"

"You can't even speak like a normal person!"

"I c—can't s—stop s…senpai."

"You're just trying to be annoying aren't you?"

It was easy to see that this wasn't a friendly meeting in the middle of the hall, but I'm not trying to be Miss Point out the Obvious. The poor girl with cyan green hair stood trembling before two overly painted primates. Her eyes kept shifting to each end of the hallway as if looking for help.

"You should just drop out!"

"No one wants you here!"

"All you do is get in the way!"

"And show off with your novice skills!"

I just couldn't stand seeing more of this primitive fight of whose the best in the jungle.

"Hey! Leave the girl alone!"

I saw the backs of the two older girls stiffen before they swiftly turned towards me. I could see in their eyes that they were scared, but the look soon vanished to be replaced by smugness.

"Ha! Can you believe this girl Michelle-sama? She actually thinks she can tell you what to do!"

The lackey started to laugh in the most annoying, nails scratching against the chalkboard pitch. Michelle-sama seemed to be thriving on her laugh; it's even possible that she started to shine brighter and smile even haughtier.

"Well Sakura-chan, it's not like she's worthy of knowing who I am. Look at what she's wearing, she's only a lowly gen-ed student."

"Of course Michelle-sama! You're so intelligent for noticing!"

"God! Are you two done? I swear my ears are bleeding!"

"DON'T SPEAK THAT WAY TO MICHELLE-SAMA YOU IDIOT!!"

I should have kept quiet and let them continue their self worshipping acts because I think my ear drums just broke along with all the mirrors in the school.

"Can you two hyenas just leave? You're making me late for class and I really don't appreciate you being annoying."

"Why don't you just mind your own business and keep on walking?"

"Yeah! Michelle-sama doesn't need you here to tarnish her reputation!"

"She actually has a reputation? Oh! You mean the one at the zoo?"

"You little—!"

"Let's just go Sakura. We don't need to be around dirt like these things."

They pirouetted on their toes and struck a pose before they started to cackle and walk off. I stood there for a moment trying to shake off the feeling that I was actually dreaming all of this weirdness. Is that what money makes people into, because if that's true…then our future is truly looking dim.

"Um…t—thank y—you s—senpai."

"Oh! Hey! It's no problem! I actually enjoyed hearing their pleasant laughter!"

She looked at me uneasily, as if trying to decide if I was being sarcastic or simply mean.

"So what's your name? Mine is Kahoko Hino!"

"Mmmm—my name is…Shouko F—Fuyuumi."

"Well you better get to class then…oh no! Dang! I'm really really late for class now and Reiko-sensei is going to kill me! It was nice meeting you Fuyuumi-chan! Don't let those girls bully you again okay? See you around!"

Sorry this chapter is really short, but I haven't had much time and I just wanted to get this out to you all before you start getting bored of me .! More to come soon!