Kish
The green haired teen woke up to his younger brother's screams…
"What the heck's onto you?!" he growled.
"Where's my damn tie?!" the brown haired boy replied in a yell.
"Language dammit!" Kish said before tossing a red tie which lay under Tart's bed "And here it is, never wake me up again you would've been killed if it were Pie sleeping."
"Well he already did!" Tart said jokingly.
"Except there's no Mew Aqua to revive you this time" Kish grunted "And don't make jokes on that, you little brat"
"Alright, gomen Onii-Chan" Tart said struggling with his tie.
"Let me help you with it" Kish chuckled.
Tart raised his chin while his foot was tapping the ground nervously "Are you done yet?" he asked.
"What's onto you?" Kish asked "A date with Monkey-Girl coming up?" he joked.
Tart's eyes widened "How do you know?!"
"There, done" Kish said "And I know because you were never this nervous before breakfast. You're going to ask her now, aren't you?"
"Yeah" he said "Except I have a feeling Happy won't let me get to the topic" he grunted as he started floating.
"I'll keep the brat away for you" Kish said going to the bathroom "You should land before anyone sees you."
The golden eyed Cyniclon caught his reflection on the mirror and, once more, he realized that he was a human. In the looks, at least, because he still had his powers. He still wasn't used to those tiny human ears and the skin tone reminding him of that tree-hugger, Aoyama. Gladly, he couldn't come because he was already studying abroad in Europe. That struck a nerve in his Koneko-Chan but she got over it and they broke up a week before last summer holidays. Kish took off his pajamas and checked his torso in the full-length mirror.
"Yup" he said with a satisfied smirk "Still hot!"
"Yeah I can say you stink right from where I am!" Tart joked.
"What?!" Kish exclaimed trying to find any stinking spots nervously before Tart's head poked in.
"I'm joking, Onii-Chan" he said with a fang-smile before teleporting away.
Kish cursed in his mother tongue before going inside the shower cabin. He took a ten minute shower and put his pants and shoes on; he was shirtless while drying his hair when he heard a knock on his door. He didn't bother to cover his muscular chest when he opened the door, still trying to dry his forest green hair. The girl in the hallway looked so… familiar. Her red hair reminded him of his mother's and her amber eyes of his own, they both gaped for a moment before they shook their heads. Her, because his torso was the definition of perfection. Him, because she could be his twin sister.
"Er hi" she said shyly.
"Hey" he said "Can I help you?" he asked with a flawless American accent.
"I-I'm sorry, I was looking for somebody that could give me directions b-but you're kind of busy so I'll go see someone else." she stuttered before turning away but he held her by her arm.
"Do you see anybody else?" he asked checking in the deserted hallway "Just wait one second, I'll put a shirt on and show you to the best table" he said with a wink.
He went back in, not bothering to close the door. He knew full-well why she was surprised to see him and it did nothing but boost his self-esteem, or what his friends called, his pretentiousness.
"I've never seen you around, are you new?" he asked buttoning his white shirt.
"Er yeah, got here today so I don't know where most of the er… Rooms are" she said hesitantly.
"You can call me Kish but most my friends call me Kisshu" he said.
"Er are you Japanese?" she asked.
"Yeah" he said "Well, kind of"
"Well I respond to both Faith and Shinkō" she said.
"It's beautiful" he said tying a forest green tie around his neck.
"Thanks" she said blushing some while he was busy with his sleeveless black vest.
"Alright, let's go get some breakfast" he said cheerfully "How did you get here anyway?" he asked as they walked side by side.
"Won a competition in my home country and here I am!" she said.
"Well then you must be very smart" he said.
"Thanks but it was basically testing my competence in speaking and writing English." she said.
"Still better than most of us here" he chuckled making her laugh "Can I ask you where your home country is?"
"Algeria, in Northern Africa" she said.
"Oh… Alright" he said with a slow nod.
"Where is yours?" she asked.
"Er Tokyo?" he said.
"When I asked if you were Japanese you replied with 'kind of' so I guess that you weren't born there, were you?" she asked.
"Well I might tell you this story when we know each other better" he said before pushing a set of double doors open "Here is the cafeteria."
Endless alleys of tables for six people were facing the both of them; he turned to her and smiled.
"Let's eat, shall we?" he said taking her to the buffet.
"Hey Kish" the cook said "New girl, isn't she?" she asked with a smile.
"Hi" she said shyly.
"Shinkō, here's Martha" Kish said "She's like our mother in here you can ask her whatever you need"
"He's right, if you have any troubles or questions he can show you to the kitchen" Martha said with a nice smile.
"Thank you, I appreciate it very much" Shinkō said.
"You're very welcome, dear" she said "Now go have breakfast, I won't keep you here any longer"
"She's very nice" she said to Kish once they had food on their trays on their way to be seated.
"She is but don't be fooled" he warned "Most of the teachers are evil and the general supervisor is the worst"
"Isn't it because a certain green haired hottie decided to walk shirtless on the first day of school this year?" a purple haired girl with a cleavage competing with watermelons said flirtatiously.
"Hey Miranda" he said forcing a smile "This is Shinkō"
"Yeah, whatever" she said haughtily "I'll wait for you after class, as usual" she winked at him before kissing his cheek and walking away.
"Wait all you want, bitch" he muttered.
"Not the kind of person I'd hang out with for sure" Shinkō said with a sigh.
"Who is?" a blond boy asked.
"Hey Naruto!" Kish said cheerfully "Shinkō, this is Naruto, the only guy who understands me here. Naruto this is Shinkō, she's new here."
"Ohayō! So you're Japanese?" he asked in his mother tongue.
"Huh?"
"Nah she's not, she kindly translated her name for us. Otherwise it'd be Faith" he said.
"Beautiful" Naruto said with a grin "I hope you'll like it here"
"I hope so too, I already have great roommates" she said cheerfully.
"Who are they? We may know them" Kish said.
"Well if I'm not mistaken, their names are Sakura and Hinata. Also, the ones sharing our bathroom are Ichigo, Pudding and Lettuce" she said before mumbling to herself "Hey, I remembered them all!"
"We know them very well" Naruto said "They're there actually, Sakura-Chan!"
"Ohayō Naruto, hey Kish" she said "Oh, hi Shinkō, I see that you met up with them already."
"Yeah they're cool" Shinkō said.
"You forgot to mention that you drooled when you first saw me" Kish said teasingly making the redhead blush.
"You were shirtless again, weren't you?" Sakura asked unimpressed.
"Well she knocked on my door, I wasn't in the hallway!" he said with a shrug.
"I didn't drool, you egg!" she said finally snapping back into reality and punching his arm.
"Yeah right" he chuckled.
"And what's with Miranda undressing you with her eyes?" she asked folding her arms.
"Ugh, not her again!" Sakura whined looking over to a steaming Ichigo.
"Are they going out?" Shinkō asked referring to Ichigo and Kish.
"No—" Sakura started but Kish cut in.
"I've been working on it ever since she and I met in Tokyo" he said with an overly dramatic sigh.
"Still" Sakura said as she sat next to Hinata "There are other ways than kissing to express your love to her, and stalking and threatening to kill the ones that she loves…" she trailed off making him scowl and Shinkō's eyes widen.
"Well, I guess you're the passionate kind" Shinkō summarized.
"Finally!" he screamed "Someone in this planet understands me!"
"Er you're welcome?" she said hesitantly having a seat next to Sakura in front of a steaming Ichigo and an amused Lettuce "Where's Pudding by the way?"
Ichigo suddenly turned into a chibi "She's having breakfast with her soon-to-be boyfriend!" she squealed.
"Soon-to-be? Can't you say crush or something?" Sakura said "You make it sound like they're getting married while they're just fourteen years old."
"Tart's fifteen" Kish said sitting at the table next to them with three other guys.
"Still waking up late, I see" a purple haired senior said without looking up from his textbook.
"Shinkō-Chan" Kish said "Meet the most boring people alive" he pointed to his elder brother "This is Pie"
He looked up and without even smiling he managed to look pleased "Pleased to meet you." he said.
"Always a pleasure" she replied.
"Next to him" Kish continued "Is Sasuke"
The black haired teen only looked up from his breakfast to look at her before resuming his activity of touching his food with the tip of his plastic fork.
She nodded "Not the outgoing type" she noted.
"I don't even know how he was friends with Naruto since childhood" Kish said with a shrug.
"I figure he wasn't like that, was he?" she asked Sakura who shook her head.
"And best for last" Kish said "Blondie" he said making a blond haired blue eyed man steam.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?!" he growled.
"Alright, sorry Ryou" Kish chuckled.
"Don't mind the green haired retard" he said "It's always something with him"
"I think you're all great to hang out with" she said with a smile.
Naruto
"She's the third of our roommates, this year" Sakura explained while Kish went to talk to Ichigo privately.
"Who do I replace?" Shinkō asked digging her spoon in her corn flakes.
"Alexandra, she graduated last year" Naruto said.
"Naruto-Kun had a thing for her" Sakura teased.
"No I didn't!" he protested blushing.
"Then why did you spend most of your free time around us?" Sakura asked making his blush deepen.
"Well… Er in fact, I uh…" he said sweating awkwardly.
"What subject do you have to start with?" Lettuce said quickly coming to his rescue.
"Literature, I think" Shinkō said fiddling with her schedule from the pocket of her black shirt.
"Good luck with that" she sighed.
"Oh it's okay, I love reading" Shinkō said.
"Well I don't" Naruto said.
"He chose to deal with linguistics" Sakura said before putting a strawberry in her mouth.
"Language is beautiful" he said crossing his hands behind his neck.
Shinkō's eyebrows rose in surprise "I never thought you'd be the kind to like linguistics"
"I'm full of surprises!" he said in a 'what can I do?' manner.
Everyone focused on eating after that and Shinkō was struggling with her plastic fork and the gloves at once. She cursed in Arabic when Pie noticed her struggle.
"Dare I ask why you're wearing gloves?" he asked.
"Huh?" she said "WH-What do you mean?"
"Maybe she's got a thing about dirt" Naruto suggested.
"That's right, I hate dirt" she said.
"You might want to take these off though" Pie said "Or else you'll stain your shirt if you really have a thing about dirt."
She shook her head and proceeded in trying to catch a slice of mango while her left hand sat on her lap. That's all it took for Naruto to take her left glove off swiftly without her noticing. But when she did notice, things got a bit wild in the dining hall.
"Where's my glove?!" she hissed panicked "Where's the damn thing?!"
"It's here" Naruto said wiggling it far from her.
Her amber eyes almost turned bronze when she yelled "Give it back!" a bit too loud.
By then, the whole cafeteria was staring at the weird new girl. Naruto gave her back her glove and she got up, hurrying outside while putting it back on, and her head was low… She was certainly crying.
"Why do you think she reacted this way?" Hinata asked.
"No idea, maybe she really has a thing about dirt" Sakura said "One way or another, you have to go apologize to her Naruto-Kun"
"I know but how can I know where she is?" he said.
"It's not necessary to do it right away" Hinata said "Leave her be for the moment, it looks like she needs privacy"
"Alright, I think I'll go to my first homeroom session" Naruto said standing up.
Soon after, they all separated to wherever they had to.
Crappy ending but hey, it could be worse. Why do you think she wears those gloves? And why would she get all angry when separated from them? The answers and more in the next chapter! Xx