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Aryes: Hey guys, I am sorry about the wait, but there was a holiday weekend and I needed to go places. I hope this helps you readers to understand the world that this story takes place in more in depth. I hope that it makes more sense than the last chapter. If you have any suggestions, I am all for it! Go ahead and let me know, so I can see if it works. Other pairings are good, but to be fair I haven't gone past the anime series of DRRR! So, please no spoilers too big, okay. Thank you for listening and please enjoy.
Chapter 2: First Day
Monsters, one of the 6 categories of creatures on the earth. These six groups made up their own societies, but one group was secluded from knowing anything. That group is the humans, they make up 65% of the earths intelligent creations. Then, you have the 2nd largest group on the earth and the most common type of creatures in the dark society, Halanims. Halanims were half beast humans, or human beasts. Hala's make up 14% of the population. The third group is called Interra, or as they call themselves, Night Walkers. They are the classic legends of monsters,Vampires, were-wolves, Wendigos, Frankenstiens, ghosts, aliens, skeletons, etc... The N. W. make up 11%. These 3 groups are the more common types of people, they are dubbed the sun group.
With every light side as you all know, there is a dark side. The dark side, though very small, is very powerful. The moon group are constantly watched by the sun group so they didn't try to overtake the majority of the population with their powers and start a world war. Between the Suns and the Moons there was a straining tension everyday. New struggles, old struggles, and always the same struggles. It had been there 9 centuries since there was peace, but one day, out of nowhere, there was a power struggle between the two, like republicans and democrats in the human's government.
The moon group are very dangerous and a strong crowd to run in with, because their powers were very unstable. There were the Manipulators or Manu, that could warp or manipulate one of the following: space, time, water, blood, life, death, information or emotions. The Manu amount to a measly 4% of the population. Then there were the biggest threats, Gods and monster, both were at 3% population. Gods, unlike the all mighty and powerful, had limits to their life and powers. They had 4 basic spells and in special cases, they had a special power Manu power that they possessed. Gods and Monsters, unlike other groups, were involved very much with the other.
The reason was that between Gods and Beasts, a bond could be formed. Gods and Beasts can turn into 3 types of bonds: Partners, Owner and Pet, or Enemies. The bond regardless will make both sides stronger, but not every Beast wants to be tamed or tied down to a God. That is why the relationship between these 2 dark groups are so heavily intertwined, because of love, trust, or hate. It is ironic that these two groups create these bonds so deeply, considering Gods are controlling and Beast are rebellious by nature. So, naturally the air around the two species when they meet one another is very anxious. The air is always thick with the tension between them, but not every Beast and God know of the bonds that can form.
A law was passed on to all 5 super powered species that they must not speak a word about the bonding of the two species or the power that comes with it, till they reach the age of 25 or when a bond was formed between two individuals of this species. The process of the bonding was unknown to the creatures, but many of the creature scientist believe that the bond happens from the moment you touch them, and it only happens to those whom you are fated to bond with. That is the power of the invisible bond. The bond, once formed, can make you aware of two things, your bond mate's fear levels and your bond mate's location by direction.
All 6 groups lived harmony, one not noticing any of the others, but to keep this harmony between the 5 groups, all children for at least two years must attend a special monster school in the country you're from. It was a law passed by the higher court of the 5 species called, "Court of the Hidden." The law had been unanimous in it's approval. Beasts, Gods, Halas, Manu, Humans, and, Night Walkers made up the population of the world called Earth. The first academy that the Court of the Hidden made for the creatures of the Earth was in Japan. It was named Rairabukuro, in honor of Ikebukuro's funding. It was the first ever monster academy in the world.
...S...S-Shizuo...SHIZUO-SAN," a voice yelled in an alarming tone. Now, Shizuo had experienced many weird ways of being woken up from dead sleep, but this was definitely not one of them. When he was rousing from slumber he had heard some laughter and murmurs in the room which made him suspicious. He opened his caramel eyes slowly to the light surrounding him. Th blinding flooded his eyes as he began to sit up, but a mirror blocked his way up. It wasn't the mirror that made him flinch back, although it was right in his face, but it was when he saw his face in the mirror his brown coloured eyes widened in shock, but that quickly turned into an angry furious glare.
In the mirror that was so thoughtfully shoved in his face showed him black ink marring his tan skin. A mustache had been drawn on his upper lip in a typical black doodling fashion, along with a black marker goatee adorning his chin perfectly, and his left eye was circled in black. 'What the-?!' The blonde did, as usual, the first thing he thought when he saw the mirror after the shock. He resorted to anger instantly as Shizuo grabbed the mirror and threw it at the wall in anger as he roared loudly, standing up on his bed with a closed fists clenching in fury. His brown eyes blazed in confusion as he heard giggles and laughs echoing in his room.
"What the hell is going on here? Who doodled on my face?" Shizuo growled loudly in fatigue. His lone eye that wasn't covered by his hand looked around the white room cautiously Then he saw them, the two trouble making partners in his private room, the fox boy and the otaku girl from yesterday. They were hunched over against the door, shaking from the horribly hidden laughter they were trying to contain from him. The blonde beast stopped moving as he tried to process why they would be here, and who they were. Eventually his drowsy brain caught up to his thoughts, and he stopped. 'Wait. Why are they in my room?' Shizuo thought slowly.
Shizuo's black and white morning thoughts finally reached him. "We are here to guide you to the initiation ceremony because you are going to be late for your first day at Rairabukuro if you don't hurry! Do you know that if you miss the meeting this morning, you have to hear the whole meeting all over again after school. We just wanted to let you know that you're gonna be late," Walker replied with a smile making Shizuo blinked in surprise at the perfect response to his thought. Shizuo was also a little confused though, '...The fuck? Did he just read my mind?'
Erika laughed and Walker replied,"I wish I could read minds, but nope, you just said the question out loud. You must be really tired if you're saying your thoughts. Anyway we gotta get going so hurry up or you'll be late!" Walker replied before Erika spoke up, "Should we all get Mikado up now? Do you think he left without us yet?" Shizuo's eyes opened wearily in remembrance as the name was spoken. 'Mikado...I swear I've heard that name before...Mikado...Wait! Isn't that kid from last night I bumped into...yeah that's sounds about right,' Shizuo remembered the blue doe eyed boy very well, because the boy really was just a nice guy, even to Shizuo. The blonde beast really liked the kid's humble attitude, and the raven boy, in his mind, was considered a friend.
Shizuo walked off his black bed to his dresser as he said to Walker and Erika, "Wait, let me come with you guys, just give me a minute to get dressed." Shizuo saw Erika smile evilly behind the fox boy as Walker chuckled, "Oh my gosh, you are just like that manga character that always have a secret motive for everything they do." Shizuo stopped and glared at Walker and Erika, "Call it what you want, but it's really because I would get lost again in these damn halls anyway! They all look alike, which is really stupid!."The beast replied detestably as he pulled out of his uniform for Rairabukuro.
Shizuo stripped out of his black pajama pants, leaving only his dark green boxers underneath, and Erika looked at Shizuo the whole time he stripped. She was, not even abashed like a normal girl would be, but then again neither was Shizuo. "Shizuo-san! Your body is packing heat! Wow, how did you get those scars all over? They are perfect for BL manga! Wait, is that a tattoo?" The raven pointed at his muscles and scars in awe as she panted out the sentences. Walker, unlike his partner in crime Erika, looked away as the other blonde got dressed, but Walker couldn't help but look as she spoke about the marks that scarred Shizuo's body. Walker looked to see that the lean tan body that Shizuo possessed actually had many scars that littered all over his body, but one of the scars especially stood out stood out when he was half naked.
To Shizuo, it was the mark of freedom, but to other people, it was terrifying. He had gotten it on a day when he was running away with Kasuka in the woods, because their mother had yelled at them for not doing their chores. At the time they were only 7, but it was just then that they met a giant black bear. The black bear was tall, even taller to a 7 year old boy, so the fear they both felt was immeasurable The giant Black Bear then began to try and attack Kasuka and the bear had almost gotten him with his long claws, but Shizuo had jumped to Kasuka's rescue by moving in front of the lethal claws ,sadly Shizuo didn't get away unscathed from the incident. The bear had long claw marks that were etched into his back forever on since that day, along with a few burns in the back and front of him, and more white scars down his arms and legs.
Shizuo had a few parts of his skin that looked like a craters from the moon, all because of a gunshot wounds that he had lived through. The dove tattoo on his chest covered 5 of those wounds in fact. Shizuo hugged his mostly naked form insecurely as he looked in the mirror, almost ignoring the presence of Erika and Walker as he stood at the mirror, looking at his broken body. Who would want someone like him to love? His body was battlefield that would never go away, and that was a burden he bared along with all his messed memories. Then he noticed the two Hala's were in the room as well, now making him more uncomfortable in his vulnerability.
"Don't tell anyone, you got that?" Shizuo said softly, reaching for a the sink as he washed his face with a towel, making sure every bit of the black ink disappeared from his face. He then started putting on his school uniform for Rairabukuro, now more awake and focused. Walker and Erika looked at each other and nodded mutually at Shizuo's question. They both understood this from experience, because scars are vulnerability and being vulnerable to the wrong person was never a good thing. It could be devastating, each knew this very well.
They understood the concept even better as they rose from the floor. They both leaned back on the white walls behind them as Shizuo finally put on the top part of the otherwise bland uniform, he looked in the mirror again. The uniform of Rairabukuro was black. Black with red trimming on the edges. Shizuo liked this uniform, even if it was very uncomfortable for him. Shizuo picked up his purple shades and a black book bag from his pale yellow desk, and he followed the 2 crazy sempais out of his room, or more so pushing them out of his room.
When they walked to where Mikado's room, the group of 3 saw he was looking down the hallways nervously until he saw our group at last. Then he smiled at us and I raised my hand in acknowledgment along with Erika and Walker. He wore the same red and black uniform, but he held a brown sling book bag across his shoulder that hung on his waist casually. Walker and Erika, unlike Shizuo and Mikado, had their usual clothes on though. "Good Morning," he said brightly as bowed, "Erika, Walker why aren't you two wearing uniforms?" 'same question I was going to ask,' Shizuo thought with a smile.
Both Walker and Erika smiled as well for they had been waiting for this question to be asked all morning! "Because we are off school today to help you freshmen around! We don't have to attend classes till next week! Hurray!" They practically sang and both Shizuo and Mikado sighed at the strange pair. Both Walker and Erika began to walk down a hallway that led to a giant door at the end of the hall, skipping practically the whole way, and Mikado and Shizuo followed, knowing without their guides they'd be lost in the halls again. The two were so full of oblivious happiness that he was afraid one them would skip to far and smack into the door.
They all went through the giant door without an injury and saw the beauty of sunlight as it shined brightly on them. Shizuo stopped as the breathtaking scenery came into view before him. Mikado gasped at the beauty as well as he looked ahead and saw trees arch in an doorway that led to the school in a straight path. These trees were especially beautiful, because they were all a mixture of Cherry Blossom trees and Jacaranda trees! The soft pink of the cherry blossom tree almost blended with the intense lavender of the foreign tree, creating an incredible walkway for the new students.
Shizuo's eyes strayed to the arch of trees and he breathed out a breath, feeling all his anger drain out of him looking at the calm surroundings of the school. It was so peaceful and tranquil and the air whispered so softly in his hair, making him smile gently. The blonde monster then decided that this was the most perfect place in the whole school. It made Shizuo want to take a picture of it, and save it for a rainy day. The trees swayed gingerly in the whispering breeze, making a few flowers and petals fly away onto the walkway. The whole yard was like a green paradise, and Shizuo loved it.
"You guys go straight through those doors up ahead," Erika said to them and Shizuo looked at the doors she had pointed at. The doors were very old looking red wood planked doors with black castle-like hinges on then that extended halfway across the door. There were 4 door in a row up at the top of a small set of stairs, making it seem more formal, like a church somewhat. Mikado looked at Walker and Erika as they both said to the two freshmen with a pat on their shoulders,
"Good Luck!" Then they both walked back towards the dormitory entrance without another word to them. Mikado looked at Shizuo and Shizuo looked at him as well. Then they both began walking towards the red castle like doors. Shizuo once again looked around the beautiful blossoming trees and saw a garden behind the trees on the right side and on the left were sports fields of all sorts laid out across the grounds..
Shizuo then looked at the building itself as it started to loom above them intimidatingly, as if they were not good enough to step closer. The long wide building was made of black brick and other black and grey materials as well. All in all, it looked like a sturdy building. So, the blonde stopped walking to study the surrounding area a little more, he didn't want to go in just yet. Inside he would loose his peaceful nature so Shizuo wanted to go after school, for now, he wanted to enjoy this beautiful place of peace a little longer. Something in his Beastly nature made him want to scope out the perimeters, see all there is to see before he believed in it.
As soon as the blonde had stopped walking Mikado did as well. Actually Mikado stopped with him at the same time and looked at Shizuo in confusion. "Why are you stopping?" the small raven asked a bit breathlessly as he looked at the red doors in anxiety. "You go on ahead, I'll go in just a minute. I just wanna look around for a little longer." the blonde said as he watched the raven's conflicted face change every moment. 'He's probably scared to go in alone. Not that I really blame him, especially since we are late and it's the first day.' Shizuo thought with a pitiful gaze at the nervous raven haired alien.
Eventually Mikado nodded at him respectfully and walked inside as Shizuo studied the place more. Shizuo was really in awe of the great Rairabukuro Academy, not that it showed on his face in the slightest, but he loved Rairabukuro Academy. The smell, the scenery, the sounds, the touch, almost everything about the place was unbelievable. Shizuo knew that Beasts were the poorest of all societies, but this was amazing even for the rich groups like the Gods and the Manu. It was a beautiful, peaceful-
That is when the blonde monster met the raven haired god as he looked up at the school to see a black haired man with red eyes staring at him on top of a balcony just above the 4 red doors. Shizuo stopped in his tracks as he saw the raven haired young man watch him on the 2nd or 3rd level of the building on a balcony directly above Shizuo. The balcony was small, but sturdy looking black could only stare back at him, he couldn't even move from those hypnotizing red eyes as if he was being mind controlled.
' Is he a vampire? No, vampires don't usually have red eyes, they have some other weird colour. Is he a Manu? No, they don't control you with their eyes? So then, what is he?' Shizuo thought in confusion as he heard the voice of the man he would never forget, and that smug tone that made Shizuo's instincts go automatically haywire, "How late you are, Mr. Shizuo Hewajima~" as the raven said his name, he froze. 'How in the fucking world does he know my name?' Shizuo thought in shock and panic. The way Shizuo heard his name from the pale lips made him shiver from the way the raven said his consonants It was as if he was taunting him, and saying it cutesy like he wasn't manly. His name had never sounded quite as strange as it did now from this man's mouth. It made him a bit angry, but also uneasy in a way.
"How the fuck do you know my name?" Shizuo growled the question at the smug raven haired boy. The boy looked at the blonde with calculatingly cold red eyes, as Shizuo did with his own. He looked the same age as the blonde, but there was something very strange about him, something that was very unwelcoming. He didn't like the red eyed man's face at all, because it seemed that there was a permanent smirk that would taunt him into fighting. Shizuo squinted at the raven, trying to make out some details in the lithe fair skinned raven's stature.
He saw that beneath the smug face sneering in his direction, he held a book in his hand, and wore the same uniform as everyone else here at Rairabukuro. Most likely he was a student here as well. The man's eyes were like red burning rubies as they watched Shizuo's caramel colored one's passionately with what could only be called observatory gazing. The raven man then laughed at his question about his name, the laughter Shizuo heard made his heart chill with the cruel psychotic cackle that filled the air.
"You may not know me, but I know all about you. I know everything you put in that school sign up sheet. You see, my name is Izaya Orihara, and I can get any information you've ever written down all in here," he gestured to his brain and continued speaking from above, "So I suggest you stay on my good side if you know what's best for you,"Shizuo fist clenched in anger. This guy was really getting on his nerves. "Stay on my good side," yeah right! Like I care about my information. I never wrote down anything important ever, so it doesn't matter.'
"All I have to do is look at you and I know you are from the beast group, but you are shunned by them for being a monster. Now why would that be? Did you kill someone? Perhaps you fell in love with someone from the wrong group? So what did you do? I will find out eventually, so you might as well tell me!." Izaya said with a confident smile, "After all I am a god and you are a lowly monster whom I can crush underfoot anytime I please." Shizuo glared at Izaya harshly with his melted gold eyes and snorted at the statement, making the raven arch an eyebrow in surprise at the beast's response.
Most people would fear him when he spoke of their death or threatened their life. This beast...was a lot more interesting than the rest of his new classmates. Shizuo started to shake and soon enough he couldn't contain his bubbling laughter that overfilled the air with a dark tension. The laughter as time went on sounded more and more sinister. Then he looked back at the god with a wry forced smile, and said, " I don't give a shit about you being a God. You're honestly pissing me off with your obnoxious attitude, and your threats. You wanna play games with people's heads, do it on someone else! I am in no mood for your shit!"
Shizuo then began walking towards the doors again to try to escape the God's annoying voice but stopped in his tracks as he heard the unearthly haunting double shout of a spell being said above him. He shuddered as his milk chocolate eyes instinctively followed the voice to its owner. (Double shout is when you hear the said person's voice mixed with the spirit of the creature inside of them, in this case Izaya's voice and the Greek god of thought, Themis, mix into a double shout), "Nare," Izaya double shouted in fluent Latin as he jumped off the balcony suddenly. Shizuo gasped in shock from the sudden movement.
Shizuo thenwatched in awe as Izaya Orihara, the egotistical raven haired god, seemed to float down from his balcony to the white cemented walk way with ease. The raven god looked at him again with the blood red entrancing eyes of his, but they were much more beautiful from the closed distance. Izaya was less than 10 feet away from him, and he was closing the space between them rapidly. It sorta of pissed him off seeing the god float down so fucking gracefully from the sky. How the fuck does one just float down gracefully? Shizuo had watched him with something in between admiration and jealously. It just wasn't fair to him at all.
Beasts like Shizuo and even stronger, did not have the basic powers that gods possessed, ad virtually gods could make almost all creatures love them with their charisma. Gods though like every other creature had a special power that they discovered during their teenage years. Most people discovered them, before 16, but Shizuo was 17 and didn't have the slightest clue what the ultimate power for him was. It was an embarrassment to the Beast community, because some supernatural creatures never got their ultimate power. It was okay not to, but all who didn't get that power were shunned by all creatures.
Shizuo was already shunned by the beasts, because of his abnormal strength and his anger that came with it. Shizuo Hewajima was probably one of the strongest supernatural being in history,but he would get no congratulations, praise, or admiration. Nobody praised his strength though, instead they feared it. They feared him, because he was different and strong. This god hit a nerve in the Beast that he didn't know he had. Gods were always praised for their advanced power while Beasts were preyed upon for being strong. Only Shizuo was even stronger than any beast, he was a group all his own, called a Monster for something that wasn't in his control, his strength.
That's why this man pissed him off so damn badly, the raven could show off with his powers and get raining applause from a crowd, because of his charismatic looks and charms (which had no effect on Beasts so it didn't affect him). If Shizuo did what Izaya had, the crowd would run away, throw things, and yell profanities, all because Shizuo was a monster. Who could like a man who couldn't even like himself? He was envious of the raven's upbringing and society, why couldn't he live a life free of violence? The differences between Gods and Beasts were as different as a mouse and a horse.
Gods had 4 basic powers: Nare (the power to float), remedium mandax (liar's cure, basically truth serum type trance), DUCO (inhale, the power breathe under water), and et decit via (guiding path, if object by user thrown it will hit its target always no matter of impossibility). Gods had all these powers that could make peace in an instant, but monsters were completely different.
Monsters only had 3 powers, Estado forza (strength state, which depended on how strong the monster was to begin with, because it fortifies it), rexeneracion (regeneration of wounds and missing ligaments, but scars will remain), and finally a power very few monsters could even do, ruxido da besta (roar of the beast, the ability to transform to your spirit demon form). Shizuo knew only the two spells, the third spell, Shizuo may never be able to learn. Though that didn't bother him in the slightest, because he didn't care about it.
"You know Protozoan," a voice said making him look at Izaya with purple shades, hiding his anger at the nickname he had been given, but he could not hide the way his fist clenched tightly at the name. Izaya was now not even two feet away from him, he was so close he could smell the man. The raven god smelled decadent as he neared Shizuo. The intoxicating smell of rich chocolate and...and...something sweet, and Shizuo shivered from the closeness of the god as he crossed over his space bubble with no regret. "You are missing the ceremony right now," the raven said getting too close to the blonde, making Shizuo step backwards away from the arrogant annoying flea. "Like I care, Flea," Shizuo spat the name like a curse that made Izaya stop wide eyed.
Then, Izaya's maniacal laugh polluted Shizuo's air making him back up another step. "So I am a flea, am I? That really hurt my feelings, Shizu-chan," Izaya said with a instigating smirk making Shizuo hesitate in his attempt to flee, as he looked at the raven haired god with a scowl etching across his mouth. "What did you just call me Flea!" Izaya looked away with a shrug as Shizuo loomed over him menacingly. "What's wrong? I thought you liked cute stuff, considering you were smiling like little girl at the garden over there, Shizu-chan~" Izaya taunted, but Shizuo's body became stone still as the words left Izaya's loud mouth. He had been caught red handed staring at the flowers in the garden.
He looked as Izaya skipped backwards with a malicious grin that spoke of future trouble between him and this man. "Well," Shizuo's eyebrow twitched irately as Izaya continued speaking in his sickly sweet voice, "You just missed the most of the morning meeting, too bad~. Now you have to stay after school for it. I will definitely be seeing you later though, Shizu-chan~," and with those words the raven haired god double shouted, "Nare!" and floated above the school building as Shizuo once again watched with awed brandy colored eyes as the God disappeared from his sight. That was the first meeting between the two powerful beings, but it was surely not the last. In truth, it was only the beginning.
Does anyone like the story? What should happen next, or who should Shizuo meet next? Should I do Izaya's view on their meeting maybe? I want to know~ Thanks for reading! Next chapter I plan to get out on the 11th for a fellow fanfiction writer's birthday!
Next Chapter: July 11th Friday!
~Aryes