My roommate, joint class and Mr Mysterious

Umira and Takahashi walked to the third floor. Umira had seen the level, it was a long hallway with doors each side lining up. At the end was a giant window. A tabletop sat in front of it, with a blue bird sitting in a cage.

"For now you will be staying in that room while the construction finishes in the rest of the rooms." Takahashi informed her.

Umira was walked to her room before Takahashi left her. It looks like she had to face this on her own. She couldn't wait to meet her new roommate as every student in the academy had to share rooms with another student. It was a new policy they had introduced to make for space for the other students. Unfortunately, Umira had forgotten who else was living on this floor with her.

Umira took a deep breath and quickly opened the door and closed it. She looked forward to see the boy from this morning, sitting on one of the two beds reading. He looked up from his book. The both of them stared at each other for a few seconds before reacting.

"N-Natsume?" Umira looked at you and said

"Oh, it's you..."Umira tensed as she didn't know that Natsume would be with her.

She could tell that he wasn't very happy about her. However, to her surprise, he didn't attack. He ignored the girl and continued reading his comic. Umira begun unpacking her clothes and opened her wardrobe and was surprised to find fresh new uniforms hanging on it. The blue-haired girl enthusiastically took one and rushed to the combined room, Natsume rolled his eyes and sighed in response. She stepped out and looked in the mirror in her wardrobe. The uniform was quite fitting on her. She stared into the mirror to find a faint blush gracing Natsume's cheeks. She saw his blush; he quickly resumed to his comic.

Umira walked over to the drawer to check her timetable and the map to the whole school. Soon, a bell was heard and Natsume got up and walked out. She closed her map, put it on her bed and followed him out and into another building. She figured that being of the same age, they would be of the same class. She studied her surroundings, turned and entered a door. On top of it was a gold sign of the letter 'B'. Figuring this was the class; she entered it and was amazed by the students in it. A student flew and levitated around the classroom, another was running about really quickly, placing worksheets on everyone's table. Umira couldn't help but wonder what her alice was.

A teacher with glasses and black hair tied into a green ribbon had then walked in the class.

Loudly, he announced, "Ok students, there's a new student in class".

Immediately, silence filled the room.

"Her name is Kenzei Umira" he continued, "Please introduce yourself."

Umira's heart was beating with trepidation, but she managed to talk coherently.

"My name is Kenzei Umira, I'm currently eleven-years-old, nice to meet you." she bowed and the students immediately started throwing questions so abruptly that she could barely answer them.

Narumi-sensei came walking in. "Yo! Umira-chan, I found your joint class-"

He paused to look at the paper and smiled brightly "Congratulations, you are one of the dangerous ability types!"

"What?" They stared unbelievably at her and urged her to tell them what her alice She just had a dumbfounded face, she didn't know what was a joint nor did she know why the class's reaction was so strong. The chaos was so overwhelming that she remained silent. The blue-haired girl heard whispers among the class.

"Natsume's in dangerous too..."

"She looks like a nice person, she couldn't be bad could she?"

"Why should a girl like her get to be in a class with Natsumei?"

The name of her roommate penetrated her thoughts.

"N-Natsume" she whispered.

A girl with short green hair stood up and asked "Narumi-sensei, can tell us what is Umira's alice?"

Umira soon became nervous and said aloud "I-I'm not sure what my alice is!" The whole class turned quiet, the green haired girl spoke up again.

"Tch, another faker, I'm sure we won't have to give her a test like we did with the idiot back there." she pointed her thumb to a blond girl in pig tails.

"Hey! What do you mean by that permy?" she shouted out, standing up, annoyed with the accusation.

"Ok, ok, settle down" he put his hands up as a calming gesture and both girls sat, glancing at Natsume's reaction. He was displaying an agitated expression, making Umira feel guilty.

Narumi-sensei then left the class to the substitute teacher and walked away.

"Umira, please take a seat next to Ruka. Ruka, please raise your hand" He raised his hand, a faint blush spreading across his cheeks. Quickly, she walked to her seat and sat down. Hours passed and lessons were becoming boring. Thankfully it was the last lesson of the day.

"Hi I'm Umira what's your name?" she whispered, trying to strike a conversation with the quiet blonde stayed silent for a while before answering back.

"It's Ruka, Nogi Ruka..." he displayed another faint blush on his cheeks. Hearing his name was enough for her. The bell rang and class emptied. Umira didn't even need to check the timetable after taking a quick glance at it, she memorised the whole thing by heart. Next would be joint class, but new comers would be given a day off but would have to come for extra hours the next day. Since she was an honour student, she was spared from after school cleaning chores; leaving her with tons of free time until dinner. Currently, she was having lunch. However, students have a choice of not eating or have the pleasure of eating food that is cooked according to their preference, those who choose not to eat will have to eat more during dinner.

Feeling tired, Umira decided to skip lunch and take a nap. She waved goodbye to Ruka and a couple of familiar classmates consisting of Mikan, Nonoko, Yuu, Hotaru and Yome. (Who had desperately tried to read her mind and failed miserably.) She looked over at the clock. It was 2pm, she sighed and walked to her dorm.

After approximately 4 hours later, someone lightly shook her awake.

A familiar male voice called her, "Umira...Umira…"

Umira opened her eyes only to see the door closing. She managed to spot a red earring on the person that was leaving.

"Natsume...?"She muttered to herself and did a big stretch as she got up and straightened herself. She glanced at the 6pm;dinner was going to start soon. The cadmium-eyed girl wondered to herself if Natsume had purposely woke her up for this reason. Shaking it off, she walked out of the room. By the time she reached the dining area, there were seats assigned according to each star rank.

First the no stars which sit on another table, then the one stars and two stars on one by the last table where the three-stars and the honour stars sat. It was interesting to find out that Mikan had survived these few months after hearing about the star ranking treatment. She found a seat next to Yuu and Hotaru, Natsumei didn't come for dinner.

This dining area was for class B students and it was awkward to know that there were only the three of them sitting on one big table. The reason for the big table was for the large amount of food. Umira just stared unbelievably at it all, mouth wide open.

"I can see you're hungry eh? Come to think of it, I don't you've eaten ever since you came here."

Umira looked over to Yuu and realised, "Oh, that's right. I haven't eaten since yesterday..." Her stomach then growled lightly answering back in agreement.

A blushed adorned her cheeks and she stuttered out, "S-so let's dig in!"

"Itadakimasu" they rung together and started eating.

"Hey...do you both know anything about my roommate? Hyuuga Natsume?"

Upon hearing that name, the two stopped eating and spoke up "Well..."

"You know something, don't you?" Umira had then cut in.

Yuu explained politely, "Now's not the time to tell you this, maybe when you've settled down. Then I'll tell you."

"Come to think of it, you haven't been shown around the school yet, right?" Yuu asked

"Hm? Yeah."

"Then how about I show you around tomorrow?"

"Really? Thanks Yuu!" she said as smiled brightly while Yuu returned her smile with one of his.

Dinner was soon finished and the rest retired to their rooms. Feeling awake as she could ever be, Umira decided to take a short walk around the halls. It was dark, as they had turned off the lights, the moon glowed from the window, lighting her path throughout the whole journey. As she walked on, staring at the beautiful orb of light that seemed to be smiling at her, it was the full moon.

'So I'll know about Natsume later on, right? Well then, he shall remain as Natsume the mysterious.' She smiled to herself at the thought. Oblivious to her surroundings, she accidentally knocked into someone. She fell, her bum colliding with the marble floor. She rubbed her now aching backside and looked up at the person, she gasped as she saw...

End

Preview

Umira: The person I bumped into is scary; he's even scarier in the dark. I can't wait for the tour! Next chapter: Let's take a walk around Alice Academy.

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