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Summary: I just recently transferred to Cross Academy. I've never been to a boarding school before and I still haven't adjusted properly. I don't like following rule and could care less of what other people have to say. Listening just was never one of my strong points. Now that I'm at this academy, I can leave my past behind and start a new...sadly old habits die hard. I tried, but my curiosity got the best of me. Cross Academy was hiding something...that I knew for sure. I didn't know what, and I've tried to ignore my gut feeling, but it's not working. No one will answer me properly, so now it's up to me to get my own answers. There was one person who would be able to link everything, that stoic, unsociable, scary, emotionally dysfunctional person was going to be the key to unlocking the secrets of this academy. How would I get him to spill? By befriending him of course.

Chapter 2

Hatenaki Yume Motomeru Shirube Naki Sekai De

(We're seeking our endless dreams in a world with no guidance)

"Luckily it's only a bad sprain Willow." announced Yahiko-sensei, after he had inspected my wrist for the billionth time. "Care to tell how you managed to sprain your wrist?"

"If I told you sensei then I'd have to kill you." I joked.

He laughed "Ahh I see. Well Willow if you don't do anything strenuous then it'll heal in about a week or so." Yahiko-sensei spun around in his chair and withdrew a folder from his desk which had my name on it. He flipped through a bunch of papers before pulling out one and scribbling something down.

"What's that?" I asked, craning my neck to see what he was writing.

"Nothing." he said. Using one of his hands he made a shooing motion "Now go away, I've got work to do."

I stuck my tongue out at him but hopped off the stool anyways. I slipped on my black parka, zipping it up almost all the way and jammed my hands in the pockets. Today was cold and windy and thank god it was the weekend- the only time we allowed to wear causal clothes. It was colder than I expected when I exited the infirmary, I hugged myself tightly but that didn't really work. As I passed the other girls from the Sun Dorms, they were all dressed in tiny mini skirts and had the audacity to stare at me like I was the one dressed like a freak!

I headed straight for the breakfast hall once inside the Sun Dorms. Breakfast was nearly over and almost all the food had disappeared.

"Yo Will where've you been?" called out a very familiar voice. I stacked a few pancakes on my plate along with some sausages and rice, grabbed a glass of juice and then made my way over to the table that was occupied by Mira, my brother and some other people.

"Morning." I said letting out a wide yawn.

"Is your wrist okay?" Mira asked, getting up from her spot next to my brother and came over to me. I nodded, my mouth being jammed pack with pancakes "It's just spawained."

"That's disgusting Will. Be a lady and chew with your mouth closed." Kyou, my ass of a brother, preached. I rolled my eyes and threw a bit of pancake at him. He sneered and abruptly stood up, rudely stalking off back to the boys dorm; his friends followed suite.

"Thank you." Mira said quietly. "I forgot to thank you for yesterday. I'm sorry."

I turned and looked at her as if she were crazy.

"Excuse me, Willow-san." I looked up to see Sayori. I raised a brow "Yeah?"

"I was wondering if you had this book in stock." the brunette asked handing me a slip of paper with the name of the book. I glanced down at it carelessly "I'm not sure...maybe."

I work at a local bookstore (okay it's the only bookstore around) usually on weekends, when I'm not too tired or I don't have homework to do. It was the chairman who suggested I get a job and he recommended working at the bookstore because it was run by a personal friend of his. So I work there and I work at a small cafe once in a while. Kyou, my lazy brother, does the bare minimum and ends up borrowing my hard earned money.

I like Sayori because she's one of the few girls that doesn't get weak in the knees over the Night Class and she can stand up to Zero. She was very helpful when I first arrived at Cross Academy, but we're not close. Actually she's not close to anyone...well maybe Zero. The only person I've ever seen Sayori warm up to was Yuki and now that she's gone, Sayori's just like this lifeless thing. I worry about that, it isn't healthy.

"I'm about to head down there since my shift's going start. You can come with me." I said giving the girl a warm smile. For a second I saw her eyes lights up- a sign that she's still there. I turned to

Mira "Want to come Mi-chan?"

She shook her head "Gomen Willow-chan."

"No problem. Uhh Sayori-san can you hang on, I'm going to go change. I'll meet you at the entrance in ten minutes." I said.

"Hai." she replied, walking out of the breakfast hall, disappearing behind the oak doors. I bided Mira a quick good-bye and followed after Sayori, making a hard left and up the stairs back to my room.

I quickly threw down my parka and dashed over to the dresser where I yanked open the bottom draw and grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans and a white t-shirt with three quarter length sleeves.

I pulled my parka back on and ran back downstairs to the entrance.

"Sorry Sayori-san." I said, bending over and gasping for air. I looked up and grinned at her, but she didn't return the smile. Her face remain still and emotionless. My smile faded and was replaced

with a slight frown. We walked in silence down the main entrance and only the sound of the wind howling and leafs rustling could be heard. There were times where I enjoyed the silence, this was not one of them.

"So how long have you been here?" I questioned, not bothering to look at the girl.

"Four years." she replied dully.

"Wow that's a long time." I said stupidly, mentally rolling my eyes at my comment. I couldn't stop now, otherwise things would be really awkward and unpleasant. "So do you miss home much? I mean I've been here for six months and I miss my old man a lot."

"Not so much." she spoke quietly "Cross Academy is pretty much my home now."

I didn't pry any further into the topic for I felt I had treaded onto a delicate matter. A figure up ahead of us caught my attention and I squinted trying to make out who exactly it was. "Hey isn't that Kiryuu-san?"

"Oh." Sayori said. "Zero!"

The prefect looked startled. I was amazed that he was out at this hour of the day. I've rarely seen him leave the Academy except to patrol during the night. I was beginning to think he was a vampire that or he had severe allergies to sunlight.

"What are you two doing out?" he growled.

"Zero you should really learn to smile more, otherwise your face might get stuck like that." Sayori replied calmly, ignoring his question.

I started to snicker quietly but then abruptly stopped when Zero looked at me. Sheesh, you'd think this guy could learn how to take a joke. Before Sayori hit another of Zero's nerves I spoke up "Kiryuu-san we were just going into town to look for something." My answer did not seem to appease his curiosity nor did it make him calm down.

"Go back." he said.

I rolled my eyes "We'll be back before curfew, so why don't you run along and go play prefect somewhere else." I tried to walk past the abnormally pale skinned teenager but he latched onto my arm with an iron grip. I ripped my arm out of his grasp and said calmly "Please don't touch me so easily." Zero's attitude was really bumming me out and it wasn't even noon yet.

"Zero." Sayori said "This is the reason you have no friends. You need to learn how to control your temper and say nicely what you want. Ja." The strawberry blonde girl walked past him and I followed her, looking back just for a second to watch Zero.

"He's following us." I commented, turning to look straight ahead.

"It's okay." she replied. Sayori didn't look worried at all, she just continued to walk normally as if there wasn't an angry person stalking us. We walked in silence, I kept turning my head back to see if Zero was still behind us, he was. When we reached our destination I told Sayori to wait for me outside, for reasons I didn't want to tell her to. She kindly agreed. "Thank you." I stepped inside, bracing myself for the blunt remarks of my evil employer.

"You're late once again." stated the childish voice of Hiro Asakura, an adolescent twelve year old who happened to be my employer. Well actually his father was (I had never mt him), but since he was never around his brat was next in line for power. I glared at the kid and muttered something unintelligible. I shrugged off my jacket and stormed into the back room to switch into my 'uniform' As if having one wasn't bad enough, I had to wear one at this place too! I switched into a white blouse with a black pleated skirt and a black clip on bow, adjusted my name tag and strolled back out.

"Employee." Hiro said, not bothering to look up from his book he pointed to a stack of boxes by the door and ordered "Those are the new arrivals. I want the most popular ones put on display over by the window and the rest ordered from the least amount of pages to the most, in alphabetical order, from non-fiction to fiction and arrange the books by the colors of the rainbow...done by today."

My jaw dropped, there had to be at least five large boxes full with god knows how many books! I suddenly had the urge to pounce on the midget and strangle him. It was humiliating to be bossed around by a kid half my height and his punishments were excruciatingly painful both mentally and physically. I stomped over to the counter and leaned over, searching for a box cutter. I used all my strength, savagely slicing through the boxes all the while glaring at the dark haired kid and imagining how to pay him back.

"I have something to attend to employee. I want everything done by the time I get back." Hiro said, getting out of his seat and walking outside.

"Yes." I replied sourly. Once I was sure Hiro was gone, I went outside to collect Sayori. "Thanks for waiting. It's safe to come in." I said cheerfully to the girl. I dipped my head in acknowledge at the second presence, "Hi Kiryuu-san, glad you could join us."

"The book your looking for should be somewhere over there, but if you can't find it let me know and then I'll try looking for it." I informed Sayori once we had went inside the bookstore.

"Thank you Willow-san." she replied quietly.

I turned to Zero, "You can sit over there."

He grunted and took his seat behind the counter. I went back to organizing the books, "Sorry it's not as comfy as you might like it but hopefully it'll do until I finish here."

Zero remained silent and I looked up to see he wasn't listening. His elbow was propped up on the counter while his head was resting in his hand. I suddenly felt sympathetic towards the prefect; he was busy day and night, he must've been super tired. I turned my attention back to my work. To my horror, after opening up every single box, I found that every single book was different! I groaned and slammed my forehead down onto one of the boxes. I had no clue where to start.

"Ah Willow-san, I found it." Sayori said, making her way back to the front of the store. She stopped short in front of me, tilting her head to the side she asked "Do you need help?"

"Yes." I sobbed dramatically. She knelt down, placing her book safely to the side "What do you need to do?"

I quickly relayed what Hiro had wanted me to do. Sayori nodded her head and then came up with a plan to conquer Hiro's damned task with a simple logically order of how to arrange the books. Together we divided the books into specific piles and then went to work.

Oh you cannot imagine how much pain I was in by the time I had finished. I had several paper cuts, one large headache and my legs had fallen asleep, not to mention my wrist was in immense pain. It had taken blood, sweat and tears...a lot of tears. Sayori remained emotionless but a tiny smile tugged at her lips.

"Yay we finished!" I exclaimed happily to her. I took a few steps back to admire our work...it was so colorful and so neat and amazing. "Ne Sayori-san would you like something to drink? It's the only way I can think of thanking you for helping me."

"That would be nice." she said.

I went exited the store and walked through town until I reached a little convenient shop where I bought three juice boxes.

"Here." I said when I returned, handing Sayori her drink "Is peach flavor okay?"

"Hai." she nodded her head, poking the carton with the little plastic straw.

Zero lazily flicked one eye open as I approached him. I placed his drink on the counter "Here, I got you coffee, I hope that's okay with you." I gave him a tiny smile, I didn't wait for him to respond. I walked back to Sayori and sat down by her.

"Ah Zero, when someone goes out of their way to do something for you, you should say thank you." Sayori berated him in a teasing manner.

"Hn." Zero grunted, looking away.

Sayori puffed out her cheeks and walked over to Zero. She placed her hands on his face and pulled on his cheeks "Ah-ri-ga-to Sa-kai-san."

I couldn't help it; I started laughing loudly at the sight of Sayori and Zero. It was just so funny and once in a life time chance to see.

"Alright." Zero snapped, pulling away. He sent me a furious glare "I didn't ask you to get me anything. But thank you." the last part was said so quietly that I wondered why he even bothered to say it all.

"Your welcome Kiryuu-san." I said, still laughing.

"Are you finished?" he addressed the both of us.

"Yes." we replied in unison.

"Then return back to the academy." Zero ordered coldly.

"Fine. But I have to go change first."

"Okay."

I quickly changed back into my normal clothes and then met the Sayori and Zero outside. We walked back; but this time I was able to converse with Sayori without it being awkward. The stoic prefect kept silent as usually; his arms were folded and a hard frown formed on his face. Once we had returned to the Sun Dorm, Zero had disappeared leaving just Sayori and I.

"Thank you so much Sayori-san." I bowed my head, "If you ever need a favor, I'm there."

"It's okay Willow-san." she said.

I walked up the stairs, but then stopped midway and turned back to her "Ne, Sayori-san would you like to hang out with us tonight?" I asked.

"Gomen Willow-san. I'm feeling a bit tired." Sayori declined my offer politely.

"Oh." I said, "Oh okay then. Maybe next time?"

"Sure."

I dashed up the rest of the stairs and then jogged to the common room area where Rika and a few others were setting up a movie to watch. I found Mira and my brother sitting near the window.

"I'm back." I grinned.

"Welcome back." Mira said.

Moon Dorm:

"Don't let your mind wander for too long Aido, it's way too tiny to be outside by itself." Siren Souen said, grinning at the blonde. Aido was currently sitting in the common room, sprawled across the leather sofa, staring at the ceiling. He sat up, glared at her and said crossly in a childish manner "Stop reading my mind!"

Siren laughed and sat down on the toad like chair opposite of Aido with her arms spread out and her legs crossed. She threw back her head and let out a laugh "You're letting a petty human rile you up. You're pathetic."

Aido let out a growl "No I'm not!" he denied although it was fairly obvious he was upset. It was easy for Siren to pick up Aido's present feelings for they were practically radiating off him and it was just too easy to provoke him. Siren enjoyed poking fun at Aido...it passed time quiet well.

"Stop teasing him." spoke out the curt voice of Ruka Souen. Ruka stood at the top of the stairs looking down upon her cousin with a mixture of hatred and extreme coldness. It wa a well known fact that Ruka disliked Siren, but one could never tell exactly what Siren was ever thinking. She was far to smart to reveal her true nature. Siren had just recently transferred to Cross Academy, her reason were and are still unknown.

Siren shrugged her shoulders carelessly. She stood up, flicking a piece of her long black hair behind her shoulder. "Just calling it as I see it."

The frown on Ruka's face deepened at Siren's remark. A firm and reassuring hand suddenly appeared on Ruka's shoulder and she glanced to her left to see Akatsuki Kain at her side. He glared at

Siren as she passed them by and in return Siren sent the perceptive teen a smug and superior expression before skipping down the hallway and into her room.

"Ruka." Kain said "Let it go, she's not worth it."

From downstairs, Aido could be heard making very odd noises. Kain glanced down and watched as his cousin threw a tantrum. He shook his head.

"I'm going back to bed." Ruka stated, turning around and heading in the opposite direction of Siren, back towards her room.

Kain let out a sigh and decided he'd go downstairs and babysit Aido.

Authoress' Corner

I actually had to google Japanese currency because I just do not understand how it works. I do now but while writing this I didn't.

I don't know how old Shiki and Rima are, but Yuki calls them senpai and Will's in the same year as Yuki so logically she should use senpai too.

If the NC people seem OOC sorry, I tried to be accurate.

Siren is not Seiren, there is a difference!

Okay so I forgot to mention this explanation in the last chapter. This story has its own thing going on and barely follows the plot of VK...okay so that was pretty obvious, but I felt I still should mention it. You see at the end of VKG everyone disperses and I realize like Shiki and Rima and Ichijo are supposed to be gone and the entire CA is practically destroyed, but I recently read the recent chapters of VK and everyone is still there. I won't say anything incase I accidently spoil something.

With every new OC introduced, I'll post a picture on my profile. If you feel like it you can go check it out. It's not important though.

Okay well I'm probably forgetting to mention something important, but it'll hit me eventually.

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