Inside, Mai told Leah that she has to introduce herself to the Student Council.

"Student Council? Who are they?" Leah wondered.

"They're the people who run the school and keep everyone in order," Mai said.

"They can be nice and bossy at the same time," Aoi said.

"Depending on who the person is, though," Natsuki muffled while eating at candy bar, "I've went there a lot for ditching school and they yell at me every single time about how I shouldn't ditch and how this'll affect my permanent record."

"That's because you didn't listen to anyone," Mai told her.

"Shut-up."

"I can slightly understand that, but why are you guys walking me there?" Leah asked.

"'Cause you don't know your way 'round here and we're helping you out," Natsuki solemnly said.

"Oh. Thanks."

"Here's the room," Aoi said pointing at the door that read 'Student Council Room'.

"I guess I'll see you guys later," Leah said.

"Yep!" Mai said.

"You bet!" Aoi said.

"I guess," Natsuki said.

"Yeah, yeah! And you can tell us more about your gang of bandit thieves!" Mikoto said as they all left to their classes. Leaving Leah alone in the front of the door.

"Well, here goes......whatever," The girl muttered to herself before knocking on the door and hearing someone say....

"Come in!" As she opened the door and saw four people in the room.

Three of them are girls while one of them is a boy. They all looked like they're two to three years older than Leah. The girl shyly closed the door and looked at the floor.

"Uh, h-hi," She timidly responded.

"Ah, so you're the new student. Nice to meet you," The man with black hair and yellow eyes said, "I'm Reito Kanzaki. And these are the rest of the Student Council: Executive Commity Leader, Haruka Suzushiro. Her helper Yukino Kikukawa. And The College President Shizuru Fujino."

"Nice to meet you all. I'm Leah Roberts," Leah introduced herself before sitting down in one of the empty desks.

Everything went silent as the blonde girl with purple eyes looked through Leah's paperwork that Tifa brought to college. She had a serious look on her face when she was looking at the paper and then at Leah making the teen gulp in nervousness from Haruka's stare.

But Leah was able to think of other anime shows she watched on TV in her head to fill the emptiness in her mind as she heard Haruka say, "So, Miss Leah Roberts." Making the teen lightly jump in surprise. "I read the documents Ms. Lockheart sent to the college about your intellectual disability, being home-schooled for four to five years, and how you're adopted by Tifa and Aeris at the age of fourteen."

"...Ye-Yes," Leah said scratching the back of her head as Haruka continued to look through Leah's paperwork.

"And it says here that you are in a part of a group called Tantalus, is that correct?"

"Yes. That's true, too, Ma'am."

Haruka let out a sigh before she finished looking over Leah's documents one more time before slamming it down and stared at the girl with dark brown hair who stared back.

"Haruka-chan, please, be nice," The girl with glasses named Yukino told her as the other teen with honey-blonde hear with red eyes drinking tea lightly chuckled at her friend's behavior.

"Ara, ara, Haruka. I think you made your point," Shizuru said as Haruka stopped staring at Leah.

"Eh, whatever. I got what I needed, anyway," Haruka huffed.

"Like what?" Leah wondered.

"I'm not telling you, punt."

"It's runt, Haruka-chan," Yukino corrected Haruka.

"Whatever! Bubuzuke, go and take this bandit to her classes," Haruka said as Shizuru guided Leah down the hall.

"Some welcome from that girl," Leah muttered looking at the ground as they walked.

"Don't worry about Haruka. She's like that to all the new students when they come here all the time," Shizuru said.

"I guess, but she didn't have to call me a bandit like she hates me."

"I guess she sees something different about you like Mai and her friends. And myself."

'Mai and her friends? What does she mean by that?' Leah thought who was interrupted by hearing Shizuru.

"Here's your class and your class schedule," She said giving Leah her schedule for the year.

"Thank you," Leah shyly said.

"And don't worry about the people here. They're nice once you get to know them. But if not, ignore them."

"Okay." Leah opens the door and walks into her classroom.


"Hi. My name is Leah Roberts. Nice to meet you," Leah said seeing Mai and Natsuki sitting in the back of the classroom.

"Now, be nice to her, you guys. She came all the way from Mide Gare to study under this campus," The teacher Midori said.

"It's Midgar, Ma'am."

"Oh. My bad. Now, let's see. You can sit behind Mai."

"Okay," Leah sits down behind Mai as Midori began class again.


After class was over most of the people began asking Leah questions about Midgar and about how she knew fluent Japanese.

"Yeah. Midgar is a tough place, but crime has gotten better since I grew up there," Leah said.

"Wow!"

"You must be tough to live in that area half of your life!"

"I guess. Cloud and his friends Barrett and Tifa train me everyday in hand to hand combat, how to hold a weapon, and martial arts," Leah replied.

"Amazing!"

"You're so lucky!"

"And where did you learn how to understand Japanese?"

"Tifa, Aeris, and Yuffie tutored me on how to speak and listen to Japanese," Leah said.

"Can you write it?" Mai asked.

"Unfortunately, no. I can only listen to something with subtitles underneath what they're saying."

"Cool!"

"Not bad for a home-schooled girl at her age, huh, Natsuki?" Mai said nudging Natsuki's shoulder.

"Yeah, whatever." Natsuki said trying to act cool.

Mai rolled her eyes at that. "Don't worry about Natsuki. She tries to act cool in front of new people she meets."

"Shut-up, Mai," Natsuki muttered angrily looking the other way.

Then the bell rang as everyone left to the dorms.