Leah yawned loudly as she was walking to the Student Council room. Hearing her cell phone ring, the young teen stopped and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Heey, buddy! It's me!"

"Hey, Aeris! What's up?"

"Nothing much. I just wanted to say 'hi' and see how everything's going for you at the college."

"Fine."

"Hey, Leah!"

"What's happening, girl!"

"Hey, Tifa! Hey, Barrett! I didn't know you guys were on the other line."

"Why wouldn't we be? We're family, after all," Barrett said as Leah smiled hearing this.

"So, how are things going?" Tifa asked Leah.

"Good. I'm going to the Student Council room right now. They want to talk to me about something," Leah said who was once again walking to the Council Room.

"Talk to you about what?' Barrett asked her.

"I don't know. Natsuki told me to go there and find out."

"Natsuki? Who's she?"

"I'll tell you later. I'm at the Student Council Room right now."

"Oh, okay."

"I guess you'll call us later, huh?" Aeris said.

"Yeah. I'll talk to you guys later," Leah said, "Oh, and tell Baku and the rest of Tantalus I said 'Hey'."

"Okay. Later, Wolfie," Barrett said hanging the phone on his end.

"Yeah, I gotta go, too. Love you," Tifa said.

"You, too," Leah said.

"Yeah. I'll call you later since you're busy right now," Aeris said.

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye," Aeris and Tifa both said as Aeris hung up the phone on her end.

Leah hung up her phone and walked into the Student Council room. She opened the door and saw the same four people four weeks ago in the room. Three out of four of them had calming concerned looks while one of them had an angry one.

"Well, hello again, Ms. Roberts," Shizuru politely smiled.

"Hi, Shizuru, Reito, Yukino, and Haruka," Leah said to everyone in the room. She sat down in one of the empty desk like before, but a bit closer to the four college executives.

"Ara, ara. What happened to your eye?"

"Oh. It's just a cut that's all. It happened when I was in Fighting practice."

"Fighting practice, huh?" Reito said, "It looks more severe than what you're telling us."

"Well, yeah. I mean, it was kind of a mixture between an accident and a fight that was happening," Leah told him.

"I knew it! So you did start the fight!" Haruka said pointing at Leah square on the forehead with her index finger.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Don't play drumb with me!"

"It's 'dumb,' Haruka-chan," Yukino corrected her blonde friend.

"That's what I said, Yukino!"

"Now, now, Haruka. Calm down," Reito said, "What Haruka is trying to say that the reason you're here is because of the fight that occurred yesterday."

"Oh, well, that makes sense," Leah replied hearing Shizuru chuckle at that as Reito smiled at the statement.

"Now, would you care to explain what happened yesterday."

'Since you asked so nicely,' Leah thought inwardly before saying to the black-haired man, "Yes."

(Flashback)

Leah was sitting in a chair waiting for her turn to be up. She wore a Japanese suit of armor while she had her Katana sword in her hands.

"Alright, Leah, you're up against, uh, Takeda," Tate called as Leah stood up and walked in the center of the fighting ring.

"Behold! Witness me defeating this newbie to the fighting group!" Takeda told his friends who cheered at him for victory.

"I'm right here, you know," Leah informed the boy who only snorted.

"Yeah, right. Like a girl who's been home-schooled half of her life will even win against me."

(An hour later)

"And the winner by three points: Leah Roberts!" Tate proclaimed raising Leah's hand as she heard the crowd of boys cheer at how well the dark-haired girl fought.

"This can't happen! I wanna rematch!" Takeda demanded.

"What? No way," Leah told him.

"You cheated! That's the only reason how you could've won!"

"No. I won like any other person in this room. With blood sweat, and tears. Well, minus the tears," Leah replied walking off the ring with her sword dangling on the right side of her shoulder. About to walk off, she heard someone charging her way. She pulled out her sword again facing Takeda who had an angry look on his face. "Dude, what's wrong with you?"

"I said I want a rematch! You didn't really win against me!" Takeda said slashing blades against Leah's who quickly backed away from the upcoming attack.

"Hey! Takeda! That's enough! Don't do that to our new member of the sword team," Tate said seeing that Takeda wasn't listening as the boy with spiky dark green hair and Leah continued to crash blades towards each other. Quickly running and dodging each others upcoming attacks like they were doing in practice.

(End Flashback)

"I see. Then, what happened?" Reito asked Leah.

"When I was running backwards away from Takeda, I felt something trip me up. I didn't know what it was but it made me look back to see if anyone was behind me. When I did, I looked up and saw Takeda heading towards me. Before I could block his attack, it was too late for me to use my sword to defend myself. The next thing I knew, I saw Takeda upper cut me with his sword and I felt an excruciating pain hit my eye along with blood coming out of it," Leah explained, lightly rubbing her left bandaged eye, "And how I got this bandage over my eye."

"Uh-huh."

Then Shizuru stood up from her front desk and walked up to Leah. The one-eyed teen looked up into the honey-haired woman's red eyes as they were both staring into each others eyes. It seemed like an eternity as she saw Shizuru say to her, "Leah." Making the dark-haired teen come out of the trance of Shizuru's ruby wine eyes.

"Uh, yes, Shizuru?" Leah asked.

"I know this is unexpected, but would you mind taking that bandage off your eye?"

"Okay. But why?"

"Haruka thinks that the bandage you have on doesn't have a wound underneath it," Shizuru genuinely explained with a smile on her face.

"Well....okay, but it might be a bit gross when I take it off," Leah warned who could tell that Shizuru didn't care either way, "Okay." Then Leah slowly pulled off her bandage revealing a still fresh scar that ran down her eye. It looked like it was still quite swollen enabling Leah to open her eye as the four Student Councilors also saw that their was a bit clear pus coming out of the long gash on her eye. Haruka and Yukino were the most disgusted. Reito was, too but he didn't want to show it while Shizuru had a satisfied look on her face.

Then Shizuru said, "Suzushiro-san?"

"Wh-What do you want, Bubuzuke?"

"Does this severe gash have enough proof for Leah-san to be telling the truth?" Shizuru said in her Kyoto accent.

"Well, yeah. I guess. But how can you be so sure she's gelling the truth?"

"It's 'telling,' Haruka-chan," Yukino corrected as Haruka's eyebrow twitched from her mispronunciation.

Shizuru only stuck her index finger out and waved it sideways saying, "Tsk, tsk, tsk. I thought someone like you could see something like this."

"Huh?" Haruka raised an eyebrow at that.

"Innocence."

Haruka blinked in confusion wondering what her tea drinking President friend meant.

"Her eyes. I can tell she's telling us the truth," Shizuru said still smiling lightly placing her hand on Leah's head, "Reito, I believe you ought to be punishing Takeda for doing something like this to Leah-san."

"Yes, yes. I'm on it," Reito said leaving the student council room.

"And I believe Haruka has something to say," Shizuru said.

"Oh. Yeah. Sorry about what I said earlier," Haruka said in a soft tone to Leah who was a little surprised to hear that from her.

"It's okay. I don't blame you. The Student Council does have a hard time keeping everyone in order," Leah said putting the bandage back on her left eye.

"It takes guts to do what you did against Takeda without running off. And that's what you have: Pure, Genuine Guts. And I respect that!" Haruka said slapping Leah hard on the back.

"Thanks," The dark-eyed teen groaned still feeling the shock waves of the slap surging through her back.

After clearing a few things up, along with Haruka forcing Takeda to apologize to Leah, her and Shziuru were walking the hallway of the dorms.

"Sorry again for waking you up so early. Takeda said that you were the one who injured and insulted him," Shizuru said.

"It's okay. The only thing I don't get is how you could tell I was telling the truth," Leah wondered.

Shizuru gently smiled. "Your eyes."

Leah blinked. "Huh? What are you talking about, Shizuru?"

"That's what your eyes show. Innocence and naïveness and that's how I can tell. You're eyes are very easy to read if someone looks into them," Shizuru said, "That along with the heart of a child."

Leah lightly grumbled as Shizuru giggled at that. Then Leah yawned in tiredness. "Whatever. I just want to go back to sleep. It's Saturday, after all."

"True. Which is why I'm walking you to your dorm room."

"I'm not a little kid, you know." Leah lightly huffed as she saw her dorm room number. "Well, here's my room. I guess I'll see you around, huh?"

"Yeah. I'll see you later. Oh, and tell Natsuki I said 'hi' when you see her, okay?"

"Okay. Later." Leah unlocked her door and closed it behind her. "Man, I'm tired." Flopping front on her bed immediately falling asleep.

As she slept, Nao then woke up an hour or so later. Getting dressed in her casual Saturday clothes, the red-head turned around to make sure Leah was still asleep. She was as Nao picked up her keys and walked out of the dorm room.