After calming herself down a bit, Rock continued checking out Mato's room. Besides clothes, she found a guitar inside the closet. Rock looked under the bed and found a spare basket ball. Only after looking inside the desk(Why didn't I think of looking there first!?) did she find more drawings. Well, sketches to be accurate. Rock found two sketches of girls(?), but since there weren't any details such as their clothes or weapons, she couldn't be sure herself if they were ones from her world.

'Now how could Mato draw them- wait no, how could she have drawn "that" girl?' she thought. 'Me and Dead Master make sense due to that incident before, but how could she have drawn Gol- "that" girl?' Rock mentally corrected herself. 'No time to remember the past... need to focus at what is going on right now.'

The girl suddenly yawned. Rock checked the alarm clock at the desk and noticed it was 11:00 pm now. Looks like she ended up looking around the room a lot longer than she thought. Normally she herself wouldn't be that sleepy at this time, but this wasn't her body, and she did end up running earlier. Then there was also the mental exhaustion from her meditations...

'Thinking about how all this stuff could wait for tomorrow,' she thought after another yawn. Her body as well as mind was tired now. Rock placed the the drawings on her desk, then she started to change to her pajamas. After changing, Rock closed the lights and unceremoniously fell backwards on the bed. She pulled up the covers around her and twisted her head to look at the window.

There was a full moon right now, casting a pale light on to the room. Rock stared at it for a while until she started to feel sleep come to her. Rock's inner thoughts wandered into the small string that connected her to Mato before she finally fell under.

A warm light descended on Mato's room as the sun rose up from behind the hill. Rock stirred from her sleep once she felt the warmth on her eyelids, then her eyes opened to stared at the light for a moment before blinking and turning away from it. She looked strangely at the room in front of her, until the events of yesterday came back to her.

"Ah, looks like it wasn't a dream," the girl said out loud. Rock fumbled around at her blanket, which apparently tied itself around her overnight. Once she finally untangled herself, Rock set out to get ready for school.

While walking towards the train station, Rock took notice of her neighborhood as well as the other people walking their own way. She didn't really notice it yesterday since it was late afternoon, but the houses looked a lot nicer now despite them being mostly similar. They were perfectly straight unlike the slanted ones at her world, the white and blue color also was more pleasant than the usual black and white with gray colors. The people too, there weren't a lot yesterday but now there was plenty. It felt... nice that for a change to see lots of people around and interacting, however it was also pretty noisy and people walking/running to the station disrupted Rock's sense of calm and peace.

She finally boarded on the train and found an empty bench to sit in. A few seconds later, two girls sat on the other side of the bench and began talking to each other. Rock glanced at their uniform and realized that they must be in her school. The two of them noticed her looking and greeted "Good morning Senpai" to her before resuming their conversation. Just as Rock was about to sit back in her seat, she felt someone watching her.

'It's the same one as before...' Rock turned her head around slowly, so as to not scare the person away. Her eyes scanned each person, moving to another and another. Some men in business suits, plenty more of other student in her school. Each one was busy talking to one another, so the chances for one of them staring at her earlier seemed unlikely. It also felt like no one was looking at her anymore...

Rock scanned the train a bit longer, landing her eyes on a certain girl sitting by herself. The girl had long black hair and wore a different uniform than the others, signifying that she goes to another school. She currently appeared to be engrossed on some book.

The train started to slow down, finally grinding to a halt at the next train station. Rock stopped her searching for the mysterious stalker and stood up to leave the train once the doors opened. She stepped out, then looked back for a few lingering seconds before the doors closed and the train sped off. Rock started walking back outside the train station and continuing on.

...

After walking up the hill for a few minutes, the school started to come into view now. Well it was more of the walls of the entrance gate for now, it was really the two girls that were standing and waiting at the gate that made Rock stop.

Yomi Takanashi and Yuu Koutari. Both of them had a worried look in their face, with Yomi looking a bit more upset. Yomi of course was in their school uniform, Yuu had her jacket on but was probably wearing her unifrom underneath.

'Crap, I forgot to prepare for an explanation,' Rock felt a bit panicked. 'Maybe I should do a round trip, or try to climb a tree to get over the wall'. Too late, it seemed that Yuu spotted her and was directing Yomi towards her direction. 'Ah, I'm going to have to wing it.'

The twin tailed girl started jogging towards them, wearing a sheepish grin on her face. Rock stopped a meter away from them, still wearing that silly grin. It worked... maybe? At least it seemed to loosen their expression.

It was Yuu who started talking first. "Mato? Are you alright now?," she asked staring into her eyes. Rock resisted the urge to glare back in response, that was what you usually did when someone looks the other at the eye in her world. "Cause yesterday, it seemed like you forgot about us?..."

"Eh? Was that right... eheheh," Rock laughed nervously, like Mato would have. "Sorry I was just, um, confused because of my dreams... that I ended up thinking you guys were someone else and I didn't know you," she said lamely. "I thought you were people who wanted to experiment on my powers."

Yuu gave her skeptical look, then changed to a disappointed one that resembled her little brother's. "Mato... Maybe you should really cut down on watching all those Anime if your dreams are starting to seep in reality like that," Yuu said while shaking her head.

Yomi lost her worried look for an upset one. "You really had us worried back then," she muttered under her breath. "And I agree with Yuu, you should stop watching them, Mato," the glasses girl said sternly.

But that seemed to be it, or at least enough of it. Yomi ended up hugging her tightly while Yuu just slapped her in the back for her troubles. Rock herself felt relieved now that she got rid of that problem, at the expense of making Mato/her look crazy. The 3 of them started walking back to class together when Rock realized that this was just the beginning of her deception...

English

"Now, can someone read this?" the teacher asked as he wrote some letters on the chalk board. Once he finished, he turned around looking for volunteers, and as expected no one was eager to do it. The students were trying to avoid his eyes, either by looking at their english books, some of which were upside down, or pretending to take notes. The teacher continued looking at each student, with them trying to avoid his eyes, until it fell to a certain twin tailed girl sitting beside the window.

Unlike the rest, this girl didn't appear nervous. She had her arm propped on her table and was resting her chin on her palm with a bored expression, she didn't react when he looked on her, actually it looked like she wasn't even paying any attention and was just looking straight on. She was even openly yawning.

"Kuroi-san, please read this," the Saito said, getting her attention. English was the last subject of this class, so it was understandable. What wasn't acceptable though, was doing it so openly. Even a well behaved girl like Mato Kuroi would get punishment. 'She was probably up all night watching those Anime shows...'

The girl slowly stood up and looked at him. Then she glanced at the words on the board before looking back at him.

"The fox who chased the rabbit, got stuck inside the rabbit hole," Kuroi-san said in perfect english before sitting down again and starring outside her window.

Saito, along with the rest of the students, could only gape at Mato.

"Ahhh. that was a long day," Rock said tiredly. She had acted like Mato most of the day, from greeting her classmates to barely passing her tests. In the last subject though, Rock was so exhausted that she dropped her acting temporarily and showed some of her true character. When after class Yomi and Yuu asked her about it, she just said she was tired from yesterday, which was true to a certain extent.

Luckily though, during the after-school curricular activities, Rock was excused from participating today. Her fainting from yesterday, along with her earlier "bad mood", had her captain and some of the members decide Mato needed some time to rest. Meanwhile Yomi still had volleyball practice and Yuu was still the basketball manager, who was also one of the others who insisted for her to rest, so Rock was free to be with herself now.

Instead of heading straight home though, Rock decided to wander around the campus. Walking around always made her feel relaxed, and she could use this to survey the rest of the people she would be with for quite some time...

As she walked outside the court, Rock felt that she was being watched again. She started walking outside the gate and towards the clump of trees surrounding the school. She went in deep before quickly ducking behind some bushes. As she suspected, the person followed her. Rock waited for the person's shadow to get close enough before grabbing said person and pushing her to a tree, eliciting a yelp. Rock gripped the person by the clothes on their chest and pulled them up slightly before looking at her stalker.

It was the person from the train station earlier. The girl with long black hair and was reading some book. The girl had a panicked and strained expression on her face as Rock was starting to pull her up to her toes. 'So this is the one who's been stalking me...' Rock thought. The girl also had red-brownish eyes.

The girl seemed to have stopped squirming though once she noticed it was Rock holding her. "Um ah... G-good afternoon K-Kuroi-san," the girl said, trying to sound casual.

Wasn't working well.

Rock said nothing, instead she raised her right arm, the one not holding the girl, curled up in a fist towards the girl. She of course wasn't going to actually hit her, just scare her off. Least she could do was get rid of Mato's stalker while in her body. She certainly wasn't doing this just to blow off steam, really.

"This isn't... what it looks like, r-really. I wasn't following you, I just, ah, left something here y-yesterday that I came back to," the girl tried to reason with her. She tried raising her arms, but Rock just pushed a little harder causing the girl to stop. Her breathing increased when Rock continued glaring at her instead of calming down. "W-wait, calm down for a bit Ma-"

Rock pulled back her fist then made a show of punching her to the face. Rock expected the girl to either faint or scream, in which case she may have to knock her unconscious.

Imagine her surprise when the girl's hand suddenly shot up and caught her fist. Rock paused for a second before her battle experience caught up to her as she pulled her arm back. The girl's hand, however, grabbed her arm and pulled her closer. Rock stumbled, causing her grip on the girl to fall. She tried pulling back, but the girl had a firm grip on her now and was surprisingly strong.

The girl's also suddenly smiled and her eyes lost the scared look from earlier. "Well well, look what we have here," the smile suddenly changed to a familiar smirk. "You're too impulsive as always... Black Rock Shooter."

Rock narrowed her eyes.

"Black Gold Saw."

wew this is my longest chapter ever. not sure if I can make as much.

as some of you may know, that girl has been shown in the OVA, so she's not completely made up. and because she's got a slight focus compared to other characters, as well as showing up just after the BRS and BGS fight, its not far fetched to think she's BGS counterpart.