"So what do you think of our school so far, Izuriha-san?"

"It's... fine so far. I haven't really been to other schools til now so I don't know."

Home room has just ended and, as expected, some of the students were gathering around the new transfer student Kagari Izuriha. They were trying to her better and the girl seemed to be handling all of them well enough... though Rock noticed how she edged a bit closer to Yomi every time a question was asked to her. Yomi for her part looked worried, while Yuu was also another one of those who were asking the girl questions.

"Oh yeah, you were hospitalized right?" a girl asked.

"Yes," the girl nodded. "When I was small I got in a car accident that prevented me from moving my legs, " she explained. "I was stuck in the hospital for several years waiting for my legs to heal back..." she trailed off.

"Man, that's a tough," one of the boys remarked. The other students murmured their agreement.

"Yeah it was... but I wasn't that depressed since I had a friend I could depend on," Kagari said as her eyes wandered to Yomi. "She really supported and helped me back then... it's just a sad shame that she had to move."

Rock noticed Yomi stiffen at that statement. Then she stood up and looked like she was going to say something when Kagari raised a hand to stop her.

"It's okay, Yomi, I understand," Kagari said. "It was your parents decision to do so, and you did still help me out during your limited time." Her smile was pleasant, but somehow Rock felt it was a bit forced. Yomi seemed to have relaxed but still looked a bit unsure. Meanwhile...

"You guys were really close back then," Yuu grinned at them. "You guys have a lot to catch up with each other."

"Of course," Kagari said proudly. Then she turned to face Yomi directly and grinned, "We really have a lot to catching up together."

Lunch Time

Kagari was now eating at their usual table. Big surprise, not really. The girl kept on sticking to Yomi throughout their subjects. The others noticed but let them be due to Kagari's previous circumstances, though Rock noticed Yomi looked a bit uncomfortable at some points...

So now their previous lunch trio turned into a quad squad or whatever it was called. Kagari was, of course, sitting beside Yomi while Rock was beside Yuu, who was sitting across Kagari. Rock dimly remembered that Mato and Yomi usually sat beside each other, but she let Kagari have it since it was what Mato would have done and that even she felt a bit of pity for the girl.

"So Izuriha-san, how long ago were you friends with Yomi?" Yuu continued asking.

Yuu was already done with her meal while the others were still eating. Yomi had a bento, Kagari curry and Rock was eating katsudon. Kagari finished hers before replying to Yuu.

"We were friends when we were, uh," Kagari frowned and counted with her fingers, "...8 years old, back then when her parents stayed for a year." She continued, "actually our parents knew each other as well, that was how we got introduced to each other and became friends. Right, Yomi?"

"Ah, yes," Yomi replied. She put her chopsticks as she recounted their history, "we were so young back then, the two of us were very shy back then..."

"You mean til now, right?" Yuu interrupted playfully.

"A-anyways," Yomi hurriedly continued on. "It was pretty awkward and took us 2 days to be able to properly talk to each other without hiding behind our parents..."

"It was Yomi who initiated first actually," Kagari interjected. "So Yomi is still shy today huh," she grinned at Yomi blushing to that.

"Yep, it was us who had to get her to talk with others and to became her friend," Yuu said. "Or more specifically, it was Mato who Yomi opened up to and coaxed her."

"Oh? It was you who Yomi had opened up to, Mato?" she turned to face Rock, who noticed that her grin was gone. There also seemed to be a glint in here eyes...

"Oh yeah Mato, you never told me the details of how you and Yomi became friends," now the other two turned to face Rock. "I remember when the no one really approached Yomi since she was all mature and lady like, how did you get to talk with her?" Yuu asked while Yomi just looked at her expectantly.

Crap, she was hoping they would be too busy in their talk to notice her.

"Ah yeah, you know how Yomi was quite awkward and shy," Rock said trying to sound like Mato. "She- I mean I got interested in her name, and um, because of how it was about birds then we talked here and there..." she trailed off.

"Hmm. So that's how you guys got together," Yuu nodded when Rock didn't continue. She seemed satisfied, though Yomi looked a bit disappointed with how Rock cut it out. Meanwhile Kagari had a neutral expression on her face.

"...I see," Kagari nodded as well and looked Rock over before turning back to Yomi. "How long are your parent's going to stay in this town, Yomi?" she asked in a low voice.

Yuu looked alarmed while Rock just sat there looking bored. Then she remembered her role and pretended to look alarmed. Yomi just frowned, then smiled at them.

"Actually my parents are thinking of settling down now," Yomi replied happily. "My father is considering on taking a good deal here."

Yuu let out a breath of relief which Rock also followed. But their reactions paled in comparison to Kagari's.

Some tears were forming in Kagari's eyes as she leaned forward and hugged Yomi with her head at her shirt. Yomi looked surprised, but then smiled and just hugged her back. "We're not going to be separated anymore, so don't worry," she said soothingly to Kagari.

Meanwhile, Yuu had no idea what to do and could only smile awkwardly for them, and Rock herself was just too surprised to do anything but stare. Luckily, they were saved when the bell started ringing.

Kagari slowly disengaged herself from Yomi and was rubbing her eyes with a handkerchief from her bag. When she noticed that the three were staring at her, she stood up and started walking away.

"What are you guys doing?" Kagari turned her head towards them. "Come on, classes are gonna start."

English

Turns out Saito-sensei had some business to attend to so they were going to be substituted with another teacher called Kanako, who started going into some monologue about life... Rock didn't really care though, as her thoughts were preoccupied on something else.

Looks like she's got a delicate side.

Rock glanced briefly to her right at Kagari before turning her sights back to outside her window. She was quite surprised with her reaction to say the least. Kagari kept on maintaining having a pleasant smile on her face yet Rock could feel an undercurrent of repressed character from her. The girl seemed to be just masking an unpleasant personality, something Rock has faced many times.

But her reaction earlier...

A collection of sighs and groans brought Rock's attention back to the classroom. She turned her head around to see the girls having a weird look in their faces and the boys looking uncomfortable. Even Yuu and Yomi shared the same expressions, Kagari looked neutral but Rock could see her focusing on the teacher this time instead of Yomi. So Rock decided to listen on as well this time.

"...and then when the moment the two of you close your eyes and lean forward," the teacher closed her eyes and began acting it out.

...what the hell?

Rock just stared at the teacher, then looked back at her 'friends' to see them, including Kagari, blush. Some of the boys tried keeping their cool but most of them were also blushing. The rest of the girls need not be mentioned.

Is this something middle schoolers are supposed to be taught-

Rock was just about to wonder if this was okay and normal when the door slid open and their proper English teacher Saito-sensei stepped in with a smile and twitch in his eyes.

"What do you think you're teaching my students, Kanako-sensei?" he asked. It was spoken pleasantly, but even Rock's fellow classmates heard the underlying threat. The teacher also got the hint.

"Ah, well..."

Saito walked forward and grabbed her by the hand, "Let's talk about this with the principal shall we." He began dragging her outside the classroom and closed the door. Then the door slid open again to show Saito still wearing the smile as he faced the students.

"Ah would you guys please read pages 56-63?" he asked them 'nicely'.

"Y-yes, Saito-sensei," the rest of the class replied back nervously.

When Saito closed the door, and this time not opening it again, the rest of the class started to calm down. Some of them were opening their books to follow the instructions just given to them, but most seemed to be more interested in talking about what the earlier teacher said.

"K-kanako-sensei must be really experienced about it now-"

"Ah I don't think I'm ready to do what they were doing-"

"I don't think I can even do some thing like it-"

"I wonder how it really feels like-"

Rock watched all of them discussing about the "kissing" scene with each other before looking back to her friends. Yuu and Yomi were still a bit red in the face though Yuu was talking normally with the others already while Yomi still looked distracted. Kagari went back to her routine of staring at Yomi, but this time had a light blush on her face.

"Is it really that big of a deal..." Rock muttered to herself. Yomi, however, broke out of her stupor in time to hear it.

"Eh, what are you talking about, Mato?" Yomi looked at her quizzically. "Didn't you say to me before how you wanted s-someone to do it to y-you," the bespectacled girl stuttered. She started blushing again, and Kagari started looking at Rock suspiciously again.

Rock felt like facepalming herself. Damn it Mato.

"O-oh yeah I did, didn't I?" she laughed nervously. "I just... saw an anime that made me question if... it's worth it," Rock replied. Well it was half truth at least, Mato had seen some shows like that.

"...it must really be some show," Yomi looked skeptic but didn't ask any deeper than that.

"But don't you think it is sweet?" Yuu seemed to have decided to join in their discussion. "That having some guy gently hold and care for you... ah now I hope to grow up fast."

"I don't really care for guys," Kagari murmured, her eyes glancing at Yomi briefly before closing.

Suddenly the door slid open to reveal a scowling Saito, "Didn't I tell you guys to read?"

Everyone who were chatting hurriedly opened their English books and began their reading. Rock also opened her book, but wasn't really reading it like the others. Instead she was thinking of their talk earlier.

Kisses huh.

In her line of work, there was just never any time for that. There was danger everywhere, if not there was a duty she had to follow that prevented her from thinking of it.

If it was possible anyways, considering the little contact and people there were available. Actually, she hadn't even heard that used since before the destruction, as not even her colleagues were talking about it...

...

Well actually there was one person who did but-

"Kuroi Mato!" the loud voice of Saito interrupted her thoughts. "Please start reading."

"Y-yes, Sensei."

so as some of you guys are probably wondering, why is kagari not as loony and crazy as she was in the OVA?

well there's some slight differences from the OVA and the anime which I believe can be enough for a slight change. and she's still unhinged here, im just not making it as over blown like in the anime in order to give her some good developments and connections to the group, as well as to prevent the story from going the same route as the anime where kagari keeps yomi to herself, causing friction, rock/mato having to rescue her, etc.

its a bit boring to repeat it so im going for a different route. dont worry, there's still going to be some problems they have to deal with kagari.

also guys dont mind the OCs too much here, hopefully. they're just to serve here as filler for some comedy/SoL/drama scenes for our characters, they're not going to involve much in the serious plot.

much later though where il start making some OC for the otherworld characters that dont have a human counterpart(like B DG, B M, dragon slayer, etc.)

reviews are greatly appreciated.