Author Note: Another chapter but I have to say that after this one the rest will be a different and not so stressful and hectic on the girls. It'll still be crazy when it comes to the military aspect but this is military school not the real military so the next full chapters will involve very original school endeavors.
I wanted to put these characters in a new setting because there is only so much to write about if you follow the norm. I mean you could write about them at Astrea Hill or after they graduate and a lot of people would go for a college setting.
For those who don't know what a formation looks like type in Military formation into google image search and it'll show you a bunch of pictures. Basically it's a bunch a people in an organized rectangle.
Drill Sergeant Shiggs decided not to go to sleep after her long night with the newest recruits and the push up session she had in the rain. Why would she? That was only three hours ago. After a quick meal Shiggs went to her office that she was assigned to between the new recruit's male and female barracks. Her office was a small room that connected the male and female barracks so that no one would be able to sneak back and forth between the two. Shiggs sat down at her desk and sighed as she looked forward to her day off tomorrow. Till then she would have to make sure the new recruits were prepared as best she could prepare them for their new military school home. Shiggs leaned forward in her chair and picked up the P.A. Microphone next to her computer and switched it on.
"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" The males and the females heard the all too familiar voice over the P.A. System. At first Nagisa thought she was dreaming until the voice became more consistent. When Nagisa realized that she wasn't dreaming she sat up and remembered where she was and her stomach developed about a dozen knots in it.
"This can't really be happening to me." Nagisa said aloud.
Rios had heard Nagisa and wondered if Nagisa would be the first one to go home.
"I Fuc*kin* hate this place!" a girl from across the barracks yelled as she jumped off her bed.
"Awww man this is horrible." Salazar said as she rolled over about to fall back asleep over the Drill Sergeant's voice.
"Nadi get your ass up." Rios said as she tossed Nadia off her bunk along with her mattress.
Miyuki rubbed her eyes and felt extremely groggy and her arms were sore from the push ups last night.
Shizuma scanned the large room and saw Shion, Kaname, and Momomi standing by their bunks waiting to be informed on what to do next and Nagisa and Tamao were sitting on their bunks. Chikaru looked like she had a massive headache as she rubbed her temples and looked down at the floor.
"Good morning recruits. You all have ten minutes to get into the uniform of the day which is your black school uniform, perform personal hygiene, and get your asses to formation. That means brush your stinking teeth!" The P.A. system clicked off and all the girls started heading for the bathrooms and sinks. There were about ten stalls and ten sinks but there were around fifty girls that needed to use them. Ten minutes isn't that long when you have to put on a complicated uniform as well.
Miyuki and the rest of the girls from Astrea Hill were about to follow the swarm of girls entering the restroom area when Mitchell approached Miyuki.
"Wait till they are done. Who said you have to go conduct proper hygiene first? You should get dressed first and by the time you're done the bathrooms and sinks will be free." Mitchell advised.
"We don't know what the hell we are doing." Shizuma blatantly stated.
Mitchell smiled and offered to help. Mitchell informed them how to wear their uniform the right way. They had a black T-shirt that they tucked into black slacks. She told them that they had to tuck their shoe laces of their pre-shined dress shoes into their shoes so they weren't hanging loose and lace the shoes as tight as they could. The final thing that they needed was the button down long sleeve black top with their name tags on them that would also be tucked in. Lastly they had a black belt with a silver buckle and black tie. This was just like the Drill Sergeants uniform except instead of a round billed black hat they had black berets.
"Ok that's pretty much it. Now you can go brush your teeth but hurry you only have five minutes left and we have to be standing in formation by then." Mitchell said as she let the girls pass by her. Miyuki stopped and spoke to Mitchell.
"How are you already ready?" Miyuki asked.
"I woke up ten minutes early. I kinda already knew what to expect. The Drill Sergeant is going to be mad today." Mitchell added.
"Why? We haven't even done anything wrong." Shion sneered as she progressively got pissed off at her situation.
"New recruits never make it down to formation on time their first day." Mitchell said as she walked towards the exit of the barracks. "Oh one more thing, if your hair touches your shoulders you have to put it up in a bun like this." Mitchell pointed to her hair that was in a perfect tight bun before she walked out of the barracks.
The girls rushed into the restroom area as fast as they could and hoped they would be on time.
Outside Rios and Salazar fell into the first rank of the formation hair up and uniforms looking sharp. It wasn't too cold outside but there was a slight chill, at least it wasn't raining. Formation was being held on a street right outside the barracks. You could see a few buildings not to far away and what looked like an oversized playground. Other than that there was a huge field and trees surrounding the entire area.
"Hey ladies."
Rios turned around to see who had just spoke and saw Rodriguez smiling at her. "Shut up." Was all Rios said before turning back around.
"Geez Rios is a morning person isn't she Salazar?" Rodriguez asked Salazar.
"I'm much worse so leave me alone." Salazar said as she saw Baker leaving the male barracks.
"What's up Baker." Salazar greeted as Baker fell into formation next to Rodriguez.
"Sup. Where is the rest of the original crew?" Baker asked.
"They should be out soon. I mean I thought they were making good time with that girl helping them." Rios said.
"Girl?" Rodriguez asked.
"Yea I think her name is Mitchell." Rios thought.
"Why are ya'll talking?" Drill Sergeant Shiggs yelled at the whole formation that consisted of four platoons (120 people) and everyone was talking until Drill Sergeant Shiggs seemed to be getting upset. "Here is one of the many lessons of the day. When in formation shut up." Shiggs looked at her watch. "I know all ya'll aren't here yet and your buddy's only have two minutes left. I suuuuuure hope they make it down here on time or else we are going to dance recruits. Dance on your hands and feet in the push up position that is."
"Shit." A recruit said under his breath. "It's probably the females."
Rios, Salazar, Baker, and Rodriguez watched the female barracks intently waiting for the rest of their crew to come out who were undoubtedly the last ones.
"Looks like they have about thirty seconds." Shiggs announced as she continued to watch her wrist as the seconds tick away on it. "Twenty seconds." Shiggs announced again. "Fifteen."
"Damn." Rios said under her breath. As soon as the words left her mouth the door to the female barracks opened. Shizuma, Miyuki, Shion, and Chikaru came running out first followed by Kaname and Momomi. Tamao and Nagisa hadn't left yet.
"Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six!" Shiggs started counting down to what seemed to be an inevitable session of push ups. "Five, Four, Three!" Just as Shiggs hit three Tamao burst threw the door outside dragging Nagisa with her. "Two, One, Zero!" Nagisa and Tamao made it just in time. "I don't believe it. There is normally always someone who jacks this up for everybody. But to be honest I'm happy that you all aren't a bunch of screw ups. There might be hope for you yet."
This caused some of the recruits to smile a little.
Ya'll still suck though." Shiggs added wiping off any smiles.
Miyuki's heart rate was returning to normal after the dash out to formation. Miyuki thought they were going to be late for sure. Shizuma had so much hair she had to use three hair ties and about ten bobby pins to help her get it to stay in place. Miyuki looked at Shizuma's hair hopping it'll make it through the day. Momomi didn't know how to put her hair in a bun so Kaname and Shion were helping her while Chikaru helped Miyuki. Nagisa and Tamao were helping each other and Nagisa had so little hair it was hard to even form a bun. It didn't help when Nagisa dropped her toothbrush on the floor and used her finger to clean her teeth.
Just as Shiggs was about to move on two males exit the male barracks. Both of the males didn't have their berets on."What the hell is this Shit!?" Shiggs asked.
"Drill Sergeant we can't find our berets Drill Sergeant." One of the recruits said nervously.
The Drill Sergeant started getting angry as she thought of how stupid of a situation was in front of her. "Recruits how the hell did you lose your berets? You just got them three and a half hours ago and you haven't gone anywhere."
"Drill Sergeant I don't know Drill Sergeant." The two recruits said together.
"You don't know huh? Tell the formation your names." Shiggs said before she turned to the formation in front of her.
"Drill Sergeant Recruit Johnson Drill Sergeant!" The tall and skinny recruit said.
"Drill Sergeant Recruit King Drill Sergeant!" The average height but fat recruit said.
"Everybody I want you to say 'thank you Recruit Johnson thank you Recruit King' for making my Evening complete hell. Thanks to these two I'll have you out in that field exercising till you pass out!" Shiggs said. "Go on thank em!"
The whole formation in unison did as they were told. "thank you Recruit Johnson thank you Recruit King!" As soon as they finished Rios turned to the Male recruit who had said 'It's probably the females' and said "Those are some ugly looking females asshole. Just your type." Salazar had to work to hide her laughter.
"Well recruits the only reason why it's this Evening is because today you will be taking your first PFT (Physical Fitness Test.) and you will be going through a lot of briefings. The PFT test will include two minutes of Push ups and two minutes of sit ups and a 2 mile run. I can't make you do push ups right now because we just don't have time. But don't worry Recruits I wont forget you owe me." Shiggs centered herself on the formation. "When I'll call out right face that means everyone will turn their entire bodies to the right and then I'll say forward march and you will all start walking forward at the same time. Now let's see if you can do this without jacking it up. Ok. Right Face!" The formation eventually ended with everyone facing the right way after some people delayed to turn and others turned to their left on accident. Shiggs decided not to yell as she already was running late. "You all suck. Forward March!" The formation looked like a sloppy accordion as everyone started walking forward at different times. "You're killing me recruits. You're killing me!"
Shiggs lead the formation to a building off in the distance that other Drill Sergeants were entering.
"Ok this is the dinning facility. I want your plates full and I want you to eat everything. Trust me you'll need the energy. Also you will drink one full glass of water and another glass of whatever beverage you want. When I say any beverage I mean Gatorade or Juice.
Don't even think about getting soda! There is no talking at all in the dinning facility. If I catch you talking that means you are done eating. You will say please and thank you to the people serving you through the chow line. Once you sit down you have five minutes to eat and then you're done. Any questions?"
"Drill Sergeant no Drill Sergeant!" The recruits said in a loud and thunderous shout surprising Shiggs.
"I'm slightly impressed. You all sounded like you've been her for awhile. Alright start filing in."
The recruits filed in one by one through the chow line serving breakfast that included eggs, hash browns, bacon, and sausage.
Momomi noticed a lot of Drill Sergeants in the corner of the dining facility eating their breakfast away from the Recruits. Momomi looked at her plate and it was still half full. There was no way she was going to eat the huge meal that was served to her especially after she had to drink all that water. She looked over to her right to see that fat Recruit, King that lost his beret, scarf his meal down and look upset that there was no more. Momomi rolled her eyes in disgust as she switched her plate with his. Confused at first King looked at Momomi and back at his new plate as he shrugged his shoulders he finished her meal.
After everyone had finished eating, or their time was up, they left the dinning facility and formed up outside. Shiggs lead the formation to the largest building visible in the area. It was a two story white concrete building with glass doors. Really it was nothing pretty to look at but really plain but there were several flags of different colors waving in the wind in front of the building on flag poles.
"Ok Recruits you are going to follow me into this building and sit down in a classroom. Here you will be briefed. For you who don't understand what that means it means you will be informed on what the rest of your stay here is going to be like. No it wont be like today or last night so you can relax." Shiggs informed the recruits as she lead the way to their classroom.
As the recruits filed into a classroom (all 120 of them) Shiggs took her place at the head of the class. Salazar took a desk behind Shizuma as a frown formed on her face.
"How did you get all your hair in that bun?" Salazar asked trying to see past Shizuma's round and full silver hair. "It's the biggest bun I've ever seen."
Shizuma turned around and glared at Salazar.
"What?" Salazar asked.
"I think you should just chop that shit off." Rios added.
With a look of horror and then anger Shizuma replied. "Don't even think about it."
"I'm sorry! Did you three want to come up here and wow us of your knowledge on your current situation?" Shiggs interrupted the conversation.
"Drill Sergeant no Drill Sergeant." Shizuma replied.
"Can I do my job now Hanazono?" Shiggs asked sarcastically.
"Drill Sergeant yes Drill Sergeant." Shizuma replied again.
"Well thank you very much recruit. I'm going to give you an idea of what your weekly schedule will be like. Monday through Friday you will wake up at 5:00am for those of you who don't know military time yet. You will then conduct PT (Physical Training) Till 6:00am followed by personal hygiene time till 6:30am. From 6:45am to 6:55am you will have breakfast and immediately after you will go to your school campus and go to your classes from 7:00am to 2:00pm. After that your asses belong to the Drill Sergeants. You will conduct military training till 5:00pm followed immediately by dinner. After you are done with military training you will be confined to your dorms to study and lights out will be at 8:00pm. Then you will wake up and so the same thing all over again."
The whole classroom could be felt being pulled down at the tight schedule that Shiggs was presenting to them. Hopefully the weekends wont be so stressful.
"Saturday and Sunday." Shiggs paused and looked around the classroom before continuing. "Your asses belong to the Drill Sergeants."
The whole class didn't even try to hold back their sighs.
"Shut up Recruits. You only gotta do this for six months and then you're free. You'll be free and a lot better people. Suck it up! Now as I was saying. Saturday you'll be doing a lot of training so just accept it. Sunday is a different story. Some of you have different beliefs and whatever so Sunday morning is your time to prey and do whatever it is you all do. Sunday afternoon and evening will be easy. All you'll be doing is cleaning your barracks and mowing the lawn and doing "area beautification." Shiggs concluded.
"Oh joy." Miyuki thought aloud a little too loudly. Oops Miyuki thought as the Drill Sergeant looked right at her.
"You!" Shiggs pointed at Miyuki. "Get up here."
"Drill Sergeant yes Drill Sergeant." Miyuki said as she made her way to the front of the class.
"Ok smart ass you are going to demonstrate to everyone a new exercise. It is called the flutter kicks. Now lay down on your back recruit." Shiggs ordered.
Miyuki reluctantly laid on the cold tile floor.
"Now lift up your head from the floor about an inch and I want you to keep your legs straight and lift your feet six inches of the ground. Now put your hands behind your back." Miyuki did as she was told. "Now start kicking your feet."
Miyuki was doing well and finding the exercise easy. Shiggs turned around and began talking to the class again leaving Miyuki to her exercise.
"Like I was saying. That's pretty much it Recruits. You'll learn more as you go but the only thing I have left to tell you is that you'll be sharing rooms with one other Recruit. Also you'll be-." Shiggs stopped suddenly and looked through the class. The Recruits knew she was looking at someone but nobody knew who. Shiggs ran threw the Recruits fast and loud and came to a sudden stop in front of Nagisa's desk.
Tamao shocked at the Drill Sergeants sudden movements looked over to Nagisa and saw that her eyes were closed. She was sleeping!?!?
Shiggs smiled before yelling "WAKE UP!"
Nagisa almost fell out of her desk in complete shock and horror. Tamao wondered if Nagisa was going to have a heart attack.
"Recruit get up there with your fellow Recruit and start doing flutter kicks!" Shiggs yelled as Nagisa staggered to lay down next to Miyuki. Shiggs was about to go back to what she was doing when she heard someone laughing. "What the hell is wrong with all of you?!" She said as she spotted a laughing Chikaru. "You get your ass up there two. I suppose you think I'm funny. Well we'll see how funny I am this evening."
Shiggs continued her briefing until she informed the recruits that they needed to go back to the barracks and change into their PT uniforms which consisted of running shoes, black shorts, and grey T-shirt.
Shiggs lead the formation to the huge open field and had everyone break up into ten lines in front of ten other Drill Sergeants. "These Drill Sergeants will be counting and grading your push ups and sit ups and recording your run times." Shiggs informed the recruits. All the recruits did their two minutes of push ups and sit ups and now it was time for the run. "Ok Recruits this isn't hard ok all you have to do is run to one end of the field once and that is a mile run back and that's two. It can't get more simple than that and don't try to cheat either. I got Drill Sergeants on both sides." All the recruits lined up at one side of the field.
"How'd you do Miyuki?" Shizuma asked her friend.
"I guess bad. Six push ups and twenty two sit ups. The Drill Sergeant laughed so I guess it was bad." Miyuki thought.
"Chikaru what about you?" Shion asked.
"I did forty push ups and sixty six sit ups." Chikaru said.
"What?!? How the hell did you pull that off?" Kaname asked.
"Well I worked out by myself at school. No one wanted to join the work out club so I kept it alive myself." Chikaru informed a stunned Kaname who had did twenty three push ups and forty seven sit ups.
"Do you wanna know how many I did?" Rodriguez offered.
"NO!" All the girls in the crew except for Salazar and Rios said in unison.
Miyuki looked over to see that they hadn't started the run yet because the Drill Sergeants seemed to be in a discussion about something. Miyuki looked over to see everyone finish lining up and saw Mitchell stand next to her.
"Hey Rokujo." Mithcell said with a weaker smile than usual.
"Hi. Is something wrong?" Miyuki asked.
"Why would you ask that?" Mitchell asked.
Miyuki just shrugged her shoulders and looked towards the other end of the field. Thinking that she is going to die on this run.
"Well I'm disappointed at myself right now. I felt I should have done more push ups and sit ups." Mitchell admitted.
"How many did you do? Miyuki asked.
"Well I did fifty push ups and sixty nine sit ups." Mitchell mumbled.
"What!?" Miyuki said in shock at how many this girl actually did and thought still that it wasn't enough.
"I know! It's bad." Mitchell said.
With squinted eyes Miyuki replied. "I wish I had your problems."
"Huh?" Mitchell didn't quite hear.
"Ok Recruits get ready!" Shiggs yelled before Miyuki could reply. "GO!"
All at once everyone ran to the other side of the field. Halfway to the other side the group started breaking up with the faster Recruits up front that included Kaname, Chikaru, and Rios from the original crew, Mitchell, and a few males including Johnson(One of the ones that lost is beret). Nagisa had fallen behind and Tamao with her. Tamao could have kept up with the main group but fell back for Nagisa. Shion, Miyuki, Shizuma, and Momomi were staying with the main group but were really struggling.
"Man I hate running." Salazar said as she slowly passed the four girls.
"Yup it sure sucks really bad." Baker said running along with Salazar. "Where is Rodriguez?"
Salazar turned her head to look back and would have laughed if she wasn't lacking oxygen. Rodriguez was just barely in front of all the slow people which included Nagisa and Tamao.
The four that were in the front of everyone else were Kaname, Chikaru, Rios, and Mitchell. They hadn't tried to break away from each other knowing that they would be better off if they tried to sprint the end and beat the other three. They were about a quarter of a mile from the end when Chikaru broke off with speed Kaname envied. Kaname wasn't going to lose to Chikaru and sprinted after her followed by Rios then Mitchell. Chikaru left the other three in a cloud of dust and the others knew they wouldn't pass her and started competing for second place between themselves. It was a very even sprint with all three girls side by side at full speed. Almost at the end Mitchell erupted with a final burst of energy and left Rios and Kaname behind. Rios was taken by surprise and couldn't accept the fact of coming in fourth between the four and kept on Mitchell's heels. Chikaru made it in first followed by Mitchell, Rios, and Kaname.
"Well I'll be damned. Recruit what is your name?" Shiggs said as she approached Chikaru.
"Drill Sergeant my name is Minamoto Drill Sergeant." Chikaru tried to hold her laughter in as the Drill Sergeant congratulated her with a slap on the back and a little bit of profane language.
"Drill Sergeant thank you Drill Sergeant." Chikaru thanked.
"Don't thank me Recruit. Thank your parents for sending you to the best Military School in the world." Shiggs turned around and walked away.
"Nice job." Mitchell said as she approached Chikaru.
Chikaru responded by busting out into the laughter she had been holding in.
"Uh ok." Mitchell walked away confused.
"Chikaru don't get used to this." Kaname told Chikaru. "You wont be the top runner next time." Chikaru got under Kaname's skin without even knowing it. Kaname hated to lose.
"Kenjo is right." Rios said with a smile. "It'll be me."
"You wish." Kaname replied.
"Hey calm down Kenjo go drink some water or something it was just an assessment it wasn't even a real record test." Salazar said as she walked in on the conversation. Everyone who was behind them started to cross the finish line.
"Whatever." Kaname said as she turned and walked away.
Shiggs watched as all the recruits recorded their run time while she walked towards the street. "Fall into formation!" Shiggs yelled and watched half the recruits look at her like she was stupid and the other walk slowly toward her as if they weren't sure what she was talking about. "Get in formation in front of me Recruits! Damn!" At that everyone ran into formation. "Right face." This time more people did it right but not all. "Better. But ya'll still suck. Forward March. Recruits that was worse than this morning we gonna have to work on that." Shiggs marched the formation to the dinning facility for lunch and had them stop.
One by one they started filling the tables up. Rodriguez sat down and took a bite of his food.
"Ugh this tastes like shit." Rodriguez said as he chugged his water.
Shizuma who was sitting next to Rodriguez looked over at Shiggs in shock hoping she didn't think she had spoken. She was exhausted from the run and didn't feel like doing push ups.
"Rodriguez you better eat all your food or else I'll shove it down your throat." Shiggs said as she walked past him. "And shut up."
Shizuma to her own surprise started to laugh lightly as Rodriguez made faces while eating his food.
Tamao sat down next to Nagisa and looked up. A smile spread across her face as she recognized the girl on the bus named Michelle.
"Hi." Michelle whispered as Shiggs had her back turned to them.
"Hi." Tamao whispered back. "How did you do today?"
"Eh not so good I don't have any arm strength." Michelle told her. "I only did three push ups." Michelle frowned.
"That's ok. Nagisa couldn't even do one." Tamao said.
"Be quiet Tamao." Nagisa said a little too loud causing Shiggs to turn around and spot both their guilty faces. Fortunately for Michelle her back was turned to Shiggs.
"Aoi, Suzumi you both are done go outside and start the formation now." Shiggs dismissed the two.
As Tamao got up Michelle whispered one last thing to her. "My last name is Toko."
"Toko." Tamao accidently repeated.
"Damn it Suzumi it's a problem when a Drill Sergeant knows your name on the first day. When I get outside I better see you doing push ups!" Shiggs yelled as Nagisa and Tamao walked outside.
"Who was that?" Nagisa asked as Tamao started doing push ups as she smiled thinking of her new friend.
"I met her on the bus over here." Tamao replied as she was struggling just to hold herself up.
Nagisa hadn't even begun school at Fort Crusader and she was already feeling like her life was over. Getting yelled at all the time, doing all this exercise, eating disgusting food, and getting no sleep this isn't her thing and she wanted to go home. As soon as she got an address for herself she was going to write her mother a long letter describing how terrible a place this was and how she had learned her lesson and just wanted to go home.
After everyone was done eating Shiggs took them back to the barracks to pack and organize their things to leave on a few busses to their separate schools. Shiggs gave them three hours to do this when they only needed a half hour. After everyone was finished all they had to do was wait. Shion, Kaname, and Momomi were sitting on their bunks talking back and forth.
"Shion, how do you feel about all this? Now that you're here is it any different from what you expected?" Momomi asked as she sat leaning into Kaname's arms.
"Despite the fact that this isn't the real deal yet I have to say that I don't like it but it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It's bad but it's more annoying than anything. Especially that Drill Sergeant Shiggs." Shion replied "I can't stand her."
"I like it." Kaname put in.
"What?" Momomi asked a little surprised.
"Yea I know it sounds weird but I feel like this place pushes me to be stronger physically and mentally." Kaname replied.
"You are almost as weird as Chikaru. I'm taking a nap." Momomi said as she leaned her head on Kaname.
Shizuma and Nagisa were sitting on the floor next to their bags in silence. Both didn't know how to start a conversation. Well at least Shizuma was the one that wanted to start one.
"So how are you feeling?" Shizuma lamely asked.
"Horrible." Nagisa replied.
Shizuma sighed. "I'm really sorry about all this. I didn't think the sister would over react the way she did." Shizuma explained. "You know I really do love you right?"
"I do." Nagisa replied as she had to think about if she really loved Shizuma. With all the stress she had on herself at the moment she couldn't be sure of her feelings.
Without the immediate "I love you." In return for hers Shizuma's heart sunk and they both fell back into an even more awkward silence.
Tamao chatted with Toko the entire time.
"So you went to a Catholic school?" Toko asked.
"Yup. I still have a year to go there after this." Tamao said.
"That sounds really stressful to be in a catholic school." Toko said.
This caused Tamao to laugh. "Because this isn't stressful at all." Tamao replied.
Toko smiled. "It's different." Both girls were enjoying each others company and talked nonstop.
Meanwhile apart from the three Spicans and Miator's new couple and Tamao and her new friend Miyuki, Chikaru, Mitchell, Salazar, and Rios were in a circle talking and smiling.
"It's nothing to feel bad about Miyuki. You'll get better over time as you keep working out." Salazar tried to ease Miyuki's embarrassment as Rios continued to laugh at Miyuki's PT score.
"Shut up Rios." Miyuki cried.
"I'm sorry I'm sorry. I'll stop." Rios said trying to clear the tears of laughter out from her eyes. As soon as she looked like she gained some of her composure she immediately started laughing again.
"Don't let it get to you Miyuki you'll do better next time." Chikaru tried to keep Miyuki at ease. Miyuki was a strong person mentally but physically she needed work and she knew it.
"Yea besides Drill Sergeant Shiggs had you doing flutter kicks before the PFT anyway so you were probably a little tired." Mitchell helped Chikaru with cheering Miyuki up. Little did Mitchell know it only took a smile from her to make Miyuki cheer up. Miyuki looked at Mitchell and immediately smiled and blushed.
"Oh yea because if she didn't do those flutter kicks she would have gotten seven whole push ups instead of six." Rios teased as she began to laugh again.
"Tysha Rios you are such an asshole." Salazar smiled at her friend as she gave her a light shove.
"You just wait Rios by the end of this six months I'm going to beat you in push ups." Miyuki vowed.
"OH!! That sounds like a challenge." Salazar instigated.
"Oh yea right we'll see Rokujo we'll see." Rios smiled.
"Oh yes we will." Miyuki laughed.
Chikaru watched the scene play out in front of her as she formed a smile at Miyuki. Miyuki without even realizing it was slowly getting used to her environment. Chikaru didn't find the whole military environment hard at all. In fact she found it easy. She was already in shape and she just had to do what she was told and the Drill Sergeants mannerisms were hilarious to her.
It was time to go and Shiggs called everyone down to formation were they had it that morning.
"Ok Recruits I guess this is goodbye. Before you go I want to give you a little bit of advise. Everything here is all mental. If you know you can do something you'll do it. If you doubt yourself you'll fail. Don't take the anything a Drill Sergeant says personally or else you'll hate it here. Last I want to say that you wont be able to make it through the next six months on your own. You all need to work together like a team." Shiggs spoke to the formation like a regular person for the first time. Giving the recruits some very much needed comfort and relaxing a few with the much appreciated advice.
"Oh and one more thing." Shiggs cleared her throat before she began. "Ya'll aint leaving her for another hour. Did ya'll think I forgot that you owe me push ups!? Get down and start doing push ups!"
All the recruits got down in the push up position and started doing push ups with smiles on their face knowing it wouldn't be right if they left Drill Sergeant Shiggs with a comforting talk and a nice farewell.
After an hour of push ups and flutter kicks Shiggs posted sheets of paper with different recruit's names on them. Each paper represented a school and the names of the recruits that will be going there. The recruits got ten minutes to look before they had to leave.
The original crew from the Tokyo airport, Mitchell, King, Johnson, and Stenger were all going to the same school. Tamao scanned her school list for Toko but couldn't find her. Tamao finally found what she was looking for on another list.
"I told you we might not ever see each other again."
Tamao turned around to see Toko.
"It makes me a little sad." Tamao sincerely said.
"Me too. Who knows maybe we will see each other again someday. I hope so." Toko tried to smile.
"Yea me too." Tamao tried to do the same but failed.
"Ok recruits load up on the bus!" Shiggs yelled.
When everyone loaded on their buses Drill Sergeant Shiggs watched the bus drivers close their doors. "Oh I just wanted to remind you that ya'll still suck." Shiggs said good bye in her own way. She couldn't wait to see them on graduation day and how they will mature. She always goes to every recruit's graduation. Thank goodness it was her day off tomorrow. She was planning on sleeping the whole day. Shiggs went inside to her office to close it down and head to her temporary home.
I hope you guys enjoyed the first three chapters as they weren't intended on being a major part of the story but for you to get the idea of what it's like leaving a familiar environment and being thrown into a unfamiliar one.
Please review as it'll help me get a good perspective on writing this story for you. I have to keep reminding myself that this is still Strawberry panic and I'm trying not to overdue the military aspect of this story so much that I delude the Strawberry Panic aspects.