What up! I'm back and I also have something to say. I hope you've noticed the genre for this story is sci-fi and drama. When I say drama I mean everything: romance, humor, mystery, suspense, a bit tragic in Shizu's later years, family, comfort, and friendship. Fanfiction doesn't have a genre for 'everything'. =.= All those genres apply to my story. Thanks for understanding.
My eyes opened; for once I wake up before someone does it for me. I lay in my top bunk bed, staring at the ceiling.
Last night, dinner was good. Not that much people were there. The eating area is open for dinner from 6-9 PM so it's never crowded. We ate in peace while chatting.
"Ring! Ring! Ring!" a technical voice says. Really, it's a voice saying the word 'ring'. I hear Katsumi slowly shut it out. She mumbles. I then hear Emi get up pretty fast.
"Time to get up guys! A full school day ahead!" Emi says excitedly. She goes into the bathroom with her school uniform. I sit up.
"I'm up." I say. I hear Tomoko groan. I guess she's the sleepy type. "Let's leave Tomoko for a bit. What's the time?"
"8:02 AM." Katsumi replies as she puts on her glasses. I nod my head and slowly get down from my bunk bed- while yawning. Emi comes out of the bathroom wearing her green uniform and having her hair tied neatly.
"I'll go next, if I may." I say. Katsumi smiles. I get my uniform and go in the bathroom. I change fast- go restroom- and out I come. Katsumi stands up from her bed.
"My turn, and I might take a while, got to fix my hair." Katsumi says smiling.
"Take as much time as you want. We have it." Emi says. Katsumi then goes in the bathroom. I sit on the floor and fix my hair a bit with my fingers. I then grab my high socks and loafers to put on. I also get my schedule paper.
"Oh yeah, we didn't compare class schedules last night." I say. I give her my paper and she gets hers.
Emi gives a pout. "We only have physical education together, and all the level ones have it together."
"Too bad." I say truthfully. Tomoko is finally out of her bed now and Emi's putting on her socks and shoes. "Morning Tomoko." She just walks to her cubicle and Katsumi's out of the bathroom- hair fully curled.
"My schedule is swordsman one room three, general one room 5, physical education in the gym, and art one art room." Katsumi says. Tomoko goes in the bathroom.
"We have swordsman one and physical education together." I say.
"We have general one and physical education together." Emi says. Katsumi nods and smiles. She walks over to the cubicles and puts on her socks and shoes.
Tomoko's out of the bathroom, hair tied and uniform on. We're ready to go eat.
"8:19 AM. Let's take our school stuff with us than." Katsumi says. Breakfast is open from 6:40-8:40 AM. Class starts at 8:45 AM. I take what I got from Katsumi yesterday and they take their right amount and we're out of the dorm.
The eating area isn't too crowded now. I take pancakes, eggs, and milk. We all eat in peace at the table we ate yesterday. We marked it as our table.
"So Tomoko, what's your schedule? Have any classes with us?" I ask.
She looks the other way. "You'll all find out today, won't you?" I let her remark slide.
Right after I'm done eating, the first bell rings.
"We got to go, let's go!" I shout. My dorm mates eat fast in a minute and we're out of the eating area in another minute. "Where were the classrooms again?" I ask.
"This way." Katsumi says signaling us to follow. We go through the hall in between the MPR and the eating area. All the way straight, and we see a bunch of classrooms- equally separated. We go all the way at the end and turn left. A few steps and we're there. Room 3. "Okay, Emi and Tomoko, room 1, 2, or 4 are the other user classes. 4 is a little back and 1 and 2 ahead. Good luck~", Katsumi says. They say their goodbyes and we go in.
The classroom is white. White board and white walls. Our desks are brown though. Almost everyone is seated already, and even the teacher is here. The teacher is the same woman I saw at the tryouts. The one who was standing next to the sorcerer teacher and made the announcement. She's reading newspaper while biting into an apple.
Katsumi and I sit in the front row to the right- next to the exit. The final bell rings. The teacher drops her newspaper and finishes up her apple. She gets up.
"Morning. The name is Ume Tanaka. Just call me Tanaka. Welcome to your first day of Kumi Academy. I'm obviously your teacher, and I'm obviously a swordsman." Tanaka says. She has the same first name as my baby family member. She has this lazy vibe around her and she looks like she smokes- the cool way. "I'll follow you guys throughout your years here. That means, I'll be your sword teacher for the next five years. That's how the teacher system works. The teacher stays with you for all your years here. So last year, I was teaching 5th years that are gone now. Get it?"
Everyone nods his or her heads.
"Good. Now let me explain a few stuff. This year, you level ones are not going to get a real sword. You're getting a wooden one with white cloth-like stuff at the bottom." Tanaka says.
A few people give a long 'awww'.
"I know, it sucks, but when you get more into this school, you'll learn not to whine." she gives a small glare and continues, "You'll learn how to fight with the wooden sword." Tanaka says that as she wrote it on the white board. I nodded my head.
"Okay. In my class, I want notebooks. And I want you to write in pen. Of course you'll need white out then. Please have these supplies by the end of the week." Tanaka says. Uhhggg, I'll have to ask Katsumi and repay her then.
Tanaka continued, "This year you will learn about the swordsman. Before you do anything, you must learn. That's why I've decided you won't get your wooden swords until the end of February." A few groan. Tanaka glared a bit more.
"I'll let all the wimpy groans slide today. For homework today, I want you to write a paragraph in the first page of your notebook. Doesn't have to be in pen this time. The paragraph will be about a swordsman. What are the qualities of a swordsman? Do you have them? Make the paragraph from 5-10 sentence. If it's not completed, I'll make you write it in class. Now, for my classroom rules..." Tanaka went on and on until the bell rang.
Wow, an hour already? Everyone got up and a few say bye to Tanaka. She seems like a cool teacher. She also gave everyone a purple school bag, and I'm guessing those were passed out during every homeroom.
"Well, I'm off to room 5, and you're off to room 6. Let's walk there together then.", Katsumi says and I agreed. The halls are pretty crowded. We reach the room 5. I say my byes to Katsumi and I walk ahead a bit. I see room 6 and I go in.
The room is the same size as my previous class, but there are double the amounts of seats. It's like a mini auditorium. Every thing's connected and you go in between two long desks. Every desk has four seats, so every level of desks can have 8 people. The desks go higher and higher because of stairs. There are 7 levels of desks.
I see Tomoko's in my class; she's sitting and the highest desk. I go up there and sit next to her. She glares at me and I smile creepily. I recognize a few people who come in. I see a few boys who were in my previous class. I surprisingly see Daiki and smile. The bell rings, and everyone is seated already. I'm sitting next to strangers other than Tomoko. The teacher is finally in. It's a guy, and I've never seen him. He's wearing a lab coat though, which is weird.
"Good day. My name is Jun Kanezawa. This is general one room 6. There are two general classes, 50 in each so since there's 50 in here, it's okay." Kanezawa says. He counts fast. "You will all learn general math, grammar, history, and science. Level 1 is really easy, I expect everyone to do well." A few snicker. "We use pencils and erasers in this class. You'll need 4 folders and lots of line paper. Please have this at the end of the week." That's more borrowing. I really have to pay off soon.
"Now, for homework, I have very simple math problems. Four papers each of them with 100 questions. Each question only has numbers in the ones, so don't worry. My expectations for you guys are..." Kanezawa went on and on. He passed out the papers after he was done talking and then the bell rang. I got up and I heard Tomoko yawn. I'm kind of hungry. I see a few vending machines through the halls but you need points for that. Oh well, I'll just skip thoughts of hunger aside. I've done that tons of times with my family.
"Off to gym, Tomoko." I say smiling. She nods and we walk all the way left, even past my homeroom. We see a place that's titled boy's locker room and another place that's titles girl's locker room, which is a little smaller, but they're both pretty big. Try to guess which one we went in. When we're both in we see lockers all connected to the wall and a lot of benches in the middle. I see Katsumi and Emi gesturing for us to sit. We walk over and sit down when the bell rings. A teacher comes out of a mini room/office she has.
"Hello. I'm Miko Noto. Call me Noto." Noto says. "This year level ones will focus on basic sports. Now, come get your PE uniforms. Every uniform is black but has a similar style to your school uniforms. Tell me your size. Now, line up!" Noto took out a big box full of uniforms and set it on a table. Everyone got up and went into the long line. Well not exactly long, there are only 27 girls.
"I have no idea what my size is." I say to my dorm mates.
"Just say small. The PE uniform is adjustable anyways, and you look like a small." Katsumi responses. I nod my head and we all wait in line in silence. In no time, we get our uniforms and everyone is back sitting on the benches.
"Okay, now." Noto says as she took out a wand. She's a sorcerer then. She raised her wand and many of the gray lockers turned white. "The white lockers are taken. Pick any locker that is gray and remember you will have it for the rest of your time here. All you have to do to activate it is pulling your hand back and pushing your bracelet into the gap it has on the locker. It will open and close your locker after you activate it. Go find a locker now then!"
My dorm mates and I all found lockers fairly close to each other. It's better to have a safe distance when changing. I picked a locker that had the number 123 on it and it was in the middle row of lockers on the left wall. I put my PE clothes in the locker and we went back to the benches. On my way to the benches, the scarf girl and I crashed. We didn't fall, but her PE clothes fell. She was in front of a group of girls, one being Mana.
"I'm sorry," the girl- who had a blue uniform says looking down and picking up her clothes.
"It's my fault." I replied. Scarf girl had empty turquoise eyes with bright green hair. Her hair started straight, and it was curly at the bottom. So her mother is a royal guard? She's pretty different from Katsumi though.
A bunch of the girls behind her asked if she was okay- which she obviously was. Some gave me a couple glares and I just ignored the fact they were so obsessed with her. My dorm mates were ahead of me and they waited for me to come to them. A walked over and they didn't talk about what just happened like casual people. After a few minutes, everyone was back seated on the benches. Noto came out of her small PE office and started to speak.
"Now, for the locker rules..." and she went on and on as usual. After long talks about rules, the bell rang. "Have a healthy day~", Noto says smiling. Everyone got out talking.
"I think she was nice." Emi says.
"Seems like an easy grade, but hey, we just need to maintain a C or higher. In this school." I say.
"Come on, let's go to the eating area. It's lunch time." Katsumi says. We walked a long way, went up the stairs, and finally reached the place. We sat down and the lunch was amazing as usual. As I got my tray I bumped into Daiki's floating chair. We both almost spilled our food but caught it just in time.
Daiki smiled. "I'm so sorry." I say in a mocking tone. Our chairs started to move again. My dorm mates went to our marked table.
"So who was that guy?" Katsumi asked.
"Yeah, did you know him?" Emi asked. Tomoko's just sitting and eating.
"Yep, he's the cousin I told you about. The one that's in my so-called family." I say casually.
"Oh, cool. He looks nice~", Emi says. I blushed a bit.
"Okay, just keep talking about him right in front of me." I say sarcastically. Emi shrugs.
There's a few seconds of silence and we all hear a burst of laughter across the room. I look back, about 5 tables back. The table is crowded, but it's not scarf girl's table- it's a different one. Everyone is crowded around- surprisingly- the coffee guy I met during the try-outs. This time, the person in the center of attention is smiling- unlike sad scarf girl.
He had a green uniform. The coffee guy- Ken was smiling so gently- almost like a girl. He's not my type- except maybe the red hair and purple eyes. Other than that- he's off my list. Wait a minute; do I even have a list?
"Hello? You there Shizu?" Katsumi asks, breaking my daze.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. Who's the red haired guy over there?" I asked that even though I already knew his first name.
"That is the famous son of the principal, Ken Takeda. He's a level one like us." Katsumi says.
No way! He's the person I'm serving after school. At least he looks easy enough to work with. This will probably be no problem. I went back to the real world. My dorm mates talked about how our school was so far. The lunch bell rang after talking for so long. We all got up and went towards different ways for our enrichment class. The library was to the right of the Eating Area.
The library was elegant. The bookcases looked glossed and it wasn't two stories but it was wide. The bell rang and 20 people are in- it's twenty per class for enrichment right? I saw a couple of people whose faces I remembered but there was only one person I actually kind of knew. Ken Takeda. Of course it would be the gentlemen who studied in the library. A woman got up from a desk in the middle of the library and went over to us.
"Hello. Good afternoon. I am Keiko Hano. Call me Hano. I am not your teacher. Study Hall has no teacher. I am your supervisor and the school librarian. Here are the rules I play by. If I tell you 'strike' for any reason, it means you get a strike. If you get three by the end of the week, I will give you double your homework. If you don't bring it back the next day, I'll give you detention. Got it? Now, you can go wherever you want in the library. Handle the books with care. Dismissed." Hano says.
I went over to the far, far end and started doing my homework. If I have to work for Ken until possibly 6 PM, I better finish my homework every day here. I sat down at a normal table that can fit four people. I saw Ken sit down followed by 3 people. He still has friends even here. All he did was whisper and smile gently to them.
I sigh and take out my homework. I finished the paragraph for homeroom and it was filled with BS. The paragraph still did take long, it's not easy writing BS. I then quickly did my math homework. The bell rang right after I organized my bag and put my stuff back in. I looked at the big library clock. 2:25 PM. I quickly walked out of the library.
I see students coming out of their class. This is dangerous; I should put the mask on in the bathroom. I went to the restroom, making sure no one was in the whole bathroom and went into a stall. I didn't lock the stall but I leaned against the door. I swiftly took out the mask and put it on me. It felt a bit magical and in a second- I had a black uniform and my hair was tied in a ponytail and dark blue.
I then took out the teleport card. I tapped on it three times and I was suddenly right in front of a door. I snapped out of my gawking, and knocked on the door.
"The door's unlocked." Ken says. I put on an emotionless personally- that's what I decided to do first. I opened the door. Wow, this place is huge. I saw a huge couch and a coffee table 10 steps forward. And I saw Ken on the couch. Whoa. He was in casual clothes already. Ken was lying on the couch like a sloth. He looks a bit out of character. He made a side glance at me and smiled gently.
"So you're my server?" he says smiling.
"Yes, I am." I replied bluntly.
"And so, I have kind of complete control over you?" he asked still smiling gently. I nodded my head kind of confused. "Ehh, that's good then." Ken's voice turned into a mocking voice and his smile turned into a demon's. Okay, I'm confused now and I'm already next to the coffee table.
"I'm Ken Takeda, and I'm the principal's son. Please don't gawk over my awesome self. I love coffee and yo-yos. How bout you? Hmmm, nothing about your body I can make fun of." he says. Something inside me almost burst, but I'll show him. I'll show those arrogant two-faced people like him! I didn't smile or show any emotion at all.
"I am not permitted to say anything Takeda. I am just here to serve." I say.
"Okay, I'll call you Mask Maid. Cool name right? Wait, I don't need to ask." he says. He laughed like an evil loser. He stopped laughing. "By the way, don't tell anyone about my awesome personality. It's between you and me~" I was so, extremely, close to snickering. He then got a real threatening face. "You wouldn't want to lose your job would you? Street mutts are always hungry for money. You see, I hate any pieces of shit that are on the street."
I stopped my fists from tightening, but I gritted my teeth. I'm going to have absolutely no emotions towards this son of a-. I stopped myself.
"I know you're trying to bottle it up Mask Maid. But there's one thing I'm certain to do to you." Ken gave the most evil smile; this gave me small goose bumps. "I'm going to make you crack."
Okay, how was that? If you have something to say, review. If you have nothing to say, I really don't care. If you have something to do right now, go do it. If you have nothing to do right now, I suggest you watch the anime K-ON, that anime will make you smile.