DDS 101

Sorry for the long wait. My PC crashed and had to restart all over again. Yeah...it's been over several weeks since I last updated. And its been long overdue, but now that I managed to put together the info on this chapter...

And lastly, I was concentrated on my other fic, Round ZERO, and after checking my USB flash disk, I realized that I nearly forgotten about it...so wothout further ado...its time to get a move on.

So without further ado, here it is, for the first time...Class R!

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Class R

Kyo Renjou

He is the youngest child of Satoru and Mizue Renjou, and the younger twin brother of Kyuu. He was born two minutes after Kyuu is delivered. They are identical twins and both share the same similar appearance and both were born in Tokyo, Japan.

When Mizue was five months pregnant, her doctor informed them that Mizue will give birth to twin in a few months. This made the couple very happy, but also concerned, given Saturou's job as a detective. Hence, Saturou had to keep his marriage and family a secret, except for his partner, Morihiko Dan.

When Mizue gave birth, resulting in twin boys, Saturou struggled to give time to his family and doing his job. Despite Saturou's urging, Mizue insisted that she'll take care of her children without a need of a nursemaid, instead relying on her relatives to help her look after her sons. Both Saturou and Mizue named them Kyuu and Kyo. Kyuu was the eldest of the twins, since he came out first, and Kyo followed two minutes later.

However, one of Saturou's enemies learned of this, and managed to sneak himself and Kyo out of the hospital's nursery, and stuffed him into his duffel bag. The kidnapper intended to use Kyo as a bait in luring Saturou into a trap which he and his cohorts have prepared. However, a passing Kyoji Murakami, then a high-ranking employee at the SMART Brain Corporation, heard the baby's cries. As the kidnappers were about to tape Kyo's mouth, Murakami appeared and attacked them single-handedly. He then saw the infant's name tag on his wrist and learned who the baby's parents were, but decided to keep him for himself, intending to make him his right-hand man. Murakami decided to use Kyo's name, but not his surname, as to prevent him from finding out in case he questions him about his parentage in the future.

Saturou and his partner, Morihiko Dan found the bodies of Kyo's kidnappers, but since they were all dead, they were facing a blank wall in tracking Kyo down. Over the years they did all they could to find him, but to no avail. Although heartbroken, Mizue was still strong since Kyuu was safe. Saturou constantly passes by the Renjou house in secret to make sure that his family is safe.

Six years later, Kyuu, now aged six-year old, was kidnapped by a gang of kidnappers in hopes of getting money, but Saturou single-handedly defeated them, and decided to keep his status as a father a secret, and instead acted as his mentor. Kyo, on the other hand, was never sent to any school. Instead he was educated in an elementary level, and was teached him various combat skills, transporting jobs, gathering information, and other covert operations.

But all the while, he was disciplined rather coldly, as he was given steady beatings as punishments for being tardy, questioning orders and such. Kyo then learned how to cuss, say bad words, and became rather cold. Surprisingly, he did not develop any evil tendencies, as he does care for other persons, elderly or child. Kyo never had a home, and instead he slept at a room within SMART Brain building.

As he grew up, he added some color to his hair, as he dyed his front hair with color yellow. He also has a several pairs of clothing, such as black jeans, black rubber shoes, black sleeveless shirt (with a white cross embelmed in the center), and a white jacket as well as two leather gloves. These clothing styles were inspired from a video game character, Kyo Kusanagi from the hit video game The King of Fighters 1999. Kyo always wear his preferred style of clothing everyday.

Murakami was pleased when he learned that Saturou was killed while defeating Pluto. He now feels that there's no need for Kyo to know about his true parentage. He continues to educate Kyo in what SMART Brain has thought him.

Over the years, as Kyo continues to grew up, he shockingly discovers what he learned from Murakami and SMART Brain: several top officials of that corporations were Orphenochs, who were actually evolved humans who possesses several superhuman abilities. Nevertheless he kept mum on this fact, since Murakami brought him up from infancy. He was unaware that the president of SMART Brain and Murakami himself were Orphenochs, since he hasn't seen them change.

Kyo was outside the lab when scientists working for SMART Brain used technological means to revive the deceased members of Pluto, including King Hades and Anubis, while injured members, such as Charon and Kelberos were nursed back to health. There he got to know some members of that organization. He was among the people to enter the "Star Gate", an invention that let's them go to an unknown destination during the final moments of Koudoutai: Fight For The Future, in which Shido Suzaku used his powers to revert the stream of time, reseting the events just months before the Zodiac organization came to life. SMART Brain and Pluto returned to Tokyo to rebuild their corporation, believing that everyone has no memory what happened, unaware that Hikari Yagami and Megumi Minami were the only DDS students to retain the memories of the Zodiac wars.

When SMART Brain and Pluto sent the Orphenochs to wreck havoc in Japan, Kyo was dispatched to overlook the operations, accidentally seeing Kyuu for the first time. This caused Kyo to be curious about why he has a look-alike. Soon he was given a picture of the top three sections of DDS, for Murakami has plans of having him take out one of the students. In the course of the operations, Kyo was seen by DDS student Daisuke Motomiya and his partner Digimon V-Mon. The two told Kyuu about this, causing Kyuu to wonder if he has a younger brother or something when described about Kyo's appearance and style of clothing.

Soon Kyo felt like rebelling, because he was ordered to make sure that the DDS students he sees must be killed, and he was unwilling to kill one of them without provocation. He also didn't get along with either the Lucky Clover or the Pluto members, as he got into a physical confrontation with Kaori.

Kyo encountered one of the DDS students in Tokyo, Yukihira Sakurako of Class A. He was instantly overwhelmed by her beauty and charms, and he had to get away before he compromises himself. For Kyo, this was the first time that he experienced "love at first sight", and he had to force himself to repress those feelings.

Kyo finally gathered the courage to ask Murakami when he was ordered to find Kyuu and take him out, and he was given a stern warning if he didn't carry out his order. It was during this time that Mask Riders Faiz and Kaixa were dealing with Lucky Clover member, Kitazaki, who donned the Delta Gear, becoming Mask Rider Delta, that Kyo challenged Kyuu in a duel. As the fight escalated, Kyuu was distracted when seeing Megumi held hostage by Kitazaki, and attempts to save her, only to be shot by Kitazaki on both sides of his ribs, seriously injuring him.

Kyo was livid, as his chances of finishing his assignment was thrown away, and was forced to fled. Kitazaki also fled, leaving the DDS students behind, and Kyuu was sent to a hospital to treat his wounds. Murakami, under Anubis' suggestion, decided to let Kyo failure be excused, since he still have plans for him. Kyo had to be sidelined for now, and was given several odd jobs to pass up the time.

Several weeks later, Kyo happen to pass by the SMART Brain lab, and saw Ryu being placed on a huge "aquarium". Since it has nothing to do with him, he left, and went to another lab, and gave a few important documents to a scientist who was almost finishing two new "belts", which were the Gamma and Beta Gears. Kyo happened to see them, and asked the scientist if the belts were completed. When told that it doesn't have any programming that let only Orphenochs use them, Kyo realized that this is his chance to defeat Kyuu, and took the two belts with him and challenge him, after learning that Kyuu has sufficiently recovered. Anubis and Murakami learned of this, and Anubis told Murakami to let Kyo go, seeing that their fight would be "entertaining".

Kyo challenged Kyuu to a duel under a bridge in Kyushu, and soon the two donned the belts and fought as Mask Rider Gamma (Kyo) and Mask Rider Beta (Kyuu). The two were not aware that Mrs. Renjou, Megumi and Yukihira were there, watching the fight. The battle was interrupted when Mrs. Renjou stopped the fight, revealing to Kyo that Kyuu was his brother, and that she was his mother. At that moment, Kitazaki appeared, along with an awakened Ryu, who became a created Orphenoch, and brawl broke off, which resulted in the destruction of the Kyushu Bridge.

Kyo later confronted Murakami in Odaiba about this, and Murakami cruelly told Kyo everything. It was then that Murakami revealed his form, which is that of the Rose Orphenoch. Kyo became Gamma, and the two fought to a standstill, but Ryu appeared, and the two severely injured Kyo, but was rescued by Sora Takenouchi and her father, and a car chase ensued, but Mask Rider Kaixa and Kyuu chased Ryu away.

Kyo was nursed back to health, and was taken to the Renjou residence, and was told about his true parentage. Kyuu suffered injuries after facing Ryu again, and Kyo decided to have megumi custody of the Beta Gear, and is presently training her to fight and use the Beta Belt until Kyuu is 100 percent healed.

Over the months he became an important part in DDS' fight with Pluto and SMART Brain. During that time, he seemingly took over Kyuu's leadership when the latter had to quit DDS to find a job after learning that he is the father of Megumi's child.

Soon he seemingly got along well with Yukihira, and and went to great lengths to protect her. He soon got into a life-threatening situation several months later after Kyuu temporarily went insane following Megumi's miscarraige due to Ryu (who was brainwahsed at that time), but eventually defeated him.

At the end of Rise Of The Orphenochs up to Paradise Lost fanfics, Kyo played a key role in stopping the Orphenochs, and was shocked to learn that Kyuu was actually a Natural Orphenoch, whose powers were derived from a biblical angel. In the ned Pluto and SMART Brain were defeated, and the Renjou family resumed their normal lives.

In Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols, Kyuu suggested that Kyo should attend high school, and came up with the idea of his twin brother enetring DDS. The younger Renjou reluctantly agreed since entering DDS would be a big step in gauging his mental and academic skills.

At the entrance exams, he met up with three teenagers who were also taking part of the exams. They were Shugo Kunisaki, Anita King and Junior Makuhari. They deiced to help each other out to reach the final goal, and eventually they passed the tests.

The next day they were sorted into Class R, and while the rest were happy, Kyo was unsure, since he didn't possess any qualities of a detective, but Yukihira gave him assurance as well as moral support.

The fact that Kyo is Kyuu's younger twin brother has reached the whole student body of DDs, and earn several fangirls, as well as earning the ire, as they saw him and Yukihira togetrher, assuming that they were a couple. Of course both demied it, but it didn't simmer down, as fanboys who have crushes on the female Class A student were occasionalyy confronting Kyo.

Kyo became the first Class R student to become a casualty as he accidentally discovered that a missing person that Class Q was tasked to investigate was behins several murders. Before passing out due to injuries, he gave his elder twin brother, Kyuu, a clue to help them in cracking the case. He suffered from upper body injuries, but eventually recovered. He is now currently teaming up with several DDS students in tracking down the masterminds who were using the F-4 in the murders.

Anita King

A 13 year old girl, and is one of the characters in the R.O.D series of manga and anime created by Hideyuki Kurata. She is a papermaster and one of the three "Paper Sisters which make the central trio of the Read or Dream series of comics, and also one of the main characters of the TV series, R.O.D the TV.

Anita is the youngest of the Paper Sisters, a spitfire who specializes in using her paper offensively (by throwing index cards like shuriken), but also uses her physical agility as a fighter. She loves frogs, yet ironically dislikes books. At the time of R.O.D the TV, Anita is 13 years old.

As well as being the youngest sister, Anita is also the shortest, standing at 141 cm (4' 7") tall. She also has pink hair, although British Library records indicate that Anita is a redhead. Anita is extremely quick and agile, which not only makes her extremely dangerous as a fighter but also ingratiates her into her seventh grade class.

She is well liked in her class, and especially admired by classmate named Hisami Hishaishi, nicknamed Hisa by Anita. The relationship between the two is compared by Hisa to the extremely close friendship found between two of the characters in Anne of Green Gables.

Although she sometimes acts bratty and self-important, she deeply loves her sisters. It was revealed by Mr. Joker that Anita was originally a genetic test subject of the British Library Special Operations Division to be their artificially created Papermaster but ended up as a failure. She was then kidnapped by a Dokusensha undercover agent and was brought to Hong Kong.

Her preferred paper manipulation is a throwing blade. In battle, she is responsible for offense. She prefers wielding small blades and engaging in close combat with the enemy. Other tactics include spreading paper over the floor to 'sense' invisible enemies and using telekinesis to 'throw' blades of paper. Unfortunately, her focus on offense usually leaves her wide open for a counterattack, and Anita relies on a partner to cover her back.

Anita's defensive abilities are much weaker. She requires large amounts of paper (a thick book) to block projectiles such as bullets and drills, a task that most Paper Masters only require a few or a single sheet to accomplish. She has basic paper 'support' abilities, such as summoning paper (telekinesis) and using it to create a disguise. Anita wears two holsters on her legs, where she can draw sheets of paper, both individually and 'chained'. Unlike most Paper Masters, Anita's paper abilities serve to enhance her physical ones, instead of solely relying on paper to fight.

Anita was created by the British Library as an experiment - to see if a Paper Master who didn't love books could exist. The result was Anita, who was deemed a failure despite her successful inheritance of the Paper Master genes. Her paper powers never manifested until Yomiko's terrorist attack on the British Library, but in the confusion she was kidnapped by Dokusensha.

Dokusensha was unable to use Anita as a lone agent because of her phobia to books, so they created other Paper Masters using the British Library's data. Unfortunately, these users were 'psychologically defective', so to train them Dokusensha rewrote their memories and staged meetings between them to make them live in 'families'.

Anita, Maggie and Michelle met in a church when Anita was ten years old, on Christmas Eve: Maggie and Michelle were sent by Dokusensha to investigate a cache of books and Anita was hiding there after running away from her foster family. On Christmas Day the two older girls return with presents for Anita - each of them with a book titled "Story of a Giraffe with a Shrunken Neck". From then on they lived as the Paper Sisters, running the Three Sisters Detective Agency to support themselves.

It is several years after this incident when they meet, Nenene Sumiregawa meets them and R.O.D the TV begins.

After the fall of the British Library, Anita and her "sisters" played a key role in the multi-chaptered crossover fic, "The Fetus Of God". After that they made guest appearances in Koudoutai and Rise Of The Orphenochs.

Anita and junior then made the transition by enrolling in DDS, and she and Junior were sorted to Class R, and up to this time they teamed up with several DDS students in investigating the mystery behind the F-4's disappearance (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).

Junior Makuhari

A mysterious, effeminate boy with the power of intangibility (the same power possessed by Nancy) who befriends the Paper Sisters. Later in the series, he is revealed to be a tool in Joker's scheme – and that he is the child of Nancy and the I-Jin Ikkyū Sōjun. Joker considers him "The Perfect I-Jin"; hence Joker is keen to use him as an agent and later as a medium for resurrecting The Gentleman. Extremely reserved and emotionally distant, he is drawn to people who show him kindness, especially Anita and Michelle. While he is an efficient agent, he lacks the ruthlessness of his father.

After the fall of the British Library, he and his mom try to live normal lives as well as they attempt to bond with one another after years of separation. Junior partially overcome his shyness, but remained a bit distant.

He went to enroll at DDS at the suggestion of Yomiko when she was offered a post as a teacher. Junior and Anita pased the entrnce exams and are sorted at Class R. Currently they are embroiled in a battle against the mysterious Clow Beasts (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).

Shugo Kunisaki

He is a fictional character from the .hack franchise that encompasses several video games, anime and manga. Shugo is the main character of the manga and anime series .hack/Legend of the Twilight. He uses a modified copy of Kite's character model, from the .hack/Games.

In the real world, Shugo is a laid back, unmotivated fourteen-year-old boy who believes that he has outgrown video games. However, he decides to try the popular online game The World when his sister Rena wins the special .hackers character avatars from an event and drags him in to play with her.

In The World, Shugo gains control of a modified copy of Kite's avatar, who is a Twin Blade character class. Upon entering the game, he quickly learns how popular and sought-out his avatar truly is. Feeling a bit more positive about the situation, he becomes less reluctant about playing and heads off into a field with Rena, who plays a modified version of BlackRose's avatar.

In Bursting Passed-over Aqua Field, feeling confident, he enters a battle, only to quickly get defeated by a level-one Monster, even forgetting to use his weapons. Here, we catch a glimpse as to why he dislikes video games. Rena chastises him for not making proper preparations, which quickly deflates his confidence. Another part of his character is revealed at this point, as Rena manipulates him by telling him that she had really wanted to play with him; Shugo is incapable of turning people down (much like the original Kite), especially his sister.

At this point, the two are attacked by a high-level Monster (a level 40 Devil Golem) and Shugo, trying to protect Rena, is instantly defeated. However, instead of a Game Over screen, he meets Aura, who revives him and gives him the Twilight Bracelet (a modified version of Kite's original Bracelet, which is incapable of inducing comas, does not drain Items or Virus Cores, and does not require Monsters to be Protect Broken), allowing him to Data Drain the Monster. It is also at this point that he meets the Blademaster Balmung (who is a system administrator at this point), but does not know who he is, and a Wavemaster Mireille, who becomes an active member of Shugo's party.

Throughout his adventures in The World, he also meets and befriends Ouka, a Werewolf class character as a result of his love for animals (Werewolf-class allows one to transform in a wolf; Ouka first meets Shugo in this form), and Hotaru, a Wavemaster and another character he meets as a result of his love for animals (Hotaru finds a sick Puchiguso and Shugo helps her find a cure for it). He also meets with Komiyan III, who is quickly revealed to be Komiyama, a student in Shugo and Rena's class.

In volume 2, he meets a Vagrant AI known as Zefie, a fully sentient NPC and daughter of Aura who is capable of manipulating The World in any way she sees fit. She is immediately attracted to Shugo's Bracelet and as a result, becomes hopelessly attached to him, who treats her as another sister. Because of Shugo's inability to ignore people who need help, he takes it upon himself to help Zefie find Aura, learning bits and pieces about what happened four years ago, during the Twilight Incident, along the way. This, coupled with some prior, rather reckless use of the Bracelet, causes CC Corporation administrators (specifically a Long Arm known as Kamui) to capture him and his party and put them in a jail cell (where user data is deleted when one logs out). With the help of Zefie and her powers, however, Shugo, Rena, and Zefie (the other were released prior) escape in the next volume.

After escaping from prison and meeting Komiyama, the whole party meet each other once more in the cathedral of Naval of Lake (Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground). Here, they meet Kazu, who was once Shugo and Rena's neighbour four years ago (as well as younger brother to the original .hacker BlackRose), and learn that Mireille is also the daughter of one of the original .hackers, Mistral. Kazu gives Shugo the Helba Key, a unique hack item that allows them access to Net Slums. They are, however, found out once more by CC Corporation administrators once more, led by Kamui. Shugo, Rena, Hotaru, Mireille, and Zefie all manage to escape while Kazu and Ouka hold the admins off.

After a final confrontation with Kamui, the five of them reach Net Slum, where they meet various damaged AIs (one of whom is a fragment of Lycoris, the original prototype of Aura from .hack/AI buster), and Balmung of the Azure Sky who reveals himself as one of the original and key members of the .hackers, led by Kite. Balmung tests Shugo to see if he is worthy of seeing Aura (Shugo was to inflict damage on him at least just once), and Shugo utilizes every bit of play knowledge he had ever acquired while playing The World. Despite the immense gap in levels, Shugo manages to gain a hit (a single point of damage) on Balmung, his respect, and Virus Cores allowing him access to Aura's domain.

Because the Virus Cores run on data from prior versions of The World (where only three Player Characters can be in a party at any one time), Hotaru and Mireille stay behind, while Shugo, Rena, and Zefie head off to meet Aura. It is there that Shugo learns of the reason why he and Rena have the .hackers avatars: rather than CC Corporation, it was Aura who held the Limited .hackers Character Event, which she manipulated so that Rena, who was already an active player of The World at that time, would win. This is all due to an incident four years ago, when Shugo, out of curiosity, played The World on Kazu's (when they were still neighbours) computer, and met Aura for the first time. Not knowing who or what Aura really was, he invited her to play with him, not knowing anything about the game. He told her about Rena and how he wanted to be a hero. Shugo, being one of the first true friends Aura has ever had, makes a rather large impression on her. He, on the other hand, was chastised by his peers because of his childish love of games and fantasy of becoming a hero. This in turn invoked him to turn away from such things, and made him a rather unmotivated individual. But, four years later, after playing the game for four months, experiencing so many new and different things, gaining so many new friends, as well as his newfound motivation, he realizes his love for The World and approaches Aura, to tell her of all he has done and witnessed since coming into her world.

He went to enroll at DDS after feeling that he's through with the games, and wondered if he can find some challenges there. And it was there that he meet up with three fellow teenagers, and much later they all passed and are sorted to Class R.

During the first and second week, Kite and fellow Class R classmate Kyo Renjou became quite good friends, and there Kyo invited him to try out some part-time jobs while not doing anything.

However, In the course of the event, Kite was assaulted by a mysterious figure and left him for dead. While unconscious, a drifter stole his clothes and laptop and ran off, but was attacked by a Clow Beast (monstrous beings made from Clow Cards) and Kyo mistook the drifter for Kite, as the drifter's head was beheaded. In actuality, Kite was thrown off the bridge after the assault, but landed over a broken branch that cushioned his fall, and the drifter there saw it and took his clothes and things.

He spent several weeks ina coma and woke up, much to his surprise that he was mistook for a dead person. He got together with Class R again and they joined the rest of the DDS students in investigating this strange situation that has plagued the city.

Currently they are embroiled in a battle against the mysterious Clow Beasts (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).