Hanna Nole sat on the porch of the big japanese style home that also served as a martial arts dojo; that she had been brought to by her schoolmate, Harou Niijima just a while ago and was trying to relax. Truly she was. However it was becoming more and more difficult for her to do so the more she thought about the reason Niijima had asked her to accompany him to the house.

An arranged marriage... Oh dear god- Why her? Was she such an embarrassment to her family due to her past that they really felt they needed to foist her off on some poor unsuspecting man? She didn't understand...

Now don't get her wrong, she loved her family. And she would do anything for most of them. Most, being the operative word since there was a good portion of her family that would like nothing more than for her to drop dead. And those particular people rarely bothered to hide this fact from her. After all why hide the obvious from her?

Okay so her past was a little more colorful than she would have liked. But it wasn't her fault that she had been kidnapped at thirteen, hooked on drugs, gone through rehab. And then several months later been raped, gotten pregnant, miscarried and become a cutter who had almost killed herself before realizing that she wasn't so weak that she needed to continue self destructing.

It had taken her time. More than she would have liked. And she had hurt her mom and dad more than she should have ever hurt them in one lifetime.

She knew that there had been no excuse for her behavior...

But she had been trying her hardest to make up for all of that. But still...this- this situation she suddenly found herself in had her completely stumped. Really, how was she supposed to react to this? Did her parents expect her to be happy? Sure they only wanted what was best for her and for her to be happy but- What if she hated the guy she wound up with? Or worse, what if he wasn't a very likable person and tended to beat her or some shit?

Was she just supposed to smile and take it? The mere thought of a virtual stranger, someone that she would have to live with for the rest of her life putting his hands on her in such a way made her gut twist painfully, making it difficult to breathe.

She was so engrossed with her own thoughts that she didn't sense (nor see nor hear) the footsteps of her other classmate, Miu Furinji as she came walking around the nearest corner with a tray of food and paused in mid step when she noted Hanna sitting on her porch staring blankly ahead. What the- Miu wondered as she quickly looked around wondering who had let the girl in.

Especially since she knew that Kenichi wasn't receiving visitors right now and Kensei and Akisame were both busy. Shigure had left with Sakaki to gather info on the movements of Yami via an old friend that he used to work with. And Apachai and her grandfather were both doing the same thing...just at the Shumpaku Alliance headquarters.

And they'd been gone for a while soooo... What was Hanna doing paying her home a visit at such a time? Don't get her wrong, Miu liked having company to talk too and though she didn't know the girl well due to the fact that she was about to graduate- she had however spoken with her a time or two and genuinely liked her. Much like Kenichi liked her because she had joined the gardening club at the beginning of the year last year. But that wasn't the only reason Kenichi and Miu liked the girl.

The real reason stemmed from when Kenichi had first started training at Ryozanpaku and was being hassled by every bully and thug in Ragnarok. It had only become public knowledge to them recently thanks to Niijima letting it slip- but he had noticed a time or two when Kenichi was about to get pounced on; Hanna had stepped in and beat the crap out of the ones after him. Shifting their attention temporarily from him to herself so that he had more time to train and become stronger.

Still... That didn't explain what she was doing here.

"Uh... H-Hanna?" Miu finally managed to say, drawing the girl's attention to her. "Um, I don't mean to disturb you or anything, but what are you doing here? Did you hear about what happened and come to visit Kenichi?" Miu asked knowing that with Niijima and the rest of the blabber mouths in the Shimpaku- that that was perhaps the most likely.

"Miu! I'm freaking out," Hanna said as Miu thought, Well that's kind of obvious, as she listened to the normally calm and easy going girl prattle on. "Niijima told me to come here and meet someone called Akisame because of the whole my-parents-want-me-to-have-an-arranged-marriage thing! And I'm so completely freaking out that I'm on the verge of a total meltdown!" The girl said, her voice adopting the southern accent that was often gone from her voice unless she was well and truly upset.

"Huh?" Miu said stupidly as she inched forward a little bit and shifted her hold on the tray of food that she'd been taking to Kenichi so that she was holding it balanced on the tips of her fingers and settled her free hand on Hanna's shoulder as she asked in a puzzled tone, "You said Akisame right? As in Akisame Koetsuji?" Miu asked as Hanna blinked up at her.

Her wide unusual colored neon blue/mint green eyes staring at Miu almost pleadingly from under wisps of long silvery blond hair. Wow, Miu thought to herself as she straightened her spine a bit. The poor girl really was freaking out. "Tell you what, I'm going to go feed Kenichi and while I'm doing that you just sit tight here and when I get back in ten minutes we'll go see Akisame. Okay." Miu said hoping to put the girl more at ease, but based on her current reaction she wasn't sure meeting a potential husband candidate would calm her right now since her nerves were totally fried.

Still, Hanna surprised her by nodding her head and resuming her former seat on the porch with her knees drawn up to her chest.