Background information on why Mamori is in Uke School. We'll get to Hiruma later on. Very short. Remember, Uke School is the setting- not the plot. SORRY! ^A^;;; (remember: "it's not what you think"HAHAsofunnyshot)

Once upon a time, Anezaki Mamori had been married.

She had a lovely daughter and a wonderful husband whom she loved very much. She adored her little daughter with her twin pigtails, a shade darker than hers, and big dark eyes, like her father's.

One day, the father decided to take his daughter to breakfast at the World Trade Center. So they planned the date and the father even asked for the day off of work, just for his daughter.

When the time finally came, sometime later, they woke up extra early and put on nice clothes. His little daughter laughed the whole way on the bus to the WTC and joked with her daddy about him needing to buy a wig soon. And he joked back saying that he probably would.

"They look like giant bean stalks, Daddy!" she giggled out once she caught a glimpse of them.

"They sure do, sweetie," he answered back.

They took the stairs all the way up to the restaurant they were going to have brunch in, just for the fun of it since they had plenty of time to spare before the reservation they had planned was voided. The little girl ended up being piggy-backed for most of the climb by her father, but the dad didn't complain. He just laughed and huffed and continued going up, up, up…

A breathless moment later, it seemed, they were having orange juice and chocolate chip pancakes that "even Momma couldn't beat" and waiting for the line at the buffet table to get smaller so that they could go get more food.

Another breathless moment later, right as they were sharing apple pie, a plane hit. Then another. But they didn't know about the second one. They were already going up, up, up…

And a part of Mamori went with them.

Once upon a time, Mamori had a family, but then a horrible thing happened, and her family was taken away.

She decided to change her name back, but stayed in the same apartment she had lived in.

And when a job was offered as a principal for a school, far, far away, she took it with greedy fingers and hopeful dreams, packed up and left.

She was doing remarkably well. She ate regularly now, didn't have as many nightmares, and now she could think of her lovely little daughter with her dimples and chubby hands, and of her husband with his determination that she was sure he had used to try and save their daughter.

And then Sena stepped in. With his dark hair, darker than her daughter's but with the same shine, and those big eyes, lighter than her daughter's but with the same life. And, before all that, she had seen his grades, seen as they spiked up considerably in order, she assumed, to get into Uke School.

He's missing the spunk, she mused idly, and he's very docile. Like a little lamb.

He had the same naivety and ignorance her daughter used to have, that was certain.

And suddenly, when Mamori came home, she couldn't keep it together, and she almost abandoned the life she had created again. She almost did.

But, the temptation of being around the boy that reminded her so much of her daughter, to see him- her- smiling, to hear him- her- laughing… kept her.

And, of course, she would have to protect poor Sena-chan from all those big bad wolves.


I wrote this very simply, and I mean NO OFFENSE to anybody who might find this offensive. A lot of people are sensitive to September 11 material and I did not mean to be disrespectful. Also, apparently, this is set somewhere in America :"D