Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage Yeah right

Chapter two

Damien's First day at Seigaku Academy

The Encounter with Tamoko

"Damien its time to get you and your father to the academy." Her mother said as she looked up from setting up the family computer system.

"I'll be back later honey. Oh and those rooms that are locked leave them be. They belong to the leaders of the dorms. They are also some of the top students at the academy." He said and got his keys and bag. "Alright Damien lets go. I'll come back to pick you up later." He siad placing a kiss on his wifes head.

When they walked onto the school grounds some students had been studying but stood up and saluted her father the commandant. All of the suddent one of the teenagers got out of formation and went in front of her,

"Well if it isn't baby girl." The student said and Damien bowed at the girl. "Doshte? What's with the formalities?" The girl said and the commandant looked at her.

"Well if it isn't your older sister." He said and Damien nodded then looked at him. "How have you been Cadet Lieutenant Ayquan?"

"Good sir. And it's good to see that you've been taking good care of my sister." Ayquan said and then looked back at Damien.

"Nya look out!" A voice shouted and they all turned and saw some guys running their way after a dog. The dog plowed Damien over and layed down on her. She didn't move an inch while her dad looked down at her with a smile on his face.

"Looks like you made a friend already." He said and then she pushed the dog off of her.

"Eiji what did I tell you about letting that dog run around loose." Another boy said as the guys halted in front of her.

"Oishi I can't help it he doesn't like the leash."

"Eiji if that dog tries to hurt Karupin again I'm going to skin him alive." Ryoma shouted and the dog hid behind Damien.

"What did I tell you both about your pets. Get them back to the dorm and leave them there." A voice said and they all turned to see a guy walking their way with another boy who had a smile on his face.

"Kikumaru Echizen go and do it now." The other boy who was smiling said.

"Hai." The two said and Eiji looked at the dog. "Come on Chocolat." He said but the dog didn't move. Damien looked down at the dog and jestured with a flick of her fingers that he does as he was told. The dog got up and walked to where Eiji was going to take him.

"Gomen Commandant. I would have been out here sooner if the practice hadn't taken that long." The guy with the one smiling said and her father looked at him.

"Not a problem Cadet Major Kunimitsu. This is Damien she will be placed in the dorm you and the others are in." he said and Oishi looked at her.

"I'm Cadet Captain Oishi. It's nice to meet you Cadet Damien." Oishi said and she shook his hand.

"Well I'll leave you in Oishi's hands." Her father said and walked off.

"Nya!" Ayquan said and jumped onto her sisters' back. "Oh it's been so long." She said but Damien didn't say a word. "Ne what's with not talking? What did they do to you?" She said and knelt in front of her sister.

"Ayquan would you please get up and stop hovering over me." Damien said and then rubbed her arm.

"Oh is my baby sister shy?" Ayquan said and smiled.

"No Ayquan. I'm not shy. I just don't talk when I don't need to. Now will you please get up and stop touching me." She said and then looked over to the guy who was supposed to show her the ropes. "Captain Oishi would you please show me were my room is so that I can put some things away and get changed as well." She said and he nodded.

"This way Cadet Damien." Oishi said and then looked at Tezuka. "Ne Tezuka don't you and Fuji have that meeting to get to. It's going to start in five minutes." He said and the two left as well. "Alright Damien this is the Regulars Dormatory. You are on the same floor as Echizen Momoshiro Kaidoh Inui Fuji, Tezuka, Eiji and me. Most of the time you won't see us since we'll be running around the school making sure the other dorms are running smoothly. On the bottom floor is the boys and girls dorm for some of the other cadets. North is girls and south is guys." He said and the noticed that her room door was open. "Hold on a minute." He said and went to check it out. "Chocolat what are you doing in here?" He said and she went to see what was going on. There on the floor in the room was Chocolat with Karupin sleeping on his back.

"It looks like those two get along fine." She said and he picked up the cat.

"They do but some times when they are just playing Echizen thinks that Chocolat is trying to kill Karupin." He said and then indicated the closet. "Sorry about this. That door is usually closed since this is your room." He said and she opened the closet to find her uniform. "Get changed then I'll take you to your class and find out who has some classes with you so that you can get around without having one of us regulars around." He said and took the pets away.

She was changed and went to his room and knocked on the door. He looked up from the work he was doing and could only stair at her. "Captain Oishi are you ready?" She asked and he got up.

"Alright lets go." He said and they left his room. As they went down to the main floor some female cadets glared at her. She just ignored them as he walked her over to the school. "So you're are the same age as Echizen so we'll find him and he can show you to your classes." He said and then spotted the person he was talking about. "Echizen." He said and the boy stopped in at hall.

"Is there anything you wanted Captain Oishi?"

"Echizen this is Cadet Damien she's in your year so you're classes are the same. I would be helpful if you would show her around." Oishi said and Echizen looked around.

"Ne Sakuno, Tamoko." Echizen said and two girls came up to him.

"Yes Echizen?" A girl with braids said and he smiled at her.

"This is Cadet Damien she's in our year so can you show her around?" He asked them and Oishi rolled his eyes.

"Hi I'm Tamoko." The girl said and then glared at the Damien. "And you better keep your hands off of Echizen." She said and Damien looked at Oishi.

"He's got a fan club and she's the president of it so she doesn't like girls being all friendly with him except for Sakuno since Sakuno is his girlfriend." Oishi explaned then Sakuno looked at Damien. She then hid behind Echizen.

"Sakuno come on there isn't anything wrong with her. She just transferred. I'm to busy to show her around so I'm asking if you would do it for me." He said and then she looked at Damien again.

"What's wrong with her. All the people that are transferred here this much into the year are usually trouble makers so what's her deal?" Tamoko said and Oishi shook his head.

"Cadet Tamoko if you really don't have anything appropriate to say then don't say anthing at all. Understood." Oishi said and the girl nodded.

"Hi I'm Ryuzaki Sakuno." The quiet girl said and then smiled at Damien.

"Damien please ask Sakuno any questions that you have. I have to run." Oishi said when he spotted Eiji.

"Ne I have to go as well. Sakuno take care of the Commandant's daughter." Echizen said, after placing a kiss on her cheak then ran off.

"You're the Commandant's daughter?" Tamoko said and Sakuno's smile got bigger.

"No wonder the guys are all friendly with you." Sakuno said and took Damien by the arm and pulled her down the hall. "Any way this is our first class." She said as they entered a room where other students were seated and a teacher was at the desk. "Not to worry class hasn't started yet so you can talk to the teacher and intoduce yourself to him." She said and then ran off to her seat.

Damien went up to the teacher's desk and came face to face with some one she ran into that moring. "Cadet Damien." The teacher said and she nodded. "Here take a seat right there and fill this out the best you can." The teacher said and handed her a book let. She went to the seat he had indicated. He stud up and the class went silent. They all stud at attention Damien excluded which made all the students look at her. "Cadet Damien does not need to stand at the momment so pay attention." He said to the class and they looked at him. "Today you all know you have a test. So take a seat once I call your name and you pick up your test." He said and they nodded. Once all the tests were handed out the class was silent once more. Damien put her pen down and got out of her seat.

"Here you go Cadet Major Kunimitsu." She said and he looked up from the work he was doing and shook his head.

"That was fast." He said and took out a red pen. "Take your seat and do this." He said handing her the test the others were doing. He went through the booklet with out putting a single mark untill he got to the last page. When he finished writing she came back up with the test and handed it to him. The rest of the class was speachless. "Read over what you did wrong and then do as it says." He said and then went onto marking her test.

In her seat she went through the booklet looking for marks that indicated what she got wrong and found none. When she turned to the last page there was almost a page of writing in red pen. That was quite unxpected Cadet Damien. You didn't have a single question wrong and I dought that the test you have just been given will have any mistakes on it as well. The look in your eyes when you saw whom your teacher was was quite entertaning. You are probably wondering why a cadet is teaching this class. Well since I was able to school the teachers in almost all my classes they had asked me to teach as well. I'll be giving you different assignments then the others. The work they get is to simplistic for your competence. I teach all the History classes in this academy so it's not a problem. I would like you to go to the office after you read this though. There is a note attached to this that I would like you to give to them. It will tell them that you have passed the nineth grade curriculam for this class. And that will put you in the tenth grade History class marking scheme but you will stay in your own year. So that you will not be surpsised in your other classes Cadet Captain Fuji will be you tactics instructor, Cadet Captain Oishi is your mathamatics instructor, and Cadet Captain Inui will be your science teacher. That's all that needs to be said. Oh one more thing in my class when you hand work into me don't use a green pen only blue or black. She closed the booklet and detached the note he attached for the office and got up. She looked at him and he nodded. She left her things and went to the office. When she got back the others were handing their tests in. Tezuka noticed her come back in so he signalled her to come over to the desk.

"Here mark them while I teach the class. So they can get them back before they leave." He said and also handed her a red pen. "Now class lets get the lesson on the way."

"Yes Major Tezuka." The students said and then got out their textbooks. As they all were listening to one of the students read he handed her a notebook. She opened it up and sighed, it was the grading book. She got out a blue pen and wrote down the marks the students got. When she finished he stood beside her as another student was reading and flipped through the tests. Five minutes before the class ended her stopped then from what they were doing and handed tests back.

"That had to be one of the worts tests that you all took." He said and they all looked at Damien. "Don't think that it had anything to do with Damien's marking because I went through the tests also while you were reading. She marked them the way they should be. She was even leaniant to give you marks that I would not have. I'm going to write five names on the board, these five do not have to do a make up test." He said and the class goaned. "Now I am going to write five other names that I want to see after class." He said and Sakuno and Tamoko's names were two of the five. "Now that that is done you are all dismissed. But a reminder the test is in a week." He said and then the classed packed their things up. "Damien will you also stay after class." He said and she looked at him.

"Ne Major Tezuka this isn't fare." Tamoko said and he looked up at her as he handed Damien her new textbooks. "Sakuno and I are always busy cheering for you and the others when you have competitions." She said and he rubbed his forehead. He then handed the other three boys that stayed because their names were writen were given their tests back and a phone number then they were dismissed.

"Tamoko we went through this before. You and Sakuno were allowed the come to the competitions if you kept your grades up. Damien couldn't even salvage your mark on this test to even give you a pass. As for Sakuno you promissed your grandmother that your grade would not fall below a C on any tests. I know that you are only at the games because of Echizen but please your grades are more important and you know that. And I also don't think that it is wise to always keep Echizen up all hours of the night." He said and the silent girl blushed. "Sakuno since you are the one keeping an eye on Damien till she learns her way around you can ask her to help you with your history work." He said and Tamoko glared at her.

"That isn't fare Tezuka she wasn't even here for the classes. She must have failed the test if she even took it." Tamoko shouted and Tezuka pulled a file out of his top drower.

"Tamoko this is your test that you took at the beginning of the year. And this is Damien's. She didn't get anything wrong. You had almost half the booklet wrong. And if you hadn't been paying atteniton she did take the test you all took today. This is her test and this is yours. Now tell me why you think this is not fare." He said then his next class came in quietly and sat down. Echizen was in the new class and noticed his girlfriend standing in front of Tezuka's desk. He went up to see what was going on.

"Echizen-kun Tezuka-senpai isn't being fare." Tamoko said when she noticed him.

"Oh no you don't Tamoko. Echizen is not going to get involved in this. Damien would you and Sakuno please go over to Echizen's desk for a minute. Echizen show Damien were you are at in this class." He said and Echizen nodded. "Now Tamoko listen and listen good. From now on you are to be at the Regulars dormatory after dinner for three hours. You are to meet with Damien in our study for private lessons to get your grades up. As of right now you are not passing this class. And I do not intend to have any of my students' flunk. Also you are to report to the Commondant's house every weekend for two hours." He said and she looked like she was going to burst into tears. "Is this understood." He said and she nodded. He sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Tamoko I'm sorry if this is hard on you. But you should have asked for help when you know that you couldn't handle this class that well. It may seem like punishment to you but its not."

"But how can you put her in charge of teaching me. She can't possibly be that good. And she's probably just a few months older then me as well."

"Tamoko I put her in the tenth grade class scheme. She's good and she'll be a good teacher to you." He said and then indicated to the other two to come back up to his desk. "Now you three can go to mathamatics Oishi won't be mad at you if you tell him I kept you three." He said and the three started for the door. He grabbed onto Damien's shoulder and she stopped in her tracks. "Come back into this room on your lunch break with Oishi and Fuji I need to talk to you then." He whisped into her ear then let her go. She ran after Sakuno and Tamoko.

"Ne Damien how much older are you then me?" Sakuno asked and Damien gave her a strange look. "I'm just wondering since you seem to look older then me. I'm turning 15 in three months and Tamoko truned 15 six months ago." Damien just kept silent.

"You're that old." Tamoko said trying to act all high and mighty. "You're probably like Tezuka's age and just couldn't pass all these classes when you were our age." As they got to Oishi's classroom door Damien turned and stopped Tamoko as Sakuno walked into the room. "What do you want flunky."

"I'm only 14 and just turned 14 two months ago." She said surprising Tamoko who was shocked as she walked into the classroom.

"Come on girls the others have already started the test." Oishi said and handed the three tests. "Damien since you haven't been in my class before please sit at this desk so that if you have any questions I can help you." He said indicating the desk just a seat away from his. As the others handed their tests in Damien was frustrated with the bonus question. "Ne Damien the others are all done can I have your test now." He said and she nodded.

"So she does have a subject that she can't ace." Tamoko said and some of the students giggled.

"Tamoko." Oishi said and ran the test threw the scantron. The class worked on their assignments that was writen on the board then Oishi shook his head. "Alright well that wasn't that bad. Only one person aced the whole test." He said and some of the boys congradulated one of the other boys in the room. "Ken congradulations on the A." He said and handed tests back. He kept Damien's "Damien I want to talk to you in the hall." He said and she got out of her seat. "The rest of you get to work." He said and opened the door and the two of them went into the hall. "Come on lets go." He said after closing the door and walked down the hall.

"Um Capatin Oishi were are we going?" She asked and he stopped in front of a science lab.

"Inui you in here?" He said opening the door and the 11th grade class looked at him.

"Captain Oishi." Some of the girls said then one of the girls jumped out of her seat. "Joji!" the girl said and Damien cringed as the girl jumped onto her.

"Oishi what can I do for you." The teacher said and Oishi handed him the test. "Some one even tried to answer the question. Is that student crazy." Inui said checking it himself. "It's the right answer but it could have just been fluke." He said and Oishi looked at Damien.

"Show the work." Oishi said and Damien got the test and wrote the question down and then worked on the question. Inui watched and opened a notebook that was seated on his desk.

"Ne Joji do you need a calculater?" Ayquan said and then Damien put the marker down.

"So?" Oishi asked.

"It's right." Inui said and sat down in his seat. "I even had to do that question ten times to get it right." He said and Oishi sighed.

"Alright Damien lets go to the office." He said and walked out of the room with her.

"Oishi was are you doing here?" A secretary said when he walked into the office.

"I need to talk with the commondant." He said and she smiled.

"Has this girl really done something that bad." She said as she knocked on the door.

"Yes?" The Commondant said and opened the door.

"Cadet Captain Oishi would like to talk with you sir. About a student." She said he looked at Oishi then noticed his daughter.

"Damien what did you do?" He said coming out of his office. "Your first day and this is the what I get."

"Sir if I may speak." Oishi said and the Commondant looked at him and nodded. "I wanted to look at her file if possible. And ask if I can push her up to our math class." He said and the commondant looked shocked. "I gave my class a test today and she aced it sir."

"Yes but that doesn't mean that she's able to be pushed into the 12 grade math class is it?" He said and Oishi shook his head.

"Sir I put a bomus question on the test that I know that none of the students in her gread should be able to answer. Even the smartest in our grade had trouble to answer it himself." He said and Damien looked at him shocked. "And add on she didn't you any aids like the others in the class."

"Alright then do it. But I swear that she is to keep her grades up as they are now." He said and handed Oishi a form he had to fill out. "As for her file Kunimitsu has it at the momment." He said and Oishi looked at her. "He pushed her up to the tenth grade level today." He said and Oishi shook his head.

"Alright lets go back to the classroom and you can get your things. You might at well go to tactis so the Fuji and assess you before the class gets there." He said and they left the office. When they got back to the classroom the students looked at the two from reading what was on the board that Tamoko had writen and was still writing. "Tamoko!" Oishi said and grabbed the girl by her arm surprising her. He read what she wrote and almost struck her but Damien just shook her head. "Damien I don't know whats gotten into her." He said but she just packed her things up.

"Oh going to run to daddy." Tamoko taunted. "Or are you going to go run home to mommy." She teased but everyone was surprised when someone walked into the room and slapped Tamoko. It was Ayquan. She had come to the room to give Oishi back the test.

"Tamoko keep your mouth shout. You don't know what you're talking about." Ayquan said and then saw what was writen on the board. "Damien?" She said but her baby sister just put her things into her bag.

"Yeah go to daddy and cry. Daddy's girl." Tamoko said and that's when Ayquan punched her.

"Joji hasn't cryed since she was four. And she isn't the kind of girl you're writing her to be as." Ayquan said pointing to the board. "And it's really hard to go and cry to her parents when they are dead Tamoko." She said and that when Damien stopped what she was doing.

"Ayquan that's enough." Damien said and then the door to the room opened and Tezuka was standing there.

"What's going on in here Oishi I can hear shouting from my room." Tezuka said and noticed Damien with her bag and Tamoko's writing on the board. "Ayquan get back to your class Inui was wondering were you got to." He said and the girl looked at Damien. "She'll be fine now go." He said and Ayquan went up to Damien.

"Are you going to be alright?"

"Just go." Damien said and Ayquan left the room.

"Tezuka I'll deal with Tamoko." Oishi said and Tezuka nodded. "Could you take Damien. She knows were she is to go." He said Tezuka walked out of the room with the girl and closed the door. "Tamoko you have been nothing but trouble to that girl and you just met her like three hours ago. Can you tell me why so I understand?" he said and the class wanted to know as well.

"She's getting all the attention just because she's the commondants daughter. You and the others have never treated any student like her before." Tamoko said and Sakuno shook her head. "She gets the special treatment. From everyone evern upperclass men like Ayquan." She said and then Oishi rubbed his temples. "And the fact that she is younger then me is just icing on the cake." Oishi snapped at her for saying that.

"This is all because she's younger then you. And so what if she's the commondants daughter. She's getting attention today because we all have to figure out how the hell we have to teach her. This is her first day in a military school. Echizen asked you and Sakuno to show her around because you both seemed to be the best bet to be friends with her. And this thing you wrote that she's my pet is just too much even for you Tamoko. I took her to the Science lab to ask Inui to check if the bonus question on the test I gave you was right on her test. Yes only Ken got everything right. But none of you tried the bonus question. She did and it was correct that's why it took so long. I went to the office with her to get her files and see if I could pass her to a higher level. Yes Ken is my ace in this class but she also got everything right. I just didn't want to overwelm the class or her. It's hard enough to be pulled out of your old school because your parents had been transferred. She didn't need this from you Tamoko. And the reason she was packing her things up was because she was going to go and talk with Fuji and get him to assess her as well. The way you've been treating her I'm guessing Tezuka is going to pull her out of your class and put her in another like I have. And you know what, I can't send you to the commondants office for the fear that he'll have you thrown out of the school for what you did to his daughter." He said and the whole class was surprised the Oishi was that mad. He had never sent someone to the office ever. "And you say that she gets special treatment by upperclassmen. You saw this morning when Ayquan jumped her didn't you so that's why you're saying she's getting special treatment. Has it ever occurred to you to listen to what Ayquan has been calling her? She calls her 'Joji' Baby Girl. Do you want to know why? Because miss 'I want to be the center of attention all the time' is because Cadet Damien is her baby sister." He said and then looked at the class. There was still half the class to go. "Oh I can't even stand to look at you." He said and then went to his desk and closed all of his books. "That's all for the class." He said and then walked out of the room.

"Great move Tamoko." The guys said and walked out of the room as well.