A/N: I humbly welcome you all to read the second chapter of this story. Sadly this chapter is yet to be betaed, but I will surely post the betaed version once it is send back to me. I think I have said everything I wanted. ~

Pandectes De Cululla

Inazuma Gakuen: A boarding school and currently the biggest blazing teaching school in Japan. The school consist of total of more than twenty different buildings. The main building holds the facilities, such as faculty's and principals office, library and cafeteria, where the students are served a free meal three times a day. Each power type - Utsu, Shubi and Ouen, have their own training buildings, where the students are provided with powerful training by a special training menu personally created for them.

Theoretical Subject Building, like it name tells, holds all the non-blazing related subjects the student are to learn pursuant to curriculum. To add to this, there are four gymnasiums used by the sport clubs, an in-door pool for the swimming club, an auditorium, an engagement hall for engagements and main hall for gathering the whole student body together; for such occasions like entrance and graduation ceremonies. Finally, there are four dormitories for the students, boys having three of them as most of the student body are males.

The area of the school holds more than five square kilometers, so the principal has build small convenience stores for the students to stop by during breaks. It also has small park, a post office; a soccer, baseball and basketball fields to be used after school. Due to the big area of the school mostly the transmission is done by buses that have regular schedule.

Engagement: The students are to form teams of three person, each team having one blazing type and fight against each other - these are called engagements. This is both for testing their personal powers, but also uniting the students and determinate their teamwork. Once a team is formed in their first year, the members stay the same all the way till the end of third year. Usually, engagements are simple three-on-three battles that are held for students to grow.

At the end of the school year, though, the schools hold engagement tournaments, where the best two teams of each school year have the rights to participate in Kassen. Currently the strongest team in Inazuma Gakuen, is Team Mist of 2-A - its members being the captain and Shubishu (literal Shubi-Player) Kirino Ranmaru, the Ouenshu Mitsuyoshi Yozakura and finally the one responsible for the attack, the Utsushu Kurosaki Makoto. The year before, despite being a first year team, they managed to enter the Kassen and won it, being a first team in history to win in their first year.

Kassen: A national wide engagement tournament, where each school send their best two blazing team from each school year. The current champion is Team Mist from Inazuma Gakuen. This tournament is held at the end of the school year.

Shindou Takuto: A student in class 2-F. He's an Ouenshu and a member of Team Shore along with Kishibe Taiga, and Senguuji Yamato. Shindou enrolled to Inazuma Gakuen due to admiration towards the legendary Team Protect, that won Kassen two times in a row. In his childhood he met the captain of the team, Endou Mamoru and ever since has burned with the desire to enroll to the same school. Despite his grades being one of best, Shindou can't still completely control his blazing powers. Thus, he has been labelled as Pariah - an outcast. Surprisingly he is a very good friend of Kirino Ranmaru from Team Mist.

Beaker Two: Pariah

"Z Slash!" A strong yell escaped from Kishibe Taiga's lips. He closed his eyes, forming multiple light arrows before him. In the moment he opened them again, the arrows went flying towards the three persons on the opposite team.

"Sargasso!" Narita Kenya yelled, as he saw the arrows flying towards them. A big whirlpool appeared, sucking them inside it. Kishibe winced; another failed attack.

Narita glanced at his team leader, Hoshifuru Kaguya who nodded. "Kunihiro!"

"White Blade!" A small boy with blonde hair yelled. For a moment everyone in the team was surrounded with a blue light. "You have two minutes, no more. Captain-san," the last member of Hoshi team, Kunihiro Touya told to Hoshifuru.

"That's more than enough," the peach-haired captain smirked and dashed forward with Narita backing him up.

"They're coming!" Shindou heard Yamato yelling, and the brunette gulped loudly. Things weren't looking so good for their team. His team - also known as The Shore - consisted of the captain and Utsushu Kishibe Taiga, Shubishu Senguuji Yamato and Ouenshu - himself. This team was most commonly called The Eyesore team - and now this team of so called losers was in the middle of an engagement against one of the strongest teams of the school, The Hoshi team.

"Shin-chan, use Einsatz and then lead us with Kami No Takuto. Sen-chan, be ready to use Gravity Point and Power Shield when needed." Kishibe led everyone. The two behind him nodded and Shindou took better hold of his keytar. He saw Senguuji slamming his fists together. Wiping the sweat away from his forehead, the brunette started concentrating his power and pressed the keys, making a musical sound.

"Einsatz!" He voiced. A golden light started to surround everyone while golden notes floated around the three of them, boosting up everyones defence and attack points. As soon as it was done, Kishibe and Senguuji dashed forward.

"Burning Summer!" Hoshifuru yelled, and a strong yellow light came from his fist, firing multiple fire balls.

"Sen-chan!" Kishibe glanced at his partner.

"Power Shield!" A shock waves appeared before Kishibe and him, deflecting all the fire balls heading towards them.

Kishibe nodded happily and then his expression turned into small smirk. "Shin-chan!"

The brunette knew what it meant. It was time for that attack. Shindou took a deep breath and concentrated all his might on it. The following attack had succeeded only once before, so he was at high risk to fail their attack. Slowly Shindou pressed the keys, starting to play a beautiful melody.

Meanwhile the battle went on with Kishibe launching few weak attacks that Narita was able to block with his techniques. It was all about buying time. Hoshifuru had stopped attacking, which most likely meant that they were preparing for his final attack.

Shindou gulped.

"Kami No-"

Wrong.

He had pressed the wrong key. The keytar started emitting weird power, making a small whirlwind around Shindou.

"Shin-chan, is it yet!?" Kishibe started to get desperate as the brunette hadn't said anything yet. When Shindou didn't respond to him, the violet-head turned around and his expression fell. The brunette's keytar repelled its owner and started to shine very brightly. This was followed by a strong light.

Finally, the whole battle area blew up.

"Oi oi! Because you had to let your powers go berserk, we lost again!" Senguuji complained to Shindou, as the three of them walked from the engagement hall. The brunette bit his lip while looking down. He understood perfectly that it was his fault, even without Senguuji reminding him of it.

Kishibe just smiled, and patted Shidou's shoulder. "Even if Shi-chan's Kami No Takuto would've succeeded, we'd only have about 50/50 chances to win against Team Hoshi. Hoshifuru was already preparing for 'Death Future'. Once he had launched that attack, it would be immediate loss for us." he tried to cheer up his teammate by stating the facts.

Senguuji just clicked his tongue. "We lost because we have Pariah in our team..." he looked around himself and then continue. "Everyone is already talking about it."

Shindou, who was holding back his tears, glanced around them. It was right - just like the boy had said, everyone was staring at them with dark faces while whispering.

"It's the Pariah."

"I heard his powers went berserk again."

"How come he's attending to this school, if he can't even control his powers?"

"I bet the team would be a lot stronger, if that kid wasn't there."

And they were all right. Even Shindou himself was surprised how he got accepted to Inazuma Gakuen, when he wasn't able to completely gasp his powers. And he was very sure that if his team would get different Ouenshu, their chances of winning would raise. After all, almost half of the causes for their loss was Shindou.

Biting his lip and squeezing his fist in anger, Shindou tried to hold back the tears. He knew it very well that he was causing trouble for his teammates. Because of him, even they were treated like an outcast.

"Don't take it too much to heart, Shin-chan. We're all still weak and training." Kishibe smiled at his friend, trying to cheer him up. Shindou glanced at him while gulping down his tears. He dried them and forced a smile. It was easy for the violet-head to say, though - he was one of the top ten students in Utsu class, not a person nicknamed Pariah who was abashment to the whole school.

"Beside, no matter how much Sen-chan complains, we three remain as a team for the rest of our school life. Instead of doing nothing but play around, and then complain, we should try to put our heads together and train so that nothing like this ever happens," the violet-head send an offensive look at his other teammate. Senguuji just humphed loudly and averted his glare.

Shindou let out a weak smile. Once again, Kishibe was right. Instead of having the pinkette complain about every single small mistake, instead of Shindou sweeping in shame after every match, they should train together in order to perfect their powers and become the best team. As they were now, they would never get past the first round, less alone thinking that they could win Kassen.

"Then let's train after school." the brunette told, and weakly glanced at Senguuji. The pink-haired man glared at him, but then just crossed his arms behind his head and headed towards the stairs up. This was were they would part; Shindou and Kishibe were heading towards the shoe lockers as their lessons were held in different buildings.

The pink-head stopped then for a moment. Without turning towards his teammates, he then exhaled and closed his eyes. "I'll be waiting for you at six pm, straight. Even you're even one minute late, I'm leaving," with those words, he then headed the stairs up, leaving the surprised Shindou and smiling Kishibe.

The violet-head turned to Shindou and patted his shoulder. "Now that's more like it." He said, and Shindou nodded happily while drying his wet eyes with his sleeve. After that the boys headed towards the lockers.

Saying goodbye to Kishibe, Shindou headed towards his next class which was math. Out of the twenty buildings in Inazuma Gakuen his lesson was held in the biggest building, also known as the TS-building - as shortened from the words theoretical subject. Thankfully, it was close to the engagement hall so he didn't need to take bus for transport.

Shindou hurried towards his class, and once he had made it, he realized that Kirino was already sitting in his seat. The two of them were in different classes - Shindou in 2-F and Kirino in 2-A - but due to syllabus, students from different classes could have lessons together.

When he stared at the boy, who was leaning his jaw against his palm and stared outside, Shindou gulped. He held his bags strap tighter and slowly walked to his seat which was the seat before Kirino. He sat down and turned around to smile at Kirino.

"How's your day?" he understood that it wasn't the best way to strike up a conversation, but at the moment he couldn't think of anything else. Ever since the incident week before, things had been very awkward between them. Also, the messed up engagement was still clearly burning in his mind.

Kirino glanced at the brunette from the corner of his eye, but then changed his attention back to the scenery outside the window. Like every time for the past days, he once again ignored Shindou's words. The brunette looked extremely hurt, and was about continue but at the same moment the teacher entered the classroom.

Shindou sighed in defeat. Like he had assumed, Kirino was still giving him a cold shoulder. The pinkette was behaving weirdly and Shindou wasn't sure if it was his fault or not. Had he done something to make Kirino mad?

The brunette let out another deep sigh and changed his attention towards the teacher and the blackboard. He tried to concentrate on the lesson, but slowly his mind was wandering to the day when he had accidentally dumped into Kirino during workout.

Shindou was doing his typical after school training menu - jogging ten kilometers every evening. The forecast had said for the whole day to be sunny, but against all the odds it suddenly started to pour hard the middle way, so he had to take a short cut to the dorms.

When Shindou finally returned to the dorms, being completely soaked by the downpour, he found a slender body collapsed near the entrance. He quickly hurried to the body, and after turning the person around he realized that it was no one else than Kirino - the pinkette was running a high fever.

Shindou lifted Kirino up and supported his body, while carrying the pinkette into his room. His friend didn't seem to have keys with him, so he couldn't bring Kirino to his own room. He had wanted to talk to the dorm head to give a spare key, but it seemed that he wasn't present, so he had no other choice left but to carry Kirino into his room.

Shindou laid Kirino down to his bed and went to change his soaked clothes. While doing so, the pinkette regained his consciousness. He slowly moved his head around and tried to make out his surroundings. He clearly wasn't in his own room. His movements were heavy and forced; his breathing getting heavy as the fever took the better of him.

Kirino noticed movement in the corners of his eyes, and turned his head towards Shindou. When his eyes met up with the brunette, they suddenly glazed as his whole body froze. Shindou smiled kindly and told the pinkette to lay down.

Kirino panicked, glanced at his body - as if confirming that he was still in full clothing - and suddenly jumped up from the bed. Before Shindou could say anything, he already stormed out of the room with out saying anything; the brunette was left alone in stunned confusion.

Ever since, the pinkette had acted cold towards him and refused to talk to him. The brunette found this very odd - Kirino was one of his best friends; and now this so called best friend was treating him like thin air.

"Shindou Takuto!" Shindou snapped out of it when he heard the teacher calling him. It looked like he wanted Shindou come to the blackboard and answer the question; a punishment for not paying attention to his lesson.

Shindou stood up and went to the blackboard to answer the question. It was easy peasy - he had rehearsed the other days lesson and prepared for the upcoming one. Even if he wasn't able to control his blazing powers, he wasn't going to lose to anyone when it came to normal subjects.

What Shindou didn't notice, was the pair of ocean-blue eyes that were carefully watching him and observing his every movement.

When the class ended, Shindou exhaled loudly and put his books into bag. With a hope to start a conversation with Kirino he turned to the pinkette, only to realize that the other boy had already left his seat. Another sigh escaped from Shindou's lips. It was so obvious; Kirino was avoiding him.

"Shindou Takuto." The brunette's eyes widened when he heard familiar voice speaking. The voice sounded slightly lighter, but he still could recognize the owner of it. But why was he calling him by full name? Shindou turned his head and saw Kirino standing before him.

The boys stared at each other in silence. Kirino seemed to have trouble to start the conversation - he moved anxiously and was avoiding eye contact with the brunette - so Shindou decided to wait patiently.

Finally Kirino's expression turned serious and he stared at Shindou with his blue-colored eyes. "I want you to follow me," the pinkette blurted out and without waiting for Shindou headed towards the hallway. At the classrooms entrance, he turned to the brunette as if waiting for him. Shindou quickly grabbed his bag and hurried after Kirino.

Shindou followed the boy as they walked forward and climbed the stairs up. The brunette was curious where Kirino was talking him. He also noticed that people were shooting strange glances at them - but of course, not everyone in the school knew that the prodigy child and the outcast were actually good friends.

They climbed the stairs all the way to top; Shindou finally realized, they were at the roof.

Kirino unlocked the door with few mumbles and entered the roof. Shindou followed him closely; Kirino then turned to look at him as Shindou closed the door behind them. A silence filled the roof - only a gentle breeze was heard - as the duo stared at each other.

Shindou gulped. This was his chance. If he wanted to know - and he did want to - what exactly was bugging Kirino, this was the perfect chance. He inhaled and gathered his courage.

"What's-"

"Did you see it?" Came a loud and almost feminine yell, which interrupted Shindou's question.

"Wha- What?" The brunette asked confused. He didn't get it. What was Kirino asking? What did he mean by his question.

Kirino's expression got darker. "The other day when you rescued me from the rain... Did you see it?" He repeated the question. And by this time Shindou could already see it. Even though Kirino tried to hide it the best he could, a light crimson was spotted covering his otherwise pale cheeks.

"I..." Shindou was at a lost with words. What was he supposed to say when he didn't get the question.

As Shindou took his sweet time to answer Kirino, the pinkette was already getting annoyed. He was already opening his mouth, when all of a sudden his eyes widened. He could feel it; something was heading towards them.

"Watch out!" he yelled and jumped to push Shindou away before something exploded, blowing up half of the roof. The two of them panted hard while staring at the place they had just stood. If Kirino had been even a second too late, they would've blow up together with the roof.

"Hahaha! Not bad, Ran-chan." they suddenly heard a voice laughing evilly and a figure landed on the other side of the roof (which had somehow managed to survive the explosion). They managed to hide perfectly beneath all the smoke, but Shindou could see the silhouette. The person was most likely speaking to Kirino; after all his first name was Ranmaru.

"Shit!" The pinkette cursed. He stood up and wiped dust away from his face. A dark glare fell upon his face. "To think that you'd come at a time like this. I thought it would take longer to find me..." He mumbled to himself.

Kirino then glanced at Shindou. "Guess I have no other choice." He really had been cornered down. He had absolutely nowhere to run anymore. Kirino offered his arm to Shindou and helped the boy up. As soon as Shindou was up, the pinkette approached him.

"Infiltrate; Stage One." Was a quiet whisper.

The next thing Shindou knew; Kirino had already pressed his lips against his.

Wait, A KISS?

A/N: I have really mixed up feelings about this chapter... Anyway, an answer to my question from the first chapter - yes, the little kid in last chapter was none else but Kirino Ranmaru. Thoughts about this chapter are very welcomed! ~

Happening In Next Chapter - Beaker Three: Contract
After the kiss, Shindou finds himself standing before the enemy with his keytar in his hands. How in the world did this happen? Things goes for the worse; it seems that he can't control his body anymore. Who is the one who speaks using his body? Kirino? So, the confrontation of two sides begins... Who will be victorious? Who is this enemy? And Kirino is... WHAT?