Chap 9 New Life, New Friends, and New Troubles
Back to our little girl, Yumi's mouth was impossibly wide because of the scene before her. It took her 2 hours to find the right dormitory for high school and now standing in front of her was more than 20 stories building which was built with modern style. She admired the building's architecture. She would really want to have a tour around the building if she was not so tired from the trip from the gate to the building.
"They should have a note for each building on the map. And how come Yuuki did not tell me this school provides education service from kindergarten to university." She murmured while she wipe sweat off of her head.
"we already suggested the same idea but the headmistress thought it would be fun if students have chance to travel around the whole campus instead of go straight to their destination." A soft voice from behind scared Yumi a bit. Hence she jumped slightly backward and turned around to face the voice source.
It was a girl (of course this is an all girl school) who had dark brown hair and a pair of round glasses. She looked kind of friendly. The special thing about this girl was she had a camera which was steady on her hand.
Seeing the shocking face of Yumi and her speechless state, the strange girl introduced herself a slight smile.
"Sorry for scaring you. I'm Tsutako Takeshima. You must be Yumi Fukuzawa, the new transfer from England. I'm here to...uh...well..I was asked to welcome you here." She scratched her cheek.
"Thanks, Takeshima san. I'm Fukuzawa Yumi. Nice to meet you." Yumi gave out her hand to greet the girl. She smiled widely.
The next thing Yumi saw was the flash light in front of her. Tsutako already took a picture of her.
"Gomen, gomen. It's my habit to take a picture that I found interested in and you have a cute face." She scratched her head and blushed slightly.
Yumi pouted cutely and happily replied, "It's OK. Promise to let me see the final outcome." She grinned widely,
"Sure. Let's go inside."
Tsutako led her to an office inside of the building. There were many lockers around the room and one working desk at the corner. They stopped at the desk and Yumi was asked to have a seat while Tsutako found her folders.
"Here, everything you need is in here. Your room number, the key, your schedule,...Ah...your uniform...where are they?" She tapped her fingers on her chin and looked around the room to search for the box that contained the uniforms. Suddenly, her eyes shot a victory look at the green box that have the name of Lillian on it.
"Here" She handled the box to Yumi and grinned widely.
"Thanks a lot, Takeshima san."
Tsutako frown a bit. "Ano, Yumi san. At Lillian, we always call each other by our first name so call me Tsutako. OK!" She winked at Yumi.
"Oh...OK" Yumi replied happily.
"OK. Let's go to your room. Your luggage was here since early in the morning and Midori sensei had put them in your room already."
"Midori sensei?" Yumi raised her voice at the strange name.
"Ah. She's our dorm supervisor and also our P.E teacher. Actually she should be the one who would give you all of these but she was called out before you were here. Thus she asked me to help you." Tsutako explained.
They walked silently into the elevator. Yumi looked in the package to see her room number and take out the key. Her room was 15.07.
"Oh. You're on 15th floor and room 7. Then it means you'll be roomed with second year. Oh then you're first year too."
Yumi ignored the last part of Tsutako's confirmation and she only felt nervous when she heard that she was not the only one in the room. She did not feel comfortable with living with stranger.
"Don't worry. You'll be find." Tsutako patted her shoulder to comfort her.
Yumi cursed her expressional face which told everybody about her feeling. She thanked her new friend. Then she turned to face the other girl and question out about the part of the sentence.
"Oh. How do you know about my grade?" She asked curiously.
"Oh. Normally first year will be roomed with second. Third year will be roomed with each other. Only one special case that third year and first year are in the same room. That case belongs to Rosa Gigantea and her pettie seour." When she finished her explanation, the elevator reached their destination.
"And...here you are. Welcome again to Lillian." She walked Yumi to her room and decided to leave because she had to do some business for that sensei.
Yumi really wanted to asked many questions about the school but she could not bother her new friend any longer. Thus they said goodbye after Yumi unlocked the door and walked in the room. However before she closed the door, Tsutako jogged back and prevented her do so.
"Ah, I forgot. You could have all your meal at our cafeteria at the 20th floor, they are on your tuition fee so don't worry about the money. Let's have dinner later OK?" She grinned widely.
"Sure. I'd love too. See you...uhm at 7:00. Is it OK?" Yumi replied immediately.
"Great. Bye, Yumi chan."
"See you later."
INSIDE HER NEW ROOM
Yumi exhaled when she was alone in her new room. As expected from the school for high class family, this room was quite big for two people. She went around the room to explore her new house for the next few years here. It was fully furnished and everything in the room could say that the owner preferred simply and elegant style. Moreover, it seemed this person loved blue color since she saw the light blue was cover almost every there and then.
After finished the tour, she went to her room. She could find her room easily since the other room was locked.
She got a double bed at the right corner of the room and near the large window. Next to the door was the desk. There was the restroom inside of the room so it was kind of convenient. All the furniture in her room was cover by the white cloth to keep it clean.
She saw 3 big suitcases in the middle of the room and a big box next to them. She regretted when she let her brother packed her stuffs for her.
"Yuuki, you over packed. Why do I need this much." *facepalm*
She sighed heavily at the thought of unpack those suitcase. However, she needed to change so she was forced herself to unpack and put her things into the right place. It took her few hours to finished unpacking 3 large suitcase.
When her eyes met the number on the clock, she jumped out because it was 6:30. Hence, she left the box on her desk and decided to look at it later. She took a quick shower and change into her casual clothes.
She heard the knock right after she walked out from her room to get a drink.
HOURS LATER
She was in her bedroom after the wonderful dinner with her new friend. The cafeteria here was exactly like 5 stars restaurant. She learnt that most of students here went home on the weekends there were no more than 10 students were there this night. They had great time and she also found out that they were in the same class. Yumi were glad about the news.
She was kind of embarrass about being an object for her friend's photo during the dinner. However, Yumi was sad since Tsutako would go home tomorrow so she was left alone here, but she was really happy when Tsutako invited her to her home. However Yumi wanted to spend time to explore the new school.
On top of that, even she was here only few hours but she found out this school was not a normal human school, because she could sense the power strength from some students and even the head chef of the cafeteria or restaurant, because it was the same quality to her.
*reng*reng*remg* (don't know which ringtone should be used)
Yumi jumped out of her bed when she heard the sound from the box on her desk. She stared at it for awhile before she quickly ran toward her desk and opened the box. She immediately saw the phone on top of everything in the box so she picked up and answer the phone right away.
"Moshi moshi,..."
"YUMI!" Before she could reply probably, the loud scream from the other line of the phone had interrupted her. It was from no other than her lovely brother, Yuuki. Yumi had to put the phone far away from her in order to secure her eardrum.
She heard her brother yelled about not calling when she arrived and how he was so worry about her and many other things. After few attempts to intervene the long complaint, Yumi turned the speaker on and looked into the box to find out what inside of it.
She took out two metal boxes, one laptop, and a thick old book. She opened the book first and read the content. Her eyes widened when she found out what this book was about. It contained all the information of every supernatural species in Japan, including family name, their specialties, the connection between those family. These information was really useful if she had to meet with them.
"Hey, Yumi. Are you listening?" The irritated sound from her brother took her out of her thought.
"Are you done with your complaint?" She asked him playfully.
"Yeah, yeah, I know how I sounded." His sad sound made Yumi feel guilty.
"Sorry, Yuuki. I'm fine. Everything is fine. I already make one new friend here. And...I was so tired after unpacking. Mou you should not sent to much thing here. It took a lot of time to finish unpacking." She quickly replied and hoped that she had filled in all necessary information to Yuuki. Her voice sounded kind of complaining.
She could hear the nervous laugh from the other line and she giggled at the thought that perhaps her brother was scratching his head right now.
They talked about her arrival for awhile and she told him about her suspicious about the school. Thus Yuuki told Yumi to be careful when she investigate the school. He even asked if she wanted he sent someone there to help her, but Yumi refused. She did not want to cause any trouble before she could figure out about the school.
"By the way, Yuuki. What is it, in those boxes?" She led their conversation back to the things that he had sent with her luggage.
"Well, I know that you'll be at school all the time but those thing may help you in the future. I hope. Thus I sent you a laptop which is good for your study and search for information. I also include several bank accounts in the square box, you could use as many as you want. In the rectangle box, there are 10 set of key of our houses in Japan and also the contacts of our housekeeper. I already informed them about your arrival so they always ready to serve you." He paused a bit before he would continue his explanation. He did not want to tell her first because he knew she would never accept these arrangement.
Before Yumi could raised out her disagreement. Yuuki continued in sheepish voice.
"The most important thing is the book that contain all the information of the current powerful families in Japan. Some of them are youkai, some of them are human. Currently, it seems youkai find it would be better to have a good partnership with human so they could get benefit from them. It's the same here in London so don't be so surprise. We're not large in number so it's good to be friend with human."
Yumi was not so surprise about this, it was understandable. She noted herself to keep it in my. Yumi was touched because of her brother's thoughtful action.
"Thanks Yuuki. You're spoiling me too much since I awoke."She was on verge of tears.
"Hey, hey, don't tell me you're gonna cry. Shhh..." She giggled when she heard how panic Yuuki could be if he was in front of her.
"I miss you already, Yuuki." She wiped some tears from the edge of her eyes.
"Don't worry. I'll be there soon and you would not get rid of me. Hahhahaha" Yuuki announced confidently and playfully.
"OK. Let's see."
They burst into laughter soon after that.
"Anyway, Yumi. Take care OK? If you need anything just contact those housekeepers. I have to go now. I think it's late in Japan now so go to bed."
"Yes, sir."
They laughed and said goodbye to each other.
Yumi went to bed with a smile on her lips.
Unbeknown to her, there was a pair of deep crimson eyes and emerald eyes were observing her all night from the outside. The smile could be seen when they saw how comfortable Yumi was in the room. They left when Yumi was in her deep sleep. (Who is this person?)
SUNDAY
Yumi was up several minutes ago and she looked around to find where she was when she realized she was not in her room in London or at her castle. When she saw the uniform that she hung on the outside of the closet's door, she remembered that she was all alone in Japan and for specifically, she was in her dorm room at Lillian.
She slowly sat up and stretched her arms up in the air. She rubbed her eyes to clear her sleepy vision and stood up to take a morning bath. It was 7:30 when she finished so she decided to have breakfast at dorm cafeteria. She took school map and book list with her because the library still opened on Sunday so she decided to take out the book to prepare for her first day at school on Monday.
She had a peaceful breakfast and then headed to the library right after that. The trip to library was much easier than finding her dorm since it was right next to the main building o the high school campus. It took her 15 minutes to walk there so she made herself note that it would take her around 20-25 minutes to get to her study area. She sighed when she realized how far it was from her dorm to her study area.
Her day went by smoothly. She got all her textbooks and some reference books to help her keep on track with school works, because school had started for 3 months. The librarian kept reminding about her special case that she was accepted at this time of year. The strange thing was she could not read the old lady's mind. It seemed she knew how to block her mind. Moreover, Yumi could tell that the library was not ordinary human but she was kind and funny so Yumi did not think she was a risk at this point of time. Furthermore, she found it was odd since the librarian told her not to tell her schedule to any students because each student here had special timetable based on their ability and she wondered why one of her class was after school time and it was taken place at the restrict area of the school. She had asked the old lady, but she was told that she would know when time came.
She spend the rest of her day wandering around the library to read about the school's history and its custom. She found out this school had special custom which let student council, Yamayurikai, run the school discipline. Only when the thing was over the council's power, they would inform the headmistress to let her handle the problem. The council was run by three third year students and their sisters. She learnt about the soeur system and all the title of these girls. It seemed they share school work equaly between three families which were Chinensis, Gigantea, and Foetida.
Yumi found it amusingly about the way they call themselves. The more she read about the school custom the more she was interested in this school.
And it was odd since she could not found any information about the school founders and the previous or current headmistress. There was the establish year and its proud tradition and reputation.
Yumi did not want to look further into the matter because she knew she would get the answer sooner or later anyway.
When she finished her reading, she called it a day and went back to her dorm room in order to prepare for her first day at school. Even though she was kind of confident about her academic knowledge but she still did not want to be reckless.
At the same time at the beautiful gorgeous mansion, the beauty raven haired heiress was staring at her just finished painting. Tears were rolling down her cheek uncontrollable.
-FLASHBACK-
The vision of the little golden kitsune with big mocha eyes appeared in her dream but it was not a nightmare. Indeed it was a peaceful dream. Then again, those beautiful mocha eyes that belonged to the kitsune reminded her the same eyes that were in her dream for months. She was very happy since she could see whole expression of the kitsune instead of just a pair of beautiful eyes. However it was very frustrated when she tried to ask who it was, in the dream, there was no respond and they disappeared after gave her a sad look.
She woke up right away when the kitsune faded away. She had never felt so useless and powerless like this. She did not know how to explain the feeling that those mocha eyes gave her. It was as if she already knew the owner of those eyes but she could not remember who. Moreover why it looked so disappointed when she asked and decided to disappear from her view. Sachiko had secretly wished the dream would come back.
Thanks for her mom return early in the morning so she spent half of her day with her mother. It was a pleasure time after all. When she went back to her chamber to rest, she had an urge to draw her recent dream. Thus she spent the next few hours to complete the drawing of that little kitsune.
-ENDBACK-
Right after she finished, she put the painting of the kitsune and the pair of mocha eyes side by side and she did not know why her heart ached too much.
FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL
Yumi woke early to have quick shower and had breakfast before she went to school for her first day. She was so excited like an first grade student. Well, it was her first day at school anyway. However, she was very frustrated when she could not tie her neckerchief in the right way. Thus she ignored it because she did not want to be late at the first day and she only have 30 minutes left before school started.
She slowly walked toward the academic building and enjoyed the fresh morning atmosphere. When she reach to the library area, she surprised when there was flow of students from the other direction walking toward her direction. She joined with them since she thought they would lead her to the academic building so she would not be lost.
Somehow Yumi felt uneasy when walking with these students. She could sense the supernatural power from some girls who were walking along with her. Yumi smirked when she noticed that none of them could sense her power. It meant she hid it well.
Yumi stopped when she was in front of the beautiful statue. It was Maria sama statue. Yumi had seen it in the school history book but reality it was more beautiful and gorgeous. Especially, she was captured by the lively pair of beautiful sapphire eyes. Yumi did not know that she had stood there for almost five minutes with her wide open eye. Until she heard a voice that seemed to direct to her.
"Wait!"
Yumi's POV
I was staring at those beautiful sapphire eyes that reminded me of my love. She had the same blue eyes that had captured my heart long ago. Why those eyes were made from sapphire instead of other stone. This question had run around my head since I first saw it. Everything here gave me the familiar feeling that I have been before.
I was in my own world thinking about what really was happened up until now, then the soft and demand voice called me. I turned to the voice source and I could not believe in my eyes anymore.
She was here and was elegantly walking toward my direction, but there were something missing. I did not know it at first but then it suddenly hit me all at once. It was her eyes there was no love in those beautiful sapphire eyes that I had longed for. Her eyes were not the same full of eyes like 500 years ago. I could see the loneliness and the slight frustration in her eyes. Anyway came back to reality, why did she call me?
"Hold this for me, please." She told me hold her school bag for her and I found myself do it immediately. I amusingly laughed my inner self. Everything might change but I could never disobey her orders after all.
I was shocked when I realized the reason that she approached me was fixing my neckerchief. It was ashamed. The first time we finally met again, how come she ended up helping again. I could feel my cheeks warming up instantly. Though it was not necessary after all, she already finished the fixing and left without any further expression. When I realized she was not in front of me anymore, I quickly turned to face her back.
"She really don't recognize me after all. What really happened after I left, Sachiko? Is it your name now? " I murmured sadly. My heart ached as if there were a thousand needles stabling my heart. I forced myself not to cry out from paint.
Luckily, the sound from the students around had helped me to recover a bit. I saw my beloved greeting the others girls when they said hi to her. It seemed she was quite popular here.
"Those girls. How come they dare to look at her like that." I would likely rip their eyeballs out, if we were not in the school ground.
"You'll be mine again." I vowed to myself. This time no one could take you away from me Sachiko. Well I even did not know what her name was now.
Normal's POV
"Attention class. We'll have new student, today. I know it's quite late at this time of school year but she passed all the entrance tests so she's qualify to be here." The young teacher excitedly announced the news to all of her students.
"Yumi san, you can come in." The teacher called out Yumi from inside of the class.
After the incident in front of the statue, she spent a little time to collect herself and then went to the staff room to meet her homeroom teacher. Currently, she was waiting for the signal to enter the classroom and introduce herself. At least that what she had seen in the movie.
Yumi slowly walked in the middle of the class where the her teacher stood. All the hurt feeling of the morning incident was temporarily gone when she heard the squeal from these girls in front of her. She could see the sparkle in her eyes. She wondered whether this the normal reaction they gave to new student. However, she soon realized they looked at her as if she was a cute little child which she got a lot from her brother's friends expression when she was in London.
'I shouldn't have agreed to Yuuki about keeping this childish form.' She frown a bit.
The teacher knew that her students were admiring the cuteness of this new student since she found so too. She cleared her throat and encouraged Yumi to introduce herself.
"Ano, good morning every one. My name is Fukuzawa Yumi. I've been in London up until now so I might not familiar with Japanese customs. Please, help me while I'm here." She made a quick bow and gave her brightest smile which could make some girls swoon over her.
Though, it was kind of embarrass when these girl could not take their eyes off her. Thanks to the teacher, she had calmed down all these teenage girls.
"Let's see! Where should I put you in class?" The teacher tapped fingers on her chin to find Yumi's seat in the class even though there were only few seat left and some of students already raised their hands to let the teacher know that Yumi could sit at the vacancy next to them.
Suddenly the loud clear voice had saved Yumi a day of standing in the middle of standing since she could not decided which way to go. She did not want to disappoint any of them at the first day of school.
It was Tsutako Takeshima who said that Yumi could take the seat in front of her and Yumi happily accepted. So everything was settled. Even though she could see some disappointed looks on the way to her seat.
"Thanks" When she reached her destination, she whispered to Tsutako and earned a wink from that girl.
Her first day was not bad at all. Yumi already knew all these academic stuffs thus she could answer all the question immediately. Hence she earned more sparkle eyes than the first time she walked in to this class. She even could not have a proper lunch because she was trapped in the pool of classmates who asked her tons of questions about her family, life in London, reason to study here, etc.
Thanks god! Tsutako was there to help her or she could be starved until dinner because she had her special class which might not be finished until 6:30pm.
She still had another 2.5 hours before her final class so Yumi decided to help her classmates do some class cleaning. They became friend quickly due to Yumi's friendly attitude.
"Yumi-chan" Tsutako called Yumi when she saw Yumi already finished her cleaning. She wanted to ask Yumi a favor.
"Yes, Take...Tsutako-san." Yumi almost called her friend by her last name which might get her into trouble. (Perhaps making her become a photo model for years)
"Uhm..well..you know that I love to take photos. Right?" She sheepishly asked and scratched her head. She was carefully choosing words to ask her friend a favor.
Yumi wondered why her friend had to care about her words because she knew she would likely accept helping her friend. (Note: Yumi has reading mind ability.)
"Yeah. And you even carry your camera around unless you're in class. Hehehehe don't tell me you want me to become your...your model." Yumi said in amusing tone and giggled when she saw a pink tint on her friend's cheeks.
"Ah, no, no. It's just...oh...OK. Here."
She gave the picture that she took this early morning and hold it in front of Yumi. Yumi's eyes grew so big and her hands was con her wide open mouth. She was shock.
"Sorry. I couldn't resist myself capturing this scene. It was adorable, don't you think so?"
Yumi's POV
"Sorry, I can't accept it."
My voice was shaking when I replied her request even though my mind screamed the contrary. I knew that if I accepted to be her pettie soeur, I would have good reason to be around her all the time, but my pride of a Noblesse would not let me do so. Moreover, she just wanted to except from her assignment for the council this year. I would likely help her but I would never accept this king of reason to be with my love one.
Hence, I left after saying farewell to all Yamayurikai's members. I could see her shocking face because of my rejection and I mentally noted that I would make up for her later.
'Sorry, Sachiko.' I looked at her one last time and then I lest this place which was called Rose Mansion.
After I apologized to Tsutako since I could not help her get permission from Sachiko so she could publish it in school festival.
My feet kept moving without direction until I nearly tripped over some big rocks. I looked around and I found out I was in the middle of the wood. I weakly laughed at myself.
"Now, now, where the hell is this place." I mumble irritately in English. How could I let myself in this situation?
Looking at the digital watch on my mobile, I only had another 20 minutes to get to my last class which was located in the Forbidden Wood and the big question was: HOW COULD I GET THERE FROM HERE? "Could this day get any worse?"
*BANG*
I heard loud thud from my left side and I also sense a huge amount of power from that side so I started to run toward that side. When I got nearer I could here two female voices which were kind of familiar to me. However, being well train told me that I should know the situation first then intervene later. Hence I hid myself behind the big tree and see what really was going on over there. I also used my power to cover my scent and my power. (Maybe something like ninja skills)
My eyes went wide. 'Sachiko!' My mind screamed out her name because I could not believe in my eyes anymore.
Sachiko and one of her friends in the council were fighting with five ugly but quite powerful monsters. Let's see! I've seen these type of monster before.
Yeah, I remembered now. They were used for training young members of each Clan. Why they were here? It was okay if they fought separately but if they...nah...who could be able to do that?
Mom had said that these monster were not strong, but at the moment they merged with each other, they would become ten times stronger and it would only happen with the help of powerful shaman.
*Grrrrrrrrrr*Ahhhhhhhhhhh*
The loud sound dragged me out of my reverie.
I could not believe it, my worst fear had come true. Someone had chanted to merge those monster and...
"SACHIKO" her friend shouted to alert her about the attack behind her but it was too late. Her barrier had cracked and the sword was aimed directly at her face.
Fortunately, her friend, Rei Hasekura, had blocked the attack and pushed push Sachiko back. I saw her quickly form a barrier around her again. I frown and asked myself why she did not attack them like her friend. Even though I remembered she was not a active one in the battle but I'm sure with her power she could reduce those monster strength. Moreover, her wings were really strong it could make these monster flight back few feets. Well, at least.
'Where is your beautiful wings, Sachiko. Can you spread it out again for me?'
I thought currently I smiled like an idiot and in the middle of my love's fight, no less.
Rei was strong with her shinai but still not strong enough to defeat this monster. In order to kill them, she had to find their weakest point which was perhaps their eyes. Kill the monster meant injuring the shaman who casted the spell and it also meant that person was near here too.
'Where is he?' I looked around and tried to focus and find the trace of the spell.
My eyes opened when I recognized two different scent. Perhaps one of them was my target. I wondered if I should fight the shaman or kill this monster.
"Rei"
Rei got two slash on her shoulder and arm. It must be painful because blood was bleeding unstoppable. However, since Sachiko put her hand on her friends' shoulder, all the wounds was healed immediately. So this was her new power.
'Grrrr, stop stupid thought, Yumi. Focus on this.'
I looked around the find the suitable weapon to help them because I did not want to reveal my power yet. But the only thing I saw was rock and rock.
Normal's POV.
While Yumi was looking for the weapon, Sachiko was helping her friend who whimpered on the ground. Her eyes was still on the monster so she could strike back right away.
However, she could not predict that the monster split into two and attacked them at the same time. Rei was healed so she handled one at the time they attacked and Sachiko fought the rest. Her moves were good but not enough power to cause any damages on this creature.
At the time, Yumi found the good usable stick, the scream of paint made her heart stop. She immediately turned back and saw Sachiko was stabbed from her back by the other creature.
"SACHIKO"
She shouted painfully and ran right to her love one side without second thought. At this point she did not care about hiding her power anymore.
God! I'm suck at writing battle scene T_T
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I really don't know what will happen next, but one thing for sure the story isn't finished yet. (^.^)