"Rare Changes, Ruby and Friend"
ยต's side

Honoka was surrounded by her friends constantly, being the energetic and charismatic girl she was, she was pretty popular amongst second and third years, and there was no doubt that she would end up getting along with the current first years.

There were only a few things that could ruin the mood of the brunette and she was always ready to give a hand to anyone who needed it.

But it goes without saying that there were things that could upset her in matter of seconds.

Saying her strict friend's name would cause a sad smile to appear on her face and her designer friend's name makes her frown.

Thanks to the 'little' fight she had with her two best friends, things changed a bit. It ended what was normal for Umi, in the way Honoka always frowned at her and would only talk in small amounts.

Not to say that Umi didn't feel bad and lonely without her two best friends.

Good enough that she had archery practice with Rin and Nozomi beside her, they were always eager to not let her sink in the deepest possible loneliness.

It didn't seem to be a problem to Honoka, who at the moment was sitting and talking with Hideko, Fumiko and Mika.

Their maths teacher got into the classroom, urging her classmates to take their seats and get their notebooks.

Umi noticed an empty seat in front of her, was she sick? How unusual.

During classes Umi would look behind her and watch as her friend started to doze off, in different times she would scold her for being too lazy and Kotori would smile trying to calm down the situation; but Honoka won't hear her now, only if she went too far.

Someone knocked on the door, interrupting the lecture and grabbing the attention of the students and teacher.

It was their homeroom teacher who excused herself before walking towards their maths teacher.

"Sorry for getting in the way of your interesting math class," She started, sarcasm lacing her voice as she watched Honoka sleep. "Kousaka wake up!"

Umi heard the sound of her friend jolting awake and sighed.

"A pair of odd adjustments were made and there's two news, first, your classmate Sakurauchi Riko moved to Shizuoka and will no longer attend Otonokizaka."

Umi could remember that Sakurauchi girl, she was reserved and quiet spending half of her time going unnoticed, almost always eating by herself in the music room, she was friends with Maki too.

"The other one is that you have a new classmate, she's from an exchange program, but since she's Japanese it might be that some of you already know her." The teacher turned at the door, as a silver-haired girl walked into the room. "Her name is Minami Kotori. Please introduce yourself Minami-san."

Umi was kind of left breathless when her friend walked in, lots of emotions and thoughts crossing her mind as all she could think clearly was: 'Was Kotori this stunning before?' And a chill crept up her spine when the word 'shiny' echoed in her head.

"Nice to meet you." Kotori started talking, showing a soft american accent "My name is Kotori Minami, I went overseas to study fashion design as a part of an exchange program, now that I'm back my dream is to be a professional designer. Let's get along well."

Even through the soft and calm voice she used Umi could recognize her friends natural tone, the soft gaze that she would always give to Honoka and the hair loop on the right side of her head.

She was Minami Kotori.

Umi almost jumped out of the pure joy of seeing her, maybe Honoka would, but she could keep her cool most of the time.

Waiting for a reaction that never came Umi looked back at Honoka, and found her staring nonchalantly at the window.

Honoka turned slightly to see Umi and then Kotori, Umi turned at Kotori who was shifting her gaze between them.

"Well then, we should get back to class, Minami-san, take seat in Sakurauchi's former seat, right there." The teacher pointed at the only empty seat in the room, in front of Umi, the girl obeyed and walked over and sat. The sudden tension going unnoticed as everyone returned their attention to the class.

"Sonoda-san, lets get along well." She said before sitting, giggling at her.

"Oh, right." Umi was left speechless by the whole show that just started, wondering what would happen once lunch break starts.

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Aquors side

Chika was left with no other choice but to start scouting for the minimum number of members she would need to form her club.

As the only way she knew how to recruit members was to try and convince every other random student that crossed the school gates, things weren't going as smooth.

Soon enough, most of the students would be inside the building.

"Chika-chan!" She looked behind her, finding You at her side saluting in her trademark pose, "Any luck with scouting?"

"Not really," She brushed off her own bad luck as if it was nothing, but then smiled mischievously and circled her arm around her best friend's shoulders, "That reminds me miss, are you interested in-"

"No, I'm not, thanks." You cuts in, still smiling.

"Figures," Chika didn't even insist, just pouted, "But you don't need to be so rude, You meanie." She muttered, not saying anything else as something caught her attention.

"Sorry, Chika-chan, but you know I'm bus-" You was cut when her friend ran off, right to a pair of girls, if she had to comment, they were kinda cute.

"Hey girls!" She intercepted them with a smile, startling the redhead who hid behind the other girl's back, the girl just put her arm spread out in a protective manner, "Are you interested in school idols?" Chika practically shoved a flier in the face of the girl, who just pulled back and grimaced, looking at the flier with suspicion.

"Is this some kind of trick from the heavenly forces?" The girl mumbled to herself.

"Trick from whom?" Even so Chika could hear her.

The girl was about to say something when Chika's attention flew to the redhead behind her, who was analyzing the flier, she moved the flier a few times not being able to distract the girl.

"Are you interested!?"

"Do you do any lives!?" The girl answered cheerfully.

"No, we're only starting, that's why we need a cutie like you." At this Chika grabbed her hand. She could hear the other girl mutter 'Crap!' before the girl went from normal, to pale to red.

"Pigyaaaaaaaaah!" The girl's scream made Chika jump backwards and fall onto the ground.

"My favorite little demon is kind of a noisy one, she'd freak out if you touch her." The other girl said, covering her ears with her hands.

Chika noticed her error and tried to correct it, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know, I'll make up to you later, but right now let's just chill out." Or at least she tried, but then she grabbed her by the shoulders, something that made the girl even paler than before and run away.

"Wa-!? wait! Ruby!" The other girl chased after her leaving Chika with a blank stare on her face.

"Did I scare her off?"