Original- Eldris

[Nicktendonick]

Eldris
By Nicholas G.


Chapter 1 - Beware of sleeping ninjas

The boy yawned. The young teenager was sleeping in his bed, dreaming 1000 beautiful dreams. But of course, fate would make sure this would not last.

Soon enough, something disrupted the young boy’s sleep. Something was touching him. Not fully awake and aware, his brain only a quarter of the way on, he felt more of the lump of mass rubbed up against him, gently flowing across his chest and onto the other side of the bed.

It was like that for 15 minutes until his brain finally but began to kick on inch by inch. With his sleepy brain sending the command, his eyes opened slightly and he began to look. “Yep…” He though. An arm was definitely against his chest.

“What about the rest of the thing...” He thought, still not awake, his eyes slowly trailed to add in more information to the soon-to-be-awoke boy.

His eyes slowly trailed the path of the arm to figure out what the rest of it was.

“…hand…arm…shoulder…head…yep…” He computed, moving his head ever so slightly more to catch a glimpse at the sleeping figure that’s arm was wrapped around his.

“Yep… It’s a girl…” He finally concluded, now almost awake. “She’s right next to me….”

A moment passed as the thought sunk in.


“……………………….”


“………………………..”


“WAIT, WHAT!?” The boy’s eyes widened as fast as glass shattering.

The gears of the young man’s brain finally rocketed into full speed, then greased up and kicked into overdrive.

There was a girl lying in his bed.

On top of him.

Sleeping like a rock.

Within 5 seconds fried with shock, he jetted backwards away from the sleeping girl and launched himself right off the bed, landing backfirst onto the ground below in a loud oomph.

“W-what…what the heck!” He exclaimed on the ground, totally in shock.

The rocketfuel in his brain slowed down to normal, the boy’s mind returning to him.

“What…what the heck is going on.” He muttered to himself, bringing himself from his butt and back up right and on his knees. The teenager finally got his body up and got his chance to finally observe his sleepy intruder.

“If this is another one of Luna’s pranks…” He said just before he got his glimpse at the sleeping girl.

If it was just a party crasher, if it was some drunk girl from a party down the street, or even worse a robber who feel asleep on the job. That might be in realm of normal for our young hero.

“What?” He said to himself. “You’ve got to be kidding me”

Of course, if it was any of that we wouldn’t have a story now would we?

“A…a ninja?” He muttered.

Yes. A girl dressed completely in black, with ninja class sandals and a mask to boot.
The ninja girl laid there on his bed, unmoving and out cold like a corpse in a coffin.

The boy began to wonder how the heck this even happened. “How the heck did this even happen?”

See? Exactly like I said. Anyway, the boy stood up and began to think about how it could of happened. He slowly and easily ruled out the “sane” answers

He had no visitors the previous day, noone came over nor did any stay for the night.

He definitely didn’t get drunk last night. Aside that he doesn’t have nor would want to.

Both of them were fully clothed, so it’s not like anything naughty happened. Heaven forbid if it was he’d want to remember that.

Taking a look to his window, he discovered how the girl got in his room in the first place. The window not closed as it usually is, but blowing wide open. She got in through the window, like any good ninja would.

“So…who the heck is this girl?” He said to himself as he walked over to her side of the bed to get a better look. Studying her backside, he wondered if she actually was even alive. The girl was motionless in his bed. No motion, no anything. So to see if she was alive or not, he did what any reasonable person would do.

He poked her.

After the third poke, the motionless body finally did motion. The sleeping ninja moaned and rolled over on her back, muttering under her breath as her body tried to wake her up in failure. As quickly as she showed life, the ninja girl became motionless once again.

“Hm, better view” The boy said taking another look at the female ninja.

“But...what’s behind that mask…” He said.

He could see that she had short pink hair, but that was pretty much it. So, he reached in with his hand, and lifted and pulled the white mask of this mysterious sleeping ninja.

A young, cute revealed itself to the world. A girl that cute sleeping in his bed.

“She’s cuter then I thought” he thought with a little chuckle, something he’d never admit out loud. Well, unless I’m narrating it. Hahaha.

The boy at first tried to think how old this girl was.

“16…19…” He thought to himself. “Oh forget it I’m not even trying. I can never tell how old girls are now-a-days.” He thought to himself, remembering his previous mistakes of guessing a girl’s age. It earned him a fist to the gut.

Taking another guess at the girl’s figure, he noticed the girl had no weapons on her. He blew a sigh of relief. No bulges where they shouldn’t be, not really anything except for a medium sized bag she had around her waist attached to her belt.

“Hm. Probably her ninja tools or something” He said, letting curiosity get the better of him.

Leaning foreward, he reached for her, undid the strap and plucked the bag that was fastened by her waist. He quickly backed off and moved into the middle of his room, completely unaware of the sheathed katana that was by his bed.

“Let’s see what’s inside” He said out loud. He rummaged through it, and quickly felt something. Pulling it out. It was a smoke bomb.

Typical, for a ninja.

He took out other objects inside. A bandage cloth (they’re for wrapping wounds, of course), a Manriki Chain (a chain with heavy ends), those little ninja tacks (they’re called Caltrops people), a folded grappling hook with a rope attached to it (honestly, you people are idiots if you don’t know these things), and among them this weird rune or relic thingy that seems to have no purpose (ok ok, I take that back. I don’t know this one).

Which said thingy caught the eye of our young friend, he picked up. He gazed at it with his dark brown eyes, wondering what it could be. Many thoughts plowed through his head. What could it be?

A relic of an ancient statue?
A good luck charm?
Some rare archeological treasure from a forgotten age that’s worth millions (oh he wishes)
Maybe it’s some fragment of a broken seal that is supposed to seal an evil demon? (You read too much fantasy if you believe this)
A personal memento? (That could make sense, could be from her first mission or something)
Some magical stone that can do amazing things? (Insert your own joke here, I’m too lazy to do it)
Or it could be just a simple rock and it takes a whole season before our heroes find that out for themselves? (now wouldn’t that be funny)

Regardless of what it actually was, to our teenage friend it was nothing but a simple stone at the moment. Not much of a chance to analyze it whe…

The boy hears a moan. His eyes darted over to the ninja girl

She was moving.

Her legs kicked as she moved a little bit. The boy watched in shock and slight horror as the ninja that laid in his bed was about to awaken. While he was holding her stuff. Cue the “you idiot!” thought that rang in his head. He quickly placed the rock/relic/whatever thingy down neatly on his dresser right next to his other things and turned to the awakening ninja…

“ano…ther…five….minut….mom…” she muttered under her breath as she stopped moving once again, falling back into the deep sleep once again.

Boy was he lucky

Our boy blew a sigh of relief as he turned to his belongs messed across his room. It was like he generated a tornado in his bedroom, or at least that’s how he thought about it. It wasn’t a trash dump, but it wasn’t good either. Water bottle here, some clothes and newly purchased schoolbooks on the floor there, a grimoire on the floor next to it, video game stuff on his dresser, and some random stuff laying on to his computer desk.

You know, the usual.

The boy decided to do a half-assed clean up. If there was a girl about to awaken in his room, he might as bloody well. Besides, he remembers how Luna’s been bugging him to clean this room anyway. With good reason if you ask me. All of you kidos should clean your rooms.

He quickly went to work. Grabbing his clothes, that grimoire, and everything that was on his dresser the boy shoved everything into his closet with half-assed haste.

Looking around at the quick improvements, the boy decided it was enough (despite what yours truly believes).

He turned again to the ninja girl. Still sound asleep. As a matter of fact, the only sound in the room came from a bird outside chirping its song.

He thought to himself and decided to close the window. He didn’t want any loud noises from the outside to wake up his sleeping ninja friend. Heaven knows she’d have a bad reaction to that.

Although, what he didn’t notice was the girl. Her body moved as she began to wake up.

He walked up near the girl’s side of the bed, where the window was and he closed it, while the girl stretched her limbs and yawned as she slowly awoke from her slumber.

“There…” The boy said to himself, turning around to see the cute sleeping ninja girl.

Too bad she wasn’t asleep anymore.

He turned around and saw her. Laying on his bed, her head slightly kicked up to view the boy whose bed she invaded. They both glanced at eachother and their locked upon eachother. The boy’s dark brown eyes and the ninja girk’s lovely bright blue eyes.

This lasted for a moment as both looked at eachother in shock.

The boy’s intruder had just awakened
The girl found herself in a bed that wasn’t hers

The girl then catapulted herself backwards in shock, just like the boy upon his awakening.

She gasped in embarrassment “Oh my go…ahhhh-!”

And just like the boy, launched herself right off the bed, landing in the exact same place he did.

She shot back up, her body tense with embarrassment.

“Oh my god…what the heck happened?” She quickly said in her panic, looking left and right getting a glance at this place she just woke up in.

“I should be asking you that.” The boy said in response. “I was the one who woke up to find you in my bed latching onto me like a teddy bear. Why the heck did you break into my room?!”

“Um-um” said the girl, in her early morning panic, remembering the night before. “I’m very sorry!” She said with a traditional apologetic bow. The boy really didn’t expect her to say that.

“I was really tired, it dark outside, and I needed a place to rest for a moment. I didn’t think I’d fall asleep like that” the girl was red with her admission with panic and embarrassment fueling through her.

“Ahh…” He said as he took a yawn “Well. It’s alright. No harm no foul.” He was ok with it It was too early to get stressed out. It was definitly one heck of a weird way to wake up; but, nobody got hurt, nothing bad happened, and he managed to keep “that” hidden from a ninja, so everything’s ok.

“What brought you here anyway?” He asked, curious about what led this ninja girl to sleep in his room.

The Ninja almost answered “Well, I don’t think I’m al-”

“Nick?”

Both the boy and girl froze as a new voice revealed itself.

A voice from outside the door spoke.

“Nick, is that you?” said by a young and cute female voice. Around the voice of a 12 year old or so.

Both the girl and Nick, the boy looked at eachother quietly. Quickly, the girl became silent while the boy answered the call.

“Um yea Luna, It’s me. Everything’s fine” he calmly said.

“Who was that voice? I herd someone else in there.” Quickly followed with “Was that a girl in there?”

Nick walked up to the edge of the door, while the ninja girl just simple and silently turned around, looking at Nick and around the room.

“Oh, no no. Not at all. I-It’s just me Luna. The Tv was on. That’s all, nothing else.” He tried to say without sounding suspicious

Nick and the ninja girl could hear Luna, the cute sounding girl making a pouting like sound through the door, you know what I mean. It meant Luna didn’t exactly buy it.

“You do know what time it is right?” She said through the door.

His response was “Of course Luna.” But the truth was, of course not

Meanwhile, the ninja girl with some classic ninja skill moved silently across Nick’s (so called) clean room and found her sheathed katana on the floor next to the bed. She went and picked it up without making a sound.

“If you know then what are you doing in there?” She asked back

“I’m just…umm…cleaning the room a bit first.” He replied

“Now?” She said with a sigh. ”I’ve been telling you to do that. Why now?”

The ninja girl checked the katana sword, slowly sliding it out of its sheath. She scanned and examined the blade. It had a few scratches from the mission before, no damage to the handle, and a single nick (no pun int…ok pun intended).

“Everything in order” she thought to herself “Though that dried blood stain from last night probably won’t come out easily. Maybe Taro has som-” She thought before her inner thoughts were cut off by Luna’s response.

“We just moved here and in three days you manage to trash it.” She said with a verbal sigh “Did you know how hard it was to help pack up your stuff in your parent’s house when your room was so messed up? I couldn’t even sleep in your room that night before we left.”

The ninja girl turned her head to the side, getting the tailend of that last line. One eyebrow raised as curiosity ensured.

“Hey, you know what happened. I had to dig everything out before we left. I didn’t want to leave without having everything I needed”. He responded.

“What the heck is their relationship?” The ninja girl thought to herself. She’d soon find out.

“Master…” Luna said with a sigh.

“Master?” The Ninja girl thought to herself confused like a person walking halfway into a movie.

She could see Nick’s palm meet his forehead. He sighed, he knew how it sounded to the ninja girl. “Great Luna” he thought. He was doing fine up until this point.

He did try to stop it with “Luna, I re-“

But Luna interrupted him, not hearing him. “Master, I promised your mother I’d be a bit harder and I wouldn’t let you slack off like you did before when you were in training.” She said in her young voice

“And as the familiar of a magus, it is my duty to help take care of my master and ensure his well being. I made a promise and I’m going to keep that promise.” Luna said through the door.

Both their jaws dropped. The boy’s secret was blown.

Yep. He’s a mage. Didn’t see that coming now did you? (then you missed the grimoire mention then)
I bet I know what you’re thinking. You thought this was another one of those ordinary high school student meets magical girl type shows huh?

I laugh at you and your silly pre-conceived notions.

Ha.

Ha-ha

…..

…now… continuing on before I get sacked by the author’s grunts…

Luna finally dropped the bomb that the boy was avoiding the ninja behind him from finding out.

“…I made a promise I would and I’m going to keep that promise.” Luna said.

Nick’s jaw dropped as his palm met his face once again. “Juuussst Great Luna, just jam a knife in me while you’re at it” he thought “Give the ninja more of a reason to be hostile towards me”.

Boy was he right.

“Mag…us…“You’re…a…magus” the ninja girl muttered.

The girl was shocked at where she had apparently landed. Out of all the places she could have slept, if she slept anywhere else it would have just been mostly a minor ordeal, nothing she couldn’t have gotten out of. But a mage…that was another deal.

Her brain reminded her of what her last encounter with a mage was like. She doesn’t know that much, just the ones she’s encountered. And from what she knew, they don’t like intruders. They don’t like people peeking into their lives or seeing their craft, and most importantly they don’t let intruders leave in one piece.

And she just landed in the bed of one.

“ccccrrrraaaaappppp. This is bad, really bad.” rang through her head

Last time it was her brother who saved her life and bailed her out of her last encounter with that sociopath mage. This time, there was noone to help her, and she her brain drove the fear of what would happen if he got the upper hand.

A kunai was quickly collected in her left hand. She gave it a quick spin as she hid her left hand behind her back, ready to strike and take out the mage at a moment’s notice.

Meanwhile, Nick had no idea of his “friend” was planning.

Of course, the boy’s familiar had no idea of these events either, and continued her interrogation. “Master? Who is that? “I swear I herd som- “

“N-Nothing Luna, nothing at all Luna.” Said the boy trying not make this worse.

Luna didn’t buy it “I honestly thought I he-“

“It’s nothing. Really, it’s nothing at all” Nick said as his thoughts continued the sentence “Cept the ninja in my room.”

Luna wasn’t that happy with the response. But reluctantly she gave in, “…Ok Master, if you say so.”

Nick blew a slight sigh of relief. He wasn’t out of the woods yet.

“Um, Luna, Why don’t you go take out the cereal and get breakfast ready, I’ll be down in a minute to make it.” He said, hoping he’d be alive said minute later.

“Alright Master” she said with a song in her heart. “I’ll see you there.” She said just before Nick and the Ninja girl herd her walking away.

Her footsteps faded from earshot. The interruption was finally gone. Leaving the two finally alone once again.

Nick made the opportunity to turn around to begin to talk to his ninja “friend”, only to find a kunai pointed at his throat the moment he turned around.

Boy did he not see that one coming.

“I don’t want any trouble” Said the ninja girl holding the kunai. His eyes trailed down a bit to see the blade at his neck, he noticed the kunai slightly shaking in her hands.

“Is she scared?” flashed light speed though his head, before turning his eyes back up to the ninja girl and locking eyes with her. One wrong move and…

“I-I don’t either, listen…” Said the boy as he raised his hands in an attempt to calm the girl down. “I’m not any threat at all…can you please put down the knife-”

“Kunai.” She corrected him.

“My bad. S-sorry” He apologized. “I don’t want to cause any harm, I’m not dangerous at all. Please, can you please put down the kunai?”

Her rebuttal was quick and more direct then he thought. “How do I know that you don’t have any sinister plans for me if I drop my guard?”

“You have my word.” He vowed. “I wasn’t even thinking about that. Besides, if I actually was going to do anything to you I would have done it while you were asleep and not waited till you could fight back.” He responded back.

Boy was he right.

Logic snuffed out the fear inside the ninja girl rethinking her thoughts, his words sinking into her. A guilty conscious seeped into her for her jumpy actions.

She lowered her weapon. Nick could see the signs of guilt on her face.

“…I’m sorry…” he herd her say. “I…I haven’t had very good experiences with magi.”

“…I could see that.” He definitely answered. “There are some of us are who really warrant that attitude, and then there are those who aren’t sociopaths and live a normal life as much as a mage can. I’m one of the latter ones.”

Understanding, the two looked up at eachother. “It’s those lunatics who give us freelancers a bad name” Nick said back to the girl

“Freelancer?” She asked.

“I’m not affiliated with any organization. I don’t intend to any time soon either.” He answered.
“First time I heard it that way.” She said, a little bit of happiness in her tone and smile.

“You think I came here fleeing someone?” He piked back “Oh no, not at all, I’m here on a visit. Always wanted to visit this place.”

The ninja girl found her mask once again, and took it back. “Uh-huh” she said to Nick.

As much as we’d like to see a ninja and a mage talk, it had to end. “I..I need to get going” she said “I gotta make contact before they send someone out looking for me”.

It was Nick who went next “And who would that b-actually don’t answer that.” He said cutting himself off. There are some things better off not knowing.

The Ninja girl agreed. “Good choice” she said, quickly going to one last detail to deal with “And...well…about this morning…” she said blushing

“This moment never happened.” Nick said.

“Exactly what I was thinking.” Agreed the ninja girl, before sliding on her mask once and preparing to step out of the window.

She turned and faced the boy mage to say her final goodbye.

”Umm…well...welcome to Japan.” And with that, off she went. She did a ninja jump off the window and disappeared in the light of the rising sun.

This left our hero, the teenage mage Nicholas by himself. Leaving the world for one comment to top off this crazy scene he’s just been subjected to. He knew if this is how his day started, then…

“Today’s going to be one heck of a day…” He said.

Boy will he be right.





End chapter 1







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How would you react if you woke up with a ninja in your bed?


Well, I thought I’d finally reveal this a project of mine.

The main things that I’ve been writing these days are mostly darker stories (not Darker and Edgier, just not as happy), and eventually I decided I wanted to write something not a crapsack world for a change. Thus this idea began.

Ok, let me begin with the setup

It begins with our hero, (unabashed self insert) Nick waking up in his bed with a ninja girl sleeping right next to him. One comedic awakening scene later, we figure out more about our two. After a embarrassing awakening, the ninja girl apologizes and leaves (and accidentally leaves behind a plot device).

But not before learning Nick’s secret. Turns out our hero isn’t the ordinary high school student that’s normally panned in this role. He’s actually a magus.

Nick is a transfer student in Japan from the United States, here to join in the local private high school, the last gift of his deceased master in magic. With the opportunity of a lifetime, he jumped on his chance to go to the land of the rising sun for the school year, and at the same time try to find out why his master wanted him to go to this specific school as well.

Fate has funny timing, as Nick’s arrival will bring many more things to this town…

And thus begins our story…


Stay tuned for more!

[Nicktendonick]

Chapter 2- A matter of luck






Moments passed. And life resumed.

Now awake, it was time for Nick to get back on with his day. He opened the door and walked out into the hallway. It was a small apartment, but it was cozy none the less.

Nick scratched his head. “ahh…what a morning…I wonder where Lu”

And before he could ask fate answered his request

“MASTER!” He herd the voice.

Nick’s eyes widened. He recognized this tone before. He knew exactly what was about to happen. With just enough time, he could see the figure rushing towards him at light speed driving towards him like a cannonball.

There was nothing he could do.

A little girl with long blue hair crashed into Nick with the hug of a linebacker, taking Nick down and slamming the young magus into the ground below.

You know, like right out of that horror FPS video game sequel with that ghostly girl, you know the one, just without the horror, the ghost part, or what happens afterwards. Actually, it’s nothing like that at all.

As Nick hit the ground, he could feel the air being knocked straight out of him with a massive “oomph!”

The little lady who did this on the other hand, was smiling and as happy as could be.

“Master!” Said the familiar girl with a cheer in her heart with an extremely cute smile.

“Lu…na..” Nick managed to get out of him.

“Gooooood Morning Master!” She said in that adorable voice of hers. Nick looked straight at her. Luna was wearing what she usually wears. Luna wore a clean and pretty full length dress that perfectly matched the color of her long sea blue hair. Around her neck was a little red choker necklace and on her face was two lovely smiling sky blue eyes, all with that hyper adorable smile shined on her face.

Nick on the other hand, looked like the wind was knocked out of him. Which was true by the way. Hoarsely, he returned the greeting “Good Morning Luna” he said in a weak voice. Luna moved off Nick and allowed him to recover his breath.

“Sleep well?” She asked, on the side of Nick on her knees.

“For the most part” He said, ignoring how said sleep ended. Then a small little blue kitsune pounced on his stomach. Luna was no longer there, the kitsune was instead.

“I’m glad” said Luna’s voice coming from the little kitsune.

Nick’s wind returned. “Thanks Luna” giving the cuteie little kitsune that laid on his tummy a rub.

“Luna, please turn into a kitsune before you pounce on me…” He thought to himself, wishing his shapeshifting familiar would remember it one day.

Nick bent up and got back on his feet while Luna the kistune hopped off him and landed perfectly on all fours. Her magificant blue coat of fur was perfectly matched with the red choker necklace that was around the little kistune’s neck.

The shapeshifting familiar then followed Nick from behind as he walked into the kitchen area of his apartment.

“Anyway master, I did what you said and took out the cereal and the milk for us.” She said.

Nick turned around, and no longer saw the little fox, but the little girl

“Master, you said you do know what time it is right?” Luna innocently asked.

“Y-yea Luna.” He said back, just now remembering about that.

Nick walked past the refrigerator and took a look at the clock that was built into the oven.

And on cue the metaphorical bus hit him. “Ohhh…” He said with a priceless look, well, for us anyway. “crrraaapp…” he thought. His eyes widened in horror as he read the time that was on the clock.

“It’s 7:20 already?!” Rang through his head. “I gotta leave in a little over fifteen minutes!”

Luna sighed. She knew that was going to happen.

Nick stopped the take-it-easy mode and kicked into Nick’s-running-late-again mode.

The foolish boy quickly went through his ritual of getting ready to leave. Eating like a one of those generic anime protagonists, he quickly poured and devoured his breakfast, some cereal with a hint of milk with a cup of juice. Leaving Luna to clean up his mess, he dashed back into his room and got dressed, then burst out.

Instead of the simple pajamas he was once wearing, he was now wearing a simple white shirt with khaki colored pants. Nick was ready to bust out the door and to his school.

Nick’s eyes opened, showing he forgot something. He dashed right back in his room…

“Stupid me…forgot my shirt.” Frowned Nick.

Nick busted out again of his room again, sliding on a collared long-sleeved brown overshirt with a school shield on it. Only to stop in his tracks.

“…socks…”

He grumbled as he walked back inside his room and put his socks on. Luna sighed, watching the scene.

Luna nonchalantly walked across the living room and picked up the backpack that she convinced her master to get all ready the night before off their couch.

Nick slid out of his bedroom, now fully clothed and ready to go. He looked at the oven’s clock to double check the time. “Ok, I got to get out of here.”

Luna was a little more caught off guard then she should be. “Oh…ok master.” She said.

“You have everything you need?” She asked.

“Yep” He said as he went to go get on his shoes.

“Well, I really hope you have a good first day at school. I know you’re gonna enjoy it.” She said.

“I think so too Luna.” Nick replied, his shoes on. He moved over to the other side of the main room to the kitchen part, giving his hands a quick wash.

“I’m gonna see if Kazu wants to come over, if he does then I’ll give you a call, ok?”

Luna smiled “Kazuhira? Alright, It’ll be nice to see him again.

The cute familiar went into thought. “Ever since we came to japan, you two haven’t seen eachother yet huh?”

Nick slid on his backpack. “Pretty much. He told me to meet him at the school entrance.”

Nick was fully ready. “Alright, time to go.” Nick opened the door to the outside. “Luna, I’ll see you later.”

“Bye Master! Have a nice day!” Luna said with a lovely smile on her face.

With that, Nick stepped out the door and into the outside world.

Luna popped out of the door, giving a wave to Nick as he slowly went out of sight. When he finally was, she backed back inside, and closed the door with a lock.

Luna took a deep breath, her job done for now. The lovely little girl walked back towards the oven, taking another look at the timer.

“I can’t believe he never noticed.” Luna muttered to herself. “Master never did check the time did he…”

Luna began ticking the clock on the oven back. Minute after minute. Back to it’s original time. From 7:36 am, all the way back to 7:21 am.

“Well, like his father says, always be fifteen minutes ahead.” Luna thought to herself. Interesting end for how this attempt at humor turned out. “Oh well”. She said, then turned to cleaning up

With Luna finished all that was needed to be done, the foxgirl familiar yawned. It was time for a nap. She took a big round brown pet mattress that laid on the floor next to the couch and placed it on the couch.

As a kitsune, Luna hopped up on the couch and climbed onto the pet mattress, stretching out, laying down and getting ready to go to sleep. Though, there was one thing left she needed to ask.

“Mr. Narrator, you aren’t sounding like yourself. You haven’t been sarcastic or anything at all for this chapter.” Luna’s tone got a little more worrisome

“Is everything ok?” Said the kistune to the open ai…oh, she’s talking to me.

Yea, the author and I got in a bit of a argument. He said I was being annoying with my narrating style, and he sicked some of his OCs goons on me after I called him a hack.

Luna assumed human form, her face showing distress “Oh my!” said the adorable cutie in a oh so cute tone.

I’m perfectly fine my dear, no need to worry your cute little self over me.

“I won’t ask what else happened…but you know Mr. Narrator, you can’t be mean to Mr. Author, it’s not right”

Yea, I know, wouldn’t have a job without him.

Luna gave a amazingly perfect smile that only a goddess could smile. A little worried about something else, the loveable, cute, and super adorable familiar Luna spoke to me.

“And…uh…Mr. Narrator? Can you please narrate me differently? You’re making me sound very weird.”

I am?

“yeeepp” Luna said “Could you please stop?” Luna said in a adorable tone I couldn’t refuse.

For you, of course.

Luna smiled with a cu….Luna smiled happily to my response.

“Much better. Thanks Mr. Narrator” Luna said with glee.

Now, shouldn’t you be getting to sleep?

“Yeeeeep” she said to me

And with that, Luna yawns and drifted off. It was time for this kitsune to take a well needed nap. She could worry about the other things when she woke up.

But for now, the lovely kitsune and token loli of this story slept soundly on her cute pillow with the most addo..

“You’re doing it again Mr. Narrator.”

Oh…oh right.

With that out of the way and me nolonger bothering her, the familiar cuddled up in her bed and easily drifted off into dreamworld. And thus, the chapter came to it’s end.

Huh?

The chapter’s not over? That’s all there was in the chapter 2 script.

What the hell? I thought we were don…

Oh, Author? It’s you? What is it?

Uh-huh….uh-huh….

Seriously?

Uh-huh…uh-huh….

That was just the first half? So do you have the rest of it ready to go right?

Uh-huh…uh-huh…

Good. I don’t wanna spend a few months waiting for half a chapter to be fini…

“HEY! I said I was working on that!”

Yea yea, whatever.

“Just get on with the story. I don’t pay you to do nothing”

You pay me?

“Just get on with it.”

Ok ok…

Ahem. Now where were we? Ahhh…yes….Back to our protagonist.










For the first time in a long time school wasn’t a quick bus ride, a parent’s car ride, or just walking straight to school. This time for this school, our young mage would have to trek across the city, ride one of those crowded Japanese trains, and then walk a short distance to the school.

It’s time like this he wishes he had a car here.

Hahaha…keep dreaming kid.

Our kid hero traveled through the September weather and made his way down to the subway. Navigating through this maze of people on the subway station was much harder then he thought. Bumping through countless people, he grudged through and was shoved through the station.

Soon enough, the statement became quite literal. The American became like a fish in a Japanese river rapid being helplessly wooshed from one part of the terminal to another. And then he crashed offshore at the gate.

“Finally” he thought to himself as he got control over where he was going once again. Going through the subway’s inter gate, he made his way to the subway entrance. It was right on time. And as he walked towards the gate….

WHAM! He got rushed and was crammed into the train. One, then another, and another, the boy and everyone around him was crammed inside the train like a air compressed pack of sardines. People were stuffed up all around him.

This was the boy’s first experience on one of these trains. Take a big fat guess how much he liked it.

“How in hell do people do this everyday?” He pondered. I do too honestly. Glad I’m just a narrator here.

When Nick was crammed past the limit, the doors closed and took off. He was kinda sad, the person next to him had a window view. The boy on the other hand? A view into said gentleman’s backside.

With that the train bussed over the city’s railway systems. The ride wasn’t that long till it made it’s first stop, the business district of the city. Stopping and screaming with a loud noise as it came into the stop, the doors opened and many of the people began to get out. Well, that would be what was happening if the doors hadn’t locked up halfway through opening. Skinny people could have fit though to get out, but the fat guy that was at the door kinda blocked any chances of that.

The PA system above activated and the train operator’s voice rang over it.
“Our apologies, but there is currently a malfunction in our door system. We will get the door open momentarily. Please wait.”

Collectively as one, everyone on the train moaned.

“Great. I’m gonna be late on my first day…just…great…” Nick said in English, bemoaning his situation. Actually he’s not, but he doesn’t know that yet, the idiot still hasn’t checked the time.

Anyway, he’s gonna be here for a while, and unless you want me to talk about the fat guy on the train, I think it’s time we shift perspective.


---Meanwhile, below the train system on the city streets---

Running through the streets of the city, a lone pink haired schoolgirl made her way to school. The pink haired schoolgirl was going to the same school as our hero, as you already assumed. She wore a brown blazer with a white collared shirt underneath and a plaid miniskirt that ran down between her thighs and knees. On her shoulder rested the strap to her schoolbag.

After sprinting so far through the city, she stopped for a moment to catch her breath.


“With everything that happened this morning, I can’t believe I’m still on time…thank goodness…” She said to herself, still trying to catch her breath.

The girl then reached in her pocket and checked the time on her cell phone. “Right on time, the bus is just a little ahead” she said “Almost there…”
She quickly noticed a small yen coin on the ground “Oh hey, a yen” said the girl.

She gave a little smile, she felt her luck was beginning to turn around. She took the coin and the phone and put them back in her pocket.

The pink haired schoolgirl recovered her breath, walking around the corner to make a turn to continue her route.

“Helppppp!”

She peeked around the corner and saw another schoolgirl in distress. The girl, around the same height as her was being pulled away from the empty bus stop by a tall man dressed in a trenchcoat with a hat and shades hiding his face. The dark brown haired schoolgirl was being dragged off by this mysterious man. Unfortunately there was noone there to help the distressed damsel.

That was until the pink haired ninja schoolgirl entered the scene. Looking all around her, she formed a plan and quickly sprung into action.

“Let go!” Said the dark haired girl in distress. The man in the trenchcoat didn’t budge. “Someone help!” She cried again, trying to get someone to save her.

And the call was answered. Mentally preparing herself she silently sprinted towards them while the kidnapper was still struggling to move his victim away. He only realized the ninja schoolgirl coming straight for him only milliseconds before it happened. .

With a very small hop to make blow connect, the ninja’s clenched fist connected and punched the kidnapper straight into the face and took him down to the ground, his shades snapping in half as he hit the ground. Before the distressed damsel could react or say anything, the ninja schoolgirl grabbed her hand.

“Comeon, this way!” said the pink haired schoolgirl to the brown haired schoolgirl. The girl complied and followed as the two turned the corner together made off.

The kidnapper quickly got back on his feet. “That little…” he said to himself, quickly examining his broken shades before discarding them like trash. Seeing the way they went, the kidnapper perused. He turned the corner in a sprint to capture his target, but only to see neither of them.

Despite only being a few seconds behind, the girls were gone. He looked forward, he looked behind and in every other direction. The kidnapper even looked towards the corridor that was next to him, created by two buildings right next to eachother, but saw nothing from the shadow but an unnatural pure darkness that was thicker then a fog.

All and all, they were gone. Or so he thought

Unknown to him, the ninja girl let her fellow classmate into a narrow dark corridor between two buildings. The ninja girl’s hand covered her classmate’s mouth. Both remained silent they stood inside the shadows of the buildings. The ninja girl’s other hand was half of a hand sign.

While her eyes were staring at the kidnapper from the shadows, her mind was focused on maintaining what she was doing.

“You’ve got to be kidding. I lost them?.” Said the kidnapper in frustration. Both girls watched from the shadows as the man then saw something that caught his attention.

“The police!?” he said before taking off in the opposite direction of the sirens.

Moments later, the police car passed into the girl’s range of sight and apparently parked close to the street corner.

The pink haired schoolgirl whispered to her fellow future classmate.

“I think he’s gone. You stay here, I’ll get the police” She said, her hand letting up from covering the young classmate’s mouth.

On cue, the girl’s stressful panting resumed unmuffled. After a moment she nodded to the pink haired girl to go ahead.

The pink haired girl then stepped away from the wall and walked out of the alleyway to peruse the cops that had parked only a little bit away. As she walked out of the alleyway the light of the sun began to creek though and the rest of the alleyway began to brighten. It took a calm 20 seconds for her heavy breathing to stop and her to regain composure.

The young school standing in the alleyway took a final sigh of relief and adjusted her position, leaning against the back of the wall with her head tilted upwards looking into the sky. The thought did come about why the alleyway suddenly became brighter, but she didn’t think much of it. What did come to her pretty little head was the fact that she was almost kidnapped, and if it wasn’t for this pink haired schoolmate that came out of nowhere she would have…on second thought she didn’t want to think about it.

“Thank you” the schoolgirl said in her head.

The sun’s rays were gleaming though, and she averted her eyes and turned down to see a small yen coin on the ground. Most likey dropped by savior of a schoolgirl. The girl smiled and picked it up and took possession of it herself. At least now she can hold onto it and give it to her later. It made her feel like the day was turning around.

And yea, it is the same coin, FYI. This is fiction after all, you think things happen for no reason?

Hearing footsteps, she turned to the entrance of the alleyway to see her fellow schoolgirl and a police officer decked in blue walking next to her.

“Miss” the officer said “It’s safe to come out miss”

“Th-Thank you” She said before grabbing both girl’s bookbags and prodededing out into the bright light of the sidewalk.

“Apparently, whoever tried to take you got away before anyone noticed him.” The officer continued. “We’re very sorry miss. But you don’t need to worry about your safety. We should have gotten a picture of his face on our patrol car’s dashcam, so we’ll find out who he is and catch him.”

Good news. “Thank you. I’m sorry for being such trouble” She said back.

“What are you talking about? You almost got kidnapped at random by some creep. You have no reason to be sorry.” Said the ninja schoolgirl

“Yea” Said the brown haired school uneasily.

The pink haired schoolgirl put her arm on the brown haired schoolgirl’s arm.

“Hey, it’s ok. The officers just need to file a report, and everything’s going to be alright. Noone’s going to hurt you.” Said the pink schoolgirl

“I know…” She said back

The two girls and the officer walked to the empty bus stop and the cop car that had parked close to it. The officer opened up his seat and began to do a few things onto the computer that was in-between his seats and began to say some things to his partner in the car.

Meanwhile, the brown haired girl finally amassed the courage to talk to her savior. “Umm” Said the brown haired schoolgirl, trying to make a sentence come out.

“Yes?” The pink schoolgirl said, her attention gotten by the other girl.

After a moment, the brown girl finally said it. “Thank you” She said to her savior.

The pink haired schoolgirl gave a simple smile and answered easily. “Don’t mention it”

“Well...I should proba…"
And on cue, the thought finally hit the brown haired schoolgirl. Her hands came up to her mouth.

“Oh-my-gosh! The bus! We totally missed it.” She fretted.

It then struck the other girl noticing their bus far in the distance. “Oh no, you’re right” The pink schoolgirl realized.

“The first day, of all days” Fretted the brown haired girl. “How am I going to tell daddy? Oh he’s not gonna like this…”

And then the officer stepped in to save another day. “You girls don’t need to worry. My partner and I can give you a ride to your school.”

The brown haired girl reacted instantly. “Y-You can?” she said.

“Yea, we need to ask you a few questions anyway, and you two can answer them on the way there.” Answered the police officer “We wouldn’t want you two to miss your first day of school thanks to some lowlife.”

Both girls gave a little bow in appreciation.
“Thank you very much” they both said to him.

“Alright, you two take a seat in the back and we’ll be off” Said the officer as he slid into his car seat and closed the door.

“Umm...I should probably call my dad and tell him what happened. I really should let him know what’s going on.” Said the Brown haired girl.

“Oh, I never asked your name. I’m sorry. I’m Maya, Maya Kyoto.” Said Maya, the shy brown haired girl.

The Pink haired girl replied back to her. “Maya, that’s a nice name”

“Thank you” Maya said with a happy smile.

“And my name” began the Teenage Pink haired Ninja schoolgirl. ”and my name is…

“LEARN TO DRIVE IDIOT!”

The yelling of a random man in a car drowned out what the pink haired girl was saying.

“Um, I’m sorry. I didn’t hear you” Maya told her.

“Hm, weird.” She said back. The girl tried again, “Well, my name is..”

Only to be drowned out by the sounds of a beeping car horn, apparently from the same man. “WHAT DID I JUST SAY!” they herd him yell again.

The pink haired girl was displeased. Time for take three. “Okkkkkkk, third time’s the charm I guess. My name is…”

Only to be drowned by a loud horn. The sounds of the train above now deciding to roar and begin to move at such a convenient moment to block out the girls words.

Maya only saw the pink haired girl’s lips move. Both understood as she took a quick look at the girl. “You missed that huh?” said the pink haired girl, who confirmed it by looking straight at Maya. Both girls sighed.

“Ok, this is getting annoying.” Said the pink hair girl who was trying to get a simple piece of information across, only to fail comically each time. Fun to watch from our perch, am I right readers?.

The girl took offence to that. “OH, so you’re the one who’s causing this. Narrator, stop this. I really wanna be named.” She said accusing the ai…oh

Hey, don’t blame me, I don’t this cause stuff, I just focus the view and narrate it.

Maya then spoke. “But it’s been happening each time"

It’s just uh…unfortunate timing.

“Unfortunate timing my ass.” Said the girl with her hands on her sides “Maya, I’ll tell you in the car, nothing should interrupt us there ok?.” Said the unnamed pink haired girl.

Maya liked the idea. “Ok” she answered.

The unnamed pink haired ninja girl opened the door for her classmate. Maya quickly slid into the far end of the police car, quickly followed by the unnamed pink haired girl going into the police car herself. All while giving me a quick glare, determined to overcome me and her namelessness.

I would grin, but you people couldn’t see that. Around here after all, I’m just a disembodied voice.

The door closed behind the ninja schoolgirl as Maya put on her seatbelt, the other girl on the other hand did not.

“Who were you two girls talking to?” Said the police officer in the driver’s seat.

“Uhhh…” Both girls said. “Just us?” trying to restore the tattered fourth wall.

“Well ok” the cop was easily convinced. “Anyway, let’s be off.” Said the cop as he started up the car.

“Ok, now it seems like it’s safe” Said the pink haired ninja girl, taking a glimpse at the moving train above them.

“My name is” Said the pink haired ninja girl, wanting to be done with this nonsense.

Actually… now that the train is moving once more, I think it’s time I think we jump back to our male lead

“Huh? Oh come on! Let me at lea-







---A few minutes earlier, above the city streets inside the train---




Hahaha…don’t mess with me ninja girl.

Back to the magus, Nicholas’s situation was about to improve since we last saw him, much better then what’s her name. heh.

Anyway, the doors had managed to open along with the PA ringing above them all.

“We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and malfunction in our door system.” It said “Apparently, an kunai of all things was had logged into a gear and prevented the door from opening. What are the odds of that happening?”

Plenty, I’d say.

The PA system spoke once more “The doors are working now and we’ll be back moving shortly. If you are leaving, please carry take your belongings and take them off the station grounds. If not, sit back and enjoy your ride.”

“Ninja in japan…figures” Nick muttered to himself, knowing he had met the cause of this delay earlier in the morning.

“Stupid foreigner” commented the gentlemen under his breath as unlogged himself from his position at the window and made his way towards the doors.

Nick sighed. Yea, definitely a comment like that would get a response like that. Nick thought about that as he turned around and watched the sight of the whole lot of businessmen and women got out of the overstuffed train car all at once, flooding out like blood in a Quentin Tarantino movie.

Nick took this chance and moved up to get a good window view of the city. He looked outside the open window to view the area below him. Apparently, below was the business district. He took a gander at the sight of all the people below moving around, crossing traffic and the whatnot. He even saw a police car and two girls next to it. One was Maya, and the other was what’s-her-name.

Though, he had to admit, it was pretty loud down there right now. The loud horn of the train roared, the train was beginning to move once again.
The doors behind him had already closed, the next round of people had seeped in without his notice. The PA system went on, telling in Japanese the standard procedure and safety things.

Nick turned back to the window. Suddenly, he hear a loud yell from down in the street.

Aw crap it’s what’s-her-name’s voice. “YOU JACKASS! MY NAME’S M-

Nick closed the window, cutting off the voice. “Man, it’s way too loud outside.” Nick said to himself in english.

Wow…hahahaha. That just went perfectly. And I didn’t even do anything.

Nick turned around and took a view at the new setup of the train. There were far less people inside it. Many seemed like normal people, not all the suits that crammed inside the train earlier. This was about the size of what he’d imagine a train to contain. Almost full.

Among them, he saw another figure dressed in a school uniform just like him. Looking at the back of his head, he saw red hair.

Nick left his glorious window seat and moved towards the redhead.

“Kazu?” Nick thought to himself. Of course, he didn’t want to embarrass himself like a idiot.

So like an even bigger idiot instead of introducing himself he decided to just say something…”harmless”. Something he knew only one person would respond to.

So he thought….

“DarkHadouX?” He quietly said near the redhead.

The figure turned around him. It wasn’t the person he was thinking of at all. It was a big, fat, redheaded Australian person.
“Dark Hadou X? What type of stupid name is that?” yelled the fat person in english before everyone on the train then started laughing at the boy. The boy was horribly shamed.

And so he thought….

“Yeaaa…that’s not a good idea”. The above playout now sounding like a good idea anymore

“Plain and basic?” He thought to himself, as a different approach “Yep, plain and basic”

Nick got close to the redhead and spoke a name. For real this time.

“Kazuhira?”

The boy’s ears picked up.

“Yep that’s him.” He thought.

The redhead turned around.

“Nick?” Said the redhead.

“Kazu?” Nick said back.

Both boys recognized eachother, and were more then happy to see the other.

“Hey man!” Nick said,
“Nick! Finally!” Kazu said back.

Both boys reached out their hands and shook hands and a little shoulder bump as well.

“Glad you could finally make it!” Kazu said to his friend.

“Me too. Been quite a ride getting here.” Nick said back, followed by placing his hands on the back of his neck and stretching.

Nick spoke more “You would not believe the stuff I’ve been through for the past few days. Hell, it was a little adventure on it’s own just getting to the city and getting to my place.”

“We got a bit till the train reaches our stop. Wanna tell?” Kazu asked.

Of course he did. “Sure. First off, the directions we were given were all wrong. The online map I printed out gave the wrong directions. If it wasn’t for Luna I probably would have been halfway on the other side of the country. Then there was the whole thing with immigration and the mistake with my Japanese ID.”

Kazu lightly chuckled under his breath. “So it happened to you too huh? Can I see it?”

“Yea, why not.” Nick answered aphetically, reaching into his bag and pulling out the identification.

Kazu flipped it open and took looked for the mistake. He held back the laughter upon seeing the mistake.

“Nicholas Gia?” He asked.

“Yea, yea, I know” Nick said “Bloody thing pissed me off. They got my last name wrong.”

Kazu knew what to say. “You know this happened because you joked about my passport when I was in America. It’s karma man. Did you tried to get the name fixed? It worked for me.”

“I tried, not succeeded.” Nick quipped “Unlike in the States, they weren’t as understanding. I found out it doesn’t really work like that here. I’d rather not start a fight with immigration and customs the second I get inside the country.”

“Hey, on the bright side it’s not as embarrassing what mine said.” Kazu said.

“….” Kazu saw nick’s lower corner of his lip grin.

Kazu frowned. “Hey, don’t say it. They called me that out loud when they introduced me in that tournament. Man that was embarrassing.”

Shame, I’d love to narrate that. Probably be a good laugh. Can’t we flashback that or something to that moment?

…..

We can’t? Curses.

Not liking the subject, Kazu made a proverbial B-line to change the subject “So, what else happened?

Nick took the bait and continued “I almost lost my apartment as well. I had to talk it over with the landlord, he almost gave away the apartment to someone else. With that said delay and the fact that I had a different ID he thought I never came to Japan, and thought I was a different person then the one who bought it.

“I’m just glad I accidentally brought my driver’s permit with me.” He said, meaning his U.S. Driver’s learner’s permit. “And in the end it all worked out, well if it wasn’t for the barebones furniture.”

“Oh yea, I forgot to ask you about that.” Kazu remembered “Didn’t you say that there was already some furniture already there?”

“Yea. Should have asked him what was in there. All there was a few items, one bed, a table and fridge. I suppose it was a good sacrifice for the low price of the rooming...or something.” Said Nick, trying to find a silver lining

It was the redhead’s turn to yap “Like I said before, if you need some extra stuff, my family has some stuff in the storage you could use to sleep in and few more things. Mom always keeps it in case of guests, I doubt she’d have any problem with you borrowing it for a while. The offer’s always open.”

“Oh no, I’d good.” Nick answered “I managed to bring practically bring my entire room here. My bed too.”

To the abnormal statement of bringing a room halfway across the planet. Kazu simply asked, “And how’d you do that?”

“You know how” Nick said, giving a nod about what he meant. “ My packing skills are practically “magic”.” Said the young mage

Kazu smirked, he knew what he meant. “I see, I see. You really need to show to do that sometime.”

“I suppose I do.” Nick said “And we got all the time to do it too.”

The train stopped. And with it the mass influx of people coming in and out occurred once again. Both Nick and Kazu held on to the bars, trying not to get swept up by the human river rapid.

“This stop’s the one we go on” Kazu said, holding onto a bar as the doors finished opening.

After the initial flood ceased, Kazu walked out of the bus.

Nick followed afterwards, but before he took a deep breath in to calm himself.

Kazu quickly noticed “Nick, you ready for the first day of school in Japan?”

“Yea....I’m just a little nervous.” Nick said

Kazu gave nick a strong pat on the back “Don’t be! You’re gonna do fine. Besides, today’s the easy day.” Kazuhira said. “Today is just a half day to introduce us to the school. From what I know, we’re going to meet for opening assembly and go visit each of our classes for a little introduction into each. If it’s anything like last year, that should be it and we should be done a little after lunch.”

Before Nick could thank him, a third, female voice introduced itself into the conversation.

“Not quite so Mr. Nukite.” She said. “The facility decided to add a new event this year. We’re having a little mixer for the first year students and all other new students to the school.”

Kazu knew immediately who was speaking to him. Nick…didn’t.

“Miss Harting?!” Kazu said in surprise. Both boys turned to the adult next to them with a slight smile on her face.

The adult had medium long hair with shining gold eyes. Nick was quickly able to tell that like him, she wasn’t Japanese herself. She was wrapped up in a big black coat that covered her mostly up from the cold winds. She was about 5’4 or so with a pleasant frame. Her’s was not too big, but not too small.

Sounds like my kind of woman.

“We decided on it a few days ago, and we sent out the letter to all the participating parents.” Said the lovely woman. “Since it was on short notice, we decided not to send it to the students who wouldn’t be taking a part in it.”

She kept pace with the two students as they walked out of the train station and back onto the streets.

“I’m glad you managed to make it this year Mr Nukite”. Right on time too.

Before Nick could raise introduce himself Kazu stepped up to the plate to introduce him.

“Miss Harting, this is my friend.” Kazu introduced “This is the student from the States.”

She was delighted. “Ahhhh, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you. I'm Nora Harting. I’ve herd much about you from the principal himself.”

Nick did the generic double eye blink. “You have?”

“Why ye-“ She was cut off.

Ring-ring-ring….ring-ring-ring

The cell phone of Ms. Harting rang. She immediately picked it up and checked the caller.

“Shame.” She said with a sigh “It seems like we don’t have time to talk right now. I really have to take this call. You two go on ahead. I need to stay behind and answer this.”

They both replied with a “yes maam”.

Nora talked some more “Both you boys should have me for chemistry, I’ll tell you more there in class today ok?”

Kazu’s instincts sprung into action “Wait, quickly, you know the schedules?” He said.

“Of course.” She instantly replied back.

“Who do I have for homeroom?” Kazuhira quickly asked.

It only took a millisecond to answer his question “You have Sayori Miku.”

Kazu clenched his fist and pulled it in. It was exactly the person he wanted.

“Yes! Thank you Miss Harting.” Kazu thanked

“You’re welcome, you boys have a nice day” She said with a smile as she flipped her phone open

She quickly answered the phone right in the nick of time before the call was lost.

“Hi there, good to hear from you…” She said.

She began to pace in the opposite direction, to get away from all the people walking out from the train station.

“Yea I’m all ears.” She said. “Tell me what happened….”

Both boys moved on. They were almost there at the school gates. Looking around you could see the many other teens in uniforms. Both saw the other teens and the cute girls going by. A few were running, others were walking, others were talking.

A cold fall wind blew by.

The boys had the udder opposite reactions to it. Kazu shivered from the cold while Nick reveled in the nice cool breeze.

“It’s been way too long” Nick said. “I’ve almost forgotten how this feels.”

Kazu looked at his friend like he just committed murder.

Kazu spoke. “Please, this sucks. I wish it was summer.”

“Not where I live. In the summer it’s just way too hot.” Nick quipped back. “It’s hotter then anything”

“I think I might like that” Kazu said.

“Heh-heh, once of these days I’ll have to take you there and then you’ll see for yourself.”

“Oh yea...” Nick’s memory kicked back up a question he had forgot to ask, “Who’s Sayori Miku?”

Instead of answering normally, Kazu grinned and only answered, “You’ll see.”

Foreboding, huh?

“Huh”? Nick replied.

“It’s too much to just try to explain her.” Kazu smirked “You’ll have to see it for yourself” Kazu echoed

Nick sighed yet agreed. “I guess I’ll see then. You haven’t disappointed before….”

“…And I don’t intend to anytime soon.” Kazu finished. “and now something definitely to impress you.”

All of the school kids began to focus and head past an open gate.

Kazu smirked, “My American friend, I present you to our school.”

On a small hill, a high school structure came into view.

Kazu walked infront of Nick and introduced him to the place where he’d be learning for the school year.

“Welcome to Four Winds High!”

The majestic school came into view. Nick gazed at the school, taking a big deep “wow” at the school. It looked similar to what one would imagine a normal Japanese high school to be. It was in a round rectangular shape, 2 floors or so tall.

Infront of the entrance, a large statue of a man in bronze stood, holding a sword and a plaque on the bottom. Nick took in the whole sight at once, both him and the girl next to him looked at their new school and took the big deep wow together.

“I love this view, the school always looks so good. The Principal always makes sure it’s in tip top shape.” Kazuhira quipped.

“It definitely pays off” added the girl “Looks beautiful”

“You can say that again---” Nick said before getting cut off by the giant

BRRRRRIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG

The first bell of the school year rang. The kids sped up, moving through the school entrance faster heading inside the main building.

“Wait…”Nick stopped in his tracks. His face froze in shock.

The memories flooded in.
He turned around back in the direction of “her”.
He looked, and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing. Whatever she was,the girl next to him was gone.

“Nick?” said the voice of familiar redhead. “You ok? Looks like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“Yea…yea I am. It’s nothing.” Said the boy as he regained his composure.

“I thought I saw-oh-crud-the-time” Nick thoughts snapped out loud. “That was the first bell, wasn’t it.”

“Nick?” Kazu said confused.

“Ah Jeeze we’re late. Sorry I made you late on the first day, thanks for staying behind with me and helping me out.”

“What are you talking about?” Kazu said confused “We’re more then ahead of time today. We’re fifteen minutes ahead if my clock is right.”

“Oh good.” Nick said relieved “Glad that I we’re ear………”

“Wait. What?”



Passing by him, two girls walked into the school doors…aside from. You know, the hundreds of other students going in.

“That’s really odd. So they ring the bell once early on the first school day just to get all the student’s acts together.“ said the schoolgirl with pink hair to Maya.

“Pretty much Sempai.” Answered the brunette schoolgirl. “The principal likes to keep his students on their toes.”

The pink haired girl sighed a great sigh. “Why am I not surprised.” She lamented.

Maya was inquisitive. “Sounds like your last school was rough.”

“You can say that again.” Said the girl, recalling the memories. “It was too much. It took a bunch to convince my parents to let me go here. I’m just really happy I did”

“I see.” Maya said.

“What about you Maya? Asked the pink haired ninja girl. “It sounds like you’ve been here before, but you said you’re a first year right?”

“I have sempai.” Maya answered. “I’m in advanced placement. I took a few classes while I was in middle school.”

The ninja girl was very impressed. This cute little kohai was more then what she seemed.
“wow…” she could only say.

Maya noticed the giant clock at the school entranceway. “Anyway I got to go now sempai. I need to do something before I head to my homeroom. It was great meeting you sempai. I’ll see you around.”

With that Maya passed through the flood of students heading the opposite way, happy that she just made a new friend.

Alone in the crowd of students, the pink haired schoolgirl began to walk towards the homeroom sheet. Making her way through the crowd, she looked up her classroom and headed off to her homeroom.

“Man, what a wild start. I really hope the rest of the year isn’t like at.” She said. “Well, at least this can’t be any worse then my dad’s homeschooling.”

We’ll see about that ninja girl…we’ll see about that.

“Alright, my first high school experience” she said psyching herself up.

“Here we go”














And that’s the end of the chapter. For real this time.

About time too.

If you’ll excuse me…I need a smoke.