A/N: College has started. Boo... D: And just as my craze for a Nitendo DS Lite has started because there's a few games I want, especially one by the name of Hiiro no Kakera or Scarlet Fragment. I want that game.. want it sooooooo badly.
So what can I do? I've started to write.. and omg, it's a major crossover again, especially when I should be SO focusing on this year's Inter! >.<
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Demons, Life and Homework
MazdaKitsune
So what can I do? I've started to write.. and omg, it's a major crossover again, especially when I should be SO focusing on this year's Inter! >.<
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Demons, Life and Homework
MazdaKitsune
Chapter1- Welcome to College
The half-tanned long, black haired girl with emerald eyes looked up at the building before her and readjusted her white beret-cap on her head, doing a quick check on her clothes before she walked up the stairs to her college. Her new sandals still looking new? Check. Black boot cut jeans that hung on her hips fitted nicely? Check. Her purple top that clung to her fgure tidy and clean? Check. Everything was neat to her. Still, she couldn't help that churning feeling in her stomach as she climbed the stairs and pushed open the glass door, butterflies playing around to make her nervous.
'Come on, Hisui...' Jade Castero aka Hisui Kairi thought to herself as she eyed the group of students sitting around in the Lobby, none of which she recognized. 'This is ridiculous. It's my second year here and here I am, acting as if it's my first. I passed my A-levels, what's there to be nervous about? 19, you're 19.. act 19. You're an Intermediate senior now. Buck up!'
"Hisui!" A shock of golden hair appeared in front of her face and she was almost bowled over by Ririn or Lilith-Anne Vermouth, her coursemate from the A-levels of January the previous year. "You're here too!"
"Lilith!" Hisui gave a squeal of shock and hugged the other girl tightly, feeling a whole lot happier and better now that she had a friend with her. "Like oh my God, can you believe I passed?! I literally passed.. with an E in law!"
"I know, Risa told me!" Ririn grinned, referring to another friend that was missing at the instant. "She said you didn't show up to get your results, but came to register on the Preview day. What happened?"
"I know, I know... sorry." Hisui looked sheepish. "I got so terrified about failing and having to repeat, I just decided not to go get it until a week later. It was stupid, I know... but still.." She struck a pose and announced. "I passed!! There is a God!"
Laughter broke out between the two girls and Ririn linked her arm with hers, dragging her over to the lifts so they could get to the fifth floor, where the reception desk and the library were. "You didn't turn up for prom either, I got so worried. And did you just get even tanner?" She held Hisui back by an arms' length, narrowing her eyes. "I knew it! You're darker than before! Your skin is like a really golden-brown.. Hi-chan.. you remind me of a turkey!"
"I know!"Hisui moaned as the lift doors opened and they got in, pressing the number 5 button. "I went out to Wet World on the 1st of January with May, Shana, Michelle.. three other girls and their friends. We got into the water at 11 after a trek through the entire park because we got lost, and came out at 4. Michelle got sunburned, I got a tan. And it's not going to come off for a long, long time."
"I envy you," the golden-haired said with a pout. "I've always wanted a tan like that."
"Not when everyone compares you to a turkey," Hisui said mournfully as they reached their floor and she held the lift open for a lecturer to get in before they both went out. "Honestly, I preferred my slight tan. That way I wasn't too dark, and wasn't too fair.. but a golden-brown? No, not me."
"Your hair grew out much longer too." Ririn noted, leading the way to the cashier counter to get their Student Passes. "You had a Rhianna styled haircut before, didn't you? That was really short, although the bob suited your face... talking about that.. look who's here..?"
Hisui touched her hair self-consiously, running a hand through it. She had ran it through the straightening irons just make it look straight and neat that day, although it was already straight enough. It had been longer, up till her waist, but after her break-up the year before, had chopped it all off to a short bob in a fit of rebellion and anger. Now it barely fell to the small of her back, but at least it had grown rather long again. And talking about break-ups...
A certain loud-mouthed, silver haired teen stood surrounded by girls, all giggling as he entertained them with stories about himself. Dante Sparda was his usal flirty self, charming the junior girls with his looks and wit. His azure-blue eyes looked up when the two girls walked into the area and met Hisui's, obviously a bit surprised, but before he could lift his arm and hail her, she turned away with a bitter look in her eyes, pulling on Ririn's arm. "Come on, let's go over there. It's too crowded here because someone brought a whole harem with him."
Her words were thoroughly laced with sarcasm, and some of the girls gave her venomous looks although they didn't dare do anything to a senior. Dante however, just looked away as she tugged Ririn to the other end of the counter. The golden-haired girl simply sighed and looked closely at her friend. "You haven't forgiven him, have you?"
"Rin... Drop it." Hisui re-adjusted her beret-cap over her hair and ran her fingers through part of her fringe that fell over her eyes before giving their names to the flustered looking cashier who was looking through a box full of cards, overwhelmed by the amount of students crowding him. "I don't like talking about it... I don't even want to look at his face for now. God, I wish he hadn't passed at all......"
"Dante didn't pass." A cold voice said and they looked up to see Vergil Sparda standing next to them, also waiting patiently for his Student Pass. In contrast to his twin, who was in jeans and a red basketball jersey, Vergil wore a dark blue shirt, neatly tucked into a pair of black pants. "He's repeating the A-levels again and taking the June exams, so you'll be Dante-free for a year." His blue eyes swept over her and he reached out a hand for his card, asking politely for theirs too since the girls couldn't exactly reach the cashier. "My brother's an ass. I'm sorry for what he did to you, but your friend is right. You should forget it. Here." He passed them their card and tags before carving a path out of the body of students in front of them. "I'll be seeing you during class, then. And Lilith, that shirt clashes with your hair."
"It's Ririn, and thanks a lot, Ice Queen. I don't know why he insists on calling me by my French name.. honestly, who would want to be named after a succubus?" Ririn mumbled as she slid the red tag over her head, letting it hang from her neck. "Both brothers are asses.... but is he right? Does this shirt clash with my hair?" She showed off her bright green and black shirt to Hisui and the other girl nodded after a scrutinizing look.
"That bright green is rather sharp on the eyes, you know..."
"I knew it! I am going to KILL Dominique for this!!"Ririn raged, shaking her fist at the thought of her older second brother. "He just wanted to prank me on my first day back in college!!! Arrggh! I am so going to MURDER him!"
"Or.. maybe he has no fashion sense.." Hisui sweatdropped. While Ririn hated her name with a passion and used the Japanese equivalent for it, she used her brothers's names freely although they constantly teased her about wanting to get Japanese names too. "I'm going to see if the computer lab is free for a bit before the orientation starts... want to come along with me?"
"Nah.. I spy with my little eye a certain brown haired person with my entire group there." Ririn gave a quiet squeal as a group of three walked out of the lifts, a girl with flaming red hair, a brown haired boy with another dark-haired guy wearing a cap. "Holy crap, Densuke-kun passed too?! I'll see you later, Hi-chan.. I'm sorry, but I gotta go catch up with them!"
"It's fine, go chase your future husband, Rin-chan." Hisui grinned and watched as her friend took off like a rocket from her side, going after her love-interest. "About time too..." she muttered to herself as she turned to fight her way through to the stairs. "They've been giving each other eyes since they met during the first class last year... love at first sight, geez... Ouch!"
Somebody had totally ran into her, and she collided head-first with another person painfully. "Dammit!"
"Watch where you're going." A rather deep male voice said, and she looked up to see dark red hair and striking purple eyes that were now narrowed into a glare at her.
"Excuse me, you watch where you're going!"Hisui glared back, and would have flipped him the finger if there weren't anybody else around. Instead, she just pulled herself up to her full height... only managing to reach his shoulder, she belatedly realized, and placed a hand on her hip. "New kid?"
The red-head simply ignored her and walked by, acting as if she didn't exist. A red flush of anger and humiliation crept up her face, and she turned to glare at his back, hissing like an annoyed cat. "Teme... How dare you ignore me..." She muttered, a scowl appearing on her face as that glare intensified, reaching out to grab his shoulder. "Oi!"
"I have no business with you, step aside." The male replied before she could touch him, grabbing her wrist roughly in a rather tight hold. It was an unexpected reaction, yet his eyes showed no emotion, just some kind of icy detachment in them. A shiver ran up Hisui's spine. A simple glance, that was all he needed to scare even the bravest warrior.
But Hisui herself was a fighter... she wouldn't back down easily even if he had effectively scared the living daylights out of her with a glance. After all.. she had handled Vergil for a year, and nothing was really scary compared to when Vergil gave you that freezing look.
"Let me go. You idiot, let me go, or I'll bite you!"
This was really unexpected. The students' attention was now focused on the pair, waiting to see if there was going to be a fight or not. Both Hisui and Takuma stood still, yet their gazes clashed like metal swords fencing with each other. Hisui was serious about her threat, though she now stared him in the eyes, face to face. If he didn't let her go, she was going to reach up, and bite his wrist so hard it would leave a scar for a week. It had happened during a catfight with another girl in her school once, but let's not get into that; things would be bad if they were caught fighting and injuring each other, because it either meant expulsion, or suspension for God knows how long.
Takuma simply ignored her yet again, dragging her until she was practically pressed up against a wall, looking dangerously down at her. "I told you to step aside, didn't I?"
"And I'm telling you to let her go." A hand clamped down on his and the two looked up to see Dante hovering above them, his ice-blue eyes blazing. Well, hovering wasn't exactly the correct term since Takuma reached his height somewhat if he pulled himself up... but he let go of her wrist and gave Dante a glare before walking off to collect his card and disappearing from the area.
"You alright?" Dante asked as Hisui rubbed her wrist, her bangs covering her eyes from sight.
"Who asked you to help me?" She muttered under her breath. "Mind your own business next time, Dante."
"Babe.." He reached out to touch her wrist, but she slapped his hand away.
"Don't touch me!" Hisui snapped. "You don't have a right to! Look, just back off, alright? I'm a big girl now, I know how to handle this kinds of situations. Why don't you just go back to your A-levels class, before I tell Mr. Kevin that you're playing hooky again?" She dropped her wrist and stood up straight before glaring. "That's an order! You're a junior, right? So respect your senior and get your butt back to class!"
Leaving him startled and slightly affronted, she marched away, fuming as she went.
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The Orientation lecture was held on the 1st floor, in the biggest lecture hall there was, also dubbed "The Freezer" by other students. One, because the air-conditioning in the room was always going at full-blast; Two, because it was so big, they had more air-cond vents than other rooms; and Three, they were placed in the middle of the hall, so no matter where you sat, you literally froze to death.
Ahaha... not to death, really. But it was cold enough to knock you out.
"Trust them to have the lecture here in "The Freezer"." Akamatsu Arisa or Risa complained as she shivered, arms crossed and tucked into the sleeves of her thick jacket as she picked her way towards her friends, taking a seat between Ririn and Hisui after arriving late. "God, I'm freezing here...." She nestled further between them, trying to absorb as much warmth as she could from them.
"No, the question should be, why did I even come today?" Hisui muttered, doodling idly in her notebook to create tiny little hearts with wings. "It's only for those who hasn't been here before... We've already gone through this crap for a year."
"You're cursing." Ririn commented. "I heard you almost got into a fight with some new kid today. Did you punch him back or something for grabbing your wrist like that? Kitty would."
"Kitty? I think she would have done worse," Risa said, referring to their female senior, who was in her second year already, one above them.
"Are you kidding? She broke a beer bottle over a guy's head in the club once," Hisui chuckled, remembering that one night when she had gone clubbing with her seniors. "How worse could that get? No... Dante-freaking-Sparda came to play hero again. I pulled rank and told him to get his ass back to class."
"No way!" Ririn exclaimed, then immedieately shut her mouth when a few students turned in her direction. Once they had turned away again, she continued in a whisper, "That must have either pissed him off, or embarassed him. You did that in front of everyone?"
"What else could I do?" Hisui countered, then straightened when Mr. Jarrod came walking in. He was a young, handsome man in his mid-twenties, with close cropped hair and a youthful face. But in spite of his looks, he was quite the strict person in his classes, and a very good lecturer. "Uh oh... it's Mr. Jarrod. I guess it's time to shut up. You know how he's like about people talking during his class. But I like him... whatever he teaches stays in our brains."
"I second that." Risa replied, looking relieved that at least they knew one of their Law lecturers was a strict, but good lecturer. "He's bound to give us a taste of Contract Law, so we had better focus."
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All in all, the Orientation class was pretty... boring and refreshing at the same time. After three months of not touching the books, some students found their memory being jogged as familiar topics, phrases and cases were brought up, the lecturers giving their students a dose of what to come. The boring part for most were only for ex-A-levelers of the college, when the principal himself came to tell them about their courses, a verbal tour of the campus, a reminder for new students to always make sure they checked in each day with their Student Passes at the computers in the Lobby for Attendance, and of course.. the dress code.
A few people sweatdropped at this one. It wasn't a uniform or strict dress code per se, but there had cases of students wearing slippers or skirts that showed a really good portion of leg, shorts that looked like some boys were going to a beach party, and.. um... really, really mini clothing. Example of cases; the current A-levelers that were about to sit for their June exams. The college really had no choice but to prohibit these kind of clothing, after a few certain rebels got into trouble.
That was that, and at the end of the day, Hisui took a seat on the stairs outside the building while waiting for her ride to come pick her up. "I'm so glad it's over. Really... it's such a hassle on the first day."
"You're not the only one who doesn't like getting up early." Risa gave her a sympathetic smile. "How are you going back?"
"My brother should be around by... now." Just as the words left Hisui's mouth, a shappire blue Mazda Rx-7 Spirit R came down the road, coming to a halt in front of the building. The window rolled down and a handsome ivory-haired man poked his head out before giving a wink to the three girls. "Ladies."
"Your brother is hot!" Ririn exclaimed, Risa grinning as she waved, Hisui getting up and adjusting her bag over her shoulder. "Now, I wouldn't mind going out with him... Mind giving us his number?"
Hisui shot them all an amused look and pointed at them. "You..." she pointed at Ririn. "... have a boyfriend. And you..." her finger shifted to Risa. "... already have a fiance, courtesy of your parents. So lay off. Haken is mine." With that, she laughed and waved before going down the steps and getting into the car.
"So, how was your first day?" With a final wave at the open-mouthed Ririn and Risa, Haken Browning gunned the engines and drove off as she strapped in, giving her a glance.
"Interesting, boring and bad," Hisui declared after strapping in and leaned back, looking out the window. "Some punk bumped into me, then picked a fight with me. He didn't even say sorry! And then my idiot of an ex had to step in when all I want to do is never see his face again! I wonder whether it's too late for me to change colleges...."
"It is too late, I guess," Haken replied to that. "Aschen already paid the fees, so you can't go anywhere else. Who was this guy you're talking about anyway? Did he hurt you?"
"Don't know and I don't care." It was clear Hisui was still stewing over it, the girl able to hold a grudge for a long, long time once she had been rubbed on her bad side. "He had this dark red hair, though.. and striking purple eyes. No, he didn't really hurt me, he just grabbed my wrist."
As she said it, her hand rubbed her wrist absently again. It didn't hurt, nor was she hurt, but she remembered the strength in his grip. The red-head was really strong, almost as if his grip wasn't human. She wondered slightly about that, as much as she hated that guy, there was something about him that didn't seem remotely human.
'Come on, Hisui...' Jade Castero aka Hisui Kairi thought to herself as she eyed the group of students sitting around in the Lobby, none of which she recognized. 'This is ridiculous. It's my second year here and here I am, acting as if it's my first. I passed my A-levels, what's there to be nervous about? 19, you're 19.. act 19. You're an Intermediate senior now. Buck up!'
"Hisui!" A shock of golden hair appeared in front of her face and she was almost bowled over by Ririn or Lilith-Anne Vermouth, her coursemate from the A-levels of January the previous year. "You're here too!"
"Lilith!" Hisui gave a squeal of shock and hugged the other girl tightly, feeling a whole lot happier and better now that she had a friend with her. "Like oh my God, can you believe I passed?! I literally passed.. with an E in law!"
"I know, Risa told me!" Ririn grinned, referring to another friend that was missing at the instant. "She said you didn't show up to get your results, but came to register on the Preview day. What happened?"
"I know, I know... sorry." Hisui looked sheepish. "I got so terrified about failing and having to repeat, I just decided not to go get it until a week later. It was stupid, I know... but still.." She struck a pose and announced. "I passed!! There is a God!"
Laughter broke out between the two girls and Ririn linked her arm with hers, dragging her over to the lifts so they could get to the fifth floor, where the reception desk and the library were. "You didn't turn up for prom either, I got so worried. And did you just get even tanner?" She held Hisui back by an arms' length, narrowing her eyes. "I knew it! You're darker than before! Your skin is like a really golden-brown.. Hi-chan.. you remind me of a turkey!"
"I know!"Hisui moaned as the lift doors opened and they got in, pressing the number 5 button. "I went out to Wet World on the 1st of January with May, Shana, Michelle.. three other girls and their friends. We got into the water at 11 after a trek through the entire park because we got lost, and came out at 4. Michelle got sunburned, I got a tan. And it's not going to come off for a long, long time."
"I envy you," the golden-haired said with a pout. "I've always wanted a tan like that."
"Not when everyone compares you to a turkey," Hisui said mournfully as they reached their floor and she held the lift open for a lecturer to get in before they both went out. "Honestly, I preferred my slight tan. That way I wasn't too dark, and wasn't too fair.. but a golden-brown? No, not me."
"Your hair grew out much longer too." Ririn noted, leading the way to the cashier counter to get their Student Passes. "You had a Rhianna styled haircut before, didn't you? That was really short, although the bob suited your face... talking about that.. look who's here..?"
Hisui touched her hair self-consiously, running a hand through it. She had ran it through the straightening irons just make it look straight and neat that day, although it was already straight enough. It had been longer, up till her waist, but after her break-up the year before, had chopped it all off to a short bob in a fit of rebellion and anger. Now it barely fell to the small of her back, but at least it had grown rather long again. And talking about break-ups...
A certain loud-mouthed, silver haired teen stood surrounded by girls, all giggling as he entertained them with stories about himself. Dante Sparda was his usal flirty self, charming the junior girls with his looks and wit. His azure-blue eyes looked up when the two girls walked into the area and met Hisui's, obviously a bit surprised, but before he could lift his arm and hail her, she turned away with a bitter look in her eyes, pulling on Ririn's arm. "Come on, let's go over there. It's too crowded here because someone brought a whole harem with him."
Her words were thoroughly laced with sarcasm, and some of the girls gave her venomous looks although they didn't dare do anything to a senior. Dante however, just looked away as she tugged Ririn to the other end of the counter. The golden-haired girl simply sighed and looked closely at her friend. "You haven't forgiven him, have you?"
"Rin... Drop it." Hisui re-adjusted her beret-cap over her hair and ran her fingers through part of her fringe that fell over her eyes before giving their names to the flustered looking cashier who was looking through a box full of cards, overwhelmed by the amount of students crowding him. "I don't like talking about it... I don't even want to look at his face for now. God, I wish he hadn't passed at all......"
"Dante didn't pass." A cold voice said and they looked up to see Vergil Sparda standing next to them, also waiting patiently for his Student Pass. In contrast to his twin, who was in jeans and a red basketball jersey, Vergil wore a dark blue shirt, neatly tucked into a pair of black pants. "He's repeating the A-levels again and taking the June exams, so you'll be Dante-free for a year." His blue eyes swept over her and he reached out a hand for his card, asking politely for theirs too since the girls couldn't exactly reach the cashier. "My brother's an ass. I'm sorry for what he did to you, but your friend is right. You should forget it. Here." He passed them their card and tags before carving a path out of the body of students in front of them. "I'll be seeing you during class, then. And Lilith, that shirt clashes with your hair."
"It's Ririn, and thanks a lot, Ice Queen. I don't know why he insists on calling me by my French name.. honestly, who would want to be named after a succubus?" Ririn mumbled as she slid the red tag over her head, letting it hang from her neck. "Both brothers are asses.... but is he right? Does this shirt clash with my hair?" She showed off her bright green and black shirt to Hisui and the other girl nodded after a scrutinizing look.
"That bright green is rather sharp on the eyes, you know..."
"I knew it! I am going to KILL Dominique for this!!"Ririn raged, shaking her fist at the thought of her older second brother. "He just wanted to prank me on my first day back in college!!! Arrggh! I am so going to MURDER him!"
"Or.. maybe he has no fashion sense.." Hisui sweatdropped. While Ririn hated her name with a passion and used the Japanese equivalent for it, she used her brothers's names freely although they constantly teased her about wanting to get Japanese names too. "I'm going to see if the computer lab is free for a bit before the orientation starts... want to come along with me?"
"Nah.. I spy with my little eye a certain brown haired person with my entire group there." Ririn gave a quiet squeal as a group of three walked out of the lifts, a girl with flaming red hair, a brown haired boy with another dark-haired guy wearing a cap. "Holy crap, Densuke-kun passed too?! I'll see you later, Hi-chan.. I'm sorry, but I gotta go catch up with them!"
"It's fine, go chase your future husband, Rin-chan." Hisui grinned and watched as her friend took off like a rocket from her side, going after her love-interest. "About time too..." she muttered to herself as she turned to fight her way through to the stairs. "They've been giving each other eyes since they met during the first class last year... love at first sight, geez... Ouch!"
Somebody had totally ran into her, and she collided head-first with another person painfully. "Dammit!"
"Watch where you're going." A rather deep male voice said, and she looked up to see dark red hair and striking purple eyes that were now narrowed into a glare at her.
"Excuse me, you watch where you're going!"Hisui glared back, and would have flipped him the finger if there weren't anybody else around. Instead, she just pulled herself up to her full height... only managing to reach his shoulder, she belatedly realized, and placed a hand on her hip. "New kid?"
The red-head simply ignored her and walked by, acting as if she didn't exist. A red flush of anger and humiliation crept up her face, and she turned to glare at his back, hissing like an annoyed cat. "Teme... How dare you ignore me..." She muttered, a scowl appearing on her face as that glare intensified, reaching out to grab his shoulder. "Oi!"
"I have no business with you, step aside." The male replied before she could touch him, grabbing her wrist roughly in a rather tight hold. It was an unexpected reaction, yet his eyes showed no emotion, just some kind of icy detachment in them. A shiver ran up Hisui's spine. A simple glance, that was all he needed to scare even the bravest warrior.
But Hisui herself was a fighter... she wouldn't back down easily even if he had effectively scared the living daylights out of her with a glance. After all.. she had handled Vergil for a year, and nothing was really scary compared to when Vergil gave you that freezing look.
"Let me go. You idiot, let me go, or I'll bite you!"
This was really unexpected. The students' attention was now focused on the pair, waiting to see if there was going to be a fight or not. Both Hisui and Takuma stood still, yet their gazes clashed like metal swords fencing with each other. Hisui was serious about her threat, though she now stared him in the eyes, face to face. If he didn't let her go, she was going to reach up, and bite his wrist so hard it would leave a scar for a week. It had happened during a catfight with another girl in her school once, but let's not get into that; things would be bad if they were caught fighting and injuring each other, because it either meant expulsion, or suspension for God knows how long.
Takuma simply ignored her yet again, dragging her until she was practically pressed up against a wall, looking dangerously down at her. "I told you to step aside, didn't I?"
"And I'm telling you to let her go." A hand clamped down on his and the two looked up to see Dante hovering above them, his ice-blue eyes blazing. Well, hovering wasn't exactly the correct term since Takuma reached his height somewhat if he pulled himself up... but he let go of her wrist and gave Dante a glare before walking off to collect his card and disappearing from the area.
"You alright?" Dante asked as Hisui rubbed her wrist, her bangs covering her eyes from sight.
"Who asked you to help me?" She muttered under her breath. "Mind your own business next time, Dante."
"Babe.." He reached out to touch her wrist, but she slapped his hand away.
"Don't touch me!" Hisui snapped. "You don't have a right to! Look, just back off, alright? I'm a big girl now, I know how to handle this kinds of situations. Why don't you just go back to your A-levels class, before I tell Mr. Kevin that you're playing hooky again?" She dropped her wrist and stood up straight before glaring. "That's an order! You're a junior, right? So respect your senior and get your butt back to class!"
Leaving him startled and slightly affronted, she marched away, fuming as she went.
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The Orientation lecture was held on the 1st floor, in the biggest lecture hall there was, also dubbed "The Freezer" by other students. One, because the air-conditioning in the room was always going at full-blast; Two, because it was so big, they had more air-cond vents than other rooms; and Three, they were placed in the middle of the hall, so no matter where you sat, you literally froze to death.
Ahaha... not to death, really. But it was cold enough to knock you out.
"Trust them to have the lecture here in "The Freezer"." Akamatsu Arisa or Risa complained as she shivered, arms crossed and tucked into the sleeves of her thick jacket as she picked her way towards her friends, taking a seat between Ririn and Hisui after arriving late. "God, I'm freezing here...." She nestled further between them, trying to absorb as much warmth as she could from them.
"No, the question should be, why did I even come today?" Hisui muttered, doodling idly in her notebook to create tiny little hearts with wings. "It's only for those who hasn't been here before... We've already gone through this crap for a year."
"You're cursing." Ririn commented. "I heard you almost got into a fight with some new kid today. Did you punch him back or something for grabbing your wrist like that? Kitty would."
"Kitty? I think she would have done worse," Risa said, referring to their female senior, who was in her second year already, one above them.
"Are you kidding? She broke a beer bottle over a guy's head in the club once," Hisui chuckled, remembering that one night when she had gone clubbing with her seniors. "How worse could that get? No... Dante-freaking-Sparda came to play hero again. I pulled rank and told him to get his ass back to class."
"No way!" Ririn exclaimed, then immedieately shut her mouth when a few students turned in her direction. Once they had turned away again, she continued in a whisper, "That must have either pissed him off, or embarassed him. You did that in front of everyone?"
"What else could I do?" Hisui countered, then straightened when Mr. Jarrod came walking in. He was a young, handsome man in his mid-twenties, with close cropped hair and a youthful face. But in spite of his looks, he was quite the strict person in his classes, and a very good lecturer. "Uh oh... it's Mr. Jarrod. I guess it's time to shut up. You know how he's like about people talking during his class. But I like him... whatever he teaches stays in our brains."
"I second that." Risa replied, looking relieved that at least they knew one of their Law lecturers was a strict, but good lecturer. "He's bound to give us a taste of Contract Law, so we had better focus."
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All in all, the Orientation class was pretty... boring and refreshing at the same time. After three months of not touching the books, some students found their memory being jogged as familiar topics, phrases and cases were brought up, the lecturers giving their students a dose of what to come. The boring part for most were only for ex-A-levelers of the college, when the principal himself came to tell them about their courses, a verbal tour of the campus, a reminder for new students to always make sure they checked in each day with their Student Passes at the computers in the Lobby for Attendance, and of course.. the dress code.
A few people sweatdropped at this one. It wasn't a uniform or strict dress code per se, but there had cases of students wearing slippers or skirts that showed a really good portion of leg, shorts that looked like some boys were going to a beach party, and.. um... really, really mini clothing. Example of cases; the current A-levelers that were about to sit for their June exams. The college really had no choice but to prohibit these kind of clothing, after a few certain rebels got into trouble.
That was that, and at the end of the day, Hisui took a seat on the stairs outside the building while waiting for her ride to come pick her up. "I'm so glad it's over. Really... it's such a hassle on the first day."
"You're not the only one who doesn't like getting up early." Risa gave her a sympathetic smile. "How are you going back?"
"My brother should be around by... now." Just as the words left Hisui's mouth, a shappire blue Mazda Rx-7 Spirit R came down the road, coming to a halt in front of the building. The window rolled down and a handsome ivory-haired man poked his head out before giving a wink to the three girls. "Ladies."
"Your brother is hot!" Ririn exclaimed, Risa grinning as she waved, Hisui getting up and adjusting her bag over her shoulder. "Now, I wouldn't mind going out with him... Mind giving us his number?"
Hisui shot them all an amused look and pointed at them. "You..." she pointed at Ririn. "... have a boyfriend. And you..." her finger shifted to Risa. "... already have a fiance, courtesy of your parents. So lay off. Haken is mine." With that, she laughed and waved before going down the steps and getting into the car.
"So, how was your first day?" With a final wave at the open-mouthed Ririn and Risa, Haken Browning gunned the engines and drove off as she strapped in, giving her a glance.
"Interesting, boring and bad," Hisui declared after strapping in and leaned back, looking out the window. "Some punk bumped into me, then picked a fight with me. He didn't even say sorry! And then my idiot of an ex had to step in when all I want to do is never see his face again! I wonder whether it's too late for me to change colleges...."
"It is too late, I guess," Haken replied to that. "Aschen already paid the fees, so you can't go anywhere else. Who was this guy you're talking about anyway? Did he hurt you?"
"Don't know and I don't care." It was clear Hisui was still stewing over it, the girl able to hold a grudge for a long, long time once she had been rubbed on her bad side. "He had this dark red hair, though.. and striking purple eyes. No, he didn't really hurt me, he just grabbed my wrist."
As she said it, her hand rubbed her wrist absently again. It didn't hurt, nor was she hurt, but she remembered the strength in his grip. The red-head was really strong, almost as if his grip wasn't human. She wondered slightly about that, as much as she hated that guy, there was something about him that didn't seem remotely human.
