Sunny Daffodil, Snowy Rose

Ch. 1

A young girl of fifteen walked through the halls of her middle school. Her blonde hair, which was held back into a half ponytail by a single blue bow with white trimmings, trailed behind her as the sun outside basked her hair with its golden rays through the school's windows. Her icicle blue eyes glared coldly as she unleashed her powerful aura to force her fellow out of the way of the post board which held the final exam scores. The girl moved to the front of the board and searched for her name. When she spotted it in the first place with the highest markings, she silently nodded her head and moved away. The students that were around her let out a breath they had unknowingly kept in as she left.

"That nerve of a girl," one female student told another. "She thinks that since she got the highest score she could start pushing us around. I bet she cheated off the test."

"Shush!" the other student told the first one. "What if Yukibara Kimiko-san hears you?"

"I don't care." the first one replied.

A group of girls who were friends of Kimiko heard them. One of them unleashed her own angry aura as they walked passed them, leaving the two female students suffocating on their own breath.

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Sorrowful notes filled the air of the entire grounds. The old man sitting at the chestnut wooden desk in his home office sighed. He pushed back his black glasses before turning to his butler.

"She's playing it again, isn't she?"

"Hai, Hiashi-sama," replied the butler. "''Midnight Rose,' I believe. Is anything the matter, sir?"

"That girl needs a better hobby," Hiashi answered as he sighed heavily. He stood up and peered down out of the office window where his eldest fifteen year old granddaughter was playing her viola in the outdoor garden of the mansion. "What do you think I should do about her, Bunta?"

"Send her to a new school, sir," Bunta replied bluntly. "The current school she is in doesn't do her any good. It seems to me that everyone in that but the few girls in the girls' division of the tennis club hate her. When you had me guard her earlier today, several students verbally abused her about her high scores on the final exams. It is best that you send her to a different high school instead of the sister school. The girls in the tennis club will follow her out anyway."

"Ah..." Hiashi watched his granddaughter continue playing the viola. "That explains the song." After a few more minutes of listening to the notes of the viola, he turned to his butler.

"Tell the servants to get our things packed by the end of the month. Inform Kimiko that she's leaving for the Yukibara mansion. Inform her teammates as well. See if any of them wants to go along. Tell their families that I will pay for the girls' schooling as long as they will pay for their daughters' necessities. Make sure their transcripts are prepared as well. With their grades, they should be able to pass through the entrance exams of the school I have in mind."

"Yes, sir, Hiashi-sama." The butler bowed and left to do as he was commanded.

Hiashi turned to his phone. "Now I have to make a call to Ami."
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Kimiko, unaware what her grandfather and his butler were planning, played on her viola to her heart's content in the garden. Tears slowly fell down her cheeks like a small stream flowing through a forest as she released her stress and emotions that she bottled up during the day. Only one thought ran through her mind at that moment.

"I need to work harder."