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Busted

^ Keiko Umeha: Half breed heir of the Umeha clan, unlike other half breeds though she is treated kindly by the Umeha clan. One of Akira's friends. An established archer.

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Nami Inui's POV

While everyone is going over and picking their weighted bands, I saw one group take a set of 50 lbs. weighted bands. They struggled to set it aside only a stone throw away from the rest of the pile. I watched this group carefully. They called a hybrid wolf over.

(That's Akira Tsukikawa. They're going to force her to wear the heaviest weights for today's obstacle course, huh?) I was about to go there to help the girl out when I saw the girl casually pick up the weighted bands.

(Oh...?) I saw her put the bands on and proceeded to do warm-up exercises.

(That's a total of 200 lbs. but she moves just as easily as she were wearing her usual 100 lbs. was she concealing her strength up until now?) I think back...

(That doesn't seem to be the case, then her strength suddenly grew exponentially, then? But how?) I looked at her profile and something jumped at me as I skim through it.

(Today's her sixteenth birthday. She's a hybrid, though. She might've awakened that strength from her other side of the family. But what kind of lineage would give you that kind of strength boost?)

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Akira's POV

"Ki~ ra~" I turned at the sound, only to be smothered in boobs.

"Happy birthday! I can't wait to see your wolf tonight! Thank you for inviting me." Keiko squealed as she hugged me.

"Happy to see you, but could you let me go? Can't breathe" She immediately let go at that.

"I'm sorry... We'll be running together today, right?"

"Yeah, I think we're in the same group. Good luck and don't go choking on my dust. I still have to see you tonight." She punched my arm. I just snickered.

"You overconfident prick, let's see who'll eat whose dust." She's grinning widely at me. We continue to banter as we wait for our turn.

When it was our turn, we immediately set off. We went to the starting line and waited for the signal to start. I noticed some gazes on me but I didn't think too much of it since that happens almost all the time. I should've paid a bit more attention.

As we ran, I felt lighter than usual even though I'm wearing heavier weights. I quickly overtaken most of the forerunners and breezed through the obstacle course. There was a part of the course where the other students not participating in the run has to throw dodgeballs and the participants had to dodge. Of course, in this part of the course almost all of the balls would come flying towards me. 

"Hey come on, I'll cover you." Keiko told me as we came near that place.

"Wow, my knight in shining armo-" I quickly grabbed Keiko and pushed her down as a dodgeball whizzed by our heads.

(They're not pulling back any of their punches today.) Another one zoomed by nearly hitting me on the side. I quickly stood up and pulled Keiko up before running ahead of her.

(She'll become a target if I continue staying by her side.) As I thought this to myself, a ball whizzed by me and hit someone at my back. As I realized Keiko was just behind me, time seems to slow down. I turned and see Keiko unconscious and falling to the ground. The dodgeballs stopped coming as I caught Keiko and laid her gently on the ground. Blood was slowly trickling down her head. I saw red and my mind went blank.

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Nami Inui's POV

I was running towards the two of them when suddenly the field was enveloped in a heat wave.

"Who threw that ball?" a voice soft enough that it wouldn't damage your ear but loud enough that it was heard by everyone on the field. The tone of her voice though sent shivers down my spine. The overwhelming coldness of that voice contrasted by this sweltering heat was enough to struck fear. I looked at the source and saw Akira, but her hair was a dazzling white and her eyes had turn golden.

"I'll ask again who threw that ball?" Her voice now much more demanding. I saw a guy raised his hand in reply.

"Come here." and immediately the boy went in front of her. I could see him trembling. I went closer willing to put a stop on it immediately if it looks like someone's gonna end up dead.

" Kneel down and raise both of your arms until the end of the school day. Reflect on your action." She said before going back to Keiko and carrying her inside, probably to the clinic.

I took control of the class.

"Alright, that's that. Leave them be for now and continue the course. I don't want a repeat of this incident." I looked at the non-participants in-charge of throwing the balls at that.

"I don't want this incident talked about, you didn't see anything today, you got that?" They were murmuring among themselves.

(People will still talk, Nami.) Sora, my wolf said to me. She's right. I let out my killing intent to everyone there. It quickly shut them up.

"I said nothing happened here today. Am I making myself clear?" They nodded their heads meekly.

"Good. Continue with the training course." I looked towards the building Akira went in.

(I won't be able to keep their mouths shut for long but I hope you can figure out how you wanted to go about this lineage of yours in the mean time, milady)

(We finally found her, huh?)

(Yeah, we can now fulfill our duties.)

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Author's note:

The instructor knows about Akira's lineage? dun dun DUN

I'm sorry for not uploading last Monday, I was busy then. How ya'll liking the story so far? Drop some comment to let me know.