"Fuck shit fuck shit fucking pissballs fuck shit."
It was the first day of a new school year. Limitless bounds of potential and promises to be made awaited the people of Akademi once again. A chance at redemption and growth was presented to the students and teachers alike. A fresh new start, one that held all kinds of importance...
...and Aoi Ryugoku felt like all of that crumbled the moment she heard a kaboom from the science lab.
First, she was informed of the fact that the highly reliable student council president would not be able to be relied on for multiple months due to a family and/or business related issue causing the president to have to leave school. Second, she came to the realization that her only friend at this school wasn't going to be present for almost the whole school year.
And third, she was assigned to investigate the explosion.
So, Aoi's morning wasn't going too well already. She was fuming when she slid open the door and found the science club's leader, Kagayaki Kudo (he prefers Kaga), standing in the middle of the lab with a beaker in his hand. He looked like a deer caught in headlights when she made her presence clear by saying what she did before he smiled sheepishly.
"Hi." He meekly said.
"Hi!" Aoi grinned back, but it was more of a "I'm trying so hard not to lose it" kind of way than a normal, friendly way.
Because aside from Kaga holding a beaker, the only other thing going on in the lab was the lesser science club members having been flung against the walls and ceiling due to the explosion. Homura Kurusu was face-down on the floor with their limbs out like a starfish, Meka Nikaido was slowly sliding across a countertop and she was inevitably headed for the floor as well, Yaku Zayasu had been launched into the emergency shower and was rubbing his sore head...
Horo Gushima was fine, actually. He just seemed a bit winded.
Shenanigans like this weren't uncommon for the science club. In fact, they were quite infamous for their troublesome activity, and had managed to get on the bad side of the student council (which as you might have been able to tell, Aoi is apart of), if not the entire school. Everyone was pretty sure that the only reason none of them had been expelled yet is because the headmaster wants there to be an even number of students for his end-of-year ball.
...Yeah.
Aoi blinked a few times and squinted at Kaga. Typically, he had black hair that was neat and combed to perfection. And typically, both of his eyes would remain perfectly still and one would not be twitching like a rat on cocaine.
"You look different."
And whaddya know, his hair had turned a shade of grey surely lighter than his morals, it became so frizzy you could compare it and a bird's nest and think the nest was his real hair, and one eye was in fact twitching like an addict in the form of a rodent.
Kaga placed a hand over his chest. "Oh, thank you. My friend suggested I try a new skincare routine, and I thought it would be fitting for the new year."
Aoi sighed at his ignorance before taking a second look at the other scientists in the room. Homura's hair was a blue reminiscent of the vast sea, tinted slightly green as if there was life within it. Meka's was a purple so vibrant it must have been made for royals and forbidden for anyone else to don. Yaku's was green like spring grass, or soft succulents, or something else that is nice and green. Horo's was black like the feathers of a raven or like the deadest night, and didn't dare get in the way of his piercing, lighter eyes.
Keyword; was.
Similar to Kaga, everyone else's previously lovely hair with all those descriptors I put so hard into writing had turned entirely grey, with only little memoirs of their previous hair colours in the form of randomly placed streaks.
Except for Horo. Horo was fine.
Kaga took a look around as well, and burst out laughing at the sight of his now silver-headed companions.
"Oh, you all look like my grandmother! Hahaha!" Kaga set down the beaker on one of the counters, leaning on it as he continued to laugh.
Homura grunted as they sat up. "We could say the same for you, senpai..."
Kaga suddenly stopped laughing to grab a part of his hair and examine it. Almost instantly, his jaw dropped and his eye widened in horror. Only one, since the other eye seemed completely beyond his control.
"My hair! My god, my gorgeous hair!" Kaga wailed, hiding his face in his hands. "The only part of me I liked, now gone!"
"I think your hair is the least of our concerns right now, Kudo." Aoi stated, still irritated by the whole ordeal. "What's going on with your eye?"
"Hm?" Kaga looked up at her. "Oh, yes, I was wondering why it felt like it was stinging so furiously. Does it look like there's a problem?"
There was a problem, alright. A problem that was so large it would probably make you leave this story if I tried describing it.
Aoi cringed at the sight. "Uh... maybe the nurse could help with it?"
Kaga sighed dejectedly before removing his gloves and lab coat, tossing them onto the counter and eventually leaving the room, sulking all the way out.
Aoi turned to the rest of the science club. "Any other major injuries?"
Homura seemed fine, Yaku shook his head, Meka was mumbling to herself something about a motorcycle, and Horo...
"Oh, my shirt! It has a rip in it!" Horo whined, tugging at the new tear in the shoulder seam. "I spent so much on this... I'll never recover."
"Shut up, my motorcycle doesn't match me anymore! I'll have to get it repainted!" Meka huffed as she crossed her arms.
Aoi had a feeling none of the problems here can be solved by the nurse. And she wasn't just referring to the hair or whatever else those people mentioned.
It was the first day of a new school year. It was already going horribly, and common sense told Aoi it wasn't going to get better.
