Seven Swordsman Shiro: New Agee

Episode 1: New Age

Darkness. I can't see anything. What is this on me? It feels...sticky. Wait, I can see light!

Standing in the light surrounded by darkness, I can see a young teenage boy. His hair is short, with its tips ending in spikes, and is as black as the darkness surrounding him. His eyes are light-blue like the sky. His physique is not impressive, rather just average. Wait, I know this boy. He is me, Shiro. Then what is this...

In one blink of an eye, the mirror image of myself becomes a silhouette embracing one color; red.

"Shiro!" Light fills Shiro's world again as his eyes open after his strange dream. His breathing is quick. He looks at the one who woke him, a young woman a few years older than him with long, black hair draping to one side of her head. Her piercing blue eyes stare at him.

"I'm up, Tohka! No need to stare at me like that!" Shiro complains. The woman chuckles.

"That's Tohka-neesan to you. Forget one more time and I'll slap you little bro!"

"I'm sorry, Neesan. I'll get up now."

"Good." The woman named Tohka leaves the room, giving Shiro the solitude to get ready.

What was that dream anyways? Whatever, it's  over now. Neesan will be mad at me if I'm late for school!

Shiro gets dressed, brushes his teeth, then heads out of his room. He walks to the living room, which is just a fairly spacious room with a T.V. and a sitting rug on the ground. Shiro notices Tohka sitting on the rug. He looks at her as he heads for the door.

"Neesan, I'm leaving now" he tells her.

"Give me a hug before you go." Tohka stands up and walks over to Shiro. She quickly wraps her arms around him. "Now you do good in school now."

"Neesan, I'm a senior in high school now! I'm not a kid anymore!"

"Ha ha, I know." She releases him. "Good luck. I love you."

"I love you too Neesan! Bye bye." Shiro opens the door and exits the apartment complex he lives in. He makes his way to the street, where a flat-chested, white pony-tailed girl with blue eyes waits for him.

"Shiro!" The girls sounds excited. "Ready to go to school?"

"Sure thing, Liliana" Shiro replies. She smiles. Together, the two of them walk down the street to their school, Aurora High School. When they arrive, a bell rings.

"Crap, we better hurry" Shiro insists as he grabs Liliana's hand and rushes inside. Within a minute, Shiro and Liliana reach their classroom, room 3-A.

"Shiro, you didn't have to rush like that. We still have four minutes left until the late bell" Liliana tells him.

"I like to be early" Shiro replies.

"And also...can you let go of my hand?" Shiro looks at his right hand and notices he had grabbed Liliana's hand while he was in a rush.

"I'm sorry!" Shiro quickly releases Liliana's hand from his grasp. They both blush.

'I've been Shiro's friend for the past two years at this high school! I wonder if he'll ever develop feelings for me' Liliana wonders.

"Uh, Liliana, I think we better head inside" Shiro suggests. She is blushing from the thought she just had.

"Y-Yeah, that's a good idea."

Why is Liliana so nervous today? It's kinda cute. Ugh, what am I thinking!?

Shiro shakes the thought out of his head and enters classroom 3-A with Liliana. The room, filled with desks aligned in rows, is fairly empty, with only a few students in the classroom. Shiro heads towards a desk located at the back of the classroom next to a window, and Liliana heads towards the desk to the right of it. They both sit down. Shiro looks out the window as he waits for class to start.