Made of Water

Chapter 1, The Hooded Figure

        "Class, this is your new classmate, Kaoru," Narumi-sensei said, while tossing his blonde shoulder-length hair behind his shoulder, "please treat your new peer with respect." He winked. The whole class shuddered. He patted the substitute teacher on the back and left the room. The new student wore a black jacket that reached the floor, and the hood covered his face. A girl who had curly black hair marched up to him.

        "Are you even allowed to wear that?" she asked in an annoyingly high pitched tone. She had obviously gone to the school for a long time and new the rules. However, she held her head up high showing that she was arrogant. Kaoru immediately didn't like her.

        He said in a nonchalent tone, "I'm wearing my uniform under my jacket, idiot." She looked taken aback, along with many others in the classroom. After a brief momment of silence, the silence errupted into whispers.

        "Did you hear what he said to Sumire?"

        "Standing up to Shouda..."

        "Corageous but stupid."

        "Who is this guy?"

        Ignoring the whispers, Kaoru walked quietly to the only seat availible, which was at the back of the classroom. The class was strange. Students were flying in the air along with other objects, one girl was building something, a few kids were crying, one person was conducting an experiment and two people were doing an insanely weird dance. The classroom itself was also weird. Instead of chairs there were benches and long tables to sit at. Kaoru sat in front of a male student with a manga book on his head, noting that the kid was asleep. Next to him on his right was a blonde boy who resembled a young prince, and to his left was a girl in pigtails. The girl's face was bright red.

        "Take it back!" she yelled.

        The boy in the middle took the book off his eyes, "ugly," he said to the girl. She looked shocked, but soon recovered.

        "You idiot!"

        "Super idiot."

        "Don't use my insult against me! You stupid fox!" Kaoru tuned their fighting out. It got boring counting how many times they used the word "stupid". Kaoru felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the girl with pigtails smiling at him.

        "Hi! I'm Mikan!" she pointed at the blonde boy two seats away from her, "that's Ruka, and that's-"

        The boy with the black hair interrupted her, "I don't need you introducing me to strangers." He sighed and kicked his feet up on his table.

        Mikan whispered to Kaoru, "that's Natsume... and well, you should stay away from him. He's annoying." Natsume grabbed Mikan by one of her pigtails.

        "I'll burn your hair if you don't shut up. You're giving me a headache."

        Mikan laughed, "yeah like that'll work. I'll just nullify your alice."

        Natsume sneered, "we'll see about that." Mikan began flailing around and apologizing to Natsume out of fear. Sumire ran up to their bench. Natsume let go of Mikan's hair which was still in perfect shape.

        "Stop bothering Natsume and Ruka, Mikan!" she yelled. Kaoru could tell right away that Sumire had an obsession with the two boys. Her and Mikan began to argue, and Kaoru turned back around.

        "Hey hood," a male's voice said. Kaoru turned to face Natsume.

        "What's your alice?" Natsume asked.

        Kaoru laughed, "why should I tell you?" He turned back around facing his desk. 

        Sumire screamed, once again, in her annoying high-pitched voice, "how dare you talk that way to Natsume!" Kaoru shrugged, clearly not caring.

        She continued, "why are you wearing that stupid hood anyways? Do you think that you're so much better than everyone that you don't even need to show your face?" She began tugging at his hood. Kaoru grabbed her arm off his head and twisted it. Sumire grunted in pain.

        "What was that for?!?!?!?! Jerk," she said, and walked away. Narumi-sensei walked back in the room.       

        "I have one more announcement!" he said. All the students hurried back to their seats. Why did this teacher intimidate them all so much? Kaoru thought he was just some extremely weird and creepy crossdresser.

        "As of now, Kaoru will be given a partner that will help him understand how the school works. And that partner will be... Ruka-pyon!"

        Ruka muttered, "don't call me by the name Sakura gave me."

        Narumi continued, "and I decided that instead of having grammar we will have a cleanup period because our classroom looks and smells as if something, no, many things died in here. Ruka, during this period I would like you to take Kaoru on a tour." 

        Ruka sighed, "let's go Kaoru..." They both got up and headed towards the exit.

        Narumi grabbed Kaoru's shoulder and whispered to him so that only he could hear, "how long do you want me to go with the stupid secret? Soon it won't be acceptable anymore. I mean, is the jacket really necessary?" Kaoru shrugged off Narumi's hand and walked out of the classroom with Ruka.