Talented Arts High School

A Lead and New Students

A few days after we had returned to the high school, and everything had seemingly gone back to the way things used to be. I headed to the library one day to try and find out any information possible on who that guy was and what he was after.

I spent a good few hours searching and still I found nothing. It was getting rather late, and everyone else had gotten worried about me and decided to go looking for me. Jason and Chinatsu were the first two to find me and when they seen what I was doing, they started to help, without even being asked. By the time the others had found us, all of us were trying to find out any sort of lead that could connect us to who that figure may have been, or anyone who could be linked to him.

We kept searching late into the night, until out of nowhere Hiroki had found something that might have been just the kind of lead we were looking for. H had found out someone who matched the description of the figure we all had run into. He had been a former student at this high school, like all of us were, and he had vanished from it, not long after most of us had started here. His name was Zakura Masamoto. Like all of us he had been abandoned by his family in some way, but his was worse. His family had abused him before leaving him almost for dead.

We had decided to try and forget about Zakura for a while, and hope that he wouldn't try anything again. We relaxed for a while, and continued going to class. All we really were doing in the classes was learning on how to get along with those who were just plain human and nothing else, and as well as to learn to control and use our powers wisely. Most of the time Chinatsu would always fall asleep in class, which annoyed the teacher, but it was really funny watching the teacher trying to wake her. However, a lot of the time they ended up asking me to wake her up, which for me consisted of shoving her out of her chair.

After class that day, we decided to relax outside in the school grounds. Chinatsu was sitting on a tree branch, with Sophia and Shadow sitting underneath the tree; Jason was training with his powers not too far from the three of them; Hiroki was sitting on a bench reading a book he had found about Zakura and I had thought about just laying down on the grass and doing nothing, but I thought to myself that I needed to practice with my powers also. I walked over to Jason and hesitantly asked him if he wouldn't mind me training with him and possibly having a little sparring match.
"Hey." I had always had slight feelings towards him, but had kept them hidden for a long time. "Mind if I train with you?" I questioned him.
"No, not at all." He grinned.

We both started training, when the school gates opened, and in walked two new students. One of them looked badly injured, with blackish brown hair and bright sapphire blue eyes. She seemed younger than us all, and was also smaller, as the other student who had walked in, was carrying her in his arms. Whatever had happened to her, she must've been lucky to have that guy with dirty blonde hair, and hazel eyes find her.
"You'll be okay Yuuki." The young male said, in a soothing voice. The girl seemed struggling to keep consciousness. Whatever had happened to her, it wasn't a good thing, and she needed to have been looked at and taken care of quickly.
"What happened?" Sophia said, as we ran over to them.
"She was attacked." The young male said. "I found her not too far away from this high school, I couldn't just leave her there."
"Take her into the infirmary." I said, as I lead the way to the infirmary with everyone else following me.

As soon as we reached the infirmary, the nurse took the young girl from the male, and placed her down on one of the beds. By now, the young girl had lost consciousness, and was still bleeding quite badly. Who had done this to her? And who were these two people? There were too many questions that were running through my mind at the moment, and I know we would find out the answers sooner or later.

After four day, when the young girl gained consciousness, we took her to the girl's dorm, where a room had been made up and ready for her to stay in. Jason, Hiroki and Shadow had made the young male feel welcome within the boys' dorms and had gotten to know him a little more. They found out that his name was Cain Gallerity and he was 18 years old. Sophia, Chinatsu and I had gotten to know the young girl, while the boys got to know Cain, and we found out that the young girl was only 13 years old, and that her name was Yuuki Cameron.

All of us decided that the next time all of us had a day off from class that we would head out to the park not too far from the high school and just have a lazy day, and try to forget about all the bad things that had happened over the past few days. Yuuki however wasn't allowed to do too much walking and moving around, as the wound she had received on her side was still badly hurt, and even though it had been stitched up, it could easily come free and start bleeding again. None of us wanted to chance that.

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After nearly a week had passed, Yuuki had been told by the nurse that she was okay, and that the wound was healing nicely, but she was still told to take things easy. We decided to head to the town for ice-cream, before heading to the park to relax and just do nothing.

By the time we reached town, it was midday and everywhere was busy with the lunchtime rushes. It was hard for us to try and find a restaurant that wasn't too busy so we were able to get some food, and even some ice-cream to take with us to the park. We searched for what seemed like half an hour, before finally finding a restaurant that wasn't as busy as all of the others. We thought that maybe there was something wrong with the restaurants food, but we were so hungry that we didn't care if it was so quite, that we thought it had a bad reputation. However, we were wrong. The food was fantastic. Both my sister and I had had steak to eat, along with chips; Jason had gotten ramen to eat; Shadow and Sophia both had a salad to eat, as they said that they weren't that hungry; Cain had eaten some chicken and chips; Hiroki had ordered a curry and some rice to eat, while Yuuki had ordered herself some chips - like Shadow and Sophia, she wasn't that hungry.

We spent a good few minutes savouring the food. It was so delicious that we all decided that the next time we were all free, that we would once again, come back to this restaurant and have lunch once more. There was also the possibility of it becoming a regular thing fro all of us. The peace and quiet of the restaurant was relaxing and nice, while the waiters were pleasant, and always making sure we were enjoying the meal, and had everything we had ordered, as well as wanting to see if there was anything else they could get for us.

By the time we headed out of the restaurant, I made sure to take note of the name; so that we would remember exactly what restaurant we had been too and had enjoyed a wonderful meal at. Now it was time to head towards the park and relax along with do nothing for the rest of the day, before curfew arrived. Unfortunately, the only thing that prevented us for being out in town all night was the curfew the high school had. We had to be within the school grounds by 9pm at night.

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While we were relaxing at the park, we watched some little children playing, and just smiled. It was entertaining to watch children playing and having fun. However, while we were watching the children - not in a creepy way though - Chinatsu had fallen out of the tree, while we were relaxing, and it made us all laugh, even though she hadn't meant to do that.
"Damn it." She cursed, rubbing her head slightly, as the impact of the fall had sent a pain all the way up to her head. "It's not funny." She said, before whimpering quite cutely, which made us all stop laughing.
"Aw, poor Chinatsu." Yuuki giggled lightly, before helping her up.
"Thanks Yuuki." Chinatsu smiled. "You're a lot nicer than sis."
"HEY!" I protested. "That's not a nice thing to say. I look after you sis." I giggled, knowing that she was only joking with me.
She just rolled her eyes, and smirked. "Sure you do sis." We both just laughed. It was normal for the two of us to be like that, as it always made us smile and happy to have each other in our lives. It also made us forget even more about the horrible parents who had tried to ruin our lives.

When we all decided enough was enough, and that it was time to head back, we ended up being split into a few groups, and all going different ways. We don't know how it happened, it just had. Both Chinatsu and I walked back to the high school, with Jason, while the others had ended up going other ways. Shadow and Sophia went one way, with Cain not far behind them, knowing that they deserved their space, while Hiroki and Yuuki went another completely different way. Was it just because we all wanted to race each other back to the high school, or had we all been split up deliberately? I still wasn't entirely sure about that, and would have to find out the answer at some point. My gut feeling was telling me that we had all been split up deliberately.