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"Thanks Marty," said Blade as he glanced down at his papers to check out his schedule and whatnot. He wasn't really paying attention to those around him so he didn't notice that Shun was nearby until he heard the centaur say his name out loud. Glancing up, he frowned and took a few steps away.

Shun didn't say anything but shot the thief a glare as he took his papers. His eyes just skimmed through the information but one bit caught his attention.

"Oh, hell no. HELL NO," he groaned. At first he thought he may have misread it as that sort of thing happens fairly often for him. But he looked it over several more times and the words never changed. Staring up at the centaur with anger apparent in his eyes, he pointed at Blade.

"Who the hell set up the rooms? Why is HE my ******** roommate!?" he shouted before cringing and nursing his side. That outburst hurt.

Blade's dark red eyes widened as he heard the other boy shout out a few things. As if to double check, he flipped to the page for the dormatory stuff and sure enough his roommate for this year was no other than Shun.

"This...isn't good..." he mumbled while rubbing the back of his neck.

Moving on through the crowd to catch up with his friend, Bent-Tail came into the scene just in time to hear what was going on. His brows furrowed up in concern as he glanced between the two human boys. While he didn't have any issues with Blade personally, he knew the two were far from being friends.

"WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE BOY," boomed Branka from a good distance away.

Marty looked to be in total bafflement. "I am unsure." He waved his arms frantically trying to calm the boy but the cringe caught his attention. "W...what has happened to you? Are you hurt?" He looked to Blade for a moment but he didn't seem any more pleased about the situation. Unfortunately, there wasn't much Marty could do. There were no extra rooms available and he was fairly certain everyone had a roommate. "Do you require medical attention?" He asked Shun, aiming to place a hand on his shoulder. "We could always -" And then a powerful voice echoed over them. It was a fierce yet beautiful voice that had Marty in a flutter. He couldn't even find the words to finish his sentence as he awaited, dumbfound, for an answer.

In the short moment of waiting Marty noticed a notebook being held up to him. He looked to the side to see a meek little blonde girl looking up at him silently. "Umm...hello there." Finally he looked at the paper she was holding up to him and two and two came together. "Oh...right. I apologize." Hakim had mentioned one of their new students was unable to speak. Quickly Marty looked for her papers, all the while keeping an eye on Shun. He didn't want the boy running off, especially if he needed medical aid. Soon he pulled the papers free of his bag and handed them to the girl. "Here you are. The top has your class schedule and the second piece of paper has your dorm room and the instructions on how to get there."

"I..I" Mitsu stammered a little looking at her feet. "I guess I startled the teacher. He spilled his punch on my head." Shouldering the bag she looked up at her brother with unsure eyes. "Do I really have to stay? I can always come home....and get a job. Besides who will cook for you?"

((Note: Mitsu can't cook to save her life :3))

Neko was nearly about to give up his search for Caleb and retreat back to their little hideout in the clock tower. The other grounds keepers had a high stakes game of poker going on and he didn't want to miss out. Checking one last spot, Neko could hear the squeak of cleaning and frowned as he walked into the restroom. "What in the hell are you.....doing?" The bathroom was like a mirror.....the whole bathroom. Had he polished everything? "How the hell long have you been in here?" Just to be sure he peeked into a stall...sure enough it was glistening as well.

Not far behind the queen bee came Tessa. Her parents stood behind her, escorting their little girl as if it were her first day of school.

"Now you will be alright, Pumpkin?" Mrs. Lancaster asked barely moving in her shift posture. She was certainly dressed to impress looking every bit the aristocrat she was.

"Yes, yes, mother its fine," Tessa huffed tossing her hair back over her shoulder. "Honestly, why don't you mingle with the teachers or something." She practically shooed her parents away as she made her way to Nami just as Riyo was on her way out. In an unimpressed fashion her eyes followed the girl. "So who is that little misfit?"

As Tessa spoke, Nami's eyes also followed the blonde girl as she disappeared down the hall. "One of our new targets. Top priority." The queen mumbled with a bit of a scowl. Her attention then turned to Blade who thought he could sneak past the two of them without a proper 'greeting'. She looked to Tessa with a smirk and motioned her head in that direction, wanting her cohort to follow her lead.

"Blade! How good it is to see you again! How was your vacation? Is your family doing alright?" Nami called and put a hand on the boy's shoulder, not caring much about personal space.

Kohaku happily took the papers along with her notebook and gave Marty a warm smile along with a bow, trying to show her appreciation as best as she could, while doing her best to get out of the way of the angry boy. Confrontations were obviously not her strong suite.

Atticus had watched Riyo leave, and noticed the strong similarity between her and Nami... Now that. That was frightening. He couldn't stand that girl, but kept it to himself as much of the faculty probably did. He could already tell this was going to be one hell of a year.

Shun glared up at the centaur and promptly hissed, "I'm fine." He knew what was wrong, and there probably wasn't a whole lot that Atticus could do aside from provide pain killers. It was such a hassle to see the nurse and he was not willing to go.

Groaning internally as he had been caught, Blade glanced over towards the girls not looking all too enthused to see them. The emphasis on 'family' did not amuse him but he did what he could to not let that outwardly show. He would not allow them to have the pleasure of seeing that they were getting to him.

"Yes. They're doing much better than your own I'm sure," he said nonchalantly, "So how was your own vacation? Got any STD's yet?"

"You should be pleased that someone like us would even acknowledge common trash such as yourself." Tessa smiled cruelly circling around to get in front of the boy. She was too focused on Blade that she failed to see the little girl sneaking by. "You should be honored by our presence, Pauper."

Marty turned to Bent-tail hoping that Shun's friend would help out. "Shun, even your friend is worried. Just...let me go get Mr. Rall." Turning slowly so that he didn't run into anyone, Marty headed toward the school doctor at a slow pace. Luckily most people moved out of his way but he was still no less worried about stepping on feet.

A few minutes went by as the group read over the information they had been given. Then, a whoop was let out as Varn put Ken in a mock headlock. "I'm bunking with you again!" He shouted out, while ken tried not to drop his textbooks. "ack - yes, I'm glad I'll have a familiar room mate this year" Ken managed to get out.

"And that means, I can have a look at your work again?" He let go of his friend and looked at him with hope in his eyes. He wasn't a bad student, but sometimes he struggled with the more complex homework and assignments they received, so he always looked to Ken for the answers.

"Of course" was Kens reply as he rubbed the back of his neck to make sure it was still intact. "Just as long as you also put the effort into your homework. I wont always be able to help you if your having trouble you know.

"Yeah yeah I'll work on that" He looked over to poke and Lina who had finished examining their own timetables. "How did you guys fair?"

"Very good, I'm bunking with Lina" poke replied, smiling in victory. She had been slightly worried they'd put her with Tessa and Nami, and if that happened then she wouldn't know what to do. She wouldn't be able to sleep with fear they'd attack her int he middle of the night.

And, as if Lina was reading pokes mind, she sighed in relief. "I'm so glad I didn't get paired up with the two witches...they scare me sometimes"

"As if I'd let those two bitches get a hand on you." Poke frowned at the idea of Lina being backed into a corner by those two. Her friend however, didn't look convinced.

neither did Ken. "You need to be careful of those two poke. You'll get into trouble if you keep raising to their taunts. I don't want to see you get expelled just to keep us safe."

"Ha! as if I'd let myself get expelled over something as stupid as a bully" she said back "I'm not about to let you guys get hurt. Theres no way." She looked at Varn. "Your with me on this one, right?"

He nodded. "Sure...but I'm more able to handle the guys, I can't really...do much against those two. You know how a guy shouldn't pick a fight with a girl"

"I guess....well, lets go dump our stuff in our rooms" Poke walked towards the hallway in order to located the girls dormitories, but stopped when she reached the door.

"Speak of the devils.." Poke muttered She could see down the hallway, and already they would picking on someone. She recognized the student as blade, someone else in her year she had seen before but wasn't familiar with.

"Ahh..." Lina peered over pokes shoulder, wondering why she had stopped and realised why. "Perhaps..we should go the other way..."

"Yeah...lets go poke..." Ken and lina had started walking down the opposite way, but they stopped. Their friend was still at the door, watching the confrontation between them. Ken quickly put a hand on pokes shoulder. "Don't interfere poke. You may make the situation worse..." Ken wasn't a coward. He would stand up for others, but in a school it was much harder to do so when a teacher may come by and see the argument. He wanted to do his best at school...and getting into a fight could seriosuly affect not only his grades, but his friends as well.

"He has such a sharp tongue, Nami." Tessa mused releasing his shoulder. "It would be unfortunate for the teachers to know he was threatening us." Her face suddenly looked the picture of fright, if anything she was a good actress.

Marty smiled sheepishly as he approached. "I don't think it will be that bad Atticus. And you would be right, I'm sorry. I didn't want to bother you already but it seems Mr. Shun Kuroda is injured. I thought it would be best if you attended to him."

From her spot in the hallway, poke could pick up a few lines of dialogue pasted between the three, and she didn't like what was being heard. It sounded like they were cornering the poor guy. She didn't like it at all.

Ken was watching them as well, and he was not impressed with their methods. But he was aware of their tricks, and he knew that if poke jumped into the fray she would be made to look like she was going to hurt them. Please don't go over there... He begged.

With a sigh, the girl turned around and started walking up the corridor. "...lets go.." she said. There was no point in getting in a fight now, no matter how much she wanted to stop them. Chances are, they would start to pick on everyone else if they saw them.