Yokai Academy

He was looking all the food "yah I'm going to eat it all...do you want some?" as he asks Kirin and look at Minako who is now sitting beside Kirin "do you want some too Ms. Minako-san?"

He listen to their conversations until he hear about that Kirin and him as he looks at Kirin who is denying it, he hope that it may come true but he went shock when he heard the last part “y-you are a girl?” as he looks at Kirin seriously. “b-but why are you at the boys dorm?” he feels that Satan is granting his wish.

“yah we should pack the food” but he still looking at Kirin, thinking why his heart beat so fast. “umm you should sleep on the dorm but we can have fun at Minako’s place for a little bit..” as he thought about the word fun “ahh I___what I mean is eating this food” as he scratches his head laughingly.

Her heart felt like someone had stabbed it. She never seen Youya so sad before. He has been always secretive. But, she was his friend ever since she came to this school and since then, Youya always had been open up to her. Not knowing what had caused this, it frustrates her. She felt so useless and overwhelmed. She was still stunned, locking her gaze at him. He was startled when he saw her. He accidentally knocked his chair and turned away from her.

She was about to ask him what's wrong when suddenly the door was open. The principal and an unfamiliar man entered the room. She bowed her head to both of them. She was still tongue-tied. She couldn't shake the despairing image out of her head. She remained silence when Youya back to his old self again as he talked to the principal. Turned out the man with principal was going to be her new History teacher.

No, the Principal did not mention anything regarding a new teacher. If he had, Youya would have remembered about it. Still, he remained silent and nodded lazily to the Principal's claim. If he had said anything about it, the old demon would have just went on and on, insisting to place the blame on someone or something else other than himself and that would've wasted the minutes Youya could have spared by a single nod. Hearing his request for a guide, Youya had to put his stand. "I'm sorry, Principal. I would be glad to be of assistance. However, don't you think it's a bit late? And it's a waste of time really considering Mr Morpheus was a student here before and I don't recall the academy having a single renovation since 247 years ago."

He turned his gaze to the window and scanned the crescent moon forming among the twinkling stars. "I don't mean to be rude. But, since it's going to be your first day tomorrow, I suggest turning in for the day would be more beneficial rather a stroll around the academy in this darkness. Wouldn't you agree, Sensei?"

Glancing back to where Natsumi was standing, silent as a board, Youya bid his farewell to the two teachers. "Ms Mikage and I will be taking our leave now. Principal. Sensei." He bowed slightly to show his respect while using his left hand to push down Natsumi's head as well, forcing her to bow. Leaving his arm hanging on her shoulder, Youya tightened his grip and pushed her along with him to exit the room.

I've been dragging girls along with me all day, he sighed tiredly.

Safely out of the premise, Youya looked up into the sky to watch the moon he had seen earlier. The dorms were not a far distance from the school building but he didn't really feel like returning at the time. He could feel that Natsumi was troubled at the moment. "Hey, Natsumi. How about you and me stop by Minako's place?"

They were on their way to Minako's. She had agreed to go to Minako's place since she haven't had dinner yet. She would normally be bother about this, but at the moment, she just didn't feel really hungry.

She looked up from her feet to Youya. He was looking up into the dark sky, enjoying the shimmering stars and the magnificent crescent moon. She turned her gaze to the moon, too. It looked like an upside-down smile to her. Then, she looked down again. Trying to find the right words to say, she felt troubled than ever. The memory of Youya kept playing inside of her mind like a broken record. It broke her heart to pieces. She just looked at him again and muttered, "Youya...". He turned around and looked down at her. She was just about to continue asking him but she ended up tongue-tied again. Her mouth was hanging, hoping that her words would come out somehow. "Nothing..." she finally said, but still looking into his eyes.

The journey was quiet as they walked slowly side by side. Youya stole a glance to Natsumi and wasn't surprised to see her looking forlornly at him. A frown was stubbornly pressed on her face and her eyes were sad and pleading. For some reason, looking at her now reminded him of when he first met her.

Youya Toda was walking down the hallways slowly. Everyone around him started at every step he took. As always, all the other students stood a safe distance away from him. However, their caution had nothing to do with his forced position as the Student Council President but more to the fact that he had a murderous air that followed him wherever he walked. His eyes were lifeless and warned off anyone from getting too close. It had been six weeks since he had first enrolled in the academy and he still could not comprehend his father's intention in sending him here. It was to help him, his father had reasoned. What a joke. What does this place has to offer for him?
Twisting the knob to the Student Council Room, he slammed the door and was greeted by the sight of a pink haired girl sitting on the floor, munching on a bag of chips. Seeing him, she abruptly stood up, resulting on the chips flying across the room and splattering to the marbled floor. Her eyes widened in horror and as she tried to pick up the mess, she ended up dropping more from the bag she was carrying. He expected her to fluster and stuttered an apology to him, however, her eyes were set into concentration as she scanned the room. "18," she suddenly mumbled. "I'll get them later," she shrugged. Looking back at him, she suddenly smiled broadly and held out her hand. "Hi, I'm Natsumi! I'll be your Vice President starting today, Youya-kun!"
At first, it was just a chuckle, but before he knew it, he was laughing so hard his sides ache. It was the first time he laughed so hard—the first time he laughed, period—since the day of the accident. Smiling, he accepted the girl's hand. "Nice to meet you, Natsumi."

Youya chuckled briefly at the memory. "You know, Natsumi. You're a very important presence in my life." His eyes caught hers and he smiled comfortingly to the confused girl. "So, just stay the way you are, okay? Like this. Always stay beside me, just like this. That's all I need."

Glancing to the road before them, Youya could make out the shadows from the windows of the house. "Hey, we're here. And looks like Minako has already got guests. Let's invite ourselves in, shall we?"

When Youya suddenly let out a chuckle, Natsumi was worried that he was finally out of his mind. Still confused, she smiled back to him.

He was about to walk to the house when she stopped him. "Wait, Youya." she said, holding his arm. "Back there... Wi—will you tell me what's wrong?" she asked, looking away. The seconds it came out of her mouth, she quickly regret and wanting to just undo what she did. She looked into his eyes. His face was very stern. "Ne—never mind. Forget what I've said!" waving her hands, nervously. "Let's get inside, then."

Morpheus sighed slightly his graze falling on the Principal, After all those years he stayed the same lazy and well what ever else could be used to match a sloth.

"Hmm I have been here longer then 200 years but I digress. Any way would you mind showing me to where I will be staying seeing as you said you would provide shelter."

That was another reason he took the job...Shelter.

His hand clasped behind his back, frustrating for what Youya Toda do as they left “Mr. Morpheus I apologize for that Student who don’t even know the word Respect”. He relieves his stress as he heard Morpheus comment “well you can stay in school dorms, it’s good that you can watch those stupid brats” as he say it with anger voice “well now, I guess we should go now” as he start to walk. “And also the cafeteria still taking care by Arika and our Clinic was taking care of those two again Rei and Sato”.

Natsumi faced the door, trying to hide her face from Youya and knocked three times. She waited for about a second and then, just barged into Minako's house. "Minako-san!" she greeted, happily when she saw Minako was sitting besides the fireplace. She also noticed that Kirin and Ayame were there too.

Trying to mask her concerns, she smiled broadly at Youya when she turned to face him. She didn't want him to know that she was still worried about him. So she had to fake a smile and said, "Ooh! Ayame and Kirin are here too. We could tell them about the maze." She just had to pretend that everything was fine at that moment and just hoped that she won't crumbled down and cry.

She blinks her eyes for how many times just to see if it is really Ayame the trouble maker at this school, but anyway he seems in a good mood today. She giggles seeing Kirin’s reaction but she looks at Ayame quickly “hey that’s kind of rude you know, Kirin is a girl” as she sighs “she was in the boys dorm due to that idiot principal, she didn’t complain anything cause she really don’t mind and of course sometimes Kirin is sleeping over at my house”. Then she looks at him with a serious face “so for now on! You take care of my Baby Kirin or I’ll deep fry you” as she points at him.

“True that but my Baby Kirin is going to sleep at my house today” as she hugs Kirin and soon gets up while she grab some paper bags and plastic box, she starts putting the food and snacks in the paper bags. “Anyway Ayame if you want you can sleep over at my house too” as she giggles “we can have fun” as she finish putting it. “By the way, the food costs are on my tab, it’s already night anyway so it’s free and I already did groceries” as she grabs the other paper bags while Kirin grabs the little box “let’s go” while she stands there waiting for them.

Ayame sighs as he heard it was the entire principal fault but still happy having Kirin’s room close to his. He flinches when he saw Minako-sans pointing at him as he put his both hand raises “yeah I’ll do that” well he already starts taking care of Kirin anyway. When Minako-san starts packing the goods, he helps her as he grabs the food left on the table. He was surprise thinking that Toda didn’t even pay for his “ooh then thanks for the treat Minako-san” as he starts following Minako-san and Kirin who is now walking while he keeps cursing Toda.

She watches at the two as they were having a conversation about her “Mina-san you’re hugging me too much” as she giggles but she really wanted to be hugged by Mina-san. She jumps wagging her tail “yay! We are going to Mina-sans place and going to sleep” as she dances suddenly remembering her pillow at Minako’s place as she grins “chili pepper here I come”. She grabs the little box full of deserts as she skips toe going to Minako’s place.

After a few minutes they are already at the place of Minako-sans, it’s cute and really clean but she doesn’t have a neighbor that much so it’s peaceful. She was rolling over on the couch forgetting about her wallet while she was hugging her chili pepper pillow “nom nom nom” while Ayame and Mina-san are preparing the foods.

She jumps out of her surprise falling down at the couch “owe” she looks up to see Natsumi “oh hello miss vice president” as she saw Toda “and also President” as she looks at the kitchen “Mina-sans and Ayame are over there” feeling her fall is not more painful. She suddenly saw that she was sitting on her chili pepper pillow as she hugs her pillow tight and look at it “are you alright Mr. Pepper? I didn’t mean to” as she whispers on her pillow “it’s the vice president’s fault”.

She was preparing foods with Ayame, hearing the noises in the living room makes her smile, she grabs the foods and place it on the table. “Ayame you can leave that, your friends are here” as she pats the head of Ayame “thank you for helping me and baby Kirin”.

She went through the living room “ooh hello Natsumi-chan and Youya-kun come in come in, it must be cold outside” she went to the heater turning it on. She then went back to those “oh my, Youya-kun you really grow taller” as she cheerfully mess his hair and look at Natsumi “ohh Natsumi-chan you really change a lot, you become more beautiful so are you lovers now and also it’s been a year now” as she giggles, having such teen love this day as she thought. “Have you guys eaten?” She goes to Kirin who is on the floor “spicy curry is ready” as her hand brush Kirin’s hair on her face.

Youya smiled, a hint of amusement in his eyes.

"Hello, Kirin," he greeted just as Minako emerged from the kitchen. Seeing her, his smile widened as he walked into the house. He wore a slight scowl on his face when she was playing with his hair but leaned down nevertheless when she first couldn't reach him.
"I just saw you this morning," he mumbled, his lips twisted at the corners, suppressing a smile. Brushing his hair back into place with his right hand, he placed his left on Natsumi's shoulder. "You know her, she's like a sister to me."

Catching sight of Ayame, he raised an eyebrow. "Remind me I need to talk to you later," he stated flatly while making his way to the kitchen after Minako's announcement.

"Minako-san," he called. "We need your help for the school festival. We're holding a maze and we need tit bits to be scattered around. Cakes, muffins and such," he explained casually, deliberately withholding the 'Death' part and the fact that the 'tit bits' are going to carry out nasty side effects. Which I need to ask from Kanako later, he thought quietly.

Natsumi chuckled, "Aww I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you drop lil' Mr. Pepper.". She smiled and patted Mr. Pepper. Then, she sat on the couch next to Kirin. When Minako announced that her spicy curry was ready, all of her worries vanished just like that. She just realized how hungry she was when she smelled sweet and spicy smell. She cheered, happily, "We're just in time, right Youya-kun?". She stood up and offered to help to set the table.

Minako placed a pot of delicious curry on the table and Natsumi helped by placing the plates and the silverwares. "Come, guys. Let's eat!" she said to them. Everyone took their seats and helped themselves with some rice and delicious curry. "Delicious as always, Minako-san." she complimented. I hope there's a dessert, she thought.

Taking his seat, Youya poured a glass of water for himself. The food served looked absolutely mouth watering but he still felt full from the lunch he had earlier. Sipping his drink, he raised an eyebrow to Natsumi.

"I seriously cannot understand how you can consume all that. I don't think it's even humanely possible," he chuckled. Natsumi's outrageous eating habits does not surprise him anymore, but it would still leave him in absolute wonder. However he was always glad to see her looking so lively and eating to her very heart's content. "Maybe you're secretly an ogre and you just don't realize it yet," he joked.

"Oh, and Kirin," he called from across the table. He slipped his hand into his pocket and retrieved a wallet. Holding it out to her, he stole a glance at Ayame. "Someone returned it to the Student Council's room earlier."

She was chewing her food when Youya was talking about her eating habit. She swallowed and replied, "I am 100% sure that I am not an ogre. Besides, Minako's curry is so delicious, I just had to have to it again."

She finished her third curry and drank some water. "Fuh! I'm full already." she smiled. She was surprised when Youya had found Kirin's wallet. "Impressive! How'd found it, Youya?"