BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Akello's alarm clock rang out loudly in his dorm, waking up a rather grumpy teenager. He got slowly out of his bed and walked over to the bathroom of his dorm and began to wash up. Looking in the mirror, he looked horrible right now, sleep deprived eyes from studying all night for a quiz in his Spanish class, tangled up black hair from tossing and turning and night, and... just great... he slept with his glasses on and the left lens was cracked...

After getting fully washed up, Akello walked over to his dresser and grabbed the clothes he planned to wear that day, a blue dress shirt with black jeans and his blue converse. He quickly pulled off his current clothes that he had slept in, and donned his clean clothing.

Heading over to the mirror again, he grabbed a comb and quickly brushed through his thick black hair and looked at himself again. Slightly better, but he was still extremely drowsy. Grabbing his black book bag and his cracked glasses, he headed out the door and straight to the soda machine.

Looking at the options he had, he put in a dollar and grabbed his cold cola. He walked over to the snack machine near by and also grabbed himself a pop tart to hold him over until lunch. Sitting down at a table nearby he quickly downed the cola and the pop tarts and began to review for his test. His watch read 6:45, so he had some time.

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Half an hour later,  he looked up at a clock and realized that his watch was 30 minutes slow, and that he was late for class! Grabbing his book bag and study materials in a hurry, he ran to the Spanish class room and rushed into the door, panting heavily from the long run from the dorms to the Spanish class room on the far side of the school.

All eyes on him, he turned red from embarrassment and took a seat in the back of the class. He received his quiz and began to fly through the questions with ease, until he got to the longer essay portion. The prompt was on the board at the front of the class, and his glasses were cracked in one lens, where as the other was badly scratched from wear and tear.

Without thinking he yelled out a certain profanity in frustration. Seeing all eyes on him again, he shied back and his his red face with his bag.

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(( My computer hates Akello... The entire hour I spent typing Leon's into, my computer, on my lap, not plugged in, was 100% fine. When typing Akello's, I had to re-type it TWICE because my stupid computer first, wasn't responding and shut down Firefox, THEN after I wrote most of it a second time, over heated, while on my desk, plugged in, and THEN overloaded and shut down a third time, but I saved it on notepad before it shut down, and I just now finished it after Firefox wasn't responding again, ad I patiently waited for it to respond again... ;_;))

((Such long posts... Mind if I make shorter posts? The girl is no character btw))

((Tries to get a romance started between Jack and Beatrice....))

Urei looked rather flustered when Jezebelle said she'd mistaken him for a boy. "A-ah, wait," he said quickly, "I am a boy." He frowned slightly, looking upset. Damn it, he just wasn't good at any of this! Haruka was wrong, it was impossible for him to make new friends. Even if everyone was being nice to him, he still screwed things up.

Tears stinging at the corners of his eyes, he quickly stood up. "E-excuse me," he stammered before quickly leaving the room, leaving his bag and book where he'd set them down. He could feel some of the eyes of his classmates on him as he ran out, but he didn't care. He just wanted to leave.

The hallways had already cleared. Everyone was in their classes, and he knew he'd be counted tardy if he didn't return, but he didn't want to go back. He rounded a corner and leaned back against the wall, slumping down a few moments later and pulling his knees to his chest to hide his face in.

"I don't want to do this, grandfather," he said softly in Japanese. He hated it here. Already he'd made a fool of himself. "Usunoro Nishi Kodotai," he murmured. Dumb Western Zodiac.

((Poor Urei's having a bad day. xD *shot* He gets upset easy. :I And he's not used to other people cuz his clan kinda babies him. xD))

[[GNAHGNAHGNAH. You posted just before me.>.< If no one else minds, I dun mind waiting. :3]]

((*pets Urei* I don't mind waiting, Typo. xD Just hurry up! Lol, joking... Or am I? >.>))

((Glag Glag, I'm bored. No-one talks to my characters.... Ok, Det. It's ok. I know I'm a terrible writer, but I'll get better as time goes on. Both my characters are stuck, waiting for Det to post for Beatrice. Someone talk to one of them? please?))

((I would, but neither of my characters are where yours are. ))

((I know! It's sad... We will have to make a trip to where youa re for you charries))

((They'll all be together at SOME point...))

Det: Fanclubs are very common in japan. XD I am so extreme. O_O ph well.

((i wonder how long it'll take for Akashi and Aoshi to go to Italy, or for the lot of the zodiac kids to come pick them up. XD Maybe they should fly to Italy in this chapter. I don't know. Let's wait and see how this turns out. :D))

Akashi groaned quietly to himself at the prospect of missing lunch as the hands of the clock drew closer to one, but the teacher showed no evident trace of planning to finish. He shifted in his chair and peered at Aoshi who was continuously scribbling down notes while leaning back on his chair, not at all looking like he was having a problem with copying down everything like other 'normal people'. Akashi watched in amazement, again, at how Aoshi stared seemingly blankly at the screen ahead of them, while his right hand produced words that set themselves snugly in between the thin lines of the paper.

Up till now, Akashi still made out heads craning over others every other moment to get a good look at them. He had a strong urge to shake his head and how extreme they could get. It was even worse than being some popular jock in America.

Sometime about five minutes before their long-awaited break, a teacher Akashi barely knew as Occhi sensei beckoned him out of the hall filled with the entire cohort of third years. He got up with a grimace and the sound of the dragging chair that broke the silence that had been filled with nothing but pens scratching on paper and the occasional flipping of it.

More heads turned his way at this sudden life in the dead silent hall, with the exception of Aoshi, still copying. However, Akashi smirked under his balaclava at Aoshi's words starting to slant off their lines, showin gthat Aoshi had indeed been somewhat distracted. Feeling accomplished, he walked along the narrow aisle out to the back of the hall where Occhi sensei stood, tapping her foot somewhat impatiently.

When he reached Occhi sensei, she pushed up her spectacles.

"Akashi we have been informed by your relatives in America th-"

"I don't... exactly have any relatives in America, or any relatives for that matter," Akashi cut her short. "You've got the wrong person."

"Well apparently, it says here tha-"

"I already told you I have no such relatives." He shrugged.

"You don't know these people with the uncanny resemblance of surname, Tachibana, then? Tachibana Riuka and Tachibana Rishi. As you would realise, this surname isn't exactly the most common."

Akashi was shaken by their names. Riuka and Rishi. He gave no response, his eyes grown slightly wider in shock.

"Do you need more names? Tachibana Yukio, Tachibana Riruko, Tachibana Kara, Tachibana Testuo-"

"Stop." Akashi growled under his breath, a grave tone he rarely, if not never, took. "What do they want."

Occhi sensei looked down at her paper, although inside it was sort of more out of guilt. She knew very well the boy's quite horrible past, and she had not meant to rub in the fact that he had 'relatives' that had once tried to eat off his parents' inheritance, which, sadly, they had. He hated them to the core, for all she knew, and had never recognised them as family.

Pushing up her glasses once again and regaining her innner composure, she read outwhat was on the paper.

"Your family has requested that you fly to America and stay with them as soon as possible. They have booked a flight for you and, uhm, your friend, in case he wanted to come along, on this Saturday."

Akashi narrowed his eyes in annoyance at the word family, but the size of them was nothing compared to after he heard what he was told to do. In a matter of minutes, he recovered from the shock, though.

"I'm not going, and neither is Aoshi." He said flatly, before turning and walking into the hall, the sound of the ringing lunch bell escaping his ears.

((looks like they're on their way, somehow.))

((They be flying to America. XD but i need to find some way around Akashi first. XD Oh and as for the extra characters, the only one that will actually matter is Tachibana Rishi, whose bio I will weave into my posts later one. XD ))

I hope there's nothing wrong. O_o

Jack got up and looked at Beatrice as she headed for her seat. His puzzled face showed lack of understanding why she had been, well, sort of rude to him. He took a breath and continued down the hall. Thoughts brewed inside his head.