Izanagi Yukimura's Story

Izanagi had gotten to school about half an hour early. He was determined to solidify himself as the new Broadcasting club leader, and saying the announcements was a good place to start. He had woken up, flopped out of bed, and had breakfast, though he couldn't remember what. Right now though, he was busy in the studio, where he had just finished making some final adjustments. He took the script provided for him by the faculty as per club instruction. He turned everything on, the colloquial hum setting him at ease. He read the announcements over , then flicked on the microphone.

"Hello students, and welcome to Fukushima High School! We hope you all had a great summer! For first period today, we are having a welcoming ceremony outside the school! And for second period, we are going to let you sign up for clubs, study or just explore! So if you will, please head outside to the right side of the school and we will get started with the ceremony. It starts in 5 minutes, so don't be late! Thank you and have a great day."

He switched the mic off, and grabbed his bag from behind his seat. Throwing it over his shoulder, he made his way to the door. He grabbed a lanyard that had been left on a desk, and stepped outside of the room, locking the door.

As he made his way to the assembly, he found himself catching up to a girl that seemed rather angry. This was strange, as she had no reason to be angry unless she absolutely hated school.
"Hi, mind if I walk with you? I'm Yukimura."

Yuki was so frustrated and annoyed with her locker but she didn't want to bang on it or anything. She had almost given up when a tall girl with short hair and glasses came up to her.

Um... Excuse me, but do you need some help or something?... Uh, I know these things can be stubborn sometimes, heh...

Yuki smiled from ear to ear as she blushed. "That would um, be appreciated..! Thank you!" She clapped her hands together and chuckled nervously. "I was honestly just about to go to that opening ceremony and do this later... But you came to my rescue." Yuki bowed her head down and shot it back up to introduce herself. "My name is Yuki Hayashi. I'm a first year." She held her hand out nervously. "It's a pleasure to meet you." Yuki then thought to herself, Why am I being so talkative all of a sudden? I don't even know this girl... She seems nice enough but I don't want high school to be the same as my years in middle school and elementary... Yuki decided to just go along with it.



Akane still had a furious look on her face until,

Hi, mind if I walk with you? I'm Yukimura.

Akane looked over and seen a boy with spiky dark red hair. Her angry expression went away, but it didn't mean she wasn't still mad. Akane blinked a couple times and exhaled. "Sure. My name is Ya--" Akane didn't want to say her last name because her family owned a very big, successful electronics company. Akane sighed and scratched the back of her head. "My name is Akane Yamada." Akane looked a bit nervous at this point. I sure hope this guy isn't into electronics...

No no, its quite all right. All you need to do is put your name on the Martial Arts Club sign up sheet. Our first meeting is today after school.

Yuki smiled at this and clapped her hands together. "Alrighty!" She rubbed both of her hands together quickly before grabbing the pen and signing her name on the sign up sheet. She noticed that there was only one female name on this sheet and exhaled. "No girls, eh?" Yuki spun towards them both.

Hello, my name is Taura Tsukino!

Yuki smiled and bowed. "Well, hello there! My name is Yuki Hayashi. It's a pleasure to meet you." Yuki smiled even wider at her request. "That's great! I was just about to go and find you! But here you are." Yuki chuckled to herself and nodded. "I would love to join. And if it would help you out, then that would be great!" She accepted a sheet from Taura and signed it quickly. "I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry! I have to go find my friend." Yuki explained. " Bye, Tsukino-san. It was great meeting you, and I look forward to being on the swim team! See you after school, Wataragani-san!" Yuki said to Touya as she ran away, waving.

Yuki smirked at herself. I know. I'm going to sneak up on Satomi-chan and scare her... But wait, that would be mean. Well, she doesn't look like she'd take it too seriously... Right? Yuki was trying to decide on whether or not she should scare her friend, she didn't even notice she quietly came near her already without even realizing it. Yuki popped right in front of Kiku smiling. "Hey, Satomi--" Then she saw her friend in tears. "H-Hey... What's wrong?" Yuki kneeled down before Kiku and grabbed onto her hands. "Are you okay?"



Akane's walk with Izanagi to the opening ceremony was a bit awkward and silent so when they finally got there, "Well, it was a pleasure meeting you." Akane quickly bowed and walked over towards the Martial Arts Club sign up sheet. She kind of just blinked at the two people standing there and signed the sheet. She took a couple steps away from the sheet and scratched the back of her head. Well, I might as well say hi or something... I guess. Akane cleared her throat, then coughed, then finally, "Uh, hey. I'm Akane Yamada. Well, I mean... If you looked on that paper, then you could see my name... 'Cause I just signed it and all..." Akane blinked and sweatdropped. Wow, Akane... SMOOTH MOVE. I'm sure you'll make tons of friends if you keep acting like a damn idiot. Akane mentally slapped herself across the face and stood there, awkwardly.

Izanagi walked over to the Broadcasting club sign-up sheet, hanging around it to scope out who would want to part of, well. The best club ever. His eyes drifted over the masses of students in classes untold. There were plenty of students, so naturally he wouldn't know some of them. One he could remember was Taura Tsukino, a past Broadcasting club member. He found her handing out some flyers, trying to get more people to join her swim team probably.

Maybe she needed a hand. He swiftly returned to the Broadcasting Club room, and turned on all of the Equipment. He tapped the mic a few times, and slid the headphones ovre his ears. The "LIVE" light switched on as his voice drifted out of his mouth.

"For any of you who want to join the swim team, please try to find one Taura Tsukino. Come on you guys, we don't want to be known as the Fukushima Flounders!"

He got out just as quick as he had gotten in, evading any hall monitors that may or may not be there. He jogged out to check the Broadcasting Club sign out sheet, still finding it empty.

"Maybe I should have put a good word in for the broadcasting club in too."

After feeling content with herself after recruiting two new members, Taura pulled her thin lips into one of her rare smiles. Suddenly, a familiar voice rang through the hallways. It was Izanagi's!

"For any of you who want to join the swim team, please try to find one Taura Tsukino. Come on you guys, we don't want to be known as the Fukushima Flounders!" announced Izanagi, causing Taura to feel even more joyful. She took her smile back, however, and her face returned into the same, tense look as she marched to the Broadcasting Club sign up sheet. There, she caught sight of Izanagi.

"Yukimura-san! Thank you so much for the announcement." said Taura dully. "Did you recruit some first years for the Broadcasting Club?" she asked.

Taura cocked her head towards the side a little and noticed Kanade Aya rush towards Izanagi and her. Aya's outgoing and optimistic aura has bothered Taura ever since the two met the year before during the first swim team practice. Aya, being the only first year back then in the swim team, really impressed her, but Taura couldn't help but despise the joyful girl's attitude. An overabundance of any sort of emotion, positive or negative, was too much for Taura.

"I trained over the break, so I am pumped and ready to go for the next competition!" Taura blinked at Aya, her eyes practically peering into the second year's soul.

"To answer your question, Aya," Taura began, not bothering to call her Aya-san. Any respect that she showed towards Aya just meant more smiling from the auburn girl. "I did in fact recruit new members. Yuki Hayashi and, um, I think Akane Yamada. Both are first years..." at the last sentence, Taura couldn't help but sigh. She would have preferred recruiting some of the other third years or maybe even some of Aya's second year classmates. However, not many of the third years were brave enough to come close to Taura and she didn't know much of the second years except Aya and Izanagi.

Taura heard Aya ask something about classes. 2A was Aya's class. "I'm pretty sure Yamada-san is in your class." Taura blurted out, her eyes still glaring at Aya's. "Also, do you know anyone else that can join our team besides Yukimura-san here? Maybe a friend?"

"Yukimura-san! Thank you so much for the announcement." No need to get so excited Taura, it wasn't like you changed at all like last year. "Did you recruit some first years for the Broadcasting Club?" He couldn't really say anything, as he didn't want to lose face at this particular moment. He was wondering who else would be in class 2B with him. Hopefully he wouldn't have to make new friends in the class.

A girl walked up, apparently she already knew Taura, which was good for her. Perhaps she would join the swim team. If only he could get someone as pretty as her to join the broadcasting club. That'd be the day. He wasn't listening at all to there conversation, instead choosing to stand back to the side of the sign-up sheet. Maybe somebody else could just walk on up and give him something to work with at least.


"join our team besides Yukimura-san here? Maybe a friend?"

"I have friends too you know" Izanagi whined. That was of course a complete lie, he had just been friends with the other Broadcasting club members, and most of them had left. What a sad way for the Broadcasting club to end.

No. It wouldn't end here.

"I have friends too you know." said Izanagi and Taura focused her intense eyes towards him. She never really got to know him that much last year so she couldn't tell for sure if Izanagi was telling the truth or not. He seemed to get along well with the past members of the Broadcasting Club, but most of them were gone now and Taura began to think that she was the only one he knew above a stranger level.

"Well please tell all your friends to join the swim team. I'm desperate at this point, Izanagi." said Taura, her eyes focusing on Izanagi's pupils. From the way she looked, Taura looked like a living statue with no smile. "I can also help you get some people to join the Broadcasting Club. Maybe a few cute girls." Taura tried an emotional wink, but failed horribly. It just looked like something had gotten into her eye and closed it to get it out.

Kaiko Ishigawa

Kaito trekked to the school building and casually started taking her shoes off like the rest of her peers but stopped midway at the announcement. I almost forgot about the welcome ceremony. With a soft sigh at this slight inconvenience, the red head slipped her shoe back on and closed her locker, making her to give the lock a little twist to make sure there was no chance for anyone else to figure out her combo. She walked back out to the courtyard to see two rather familiar faces of her upperclassmen that she recognized from the Martial Arts club from the year before. With teasing, but friendly nudges at each other the two started a sparring match. Kaiko kept a distance, but watched with amusement as the two exchanged punches. Not too long afterwards, their infamous leader joined in. Touya called a break and offered a fair match with his sister, with a nod of confirmation, the sparring match began again. After a few minutes, the group stopped, Kaiko, being rather focused on the match barely noticed the gathering crowd around her, but instead walked away when she saw them start passing out flyers for the club. She already knew she was going to join, so there was no reason to have to stay there.

Kaiko subconsciously made a beeline for the dojo, where her legs were automated to head to every day after school the year before. I guess my brain finally went into school mode again. She went around the all-too-familiar wooden building and found the signup sheets. Kaiko quickly filled it in and noticed that there were plenty others, not only those of veteran members either. Making her way back to the courtyard, she noticed a few others she recognized have shown themselves. Izanagi was familiar to her due to the broadcast club, she was interested at the club at first, but after some thought, she just didn't think making announcements was really worth it. The girl with her was also somewhat familiar to Kaiko. Wasn't she... in the swim team? Kaiko wasn't a bad swimmer, but she wasn't anywhere near the best either. She was a life guard for a year, it was a last minute decision really, having nothing else to do, she say a flyer and decided to try it.

With a few moments of hesitance, Kaiko decided to approach the pair, interested in maybe reconsidering her decisions about the two clubs from last year. Another rather familiar girl, with a head of auburn and a bubbly smile ran up to the two and immediately engaged them in conversation. Kaiko recognized Aya from the power of gossip the year before, not that she participated in those rather degrading activities, but it is kind of hard to mishear a group of girls practically shouting right beside you about something that was supposedly subtle. Once Kaiko stepped into earshot, she heard Aya mention something about the swim team, then her class. A small smirk settled on her face at the familiar class. The red head patiently waited as Taura turned back to Izanagi, before approaching the auburn haired girl.

"I happen to be in your class, Aya-san," Kaiko greeted, hoping she didn't seem to direct to the other girl. "I'm Kaiko Ishigawa," the red head introduced herself, before adding on the polite little , "Please take care of me."

Taura let out a soft gasp as Aya carefully asked, "Didn't you just say that Yamada-san was a first year?"

She turned from Izanagi and frowned at Aya as the girl introduced herself to Kaiko Ishigawa, a second year. Taura couldn't stand being corrected, but could see what she just did. Blood filled the woman's cheeks as embarrassment began to creep in. Taura softly slapped herself on the right cheek and shook her head.

The auburn girl told Kaiko to join the swim team or the Broadcasting Club, Taura snapped out of her little disappointed moment and her eyes widened. Not caring about the rudeness that would probably show while interrupting the two girls' introductions, Taura placed herself into the conversation.

"Please do, Ishigawa-san. Please do." As always, Taura's eyes took on their glaring look and they began to pierce into Kaiko's. Taura took a quick glance at Aya to see if she became offended from the sudden statement then quickly turned back to Kaiko. "Well I must go." said Taura simply, and after a strong, intense push of a swim team flyer on the wall, the third year sped off to expressionlessly spread the news of the swim team's recruitment status.




Daichi walked out of the welcoming ceremony panting. There were so many people packed into one place that it seemed like he would drown from overpopulation. Earlier that morning, nobody seemed to want to talk to Daichi, so he had no choice but to attend the welcoming ceremony held every year, even though he has never attended a single one before in his now three years in Fukushima High.

On the way to his locker, Daichi spotted a third year girl from his class, 3B. The image of her intense eyes and chocolate-colored hair was pounded into his head. During the past two years, it was hard to not notice Taura Tsukino's piercing eyes that seemed like they were searching something inside of you while Taura would talk.

"Hello, Tsukino-san." waved Daichi, but he received no reply from his classmate and she brushed past his shoulder without saying a word. Flyers were in her hands and Daichi guessed that she was working on the swim team's recruitment. He reached his locker, retrieved the book he had placed in it earlier that morning, then walked off to search for club leaders after closing his locker. He passed by three people that Taura must have been talking too and Daichi decided to ignore them, not in the mood to really conversate. The guy in the group, Izanagi was his name, caught Daichi's attention. He recognized the guy as a Broadcast Club member from last year.

He must be the leader now, Daichi thought as he walked into another hallway. Izanagi always struck Daichi as one of the very few people who he thought was attractive, but no one could ever past Kyoya Nakazuki. Ever since his eyes had seen Kyoya, Daichi could not stop thinking about his classmate. They were both third years but in different classes. Daichi was in 3B and Kyoya was in 3A. Daichi smiled to himself as he began to daydream about Kyoya when suddenly he heard beautiful music coming from the choir practice room.

Daichi quickly peeked into the room. He saw Kyoya and a girl by a piano. Who is that girl, Daichi thought to himself as he frowned at the sight. The two began to conversate and Daichi brought his head back to the hallway.

Oh goodness, said Daichi in his head. I need to catch his attention one day. But when? he shook his head and walked off. One of these days, Daichi would get Kyoya Nakazuki's attention.

Yuki sat alone and began to write down plans for the clubs she was in. Okay. I have to be a good sport and help out. Yuki started off by writing down

Martial Arts Club

at the top of her page and listed some things below it.

~Put up a stand in the next fair with a bunch of facts on Martials Arts
~Have a free teaching session on the weekend with a Martial Arts Master (payed for by us) for fundraising and improving interest in Martial Arts

Yuki suddenly got writer's block for Martial Arts ideas. Her mood was brightening up a little bit. Next thing she wrote was

Swim Team

and listed things below it.

~Swim-a-thon!
~Do races for fun, and for stamina improvement
~Use swim toys!

Yuki sighed. I can't let Tsukino-san know how childish I can be... Yuki brushed it off and wrote down

Music Club

and listed things below it.

~Music Videos
~Perform a mini-concert at the next fair
~Raise money for improved instruments
~Pay a professional to help with amateurs people who... Need help?

Yuki was afraid that the last part made her sound stuck up. She brushed it off and got a great idea. She wrote,

All groups

~A trip!

Yuki closed her notebook, and checked her watch. The bell will ring in a few minutes. Yuki checked her schedule. Special Gym Event? For... The whole schoole?! Yuki quickly finished eating and made her way inside. She dumped her garbage out and walked around for the remaining minutes she had left when she heard on the announcements,

Good afternoon students! After the bell rings, everyone make their way to the back field. The change rooms may be crowded, so if you want to get a head start before others start piling in, you are free to do so now!

The announcements went off and Yuki decided she should go early. She ran up to her classroom and got a neatly folded gym uniform that was stuffed in there, and made her way out to the back, and into the change room.



Akane noticed that a girl, seemingly younger than her, walked towards the edge of the roof and sighed. I don't blame her for not wanting to come near me. Maybe I should just leave her alone... Akane gathered her things and started walking away, and said one last thing before closing the door to the roof. "Sorry for taking your spot." She then shut the door and began walking back down to her own level, and head towards her classroom.

Akane walked in, not caring if anyone was inside or not, headed towards her desk and began eating. When she was done, she pulled out a notebook from her school bag, hanging from the side of her desk and began to doodle using a mechanical pencil from her bag.

Akane was busy doodling, and didn't even notice the time fly by. She heard the announcements,

Good afternoon students! After the bell rings, everyone make their way to the back field. The change rooms may be crowded, so if you want to get a head start before others start piling in, you are free to do so now!

and she packed her things up, pulling out a gym uniform, and started walking outside towards the girls change room. "It would be a good idea to get a head start. Why not?" Akane said to herself as she seen the change room, and came closer to it.

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OOC: Hey guys! I'm tagging everyone because some of you seem a little inactive lately... You aren't required to read this post, if you don't want to. But I mentioned Kiku Satomi in this one. Soo, yep. Please keep posting everyone!