First

Chapter 1

With his first day finished, and another good nights sleep, Kazu traveled back to Onizaki High.

While he was thinking about what he would do to vie for school domination today, he heard a small tired voice from behind him. Upon turning around it was Koji gasping for breath and waving a stick, trying to catch up. Kazu waved to him and went back to join the… old man on their way to school.

-I kind of feel bad for referencing him as old but the fact of the matter is, this dude is decrepit.-

(It’s fine he will get back at us later for it.)

-Koji does always get his man.-

“Thanks for coming back for me Kaz-san”

-He was out of breath from just walking? Also he’s very friendly for having just met Kazu.-

“Kazu-san and wait, are you out of breath from just walking?”
“Well, my condition actually kind of ages me, not only do I look old, but my stamina takes a hit too. Man it’s annoying.”

Maybe this guy is just lying and is actually old? I don’t know what to believe at this point… Either way, Koji was now pointing and calling to another boy walking ahead of them. He turned back to look and… well basically he puts everyone else to shame in the looks department. Why can’t he be the main character instead of the painfully average looking Kazu…

The boy flicked his hair and walked over to Kazu and Koji, introducing himself as Nakamura Akihiko.

-Of course his name would mean bright-

(I swear if he was dense I would cry.)

-Not Aki dear friend. Not Aki.-

He looked Kazu up and down which probably made him feel uncomfortable, and at the same time raised questions about Akihiko’s own personality.

Koji, noticing the awkwardness slapped Akihiko on the back (well as hard as he could with his low stamina and even lower strength) and asked him how he was doing with the girl he was trying to get with.

“Well as such Midori seems to have no taste in men with my particular flair, and left me yesterday.”

“Ah, so you cheated on another girl with Yui again didn’t you.”

“What?! I never said that, I was simply stating that Midori and myself have parted ways.”

“Whatever you want to call it friend.”

Koji leaned over to Kazu and quietly gave him a few tidbits about Akihiko’s character. It seemed that he is a playboy… well we aren’t all perfect. Some less than others. Some less than human. Him definitely.

He usually would find a new girl to chase the skirt of, and then soon go back to this Yui girl until he and a new girl hooked up.

Disgusting as that is- Kaz appreciated people like this. People who could do somewhat evil things and yet feel fine about it was just the type that Kazu wanted in his gang. Sadly, he is the main character. So he gets to choose.

(We can always hope for new characters.)

Well it isn’t as if making a fuss is going to change my fate of narrating Kazu’s life… so it seems that Kazu was looking for someone just like this to be in his group of awful people.

“You are perfect.”

With a smile on his face, and his eyes twinkling, he took Akihiko’s arm and shook his hand with the other.

“Perfect for what my friend?”

“You will be the pretty boy in my gang. Trust me, together, we three will be unstoppable!”

“A pretty boy an old man and what seems to be a one hundred percent average dude. Well I suppose I have wanted to try something new, but I will need time to see Kagura.”

“Another one already?!”

Well we’ve made it to three characters in Kazu’s gang. Their chances are oh so high to be an amazing gang. The perfect character trio in my opinion. They’re going to sink like a rock.

God, don’t you think we’re pushing it with three?

As the two boys and old man talked on the way to school, they heard a loud voice which was getting closer and closer. Quickly.

“Move!”

It was all the three boys could hear before Kazu was yanked out of the way of a… Well to be honest I’m not sure what it was. But it had silver hair.

Koji was winded just from pulling Kazu with his cane, and he heard the sound of metal clanking and a short yelp before the silence of their stupefaction. Anyone else as surprised as I am that Koji has good reflexes?

After a couple of seconds the trio noticed that the thing that flew past them was a person. A fast moving one at that.

They ran up to the trash pile, the source of the following crash, and started looking through it. Among all the trash Kazu found something soft. He heard a small groan. The narrator heard the sound of another trope being used. *deep sigh*

Akihiko bumped Kazu out of the way and grappled through the trash to find what he now realized to be a girl.

The strength of one senior citizen, a boy who has never been in a fight, and one who is average in mostly everything was just enough to pull her out of the trash pile.

She looked a little beat up, but besides that the only other abnormal feature about her was that she had roller blades on. That would explain her incredible speed, but not Koji’s incredible reflexes to the previous event.

As she sat up, she looked at Kazu kind of strangely, which might be normal considering who it is, and then just sat there. Koji decided to break the silence.

“Were you hurt by the-” Which Akihiko interrupted with,

“Miss, is there any way we can assist you? If you sustained any sort of injury I would be more than glad to carry you the hospital. You could call me your knight in shining armor…”

“What? Oh no everything’s fine, I just got started down the hill and couldn’t stop myself I’m really sorry for the trouble.”

“For you nothing is trouble miss.”

-Damn Aki is slick.-

(Aki is main character worthy.)

The only thing he lacks is a good eye for what is going on around him. The girl was too busy staring at Kazu to even think about listening to what Aki was saying. And yes I decided that Aki was easier to say, shoot me.

Koji, noticing the tension shot in a quick question.

“That uniform must mean you go to our school hmmm?”

The girl, barely being able to break her gaze at Kazu, came back to reality with a start and stammered out a response once she realized that she was staring at him.

“O-oh I’m sorry! I actually transferred here yesterday.”

“Ah what school did you come from?”

“Hojo High, near Hokuei”

“My grandmother is from Hokuei, very nice this time of year.”

The girl looked at Koji strangely, as it would be strange for his grandmother to still be alive considering his age. Or maybe he really isn’t eighty.

(i’m not sure anymore)

-Isn’t that the point?-

“Um excuse me, what are your names?”

She had a sense of urgency to her voice, though none of the boys knew why. The first was, you guessed it.

“My name is Nakamura Akihiko but please, for one as lovely as you, call me Aki.”

(This guy is just on the ball.)

-I wish he was the MC as much as you do.-

“Ah, my name is Sakurai Koji.”

“And you?”

She stared at Kazu with dagger like eyes, though it didn’t seem as if she was particularly angry. Why would she be, they just saved her.

“M-my name is Murakami Kazutoshi.”

He got a strange feeling from her. It was all about her hair. A beautiful color that made him feel… almost at home. He felt like the hair should have been a little bit longer though, it didn’t feel exactly right. Of course we already knew that Kazu was a perfectionist asshole but this just proves the point.

(Ugh.)

-He’s got fine friends, give him a chance at least. I don’t like him either if that helps-

After hearing his name, the girl seemed like she had just hit the trash again, but twice as hard. Once again, our savior Koji tried to help her out and, approaching her, asked her what her name was to get her mind off whatever she was thinking about.

“M-my name! Of course! I’m sorry my name is Gancho Lillianna.”

“Gancho, what a strange name, were you born in a different country?”

“Well no but my parents are from Italy and moved here because of a job right before I was born.”

“Ah what do they do for work?”

As they continued to talk, Kazu was still pondering his feeling that he felt something nice from this girl. She was nothing like Asaka, who was a force of evil to be reckoned with. She seemed nice enough, if a little flustered.

(I sense a ship brewing.)

-The SS I wish Kazu wasn’t the MC, yes.-

She had a nice form though. Not too thin, and though he couldn’t say that her chest was overflowing that wasn’t against his preferences.She had beautiful silver hair that weren’t down to her shoulders, and cool blue eyes. If you haven’t noticed, Kazu is kind of a hentai, but aren’t we all?

(Please leave your fetish out of the story)

-Come now dear friend.-

“…so it was usually just me at home.”

Kazu jumped back into reality after lecherously looking at Liliana for a good minute and a half, just as Koji was basically finishing up a nice conversation with her.

That was around when they all froze. Way up at the top of the hill they heard something. It was foreboding. It was the worst horror they had ever known.

(Basically, they heard the school bell, and whoever was last each day was going to have to do chores for the teacher. A true tragedy.)

Akihiko, noticing the danger, started his sprint to the school, smart since one of his opponents had the stamina of a koala.

Waving back, He was surprised to be passed by Liliana, who had the upper hand with her roller blades. Not that it mattered who won in their race though.

Koji and Kazu looked at each other and found a mutual agreement in each other’s eyes. They would enter at the same time and split the work between themselves. This is true friendship people.

(A bond as strong as stone, true friends.)

They walked towards the front door, and as Kazu was opening it for Koji the old man noticed the daily workers on the news wall in front of the school. He squinted and saw that Asaka was the other worker for today, and that if they both got work duty she would probably get off scot free. He pondered for a moment then went to shake Kazu’s hand with a smile. As the unknowing Kazu took this gesture of friendship, Koji hit him with his cane and pushed him out of the way to enter the door, just as the bell rang a second time.

Betrayal, anger, sadness. These were all emotions that boiled up inside of Kazu as he looked at the friend that had just stabbed him in the back. Koji looked down at him and smiled.

(Damn Koji betrayed in less than five minutes.)

-A tragedy to be betrayed by your friends, especially an old man.-

“I’m sorry but a prior engagement came up, you’ll have to help Asaka without me.”

At the mention of her name, Kazu cringed and started into a cold sweat.

“Asaka is the other worker today?”

“Yes, but worry not, that isn’t the reason that I am forced to betray you. See you in class!”

He turned around and started hobbling toward the room. The room in which would be his dungeon for up to but not exceeding an hour after school.

He knew today was going to be hectic.

He was not ready.

As it happened, and yet as it always happened, the transfer girl named Lillianna they had met earlier was actually in their class. Without the helmet and pads on she looked quite different. At least she didn’t dwarf him like back on the street. She was about his height now.

She took the seat to the right of Koji’s, about two rows up, and got out her textbook for the class. The other boys in the class were silently plotting on whether she was hot, their chances with her, etcetera.

The only thing that was on Kazu’s mind however, was the prayers he was saying that Asaka would not try to crush his gang while they were still weak.

At the end of the day, as everyone was packing up, a slightly de-energized Kazu was called up to the front of class by Mr. Ogoe. Kazu saw Koji leaving with a smile on his face, twirling his cane around his hand and inwardly cursed him as Aki gave him a salute.

The transfer girl, Lillianna, was also staring Kazu as she left, looking back and forth between the student council president and the future leader of the underworld at the school. It must have just been stunning to behold, or something.

Mr. Ogoe assigned them tasks such as cleaning out the room, taking papers to Ms. Kashi, and even cleaning out the storage room. Nothing at all is going to happen in the storage room, trust me.

After picking up the papers on the floor and another boy’s fake shotgun shells, they moved to taking the papers to Ms. Kashi. Her room was on the third floor at the end of the hall according to Asaka, and they headed there with the papers bundled in their arms.

On the second floor as Kazu was trying to see around the mountain of forums and graded tests he caught a glimpse of something on the floor. As this may be an obstacle for either of them, he quickly decided his best course of action. He could either tell Asaka to watch out and gain favor with the president, or prove himself as evil and let her fall. Truly a decision of the ages. Gaining favor would possibly give him a free favor and perhaps he could corrupt Asaka with this as the catalyst, but at the same time proving his evil intent would also be very useful.

Obviously you don’t think about this extremely in depth when you have about five seconds, and our hero isn’t exactly a genius, so before he was even done contemplating he heard a yelp and the sound of rustling paper. I suppose he went for the evil intent?

Right something like that.

(No I think he was too dumb to pick)

“A banana peel what the crap?”

Kazu looked down as he could now see the item on the ground was in fact a banana peel, creating a lovely trope for the ages. Kazu set his papers down and took a full belly laugh at the angry girl lying on the ground on top of a banana peel.

Probably not the best idea with Asaka.

(He might get killed for it.)

-Maybe that isn’t such a bad thing.-

(True)

Getting up, red face blazing, Asaka stomped over to Kazu and took his shirt collar in hand asked him why the hell he was laughing with a very very red face.

“You just looked so normal that I couldn’t resist!”

“Normal? What do you mean normal?”

“Everyone acts like you’re some kind of powerful monster to be defeated.”

Which was true, ever since Kazu came to the school a lot of the gossip he had picked up and heard from Koji was about Asaka and the amount of work she did being the sole student council member, and her discipline towards the students out of line.

“Well I’m obviously just a normal girl. Though you are kind of an ass for calling me a monster.”

True that though.

(We really shouldn’t expect much for him at this point)

“Just repeating what I’ve heard.”

He’s just avoiding getting backhanded in my opinion. Not a bad choice though.

C’mon Kazu you don’t totally hate her, I can see it in your eyes. Honestly I expected her to hate Kazu a lot more than this, but it isn’t a bad thing she can have a normal conversation with the main character is it. If she couldn’t this story wouldn’t really go anywhere would it? Hahaha….

(and what would we be without her? hahaha…)

Anyways, still smiling, Kazu helped Asaka pick up the papers, a smile still tugging at the corners of his mouth. He looked over at her to see if she was still fuming and found it strange that she was smiling as well. She then proceeded to look at him and they just kneeled there for a second staring at each other. A few seconds in though, they heard something like a piece of wood in a cane shape hit the floor, and fast footsteps. Their eyes came back into focus, and within three whole seconds they had picked up the papers and were sprinting towards the room.

After setting a walking speed record to Ms. Kashi’s room they practically ran to the storage room and cleaned it in another record setting time. Mr. Ogoe walked by to check on their progress, and was thoroughly impressed with how well they worked together. Of course what they were actually trying to do is get away from each other after that awkward moment but… Yeah Mr. Ogoe can think they enjoy each other’s company.

As soon as they were done, they went back to the room to tell Mr. Ogoe they were finished. After gathering their things and walking out of the room Kazu heard Asaka say something.

“Did you say something?”

“T—-“

“Hey you know I can’t hear you right.”

“Jeez thanks for the help already!”

Thus she ran up the stairs towards the roof puzzling Kazu.

“Hey aren’t you leaving?”

“Obviously, why aren’t you?”

“Well going up doesn’t exactly mean you can leave, unless you slide down a drainpipe every day.”

Asaka got red in the face again and stamped past him down the stairs.

“Obviously I was thinking of going to get something but I’ll just wait till tomorrow. I’m not stupid.”

“Right.”

Thus we bid a farewell once again on all the progress that Kazu made today. But nothing happened in the storage room at least.

(Ah you were right.)

-Of course I was! Urg that was close…-

(What was that?)

-Nothing!-

Kazu guessed she didn’t want to be seen leaving school with a cool guy thug like him, and waited a minute before heading down the stairs himself.

Walking out the front gate, Kazu felt a strange presence. He looked at his right hand, remembering its power, and heard a noise coming from across the street. Probably just a cat.

Kazu kept walking and heard something like rushing water behind him. His head shot back and… nothing once again. He was probably just going insane. Which is entirely possible considering that he was just thinking about his right hand’s power.

Kazu continued to walk through the neighborhood, hearing the strange noise getting closer and closer until he felt something, or someone, breathing down his neck. He whipped around only to find! Nothing of course.

He grumbled something about yakuza being afraid of nothing, and walked across the street to arrive home, just as something stared at him out through the trash cans.

Walking into his hous- Whoah! Is he in the right place?! Kazu just walked into an enormous mansion…

(Maybe he got lost. This guy can’t be rich!)

He entered the door and with a traditional “I’m home” put his shoes and coat on some cubbies near the entrance.

Strangely enough it seemed as if there was nobody else in the enormous house, save for a butler who strode towards him like he was the philanthropist genius that owned the place.

(Wait….)

-I… House…-

Picking up the coat and shoes, the butler neatly folded it and took them away to another room with a bright smile and a short bow.

Looking at Kazu once again, we can see that he hasn’t really been himself since he entered the house. He shambled through the house like a corpse, almost knocking into walls and causing paintings to fall.

Ten minutes into walking through the house he encountered a note on the floor. Written in quite neat handwriting it said “I had Shiro buy some new food for the pantry, though I still can’t find the exit to this place, if I don’t see you, love you! -Mom”

(His mom is lost in their house…I can’t even begin on this)

-I’m honestly not sure whether to be impressed by the size of the house or her probable stupidity.-

Kazu stuffed the note in his pocket and made his way to a room with pots and pans, large enough to be an amphitheater but having the feel of a kitchen. Here, a young girl hummed, making something on the stove. His maid and friend, Misaki. She was homeschooled by Shiro and not even she knew her own age since she was found by his mother and taken in when she was very young, though she looked his age or a little bit older.

(Another love interest?)

-None of which he probably deserves.-

She hummed a familiar tune, making some sort of curry for dinner. Kazu entered the room, then stumbled and fell onto the hard stone floor. Shrieking, Misaki ran over to him and knelt down.

“Ka-chan are you ok?! Ka-chan!”

She shook him by the collar, and if one looked hard enough you may notice his soul leaving his body, after which she started to tear up and slap him.

This seemed to wake him up however, he must have been faking it.

“I’m fine! I’m fine, I’m fine.”

“What? Don’t just drop over dead then Ka-chan.”

“I wasn’t dead I was just… out of it.”

“But you’re always out of it.”

“Well I… it’s just the new school is all. I’ve met a lot of people at least.”

“Oh that sounds nice.”

(Kazu can’t you be considerate, the girl can’t even go to school.)

-Feels bad man.-

He leapt up with all the energy in the world, and strode over to the cooking curry, locking the familiar and lovely scent into his nose. His mother didn’t really cook for him, and before Misaki started cooking he usually just found TV dinners sitting outside of his room, courtesy of either his mother or Shiro. He hadn’t seen his mother in weeks, speaking of her.

Misaki smiled and walked over to the pot as well.

“You better treat me a little nicer, or you’ll be back to TV dinners for life, understand?”

Kazu looked absolutely destroyed, internally and externally, and Misaki immediately felt bad for threatening to take away his only source of happiness. He doesn’t have any brothers or sisters though, and obviously doesn’t see his mother much even if her exploration of the house doesn’t make total sense.

“Will it be done soon?”

“Yes Ka-chan it’ll be just a bit.”

“I’ll go take a bath then.”

“Hey it wont be that long!”

She yelled after him as he walked down the hall to the bath. The bath was, for some reason, close to the kitchen, and it was… very large. Though, at this point, nothing would really be surprising. He could have a zoo in that metropolis and I think it would be shrugged off.

Settling down, he reflected about the day, and thought about how Asaka actually said thank you to him. He was planning in the long run to make her his arch-rival but so far that wasn’t exactly going as planned. The school might have looked almost as rough as its students, but most of them weren’t actually bad people. He was surprised, maybe even a little disappointed.

“Ka-chan the curry is ready!”

He saw Misaki standing outside the door, waiting for him to get out. Years ago, she used to be the one to wash his back.

“That’s master Kazutoshi, Misaki.”

Recently he had been trying to be seen as the master of the house, as his father was gone and, well, we don’t talk about his mother. Also, being seen as the master could lead to being seen as a villain and we all know exactly what our hero’s goal is.

“Just get out here soon Ka-chan.”

He heard her walk away from the door, and mumbled to himself about how he got no respect.

He finished washing himself and exited the large bath, drying himself off and putting on some nice breathable house clothes. He could smell the curry coming from the kitchen, and almost everyone always came to dinner. Of course his mother was the exception.

Upon entering the kitchen he found Shiro the butler, Misaki the maid, Gouta the groundsman, and old man Yaga. Nobody really knew what his job in the mansion was, but he had been there long before any of them, so they let him be.

The curry was exactly how he liked it, not extremely spicy, but enough to leave a bit of heat on your tongue. He absolutely loved anything that Misaki cooked, not that he would tell her that.

(I wonder if they just leave food around for his mom?)

Shiro plopped some letters down on the table as he began to eat.

“There’s been a lot of bills coming in recently, which must be from the renovations in the old section. Oh and I hear we got a new neighbor.”

“Neighbor?”

Kazu didn’t even know where the neighboring houses were, much less the people living in them.

“So where is the neighbor’s house then? It would have to be pretty far away wouldn’t it? We could barely call them neighbors.”

“Well actually, because of the bills it looks like they’ll be staying in the midtown section of the mansion.”

“What!?”

The midtown section of the mansion was another piece down the road that had sort of a retro town feel to it, thus the workers there called it the mid(1930’s)town(town feeling).

(Is the size of this house even real?)

-I’m unsure if we can quite imagine it to be honest. Get the artists over here! I need the schematic!-

Kazu was very surprised that not only were they getting a neighbor but said neighbor was even living with them!

“Well these people sort of gave us a way out of having to sell the mansion due to the bills. I think it is a great trade off. Plus they have a girl that is in your grade Kazu.”

“Shi-san I don’t think that’s the issue that Ka-chan is thinking about.”

Misaki was looking just about as confused as Kazu, but Gouta and Yaga just continued to eat the curry. Nothing really fazed those two.

“If they pay they stay.”

That was all that could be obtained about Gouta’s opinion, and Yaga nodded before both of them went back to their meals.

(Main character Gouta?)

-Don’t be stupid. Main character Yaga.-

(He does have that mystique to him.)

“Well when do they move in then Shiro?”

“Ah they move in tomorrow morning actually, they’re staying with family until their moving trucks arrive.”

Well, tomorrow was Saturday, so he supposed he would go greet them at least.

“Yes well I must attend to other matters, goodnight Misaki, Kazutoshi.”

“Yeah see you tomorrow. Nothing we can do about it anyways.”

“Hopefully you remember them once they arrive.”

Kazu heard Shiro mutter this as he exited the kitchen, and wondered what he was talking about as he prepared a meal to set out for his mother, should she make her way to the kitchen during the night. Sometimes she wandered, and sometimes she simply found an empty bedroom to sleep in.

(Oh so they do. Good I felt bad for her.)

-Some one has to care about her.-

Getting in his stupidly big bed in his stupidly big room, Kazu wondered once again about Asaka, and what he should do. Right before he drifted off he also seemed to think about the transfer student, Lillianna. Now why was she staring at him like that…

Author’s note: Thanks for reading through the first chapter, more to come soon! By the way, if you aren’t sure about the comments () and –, just take a look at the disclaimer in the prologue. Thanks a lot for reading!