Hes not my friend

[blueayes]

Kazuma looked around as the men worked, but considering he had nothing else to do, so he decided to head back to his room, even as he walked he noticed the girl from the circus was speaking with Zuko.

He walked into the ship and he noticed that the men were giving him a wide breadth, behind him were his guards, even before he arrived at his cell he could hear the elders speaking to each other, he immediately stopped walking when he heard his name mentioned.

''So you think that he's an Avatar, just not the avatar." he heard a woman's voice.

"How would you consider Kazuma, when compared to the avatar." he heard Zuko's uncle ask the other elders.

"Kazuma is lazy but he will do what he has to do t help those around him, no one else his kindness only extends to those he cares about." an old man answers Zuko's uncle.

'The avatar will do whatever it takes to help everyone"

"Kazuma fell from the sky," Iroh said

"While the avatar rose from beneath the ocean." the water tribe elders all said all at once.

"Kazuma laded upon the fire nations prince and had begun to build the exiled prince a kingdom above the waves." Iroh said.

"While the avatar was discovered by the last water bender in the southern kingdom," the elders said.

"So is he evil?" one of the elders asked everyone resent.

"No, I don't believe Kazuma is evil, its more like the Avatar has been gone for so long that the spirits simply had to, make another one, and since the spirit of light is wilded by the avatar then, the spirit of darkness is held by Kazuma" Iroh answered the elders.

"There is also another possibility, that there were always two Avatars, the spirits are all about balance, so there is no reason for only one to exist."

A heavy silence settled in.

Kazuma turned around and began to walk back to the deck of the ship, this time however he didn't bother to look at his guards, he walked outside of the ship and sat down at the edge of the ship.

The fleet would soon move again, but this time he was now considering leaving the fleet behind, after all, he wasn't a leader, no, not anymore.

'''''''''Kazuma!"

"Aqua! Let her go!"

"Damm it!"

"Explosion"

For a brief moment that painful memory returned to him. If the people were really starting to believe that he's some sort of spiritual leader then he would have to leave.

There would be no argument about it.

"Thinking about things that happen no to long ago, MR. Water Bender" a woman's voice said to him.

"No wondering about the future and the present, while I head to the past one last time" he answered her, there was no point in him turning to look behind him, after all of the women on board were old ladies, Zuko had his girl with him, so the only one left was the girl from the circus.

"Then aren't you going backward?" she asked him

"Isn't everyone on this ship doing the same, a prince that seeks someone from the past, an elder that wishes to take care of someone that he loves, a girl that wants to see what was written in her books, or told to her by drunken people and me....."

"I wonder if I even have a home waiting for me."

"I said a lot, so where are you going?" he asked her.

"Me, I'm going to show the world all of my acts and make people smile," she said before jumping and doing a reverse summersault.

"I grew up with ten identical sisters, so I felt like if I was just one more, so when I was old enough, I found something I was good at and went for it. You know" she said to him, Kazuma didn't bother turning around to see her but he could tell the girl was smiling.

"Youll find what you're looking for when you become part of a set again......We all have to burry our skeletons one of these days" he answered her.

She didn't say anything, instead, she just walked up to him and sat next to him as he watched the ocean.

"...."

"...."

"Is, is it true, did you really fall from the sky and that you can control air, fire, wood earth and more things ordinary benders cant?" she asked him with a low voice that was barely above a whisper.

"Fire can heat air, so you can use it to shoot hot air at people, with enough practice you can take the heat from things instead f making fire and so on. It's just that most people never try." he answered her.

"So the spirit that saved us" Ty Lee stopped her question when she noticed Kazuma's sad expression.

"A past I'm headed to and my attempt to fix my mistake>" Kazuma answered her.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"....Shes arogant gets angry easily and loves to drink, she causes a lot of problems and is hard to deal with"

"But at the same time, she's been there for me when everyone else had given up on me, she plays with children and helps those that are ill if someones sic she cures the and doesn't ask for payment and only accepts money when people have something to spare."

"She saved me in more ways then one, it's because of her I met all those people, and if it wasn't for her I would still be......locked away inside that ....bu=y the way what's your name?"

Ty Lee immediately noticed Kazuma stopped himself from saying something he shouldn't have, and she wondered if he was a prisoner somewhere and the spirit must have saved him, but that only brought up more questions about the two.

She had heard him scream Aqua, and that's just another word for water, but that would mean he speak directly with the water spirit and Kazuma meant Harmony.

Unfortunately, she wasn't the brightest of the bunch but she knew there was something there.

"Sorry my name is Ty Lee and Zuko screamed your name but I would like to hear you say it" she said to him with her widest smile.

"My name is Kazuma, the greatest adventurer in the world, I've foughten monsters, fought with Goddes, Killed a Demonking and saved the world and now I'm trying to" he stopped the moment he felt the ship shake

"You should get back, they're already loading the tanks, we'll be leaving soon" he said to her before heading back below the ship.

"Here" one of the guards handed her a stack of papers, give them to people you know, so they would be so on the edge when we are near them, it's bad for business."

"Just tell them that the drawings on the paper are the same as the on one the ship, the rest takes care of its self." the guards said to her however the moment she touched the stack of papers the guard immediately held har hands firmly in place.

"Tell no one about the spirit of what he told you, do you really want someone like them after you" the man said to her in a low but extremely threatening voice, he didn't even wait for her answer, he immediately let her go after that, but Ty Lee received the message, after all even as the guard left every other sailor and soldier that was on the dec was keeping an eye on her.

 

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The sound of the school bell ringing announced that it was time for class to start, in all honesty, I could hardly care less, when someone that pays attention to the real world, they would notice that the majority of what one learns here is completely useless.

A factory worker doesn't need to know what chemicals can make coolant if their position doesn't need them to use something like that.

I looked around just for a moment, there wasn't a particular reason, it was just a force of habit of min, everyone already had separated themselves into their groups and I sat alone like always.

Those that excelled in their public image had their group and were looked up to by everyone else and from there let's be honest no one truly cared.

In the back of the room, there is a single empty seat, it belongs to a student that has never come to class, since the first day he has never shown up, there were rummers about who he might be and what he might be doing, but in the end no one even pays attention to it anymore.

The sound of the classroom door opening made everyone run to their seats, it was time for the teacher to come in, however, I had to admit that I was surprised when a guy walked in, he had short uncombed brown hair, green eyes, and the school uniform.

At first I thought that he might be a new student, however, he just walked passed everyone and sat down on the one empty chair behind the unused desk that was in the class.

He didn't say anything, in fact, he didn't even have a backpack and to that extent, he didn't even have books, and yet there was something about him that said he had already lived life.

The classroom door opened again and the teacher walked in, her eyes immediately focused on the new face in the room, yet the woman didn't act on what she had seen, instead, she waved at someone to come in.

"cLass" she began to say only for the blue-haired beauty that had walked in to cut her off.

"Kazuma! Kazuma! we're in the same class!" she said as he ran to the previously unknown student, the girl didn't care she was wearing a skit or that the entire class was looking at them, she just hugged the guy named Kazuma.

"I was so worried I wouldn't know anyone, we just got back to Japan and I thought you would leave me behind!" she said in between tears and a and a smiling face.

The entire class had their eyes locked on the two new arivals, but they were all shocked when the guy named Kazuma just hugged the blue-haired girl.

"Miss Aqua please refrain from making a scene, because this is your first day Ill forgive you" the teacher said to the blue-haired beauty, who just held onto the once missing student.


"Mr. Sato welcome, its good to finally see you here, unfortunately, there is a high chance you won't pass this semester, because of how many classes you have missed."

the woman said to them before smiling.

"So why don't the to of you tell us how you know each other." the teacher said to them before Kazuma looked at Aqua and his face filled with fear.

"Aqua don't." he said.

"We used to live together, in fact, we did plenty of things, Kazuma took me from my home and we went to see the world, its because of him that I was able to meet so many different people and try so many different things": Aqua answered the teacher.

He had to give the woman credit for not breaking face because the Aqua had just announced that she and Kazuma, had eloped and had only just returned to Japan.

I looked at Kazuma who just hid under his hand, before looking at the teacher. 'Well she didn't lie" he said to the woman.

"What?!" the entire class said at once.

"The two of you, principals office now!" the teacer said to them, her face red with confusion and jealousy, she, herself hadn't even been married yet and there were two students that had apparently beaten her to it.

The two walked out of the room and immediately everyone started taking out their cellphones, that is everyone except for me, I had no one to text.

By the end of the day, word would have already spread through the school.

 

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It wasn't long before the teacher walked back into class, she did her job like usual and finally the two new students returned to class, they both had exhausted expressions and neither of them dared to look at anyone in the room, but none the less they just walked back to the one empty chair.

"There's only one chair" Aqua said quietly, by the sound of how soft her voice was, she was trying to hold back tears.

I could see Kazuma move to the side and let her sit down, before he just sat on the floor, this sort of thing happens in schools like this, classes have a set amount of desks, so when a new student arrives they usually spend their first day standing.

As I looked at Kazuma as he sat on the floor, I could see a coldness in his eyes, like if the next person to do or say the wrong thing would suffer his wrath.

The day went by quickly, neither new student red or wrote down anything, neither of them had shown up with any school supplies after all.

The bell rang and it was time for lunch, I usually brought my own from home, ao did a lot of the students, some, however, ran out knowing that if they didn't make it in time they would missout on the days special.

Everyone separated into their own groups and like usual I sat alone, I turned to look at the two newcomers and I watched as the blue-haired beauty looked around with a smiling face.

Kazuma as she called him had taken an empty chair and sat in front of her, I could already see tears beginning to form and how the girl struggled to hold them back.

"Come on" Kazuma said to her, his was the only voice I didn't recognize from the class so I knew it belonged to him.

"Hey I'm Kazuma and this one here is Aqua please to meet you ...." he said to me as I ate alone.

I looked up to them and I was surprised to see just how well the two complimented one another, Kazuma was plain, that much was certain but his green eyes seemed to go well with Aquas blue eyes, and despite his uncombed brown hair, it seemed to make Aquas light blue hair shine just a little bit more.

"Hachiman" I answered them.

"Mind if we sit with you Hachiman?" Kazuma asked me, I knew that he was just asking men because I was alone and they dint have anyone to talk to, I wanted to tell them no but my mouth acted on its own.

"Sure, bit arent you too going to eat" I asked them.

"Nop we ate before coming to school" Aqua answered, her eyes still held the small sighs of tears, but those tears were slowly vanishing behind her bright smile.

I noticed that without knowing it, people suddenly had their heads turned in my direction, I could even see people looking threw the windows in the hallway, some were delinquents, others were just plain people that didn't have anything better to do.

"Kazuma and Aqua, I have spoken to the school board and we need to talk to your parents about your future in this," the principal said, however, I felt a chill in the air in front of me.

"That's enough," Kazuma said before somehow jumping over the desks running from one desk on to another and graving the principal and slamming him on to the wall.

The principal is a well-built man and easily is taller than Kazuma, yet I couldn't believe my eyes, Kazuma had the principal by the thought and had him pinned to the wall.

I watched as Aqua ran to stop him, but Kazuma had slightly pulled back the principal and slammed him on the wall not once, not twice, but six times and I could hear the man struggling to breathe.

Aqua graved Kazuma's hand and tried to stop him, but he wasn't letting go.

"I don't know where you get off telling us what we can and can't do outside this school, but if..." Kazuma said before turning to look at Aqua and tightening his grip.

No one made a noise and slowly the sound of someone clapping filled the room.

"Let him go, young man, I understand why you would be angry, especially since the two of you admitted to being married. There is no indecent relationship here, and yet they punish you for it." a man I have never seen here before walked in, he wore an expensive-looking suit and shoes that looked like if they had just been polished.

"I'll overlook your attack on a member of this school simply because your a man defending his wife, but look at her shes on the verge of tears," he said to Kazuma and the Kazuma let go of the principal.

"You know I don't get involved with everyday school matters, but when this reached my ears had to step in."

"This is a private school, only the best in academics, sports get in, we even have student from families that are already engaged to be married and imagine my surprise when I hear the treatment these two are receiving" the man said to the principal, I could feel my chest tighten as the realization set in.

My heart raced, I had to admit never had a calm smiling face send a chill down my spine.

"Kazuma go back to what you were doing, Aqua don't cause any more misunderstandings and you don't let this happen again." the ma said before walking out the door, no one said anything.

I watched Kazuma go back to sitting on the floor and Aqua sat in the chair next to him.

My heart calmed down and I realized I was sweating, the man that had walked in and stopped everything, just by being in the room was the owner of the school and one of the council of directors.

I looked down at my food and i silently agreed with the man, the two hadn't done anything wrong and eventually those that could get married, so the treatment they were getting wasn't something they deserved.

I grabbed my lunch and sat next to them, none of us said anything, I didn't even acknowledge when Kazuma and Aqua stole food from my lunch.

I watched the two when lunch ended and classes continued, I watched them when we went to the next class and finally when it was time to go home, I wasn't surprised to see them go home together.

Had I known that with their appearance in my world, things would change so much I might have stayed away from the two of them that day.

 

[blueayes]

Morning came and went like usual I did my morning routine, I took a shower, changed clothes and ate my breakfast, I'd like to say that it was all in that order, but as I said earlier, morning came and went.

I had overslept and normally my little sister would have woken me up. she knew that if I was exceptionally tired the day before, I would sleep in.

What did I do, or what happened to make so tired your guess is as good as mine, regardless I had overslept and the last bell was about to go off.

Like usual I rode my bike to school and thankfully I had enough experience going uphill with it, that I was able to reach the top of the hill in the nick of time.

I managed to pass through the school gate even as they closed, the last groups of students were already going into the building when I heard a pair of familiar voices behind me.

"Hurry Aqua!"

"Kazuma carry me"

I immediately knew who the owners of the voices were, unfortunately for Kazuma and Aqua the main gate had already closed.

I have to admit that I have a slight sanicle side to myself so when I heard the metal sound of the gate lock I had a mischevious smile, even as I locked the chain on my bike.

The moment I turned around I couldn't believe my eyes, Kazum, the man that had transferred into class the day before, was carrying Aqua the girl that had transferred to my class in his arms as they both jumped over the schools front gate.

I looked around to see if anyone else had seen what I had just seen, but I was late and everyone else had just gone inside the building, the two ran passed me and hurried inside.

I don't know why but for some reason, even if I knew that nothing the two did concern me, but for some reason, my feet began to move on their own and I soon found myself running after them, chasing the two from behind.

I ran passed the school's delinquent and two of the girl she had in the friends club of his, or how many of us have come to know it the delinquent's guy's harem.

I followed the two as they avoided a teacher who was carrying a stack of papers and I watched as both Kauma and Aqua caught every one of the papers in perfect order before they even hit the floor.

It was then that Aqua noticed me.

"You're late too" she said to me, her smile didn't seem to be the least bit affected by what happened yesterday.

"I overslept" I answered her as we began to run up the stairs, I nearly stopped when the two didn't bother slowing down when a group of students blocked the stairs as they were going up themselves.

No the simply used their moment to jump on the side of the stairs and from there jump on the set slightly above thems.

"Come on!" Kazuma screamed at me before he vanished from sight, I heard the two as they ran away leaving me behind.

I had lest them, just like that they had left me behind.

"What are you doing just jump!" Kazuma said as he suddenly yelled at me from the next floor.

"Did he come back for me?" I asked myself as he did the same action as before only that this time he jumped down instead of up.

Just like that, I was somehow swept up in a world that I didn't even know existed, from the side of the stairs Kazuma pulled me up, before jumping to the stairs above us and immediately jumping to the next set of stairs, after that we began to run again.

It was then that I noticed all of the eyes of every student were locked on us, I didn't like that, I who was an existence that no one cared about was suddenly being noticed by everyone.

Finally, we reached the floor where my classroom is on and I noticed that Aquas skirt was a little to short for her to be running with, somehow it was short enough for it to show her panties, but I couldn't see anything.

I almost wondered if she wasn't wearing any, but there was no way to tell considering her skirt always covered her just when I thought I would get a glips underneath it.

"Your late" those were the words that greeted us and we were forced to stand in the hallway until the woman felt like letting us into the classroom.

 

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Half an hour passed before we were allowed to enter the classroom and I noticed that several students were already looking at us with curious gazes, why anyone looked in my direction despite never having paid any attention to me before I didn't know.

No, the reality was that I didn't want to know, I knew that my actions would cause trouble and yet I still did what I had done, I allowed myself to be taken by the two's momentum.

The rest of the day passed and soon it was lunchtime, this time however both Kazuma d Aqua had their food with them, they immediately moved the nearby tables and the chairs ear my own and for the first time in years, I had someone eat with me in class for more than one day.

"Hey do you want to come over to our house after class, maybe you can show us around?" Aqua said to me as she ate a sausage that was cut in the form of an octopus.

I looked at her and I waited for her to say something else, yet neither Kazuma or her said anything, they both just kept on eating, I noticed that the both were eating the same thing, rice, sausage, grilled onion and some sort of sauce that was kept on the side.

I swallowed and I had to think about my next words, I was being offered a chance to enter a world I had only caught a glimpse of, I knew that I could never be apart of the world that existed around me, but I didn't know if I wanted to enter this other one in front of me.

I took another bite of my food and I thought about what I wanted to say, one could call it a leap of faith but I answered her after a moment.

"Sure"

I didn't know what consequences my actions would bring, but there couldn't be that many bad results from my decision, soon the bell rang and the teacher walked back in.

"Okay class, for your next assignment all of you have to write about your experience in Highschool and what you are looking forward to in the future." she said to us before sitting down and watching everyone write down some things.

"Kazuma, Aqua you two can write what you have done while you were gone and if you want you could read it to the rest of the class, I know about the two of you jumping over the front gates." she said to the two new arrivals.

Immediately the two of them began to write down their experiences while they were away, soon pencils stopped moving and I watched as Aqua walked to the front of the class, however, I briefly noticed how Kazumaa had tried to stop her from doing so but failed to catch her before she was out of arms reach.

I looked at Aqua as she walked to the front of the class, her long blue hair seemed to have a rhythm to it, her smile was almost as bright as her eyes, she was beauty in every form and way.

Maybe it was my hormones or the fact that I knew the two had come to class together, but for a brief moment, I envied Kazuma for having her at his side.

"What I did during this entire time before coming to school." she took a deep breath.

"I was living my life, it was boring but I can't complain, then one day a neet walked in and took me from my house."

"We went to see the world, we drank until we passed out, we met a lot of interesting people, we slept in barns and fought wolves, I'm still asked to go back and work n construction when a big project is happening."

"We lived with Darkness and Meguiming and the four of us did many things" tears began to fall.

"We were a family, we fought against corrupted nobles and lots of monsters, I found myself doing things I had only seen other people do and it was all because a neet stole me away that day" the room fell silent and the teacher told Aqua to go to her seat, immediately Kazuma tried to comfort her, but Aqua was smiling, even if tears fell from her eyes.

Kazuma walked to the front of the class he briefly looked the teacher in the eyes, closed his eyes and began to talk.

"I wanted to lie before I wrote this thing, but I know it wouldn't be fair to any of us and by us, I don't mean anyone here, except me and Aqua" he took a deep breath and began to talk.

"I used to be scared or nervous about things in life but one day I died and I met this blue-haired pain of a goddess and I guess my life began, I learned archery, how to craft things and" he began to laugh at some memory I didn't know about.

"I wonder how many times I really died, we fought against things and did things that the old me would have never done and it all started because that blue-haired girl laughed at the way I died"

"I met a lot of people, I even had a girl consider me her oni chan and look up to me for a while, Darkness, and Meguming, they're both a world away now, I guess this is my way of saying goodbye and for someone to know even if its a little bit of what we went through" Kazuma said to us, he never bothered to look at the sheet of paper in his had, he just walked back to his seat and patted Aquas head.

Our teacher miss Shizuka Hiratsuka just looked at the two with a worried and sad expression, she had understood just like I had that the two must have been through a lot and that neither of them regretted their decision for leaving, no it was more like something must have happened and they were forced to return to Japan or more specifically back to their houses.

The class passed as usual and miss Hiratsuka called me to the office, as I walked to the main office, I found both Kazum and Aqua waiting for me in the hallway.

The woman was already waiting for me in the office she had my essay on the table beside her.

"Hikigaya I called you here because of your essay, do you really believe what you wrote down, have you made any friends all year or at all?" she asked me.

I just looked at her and the woman moved her right hand through her hair and exhaled.

"Look rewrite this and put what you have lived threw during your highschool life......you aren't apart of any clubs or do any afterschool activities right" it was more of a statement than a question, regardless I answered her.

"No"

She smiled and rose to her feet, the woman is the very figure of beauty, she was older but not what one would consider a mature woman, her long black hair went well with her light skin, her gray eyes seemed to give her the sense of mistery.

The woman's figure was nothing to laugh at, she had large breasts that nearly burst from her blouse, she wasn't thin but she wasn't fat either, she was filled in the right spots and thin where she had to be this gave her plenty of curves.

"Come with me" she said to me before walking out of the office, I followed her out of the room and I watched Kazuman make a sign to me using his hands, he wordlessly told me that he was going home.

I nodded and I just kept following miss Hiratsuka to an empty room, she opened the door and I noticed that the room wasn't empty, a simple chair was placed inside the room, every table in the class alongside the chairs were stacked in the back of the room.

On that chair was a single girl that read a book, she gave off a semblance that if the world were to end she would still be reading the same book.

In this school there exists a class solely dedicated to those that are specially made for performing in the international stage, the students there are those whos grades, look and social standings far excel those of any other person around.

It mostly has students that have returned to japan or are going to study abroad and from that class, Yukinoshita Yukino, comes from such a class, regardless if it's from exams or sports she always excels above everyone else.

I never spoke to her considering, I never spoke to anyone, I never tried to talk to people and they never tried to talk to me, until recently it was something that we were all happy to do and leave unchanged.

I felt miss Hiratsuka lightly shove me and so I introduced myself.

"Hie I'm" I began to introduce myself however she immediately interrupted me.

"If you are not here to make a request please refrain yourself fro speaking to me"

Miss Hiratsuka was about to say something when suddenly the backdoor to the room slid open and I watched both Kazuma and Aqua walk in, neither of them gave or cared for the three of us that were already inside the room.

"Kazuma look its the cold, I dot like you, go away school beuty" Aqua said to Kazuma as she walked up to Yukino, I watched as Aqua seemed to cut through Yukinos hora of a high-class lady.

"Hey Hachiman, we were going to go home but we thought that hey, a lonely high school boy and a beautiful teacher, those two must be" Kazuma stopped talking when Miss Hiratsukacut the distance between him and her in the blink of an eye, I watched how Kazuma seemed to move with equal amounts of speed and dodged her pouch before landing next to me.

"I'm Aqua nice to meet you, miss?" Aqua presented herself to Yukino.

It was like looking at two opposite sides of the mirror, not in the sense that one was ill-kept and the other was the very image of cleanliness, but in the form that while Yukino was calm and gave off a cold yet welcoming hora, Aqua seemed to shine and just by looking at her a person wanted to simply lower their guard and begin to talk to her about meaningless things.

Yukino was covered up and despite wearing the same cloths as the girls from my class, it the way she wore them made them seem completely different, Aqua, however, made the clothes seem somehow shorter, her breast were large and her skirt was small and yet there was a grace to her.

 

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"Yukino Yukinoshita' Yukino introduced herself I watched as she turned to look in Kazuma's direction, but the guy never bothered to introduce himself, after a moment Kazuma raised his eyebrows and said.

"Oh I won't introduce myself, you see Ia don't have a request so I won't bother speaking to you." in that one exchange Kazum a had used her words against her and I noticed Yukino seem to lose her composer for a brief moment.

"Listen Yukino, Hachiman will be joining you in the Service club" Miss Hiratsuka said as she tried to save face, she didn't bother to let Yukino argue with her, she just immediately left the room.

After that Yukino never bothered to look in my direction, instead she immediately began to read a book she had on her lap.

Kazuma and Aqua, however, didn't seem to care for the silence in the room, either they couldn't read the mood, or they simply, no they didn't care for it.

I watched as the two graved a pair of chairs and placed a table in front of us, Kazuma handed me a chai and I sat on the corner of it far away from Yukino, who sat near the edge but still near the center of the table.

Both Kazuma and Aqua, however, didn't sit with us, instead, they graved another table and sat apart from me and Yukino, they immediately began to play cards with each other, it was like if they had separated themselves from the rest of the world.

In the end, no one said anything or did anything for the rest of the day and as I walked out of the room both Aqua and Kazuma followed me, they left Yukino behind and accompanied me out of school.

I never had anyone walk with me outside of class or for that matter, I didn't have anyone to speak to outside of school, so when people were out playing with their friends I was at home or doing something by my self, so this was a new experience for me.

A black car passed by us and a painful memory came to me, it was painful because of what I had gone threw in the moment not because it had any lasting impact, in the first day of school a girls dog had escaped its leas and like a fool I tried to catch it, why did I do such a thing, that not even I know..

A car hit me and I ended up missing the first part of the school, I was forced to stay home with a broken leg, I later heard that a delinquent had entered the school and attacked his teacher that same day.

The guy was slightly above average hight and had blond hair, I was so caught up in my thoughts that I never noticed that someone had joined us in our walk downhill.

 

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"What is this?" I thought to myself as I held onto my bike, to any onlooker we must have been either the group of delinquents that were forced to stay after class or the group of friends that had nothing better to do than pass the time with one another.

I turned to look in Kazumas direction and found him happily taking to the schools delinquent, the guy is someone well known, it's not just because he supposedly took a swing at his homeroom teacher.

No there were more parts to the story that everyone had seen, the friends club that he is apart of, is filled with beauties, the kind few men if any ever dared to approach.

The girls themselves weren't particularly cruel or cold, but there was something to them that when one looked at them, they seemed to be in a completely different world.

They were apart of the wealthy side of the school and like those that come from higher society, they lived in a different world than the rest of us.

How the delinquent became apart or came to know the people in that club is something many want to know.

Aqua suddenly began to run down the hil, and I noticed that the bus stop was already within sight.

"Kazuma rase you to the bus stop!" she screamed to Kazuma however she never bothered to turnaround and look if he even tried to chase after her.

I was going to look at Kazuma but before I could he began to run and passed in front of me, the delinquent tapped my shoulder and he ran towards the direction of the two, and I somehow ended up in the moment once again.

I looked at my bike and rode it down, I didn't bother peddling as I was still going downhill and as the two yelled cheater to me, I finally reached Au, who had long since reached the bus stop.

She looked at me with her bright blue eyes and gave me a wide toothy smile raised her hand to give me five and we heard the sound of both Kazuma and Kodaka's feet finally reaching us as they rant up to where we were standing.

"Cheater" Kazuma said to me, before giving me a thumbs up, the delinquent Kodaka just smiled, it was more like a smirk, but I would take it as a smile and not think about it.

"Hey look, its the girls from our class" Aqua said as she waved at three passing girls, however, all three of them acted as if they dint see her and just kept on walking.

I watched as Kazuma placed his hand on her shoulder and gave her a comforting smile, Aua quickly lowered her hand and turned to look at Kazuma, her smile was gone, yet it quickly returned.

I found myself wondering if I would one day end up believing that if the girl ever stopped smiling, it would be as if the world had lost something precious that couldn't ever be replaced.

Aqua quickly reached into her bag and took out a set of playing cards, however, whatever game or trick she had in mind had to wait as the bus they had been waiting for arrived, right behind it was the bus the delinquent Kodaka was waiting for, so neither of us said a word to each other.

Finally, I stood there all alone, I lived nearby so I didn't have to use the bus, so I began to peddle, I don't know why but for some reason, the pedals felt just a little bit softer, and if I didn't know myself as well as I did, I would swear I felt like smiling.

I passed a girl dressed as a shrine maiden holding a card and whispering something to it, I remember seeing kids do that back when I was in elementary school and in middle school, so it wasn't out of the ordinary.

I rode passed the park where the nearby martial arts schools were training together and when the light turned red I stopped.

I didn't say anything, even though in front of me was a man dressed in a suit, he wore half a mask, his mouth, chin, and nose were exposed, but his forehead and eyes were covered by a mask that was painted half white and half black.

When the light turned green I blinked and he was gone, he must have moved pretty fast because I only blinked for a second, he had vanished like if he had never been there, to begin with.

As I rode past the busy streets and reached the part of the city where my house is located, I found a woman wearing a light purple robe, she had long bright brown hair, that covered one of her eyes.

The woman looked at the houses curiously, almost as if she had never seen the kinds of houses in my street, but that was impossible, for the houses were built in the same way people from the west have theirs and the woman didn't look Japanese, she looked like someone from a western country, altho I don't know which.

I stopped pedaling when I reached my house and I turned around to look at the woman and yet like the man from before she was gone in an instant.

perhaps she had found the house she was looking for, that must have been it because people don't just vanish in thin air.

The moment I opened the door, I found my little sister waiting for me, she held her cellphone in her hands and she looked at me with a worried and angry expression.

I couldn't believe my eyes, when had someone taken a picture of Aqua, Kazuma, Kodaka and I walking down the hill together.

The picture didn't show a group of uninteresting students, no it showed a gyaruo, two delinquents and an average guy walking together, I wish I could say that I was the average guy, but that position belonged to Kazuma, no from the way the picture was taken I looked just like a delinquent.

"Brother I know you cant make friends but don't get involved with a bad group" she said to me before she moved t the next picture and to my surprise, it was instead a video taken by someone when Kazuma jumped from the stairs.

Whoever took the many video clips that followed must have chased after us, because it showed us jumping from stairs to stairs and running down the hall.

"When was this even posted?" I asked her and she just angrily answered.

"Don't change the subject, when mom and dad find out you're going to be in a lot of trouble."

 

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I just looked at her and in all honesty, I was tempted to tell her that it wasn't her problem, but she's the one that cooks, and I can't bear to see her worried or sad.

I made the best smile I could before patting her on the head, she immediately moved my hand away and continued to look at me with an angry expression, however, it didn't have the effect it originally had when I had first walked in the door.

Her anger had calmed down a bit.

"We ended up meeting when we left school and Aqua and Kazuma, I don't know why but they decided to walk home with me, I've only spoken to them once." I answered her

She lowered her and let out a breath.

"So your not making friends with weird or bad people" she said to me as her expression turned to one of relief, instead of the one that was angry and worried she had when I came in.

My parents are wage slaves, so they both work because they wany=ted me to get the best education they signed me up to a private school, unfortunately, private schools are expensive and so just by going to one, my parents were forced to work a lot harder.

I didn't say anything, because I still had to pass the entrance exam to get in and if I did manage to pass the exam I wouldn't have to see anyone from my old school.

My little sister immediately turned around and walked to the living room and laid facedown on the sofa, she immediately tapped on a video clip and starting posting a comment, I didn't bother looking at the comment, because either way, I hadn't done anything wrong.

I took a bath, my sister and I ate dinner and we went to sleep, I heard the door to the house open and I immediately heard my parents voices./

I had to admit that hearing them talk made me smile, even if I didn't see them, their voices were enough to make me smile.

That night I had a dream I sat in a dark room, the floor was covered in black and white tiles and made it look like a chessboard and in front of me was a man I had never seen before.

He was muscular, but he didn't have so many muscles that he looked like a bodybuilder, no he was just someone that exercised.

He had short blue hair and bright yet dark blue eyes if I had to say who the man looked like I would say he looked like Aqua.

He looked at me and grinned.

"Greetings lad, I don't have much time, so I'll make this quick." The man rose from his seat and stood in front of me.

"Thank you for being her friend" he said to me before lifting me up in a tight hug, how a man's hug felt so warm and kind, I didn't know all I could do was hug him back.

I opened my eyes to the sound of the alarm and the smell of the freshly cooked food reached my nose, luckily I managed to wake up on time, I found my sister already eating.

We ate together and I took my morning shower, I changed into my school uniform and we walked out the door, unfortunately, I found my bike had a flat tire, my sisters' middle school is close by, but my school is pretty far away on foot.

I left my bike and walked my sister to school, I said my goodbyes to her and when I was certain that I was out of sight, I ran, I ran as fast as I could.

I knew that I would never make it on time but I could at least make it so that my punishment wouldn't be so bad.

I finally passed the bus stop when I found myself joined by a familiar blond delinquent.

"The bus was late" he said to me.

I briefly wondered if that was his way of saying good morning so in between gasping for air I managed to say to him.

"My bike has a flat tire"

"Hurry Kazuma!" I heard Aqua screamed and for a brief moment, I turned around and managed to see another bus leaving and both Kazuma and aqua running up the hill.


I was already tired, so I wasn't surprised when the two managed to catch up to me quickly, we didn't say anything considering the front gate was just about to close.

We all increased our speed if only slightly, but the gate closed before we managed to to get to it, Kodaka the delinquent just graved the metal surface of the gate and pulled himself over it, he somehow used his momentum and managed to stand on top of the wall beside the gate.

Both Kazuma and Aqua hed each other shoulder to shoulder and landed on the right wall that held the gate.

There was no way I could do any of that.

"Jump Hachiman!" I heard both Kazuma and Aqua scream and I noticed that the two of them had their hands stretched out to me.

I don't know why I did what I did next but I lifted my hands and jumped, I felt the two grave my hands and behind to pull me up, unlike them, I didn't stand on the wall, instead the two just threw me over it and jumped down after me.

We began to run and I noticed that Kodaka was already at the front door of the school waving at us to hurry, I was so caught up in the moment, that I had completely forgotten about the fact that unlike before no one had entered the building yet.

There are three classes of students, those that wait to the last moment to enter the building and those that enter the building long before the bell rings and those that enter when the bell rings.

The first and the last ones were the ones that were seeing us run into school and repeat the same action as yesterday, Kdaka was somehow keeping up with Aqua and Kazuma, even when they jumped from one set of stairs to the other.

I needed their help to do the same and before I knew it we were on our floor, Kodaka separated himself from us at that moment and we all ran to our class luckily for us we made it just in time.

We walked to our seats and before class could begin, I received a message from my sister and I felt my head hit the table, either the people in this school dint have anything going o in their lives or what we had just done was so out of the ordinary that people had decided to take video of it.

I lifted my head and I turned to look at Kazuma who was taking his books out of his bag, Aqua for her part had placed a notebook in front of her, with a pen and pencil.

I watched as she immediately laid her head on them and closed her eyes.

The day passed by quickly and because I had been forced to walk I couldn't bring mu lunch, so I had to go to the cafeteria, I was going to get out of my seat when I felt someone pat me on the shoulder.

"Hey, wanna go get something to eat?" Kazuma asked me.

"Sure" I said to him and we walked to the cafeteria, there are three lines there, each one was as unique to itself as a green car is to a red car and a red car is to a blue car of the same model, year and performance.

Regardless the cars did have something unique to them, they were red, green and blue.

"Alright each one of us goes to one line and sees what they're giving out today, that way if we get something we don't like we can trade it with each other for something we do like." Aqua said before running off to a line that had nothing but junk food in front f it.

Wordlessly Kazuma and I went our separate ways and I soon found myself in possession of four slices of pizza, cold french fries onion rings, and a soda.

I looked around and found Aqua already sitting down waving at my direction, as I walked towards her I nearly stopped, in front of Aqua sitting quietly was Yukino.

The two women were polar opposites, Aqua was bright and would make anyone be drawn to her, just by the way she was, I still didn't know what made me speak to her and Kazuma, but it was just that feeling that brought people to her.

Yukino was calm, quiet and had an air to her that kept people at a distance, Yukino had dark black hair and eyes that despite being blue seemed black, Aquas hair was bright and just like her blue eyes, it seemed to sparkle.

Kazuma soon sat next to Aqua and I sat next to Yukino, she didn't say anything she just kept quiet, even as she ate she had a book opened next to her.

"Mind if I sit here?" I heard a familiar voice and when I looked up I found Kodaka holding his lunch tray in his hands, with him were two girls, two of which I had never seen before.

No, my previous statement is a lie, I, myself have never spoken to either of them, but everyone knew of the two beauties of the friends club.

Even as I ate and Kazuma and Aqua traded food with each other and those around them, I felt completely out of place.

From what I had seen both Aqua and Kazuma were people that could somehow light up a room, Kodaka was a delinquent and the two beauties were people that lived in an entirely different world, not to mention that Yukino was someone no one could get near and yet I was sitting here amongst them.

 

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[Point of view change]
It's hard to believe how a change in the way one thinks makes a person react completely different from the way they normally would have, or better said would have reacted to those same situations before they grew up.

My name is Sato Kazuma I'm fifteen years old and am currently studying at a private school whose name I really don't care to remember.

The blue-haired girl eating and talking to the other girls who have yet to introduce themselves is Aqua, you may not belive it but she is a genuine Goddess, and I don't mean by appearance, she really is a Goddes.

"Yukino, trade you, my chocolate cake for the punkin' pie," Aqua said to Yukino as she held a piece of chocolate cake.

The girl in front of her is Yukino, she's one of those school idols that act cool and are hard to talk to.

"Sh...shure" Yukino answeres Aqua as she lifts her pie and hands it to her and receives the chocolate cake from Aqua.

Even as I look at the two I notice that Awuas eyes become just a little bit brighter, its in times like these that you can pick up on the little things, I can see how Aqua takes a deep breath and looks at Yukino in the eyes before smiling, her smile starts as off as just her lips forming before turning in to a wide toothy smile.

I"m glad shes started to find people she can get along with,......after all, it's my fault she's here.

I'll save you the details, but not too long ago, I was a summoned hero.

That's right, I was transported to another world, I met this Goddes that laughed at the way I die and to be honest she was right, looking back had it been someone else I would have laughed too.

Anyway, I was allowed to take any weapon or skill I wanted to that world and as revenge I chose her, I chose the goddess.

We slept in barns, did construction work and got hopelessly drunk, in time we met a pair of crazy girls an explosion mage that could only use one spell, and that one spell was only useful for once a day, after that she was luggage.

The other was a crusade that couldn't hit anything with her sword.

We traveled together and defeated the demon king and his generals, unfortunately, I died a second before the demon king and one of the clauses for her to go home, was that I had to kill the demon king.

My victory was deemed a fluke, however, I still did my job, so a deal was made, go live your lives and when they end you can come back home........It's my fault she's going through all of this.

I used to be a shut-in and in truth I still am, but when I came back to Earth, it was back on the same day I died, an adult knows that the people you meet and do in school, really hardly ever show up in their lives ever again.

One can say, this is my third chance in life, a life free of fighting monsters and free of social anxiety.

The bell rings and we all go our separate ways, Aqua and Hachiman a guy from school who has the eyes of a dead fish, goes back to class with us.

The day passes quickly and to be honest at times I miss being able to be lazy all day, just sitting in front of the fire doing nothing, Hachiman has his club and Kodaka has his own club to go to today it's only me and Aqua going home.

I watch as Aqua hums a melody as she walks beside me, the bus arrives on time, and we're on our way home, the apartment isn't the best out there but it's big, it's also pretty empty.

We still have to buy furniture and buy everything else.

Aqua immediately throws her school bag to the floor and runs off to take a shower, I just walk into the living room and turn on the tv, two lawn chairs are our seats for now.

My parents weren't happy hen they found Aqua in their house, and I told them she would be living with us for a while.....things.....things went from bad to worse and I moved out.

It's my fault she ended up here after all.

On the plus side, I didn't come back empty-handed, our pockets were filled with gold, so we could buy the apartment, so rent isn't a problem and we can buy everything we need as time goes on.

I can feel a slight tug in my mind, the other world had a way of allowing a person to acquire skills without having the person study them for years, so someone could become a skilled craftsman in a matter of minutes, even if they never did anything remotely close to whatever a craftsman does.

To put it simply I have all of my abilities, every skill I learned back in that world, I still have it with me one of which is called enemy detection and ever since I came back to earth its ben warning me about something getting closer by the day.

"Kazuma, go take a bath, I want to go eat something" I heard Aqua say to me, and I'm reminded that we still haven't bought groceries yet.

I turn to look at her and for a brief moment, I feel myself let out a breath, one of the girls' best points is her looks and the fact that she's wearing my clothes right now only shows that she really makes my shirt look small.

The buttons look like if they are about to pop off and the fact my old pants seem to be a little to tight for her, makes both her look even more attractive.

She looks at me with wide eyes and suddenly gets a mischevious look.

"H, I see, you finally noticed this Goddes beauty, sorry Kazuma but it's not for you, that is, buy me a lot of expensive wine and maybe I'll let you sleep this month." she said to me, even as she drew her face directly in front of mine.

I just walked passed her and headed straight into the bathroom, that was a line I couldn't cross or better said, I have no right to cross.

 

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After my bath, we walked out of our apartment and I heard the people in the rooms talking to one another, some had the television or radios to laud that they could be heard as we walked down the hallway.

I really didn't care except that it just thought it was weird how the noise could be heard outside, but not in one of the other rooms.

"Hmm-hmm hmm" Aqua hummed next to me as we walked down the hall, she patted the heads of two little kids that lived on our floor, their mother gave her an annoyed look, but didn't say anything, for a brief moment we locked eyes and she just glared at me angrily.

We walked passed several rooms, even though we have been living here for a couple of days I still don't know who lives in them, or if they are even occupied at all.

The elevator is broken, so we cant use it, it really doesn't matter considering we live on the second floor, finally, we make it outside and the smell of exhaust hits our noses when a passing by car lets out a puff of black smoke.

The sun is hot despite the cold wind blowing, this is one of the reasons I don't like going outside too much if the wind blows its cold, but if it doesn't, it's hot.

We walk past a homeless man asking for money and past an Italian restaurant, a Chinese shop that makes all sorts of food and past a coffee shop.

I look at Aqua who is still happily humming to herself even as she walks beside me, normally when she doesn't care where she eats she would just stop at the first place that sells food.

This means that the fact that she's still walking means she has a destination and I can't help but worry where it might be.

We kept on walking and we soon found ourselves passing in front of the local gyms, for some reason someone thought that putting, boxing, judo, karate and other martial arts on the same street was a good idea.

"Kazuma!" I heard someone call out to me and when I stopped to see who I was I found someone I didn't know running up to me.

"Yes, it's you, Kazuma listen I know we don't talk but we need someone to fell the numbers, you don't have to do anything. All you have to do is sit there." he said to me, the guy had short black hair and brown eyes other than that I didn't know who he was.

We stared at each other, for a long moment, I lifted my hand and pointed at him.

"Who are you?" I asked him.

Aqua walked passed me and began to circle him. ".....Kazuma who is this background character that somehow knows who you are?"A qua asked me.

"All come on we'ere in the same class! My name Ricardo, do you two really don't know who I am, and what do you mean by background character." he said to us, I was going to say his name but I had already forgotten it.

"Sorry but we're going to get something to eat." I said to him and Aqua quickly ran back to my side, we were about to leave, when he suddenly called out to us.

"Fine I'll pay for your lunch, just help me out alright." Aqua immediately stopped walking and she turned to look t me.

"You mean it, you'll pay for our lunch." She said before graving my hand and looking at me with sparkling eyes.

"No" I said to her, she just looked at me, her eyes somehow seemed to sparkle just a little bit more. "No" I repeated.

"We won't have to spend anything" she said to me in a low voice.

I looked at her. ".....Alright here is this place?" I asked him.

The guy suddenly had a relieved expression.

"Actually your right in front of it" He said to me as he pointed at the building next to us, inside it was a group of guys all looking at us.

He opened the door and I stood in front of Aqua, he immediately got the message and I walked in front of Aqua and we found ourselves standing in front of a group of people that were dressed as if in different Karate uniforms.

"Alright I have our missing member, Kazum maty not look it but he's a pretty good fighter." He said to the group before stopping and noticing everyone's eyes were on Aqua.

"Forget it and leave her alone, she's Kazumas wife, yes they're married now move on." he said to them almost too casually.

No one said anything, they didn't even seem to react to it, it wasn't out of the ordinary for people to be married young, especially around here, but it still wasn't normal.

Regardless the fights began, one on one fights started and I soon found out why they need me to be a member, the entire school, was it class or I don't know what it called, but they still lost, they didn't win a single fight.

"Alright, the match is one one one, Kazuma vs James. Start" one of the students said.

I felt a pull as enemy detection alerted men on the fact that the guy in front of me was about to attack and thankfully I have a skill called Dodge, inactivates by itselself, the skill does what its name says and so when he was about to tackle me I just jumped back, making him hit the floor.

He sent a kike to my head and I just laid down, when he tried to stomp me, I used my hands to push myself to the side, ad we moved around like that for a while, he kept on attacking and I kept on dodging, we did that until he was too tired to keep ongoing.

"Winner Kazuma." the student announced, everyone immediately shook hands and walked out of the building, we waited for, what was his name again to hurry up and when he was done doing what he was supposed to do he led us to a fast food place called Mc. Ronald's.

It was close by to the gym we were at and it was surprisingly cheap, or it should have been I looked at the poor guy who was just looking at his now empty wallet, and I turned to look at Aqua who was happily eating one of the thirty hamburgers she ordered.

I grabbed a burger and bit into it, the meat was bland and if it wasn't for the ketchup and pickles in it I would have said it didn't have any flavor.

"I have to go home, thanks for helping me out" he said to us before getting up and walking away.

"Pss Kazuma, see that guy the one with the red eyes" Aqua immediately said to me and I turned to look at the cashier.

"Yeah what about him?" I asked her.

"He's not Human" she answered me in-between bites. " I wanted to check this place because I felt a lot of demonic energy from here, and he uses it for cooking the food" she said as she ate a hand full of fries.

I watched as Aqua lifted her hand and sapped her fingers, it was like hearing an echo inside an empty room, in the instant she snapped her fingers, the entire room went completely silent, no one moved, not a single customer, no one except me, aqua, the guy behind the cashier and a red-headed woman that was in front of him.