29 hours before the encounter...
In a rather small and simple apartment, the black haired boy lays there asleep in his bed with not a care in the world, unfortunately that temporary bliss of rest can only be enjoyed for so long. As a high pitched ringing goes off signaling the day has started, the boy sluggishly reaches to turn it off, proceeding to slowly get up and start his day. He starts by grabbing his uniform and accessories, putting them on with a sense of disgust, then makes his was to the bathroom where he brushes his teeth, washes his face and stares at himself with a blank and rather disdainful look. He then grabs his bag, set of keys and walks out the door, goes down stairs, climbs onto his moped and drives off to Baikamo Minami High School. It's important to note that Baikamo Minami is his 3rd high school. After being expelled from his previous school in Kyoto, his Dad sent him to Shiga prefecture to live on his own and attend a school there, the reason for his expulsion; Violent behavior, disregard for appropriate school conduct and consumption of cigarettes as a minor. Luckily, this new school, grants their students more freedom with their appearance and personality, allowing them to be more expressive and creative, this allows the students to dress in a way that's comfortable for them (Provided they still dress in a way that is appropriate for an academic environment). The reason this is beneficial to Atsusato is simple, he wears 4 black rings on his left hand (1 on each finger besides his thumb), a set of 3 bracelets and a black watch. He wears his jackets sleeves crumpled up to his upper arms. However, these small details are simply here to give more insight on our main character here.
As the boy comes to a stop at a traffic light beaming red, he turns his head to the nearby sidewalk and his eyes come to contact to a group of 3 students; The first is a boy, relatively tall with short dark blue hair, blue eyes, plasters on his hands, carrying a long thing bag across his left shoulder, wears a white button shirt and the uniforms pants but nothing fancy or attention seeking and he appears to have a hyper and loud disposition. The second student is a girl, the shortest in the group, perhaps one head shorter than the boy, she's as loud as the boy, has short dark brown hair, blue eyes, dressed in the school's female uniform, however she wears exercise shorts that sit slightly past the skirt but still above her knees, wearing only the school's white collared shirt and carries her school bag freely, almost as if the bag was empty. The third girl was just slightly shorter than Atsusato. She had long blonde hair, tied up into one singular long drill curl hanging over her one shoulder, had reddish eyes, she was quieter than the other 2, walked with her back straight up. However, the strange thing about her was that as she walked, she held in her hand a ceramic tea cup and saucer and as she'd walk she'd gently sip from the cup. Her outfit was also rather unique, her skirt had a long scarf-like accessory of silverish-white fabric that hung from her waist and past her knee on the same side her drill hang, wore black tights, had white ribbons on her jacket's sleeves and had a silver star pendant on her white bow which was fitted onto the collar of her uniform. Everything about her appearance gave off the impression of a princess, decorated in white and silver, sipped her tea gently and with a sense of both importance and beauty, her entire disposition radiated both importance and danger. Her voice wasn't quiet but wasn't loud, her laugh wasn't a bellow like the other 2 but it wasn't gentle, it was simple and somewhat charming. This group intrigued Atsusato, however, they were far too loud for him and as the traffic light changed from a halting red to a signaling green, he pulled away and drove off the to the school.
As Atsusato reached the school, he parked his moped and proceeded to walk inside, first making his way to the faculty office to learn which class he will be put in, from there on he'd simply go to the assembly in the school hall. As the grand multitude of students gathered in the hall, the principle went on to give a rather lackluster speech about youth and responsibility, some students listened intently, most didn't even pay attention. As the assembly came to an end, Atsusato would make his way to first class. As he walked in to go to his desk, he noticed that 2 of the students he drove past were in his class. As he walked past their desks he caught a glimpse of their names on their books. The first student was the boy, Satou Kouki. As for the second student it was the blonde haired girl, Shukumei Kanae, as he caught a glimpse of their names, both of them would stare at him as he walked past. The boy avoiding eye contact, while the girl s. After this observation he sat at his desk, took his books out and prepared his classes. His first class went rather long but after that time seemed to fly. Despite being a delinquent in the past, he's changed. Understanding that if he were to be expelled once more there would most likely not be another option for him, resulting in him having to behave and focus more. As the clock hit 12:30, the students all dispersed to eat and spend time with friends, something Atsusato was not entirely familiar with. However, Satou Kouki (or just Satou) would stand up and make his way to Atsusato with the utmost confidence, and within the blink of an eye, the boy was standing right beside Atsusato, and with a rather confident and presentable voice, the boy introduced himself audibly; "Hi there! I'm Satou Kouki, what's your name?" As the boy was talking to Atsusato, the girl simply sat at her desk, making a fresh pot of tea, using a small gas stove plat on her desk with a stove top kettle, when Atsusato saw this, it shocked him, the first question that appeared in his head was "Where the hell does she keep all that?!" but as silence grew, Satou had noticed that Atsusato was intrigued and perplexed by Shukumei's activities, so he took advantage of that, "That's Shukumei Kanae. She has a bit of a tea addiction and seems to think she's some royal princess." suddenly Shukumei's voice spoke up, "I do not! And I don't have a tea addiction! I just prefer the taste of tea over coffee, it calms your head and creates a comforting warmth. As for the stupid princess comment, I just prefer to dress lavishly." Atsusato was shocked to hear her voice, he had expected it to be high pitched or even deep, but instead it was gentle. It didn't hurt his ears to hear her exclaim, but it wasn't a shy type of gentle, it was the type of gentle that both contained energy and calmness. But suddenly the two stared at Atsusato and asked in unison, "What's your name?" Feeling obligated to respond, Atsusato finally spoke up, "Unmei Atsusato." The two looked at him and Shukumei spoke, "It's nice to meet you Unmei Atsusato. Would you like some tea?" "Can I have some tea too?" Satou asked. "Nope, you made fun of me." Shukumei replied with a piercing glare and puffed cheeks. "Aww, come on, we've been friends for yeaaaaaaaaars~ You'll forgive me right?" He nagged. "I'll forgive you but you're not getting tea. Simple as that." Atsusato then chimed in, "I'll accept that offer, but maybe after school is done, it seems a bit strange to drink tea during class." "Very well, that's ok with me. Let's have tea tomorrow afternoon then." Shukumei responded. However, Satou simply stared at the two back and forth and simply put a large grin on his face. "Satou-san, why the hell do you look like a cheshire cat?" Shukumei asked. "Huh?! No reason...hehe..." "Is he always like this?" Atsusato asked Shukumei. "Yeah pretty much, but he's a good friend. He brings a lot of energy to our little group, he's loyal and he's always there for you." "He is loud. But that's fine, it's only one." Shukumei suddenly pulled a rather derp facial expression. "Is everything ok?" "Yeah yeah, nothing's wrong." "If you say so." "By the way, Unmei-kun, would you prefer if we call you Unmei or?" "Anything's fine with me to be honest. You guys can just call me Atsu for short if you'd prefer." "I'll call you that then from now on." "Is it ok if I call you that too?" Satou asked. "Yeah sure, I don't mind."
As the three started getting along, break came to a close and class began once again. Time flew, the three passing notes to each other asking random questions to learn about each other more. Questions like;
"What's your favourite animal?"
Atsu: Frogs.
Shukumei: Penguins
Satou: Bears!
"What's your favourite colour?"
Atsu: Green.
Shukumei: White
Satou: Blue!
"What hobbies do you have?"
Atsu: Moped.
Shukumei: Drinking tea and being rude to Satou-san.
Satou: Kendo and annoying Shuku-chan!
As the Satou, Shukumei and Atsu all read the responses to the third question they began snickering. Atsu found it funny that Shukumei and Satou have conflicting answers, Shukumei found it funny that Atsu simply wrote one word answers each ending with a full stop (using this as a way to cloak her irritation at Satou for calling her "Shuku-chan"), And Atsu simply laughed at the fact he used an exclamation mark at the end of each of his answers. Suddenly their teacher flipped his his around at a rapid speed, staring at the three snickering students, and immediately the three conformed, their faces went blank, they stared at the board and stayed quiet. Without even realizing it, the day came to a close and the three parted ways, Atsu and Shukumei didn't have clubs so the two of them walked a while with one another, while Satou went off to go to Kendo practice.
As the two stand by the main gate of the school, Atsu holding his moped for when he's ready to go. Suddenly Shukumei starts talking. "Hey Atsu-kun, what made you come to Baikamo?" Shukumei asked with curiosity. "I got expelled from my last school in Kyoto. Unfortunately, after being expelled from my last two school's in Kyoto, my Dad sent me to live with with my Mom here in Shiga." "Are your parents divorced, apologies for asking?" "No need to apologize, but yes, they are. My Dad was a bit an asshole towards my Mom, having enough, my mom divorced him, the unfortunate part was that my Dad was the one that had all the money, he's relatively wealthy, owning a company with various branches across Japan. However, my Mom didn't get any money, however my Dad compromised by offering to pay for my own living expenses and cover school costs and gives me enough money to purchase food." "Wait, so you live on your own?" "Yeah, single bedroom apartment." "Where does your mom live then?" "She lives close by, but as stated she's never home, off doing business in other countries." "What does she do if I may ask?" "She works for a Japanese company that focuses on international trade, no idea what they sell though." "I see. Oh damn it! I just realized I've been keeping you from going home!" 'Haha, it's ok really, I haven't really had the opportunity to talk to people this much. So I'm enjoying it." "That's good then. Well, if you need to go home you can." "Yeah, I might need to, still need to buy some groceries and cook." "Then you have my permission to go." "I needed permission to leave?" "Yip! Seeing that you're my friend, you need permission to go home!" "Well then, seeing as I have your permission Shukumei-sama, I'll be leaving." He says as he starts putting his helmet and goggles on. "You can call me Shuku, I don't mind." "I'll do that then." He replies as he switches his moped on. "Goodbye Atsu-kun, see you tomorrow!" "Yip! See you tomorrow!" They exclaim to make their voices audible over the noise of the moped.
As they say their goodbyes, Atsu drives off making his way to a local 24 hour- convenience store. He buy his groceries, heads home and begins cooking food for himself. Once he's finished cooking, he sits down, prays for the food, turns the TV on and begins eating while watching some TV. Afterwards he cleans up the kitchen, showers and makes his way to his bedroom. He does his homework reads some manga for a few minutes and lays in bed, while lying in bed he thinks about the progress he's made on cleaning his act, working on becoming more approachable and sociable, unfortunately, the result of him pulling himself from social environments has caused him to become rather shy and socially inept, but over the course of 6 months, the time he spent at home being expelled, his Dad kicking him out and telling him to learn how to become respectable to clean his act, and now living on his own learning how to be responsible, he's come far as a person, now with Shuku and Satou as friends, it truly has become evident that he's made progress. "Shit! I forgot to get their contact information!" he exclaims while laying in bed.
7 hours before the encounter...
Once more, the boy lays there at 6 in the morning, taking his time to get up from the comfort of his bed. Once he gathers the strength needed to get up, he makes coffee, gets dressed, brushes his teether, cleans his face and fixes his hair. He grabs his keys and helmet and heads off. Just like yesterday, he reaches a traffic light and comes to a stop as the light stops him with a halting red. While stopped, he turns his head to the side and similar to the previous day. He sees a group of students walking, The same three from yesterday, Shuku, Satou an the short girl, but this time there were another 3. A girl as tall as Satou, if not taller. She had long dark purple hair that was tied up in a pony tail that was organized but somewhat spikey which hung down to the middle of her back, she wore thigh high tights, a skirt that reaches to just above the tights but still reveals a slight amount of skin, her jacket and skirt a deep, absorbent black, an alarmingly bright red arm band with the kanji for "ORDER", instead of zips on her pockets she had silver buckles with straps. The next student was another male student, taller than the short girl but shorter than Shuku and Atsu. His hair was long, slightly curly by the tips of his hair and a faded dark green like colour, his fringe covered his eyes slightly and he seemed drained. His back was slouched and his overall energy and posture was next to non-existent. His outfit was unappealing too, his pants seemed too big for him, as noticed from the pants sleeves stretching beyond his ankles, nearly touching the ground. His jacket was uneven and too big too; his sleeves passing his hands, the one side hanging lower than the other. As for accessories, there were practically none, the only accessory that was noticeable was a portable game console hanging half-out from his jacket pocket and a notebook that stuck out from his school bag. The very last student was slightly the pure definition of a "medium height", taller than "droopy-boy" and "hyper-girl", but shorter than Atsu, Satou, Shuku and "commanding-girl". Her hair hung as just below her hips being pastel orange in colour. Her hung freely, unbound. Her outfit was also somewhat free, her shirt was untucked and had two unbuttoned buttons close to the collar of the shirt, her jacket was unzipped, hanging open, her sleeves rolled up. She wore black tights, her skirt hung to her thighs, her entire personality and disposition wasn't hyper or energetic, but care free and bubbly. As the light turned green, Atsu pulls away and drives off to the school, but as he drives off he notices in his rear view mirrors Shuku and Satou waving at him, putting small smile on his face.
Upon reaching the school, he parks his moped and makes his way to the front gate of the school, his reasoning was to wait for Shuku and Satou, however a thought suddenly brought him to a conflicting halt. "Wait, that was Satou and Shuku's full group." This single thought span his mind into a vicious spiral of internal mental conflict and dialogue. "Wait, that means more people. But! Meeting more people isn't bad... It does mean making more friends and becoming more approachable. But! What if I come off as menacing or disrespectful?" All of this eventually led him to one final thought. "Socializing with people fucking sucks!" However, one can only stand there staring off in thought and looking like one is insane for so long. As Shuku and the group approached, Atsu started rapidly thinking of ways of saying "Hello". The closer they approached, the more ideas crossed his mind, but as they reached the gate, standing there before him, he settled on standing on one leg, with the other lifted up, his hands stretched to the side, then proceeding to bend his left leg, stretching his right leg outward at an angle, slowly swinging his arms in a circle and directing one arm above his head and the other below his head while having his index fingers pointing outward, screaming the singular and infamous phrase, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!" before he could finish the phrase, suddenly he felt the touch of another persons finger tips touching against his, washing away his social anxiety and making Atsu feel as if time froze for just that moment, and as he looked up to see who was the mysterious person interacting with him, he simply saw Satou standing next to him in a mirrored pose, his eyes closed and a smile on his face, completing the phrase, "-sioooooon~" The rest of the group burst out laughing and each commented differently. "What the hell are you doing?!" Exclaimed Shuku spitting out and spilling tea as she burst out laughing. "Such an hummilating sight." Said the rather strict looking girl. "hubbuhubuhubuhubbuhhubuh..." said the droopy one with a husky mumble. "BWAHAHAHAHAHA! YOUR NEW NAMES SATO-ROT!" said the hyper girl. "Isn't that one way to start off the morning~" said the bubbly girl with a smile and her eyes closed seeming bubbly and off in her mind. "I WOULD GIVE A FUSION NAME BUT I DON'T KNOW THIS NERD!" responded the hyper girl. "W-who the hell are you calling a nerd?!" replied Atsu both shy yet annoyed. "BWAH! Scary..." the hyper girl responded while dashing behind the commanding girl. "Excuse me! There will be no violent behavior nor verbal assault within this school!" said the commanding girl. "S-sorry." apologized Atsu. "Ah, I suppose you guys haven't all been introduced yet." Shuku proceeds to stand next to Atsu pointing at him.
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"This is Unmei Atsusato. Atsu, meet; Madako Hayashi" (Pointing at the pastle orange haired bubbly girl.) "Hiiiiii~ hiiiiiiii~" she replied stretching the words out slowly. "Yukina Satou." (Pointing at the short blue haired hyper girl) "Nice to meet you Atsu-kun! If you couldn't tell, I'm Kouki's OLDER twin sister!" the girl replies energetically, "Tsugumi Watanabe" (Pointing at the green haired droopy boy), "hubuuhbbhuhhhubuhbu..." his reply was inaudible but Atsu assumed it was "Nice to meet you..." with a rather quiet voice. "And lastly, Yuzuki Yamamoto." (Pointing at the tall commanding purple haired girl) "I've heard your name before Unmei-san.You're the student was sent here by special request of your father. I'm aware of you being a bit of a problem in your previous schools in Kyoto." As she says this, Kouki, Yukina and Madoka simply stare at Atsu while Watanabe simply stared off in the back walking in circles slowly. Kouki looked at him out of curiosity, Madoka with her eyes closed and out of confusion as if her attention was only now drawn out and Yukina's face in complete shock. "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH?!" exclaimed Yukina. "I take it you are aware of the conditions behind you being here, right, Unmei--kun? If you as much disregard any condition I will not hesitate to reprimand you in an instant." "W-wait Yuzu, there's no need to be so harsh." interrupted Shuku. "No no, don't worry Shuku-sama. I'm fully aware of the conditions of my transfer, I'd like to assure you that I have worked on changing, I do have out bursts of profanity, but other than that I have limited any violent behavior, in fact I've actually started-" as Atsu wanted to finish that sentence he noticed somethign about Shuku. "Your hair is different." while pointing at Shuku's hairstyle. "Huh?! You only noticed now?! Well yes, I prefer to use different hairstyles regularly." Shuku's hair was this time tied into a low hanging pony tail, bound together by a large white bow with a silver star pendant. "It doesn't look bad on you." "HAHA, thank you." "Anyways, I'll place my trust in you Unmei-kun, but that trust does not equal respect, that you may never be able to earn." As Yuzuki Yamamoto finishes that sentence, she walks off to her class, while Shuku and the others bombard Atsu with glares, until Kouki asks, "What was that about?" and Shuku following up with, "I'm aware she's strict but that was a bit different. You ok Atsu?" "Yeah, her last name's Yamamoto right?" "Yeah?" replies Shuku. "She doesn't have any siblings by any chance?" "Yeah she does, an older brother, age gap of 2 years." replies Kouki. "Butterflyyyyyy~" says Madoka as she walks off following a little butterfly that flies past her. "Back in my first year of Highschool. He was a third year, head of student council. Him and I didn't get along, so we fought and I lost twice, the third time we fought, I beat him, broke his arm and bit a hole in it..." "Scary!" exclaimed Yukina "damn, what kind of fighting is that?" "Yeah yeah, I know, gross. I cheated in that fight, I feel guilty about it, I tried making amends but he didn't allow me in his house, so I gave up, that was after I got expelled close to the end of my second year. Anyways, it's fine, if it'll take time to earn Yamamoto-sama's respect so be it." "I'm sorry Atsu." said Shuku gently. "It's ok, no need to worry about it Shuku." "Hey, I hate to ruin the moment but we're 3 minutes late for home room." interjects Kouki.
A silent silence falls between the three, ". . ." Suddenly, they begin sprinting at a rapid speed, Kouki, holding tightly to his bags, Shuku holding onto her fragile fine-China tea cup and saucer and Atsu running for dear life, they make it to their class 3-2 open the door, and by pure chance their teacher has not arrived yet. they take their seats, grasping for breath while preparing their books and stationary. As homeroom eventually ends and attendance has been taken, their classes commence. The first class starts off slowly, half way through Atsu had a question to ask Shuku, but as he writes the question, and prepares to tap Kouki on the shoulder to pass it to Shuku, Kouki rapidly flips his head towards Atsu, his face turns into a massive smile, however this had two meanings, to Atsu it meant, "I got you man.", to Kouki he meant, "You're giving me a letter, thanks man!". When Atsu saw Kouki starting to open the letter, his mouth gaped open simply staring in shock at the audacity this man has had, however, this was simply miscommunication. The letter read:
"What classes are the other 3 in?"
After reading this, Kouki, looked up, stared at Atsu, and started writing a grand amount.
"What classes are the other 3 in?"
"I'm glad you asked buddy! Let's get to it:
First there's my twin sister, Yukina Satou, she's in class 3-3.
Then there's the 'Mountain Tall, Cold-Commander Yamamoto Yuzuki', class 3-1.
Then there's the care-free Madoka Hayashi, class 3-2
And lastly, Tsugumi Watanabe, class 3-1.
After writing this, Kouki passed the note back to Atsu. Atsu proceeded to read it and wrote back:
..."Wait, Hayashi-chan is in the class?"
Passing the note back:
..."Wait, Hayashi-chan is in the class?"
"Yeah, she's sitting all the way in the right side corner."
After Atsu read this, he pearred his head up and looked to the right corner and saw there the care-free Madoka Hayashi staring off, giggling slightly, why was she giggling? Who knows. Atsu then proceeded to ask more questions.
"I just realized something. Why do some of the students have titles and not the others?"
Kouki read this and responded with great enthusiasm:
"I just realized something. Why do some of the students have titles and not the others?"
"I'm glad you asked! You see, some students have some form of a history and or great achievement, but it also revolves around who they are as a person.
For example; Shuku-sama's title is: 'The Tea Loving, Honey-Sweet Shukumei Kanae'
I myself also have a title...hehe... mine is: 'The Sword Strong, True-Ally Satou Kouki'
Pretty cool riiiiiiiiight???
As Atsu finished reading this he looked up and stared at Kouki, Kouki seeming highly impressed by this but Atsu simply finding it comedic. He wrote back:
"Does anyone else have a title?"
Kouki responded:
"Does anyone else have a title?"
"The only other title I know of is my sister's and Yamamoto's, I don't know about Hayashi and Watanabe."
As you now know Yamamoto's is; 'Mountain Tall, Cold-Commander Yamamoto Yuzuki'
As for my sister's it's; 'Hyper Energetic, Perfect-Athlete Satou Yukina'
As Atsu read this he tries to find something else to talk about but struggles to come up ideas, so instead he begins focusing on class again. Doing this without giving Kouki any form of notice confused him, the poor guy was confused, one moment he was having an interesting conversation, so he thought: "Did Atsu-san not find talking fun???"
After this conversation, time began flying for the two of them, unfortunately it didn't feel quite the same for Shuku, who was glaring menacingly at the unaware Satou and Atsu (She wasn't quite happy about being excluded from a conversation). However, for Atsu, the hours no longer felt long and stretched out. They felt so quick that before he had realized it was once more time for recess. As students all dispersed into their various groups, so did Shuku's little group come bombarding into the classroom. First was Yukina who came bursting through, nearly tripping over chairs and tables that laid within her trail screaming, "I'M HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!". Then came Hayashi and Watanabe, Hayashi slowly moving towards Shuku with her head off in the clouds. Upon reaching Shuku, she placed her hands atop of Shuku's head and slowly began turning it into a pillow as she slowly said her name, "Shukuuu~". Following shortly after Hayashi, came Watanabe walking slowly with a sense of dread and despair, he had nothing to say. And last to come walking into the class was none other than Yamamoto. As she walked in, she observed the class, looking for anything that could potentially be breaking school conduct, to her shock she saw Atsu, sitting there with a smile enjoying the company of those around him. So she stopped her observation and proceeded towards the rest the group, greeting Shuku and a select few, "Hello Shuku-san, Hayashi-san and Satou-kun." the three responded back in synchronized unison, "Oh, hi Yamamoto-san."
As they greeted one another, Atsu observed something interesting. Yamamoto only gave Kouki an honorific of a greater status. Shuku and Hayashi both received a honorific lower, while Atsu and Watanabe received none, not even a greeting. There was most likely a reason behind this, however, Atsu won't try to pry to deeply into it as it wasn't his business. Suddenly, the groups circle went silent, while everyone's eyes suddenly directed towards Atsu as he sat in silence. "What ya thinking about?" piped Yukina. "Huh? Oh nothing just off in my thoughts." replied Atsu." "What thoughts?" asked Kouki. "Yeah come one tell us!" exclaimed Yukina. "Probably thoughts about how he can harm other students." said Yamamoto sternly. "You shouldn't assume that based on my past you know." replied the annoyed Atsu. "Naaaaaa, I bet it's naughty thoughts about Shuku, Hayashi and Yamamoto, hehe..." "Like hell I am?!" "Disgusting..." replied Yamamoto "Now come on Yukina-chan, I doubt that." said Shuku defending Atsu. "Burger~" said Hayashi out of pocket as she laid atop of Shuku's head day dreaming. As Shuku attempted to sip her tea, Yukina gasped and startled the unexpecting Shuku, as Yukina followed with the statement, "Maybe he's thinking about Kouki-san and Watanabe-kun!" she exclaimed. "What the fuck is wrong with you damn it! Why on this Earth would I be thinking of men!" "Come on Yukina-chan, I doubt Atsu-kun would be having thoughts of anyone he-" "CALL ME "YUKINA-CHAN" ONE MORE TIME AND I'LL KICK YOU UNTIL YOU CAN'T WALK JACKASS!" Yukina exclaimed as she kicked her brother's shins. "Sorry sis...won't happ...en again..." Kouki responded writhing in pain. "Atsusato-san and Satou-chan, refrain from such fowl language!" The stern Yamamoto exclaimed. "You're lucky I fear you Yamamoto..." said Yukina, dreafully. "Yamamoto who!" commanded Yamamoto. "AH! Apologies, Yamamoto-sama!" Yukina rapidly apologized as she bowed on one knee. As the group only progressively got louder, Atsu slowly began fading more and more into thought, struggling to understand what to do, his thoughts began flashing by faster and faster, trying to find a way to socialize with the group. Not knowing what to do, he got up and started walking at a rapid pace.
As he was speed-walking through the halls of the school and down the stairs, he went down to his moped, got on it and vanished into his thoughts. "Damn it, what am I doing? All I had to do was speak." He found himself annoyed and frustrated, both at himself and at the group. Yamamoto's commanding presence and noticeable scorn and hatred towards him bothered him, he wants to make amends some way but doesn't know how. Watanabe's creeping silence bothered him, not knowing why he was so quiet, feeling as if he himself was to blame. Hayashi didn't entirely bother him, she was off in her own world. As for the twins, Yukina was loud and far too energetic for him. As for Kouki, he didn't know how to feel, on one hand he trusted him and felt as if he was a good friend, but also felt as if the miscommunication made it impossible to convey a message correctly. Shuku wasn't really bothersome, but she was secretive, similar to Atsu. As Atsu seemingly blamed himself for everything he drove away, passing all the regular spots, making the usual turns and eventually reaching the usual halting red traffic light. However, instead of a halting red, the light was green, slowly transitioning to orange. Atsu, seeing this, began increasing in speed, doing this as a way to vent out frustration and feel a sense of freedom, as he crossed the shadow formed by the hanging traffic light, the light switched back to a halting red and everything that could've possibly gone wrong, did. Two cats busy playing ran from one street corner to the other, a pile of boxes and trash bags collapsing, spilling into the road and a truck that came driving past, as Atsu just barely evaded it, however, all the other commotion around him, resulted in him losing balance, losing sight of the road, and losing grip of the moped. The poor boy crashed into the very same pile of boxes and bags that spilled into the street, his skull collapsing into the corner of the street.
However this moment was not destined to happen, the poor boy only made an unfortunate and unplanned encounter with fate themself. As, Atsu's vision faded to black, his consciousness began replaying various moments from throughout his life, reminding him of both the past and present, filling him with regret and guilt. However, these memories would fade away, only a black, blank space filled his head. Quietly, a hollowing echo is head, ringing throughout his mind. A hollow echo of a ticking clock, almost as if it was counting the seconds being passed while in this state, the seconds passing from the time of his death. Suddenly, a grand pendulum clock stood towering before the eyes of Unmei Atsusato. The floor a shallow ground of water and cobble stone, the water reflecting the beautiful colour of the night sky, deep purple and blue with stars. And right in front of the towering pendulum was a chair, and sitting on an intricately woven, silk chair, sat a woman with her eyes shut. She was beautiful, alluring, magnificent. her hair long, stretching down to the foot of the throne, the crown of her hair was black, slowly fading to a deep grey, into a light silver, into a soft white. All she wore was a sundress, a beautiful sundress, white in colour. As Atsusato gazed in awe, as she sat there, her eyelids slowly raised, revealing her even more beautiful eyes, the iris was identical to that of the night sky, but her pupils, they were almost like golden stars with small near unnoticeable 12 time markers on the inner edges of her golden rimmed star shamed pupils. The line that represented 12, 3, 6 and 9 were slightly longer than the others. She slowly stood from her chair, stretched and slowly walked towards Atsusato. Her hair was a mess, almost as if she slept for over hundreds of hours, yet her beauty was still unmatched. As she stood a few feet in front of Atsusato, her mouth opened, and the most angelic voice spoke out the words, "Hello Atsusato-san, it's nice to meet you." Atsusato in absolute confusion stuttered and asked the cliche question, "W-who are you..?", the girl replied, "I am she that witnesses all of time, I do not command nor write the lives of people, but watch over and ensure that which has already been written will be met. I am 'The Hand-of-Destiny, the protector and watcher of that which is pre-determined, Hiroyuki'. I represent both destiny and spaciousness. You can call me either Hiroyuki or Destiny, whichever you'd prefer, hehe."
As the girl said this, she was only met with a confusing glare from Atsusato, his brain could not entirely comprehend the events that had just transpired.