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It was a beautiful midday in Mahora Academy. The birds are chirping, the sakura petals are scattering, and a warm northern breeze passes through the city, giving the people its comfort. However, there is only one person in the entire academy who isn't feeling at ease with himself since he is rather busy worrying about a certain someone else rather than take the time to draw in the beauty of nature around him.

"Oh, how is she? I hope she's doing well. Oh, did she eat already? Are the guys treating her well? Are they helping her on her first day? Did they give her an easy job?" These are only some of the possibly limitless questions that a certain raven-haired boy kept asking himself as he paced around, back and forth, inside the confines of the place known to many as the Cherry Blossom Lane.

"No, no, I gotta stay focused! Rina-neechan old me not to worry and damn it I won't worry about her. I need to trust neechan more." Xeion said as he looked towards the sky with a determined look on his face as if desperately trying to take his mind off of his sister's well-being. He looked to the left and tried to seek comfort in two hidden lovers kissing by the secluded part of the lane but what it did was make Xeion envision the two as his sister, Rina, and some other guy forcing himself on her.

He shook his head, trying to forget the thought and then looked to the right to see the beautiful cherry blossoms being swept away by the wind. For a time, this gave the extremely stressed out boy some comfort before he started envisioning the cherry blossom petals' surrender to the wind as her sister's innocence being taken away by the strong gust known as male hormonal lust.

These things, along with Xeion's caring nature for his sister, made the young man very uneasy as he put on his headphones and tried to drown out his worries in the latest beats from Japan's hottest bands.

"It's okay, she's safe. Nothing bad is gonna happen. Nothing bad is ever going to happen to Rina-neesan." Xeion said to himself as he leaned against a sakura tree and sat down, watching the beautiful sky. The sky that he and his sister loved so much.

"Neesan is...going to be fine."

Jared casually strolled down the lane, hands in his pockets, the wind whipping at his short hair.

"This place is... eerie." He grinned. "I liiiike."

(enters from his dorms. Time for the Waffles Treatment...)

His first stop was the infamous Cherry Blossom Lane, where lovely things like vampires and flying hybrids of death were said to inhabit. Joy.

Snooping around a bit, he stumbled upon a sleepy looking girl who was listening to way too loud music as pink blossoms descended from near by trees.

"Is it always raining petals here or something? Its like the middle of summer!"

Up ahead, he could briefly make out the image of a boy, hands in pockets while wind whipped through his hair and a chorus of angels sang in the background as he walked! Walked among was mere mortals that live our uneventful and insignificant lives and-

I'm sorry, I have no idea where I was going with that.

He shook his head of such random thoughts and tip-toed in front of the girl, holding his breath. Who knew? Maybe she had some insane hearing ability and the slight noise disturbance may cause her to inflict heavy damage to his cranium via magically summoned mallet? This was reputed to be a magic school of a sort after all...

A bunch of cherry blossoms descended upon him.

"See! See what I mean!" he called, his voice muffled by this onslaught of petals. "Its not natural."

Of course, due to the slight accumulation of spit at the back of his throat, due to days of non-use (it was as if some evil master author guy hadn't updated in who knows how long) and the muffling of the petals, his "See"'s sounded more like "Si", the spanish word for yes...

(Yeah, bs much?)

(It makes me so happy to know I can still get a WTF from Waffles. That sounds...creepy)

A hand burst from the pile of petals, and began rotating around with an audible crack like some sick periscope. The hand froze in the general direction of Sophie, before Hando burst from the petal prison.

"Hello there!" he said in his creepy-half-eye-closed-smile-thing.

"My name is Hando Tentei. You are?" He asked in a polite-creepy-half-closed-eye-smile-voice-thing.

The grin remained, which would probably have freaked out most normal people...

"My my...such a rude lady..." he muttered to himself, before continuing on in a louder voice. "Ah, YOU may not want anything to do with I, but I have something to do with YOU!"

He pointed randomly.

"Given your tired expression you either a) Spent the entire day going around to school to get away from b) some annoying students who've messed up your little lonely thing. Given your nature this is plausible..."

More random mumblings.

"This leads me to deduce that you know much about the school's landscape and geography! LEAD ME GIRL WITH MP3! We just search the school! The school for clues! Clues!" he cried, throwing his hands up in the air, the creepy grin only increasing in size and creepiness. "Clues on the rumours! Everyone knows the rumours! We shall be one of many to search for them! COME!"

With a rustle of leaves, Jared swung down from an overhead branch by his feet, coming to a stop upside-down. His head was a few feet above, and to the left of Sophie.

"You and me both, cute stuff. That Hando guy has some serious screws loose, eh?"