Not so Ordinary World

[Liddo-kun]

"One of us did not come back," Isegami tells you, sadness plain in his voice.

"It's been almost a year now, so I should remember the fact by now, but we thirteen had been together for so long...  It's by habit that I still think us whole."  He shakes his head at that.

[Kwokinator]

"So that's what Shia was so upset about..." he muses out loud.  He also idly notes mentally that at least something seem to be able to bring Isegami out of his seemingly perpetual calmness.

"Alright, I'm going back to my room," he says as he gets up. "Thanks for the talk."

[Liddo-kun]

Isegami sees you off with a nod and a smile.  "Rest well," he tells you, once more the perfect model of calm composure.

It's not a long walk to the entryway, where you leave your shoes behind so as not to scuff the wood or tatami.  After that, it's a quiet, uninterrupted walk back to your room.

Sliding the door open reveals two other occupants.

One of them is a tall boy, who has his back resting against one of the walls with his legs drawn, while reading a book.  He has dark straight hair and sports thin wire framed glasses.  He raises his green eyes from the pages of his book to acknowledge you, but quickly lowers them, apparently deciding his book is far more interesting than you.

The second of your roommate though....

Long, strawberry blonde hair in a braid with bright blue eyes that seem to light up when they look at you.  Er... you were unaware that your second roommate would be a girl, but that's what greets you.  Literally.

"Hiya!" she calls out exuburantly, waving.

[Kwokinator]

Maki blinked, then blinked again.

"Oops, sorry," he says as he backs out of the room, looking around uncertainly. "I think I walked into the wrong room..."

[Liddo-kun]

Or so you would think if your backpack wasn't there to the side on your left.

[Kwokinator]

"Or maybe not," Maki laughs nervously, then points at the backpack. "Since there's my backpack..."

[Liddo-kun]

The boy in the back quirks an eyebrow at you from above the edge of his book, while the girl in front cocks her head to the side curioiusly.

How very... awkward.   Yes, that was a good word to describe it.

"Are you okay?" the blonde girl asks.  "You seem kinda confused."

[Kwokinator]

"It's nothing," Maki dismissed it with a wave of his hand. "I just wasn't expecting to have a girl as a roommate, that's all."

"So anyway, I'm Maki Taguchi," he continues. "Probably not a very good first impression I'm making, but oh well."

[Liddo-kun]

"I'm Akira Fujimaru," the person in front of you says, then jerks a thumb back to the figure in the back.  "That's Hana-chan reading the book."

You see a visible cringe at the apparent pet name.  "Anju Hanao," is the correction.

[Kwokinator]

"Nice to meet you," Maki says, giving the obligatory nod.

"So," he tries to strike up random chatter as he sits down with his back to the nearest wall. "How're you guys doing?"

[Liddo-kun]

"That's a rather cliched ice breaking question to ask.  I mean, are we expected to answer with the typical - 'Oh, we're fine, and yourself?' - response or are we supposed to say, 'Horrible!' then go into some long expose on the how and why the day was terrible then bemoan our rotten luck to have such--"  The uncomfortably long rant, is brought to a screeching halt when bean filled pillow meets face.

"Stop that!" the blonde scolds.

A snort of disgust is let loose before a book is raised up once again.  "I was merely pointing out something, while talking out loud.  It's not like I was trying to instigate any hostilities or create an atmosphere of ill will with my actions.  On the contrary, I was trying to..."  the rest of the speech is drowned out in mumbles.

"Sorry about that.  Hana-chan tends to babble and mumble when meeting people for the first time," the person Shia mentioned as being "Fuji" tells you.

[Kwokinator]

"It's alright," Maki waved it off with an amused smirk at his new roommates' antics. "Maybe next time I should say something like 'I hope you're all happy that you have to suffer me'."

[Liddo-kun]

"What is it with some people and their need to be attention whores?  I mean have they no considerations for the want of others?  You really should have more control over yourself.  Yes, definitely more control.  Perhaps reading the many sutras of the Buddha may help?  Yes, a shorn head would look most excellent on you.  In fact--"

Fujimaru seems to have reached a breaking point.  Grabbing you by the arms you're lead back out to the hall.  The sliding door is now closed, but since it isn't a solid door - made only of light wood and paper - his mini-tirade is still audible.

"This is more than usual..." is the comment that accompanies the odd frown.  Turning a calculating gaze on you, "Are you strong?  Spiritually, I mean.  I think Hana-chan was unnerved by you or something."

[Kwokinator]

Maki breathes a sigh of relief at being almost dragged out the door.  Although it's probably not the usual response at being lead out of the room for apparently no reason, he really doesn't have any more responses for the strange rants from 'Hana-chan'.

"Err... I have no idea," he admitted. "I just came here, and I haven't even started to learn how to use those spiritual powers yet, or if I can even use any... apparently I had spasms when I was trying to use that transparent ball thing to look inside myself."

[Liddo-kun]

"Spasms?" is the returned question, with a raised eyebrow to boot.