Shinto

Wow, this is great stuff guys. really liking the directions everyone is taking the stories in.
Guess ill have to step it up somewhat. theres a lot ive got to somehow include.

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By the time he reached the school, Tobias had seen that the fence to the school had closed, and he knew he was going to be late. He lowered his head and leaned it against the metal bars of the fence, and sighed.

"Haha, might as well go home, eh boy?" said Black. Tobias was already feeling lousy as it was by this. He walked over to a nearby bench and sat down, trying to think about what he should do. As he sat there, he noticed that there was a girl sleeping beside him. He saw that she was wearing normal clothing, and was apparently trying to catch up on lost sleep. Either way he turned his head back to the ground and continued thinking.

As he was sitting he saw a man walking past him out of the corner of his eye. He leaned over and saw a man walking over to the girl, stopping in front of her and talking to himself. He wasn't sure about who he was, but from the way he was dressed Tobias assumed he was heading to a restuarant or something, heading in to work. He saw that he was rambling about the beauty of youth, or something. Tobias had his own issues to deal with, and Black wasn't helping matters with his interfering.

He saw the man walk past him, and somehow managed to convince the security guard to let him into the building. Tobias noticed that the man with the vest had put on a fedora, and showed the man some sort of card. He wasn't sure what it was, but he decided to find out. He got up off of the bench and walked over to the guard.

"Hey, why did you let that man into the school?"

The security guard gave him a cold glare. "Why should a brat like you care, hm?" The guard was holding a cup of coffee in his hand, and a small hand radio in the other. He took a sip from the cup after responding to Tobias.

"Well," Tobias started to grow annoyed, "I happen to attend this school. In fact, this is my fi--"

"I don't have time for your jokes, kid," the guard abruptly interrupted. "You're just some foreign boy here to try and take pictures of the girls in skirts. I know your type, and lemme tell you kid, if i see your face here again, I won't hesitate to call the police here and have you brought in. Understand me kid?"

Tobias started to grow angry, his temper flaring and his voice growling beneath his breath. He gave the guard a rather cold glare and bore his teeth at him. His left eye started to grow a darker shade of brown, almost black. "I'm only trying to get into this school I am transferring to. If you do not move, I will have to move you."

The guard let out a loud bellow. In the distance Tobias could feel a dark energy starting to surge from within the school. The darkness, Tobias felt, was coming from a strong presence. "Listen kid, why dont you just go home and--"

Tobias reached out and started to choke the man. His white nails started to stand out on the mans neck as it turned from its normal hue, to red, and slowly to blue. "I tried to warn you maggot. This is your first and LAST warning I will EVER give you; LET ME INTO THIS BUILDING OR YOUR LIFE WILL BE MINE!" His eyes started to roll into the back of his head as the air was being suffocated out of him. He tried to pry Tobias' arm off of his neck, but eventually his grip started to fade and he dropped his hands to his side. Tobias, seeing the man was close to death, released the man. As he laid on the ground, coffing and choking for air, Tobias looked over at him and scoffed. "Pathetic fool. I am not one to be made a fool out of. Maybe next time you will heed my..."

Tobias' head started to feel light, his whole body started to shake. The darkness that came from within the school had faded, and its influence was starting to wane. Tobias leaned himself against the wall and tried to regain his balance. The guard behind him had gotten back up to his feet and was adjusting the collar to his shirt, trying to give himself a better way to breath. There were big blue bruises on his neck from where Tobias' hand was. He was still coughing.

"Look, kid," he started with a strained voice. "I'm sorry, I'll let you in, ok?" He returned to his booth and pushed a button on the console inside. The gate guarding the school started to slide open. "There, are you happy now?" The man was clutching his throat, still sore and having a hard time breathing. His face had looked incredibly pale when Tobias turned around to look at the man.

"Yes, and I'm sorry that had to happen. I wish Black wasn't so... ruthless..." Tobias walked over to the man and bowed. "Please forgive my weakness." He quickly ran inside past the gate and towards the school, the guard left standing baffled at the gate. He looked back at Tobias with an expression that was a mix of confusion and fear. He thought to himself: Just who was that kid?

When he made it into the building, he was greeted by a young couple kissing and groping one another by the shoe lockers. He walked away from them, careful not to disturb them. He pulled out a piece of paper from the front pocket of his bag and read it, trying to find his assigned locker.

"Can I help you young man?" He turned around and saw a woman standing behind him, wearing a black suit. She had her hair pulled back into a tight bun, and was carrying a small blue notebook with her. Reached out and grabbed the paper out of Tobias' hand, read it to herself, and shortly gave it back to him. "Well now," she started after opening her notebook, "it would appear that our new transfer student has finally arrived. Tardy, might I add; that does not reflect well upon you you know. Just what is your name anyways..?"

"My name is Tobias, maim." He was startled by this woman. She seemed to be someone of importance at this school, but judging by the fact that she asked him his name, when she had read over his transcript made him question her intelligence. "I apologize for my lateness, there was a train that slowed me down, and then the guard outside--"

"Listen I don't want to hear your life story, ok?" This was the second time Tobias had been interrupted today. He started to grow annoyed with this woman. "I am the principal here at this school; or rather, this acadamy. The fact that you are here means one of three things, and judging by what you did to the guard out there, you're 'special'." She lowered her notebook and showed Tobias the contents. On the left page was a small list of foreign characters, all of which he did not know. On the right, however, he saw his face on a photograph, and a pentagon beneath it, with question marks along the 5 lines inside of it. There were more characters that he could not understand, but he was amazed at how detailed everything looked.

"This dossier shows me everything about you that we know, and unfortunately, there isn't much here. You came here from another country, but its not listed which, though I have my suspicions. It says that you have been across the world, more or less. It says that you're a very bright young man and know how to speak our language, yet you cannot read it; am i right so far?"

Tobias was stunned. This woman knew a lot of information about him, and he knew little about her. The principal gave him a rather victorious look, and smirked at bit seeing him as confused as he was. He was only in Shinto for five days, had not spoken in great length to anyone in particular, and this woman already had a long spreadsheet of his information. Whoever she was, she was someone to keep an eye on.

"That was a bad pun boy; she's someone to keep an eye on? Heh, next thing you'll be saying a cat stole your tongue."

"I bed your pardon?" she asked. Her nose wrinkled when she heard him speak in such a dark tone.

"I'm sorry, that was... Yes, that is correct, what you said about me."

"Well... I don't know what came over you, but I'm glad to see its passed. Now then, you're already late, so lets not make you wait any longer." She looked in her notebook again, humming some tune to herself as she did. "Aha! You're in classroom 3-C. My my, quite the coincidence..."

"What is a coincidence?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing. I'm sure you'll figure it out... in time." She closed her notebook with a snapping sound, and grabbed Tobias by the hand. "Come along now, I will escort you to your new class." Tobias did not want to try and start a fight with the woman, so he let her lead him to his class. As he was being lead into the main hallway, he couldn't help but wonder why she hadn't noticed the two over to the side making out instead of going to class.



She stopped beside a door after leading Tobias around the school. While he was being taken there, he noticed that in the courtyard outside there was a group of men wearing lab coats picking up a large muscled man off of the ground. There was a pool of blood underneath of him. He tried to ask the principal what the scene outside was, but she didn't even look as if she acknowleged his question.

"Okay, now this is your class. I expect to hear good thing about you from no--" BANG! All the two of them heard was the sound of a bullet ripping through the wall beside them. Inside Tobias could hear the cries and screams of other students. He looked over to try and ask what the noise was, but the woman was nowhere to be seen. He stood in the hallway in a daze, searching left and right trying to find her. He heard shuffling from inside the room, and saw three more men running down the hall, wearing the same white labcoats as the men outside. He stepped out of their way as they went inside, and a few moments later came out carrying a rather frail looking student. His body was covered with a black blanket on the stretcher, but he could see an ornate mace being gripped in his tiny hands.

He stood in the hallway for a moment longer, trying to get a grasp on his current situation. He was in a new school, and already he had more questions than he had answers. Who were the men in the white coats? Why were they taking the students away, and where to? Who was the man in the vest, and what was the principal doing? He let out a long sigh as he opened the door to the classroom.

Inside he saw the room was perfect, aside from the hole on the side where the bullet from earlier exited. He had heard them talking as he opened the door, but as soon as he set foot into the classroom, everyone fell silent. He assumed that seeing a foreign student with an eye patch wasn't something that they'd seen before. Though, given earlier, he assumed that maybe they were just shocked that anyone came into the room.

The teacher standing at the front of the room looked at him with a cheerful smile. "Ah," he said, "you must be the new transfer student, right?" He waved his arm at Tobi. "Come, come, come up to the front and introduce yourself." Tobias walked over to the front of the desk and stood beside the teachers podium. He looked around the room and saw that everyone was staring at him coldly. He noticed that several people in the room had a strong aura around them, and that several desks were empty.

"My name is Tobias. I don't have a last name, so just refer to me by Tobias. I'm glad to meet you all." He bowed his head and waited. He could hear faint whispers coming from the students.

"Ah, well, welcome Tobias. You can have a seat... Ah, right there, 4th one from the front, 5th row, behind where Mimoto would be seated." Tobias looked up and saw his desk, and noticed it was right next to a skinny looking man with sharp azul eyes. He walked over to his desk and sat down, and the teacher went on with checking attendance.
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Sorry for the length. I tried to incorporate both Smooth and Corns post. Also tried to show that tobi was late... though i did drag it on for longer that i needed to for a while... Oh, and Corn, i kinda had it so that Tobi comes in right at your line. sorry to cut you off like that... =\