Chapter IV: Introductions are in order
Canterlot High
Outside the principals office
"H-hey! Sunset wait!" I shouted as I neared the stairs she was on. She did stop and her blush deepened a little.
"S-sorry. I just got a little flustered at what the principals said. I-I don't know why," She said as I approached.
"It's no big deal. Just, don't run off like that. I might not be fast enough to catch you next time," I explained as we went down the stairs. We then entered what I assumed was the entrance hall. Sunset then led me down the path to the right of the exit. As we continued she asked me a few questions.
"So Xuku. From what I heard before entering, you said that you wanted a new life. What did you mean by that?" She asked curiously.
"Well, right now I won't go into detail, but it's as I said, I want to start a new life. I did some bad things during my life and now that I'm here, might as well do what I planned," I explained. She looked at me with a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"I know what you mean. I did some bad things to. But it's thanks to my friends that I was saved, as well as one of my mentors students," She told me. I understood that. I also had friends that saved me, even if they didn't realize it.
We walked in silence for a while, until we reached a pair of doors. She opened them and we walked into what I guessed was the gymnasium. In there I saw other people. We walked towards them. "Hey, girls! Look who I brought with me!"
"Oh Sunset! Hey! So how is he?" Twilight asked, If I remembered her name correctly.
"I'm fine, thank you. I didn't get to introduce myself properly. My name is Xuku. Nice to meet you," I said.
"Well then, let me re-introduce my friends. This is Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy," She introduces them. Instantly, Pinkie was in my face.
>> "Hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Pinkie Pie! Do you like parties, I like parties! What's your favorite flavor of cake and mmhphmmph..." Pinkie said as she got cut off.
"Ah'm sorry bout' our friend here. She can get a tad exited when someone new arrives here. Ah'm Applejack by the way," She said in a southern accent. (Sorry if it's bad. I'm trying!)
"Yeah... Nice to meet you too Applejack," I said while rubbing my head from the pink barrage of words.
"Oh darling! You must tell me where you got this cloak! I have to have the design so I can implement it to a new line of clothes!" Rarity said excitedly.
"I'll maybe give it to you, if you promise to give it back the way it was. I don't really like my cloak messed with," I said to her.
"Oh don't worry! I won't do anything to it. I just need to know how this was made!" She said.
"Why are you so interested in my cloak? Its nothing spectacular."
"Oh darling. You should know that when it comes to fashion, I take my work seriously," She explained.
"Right... So, who is left?"
"Well, I'm Twilight! Nice to meet you. I must ask though, where are you from and can you show us your face?" Twi asked while introduced herself.
"For the first, can't answer at this point in time, as for the second... I don't know... I haven't really shown my face to almost anyone for the past... 4-5 months. The only ones I show my face to is my friends, and I don't consider you my friends yet," I answered.
"Aww! Why not!?" Pinkie frowned.
"I'm not as naive as to just blindly trust anyone I come across, much less become their friends just like that," I said as almost everyone looked at me with a frown. "Don't worry. I might not trust you fully, but I do trust you enough to not turn to a cold and rude bitch just like that."
They gasped at my use of language. "Watch your tongue, Mister! You won't use such words here!" Rarity shouted at me.
"Do you honestly think that I care? Because I don't give a single fuck. I have the right, you know. Didn't go trough all that to be ordered around," I said to nearly everyone's shock. Rainbow on the other hand was laughing her ass off.
"Bwaahhahaha!! Oh my god!! That's so gold!! Hahahaha!!" She laughed as the others stare at her.
"Rainbow! It's not funny!" Sunset said as she looked between me and Dash.
"Hey, don't look at me like that. I don't do it often, but when I do, just try to stay quiet. I usually do so because I'm angry or just plain irritated," I said as I looked at the now giggling Dash.
"Heheh.. My name is Rainbow Dash by the way. Nice to meet you," She greeted while holding a laugh. There was now only one left to introduce. She looked like she wanted to run, yet she did want to greet me. She did eventually come to greet me albeit slowly.
"H-hello. M-my name i-is F-fluttershy," She said in a near whisper. I just smiled under my hood and pet her on her head. She jumped in surprise at the touch, but calmed down.
"Nice to meet you, Fluttershy. You seem like a very kind girl, I might even have to protect such kindness and innocence," I said with a little chuckle. She blushed and tried to hide her face in her hair. Now that everyone was introduced we all decided to go to the cafeteria as it was nearing lunch period. As we did walk there, some of the students gave me odd looks. I knew what they were thinking and decided to ignore the looks. Once we entered the cafeteria, nearly everyone was looking at me.
We then decided to go and grab food for us all. I didn't take much as I didn't really need to eat being a Nobody and all. We found an empty table and sat around it. At first the girls talked to each other while I enjoyed the simple PB&J sandwich. AJ took notice of my rather small amount of food. She looked at me and asked: "Xuku? Why don't you ave' something more to eat? You must be starving."
"Oh I don't need to eat all that much. This is perfectly sufficient for me," I reply as to not reveal that I don't actually need to eat at all. The girls though thought otherwise. Well, Pinkie Pie was the most, as evident from the fact that she nearly jumped out of her skin when I said that.
"Are. You. Kidding Me!! Of course that's not enough! Come on! We need to fill that plate to the fullest!!!" She practically shouted as she started to drag me towards the cafeteria with my tray in hand.
"I really don't need that much! Pinkie!!" I shouted as she ignored my protests. The others looked at each other in concern for me.
As we neared the cafe counter I somehow managed to free myself from Pinkies iron grasp. After I did that she stopped to look at me in confusion. I decided to answer her before she could ask. "Pinkie, look. I really appreciate the concern for me, but I can take care of myself. I know what I can and can't do. Trust me. I have had many years to perfect my knowledge of my body and its limits. I mean in no offence, but I really don't need that much food," I explained myself. I could see that she had a sort of a sad smile on her face.
"Yeah, sorry. It's just that, I don't like it when any of my friends look like their having a hard time, so I just kinda went out of control there. Sorry again," She said with a sad smile. It didn't last long as she just started to lead me again. "And besides. We are already here, so why not just go all the way?"
I sighed in defeat. After we "refilled" my plate, we returned to the others. I took my seat and began eating my food. I actually tasted pretty good. After we all ate, we headed towards a room on the second floor. It was a rec room from what I could tell from their words. We came in front of said room and entered.
The room had all kinds of instruments from guitars to drums and meany others. I was mainly attracted towards a sitar. In my time at the Organization, I learned how to play the sitar from Demyx. He one day came to me, surprisingly. He said his reason for doing so was so he could at least pass the time and have a hobby and to have someone other than himself to play an instrument with. I did agree because I didn't have anything to do aside from hanging around Roxas and Axel. The girls noticed that my gaze was fixated on the sitar.
"Do you play the sitar, dear?" Rarity asked me.
"Yeah, I do. Learned how from someone I knew. Though I don't think he is around anymore," I answered.
"Would you like to show us your skills?" Sunset asked. I nodded as I headed towards the instrument in question. I picked it up and with a couple plucks of the stings I adjusted it to the correct tensity. I then started to play a tune Demyx taught me. (Just a heads up, the quality is as if it was recorded on a potato) As I payed the sitar, the sound of other instruments filled the air along with the main instrument. While the melody was playing, I started to glow and float in the air, yet I didn't notice this as I was in full play mode.
As I just floated there, 13 weapons appeared out of nowhere. They were the weapons of the Organization XIII members. They circled me for a moment until they came together into a ball of light. When that ball of light died down, in its place was a strange looking keyblade. The handguard looks like two marionette control bars on the top and bottom with strings connecting them together, the blade also has strings, but they are loosley tied around a hooded figure holding up his hand. The teeth of the blade is a nobody symbol made out of twilight thorn and the key chain is a broken nobody symbol. Then said key turned into a ball of light again and shot strait into me. After that the music I was playing started to come to a stop and I slowly descended to the ground. The girls looked at me with expressions of shock and awe.
"What was that? I have never seen anything like that!" Twilight said as she looked towards Sunset.
"I don't know. I have never seen anything like that in my life," Sunset said with much shock in her voice. As the girls were speaking to each other I couldn't help but feel as if I missed something huge.
"What? Did something happen?" I asked much to the girls surprise.
"You didn't see that?!" Dash exclaimed.
"No? Was it something to do with how I played the music?" I asked with confusion seeping from my voice.
"Well, you kinda started to float in mid air, while glowing, and some sort of weapons, 13 to be exact, and then they just merged into this weird sword looking thing. Then it just shot into you. Did you really not see that? Pinkie explained in "high" detail. I looked almost as shocked as they did. 'What. The fuck! Why did all of their weapons appear. I didn't even get them all transferred into me! I think...' I thought. I was starting to feel a little tired from all of the things that happened today.
"Sunset? Mind if we head to your place? I'm starting to feel a little tired," I said trying to stifle a yawn. The other girls just look at me in surprise.
"And just why do you think you can just go into Sunsets home?" Dash inquired.
"Well... I kinda... offered him to stay at my place till he can get a home of his own..." Sunset said with a nervous chuckle.
"Well. This is mighty unexpected. Didn't think you to offer him a place to crash," Applejack said in a sightly lessened tone of surprise.
"Yeah! And I thought I might have to offer him a place to stay, but I can see its already been taken care of!" Pinkie said in a bouncy and happy tone.
"I never expected you to do so. You haven't ever even had a boy let alone us come over very often," Twilight said in as a matter of fact. Sunset blushed a little at that.
"I don't see what the big deal is. She was just kind enough to offer me a place to stay. I might not know why she did so but I still appreciate it," I said.
After all of that, we exited the school and when we came to the statue at the front of the school, we waved goodbye to each other. Then me and Sunset started walking towards her home. While walking there, she asked me a question that surprised me. "How come you are always wearing that hood over your face? Why don't you take it of more often?"
"W-well... I just don't like showing my face all too often. I'm... a little embarrassed of it..." I said as a blush appeared on my cheeks under the hood.
"Why are you so embarrassed of it? Surely it can't be that bad," She questioned. I sighed.
"Meaby I'll show it to you tomorrow. I'm sure the nurse has already seen it when she removed my cloak," I said with a hint of annoyance.
"Well... She said to us that when she removed it, she couldn't see what your face looked like. And... well... when we entered to check on you, we saw the same as the nurse did. A blur," She explained. I was actually surprised at that. 'How can that be? It was never like that. Meaby it has something to do with... I don't know,' I thought as we neared her home.
She seamed to live in a 8 story tall building. As we headed inside and into the elevator she pressed the button for the fifth floor. When we arrived, we turned left and stopped at the door with the number 27. She opened the door to a nice apartment. When we entered I noticed there were three doors, two to my left and one right in front of me. She said that it was okay for us to walk in with our shoes on. I didn't mind, as I rarely took my shoes or even clothes of. As we went further into the house, another door greeted me on the left again. Then we went to the living room. It had a few bookshelves and a TV on a wooden stand in front of the couch witch was a nice sunset orange. She said that the door across the door was a guest room, so I could stay in there.
I thanked her and walked into said room. When I entered, the room looked nearly like my old one back at the Castle, except it wasn't all tech like. I didn't care at the time though and walked strait to the bed and fell onto it. As soon as my body hit the bed I fell asleep. It was going to be a very long and refreshing sleep.
When the pair entered the apartment complex, a figure could be just seen in an alley. It kept tabs on the one in the cloak, like it was something that needed to be kept an eye on. This figure would keep doing this for a while. What could it want? Find out, in the future.
To be continued.