It would be a normal school day as students would be hanging out until classes began. It was peaceful until a nerdy looking student was running for his life "THE *BARA no ONI IS BEING TRANSFERED HERE" he yelled and was still running like a chicken with his head cut off. Some students were looking at each other as if wondering what that guy was smoking. Others were cowering in fear as they heard rumors of this student and what she had done to some people. None the less something different was happening.  At the school gates a rather expensive looking car pulls up to the curb.  The door opens and a very pretty girl gets out and grabs her school bag.

She had long pink hair and a body that most girls her age would kill for. Her violet eyes look around and sees most of her new classmates. Kaguya's face had a bright smile as she was happy to have somewhat of a clean slate. She turns to the car "I'll see you later dad" she said and closed the door and waved her father goodbye.  Turning around she heads to her homeroom to try and get herself situated. Since this was a new school as well as a change from the private school she was going to. Although the thing that downed her spirits slightly was the fact that she already heard people starting whispering rumors and such. Which caused Kaguya to sigh a bit since she just started at this school.




*Bara no Oni translates to Rose Ogre  

Sophia watches as the bookish boy runs by. What a mean thing to say about someone… However, evidently quite a few people were repeating it. She figures it must be difficult to come to a new school when everyone is saying things behind your back already. What exactly had this person done?

The transfer student isn’t what she is expecting. Someone meaner looking perhaps. But the pink haired girl hardly looked as terrible as people made her out to be. Admittedly, since her definition of terrible people included Scorpio these days, a high school girl could hardly compare. She definitely didn’t look the kind of person who deserved to be made at outcast on her first day, and she definitely looked like she could use a friend in this kind of negative environment.

“Need help finding homeroom? I couldn’t find mine the first day without help,” Sophia says, being a friendly face in a crowd of otherwise fearful-looking students. “Sophia, by the way,” she says, outstretching a hand.

As one student ran away shouting about a Rose Ogre, a small group of rich girls look as Kaguya arrived at the school. The ringleader was a well known half-Japanese half-American girl named Aylia, whom was heiress to a large corporation CEO. She looks at her fingernails boredly, before her azure eyes begin to size up Kaguya. Sophia, the American girl, had bounded over to the girl to talk to her though the subject of conversation was beyond her ears.

For now, the blonde along with the other girls would calmly watch Kaguya and the others around for reactions, to get an idea of what to expect.

"hhhhhhmmmmm oh thank you Sophia, that would be nice. And by the way I my name is Kaguya" she said introducing herself to Sophia. Kaguya looked the girl over a bit trying to figure her out, it was something she had been doing out of reflex. For the most part though Sophia did not look like a threat to her. So she relaxed a bit around her "I am mildy surprised that my reputation is even known here. Or is that with every transfer student that gets transferred here" she giggled slightly trying to make light of the situation around her. Although her natural instingts were telling her that someone was really watching her intently for some reason. Kaguya just shrugged it off like it was nothing but just a mild annoyance.

"I think this is was the home room I was suppose to go to" said Kaguta as she reached into her school bag and took out a very expensive smart phone and fiddled with a few things. She then brings the room number up and shows it to Sophia.

When Kaguya mentions her reputation, she can’t help but be a little curious. But that was a discussion for another time. “I’m sure they’ll get over themselves.” She looks down at the phone, “Cool. Same homeroom as me,” Sophia says and then starts to lead Kaguya in the direction of class. “So are you from Ackademi as well? We got a lot of transfers from there on Monday…” She’s still smiling despite the new students being somewhat of a constant reminder of their defeat.

“Our homeroom sort of has tripled in size after combining two and then adding all the new transfers, so hopefully, we can get you a desk near the rest of us…” she says, thinking about the layout of the room. There was Kousuke’s old desk… and that was a terrible thought. "Valdis is pretty good for attracting attention away from people, so I don't think you'll have to worry about others talking about you, at least."

She doesn’t seem to take notice of Aylia’s staring. But that might be because there was number of eyes on Kaguya.

Amarissa looked up from her sketch pad as a familiar voice filtered into the class room. Her eyes found Sophia's and she smiled in welcome before looking over at the new girl accompanying her. Of course, she had her the crazy guy running around yelling but didn't really understand why someone who looked so innocent would be labeled a Bara no Oni. Her pink hair and violet eyes were unusual but Amarissa thought she looked quite cute. She tended not to be judgmental when it came to looks, her own hair being a silver white. Today she had styled it in a half ponytail but it still fell long down her back. Her traditional school uniform was now accented with the purple bands that indicated her status in the art program. She had tied a matching ribbon in her hair.

"Welcome! I'm Amarissa Hiroshi. There's actually a number of odd people in this school and also people with naturally unnatural hair colors, so you should be alright as far as bullying goes," she says, cheerfully enough. "So, why was that guy calling you that anyway?" she asks, true curiosity ringing in her tone. She watches as Sophia's eyes linger on Kousuke's desk behind her and the emptiness can almost be felt. Amarissa looks at the other senshi in a shared moment of pain. "Morning Sophia. How're you?" she asks quietly.

"Ah no I did not come from the Ackademi, I came from the St Alexi school, its a Russian Orthadox private school" said Kaguya as she answered Sophia's question. She had heard about what happened for the pour souls at the school. "I am glad that most of them are alright....So I can understand with the amount of people here" she said and found a empty desk and sat down. that would be in there area. She was then greeted by another girl with white hair and blue eyes. "I am Hoshigane Kaguya, Its a pleasure to meet you Amarissa-chan" she said with a bit more formal greeting to the white haired girl. She then heard about the bully problem again from this girl and just sighed after Amarissa asked why she was given that moniker. She gives herself a moment to think to tell her story to the two girls.

"I was a target for bullies for a long time until I left my school for a year and I came back. They started to bully me again....but this time I fought back and sent most of them to the hospital. They deserved what they got though......all of them......thinking that there money or there mommy and daddy's money gave them power. Ah the look on there faces when they realized the error of there ways.......Sorry....after that they gave me that moniker due to my brutal strength and the fact I started in a sick sense of irony enjoyin. Those idiots created this monster, and all I just wanted to do was go to school and do well and have some friends" she said as her expressions changed from a gleeful face down to look a bit depressed. Kaguya reaches into her bag and pulls out a jumbo honey bun and unwraps the snack item. It was an old coping habit that she could not shake off that well.

"*mucn* I guess my reputation from that had spread out to other schools. I just hope I don't have idiots messing with me" said Kaguya as she had taken a very large bite of her sweet treat.

Sophia watches as Kaguya takes the empty seat, and she looks back to Amarissa. “I’m doing pretty good. Better than yesterday, and I’ve got stuff to look forward to after school.” It would be nice to get together with everyone at the picnic and feel normal.

As Kaugya speaks about her story, she can’t help but feel bad for the girl. “That’s pretty rough,” Sophia says. She can sympathize. Being bullied was tough enough, and most people didn’t fight back. “You're pretty brave to actually take action for yourself. And I think you’ll be fine in this class though. Don't worry so much.” It wasn’t like the senshi crowd had much patience for bullies. In fact, she was fairly sure that Yuki would hurt them worse than she did Kenny.

This was such a depressing atmosphere between the three girls. She perks up a little, not wanting them to stay in this slump. “And it’s too early in the morning to be this sad already. We all just got to school. Hmmm… there’s a school dance soon. We can all go as a group,” she says to Amarissa and Kaguya. She would not stand for them all to be this sad. “Where’s Keitha, Valdis, and Yuki? We need to get those three as well…"

Amarissa grimaces at the poor girl's back story. She knew about bullying and couldn't blame her at all. Kaguya managed to get an odd look from the Moon senshi, though, when she pulled the treat out and starting munching on it. She didn't say anything though, instead she smiled at Sophia when the other senshi assured her she was doing better. Amarissa nods in agreement to Sophia's statements then a confused look crashed on her face.

"There's a dance? hm.." she questions, lapsing into silence. She had forgotten about the dance after the incident with Kousuke, mostly because she'd be throwing around the idea of asking him to go with her. Never fully decided, however, she supposed it wouldn't be so bad to go as a group. Though they really didn't have enough males for all the girls in the group, she was sure it would all work out. "That sounds like a good idea, Sophia. I don't know where the other girls are, though. They're still not here and I haven't heard from any of them," she answers calmly. Her eyes widened as she realizes she had forgotten about her sketch pad. She'd been working on a design featuring the two mau cats. They were so cute together, after all. Smiling to herself, she tucked her things away in her bag.

"A Dance" questioned Kaguya as she smiled a bit from what Sophia said. She really did not get to many of them due to the fact that she had problems with a good deal of students at her old school. So something like that would be nice since she did have a technical new start even though her reputation was mentioned here. "That sounds quite nice, And I am sure we are going to get enough boys looking at us to keep ourselves busy that night" she said and giggled a bit at the thought of that. Her eyes flick over to Amarisa and saw her eyeing her treat and reaches into her bag and pulls out another one.

"Here, I don't know if you skipped breakfast or anything. But take this if your hungry" Kaguya said as she was not sure if Amarisa had skipped a meal or something. But she was eyeing her honey bun. Either way the two girls that she met were not a threat in her mind right now.

“Boys…” Sophia shakes her head but still smiling. “Never had too much luck there. Maybe I can get Yuki to tell me her secret since she seems to be able to get their attention.” She’s reminded of the black-haired boy that spoke to her during the basketball game. That girl was evidently good at getting them. She then laughs a little, “But I guess it’s always possible some handsome boy asks me to dance and sweeps me off my feet.”

“We got until the Friday after next, so we could go look for stuff after school one of these days. Pretty much any day that isn’t Thursday or today. I think Seibu has a sale going on this week though, so we should try to take advantage of that.”

She notices Amarissa's eyes go wide for a bit, "Something wrong?"

Amarissa takes the offered treat, not hungry but not wanting to be rude. She considered it as a sort of peace offering. "Thank you," she said, smiling warmly at the other girl and opening to nibble a bit on the edge. It was yummy, and her eyes lit up. Swallowing, she laughed at bit at the boy comment from Kaguya and Sophia. "That's true enough. Yuki does seem to attract them quite well," she agreed, nodding.

Hearing Sophia's question, Amarissa shakes her head. "Nothing, I just forgot to put my sketch pad away after the conversation began. My mother suggested to me that it was rude to sketch or draw while having a conversation. Would you like to see though?" she offered, before pulling it back out and showing the two girls. It was Artemis and Luna standing with their tails entwined, they almost looked like a yin-yang in the pose.

"Uh yeah no problem" said Kaguya as she did not realize that she did something rude and just shook it off. But Sophia had luckily changed subjects to something else and was thankful for that. "Oh just give it time, sooner or later you might have too many to fend off. I mean your cute enough as is" she said with a bemused grin on her face. Even then she had to giggle a bit. She takes a look at what Amarisa drew and it was adoreable from what she saw "AWWWWWWWW that's so cute, your really good Amarissa.....I kinda pale in comparison to you though. I draw myself but not to this level at all" she said in surprise. As Kaguya did that as a hobbie but not something like that though. Although something hit her when Sophia said something about the Seibu sale.

"Uh.....if I were you two avoid Seibu like the plague a lot of people that are there are just assholes" she said not being subtle about the place. Since she had a slight altercation and nearly dieing there. So she did not want these two to end up with the same fate as her.

“Yep, Ama’s really talented. I’m sure there wasn’t even a thought about not allowing her into the arts program,” Sophia says, smiling at the picture. Artemis would probably be flattered by being so handsomely drawn if he was around. “Also, it’s pretty cool to see you come in with something new every day.”

She nods when Kaguya says she can’t draw, “I can’t draw either, but thankfully, there are other parts of the program to join. Kaguya, are you going to try out for something? The tryouts aren’t all too bad.”

She frowns a little when she hears about Seibu. That was normally the place to go to get one’s shopping done. “That’s unfortunate. It’s sort of the best place to buy things. Well, I guess there are other places.”