A school, students, only one way to survive... This story begin here, in a school nowhere to be found, a school where fighting to survive is what you need to do. Every students is a potential danger and can kill you to become more known and have the favor of his surperior.
We will put you in the point of view of one student who just got here and try to live when everybody is after him.
«It was the first day of the september month, when I got there...This place was hell. I don't know why I wanted to finish my study in this terrible school, but I did anyway. I'll tell you how I survived and who helped me.»
I was reading a book when the train arrive at the station, I wasn't the only one waiting, a group of people around the same age as me were waiting. I looked at them, they were talking about this mysterious school.
- «Did you heard ? A teacher just killed himself, they say he jumped of the window of his office.» , said one of them.
- «Really ?! Poor guy...I heard some of his students told him to kill himself...»
The place where I was going was like hell, there was no hope of going back...And suicide was something normal to do.
I got on the train and waited, watching everything around me. Was I anxious ? Yes, very. This was my last year of school...After that I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to go see my dad before he died, I wanted to take back what I said to my mom when she passed away... «I don't care if you die !» that is what I said to her and it killed her. I am not a good person, I'm a monster. I was going in hell and that's where my place was, no ?
Why did I go there ? Because my dad didn't wanted me anymore and sent me away, far away from him. Why did you do that dad ? Because I killed mom and you will never forgive me ? I understand.
- «Don't hate me too much because I still love you, dad.» I whispered while opening my book.
Three hours passed, I rememember sleeping on the train and then someone was in front of me, it was a young man.
- «Hi ! I'm Akashi Akira.» , we did a handshake before I introduced myself.
- «Nice to meet you...I'm Kono Ryu.» my voice was a little weak, I was still sleepy.
Akira-san was very kind to me and this person helped me get out of this hell. He showed me the school and even carried my bagages.
Why was this school so creepy ? It looked like a castle to me, a castle who reminded people that time is not merciful.
- «I'm very happy to have a new comrades ! And we will even share our room !» , Akira-san looked very happy.
- «Is that so ?» ah...It sounded a little rude.
- «I hope you'll stay in here. But I must warn you, some students here do not like having competition and could get rid of you...» , what Akira-san just said did not scared me,I was surprised of the fact.
The world is not as beautiful and pretty as children think...It's a battlefield and to survive you need to fight and bite.
The students looked normal, talking, laughing...going to their class...I didn't believed Akira-san, and now I regret it. They were like wolves, watching their next meals and I was the poor deer walking by at the wrong moment.
- «There ! Our room !» , Akira-san opened the door for me, he gave me some minutes to look around and make myself at home. Then, he cleaned his desk and let me put my computer on it.
- «Thank you, Akira-san.» , I said with a smile on my face.
- «Oh, it's fine ! You and me are friend from now on.» , he bowed to me and get away, saying he had to see someone.
I turn on my computer and just checked on my e-mail, but nothing, not even a message from my dad or my friends. It was like I just disapeared from this world to them or didn't even existed in the first place. What could I do next ? My class would not start until tomorrow. By curiosity, I got on the internet and searched the news of the dead teacher. The first article I clicked on was really interesting...
«Last week, a teacher of the Kuroi tsuki school killed himself. Not very much is known about the reason of his suicide, but some students witnessed he was on drugs...The director of the school closed the inquest after this fact was revealed.»
On drugs ? That poor man...I felt sorry for him and his family. I closed quikly my computer when somebody entered my room.
- «Hello ! Don't worry it's just me !» , it was Akira-san, I almost felt released.
- «Hey.» , I wasn't really someone who talk much. I tried to smile to him. He got on his bed and opened a little book, I looked closer and it was a magazine.
- «What are you reading ?» , I asked.
- «This ? Ah ! It's a magazine about the most pretty girl in the school.» , he said, I sighed, but I told him to show me. We spent half an hour watching the page before the night imposes herself. On my bed, my thought came by again, keeping me awake. Why must you hurt me all the time ? You painful memories.
«Ryu ! Your mother need you, don't run away !» my father's voice was an echo in my mind, always the same episode. The day I choose to be with my friends than to be with my mom.
«You are there for her, plus she won't just die like that. I can go.» so stupid, I was so stupid. Why am I still here when she is gone ?
- «Not sleeping ?» , asked Akira-san, he was staring at me with big eyes.
- «Uh...No.» , I sitted on my bed and watched the window.
- «Why are you here, Ryu-san ?» , Akira-san got off his bed and came to me.
I wanted to tell him but a part of me stopped this idea. Stop telling everyone your story, they don't care.
- «It was the only school close to my house.» , I lied.
- «Oh...So you wasn't abandon by your parents. 'Cause the students here are orphans or poor child whose parents don't want anymore.» , said Akira-san.
Yes, my dad abandoned me...He just sent me far away from him and I can't come back. Why can't I tell him that I am like them ? What am I afraid of ?
- «Sound terrible.» , I said, Akira-san burst into a smile and took something from his desk.
- «That will help you sleep. You need energy to fight your ennemy.» , he handed me the bottle. Akira-san was a very kind person and today I thank him for looking after me. He became my only friend.
The next day, after a night of nightmares, I asked Akira-san to show me the school. This place was better inside, the students were only bad like beasts outside the class room.
I felt like I was a «gaijin». Without Akira-san I probably would have run away, again.
- «Don't look at them, don't become better than them and don't be in their way, NEVER!» , Akira-san pushed me on the wall and explaned to me all I had to do.
- «Ok.» ,was my answer. He looked satisfied and entered the class room.
- «Did you sleep well ?» , he asked me.
- «Not bad.» , I took my sit next to him, I could tell by his face that my answer wasn't good enough. But I choose to ignore him. The teacher explaned the lesson, but I don't remember what he said.
- «Ryu, do not hate me please...This is not my fault.» my mother's voice was in my mind now...I got out of my thought when I heard a scream. What was happening ?
That was a vision of horror, a girl was standing in front of us...Holding her belly, she was stabbed to death by another student, she kept screaming and no one wanted to help. I ran to her, pushed the man away and hold her in my arms.
- «Don't...» ,she pushed me after telling me to stop with her weak voice. Why ? I'm just wanting to help !
- «Ryu-san ! Don't ! «, Akira-san was yelling at me now. I didn't understand at the moment why I had to stop. The student who stabbed her beated me with his fists, I really did not understand what was happening.
- «Stop ! Let him go !! He did nothing wrong !» , Akira-san was still yelling, he saved my life that day, but he took the hit for me.
I remember darkness...and then waking up in my room, Akira-san next to me, staring at me...his face had been beaten.
- « Why did you save me ?» , I asked.
- «I am sorry for the girl, but you could not save her. This is how it is...This place is hell and you need to accept it. She was the number one of her class, so others got rid of her.» , he didn't answered my question, but it was enough.
- «What was her name ?» , I just wanted to show my respect to the dead.
- «...Yuki...She was my sister.» , my heart felt broken when he told me she was his sister...Why did Akira-san refused to save her ? That question haunted me for the rest of my life. Yuki was stabbed to death and she stopped me from helping her, I decided to put a picture of her in the corridor, with some flowers. I should have never done that, NEVER.
While I was reading my book and trying to decide what to send to my dad...just to check on him, Akira-san pull in the room like the wind, with fire in his eyes. He had the picture of Yuki in his hands, the picture I had put on the corridor some hours ago.
- «What did you do ?! Ryu-san...This is something that probably decide if you live or die !» , he ripped the picture and cried, «I tried...to save you, but whatever I do, you just want to die.»
- «She is dead, assassinated ! In this place ! What I did was to honored her !» , I yelled at him.
- «She wouldn't have wanted you to honor her...Not after what she saw, she would have wanted to protect you like I did.» , he said to me.
I am sorry Akira-san, I never do the right thing and I hurted your feelings...What is this place ?
I'm only a broken person and yes, it is true I want to die...But if I do, I can never see my dad again, not in this life anyway. I want to start again and see my mom smile once more, but she will never smile...Her body is rotting in the earth and this is all my fault.
- «I'm sorry, mom...Please don't die !» but she was already dead...- «What did I do ?» something stupid.
- «I'm sorry, please forgive me.» , not tears came from my eyes, I can't cry anymore. My heart is made of stone.
- «Don't do that, never again ! I will save you, I promise.» , he closed the door and stared at the ripped picture of his sister, «Yuki...Give me the strength to help him.»
- «I will follow what you say.» , after that, I got back to my book and he just fell on his bed, crying what he had on his heart.
When I was sleeping, something happened. In my dream, I saw Yuki. She was smiling at me, but the next second she was staring with evil eyes.
- «Never show your weakness. They are watching you all of the time and when you turn your back on them, they will stab you ! Be invisible and do your life like they don't exists.»
I remember her words, it hitten me like an hammer, it was so cold and there was still something kind behind it.
- «Live...So you can avenge us.»
I can't...I'm not strong enough, just let me die. I'm sorry Yuki-san, but I can't help you.
Her eyes changed, she now was sad and cried at a distance. Then I woke up, the sunlight blinded me for a second.