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Sakuya was the first one to wake up the next day.
She woke up even before Harukas and Miyonas alarm clocks rang, so, after sitting in her bed half-asleep for a few moments, she quietly stood up and went to the bathroom to wash up.
After putting on her school uniform she decided to make breakfast again alongside a bento for each of them.
Inside a small shelf hanging on the wall above the kitchen, she found three lunch boxes to store the bentos inside.
She had halfway finished cooking breakfast, then the alarm clocks rang with a penetrating beep-beep-beep.
Miyona was up really easily, turning hers off, but Haruka, still half-asleep, slapped hers to the ground, turned around and continued sleeping.
Sakuya needed to chuckle, before wishing Miyona a good morning.
Miyonas reply was a energetic:" Wonderful Morning to you to."
Then, Miyona climbed down from her bed and went to the bathroom, coming out of it again a few minutes later again.
Sakuya had just put todays breakfast, which consisted of toast with butter and strawberry jam, a fried egg and cocoa, on the table.
Haruka was still sleeping soundly.
"Haruka, time to wake up!", Miyona called, but nothing happened.
She exchanged a glance with Sakuya, then went over to Harukas bed and started shaking and calling her, until she finally woke up 15min later.
"Wha's up?", Haruka muttered, her eyes closed half.
Miyona answered:" It's time to wake up. We have school today."
"Mhm", was Harukas reply, before laying back down.
Miyona sighed, while a slight laughter escaped Sakuyas lips, who found the situation both interesting and funny and was watching closely because of that.
Afterwards she went to help Miyona and together they got Haruka to stand up and walk into the bathroom to wash up and put on her clothes.
While Haruka was in the bathroom, Sakuya asked Miyona:" How did you get her to wake up and get ready on time before?"
"I didn't. Most of the time I would throw a waterball on her face, once I got to annoyed. As for school, why do you think we were late quiet often?", Miyona answered with a sigh, shrugging her shoulders.
Sakuya needed to laugh a bit again, as she imagined an annoyed Miyona throwing a waterball on a sleeping Haruka, wetting her and the bed.
Not long after, Haruka reappeared and they sat down on the table.
After having eaten breakfast, Sakuya handed out the lunch boxes, earning a happy hug from Miyona and a warm "Thank you", from Haruka, then they each took theier school bags, and went out of the room.
Some other students were also just leaving theier rooms and together they started making theier way through the hall and the elevator, down to the entrance of the dormitory.
Thanks to Sakuya being up earlier and already having prepared breakfast, they were able to leave earlier then Haruka and Miyona normally did.
That allowed them to walk to the schoolbuilding slowly instead of needing to run, how it normally was the case.
Once they reached the school, they entered and Haruka and Miyona took of theier shoes, switching to a pair of white slippers, that all students wore inside, at the lockers in the entrance hall.
Sakuya still didn't have a locker yet, so she first needed to go to the teachers room.
Miyona and Haruka showed her the way through the building with the light-brown and white walls and the many windows on one side of the hall, opposite to the doors of the classrooms.
They passed by the black board, which was filled with notes and posters for all kind of clubs and some informative ones.
At the teachers room, which was in the middle of the first floor, they knocked and entered.
Inside, there was a long row of tables with chairs in front of each, there some teachers were readying the last things for theier lessons.
On a table at the corner, the closest to the door but opposit from it, in front of a big window, sat a man with shoulder-long light-blue hair and eyes in the same color, wearing a white shirt and a black jeans.
Miyona and Haruka leaded Sakuya straight to him.
The man looked up from the folder, in which he was reading, as the three girls stopped in front of him.
"This is Nishihara-sensei, our homeroom teacher.", Haruka told Sakuya.
"You do know that it's rude to talk about a person in front of them, right?", said the man, Nishihara-sensei,with a strict look in his eyes but a faint smile on his lips, before continuing,"You must be Sakuya. The principal told me about you. It's nice to have you in my class, even if it's only for two weeks. If there is anything you don't understand or you need help with,you can always come to me."
"Thank you. I will work hard!", said Sakuya, while quickly bowing.
Afterwards, he gave her some other general information, such as wich locker was hers and how theier timetable for the remaining two weeks was, before letting the three girls go again.
Since they still had almost 20min until the beginning of school, Sakuya quickly changed her shoes, before they made theier way to the classroom.
It was on the second floor, so they needed to go up the wooden staircase again.
On the upper left corner of the frame of the wooden door with a small glass window on the upper half, sliding sideways then opened, was a white board hanging on a bracket, which had '1-5' written on it in black.
"As you can see, we are class 1-5.",Miyona said, then opened the door and entered the room.
The classroom had a wall full of windows opposite to the door.
On the wall right to the door was a blackboard, that had been properly cleaned, with only the date of today written on it.
In front of it stood a wooden lectern for the teacher, on top of which some white chalks were laying.
The rest of the room was filled with six rows of desks, each row having five desks, with enough space between them to comfortably walk through.
The desks themselves were simple wooden ones with legs made of metal and a wooden chair for each desk.
Some students already were inside the room.
Behind the desk in the third row on the side with the door sat a boy with short dark-green hair and glasses, reading a book.
On top of the desk in the middle of the second row sat a girl with strawberry blond hair, openly falling down half of her back, and blue eyes talking to a girl with pink hair, tied in two high ponytails on the sides of her head, and lilac eyes who sat on the opposite desk.
A third girl, with nutbrown hair and amber eyes, was standing next to them.
All of them were wearing makeup and only glanced towards Miyona, Haruka and Sakuya, as they entered, before focusing on theier talk again.
Haruka and Miyona passed by them and moved to the last row together with Sakuya.
"The desk next to the window is still empty, so you can sit there. Then, you will also be next to the two of us.", Miyona said.
Sakuya nodded and sat down.
Miyonas seat was right next to her followed by Harukas.
Not long after, the rest of the students of the class also arrived and chatter quickly filled the room.
Most of them there standing together with theier friends, talking and laughing, until the bell rang and Nishihara-sensei entered the room with the words:"Please take your seats."
Once the classroom had quieted down, he cleared his throat and said:" As some of you may have already noticed, we have a new student. Would you introduce yourself quickly, please."
Sakuya stood up and took a deep breath, before saying:" I'm Sakuya, and I'm new in this class. I hope to get along well with all of you. Please take care of me."
She bowed towards the rest of the class, still quiet nervous before sitting back down.
Around her, she could hear the whispers that had started:
"That's the girl that was found in the park."
"I heard she forgot everything."
"They don't even know what gift she has."
"It would have been better to let her enter 10th grade next schoolyear."
Each of the comments hurt her a bit and Sakuya felt herself growing smaller and smaller beneath the gazes of her new classmates.
I shouldn't have come here., she thought, her head lowered, gaze focused on her desk.
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Miyona saw Sakuya shrinking together.
Her doll-like beauty alongside the current situation made Sakuya seem as if she could break just from being lightly touched.
Her protectiveness towards Sakuya took over Miyona, creating burning anger inside of her.
She sprang up from her chair, so that it fell on the ground with a loud crash.
Instantly all the gazes of her sixteen classmates and the one of her teacher were directed at her.
"What you are doing right now is really mean!", she said, her voice trembling from anger,"It's only Sakuyas first day and you start gossiping about her right away. How would you feel if you were new in a school and class, know no one and everyone starts talking about you right away? Would you like that? Think about that first before starting to gossip!"
After she had finished, dejected and baffled silence filled the room.
Miyona wasn't the type who got loud and that angry, rather she was a rather cheerful sports girl, so her behavior came as a surprise.
Then some of the students sayed sorry.
In the end Nishihara-sensei clapped his hands and said:" Now that this has been made clear, let's get back to the lesson. Please take out your History books. Who can tell me what we talked about last lesson?"
Then he returned to teaching about the Great War between Gifted and normal humans.
Miyona found the lessons as boring as always, and since she was still worried about her, she sneaked a glance at Sakuya.
But a bit to her surprise, Sakuya was focused on the lesson, diligently taking notes with her fountain pen.
Still, she noticed Miyonas gaze and turned her head to her.
"Thanks", she formed with her lips, without letting out a sound, but with a warm smile on her face.
A rush of warmth flowed through Miyona, who then quickly turned her head back to the front, feeling a bit embarrassed and bashful.
I'm sure I'm turning red right now, she thought, as she touched her warm cheeks with her hands.
In order to quickly forget about that, she tried to focus on the lesson for the rest of it.
After History had ended, they had Math and then, finally, one of Miyonas favorite subjects, Gifted P.E.
Unlike normal P.E., that she also quiet liked, during Gifted P.E. they were given the chance to train theier superpowers.
Since class 1-5 was the class made up of students who had both, superpowers and Mana, resulting in them needing to study both, they received less time to train theier superpowers then the other classes with students who only had superpowers.
That's why, the two school hours on Mondays always were very special.
Once the bell rang, all the students of the class quickly packed theier bags and stood up.
"We need to hurry.", Miyona said, urging her friends to hurry.
First, they needed to go to the girls changing room, which was on the ground floor.
Before leaving the classroom, they took out theier sports bag from the lockers on the wall opposite to the blackboard.
On the way to the changing room, Haruka and Sakuya could barely stop Miyona from running.
The changing room itself wasn't anything special.
On the white walls left and right from the door were lockers, there the students could put theier clothes inside.
In the middle of the room was a long wooden bench.
That was it.
Together with the other girls of theier class, they quickly changed out of theier school uniforms and instead put on the white, short-sleeved sport shirts with the red hem at the sleeves and the collar as well as the short red sport pants.
Last but not least followed the white sport shoes with a red stripe on them.
Since they had the lesson inside today, they didn't need theier warmer long-sleeved sports clothes, wich were normally used during this season.
Just like the uniforms, the sport clothes were provided by the school at the beginning of the schoolyear.
Because of that, all of the students had the same ones.
"You look cute even in sports wear.", Haruka said to Sakuya.
"Thanks.", Sakuya answered with a smile, seemingly not completely accepting the complement.
But you really look cute in them, Miyona thought, while taking a look at Sakuya.
Unlike herself, who's figure was rather sporty with a bit smaller curves, Sakuya was slim, but still with curves at the perfect spots, thought they seemed rather average in size, at least through the clothes.
What am I thinking about!, Miyona thought in that moment, and instantly turned her head away.
"We should hurry to the sports hall if we don't want to be late.", she said, hoping that no one noticed the slight trembling in her voice.
Her friends nodded and after a short walk from the changing room to the sports hall, which was a big building across from it, they entered.
Most of the other students arrived together with or shortly after them.
All of them sat down on the ground and looked up to the magic sports teacher, Beika-sensei.
She was a sporty woman with waist-long dark-blue hair, that she always wore tied in a high ponytail, and amber eyes, wearing a dark-green gym suit, with a white stripe on each side that went upward from the ankle of the pants.
On the sports jacket the same color was a white stripe going from left to right above the chest.
Beneath the jacket she wore a plain white shirt with short sleeves.
Her outfit was completed by a pair of black sport shoes.
"It's great that all of you arrived on time. Today, again we will train your superpowers. Work hard and push through your limits. Ah, your slow teacher also finally is here.", Beika-sensei greeted the students, with only her last sentence directed at Nishihara-sensei.
Unlike the students he hadn't changed, but that was natural, since his only role during Gifted P.E. was to watch them to grade theier superpowers together with Beika-sensei.
Nishihara-sensei gave the other teacher a short glare, before focusing on the tablet he was holding again.
"Now, for the start, warm up by running five laps around the hall.", the P.E. teacher said, before blowing a white whistle she was wearing on a band around her neck.
The students, girls and boys alike, stood up, some of the grumbling about the assigned task, and started running.
After the run, some stretching followed.
Only afterwords did Beika-sensei decide, that they were warmed up enough.
Then, they finally started training theier superpowers.
Miyona watched Sakuya at first.
Her friend was watching Haruka grow her rainbow colored, see-through, slightly glimmering fairy wings and fly a round around the sports hall, then shrink to a size, there she could sit on Sakuyas hand without problems, once she landed there.
Afterwards it was Miyonas turn.
She could feel Sakuyas gaze on her as she created a water ball the size of a melon, then turning it into two intervening tendrils, befor splitting them up into twenty-five smaller water balls.
In the last step she formed lances out of them, froze them and shoot them at a target, that was hanging on one wall of the hall.
She hit all of them spot-on, straight into the middle.
Behind her she could hear some people letting out marveled sounds and as she turned around, she saw Sakuya watching her with sparkling eyes.
As Miyona walked back to her friends, Sakuya greeted her:" That was amazing! You're incredible!"
"She is one of the strongest Gifted of our year, after all.", Haruka, now standing next to Sakuya in her original size again, said, looking proudly for no reason.
Miyona needed to chuckle a bit because of this.
As the lesson continued, one after another, the students showed theier superpowers as well.
A boy made some objects fly around through telekinesis, a girl made herself invisible and another girl let a flame appear on her hand.
After the displays of power, the teachers gave each student individual feedback on how they could improve.
The students then trained by themselves with the teachers advice in mind.
Beira-sensei walked over to the three girls.
"Haruka, that was good, but you could try staying in your fairy form for a bit longer. Miyona, excellent as always. You can try controlling thirty water balls at the same time next. Sakuya, since your superpowers have yet to awake, try to mediate. It often helps newly awakened Gifted to empty theier minds and focus on the source of theier superpowers, to figure out what it is.", she said.
All three girls nodded and started training.
While Haruka took on the form of a fairy again and started flying around, Miyona created more small waterballs again and Sakuya sat down on the floor, closing her eyes, and started mediating.
Her breathing was calm and steady and her face send focused.
As Miyona continued creating waterballs she watched her friend.
Even after ten minutes there was no change at all, but she still continued trying, not losing her concentration at all.
Despite seeming so weak and delicate, Sakuya is stronger then anyone else., Miyona thought.
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Even so, until the end of the lesson, Sakuya hadn't awakened her superpower or even just found out what it was.
A bit disappointed in herself, she went back to the changing room with her friends.
As the bell rang, it was finally lunch break.
All three girls took out theier lunchboxes, that Sakuya had prepared, and made theier way to the rooftop, there Haruka and Miyona always went to eat.
After pushing open the metal door and stepping out, a gentle breeze blew around Sakuyas nose, carrying the smell of spring and flowers.
At the sides of the rooftop was a stone step, behind wich a metal net was.
It existed to ensure that the students wouldn't fall of the rooftop, while sitting on the stone stair.
After sitting down, the three took out theier bentos and opened them.
Inside was some rice, a few pickled vegetables, one eggroll, and some small hamburgers.
They tasted wonderful and the girls finished eating them in no time.
"That was delicious, Sakuya!", Miyona complimented her, while Haruka nodded, her mouth still filled with the last rest of rice.
Warmth spreaded through Sakuyas chest and a bit embrassed she lowered her gaze.
"Thank you.", she replied then.
The disappointment in herself had partly subsided at the compliments from her friends.
The rest of the day passed by in the blink of an eye, and soon enough the bell rang, showing that school was over.
Since none of the girls was in a club, they headed back to the dorms.
Once back in theier room, they put down theier schoolbags, before Miyona exchanged a glance with Haruka.
"There is a place we still want to show you. Take a towel and shampoo with you and follow us.", she then said to Sakuya, while already grabbing her things.
Sakuya tilted her head sideways, askingly, but still tagged along her two friends.
Together they walked though the dorm and took the elevator to go to the ground floor.
There, they exited it and walked a bit further away from the entrance.
Then, they entered a room through a wooden door and suddenly stood inside a small hall with some chairs on one side and a vending machine serving different drinks on the other.
On the opposite side, there was another wooden door.
Miyona and Haruka pushed Sakyua forward and suddenly they stood in a changing room.
"May I introduce? The bath of our girls dormitory!", Haruka said, with grandeur in her voice.
They quickly took off theier clothes and entered the actual bath.
It was a big hall, with many smaller bathtubs, there three to five people could be inside at the same time and three big ones, there up to thirty people could enter at the same time.
Sakuyas eyes started glowing as she looked around the hall, feeling endless curiosity.
Together, the three girls went towards one of the smaller bathtubs and entered it.
The warm water was flowing a bit around theier bodies, warming them up and making them relax.
Only a few seconds after entering, Sakuya felt calm, as the warmth of the water spread into her body.
"You know, taking a warm bath is the best way to stop feeling depressed.", Miyona said in that moment, looking at Sakuya with a kind smile.
So they had noticed that I was feeling down, Sakyua realized, as she saw the gaze in Miyonas eyes.
A bit embrassed again, she lowered her head, barely keeping her mouth above the water, and mumbeled:" Thank you."
Her two friends smiled brightly, while exchanging a glance with her and each other.
After taking another look at both of them, who were sitting next to Sakyua, soaking in the warm water as well, she dived down completely, knowing that her friends there by her side and she wasn't alone.
Instantly, all noise disappeared, making her fall into that pleasant silence you can only hear then your head is completely beneath the water.
For a second she closed her eyes.
She couldn't remember how the three got out the bath, back to theier room and into their beds afterwards, but as she fell asleep, her heart felt a lot lighter again, then it had done before.