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After what seemed like hours of walking aroud the giant school, Kiku found himself in the third floor hallway. He gazed out into the outside world. "I wonder..." He found a latch along the window and flipped it. With a loud Gwooosh! the window swung outwards, letting in a giant gust of almost chilly air. For a second, Kiku felt wieghtless. It took him a second to realize that he was falling, almost in slow-mo. "Not good, not good!!!" His own yelps brought the boy back to reality. "Oh.." He was only standing at the closed window, looking into the sky. "That was scary... no more streetside Nikujaka..." He watched the world through the glass dizzily. Beneath was the courtyard. Nearby, a small girl was nodding off. "How dishonerable..." He quit scowling at the figure and looked to the Forest ahead. "Hmm... the rules said not to go out there... but I wonder if it would be a good place to visit." Kiku sat there, imagining himself breaking the school rules to offer a prayer to the Forest spirits of the school.

"O-oh, Hai!" Kiku said, tearing his eyes from the distant trees. "I am simply thinking." He looked at the girl. I suppose I should introduce myself.... He agreed with his inner thought. "Pleased to meet you, I am Kiku Honda! This is my first year here, how about you?" He said, following western traditions of starting strange conversasions.

"Yes, and the same towards you." Kiku said politely. "Agh, this is.." He said a bit flustered. How is it I greet here again?! He did an awkward bow as per custom to his culture and stuck out a shaky hand. "You shake...I think....?" He whispered. Why are these western way so strange?! He stopped trembling abruptly, hiding the confusion on his face quickly. "Ah yes, my plan. Would you like to be acquaintances, Miss. Bella?"

Kiku shook the girl's hand politely and quickly turned to the window. The sky was starting to change. "Ano, could you prease tell me what time it is?" He said, still not turning back to the girl, despite how impolite that was. "I do not have a watch..." Was it the waning sunlight that made his face warm up? Yes! He thought to himself.That must be why! He glanced at Bella, thinking carefully about his actions as usual.

For once, he didn't. "No, I was just wondering. At the moment, this school is reary peaceful... I wonder when crasses will start...." He said thoughtfully. To tell the truth, he hadn't seen very many people there. "What is up with this purace?" He looked back out the window. "So do you really need a teacher to go out to the forest?"