It takes a moment for Ellie to realize what she had just done, and the horrifying embarrassment just increases even further as she cowers behind the tree.

-Oh god oh god oh god they’re all gonna think I’m crazy… or… or a big coward…- she thinks to herself, her heart pounding in her ears as she puts her back to the tree and slides down to her behind with a soft thump. She curls back up as she inhales deeply, eyes clenching tightly shut as she tries to calm down, focusing on nothing but her breathing as she inhales, counts to four, and then exhales and repeats the process over and over again until finally until her body finally stops shaking and her heart slows to it’s normal rhythm.

As she hears footsteps approaching she takes a deep breath and stands up, turning to look at the polite girl who had collected her belonging for her, and a weak, nervous smile crosses Ellie’s face as she shifts from foot to foot. A visible jolt of discomfort shoots across her face as a shock runs up her legs, the muscles still sore from her landing, but she manages to ignore it as she gulps heavily.

"My, my. I hope you don't freak out like that around everyone." The girl says as she approaches, which causes Ellie to droop a little, wanting to just shrink out of sight to avoid the embarrassment… Which she instinctively starts to do, her body thinning ever so slightly as she loses an inch in height. Her skirt slides down her waist a little and her top slips a bit down her neckline. Feeling the fabric sliding over her skin she visibly twitches

-Oh crap oh crap- she mentally squeaks, as she realizes what she was doing and slips back behind the tree again to take another deep breath before she tries to undo the change. Instead of trying to get the inch back, she just thickens up a bit more to fill out her clothes and it wasn’t until then that she realized that she had never completed her body… Her chest was still flat as a board and she quickly fixes that… her chest popping out just enough to fill the top giving her a modest bust before she moves back out around the tree.

“I… I’m sorrrryy….” She apologizes, but as she notices her voice she scowls in frustration, Gods dammit why couldn’t she get this right?? Her voice was still fucked up… the Rs rumbled in her chest as if she were purring. Her throat visibly writhes as her vocal chords reform and tighten.

“S-sorry…” she tries again, this time feeling much better about her voice which was now a little high pitched, but not to an irritating level and sounded much more natural and human, “I-it… was just a little too much…” she mumbles, “I’m… I’m not used to people… it’s… been a while..” she mumbles, shuffling her feet before stiffening at the girl’s offer to hurt the boy, “N-no! I-it was my fault… he… he just… startled me…” she replies, her voice getting lower and lower as she glances around at the rest of the group, afraid they were listening to her.

"Did I do something wrong?" The boy’s voice calls out, and she stiffens again, her cheeks flushing bright, bright red again in response as she shakes her head and stares at the ground. “N-n-no..” she mumbles weakly, unable to even look at him.

While staring at the ground, she notices her bag laying where the girl had discarded it and she crouches down to pick it up, a hand holding her skirt down as she glances nervously over at the boy, afraid that somebody who was that straight forward and say things like that to a woman he never met before would be a perv… But she quickly looked away as she grabs her backpack and puts the tree between her and the boy before she goes digging around in the bag, groping blindly for one of her jerky snacks. The moment the embarrassment started to fade, her stomach started to grumble loudly at her. She hadn't eaten since the night before and the amount of energy she had already used up this morning made her stomach protest… So out comes one of the large jerky sticks in a plastic wrapper with the image of a large hairy man on it and tears it open before ravenously taking a huge chunk out of it.

“Sh-shorry…” she mumbles through the mouthful as she chews it up, “I’m… really hungry…” she mumbles to the other girl as she swallows it before holding out her hand, “E-ellie… My… uhm… my name’s Ellie…”

"Uh that's just a nick-whatever you want Akame just don't sneak up on me like that again I almost had my heart jump out of my chest." He said as he took the lollipop with a slight hesitation as he unwrapped it and put it in his mouth. Blue berry....not his favorite flavor but hey it was better than nothing. And it wasn't warm....that was another thing he found weird. "I'm not going to tell you to leave don't worry as I said it's not that big of a deal. I don't own this bench and you're your own woman so to speak so I can't exactly tell you want to do." Joshua said as he sucked on his lollipop. He tapped his fingers once more on the side of the bench and waited patiently for the bus to come. Which....in the end didn't take to long it came as expected. It took another minute or two but it quickly showed up on the horizon going at a slow and easy pace as if it were just casually driving for the heck of it instead of trying to usher kids to school. Or at least that was Joshua's view of it some people liked slow and steady and not fast and speedy. But this was NAGATO this town was as exciting as a ball of yarn. Then again if the stories were true kittens LOVED yarn. But hardly mattered since cat and cat people naturally didn't like him for whatever reason. Joshua sat there patiently as he grabbed his stuff with his hands throwing his backpack over his shoulder and keeping his suitcase in his left hand. The bus driver slowly...and creepily....pulled up right in front of him as he got up and walked to the curb. "Hey there sir are you going to pick the people up who are going to Yokai Academy?" Joshua asked the man as the door opened....revealing a creepy looking man with a cigar half way smoked out.

"Indeed I am good sir." He said politely with a rough but somewhat eccentric voice as he looked down towards the boy, "Hm that's interesting I didn't expect this many more people here to be honest with you but then again there are many things you can expect to see when you arrive at the academy that you didn't expect." The Bus Driver told Joshua who nodded his head slowly and was clearly not very impressed and very much creeped out by the old geezer driving the bus. He wasn't sure what that last remark meant but he suspected it was a warning to not expect stuff like at a 'normal' school he supposed. Joshua looked at Akame and shrugged, "Well let's get going." he told her as he got up and prepared himself for his first steps into a new world that he hadn't experienced before. This whole new world...this whole new place....it was ok for him to be what he was...it was ok for him to be a monster and not worry about people finding out about what he was. Despite the non-enforced rule of keeping yourself in 'human' form which was....really not a problem for him. His species was naturally human as it was. As Joshua took his first steps forward onto the bus he noticed it was empty but he shrugged, "Well that's new." he said to himself as he moved past the driver and Joshua could have swore he heard, "Don't worry kid this year will have more than enough excitement for you." came the voice of the bus driver but when he looked back the man was silent and looking at the newly entering students. "Come along I won't bite!" he said chuckling as Joshua took his seat second row left seat and put his suitcase on his lap and his backpack between his feet.

Yumi watched as the other girl picked up her bag and dug through it only to grab one of the things in plastic wrap. It said something about beef jerky. She wondered what that was. In her time at the shrine and the House, she never picked up a single thing like that. . . Well, she didn't really need to eat. . . Or the other Tsukumogami said. She could taste for sure, she drank sake the night before after all. The girl spoke however, “E-ellie… My… uhm… my name’s Ellie…” Her hand was outstretched.

"Yumi." The Tsukumogami said with the smile still across her face looking and wondering what the girl, Ellie, wanted her to do. She grabbed the outstretched hand with two fingers and moved it around with a slightly confused face. "It is nice to meet you Ellie-san." Yumi said as she released the other girl's hand as she noticed the bus. "Then, it seems the bus is here. I'm going to go on." She said as she bowed and walked to her things and then took them on the bus, bowing to the bus driver as she passed, sitting in one of the unoccupied seats.

In an almost cartoon fashion, after being told that he had done no wrong by the cat girl, who revealed her name to be Ellie, Felix perked right up. It appears he was on the mark, she was shy. "Well, with that settled, and the bus being here, I shall board it, and hopefully be sitting next to one of you lovely ladies?" He flashed a pearly smile as he gathered his luggage and then got on the bus. He had to force himself to keep a smile on his face as he got on and walked through the smoke from the drivers cigar, the smell, the obscuring of vision, smoke wasn't something that Felix was particularly keen on. But, once he got away from the front of the bus it seemed all well. He sat in the row second to the back, leaving more than enough space beside him for another to join him.

Ellie's force smile wavers a little as the girl seems confused by her offering her hand to shake. -oh god... they bow here don't they? I probably just insulted her.. or... or something! she probably thinks I'm weird now...- she thinks as she lets her arm drop before crossing them in front of her chest and looking at the ground, hair falling to cover her face again as she brings the jerky stick up to her mouth to take another bite and chews on it halfheartedly, terrified that shaking hands was offensive or something in this country...

...And of course the loud mouth french male didn't help matters...

"Well, with that settled, and the bus being here, I shall board it, and hopefully be sitting next to one of you lovely ladies?" He said, and it just put Ellie on edge... She had heard so many men and women talk like that as she traveled... and more often than not they tried to use or hurt her somehow. She made sure he was on the bus and seated before she hesitantly makes her way on. Her eyes almost instantly start watering as the burning smell causes her to gag and move quicker to escape it. Thankfully the open door allowed most of the smoke out and after a couple rows she could breath some. She makes sure she wasn't within three rows of the boy and tosses her bag in an empty seat. Glancing towards the driver, she sits up and pulls down on the window, causing it to drop with a *click* before calling back onto her behind and puts her back to the window and draws her knees to her chest. She takes the last bite of her jerky treat before wrapping her arms around her knees and rests her forehead on them

Yua noticed that the silent boy had not said a word to her since she decided to come over to talk to him. She let out an audible sigh as she just watched the rest of the events unfold. The American was startled by some new girl that seemed cold, and had a lollipop in her mouth. The girl that was helping cat girl had an evil smile on her face as she spoke to the spooked cat-like girl. The perv was asking what he had done wrong to the girl that had slapped him only moments ago, and Yua found that quite amusing. She found out that the cat girl was called Ellie and only moments before that another student seemingly appeared from no where and sat down on the curb eating a bowl of cereal which was very strange to her. Though she did enter the group still eating her toast, and even tried to talk with the entire thing in her mouth.

The bus finally pulled up to the stop and she smiled, revealed to finally get to go to the school she would be residing at for the next four years. Standing once more she picked up her bags, strapping them to her one at a time, first the one on her back, and next one one to go across the shoulder, lastly she bent down awkwardly to grasp the handle on her rolling suitcase. She smiled as her hand wrapped around the handle and she started off towards the bus shaking her head as she heard the french perv speak up again this time with more pep in his voice as if he had not been shot down by more then one girl already. He flashed a smile which she could have sworn someone like her would flash.

'But of course he would, he is a pervert.' She thought with a small smile on her face. She looked to the bus once more and the American was getting on now, and he had a lollipop in his mouth. She wondered if it would be a difficult task to take on a male who had already grown a liking to another female. Then again she doubted it she was a succubus after all. Men fall to her will so easily it was almost a joke. She slowly started to walk to the bus, as each of the students got on one by one. She struggled just a little over the grass with her rolling suitcase and let out a small groan. She was almost the last to get on the bus with her huge amount of luggage that she was carrying. But then again she needed all of her clothes and her make-up. She simply wouldn't be the succubus she was without it.

She had only made it up two steps onto the bus before her luggage caught and she almost fell into the bus. She stumbled a little and struggled before finally pulling it loose and stumbling the rest of the way into the middle of the bus. She smiled a little and looked back for the bus driver.

“I'm... sorry about that. I'll.. uh just take my seat now.” She blushed and the hurried towards the back of the bus where she liked to sit. She spied the American, and the perv, and even the weird slightly scary girl as she hurried to the back. Then she saw Ellie and cocked her head as the girl was currled up in a ball on the bus.

'You would think you would be happy or excited on your first day of school. I guess some people are scared of new experiences.' she thought as she set her things and a seat across from her. Before slowly taking things off and putting them in the seat behind Ellie's stuff and taking her seat behind the spooked girl.

“You shouldn't be so shy. We are all going to be going to class together for the next four years. We'll have to get to know one another.” She sat up and looked over the seat and gave a smile at the girl.

“Hi Ellie. My name is Yua. I can't wait to start classes in a school where we don't have to hide from being ourselves all the time.” She looked out to see if anyone else had arrived to get on the bus, but didn't see anyone new yet.

The bus had arrived a few seconds before Beiste realized it was there. Practically all of the students were already on, at least most of the annoying ones, and she slouched her way onto the bust after a short tussle with her two bags. Her bowl was left on the ground, patting it like a goodbye. The man on the bus just looked at her and nodded, which she did in return, before she found a seat at the middle of the bus.

Both of her bags fit under her seat, leaving her to stretch out as much as she wanted in the seat she occupied. Luckily no one really knew her, so she didn't have to use her hands to talk, all she had to do was get to the school and get into the dorms. She wondered if she'd have a roommate or if they'd all be in seperate appartments. The former worried her a little bit. There was no telling what monster you were getting housed with, so you wouldn't know if you'd wake up the next morning with your head.

She kept her eyes on the man in the front, waiting until he closed the door so that they could be off and done.

Ellie was so scrunched up in her seat, that she was blocking out pretty much all light from getting between her arms, leaving her face in near darkness as she just silently broods

-this was a mistake… I can’t be near other people… Even to monsters I’m so horribly weird…- she tells herself as she clenches her eyes tight. –I could still run… I could easily just walk off the bus… and fly away… I’d probably never see these people again… and… I could just go back to the way things were… - she continues… But of course… the way things were wasn’t exactly good… four years of being alone… nowhere to call home… never staying in the same place for long… sure the first month had been fun… but then the wandering started to take its toll on her… The knowledge her mother would never welcome her back home just made matters worse… This was her only chance of fitting in anywhere and she had already blown it by just coming off as a giant weirdo…

“You shouldn't be so shy. We are all going to be going to class together for the next four years. We'll have to get to know one another.”

The sudden voice causes her to flinch, lifting her head a little to look back over the seat at the girl sitting behind her and she slowly uncurls, trying to keep her emotions from showing on her face as she looks up, “S-sorry… just… uhm… not… not used to interacting with people…” she mumbles, still self-conscious and not really wanting anybody else to hear her.

“It’s… uhm… nice to meet you Yua…” she says, forcing a halfhearted smile… but at least she was trying to put on a cheery face, “And... well.. yea.. that… is good… we don’t have to hide what we are… but… I just don’t know…. I don’t like being like this…” she mumbles, looking down at herself, not really taking into consideration that nobody actually knew what she was and that probably wouldn’t make much sense “But they say I have to… at least for classes…”

"I just come and go like the wind, don't worry you'll get used to it eventually once you find out my true nature." *STARES*........ Zzzzzzzzzz.......zzzzzzzzzz..........zzzzzzzzzz. The snow girl went with her usual routine and stick as a glue to Joshua. The bus finally came and she still remained with a blank and aloof face.

Akame just stared casually on the creepy bus driver while sucking her lollipop, she just played mellow and go with the flow according to her daily rhythm, a rhythm that makes her feel free and not care about anything that is irrelevant and useless, in other words, she is conserving her energy. The prelude to Yokai Academy, simply put it this way, it's as simple as it is and the direction is an obvious given clue, a school for monsters and the supernatural beings, fantastic, Akame doesn't show much interest for her it is nothing but the daily motion of routines and trivia in life. She sat next to Joshua who got her interest due to her stalking hobbies, she wanted to observe further if he does have surprises that will keep her interested and fully loaded, she loses interest fast if there's nothing worth happening.

"Huewhwhwjeheheheheehehe~". With a comical expression meaning, nailed it, Akame asked Joshua what brings him to Yokai Academy.

Yua smiled at the girl as she fumbled over her words and took a lot of pauses in each sentence. It almost reminded her of the American show “star trek” that she had seen a few times in the past. The captin always seemed to have comical pauses in his sentences for seemingly no reason at all. She took in a deep breath as the girl finished up her sentence and she let it out slowly. She did this from time to time, as if she always needed to calm down. Though it wasn't easy to force herself to speak to another female as it had back fired so many times in the past. With that she looked the shy girl in the eyes and searched for something, though she didn't know what.

“Yeah. Being in human form all the time can really suck... I mean i've been living with humans my entire life, with almost no time to actually be who I am. Gods, I can't wait to fly again! And don't worry too much about the people around here. We're all “monsters” of some sort, so everyone here understands.” She put her fingers up in air quotes when she spoke the word “Monsters” and she giggled a little. She looked back into her lap and started to search through her purse to find her mirror. She felt that a bit of her hair was out of place and she had to see if she was right. It was starting to bother her now as she talked to this cat-like-shy girl, and if she wasn't looking her best she would surely be embarrassing herself.

Besides, I’ve heard rumors that you have to live with others while on campus. Though I’m not positive about the truth of the matter. If you're living with someone you should at least try to make a friend with them.” She messed with a loose hair on top of her head as she looked in her little mirror and frowned a little as she couldn't get the strands of hair to stay in place.

'This is just great. I've been sitting here with a few loose strands of hair looking awful in front of a new... friend? she thought to herself her eyes unfocussed for a moment as she pondered that last part.

'Probably not. I've only met this girl, and I’ve embarrassed myself already.' Her mind assured her as she went back to messing with her hair.

The bus got moving once everyone was aboard the bus and drove at a steady pace down the road with the bus driver still smoking his cigar but the smoke went out the open windows. "Don't worry kids lucky for you we're not to far from the tunnel that leads us to our destination." He said to everyone as chuckled and let loose a long whiff of smoke. "Lucky for you kids that you got accepted. After all there aren't that many kids out there lucky to get accepted into an academy like this." He said to them as he drove along the almost empty road. "To answer your question though little girl the rooming in the place is set up so you can bunk with others or sleep by yourself as you may. No co-gender you sleep with your opposite gender so no shenanigans happen. At Yokai old Mitsuhide is a real hard ass but he takes pride in the safety of his students...however you being what you are....he sometimes makes acceptions." the driver told Yua.

Joshua barely heard the old man as he looked over to the creepy girl sitting next to him. Akame seemed to want to stick to him like gum on his shoe. Of course he'd get stuck with the clingy girl...whatever at least she was....nice? "So uh yeah, Akame where do you come from? I'm from Boston." Joshua told his new creepy 'friend' as he clicked his fingers nervously on the suitcase. Boxed into a corner sitting next to a girl....well there were worst things in life...except that he didn't know HOW to talk to girls being the loser that he was...."I'm guessing Europe?" He asked hesitantly.

Ellie gulps heavily as the taller girl inhales deeply and slowly lets it out as if she was irritated at something… and instantly Ellie’s brain kicks back into panic mode as she feels she did something to upset the girl and she pulls her legs tighter to her body as she lowers her head.

“I… haven’t really been near humans for years…” she mumbles, “When… my mother found out about my powers… she kicked me out… and… I’ve been alone since… I don’t even remember how long it’s been…” she says, rubbing her face a bit, “Not like… my first change wasn’t bad enough… But… at least I managed to get the hang of my powers quick.” She forces a smile at the last part as she shudders a little, a ripple running up her head as the hair of her crown lifts and shifts, a pair of pointed brown ears emerging for a few moments, shifting this way and that, before sinking back down and moving back to the side of her head before becoming human again.
She was about to reply to the girl’s comment about the living situation, but falls silent as the driver speaks, and she found herself wondering whether she would end up living with somebody, or alone… but quickly decided it didn’t matter…

“So… uhm…. You… you said you can fly?” she asks, looking back up at the girl, “C-can… uhm… well… It might be rude… but… uhm… can… I ask what you are…?”

Yua took a moment to look away from her mirror when the girl started to talk once more. She told her a little about herself that she was honestly surprised and a little sad to hear that the girl had gone through. She shook her head as she saw the girl retreating to her against the wall once more. She took a moment to wonder how she was able to get accepted and brought into this prestigious school and then brushed the thought away knowing that the girl must be exceptional to get a free ride of some sort from their school. She was about to say she was sorry about all that had happened to her when the driver spoke up, and cleared up the myths around the dorms.

Yua looked up to the driver from her seat near the back and blinked in surprised swearing that she had not said her speculation on the dorms all that loudly. Not only that he knew what she was though she had not said it, not had she come out of her human form. She took a moment and then thought about it.

'I guess I’m not all that surprised. He was sent here to get us, and with that he probably was informed about what each of us are, and what we are supposed to look like in human form.' She thought for a moment and then nodded her head seeming to acknowledge what the man was saying and then she let out and audible “Thank you” before looking back to the cat-girl that she was talking to. Before she started to talk again the girl's head shimmered a little and she could have sworn that cat like ears where poking out of her scalp, but when she blinked they where gone again. Then the girl in her ball asked her about what she was. Yua blushed a little and turned back to her mirror.

'Well.... we're all monsters right? I mean.... she could hate me for being what I am. But, we are all monsters so it shouldn't matter. Right?' she thought quickly before deciding that she was right. She would be exposed here soon enough and the quiet girl seemed as if she couldn't be full of malice and hate for her being what she was.

“Well... um..” she decided that she would scoot a little closer to the girl before saying it aloud. In fact she wished to whisper it in her ear so that others that where listening in on their conversation wouldn't overhear what she was. While they where all going to a school for monsters she didn't want to reveal it to everyone just yet. So she quickly changed her seat to sit next to the girl and scooted close to her. She whispered her species into the girls ear and then backed away both because she wished not to scare the girl, but also because she was a little embarrassed to let it slip from her lips.

A visible tremor runs through Ellie as Yua moves up a seat to sit beside her and she reflexively shrinks back a bit more for a moment before managing to compose herself and turn so she was sitting with her back to the seat, although the new position left her obviously feeling ill at ease... She didn't like not having her back to something more solid when she knew there were people around but she was so worried about angering the girl so she did it anyway. She could tell from the look on the girl's face something was wrong.

-Oh god... did I say something wrong? Was... was I not supposed to ask that? are we supposed to keep it secret?? Oh god if we were supposed to keep it secret... then.... then everybody already knows what I am! what... what if I get in trouble for it??- she silently frets, her hands wringing together on her lap as she watches Yua get closer. Every hair on her body stands on end as the gap gets smaller and smaller... She tries to hide it, but her chest starts to heave a bit as her breathing increases, her heart pounding in her ears as every instinct tells her to run but she fights them down and gulps heavily as she tries to keep from panicking as the girl whispers in her ear... With her senses as alert as they were in her near-panic she could practically feel every individual hair on the side of her face twitching from the expelled breath... and within a moment the information is transferred, the girl moves away... And Ellie slowly calms down as a nervous and thoughtful frown crosses her face...

"You're a... what? What... what's that?" she asks, brow furrowed and head cocked to the side slightly. From the expression on her face, it'd be rather obvious that she had absolutely no clue what Yua claimed to be was... Of course she only knew what SHE was through god knows how much research from nights she had spent in libraries trying to find answers during those first few months...

Yumi sat around the bus as the others began to prattle around her. She found little she could do, away from others as it was and decided to take a look at her main body. The others would probably just assume it was an instrument she played, rather than the thing it really was. . . Her body. She looked in the bag she stored her true body in and retrieved it. It looked just fine, aside from the scratches it retrieved over the years and the dull look of the grain. It looked like it could use some wax or something later, a time when Yumi was not surrounded by a multitude of things that could be a hazard, or in the bus where it could randomly stop. She plucked each of the strings and they seemed tight enough. "It's funny. I'm seeing myself from outside, but this is me. . ." Yumi whispered to herself before sitting her biwa self on her projected lap starting out the window of the now moving bus.

Yua tilted her head to the side before she nodded understanding that while this girl was a monster like Yua was, she wasn't raised around anything but humans unlike many of the others on the bus. Of course she should have thought that this would happen. She was the first that Yua had met like this but she is sure to not be the last of those who don't exactly know what is going on with them. She thought she must be lucky, but then again even this rich kid who knew about monsters like herself had problems growing up as well.

After a moment she shook her head again and let out a small giggle as she covered her mouth and closed her eyes. The laughter departed her as quickly as it came to her and she opened her eyes and moved her hand away from her mouth.

“Sorry about that. I should have known that I would meet someone like you. Though I didn't think I would deal with someone so.” She paused for a moment as she thought of a way to put it.

“So. human raised. At least not as quickly as I have.” she flashed the girl another smile to show she only spoke true, and didn't mean any offense. Of course the way she put it she could see how it would come of as if she was talking down to Ellie. She looked out the window behind her and smiled again as she watched this small town pass further and further from her view; the place she once lived, if only for a short time would now be in the past. She would have a place at this school for the next four years, and she would have no need to move until it was over. She lowered her eyes back to the cat-girl and spoke

”Either, I’ll tell you later. Or you will learn it in class. Sorry, I'm a woman of mystery. And I need to keep a few secrets from everyone don't I?” She winked at the girl with a humorous smile on her face. A piece of her hair fell in her face once more, and the humor fell away from her smile. Her hand shot up to mess with her hair once more. She swore under her breath at her hair for not cooperating with her this morning. She would have to do something about this as soon as they where settled in the school, or as soon as she could “take a bathroom break” and fix her stupid hair. It wasn't as if it was frizzy or disheveled it was simply not complete with those strands of hair outside of her bun.

Ellie nervously chews on her lower lip, her right hand rubbing up and down her left as she shifts a bit uneasily at Yua's words. Were succubusses common and she's gonna look stupid for not knowing what one is? Her cheeks go a bright shade of crimson as the japanese girl giggles at her lack of knowledge and she decides to save herself further embarrassment and not pursue that conversation any further.

"I... I'm sorry..." she mumbles, looking down at her lap where she began wringing her hands again, "I.. didn't even know what I was until the day my mom kicked me out... and then I never had much interaction with people after that... I mean.. I used to read stories about creatures like vampires and werewolves... But... that's it..." She releases a heavy sigh as she shifts a bit in her seat "I didn't even know what I am...and... I only know that because somebody told me that's what they think I am... I might not even actually be one.." she continues with a halfhearted shrug as she reaches over to grab her bag, a hand fishing around inside it until she pulls out another one of her beef sticks and uses her teeth to tear it open.

she takes a small bite out of the stick as she stares at the floor between her feet... which she just noticed were still bare... she had forgotten to dig her shoes out of the bag and hadn't even noticed it until now... She just idly stares at them as she wiggles her toes on the cold metal floor and reaches back into the bag to make sure her shoes were still in there... After a bit of groping she feels her hand run over the hard rubber bottom of one of them before pulling her hand back out.

"S-so... uhm.." she starts, struggling so desperately to try to think of something to talk about... This girl was the only one who really seemed intent on trying to be nice to her... so she tried her best to push down that little voice that tells her it's all a sham and try to make a friend.. "where... where are you from? Did... you uhm... live in that town back there...?"

Felix sat alone, a frown appeared on his face for a moment before he forced it away, Oh come on, no one wants the pleasure of sitting next to moi? He let out a sigh and looked out the window for a moment, trying hard to listen to the conversations that were happening on the bus with everyone else. He stopped looking out the window and looked around at everyone else and watching what was going on, So the cheeky American is not as smooth as he appears, those two girls are going to be friends, that one is alone, and that one has an instrument of sorts. Well, as cat girl wasn't too keen on speaking with me just yet, I'll wait for her to come out of her shell more, the instrument though, it intrigues me. Leaving his bags as they were, He hopped seats to be closer to Yumi, "I have seen many different tools for music, and many beautiful instruments before, but what is this one? what is she called?" he pointed at it curiously, "I have always loved music and the arts, I assume you play it?"

As the bus came to a tunnel Joshua looked ahead from the window, opening up the window and sticking his head out for a brief moment. He'd never really came this way but he remembered it being a route to Tokyo. Or at least that's what he'd been told. "Hey driver the school's in Tokyo right?" he asked the driver but that would mean they'd be driving for a couple hours and it was already the turn of the day over in this side of the world. Most kids were probably already in school by this hour! Whatever it wasn't his problem the bus came so extremely early. Joshua's mind them came to the conclusion it was a more of a meet and greet and settle in sort of gig. Joshua pulled his head back in and rearranged his stuff once more to get more comfortable....as if being boxed in wasn't enough. "Well kid you're partially right." The Driver started to laugh a little, "We're on the way to Tokyo but there is a special thing about this tunnel you see...." He said still chuckling as Joshua cocked an eyebrow. Of course he got stuck with the creepy driver...."Well this bus has a spell placed on it by Headmaster Mitsuhide." He said as if this explained everything perfectly. Mitsuhide was the man who'd personally wrote that nice letter he got. He'd only half read it but it was a well made letter and it was clearly hand written. But what came next could only surprise Joshua more than he could have expected. Because when they entered the tunnel suddenly exploded into a sea of dark red and blue flashing across them from left to right. It was like taking a drug trip while getting into Willy Wonka's tunnel of doom...in other words it wasn't very good for people who had problems with flashing colors. However for everyone else it would seem that they were travelling into a different dimension entirely. "You see this school is IN Japan but it isn't IN Japan if you get what I'm saying." The driver said once more laughing as Joshua looked out of the window, not with his head popped out this time, and gazed at the area with a wide open jaw.

Yumi had forgot she was on a bus when the flirty guy from earlier came over to ask her a question, "I have seen many different tools for music, and many beautiful instruments before, but what is this one? What is she called?" As he pointed to her main body she quickly went to protect it but he was only pointing. It didn't feel right, letting someone see her main body. She did put it out for others to see, but she didn't expect that someone would come over and start a conversation with her about it. "I have always loved music and the arts, I assume you play it?"

The Tsukumogami looked from Felix to her main body and back again. What was she suppose to say here? 'No. This is actually me.' Probably not. If nothing else the school said to keep the monster identity a secret. . . And this. . . What? Boy? He didn't seem like the secret type. If anyone knew her weakness was a fragile one hundred and fourteen year old instrument. . . Well, she would have to make sure she had no enemies. "You can assume that I suppose." She said to Felix. "The type of instrument is a Biwa. It's a rather old one really and probably as important as my life is to me." Since it was the same thing anyway.

Before she had the chance to speak, or think, again there was something going on around the bus. Flashing colors and other things that never before had Yumi seen the likes of. There was no adequate description Yumi had for this other than, "Odd". For the most part though she was calm through the light show as it probably wasn't the end of the world.