Once the last of the students had gotten off the bus, the driver started to pull away from the curb. his job done. It was only when he looked up in the mirror that he saw that there was still someone on the bus. A boy with brown hair was fast asleep in the seat just behind the driver's. If he'd been in any other seat the bus driver likely would have never seen him and continued to drive off.
"Boy, wake up!"
Saze slowly opened his eyes just enough to see who was yelling at him. Then he turned his head around to look at the other seats of the bus. "Where did everyone else go?" the boy mumbled still more than half asleep.
Something was off about this kid. "You were asleep when everyone else got off at the school," the driver explained, his exasperation showing in his words.
"Oh, okay" Saze stood up and started to walk towards the door off the bus. Something thunked to the floor as he stood, a gray metal cube that was connected to the boy's clothes by a long chain. "Oh, I need that," the boy said softly as he picked up the box. And with that he pushed open the bus door and stepped off.
"Why do I get the feeling that that one's going to be a hassle?" the bus driver said with a sigh. He'd just stared up the bus to drive off again when someone knocked on the bus door. It was the boy. The driver opened the door and said, "Yes?"
"Which way is it to the school?" Saze stifled a yawn with the back of his hand, unintentionally adding a half dozen extra O's to the word school.
The driver pointed back down the road, where the front entrance of the school was not a hundred beet away and clearly visible.
"Oh, thank you," Saze mumbled as he walked away. The bus driver drove off before the boy could think of any other way to hold him up.
Saze walked down the road a ways with his eyes mostly shut. After walking a little while, he opened his eyes and turned his head to the side. The front gate of Leo Duel School was open before him. He turned and shuffled onto school grounds. Since he wasn't really paying attention to where he was going, the next time Saze really looked around to get his bearings he found himself in a completely empty hallway. He didn't know where he was, but he did see a vending machine a ways away, so he walked towards it.
There was candy and snacks in the machine! Saze had't been hungry a second ago, at least he didn't think he had been, but seeing all the yummy snacks so near he was suddenly starving. After a few fruitless grabs, his fingers eventually found the chain that led to his box. He unlocked the metal box with a key from around his neck. Inside the box there was two places to put decks, one of which held his deck and the other of which was just filled with cards he occasionally put into his deck, and a small slot to hold a plastic card. Saze pulled out the latter and used it to buy as many snacks as he could carry.
Saze was much more awake and alert walking down the halls while chewing on yummy sugary gummy worms. He found a group of people gathered and followed them into a big arena-like space. Since he didn't know anyone else, Saze just took a seat next to the stairs and ate his snacks, humming nonsensical tunes with his mouth full and kicking his feet back and forth. He had no clue why he and everyone else was sitting in a big noisy arena, but he was glad that he'd managed to find something to snack on.