[h2]Hamasaki, Shun[/h2]

[i]Huh, seems like I missed the opening ceremony,[/i] the blue-haired teen thought to himself, approaching the entrance to the academy and stopping to stare at the path that was lined with cherry trees. [i]Not like I need an orientation or anything. I think I've been here long enough to know.[/i] Shun pulled his headphones back, letting them rest around his neck as he walked between the pink trees. Though the weather was decent he was still dressed for fall, judging by his baggy jacket and jeans. If there was a school uniform he was definitely not wearing it, but that was to be expected. The staff had come to learn about Shun over the past two years and his stiff disobedience had become notorious. If his grades and performance wasn't so good there would probably be a case to expel him.

By the time Shun reached the ceremony everybody had already left. He could see the last few stragglers heading towards the next part of the first day: pairing. [i]I remember my first Receiver. She was stupid. Speaking of... I should probably find Adrian... Nah, I'll just go there without him. No point in going out of my way when he'll probably be there anyways. Wouldn't bother me any if he didn't show up, either.[/i] Holding onto his backpack strap with one hand the older teen followed the crowd to Room 4B, keeping to himself and standing by the back wall near the door once he was inside. Part of him was curious to see what the newbies could do, but mostly he was only present to avoid a scolding later. It would be inconvenient if they wanted to test him again and he wasn't there, after all. His eyes briefly scanned for Adrian, though even if he found him he wouldn't budge. They may be paired together as a Receiver and Tuner but Shun wasn't about to start being friendly just because of that.

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[h2]Alexis Thorburn[/h2]

"Wow, this place is [i]way cooler[/i] than the school I used to go to." The young American girl sat among the other first-year students, notably wearing a sweater with sleeves that are too long. She turned to face the boy next to her, ignoring the speech the principal was giving at the moment. "We never had any opening ceremony like this. But I went to a public school and this is an [i]academy[/i] so it makes sense that everything is fancier, right?" The other new student gave her an awkward smile, unsure how to divide his attention between the annoying girl and the man in charge of Akiyama-Kruez Academy. "We didn't even have trees on the campus, let alone fancy white buildings. Everything was grey and concrete. I'm pretty sure people had died there in the seventies or something. Hey, where are we all going?"

In her own distraction she had failed to pay any attention to the speech, and when everyone began moving out to follow some woman she didn't remember seeing arrive... Lexi was left a little confused. "Are we all going to our first class yet? I thought we had to be paired up first... Oh! We [i]are[/i] going to get paired up! My bad. I didn't hear anyone say anything." At this point Lexi wasn't even talking to the same boy, but she didn't particularly care. She did, however, make the rest of the trip to Room 4B silently, filing in among the crowd of new students. It seemed that the older students stayed away from the new ones, sticking to the sides of the room almost as if they were corralling the younger teens. But details like that went over Lexi's head. Simply put she was curious to see how pairing worked. In fact she had barely any experience as a Receiver and had never seen any Tuners in action. Today would be the day that would change...