[b]Alexai Dragunov - Dragunov Residence[/b]

Alexai was up, busy preparing Onigiri for Ektrina's first day at the new school. He had been at the local farmer's street at five in the morning, helping an Oba-san with her supplies and setting the shop and earning a few extra veggies as payment. The rice was cooked well with vinegar and the Onigiris were being shaped carefully into little bears his sister loved. After carefully packing her bento he got to setting his own. Hastily, making plain riceballs and stuffing them with leftover fried tofu he had from making his sister's lunch.

Having come to Warakuma just a few days prior, life had been really hectic for Alexai. He had to look for a decent home to live in, arrange for the hospital for his mother. Straighten out the accounts and wrap up his work in Tokyo, Coordinate with his father's manager regarding the handling of their stock accounts and setting up a liquidity cycle for taking care of hospital bills. Arrange for a working capital regarding a new venture the manager had hoped to add for increasing funds. Arrange for a mode of transport for day to day activities. Enroll his sister in the local middle school, map out the city and locate all the fair-price and discounted stores and flea markets. Find a blue-collar job and set the house with basic necessities. It was a lot of work and all of it had to be done by him.

In the end he managed to buy a '92 Yamaha RT-180 really cheap and he arranged for a job as laborer on daily basis at the local construction company. With modernization planned for the city, there was a increase in such blue collar job and his build lend in nicely to heavy labor. He had also managed to get an apartment near the hospital and his sister's school so that making rounds won't be that difficult. Beds and other furniture had been a bit tough to come by so he had only a bed for his sister, a study cabinet for her books and a fully functional kitchen.

The Oba-san at the local library had been kind enough to accept his sister as a helper and Alexai was pleased as that meant he could take his mind off her safety for a good part of the day. It was a hard life, but he had done this for more than a decade so he was pretty good at scraping through.

[b]Warakuma Middle School - Gates.[/b]

Ektrina got off the bike, her uniform ironed perfectly and spotless. Looking at her, she gave off a regal, pampered air but was anything but that. Alexai turned to look at her with some final instructions from a protective brother.

"Respect your teachers."
"Yes, brother." came a timid voice.
"Study hard and don't go talking much with anyone."
"Yes."
"Do not join any club forcibly. Join only self-defense, all girls club" 
"Yes."
"Go to Inari-sama after school, don't wait for me."
"Yes."
"Go to mother at seven, I'll come pick you up at night."
"Yes."
"So, Then have a wonderful day." he finished, his stern face parting in a smile. He leaned from his bike to kiss her forehead, patting her on her back he ushered her to school before making his way to his.

[b]Warakuma High[/b]

He made his way inside. The school looked particularly well maintained as others. Though it didn't have the grandeur of Tokyo, it did had all the functionality the Japanese were known for. He made his way inside after memorizing the school map. Walking up to the bulletin board as others simply jumped out of his way. To say he was a large man would be an understatement. He was by all means tall, but it was his musculature and build that made him apart from the usual students. A few facial scars, baggy eyes and big jaw made him look like a delinquent. So, people usually avoided contact, yet as he made his way up to the board, a little girl stood in front of him, she had a regal air to her and smelled of the finest upmarket perfume, with all the fliers she held under her arm she seemed like a club member. He looked at the assignment for the year. He was in 3-3 and apparently, there was another foreigner with him as well. Looking at his watch he looked at the time, there was some time left for a drag, there was also the issue of looking for a club as he had noticed with the girl.

Not thinking too much about the latter, he made his way to the rooftop. Once there, he opened the door and made his way to the middle of the roof, he then took out a pack of Luckies and plucked one out lighting it with his lighter. He took a deep drag to provide him with a certain calmness, last few days have been the same. He had found sleep hard to come by and weird dreams of a room draped in velvet revisited his memories. He had thought that, leaving Tokyo would relieve him off this but he was wrong. He just hoped that his past doesn't intend to follow him here too. Taking a few drags he calmed himself before making his way to his assigned class.