**Kotori Shirohane - Warakuma Shopping District: Shirohane Residence | Sunday, April 12 2015 - Noon**

With a quiet but content sigh, Kotori closed the book that lay on the desk before her. After breakfast, she'd headed straight to her room to get the week's homework - a rather small amount, given that it was the first week - abd studying out of the way. With that out of the way, Kotori raised her arms up to stretch them after having spent a good while thumbing through various school books before adjusting her glasses due to their tendency to slowly slip whenever she was looking down for prolonged periods of time. Looking back up, the weather outside her window caught her eye for a moment - it looked like it was a nice and sunny April day; something the flowers would certainly appreciate she mused with a small smile.

That, meanwhile, reminded her of the day before - and of the fact that someone had gone missing. Though she'd only just met Noboru two days ago, Kotori still couldn't help but feel a little worried about this - after all, it was hardly an everyday occurence and it obviously had gotten his brother quite worried, judging by the way he'd behaved. Unfortunately, there was little she could do - whilst she apparently was one of the last to have seen him, that hadn't been of much help and she knew far too little about him to be able to somehow aid the search. Still she hoped that he was alright and would return soon. Her brow furrowed briefly as she thought on the name - Noboru Yamamoto. Hadn't she heard that one somewhere before...?

That train of thought, however, was interrupted by a soft knock on her door and a questioning "Kotori?" from her mother. "Yes?" she called in return before Tsubame opened the door, popping her head in to find her daughter still seated at her desk. "Am I interrupting?" she asked, receiving a shake of Kotori's head as an answer. "Oh, that's good. Say, could you go down to the mall and get some things? Looks like we're running a bit low on them," her mother asked with an apologetic smile to which Kotori quickly nodded. "Of course. What do we need?" she asked in return, to which Tsubame produced a small list and a thankful smile.

**Kotori Shirohane - Warakuma Shopping District | Noon**

"I'm off," Kotori announced, getting a cheerful "Take care" from her mother who was still busy tending to the flowers in the shop, before heading out; a small shopping bag in one hand and the shopping list in the other. Glancing over the latter, there wasn't much to carry; mostly an assortment of everyday goods that wouldn't take long to gather from the nearby shops. Unbeknownst to her, she wasn't the only student from Warakuma High out shopping at the time - though given that she wasn't expecting to run into anyone else, she'd hardly notice anyone else out and about as she set off to complete her errand.