[u][b]Monday, August 14th 2017, 8:40AM[/b][/u]

It was early enough in the morning in the fall month of August on a Monday. Higa, Aiko was hurrying to class. It was the start of the 10th grade, and well, it didn’t feel much different than the grade before. The only difference were that there were a new group of kids who were slightly below her. Not that they were particularly below her… Ah! She was getting distracted and there was only 5 minutes left to get to class. Once she arrived on the second floor, she scuffled into the classroom where she tripped up on her own feet and fell. “Ouch!” Aiko exclaimed before looking around frantically. Just as quickly as she had come in she stood up and bowed repeatedly. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!!” 

“No need to apologize, you aren’t late. Please just take your seat.” Her teacher, Mr. Kimimura, smiled and rolled his eyes a little. Most of the class watched as she hurried to her seat and sat down, burying her face in her arms in embarrassment. 

This was Higa, Aiko, Second year student at Kirigakure Academy. She had lovely short, unnaturally blue hair, (which was actually the hair she was born with), and deep purplish-blue eyes which were always wide and full of life. Aiko was a silly girl who often got hurt due to her clumsiness, though it was mostly due to the way she was raised that she turned out this way, however, at this point it was just an act. 

The story was like this, Aiko was confronted her first year at the Academy by a man in a suit. Her first terrified thought was to run. However, when this man explained to her what he was there for, well, her entire life was about to change. He told her that she was the great granddaughter of a priestess who fought demons side by side with her true love. At first she thought the suited man was insane, until he further explained himself. Long story short, he showed her the truth, by “lifting the veil” from her eyes and allowing her to see demons around her. She had already known archery from taking lessons early on in her life and was destined to use her knowledge and strange powers to fight demons. 

Whenever there was a large, threat of a demon nearby her, time would stop. She would be the only one able to move. The minor, non-threatening demons meant nothing to her. It was the big ones who sought to destroy her world that concerned her. Through trial and error 
she learned the essentials to fighting demons:
1.	Protect the innocent above all else
2.	Keep yourself from getting injured so you don’t have to explain yourself later
3.	Defeat the demon and close the rift that it opened
4.	Minimal damage to people’s property, especially homes and the school

These were the most important things she had learned when fighting demons on her own. The young girl learned entirely on her own, the only thing the mysterious man had taught her was the spell to close the rifts. Otherwise she learned different magic techniques on her own, but mostly used her bow. 

Now, you may be asking, she fights all on her own, haven’t there been others? There have been. In the past. There were three others in fact, that Aiko knows of. 

Daitaro Komatsu, a close friend of hers. Later in the first year they fought side by side, until something unspeakable happened to her friend… 

Kitsu Uni, an arrogant older girl who moved away after her father was killed by a demon, but to the outside world it seemed like she had killed him since she was there when it happened. 

And lastly, Aiden Konoga, a transfer student who disappeared not long after joining forces with Aiko. 

Anyway, the loss of her friend took a huge toll on her. She swore to take down whoever was reawakening the demons. Without much luck though. In the meantime she would continue her act of shy and clumsiness until the time came when she could find the one who took her friend from her.