[h1][center]Igarashi Renzo[/center][/h1]

While the rest of the world was doing important stuff, Igarashi Renzo was nestled under his blankets, a brand new laptop in front of him and lighting up the small cavern he'd created.

And he was silently bawling his eyes out.

"Crap! Get up Ren! Quickly!" His sister, Igarashi Mari, shouted as she burst into his room, her hair disheveled.

In response, Ren poked his head out from under the blankets, tears streaming down his face.

"Nee-chan..." He hiccuped. "Menma just passed on Nee-chan..."

"I don't know who that is, and I don't care!" Mari said, yanking the blanket off the crying giant. "You only have twenty minutes before you need to be at school! Hurry up and get ready!"

At that, Ren's eyes grew even wider than his sisters, and he leapt off the mattress with a panicked shout.

"Just get dressed!" She continued, running from the room. "You haven't got time for a proper breakfast, but you can take a piece of toast!"

"Thanks Nee-chan!" He shouted in response, almost getting his head stuck in his shirt before finally managing to pull it on properly. A few moments later, he was finally dressed, albeit not very neatly. He quickly grabbed his bag and sprinted from the room, snatching the toast his older sister held out for him on the way to the door.

"Try to make some friends!" She called after him, before seeming to realise her own mistake and correcting herself. "And don't scare them away by accident!"

As he ran through the now mostly empty backstreets around his sisters house, he did what any self respecting high schooler was contractually obligated to do, at least if they were running to school with a piece of toast hanging from their mouth.

Introduce themselves to their imaginary audience through an internal monologue.

[i]Hi! My name is Igarashi Renzo! I just moved here from the small mountain town of Yukimori, and now I live with my big sister! I've only been here for a few days, but I'm about to start my first day at Fukushima Uesugi Senior High. If things go well, I'll make a bunch of friends, become a little smarter, and maybe, just maybe, meet someone special![/i]

As he ran, he timed his monologue perfectly so he'd cross another road when the word romance flitted through his mind, thinking that perhaps he might [i]actually[/i] bump into a cute girl and start his high school days right!

He got hit by a scooter.

But hey, it says something about his optimism that, upon realising what had just happened, his first thought was something along the lines of 'At least it wasn't a car!'

A little stunned, he quickly got up and ran over to the driver of the scooter, who watched in horror as the giant boy approached him. However, instead of beating the crap out of him like he'd been expecting, the man was surprised when Ren simply looked at his face in the scooters mirrors.

"Phew, I was worried I might be bleeding." He said, deciding to ignore the sizeable black eye he'd gotten when he hit the ground. "Now [i]that[/i] would've been embarrassing to try and explain! Thanks for letting me use your mirror mister!"

And then he sprinted off again.

At this point, he figured he probably wouldn't make it to class before it started, but hopefully he wouldn't be [i]too[/i] late, right?

Thankfully, he managed to dash through the school gates just as he heard the bell, and he dashed towards the class his sister had told him he'd be in, 1A.

Unfortunately, Ren is an idiot, and one that came from a two room school, at that. Even then, it's hardly an excuse to take a full five minutes to find a class, especially after running past it twice before finally realising.

However, when he finally did realise, he wasted no time in flinging the door open and running in.

"I'M SORRY I'M LATE!" He shouted, somehow still smiling despite his bruised and battered appearance. "MENMA PASSED ON AND I GOT HIT BY A SCOOTER!"