[table][row][cell][color=orange]Shiori Spiga[/color][/cell][cell][color=orange]"Once you’re devoured, it doesn’t matter who you were before."[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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[cell]“Y-your packets…. ” 
 
This voice came from a weedy boy with acne scars and addressed a trio of pretty girls sitting before him. He slid the packets onto their desks and then went into a deep bow, eliciting a giggle from one of the girls. The other two, a coldly elegant Hyuuga and a cruel-looking but incredibly pretty Spiga, didn’t acknowledge him at all. 

The boy held his bow as the girls read their packets, often glancing up at the girls and occasionally towards a few friends of his who seemed to be watching from their desks. 

Her team assignment clear, Shiori pursed her lips at the news. Kasei Burai and Kenshiro Hyuuga were her teammates. That was that.

She hadn’t expected to be grouped with her friends, nor did she want to be. They aught to be able to function on their own, unlike the way the Ino-Shika-Cho clans carried on with their sentimental partnerships. Those things became parasitic, stunted. No one reached their full potential. 

Her teammates were not the worst. Hiro Hyuuga, the golden boy, had been paired with the imbecile Jin Kani and that monkey from the sands. She’d relish watching him struggle to control the two.

There was nothing innately wrong with her teammates besides the fact that they were male, and she’d already resigned herself to having male teammates. Konoha was just like that. Both boys had a good sense about them. There were no criers, none that balked at blood. 

Shiori could work with this.

However the cute girl to her left, who’d giggled before but looked quite upset, was obviously quite distressed over her team pairing.  She began to say something to this effect when another boy suddenly approached them.

[color=silver]"You are Shiori Spiga, yes?"[/color] The boy said, extending his hand to her. [color=silver]"I am called Kasei Burai, son of the Kasei third branch, and I am to be your teammate. I eagerly anticipate our working together!"[/color]

The three girls looked at Burai as if he’d trodden in something.

[color=orange]“Move.”[/color] Shiori commanded.

Beside Burai, the boy who’d been bowing quickly stood up and scrambled away. 

[color=orange]“So.”[/color] Shiori said to Kasei. [color=orange]“It is on my team. What does it think of the Hyuuga?”[/color]

The three girls watched expectantly. [/cell][/row][/table]