"Ms. Yuriko! You must wake up! It's time for school and it's your class trip, no?" Katsumi opens her heavy eyelids to reveal her maid, Katherine, standing beside her bed, trying to wake her up. "Alright, I'm coming. Do I have any appointments today...?"

"Not for the next two months thankfully, madam. But otherwise, we'll contact you if there is a pop up. we have your luggage for the trip downstairs and ready to go. So is breakfast."  Katherine reports, opening the door for her young mistress. "Alright. Is my uniform ready by any chance?"

"It is, as a matter of fact, in your walk in closet by the bathroom. You may get ready after or before eating if you wish." "I have an announcement in front of two schools today, I'd rather keep my uniform clean as I can." Katsumi sighs, rubbing her eyes.

"Alright. I shall be downstairs helping the cooks serve, you may come down as you wish." the brunette disappears down the marble staircase, down to the first floor of the grand mansion. "Might as well get started."

Katsumi straightens her silk night gown as she heads to the grand dining hall downstairs, which was filled with assortments of foods, too much for one person to eat. Katsumi seats herself at one end of the table, grabbing a small bowl of fruit salad, along with a plate of blueberry waffles, topping it with bananas. With a cup of her morning iced coffee, Katsumi eats with elegant movements, finishing in a mere 5 minutes.

Downing the last of her iced coffee, she calls for all her working staff and chauffeur to the dining hall, to which all rush to, eager to serve their mistress. "You called, lady Yuriko?" the chauffeur, Thomas, enters, along with her cooking staff and her maid, Katherine.

"Yes. I have lots of left overs as you can see, and I have a few couple of minutes to get ready. I want you to help yourselves and eat. If you'd like, bring some home to your family." she says strictly, but the kind offer was obvious as she gestured to the table behind her.

"But, Ms.-" "No questions. I've told you this many times. Take as much as you want." Katsumi leaves with this command and the servants reluctantly gather some food for themselves and to bring for their family that night.

~*****~

Katsumi rushes upstairs, running into her walk in closet with light steps. She spots her uniform hanging on a rack as promised and she quickly changes into it. With a white, short sleeved blouse, she pairs it with a black pleated skirt, along with a silk vest of the same color as her skirt. With knee socks, she pulls on a pair of ankle boots to finish her uniform.

She rushes to the vanity in the closet, seating herself on the chair. She pulls out the night braids in her hair, letting it cascade down her back down to her hips. It was in soft curls, and she grabs a hair brush, brushing the top half to make it straight as she leaves the bottom half in soft, elegant curls.

Grabbing a hair tie, she secludes her bangs and a few short layers of her hair, tying the rest into a high ponytail. Using the shorter layers, she braids them atop her head, letting her bangs fall in small curls as she tucks them behind her ear. (A/N: Her hairstyle looks like the one above, except black hair.)

With a small layer of mascara and lip gloss, she heads downstairs with her black backpack, book in hand along with her luggage. "Thomas! Are you ready?" the chauffeur appears from the dining room with a bag in hand, probably filled with the food.

"Are you ready, madam?" "Yes, we need to hurry. I need to make it there 30 minutes before the announcements." Katsumi replies, glancing at her watch. She could make it if they leave within the next 5 minutes.

"Let's hurry. I have 5 minutes." she orders and her servants gather in the living room to bid her goodbye. "Everyone, listen up." she claps her hands and the room falls silent, everyone's attention to her.

"I'll be gone for the next two weeks for my class trip, and I expect the house to be clean when I get back. You may bring your families here if you wish to gather around, but please don't destroy anything. You can take a 2 week break if you wish."

"Yes, madam." they all answer in unison, bowing together. "Good, now can May and Lily please help with my luggage to the car?" she dismisses the rest of the servants with those orders and two blonde maids stay back, beginning to haul her luggage to the car.

She was certainly different fro any other teenage girl.

~*****~

She arrives at Ebisu high with no hitch, Ebisu was her high school, and it was all girls.

She was greeted by her two and only best friends by the gate as they all walk to the building with their luggage, of course, with Thomas helping his mistress. 

Katsumi spots a soccer ball headed her way and she bounces it up with her knee, hitting it in the same direction with her head, towards a brunette boy who catches it with an astonished look. "Whoa, you've got skills! What's your name?" "Yuriko." she answers shortly and begins walking again, catching up to her friends. "Aren't you guys excited for the trip?! Two weeks off school... Awesome!" her ever hyper friend, Nakamura or Naka as they called her, bounced alongside Katsumi and her other friend, Chii.

"That just means more duties to me. As if I don't have enough already." Katsumi growls under her breath as they gather at the gym of the school. "Thank you, Thomas. The same orders go for you. You're dismissed." the man bows respectfully before leaving for the limo again.

The pleasures of the rich.

"Man, you're so lucky, Kat! You get slaved over like that every day." Naka grins. "You've been at my house and in the limo before, Naka." Chii smiles gently at her friend when two older men suddenly appear on the stage of the wide gym.

"Attention please, everyone!" Katsumi recognizes the principal of Ebisu, and the other of their 'best friend' school, Daikanyama high. "I have an announcement to make, but I'd rather have the council president come here please. Ms. Yuriko?"

Katsumi sighs and heads up the stage, onto the podium. With a stern face, much like a principal's, she announces the news, "As you may know, Ebisu and Daikanyama have been teh best of friends as neighbors, and today, we all have a class trip. As council president, along with the president of Daikanyama and both our principals, we have decided that all school functions will be run jointly and the class trip will be with Daikanyama high."

There was a moment of silence until cheers erupted from the crowd. Daikanyama's boys were also in the gym so it was quite crowded. But one near the stage caught Kat's attention. He fist pumps into the air with a wide grin, "Yeah! A trip with Ebisu's girls?! Holy crap this rules!"

Katsumi rolls her eyes as she steps off, bowing to both principals respectfully and disappearing into the crowd once more. 

~*****~

It turns out there would be groups, and Katsumi was reading a book while they waited for the groups to be announced. "Year 2, class A, group A, Daikanyama and Ebisu to Mr. Hajime Shindo." a tall man waved on the stage, signaling him as the leader of the said group. "That's us. We need to go to the yard, Kat." Chii drags the reading quiet girl outside after Naka who made a bee line for the teacher.

Chii stops at a tree a few feet away from the teacher and tells Kat to stay put and runs off after Naka. Out the corner of her eye, Kat sees a boy running towards Mr. Shindo, who talks to him and soon, the boy runs off.

Kat's photographic memory shows her the same goofball near the stage earlier, fist pumping but she ignores him. After a few more moments, the same boy returns, along with 3 other boys, preferably a part of the group.

She heard Shindo from her spot as his loud voice reached her. "Alright, so we have three girls. Where's the other one?" he asks and Chii and Naka turn to their friend, followed by the boys and Shindo. "Can you please bring her here?"

Chii hurries to tug Katsumi over to the group, smiling awkwardly. "I apologize. This is our council president, Katsumi Yuriko."

"Wait... Oh, Yuriko?! Hey, it's you!" she looks up for a brief moment to notice the same brunette with the soccer ball earlier. "You're really good, do you play?"

Katsumi doesn't answer and Chii saves her by responding for her. "No she doesn't," "No way she doesn't. Way too good!" the boy complains but Katsumi looked to him with a glare. "Does it matter? Because if you want an answer you want, which is a lie, I don't give those." she snaps and the boy shuts up, looking away.

"Sorry about her attitude!" Naka grins, "She's not a talker."

"I got that." the boy replies but then Shindo cuts in. "As much fun as you're having, can we have teh introductions?"

"Alright, I'm Taketo Kanzaki, soccer ace of Daikanyama." the same boy says confidently with a smirk. "I'm his twin brother, Yasuto. Nice to meet you." a boy with raven hair grins broadly, waving at the girls.

"Hey, Tak, Yasu, you can't go before me! Hi! I'm Kanji Okumiya!" "'Sup Kan the Clown?" Taketo snickers, teasing the young boy who flushes a little red. "Don't say that! You'll ruin their first impression of me!"

"Seems like a goofball from what I saw on the stage." Kat remarks from the side, to which Taketo laughs to. "Correct there."

Kanji pouts on the side but urges another raven haired boy reading to introduce himself. "Come on, Midorikawa, introduce yourself." Shindo urges and the boy never looks up from his book as he says, "Homare Midorikawa." "You can do better than that." Shindo coaxes again.

"Fine. Nice to meet you."

"Hopeless." Shindo mutters and turns to the girls. "Your turn." 

"Hi! I'm Nakamura! You can just call me Naka!"

"Tone it down, Naka. Hi, I'm Chii." Chii calms down the fan-girling Nakamura as she taps on Katsumi's shoulder, gesturing for her to introduce herself, to which she refuses to.

"I'm sorry. This is Katsumi Yuriko as you know."

At her name, Katsumi raises her head with a glance to her watch before pursing her lips. "I need to go. Bus duties." she reports and rushes off with out another word.

~*****~

Near the bus, she notices squealing girls but once she clears her throat, they calm down and separate a path to reveal a young boy that Kat knows as a celebrity, Nagisa Ichinose. "What's the meaning of this?" she turns to his manager, well, her instincts said so.

"We have a photo shoot, stay out of it." 

"Well, I apologize, but do you have permission from the principals and the student council?" "Why'd I need that?" "Because you need it to do such things. Or we take you out. I'm waiting."

"Grr... Ugh." the frustrated man retreats, the camera men in tow. 

"Thank you," Nagisa's voice calls from her side. "No need."

The celebrity stares after her, and the same thought occurred to him as her figure faded in the distance.

"She's... She's different from them."