Keith's pov

"Happy Birthday, Keith!" Shiro said right when he walked into my room making wake up instantly gripping my shirt above my heart. My heart was racing when I looked at him.

"You scared me." I said, relaxing as he sat down next to me and handed me a plate of pancakes with a lit candle on the top of them.

"Well, we got a lot of celebrating to do so eat up, Keith." He chuckled and watched me blow the candle out before eating the pancakes.

"What are we doing today?" I asked curiously as we ate. Shiro only looking at me with a smile before shaking his head.

"It's a surprise, Keith, I can't tell you or it would ruin what we're going to do." He chuckled, watching me eat for a moment. "I'm proud of you."

"For what?"

"For being you, Keith, you're a brilliant young man who will do amazing things. Hurry up and meet me downstairs ready to go." Shiro said before leaving the room.

I finished eating and got ready as fast as I could, almost tripping over my own feet as I ran down the stairs, jumping over the last two.

"I'm ready." I said with a smile, looking up at Shiro who chuckled and ruffled my hair, leading me out to the car. I got in, buckling my seat belt, the car starting and we were off. I excitedly sat in my seat, watching the other houses go by.

"Close your eyes and no peaking." Shiro said making me look at him curiously but I did what he said. My heart beating a little faster as I held myself back from peaking.

It felt like hours but it was only a few minutes. I could feel the car turning, speeding up, slowing down, turning some more, and then they finally stopped. I heard the door open and Shiro get out before my door was opening next to me and he helped me out of the car.

"Open them." Shiro said so I looked up and gasped. "Time to get you signed up."

"R-really?" I asked in disbelief. We stood outside of the Garrison, the back where the teacher's parking lot was.

"Oh course, Keith, I know you've wanted to train here for awhile and-"

I cut Shiro off with a hug which would've knocked any other person over but because Shiro was literally one of the biggest members of the Garrison he just chuckled and hugged me back.

"Thank you, Shiro." I said, excitedly pulling on his sleeve.

"Lets go in, you can meet some of the members of your class and your teachers."

I followed Shiro down the teachers entrance. He showed me where I could find my teachers if I needed help, where the break area was, and then we had to get onto a railway underground to get to the other side of the Garrison. Shiro's office was huge to say the least. Bookshelf's lining ever wall with books from the ceiling to the floor. The latest software was everywhere, the panels and flight simulators took up a small section of the office because the room was that big.

"Wow..." I mumbled in amazement, trying to look and take in everything all at once.

"When you're here you can come to my office at any time. I'll give you a key card that'll let you in and if anyone bothers you inform your teachers and me, we'll take care of it." Shiro said, picking up a packet of paper and handed it to me. "This is what you'll need to get started. Just sign and you're in."

"I-I can't believe I finally made it..." I mumbled, still in a daze.

"I'm proud of you, Keith, I really am. I just wanna make sure you're ready for all of this. It's a lot, I'm not going to lie... it takes a lot of work and effort, leadership, determination, and courage."

"I've waited so long, Shiro, I need to do this." I said said with a determined smile, signing the paper with my messy signature.

"Okay, the classes you'll be taking are this way." Shiro said, leading me down a few hallways before walking into a classroom filled with students. I anxiously looked down, hiding behind Shiro as he walked over the front desk where a teacher stood.

"Greetings, Takashi." The man said, shaking Shiro's hand. "Class, greet Master Shirogane."

The whole class said their greeting in unison before going back to their work. My heart rate increasing as the teacher looked at me with a smile.

"You must be Keith, nice to meet you, I'm Alfor, the head master of Altean technology, language, and history." He said, shaking my hand.

"Hi, sir, it's an honor t-to finally meet you." I stuttered out, in amazement that I'm actually meeting him in person. I've read every article and book he's ever published.

"Keith has been following your work for years, he's very interested in your thesis of Altean technology and flight craftsmanship." Shiro said making me blush and nod.

"I see, you're a bright young man, Keith, not even my fellow colleagues read my work." Alfor chuckled and nudged Shiro who shook his head and smiled at the good humor.

"We must be going, there's a lot to see around here." Shiro said so we said our goodbyes and left.

"What did you think of Alfor?" Shiro asked as we walked down the hall.

"He's really nice... I'm excited to learn from him." I said with a smile. Looking around at the display cases of replica flight parts and tools.

"He's a good man and an amazing teacher, he knows how to work with the kids." Shiro said, walking into another room, there wasn't many students in this class, just a few.

"Master Shirogane, hello." A women greeted, putting a book down as she walked over to us. "Keith, my new student?" She assumed, looking at me with a smile."

"Nice to meet you, Ma'am." I said, shaking her hand.

"This is space creatures 101, the best class here." She said, gesturing around us.

"Nadia single handily funded this program and she's the founder of four other faculty classes on earth." Shiro chuckled, watching the women get a jar off her desk.

"This is a new species of space beetle, they're thriving in earths hemisphere it seems." She said, holding the jar up to my face excitedly.

"That's really cool." I said in amazement.

"I look forward to seeing you in my class. We're taking a field trip to a farm soon so be ready." She called over her shoulder and she walked back to her desk.

Shiro and I met the rest of my teachers and I got to talk to a few students which was really cool. I never get to talk to people my age. They were really nice and it made me even more excited to start going here.

"Now that we have all that taken care of you'll start next week. Let's head home and we can start having your birthday party." Shiro said with a smile.

"Okay... please tell me you didn't get a cake." I said, following Shiro who smiled.

"I might have got you one." He teased and I whine.

"I told you not to get me one, Shiro." I reminded the man who shrugged.

"I guess I didn't listen."