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(Kizumi's P.O.V.)

As we turned that corner and the other kid came into sight, a slight glare formed on my face. It was mostly out of habit, but also because he had just kind of popped up out of nowhere, and I wasn't sure how I felt about that. The closer we got to him, the more annoyed I felt. Shirou was giving him a wide smile, and that kid was smiling right back. I could feel the irritation bubbling inside of me, but I kept my mouth shut. When he looked over at me, his smile disappeared.

I sure wasn't going to smile back, so there was no point in him giving me one. When we stood in front of him, Shirou began talking and he took his eyes off of me to respond. I eyed him as he looked away. He was about Shirou's height...not a bad looking kid, but not so attractive that I took any notice. The more I watched him interact with Shirou, the harder my glare formed on my face. I wasn't trying to, but I wasn't trying to stop it either. Shirou spoke to him and introduced us.

"Yuji, this is Kizumi." He directed his hands towards me and Yuji looked up, meeting my eyes. When he saw the glare that was on my face, his overall expression grew anxious, but his eyes said something different. I couldn't read exactly what it was but...it wasn't matching up with his facial expression very well. I didn't say hello to him, or stick my hand out to shake his. I just shoved my hands in my pockets and waited for him to look away or say something. Neither of those things happened, and Shirou called my name.

"Kizumi?" He obviously wanted me to say something.

"...yeah." I said it dismissively, obviously not interested in this kid at all. I was annoyed by his presence and just wanted to get moving. While we walked down the hall, I tuned in and out of their conversation. It only had to do with school and Shirou's obnoxious friends, so I didn't care much about what they were saying. What I was focused on was their general interaction.

Shirou had said they were friends when they were younger, but they got along really well despite him only coming back around recently. Shirou and I hadn't clicked at all when we first met...it was rocky and not very pleasant. For a moment, I was a little bit jealous but immediately shook it off as we stepped outside. I was silent as we grew closer to where all of Shirou's friends were. I was far from surprised when they all jumped up as soon as they saw the new kid. Excitedly, they all rushed over and started to squeal and gush over him.

I tried my best to not turn myself around and just leave. It might hurt Shirou's feelings, and I didn't want to do that. We sat down in the dead grass and I stayed silent while looking out over the school grounds. I was paying zero attention to any of them, so when Shirou sad my name, it didn't really register at first.

"Kizumi?" He had said for what was probably the third time.

"What?" I answered a little more snappy than I had meant to. Shirou didn't take notice to it though.

"You just seem a little spacey." He laughed a little bit and I sighed, throwing the blade of dead grass that was in my fingers. "Did you finish last night's English homework?"

"Of course I did." I retorted. I always did my work, even though I didn't like it.

"Wait, so you and Shirou have known each other for a while?" One of the girls squeaked. Yuji nodded.

"Since we were kids. It's actually kind of a weird story. Wanna hear it?" He asked them, knowing they would all be interested. As much as I wanted to stay out of it, I listened as well when he started talking. "When Shirou and I were younger, we lived a couple houses down from each other, and there was a river running some ways down from our houses. I guess we had both been running around exploring down there that day, and there was this frog that I saw. This thing was huge. I mean, really huge."

"Yeah, I remember that!" Shirou joined in and chuckled. "We both looked at it at the same time and then noticed each other."

"Then we both started racing to it, trying to catch it...in the end we both ended up falling into the creek and we were mad at each other for letting the frog escape." Yuji and him were both laughing. He could make Shirou laugh easily and was great at keeping up conversation, which pissed me off a little. I couldn't do that sort of thing...I was practically the polar opposite of him.

"We became friends right away, despite being so upset with each other two minutes before." Shirou's laughter simmered down a little.

"Yep. We were inseparable for a long time." Yuji smiled at Shirou, and then his eyes flicked over to me for a fraction of a second. I didn't look at him, but I had seen it happen.

"Then he moved away for years. I never got his number or email, so we haven't talked all this time...and I guess he came back." Shirou chuckled as he shrugged.

"Seems like you guys are still good friends." Some of them agreed. I felt a sharp pang of annoyance. That was obvious, it didn't need to be vocalized. It took a lot for me to keep from shooting a glare at the person who said it, but I managed. In reality, there was no reason for me to give them a look anyways. It'd just make me look and feel stupid. Their conversation trailed off into other random things, and I tuned it out staying quiet for the rest of the lunch period. Once in a while Shirou would say something to me, but my lack of response always caused him to wander back into the conversation everyone else was having.

It wasn't unusual for him to that, but the fact that Yuji was sitting there socializing with him the most made me angry. I didn't like this guy at all...

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