Once again today I am looking into the mirror, hoping that my appearance would magically change. I have white hair, and red eyes; in other words I am an albino. At the same time I am not. My parents have repeatedly had me checked out by the doctors ever since I was a baby, and I have yet to come across any impairments to either my eyes or skin. I also do not burn easily, or I should say at all. Of course, I haven't had much chance to test to see if I would burn in the sun for a long period of time, because my mother would never allow me to stay outside that long. Being an albino isn't that bad though. My problem is that at the age of 15, I am 8 feet tall and am still growing. If being tall wasn't enough, I am built like a pro wrestler without even trying. As you can see, I stand out in a crowd, and I have always been feared because of it, but once again, as if that wasn't enough, once the others my age found out I was a softy, they bullied the hell out of me. If there was any blessing I got from my physique it would be that there was nothing much they could do to hurt me, physically at least. I am getting depressed just thinking about it.

“Shoki! Come down for breakfast! Your Entrance Ceremony starts in an hour! Hurry up!”

'Dang! Better hurry.....' I hurriedly put on my school uniform that they had to specially make for me, another burden to my families finances, sigh. Still it is a nice uniform, unlike most that are black this one is a light gray jacket and pants, with a white shirt, and a maroon tie. At least it didn't clash with my hair and eye like my last one did.

I hurried out of my room and down the stair, and then to the dining table, where my mother, Yameshiro Shizuku, was waiting. Now I am not interested in my mom that way, but I have to admit that my dad was lucky to get her. She has blond hair and blue eyes, and is about 5 foot 6. which is pretty tall. Anyway the rest is left to your imagination as I won't look at my mom much further than that. As you could probably tell my mom is a foreigner, but she is a legal citizen of Japan. I don't know her full story, but she eloped with my dad in some other country and moved to here. She then changed her name to the one I know of.

“Shoki! Oh! there you are, hurry up and eat before it gets cold, you have a bit of a walk before you get to school.” Mom says with a smile.

“hai hai.” I take the plate of food, and try to escape before the ladle comes crashing down... I was a second too late.

“ouch! you didn't have to swing that hard!”

“If I didn't swing that hard you would have dodged it.” mom said with a smile on her face.

“Anyways, only one 'Hai' is all you need, and don't pretend that hurt, you are bad at acting.” mom said with a glint of mischief in her eyes.

“Haiiiii” I took the risk as I was farther away now.

I then went to the table, and to my surprise, I saw a man with black hair, green eyes, and was fairly well built at a height of 6 feet; this is my father, Yameshiro Kenichi. He was drinking his tea, he abhors coffee, and watching us with a glint in his eyes, as he watches our antics. Waiting for me to notice him.

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“Morning Dad, didn't you have work today?”

“Well, I was going to, but the meeting got postponed due to an unexpected delay in the research. I don't mind it though, since I get to see you off to school” dad says with a calm grin on his face.

“I see, so what wild theories have your research team come up with this time?”

“I don't know yet, they are keeping under tighter raps than usual... my guess is that they want to suprise me with it.” dad says with an expression full of curiosity.

“hmmmm. Well, hopefully it will be better than the last one.” I smile a mischievous smile, reminding my dad about the last meeting.

“yes, I wonder how they came up with that... anyways, hurry up and eat or you'll be late.” my dad points at the clock.

“oh, shoot!” I rush to finish my breakfast.

10 minutes later of stuffing my face, I head towards the door, my parents seeing me off. I start to walk towards my school. It is a private institution, so my parents figured I would not get bullied as much there, and if I did, the school would take care of it. Another reason I was bullied a lot was out of jealousy, you see, despite my huge stature, I am not what is known as a 'muscle head'. For that matter, I was able to get into Genbu Private Academy for free, due to having a perfect score on my entrance test, and having all 100s in my previous classes. I am not sure how I did that, it isn't like I have photographic memory or something like that, it is just that I tend to understand the topics my teachers are talking about.

After about 30 minutes of walking, I arrive at the front gate of the school. I am only a little early, about 10 minutes, but there is no one here yet. Well, its not that unexpected. After all, only freshmen will be coming today.

I decided I would head to the Gymnasium since it was only 10 minutes, not a lot of time to do any exploring. The Gymnasium was full of chairs. Not to surprising since there would be 250 or so students coming in. I had heard that while there aren't many classrooms for the 1st years; 2nd years, and 3rd years had more, due to the fact that they could choose a specialization. Well, its not exactly a specialization, rather it is the ability to choose a general direction you would like to go in. For example, if you wanted to be a scientist you would choose the science course. Anyway, in front of the chairs was of course the stage, with a few chairs and a podium on it. I noticed one of the chairs had fallen over so I went to put it back up.

While I was putting it back up I heard a loud 'Kirik' sound and then everything went dark...