Biology homework [Open]

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku and people
Format: I'm writing prose but you can write whatever you feel like
This log is: open
Location: Black floor 1 common room
Summary: Suzaku fails at attempts biology homework
Warnings: None

Suzaku sat in the corner of the downstairs common room in the Black dorm building. Spread out in front of him was a couple of textbooks and a lot of paper. He frowned, he had never found biology easy but this! He hadn't even seen half of these plants before in his life and was starting to suspect they didn't even exist in his world.

Other worlds, the idea was terrifying when Suzaku stopped long enough to think about it, other worlds with other animals and other plants from what he knew. He blinked at the question again, he had no idea; he sighed heavily and read through the textbook again.

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[brokencrane]

Yuka had been thinking of going for a walk, so she'd wandered downstairs. She didn't realize someone was in the common room when she first entered; when she spotted the boy in the corner she stopped, surprised. He looked busy, but he'd probably noticed her coming in, and it didn't hurt to be polite. "Ah, hello?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku looked up from the work, glad for the distraction. Really he had turned over the page to a chapter on food chains, which would have been fine if the book didn't have diagrams of animals that didn't exist.

Like a turtle-seal, what on earth was a turtle-seal? Suzaku sighed. "Hello," he gave a polite smile, he didn't recognise the girl so he guessed she must have arrived on the train a couple of days ago. "How are you?"

[brokencrane]

"Fine, thank you." Oh right, smiling. That often helps. She offered him a polite one back, though it probably came across more nervous than she'd intended. "Do you live in this dorm too, then?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded; he managed to keep his polite smile fixed. With Euphemia and Sora Suzaku had been having to smile more so that they did not worry about him and it was getting a little easier to keep it up.

"Yes I live in 1A, are you new here?"

[brokencrane]

"Ah, yes, I came on the train the other day. I live upstairs in 2-B." Oh, this is the part where you're supposed to introduce yourself, isn't it. "Um, my name's Yuka Osada..."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded noticing that she was nervous. "Hello Yuka Osada, my name is Suzaku," he frowned slightly before his polite smile came back into place. It was still strange to introduce himself with only his given name but they had taken the memory of his family name from him.

[brokencrane]

"Nice to meet you, Suzaku-san," she said, giving him a short bow out of habit. (Well his name did sound Japanese...)

She looked back at the pile of books and papers in front of him; homework? They did look like textbooks. "Were you busy?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku bowed back, "It is nice to meet you too," he looked at the books and shook his head, "No, it's just homework," he sighed, "You're worled doesn't happen to have turtle-seals does it?" he turned the book round so she could see the picture.

[brokencrane]

"Turtle-seals...?" She looked down at the book and blinked at the picture. What was that thing? "No, we don't have those. There are things like that in the textbooks here?"

[swordofzero]

"In this one, the plants are all different from what I know as well, but I haven't seen any of these plants outside." He shook his head and put the book down. "I haven't seen any turtle-seals here either, so I am not sure why they are in this book."

[brokencrane]

"That's...strange. Maybe they took things from everyone's worlds and put them all in the book together...?"

[swordofzero]

"Maybe," he looked back at the book, it was probably a good theory. Suzaku wondered why the school had decided to teach them about all the worlds they kidnapped people from. "How are you finding it here?"

[brokencrane]

"It's..." It was different. No Orphenochs and no Smart Brain were definitely good things. But Kiba-san and Kaidou-san weren't here, so she was alone again, and this place was a school, the last time she'd been to school she'd...

"It's fine, I guess..."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, he guessed Yuka was as well as could be expected since she had been kidnapped and brought here by force and had her memories stolen. He sat quietly not sure if he should say anything else.

[brokencrane]

Oh, she was being depressing again, wasn't she. She should try to change the subject quickly. "Ah, what about you, Suzaku-san? You said I was new, so does that mean you came here earlier?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked at the change of subject. "Yes I have been here two weeks, we were the first people here." Why the kidnappers had decided they needed more people he didn't know, but there had been quite a lot of new people the day after the night they had all had the same nightmare.

[brokencrane]

"Oh, I see." Two weeks seemed like such a long time when she'd only been here a few days. "Was it always like this? With all the fighting..."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded looking solumn, "Yes, that seems to be the purpose of the whole school. No one cares if you don't turn up to class. The kidnappers seem determined only to make us fight. I don't know why." Everyone had theories it seemed but the only way to find out was to play along until they could find a way to escape.

Of course there was the shared nightmare as well, but Suzaku was trying not to think about that, not because he was scared. He had nightmares on a nightly basis, but because the fact they had all had the same dream, it was strange. He couldn't explain it and so he was trying to ignore it.

[brokencrane]

She frowned. "Does something bad happen if we don't fight, then? I don't really want..." At home she would fight to protect the others, of course, but fighting just for the sake of it...at least people didn't seem to die from it here, but still.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku frowned, "We're not sure. We loose tokens if we don't fight, they made it sound like worse could happen if we continued not to cooperate. They have this thing called the penalty, it happens if a Player touches another Player's weapon, it's like a piercing headache," Suzaku had not experianced it but had seen people who had and it seemed painful.

"A group tried to get past the battles by playing a game of checkers and having the looser forfeit as a way to not fight and they were all given the penalty and lost tokens. Not only the players but the weapons suffered..." He sighed.

[brokencrane]

"Oh." That didn't sound good. Well, by itself it didn't sound too bad, but if it got worse from there... "So there isn't really a way around it, then."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku shook his head, "Not that we can find." He shrugged again, "We just have to try and figure out how to escape, and those that can fight have to protect those that can't."

[brokencrane]

She nodded, chewing on her lip in thought. "Right..." She wasn't sure which group she counted under here, since she couldn't transform for some reason, and she'd never learned to fight in human form. But she didn't know anyone here, and she couldn't just ask a stranger to help her; she'd be hoping it was possible to just avoid it, but if it wasn't...

She started out of her thoughts. "Oh, um, I'm sorry to bother you by asking so many questions..."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku made himself smile and shook his head, "Don't worry, we were all really confused at first anyways, sit down," he waved to the empty seats on the table he was sat at, "Ask anything, though I might not know all the answers."

[brokencrane]

"All right." She sat down carefully in a seat near him but not right next to him, and glanced at the pile of books again. "Um, well...we don't really have to go to school, do we? I mean, some people aren't even the right age..."