Chapter 1:

A Day like no other .. Part 1

Testament of the Blood Moon


May 29th, 2009 

A certain 2nd year named Yamada Katsura was inside his class awaiting his class field trip. Little does this boy know that his world is going to be changed….. Forever.

A day like no other..

The sound of many kids talking as they wait for their class trip
Desks being moved, chairs being pulled and much eagerness for the long awaited trip
I enter the class and see my long time friend Hisako

"Man I hope something cool happens today.."

“Hey Hisako! Are you ready or what?”

“Oh hey Yamada! Hell yeah I’m ready! What about you?”

“Yeah, it’s one of our last memories before summer break so i want it to be worth it!”

“The bell should be ringing any minute now for us to go so..”

”Oh yeah, it’s almost time”

“Are you going to miss Shion.”
She makes a slight grin

“Yeah, I wish we talked more during the year.”

“Well let’s invite her to join us, look she’s all alone over there.”

Hisako points towards Shion Kanazawa
She's beautiful as hell as usual ... and alone.. like usual

“Woah woah woah! Chill, don’t talk so loud!”

“It’s cool, it’s not like I had a shot anyway”

“C’mon! You don’t know until you try!”

“She might be moving anyway so it wouldn’t matter!”

“That’s all the more reason to do it, you won’t see her again!”
“Maybe she’s been waiting for you to make a move! You never know!”

“Yeah or she might already like someone else.”

My face droops down as I say that ..

“You’re no fun! Stop being scared already!”
"What do you have to lose Yamada??"

Hisako then calls out
“SHION, SHION! Come here real quick!”

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING! STOP!”

Shion’s head peaks up from her phone
“Hmm?”
“Me?”

“Yeah, come real quick!”

I mutter under my breath
“I’m going to kill you Hisako...”

Shion stands up and walks towards them
Yamada’s face becomes flushed and red
Hisako whispers to Yamada

“You’re welcome.”

Shion arrives

“U-Um, w-would you like to uhh, hang out with us during the trip?”

I stuttered so damn much on my words
She's so beautiful...

“Yeah sure, I ain’t got no one to hang out with!”

“Wait… "
"Really?”

“Yeah, it would be fun!”
Shion’s bright and gorgeous smile sends my heart racing at 400 MPH.

“O-Okay, Cool!!”

My friend Keima Yamagi enters the conversation
Keima says in a slightly annoyed and uninterested voice
“Whoa, did I miss something important?.”

“Oh shoot, Keima! Where’d you come from?”

Hisako butts in
“Oh hey Keima, glad to see you here, I thought you were gonna skip again”

“Well this is my last year seeing y’all so I thought I might come after all...”

Shion chimes in to
“Oh you’re leaving after this year?”

“Yeah, my Dad found work in America so he’s taking the whole family.”
"If you ask me.. I think its dumb .."

“Oh, well I’m glad we met before you went!”
”Ha, I knew you still liked us!”

”Tsk whatever...”
“Well, anyways, what are y’all guys gonna do when the year is over.”

“Well I might g--”

Hisako interrupts
“Well I’m probably going to go swimming a lot at the beach with my sisters, and probably camping with my family.”

“Oh well, that’s pretty cool, maybe I could tag along haha.”

“Yeah right! You just want to see me in a swimsuit!”

I'm busted ....
“H-Hisako!”

“Wow Yamada, I didn’t know you were like that...”

“No it's not like that Shion! I swear!
“Why am I being attacked!”
“Ughhh I can’t get a break”
I was defeated, and now Shion has a ‘good’ first impression of me ..

“Well anyways, what do you want to do Keima?”

“Well I think I’m gonna--”
The bell rings

“Oh REALLY! Again!”

“Hehehehe”

Hisako replies
“Just tell us along the way”

I agree
 “That would be better.”

“I guess if you’re all that interested.”

The 4 exit the room and enter the hallway with their class

Just then, another friend, Natsuko Fujiwara shows up
“Oh heyyy everyone!”

“Natsuko! You made it!”

“Oh you’re Natsuko! We never really talked before have we?”

“Yeah, but I can tell you’re one of us now!”

“I think, if that’s cool with everyone else?”

“YES! I mean, yeah of course you are!”
Natsuko and Hisako both suspiciously laugh

“Well, why did you get here late?”

“Oh, I kind of uhhhhh, stayed up all night doing some last minute preparations for a party that I’m doing for my little brother's graduation from middle school..”

Shion smiles
“Oh that’s so sweet, you’re a good big sister!”
My heart skips a beat.. that damn smile.. 
Her being a good sister is pretty hot

”Thank you Shion!”

“Yeah, I agree with Shion!”

“Now you’re being obvious Yamada..”
Oh shoot oops..
“I was just trying to be nice!”

Hisako gives Yamada a slick grin because she knows what’s going on
“And what’s with that face?”

“Oh nothing, nothing at all.”
“It’s just that y’all look cute together.”

Me and Shion look at each other
Then it clicks in our mind

Shion/Yamada “WHAAAAAAAT!”

“W-W-What do you m-mean!”
“HISAKO, WHAT THE HELL!!”

Mine and Shion's faces turned beet red as they stuttered on their words.
“Sorry, sorry! I was just kidding! Take a joke! Hahaha.”
“T-This is not funny!”

Keima gave his sarcastic remark
“Yeah it is..”

Shion/Me “YOU SHUT UP!”
“...”

“How can I be chill when she just said that!”

“Hahahahaha, maybe because you like it!”

Shion’s face becomes more red

Clearly uncomfortable

Hell I know I am!

“AS IF! HE’S JUST A NICE GUY!...”
“IF I KNEW HIM BETTER, THEN MAYBE--!”

Everyone stops and looks
She did not just say that ...
Yoooooo she did!!!
Then everyone blurts out
“OOOOOOOOOOO.”

“THAT’S NOT HOW I MEANT IT!”
“I meant like a friend or something!!”

Natsuko nudges Shion

“Sounds to me like you haven’t thought of it before!”

“PLEASE CAN WE DROP THIS!”
“YES PLEASE!”

Nooooo please don't drop it!!!
Hisako speaks up

“Okay, Okay, I had my fun! ”

“Alright, alright jeez.”

“Well since everyone’s here now, should we take a group picture?”

“Yeah!”

”Tsk, whatever, sure.”

A picture with everyone and Shion!?

Count me in!

“Alright... We’ll take it from my phone and I’ll send it to everyone..”

I then take out my phone for the picture
Everyone else huddles up together and does their own poses
Natsuko holds up a sideways peace sign to her left eye while holding Hisako’s shoulder
Hisako closes one eye and wraps her around both Natsuko and Keima
Keima folds his arms in and acts uninterested
And Yamada holds the camera up in the middle of everyone
Hisako points something out

“Yamada! Shion! Y’alls faces are still red.”

Me and Shion both yell

“SHUT UP!”

I didn't know she could look so cute while being so embarrassed ..
Gonna savor this memory
They wait it out until we were normal again

I then take the picture

“Are we done yet?”

“Oh quit your moodiness for like 5 minutes already! Do you always have to be such a tsundere!?”

“Tsk, whatever.”

Keima throws his arms out and turns away ..
Typical tsundere ..

Natsuko then looks at everyone and says

“Guys settle down, this may be our last trip together and we have Shion here this time! So let’s make some memories okay?.”

Keima nods his head
“Yeah sure..”

Hisako apologizes
“Alright, sorry about that Shion.”

“No it’s okay, don’t worry about it.”

“Anyways, how’d that picture come out Yamada?”

“Oh yeah, here lets see it!”

I pull out the picture
“Oh nice! I’m actually smiling!”
“Ugh, it looks like I just woke up!”
“Oooooo, I like this, send it to me!”
“This is more like it!”
I notice we are almost at the bus stop
“Oh we’re almost to the bus already!”

“Yeah, we’ve been walking the whole time idiot.”
"Shut up Keima .."

“Almost there!”

We all go onto the busses
We all head towards the middle rows passing all the kids who came before us
Little did I know that Hisako already had pre planned this
She had already schemed a way for Shion and I to sit next to each other which was fine by me
Hisako secretly rearranges everyone by putting certain people together, the ultimate scheme.
Natsuko catches on and helps Hisako.
I find out to and go along with it
A bus ride with the girl I crushed on all year? Could it get any better?

This is truly a day like no other.. Hopefully we make some memories today...