Golden brown (Sakura!)

[~Caroline~]

Nathaniel sat on the water edge, gazing deep into the crystaline blue of the stream. It was pretty shallow, not that deep, making him able to see the glossy pebbles under its surface. The stream rushed down the hill, colliding with the little pebbles, making a little ruffling sounds. Yet that was now the true ruffling sounds. Behind him, the wind whispered, brushing its hands against the golden brown trees. It was autumn. All the leaves were falling, chaning into this golden brown and falling gently, gracefully, from the branch. Soon, though, winter would come and all would be covered in snow. The cold white frost. Those were times which Nathaniel liked.

Sighing, he turned and leant against a large oak tree and looked up at the sky. So much had happened. So many endless acounts. His brother, the ghosts. Everything. It all annoyed him, bringing him unwanted headaches. But unfortunatly, there was no avoiding this.

[sakura]

Katsuki picked up a fallen leave from the ground and continued walking downhill, following the stream. Autumn was her favourite season. In autumn the wind blew gently across the branches of the trees, the floor became covered with fallen leaves that rustled under her feet and everything turned into lovely golden brown...Katsuki wondered if everything would be so charming in Trenton. She had heard that the school was haunted, but it did not scare her at all. Still...what if it was true? She hoped that at least, students would be nice. That was something that worried her about coming to a new place. It was hard for her to make friends because of her shyness. Absorbed in these thoughts, Katsuki took another step...but before she realized what was happening, the rock under her foot gave way and she fell into the stream.
'And you call yourself descendant of the great ninja?’ she muttered to herself. 'You can't even avoid a rock! At least the stream's not very deep in this p...' She suddenly went quiet and looked up at the boy that was leaning against an oak tree in front of her. He was tall, his skin was pale and he had deep blue eyes.
''Oh! I...I'm sorry! I've sprinkled water all over you!'', she said that although there were only a few droplets, ''I wasn't looking at my feet and...''
Great first impression, thought Katsuki, he must think I'm stupid.
''I'm Katsuki Morimoto...'', she said and bowed in her Japanese style as she always did when she greeted someone unknown, or older than her.
''...and I'm new here in Trenton. What's your name?''

[~Caroline~]

Nathaniel had hardly realised that she was there. He had heard a sudden thump, yet he was too caught up in his own thoughts to even look. At the sound of her voice, he somewhat jumped, surprised that she had greated him in sucha manner.
Raising his head, he looked at her curiously. She was indeed new, yet foreign. Seeing the style he knew she was Japanease and hearing her name proved him right. She was pretty, in an exotic fashion. Something out of the ordinary around here, making her much more curious.
Nathaniel, forced a litt smile, his sapphire blue eyes gleaming in the dim sunlight.
"Welcome Katsuki at Trenton," he welcomed her warmly. "I'm Nathaniel, if you really want to know." Realising her fall, his brow furrowed. "Are you alright after that fall?"

[sakura]

Katsuki blushed a bit ''No-I mean...I'm not-I mean...yes I'm all right'', she managed to say at last. She was glad the boy had not laughed at her. Nataniel...I like the name, she thought, I so hope everyone is as kind as he is. She stared at him for a moment, then got out of the stream and wrung the water out of her sleeves. ''It's icy cold...'', she said with a shiver. ''but it's beautiful isn't it? That crystalline blue...Sorry, I'm boring you.I just can't believe what people says about this place being haunted, and about the ghosts. It's not true...is it?'' She did not know why but somehow she resented having said those words. Maybe I've upsetted him, she thought, with a worried look on her face. Katsuki had a feeling Nathaniel did not want to talk about it. She had the ability to know intuitively what she should talk to someone about or what she should not say, but she did not always realize in time. ''Um, but...you don't have to answer if you don't want to of course!''

[~Caroline~]

Nathaniel shook his head. "No, you should know. After all it would be wrong," he said and sighed, avoiding her gaze as he turned and looked up at the crystal sky and the golden leaves. "This school is indeed haunted. There are ghosts. Most of the students have witnessed them. Recently the forest was burnt down, because these two guys had to burn it down to help, Cat, this girl. One of the guys became blind because of that incident. The ghosts are cruel, but there are many hidden within the shadows, lurking around every corner. Sometimes they are seen other times they are not. It depnds. The ghosts are of the children who died here. Their leader, is Davey. Like Davey Jones, the pirates spirit and his locker," he took a deep breath as his eyes drifted off to meet hers once more. "I'm the brother of this ghost called Adrian. He was my younger brother and died here about a year ago," he said. His face became slightly colourless, as he bowed his head, letting the colour slowly return. It was hard to say such a thing as he hardly talked about such incidents. It was always very hard as he tried to recount his pretigious and fearful memoirs.

[sakura]

Katsuki listened, wide-eyed. She had thought that the ghosts were merely stories invented by students to scare people or something. Davey...she wondered how would he be. He hoped he was not as cruel and evil as Davey Jones. Still, if he had a locker...Katsuki shook her head. You're thinking nonsense, she told herself. She knew Nathaniel was not telling lies because it had been hard for him to say that he was the brother of a ghost. Katsuki dared not ask how Adrian had become a ghost or why. ''I'm sorry...I didn't know...well, your...oh, I suppose it must be hard for you.'' I knew he had something to do with the ghosts, she thought while she fingered her amulet nervously, as she did every time when something concerned her. ''Ghosts are cruel...'', she whispered, remembering Nathaniel's words. ''But how can we defend ourselves from ghosts? I'm not saying that I'm afraid but, I mean: you can't fight a ghost, can you?''

[~Caroline~]

A little dry smile crossed his face as his eyes lingered down to the floor. He was amused by that question as some other students had asked about that question and they had it answered in a terrible way. "You're going to here alot about certain students here. They've grown quite popular here after they burnt down the forest. Cat, one of them, was trapped by Davey. Davey was her best friend before he dided. Davey sort off died because of her, since it was her who lead him into the forest. Nevertheless, Casimir and Jason were the only ones left and after much panicing they thought that only thing that ghosts would fear would be light and heat. Fire. Jason who had a lighter, set the fire alight and took Cat whilst Davey was screaming in pain. However Casimir got sort of loss and finally staggered out of the forest, blind. They got their question answered, telling us that Davey is scared of fire. But there is always a price," he said and shook his head, sighing, before letting his eyes wonder back up to meet hers. "Well, those three have gained quite a reputation here. You'll be hearing much about them. Jason, who is the jocker, Casimir who is blind and cheats on every girl but still manages to get away with it and Cat the one who gets caught in everything and manages to get out too. Great friends," he mused, chuckling under his breath.

[sakura]

''Fire...that's clever!'', observed Katsuki, ''I'm impressed they managed to get away and that they saved Cat. But they paid a terrible price indeed. Poor Casimir!''
It's amazing, thought Katsuki, I thought that Trenton would be an ordinary school as any other, but it seems that strange things have happened here. She had a feeling the stay in this school was going to be exciting.
''Jason, Casimir and Cat...'', Katsuki hesitated for a moment, ''...are they friends of yours? Could you introduce them to me?'', she added then, shyly.

[~Caroline~]

"Yeah i know them pretty well," he said and smiled at her. "I've known them for some time, espececially Casimir." He looked up at her his sapphire eyes gleaming in the dim light as he met her gaze, a little smile on his face before he turned away once more.

Casimir tripped over a stone and landed straight on a stone, bruising himself again. It hurt slightly as he winced and staggered up to his feet, cursing his disability. Sighing, he felt the leaves fall on his head and thus he knew where he was; by the stream. In the distance he could her voices talk, frowning he followed them. One he recognize the other he didn't. Soon he found himself face to face to one of them.
"Nathaniel?" he asked, looking to where he thought the voice came from.
"Yep that's me," said the voice again, reassuring him that it was indeed Nathaniel.

[sakura]

Katsuki looked surprised when the other boy spoke to Nathaniel because she had not seen him coming, absorbed as she was in her conversation with Nathaniel. This must be one of the boys Nathaniel just mentioned...oh, yes, Casimir isn't it?, Katsuki thought.
She suddenly got up and bowed, although she knew Casimir could not see her. ''Nice to meet you, my name is Katsuki Morimoto. I'm new in Trenton. You must be Casimir...''
She stared at him. She was determined not to say anything about the incident in the forest because she feared it could hurt him, so she remained silent, waiting for an answer.

[~Caroline~]

Nathaniel nuded Casimir indiacting that there was some one else amongst them.
Startled, Casimir bowed formally, like he usually did. "Nice to meet you. as you may already know my name is Casimir," he said not knowing what else to say. she had probably heard of the incident in the forest. Who did not know about it? Nathaniel had probably told her.
"Who is she?" he mumbled at Nathaniel, making sure she couldn't hear him.
"new girl.Japanease," he replied.
Casimir nodded and then sat down beside Nathaniel.
"You new here then?" he asked, raising an eyebrow, grinning michevously.

[sakura]

Katsuki smiled,''Yes, I'm new, although I've already heard about your adventures...What you did was very brave! I'm happy to meet you.'' Casimir is notquite the way I imagined him...Katsuki thought smiling, as she realized the way he was grinning. He seems nice anyway...but what did Nathaniel say about Casimir cheating on every girl but still getting away with it...? Whatever...
''So'', Katsuki asked cautiously, ''How are things around here at the moment? Apart from..the forest, I mean. Oh, by the way...I thought maybe you could tell me a bit more about Trenton...I'm sure there's a lot I don't know...this place sure seems mysterious...''
Katsuki bent down and took a golden leaf from the floor. She began to fold it and turn it round quickly in various manners as she waited for one of the boys' answer.

[~Caroline~]

"Well. this place is haunt by a ghost; Davey. He died, Cat sort of leading him into the forest and from then on this plcae has been haunted. We do not know why, but we think it is revenge. We have been trying to solve this mystery and we've nearly reached it. Thyere was sceane and Davey and Adrian appeared and then announced that they're were not the only ghosts. After Adrian appeared and all them that Davey was the sort of...King, who controlled the ghosts, deciding who would be his servant and who would pass on. His was unkown and now they are still debating on what to do about it," Casimir explained, using his hands to explain the situation, his black silky locks falling in front of hs equally dark eyes. He was handsome, having handsome features as he once went out with many girls. Looking up he, turned to look at Katsuki and thus a smile was playing about on his lips. One quite michevous but at the same time kind and genuine.

[sakura]

Katsuki listened intently to Casimir. ''So there are more ghosts...Are they seen often? I wonder if I'll ever see one...'' She looked again at Casimir. Curious smile that is, Katsuki thougt but anyway she liked it. ''Not all of the ghosts are dangerous...are they?'' She added suddenly, not letting fear slip out with her voice.

[~Caroline~]

Casimir hesitated there, quite uncertain, until he took a deep breath and answered her question, his tone sullen and low. "No they're not. But we do not know much about them. They remain a mystery and we do not have the key to unlock these prestigious mysteries which weave themselves through the walls," he said and then looked away, lowering his gaze. "But it would be unwise to anger them, nevertheless."