The Earth After Rebirth

Kiro was walking down the hall, when he heard Wilfred thanking his father profusely.

"Thank you very much sir, my silly granddaughter failed to mention that you were also sending her to school. I'm truly grateful, is it really okay? I can forfeit my salary here and work for free."

He rolled his eyes hearing this. This man was ever dramatic, with everything, he never wanted anything for free. Suppose that was the price to pay for the life he'd lived so far, he didn't trust anything that came easy.

He believed that hard work equalled to great benefits. Kiro could still feel his aching muscles from the training, they didn't really hurt, it was just a phantom pain, that lingered. Wilfred told him, it'd disappeared after a while.

"No, that's okay Wilfred. LJ is part of this estate, so are you, we should look out for each other." He patted his back.

He nodded. Becoming more emotional than he intended.

"Thank you, sir." He finally said, his voice high pitched than usual.

It was a stupid tradition, at least that's what Kiro though but every time schools opened, specifically after new years, every student was required to come back in their full, school uniform.

That's why, all three of them were in their respective uniforms as they sat down for breakfast.

"Damn LJ, you look just like a boy." Loki commented.

"So what, you idiot, what's it to you? Not hoping I'd date you, do you?" She shot back.

"What? of course not, you're like my sister." Loki said, disgusted at the idea.

"Good. Better remember that Willy." She said with a grin.

Kiro sat there listening to their very dumb conversation. They were now having a back and forth because Loki hated that nickname.

Alora was beyond sad, as this meant she'd be left here, in this huge palace, alone, with no siblings to play with. She wanted to hurry and be old so she could go to school too. Having new siblings was great and all, but they were still too young to play with.

"I want to go with you." She said even though she knew it wasn't possible.

Kiro put on a thinking face. "Well Freckles, where I'm going, everyone's as big and tall as me. They'd walk on your like you were nothing. You can't come."

"You can just carry me always." She suggested.

"I could but my arms would get tired, then what?" Kiro had to entertain her thoughts and stoop to her level otherwise she wouldn't understand.

"Then Hiro would carry me." She answered delighted.

"But Freckles, if you go, Isao will want to go too." He cornered her.

She pouted, folding her arms. "Fine then, promise you'll call me every day? I don't have a phone but mum does!"

Kiro agreed, he admired how mature she wanted to present herself. Loki shook his head, at the dumb conversation he'd just listened to.

"You know Loki, most likely those kids know about our history, living in the slums. They'll most likely bully you for it, but..."

"I should take it, is that where you're going with this?" He cut him off before he could say it.

"Actually, I was gonna tell you, if anyone gives you crap, give it back a hundred fold."

Loki looked at his brother dumbfounded. As if to search whether this was his real brother or not. The Kiro he knew was timid, even though he'd done all this for them, that image of him never really left his mind.

He stared at him unable to reply, at that moment, the Kiro he knew or the image he had about his brother was slowly crumbling in his mind. A new one, he had no qualms about admiring, was starting to form.

"Yeah, okay." He nodded, still unable to wrap his mind around what just happened.

This made him relieved, he wouldn't have to take responsibility for a lot of things now that his brother had a firm hand. He was happily glad to be a younger brother, he didn't like to take charge anyway.

Money wasn't a problem for them no longer. He could do anything he wanted. Slowly but surely the hard exterior he had created to survive the lower district was shedding. Though the menace within him could never truly be gone.

"Don't give them too much trouble, you don't want mum or dad to have to answer to the school for your antics." Kiro reprimanded when he noticed a smile creeping into his lips.

"Of course. Cross my heart." He said with a menacing smile, while crossing his chest.

Kiro shook his head, feeling sorry for his parents. They were about to unleash him to the outside world, it was embarrassing to think about the things he could do.

They all had big luggage. Kiro wasn't quite used to having so much stuff. Raul offered to drive them to the train station, but Kiro refused.

Isla had convinced his father to let them take their private jet. And he agreed readily. So they'd meet up at their street when it was time to go, Nikolai and Felix had to travel all the way here.

Loki and LJ said their farewells in their green and gold uniforms. Raul drove them to the station. Freya felt sad that he couldn't go with them, the doctor didn't only tell her to take it easy but she wasn't comfortable leaving the little ones.

Kiro stood at his gate, 5 minutes before. Nikolai and Felix arrived next. The rest were a bit late.

Originally Kiro couldn't wait to ride the train, he thought maybe they could look for clues for the underground station. But soon realised if it could be heard from above, a lot of people would've. Unless of course the peculiarities would reveal themselves because they were looking for something.

He wasn't in a rush, Wilfred stressed the importance of more training once they got to the academy. They weren't intending to slack off either. They knew the risks of doing so.

"Well then, let's go shall we?"

Hiro yanked him aside, even though he trusted the girls, he didn't trust their families yet.

"Are we sure about this?" He whispered with the corner of his mouth.

"We're sure." Kiro whispered back without missing a beat, he didn't even look back at his friend. He just entered the jet.