(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/akikokittel/akikobanner.jpg) (http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/akikokittel/akiko.jpg)<br/><hr/><br/>An elegant, silver Rolls-Royce Phantom (http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/akikokittel/phantom14.jpg) slowly pulled up next to the parked bus.<br/><br/>A stately older gentleman exited the right-side driver's seat, and walking around behind the vehicle, stopped at the left rear door, waiting.<br/><br/>Inside, Takeshita Akiko looked at the assembled boys, then over at her grandmother and grandfather, "Grandmother, Grandfather... I thought it was an all-girls school?"<br/><br/>"I had heard they were changing things up this year, Akiko-chan," her grandmother responded after looking to her husband, who had nodded to have her reply. Akiko's grandmother had attended this very school, several long years after the end of the Great War, not too long after the end of the American Occupation. She was an independent woman, but still very much the dutiful wife when in the company of her husband.<br/><br/>"Don't you think we should stop worrying about a couple of little boys, Akiko-chan?" her grandfather's deep baritone broke through Akiko's worried fog. Raising a hand,  to the window, Grandfather's side door opened, the driver there waiting. Stepping out, the older statesman, the owner of a profitable hotel chain in central Japan, pulled his jacket closed and glanced around as he made way for his wife to exit.<br/><br/>Sighing to herself, little Akiko exited the expensive car, shivering in the cold wind. Her grandfather put a hand on her shoulder, leading her towards the front of the school, "I know you have been away from school for awhile, Akiko-chan, but you have to go back sometime. We do not want you to fall behind in your studies, do we?"<br/><br/>Akiko moved along dutifully, her short fuku skirt fluttering up in the cold wind, likely giving a number of the boys they passed a bit of a show. Hands slapping the skirt back down, the three ignored the looks of the assembled boys and entered the building, Akiko's grandmother directing them to the school offices.