Nami's Note: This translation is for any body that wants to read manga. Don't redistribute this translation for your site, commercial use, or anything I consider inappropriate. If you like this story, you could be supporting the author by buying this manga^-^ "Sora Sora" is copyrighted to Maki Youko and Shueisha. Signs: (THINKING) [ACTION] ***** = change in time or place Sora Sora chapter 1 [Sorako is lying down on the rooftop of the school.] Sorako: (A teacher once told me, "School isn't a place to play around, it's a place to learn." Why? School is a place to talk to your friends, a place where your important person is, and a place where your love one is. Learning is extra; otherwise I won't be able to stand it.) Sorao: Hey!! What are you doing? Sorako: Sorao. Well if must ask, natural salon? Sorao: Idiot!! I'm being used because you're skipping class. Sorako: Class started? Sorao: I am so gonna kill you!! Come on let's go back to class. Sorako: No!! I'm still sleepy, I hate work and this place is comfortable. Sorao: I'm gonna be the one being scolded for this. Sorako: Why don't you sleep too? Sorao: You are so ------- ***** A little later [Sorao is lying down on the rooftop with Sorako.] Sorao: I feel good. Sorako: You are bad too. Sorao: If there was a mattress, it is heaven. Sorako: It's heaven just thinking that everybody's doing work while we're up here. Sorao: Ah, I want to eat a melon-flavoured bread. Sorako: doesn't that cloud look like a shape of a fish? Sorako & Sorao: Stay on topic, will you? Kurilin: What are you guys doing? Sorako: Ah, it's Kurilin. ***** In the hallway Kurilin: Why do you guys even come to school!!! Sorako & Sorao: To study. Kurilin: Liars! And Sorao!! What's the point of skipping class with her!! Sorao: I have been persuaded. Kurilin: Kneel down till I tell you to get up, all right? Sorako & Sorao: What!? Sorao: This is your fault. Sorako: What!? You don't like kneeling down? Sorao: Of course not!! I'm losing my favourable impression. Sorako: This guy's an idiot. He's talking about favourable impressions. Sorao: Hey. Sorako: I'm having fun. Sorao: You must be crazy!! Sorako: Watch it. (Coz Sorao is with me) ?: What are you guys doing? Sorako & Sorao: Ah, the teasers are here!! Friend 1: My God, they're kneeling down. Friend 3: You guys got scolded again? How stupid can you guys get? Friend 1: It's rare to see people actually getting this kind of punishment you know? [Laugh, laugh.] Friend 2: See ya! Come back to class soon. Sorako & Sorao: Why did you guys even come!!? Sorako: (Sorako and Sorao. According to the teacher, we are the best at trouble making in this school.) Don't you think we can go now? My legs are hurting. Sorao: Yah, let's go. Sorako & Sorao: (Hmm?) [Yuki is starring at them then suddenly she runs away.] Sorako: What was that? Sorao: She's so my type. [Sorako is a little annoyed.] Kurilin: Hey!! Why are you guys standing!!? Hey, don't run away!! Sorako: (Such people like us, met about a year ago.) ***** A year ago in the principal's office Principal: I'll come and get you after the morning gathering, so wait here. Sorako: Ok. [There's no one in the room except for Sorako.] Sorako: (I guess transferring can get pretty nervous.) ... This is boring. [She sits on the principal's chair.] Woh, I've wanted to sit on a principal's chair once. [Sorao opens the door.] Sorako: (Uh oh.) Sorao: ... Are you the principal? Sorako: Do I look like one? Sorao: Not at all!!! A student can't sit on the principal's chair!!! Sorako: [Kneeling down on the sofa.] I'm sorry. Sorao: did you do anything else? Sorako: No. (Why is a stranger lecturing me?) You're the other transfer student, right? Why are you so bossy? Sorao: What class am I in? Sorako: You're in class C; we're in the same class. Sorao: You have a Kansai accent. Where you from? Sorako: Kyoto. Sorao: My name is Nogi Sorao I'm from Shizuoka. This is my first time living in Tokyo. Sorako: ! Sorao? My name is Sorako. Sorao: What? Don't copy me!! Sorako: I'm not!! Sorao: Just kidding. This might be some kind of fate, let's be friends. Sorako: Your attitude has changed a lot from just a while ago. Sorao: Never mind about that. Principal: Both of you, let's go to class. ***** In the hallway Principal: It is nice if you two can quickly get familiar with the class. Sorako & Sorao: Yap. Sorako: But I can't talk normally (because she has a Kansai accent). But I don't want to be a loner, but I just can't stand talking in a standard way. Sorao: You don't need to compare yourself with someone else. I'm going in there with a spirit that instead, they'll be the ones comparing themselves to me. [He smiles at her.] Sorako: Right. (Things I was happy about at that moment. That Sorao was there and I was encouraged. That on my way to class my steps was filled with confidence. That when I heard "Sorao", I felt a little, well a lot like it was fate. Sorao probably doesn't know that I feel this way.) ***** Back to the present time Sorako: Hey, hey, hey Kurilin! Kurilin: What is it Sorako, did you not understand something in class? Sorako: I don't really care about class. Kurilin: ...... Sorako: Can I get a new desk? After scribbling and carving on it, it got really dirty. I beg you, give me a new desk. [Kurilin is really pissed.] ***** In the hallway Sorako: [Going down the stairs] (That hurts! He hit me hard.) [Yuki and her friends are going up the stairs. Yuki's shoulder hits Sorako's, and Sorako falls down the stairs.] Sorako: That was scary!!! I thought I would die!! I saw the River Styx!! My dead grandma was calling me!! Phew. [She's uninjured.] [Yuki and Sorako's eyes meet.] Sorako: (That girl in the hallway awhile ago.) Yuki's friend 1: Yuki, are you ok? Yuki: Mm hmm. Yuki's friend 2: Let's go. Sorako: Wait a sec. Someone just fell down the stairs and no apology? I wasn't mad but with that kind of attitude, I'm pissed. Yuki's friend 1: so who's this old one? Note: She actually says baba. Which is a rude word to call old women. Sorako: Old!? I'm still seventeen!! Yuki: falling that easily proves that you were carried away. Sorako: What!? Did you say something!? Sorao: What are you doing Sorako? Sorako: Sorao. Nothing much. Yuki's friend 1: Yuki, are you ok? Yuki: Mm hmm. [She's crying.] Sorao: Sorako, don't bully the weak. Sorako: ...... [She's mad.] I'm going back, this is ridiculous!! Sorao: Hey! I'm just kidding! ***** Next day in the classroom Sorao: That girl from yesterday, her name is Morino Yuki. Wasn't she cute? Sorako: Don't talk about her in front of me. Sorao: What, you jealous? Sorako: That's not it! [She hits him in the head, and then she leaves the classroom.] Sorao: What do you think you're doing? ***** In the hallway Sorako: [She's mad.] (This is frustrating.) [Sorako meets Yuki and her friends in the hallway.] Yuki: Um... Sorry about yesterday. Sorako: (What?) Yuki: I was wrong. Sorako: If you've thought about it, then it's ok. Don't worry about it. [She taps Yuki on her arm.] See ya! Yuki's friend: Yuki, you ok!? Sorako: (What is it?) Teacher: What happened!? Yuki's friend: Oh! That person hit Yuki. [Pointing at Sorako.] Sorako: ! Teacher: Oikawa Sorako, did you hit her!? Sorako: Hit? [I just tapped her by the arm!!] Teacher: Apologize. Sorako: (What!!?) [Other students are stopping by to see what's going on.] Sorako: (Don't you dare look at me with those eyes.) ...... Sorry. Teacher: What kind of an apology is that!? Other students go back to class. Students: What happened? Sorao: Hmm **** On the rooftop Sorao: Sorako. Seems like you made trouble. Sorako: Go away. Sorao: Were you wrong? Sorako: I'm not wrong!! I think ...... Sorao: Then, don't apologize. It's regrettable, isn't it? Sorako: (I wonder why such Sorao's strong eyes makes me weak.) I regret it. I didn't hit her I just tapped her by the arm. But that's because I have a habit of doing it. Sorao: I know. How long did you think I've known you for? Sorako: A year. Sorao: That's pretty short. Sorako: Yah. (He's nice.) Sorao Sorao: Hmm? Sorako: (That's what I like about him.) ***** In class Sorako: You hit me too when I asked for a new desk! But I just tapped her by her arm. Like this! Get it!? Are you going to believe your own student, or just any student who's in a different grade!? Kurilin: I understand, just don't make any more trouble and have a quiet life. ***** In the hallway Sorako: (I am so tired of this world.) Yuki: Senpai. Hi. Note: Senpai is what you would call your senior or a elder. Sorako: What do you want? Yuki: Don't hate me like that. Sorako: I don't know what you have against me, but you try doing another nasty thing to me. Then I really don't know what I might do to you. Yuki: Cause you're in the way. I have my eyes on Nogi Sorao, so Miss Oikawa Sorako? Get lost? Sorako: Don't you think you've already made too much of a fool of me? [She's so pissed.]