Balancing Act
A Rimahiko
Summary: Rima Mashiro, Amu Hinamori, Yaya Yuiki, 3 girls, all head strong, smart, and happy, until their worlds are rocked upside down, balancing school, after school activities, family, and friendship, they barely have any free time. So what's next?
1. School Day
Rima's POV
I was lying in my bed sleeping away merrily when BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEP! My stupid alarm clock stupidly wore me up from my stupid dream. I just want to smash it with a hammer, come to think of it- nah, mama and papa would only make me buy a new one with my allowance money, which is already pretty scarce. Wait, why am I still in bed? I slowly throw myself out of bed to go brush my teeth, put on deodorant, ect. When I came out, I was already in my school uniform, now, all I had to do was eat breakfast, and head out the door. Now that that was over with, I hear a loud, happy voice. I knew its owner, I ran for cover, it was HER! NOOOOOOO! I had to run for safety, I hid behind a house, there SHE was, pigtails up high with the usual red clips, caramel hair swinging in the breeze. from here, it looked like she was on a sugar rush, wanna know how I know? She'd run or skip a few seconds, then she'd stager happily like a drunk person, and repeat, last time she was swinging her arms and whacked Amu in the face. I'm DOOMED if I go up to her now. Eh, I was about to go to Amu's house to walk with her, but what the heck, I have nothing to lose. "hi Yaya," I say as I walk up to her. "hi Rima-chi." she replies happily. " where's Pepe?" I ask, curious. "oh, her egg is in Yaya's back pack, she said she needed a nap! Yaya, however, does not need one! But if Yaya does, maybe in civics if Yaya's lucky, Yaya can take one, we have civics long period today!" she yelled cheerfully. We are already practically at Amu's house, I can see her standing by the mail box, looking for us, I see her face light up and she started to sprint our way. "hey Rima, Yaya. How's it goin'?" "the Yaya's good Amu-chi!" Yaya exclaims awkwardly. "good" I reply lazily. "hey, isn't that Tadase up there?" I say as I point a lazy finger at him. "lets find out… PRINCE!" I yell at the top of my lungs, and sure enough, it was Tadase, crown popping out of no where, it was a funny sight to see. I just happened to have a bucket and threw it on his head(I am a pretty decent shot sometimes, I play darts with papa.) ran up to him and tapped it 3 times, he returned to normal, or at lease as normal as he can get, I guess. We were now at school, we all have the same classes together, I hoped that I could get some rest in science, I was the top of the class and our teacher didn't care what we did as long as we did okay on the test.
Amu nudged me in the cheek and asked "hey, what's wrong, you seem kinda down, somethin' happen at home?" pure worry in her voice. "mama and papa got into another fight and as usual, I was caught in the crossfire, and didn't get to bed until about 4;58 or so." I told her, my head still on my desk. Yaya, who heard, said "aw, Yaya fells sorry for Rima-chi.
TIME SKIP: P.E.
"today girls, we will just be doing simple track runs. While the rest of you are doing that, I need to see Yuiki, Mashiro, and Hinamori." coach said without even looking up from her clipboard. "yes?" we all asked in unison, preparing for the worst. "your P.E. records are bad, and to make up for it, you all have to join 4 clubs each. Here are the choices." she said as she handed us all a sheet of paper. "4 clubs?" we all said in union. "that's right, 4" she said, nonchalantly. I was the first to make a move. "I choose archery for my first." I announced in my usual monotone. "what's that?" Amu and Yaya asked awkwardly. I sigh before replying. " it's where you get a bow, and an arrow, and shoot at a target, that's as simple as I can put it." I said as I suppressed a sigh. "why would you do something like that Rima?" asked poor, still confused Amu. "I play darts with papa, when he isn't drunk, passed out on the couch, yelling at mama, beating mama, or out with his friends. I am a decent shot." I finished all in one breath, just barely. "can you give us an example?" she asked. I sighed yet again and asked coach, she agreed and brought out the target, bow and arrows. I strung the arrow in the bow and let go, the arrow head landing in the nine position a little off the center. "no matter what I do, I can't get rid of that nine." I say, rising my voice a little louder than my usual monotone. "that simple, now what else?" I say, slightly annoyed by their foolishness, and me missing the ten mark.. "Yaya wants to try!" she yelled as she took the bow and quiver full of arrows away from me, she shot and landed on the one mark. "can I try?' Amu asked, after Yaya was finished. She landed on the three mark, sort of. "we want archery too!" they both cried, Yaya piercing my ears with her extremely high voice. Then we chose our next 3 and each of them choosing what I choose. Which was:
Archery
Tennis
Volley ball
Cheerleading
Yeah, we had to choose four and the others on the list were awful, but these slightly interested me… at least, more than the others. TIME SKIP: HOME
I was in my room when I mustered up enough courage to ask, or rather tell, mama and papa about the after school activities. When I did and put the slips on the table, papa looked at them and told me I could, but as long as I have a friend with me and mama agreed. I CAN'T BELIEVE PAPA WAS SOBER!
2. Tennis
It was already after school and we had to go to our first class, which was tennis. The instructor told us the basic shots and let us try it out, all of the shots I made were less than decent, or at least what I call decent, all of my shots were barely still inside the court and we were playing doubles! Oh crap, I'm turning into a perfectionist like stupid Purplehead Fujisaki Nagihiko, darn! He stole MY Amu away from me, and now I'm sounding possessive just like my dad, what is wrong with me! I just don't get myself sometimes. "hey, what're you thinking so hard about, Rima-chan?" asks stupid Purplehead, his stupid voice stupidly snapped me out of my stupid thoughts! "speak of the devil, I was just thinking about something which lead me to thinking about my dad and you, but they weren't my usual, or one of my usuals for you." I said in a creepy voice and a dark aura slowly emitting from my small frame. Yet he seemed to not pay attention to it and keep talking as if I was just like Amu or something, stupid cross dresser! Who said you couldn't be afraid of my evil aura back ground thingy! Uh, he's so complicated!"
Nagihiko POV.
I just came from helping the custodian with the art rooms and was walking home late and see Rima-chan sitting on the bench inside the tennis courts. As I was thinking to myself on the way there, isn't she supposed to have limited physical activity problems? So I go over to talk and she already has her dark background up. I just ignore it and move on. "Rima-chan, don't you have exercise problems?" I asked, worry heavy in my voice and face. "yea, what do you care?" she retorted quickly, looking about ready to strangle me. "look, Rima, I am sorry that you think I stole Amu from you as Nadeshiko, but I didn't, so you have no reason to hate me, I just want to be friends with you." I said, gently holding out my hand. "why should I trust you, NADESHIKO? You think that you didn't steal her from me, but guess what, you DID, so I don't trust you, and I hope I never will. I HATE you, you disgust me, and I hope that you rot in god knows where!" she said, ending her horrible rant, he eyes about to flood with tears, but she's strong, she knows how to hold them back. I stood there shocked, my hand drooped, the Nadeshiko in me wanted to cry and go away, but the new Nagihiko wants to stay and talk some more. I sat down on the bench. "Rima-" "who said you could say my name without an honorific! You see, this is just like you, all mister nice guy, always adored by every one when if they knew who you really are, they wouldn't give a rusty nickel for you, even if you do look "honest", and yet you are the probable best liar in the school. You just don't understand, you stupid CROSS-DRESSING FREAK!" "Rima, I'm sorry, but you have it wrong, I didn't do any thing, just got to Amu first, or Nadeshiko did. But which ever one you prefer, I'm sorry." I tried to say with a calm head. "sorry, sorry? Sorry is gonna make me feel better? Sorry is gonna make me stop wondering? Sorry is gonna fix my friendship with Amu? Well guess what, IT DOESN'T! why don't you quit trying to be dr. Phil and just leave me alone stupid cross dresser?" I lost most of the patience I have ever had in my life this day. "Rima, I hope that one day we could grow to be friends, I don't think of you as a competitor of Amu's affection, but she is my friend as well, I just hope you can accept that. So if I bother you that much, because I am trying to be friends with you, I'll leave, and let you cool off, but I hope you can accept me like I have with you. Bye." I say as calmly as I can, which to my relief was pretty calm, Fujisakis don't get mad.
Rima POV.
I just don't get that purple head, he's always so calm and happy go lucky, I don't like that half the time, which reminds me, why do I hang out with Yaya? Oh well, here comes clueless Amu, running at the mention of Nadeshiko. She is so clueless, the little strawberry. Furious at the mention of Purplehead, I hit all of my shots out of the court
