~Kura Ikari~
My name...is Kura Ikari.
...At least thats what I'm known by.
I wonder what it was...
...my real name.
Besides that, my life is full of dead ends. Or at least it seems that way.
I walked silently with my head down through the halls, to my class. When I walked in, of course, they all went from talking to whispering.
I ignored the few small comments directed at me as I walked down the rows of desks to my chair.
Suddenly, I felt my body fly forward, and next thing I knew- me and my books were all over the ground.
The class laughed.
I looked back. Something was caught on my foot.
...Someones leg... I looked up.
A girl with forest-green hair and eyes stared down at me smugly.
...And that would be Midori Yowake. She's been giving me grief ever since 3rd grade.
"What's the matter Eeeekarrri?" she sneered in that annoying little voice of hers. She sounded like a rat.
Don't say anything. Don't, don't, don't, I repeated in my head.
She wasn't going to ruin my day.
Silently I got up and dusted myself off, and bent down to pick up my scattered books. Then I took my usual seat, in the very back corner of the class.
...even though I knew they perpousely put me here, it did have its benefits... It was by the only window they always open in class.
I could feel the cool fall air.
The class whispering stopped as Qwin-sensei walked into class.
He gave us a pretty annoyed stare before straightening his glasses.
Scanning the classroom to make sure everyone was present,
he put down his pen. Then he clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.
"...Today, we're welcoming a late transfer into our class."
Suddenly the class seemed to explode and started talking.
"Who could it be? Who transfers this late? Maybe he got kicked out of his other school?"
"Oooh a bad boy?" some girl squealed. I rolled my eye's.
Sensei slammed a book down on the desk, and everyone jumped.
He made a 'come in' signal with his hand towards the door.
The everyone stopped breathing.
As soon as I saw one of the uniform shoes come through the door,
I turned my head away.
One extra person at this school to hate me, I thought sourly.
All through the introduction, I stared out the window. Even though I wasn't exactly paying attention, I caught a few things here and there.
His name was Aoiro Hidoru. He said his family moved into the neighboorhood, and his other school was too far to attend.
Typical.
I assumed he was either pretty average, ...or pretty lame.
Sensei told him to take a desk. There was only 2 availible.
1 infront of me, where Amy Nyguen used to sit. ..My "former best-friend", until Midori brainwashed her. She now sat In the row across from me, 2 seats ahead.
...Funny word. "Friend." Now all she was to me was a crooney of Midori and her two other mini-me's.
That was ok with me. I didn't care much for other people anways.
As I listened to the sound of sneakers approach me, I begged in my head for them to stop at the desk infront of me and sit.
I didn't want anyone in the other desk across from me.
Genki used to sit there, even when other kids made fun of him for being near me. Everytime I was around him he seemed nervous. I thought maybe he was scared of me.
..But I can remember clearly the day when he told me he was in love with me.
The next day, he didn't come to school.
Or the day after that.
Later in class, ...I learned he died from a serious illness.
The whole school set a day aside to grieve and pray for him.
I refused to belive he was dead. I still belive- even now he's alive. I stood up when everyone was crying and told them he wasn't dead.
They all looked at me crazy when I just smiled and laughed.
...He's not dead.
Everyone from then on delcared me a demon. Said if anyone liked me, they would die just like Genki did. Said if anyone sat next to me, the radiation from me would make them catch a disease.
...It's been 2 years since anyones sat in those seats.
I snapped back and saw the snakers stop near my desk.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I looked up to see what was attatched to the sneakers.
"...whhcck"... I made a sound between half gasping and choking.
A pair of deep blue eyes and hair stared back at me.
As he turned and prepared to sit infront of me, a girl whispered, "Psst, - wouldn't sit there if I were you."
He didn't question why, and prepared to take the other empty seat.
"No!" I snipped. He quickly sat back down, and Qwin-sensei prepared to go into his history lecture.
The boy gave me a puzzled look, before turning forward, and remaining forward for the rest of class.
...It was better that way.
~Break time~
During my free period, I thought about what to do.
I considered going to the library.
...No, there would be to many girls gossping, giggling at flirting boys staring at them.
So I aimlessly wandered the halls, until I decided to head outisde.
I went to sit under my favorite tree, the biggest Willow tree on campus grounds. It provided me shelter through anything.
Suddenly feeling alot happier, I walked a bit faster.
Yes. That was the only place. The only place I could get shelter from people. Everyone on campus knew that was my turf.
The only people who thought they were big enough to show up over there was Midori. Her mini-me's sometimes even refused to go, until Midori threatened them with something.
As I prepared to turn the corner on the South side of the school building, I stopped.
I heard voices.
"Hey new boy!" I heard.
...I recognized that disgusting voice.
Midori.
I heard a few other girls squealing and whispering.
I heard those voices before too.
Amy and the Obari twins -Hima and Hina.
"Aioro right?" Midori said sweetly. I peeked around the corner and rolled my eye's in disgust.
There she was, spinning her hips side to side, purposley gliding her skirt up. Such a hoe.
"You know...this is Ikari's tree" she snorted. "You shouldn't come around here".
Amy and the Twins nodded and mumbled in agreement. "If Kura finds us here,- you here..." Amy left off.
"...there's no telling what she'll do..!" the twins picked up.
"Especially at the far end of campus..."
"...So why don't you come hang with us?" Midori giggled.
Hina shivered. "Midoriiiiiii" she whined. Hima looked around nervously.
Aioro, sitting nonchalantly in the grass, didn't pay much attention to what they said. He was busy texting away on his phone.
After a moment of Midori just staring at him, he looked up.
All of them turned pink.
But something looked kinda off. I tilted my head and squinted a bit.
No... he wasn't looking at them.
He was looking at something else.
...At...me?
My eyes grew wide, - and I ducked behind the corner. He saw me!
"...So you wanna come?" I heard Midori's voice. Then Amy must have seemed to notice he was looking at something else and said, "Hey what are you looking at?"
I assumed everyone looked at where he was staring. Where I was hiding.
" I thought I saw a girl", he said. "I-Its probaly I-Ikari!" The twins said at the same time.
I peeked back around the corner. Midori flipped her hair at the girls.
"Chillaxx, she won't do anything while I'M here," she bragged.
" I" ...beg to differ' I smiled and stepped around the corner.
Amy and Hima turned pale, and Hina nearly fainted. Amy looked at me then looked towards the ground.
Midori turned as green as her name, her eye's turning into little slits.
"Hmm..., looks like 'someone' forgot to drop off the 'trash',
she slithered off her toungue.
Her mini-me's made a OOOoooo noise.
I smiled and laughed,
"Your completely right...and all over 'my' lawn."
"I just came to pick it up and put it in the 'dumpster where it really belongs."
Aioro's jaw dropped. He looked like he wanted to drop his phone too.
I whipped my head towards Amy and the Twins. They all 'Eeeked!'
except for Amy, who was still avoiding my eye's.
"Leave. NOW!" I screamed at them. The twins took a few shakey steps back and ran. Amy hesitated, but eventually her legs gave in and she ran after the twins.
I looked towards Midori, who had a shocked and angry expression that 1) her Posse abandoned her and 2) that she had lost and I had won.
She just turned with an "Ufgh" sound, and headed off in the same direction.
I almost did a real smile at the thought her so-called followers were in for major punishment.
Content with myself that I had gotten even for earlier today, I turned and walked towards the tree to take my regular seat.
I frowned.
...He was still there.
Why hadn't he left?
His looked me straight in the eye's and said, "Wow your pretty tough, despite your look's."
I twisted my face. I didn't know whether to be offended or take it as a compliment. I also didn't understand why he was talking to me.
What I did know though, was he had really beautiful eye's... I stared.
He smiled. Now that I look at him more...he was...hot.
He had deep ocean-blue hair the exact same length as his face. His eye's were the exact same color as his hair...it felt like you could dive into them and get lost forever.
He kinda gave me a look like he could tell what I was thinking.
It kinda made me mad.
I shook my head.
"Don't you wanna leave?" I said, blank and expressionless.
"...No, I kinda like it here", he smiled- obviously not catching on to my hint.
I just huffed and sat on the other side of the tree. "Well, you should", I said.
"You'll get shunned if you hang around me...and once that happens...there's no re-entry", I mumbled. He scooted enough towards me to see me.
"You seem to not enjoy people."
...I didn't say anything.
"..Well, I couldn't blame you, not with a girl like that."
Did he not realize he was talking to himself?
...He went on. "Anways im sure someday you two will get along."
...When all hell breaks over, I thought.
...He was annoying me.
I wanted to be alone.
Instead of telling him to go away, like I wanted to, I kept quiet.
For the rest of the free period, I plucked dandilions.
I blew on them and watched them scatter into the air. He just sat and constantly tapped away on his phone.
And at one moment...we both found ourselves staring at the sky.