Disclaimers: I own nothing.
Genre: Romance, Humor, Drama, Angst
Warning! Please read if you are new to my stories. I'm only going to say this once.
This is a super long story, kind of like a manga plot without the drawings. Please keep that in mind.
I have no rules what so ever when it comes to content. What happens in this story happens (it's rated M for a reason). Don't expect sunshine, rainbows, and all that other jazz. This is a drama story, so there will be a lot of drama.
This story will contain dark moments, that's how I write. There will be moments where you will hate what happens and moments when you will be in love with this story. I do not promise characters canon-like or even pleasant. I can make one scary antagonist.
If you can't handle stuff like this then exit out. You'll only be mad at me later.
And to those who are continuing, please fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a long ride.
And let it begin...
My wonderful victims.
Diamonds
By: December Sapphire
Vol.1-Discovery
"Diamonds are a girl's best friend."- Jule Styne
Chapter 1- Why can't summer last forever?
"Hey Rin, watch this!" my little brother hollered as he did a cannonball off the dock. I laughed in amusement as my other little brother did a belly flop in the lake.
I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of summer; the passing birds, the warm August breeze, my annoying brothers playing in the water. This was the best time of the year and I never wanted it to end. Never! Even my Dad was taking time off work to be here and trust me that was a rare sight to see. We haven't even been out to the lake house since my sister's death five years ago. Since the death, my Father had started working non-stop which took a huge toll on our family. Mom would usually stay up all night worrying and sometime, I could even hear them arguing in the middle of the night. It was awful. But this year, we made sure that would never happen again. My siblings and I were even getting along. We would usually stay up at night watching my parents have wine on the terrace and giggle as they sneak each other kisses. It was beautiful and I even wondered what it would be like to have someone to love me.
These two weeks were amazing and wouldn't change a thing about it.
"Ahhh, don't you love this?" my older sister asked, sipping ice tea beside me.
We were both on the sun chairs, getting summer's last rays. "Yeah, I hope this never ends," I answered.
"I agree," she smiled. "Too bad you have to get up for school."
I peaked at her through my ray bran sunglasses. "What do you mean?"
"Dude, you have to get up in 3…2….1…."
BEEP BEEP BEEP
I groaned low, realizing what I just witnessed was just a dream from a memory. I wish I was still at the lake house, soaking up as much sun as I could while laughing at my brother's silly jumping competitions.
Still half-asleep, I rolled in my comforters and turned off my alarm clock, hoping my mom would forget it was the first day of school and I could just stay in bed, forever dreaming about summer. I knew of course that would never happen, but a girl can always dream right? I was so close to drifting off into dreamland when I felt something fuzzy hit my nose, after brushing it off with my hand I opened my eyes to see two giggling boys with a feather and…..whip cream? I sat up, wiping my nose with my hand to see white stuff all over it. When I looked back up, I saw that my brothers had already left and my mom was currently calling me down for breakfast.
Once downstairs, I waved my dad goodbye as he headed to work and I went to the kitchen. Inside, my mom was quickly making lunches while my four siblings ate or threw their breakfast. I sat down only to be hit with more whip cream. "We thought you didn't have enough this morning Rin," my brother Jiro said, laughing along with his twin brother Ichiro.
The twins were the youngest in the family, they were born 3 months after my sister's death and they just turned 5 on the weekend. Now that was a crazy party. Those two were the jokers in the family and thought everything is funny. They would play pranks on people like there was no tomorrow, like last week they put a paint bomb in the mailbox….let's just say the mailman is afraid to come near our house now. My parents weren't too impressed.
Right beside me, my older sister and now the eldest, Mika, was casually reading Pride and Prejudice, (Wow this must have been the twentieth time she read that) ignoring the twins annoying playtime. She was 20 and yet the college student still lived at home. She even had a boyfriend too! I still can't believe my parents let her live here, they don't even have her pay rent.
At the end of the table, my other little brother, Jun, was busy making a diagram about…..something. I was never good with science. He was only twelve and yet he could graduate in the next two years. I wouldn't be surprised if he got into Harvard when he turns 15.
I let out a heavy sigh looking at my now soggy cereal. "Why are you sighing, Rin?" Mika complained putting down her book. "It's really annoying you know." Then I let out a laugh when Jiro snatched the book away and started drawing in it with a sharpie. Mika gasped as took it away from him. "This was a library book!"
"Can you please quiet down, I'm trying to concentrate," Jun said, putting a small stick in the diagram, only to let it fall to pieces. He growled in frustration making my laugh a little more. My family was sure entertaining.
My mom then placed our lunches in front of us then started to search for something. "Keys, keys, where are the keys!" she panicked. "Ugh, I'm late! Boys get ready to go! Where are my keys?" I shook my head as I moved my spoon only to lift up a piece of metal within the milk.
"Ah, mom? I think I found it."
She grabbed the keys from me, thanking me, and getting the twins prepared to leave. "Mika, can you take your sister to school?" she asked, struggling to tie Jiro's shoes.
"Why do I have to take her?" she wined. I rolled my eyes, I agreed of course.
"Because I'm late as it is and I don't want to boys to be late again."
"Fine, let's go," she grabbed my arm, dragging my out to her silver car.
We sat in silence for a while as was speeding to my school. All I did was watch buildings and car pass by, ignoring the irritating music my sister had on. Finally we made it to school, dropping me off at the front entrance. "Hey," she called, "I'm not picking you up so you need to take the bus or get someone else to drive you home. Got it?"
"Whatever," I huffed slamming the door. I didn't watch her drive off but I could feel her cold stare.
I entered the school to see my best friend standing at her locker. I smiled as I came up to open my locker beside her. "Rin!" she hugged me. "How was the cabin?"
"Hey Ayame, it was great!" hugging her back.
My friend Ayame and I had been best friends since the first grade. She's the type of person that can light up a room the moment she walks through the door. She moved here after her father died in a car accident leaving her mom, her little brother, and herself bankrupt and homeless. They found a small apartment a month later but even today they're still struggling.
"Can you believe we are already seniors?" she exclaimed.
I nodded. "Yeah, crazy right? It's seems just yesterday we were freshmen."
"I know!"
We talked about the things we did over the summer and the memories that would last forever. "Maybe next summer we can start traveling," she suggested.
"Traveling?"
"Yeah, like….we can go to Las Vegas!" she jumped up and down excitedly.
I hated to burst her bubble. "Umm…don't you have to be 21 to go to casinos?"
She stopped jumping and put her head down. "Oh yeah," then a smile reappeared. "Then when we are 21 we will go to Vegas and we will bring our guys with us."
"Guys?" I asked, giggling.
"Yes our husbands that we plan to marry, but we must wait until after Vegas to have kids," she explained to me. My mind was soaking in her ridiculous words.
"And who will we marry?" I asked curious.
She hesitated for a second. "I will marry…. A strong handsome man with buff arms and silky smooth brown hair, oh and he will have blue eyes. For you, he will be," she looked around the hallway, "Moe." Small giggles escaping her mouth.
"Moe!" I exclaimed, watching the small nerd struggling with his AP class books. "I'll pass thanks."
"Okay, I guess that's a little too far….what about Kohaku? He's been trying to ask you out since the tenth grade."
I shook my head fast. "No way! Kohaku is not my type."
She crossed her arms at me. "Oh you have a type? Come on Rin, why not go for him? He's the captain of the football team, he smart, cute, has nice hair. He's a perfect match!"
"I just don't see him like that. I've known him since I was 3 and he's always just been like a brother to me," I said, grabbing my books from my locker.
"You have too many brothers," she commented.
"Be that as it may…I'm just not interested."
Ayame grinned at me and seemed to look behind me. "Well speak of the devil," she paused showing a big smile. "Hello Kohaku."
I turned afraid what I was going to see. I wish Ayame was joking but of course nothing ever goes right in my life. I gave Kohaku as fake smile as he started to come closer to me. "Hey Rin," I could feel his smelly breath on my face. I backed up to my locker. "I was wondering if you would like to go to a party with me this week end."
"This weekend?" I pretended to be disappointed. "I can't umm….my family and I are going back out to the lake house for one last week end."
I could tell he was depressed from my answer. "Oh that's too bad. Maybe we can hang out another time."
"Sure," I smiled sweetly at him watching him walk away. I made a face of disgust making Ayame laugh. "At least you think it's funny."
Then her smile disappeared from her expression. I followed her glaze to see Koga Wolfe and his group of friends walking down the hall and passed them. I stared at Koga who didn't even make a glance at me but his girlfriend Mai did. She was the school slut and had slept with most of the guys in school. She could get any boy wrapped around her finger in seconds. Sometimes I wished I had that charm. "Tell me again why we had a crush on Koga in freshman year?" I asked.
"Because he's popular and has nice…..everything," I noticed Ayame go into daydream mode. "I wonder what his long, chocolate hair feels like. I bet it's just like silk."
I waved a hand over her face. "Earth to Ayame; calling Ayame."
"Hello," she came out of it smiling. I smirked and watched is long brown hair sway every step. I admitted he was pretty cute but still every girl wanted him.
Just as we were watching Koga walk around the corner a small 'tsk' came from behind us. We both looked to see Jakostu leaning against our lockers with a smug look on his face. "You know guys like that, just use girls," he looked at the sky. "What has the world come too!?"
Ayame and I laughed. Jakostu had been a close friend of ours since freshman year when we saved him from the dumpster, after being thrown in there by Koga and his crew. Since then he's never stopped hanging out with us. Then last year, Ayame and Jak started dating, I have to say they were probably the cutest couple ever but at the beginning of the summer, Ayame broke it off when we both found out he was gay. I couldn't believe it! Even I was mad at him for not telling us sooner. Ayame came over that day and we watched hours of 'How I met your Mother' and 'Desperate Housewives'. Let's just say I will never watch TV shows again. A few weeks later they settled their arguments and agreed to just be friends.
"So I got some juicy gossip from the one and only gossip queen," he started.
Ayame and I looked at each other. "Ami," we said at the same time. Ami has always been the gossip queen in the school. She's always the one starting rumors and gossip about anybody. We were just lucky she never started any about us. "So what is it this time?" I sighed.
"I hear we are getting a new teacher," he answered.
We looked at him with confused expressions on our faces. "Can you narrow it down?" Ayame asked.
"A new history teacher," he said.
My eyes widened with excitement. "Really!?" I cried out.
"You mean Ms. Tan is gone?" Ayame asked.
"Yup, she retired early so we have a new teacher. But I also found another thing out that wasn't from gossip," his voice sounded down.
"What?" I asked, afraid to know the answer.
"We need to pass history to graduate," he replied.
When he spoke those words my world came tumbling down. I was never good in school especially with history. Last year, Ms. Tan almost failed me but with a little consulting from my dad, she gave me a passing grade. I hit my head lazily on the locker, muttering, "I'm doomed!"
"Well it shouldn't be all bad, maybe this new teacher will be nicer then Ms. Tan," Ayame reassured me.
"I don't think so," Jak started. "I heard the new teacher is a demon."
I hit my head again. "I'm double doomed!" I've only had a demon as a teacher once and that teacher wasn't every nice. I would have gone through thousands of Ms. Tan's lectures to ever step foot in his classroom again.
"Maybe he isn't as bad as Mr. Mori," she said again.
"I wouldn't be so sure," Jak continued. "I hear that this demon is worse than him."
I let out a low groan. "I'm triple doomed!"
"That's not all-"
His words were cut off but Ayame punching him in the arm, making him shut up. The day just got even worse when the bell went off, indicating the students to head to class. I groaned as I said my goodbyes to Jakostu and followed Ayame off to my death; history class.
I was lagging going there, slowing Ayame down. We finally arrived sitting at our desks in the middle of the room. I watched as the room poured with students, all talking about the same thing: the new teacher. What was he going to look like? Was he going to be as bad as I heard? Silent and deadly? I sighed heavily when Ami the gossip queen entered and sat in her seat in the back row. "Well this class is sure to be fun," Ayame whispered in my ear.
The kids all quieted down when a tall figure entered the room. "Alright settle down everyone," his deep voice rang through my ears. His long white hair swaying with every step he took. He wrote his name on the board in careful handwriting. It was like the heavens wrote it. "My name is Mr. Takahashi," he turned towards us. I gasped as my mouth fell open.
Staring at me right in the face was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. His face was perfect like it was carved by angels, pools of gold filled his eyes giving off the most amazing expression, and a blue crescent moon on the forehead and two pink strips on each cheek completed the look. He was dazzling.
I didn't realize I was staring at him for a while until I felt Ayame poke me in the arm bringing out of my daydream. I looked at Ayame with a questioning look then I heard giggles erupting all over the room. I blushed as I looked up to see Mr. Takahashi staring at me. "Are you here Rin Ikeda?" he asked, his golden eyes tantalizing me.
"Oh….ummm….yes," I blushed fiercely, putting my head down.
I've never acted or felt this way about someone before. I was confused of this feeling. It was like millions of butterflies suddenly appeared in my stomach the moment Mr. Takahashi laid eyes on me. I couldn't even concentrate on the lesson because I was so mezmorized by his every move.
How could someone be so beautiful that it makes me think like this? I had just met Mr. Takahashi and already could feel a connection. What was happening to me? Was it his piercing golden eyes that made me drawn to him or was it his angelic voice? I didn't even believe in love at first sight but still I couldn't deny that I already had feelings for him. Too bad he was my history teacher.
Ayame was the one who brought be back to earth, telling me that the bell had gone. Kids were already rushing out heading to their next class. I guess I was a bit slow today. I glanced at Mr. Takahashi one last time before heading out the door, his golden orbs staring at me intensely. I was kind of afraid to go back tomorrow.
Right then I knew that this was going to be one hell of a year.
I didn't plan a new story until a week ago when I got this idea suck in my head. Very different to what I usually write, I usually write 3rd POV...this is the first time writing in first. This used to be a IzayoiXInuTaisho fic then changed it because the story line didn't go well with the pairing. Oh well I love SessXRin so much better! Let me know if I have any errors.
Should I continue?
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