Note - Listen up! This is the edited, revised and rewritten first chapter!
It has new information in it so you'll need to re-read it!
*** Would you? ***
Alyse Minamoto
~ Chapter One ~
It may be an alternate reality... but some things never change... I learned that the hard way... to be somewhere new and be unknown to the customs... feel stupid or dumb or both... but wherever I went and whoever I was... they still came after me... and finally caught me too...
The teacher read the words aloud as he held a small brown book up to his face where it almost touched his long, thick crooked nose. He stopped for a moment and let his bead-like eyes travel across his class for slackers or sleepers. His eyes narrowed dangerously as he saw a boy in the middle row, obviously not paying attention to the lesson on hand sense his head was face down in his desk enclosed by his arms.
The teacher snapped the book shut and all the students rose their heads and sat up tall as fast as lightning. Everyone knew Mr. Ishida because everyone had suffered his wrath at least once in his or her lifetime. He was the meanest, ugliest, and the down right cruelest person in the entire school.
The girl sitting next to the boy had begun poking him so he wouldn't get in trouble but the teacher had already reached their row of seats. He stopped a moment to look down at the boy sleeping on his student desk. It was strange how such a handsome young man could act so rude, lazy and arrogant but still have the top grades in the entire high school, including the 11th and 12th graders.
The teacher quickly slammed the book down in front of the boy making a 'eep' come from the girl and a loud snapping noise as it hit the desk. It evidently awoke the sleeping boy sense he slowly lifted his head and blinked a few times while bringing his hand up to stifle a yawn. "Oh... Hi. What do you want?"
Mr. Ishida stood still and his hands formed into fists and his face began glowing red in hot, burning, anger and before he completely lost face he lifted his left arm and pointed at the door, "OUT! GET OUT NOW OF MY CLASS! NOW!"
He cringed at the loud volume of his teacher's voice and retaliated, "Shesh... Do you have to yell so loud? I'm still kinda' tired ya' know?" He rubbed his temples in a forward motion as he made his comment and looked up at his teacher, who looked so mad, everyone in his class was cringing.
"I SAID OUT!" The boy looked up and decided maybe he should leave and jumped up faster than a cannon ball shooting out of the classroom like a bullet. He only stayed at the doorway for a moment to ask where he should go before having to duck out of the classroom, barely avoiding the book his teacher had been reading and had just thrown at him in an uncanny rage.
He opened and closed his locker and walked down the hall quite steadily. He opened the big entrance doors or in his case exit and stepped out and into the hot sunlight. He blocked out the sun with his hand and began walking in the direction of the train station.
It wasn't two minutes later that he heard his named being called by a very familiar voice, "Hiro-kun! Wait for me!"
It was his twin sister, Kisa. She was quite cute but could be so annoying at times that it nearly drove Hiro nuts. Her voice could be wonderfully soothing when he couldn't get to sleep but sometimes he just wanted to rip her voice box out, and throw it in the trash for good. She could talk on for hours on end and never stop for a breath.
"Hurry your ass up then Kisa!" Hiro said impolitely not slowing down at all but she smiled and ran up faster to him, swinging her arm in his own happily.
"Guess what!" Her face literally was bouncing with joy and prepared to speak again but stopped when Hiro replied with a response dripping in sarcasm, "You'll send me to heaven when I die by shutting-up right now?"
She chuckled and continued, "No silly! There was a new guy in our first through third period classes! You were skipping so you didn't meet him and should have because he's so handsome! All the girls were drooling and some of the boys were too! You should get a look at him sense your-"
"Kisa! Shut up for one frickin' moment will ya'?!" Hiro stopped and turned at her, ripping his arm from her embrace and making his eyes look an ice cold that even his twin sister couldn't seem to stand up to.
Kisa looked down to her feet and muttered, "I'm sorry, Hiro-kun."
The rest of the way home was spent in an uncomfortable silence, throughout the train ride and walking distance. They finally reached a large three- story house that looked more like a mansion than a house and Hiro immediately went through the huge wooden doors and walked up the left hall stairs. He went in a door that had "Sohma Hiro" written on it in gold at the top.
The moment he entered his room he strode over to his bed and lifelessly plopped down on his bed falling fast asleep, backpack slouching on his side. He didn't know how long he'd slept for but when he heard a woman's voice yelling up at him, he snapped awake and jumped up off his bed. It wasn't his mom, but he was anything but surprised. His mother and father were both in France, on a trip with the pope or something.
To be honest Hiro couldn't really say he missed them much. He saw them about once every six months if he was lucky. He hardly even knew them if it was truth was to be told. Kisa and Ayame, his two sisters, seemed to absolutely love their mom and dad but Hiro would simply stay in his room or go somewhere outside while they were there. He couldn't gain the posture to even talk to them, in person or on the phone.
"We Hiro-sama! Gotsu' ket' yoo kleened up fer' your parnets er' comin' hone tonite! Bout' teen tey' said I de believe. Are ya' net enciter?" Paulina was from Switzerland and had a terrible accent, but Hiro had got fairly used to it by now.
"Yes. I suppose it would be rather nice to have them home for a few days before they go back to America to see the ballet with... What was his name? Well... Whoever the current president over there is." Hiro spoke in an annoyed tone and Paulina just seemed to think he was 'ever so enthusiastic' about his parents coming home.
"Wet! The' beeen goon fer' so loong! It's gooda' seein' ya' up and encited bout' somethin' ta' onse!" With that she left his room and shut the door only muttering a "deners as ight."
Hiro was trying to decide whether he was going to skip it or not. He decided that he would. Even if he had gone, he'd just throw it up later. He always did.
He walked over to the window that didn't have a balcony and opened it, slipping one foot out and finding the ledge. He slipped the other one out as well and was soon climbing down a bunch of vines that grew up to his window. Once he only had about three feet left he jumped down and roughly landed on his feet.
"Hiro-kun!" He heard a familiar voice shout his name from above and looked up at his twin sister on her balcony ledge.
"See ya' Kisa!" He didn't bother being quiet and Kisa was turning pink from the cold. Turning around and starting to walk off, he waved good-bye to her.
"It's freezing Hiro-kun! And our parents are going to be here tonight! Get back here! NOW!" She said leaning down even farther over the balcony ledge.
"See ya later, Kisa." Hiro continued waving his hand as he walked off and Kisa started cursing at him, "Hiro-kun! Get your but back here! Now!"
'Love you too.' Hiro thought as a grin came to his face. He loved teasing his little sister after all but he was considering if he should call it torturing instead of teasing.
***
"Megumi! Could you be a dear and go out to get some eggs from the grocery store? Please, I need them for dinner." A woman's voice called out from a kitchen in a very crowded house. A boy who was currently watching t.v with five others got up and walked into the kitchen.
"Sure mom." He grinned at her and took the yen she was holding out for him, so he actually could buy the eggs.
"Be careful out there, and don't walk, use the transit." His mother said before turning around and getting back to her cooking.
"Alright." He walked back out of the kitchen and put his shoes on. He opened the door and the cold night air was quite evident. He walked out and closed the door from behind him. It was normal for him to run errands, after all he did this a lot for his mother sense his brothers and sisters were all way too lazy.
Megumi started walking in the direction of a transit bus stop. He thought his mother had a point, plus, the grocery store was over five miles away. He realized that the slight dripping of rain from earlier in the afternoon had changed to slight downpour. He saw the bus stop and quickly jogged up toward it, noticing another boy was there as well.
One word let itself be read loud and clear through Megumi's head, 'Beautiful.'
***
Hiro stood with his mouth open trying to catch some of the rain that had just begun to really fall and when he brought his face down he noticed a boy walking towards the bus stop. Hiro's breathing shortly stopped and he continued to look at the boy.
He was like an angel, an angel that tried it's very best to disguise himself but couldn't hide the beauty, no matter how hard he tried. He had short dark hair and his eyes were a dark shade of blue, well, as Hiro could tell from the distance he did.
Hiro actually decided to consider that he'd died and gone to heaven before realizing that the boy was looking at him in a 'What-are-you-staring-at-me- for? It's-creepy.' kind of way. He immediately redirected his eyes downcast.
'I can't believe I was just staring at him like that! I mean---'
"Hi..." Hiro's thoughts had been interrupted by the other boy speaking and Hiro snapped his head up in order to respond.
"Hi, I'm Sohma Hiro." Hiro was turning slightly pink and thought that that was a daring hello, saying his name and all. He soon thought he was being a dork, ogling over a guy he'd just met. It reminded him of his sister, and that was a very unwelcome thing.
***
"I'm Hanajima Megumi. Do you know where the grocery store is?" Megumi said and inwardly slapped his palm on his forehead, 'What did I ask that for? I know where it is..."
"Yeah. It's kind of hard just to give directions and I'm going there anyways so why don't we just stick together for a while?" Hiro calmly replied as the bus approached.
"All right. Thank-you Sohma-san."
"You can call me Hiro if you want, the Sohma just gets on my nerves after a while." He laughed lightly and smiled, making Megumi smile back; "Well it would only be fair you call me Megumi then."
"Megumi-san. It's a good name for you, though I thought you'd be named Angel." Hiro grinned and Megumi got the impression he was teasing him but in a friendly way. But, it did sound like flirting too...
Through the weird butterfly feeling that had just erupted in his gut, he got on the bus following Hiro with a thought playing through his head, 'What's going on with me?'
W/ love
Alyse
*** Would you? ***
Alyse Minamoto
~ Chapter One ~
It may be an alternate reality... but some things never change... I learned that the hard way... to be somewhere new and be unknown to the customs... feel stupid or dumb or both... but wherever I went and whoever I was... they still came after me... and finally caught me too...
The teacher read the words aloud as he held a small brown book up to his face where it almost touched his long, thick crooked nose. He stopped for a moment and let his bead-like eyes travel across his class for slackers or sleepers. His eyes narrowed dangerously as he saw a boy in the middle row, obviously not paying attention to the lesson on hand sense his head was face down in his desk enclosed by his arms.
The teacher snapped the book shut and all the students rose their heads and sat up tall as fast as lightning. Everyone knew Mr. Ishida because everyone had suffered his wrath at least once in his or her lifetime. He was the meanest, ugliest, and the down right cruelest person in the entire school.
The girl sitting next to the boy had begun poking him so he wouldn't get in trouble but the teacher had already reached their row of seats. He stopped a moment to look down at the boy sleeping on his student desk. It was strange how such a handsome young man could act so rude, lazy and arrogant but still have the top grades in the entire high school, including the 11th and 12th graders.
The teacher quickly slammed the book down in front of the boy making a 'eep' come from the girl and a loud snapping noise as it hit the desk. It evidently awoke the sleeping boy sense he slowly lifted his head and blinked a few times while bringing his hand up to stifle a yawn. "Oh... Hi. What do you want?"
Mr. Ishida stood still and his hands formed into fists and his face began glowing red in hot, burning, anger and before he completely lost face he lifted his left arm and pointed at the door, "OUT! GET OUT NOW OF MY CLASS! NOW!"
He cringed at the loud volume of his teacher's voice and retaliated, "Shesh... Do you have to yell so loud? I'm still kinda' tired ya' know?" He rubbed his temples in a forward motion as he made his comment and looked up at his teacher, who looked so mad, everyone in his class was cringing.
"I SAID OUT!" The boy looked up and decided maybe he should leave and jumped up faster than a cannon ball shooting out of the classroom like a bullet. He only stayed at the doorway for a moment to ask where he should go before having to duck out of the classroom, barely avoiding the book his teacher had been reading and had just thrown at him in an uncanny rage.
He opened and closed his locker and walked down the hall quite steadily. He opened the big entrance doors or in his case exit and stepped out and into the hot sunlight. He blocked out the sun with his hand and began walking in the direction of the train station.
It wasn't two minutes later that he heard his named being called by a very familiar voice, "Hiro-kun! Wait for me!"
It was his twin sister, Kisa. She was quite cute but could be so annoying at times that it nearly drove Hiro nuts. Her voice could be wonderfully soothing when he couldn't get to sleep but sometimes he just wanted to rip her voice box out, and throw it in the trash for good. She could talk on for hours on end and never stop for a breath.
"Hurry your ass up then Kisa!" Hiro said impolitely not slowing down at all but she smiled and ran up faster to him, swinging her arm in his own happily.
"Guess what!" Her face literally was bouncing with joy and prepared to speak again but stopped when Hiro replied with a response dripping in sarcasm, "You'll send me to heaven when I die by shutting-up right now?"
She chuckled and continued, "No silly! There was a new guy in our first through third period classes! You were skipping so you didn't meet him and should have because he's so handsome! All the girls were drooling and some of the boys were too! You should get a look at him sense your-"
"Kisa! Shut up for one frickin' moment will ya'?!" Hiro stopped and turned at her, ripping his arm from her embrace and making his eyes look an ice cold that even his twin sister couldn't seem to stand up to.
Kisa looked down to her feet and muttered, "I'm sorry, Hiro-kun."
The rest of the way home was spent in an uncomfortable silence, throughout the train ride and walking distance. They finally reached a large three- story house that looked more like a mansion than a house and Hiro immediately went through the huge wooden doors and walked up the left hall stairs. He went in a door that had "Sohma Hiro" written on it in gold at the top.
The moment he entered his room he strode over to his bed and lifelessly plopped down on his bed falling fast asleep, backpack slouching on his side. He didn't know how long he'd slept for but when he heard a woman's voice yelling up at him, he snapped awake and jumped up off his bed. It wasn't his mom, but he was anything but surprised. His mother and father were both in France, on a trip with the pope or something.
To be honest Hiro couldn't really say he missed them much. He saw them about once every six months if he was lucky. He hardly even knew them if it was truth was to be told. Kisa and Ayame, his two sisters, seemed to absolutely love their mom and dad but Hiro would simply stay in his room or go somewhere outside while they were there. He couldn't gain the posture to even talk to them, in person or on the phone.
"We Hiro-sama! Gotsu' ket' yoo kleened up fer' your parnets er' comin' hone tonite! Bout' teen tey' said I de believe. Are ya' net enciter?" Paulina was from Switzerland and had a terrible accent, but Hiro had got fairly used to it by now.
"Yes. I suppose it would be rather nice to have them home for a few days before they go back to America to see the ballet with... What was his name? Well... Whoever the current president over there is." Hiro spoke in an annoyed tone and Paulina just seemed to think he was 'ever so enthusiastic' about his parents coming home.
"Wet! The' beeen goon fer' so loong! It's gooda' seein' ya' up and encited bout' somethin' ta' onse!" With that she left his room and shut the door only muttering a "deners as ight."
Hiro was trying to decide whether he was going to skip it or not. He decided that he would. Even if he had gone, he'd just throw it up later. He always did.
He walked over to the window that didn't have a balcony and opened it, slipping one foot out and finding the ledge. He slipped the other one out as well and was soon climbing down a bunch of vines that grew up to his window. Once he only had about three feet left he jumped down and roughly landed on his feet.
"Hiro-kun!" He heard a familiar voice shout his name from above and looked up at his twin sister on her balcony ledge.
"See ya' Kisa!" He didn't bother being quiet and Kisa was turning pink from the cold. Turning around and starting to walk off, he waved good-bye to her.
"It's freezing Hiro-kun! And our parents are going to be here tonight! Get back here! NOW!" She said leaning down even farther over the balcony ledge.
"See ya later, Kisa." Hiro continued waving his hand as he walked off and Kisa started cursing at him, "Hiro-kun! Get your but back here! Now!"
'Love you too.' Hiro thought as a grin came to his face. He loved teasing his little sister after all but he was considering if he should call it torturing instead of teasing.
***
"Megumi! Could you be a dear and go out to get some eggs from the grocery store? Please, I need them for dinner." A woman's voice called out from a kitchen in a very crowded house. A boy who was currently watching t.v with five others got up and walked into the kitchen.
"Sure mom." He grinned at her and took the yen she was holding out for him, so he actually could buy the eggs.
"Be careful out there, and don't walk, use the transit." His mother said before turning around and getting back to her cooking.
"Alright." He walked back out of the kitchen and put his shoes on. He opened the door and the cold night air was quite evident. He walked out and closed the door from behind him. It was normal for him to run errands, after all he did this a lot for his mother sense his brothers and sisters were all way too lazy.
Megumi started walking in the direction of a transit bus stop. He thought his mother had a point, plus, the grocery store was over five miles away. He realized that the slight dripping of rain from earlier in the afternoon had changed to slight downpour. He saw the bus stop and quickly jogged up toward it, noticing another boy was there as well.
One word let itself be read loud and clear through Megumi's head, 'Beautiful.'
***
Hiro stood with his mouth open trying to catch some of the rain that had just begun to really fall and when he brought his face down he noticed a boy walking towards the bus stop. Hiro's breathing shortly stopped and he continued to look at the boy.
He was like an angel, an angel that tried it's very best to disguise himself but couldn't hide the beauty, no matter how hard he tried. He had short dark hair and his eyes were a dark shade of blue, well, as Hiro could tell from the distance he did.
Hiro actually decided to consider that he'd died and gone to heaven before realizing that the boy was looking at him in a 'What-are-you-staring-at-me- for? It's-creepy.' kind of way. He immediately redirected his eyes downcast.
'I can't believe I was just staring at him like that! I mean---'
"Hi..." Hiro's thoughts had been interrupted by the other boy speaking and Hiro snapped his head up in order to respond.
"Hi, I'm Sohma Hiro." Hiro was turning slightly pink and thought that that was a daring hello, saying his name and all. He soon thought he was being a dork, ogling over a guy he'd just met. It reminded him of his sister, and that was a very unwelcome thing.
***
"I'm Hanajima Megumi. Do you know where the grocery store is?" Megumi said and inwardly slapped his palm on his forehead, 'What did I ask that for? I know where it is..."
"Yeah. It's kind of hard just to give directions and I'm going there anyways so why don't we just stick together for a while?" Hiro calmly replied as the bus approached.
"All right. Thank-you Sohma-san."
"You can call me Hiro if you want, the Sohma just gets on my nerves after a while." He laughed lightly and smiled, making Megumi smile back; "Well it would only be fair you call me Megumi then."
"Megumi-san. It's a good name for you, though I thought you'd be named Angel." Hiro grinned and Megumi got the impression he was teasing him but in a friendly way. But, it did sound like flirting too...
Through the weird butterfly feeling that had just erupted in his gut, he got on the bus following Hiro with a thought playing through his head, 'What's going on with me?'
W/ love
Alyse