Authors: Hi. We are Nasaiki, Izumi and Zanshin, and we are co-authoring!
Disclaimers: Some language
Zanshin: Constructive criticisms are welcome, but please don't flame. Flames will be collected and publicly made fun of later!
Izumi: No flames, because I'll just make s'mores and set a milk deprived shaman on you.
Nasaiki: Hi, bye. Read the story. Don't own shaman king.
Akumu Kyuuten
Chapter One: IntroductionsTwo girls were twitching as they stared up at the cafeteria menu to their new school. It had things like caviar and goose liver pate, neither of which the girls had ever heard of, let alone thought of as food sources.
"What the hell is all this Izumi?" one of the girls asked. She had purple hair that, surprisingly, was natural (She just figured it was a weird shade of black), and dark green eyes. Her friend Izumi had blond hair that darkened to orange tips, and blue eyes.
"How should I know Zanshin? Coq au vin? Is that even food?" Izumi replied. Zanshin sank into a corner, depressed.
"Half the things here we can't afford, and the other half sound too disgusting to eat. Stupid menu, stupid rich people with their stupid rich people food." The friends heard a soft chuckle behind them, and turned around to see two boys. One had brown hair, amber eyes, and a goofy grin on his face. The other had electric blue hair and matching blue eyes.
"Yeah, tell me about it. Let me guess, you're the scholarship students?" the bluenette said.
"Gee, what gave us away?" Izumi asked, slightly sarcastic.
"Your culture shock at seeing the food that these snobbish stuck-up wanna-bes eat." He replied. They smiled sheepishly.
"…Wait, aren't you rich kids?" Zanshin asked from her corner.
"Sure, but we aren't like our classmates." The brunette stated.
"Yeah, Yoh's too lazy to be stuck-up." His friend laughed.
"You two are messing with us aren't you?" Zanshin and Izumi asked.
"No, really! Look let's start over. My name is Asakura Yoh, and this is my friend Usui Trey. What's your guys' names?" The brunette introduced the two of them. Before the girls could answer, however, a third girl ran up to them.
"Zanshin! Izumi! I figured we would probably need some edible food, so I bought us some bento boxes." The new addition to their group had long red hair and purple eyes. "So, who are these people?"
"That is Asakura Yoh and Usui Trey. This is Hikage Izumi, Asuka Nasaiki, and I'm Zanshin Katsura."
"You should just call her Zanshin, though, or she'll bite your head off." Izumi added, getting a glare from Zanshin. Trey and Yoh passed a weird, but amused, look between them.
"So, shall we find a table?" Yoh asked. He looked around the cafeteria and spotted a green haired kid who waved them over. "Oh look, there's Lyserg." He stated, grabbing Nasaiki and Zanshin's wrists and hauling them over to the table.
"Looks like we're going in that direction." Trey pointed out.
"Yep, whether we want to or not." Izumi replied, following Trey and the others. They arrived just in time to hear Yoh introduce the green haired boy as Diethel Lyserg. The boy looked up at the new arrivals and Izumi saw that he also had startling green eyes. Lyserg then turned back to contemplating the three bento boxes that Nasaiki had brought
"Lyserg is our roommate." Yoh continued, chattily. "What about you guys? Did you all get to be roommates? What's being here with a scholarship like? How long you known each other for?…" The steady stream of questions didn't stop until Lyserg finally interrupted him.
"What are those things?" Lyserg pointed at the boxes. Yoh didn't seem too put out by the interruption and looked at the girls questionably as well.
"These," Zanshin started, as she pulled one of the boxes to her and unwrapped it, " are lunch. Normal food for normal people. Speaking of which, where in the world did you get these? The closest town is all the way through the surrounding forest." Zanshin asked around a mouthful of rice.
"At the grocery store. They have one on campus you know." Nasaiki replied, starting in on her own lunch. Zanshin and Izumi froze with their chopsticks halfway to their mouths.
"They…they have a GROCERY STORE on campus?" Izumi asked incredulously.
"Yep! And a bakery and a theater and a…"
"Yoh, you're gonna give them heart attacks." Trey said
"Rich people are scary…" Zanshin and Izumi stated.
The boys ended up giving the three girls a makeshift tour around the campus, showing them all the different school buildings. Then they showed the awestruck girls the important places like the library, which was two stories, and the theatre. Finally, they ended in the dormitories. The girls and boys dormitories were separated, but anybody could visit either of the dormitories until 10:00 pm, which was lights out. So, naturally, the boys dragged their new friends to their room. The room was huge…hell the whole dormitory was huge, they both were. They were more like mansions with all the twisting staircases and chandeliers inside them.
Upon entering the boys' room, Izumi rushed over to the nearest bed and checked under the blankets.
"…Um, what are you doing?" the boys asked.
"Looking for the Russian circus, I think it's still in there!" She replied. Zanshin looked over her shoulder.
"You're right. There go the elephants." She added.
"Wow, Trey, they're checking out your bed already." Yoh observed, causing both Trey and Izumi to blush lightly.
"Speaking of beds, why don't any of your beds looked slept in?" Nasaiki asked. All three guys froze, desperately trying to think up an excuse.
"Because Lyserg is a neat freak." Trey cracked.
"I am not a neat freak!" Lyserg yelled back, hitting Trey upside the head with his pillow. The girls laughed, slightly distracted with their antics. The new friends chatted away for about five minutes when a bell went off somewhere.
"Um, Zanshin?" Nasaiki asked.
"Hai?"
"Don't you have a chemistry class right after lunch?" Zanshin nodded. "Isn't the class across campus?"
"Oh, shit!" Zanshin jumped to her feet and ran out the door, then she came back and hurriedly bowed. "Thank you for showing us around." And with that she was gone like a shot towards her class. The others were able to make it to their classes at a much more leisurely pace. Afterwards, the girls met up on their way towards their English class, Zanshin looking slightly dejected.
"I take it you didn't get to class on time?" Nasaiki asked. Zanshin shook her head.
"I tried to explain, but all he did was give me extra homework." She wailed. Izumi just laughed at her misery.
"Ha! You failed." Izumi pointed out. The two of them digressed into bickering that continued until they reached their class. It probably would have continued further, but Nasaiki had had enough and hit them both over the head.
"Shut up already!" She demanded.
"Having problems?" Lyserg asked. The girls looked over at him.
"You have this class too?"
"Well, all of the freshmen get English either now or at second period, so it was a fifty percent chance. Yoh and Trey got the second period English. What do you have next period?"
"Art." Izumi said smiling, glad that her last class was so easy.
"Acting." Nasai stated.
"Math." Zanshin groaned. Lyserg laughed, and they entered the class.
Finally, they were able to go to their own dormitory and actually examine their room, rather than just throwing their trunks in and running to class. Their room was just as large as the boys' room, if a tad girlier. The room was done in shades of purple and even the desks, chairs, and dressers were varnished in a dark violet. There were three beds, all of them were four-poster canopy beds, rather than the regular ones the boys had, all done in light airy lavenders, matching the curtains on both windows. The rug was deep plush, and blue-violet. The girls argued over beds, dressers, and desks. After they had allotted space to each, they all flopped onto their beds. Zanshin had snagged a bed by the window that looked out onto the courtyard, Izumi got the bed next to the door, and Nasaiki got the bed next to the other window that looked out onto the forest.
"Ugh, what a day." Izumi stated. "Though there were some benefits." Zanshin opened one eye to look at her friend.
"You mean those boys that somehow steamrolled us into being their friends? They don't seem bad for rich kids." Zanshin replied, closing her eye again.
"Yes, they do seem pretty normal. And you know you liked being their friend so don't act like you're being imposed upon." Nasaiki pointed out. Zanshin smirked
"Alright, alright. Yes, I like them, but you gotta admit, they literally dragged us into the friendship Nasai." Zanshin laughed before yawning widely. Izumi threw a pillow in her face laughing. Zanshin threw it back, but as usual it bounced back without seeming to hit the girl.
"Strange of you to use the word 'normal' Nasai. Considering you're anything but normal, I'm surprised you know what the word means little miss telepath." Izumi teased.
"Oh yeah, you're one to talk. You can't get hit by anything, and that thing shocks anything that she touches." Nasaiki stated, pointing at Zanshin.
"So I'm a thing now. I see how it is, I'm going to sleep." She announced, sticking out her tongue. She switched off her lamp (a red-violet color), rolled over and fell asleep, quickly followed by Izumi. Nasaiki lowered her mental shields long enough to feel her friends shields slip away and hear their brains fall into a sleep pattern. Then she raised her shields again so as not to 'hear' her friends' dreams. That had happened once, and she had decided that her friends definitely had issues. Thus, she kept her shields up when her friends were too tired to, and then she slowly fell to sleep as well.
Izumi: Yay! We've finished the first chapter! Review….dooo iiiitttt….
Nasaiki: We would like if you would review but you don't have to
Zanshin: Ok, done. Review if you want, I personally don't care if you do or not, I probably wont even check haha. Sweatdrops