Disclaimer: I don't own any of the CCS stuff.
Claimer: I own the plot though. :D
Summary:
Takashi Yamazaki, a punk--everyone in school fears him. Worse than that, no one will get near him. He's a 'lone wolf' in his school. Now, it's going change. A girl gets near him and began to get close to him. An unexpected thing happened that changes his mode in life. More trouble comes, but willnot bealone anymore. A girl that hateshim will have affectionfor him. A group of friends began to invite him. His life will take a sharp turn, making his day more lively and funny with a pinch of teen romance. To find out more, read it. ;-)
Chapter 1: Yamazaki
It was a beautiful day for school. It's Monday in Tomoeda; the start of a new week. The bright afternoon sun shone upon the earth, giving its radiant rays of warmth…
(crowds whispering and murmuring)
Oh no! He's here.
What? He's here already.
Oh this day is 'dooms day'
Look at him! Look at his face.
I think had been to another fight.
Ugh! I hate being with him.
The crowd of students kept on murmuring on the grounds of Seijou High as a young dark haired boy walks in to the campus. Students near the guy scattered, avoiding him. They stared at him fearfully as he slowly walks to the building to the school building where his classroom is.
Noticing the stares around him, he glared at them back. The crowd suddenly looked away when he did it. Then he continued on walking.
He was Takashi Yamazaki, with serious-morbid-looking set of eyes. He also had a physique of an athlete, and was infamous for his reputation of being the "bad" guy of the whole batch; an evil teenager who always finds trouble in every corner of the streets. With his reputation, the gangs of other schools near Seijou wanted to challenge him in many ways possible, testing how bad he was.
His fellow students, in the same year, feared him a lot. They won't get a meter close to him, afraid that he might attack them and do whatever he pleased to them, even his classmates near Takashi. They would move their desks away from him. Some of them also gossiped a lot of things about him. They even commented that he won't ever have a good future for being as he was now.
X00X00X
In a deserted parking lot…
Takashi walked along the dark path before him. It was very dim inside that remote parking lot. He looked around the place, looking suspiciously at his surroundings.
Suddenly, five teenage boys surrounded Takashi. All of them wore white trench coats and had a complicated Japanese caricature at the back of it. They held wooden katanas, and they looked at the dark haired boy devilishly.
Takashi moved eyes at each one of them, checking them out and waiting for one them to attack. His fist clenched as he moved to his fighting stance. They all laughed cockily, seeing that he was out numbered by five sword-wielding gang boys.
Moments later, one of them made the first move and dashed toward Yamazaki. At that time, Takashi knew it was coming. He began to move and dodged the sword. He then quickly kicked the guy on the left side of his ribs. It scored a hundred when it hit the guy. Soon after, a second one charged followed by the other three members.
Takashi grinned cockily. He punched on of them while kicking the other one behind. He back fisted one behind him, and quickly dodged the barrage of swords coming down on him. Leaning left and leaning right, he dodged the deadly blows that should have hit him.
He backed a couple of meters away from the gang members. The boy smiled confidently.
One of the gang members sneered at him, and he attacked. He swung his sword to the neck of Takashi, buy Yamazaki quickly ducked, avoiding it.
"Is that all you got?" he asked the gang.
One sneered angrily at him.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Before the guy could react, Takashi made his move and gave him a huge uppercut to the jaw. The guy received the full blow, then, he fell down unconscious. Another member cut in, swinging his wooden blade to the head of Yamazaki.
Takashi caught the swift blade with his left hand. The guy was caught by surprise. Yamazaki gave a good right hook to the idiot's face. The guy shout out in pain as Takashi's fist drove to his cheek. He fell down face first to the ground.
Yamazaki looked down at him, smiling sadistically. His eyes moved to the three remaining gang members. They were pissed off by his cockiness.
"I'm gonna get you!" shouted the guy in the middle of the three. He rushed to Takashi with his hands gripping firmly unto the hilt of the wooden sword.
He raised his hands up for a lethal blow to Takashi. In a flash, the dark haired boy countered the blow, leaving the attacker disarmed. The sword flew to the air. The attacker's face was full of disbelief. In an instant, Yamazaki delivered a swift sidekick to the guy's torso.
Ahhk! The attacker flew to the air from Yamazaki's powerful kick and dropped to the ground.
Takashi dashed towards the remaining members, giving them multiple punches and kicks to the chest and head. He was beating them into a pulp and relentlessly hitting them. In the end, the whole gang dropped down unconscious and beaten up, and Takashi smiled widely as he left.
"You're no match for me," he said while he walked away. He laughed cockily as he left the battered gang.
X00X00X
The next morning…
As he walked inside the school's entrance gate, many stared at Takashi. Their eyes showed feelings of fear, and some showed hatred to him. The students that were getting near to him moved away, trying to get a good distance from the boy.
Takashi looked at them, moving his head from side-to-side before he continued walking to the building where his classroom was. He narrowed eyes at them as he entered the school building.
Takashi sat on his seat at the far end of the classroom. There he stared out of the window, trying to get some peace while the students stared him fearfully. Some of the students inside his classroom began to make gossips about him again.
He's been always picking up fights.
Yeah I know. He always beats everyone he sees in front of his eyes.
I hope his future will be miserable. I hate to see him every time I walk to the streets.
Let's just hope that he would be kicked out of this school. He doesn't even 'deserver' enrolling here…
Moments later, the sliding door of Class D-146 (Takashi's classroom) opened; entered a young, angry, golden brown haired girl, wearing the Seijo High uniform: a short sleeved polo shirt tucked inside her dark blue, half-cut skirt that only covered half of her firm thigh. The girl stomped her way towards the dark haired guy at the end of the classroom.
"You really have the nerve making trouble to our school," she said angrily at Yamazaki. Her eyebrows lowered down to him, and her mouth frowned at the sight of him.
She was Sakura Kinomoto, a young and beautiful girl with emerald eyes and a slim body structure. She was shorter than Takashi but has a speech power of an angry mom to a naughty child (if you what I mean).To be more precise, she was the only girl that put up against Takashi and scold whenever he has done something bad; like fighting other students.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," Sakura said to him.
Takashi leaned against the cement wall beside him. He wasn't even listening to Sakura.
"Are you listening?" She raised her voice. She waited for a moment—nothing. Takashi didn't reply. She continued, "You've been affecting almost everyone here in this class. I think you should stop."
Takashi yawned, teasing Sakura. "Whatever."
"Whatever?" the girl exclaimed. "You're not listening to me."
"Just leave me alone," he cut in, staring at the window.
Sakura growled angrily. "You're not making a good future for yourself, Yamazaki." Then she left.
X00X00X
Hours passed, the day ended. The day was over at last, and the students were happy, finishing the day without Takashi making any fuss. Yet, some were disappointed, not seeing any action today.
Yamazaki had stayed in the room for quite a while before he decided to leave. He strapped on his bag to his shoulder and slowly walked downstairs to get the other stuff he would take home.
He came down the stairs and turned from a corridor to the shoe locker room, which was near to the building's entrance and exit door. Takashi approached his locker and pulled the door of his locker. Then he noticed a white envelope with the words 'I challenge you' (in Japan of course) on the face of it.
Takashi then narrowed down into an angry glare, seeing this letter in front of him. He was sure there will be action brewing this afternoon. He quickly grabbed the letter and tore it open for its content. He unfolded the paper containing the note.
We challenge you to a fight, the letter stated. Let's see if this…guy can put up on the DeCult boys of Daimo. We'll be expecting you in the park. You know where it is.
PS: Don't come to us, and we'll come to you.
Takashi grinned at the last sentence. Is this a threat? He thought. He quickly crumpled the letter and moved out of the building.
X00X00X
Takashi walked through a long distance from the school to the said park. He had his game face on while he walked to the location, which the letter vaguely stated, but he was pretty sure it was the Penguin Park was the one the letter was talking.
The Penguin Park was near Seijo High and to a very specific school which is a couple of miles from here. It was the nearest school to the park other than Seijo High. Plus, he has heard some rumor about this gang, the DeCult boys of Daiomo (dai-o-moh). It was a pretty young union of two boys, bullying many students in their school; a violent bunch too.
Takashi has arrived to the Penguin Park. It was a small park, empty for the afternoon. It had a swing, a big penguin slide, a sandbox in front of the slide, and a many decorations of penguin (The SAME penguin park in Card Captor Sakura). He noticed the two young boys at his sight, wearing long, white, unbuttoned trench oats, white pants and black boots. He automatically knew that they were the one who were challenging him. He walked toward them.
"So you're the guy," the guy with yellow hair said cockily. "You're the guy who scared and beaten many punks here?
The two laughed at him at the thought.
Takashi sneered at them. "What's so funny?"
"Funny thing is, we thought you would be more 'macho' than that," the other one said.
Takashi gritted his teeth. "Don't look down on me," he said, clenching his fist.
"So that's why we're here. To see how bad you are," the first one said.
The other one snickered with that sadistic smile on his face.
Takashi glanced at him. He looked down, looking like he was about to laugh. "We'll see about that, punk," he said to the yellow haired guy. "Actually, you are no match for me. You're just wimps."
"What did you say?" the second exploded. Then he attacked Takashi.
Takashi was waiting for this moment. He had expected this to happen. He leaned right, avoiding the blow and, using his left leg, kicked the guy to the abdomen.
"Ookhh!" The kick hit him hard that the guy hugged his lower torso and curled into a ball. The yellow haired guy was a bit surprised by the quick fall of his companion.
Takashi glared at the yellow haired guy, inviting him to attack. The guy gritted his teeth angrily. He wasn't expecting his comrade would fall that quickly. He dashed toward Yamazaki, preparing a fist for him.
"I'll get you!" he shouted as he approached him with a closed fist. Nearing him, he swung his fist, but Takashi ducked down and gave a counter attack to him—an uppercut to the chin.
The guy shouted in pain as flew upwards from the force of the hit. He hugged his stomach and bit off the pain. He knelt down before Takashi because of the huge hit that came to him.
"Had enough?" Yamazaki asked.
But the guys didn't give on trying to beat Yamazaki. They were really persistent, but Takashi had enough of them. He quickly beat them to a pulp one after the other. They shouted in pain in every blow Takashi was dishing out to them. Moments later, they dropped down badly beaten up Takashi.
He grinned and looked down at them. "You're no match for me," he said. "Take a hike!" Then he laughed.
X00X00X
"When will you stop?" Sakura scolded to Takashi. Her peach-white face almost turned bright red from the heat of her anger. She found out about the brawl that had happened yesterday. She was furious and, brought by instinct, she approached Yamazaki and scolded him. "I can't you just caused another fight!"
Takashi, on the other hand, just stared at the background outside. He was trying to ignore Sakura's 'speeches'. He really hated it as much as going to school.
Sakura's emerald eyes squinted, knowing that Takashi hasn't been listening to her. "If you continue this, it will only make it worse."
Takashi blew a breath.
"Takashi—" Sakura was interrupted by another girl. She was as tall as her and had long blue hair with a bundled hair in each side of her head. Her red eyes looked angrily at Takashi. She was Meilin, a friend of Sakura.
"Listen here," Meilin said to Takashi. "I think you should understand that you should follow what Sakura is telling you."
Takashi glanced at the girl and said, "And who are you to tell me that..."
"Cause I'm Sakura's friend," she blurted out, not letting him to finish his sentence. "And she's right, you know. If you're going to be a delinquent for the rest of life, then do it somewhere."
"Whatever." Yamazaki looked away from them.
In anger, Meilin slammed her right hand on Takashi's table. In shock by the sound of the slam, the students, inside the classroom, turned their heads to the scene.
Takashi slowly moved his head and glared at her.
"You should listen, Yamazaki," Meilin said, "or else…"
The annoyed boy stood up, looking down at Meilin. He was taller than Meilin. His two hands were balled to a fist, ready to take out someone.
"Or-else-what?" he quizzed at her.
Meilin didn't speak anymore. She just stared at him as if she's ready to take him on. Sakura looked concern that might end up to a figth.
"OKAY, CLASS, TAKE SEAT. EX-CUSE-ME-PLEASE, sit down," the subject teacher said as he went to the desk.
All the students looked at the teacher.
Meilin quickly looked at Takashi. "We'll settle this some day."
"Pfff! Yeah right," Takashi said, looking away.
Meilin stared at him angrily. Sakura held the blue haired girl's shoulder, saying, "I think we should stop now."
All the students of class D-146 settled down and sat on their seats after they have bowed before their subject teacher. They were silent, preparing themselves for discussion.
Tomoyo, who was beside Sakura, noticed the angry expression of Sakura's face. She began to be concerned about it. "What's the matter, Sakura?" she asked.
Sakura looked at her and said, "No, nothing. It's just Yamazaki that's all."
"Has he done something to you?"
Sakura shook her head. "He almost had a fight with Meilin."
"Meilin?" Tomoyo asked.
The brown haired girl nodded her head and said, "You know how Meilin could end up in these kinds of things. She really is putting up with Takashi."
"And she's also good in Martial Arts," Tomoyo added. "That would be bad if they fought."
"That's what I'm afraid of," Sakura agreed. "I think Meilin should not take this so seriously."
"You're the one who's making this a serious matter," Tomoyo said, "scolding Takashi whenever he has done something wrong."
Sakura laughed nervously.
"But I think what you are doing is good, Sakura," her friend complimented. "The good thing is, he didn't react violently when you do it to him." She continued, "You know what? I think you keep on doing that. Who knows? Maybe he'll crack up and not do it anymore."
Sakura smiled when she heard Tomoyo's feedback. She was very that her friend supported her. Now she was confident on continuing her part. "Thanks, Tomoyo," she said.
Tomoyo giggled and smiled at her.
"Hey, you girls, get in with the discussion," the teacher said to Tomoyo and Sakura.
"Oh! Sorry, sensei," Sakura apologized to the teacher.
X00X00X
After their discussion of their subject, the bell rang. The students wooed and sighed, knowing that it was Recess. The flock of students raced out of the classroom for their break. But some didn't leave the classroom. Some of them were Sakura and Tomoyo, who were talking each other. Meilin waved goodbye before she left them. Takashi also stayed in the classroom, doing what he does most of his leisure time, staring outside.
"The subject was really confusing," Sakura said.
Sakura and Tomoyo joined their desk together to a long table.
"It's not that bad, you know," Tomoyo said. She picked up a straw basket below her and placed it on the table.
Sakura made a wide-eyed expression when she saw the basket. "Wow!" she exclaimed joyfully.
Tomoyo giggled when she heard the reaction of Sakura and the expression of her face.
"I brought something really good today," she said proudly. She opened the lid and took out a cake, a strawberry short cake.
"Wow my favorite!" Sakura said.
Distracted by the sweet aroma of the cake, Takashi turned his head to the girls, wondering what's up. He then saw the short cake on top of the table. He looked at as if he didn't care, but when he heard his stomach growled, his expression changed. His mouth watered a little. He quickly wiped the saliva of his mouth. He tried to ignore his tempted stomach.
"It looks so nice, Tomoyo." Sakura praised the cake of Tomoyo.
Tomoyo giggled.
"Hi, guys," a familiar voice said.
The girls looked behind their shoulder and saw Nakuru, approaching and waving her hand.
"How's it going," she said.
Nakuru was also one of the friends of Sakura, tall, perky, and happy-go-lucky. She had a very long brown hair the dangled behind. It was so long that it could touch her buttocks (I have to say it '). Her red eyes glimmered like wild fire as her hyperactive vigor was being induced to her. Not only that, she also acted childishly in most occasions.
She grabbed a chair and sat between Sakura and Tomoyo. "Oh! You're having a cake for Recess."
"Mmm." Sakura nodded.
"You want some?" Tomoyo asked Nakuru.
"Don't mind if I do!" Nakuru said perkily. "I love this cake."
Tomoyo sliced a piece for Nakuru, Sakura and for her self. Nakuru picked her small plate and got her piece. She took a piece of her cake and ate it!
"Mm! Yummy," she said. "The cake is really deilicious."
Tomoyo laughed softly.
Takashi stared at them like a hungry beggar looking for food to eat. His mouth watered again—he quickly wiped it off his mouth. Man, I'm hungry! He thought.
Nakuru took another fork full of cake. Before her fork entered her mouth, she noticed Takashi at the end of the classroom, staring at them.
Once Takashi saw her looking at his direction, he quickly looked away and stood from his seat and walked out of the classroom.
The girl raised an eyebrow as she watched him leave the classroom. She then looked at Tomoyo.
"Hey, can I keep piece of cake?" she asked her.
Tomoyo raised an eyebrow, wondering. "Why, Nakuru."
"I want to give it to a friend," Nakuru replied.
X00X00X
On the rooftop, dismissal time...
Takashi climbed up the stairs to the rooftop of the building. When he got out of the stairwell, he gazed the blue sky.
The sun was bright. Its rays flooded down the whole area, giving that warm feeling. There were few clouds present and it seemed that it won't rain for quite a while.
The boy moved further to the end of the building. He sat down at the end, leaning against the wire fence walls of one of the cliff sides of the building.
Nakuru suddenly appeared from the stairwell, carrying a pink Tupperware. She looked around the place. To one side, there she saw Takashi sitting at the very edge of the building.
"Takashi," she called.
Startled, Takashi turned his head to where the voice came from. He then saw Nakuru approaching him. He looked away after his glance. "What do you want?" he coldly asked.
Nakuru giggled as she got closer to him.
Yamazaki glanced behind her. He watched Nakuru climb up the fence and jumped down, landing beside him. He moved couple of inches away from her, when she sat beside him.
She smiled cheerfully at him and said, "Nothing much. I just want you to taste Tomoyo's cake."
Takashi raised an eyebrow. "And why would I do that?" he quizzed her.
Then a fork was shoved to his mouth with a piece of the strawberry short cake with it.
"There," Nakuru said, pulling out the fork from his mouth. "So, do you like it?"
Takashi chewed on the cake, savoring the sweet flavor of the cake plus the frosting and the strawberry itself. He swallowed it. He narrowed his eyes at Nakuru with that annoyed look on his face.
"It's… tasty," he admitted, looking shy.
Nakuru giggled. "Glad to hear it," she said. She took another small piece of the cake that was inside of the pink Tupperware and moved it closer to Takashi's mouth.
Takashi began to lean away as the fork moved in closer to his face, looking freaked out. He glanced at Nakuru.
"Come 'on, don't be shy," she said, smiling. "Say 'Ahhh'…"
The boy hesitated and began to move his face from the fork. He glanced once more to Nakuru, ensuring that this wasn't some sort of scandal that he might think. He motioned his head closer to the fork and opened his mouth while eyes stared at Nakuru.
The piece of cake entered the shaft, which was his mouth. He shut his mouth as Nakuru slowly pulling out the fork from it. He then began to chew it.
Still in shock, he thought to his self, why is she doing this? I don't get it.
"Yummy?" asked Nakuru.
Takashi narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "Are you treating like a child?"
Nakuru giggled. "Not really."
"Why are doing this to me?" he blurted out.
Nakuru looked at him, surprised to hear that question from him. Nakuru put down the Tupperware and motioned her body to a thinking position; she crossed her left leg over her right and placed a hand on her chin, raising an eyebrow and pouting.
Takashi waited for her reply. Nakuru glanced at him and smiled. "Because I wanted to," she replied.
"What?" Takashi made a questioning look on Nakuru.
Nakuru smiled. "I just wanted to," she continued, "when I saw you staring at us."
Takashi pulled back his mouth, looking surprised and embarrassed.
Nakuru laughed softly. "I want to have some of it, that's all," she finished, smiling cheerfully at Takashi.
Takashi was surprised by Nakuru. She was the only girl in school who give some thing as heart-warming as giving a cake. His slit-looking eyes stared her, looking kinda surprised. He looked in front of him.
"Is that it," he said monotonously.
Nakuru smiled again at Takashi. "Yeah."
Yamazaki looked really surprised. He was stunned by Nakuru's kind act. He then looked at the view in front of him; his heart beating faster. The feeling was so good, being treated kindly like that…
"Better get going now," Nakuru said, standing up and picking up the empty Tupperware. "See you tomorrow, Takashi-cha!"
Takashi watched her climb the wire fence and land on the floor. She stopped a couple of meters away and waved good bye to Takashi. Takashi watched her wave her hand and leave him.
"Thanks," he said softly.