One-three shot centring Koichi from digimon frontier and my OC Stephanie Quinn. Warning; bad writing, characters OOC, OC's. Still interested? And this is a response to Kojiluvr's challenge
I don't own Koichi. I wouldn't be able to make a character as awesome as him.
"Hey, Steph! Check out the new kid."
"Yeah? What about him?" Stephanie Quinn didn't need to turn around to know that it was one of her close acquaintances - Kira Randles - who had spoken. Nor did she need to glance around to find who she was talking about.
The bell had just rung for lunch and Stephanie - along with the rest of the class - were inside either eating, chatting to their friends or completing unfinished homework. Stephanie, however, was remembering that earlier that morning, their teacher - Ms. Cox - had introduced the new, Japanese exchange student, Koichi Kimura, to the class.
Koichi's cobalt blue eyes had been directed at the floor, his gaze almost burning through the cement material while his raven-coloured bangs half-shielded them from the class, his usually-pale cheeks flushed, indicating that he was fully aware of the people staring at him.
Behind her, Stephanie heard Kira sigh softly, "Jamie's picking on him."
Jamie O'Sullivan was the shortest, most annoying person in possibly the whole school, as well as Stephanie's arch-enemy - second only to her father (as far as the annoying part goes) - with straggly, mouse-brown hair, acidic green eyes and a freckled, tanned complexion, always picking on kids younger or more vulnerable than him.
Growling deeply, Stephanie glanced across the room to where Koichi was seated, surrounded by Jamie and his cronies, Stevie Quinn (Stephanie's brother), Will O'Connor and Johnny McHenry.
Straining her ears, Stephanie managed to overhear what the five were 'discussing'.
"So, Kimura. How 'bout we tell ye's how it works 'round here?" Johnny suggested, smiling a goofy-yet-menacing grin.
Koichi shrugged shyly, blushing, as Jamie smirked, "The name's Jamie O'Sullivan, Kimura, and we run things around here. So either you're with us, or not. And those who aren't don't usually have long to regret it."
"Um… could you, um… please just… go away?" Koichi mumbled, staring at his desk.
By now, the entire room had become silent, everyone staring at the angry, red-faced Jamie, who had his hands clenched, "What. Was. That?"
"Um…" Koichi seemed at loss for an answer, beginning to feel threatened by the way Johnny, Will and Stevie were moving closer to him, poisonous glares on their faces.
"He said to leave him alone."
Everyone looked across at Stephanie, who had slammed her bottle of water onto the table, her eyes closed. "So why don't you pick on someone your own size."
Jamie growled, blushing a dark shade of maroon as he took a step towards Stephanie, "Make me, Quinn."
Stephanie growled again, opening her eyes and glaring at Jamie, her crimson eyes burning through his like fire, her aquamarine ponytail whipping over her shoulder as she stood up abruptly, her pale complexion making it all the more startling, "Maybe we should finish what we started at kendo, O'Sullivan. Or do you accept how it was going to end?"
Jamie growled, his blush deepening even further. A few days previous, the two rivals had been paired up at kendo class for a fight, but things had gotten a little… out of hand. Jamie had been about to be knocked out of the ring when their sensei had ordered them to cease the fight, but Jamie refused to believe that he would have lost.
"Maybe we should!"
Both were still for a moment before moving to lunge at each other, but before they could, Stevie grabbed Jamie's shoulder, restraining him, while Kira kept a tight hold of one of Stephanie's arms until Ms. Gaffney entered the room a minute later, giving the two a reason to sit - and Jamie a reason to leave Koichi alone.
Stephanie frowned down at her book, trying to concentrate, until a note was slipped in front of the maths equation. Glancing up, she saw Koichi blush a faint tinge of salmon before she opened the note, revealing what he had quickly scrawled on the piece of paper.
'Thanks. I really appreciate what you did there. Want to hang out later?'
She grinned and glanced up again, finally meeting Koichi's eyes as she mouthed, 'Sure', causing him to blush even further. And so, any thoughts on Jamie were locked away in the furthest corner of her mind as Stephanie tried to concentrate on the lesson… and on figuring out why she felt so happy about hanging out with Koichi later.
Whoever guesses who Stephanie's based off gets a virtual cookie! ^_^ Seeing as there isn't enough words in this, I might do a sequel about when they're older, but so far I'm just doing them as kids. Please review!