School Daze!!
Author's Ranting: Hello to all who has decided to read this pathetic fanfic of mine! Firstly, I thank you all for choosing to read this fanfic! Pls do not forget to review my fanfic, ne? I need encouragement and ideas from you readers. It'll be a great contribution to the other upcoming chapters! Thank You So Much... This my first try in writing a fanfic, so I hope that you don't mind the crappy story that I've came up with! 'Nuf said, read on! xD
Chapter 1: First Encounter
"Hey, has any of you seen that transfer student yet?"
"Nope, but I hear that she's a babe, a gorgeous one even!"
"Whoa!"
"That real?!"
"But... there's no hope for us as that goddamned womanizer Takayashi Kenzaki of class 2-A has just recently announced that he's got his eyes on her!"
"Aw crap! There's surely no hope for us to bag that girl as ours if he's got her as the next target!"
"And I heard that the day he gotten hold of this piece of news was immediately after the day he fucked the brains out of his new girlfriend! And straight after that, he just dumped her!"
"No fuckin' way! That's too cruel to the girl!"
"Duh! Given that crappy attitude he gives to his girlfriends, something should be happening sooner or later."
"Another scoop: she nearly jumped down from her apartment after the break-up with Takayashi. It's on the papers now!"
"Seriously?!"
"Man, that bastard Takayashi..."
" Tsk..." They could only shake their heads in disgust.
Sagara Sanosuke sighed in exasperation, listening to his classmates gossip around him. This had been a rumour, and that 'babe-licious transfer student from France' which everyone was talking about since the start of the week three days ago hasn't appeared yet. Sanosuke had heard of this since the beginning of the new term, but unlike everyone in school (especially the perverts), he wasn't really that happy to have a new student barge in on the class that had took him one whole year just to be comfortable around them. "How troublesome..." Sanosuke laid his head on the desk, exhausted. He had a premonition that this wasn't going to be a good year.
"Morning, Sanosuke, thinking of something? You look troubled." Asked a young man with a small stature for his age at sixteen, which was supposed to be the prime time for puberty in guys. This age also marked the starting of growth spurts amongst the male population in class 2-C. Himura Kenshin had a head of red hair, tied in a messy ponytail behind him, a X-scar on his left cheek and dons a uniform too prim and proper to be true for most guys his age.
"Mornin', Kenshin." Sanosuke replied, although it was more towards his arms than to Kenshin. The latter, being used to Sanosuke's behaviour, sat down on the chair in front of him before continuing their chat of sorts, which always ended with Sanosuke spacing out with no end in sight.
"I heard you talking about that new transfer student that we're supposed to have at the start of the new year. Do you suppose it's real? The rumour, I mean."
"Well, seeing that I haven't seen a transfer student that has been late for three days, I'll say that this rumour is a dud. A complete fake." Before Sanosuke could even find the words to reply the red-head, he was suddenly interrupted by another new-comer to their group.
"Ah, good mornin'. And you know, it's rude to interrupt someone when they're about to reply, Kaoru." Kenshin turned his head towards the new-comer of the chat, who apparently had just materialized into their midst. Kamiya Kaoru was a raven-haired girl of sixteen, a loyal kendo student and someone whom no one could guess what her fear was, for she showed none throughout the whole of last year that they had gotten to know her. But, like all humans, Kaoru does have a particular weakness, which was also one to blush about: she can't stand the gaze that Kenshin occasinally shoots into her eyes.
"I know that, but Sanosuke doesn't even seem to be concentrating on the so-called talk that the both of you are supposed to have, Kenshin. Look, he's dazing away! Isn't this also rude?" Kaoru promptly puffed out her chest, her hands on her hips, apparently annoyed by Sanosuke's manners.
"Now, now, Kaoru..." replied Kenshin, trying to appease her fumes of anger that's seeping out of of her at that very minute. That was also when the door of the classroom slid open. At it, stood their form teacher, the nightmare of many students, Saito. He teaches with no toleration of talking in his class. There was a rush with the whole class running back to their seats in order to avoid visiting hell on their first week back.
"Well, class, before I begin taking the attendance, there's a transfer student-" the tension in the class disappeared. "-from France-" everyone sat up in their fullest attention, ears pricked up, hoping to be first to catch the name of the mysterious babe that the whole school had been so excited about. "-who shall be joining us from this day onwards. Come in." The classroom door opened for the second time, and everyone hastily adjusted their attention to the door, hoping to be the first to see the legendary babe's 'hot' body. There she stepped in gingerly with the two long legs like a model's, her ebony hair flowing to her waist. She approached the teacher's desk, gently picked up the chalk on the dent at the front of the blackboard, wrote her name on it before turning her ivory face to the class that's she's expected to work with for the rest of the year. "Her name's Megumi, and I hope that everyone will welcome her warmly into class and show her the ropes of this class." Megumi's name was like a song from the angels above, highly anticipated by the boys of the class. As for the girls, she was merely just another new add-in to their class, another would-be friend that they'll be having for the next three years of high school. "Now, if you will please, Megumi, take that seat beside Sanosuke-" The guys shot daggers at Sanosuke with their eyes upon hearing this. "-and we will be able to start the lesson. Oh, and I'll leave the job of letting her know the rules and regulations of this class to all of you to decide. Is that fine with you all?" A chorus of agreement followed. Megumi made her way to her seat and settled herself down quickly, so as not to delay the duration of classes any longer. She didn't know that she was closely observed by her new classmates and the one to her right was lying in a pool of imaginary blood, caused by the daggers that shot out of the guys' eyes.
---
As soon as the bell went off for break, Megumi's table was soon crowded by people. All around her, they were hastily introducing themselves, hoping that Megumi would part her lips and speak.
"Ne, ne, Megumi, why is it that you're a transfer from France, but you have a Japanese name?"
"Well, my homeland is Japan, but my parents had moved to France when I was barely five. And I've been staying at there ever since, until two years ago when my parents decided to return to Japan."
The crowd of people replied in a chorus of "I see"s, while the guys just stood by, admiring that striking, breath-catching body of hers, not forgetting to stab Sanosuke with daggers, in the meantime muttering what a lucky bastard Sanosuke was to be able to sit right next to Megumi.
But, their actions were all observed by the especially sharp eyes of Megumi. There was a slight tinge of guilt as she saw how 'badly' Sanosuke was treated by her new classmates. Soon, there was a small plan going on in her mind while she continued to be engaged in the conversation with her soon-to-be friends.
"Well, Sano, do you think that's it's a blessing to be sitting beside her, or is it a curse in disguise?" Kenshin eagerly asked his friend, seeing him in such a sorry state after all those treatment from their fellow classmates.
"It's a curse, no disguise. It's definitely a curse." Sanosuke replied without thinking twice. He had known the answer even before Kenshin asked him, knew the answer since the moment Hajime-sensei (A/N: How weird, to call Saito in this way P) assigned Megumi to take the seat beside him. It had been empty since the day he started studying in this school. 'I had been left alone and in peace,' thought Sanosuke, 'so why must that idiotic bastard of a sensei assign this seat to her and disrupt his hard-to-get peace?! Move her in front, please I beg of you' Sanosuke has already imagining himself kneeling in front of the staff room door, pleading to Saito with sincerity(?!).
---
The bell signalling the end of another grueling day of school chimed, and the students of each class flocked out of the classroom in loud chatters, squeals, screams and whatnots. Sanosuke lagged behind from the others as he tried to complete the assignments which the teachers had gave just earlier. He was aware that he was the last to leave the class, or so as he thought.
"Hey, Sanosuke"
The latter lifted his head. There stood Megumi. 'So she hadn't gone home, huh...' Sanosuke asked brusquely. "Waddya want from me?" He wanted absolutely nothing to do with someone who has butted into his world and caused it to go into chaos.
"Well, the purpose behind me standing in front of you is because I hope to be friends with you. I have noticed that you weren't very welcomed amongst our classmates and also asked them for the reason behind this action. It seems that it's cos that you just wanted to be alone, is it?"
"If you know the answer, then why ask me?"
"That won't do!" Megumi exclaimed aloud in exasperation. "You also happen to be the only one who hadn't welcomed me into this class warmly! And I was hoping that you'll do so after school when there's no one around..." She sat down on her dask as she spoke, folding her arms and pouting slightly.
"... ..."
"Answer me you twerp!"
"Fine, welcome-to-the-class-i'm-so-happy-to-see-you-in-my-class. There, happy? Now leave me in peace."
"Hey!"
"Tch, you just don't get it, do you?" Sanosuke stood up roughly and came face to face with Megumi before shouting back his reply to her literally. "The reason why I didn't even want to welcome is because I didn't want extra attention if you and I became friends. That'll cause an uproar in the whole school and then, my peaceful life in school will be shattered into billions of pieces and there'll be absolutely no hope of gaining it back!"
"But, I don't get it, why do you-"
"I hate crowds, okay?! Happy?!"
A full ten seconds of total silence followed as they stared into each other's eyes, contemplating each other, minds racing. Sanosuke, who had been leaning over Megumi as he shouted that last sentence to her straightened his back and turned it towards her before starting to pack up his belongings in a moody silence. It was almost suffocating Megumi, who had enjoyed a life of bright colours and loud noises in France before migrating back to Japan. Before she even had the chance to recollect her mind after that one-sided arguement with Sanosuke, he was already making his way to the classroom door, preparing to make his way back home.
"Wait, Sanosuke! A-all I want is just to be friends with-"
"You can drop that idea, then. I have never thought of being friends with you. Not even once since I've heard of you."
"Can you just listen to me for once? I'm not asking for much, I just want your attention!" Sanosuke slowly turned to face her, and indication that he was listening to what Megumi was about to talk about. "I know that you don't want to be friends with me, but can't you even try? I know you're going to say that it's impossible," She hurriedly added on to her speech when she saw Sanosuke's mouth open warily. "But you hadn't even tried it before, so why not try now? All you have to do is just acknowledge my existence beside you, allow me to be a part of your world and all will be well! Just give me a chance, please?"
Sanosuke whipped himself around so that he faced the doorway once again. "Fine, but I'll only give you one chance to do so. If you ruin it, that's it."
Megumi was so happy that she could just hug Sanosuke right now, but she knew that it was definitely the wrong thing to do. "I get it, Sanosuke. But as the first step towards our friendship, could you at least call me by name, just once?"
Sanosuke peered back at her over his shoulder.
"See you tommorrow, Megumi."
----
Yeah, finally, after months of thinking, striking out ideas, i've finally come up with my first chapter to my first fanfic! i have this feeling at the back of my mind that this fic is just so crappy, but i'll definitely improve my writing skill! i swear i will!
I thank everyone's support in reading this fanfic.