Ichigo Kanamiya stared at her new high school. She had done so many scary, dangerous, crazy things in her fifteen years of living, but nothing NOTHING, scared her like this did. The mere thought of being around all those people, all the teachers, all the girls, all the boys, just terrified her. She had always been alone, so why did not having any friends bother her? Why did she even care? She wasn't here for such petty things anyways. She was here to eliminate ANY fellow kaitos. ESPECIALLY the "great" phantom theif Dark. Just his name made her stomach churn. Since she could remember, her family and the Niwas (in whom Dark finds a host.) have always been at odds with each other. Partially because They were both kaitos, art thieves, and were both after works of art posessing magic. Another reason was rarely spoken of. It had something to do with the fact that Dark had to take a host to survive, however, the kanamiyas passed down Riala, the "wings", along with Kaito powers to the eldest daughter of the family. She didn't see why that was even relavent though. Ichigo's thoughts were enteruppted when her classmate Hikari came up to her. Hikari has been in Ichigo's class last year during middle school. Hikari was a bright, energetic, hyper person. The exact OPPOSITE of Ichigo. Ichigo never considered Hikari a "friend", but Hikari thought otherwise. "Did you see Niwa-sempai and Harada-sempai?" she gushed, " can you believe that they are STILL going out!? they've been boyfriend and girlfriend since eighth grade! that's like, three whole years! how sweet is that-"
"did you say niwa?" Ichigo said interuppting Hikari's babble.
"Yeah! Niwa-senpai is so cute! he-" Hikari went on. Ichigo walked next to Hikari while ignoring her brainless babble. Niwa? isn't that the family that Dark lives in? then wouldn't that mean? but, Dark hasn't shown up since I moved here! granted, that WAS two years ago, but still. Does the fact that dark hasn't shown up since Niwa got a girlfriend mean Niwa's curse is already gone? but then, that would mean that Dark won't show up until Niwa has a kid! Ichigo's thoughts were all in different places. She was starting to feel lightheaded as the first period bell rang. She walked inside her classroom and sat next to Hikari.
"Ichigo-chan?"
"Ichigo-chan?"
"Ichigo-chan?"
hikari was calling Ichigo's name. "Unh...what is it?" Ichigo mumbled. Her head still wasn't feeling any better , in fact, it felt worse. A WHOLE lot worse. "Ichigo-chan! you got hit by a volleyball during third period P.E!! I was soo worried!" Hikari said as Ichigo sat up and looked around. She was in the nurses' office. "How did I...?" she moaned. Her head was really starting to bother her. "OMIGOSH! That's the good part!" Hikari gushed, "Yuki-sama saw you get hit and he rushed to you and carried you to the infimary! It was soooo cool!!"
"Yuki...kun? you mean Yuki Kitsuke?"
"YES!! Yuki-sama was sooo dreamy..."
"I've been meaning to ask, but why do you call him Yuki-SAMA? he's in our class." Ichigo asked bluntly.
"WHAT!? Don't you know? Yuki-sama is only the hottest, kindest, smartest, non-taken guy here!"
"So? I placed higher than him on the entrance exam, and you don't see me with a freakin fan club." Ichigo was a little mad now, "And what about Niwa-sempai? I thought you were in his fanclub?"
Hikari's face turned red. "Well, yea. but he's TAKEN, Yuki-sama isn't." she said.
"Ah...I see." Ichigo mumbled even though she really DIDN'T understand. "Besides!" Hikari grinned, "You could have a fan club if you wanted one! Your the prettiest and the SMARTEST girl at Azumano High school! But, youre too cold to people! You should be nicer, and smile more."
"I never said I wanted a fanclub." Ichigo blinked at Hikari.
"GAH! I was just speaking...uh..."
"Hypothetically?"
"yeah! see! youre too smart!" Hikari smiled, "Well, you stay here and rest, I'm going to class."
Ichigo stared at the doorway after Hikari left. Yeah, she knew she was smart, but PRETTY? Ichigo had never heard that one before. The nurse walked in and handed her two aspirin, and she took them. Then she got up and stood in front of her forth period class waiting for it to get out. While she stood there she noticed a sound coming from the Hallway. She walked down it a little and saw a boy from the Second-year class trying desperately to clean up the contents of his spilled locker. Each time he would pick up something, he would drop something else. woah. talk about a clutz... Ichigo thought as she walked over to him and in one motion picked up the contents of his locker and placed them back. "WOW!" he said as he gaped at her, "Thank you so much!"
Ichigo looked at him, something about him was familiar. "Hi! I'm Daisuke, Daisuke Niwa." he grinned at her. She stared at him, N-Niwa!? "u..uh I'm Ichigo. Ichigo Kanamiya." she barely mumbled. "Hi Ichigo! youre a first year right? I've actually heard alot about you. Well, I'll see you around Berry-chan!" He said as he smiled and walked back towards his class.
"Berry-chan?"
berry-chan...?
berry...chan?
Ichigo finished the rest of the school day with little incident. "Ichigo! Lets go home together so you can tell me all about talking to Niwa-sempai!" Hikari grinned as she caught up to Ichigo.
crap.
"Not much happened Hikari, I just picked up his stuff, said my name, and conversation over. done. finished." Ichigo said bluntly.
"oh... so... Is this where you live?" Hikari said as they got to a tall apartment building that looked fairly new, and somewhat hi-tech.
"yeah." Ichigo said blankly as she began to walk up the steps.
"But I thought you said you had a big family?"
"I do."
"Then how do they all-"
"I live alone." Ichigo said and then waved goodbye to Hikari and ran up to her room. Great. Now she's gonna want to come over or have a sleepover or something. Ichigo thought to herself. And once she tells the class, I'm Going to have to put up with all the "Aren't you lonely?" topics. Ichigo thought as she sat down by her window. She finished her homework and then sat in the windowsill. She looked out at the city surrounding her. All the people who live there, people walking down the street, Everywhere she looked she saw People. But... Every person seemed like they weren't alone. They were all walking with someone, talking to someone, being with someone. not that it matters, couples only last a max of four years anyways... Ichigo looked out at the sunset.
...Of Course I am...
