Okay, so this story is probably going to be moved to a new account once I figure out how to get into Shidonii-kun's and mine joint account. But for now, please enjoy it here :D This is a story that Shidonii and I will be writing together.
They say High School is the greatest time in your life. You're young, no worries except keeping your grades above failing, who's wearing what, and who's dating who. Friday night football games under the lights and in the brisk night air with your friends. It's an almost magical time really, all the memories you make. Yup, sounds amazing right? Maybe for a normal high school student it would be. Maybe at a normal high school. Here however, at Leaf High, I, Aki Uchiha and my best friend Shidonii, go through a daily hell. You see, what they fail to tell you about those "magical high school times" is that they only belong to the popular kids. Take Sasori for example, redhead, baby faced, and star football player. Then there's his girlfriend, Sakura Harano. Gorgeous, long pink hair, and head cheerleader, and the new kid, Deidara. Tall, pretty hot, long blond hair, and artistic skills to boot. They grabbed him right up like vultures when he moved here, and now he never leaves Sasori's side. And finally, my twin brother Sasuke. You would think, since we look exactly alike, we'd be roped into the same category, but alas, the fates decided he shall be popular and I shall be the bottom of the food chain. What do these four all have in common besides being popular? They're bullies. Each day they find ways to make Shidonii and mine's life a living nightmare. All because we're the outcasts. It's not that we're ugly. Frankly, I think i'm damn sexy. The only thing I hate is i'm short, but with my long black hair, grey eyes, and slender build, I can't really complain about my looks. Shidonii surpasses me in looks as well. Tall with dirty blonde hair which covered one of her blue grey eyes. It's our taste in clothing and music that sets us apart. Shidonii wears mostly dark colors, she has a goth and punk type of look. I wear bright colored skinny jeans, green, blue, plaid, everything really, and band tees, and I usually have some kind of clip in my hair. Your typical scene kid style.
"If you keep spacing like that you'll never finish eating before geometry." I snapped out of my thoughts as a tray was plopped down beside mine and Shidonii slid into the chair beside me. We had become best friends since she moved to this school last year. It was our freshman year and we instantly clicked, though at the time we didn't realize how much we'd be going through last year and already at the start of this year.
"Or it'll crawl off my plate. I'm not sure which may happen first." I replied taking a spoonful of what should be macaroni and cheese and held it upside down, making a face when it didn't fall off the spoon. "I really don't think it's legal to feed us this..."
"Bring your own lunch next time then. Or buy something else. Oh, and Neji wanted me to give this to you." She said, handing me a note before taking a bite of her sandwich.
"Lovely. I'm sure this will brighten my day right up." Sarcasm is such an amazing thing.
"Don't even read it. It's just going to hurt you, and make you think of going back to him. Don't even think of that, Aki." Ah, my voice of reason. Although we were both equally hyper at times, Shidonii had a tendency to be more level headed than I did. It wasn't hard for my head to find it's way to cloud nine and stay there until she brought me back to earth, especially when it came to Neji. He and I had been off and on since the end of middle school, each time we always exploded in some giant fight leaving me crying on Shidonii's porch step with her mumbling things about maiming or killing him. This last time though...that was something entirely different. He was entirely different.
"Helllooo, spacing again!" Shidonii scolded, waving a hand in front of my face.
"Sorry, what were you saying?"
"I said, I dont' know why you don't report him! Tell Itachi, the police, a teacher here, anyone Aki."
"It's not that big of a deal. It's over now anyway."
"Not a big deal? Aki, I hardly think a-" She was cut short as soda was poured over each of our heads. 'Ah hell, not this again.' I thought, tilting my head back a bit to look at my attacker. Sakura, as usual, stood towering over us with the cans.
"Oops, guess I slipped. So sorry." she sneered before walking back to her table with her friends watching and laughing.
"Yeah I bet you did. And one of these days my fist is going to slip right into your face.." I grumbled.
"No use letting them get to us, and punching her just makes you as bad as she is. Come on, lets go get cleaned up." Shidonii sighed, getting up to walk to her locker and the bathroom. We were used to this by now and knew to keep a change of clothes in our lockers at all times. It sucked, but what sucked more was that I never understand why they do this to Shidonii. Me, I'm quiet and keep to myself. I rarely talk except to her or when I'm called on in class, and it's gotten worse this past year thanks to what happened over the summer..but Shidonii was sweet and far more happy and outgoing than I am. She was nice to and talked to just about everyone. She rarely said anything hateful or mean toward anyone. It just didn't make sense to me. I'll have to make a mental note to ask her why she was so nice someday. After cleaning up the best we could and changing we made our way to geometry, which passed slowly but uneventfully like any other day. The next class was the one I dreaded. Gym. To make things worse I had that evil class with Sasuke and Sasori, and no Shidonii. I at least had Hinata to talk to, but she's so timid it doesn't really help with facing them, not to mention she seems so worried talking to me this year. Probably because of everything with Neji, seeing as they're cousins. 'Oh well, time to suck it up and get in there.' After changing and walking out to the gym I prayed it was either a free day and I could go walk outside, or that the boys and girls were separated. Scanning the gym, I saw quite a few rubber balls laying about. Just my luck, dodge ball, meaning co-ed play today. I stretched, walking toward Hinata and fell flat on my face.
"There are better ways of saying hello than tripping me, Sasuke." My words came out muffled since my face was currently eating the floor.
"Heh, this way is more fun with you. Oh, and you're in luck today. Sasori's not feeling so great, so he's sitting this one out. That means I'll be the only one pelting you with dodge balls today."
"Oh, that makes everything so much better." I replied, rolling my eyes and standing up. Sasuke was already walking to the other side of the gym, laughing the whole way. It wasn't always like this. Just last year Sasuke and I got along fine, just like we always had. It was after the summer when my parents started giving me the silent treatment that Sasuke suddenly found popularity and started treating me like this. At least it only happened here, at home I was invisible. I prefer that over this. I sighed, wishing Itachi was here and not off at college. He'd know what to do, he always made things better.
"A-are you a-alright, Aki?" Hinata asked when I finally walked over to her. She had quite the stuttering problem, she was so shy.
"Yeah, i'm fine. I'm sticking back here toward the back where I'm less likely to get hit though." Hinata nodded, knowing the routine. Gym wasn't our thing so we liked to participate as little as possible. Except on floor hockey days for me. I loved floor hockey. I looked over the other side of the gym. Other than Sasuke, the team wasn't too bad. There was Lee, head of the drama department and hardly any threat when it came to sports. Gaara, Lee's boyfriend, who would sit on the bleachers writing poetry the whole class, Ino who of course would be fawning over my brother like a lost puppy, and several others who weren't too bad.
"Alright! Let's play some dodge ball!"
"Shut up. God, you have a big mouth." I chuckled as Naruto and Kiba walked over to our side of the gym. Naruto was our school's track star, while Kiba was amazing at baseball. These two had some huge rivalry going on and always tried to outdo each other. I didn't mind them, although Naruto was loud, they were both pretty nice. I saw Hinata out of the corner of my eye watching the two argue, but she was mainly focused on a certain blonde. The three of them had quite the love triangle going on. Kiba really had a thing for Hinata, but Hinata was totally oblivious to this and had a huge crush on Naruto, who was oblivious to the whole thing in general. Lost in my thoughts over this I didn't hear the whistle blown, signaling the start of the game. Nor did I see the dodge ball flying straight toward me until it impacted with my face. Gasping in shock I stumbled backwards and put my hands to my face. Pulling one back I realized my nose was bleeding pretty well. My face was taking quite the abuse today. The girl's gym teacher, Anko, walked over quickly.
"Alright, it doesn't look too bad but to the nurse with you anyway. Let's see...Sasori! You're not doing anything just sitting over there! Escort Aki to the nurse!" Fantastic. My "escort" was the guy who has been shoving me into lockers and throwing me in trash cans for the past year and a half. I glared at him before walking out the door and starting down the hall.
"I'm pretty sure the point is for me to walk with you. Not behind you." Damn, he caught up with me.
"Yeah, wouldn't want me to fall over from blood loss now would we? I don't need your help."
"Regardless if you think you need my help or not, I was told to walk with you, and that's what I'm going to do."
"Why? So you can find some new way to harass me right after?"
"Listen, i'm just doing what I was told. I don't want to be here anymore than you do so cut the attitude. You'd think you'd have more respect for an upperclassman." At that I whirled around to face him.
"I will never have any respect for you. Ever." I growled.
"Can't be helped I suppose. Just go in and get yourself checked out." I hadn't even realized we were at the nurses office already. I turned back around and walked in the room, sitting in a chair to wait. Was it just me or did he look almost hurt when I said that? No, must be me. It shouldn't be any shock that I don't respect him after all he's put me through. It was a shock however, when he sat in the chair beside me.
"What are you doing? Shouldn't you be going back to class?" I snapped.
"What kind of guy would I be if I just left you here before making sure you were alright?"
"My hero." I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm and rolled my eyes.
"Not to mention Anko would give me at least a twenty minute lecture if I did." We sat in awkward silence for a few moments before he broke it. "There's blood on your hands," he pointed out, "here." Before I could stop him he grabbed a wipe from the nurses desk and grabbed my hand, flipping it palm up to wipe it off. 'I'm in my gym clothes!' I thought, 'There's no sleeve covering my wrist!' I quickly pulled my arm out of his grasp, and saw the look of pure shock on his face. That was it. I got up and ran out of the room and to the nearest bathroom, locking myself in a stall and texting Shidonii to come to the bathroom asap. I crouched down and hugged my knees to my chest. He saw, I know he saw. All the scars, and even the fresh cuts from last night. My secret was out, and in no time would be all over the school.