I will start off with the usual. I do not own bey blade! And never will I wish I did though. Please no flames, although they make me laugh

If you want to!

By Demdova

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Soft summer breezes were helping to waft the sweet scents of the newly blooming cherry bloom flowers into the stuffy class room. Sitting beside the window, her mind had long since departed the lesson, unable to pay attention to Mr. Clark's monotone voice, droning on about how 'important algebra will be in later life.' She didn't need to know algebra! Still, it wasn't like she could get out of this lesson without trying to fake being sick.

"Mrs. Lee! I can see that you're already busy with something else . . . but would you care to answer the question!" he barked, ordering her around like she was some kind of drill sergeant.

She lazily lifted her head from her warn-out desk, and diverted her attention toward the dreary figure peaking over her shoulders. "Yes?!" Her eyes quickly scanned her algebra teacher.

"Answer the question!" He replied, handing the dusty piece of chalk to the lazy student.

She flicked away a bang dangling above her face, before snatching the chalk away from Mr. Clark. The sounds of faint snickering escaped from the classmates, as they watched the tomboy drag herself to the board. Carefully placing the chalk on the green chalkboard, she began writing the answer to the question.

"Done!"she smiled triumphantly, taking a bow before the class several times, "Go see if that baby's right!"

Mr. Clark smirked, folding his arms. "We will see won't we."

Studying the question thoroughly, Mr. Clark arched a brow and turned to face the tomboy. "Well, it seems you have miscalculated the answer . . . Achira."

Achira brought her triumphant smirk to a growling scowl, before grabbing the chalk once more and redoing the answer. Sooner or later she'd have to get it right. "Happy." She muttered to herself, hoping the teacher hadn't her backtalk.

"Yes I am." He smiled, picking up the faint murmur made by the scowling teen. "Class is dismissed. Achira I'd like to see a moment."

She gulped and stayed in her seat until everyone left. "How long will this take? I have bey blade practice."She implied, crossing one leg over the other.

"You can wait. I'd like to discuss your test mark. I was going to hand them back this period, but I decided to wait until Monday."

"This is bad, isn't it."Achira sighed, banging her head onto her desk."I knew I should have studied more."

"You should have. Here's your paper."Mr. Clark said, handing a piece of paper to her.

She lifted her head from her desk and took the paper from him. "I GOT AN F!"

"I'm afraid so. I just didn't think you deserved any other."Mr. Clark replied.

"There must be some mistake. Can I at least have a D as a passing grade? My parents are gonna kill me."She exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen."He sighed."You should have thought about it before you took the test."

She groaned and began over viewing her test. "Good bye sir."She mumbled exiting the classroom.

"Gotta hurry."She said, looking at her watch. "I'm at least 10 minutes late."

Achira rushed down the hallways, until she spotted the gym doors.

As she peered in through the gym, she saw that everyone showed up today, that's a surprise."Finally. Most of the time we have two or three people missing."She sighed, walking over to the practice arena.

Hopefully next year Bakuten high could actually afford a bigger gym. Make my life a lot easier. She thought to herself.

Yes Bakuten was small town and no it was not the best time in your life. Being a member of Bakuten's best and only bey blading team did have its advantages though. Missing classes, getting less homework and getting better. Can't get much sweeter than that.

Last year they hadn't got very into the regional's. They probably got booted out close into the semifinals, but come-on that was it. Mostly because half the team was seniors and all they cared about was winning, no teamwork involved.

She scanned the bey blade arena. They still had the five monster dishes there, spread apart about one meter from each other. She entered through the steel gates into the area. Surprisingly enough, someone confronted her from behind.

"You're late."A voice implied.

She twirled around to see none other than her snobby blue-haired captain, Kai Hiwatari. This guy was real winner. Especially with those blue triangles coming halfway across his cheeks. "Not my fault. Mr. Clark wanted to discuss a paper with me."She snapped.

"That's still your problem. If this happens again, you're gone."Kai snorted, crossing his arms.

"Yeah right. I'm the best blader on this team. If you lost me, you'd be a goner in the regionals."She snickered.

"Girls are weak."

"You wish they were."

"I don't wish, they are."He smirked, walking away from her.

Being around Hiwatari is such a bore. All he does is criticize woman 24/7. She thought to herself.

Achira spotted her friend Riley practicing launching her bey blade. "Hey Riley."Achira said, waving to the brown-haired girl.

"Hello."Riley replied."What took you so long?"

"Stupid Mr. Clark was keeping me in to discuss my algebra test."Achira exclaimed.

"I see. Well lucky you got here when you did."She smiled.

"Yeah."Achira smiled, winking at Riley in response.

"Everyone, get in a circle."Kai snapped, pacing back and forth.

Without hesitation, everyone gathered and formed into a lopsided circle. "As you all know the regional's our in a couple months. I want most of you to be at the top of the game, that's why next Friday I will be picking six regulars for the team. The rest of you are gone. So you might wanna be at the top of your game next week."Kai stated, smirking."And . . . each of you will be facing two opponents, my choice. The people who win or tie a certain number of consecutive matches, will make the cut."

The group stayed quiet, not wanting to anger the blue-haired teen. Achira briefly glanced at the clock hanging above the gym doors, "I have to get home soon."She muttered under her breath.

"Can I go now?! It doesn't take eighteen hours just to announce some stupid ranking tournament."Achira snorted, tapping her foot impatiently.

Kai turned and soon he came face to face with gleaming auburn eyes. He snorted and simply said."Whatever. It's not like you're gonna make the team anyway."

"Careful Kai! If you don't watch yourself, I'll be the new captain."She snickered, sending a withering glare to the blue-haired menace.

"Like you could pull that off."Kai smirked, ignoring her completely.

"Oh watch me! Next time you'll be taking orders from me."

Achira burst into a fit of giggles and led herself toward the exit.

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The drive home was not suited to her liking. There was traffic everywhere. Probably because it was getting close to Christmas, everyone had to get there shopping down now. Unlike her family they saved it until the last minute. Go figure eh!

Achira pulled her car into the driveway and parked beside her dad's chevy. Personally I think that the car's a piece of junk, but if it makes my dad happy, then why should I criticize!

She turned the car keys, pulled them out and began walking toward the house doors. "I hope mom won't get mad I was late?"She wondered, climbing up the steps.

She wriggled the door knob slightly and viola it opened! "I'm home."She yelled, throwing her backpack to one side of the hallway.

"Yes we know."Several voices replied from the kitchen.

Achira chuckled slightly and began climbing the winding staircase toward her room. Right away you could probably tell that her family wasn't very rich. Just take a look around and you'd probably only see things that were absolutely essential in one's home. There were no game systems, no fine furniture and no fancy linen or stuff. She only had one television that was in the family room and one computer that was in her room.

Living in such a small house really stinks. For one thing there kitchen was damn small and her bedroom was the size of a closet. You tell me if it's bad or not.

"Let's see who's on."She smiled, logging onto her MSN messenger.

She looked down her contact list and saw that no one was on. Achira sighed and pressed a button that shut down her computer. "How come whenever I'm on, no one else is."She grumbled, twirling around in her chair.

Achira lazily flopped onto her bed, kicking her legs up and down in relaxation. "Let's see what did we have for homework again."She pondered, thinking back to this morning."No, it wasn't math or was it. I don't know. Perhaps it was English, no it wasn't."

Achira flipped onto her side and wrapped a blanket around her waist."It's only 5:30 and already I'm beat."She yawned, stretching her hands out.

Today was a veryhard day. They had just been assigned a major science project due next week. It counted for 20 of your overall science mark. The best Achira had gotten in science was C and that was with the help of a tutor. Life was so unfair sometimes.

After about twenty minutes of lying on the bed motionless, she finally felt for a craving for something to eat.

"Hopefully mom went shopping today."She mumbled.

She rubbed her stomach slightly, led herself out the door and down the staircase. "MOM! Do we have any thing to eat?"She asked, running toward the kitchen.

"I think we have some pop-tarts in the storage cupboard."Her mother replied. "Save some for tomorrow okay."

"Okay I will!"

Achira began rummaging through the cupboards for the small box that read pop-tarts on it. She ripped the box open and pulled out one of the pop-tarts which was wrapped in a silver exterior. First she removed the wrapper surrounding it, wouldn't wanna to bite into that now would we. "Mmm... good!"She blurted, biting into it.

The strawberry filling covered her upper lip, she giggled wiping it away with her sleeve. A pop-tart! It will always be one of those many things that can cheer me up!. She thought to herself.

She threw out the silver pop-tart wrapper and darted up the stairs back to her bedroom. "Someone has to be one now!"She stated, pressing a small gold button that booted up her computer.

Her msn loaded up immediately as soon as she logged into her file. They didn't have dial-up internet, which in her point of view was very annoying. She had added herself on to make it seem like she had more contacts, but it turns out she only had ten. Just like what happened before, not a single person was on, except for herself!

Achira rolled her eyes, held the top button for fifteen seconds to it would shut down. "This is really starting to piss me off!"

She scratched the back of her head in silence and briefly looked at her clock. "8:39. Uh... Stupid time goes way too fast."She snorted, digging her head into her pillow.

Achira sighed looking out the window."Maybe some light reading will get me to sleep?"

She checked out her book case to see which ones she hadn't read yet. Her finger moved down the stacks and stacks of books that she owned. "Uh..."

Her finger stopped at the lord of the rings book. She hadn't even bother reading the books , she hadn't the time to do it. It would probably take her 3 days to read one of them, but school was in the way so why bother.

Achira picked up the first one and turned to the first page. It was about 10:30 when she had read about a quarter way through the book. She ripped off a piece of paper from her math sheet and slipped into page 65. "There now I'll know where I stopped!"

She placed it back on the shelf beside the 2nd book. "I might as well go to bed, nothing else to do. Unless somebody miraculously signs on when I'm asleep. That's what they want me to think."She said, her eyes scanning the computer. "Nah!"

She quickly changed into her hockey jersey and pj bottoms and dove into her bed. Her eyelids closed around her dark auburn orbs and she smiled as she wrapped herself tighter into the blanket.

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There you have it folks. The first chapter. The second one should be up in a week or two.