Note: This is waaay AU and probably overdone but, hey, who cares right?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot line.
"Ning."
snore
"Ning?"
snore grunt mumble
"Earth to Ning?!"
groan snore
"NING!!!"
"Ahhh! Wha' ya wan'?" Lu Xun looked at his lab partner and friend.
"It is time to conduct our experiment." Gan Ning stared at his friend for a moment before furrowing his brows.
"Wha?" He asked stupidly.
"You know, Chemistry class? We do lab experiments? Ring a bell?"
"The bell rang? Why didn'cha say so? 'M ready fer lunch!" Ning moved to get up but was stopped by something hitting him in the back of the head.
"You idiot! The bell hasn't rang yet, Xun is trying to tell you its time to get in our groups and do the experiment! If you weren't such a lazy sonuvabitch, you would've known that instead of falling asleep. Oh, and by the way, its only the first period of the day. Retard." Came Ling Tong's snippety voice from behind them. Xun and Ling Tong's lab partner Sun Shang Xiang snickered while Tong plastered a superior smirk on. Ning just raised an eyebrow, completely unaffected by Tong's spiteful words.
"What crawled up yer ass n' died? Yer bitchier than usual today." Tong's smirk dropped and he scowled at his 'nemesis'.
"Can't you use proper grammar for once in your meaningless life? You sound like a fucking retarded redneck."
"Can' ya go one minute without actin' like a snobby, stuck-up, prissy, little bitch? Wha? Daddy wouldn' let you use 'is credit card?" Ning snorted as Tong's face turned a deep red in anger. It looked like he was about to blow his top when their Chemistry teacher, Professor Lu Bu, approached the table containing the quarreling high school students. He stood there a good minute before Xun and Shang Xiang noticed him and then elbowed their respective partners, drawing their attention to the teacher. Lu Bu stared them down for a moment before speaking.
"Since your talking, I'll assume you have done the experiment already?" At their blank looks, he continued, "No? Then you can finish it together in detention after school." Tong and Ning almost groaned in annoyance before receiving a glare from their teacher.
"Um, what about me and Xun?" Shang Xiang asked timidly. His glare shot to her after lingering on the other two.
"You can do it together." He turned on his heel and went to hover threateningly over a different group. It was his favorite part of the job after all. Actually, intimidating other people was the only reason he woke up in the morning, that and shooting things, but that was reserved for the weekends only because guns weren't allowed on school property, unfortunately.
Shang Xiang and Xun got to work while Ning and Tong glared heatedly at each other, well, Tong glared heatedly, Ning stared off into space for the remainder of the period. Finally the bell rang and Ning dashed out of the classroom before it stopped ringing, leaving behind all of his belongings. The three he left behind rolled their eyes and Xun grabbed his stuff. As they exited the class they headed to their lockers to complain as per usual.
"Why can't you two just get along? This has been going on long enough!" Shang Xiang asked Tong as the three of them opened their lockers.
"He ATE my homework!" Tong shrieked hysterically.
"Tong, that was in the eighth grade! How can you hold a grudge for that long!? We are sophomores for crying out loud!" She said while Xun snickered. "Plus he said he was sorry and even redid it for you!"
"Yeah, and you even got an A on it, too, so its not like anything bad came from it! You should have thanked him for it!" Xun added. Tong glared at them for a minute before scoffing and crossing his arms.
"Thats what I thought. There is no good reason to be so vicious to him."
"Besides the fact that he is fucking weird as hell? Just the other day I saw him talking to a dead fish, and then he ate it! A whole fucking fish! If that isn't some weird shit, I don't know what is." Tong finished by slamming his locker closed.
"Its not like it was raw or anything. It was cooked! Thats not weird." Shang Xiang defended.
"Ning can be a little eccentric sometimes but he is a good person." Xun added in.
"He eats paper!"
"Correction, he 'ate' paper. Once. It was a long time ago, too."
"Whatever, I don't care. I have to go to class. I'll see you guys at lunch." The three parted ways to head to their separate classes.
"Ning? What are you doing?"
"'M tryin to sleep."
"On a locker? Isn't it a little uncomfortable?" Sun Quan asked his friend. Zhou Tai, Quan's not-boyfriend, stood stoically behind Quan staring down the people that passed by them too closely in the hall way, while holding Quan's books like they were of the utmost importance.
"Wha' d'ya wan?" Ning asked tiredly.
"Your slobbering on my locker." Ning looked confused for a moment before wiping off his slobber and moving over to the next locker. "Wrong locker, this one is yours." Quan said, pointing to the locker on the other side of his. Ning scooted over to that one instead.
"Mm, thanks." His eyelids began to droop again before he was pinched in the arm. "Wha?!"
"Why are you so tired, lately?" Quan asked transferring books from his locker to Tai's arms and vice versa.
"Workin double shifts at the warehouse. Some guy got stabbed so I gotta take over his shift 'til someone else is hired." Ning stated nonchalantly, not noticing Quan's jaw drop.
"Someone got STABBED!"
"Oh, 'es fine. It was more uva warnin'. 'E'll be outa the hospital in a week."
"A warning for what?!"
"Oh, ya know, guy didn' pay 'is dues n all."
"Uuuuh, I'm not even gonna ask, I don't wanna know."
"I gotta get ta class, see ya later guys." Ning took off, not even noticing he was missing his backpack or his books.
"....I worry about him sometimes." Quan said while closing his locker and heading off to class with Tai in tow.
"He'll be fine." Tai said assuredly.
"If you say so."
"...."
"Alright then, see you later." Quan took his books from Tai and headed into his class.
SMACK
"....."
Ce snickered as he sent another projectile at Zhou Tai's head. His goal was to get a reaction, preferably verbal but he'll take anything, from Tai but he had yet to reach it. He only had another school year to do it, so he had to step up his game. Fortunately, he had an overactive imagination.
SMACK
".........."
'Okay, onto the pencils.' He dropped his eraser bullets and picked up his best friend Zhou Yu's pencil. He took aim and sent it flying, only for it to lodge itself into Ning's hair. Ning, who was sitting right behind Tai, didn't move a muscle and continued to snore peacefully.
'Well, that sucked.....back to the erasers.' He picked up another eraser bit and chucked it at Tai, only to over throw and hit the teacher, Zhang Fei, in the forehead thus waking him up from his nap. Ce 'eeped' and stuck his nose into his book to use for cover. Zhang Fei grunted, yawned, and promptly fell asleep again.
With Zhang Fei as a teacher, they never did anything. They could do anything they wanted as long as they didn't make too much noise, causing the teacher's ever present hangover to become worse. It was the perfect time to catch up on sleep, homework, or throw objects at other students, much like Ce was doing. This time he missed and hit Taishi Ci in the back of the head.
Ci turned and sent a look back, his eyes resting on Ce, who was smiling innocently at him. He rolled his eyes and turned back to whatever it was that he was doing before. Ce let out a breath before grabbing another eraser. Just when he was about to let it loose, the bell rang. Like before, Ning shot out of his seat and made a dash for the door, only to be clothes-lined by Dian Wei, who promptly snickered and exited, but not without stepping on the dazed junior sprawled across the floor.
Ci reached down and hauled him up with barely any effort.
"You okay?" Ning waved him off and grinned.
"Ya, 'm good. 'S gonna take more than a prissy gangsta wannabe ta take me out. Nuthn' like the real deal." He grinned good naturedly and headed out the door without a second thought, it was lunch time and it was pizza day.
"Is he okay?" Ma Chao whispered to his best friend Zhao Yun.
"I don't know, he looks reeeeeeally red." Yun whispered back.
"Do you think he can hear us?"
"I don't know. Maybe?"
"Of course he can, your sitting two feet away." Jiang Wei, the object of their scrutiny, whispered without looking up from his assignment. It was silent for a moment before Chao broke it.
"Why are you talking about yourself in the third person?" He whispered to Wei, whose face flushed even more.
"Why are we whispering, he already knows we are talking about him!" Yun pointed out, still whispering. Chao thought about it for a moment and shrugged.
"I don't know." He whispered back.
"You two are idiots!" Wei exclaimed accidentally shoving his book off the table. Yun, being the good guy that he is, reached down to grab it. Meanwhile, Chao made some lewd gestures to their young friend, making him blush uncontrollably. When Yun placed the book back on the table, he stared bewildered at the sophomore's red face and glazed eyes.
"Whats with him?" He asked Chao, who grinned wickedly.
"I have no idea!" His innocent reply made Yun suspicious so he turned back to Wei.
"What did he do?" Wei made a series of hand gestures that made absolutely no sense while trying to explain.
"H-he....with the....and the.....and..." Finally, Wei collapsed from all the blood rushing to his head. Chao laughed out loud, pounding on the table for emphasis. He laughed for a good few minutes, drawing everyone's attention to their table. Finally, Yun smacked him across the face to shut him up, and pointed to the incapacitated Wei.
"What did you do!?"
"I might have made a few lewd gestures when you got his book." Chao replied.
"Chao, you know how he is! You can't do that to him!"
"It is funny though, how incredibly prude he is, you gotta admit." Yun cracked a small smile before rolling his eyes.
"Okay, but, seriously, we need to get him to the nurse's office."
"Oh fine." Chao got up and went to talk to the teacher while Yun grabbed Wei's arm and tugged him up. Chao came back and placed Wei's other arm around his shoulder and together they dragged him to the nurse. Halfway there, Wei woke up a little.
"Wass goin on?" He asked tiredly.
"You fainted." Chao supplied, smirking down at Wei.
"We are taking you to the nurse." Yun added, smiling. Wei blushed heavily and started stuttering.
"O-oh, y-you don't n-need to do that! I c-can walk." He half-heartedly started to struggle.
"Oh no you don't! This is getting us out of the assignment!" Chao stated, picking up Wei like a rag doll and placing him over his shoulder.
"Ah! Let me down! This is very inappropriate! Put me down right this instant!" Wei whined, but Chao just chuckled and continued on his way. Wei pouted and gave Yun the puppy dog eyes. Yun grinned and ruffled his hair.
"Nice try Wei, but it isn't gonna work this time."
"Ah man!" Wei admitted defeat and let himself be carried. Yun walked next to Chao and grinned at him.
"If I didn't know any better, I would say that you were crushing on the little guy." He suggested off-handedly. Chao smirked back.
"If I didn't know any better, I would say that you were a little jealous."
"Well, its a good thing you don't, now isn't it? I know how you hate competition." Yun snarked back.
"Oh on the contrary, I love competition." He challenged back, smirking when Yun grinned evilly back.
"You know, I'm right here right? I can hear everything your saying." Wei muttered from behind them, his face beet red. Yun and Chao just loved teasing him.
"Oh my! How very unfortunate that adorable little Jiang Wei heard us talking about just how much we adore him!" Yun joked. Chao grinned and played along.
"Oh yes! He must now know how much we would love to take him to the nearest closet and have our naughty way with him! Oh the embarrassment we will surely suffer!" Jiang Wei began to sputter in disbelief and embarrassment.
"You guys! Knock it off!" He half-heartedly pounded a fist into Chao's lower back, earning a chuckle.
"But we loooooove you!" Yun cooed, ruffling Wei's hair. Wei scoffed and whipped his head away, signaling his displeasure with the two older boys.
"Oh come on, Wei. We're only kidding!" Yun said. When Wei didn't answer he motioned to Chao to put him down. Chao set him daintily on his feet and Wei turned away immediately.
"I think he is mad at us." Chao whispered.
"Yes, I think your right." Yun whispered back.
"What should we do?"
"I got an idea." Yun whispered some words into his best friend's ear, whose face split into a grin after Yun pulled away, smirking. "Sound good?"
"I think it sounds really good." Wei, knowing the maniacal tone in Chao's voice, wasted no time in running away to the nurse's office.
"Well, thats no fun." Yun pouted. Chao crossed his arms and sighed.
"Oh the injustice! Now we must go back to class and finish the assignment that neither of us knows how to do because of our incessant flirting with the adorable and unyielding Jiang Wei."
"Quite the injustice indeed." They both stood in the hallway for a moment longer before shrugging.
"Wanna get a taco?"
"Love to."
"So, 'e threw ya over 'is shoulder n carried ya away?" Ning asked Wei as they walked home from school together. "Wow. Tha's some crazy fairytale shit." Wei rolled his eyes and huffed in annoyance.
"Why must they continue to taunt my feelings? They may be joking, but do they really have to get my hopes up like that? Its heartbreaking." Ning gave the younger a pat on the shoulder in assurance.
"At least both ov em are nice ta ya. Bettr than spittin venom ev'ry time they open their mouth." Ning grouched.
"Ling Tong is still acting like an eighth grader? That must be really unpleasant." Wei commented unhelpfully.
"I try not ta let it get ta me. Jus' 'nother stuck up brat that thinks 'e knows ev'rythin'."
"People like that annoy me."
"Me too, kid." Wei sighed at the injustices of the world as they waited to cross the street. "So, Ci is havin' a party tomorrow. Wanna go?"
"Anything to get away from home. I think Ji has found out about my crushes and now she will taunt me endlessly. You know how she is."
"Hmm, tha' sucks."
"I'm used to it. So, how is work going? I heard you were taking double shifts, again. Something happen?"
"Dude got stabbed."
"Ah. Guess he is better off than the last guy." Ning snorted in amusement. "Who is going to be at the party?"
"I dunno."
"Oh." Wei said disappointed.
"'M sure Yun and Chao are gonna be there. They- ah crap!"
"What?"
"I had detention." Ning stated blankly. Wei looked at his watch.
"You might have enough time to get back and not be late if you run." Ning sighed and looked the direction they were walking for a moment.
"Ya gonna be alright?"
"I think I can make it a block and a half." Wei smiled assuredly. Ning grinned and patted him on the head.
"Ya betta! See ya!" He took off running back the way they came, dodging people and cars. Wei sighed and looked up and down the street before crossing.
So, what do you guys think? Good or bad? Should I keep using the names I am now or should I use their whole name or should I use their other names? Its your choice, I can use any of them. Let me know!