So I decided to set this story in contemporary high school in the U.S, so that's why there's a lack of honorifics and the names are in reversed order.
I've been wanting to do this for a long time now…so without further ado, enjoy…
p.s. I don't own RK.
High School was like the melting pot of cliques.
"Hey look it's the resident emo kid." My friend joked as he took a seat next to me.
I shot him a death glare. "Shut up I am not emo." I responded.
"Hahaha…well if you are not emo, then why do you always wear that melancholic look on your face?"
"That's just how my face is." I retorted, but before I could say more I saw her. She was a senior and the school's resident ice queen, but that didn't bother me, I loved her.
"Dude stop staring, no matter how much you drool over her, it's never going to happen." My friend tells me putting a hand on my shoulder.
"I'm gonna go get something to drink." I say suddenly not wanting to be in the presence of any of my friends.
"Yeah go, go." They tell me giving me a push.
Since I started High School and I laid eyes on her, my heart started pounding like crazy, I guess you can say it was love at first sight, but I had never even spoken to her.
I decided to take it slow and drink my soda without the constant jokes my friends did at my expense and headed to an isolated place.
I did not realize that the can had been shaken when it dropped from the vending machine and when I opened it the liquid flew in all directions.
"It seems to be raining soda." A low silky voice said leaving me stunned.
There she was, standing in front of me, the girl of my dreams covered in soda.
"I am so sorry! I didn't see you there." I told her thinking she was going to lash out at me, but instead she just smiled slightly and nodded.
"Nothing happened; I'll just go to the nurse's office to get cleaned up." She said with that same low voice.
"I…I'll walk you over." I said still trying to make up for throwing soda at her.
"That is not necessary." She tells me, but I keep insisting.
When she finally relents she thanks me. "Thank you."
I had imagined her very differently. Since she was known as the "Ice Queen" I thought she was a total bitch, but in reality she was just a normal girl, maybe a little shy, but nothing alluding to her title.
We walked in silence. I was so nervous that I didn't know what to say, so I said nothing.
The high school shared land with the middle school and as we were walking I heard someone call me from the other side.
I turned around to see my ten-year-old neighbor waving at me.
"Are you in recess?" I asked her walking up to the fence that separated both campuses.
"Yes!" she answered me in her usual cheeriness.
"Oh that's nice. " I tell her.
"So who is she?" Kaoru asks me pointing at Tomoe, whom I had forgotten for a moment.
"I'm so sorry I was so rude." I tell Tomoe frantically.
She nods her head. "I am Tomoe Yukishiro." She tells my neighbor, "It's nice to meet you."
I see Kaoru eyeing her suspiciously, "I'm Kaoru Kamiya." She finally responds.
"Well I'll see you after school." I tell her before going on our way to the nurse's office.
"Is she related to you?" Tomoe asks me.
"She's my next door neighbor and I'm in charge of walking her to and from school."
She doesn't say any more and we walk the rest of the way in silence. I can hear the murmurs of the people around us as they see us walking together, but she doesn't seem to notice.
"So uh…" I start saying something, but I don't know what to say.
"Yes what is it?"
"Ah…you're a senior right?" I ask stupidly.
She giggles a little, "Yes I am a senior."
"Ah…I'm a freshmen." I tell her feeling not only stupid, but young too.
"Thank you for accompanying me." She tells me as we reached our destination.
"It was nothing; it was my fault after all." I tell her.
"I owe you drink." And with that she entered the office leaving me perplexed.
I returned to my friends in a much better mood than when I left them.
"Where the hell were you?" my friend Soji asked me.
"We thought you have gone off to harvest the oranges and make your own juice." Hajime said.
"I didn't go for an orange juice, and…"
"Look it's the shorty that was walking with the 'Ice Queen'." A group of kids came along sneering before I could tell my friends about that.
"Do you have a problem with that?" I retort nastily.
"Don't get cocky kid, there's no way that a girl like her would ever turn around and look at you seriously."
"Well that certainly is none of your damn business now is it?" I respond. I could feel their anger rising and knew I should shut up before I got in trouble and got in a fight I really didn't want to have.
"You damn puck!" but it was too late, they had already thrown the first punch.
I easily dodged their punch and grabbed his arm, not willing to return the punch and end up getting in trouble.
My friends had the same thoughts and were desperately trying to hold them back without retaliating.
In the end a teacher came along and broke up the fight, with the other kids being the ones that got suspended.
"Well that was a close one." Hajime said.
"So what the hell were those idiots bitching about?" Soji asked.
"I was about to tell you about it. When I went to get myself a soda I accidently spilled it all over Tomoe and I was just walking her to the nurse's office. I guess they were jealous."
"Who wouldn't be jealous? Do you know how many guys in this school fantasize over her and here comes a short little freshmen to wisk her away, from now on you are going to have to cover your ass." Soji warns me.
"What do you mean 'wisk her away'? It's not like anything happened and besides I'm not scared of being attacked, I can take perfect care of myself."
"That may be, but I don't think Seijuro would be too happy to know that you are fighting." Hajime pointed out.
"In any case, it was him who taught me how to fight in the first place." I tell him ruefully.
"Aha! There you go putting on the damn pathetic expression again! And you dare tell me you are not emo! Show me your arms!" suddenly Soji exclaimed making the tense moment pass.
"Ah shut up, my arms are fine, my brain is fine too, and I'm sorry if I put a pathetic expression on, that's just how my face is."
"I never said anything about your brain being messed up, but now that you mention it…"
"Can we please change the subject?" Hajime asks, "Did anyone do the English homework?"
"Homework!?" Soji and I exclaim.
So not much happened in this chapter, sorry, I promise the next one will pick up, this was just the basic premise.
