School was almost out at Norisville high and all the students that were attending weren't looking forward to the walk home in the down pour that was currently going on outside. It has been raining since 3rd period and showed no signs of stopping. Randy Cunningham was at his locker with his best friend Howard Weinerman. The two freshmen have been friends since they were three years old and they were almost inseparable. Randy was taking off his wet green jacket and trading it with a heavier, dry one he kept in his locker. He had been in a fight with a stank'd Bucky during 5th period and the fight was taken outside, and Randy was still soaking wet. Howard was going on about how he was kicked out of thanks to randy ditching him, but Randy wasn't listening as we was doing his best to dry his purple hair to avoid getting a cold.
"So you should ninja out and get me off the banned list" Howard pleaded.
"Off what banned list?" Randy asked as he closed his locker door.
"Did you hear a word I said?!" asked loudly, throwing his hands in the air.
"Uh, no" randy replied blankly. He was staring off in space thinking about the storm and hoping it didn't flood again. Last time it flooded he wasn't able to save many people and over a hundred died, he couldn't let that go.
"Ugh, I don't even know why I complain to you" Howard said as he started walking into the crowed of students.
"Howard wait up" Randy said as he tried to catch up to Howard, but to no avail. 'great' thought randy as he started walking through the crowed. The bell rang and people started pouring out of the school into the rain. Randy started to file out with the rest of the students but he was at the back of the crowd. Someone was running against the crowd to get to the lockers when they hit Randy and knocked him down. Randy put a hand to his head as the everything went fuzzy so he couldn't make out who ran him, all he could hear was a bunch of muffled "I'm sorry's" before the person ran off. Randy sat up as his vision started to return and noticed that almost everyone was already gone, just a few students that were still at their lockers remained. Randy stood up and noticed a piece of paper on the ground. "That person who ran into me must have dropped this" Randy thought out loud as he picked up the paper. He flipped it over and saw that it was a very detailed manga picture of the ninja sitting on the clock tower with his head on his right knee and his left leg hanging off the side of the building, overlooking the city with the sun setting. "Wow" Randy said now holding the picture in both hands "this is…amazing". Randy looked around and noticed that even those who were staying behind were already gone. Randy quickly put the picture in his bag, making sure that it wouldn't get wrinkled and ran out the front doors into the rain.
The walk home was miserable. Randy's mom would have picked him up but she held late at work. Mort picked up Howard and when he didn't see Randy he figured Randy already left. By the time Randy got home he was soaked from head to toe. He walked up the stairs to his room ignoring the squish sound his shoes made every step he took. Once Randy got to his room he through his bag on the couch and grabbed a plain white T, under wear and a pair of loos blue shorts then went to the bathroom to take a shower. In the shower Randy couldn't stop thinking about the picture and who had drawn it. 'was it the person I ran into or someone else?' was the question mainly on his mind but at the back of his head he couldn't help but pray that there wasn't another flood. Randy dtepped out of the shower just I time to hear his phone ring, he quickly dried off and through on his pajamas before picking up the phone.
"You got randy" he said casually as he started making sure the stuff in his backpack were all dry.
"Hi Randy, sweet heart. I have to work the grave yard shift tonight. I have to do the the extra paper work for a few of the…patients…anyway I, know it's the weekend but I want in bed about 11, alright?" It was Randy's mom, she worked in the ER and extra paper work meant more people getting buried 6 feet under in a few days. Randy knew that for sure.
"Alright mom…How much paper work?" Randy was only curious because he was hoping it wasn't very many people who passed though it would be better if the number stayed zero.
"That's not something you need to worry about. Now I have to go, see you tomorrow love" Ms. Cunningham said not wanting to tell her son that 13 people died in the ER today due to technical glitches.
"Alright, night mom" Randy replied before hanging up. Randy pulled out the picture and was relieved to see that it was still dry. He started inspecting the paper to see if there were any clues to who it belonged to when he saw a small signature in the bottom right corner.
"MB? Who's that?" Randy asked out loud. He started to think about all the people he knew he knew at the school. 'Bucky, no. flute girl, doubt it. Rachel, couldn't be. Stevens, no. Howard, of course not. Theresa, no. who has a name that starts with M?' Randy thought as he started to get frustrated. 'who, could, it, be' Randy tapped his finger to chin with every word. "THAT'S IT!" Randy yelled as he grabbed his phone and quickly tapped up a number.
"What do you want Andy?" Heidi asked from the other end.
"Randy, its always been Randy and I need your help finding someone" Randy stated. He knew that should know everyone at school so for her this should be a breeze.
"If its Howard he's in his room" Heidi replied blankly.
"No, I don't know who it is, I just have their initials."
"Why should I help you?"
"Because it could be a good gossip story over the rainy day seeing as we probably wont have school Monday due to the rain."
"…Fine, what are the initials?"
"MB, sound familiar?" Randy heard tapping on the other end the line and he figured Heidi was looking up the names.
"hm…I don't see any MB's but there are a few 'm' first names and a few 'b' last names, wanna hear?"
"Ya, I guess" Randy said, a bit disappointed that he couldn't get an exact name.
"So we have Michael, Michelle, Mickey, Mandy, and Morden. As for the last names we have Burgundy, Barey, Bellock, Bola-"
"Bellock?" Randy interrupted.
"Um, ya?" Heidi replied, confused.
"Why does that name seem so familiar?" Randy started tapping his chin.
"Her first name is Yoi if that helps at all. And why are you looking for this 'MB' anyway?" Heidi questioned.
"This 'MB' ran into me after school and dropped a picture so I'm trying to figure out who drew it that way I can give it back."
"oh, well Michael and Morden are in art, then a few of Yoi's pictures have been found around the school but she won't show any of the pictures in her sketch book, that's one of my stories, trying to get the book from her and-"
"Are any of the ninja?" Randy interrupted again.
"Yes, and I would appreciate it if you stopped interrupting me."
"Sorry, what do the pictures you have look like?"
"I'll email them to you, what about yours?"
"Mine is the ninja on the clock tower over the city at sunset" Randy said as he studied the picture.
"Hm, sounds pretty, anyway, ill to more research tonight but I gotta go before my mom yells me, bye sandy" Then Heidi hung up without another word. As Randy was about to check for the emails Heidi said she would send lightning stuck the side of his house making it rattle and then Randy saw a small wave of water slowly making its way to his house. 'I hope it's not as bad as last time' Randy through as he ran around the making sure all the windows were closed and locked.