The alarm clock rings so loudly, the vibrations cause it to land on my face. Not exactly a fun way to wake... "God damn alarm clock..." I say pushing it off the bed and rubbing my now soar nose. "I should sue the alarm clock company..." I mumble as I step on it on my way to the kitchen. That thing has injured me twice in five minutes! I wouldn't have thought it was possible...
I've lived by myself since I first came here, so I always had to do everything around the house, or should I say apartment. I've debated hiring a maid several times, but I don't really work so that would just bankrupt my tiny savings and then I'd have to live on the streets. I'd rather clean than beg for change any day. Actually... I wouldn't reduce myself to begging- I'd sooner mug a person. I know, I'm dark- people have told me many many times.
Blowing off some dust from atop the small TV, I head towards the kitchen. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, or so I have been led to believe. If they've been lying to me all this time...
After my usual breakfast, consisting of a cup of milk and a bit of toast, I quickly got changed for school. Shoving my arms through the jacket sleeves I sigh. "I really don't see the point of going to school here... but people will start to wonder why a kid my age is out of school..." I think as I grab my bag and rush out the door, hoping that I remembered to pack everything I would need for the day. As I leave the building I get the strange feeling that I've forgotten something. Something important...
"Damn it! I've been stuck here a year already and I still can't figure out how to get back... I swear I have the worst of luck..." I think as I rest my head on my desk. I don't even recall ever breaking a mirror. Ever. Though maybe my love for black cats is the cause of all this...
I hear the door slam shut and do my best to redirect my attention to the front. It's not really working... I manage to focus in time to hear the teacher say, "Students! Can I get your attention please? Today we have a transfer student joining us! Please tell us your name and a bit about yourself."
I look up at the teacher only half interested, more like less than half, a third? A quarter? "A new student? Anyone I know?"I wonder as I look at the girl standing up at the front of the class. She had light brown hair and teal coloured eyes. "Nope, don't know her." And there went most of my focus.
"I'm Machi Umeki and... yeah!" the girl says while writing her name on the chalkboard with lots of underlines and doodles.
"She's a little on the strange side isn't she...? Oh well. Who am I to judge humans?" I think, watching her out of the corner of my purple eyes.
"Erm... thank you for the decoration... but how about telling us a bit about yourself? Any likes or dislikes? How about hobbies?" the teacher says while sweatdroping at what Machi had written on the chalkboard.
"Uh... I like... uh... manga? And... ramen and sushi? And uh... taking pictures?" Machi finally replies, pausing at every other word. It seems like she isn't a fan of having everyone's attention concentrated on her.
"What's so hard about talking in front of an audience? She's weird... but there's something about her..." I think while examining her.
"Thank you, now find an empty seat somewhere. There seems to be one beside Sazuki," the teacher says pointing at me. "Sazuki, wave so she knows where you are."
Good thing I was half listening or else I could have gotten detention for daydreaming- which I get all too often... I raise my hand a bit and wave lazily. The new girl nods her head showing she isn't blind and walks over to sit beside me. I decide it couldn't hurt to talk to her so I say, "Hey, where did you transfer from?" I didn't care about the lesson anyway so I am focusing on Machi at the moment. Hopefully she can prove more interesting than the Algebra being written on the board. Hopefully- though right now, I have my doubts.
"From Tokyo," she replies simply. Doesn't she know how to continue a conversation? Has she been living under a rock? I have better social skills than her; which is really, really sad, everything considered.
After that quick exchange of words we don't talk for the rest of an extremely boring lesson. And the lesson after that, and the lesson after that. God she is boring...
The bell rings for lunch and I stand up gratefully. "Yes! It's lunch time!" I exclaim happily. I do a few quick stretches and sit back down to eat my lunch. I open my bag to suddenly realize that this is what I felt I was forgetting! "NOO!" I exclaim. "I'M GOING TO STARVE! WAIT! Did I pack any money?" I question myself while frantically looking through my bag. I luckily find it and run out of the classroom in hopes of getting to the cafeteria before all the food is gone.
I get to the cafeteria only to have my hopes crushed. "Damn it all... too late..." I mumble as my face droops in depression looking at the huge line to get to the counter. "There'd better be food when I finally get there!" If there isn't... I may just steal some.
"I'm gunna go to a store... This is ridicules!" a voice from behind me says. I turn around to see Machi standing there.
"Hey, can I go with you? I don't think I'm going to survive until this line clears up!" I ask her while my stomach growls. "See what I mean?" Whatever she replies, I'll following her anyway.
Machi looks at me and replies, "Uh, sure..." She pauses for a moment and then continues, "Where should we go then?" Good choice.
"I know a great sushi restaurant nearby! You like sushi, right?" I ask her uncertainly, thinking back to her introduction which I hadn't paid too much attention to.
"Yup." was her quick reply. "Does she not like me? Or is she just antisocial...?" I think as I lead her out of the cafeteria and down a street. If she's new to town then she's probably never been on this rundown street, I bet this is giving her a bad impression. We stop in front of a small sushi restaurant. This store is one of my favourite places to eat. I wonder what made me decide to show this random chick one of my super secret special stores. Oh well, too late now.
I notice her eyeing the restaurant as if it was a giant mutant earwig and quickly say, "They're a small company, but their sushi and prices are great!"
"Yeah!" she exclaims, smiling. It seems fake to me, but then again- this is the random antisocial new girl from class, I don't know all that much about her. This may be the best smile she's ever had.
"Come on, let's go in," I say as I grab her hand and drag her inside. Now she's looking at me like I'M the giant mutant earwig's mother.
"OK" was her only reply. Frigging antisocial chicken chick...
I stare at her and finally say, "You don't talk much do you..."
"Uh... Well I don't have anything to say..." she replies. I just keep staring at her. God damn boring sociopath... After a while I sigh, and walk up to the counter.
"I would like an order of Alaska rolls please," I say to the guy.
"That will be $2.50," he says holding out his hand for the money.
"Wait! I want Pocky too!" I exclaim as I run to grab a box of chocolate Pocky and return to the counter.
"Alright then, that'll be $5.63," he says after recalculating. I hand him the money and sit at a table while I wait for my sushi.
I watch as Machi goes up to order as well. A few minutes later she also sits down at the same table.
A few minutes pass without saying a word. The silence is broken by the guy at the counter, "Your orders are ready."
"Yeah!" I exclaim as I run up to grab my sushi and then go back to my previous spot. "I love sushi!" I break my chopsticks and begin eating. Halfway through my sushi my soul pager rings. "Are you kidding me? Now? Damn... I'm not done eating..." I think as I look sadly at my sushi.
I take out my container of soul candy I got from Urahara's store and pop a pill into my mouth. My soul leaves the gigai and I stare at it. "Don't do anything stupid! Just sit there, OK?" I tell the soul quickly before leaving. On my way out I notice that Machi looks almost like she could see me, but I decided to ignore it and just keep running. After doing quick work of the hollow, it was a weakling and a waste of my time, I return into my gigai.
Machi gives me a weird look and says, "Why were there two of you?" I stare at her in shock, "Could she have seen me?"
"W-what are you talking about? Two of me? How silly!" I reply quickly and nervously.
"There were two!" she exclaims still staring at me.
"You must have imagined it," I say more calmly. Horray for acting lessons!
She stares at me in disbelief and says, "Nuh uh!"
I look at my watch hoping for an escape and gasp. "You have got to be kidding me! We're late for class!" I exclaim, jumping out of my seat and running out the door. From behind me I hear Machi shout as well, but I ignore her and keep running.
"I hope I don't get into too much trouble!" I push the main doors open and slide a bit on the newly polished floor, "When did the janitor have time to polish the floor? I am so going to get him back for this..." I quickly turn a corner as I plan many devious ways to exact my revenge, and slip. "SHIT!" I yell as I crash into some lockers. "Damn that hurt... He is sooo going to pay for this..." I quickly stand back up and run the rest of the way to class. I open the classroom door and stand there panting.
"You're late Sazuki! And where is Machi?" demands the teacher angrily. Crap... not another detention! I'm not a bad student, I swear, and yet I probably have more detentions than the rest of the class combined...
After regaining my breath I answer, "Dunno she was behind me." At that moment Machi walks into the classroom. "Found her!" I say, stating the obvious for lack of anything better to say.
"I'm right here! So what we miss?" Machi asks. "Anything important?"
The teacher gives us a semi glare and says, "Take your seats, and I'll see you two after class!" I glare at the teacher and then take my seat. "Damn! I ran out of that place so fast I didn't get to eat a lot... I'm still hungry... my poor poor sushi... It better at least be feeding some homeless guy instead of rotting in a garbage..."
Machi also takes her seat and grumbles something incoherent.
The rest of the day goes by slowly, with no excitement what so ever. I like it better this way. No hollows to get me extra double detention!
Finally it was time for our detention. Beside me I hear Machi mumble something about plans.
"I'd like to hear your explanation to why you were so late," the teacher says as she sits down at her desk and looks at us, waiting.
"We went out to eat... and... forgot the time," says Machi looking like she didn't want to be here. Can't blame her. I debate whether I should feign sleep and just run around in my soul form.
"Do you know how many kids I have in detention? That's one of the most common lies," the teacher replies obviously not believing it. That's just probably cause it's one of my main excuses.
I was getting a bit pissed, "It's probably really common because it's true! And it's true every time I say it!" I want to say that, but instead I say, "Well this time it isn't a lie! The cafeteria was crowded so we went somewhere else and lost track of time!"
"I mean if we were late on purpose don't you think that we would have skipped school all together?" Machi asks, making a good point. I might be starting to like her.
"When we saw we were late we ran here as fast as we-" I got cut off by my soul pager ringing. "Oh god! Not now! Any time but now! I refuse to get even more detention!"
Machi looks at me and say, "What the fuck... your phone's weird. Why do you have that weird tone?" The soul pager rings for a bit more, "Aren't you gunna answer it?" I ignore her. Nothing good will come of trying to come up with an excuse.
The teacher doesn't give me enough time to check it as she says, "That phone is mine! You can have it back at the end of the week!" I stare at her, "This isn't good... It looks like I have no choice..." I grab my memory eraser and quickly use it on the teacher. She stands there dazed for a while, I take that chance to turn around and face Machi. Now it's time for the sociopath to get her facefull.
"What the fuck was that?" asks Machi staring at me. When I don't answer she asks again, "Uh... Hello? What was that thing?"
At that moment Keigo runs back into the classroom exclaiming, "I forgot my bag!" As he goes to grab his bag he knocks me over and sends the memory eraser flying out of my hand. Keigo runs back outside soon afterwards and I walk over to the object to inspect the damage. "I can't believe my luck! It's broken! Now what am I going to do about that chick's memory?" I think desperately. I could always knock her out- I memorized the pressure points on the human body, it would be easy. There may be lasting damage, but that's not my problem.
Machi is staring at where the memory eraser landed and questions, "What the fuck is that thing?" Choosing to ignore her again I get ready to strike her when my soul pager rings again, reminding me of the hollow I have yet to kill.
"Shit... I forgot about that!" I say while I quickly grab my soul pager and check the location. "What? It's here?" I exclaim loudly looking out the window. I don't have time to grab my soul candy since it was fast approaching so I just leave my gigai empty. I'll deal with antisocial later.
"WHAT THE FUCK? DID SHE DIE?" shouts Machi. She walks up to where I am standing and looks out the window as well. Shouldn't the normal response be to check for a pulse? Scratch sociaopth, maybe this chick is a psychopath.
"Damn it- Move!" I shout as I'm forced to grab Machi and my gigai and jump out the newly broken window. A hollow's claw landing where we were seconds before. I land on the ground safley and give a sigh of relief, "Damn that was close..." Way too close. Am I losing my touch?
Machi is looking shocked, up at the wrecked classroom, "What the fuck was that thing?" Machi then starts mumbling nonsense, "That... That... Ew... That... zombie? Vampire? Eh... witch? Um... wackoly shaped werewolf?" She is soooo psycho...
The hollow has disappeared right after it tried to hit us. "What the hell are you talking about?" I ask the mumbling girl.
"That thing? W-what was it?" she asks looking where the hollow had just been. I simply stare at her, seriously tempted to knock her out right then and there.
I take out my soul pager and examine it. "Where are you going to pop up next...?" I wonder out loud. Just then the signal reappears, coming from right in front of us. I swiftly take out my zanpaktou and block the hollow's claw. I really am getting sluggish...
Machi stares at the hollow then says, "What the... Fine I quit..." She lies down on the ground and closes her eyes. I stare at her in disbelief, then regain my composure. "I guess she can't see them after all," I think while slashing off the hollows arm. The hollow shrieks with pain and before I have a chance to do anything it hits me straight in the stomach with its spiked tail. One of the spikes impales me in the stomach and I double over in pain, blood running through my fingers.
Machi sits back up and stares at the direction of the hollow and says something. I stopped paying attention to her a long time ago. I look up at the hollow about to strike and ready myself for the blow, when- Urahara appears!
He looks at me, shakes his head and says, "Look at the mess you've gotten yourself into Sazuki."
I give him a semi glare, "What-what are you doing here?" I ask him. Isn't he supposed to be lazy? Why would he take the time to come here?
Then, Jinta takes a running charge at the hollow and hits it with his overgrown bat. "We're here to finish off the job you couldn't take!" he says smirking. I just glare at him and stand up, still holding my bleeding stomach.
Machi, who hadn't moved an inch since the hollow had reappeared, says, "OK... I really do want answers... What the frick is that thing?
"But first..." I let go of my stomach and grip my zanpaktou. I jump up and finish the hollow off. I land back on the ground and look at my stomach, "Urgh... Damn..." I groan. Next time I see another hollow, it's not going to get off so easy- I will finally have a reason to employ the several torture techniques I think up during class. I never pay attention to class so I'll have to choose my 25 favourite and then narrow it down from there.
Urahara looks at my stomach too and says, "Now how did that happen?"
I give him a deadpan look and reply, "How do you think?"
Jinta rests the bat on his shoulder and says, "Well, that hollow attacked you, obviously."
I glare at him and reply, "No duh..." I'm not in the mood for the little idiot.
Machi finally speaks up, "Hollow? Is that what you call that thing?" I had forgotten she was there. It's not my fault, it's easy to overlook antisocial people.
Her words make me look at her in shock. "Can you see it?" I ask.
She quickly replies, "Duh..."
I stare at her at a loss for words, when I finally find my voice again I say, "I can't believe you can see it... er... Normal people should not be able to see it!"
Her reply doesn't shock me as much as it should, "Well... I've never been normal..." she says. I kind of figured... No surprise there.
I look up at the sky when I notice it had started to darken. "Wow... it's already getting late! I should head home," I tell her, trying to find. "And so should you!"
"Yeah I should," she replies as she takes out her cell.
I start walking towards where my gigai is laying and say, "Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Get a good night's rest."
She seems uncertain for a moment then replies, "Eh... yeah! See you tomorrow!"
I get to where my gigai is and sigh, "Of course... it got damaged during the fight... looks like I'll have to talk to Urahara," I think as I turn around to look for Urahara, to my dismay he had already left. I sigh at my luck and burn what was left of my gigai. "To Urahara's place..." I say to myself as I start towards his place when I suddenly reopen my wound. "Great... just great..." I grab hold of my stomach and finally get to Urahara's place. I knock on the door and sit down while I wait for someone to answer.
Urahara himself opens the door, "Ah, Sazuki! What brings you by here?" he asks with a smile. That damn smile...
I stand back up and reply, "Well... my gigai is trashed and my memory eraser is also broken."
Urahara stands aside to let me in and says, "My, my. Well lucky for you I have another gigai and memory eraser in stock!" He goes into a back room and brings out a new gigai and memory eraser. "Here you go! Now be a dear and try not to break these ones too," he says with a twinkle in his eye.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll try" I say as I hand him money.
He counts over the money, smiles and says, "Perfect, thank you! Now, we're going to need to do something about your wound."
"Huh?" I look back at my stomach to see it was still bleeding. "Oh right... sorry about your floor..." I say looking behind me to a trail of blood I had left.
"It's no problem! Ururu! Can you come and clean up this mess?" he calls. A few seconds later Ururu appears with a mop and a bucket of water. I marvel at her speed. She starts working immediately.
"Now I can't have you leaving like that! Spend the night and heal up, I can get Tesai to help you," he says while waving his fan. "I insist!" he says when he notices my doubtful face. He leads me into a room and shows me my bed. I thank him and lay down, immediately falling into a deep sleep. Deep enough so that I don't hear my soul pager go off a few minutes later.