Language Difficulties
A/N- Kon'nichiwa! Just here to tell you that –insert standard disclaimer here- and that Aurelie is mine, and no one else's, so nurgh. Also, all languages that I use apart from English should be correct, but if there is something wrong, feel free to tell me. Reviews are valued, if you would be so kind, but if not, never mind. Flaming will be taken with a pinch of salt, and it will be the flamer's behind which will be used to put out the fire.
Kapeesh? On with the story!
Aurelie took a deep breath, and stared at the door in front of her. Normally, she wouldn't have been so hesitant, but since this was a new school, and she had no idea of what was going to happen, she couldn't help it. Reassuring herself that everything would be fine, she knocked on the door, and was beckoned inside.
The adult standing at the front of the room was onto her like a hawk.
"Why were you sent here? What's your name?" Aurelie relaxed. They were talking a language she understood- this must be an English lesson. She opened her mouth to reply, but instead of talking in the language she had intended, possibly due to nerves, it came out in French.
"Je m'appelle Aurelie Chiasson, et Monsieur Takahashi envoyé moi." Even as the words came out, she realised what she had done, but didn't have the confidence to talk again. She stood like a lemon until someone at the back of the class sighed, and looked up from whatever he had balanced on his knees.
"She said that Mr Takahashi sent her. Her name's Aurelie Chiasson." Without another word, he directed his attention back to its previous distraction, and everyone else in the class began to examine the new girl with interest. She was, well, different. Her long brown hair was slung in a loose ponytail, and a thick fringe was covering half her features, completely obscuring them from view.. The part of her face you could see was pale, but it was her one visible eye that captivated them all- a deep sea green. Jounouchi muttered something to Yugi, who giggled, but then began to cry as the teacher gave him an after school detention.
"Oh, you must be the new girl that he was talking about. My name is Miss Yoroshiro, and I'll be your English teacher. If you could just take the spare seat next to Mr. Kaiba- he's the boy in the corner, who's obviously not paying attention and is working on his laptop again." Savagely finishing a tally on a piece of paper, the teacher physically steered Aurelie to her seat and relieved her partner of his technology.
Aurelie was staying as far away from the boy as she could, as he obviously had no desire to be there, and he was quite frankly scary. She wasn't really surprised when he muttered something to the teacher's retreating back.
"Scheizer kopf." However, he obviously thought that no one could understand him, so Aurelie decided to show off a bit.
"C'etait impoli."
"Parlez-vous Allemand?" The teenager was incredulous, and turned to face her.
"Oui, stupide." Aurelie turned to face him, and judging by the look on his face, he hadn't taken that well.
"Comme langues faitez-vous parle?" Kaiba was obviously curious. This could be funny.
"Couramment? Francais, Anglais, Allemand, Espagnol, Italien, Russe, Norwégien, Islandais, Grec et Flamand. Et-toi?" Aurelie watched the look of shock register on his face, before he composed himself and answered.
"Japonais, Anglais, Allemand et Francais." He sounded almost ashamed of the fact. "Vous ne parlez pas Japonais?"
"Non, mais je vex apprendre." Aurelie had never learnt Japanese, as she never thought she'd need it. She'd probably never use half the languages she'd learnt, but her stepfather had insisted, due to friends out in the countries that didn't speak English. Or apparently didn't.
However, the rest of the class had just started a speaking activity, so the hushed French conversation became a normal volume English one.
"So, in general, you speak a load of crappy European languages, but not the one you need now. That's useful."
Aurelie was glad that they had established some kind of conversation that didn't involve her fringe. It was amazing how much the topic came up. "Yes, they are crappy. But when your stepfather has friends over the world who claim they don't speak English, I end up having to learn the language they use, and then stay there for a month. So being forced to learn it fluently is the only option I have." Aurelie couldn't keep the bitterness out of her voice. She hated Douglas, her stepfather, with a passion.
"Well, if you don't speak Japanese, I think I can help you. Try this." If this worked out, Kaiba had a tester for a new product. Reaching into his bag, he drew out what looked like a blue tooth set, and handed it to Aurelie.
"A translator?"
"Yes, just set the controls and you're done. It's foolproof , until you learn Japanese."
Aurelie examined the earpiece more closely. It had two dials, each with four flags around it. She left the first one where it was and moved the second one to French- her first language. She hooked it around her ear without disturbing her fringe, and turned back to Kaiba
"Can we test it?"
"Hai. Kon'nichiwa, Aurelie-san. Watashi wa namae Kaiba Seto desu."
However, Aurelie heard, "Bonjour, Aurelie. Je m'appelle Seto Kaiba."
At that point, the bell rang, and everyone ran for the door, except Yugi (who of course had to stay in, plus the two brunettes at the back. Kaiba went to retrieve his laptop, and Aurelie packed up slowly and headed for the door, eavesdropping on the conversation because the translator was on.
"Kaiba, you're staying in after school today. Go and sit down." The teacher had obviously had the same scenario happen several times, as she looked fit to burst at Kaiba's reply.
"Can't, I've got a meeting in 45 minutes. I'm available next on the 24th June though, shall I schedule it then? I'll need my laptop though, it has the information I need to make more in an hour than you can in your life." Picking up his laptop, he tried to walk away.
"I'll be sending a letter home then, that's the 5th time in two weeks I've had to confiscate that thing from you. As usual, you didn't bother to come in on the other occasions." Miss Yoroshiro obviously wasn't particularly pleased with him.
"There's frankly no point, as I won't even bother to open it. I'm sorry I wasn't able to come in otherwise, but luckily, my company needs me more than the school does, so it doesn't matter."
Aurelie didn't hear the rest, as she had to leave, but the shouting could be heard echoing along the corridor as Kaiba exited the classroom smirking.
Right- translation time. Kaiba kindly did the first one for us, but here goes…
Scheizer kopf- s head- is German (everything else is French or Japanese in this chapter)
C'etait impoli- that's rude
Parlez-vous Allemand- you speak German?
Oui, stupide- yes, stupid
Comme langues faitez-vous parle?- what languages do you speak?
Couramment? Francais, Anglais, Allemand, Espagnol, Italien, Russe, Norwégien, Islandais, Grec et Flamand. Et-toi?- Fluently? French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Norwegian, Icelandish, Greek and Flemish. And you?
Japonais, Anglais, Allemand et Francais- Japanese, see above for the others
Vous ne parlez pas Japonais? -You don't speak Japanese?
Non, mais je vex apprendre.- No, but I want to learn
Hai. Kon'nichiwa, Aurelie-san. Watashi wa namae Kaiba Seto desu-
Bonjour, Aurelie. Je m'appelle Seto Kaiba- These mean the same thing- Hi, my name is Seto Kaiba.
I think that's all for this chapter- the next one will be up soon- I just have to type it up!