Written for the '10settings' livejournal community.
Theme: principal's office
A/N: Decided to use this challenge community in order to make a ten chaptered story. This chapter is pretty much the Prologue.
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The Principal sighed. Being the Mayor's brother and partaker of the secret of certain three girls, who now were standing before him in his office, had become much more of a labor than he'd hoped for.
He secretly wished that things were like a year ago, when said three girls would only irritate him with their awful grades and for having to cover their butts whenever they'd skip classes to save the city. The outrageous excuses they'd give to their teachers didn't help him on that task, either.
"What, what did I do now?" Momoko asked.
"Akatsutsumi. Your assaults on the male population of our school, including but not limited to senior students, have resulted to the annoyance of many," the Principal answered. "I have to request you to stop the harassment."
"I don't harass!" she replied highly offended, "I just flirt. Everyone does, why not me?"
"Your actions hardly define as flirting. According to the reports against you. And I quote: 'Viciously glomps, pounces unsuspecting boys, stalks, walls the weak, humps lower limbs'..."
"Well... they started it!"
"Really? How?"
"By being so hot!"
"No raping in the classroom! I don't know how many times I have to stress this. Such behavior in here is unacceptable."
Momoko sulked in a corner. Not only all the boys had rejected her approaches in every way, now they've started reporting her, too.
Miyako kept standing there, smiling nervously at all this, while Kaoru entertained herself by checking everything around the room.
"Now, Gotokuji," the mustached man turned to Miyako.
Miyako, still unaware of what she's done, looked at him worried.
The Principal held a roll of paper, which he immediately unrolled. The paper now covered his desk and it's other end touched the floor.
"This is a list of suicide notes that include your name therein."
At that, Kaoru stopped exploring and walked towards the others. Momoko sulked even further.
"So?" the tomboy asked, "Are you expecting Miyako to let them gangbang her or something?"
Lack of courtesy was yet another thing that peeved him about adolescents. "No Matsubara, I'm merely letting her know of the situation. The staff isn't ready to handle a mass suicide incident anytime soon."
Kaoru rolled her eyes at seeing Miyako's guilty expression. Leave it to the blond to feel bad for other people's stupidity.
"Now, about you..." the Principal said turning to Kaoru.
"If it's a list of depressed fangirls, then save it."
"No, it is about a matter which I know it highly concerns you."
Kaoru suddenly became curious. The Principal closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said:
"You happen to be the only girl belonging in our soccer, football and boxing teams. You may no longer participate in any of them. Decided by each of these teams, respectively. The end."
Kaoru went blank.
Miyako gasped and glanced at her friend. Even Momoko snapped from her current emo state and stared at Kaoru.
"But," Momoko demanded, "Kaoru is great at those sports. Her abilities is the only thing that matters," she turned towards the Principal's location, "isn't that right, Sir? Uh... Sir?"
She discovered that the Principal wasn't on his seat or nowhere in the room, for that matter. The door was still closed but the window was now open. As the redhead looked down the empty schoolyard, she again wondered how someone so old and fat can be so fast and stealthy.
"Kaoru..." was the only thing Miyako could say at this moment.
"Meh, forget them Kaoru. Those guys were too wussy to tell this to your face, anyway."
She didn't respond.
Which only made Miyako more worried. Momoko frowned. And slapped the tomboy in the face.
Miyako suddenly had the impulse to escape from the window without transforming.
Kaoru looked after this utterly aghast. Soon, she grinned and then burst into laughter.
"You're right, screw them. I'll find other hobbies."
The blue-clad girl doubted this. "Are you sure, Kaoru? I mean... you're eager to play in these teams daily. But now, not being able to play in school... where will you?"
"It's okay, I knew this would happen sooner or later."
"But you love soccer."
"I said it's fine!" The reply came harsher than she intended, making Miyako flinch.
The athlete sighed, composing herself. "Yes I like playing with boys. In fact, I've been training myself since I was a kid in order to become their equal. And thanks to Dai's support, I achieved it. But," she continued, "if I'm not allowed to keep doing this, moping about it won't change a thing."
Momoko raised her fist. "That's the spirit! Now, right after school we shall hit the road and buy all the groceries you like. With our allowances combined, we'll fill a cart with anything you please."
Kaoru tried not to comment on her friend's totally impulsive and disorganized planning. "I... we... and just where are we supposed to consume these?"
"My house," Miyako offered, willing to do her part to cheer up their friend.
"That's brilliant," the redhead cheered.
Kaoru stood speechless for a while, letting all the events to sink in. She quickly turned around and opened the door.
"We should go to class," she mumbled before storming off to the hallways.
Momoko and Miyako having no chance to respond at at all, were left in the office. Miyako chucked.
"Momoko, it was very smart, however violent, of you to hit Kaoru. It was clever to think to use an action that would be compatible with her personality, therefore being the most effective method to bring her back from depression."
"What are you talking about, I simply slapped her because it always works in manga!"