Minami awoke that morning with an awful pain coursing through her body, practically every muscle was screaming in agony at the events of last night. She attempted to move, only slightly, to see how bad her body would hurt upon doing so. The results were unpleasant. She bit her lip to hold down a cry of pain threatening to escape her throat. Deciding it better to numb the pain than to continue to endure such a horrible feeling she decided to reach under her bed and pull out what was left of the case of beer she had gotten from Victor the night before.
She downed two before she could start to feel the pain subside.
Her head ever so slightly fuzzy from her drinks she decided it best to forgo her morning routine. She left her hair messy, it stuck out in odd directions and as she looked in the mirror she decided it went better with her new found dark side, after a moments contemplation she quietly decided she liked it that way.
After a long and silent debate with herself she decided she ought to go to school. It took nearly a half hour of slowly and carefully sliding her clothes on her rather bruised form. Each move seemed to send an aftershock through her, like an earthquake had gone through her body, even the soft cotton clothes she wore felt like a harsh slap on her back. After a minute of recuperating from the usually small task of getting dressed, she set out for school.
She did not join Miyuki on her way, as she normally did, both because she didn't want her friend to see her rather swollen lip and because she had gotten up far too late for that. Miyuki would not understand, and Minami was in no mood to explain. Her thirst to gain control and to be powerful was not something any old friend would be able to wrap their head around. Not without worry, not without a lecture and more than likely involving other persons who could very well put a stop to the horror she was putting herself through.
As she finally entered the steel gates of her school she looked at the time on her phone, Noting to herself that she was nearly an hour late for class she strolled along carelessly. Not truthfully worrying about her tardiness or her appearance.
In short her entrance shocked the classroom. For good reason.
Not only was Minami Iwasaki late, but she was adorning a fat lip, a rugged hairstyle, and a calloused scowl replaced her usual stoic and calm demeanor. It was not like her in the slightest, she had an almost 'don't fuck with me' approach to how she moved, how she coldly scanned the classroom, her ferocious eyes almost begging for someone to stand up and say something.
Yutaka, along with near half the class gasped, she put on a face of worry as the rest of the class took to gossiping about her mint haired friend.
The hawk like girl didn't so much as give her friend a glance as she sat at her seat near her. The thought of talking to the once innocent girl made her stomach churn in anger and frustration. She could almost feel her blood boil and her mood worsen by the minute as she felt the girls green eyes on her.
The teacher glanced at her, eyebrow raised as if to demand an explanation for her tardiness, but he regretted it near instantaneously as he was shot an angry response with Minami's now ice cold blue eyes. They were a threat all themselves, and a fear filled tingling feeling in his lower spine kept his mouth shut as he continued on with the lecture, his back turning on her as he nervously picked up his chalk.
'What was that look she gave him?' Yutaka thought, her worried look turning to despair as she watched her friend give a small sadistic smile of amusement at the professors reaction to her mere glare. 'Whats happening to her?'
Yutaka made a silent vow to talk to her friend.
Class went by slowly for the two girls. Minami was daydreaming, picturing the fights from last night, remembering the feeling of bringing grown men to their knees as they howled in pain, she could almost still feel the blood splattering.
Yutaka was casting worried glances in an attempt to make eye contact, but to no avail, Minami seemed off in her own little world, her body lounged about in her chair as she hardly even payed attention to their teachers lecture. She didn't even bring her school books by the look of things.
As the bell rang for lunch Yutaka, Hiyori, and Patty all gathered around with their lunches, taking theirs out Patty and Hiyori passing embarrassed looks at Yutaka, who smiled knowingly and sadistically at them as she remembered her conquests.
It was then Yutaka noticed Minami was no longer with them, but had left the room.
The scrawny powerhouse was busy walking the halls, desperate to get up and away from her restless feelings, as well as Yutaka and the would be friends she knew the loli had screwed. Unpleasant images flashed through the forefront of her mind, adding fuel to her fire.
Normally Minami wouldn't be so harsh towards her classmates, but they knew full well of her feelings towards Yutaka, the remembrance of such utter betrayal hit her hard, and she felt her fist clench in the uprising aggression that was now constantly boiling inside her. She had told them, straight up told them about her feelings 'And they betrayed me' She thought.
A faint tapping of tiny footsteps could be heard making their way down the hall.
"Minami" Came a voice the angry girl knew all too well. Sickly sweet.
"What happened Minami?" It came again.
Minami only half turned to face her old friend Yutaka, instead of the usual neutral mask she always wore her features had formed into a face of resentment, which stopped Yutaka from taking the step she was currently leaning into.
'Why is she looking at me like that?' Yutaka wondered, a feeling in her gut telling her to turn right around, to run. She pushed the feeling down as quickly as it had arose. 'Minami wouldn't hurt me' she reassured herself as she took the long awaited step.
"What?" Came Minami's short accusing response, nearly in tune to the tap of that footstep. Her face tightened and she felt her fists do the same.
"Your lip, you arnt eating with us, your late, whats going on with you?" She asked, concern ebbing its way into her childish voice.
"I should ask you the same thing. Don't follow me." Minami warned before shooting a glare at the girl she once promised herself to protect before making her way down the stairs and completely out of the building.