Wazzup! I redid this chapter since it looked so terrible after I read it again. A little better than before. Enjoy!
~Hunter
Disclaimer: I do not own Spice and Wolf or any of its characters, but there are no Spice and Wolf characters in this chapter, anyway.
"Why do we have to do this? It makes no sense," I ask Mihiko angrily. Mihiko is my 'best friend.'
"It's a school thing. We're just gonna have to deal with it," he answers, a big smile on his face.
I sigh. Today we have our measurements. Sounds pretty normal right? Well, along with the normal stuff, we have to take a Destiny Test. A Destiny Test is where you have to put your hand on this weird crystal ball thing that tells your future. It's never wrong. Ugh. I hate tests.
"Well this is a weird school," I whine. Mihiko laughs at my distress. I puff up my cheeks and cross my arms over my chest. "Not funny."
He shakes his head at me. "Oh, Akena. You'll never change," he says wistfully. "You know, today is the day we celebrate Holo the Wise Wolf."
I raise an eyebrow at him. "Holo the who-ha?"
"Holo the Wise Wolf," he laughs. "The God of Good Harvest."
"Why would we need that?" I ask.
"For good harvest, of course!" he beams. "But, legend tells of Holo leaving the village she protected after being betrayed of a promise. She then became a treveling partner of Craft Lawrence. Lawrence was just a peddler, but she traveled with him anyway. Lawrence died at the hands of a large dog-beast, but they say that Holo had a daughter. Both disappeared, never to be seen again." He raises his arms for effect.
I roll my eyes. "Sure."
In the corner of my eye, I see a cat crossing the street. Damn cat. It's probably the cat's fault I have to take some stupid test. I BET THAT CAT KNOWS I HATE TESTS! Wait, why am I blaming a cat? Just then, I realize that a truck is advancing down the street by the second.
"Agh! Get out of the way!" I think. That cat just sits down in the path of the truck.
"What am I doing?!" I yell to myself as I run towards the stupid cat.
"Akena?!" Mihiko yells.
I scoop the cat into my arms. Great, now the truck will hit me and the dumb thing. The cat looks up from her place on my arm and narrows her eyes.
"Well, do something!" it yells, seemingly annoyed.
My eyes widen as a strange glow encases my body. Without thinking, I hold my arm out in front of me as if to stop the truck. Suddenly, the front of it comes in contact with my hand, and goes flying backwards! Once it comes to a screeching stop, the driver of the car pokes his head out the window and curses, then presses down on the gas and swerves to drive away.
The cat jumps out of my arms as I stand up and heave, my hands holding my knees as I bend over in exhaustion.
"Akena!" Mihiko reaches me and looks me up and down with wide eyes. His eyes stop at my head. No... just above my head.
"What?" I wheeze. "Ya never seen an out-a-shape girl before?"
He tears his eyes away above my head, but now looks between my legs. Horrified, he back up with a hand over his mouth.
Confused, I look down to see a white cat tail swishing around my legs. AND IT'S COMING FROM MY BUTT!
"AAAAAHHHH!" I scream. "A TAIL?!"
"And ears!" Mihiko exclaims.
Mihiko opens his bag and hands me a small hand-mirror. I look in it and see a person with white hair and white cat ears sticking out on the top of their head.
"AH, HELL NO," I yell. "HOW THE FUCK IS THIS ME?!"
"I have no idea!" he screams.
"What do we do?!" I scream.
"We have to hide it!" he screams.
"OH, GREAT IDEA. I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT!" I yell sarcastically.
"Take this!" he yells, tossing me a long, brown robe-thing with a hood from his bag and hitting me in the face. "Gee, thanks," I grumble and put it on, tossing the hood over my... ears.
I put on the robe and take a deep breath. "Okay. It's okay. We're probably just hallucinating due to lack of water."
"But we drank our water on the way here-"
"Yeah! Lack of water! It'll probably just... go away!" I exclaim.
"Really? We're going with this?"
"Yep! All's gonna be fine. We just gotta go ta school," I say, my speech blurred. Mihiko sighs shakily and follows me as I stagger down the sidewalk in a drunken matter. We walk the rest of the way to school in silence, but it's obvious that he's staring up me.
"Whatcha lookin at ya stalker?" I yell angrily.
He holds up his hands as if I pointed a gun at him. Which, truthfully, is just as bad. "Nothing! Nothing." An awkward silence forms until Mihiko breaks it to state the obvious. "Hey, you know that cat is still following you right?"
I sigh. "Yup."
I look down at the little cat I saved. She is a short-legged Calico cat, and I can tell she is gonna be a pain in the neck.
"Damn cat. It's all your fault," I think.
"No it's not."
My eyes widen and I look around. Mihiko is just staring forward, no sign that he just said that. His voice is too deep anyway. That voice sounded like a girl's.
"Hey. Down here," the voice says again.
I look down to see the cat looking up at me. She blinks slowly. "Hi."
If I had liquid in my mouth, it would have sprayed all over Mihiko. Just try to imagine it. "YOU?! YOU'RE TALKING!" I think.
"Oh, I had no idea! Are we all just stating the obvious, here?" she says sarcastically. "Okay, the sky is blue. Shoe-shiners shine shoes. Akena Tourou has humongous tits.
"HEY!"
"Well, we are stating the obvious. You boobs are huge and you know it," the cat says smugly.
"Ugh, whatever. So, should I just call you 'cat' or..."
"Koko. My name's Koko," she answers.
"Okay, Koko, I don't think you should follow me."
"Ha! You think you have a choice! Well, I am, and there's nothing you can do about it."
I sigh heavily, making Mihiko look over to me. He raises an eyebrow, so I just smile innocently. The second he looks away, I grab Koko and throw her into the air, making her fly away from us yowling.
"What did you do that for?!" Mihiko exclaims.
"She was annoying."
When Mihiko and I get to school, we run to the secluded side to think up some genius plan to get out of this cluster-fuck.
"Well, the teachers might not make you take the coat off. You could just leave it on," Mihiko suggests.
"No, that won't work. You know how strict the dress code is," I sigh and lean against the wall. My body instantly relaxes, and, due to this, the same glow as before encases my body. Without warning, I begin to float.
"Uh, Mihiko."
He is pacing around, trying to figure out what to do, and he just continues, not looking my way.
"M-Mihiko," I say again.
Still nothing.
"MIHIKO, GOD DAMMIT!" I scream.
"WHAT?!" he yells, spinning around on one heel. His eyes widen when he sees me floating in mid-air.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!"
"I HAVE NO IDEA!"
Suddenly, the glowing flashes and I'm back to normal. My hair is no longer white, but back to its original auburn color. The tail and ears are gone, too.
"Oh, thank God," I murmur breathlessly. Mihiko and I begin to laugh with relief when the morning bell rings. Me and him look at each other with wide eyes.
"SHIT," Mihiko yells. "RUN."
"YUP."
We both bolt to the back door of the school and slam the door open. The hallways are cleared because that bell signaled the beginning of our measurements. We both run to the main hall and turn left towards the locker rooms. On the way there, Mihiko brings up something unexpected.
"This never happened, okay?" he says.
My eyes widen and I blink. "Y-Yeah, sure."
"Okay," he sighs when we make it. I'm heaving by then, of course. "Bye, Akena."
"Yeah,*deep inhale* bye," I wheeze.
I walk in the girls locker room and find measurements already started. I go through all the other requirements first to avoid my least favorite. Finally, I have no choice. Time for breast measurements... GAH. I get in line and, as usual, all the other girls crowd around. I hear them whispering.
"What will it be this time?"
*eye twitch*
"I heard last time she was 95!"
*vein bulge*
"There's a new person measuring this year, bet they're gonna get a surprise!"
*death glare that would make a puppy cry*
The nurse walks out of the curtains. "Akena Tourou?"
I sigh walk into the curtains and the nurse closes them behind me. Grumbling profanities, I pull off my shirt and bra. The nurse gestures to a stool and I sit down, annoyed of the whispers I can still hear outside. The nurse walks over and I put my arms up. She wraps the tape measure around my breasts and adjusts it. Then... she reads it. Her eyes practically pop out of her sockets.
"OH MY GOD, THEY'RE HUGE!" she screams.
I walk out with the paper in my hand. All the other girls are staring at me, then they crowed me. Here come the fucking questions!
"What did you get?"
"Why did the nurse scream?"
"Are you a D-Cup?"
I sigh. "If I tell you will you leave me the fuck alone?" They all nod excitedly.
I take a deep breath to add suspense. "My size is... HA! LIKE I WOULD TELL YOU GUYS!"
All of them groan with impatience.
"Oh come on!"
"You did this last year!"
"Just tell us!"
"Please!"
The student body president Toku Wakashima steps to the front and shields me. "Enough!" she shouts.
I sigh. "Thank, Prez. I owe you on-"
Then I realize she's not here to protect me. You can tell by the satanic glint in her eye. She turns around dramatically and points at me. "If you do not tell us, we shall find out ourselves!"
Two girls grab my arms and hold me back against a wall. "Ah, fuck. Not again." I mutter. This also happened last year! Except last time they tied me to a pole. This is much better. Toku approaches me and grabs my shirt and bra in her fist. With quick precision, she rips them both off. Everyone in the room gasps. I snort.
Someone picks up my measurements paper (That would've been so much easier!) and reads it out loud. "Akena's breast size is... OH. MY. GOD. NINETY-EIGHT?!"
Even the Prez looks surprised. "Well! New record! Biggest I've ever seen! AM-A RIGHT GIRLS!" she yells. They all cheer. I groan with annoyance at the outburst.
"Can I go know?" I ask the girls holding me. They let me go and I walk to the Destiny-Test-Line-Thingy.
After, like, 5 hours, it's my turn. I place my hands on the crystal ball and think, "Well this is original! Where's the fucking clairvoyance?"
"Akena Tourou. Age 16," the thing states in a mechanical voice. "Mother: Holo the Wise Wolf. Father: Craft Lawrence."
"...Wat."
"Destiny: The God of Gods," it finishes.
"You've gotta to be kidding me."
Everyone in the room stops and looks over in my direction. I'm still frozen in shock, my mouth gaping.
The Prez orders, "Repeat."
"God of Gods," it says again.
The Prez rips off her glasses in a dramatic fashion. "Show us."
The ball beneath my hands begins to glow and my eyes widen. A wolf appears inside it and I suddenly sprout ears and a tail. This time, my hair color doesn't change, and my ears and tail seem to belong to a wolf, with white tips on the ends. All of the girls scream again, except in fear this time. Some begin to pull out cell-phones and dial 911 or Animal Control. Panicking, I dart out into the hall and past the rows of students. All of them gasp in surprise and back away. Ignoring them, I continue through the school with super-speed until I make it through the back door.
The woods out back provide great cover as I slip through the trees. Eventually I run far away from the school and lean up against a large oak tree. Sighing, I slide down it and onto the ground. My stomach growls.
"I never got to eat any lunch. So sad..." I whine, tears forming in my eyes.
This... is going to be a long day.
I REDID IT! Since i still used the same plot-line and some words as before, it's still a little rushed. But it's definitely better than before, right?
Akena: Sure, better...
WHADDYA MEAN, SURE?!
Akena: I meant it's not that good. At least you captured my real personality a little better this time.
I did, didn't I? Yes...