Everything was wonderful! Absolutely fantastic as the children of the world held hands and worked together to make the world's future great! They were the future, the hope, and the wonder that would lead the world into a bright tomorrow! Alfred F. Jones watched happily as everyone smiled and laughed.
"What a load of bollocks. Adults have turned the world into a hell hole and then dumping it onto us. Let us have the problem? Ha! I don't want the Earth." A blond kid with messy hair and dark eyebrows snorted. He stuck out his tongue in a childish manner, his bright green eyes dancing with mischief ready to be released.
"Kirkland. Maybe if your eyebrows weren't so bent on making everyone miserable you'd be more positive. And what do you mean 'a load of bollocks'?!" Alfred was buzzing with annoyance.
"I mean that everyone sucks as much as you, loser." The Kirkland kid laughed at him poking at Alfred's pudgy belly. Oh that was certainly the last straw! Alfred was not going to tolerate this eyebrowed jerk's monkey business!
"Kirkland you stupid jerk!" Alfred closed his eyes and yelled at the top of his lungs hoping that the sheer force of his annoyance would blow Kirkland away. Instead, Alfred felt something smack on his forehead making his eyes snap open.
"Alfred please, when you yell that way the neighbor's dogs like to bark. It's too early for their howling." Rather than seeing stupid Kirkland, he saw the face of his mother. Alfred groaned as his head hurt and noticed the faint sound of barking outside his window.
"Good morning mom….. My head hurts." Alfred sat up with a yawn. "I had a weird dream and we were all around the world."
"Hmm… dreams can be like that. Well hurry now, it's already 8:30 and Amelia* is waiting with the car."
"Mom! Why didn't you wake me up!" Alfred ran to the shower, got in then out ranting to his mother about her terrible parenting, his mother on the other hand simply waited patiently. Alfred ran down the stairs of his big house, really mansion.
"Amelia! I'm ready, ready, ready! Take me to school now!"
"Ah- Al! Slow down a sec, you can eat in the car." Amelia chuckled seeing Alfred's wild antics. She opened the door for Alfred and walked to the car. Amelia was a young woman with wheat blonde hair and a pair of sunglasses covering her eyes, often she would be confused for Alfred's mother but Alfred didn't see her that way…..
Alfred slammed the door shut and ran into the car where a ready made breakfast awaited him. "Oh Amelia! You're so smart~!" As Alfred buckled in and stuffed his mouth, he ranted to Amelia on and on about his greatest bother. "I can't take it 'Melia! I can't! That jerk keeps popping up in my dreams like a nasty zit!"
"So is this Kirkland kid has been bugging you still?" Amelia said sing-songy as she drove.
"You say 'bugging' as if it were something cute. Kirkland is definitely not cute. He is the devil I tells ya! The devil!" Alfred pouted childishly and crossed his arms.
"Anywho, please try and remember you have a live broadcast later today so don't dilly dally."
"I remember, I remember." Alfred huffed.
"I'll pick you up at three-thirty on the dot." Amelia parked the car and Alfred pressed a little kiss on her cheek as he ran to school.
"By Amelia! I love you and I'll remember!" Amelia watched Alfred run and sighed once he was gone. Alfred was such a sweetheart but had a boundless source of energy. 'Elementary kids are scary these days!' She thought as she drove back to the mansion.
An introduction is in order now, this is the story of two boys. A sunny boy and a rainy boy. This will be the introduction about the sunny child. Alfred F. Jones, age 11. When he was three, his mother introduced him to a dance theater group and soon after that he became a child actor. Alfred was raised differently because of this and the fact that his mother was the world renowned writer Akane Hondo**, everyone though, wondered why though, since Alfred seemed to be the embodiment of the United States of America, while Akane was fully Japanese, this has lead to scandal surrounding mother and son but both ignored the gossip. Alfred is a happy child but lately he has had a lot of trouble….. Alfred's class has been undoubtedly disturbed. Naturally every school, maybe even every class, has their own bully, but it seems that Alfred's class has the worst bully in the nation. Alfred's school was an international school that had many children of various nationalities.
'They're up to it again...' Alfred thought as he walked into his class and simply looking at the disaster in the class. His teacher always tried to calm the class down but the class always ended up making her cry.
"Please stop! Listen to me…. Please! We can't have class if you're throwing around your desks! Ah- no please take a seat! Oh it's hopeless!" Yekaterina Ukrayinka was young Ukrainian woman who had just graduated university, this was her first class to teach but was quickly realizing that teaching elementary school was not the easiest to handle. She had been so hopeful and excited to teach, she even established a first name basis but that soon came to an end a week into the new school year. Things went south when students would make fun of her rather large set of breast and the way they would sound when they bounced, despite her numerous attempts to make them stop. Then they wouldn't listen and threw things everywhere. They bothered the good students and mocked her. She burst into tears nearly every day and sure it got annoying at times but Alfred felt sorry for her. Alfred glared at the person in the back of the class…. Yes, the one who started bully was the spawn of the devil himself…
…Arthur Kirkland!
"Alfred, I don't think we're having class again. I think we're way behind by now!" Mei, a Taiwanese classmate of Alfred's said. Before Alfred could respond, someone rushed in the room.
"Ms. Yekaterina! Get a hold of yourself please! You can't let these kinds push you around!" Another teacher, Vladimir Popescu, gently grabbed a hold of Ms. Yekaterina's shoulders. Rumor had it that Mr. Popescu was actually a vampire from Transylvania or something of the sort. His eye color and pointy 'fang' teeth didn't help prove other wise.
"Oh but these kids-"
"Ooooooh! They're going to ma-"
Alfred had enough. He had just gotten to his desk and all this nonsense was irritating. He slammed his hands on the desk and a moment of silence came.
"A-alfred…"
"I've had enough. I'm going home…. Looks like we have now class today… again…" Alfred put on his backpack and made his way to the door. Before he left he turned to the class menace. "Are you happy Kirkland? Is ruining people's education and maybe futures fun for you?"
Kirkland didn't even look at him and made no more to acknowledge him. Alfred felt the flames of hate burst in his very core. 'Don't ignore me when I'm making you have a guilt trip! I hate Kirkland so much! Drop dead and go to Hell!' Alfred internally ranted.
"Ms. Yekaterina, you have to get a better control of this class. This is elementary school not playtime. I'm so sick of having to put up with this monkey business for an entire year!" With that Alfred left the class and school.
"Alfred wait-!" Ms. Yekaterina and Mr. Popescu called out to the boy but he was gone. No one noticed Kirkland glance at Alfred as he left.
Alfred had gone to the cafe near the school and played hooky, ranting about Kirkland to himself muttering like a crazy person. "I wonder who could raise such a bad natured kid. It sickens me," he would say to no one in particular. "Everyone wants to tell him to give it a rest but they won't because they're afraid the bullies will turn their attention to them!" It wasn't that Alfred was particularly afraid of Kirkland, he was a hero in training after all, it's just that he didn't want to cause trouble. Celebrities needed to be careful, even him a child star. He stayed there until Amelia found him and scolded him for skipping school. She was able though to convince the people of the live broadcast to make the broadcast in the cafe.
"Our guest today is Alfred F. Jones from the popular show Child's Toy!" The show woman said cheerfully to the camera.
"Good afternoon." Alfred replied politely.
"My what a mature young man for an elementary student. Now Alfred, everyone knew you from your first appearances from commercials and appearances in different television shows, but when you appeared in Child's Toy, it became popular almost overnight!"
"Oh really?" Alfred smiled as he played dumb.
"Yes really!" The woman didn't know if he was playing dumb or not but nonetheless continued equally cheerful. "Let's roll a clip from an earlier episode."
In a portable television that the staff had brought in, a clip from an episode showed Alfred sitting in a classroom like set and a silly looking adult played the teacher.
"Well Alfred! Lots of stuff has been talked about your manager lately." The teacher asked Alfred.
"Huh? Really? Why?" Alfred questioned with a wide smile.
"People have been saying that she is cooler and much more beautiful than a lot of actress."
"Really? I want her to take her shades off." A boy asked but Alfred stood up and puffed his chest while pointing at Amelia. The camera shifted its attention from Alfred to Amelia who wondered what the hell Alfred was doing.
"No way! Amelia can never ever take off her shades! You can't have her. Amelia is my girlfriend… no my pimp! Or would madame be more appropriate… Madame it is!"
"M-madame?!" The teacher asked shocked. "Alfred do you know what a madame is?"
"Of course I do, I give her some of the money I make." Now the camera was back to Alfred and a mortified Amelia was grateful for that.
"What?! Tell me more about this problem!" The teacher asked.
"I'm not telling you more unless you want to tell me about all the details in your private life too." Alfred said simply and the audience laughed.
"Why should I tell you that?" The teacher said rather hasty and the clip ended. The show woman immediately started to talk.
"Everyone including we were surprised by what you said. Child's Toy is a title that really suits the show and kids today doesn't it? It's a close up on the world of children and how adults treat it as a toy, though the children get more control and reverse it treating the adults like toys!" The woman's voice was making Alfred sleepy and he stopped paying attention. "It's all a fun fun show! I bet your ordinary life is just as fun isn't it Alfred?"
"That's absolutely wrong!" Alfred said without thinking. "It's the worst. There is this stupid jerk guy, he is the spawn of the devil! Bleh…. Arthur Kirkland…. Just saying his name makes me wanna throw up! He never lets us have class and he always pushes the teacher around making her cry!"
The show woman was rather surprised and tried to keep the show light hearted. "O-oh my… it seems even elementary kids have problems, don't they?" Alfred tried to continued but was interrupted again and again. Somewhere not to far in a quiet house, a teenage girl popped a bubble of gum as she watched television.
"Oi Arthur, she is talking about you, huh? And on national television too." She snorted as the 'spawn of the devil' turned to her and saw in the television that Alfred was in fact insulting him on national television.
'What the hell does he think he is doing?' Arthur thought to himself as he thought of what tomorrow would hold in store for Alfred. 'What a crazy guy..'
"I really liked what you said today Alfred. You spoke your mind." Akane said congratulating her son. Alfred on the other hand was not that sure that what he said was good.
"I don't think you understand mama. The show woman nearly covered my mouth on tv!"
"Alfred, aren't you worried? You did say Kirkland's full name on tv….?" Amelia asked as she drove Alfred and Akane home.
"Not at all! I'm not scared of that guy! That'll show him not to mess with my class!"
"That's my boy!" Akane praised Alfred.
"But I'm worried. You're just one boy, Alfred…" Amelia sighed. Alfred turned to her, his heart full of warmth. He then hugged Amelia tightly making her have trouble steering..
"Oh Amelia you care so much! I love you! I love you! I love you!" Alfred said happily.
"Ack! No Alfred! Not now! The road! The road! Watch out! It's dangerous!" Amelia yelled.
"Oh danger! I love it!" Akane cheered as the swerved down the road. Alfred laughed as he experienced happiness once more with the people her adored.
"Alfred! What are you doing here today?!" Mei and the other good students cried in surprise and worry.
"Good morning~!" The American boy said without a care.
Feliciano, a happy yet airheaded boy went around him trying to push him out of the school. "You should have stayed home! We all saw what you said about Kirkland on tv! Waah! They're all scary mad! They'll beat you up!"
Alfred shrugged in a carefree manner. "That so? I can take them no problem. Everyone needs to be less whimpy."
Those around him quieted down almost immediately as a gang of boys walked up to them, their hands fisted and with nasty scowls on their faces. Alfred noted that Kirkland was not there with them.
"We saw you last night talking smack 'bout Brows." The second-in-command of Kirkland's monkey army said. A German albino boy who had an ego larger than Texas.
"So what? Have ya seen yerselves in the mirror lately? Yer nothin' but monkeys to him and to everyone else too." Alfred said with a southern drawl to counter their supposed intimidation.
"Who the hell do you think you are?!" A Danish boy yelled.
"You'll regret that!" Said a South Korean kid.
"What the do you think you're doing? You'll pay for that!" A Bulgarian boy added.
"Oi, calm down already. You're making fools of yourselves." Kirkland walked in and interrupted the boy's little rage party. "Leave him alone."
'The monkey boss Kirkland in the flesh, huh?' Alfred thought to himself as he walked into the school building without even glancing at Alfred.
"B-but yesterday he-"
"What do you mean-"
"Why if he-" The boys protested.
"I said leave him alone and that's final." Kirkland said once more.
Alfred was confused as he watched Kirkland and the monkey boys go into the school building. 'What is he thinking….?' The other students cheered but something wasn't right.
And Alfred was right. The class started peacefully enough but then a boing and a cry from Ms. Yekaterina interrupted the class.
"Wh-what?!" Ms. Yekaterina said surprised as a large ink blob was on her shirt. The spat had giggled her her chest in a way that it made a boing sound.
"Water pistols! Kirkland bought 'em for us!" The boys cheered.
"Exactly." Kirkland brought out his own water pistol.
"Mine is…"
"...rojo!"
"...blau!"
"...yellow!"
"Except that I thought ink instead of water would be more entertaining, don't you think so?" Kirkland added and all the boys with water pistols stood up cornering Ms. Yekaterina and she tried to talk them out of doing anything bad.
"N-now please students! T-take your seats please! Don't step any closer- All of you stop! Ekkk!" Her pleading didn't help and they all shot her over and over with multicolored ink squirts. Mr. Popescu burst again into the class trying to protect Ms. Yekaterina.
"Class 3 again?! Take your seats at once!"
Alfred sighed and thought to himself at what a disaster the class had become once more. Ink splat on him a little bit yet he paid no mind to it and watched the teachers try to stop the kids.
"Give it a rest already! I can't take it anymore! I'm going to the principle!" Mr. Popescu yelled furiously. Everyone quieted down at once and Kirkland smirked.
"Are you sure you really want to do that? Are you? I suppose I should show them you-know-what, right?" Kirkland said almost laughing. Mr. Popescu paled and Alfred noted how stiff he became along with Ms. Yekaterina. Alfred whipped the ink off himself and put two and two together. 'Is he blackmailing the teachers? Is that why they never stand up to him?'
"Isn't this a great country, Mr. Popescu? Now don't get me wrong, I could care less about the United States of America, but I'm sure you don't. You must love all the restrictions that are being placed on guns now a days. If that weren't the case… If I could get a real one…. I'd fire about ten shots just in this room…" Kirkland chuckled as he prepared his water pistol and pointed it at Mr. Popescu. "Man there a lot of people in this room who make me sick."
'This kid says some scary things.' Mr. Popescu thought to himself.
No one made a sound. Some students grew afraid of Kirkland as he said that, even those in his monkey gang though then they all cheered praising Kirkland as if he said such a great thing. As Kirkland aimed ready to shot, Alfred took away a water pistol from the Spanish kid and shot Kirkland in the head right above his eye.
"A-alfred?!" Many students looked at him in surprise. He didn't look at them and stared at Kirkland with all the seriousness he could muster. Kirkland looked at him in surprise, the red ink looking eerily like blood dripping down his face. The ink's color contrasted with the green of his eye making it more vivid.
"I can think of one person I'd kill if I had a real gun too. Be grateful you live here in America or else you'd be dead on the spot. Get off your high horse and lay off." Alfred scowled. And the other good students gained courage to tell Kirkland off.
"That's right! Give it a rest! We want to have class!" Mei said. It was about time the good kids stood up for themselves.
"I can't believe we're halfway down the year and you stopped us from having a whole class!" Feliciano's twin brother Lovino said and Feliciano added to that. "Yeah! Don't make us stupid like you!"
"Demon child! Demon! Demon! Demon child! Go back to the hell from where you crawled from and stay there!" Sisia Vogel, a small and often overlooked Lichtenstein girl shouted angrily. Alfred thought they were taking it a bit too far despite that being the truth but said nothing else on the matter. The monkey boys retorted just as mad as Kirkland whipped the ink off his face and started to walk out of the room.
"Wait… Are you going to run away, eh Kirkland?" Alfred asked in a neutral tone. Kirkland stared at him and looked at the monkey boys.
"Hey." He said simply pointing at Alfred and turned to leave. The monkey boys grinned evilly and nodded eagerly. They all grabbed Alfred and he tried to pull away furiously.
"Hey? Hey! Hey was all he said to get you to obey whatever he had you trained for? What's with you guys?! Are you dogs? Do you wag your tail for him too?! Lemme go!" Alfred yelled. Alfred pulled away one hand and pointed to Kirkland. "You're nothing! Don't try to act so high and mighty because you're the trash of Class 3! You know what we do with trash like you in the real world out there? We grind you down to flour and eat you!" 'Or something… like that…' That sounded better in his head but went along with it. Kirkland was almost out of the room and glanced once more to Alfred in neutral annoyance. Kiku, his best friend who was walking with him, stopped with him and looked at Alfred worriedly.
"You did it Alfred! No one else has ever stood up to him like that!" His friends cheered.
"I just didn't do that earlier because I didn't want to cause any problems." Alfred said. His friends still praised him and gushed about what a hero he was making Alfred feel proud. 'I won't let him win so easily again!'
In another side of the school there was a different sight though. "Ah- Arthur-kun…. I was worried you would beat Alfred-san up. Everyone always wants to due to him being more outgoing and famous." Kiku said to Kirkland in the boy's restroom as Kirkland washed the ink remaining on his face. He looked at himself in the mirror and scowled.
"I'll do it today after school." He said simply. The boys lingering outside trying to listen to what Kirkland had to say cheered happily. A party for them they said and laughed with anticipation.
It was finally after school and everyone was getting ready to go home. Alfred was packing up his stuff happy to leave school finally.
"Alfred! Take care on the way home!" Feliciano said. It was no surprise that everyone was worried for Alfred, he did cause quite a scene.
"Oh don't worry! Amelia is giving me a ride." Alfred said happily. He sighed dreamily as he thought of his 'madame'.
"Your girlfriend? So you're going to work today again?" Mei asked wondering if the manager of the actor really was his girlfriend, if she was, well Mei would have to try to get Alfred's attention somehow.
"Yep! I have dance lessons today. Work just never stops."
"Alfred!" Tino, a friendly Finish boy came running in, worry and fear stamped across his face. "It's an emergency! Sisia has been kidnapped by the troublemakers! We have to save her!"
"What?! Why her?" Alfred thought back to earlier and Sisia did seem to say some pretty mean things. It didn't make sense to Alfred though since he had said worse things than her.
"Um… If I may say something…." Kiku came out of nowhere and freaked everyone out. "I think you are Arthur-kun's weakness.."
"What?" Alfred? Kirkland's weakness? He didn't think it was possible.
"He said so before…"
"When you said you'd do it after school, did you mean you'd bully him?" Kiku asked Kirkland once the rowdy boys left.
"No.. I think he might be might weakness… I need to find his soon. I need to make sure this is the last time he stands up to me." Kirkland replied, his mind thinking up devious ways to make Alfred back off permanently. Kiku couldn't help but think they would be like a cobra and a mongoose.
"That's amazing Alfred! You became his weakness!" Mei cheered but Alfred scowled.
"Now is not the time to be cheering, we need to save Sisia first! Tino, where did they take her to?"
"Ah- they took her to the pond in the back of the school, near the gym." Tino said and as soon as he said that, Alfred ran out. Everyone followed him and Kiku caught up.
"Alfred-san, I wish you luck, you're the only one who can stop Arthur-kun."
"Whose side are you on man? Mine or Kirkland's? You always stick up for Bushy Brows!"
"Ah- I just care for Arthur-kun. There are many things I don't like about him but he's a good guy." Kiku said shyly.
"Just confess to him already! Ugh!" Alfred yelled and sped up. Kiku wasn't able to keep up and cried out.
"Wait Alfred-san! It's not like that! I like you!"
"What a time for a confession…" Lovino muttered as he looked back at Kiku who was trying to regain his breath.
"Well too bad for him, I already have my madame with me!" Alfred declared loudly and a squawk of disbelief came from Mei. No one stopped though, they kept running to the pond where they would find the boys taunting and making fun of Sisia. Sisia was crying and asking for help. She didn't know how to swim and was too short to keep her head out of the water, she had to practically hop so she didn't drown.
"Hey look! I think she is eating the moss! Gross!" The boys laughed. "She looks like an ugly warty toad hopping around like that."
Kirkland leaned on the a tree next to the pond and sneered at Sisia who kept begging.
"Go on… say it. You want to repeat what you said to me one more time? It was pretty interesting, wasn't it? Oh my, what was it you called me…? Oh right! Something regarding a... demon child. Repeat what you said earlier." Kirkland said with venom in his voice and Sisia's face paled terribly with fear. "Tell me, what else did you say?"
Sisia just cried wanting this all to end but the boys poked her head pushing her down. "Hey, Kirkland just asked you something. Now answer him."
"Sisia! Out of the way monkey boys!" Sisia could not handle much more of this and Alfred pushed the boys away from the girl and lifted her out of the water. She shivered and coughed out some of the water she had swallowed. "Lovino, Feliciano, take Sisia to the nurse now!" The twins nodded and helped Sisia to her feet and let her lean her weight on them. As they took Sisia to the nurse, Alfred turned to Kirkland who looked at the scene apathetically.
Alfred shook as he stood up and faced Kirkland.
Kirkland smiled smugly. "You're shaking. Something wrong Jones?"
"I'm shaking because I'm furious! I have never been so angry in life! This anger is making me shake!" Alfred yelled.
"Congratulations, mark this day on your calendar." The smugness and just everything about Kirkland drew about so much hate in Alfred that he had never felt before. He didn't hesitate and punched Arthur square in the jaw. 'I'll never forgive you for this!' Alfred thought. The exhilaration made his heart beat loudly in his ears and he glared at Kirkland. Kirkland glared back feeling just as much hatred as Alfred.
"That, Kirkland, was also the first time I hit someone."
"Then this'll be my first time hitting someone famous." Kiku who had just gotten to the scene yelled at Kirkland to stop but Kirkland didn't stop. Suddenly something unexpected happened.
Alfred dodged.
No one had ever dodged one of Kirkland's punches before, he was too fast. Kirkland was sure that it was just a fluke but….. Alfred was dance-dodging all of Kirkland's punches. Alfred laughed as he kept it, Kirkland growing frustrated when he couldn't land a punch.
"Oh ho ho~! How do you like my moves Kirkland? I've learned them in my theater group! Can ya ever do something like this? I can do this all day! Ah ha ha-" In the middle of Alfred's gloating, sandbags fell on top of Alfred. He had been knocked down but when he stood up, he blamed it on Kirkland. "What the hell was that!? Why did you do that?! Apologize now!"
"I didn't do anything!" Kirkland said with full honesty. Even he didn't know and was curious as to who dropped it on him, though he could guess.
"Let's talk one-on-one, you and me buster!" Alfred dragged Kirkland into the gym's storage room. He slammed the door shut once they were both inside. Alfred took a seat on one of the boxes and sighed. "Now Kirkland, were both finally alone. We are not children anymore so lets talk like mature young adults. Let's split our butts and talk."
"First of all, I think you mean, 'Let's spill our guts and talk.'. Our butts are already split. Second of all, technically speaking, we are children. Third of all, you're the one who lacks maturity." Kirkland said annoyed. Alfred choose to ignore him completely and continued.
"Whatever, let's get to the point. You and Kiku get the highest grades in the class and score well on the tests, that means you aren't stupid. But this leads to the question… what are you doing stupid things then?"
"It just means I'm stupid." He said simply and started to walk back out but Alfred grabbed his shoulder.
"Hey! Whats wrong with you? Seriously!" Kirkland had had enough and turned to Alfred and put his hands around Alfred's neck. He started to choke Alfred. Both boys were roughly about the same height so it was easy to look at Alfred in the eye, his own eyes blazing with anger while Alfred's reflected fear and defiance. Kirkland was strong, Alfred could feel it and despite him being just as strong, he didn't know what to do.
"You want to know what's wrong with me? I'll tell you. Everything. Everything is wrong with me including you. Don't you dare cross me again or else you'll regret ever getting your stuck up nose in my business. I was being nice but from now on, I'll treat you just as cruel as the others." He let Alfred go and walked out. Alfred gasped trying to get air back.
"Kirkland!" Alfred yelled once he got air in his lungs. Kirkland turned to him looking neutral again. "You don't scare me with your petite threats! Next time, you cross me, I'll show you my wrath!" Kirkland simply walked away and Alfred glared fiercely. 'I won't ever forgive him! I'll take down World Academy W Jr.'s demon boy down!' Alfred thought with his mind made up.
That is how the sunny boy and the rainy boy begun a wild adventure that changed the lives of many others and their own.
A/N: Fu- this is the longest chapter I ever wrote for a fic.
Here I am with a new story! This here is a middle school!AU(for the most part)/ Kodocha!AU
What does this mean? It means that it follows the story line of the manga/anime Kodocha. If you haven't read it, I recommend it! It's a bit of an old manga but very good, though if you don't want spoilers for the fic, don't read it until this fic is finished, I don't think I'll make it too long, 'bout 10-15 chapters long.
Characters Profiles will be in the next chapoter.***