Chapter 2
When the class had quite a bit of free time Tohru came over to Uo's desk. Uo didn't even notice when one class began and one class ended. She didn't feel good at all, though she didn't want to show it. She wanted to last through the whole day at school since she went through all those events just to get there.
Tohru Honda sat in the hard desk next to Uo's. Her warm friendly brown eyes were drowning with worry for her friend. Uo didn't look good at all, her face was pink and she hadn't picked her head up from the desk. She was practically magnetized to it.
Tohru turned her head to the side to get a better look at her friend's face. Long chocolate colored hair was cascaded down to the middle of her back. Her normally innocent child-like features were replaced by a worried mother. Tohru's pretty features were still showing, but were crawling with anxiety for her friend.
"Uo-chan? Uo-chan, are you ok? Your face is quite pink. Can I feel your forehead?" Tohru asked uneasily as she tried to put the back of her hand to Uo's forehead. Uo stubbornly moved her head to the side, not only to avoid Tohru's curious hand, but to get to a cooler side of the desk. Ahhhh…cool…
"Arisa… Don't be so childish. Your waves are quite… off. Let Tohru-kun feel your head… she is worried as am I," a low woman's voice coolly responded in a monotone inflection.
Uo turned her head towards her friend Saki Hanajima. She had an all most blank expression with her pale face still and her light pink lips in a thin line. Uo would have thought Hanajima didn't care if she didn't catch the flash of distress for herself in her almost black swirling eyes.
Uo looked down, not wanting to show Hanajima her face. Then she noticed Hanajima's uniform skirt was down to her knees, she was probably closer to her size as well. Damn… I forgot Hanajima wore longer skirts than Tohru! I should have borrowed hers! Uo inwardly screamed and practically beat herself up for forgetting about that.
"You're right! That Yankee looks as pink as a balloon!" Uo heard Kyo Sohma (Orangey) gasp in surprise as he bent down towards her causing her to glare daggers at him and growl.
"The expression would be 'RED as a balloon,' not PINK, you idiot," Yuki Sohma (Prince) said, rolling his gray eyes, as he walked over beside Tohru and pushed Kyo over, causing a loud thump.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" Kyo yelled as he got up and was about to hit Yuki when Uo stood up with her hands clenched making the knuckles turn white and causing Kyo's tan fist to stop in mid-punch.
"Uo-chan…?" Tohru questioned as Uo turned swiftly towards Kyo, her face fuming red.
"STOP YOUR FREAKING SHOUTING, ORANGEY! I'M NOT IN THE FREAKING MOOD!" Uo screamed at Kyo's face making him take step back in astonishment.
Then Kyo stepped towards her in a challenge, his red eyes, glowing with hot arousal, "I'M NOT YELLING, YOU STUPID YANKEE!"
"LIKE HELL YOU AREN'T!"
"Uo-chan… Kyo-kun… please…. stop…" Tohru begged her eyes watering up.
Kyo stopped, turning his carrot topped head to Tohru not wanting to make her cry. He secretly liked her, but was too proud to admit it. He blushed slightly in embarrassment.
Uo, not being herself, turned towards Tohru as well, but with distemper shining in her ocean eyes. "STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO! YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!" she screamed at the top of her lungs causing everyone to turn.
Tohru's eyes over flowed and she put her beautiful face into her small delicate hands as she cried silently. Yuki put his strong pale hand on her back rubbing it softly cooing that she didn't mean it and other comforting words. He, like Kyo, liked Tohru, though was too shy to admit it.
Hanajima walked forward and pulled one of Tohru's small hand away from her face patting it for comfort with her own pale hand. She stayed silent, letting the dark almost violet haired boy comfort her. She and Uo knew that the boys liked Tohru and every chance they got to help Tohru they gave it to them.
Kyo looked between Tohru's distraught shivering figure and Uo's shocked pink face. He didn't know what to do because he didn't spend that much time with other people, especially girls. He just stood there like the rest of the class, frozen and appalled.
Why did Uo yell at me? She has never yelled at me like that before! Tohru cried silently into her hand, her body trembling under Yuki's small touch.
All Uo could do was just stand there in horror. She had never done that before. Yelling at Tohru with almost pure hatred had never even crossed her mind. Not since they became friends. She even had to go so far as to bring mothers into the mix. Tohru had lost her mother so that must have been really hard to listen to, especially coming from a friend's mouth who loved her mother just as much.
Uo's eyes started to fill with water and shined a bright sad blue. Her body started to tremble as she tried to hold her tears that were springing to her eyes. "I'm so sorry…" Uo quietly said as she stared down at the back of her friend's turned down head.
Tohru's head lifted up at the sound of Uo's soft frail voice. She had never heard Uo's voice sound so emotional and weak that it could break like a crystal glass if held too hard. Uo was always so strong and proud. "Uo-chan….?" She questioned in a worried and confused manner with tears still sliding down her face.
As soon as the words left Tohru's mouth a tear slid down Uo's face and she bolted out the door with her bag in hand. The only thing everyone saw was her back and her blonde hair flying frantically out the door. The classroom went into complete silence as no one moved or uttered a sound. The students were frozen in astonishment.
Uo ran down the hallways, her tears blurring her vision. She didn't know why she ran, her body just told her to run and she complied. Uo felt her energy start to drain quickly, but adrenaline kept pumping into her system making her legs run faster and faster each step.
Ahead she saw the railing of the stairs. Knowing that if she stopped to go down the steps she'd loose all of her energy, she did the first thing that came to mind, an irrational thing. Uo stuck her right hand on the railing and flipped her self over it. The adrenaline pumped faster as she fell. Her stomach flew up as she saw her possible impending doom.
Luckily Uo's body knew from her previous days as a Yankee to bend her knees and land on the balls of her feet so that her lower half could take most of the fall and not the rest of her long frame. She hit the ground with little pain and steadied herself with her arms so she wouldn't fall over. With adrenaline still in her body and having her system still tell her to run, she bounced up like a ball and dashed off down the hall.
Uo didn't stop to change her shoes as she ran out into the summer heat that quickly had dried up the puddles that were covering the ground earlier that morning. The heat from running and her fever didn't help her condition and she started to get exhausted. Her movements slowed, and she started to stumble with each step.
She heard a loud yell and looked up slowly to see a figure walking towards her. Her vision went in and out of blurring from her tears and fever. Stopping to decipher the mysterious shape, her head and what felt like her body started to spin.
Her sight started to become tunnel vision as darkness crept over her eyes. Warm hands fell comfortingly and supporting on her fragile shoulders as a face appeared before her. Uo recognized the familiar gold eyes as she felt her body go limp, the darkness took hold.
