A/N: Thank you for reviewing~ ^-^ Here's the second chapter.
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Enjoy~
Chapter 2
It was Friday, Utau's favourite day of the week, mostly because it was the last day of school before the weekends. Utau walked into homeroom, on time for once, and sat down in her seat. The other students began filing in and about five minutes later the teacher came in holding a stack of paper. He began to mark attendance. He went through each name and everyone raised their arm or did something to indicate that they were present.
When he got to Hinamori Amu, he called her name a few times. There was no reply and he was about to mark her absent, then the door swung open and in walked a girl with pink hair with a bored look on her face. This caught Utau's attention. She's the girl from yesterday.
"Hinamori-san, you're late," the teacher stated.
Amu just nodded and walked to her seat at the back of the room. The teacher sighed and continued with the roll.
When he was done, he called for everyone's attention and passed out the papers that he was holding when he walked in.
"As you all know, next week is the last week before school break. This is just a notice," the teacher said in a monotone. He opened his mouth and was about to say something else, but the bell rang and everyone rushed out.
Utau started to head in the direction of her English classroom, about halfway down the hall she felt someone grab her arm and pull her onto the side. Utau was about to turn around and slap whoever it was until she saw blue and let out a sigh of relief.
"Ikuto," she said through gritted teeth, "What do you want?"
Ikuto scoffed, "Is that how you treat someone who's going to do you favour?"
"No, that's how I treat my brother. Now what do you want? I'm going to be late."
Ikuto sighed, "Fine, when do you want me to do it?"
Utau was confused for a second but then she remembered. "Just hold back and watch for now. When I need you I'll tell you."
Ikuto smirked, "Aww, I was looking forward to it."
"Oh, cry me a river." Utau reached up to pat his head then left in the direction of her classroom.
Ikuto scoffed then also walked off.
Utau walked into the classroom and spotted the girl with pink hair at the back of the classroom staring out the window. It's her. Utau smiled. Guess I should thank her for yesterday.
Utau walked over to the seat next to her and sat down. She turned to her and asked, "Hey, you're…Hinamori-san, right?"
The girl turned her face away from the window and looked at Utau as though she was studying her. "Uh, yeah. Just call me Amu, and you are…" she asked with a questioning look on her face.
"Oh wow, you don't know me," Utau was surprised that there was actually someone in the school who didn't know her.
"Sorry, I'm not really the type to keep up on gossip and stuff."
Utau smiled, "Heh, I like you already. Anyway, I came to say thank you for saving me yesterday."
Amu had a confused look on her face, then realisation hit her, "Oh, you're the girl from the alleyway yesterday," then she smiled, "You're welcome."
Utau raised an eyebrow. This girl was dense but she was somewhat cute, she really wanted to become friends with this Amu girl. "'Girl from the alleyway'? Is that what you're going to refer to me as? I prefer Utau, thank you very much," she stated but in a playful way.
Amu rubbed the back of her head, "Heh, sorry."
"It's fine."
The teacher walked in and Utau turned back to the front of the classroom and Amu stared out the window. The teacher went to her desk, greeted everyone then started the class.
As the first few periods passed, Utau realised that Amu was in all of her classes so far. She was surprised she never noticed her; then again, she wasn't surprised at all. Amu was always so quiet; she never contributed to class or anything. All she did was stare out the window. Utau smiled at her, she really did want to get to know this girl better.
The bell rang for lunch. Utau packed up her things and was about to leave the classroom but stopped when she saw Amu still packing her things away by herself. This bothered Utau for some reason. Utau, being the straight forward person she was, walked up to her and asked, "Hey Amu?"
Amu looked up at her and smiled.
"Do you have any friends?" Utau blurted out.
Amu's smile dropped and she looked back down and continued packing her things. She slowly shook her head, "I don't really talk to anyone so I guess no."
Utau's eyes saddened for a split second, and then she grinned. She grabbed all of Amu's stuff and shoved it in her bag, speeding up the process. "Well then, today you are going to meet a shit load of people."
Amu stood there with a confused look on her face.
Once Utau finished helping Amu pack up, Utau grabbed her arm and dragged her out to the school yard where a group of people was waiting under a tree.
"UTAU-CHI!" The short hyperactive looking girl called out to her waving her arm in the air.
Utau dragged Amu over to the group. Amu tried to struggle out of her grip but failed, she wasn't ready to meet a whole bunch of new people all at the same time.
"Hey guys!"
"Hello Hoshina-san," the boy with green hair said as he pushed up his glasses, "And who might this be?" he continued gesturing to Amu.
"Oh, this is Amu Hinamori! She literally saved my butt yesterday!" Utau blurted out in a cheery tone. Amu just lowered her head.
Rime raised her eyebrow, "Saved your butt from what?"
Utau instantly let go of Amu's arm and covered her mouth once her brain finally processed what she just said.
"Utau…" Rima said with a deathly aura around her.
"Well, um, you see…" Utau noticed Rima slowly stalking closer to her. "Fine! I almost, notice the 'almost', got raped in an alleyway and she saved my butt," Utau said all in one breath.
Everyone's eyes widened. Rima whacked Utau across the back of her head, "Why didn't you tell us? Is that why you took so long yesterday?"
"Well, kind of. The first half hour was 'cause the stupid guy in the shop kept trying to hit on me," Utau said scratching the back of her head.
Rima whacked her again, "Next time, tell us! You were lucky this girl, what's your name again?" She turned to Amu.
"Amu," Amu replied, slightly frightened of the short girl.
Rima turned back to Utau, "…Amu was there to save you! Next time you won't be as lucky!"
Utau rubbed the back of her head, "Okay, I get the point. Stop hitting me."
"Hmph!" Rima turned around so her back was facing Utau and crossed her arms over her chest.
Amu couldn't help but giggle at the sight.
"ANYWAY!" Utau said getting everyone's attention, "I wanted to introduce Amu to everyone! She's always been in my classes but, like somehow I didn't notice…and she has no friends."
Amu looked down at the ground, attempting to use her bangs to hide her blush.
Rima whacked Utau across the back of her head again. "Ow! Rima! What the hell was that for?"
"Look what you did?" she said pointing at Amu, "You embarrassed her!"
Amu looked up at the girl and smiled, "It's okay." She thought she should speak up just in case Rima decided to hit Utau again.
"Anyway, Amu. Remember when I said you were going to meet a shit load of people today?" Amu nodded so Utau continued, "Well, these lunatics are the people I wanted you to meet." Utau grinned at her last statement.
Then she started introducing each person. "This is Rima Mashiro," Utau said gesturing to the short girl with long honey coloured hair.
"Nice to meet you," Rima smile.
"She usually has a tough exterior, but she's very caring and lovable on the inside," Utau said getting a glare from Rima, "She's in our grade."
Amu nodded, she seemed like a very loyal friend.
"This is Kukai Souma," she pointed to the boy with messy brown hair and emerald eyes.
"Yo! Hinamori!" he said a bit too loud as he gave her a thumbs up.
"He loves soccer, very cheerful, helpful. Y'know, they usual. He's two years older than us," Kukai grinned at Utau's description of him. Amu nodded and smiled.
"Kairi Sanjo. Kid genius. Our age," Utau said pointing to the green haired boy and he nodded. Amu couldn't help but think that he looked very sophisticated.
"Yaya Yuiki. She is…usually very hyper. She really likes candy and is one year younger than us," Utau pointed to the short girl with orange pigtails.
"Nice to meet you Amu-chi!" The girl jumped onto Amu's back and she giggled.
"You too," Amu said as the girl got off.
"Tadase Hotori. Usually known as kiddy king for some reason. Our grade." The boy with blond hair and ruby eyes smiled at Amu but didn't say anything. Amu smiled back.
"Nagihiko Fujisaki. He dances, that's all I know. Wait, no, he cooks, cleans, acts very motherly and is very smart. We all call him Nagi. Our grade. I think he and Rima make a good couple." Utau winked at the boy with long indigo hair. He glared at her and Rima whacked her across the head again. She seemed to have gotten used to it considering she didn't react much to it.
"Saaya Yamabuki," Utau paused for a bit. Amu guessed that she couldn't think of anything to say about her, at least anything positive. "She's in our grade," was all she seemed to come up with about the girl with short curled brown hair. The girl scoffed and didn't acknowledge Amu in any way. Amu's eyes saddened slightly, then Utau continued.
"And this is Ikuto Tsukiyomi. He's my ass of a brother and is two years older than us. He transferred here yesterday and he's a cat," Utau said pointing to the boy with blue hair and sapphire eyes.
Amu stared at him, like she was studying him. Ikuto noticed this and walked over to Amu. He grabbed her hand and said, "It's very nice to meet you." He slowly bent down and was about to kiss her hand. Amu caught on and quickly pulled her hand back and pretended to scratch the back of her head, this made Ikuto look like he was going to kiss his own hand. "It's nice to meet you too," she grinned.
Ikuto straightened back up and smirked. He looked over to see a very irritated looking Utau. Yep, she's definitely a friend.
"She doesn't fall for my charm," he stated bluntly pointing at Amu while looking at Utau.
Utau suddenly started laughing. She grabbed her sides and said between her laughs, "My…sides…hurt."
Utau continued laughing trying to say things here and there, but the words never came out right.
Yaya looked at Utau as though she was examining her, "Utau-chi, you sound like when people try to poop but the poop doesn't come out. Kukai, what's that called?"
Utau instantly stopped laughing and glared at Yaya as Kukai replaced her in looking like a laughing maniac and everyone else tried to stifle their laugh except Saaya who didn't have much a reaction to anything.
Yaya stood there confused at what everyone was laughing at.
Utau was getting irritated, she went around and bonked everyone that was laughing on the head. The laughing immediately ceased, Utau smiled, "That's better, now let me finish!"
Utau cleared her throat then continued, "Anyway, despite the fact that they're all idiots, they're all pretty smart. Kairi is ranked first in our grade," Kairi nodded, "Nagi is ranked second in our grade," Nagihiko smiled, "We don't know who is ranked third, Rima is forth, I'm fifth and Tadase is sixth," Utau smiled finishing off her introduction.
Then Kairi cleared his throat and pushed up his glasses as he said, "Hoshina-san, apparently Hinamori-san here is ranked third."
Utau's had the biggest smile on her face as she turned around to look at Amu, "Really? Amu, that's great," Utau slung her arms around Amu. Amu giggled, glad she finally made some new friends.
RING!
"Amu, what class do you have next?" Utau asked.
"Um, biology."
Utau practically tackled Amu over, "Me too! Let's go!" and began to drag Amu towards their classroom.
Saaya, being in the same class as them, followed behind with a hateful look on her face.
After the girls left for class, the guys began talking.
"So, what do you think of the new girl?" Kukai asked.
"She's interesting, I like her," Ikuto smirked.
"Well, I think she's totally out of your league," Kukai grinned.
"Oh really?" Ikuto scoffed, "We'll see about that."
"Hey, let's make this more interesting! Let's make a bet!"
Ikuto signalled for Kukai to continue, he was interested.
"If you can get Hinamori to fall in love with you, you can have my allowance for a month," Kukai smirked, "That's 200 bucks man!"
"I don't think you should do that Ikuto," Tadase butted in.
"Yeah, Utau-chan doesn't really like you hitting on her friends," Nagihiko continued.
Kairi just nodded.
Ikuto smirked, "I don't know. We'll see. Apparently Utau wanted me to play 'The Heartbreaker' again."
"Really? With who?" Kukai asked.
"Guess," Ikuto's smirk widened.
Everyone gave him confused looks, except Kairi. It seems he already knew who it was.
"You all know her, she was here two minutes ago."
"Saaya…" they all said in unison.
Ikuto just smirked and walked off to class with his hands in his pockets.
"Utau! Slow down!" Amu was getting dragged to class. Utau may not look the part but she was a very fast runner.
Once they got to the classroom, they went to the science bench at the back of the lab. About five minutes later, everyone was in the classroom and waiting for the teacher.
About 3 minutes later, she came in holding a large box. Everyone settled down. Once she reached her desk she put the box down and started marking attendance. When she was done, she immediately started the class.
"Alright guys, today we're doing an experiment," she started, "You'll be working in pairs. Now listen up! This experiment was conducted last year and it was a complete disaster. However, it is good experience for you kids so I had to practically beg the head teacher to allow us to do this. Today, you'll be dissecting rats."
Half the class cried out in disgust, mostly the girls, and the other half, boys, cheered.
"So…" The class continued talking and the teacher got irritated, "Oi! SHUTUP AND LISTEN OR I'LL CANCEL THE WHOLE THING!" The class instantly shut up and the teacher sighed. "Thank you. Now, if I see a single organ; heart, liver, lung or whatever, fly across the room, the whole class gets detention and will be on clean up duty for the next week. I don't think any of you want that considering next week is the last week of school before break. Oh, and if I see anyone not wearing gloves or acting stupid, you're all screwed! Got that?"
The whole class groaned. "Good! Now listen up!"
Everyone was quiet as the teacher explained the procedure of the experiment.
Once she was done, she walked around the room handing out the equipment needed for the experiment, including the supposedly dead rat.
"Alright everyone, get into your pairs, put your equipment on and get started."
When the teacher finished talking, Saaya walked over to Amu and Utau smiling, "Hey Amu-san, want to work with me? We just met and I want to get to know you better," Saaya said in her most innocent voice.
A barely audible scoff escaped Utau's mouth, but Amu caught it and got the hint, "Sorry, but I'm working with Utau today," Amu forced a smile onto her face.
Saaya scoffed, "Whatever," and walked off.
Once Saaya was out of hearing range Utau patted Amu on the shoulder and said, "I love how you can take a hint. Now let's get started."
Amu finally realised what they were going to do, and slowly stepped back from the bench. "Utau…I think I just saw its leg twitch! It's still alive."
Utau sighed, "Oh, come on Amu! You can walk into a dark alleyway and kick a guy in the nuts to save me, but you can't dissect a rat? It's dead Amu, and I'll make sure of it." Utau whacked the rat oh the head with whatever she was holding and something that wasn't blood spilled out of its mouth.
Amu was about to vomit but managed to hold it in. Come on Amu, you can do this. Just get it over and done with. Amu sighed and slowly moved back to the bench to help Utau.
Once Amu and Utau were done with their little experiment, they wrote down the results and analysis and started to clean up. They put their report on the teacher's desk and sat back down. They started talking about random things as they waited for the rest of the class to finish and the bell to ring.
Utau looked away for a second, and when she turned back she randomly started giggling.
"What's so funny?" Amu asked confused.
Utau just pointed to the other side of the classroom, where Saaya was stuck working with some science geek. She was trying to avoid doing work but the geek wouldn't let her. He picked up the liver of the rat with tongs and was shoving it in Saaya's face who was trying very hard not to scream because she knew she would get into trouble for not helping.
The guy gave up and went back to do the experiment. Suddenly something flew across the classroom, from the front to the back. It would've missed Saaya if she'd stay seated, but she decided to choose this very moment to stand up. It hit her in the face and dark brown stuff started to flow out of it. Saaya opened her mouth to scream but made the wrong choice, some of the brown stuff started dripping into her mouth and she started spitting all over the place.
The guy she was working with walked up to her and examined the stuff on her face then nodded, "Yep, definitely a rat's bowel."
Saaya started panicking, "What the fuck is a rat's bowel?"
He smirked at her, "The part of the intestines where they store poo before it is released."
Saaya opened her mouth to scream again, but once again wrong choice, more poo went into her mouth. She immediately tried to spit it out then keep her mouth shut. She would've told the teacher but she didn't want clean up duty or detention for a week.
People in the classroom tried to hold in their laugh, unlike Utau who just full out started laughing. Everyone in the classroom admired Utau so they all let out their laughs. Some people even had tears coming out of their eyes.
Saaya's face flushed red and she immediately went to the sink to wash her face.
Amu joined in and started giggling.
The teacher had her back turned and was writing on the board. She didn't turn around so she probably just thought that they were laughing because they were having fun.
The laughing died down after about five minutes.
"Serves her right," Utau smirked.
"What'd she do?" Amu didn't really know about the situation between Utau and Saaya.
"She hasn't done anything yet. Mostly because none of her plans really work. She's tried to get me away from my friends for a while now but totally failed. You know, considering the fact that we've been together since we were like five and she only joined us two or three months ago. She flirts with all the guys that you just met, so like Kukai, Nagi, Tadase, Kairi and Ikuto which I must say is very irritating 'cause I really don't want her as a sister-in-law. I mean, who would?" Utau sighed in frustration and Amu giggled.
"Why'd you guys befriend her in the first place then?"
"We didn't, she just kind of popped out of nowhere. Trust me, if we could get rid of her, she'd be long gone by now."
"Is she really that hard to beat?"
"Was, but now that Ikuto's back, I think she'd be gone soon," Utau chuckled with and hint of evil in her eyes.
"How?" Amu was curious.
"You'll find out soon," Utau grinned.
RING!
"Yay, last period!" Utau exclaimed.
"Um, yay," Amu said, imitating Utau, although with not even half as much as excitement.
"What do you have?" Utau said very excited.
"Maths…"
Utau literally jumped into the air, "It's official, you're in all of my classes! I love you, Amu!"
Utau linked arms with Amu and skipped off while dragging Amu behind her.
* * TIME SKIP * *
School finally ended and Utau dragged Amu out to the school yard where they always meet up. Everyone was already there waiting. Utau looked very happy and this surprised everyone for some reason.
"Why're you so happy?" Rima asked.
"Because Amu is in all my classes!" Utau grinned.
Saaya scoffed, "She probably thinks god hates her for putting her in all your classes."
Utau glared at Saaya, then she remembered the incident in biology. There is no way she was going to waste this opportunity to humiliate her, "Hey Saaya."
"What?" she snapped back.
"I was wondering this ever since biology," she said with an evil glint.
"You wouldn't," Saaya glared back.
"What does rat poo taste like?" she smirked.
Saaya's face immediately turned red. Everyone had confused looks on their faces, except Amu because she knew exactly what happened.
"What happened in biology?" Kukai asked.
"Oh nothing, just we were dissecting rats and some guy at the front of the room decided to throw a rat bowel to the back and it hit Saaya in the face. The bowel popped and the rat's diarrhoea came out and went into her mouth," Utau said in a mock tone.
Everyone started cracking up, even Kairi. Saaya's face went redder than before if that was even possible.
Once they calmed down, Utau said, "Hey! Let's have a little welcome party for Amu!"
"Yeah," Kukai cheered.
Ikuto just smirked as everyone else agreed to the idea.
Then Amu spoke up, "Um, sorry guys. Not today."
"Why not?" Utau asked.
"I need to get home, or my little sister will be home alone."
"How about tomorrow then?" Rima suggested.
Amu giggled, "We'll see."
"Great! Amu, give me your number!"
Everyone waited for Amu and Utau to finish exchanging numbers. Once they were done, Amu started towards the side gate but then remembered something. She turned around and a small smirk appeared on her face, "Be careful on your way home Utau, I won't be there to save you today." Then she turned around and ran off.
Everyone burst out laughing and Utau's face turned red, she sent Amu a playful glare, "I'm going to bite your head off the next time I see you," she yelled, her fist in the air, making sure Amu could hear her.
Amu raised her arm, saying bye and to tell Utau that she heard her. Utau lowered her fist to her side and smiled. Utau felt like something good was going to happen soon, but didn't know what. She ignored it, she just knew that right now she was very happy to have met Amu.
"Hey, how come you guys never threw me a welcome party?" Saaya asked turning the happy atmosphere into an awkward one. "Can we have one today?" She tried her innocent voice.
Utau coughed and almost choked on her own saliva at Saaya's request, "Oh damn, it was a good thing Amu said she couldn't come today."
Saaya thought Utau said that because she was going to throw her a late welcome party until she continued, "'Cause I forgot I had stuff to do today. Well, I gotta go, later guys. Come on Ikuto." She dragged Ikuto off to the front gate.
"Later," was all Ikuto said before walking after Utau.
Rima, Yaya and Kairi caught on to what Utau was doing. They all made up their excuses then left without waiting for a reply from the others.
Saaya had a satisfied look on her face. Only Kukai, Nagihiko and Tadase were left. She turned to them, "Can we have the party then?" Saaya asked as nicely as possible.
Kukai scratched the back of his head, "Sorry, I remember I have soccer practice with my brothers today. Maybe another time," he grinned and with that he ran off like a bolt of lightning.
Saaya sighed then turned to Tadase and Nagihiko and smiled. They looked at each other and nodded.
"Sorry, we're busy today too. Maybe another time," Tadase said as he forced himself to smile at her. Then they both headed for the front gate.
Once they were out of sight, Saaya's smile dropped and she fumed, "What the fuck?" and she stormed off to the side gate.
At the front of the school, outside the gate, Utau, Rima and Yaya were laughing their asses off as the guys smirked at the sight of Saaya raging then storming off.
"You know, we should do this more often," Utau said.
"Yeah," Rima and Yaya agreed, still laughing.
Kairi just sighed, "But we can't do this every time we want to ditch her you know."
Yaya stopped laughing and hit Kairi's shoulder, "Thanks for ruining the moment!"
Kairi rubbed his shoulder but didn't say anything.
Utau and Rima finally stopped and Utau said, "Yeah I know. But if we do this a few more times, we might not need Ikuto." Utau smirked.
"That's good," Ikuto said. This shocked everyone. "What?"
"You never say that. You always look forward to it no matter who they are. Are you okay? Fever maybe?" Utau reached up to touch Ikuto's forehead.
Ikuto removed his sister's hand from his forehead and fake pouted, "Not my fault, she's the worst I've ever met. I don't want to hold her hand."
Utau started laughing again. Rima crossed her arms over her chest, "Your pouting face ruined the joke."
Utau laughed even harder as everyone else tried to stifle their laughs. Ikuto just sighed then headed off in the direction of his house with everyone following behind.
