The Detention Diaries

Chapter Two: Foxy-face, Buta, Do'ahou!

Shizuka

// Announcement! All students should check the notice board to see if you're down for detention. //

"Heh? Detention?" Sakuragi said, bewildered.

"Since when did Shohoku give their students detention?" Added Youhei.

"Mwahaha, I bet you're down for it!" I said unkindly.

"Shhh. I'm not going to check the notice board!" Said Sakuragi. "This is the strategy of tensai! If you don't check, you don't know, so you don't have to go. Nyahahahaaa!"

Youhei shook his head and sighed.

"Well, I guess I'll go help you check then!" I gave a cackle and dashed out of the classroom.

"Oi! Shizuka!!" Sakuragi called after me.

I'm so evil sometimes. Tsk tsk.

There were a lot of girls swarming around the notice board; they were chattering excitedly about something. As I got nearer, the words "Kaede Rukawa" floated to me. Kaede Rukawa? Who on earth was that? Oh well, who cares.

I edged my way to the front, and looked for the Year 2 list. Haha! Just like I thought! Sakuragi, Youhei, and the rest of the Sakuragi brigade were down for detention! Then I saw the name Kaede Rukawa. It sure seemed like all the girls were crazy over him. I wondered if he were handsome. Hmmm.

Oh, there's a list for Year 1 students as well? How absurd. We've only been here for a day! Never mind, mwahaha, let's see who are the unlucky ones. Hmmm, there're only two. Shoichi Sato, and… what the #@*(&@$.

I gaped. Shizuka Tendou. Ack, NO!

I stormed to the staff room. This was absurd, ridiculous, abominable! How could I be down for detention? At the staff room were again a herd of girls. They seemed to be badgering the teachers about something. And again, that name floated to me, "Kaede Rukawa". I got nearer, and heard various scraps of vehement pleas:

Girl #1: Please! Send us to detention!

What? Are these girls crazy?

Girl #2: Yes, please, sir! Please send us to detention!

Yes, these girls are crazy.

Girl #3: Sir, please! Please please please please please…

Girl #4: We want to be with Kaede Rukawa!

Crazy girls altogether: Please please please please please please…

I shoved them away impatiently.

"Sir," I said. "This is unfair! Unjust! I've only been here for a day!"

"Look at your hair, Shizuka! Obviously a problematic student!" He said.

This is prejudice! Students with red streaks of colour on their hair aren't necessarily bad! You can't judge people by the color of their hair, just like you can't judge people by the color of their skin. Argh, this is unfair!

"Sir, this is unfounded prejudice!" I cried. "And anyway, what does it matter, if I can produce good grades?"

He gave me an appraising look. "You? Good grades?" He said incredulously.

"Yes, why not?" I retorted.

I may look sloppy and stuff, but I take my studies seriously. The prospect of growing up to be a road-sweeper doesn't really appeal to me. Anyway, I got straight A's all throughout Junior High. I could've gone to Kainan (but their school fees are ridiculously high)! Yet I choose to humble myself and come to Shohoku, and what do I get?

"You can't get good grades." He said.

"OH YES I CAN." I said loudly. All the teachers in the staff room turned to look at my teacher and I. He was visibly embarrassed – having a student raise her voice at him. Mwahaha. I shall do it again, then.

"DID YOU HEAR ME? I AM NOT STUPID LIKE YOU ARE," I said even louder.

"Get out!" He yelled, and chased me out of the staff room.

Hmmmpphh.

Detention Day 1

So, here we were, a dozen or so gloomy students cooped up in a classroom. That hateful teacher gave us all worksheets to do, and left us alone. Sigh.

"Err… guys?" A scrawny boy with spectacles said. I supposed he was the other Year 1 student, Shoichi. I wondered what he was doing here. He looked like the typical nerd.

"Err… guys???" He repeated. Everyone ignored him.

"What?" I said, pitying the poor guy.

"Well, I thought we should introduce ourselves, play some ice-breaker games, you know, since we're going to spend so much time together. I remember once in Jr High camp, we had such fun playing the games – "

"Shut up." One of the gangsters said.

"Umm ok, my name's Shoichi Sota, in case you wanted to know, and – "

"Shut up!"

"Ok."

Hmmm. I think he was down for detention for being too talkative. How dumb!

I was introduced to Sakuragi's basketball mates. Mitsui Hisashi – a retained student in Year 3, and Ryota Miyagi. They joked around and stuff, but I was too sulky to join in. Some of their jokes were downright lame, anyway. So I retreated to a corner, and did the worksheet. I completed it in like, 15 minutes.

"I've completed the worksheet, does anyone want to copy?" I offered. I don't consider myself a particularly kind or generous person, but I do like to do a good deed a day.

"Sure," Ryota said, and grabbed the worksheet from me.

Rukawa

Yawn. How long have I been sleeping? Detention is so boring.

I rubbed my eyes.

Hmmm. There are so many people down for detention? Eh, who's that girl? She looks familiar. Hmm, she's staring at me too! Ohh, here she comes…

"Ohh, if it isn't Piggyboy himself," She said.

Now I remember. She was the shrew from the rooftop.

"Do'ahou."

"Buta!"

"Do'ahou!"

"Buta!!"

This is getting ridiculous. And it's gonna get worse – Sakuragi's coming over.

"You know him, Shizuka?" He said.

Oh. So her name was Shizuka. It didn't suit her one bit.

"Yes, and I hate him!" She exclaimed.

"Nyahahaha, looks like some of my tensai genes have rubbed of on you!" Said Sakuragi. "He is foxy-face."

She stared at him.

"No, he's buta."

Uhh, right. Why didn't it occur to them that I am neither?

"So, what am I?" I asked sneeringly.

"Buta," Said Shizuka.

"Foxy-face," Said Sakuragi.

They look at each other. The red-headed twit pulls her aside. They seem to be discussing something. Are they finally going to come to a conclusion about my official nickname? Ahh, they're coming back.

"So?" I asked.

"We don't know what you mean." Sakuragi said.

I stared at them blankly.

"Do'ahou."

Author's note: The second chapter! I just had to include Mitsui in this story, so I had him retained (which means he failed his exams last year, sob). Hehe. Nothing much in this chapter, it's only the first detention session =P

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