"See you tomorrow, Yukari!"
It had been a week since Yuma had came to Earth, and he had been relieved that nobody had discovered his true identity. The bullies still picked on Yukari, but with Yuma as her self proclaimed 'guardian' Len had backed off a little, trying to evenly distribute the torment between Yukari and Yuma. Yukari was against the whole guardian thing, but soon found herself calling upon Yuma as her 'guardian best friend'. Galaco had yet to check up on Yuma. Everything seemed to be going okay.
"Oh wow." Yukari gasped after returning back to class after lunch with Yuma one day.
A note was lying on her desk it read, "You're going to get it today bitch."
Yuma looked around the room, everyone was doing a pretty good job looking totally oblivious.
"Don't worry. I'll protect you from whatever these assholes have in store."
"Thanks but I wouldn't really worry about that." She replied.
The rest of the day went by in a blur and soon Yukari and Yuma were walking back to Yukari's like they had done everyday. Nothing bad had happened. Then a large amount of footsteps were heard behind the two. They turned around and were faced with a gang of masked,scary looking men.
"Well, well, well. You must be Miss. Yuzuki and her holy guardian Yuma." The leader of the gang smiled. "Got a call from good ol' Len. Looks like you messed with him."
The men were horrifying looking, like monsters that had popped out of an alley. Yukari was actually paralyzed with fear. She was sure she would have passed out cold if Yuma hadn't been there. The leader brought out a knife. "Now don't worry. We won't kill you. We'll just make sure you don't wake up for a long time." And both of the tiny high school students knew he was capable of getting away with murder.
"Hey guys lets calm down please. This isn't right." Yuma stepped forward.
"Oh fuck off Yuma. You're a second priority. Our main priority is the girl." Yukari's eyes nearly popped out of her skull.
"Run. Run Yukari run." Yuma whispered.
Yukari turned around and broke into a run. "After her!" One of the men called, and faster then Yuma had expected, one of the masked men had grabbed her.
Yukari screamed in fear.
"Yukari!" Yuma screeched, the masked man punched him in the face, and Yuma fell to the ground.
The leader approached Yukari, knife at the ready, and the man who had grabbed Yukari, had put his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams.
"Don't you fucking touch her!" Yuma screamed, staggering to stand up. He saw the tears streaming down Yukari's face, and he knew just what to do. He knew there was no other way.
He ran toward the men, knocking the leader down, and punching the man holding Yukari captive. She turned around as if to run, and Yuma wrapped his arms around her waist, just as the men came back to stab Yuma. Yukari was screaming. She clenched her eyes shut, ready for impact, and she heard a large whooshing sound. Yuma had spread his large angel wings, the brightness blinding the men, and making them scream murderous screams. The air suddenly calmed, and Yukari opened her eyes to see plain old Yuma behind her smiling.
"Yuma...h-how..." she stuttered through her tear filled eyes.
"It's okay now. Let's go home." He gently wiped away her tears.
On their way home, Yukari refused to let go of Yuma's arm, which she had been holding in a death grip. Yuma thought it was actually rather cute, if he ignored the numbness in his right arm.
Time ticked by at Yukari's apartment. They had both finished their homework in simple hour, and Yuma had spent the rest of the time calming Yukari down, who was traumatized.
"I'm not used to seeing you like this. You're always so monotone and strong." Yuma said hugging her.
"Please don't ever bring this up again."
"I won't."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Yuma left later then usual that day after Yukari had finally calmed down. When he entered his apartment he was not surprised to see Galaco siting there, gazing out the window.
"I saw everything."
"I know. But I had no other choice."
"You always have another choice, Yuma."
"They were going to kill her."
"You're getting to close to her."
"I am not!"
"Don't do that again. You were very lucky this time that they went blind. But don't you ever pull a stunt like that again."
"I won't Miss. Galaco. I'm very sorry."
"And don't think you're getting off this easily. I have another job for you."
"Wh-What?"
"Yuma meet Luo Tianyi." She motioned toward a young girl who Yuma had just noticed had been sitting on the couch this whole time.
The girl was fiddling with her fingers, she looked very nervous.
"Wait who is she?"
"An angel of course. She's quite shy, so I'm hoping you could help her open up."
Yuma walked up to the one called Luo Tianyi. "Nice to meet you, I'm Yuma."
Tianyi simply looked up and nodded. Yuma turned to Galaco in confusion.
"She can't talk."
"Oh."
"She can't communicate with humans very well, and can pretty much only sing her feelings."
Yuma was now very confused. He had never heard of an angel who could sing but not talk.
"She'll be starting school in your class tomorrow. You have to watch over her."
"Yeah yeah." He looked at Tianyi again, and felt a pang of sympathy for the girl. She looked like she really didn't want to be on Earth. He wondered where she was from. Her long black hair was tied into two pigtails and there were also two loops of hair on top of her head with a blue flower in the middle. She was also wearing some sort of futuristic blue cheongsam.
"She can also only speak Chinese. So be nice to her."
"Well can I at least hear her voice?"
Galaco said something to her in Mandarin and Tianyi nodded. Then a beautiful melodic tune came out of her mouth.
"Shame she can't talk." Yuma sighed.
The next day Tianyi walked to school with Yuma, her head down, and once they reached school, she found her new school uniform quite interesting. She carefully examined the pleated skirt, and the red bow on her white top. It was all so foreign to her.
"Class we have another new student. Yuma would you care to introduce her?"
"This is Luo Tianyi. A friend of mine from China. She can't talk much Japanese, in fact she can barely talk at all." A few scoffs and giggles came from the crowd. Yukari examined the new girl, and felt a large desire to become friends with the poor girl.
"Welcome Luo. Please take the seat over there." He pointed to the desk diagonal from Yukari's in the fourth row, the last row. Only two other kids sat in the fourth row.
Tianyi quickly walked to get to her new desk, and Rin, who sat next to Yukari, put her foot in the walkway, triping Tianyi.
"Tianyi!" Yuma quickly walked towards her. "Are you okay?"
Tianyi nodded as she got up and walked to her desk.
Yukari glared Rin. "Oops." Rin shrugged.
"Why the hell did you have to trip her? She can't even speak Japanese!" Yukari snapped.
"Well excuse me. And if she couldn't even talk then why did she move here?"
"Quiet you two." The teacher warned.
Yukari constantly turned around to look at Tianyi. She was surprisingly doing quite well. She was taking notes, and looked like she was giving 200%. Yukari smiled. When lunch came the crowd of bullies quickly passed Yukari and went straight to Tianyi.
"Whats with your stupid hairstyle? Are you from poor China or something? Dumb bitch can't even talk..." They sneered.
"Whats this?" Len asked pulling the dizi, Tianyi carried everywhere out of her bag.
"N-no. S-Sto-Sto-Stop." She looked as if she had never spoken in her life.
"What is this stupid piece of wood?" Len was holding in in both hands, as if about to break it in half.
Tianyi stood up. "Please put down." She said almost melodiously.
"You have no right to stand in Len's presence. Sit down!" Rin exclaimed pressing Tianyi back in her chair by hitting her head. Yukari felt glued to her seat, and Yuma was doing nothing but watching, even though Tianyi's eyes screamed for help.
"Well let's just see if the wood is hollow or solid!" Len laughed. He really was going to break it.
"No!" Tianyi screamed. She got up and kicked him right in the face. Grabbed her dizi and school bag and ran out.
"Len! Are you okay?" Rin panicked.
Yuma ran out of the room to find Tianyi and Yukari followed.
"Where could she be?" Yukari asked Yuma.
"No idea..."
They ran to outside the school building, and then heard singing in a language Yukari did not know.
"Thats Luo's singing!" Yuma called.
They soon found Tianyi sitting where Yukari and Yuma usually ate. She was clutching her dizi, and singing a beautiful tune.
Beautiful Jasmine flower...Beautiful Jasmine flower. Fragrant, beautiful, filling the spring. Sweet smelling, white, loved by everyone. Let me pick you, and give you to my dear. Jasmine flower, Jasmine flower.
The two gasped at her beautiful singing. "Tianyi..." Yukari called.
Tianyi quickly turned around. "I won't hurt you." Yukari approached Tianyi as if approaching a scared animal.
"Don't worry. She's nice." Yuma told Tianyi.
Tianyi smiled and nodded. "She likes you." Yuma smiled.
I love Luo Tianyi so much. When I first heard her demo song I teared up for the nostalgia. Anyway I always think of their school uniforms as the ones in the Project Diva 2 opening. Oh and a dizi is a bamboo flute (or a Chinese flute) it makes a very pretty tune and I love to play mine in my free time. Please review/critique! ^^