A/N: This chapter is filled more with Jeile being beaten to a bloody pulp but next chapter he should get a little more love, I plan to introduce Saya's best friend, the Filipino girl from the US so hang tight there Jeile…;;

Chapter 2: I'm In an Anime!!

The next morning Saya woke up at day break, she was in her room following her daily morning routine that consisted of one hundred of each of the following: push ups, squats, ankle work, trice ups, sit ups, back reaches, leg lifts, pull ups, hand stand ups, in addition with a ten mile run. When Saya had returned to the flat around 6:00 am, Airi and Aram had just woken up, "Morning," Saya called smiling to Airi and Aram as they shuffled past her. Saya walked to the bathroom for a quick shower, while Airi made breakfast, and Aram finished filling out his paperwork for the next semester of school. After breakfast Airi handed Saya a packet of paperwork to be filled out for her to start school next semester. The packet was decently thick of forms needed to be filled out, "Awww, too much paper work, but registration closes today right?" Saya asked Airi. "Yeah, and unfortunately I have to fill out paper work too," Aram whined. As she began filling out the paperwork, Airi and Aram change clothes, and Saya looked at the clock, "Rats! It's almost seven and registration starts at 7:30!" she grabbed her back pack, ignoring the books already in it, from her room, stuffed a small pile of clothes she had laid aside the night before along with a small towel, a pencil case, and her wallet. Airi and Aram emerged from Airi's room and stared, "You're going to wear that?" Airi asked warily. Saya looked down; she had put on a red shirt and bright green Bermuda shorts and athletic socks. She shrugged, "Ops better go cha—" when a crash from Airi's room caught her attention, "Mountain Lily!! Where are you?!" came a voice all to recognized.

"What kind of sick twisted pervert are you?!" raged Saya, completely tweaked that Jeile the half brother of Aram, now transformed, was in her younger sister's bedroom. "Ahh, its you, now what flower should I call you? You're sweet and simple but you're quite sour...hmmm…" he replied thoughtfully. Saya remained where she was in her fighting stance staring at him incredulously, until he said, "I'll ponder on that later, but ahh! Here is my Mountain Lily!" and ran over to hug Airi, however he never made contact. Aram stood in front of her protectively as he was still running blindly toward Airi, and as he leaped he flew in a totally opposite direction. Saya's foot had made contact with his head and had squished it into the wall, "What do you think you're doing?!" Airi ran over and placed her hand on Saya's arm, "Alright, for now…" she said reluctantly releasing Jeile, who was in a fantasy that Airi would offer her hand to help him up, however, she just lead Saya to her room to change and away from Jeile sprawled on the floor and ignored him. "What are you doing here brother?" Aram demanded. "You're supposed to be living in your stupid castle in the middle of that stupid park!" Jeile had regained his composure and replied dramatically, "I am going to be a teacher at your school!" Aram rolled his eyes as he began his usual nonsense about how much a school like that would love to have a teacher like him. He didn't notice Saya emerge in a dark green athletic skirt and deep blue fitting shirt with fingerless gloves and loose socks, and he still continued talking so animatedly he didn't notice that they had left until Saya locked the dead bolt to the front door. "Where are you going my little buttercup?!" Jeile called through Saya's bedroom window. "Who are you calling 'Buttercup' and WHAT are you doing in my ROOM?!" she asked dangerously. Jeile paid no attention but instead made to hug her like he normally hugged Airi, but instead of hug he smothered her in his lacy jacket of frills. Saya was struggling and flailing and noticed that Jeile paid once again no attention, and finally put both her feet on his chest in a fetal position and kicked off knocking him to the ground and sending her airborne, however she didn't calculate her landing and was about to hit the curb of the sidewalk. Aram was there just before she hit the curb, "Thanks," she said as he picked her up and let her slide to a standing position gently. She walked over to Jeile sprawled on the floor once again and lifted her back pack, above her head and brought it down on his family jewels. "W-w-wha-a-at d-d-do y-y-oo-ou h-h-ha-aave in th-th-th-ere? A di-di-dictionary?" he stammered painfully. Saya shrugged and opened her bag's smallest pocket, "Maybe, lets see…gymnastic clothes, shoes, and towel," she opened the middle pocket, "ankle weights and wrist weights, plus joint supports," and finally opened the biggest pocket, "my advanced placement history text book, my second year Latin text book, my Latin English dictionary, my free reading book of Lewis Carol's complete works, and my English dictionary. And what do you know two dictionaries, quite close! Good guess! Alright we had better be going, don't get caught by the police you pervert!" she saluted her two finger salute and lead Aram and Airi to school.

After registration which took both Aram and Saya five hours for both of them, they went to lunch at a near by café, where Airi ordered a deli sandwich, Aram a hamburger, Saya ordered a fruit bowl, a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, and a veggie dip. "You're going to eat all that?" Aram asked amazed, "Sure she's always been eating like that since we were little," Airi replied happy that was one of the things about her sister that hasn't changed. While they were waiting Airi noticed Nakaoji come in, and she stood up from her booth across Saya and Aram, "Nakaoji, over here," she called. The boy who was about the same height as Aram with light brown colored hair walked over and sat next to Airi, he was good natured and seemed intelligent, Saya noted. "This is Saya my twin sister, and Aram a family friend," Airi introduced, Saya bowed, "It's nice to meet you," Aram mimicked her, and soon the waitress returned to take Nakaoji's order of a shepherd's pie. "Is there a gymnastic layout in the school gym?" Saya asked after she had finished while she was waiting on Airi and Nakaoji to finish their lunches. "I think the gymnastics team has tryouts later this afternoon, I can check if you like," Nakaoji offered, "No its okay I want to go and pick up my uniform anyways and Aram has to get his too." Saya replied politely. After lunch they headed back to school and split into twos, Airi and Nakaoji went to the class representative meeting while Saya and Aram went to go pick up their uniforms and check on the gymnastic team auditions. Aram turned to Saya, "I'll pick up the uniforms and meet you in the gym, how is that?" Saya looked at him, "Sure, just don't be too late or I'll have to come find you!" He nodded and went towards the registration line. Saya stopped a girl who was had just finished her registration and got directions to the gym where she quickly changed into her leotard and sprayed tough skin (prevents wedgies). She brushed her hair and looked at it as if trying to decide what to do, then she pulled it up into a pony tail and braided half and twisted it with the other half and put it into a bun but knotted it at the end so that the bun wasn't too big and the pony tail wasn't too long, so that it hung mid back. Finally she put pins here and there so that it would hold no matter what she did. She filled out the required paperwork and pinned her number to the front and back of her leotard which was black except for red metallic flames that started out small on her writs and worked its way up her arm and blazed down the seams of the leotard.

The girl that went before her on beam was wearing a pink leotard and was very good, her turns were gentle and her landings on the beam very light. She ended her routine with a double back dismount. Definitely competition, Saya thought. She walked up to the beam and was just about to mount when she heard an echo through out the hall louder than any other cry of pain she'd ever heard. It was a sound she didn't want to hear. "Go my dear little Buttercup! You'll do just fine!! Don't forget to smile!! I'm here for you little Buttercup!" A vein appeared at her forehead and she began to grimace, what's that idiot doing here?! She fumed. She mounted the beam and took her starting position, and improvised her routine which consisted of a double layout, sheep jump, outside illusion turn, a handstand and center split, two consecutive back handsprings which then lead to a reverse momentum trick of two consecutive forward layouts, and finished with a triple twist dismount. Saya then took her audition form and walked over to the uneven bar portion. The girl in pink was there again and tried to peak at her audition form, while she was talking with the girl in front of her, "I've got to have perfect marks, I mean after all I am nationally ranked," she boasted. Saya rolled her eyes and ignored her, "However, I don't think that new girl has any talent, I mean the forward layouts on the balance beam? Please I've seen more impressive choreographed routines." Saya snapped to attention, "Hey Poser Queenie in pink, I can hear you, and I didn't do anything choreographed." The girl turned around, "Oh what was that then? An imitation of someone else's routine?" she smirked. "No it's called improvisation." She called sarcastically and handed her audition form to the judge of the uneven bars. She flowed through the uneven bars with the Ono, a single handed pirouette, a Geinger, but then performed a trick of her own, a pirouette with no hands above the high bar and dismounted with a triple twist layout. She retrieved her audition form and moved on to vault. While she was waiting she heard an "Ohhhh!" ring through out the audience, and she turned to see that the girl in pink had missed her grip on the bar. Saya shook her head and looked among the audience for Aram. She spotted him sitting with their uniforms, and he was watching some of the other routines in amazement. At her turn on the vault she started with a full on run and changed to a round off and a back hand spring at the spring board launched herself off the vault table and landed a quad forward flip. She retrieved her audition sheet and looked at what was left. Floor. Damn, I have no music and no routine. Damn! She headed off to the locker room and picked out her ipod out of her bag and searched through it for something she could use for the floor exercise. She got in line for the floor exercise and listened to the song she had chosen over and over again. She chose tricks and placed them at certain markers in the song, and finally she was next, she handed her audition sheet and walked over to the man managing the music and handed over her ipod and showed him the song. When it was finally her turn she took her place at the center of the floor. As the music started as raindrops she went with the flow, it was Ryu no Shonen, as the brass came in and the trumpets she leaped and jumped, when it came to a heightening point just before the violins entered she took her place at a corner of the floor and took off she once a quarter of the way to the other corner she leapt into the air with a split jump and landed into a round off, which lead into a twist forward hand spring, and finally a double twist which flowed backwards into a back hand spring, followed by double back layouts and an axel jump. She danced to the next corner with loco motor pirouettes and pâté bourres (sp?) with a turning stag leap. Then from there she ran to the opposite corner and forward hand sprung herself into a double twist and cart wheeled herself into a backward handspring twist and rebounded again into a double axel jump and a right split jump into a forward roll into the center of the floor and ending with a double back tuck. The audience applauded and she took her ipod and went to the locker room where she left her bag and sat next to Aram with a water bottle in hand and towel around her neck. He smiled at her and she smiled back as she watched the other gymnasts audition routines.

Mean while at the class representative meeting Airi and Nakaoji were bored, she sat listening to the new semester goals and terms and other things they received in the emails during their one week break. She opened her notebook and began to doodle, she was just about finished when Nakaoji leaned over to her and asked what she was doing, and she was supposed to be taking notes! "Ops sorry! I guess I spaced out a little." She smiled back at him, and turned the page and began taking notes. She heard a rustle of paper and looked up there was a folded piece of paper peaking out underneath her notebook. She pulled it out and opened it; it was in Nakaoji's handwriting:

Airi,

Don't worry I know you're bored of the prep talk. I think the president

Thinks that were all going to sit tight and listen to him talk all day long.

Fortunately the meeting should be over soon. I know you're thinking about

Saya's audition, don't worry she'll be fine, after all you'll be able to cheer her

On when we're done here, and we almost are. Hang tight!

-Nakaoji-kun

Airi looked at him appreciatively and nodded, she just had to wait. Soon they were dismissed and Airi and Nakaoji dashed off to the gym in hopes to catch something of Saya's audition, instead they found her sitting with Aram changed into regular clothes explaining the rules of gymnastics and what types of tricks other gymnasts were doing. "Are we too late?" Nakaoji huffed carrying both his bag and Airi's, "Sorry, you kind of are, I'm done, we're just waiting on the last three there," she gestured. Later they announced the winners which also included first, second, and third place. There were only fifteen members allowed on the team and there were almost thirty girls auditioning. The competition was an all around competition they announced, and specialists were also greatly considered. The final listing was posted on the bulletin board, and as the girls crammed to see, the girl in the pink leotard began to scream, "I didn't make it!! HOW CAN I HAVE NOT MADE IT!!! I am nationally RANKED!!" she screamed but when she saw Saya she charged at her, "How come you made it and I didn't?" she raged. Saya shrugged her off and went to look at the list as other girls made way for her, or in actuality made way for the fuming girl. Saya looked at the placing, Floor: Gold, Beam: Silver, Uneven Bars: Silver, Vault: Gold. "What do you know I made the team, huh…" she said shrugging, and walked back to join the others, pointedly ignoring the girl who exploded in a wave of fury and tried to kick her from behind, Saya wasn't paying attention but Aram was, and caught her foot. "You should never attack an opponent from behind," it wasn't his gentle voice but firm and even angry, Saya turned, glaring down at the girl, "You don't want to embarrass yourself, stand down," The girl freed her foot from Aram's grasp and stood defiantly, "Never! You stole my position, I am better than you! I will show you, prepare yourself!" she cried and took a fighting stance. Saya tossed her bag like it was empty to Aram who caught it and almost succumbed to the weight, and stood aside, Saya took a fighting stance. The girl took the initiative, throwing right hook, which Saya dodged smoothly underneath and jabbed her right arm by her armpit, and it hung limp. "What did you do?!" she wailed, and threw a left hook, Saya jabbed her again. Her arm fell limp like the right arm, "Alright fine I cant punch but that doesn't mean I cant still kick!" and she lunged out with her right leg, Saya jabbed her in the thigh after dodging left, it fell limp but she could still put weight on it. "You should stop while you can still stand." Saya advised gently, "No! If I win you surrender your position on the team!" Saya shook her head, "Sorry I can't do that," she said gently. Finally the girl lashed out with her left leg and Saya dodged once again and jabbed her thigh, this time she fell over unable to use her limbs fell over onto the ground, "Wh-what did you do to me?" she asked. "I only immobilized you for the time being, it should wear off in about twenty minutes or so." Saya replied before taking her bag from Aram and leading the other's home. "The next semester starts in three days, I want to go have fun!" she said smiling and in her cheerful mood once again.

Once home Nakaoji, Aram, and Airi sat on the couch deciding what to do since Saya told them she didn't care. She had gotten a change of clothes and had headed to take a shower, when she was finished she got dressed into a pair of baggy jeans, a lose fitting shirt, and sweat bands on her wrists. She was finishing braiding her hair when she heard, "My dear sweet Buttercup, why didn't y—" her fist had contacted with his nose, she heard a crack followed by a scream. Aram, Nakaoji and Airi jumped in their seats, when they heard the cry of pain, "Saya are you alright in there?" asked Airi worriedly at the door, when it banged open and out flew Jeile holding onto his butt where Saya had evidentially kicked him. "YOU DEMENTED PERVERT!!! DOING THAT WHILE I WAS IN THE BATHROOM!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" she raged. Nakaoji was trying to hold her back from hitting Jeile again, while Aram and Airi just sat back down in the chairs. "Get off me Nakaoji-san," Saya warned dangerously, and he immediately let go, she stormed up to Jeile who was now quivering on the floor, she held out her hand to help him up and the instant he touched it she gripped hard and flung him out the open kitchen window. "Okay, garbage has been taken out, let's go! I want to get started on tonight's activity!!" Saya said once again in her happy mood and linked her arm with Airi and skipped down the stairs and out the front door followed by Nakaoji who seemed torn between following the girls and helping Jeile when Aram pushed him out the door.

Saya and Airi walked arm in arm talking girl talk while the boys followed behind with Nakaoji's third degree of who Jeile was, "Um, my perverted half brother," Aram explained simply. Nakaoji nodded, Saya turned around and said, "Hey where are we going anyways?" Aram replied instantly, "the theme park, uh…what's it called?" he turned to Nakaoji, "Adventure Land." Saya cheered, "That's the same name of a part of the park in Disneyland, there's 'Tomorrow Land', 'Adventure Land', and so many more!!" She saw a bus at the bus stop and ran, and clambered on, the other's followed desperately so as not to be left behind. There was no sitting room left and they ended up standing, which was fine until the bus driver decided to floor it. Saya who didn't expect such a lurch didn't have the chance to hold on to anything and felt her shoes lose grip on the floor, and the momentum of the bus force her off her feet. "Ahh—" her cry was knocked out of her, "Are you okay?" she had knocked into Aram, "Um…I'm fine thanks!" She looked quickly for something to hold onto but everything else was taken, and suddenly the driver stomped on the breaks. Before Saya could catch herself, Aram's arm had wrapped around her waist, and held her fast, "Thanks, there's nothing for me to hold onto, sorry" she said slightly embarrassed, "Don't worry about it, and I've got you." Saya replied, "That's kind but thanks, I can handle it on my own," The bus lurched again and she was thrown against Aram, "I guess not…hehehe…" she laughed nervously. Airi had found a seat and Nakaoji was near by and kept eying a man with a mustache and kept looking around. "Aiiieee!!!" Saya whipped around from in front of Aram to see Airi freaking out. "So you're the pervert we've been hearing about…" Nakaoji accused the man who feigned innocence. "You bastard!!" Saya raged and was about to go for the old geezer, however, Aram held her firm, "Let Nakaoji take care of this…" he whispered in her ear. Saya tensed and watched from where she was, Airi had gotten up from her seat and hid behind Nakaoji, as several men ganged up on the molester pinning him. "Did he hurt you Airi?" Nakaoji asked, "No, I'm fine, thank you very much," she spoke shakily. As the man was escorted off the bus by the men in suits Airi sat next to Nakaoji while Saya and Aram found seats near by. "Ohhh!! So Nakaoji, you're not the push over you pretend to be are you?" Saya had winked at Nakaoji. He blushed and sat quietly in his seat. When they arrived there was a man standing at the bus stop as if waiting for his companions, he was taller than Aram and had blonde hair, he had a very regal air about him. When Aram stepped off the bus behind Saya he stopped in his tracks, "Lei what are you doing here?" Aram demanded, when Airi got off the bus behind Aram she froze, "Lei…" she said, letting her sentence trail off. Lei looked up at Nakaoji, "I am here to deliver a message to Nakaoji, your mother asks that you return home immediately, your sister is not well, and your father has an emergency that he needs your mother to attend to." Nakaoji's eyes widened and he hurried on the bus back. "What was that for?! He's only a friend you know!!!" Airi accused, "Yes I know, but I have my orders, sir?" Lei made way for Jeile to greet them, "Ahh! My mountain Lily!" he graciously hugged her, and she slapped him, "What do you think you're doing?! You hit on my sister then you hit on me again?! What's your problem?!" Jeile looked at Airi seriously, "Because you are much more like a flower than she is." He replied placing a daisy in her hair. "May I accompany you for your night of fun here?" he asked, knowing that she was totally engrossed with him now. "You may," she said. Saya turned to Lei, "So you're Lei, I'm Saya," and extended her hand for him to shake which he did, "I must be on my way now, please excuse me," and walked away. She then turned to Airi who was still under Jeile's spell, "Airi, you know you're turning to mush for the stupid brother…right?" Airi shook herself awake, "I guess I was day dreaming again…hehehehe…but let's go have fun anyways!"

They had candy, rides, food, prizes and games to their hearts content before they settled on going home after the light show. "That was awesome!" Airi exclaimed, "Thank you Jeile for winning this for me, she said indicating the plush puppy pillow he had won for her, and hugging it tightly. Saya was carrying a monkey that hung around her neck and Aram was carrying a stuffed Siberian tiger under his arm walking along side Saya. After the night's events where Jeile was purely a gentleman, Saya realized, with his perverted antics on the occasion, he all around is a nice guy, she deduced. They were waiting for the bus to take them back when five men appeared behind them unnoticed, and covered Airi and Saya's mouths and held knives to their throats. Oh please not the cliché hostage gag…Saya thought bitterly. Before Jeile or Aram could do anything, she had already disarmed her attacker and kicked the knife out of the hand of Airi's attacker. She then proceeded to knock him out, and turned on the three remaining attackers with Airi safely behind her. Two of the men advanced toward her with knives exposed, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small metal stick no bigger than her hand, she flicked her wrist and it elongated to about the length of her wrist. Saya then proceeded to advance on the two men; she took the initiative and lashed out with the baton smacking the man's arm with great impact. The second man decided to take the opening, however, Saya did a backward layout kicking him in the chin, which he did not expect, and as he was down she jumped and landed on his back. She then proceeded to use him crouched over and did a forward turn twist at the chest of his partner, she whirled on the crouched attacker who had recovered just slightly and split kicked him in the chin. He fell over in surrender and turned to their leader who tried to defend himself. Saya no longer had the patience, "You coward, you need to send two people to take out a girl? And on top of that you yourself make sure they're armed men against unarmed girls? Low life!" she declared before butterfly kicking him in the head. There was a resounding thump when he hit the ground, Saya then pulled the ribbon she shoved into her pocket before they left and tied them up with their hands and feet tied together behind them so that they looked as if they were doing a sheep jump. When she finished the bus pulled up and they climbed on,

"That was amazing Saya!" Jeile congratulated, "Yeah, it was like watching Sparkle Rangers in real life!" Aram commented. "Saya?" called Airi, she turned and noticed that Saya had fallen asleep, she motioned to not disturb her and they continued to talk quietly. When they reached their stop Aram didn't wake her but carried her on his back and up into the house. Downstairs Airi said her good night and thank you to Jeile and headed back up stairs. "She's out?" Airi asked noticing Aram sitting on the couch. "Yeah, she must be exhausted, after all those tricks she did in the audition, then the amusement park, and the robbers, and then my stupid brother…" Aram trailed, "Yeah, she's amazing alright, it's something I have to live up to, you know?" Airi sounded sad, "She told me when I put her to bed, after I told her what a great job she did, she said to me, 'I only did it because I don't want Airi to feel the pressure I did being the elder sister, the pressure of having to excel and I just wanted her to live how she wanted the way she wanted, and I let mom and dad do whatever they wanted to me and forced myself to be the best so they would leave Airi alone…' that's what she said." Aram replied. "I see…" Airi thought, "You know you can hold a conversation with her when she's asleep?" Aram smiled, "I think I just did, but you know it was the truth…"