This is the rewritten version of Battle of the Tensais!
Author's Note:
Short chapter ahead! I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review!
Chapter 2
New Friends and 'Jenga Bentos'
--Monday Lunch time--
Whilst sucking on a lemon, Reiko wandered around the grounds of Seishun Gakuen curiously that lunch time. Getting bored, she decided to head out to the garden to eat her packed lunch. She spotted a bench under a shady tree and decided to go eat her lunch there when she was abruptly called by a tap on her shoulder. Turning around, she saw a girl slightly shorter than her with wavy mahogany hair. She noted how her fringe accented her round face perfectly and how her deep brown eyes complimented her features well. She was beautiful.
"Hasegawa-san?" The brown-haired girl called, looking uncertain as she addressed the mesmerized raven.
Although the gleaming glasses ensured her eyes were well-hidden, the brunette knew Reiko was staring from the ogling expression on her face.
"Um… Is there anything on my face?" The girl asked.
"Ah... Sorry if I was staring. Can I help you?" Reiko apologized, realizing her weighty stare made the stranger feel uncomfortable.
"It's fine. I saw you walking by yourself so I thought I'd invite you to eat lunch with me and my friend." The brunette flashed an inviting smile, so contagious that the Reiko couldn't help but return it.
"That'd be great. Thank you…" she trailed, realizing she did not know the girl's name.
"Takano Ayumi, Yumi is fine though. We're in the same class." The girl informed.
"Yoroshiku Yumi-chan, you can call me Reiko." The raven bowed and smiled as she acquainted herself with the said classmate.
"Then, shall we go Reiko-chan? My friend and I were going to eat lunch just under that tree over there." Ayumi pointed to the shady tree Reiko herself was vying for. They'd both noticed that the once empty bench was now occupied by another person.
Reaching their destination, Reiko realized the figure belonged to another girl. She possessed the most striking hazel eyes the pale girl had ever come across; mesmerizing and somewhat translucent, as if you would see her soul with one look into her eyes. Her hair was a lighter shade of brown, much similar to that of their sadistic classmate. Not being able to resist, the raven cringed upon the image of the said boy she'd just pictured in her head. Shaking the unwanted thought away, she smiled and bowed politely when the girl with the striking eyes acknowledged her presence.
"Ah! Chiharu-chan you're here! You remember Hasegawa Reiko-chan from class?" said Ayumi.
"Who wouldn't? After what she did to Sato-sensei? You're turning out to be quite the legend already, Hasegawa-san." Chiharu greeted, not failing to flash the bespectacled girl a warm smile.
"Ah! I didn't mean to. I really just wanted to make a good first impression." Reiko defended.
The two girls laughed in chorus.
"Well, I think you pretty much failed at that." Ayumi joked, patting Reiko's back as she mentally recalled the events of her recent Maths class.
"Don't worry about it too much Reiko-chan, you'll get used to him... sort of." Chiharu reassured, giggling at the fact that getting used to 'terrorist teachers' was a way of life at Seigaku.
"By the way, I'm Haruto Chiharu. Yoroshiku!" The hazel-eyed girl formally introduced.
After the introductions, the trio proceeded to eating their lunches and of course, getting to know more about the new student. The raven was inwardly relieved she did not have to labour over making friends. Whilst chatting, a mention of the earlier collision and the sparked rivalry between the raven-haired girl and the school's resident tensai suddenly piqued the two girls' curiosity.
"No way! You didn't faint? Or drool even? Not even a swoon?" Ayumi skeptically asked, obviously surprised at her new friend's immunity to the famous Fuji Syuusuke's charm.
"Then again, I guess that's a good thing. The school doesn't need any more fan girls… like someone I know." Ayumi said pointedly, rolling her eyes before locking them on Chiharu, whose striking eyes grew wide as saucers upon hearing the comment.
"What? Don't tell me you don't think Fuji-kun is hot?" Chiharu objected defensively. "Besides, that was so freshman year! I'm not like them anymore." She added.
"Like them?" Reiko asked, curious at who this 'them' her new friends were referring to.
"Fuji brigade." Ayumi and Chiharu both answered flatly.
"Fu-ji Bri-gade? He has a fan club?! That sadist?!" Reiko exclaimed, shocked that a person with such a disturbing personality would even have friends, let alone a fan club.
"Wow... you really are weird. But, you have to admit he is good looking right? Not to mention talented. Did you know he's considered as this school's 'tensai'?" Chiharu said dreamily in an attempt to justify her days as a fan-girl.
"She's going on fan-girl mode again! OI!" Ayumi waved her hand in front of the now dazed Chiharu's face.
Deciding it was hopeless, Ayumi left Chiharu in her own world as she turned her attention to the new girl, whose face had now turned blue.
"Ne Reiko-chan? What's wrong?" Ayumi asked worriedly. All she got was...
"Tensai... Tensai... Tensai..." Behind the mysterious spectacles, Reiko's eyes twitched uncontrollably. She mumbled the word 'tensai' mindlessly as her brain processed the fact that she had just picked the most dangerous person to mess with, on her first day of school.
// I just made enemies with the devil. Is it too late to back off now? //
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The trio arrived the classroom with 5 minutes left of lunch. The raven-haired girl started walking towards her seat, stopping abruptly when she noticed a heaping mass of bentos stacked on top of her desk... and a higher stack on her seatmate's. Finding the inch of his honey-brown hair protruded over the pile of lunches, she felt her blood start boiling. Abhorring the idea of her desk being turned into a dumpsite, she charged to her seat seething. She picked up a bento and read the note attached to it, all the while breathing through gritted teeth.
"To Fuji-kun,
I made this to show my undying love for you.
XOXOXO
Your future wife."
Reiko felt her eye twitch and a vein pop on her forehead. That had been happening a lot since having transferred.
"FUJI TEME!" She fumed. "Why the hell are all these bentos on my desk?!" She demanded, fuming.
The said boy slowly looked up from his book. "Ne Hasegawa-san, would you like one?" Fuji asked innocently, his effervescent smile only adding more fuel to the incensed girl's blazing anger.
"I already ate the one onee-san made. Gluttony is a deadly sin and I'm afraid I might get bloated if I eat anymore." He continued, a mocking smile spreading wide across his face.
Suddenly, all females within a 2 mile radius, and all the girls that were exceptionally perceptive to the brown-haired boy's voice, charged through the nearest toilets, shattered and in tears.
"No thank you. Besides, someone might have put aphrodisiac in one of these."
The fair-haired boy heard the retort and chuckled heartily at a mental image of his seatmate falling crazily for the first person she set her eyes on. Now, if only Sato-sensei was anywhere near the area, aphrodesiac wouldn't be such a bad idea.
"Saa... Suit yourself Hasegawa-san." Fuji said with a sly smile before resuming his reading
"Aren't you going to clean this up?" Reiko asked, feeling the last of her 'patience' run out as she pointed to the pile on her desk. Strangely, after a second glance, the pile now seemed to resemble stacked Jenga blocks.
"Demo... If I do that, all this food would go to waste." Fuji wittily replied, not even bothering to spare the girl a look as his eyes remained glued to his book.
Reiko felt another vein pop on her forehead, but all too quickly, it was replaced by an eerily sadistic smile. Kikumaru Eiji had just entered the building.
"Ah! Eiji-kun! You made it just in time!" Reiko exclaimed in a repulsively excited tone.
"Hoi?" The redhead tilted his head quizzically, clueless to what the raven meant by 'just in time'.
"I was wondering... Do you like tempura?" Reiko tried hard to deliver the question with genuine innocence, although she was not able to avoid sneering upon seeing the redhead's cat-like eyes twinkle in delight. He nodded his head enthusiastically while Reiko fought the urge to cackle maniacally.
"That's good then! I'm allergic to shrimp so I can't eat the tempura bento there." Reiko paused to point to a packed lunch in the middle of the stack on top of Fuji's desk. She grinned dubiously after seeing Kikumaru salivate like a hungry hound.
"It's a shame if I throw it away, so I thought I'd ask you if you want it." Reiko finished. The sadistic grin on her face was now wide enough for all to see.
Fuji cautiously looked up from his book upon realizing what his new classmate had in mind.
"Eiji that's not—" The fair-haired boy tried to tame his friend but it was already too late. Kikumaru had already started charging towards the middle bento with the said 'tempura' in it.
CRASH! BANG! SPLAT!
Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor as they watched Kikumaru jump on top of Fuji's desk, knocking the stack of lunches over as he grabbed his treasured 'tempura' bento. All the girls, who had just returned from the ladies' room, looked in horror as they saw their precious 'Fuji-sama' covered in all ingredients that may as well make pig slop.
Reiko smiled triumphantly before finally taking her seat. Just then, their Social Studies teacher came in the classroom, unrolling a poster that read: 'Help Feed a Hungry Child. Help Rid the World of Poverty.'
Large beads of sweat appeared at the back of everyone's heads while their oblivious sensei cleared his throat to make an announcement.
"Money or dried goods are acceptable. Food is highly preferred." The teacher declared as he proceeded to write that day's lecture notes on the board.
// Fuji 1 - Hasegawa 2. BWAHAHAHAHA! // Reiko cackled mentally. // Who said anything about backing off? I'm just getting started! //
--Later that day: Hasegawa Residence--
"Woof! Woof!" An excited bark echoed through the halls of the Hasegawa residence. A huge, white, hound wagged its tail expectantly by the door.
"Tadaima!" Reiko called out as she came inside their new house. Seeing the oversized fluff ball that awaited her, she lovingly gave its head a pat.
"Ah! Reiko, you're home!" A middle aged woman, known to the raven as 'Mom', greeted. "How was school?" She inquired.
"Oh... It's definitely different from Osaka." Reiko's glasses gleamed suspiciously before flashing her mother a menacing smile
Disturbed, Mrs. Hasegawa felt her eye twitch.
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Author's Note:
The ending was lame, oh well. I've been itching to do something to Fuji's precious cacti. Weird fetishes ahead and Tezuka is coming into the picture! Stay tuned!
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