Warning, Sota will not be a big part of the story as far as I'm concerned, because I am not a Sota fan.
Chapter 2: Friend?
"Ten minutes until the first bell..." Shippo said to himself, walking on the black top of the school. He looked around the environment around him, seeing kids play, and laugh, she just turned his head, and kept to himself. He reached the other side of the black top, where most of the older kids play. He would always end up sitting up against the wall, next to the door the grades four though six used to go out to recess. He just kept waiting and waiting for the bell to ring. He looked down to his watch to look at the time. "Seven minutes still..." he mumbled. He pulled out something that his parents have given him a long time ago, and he would always just play with it to pass the time, his spinning top. He looked up to see someone comming toward him, she was a girl, with shoulder length white hair, who wore all white clothing, under her uniform, and always carry a hand mirror with her. He saw her just sit near him just also waiting for class to start. "She's...scary..." Shippo thought, "she makes me even more nervous to talk to anyone...but that isn't nice...I guess I could say something." "Hi...m-my name's Shippo." The girl didn't even bother to look at him, let alone repond. "Well...I guess that means don't talk to me..." Shippo just sighed and still waited for the bell to ring, he looked at his watch again, then just started spinning his top again. Suddenly he saw his top being kicked by a girl, and the top went flying into the wall, but not enough to break the top. "Hey!" Shippo yelled with an angry look. This person was a girl, her hair was all pulled back into two giant looking hair ball pig tails, and she wore spere red earings and had red eyes, and a silver braclet with a red sphere in the center.
"What? It's just a top, Shippo." the girl smirked. Shippo just got up and went for his top. Then turned around and glared at the funny haired girl.
"What the hecks your problem Souten?" Shippo yelled still glaring at her. If Shippo wasn't shy around one person, that would be Souten. Souten would always pick on Shippo just for the fun of it. Once she actually hated Shippo so much she challenged him to a private fight, where no one else would interfere. She knew that there was a car accident, and both of her brothers were killed in a car wreck. She knew that the one's that caused the car wreck was Shippo's parents. Eventually, she was told by Shippo that his parents we're killed in the same accident. After that, she even began feeling sorry for Shippo, but still would occsionally just pick on him. Shippo never really considered her a bully, or someone he didn't like, but that didn't mean he was her friend either.
"Yeah! But it doesn't give you any right to kick my stuff away!" Shippo yelled back, still glaring at her.
"Get over it small fry, just be glad I didn't break it..." Souten only says that because she was only two inches taller than Shippo. She turned and walked away, and even had a small smile on her face, knowing Shippo couldn't see. Little did Shippo know, was the fact that Souten had a bit of a crush on him ever since the fight.
Flashback
Shippo walked onto the vacent school and set down his backpack. He looked across the black top and saw Souten, standing there staring back at him with red eyes of hatred.
"Why did you want me to fight you?" Shippo asked, just staring with a kind of blank face.
"My brothers were killed, and it's all your families fault!" Souten yelled. Shippo just stood there with kind of a shocked face.
"Wha-what?" Shippo exclaimed, still confused.
"I was told that the parents involved in the death of my two older brothers were your parents!" Souten explained clenching her fist to her sides. She looked down, and was even shaking; Shippo was observing her actions, and thought he possible saw a tear fall to the black top. Shippo walked slowly over to Souten, starting to feel sad for her loss, which he knew that it was like to lose loved ones. He continued to walk slowly over to the shooken girl, when he got close to her, Souten looked up with what Shippo saw, was tears in her eyes and she launched her fist at him. Shippo barely dodged her punch, but fell to the black top on his butt.
"Hey! Watch were you're swinging!" Shippo yelled, started to get a little irritated at her, but he still knew she was sad.
"You're right! This time you'll feel it!" the crying girl said swinging her fist at the sitting Shippo. Shippo quickly rolled out of the way, and Souten missed again. "Stand still!" Souten just kept getting more and more angry and this time she went for a kick at Shippo, but he kept dodging her hits.
"Please, don't do this, fighting never helps, it won't help you at all." Shippo said running away from the angry girl.
"I don't care what you say, I hate you!" she yelled still chasing Shippo. Shippo just stopped right in the middle of being chased. Souten saw him stop, and found it the perfect oppurotunity to attack. She ran at him, and raised her fist at him, ready to punch him in the back; but before she could she heard the boy speak, almost so quiet she barely heard him.
"I know how you feel." Shippo said very softly. Souten stopped right before she was about to strike him. She just stood there staring at the back of the boy, lowering her fist, but then clenched them.
"You don't understand anything! You don't know what it's like at all!" Souten yelled with angry eyes; Shippo could feel her anger. Shippo turned around with a more serious look that she didn't expect at all. She just stared into his green eyes, and her eyes got a bit wider.
"You think so huh?" Shippo yelled at her, "You think my parents just came out of that accident with happy faces, huh? No! They didn't. They ended up with the same fate as your brothers! You're not the only one who lost people that were close!" Souten was stricken with fear at that moment. Her body began to shake, her red eyes just kept staring into the boy's green eyes. Souten found herself falling to her knees, and her tears just got bigger, and wetter; Shippo could tell. His face had quickly turned into a more sad expression. He walked over to Souten again, slowly, hoping this time he wouldn't get punched at. He kneeled down to the crying girl sitting on the black top.
"Souten-" Shippo began to say, but before he knew it, the girl launched herself onto Shippo. She wrapped her arms around Shippo, and buried her head into his chest, crying. Shippo even started to blush, with the girl hugging on to him, holding onto him, crying. He didn't really have a choice, but to embrace her back. "It's ok, it's ok." he said softly, patting her back.
"I...d-d-didn't...know..." Souten said still crying onto him. After awhile, still hugging onto Souten, even Shippo felt a tear roll out of his eyes, but the supressed the urge to cry.
"It's alright." Shippo said softly. Souten let go of him, and was still sitting on the ground, she sniffed, and wiped her face of the wet tears. After wiping her face of her tears, she looked back up to see Shippo wasn't by her anymore. She looked to her right, and then to her left, and she saw him walking to his backpack. She wondered what he was doing, was he leaving her? Then she saw him walking back over to her. As soon as he got by her, he kneeled down infront of her, and he dug for something in his backpack. She saw that he pulled out a box of colored pencils; he handed her the box of colored pencils.
"What are these for?" Souten asked.
"I noticed you in class, you like to draw." Shippo said, and even gave her a smile. "I thought you would like them." Souten looked into the eyes of the smiling boy. She reached her arms out, and grabbed on to the box of colored pencils. Then she saw Shippo put his hand on her shoulder, "Just remember one thing, you're not alone." Shippo said, still with a smiling face. Souten couldn't help but to smile back at the boy, staring into his green eyes again.
"Thank you." she said back. Then she was Shippo walking away from the school, and back home.
End Flashback
Shippo sat back in his spot, and starting spinning his top again. "Girls...yah just can't understand them." he said to himself. "Still...I wonder if she remembers that day. Maybe she just hides her feelings from the other kids. I wonder, if maybe...possibly...could she be? My friend?" Just then, the bell started to ring, and all the students gathered around, to get inside the school.
I thought this turned out well. Next chapter soon. See yaz for now.
