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Japanese
English
Demon
...I don't have a beta! But I have tried to revise any and all the mistakes I found!
...If you found more that I missed, hit me up and I'll try and fix it!
Akari's ears perked up at the sound of movement in one of the lockers nearby. She looked around to see if anybody else had noticed it but the hallway of the small high school was empty save for her. "Great," she muttered to herself while following the sound of scratching until she stopped in front of a narrow putrid green locker that sported a variety of dents with one of the bigger ones being right over the lock which had a combination lock wedged into it.
"Someone in there?" Akari asked in English and immediately the movement stopped and the half demon girl could feel a set of eyes on her. "Look, if you want to stay in there it isn't any of my business but I have class to get to so hurry up." Akari snapped and pulled the opened lock off of the door, stuffing it into her jacket pocket before yanking the door open. She looked at the small kid sitting in the cramped locker and had to bite back a growl as she looked at the busted lip and black eye the kid sported as they glared at her. Without a word, the familiar girl shoved past Akari with a tattered notebook in one hand and stub for a pencil in the other.
"No thanks?" Akari called out, and muttered a curse under her breath in Japanese when her reclusive neighbor turned her head back to glare at Akari with her strange eyes.
"Whatever, you're probably going to be the next one that shoves me in a locker anyway so why bother?" The kid asked as Akari took in the girl's baggy black pants held up by an old cloth belt and a simple dark green t-shirt with a navy blue jacket that seemed a size to big on her.
"Go to the nurse and get cleaned up." Akari said as she walked over to the smaller girl and looked down at her.
"Don't need to." The girl snapped and clenched her hands around her notebook while glaring at the floor. "What's your class anyway?" She asked and waited impatiently for Akari to pull her class schedule free of her navy blue back pack that her friend Miyoko had designed for her before she had left Japan the two weeks before.
"I have AP Literature with a Ms. Shay?" Akari said, frowning at the list in front of her before it was rudely snatched out of her hands and glanced over by the smaller girl. After a few seconds it was returned and the small girl turned away.
"Follow me," was all the girl said before breezing down the empty hallway in a determined stride.
"So what's your name?" Akari decided to ask as she followed the girl through a small, nearly hidden, hallway and into another hallway.
"Around here most of the kids call me Freak. You'll do the same in a day or two." She said in an offhand manner that made Akari frown in annoyance.
"I said your name, not what they call you." She growled, causing the girl to pause and turn her head to look back at Akari with wary eyes.
"What's the difference?" The girl asked in a monotone before turning back around. "This is the class." She said and opened the door, leaving Akari to enter on her own as the girl slipped inside and seemed to vanish to the back of the class.
"Detention!" The teacher, a stern looking woman that Akari absently noted looked like the woman from Harry Potter, McGonagall? "You must be Miss...?" Ms. Shay said, looking down at her paper with a frown as Akari moved into the classroom with ease, ignoring the stares around her as she walked up to the desk in the far back.
"Higurashi Akari," Akari introduced herself, biting back a small smirk when the woman frowned before looking around the classroom.
"You may sit in the back. Here are a set of rules, I expect them to be followed. If not you will have detention with me everyday until you do." Ms. Shay said and Akari had to bite her tongue to keep herself from growling as the woman glared at her. Akari turned around and moved to the back of the class where she could see her little neighbor had sat down and appeared to be asleep.
"Damn Baka, she is nothing like that Professor woman from Shippo's stupid books. Oh great, she discussing Hamlet. Kami-sama help me!" Akari thought to herself in Japanese as she groaned softly and put her head down.
"Miss Cohen! Perhaps you can tell us what Hamlet meant in his, "To be or not to be," speech? Since you seem so keen on sleeping through my class?" Ms. Shay asked the small girl sitting next to Akari, watching as she tensed underneath the sharp gaze.
"...He was thinking about death?" The small girl said reluctantly and Akari noticed that several students were openly glaring at the girl with looks she recognized from her own youth.
"Yes, but can you explain it in more intellectual terms? This is not an elementary class after all." Ms. Shay said slyly, making a few kids snicker around the classroom as Akari's anger bubbled up. Without missing a beat, Akari stood up and began to speak, her smirk growing with each word though she had to fight to not let it show.
"Hamlet is basically contemplating suicide on and off throughout his story. In this part of the story, he compares death to a little sleep, which he thinks wouldn't be so bad. Of course, we'd escape a lot by being dead, like being spurned in love. This is that whole "slings and arrows" bit is all about. He's saying being in love is like being hit with thousands of arrows because it hurts so much. Plus Hamlet feels betrayed by his mom because she married so soon after his dad's death. And to his dad's murderer no less. Should I continue?" Akari asked, pausing in her little speech at the look of dumb shock on the teacher's face.
"No, Miss Hidge-ur-washi, that will do for today." Ms. Shay said through clenched teeth but before she could add more Akari frowned, there was no way she was letting that slide. No one insulted the Higurashi name and got away with it.
"It's Higurashi by the way. If you are to continue to teach I suggest acting like you actually have something of an educational decree and learning pronunciation. Otherwise, well let's just say I'd hate to see you go." Akari told the teacher in her best smart-ass tone, stunning the class into silence before whispers broke out and the bell rang.
"Detention Miss Higurashi! Class I expect a full two page essay on Hamlet's speech due in two days. Dismissed!" Ms. Shay snapped, clearly unnerved if Akari were to go off her scent alone. The Kuro Hanyo sighed before standing up with her bag, preparing to move down the aisle when she was suddenly shoved to the side as her neighbor, who she still didn't know the first name of, rushed past her with her head bent down. Akari frowned in confusion before shaking it off to head to her next class, one she knew Masaru would be in with her.
"Akari! Rumor has it you threatened a teacher." Masaru called out, jogging over to his older sister and switching to Japanese.
"Who me? Why I never!" Akari mocked with fake innocence as Masaru started to laugh loudly, ignoring the strange looks both were getting from the students around them.
"Don't let Kaa-san hear you, otherwise you'll be stuck cleaning house. Or worse!" Masaru laughed as they both went to their next class. "Ano, Shippo is so lucky!" Masaru whined, throwing his arms back behind his head to support his head as he looked up, letting his dark brown hair fall in his violet eyes.
"So you'd rather be helping Shippo and Otou-san work on architecture and construction?" Akari asked her younger brother, making him hum in thought before the hum turned into an annoying tune that made Akari smack her brother.
"Ah! Ow! I'll tell Kaa-san on you!" Masaru yelled as Akari continued to pummel him, both ignoring the gawking students around them.
"Oh shut up! I've hit you harder in training!" Akari snapped before taking the front of his favorite blue 'Victory' sweater and dragging him off to class. Choosing to ignore the smirk and flirts he sent to most of the girls watching. Kagome was right, Masaru was really starting to become a mini Miroku.
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Noon brought the end of the school day for Akari and brought it with a mix of elation to be out of the stuffy building, and disappointment at having homework. Lucky for Akari, Masaru had decided to stay after to play football and hopefully earn a spot on the team, leaving the half Kuro to drive home on her own since the little ones didn't get out for another few hours.
"Just leave me alone!" Akari heard as she walked to Shippo's truck, having borrowed the vehicle when she noticed he wasn't using it. Immediately, Akari recognized the voice as belonging to the Cohen girl and followed it towards a well hidden area behind the cafeteria.
"Or what? Stupid freak like you ain't gonna do nothing!" A boy laughed cruelly, his Southern drawl as thick as his stupidity. Akari peeked around the corner to see a typical farm boy dressed in a Polo shirt and nice jeans standing over a much smaller girl while a few of his equally dumb friends watched, while passing around a pack of cigarettes.
"Shut up Brian! And give me back my stuff!" The smaller girl, who barely even came up to his chest, yelled back at him, making the cronies 'ooh' while Brian lifted up a torn blue back pack covered in stains.
"This? But trash belongs in the garbage!" Brian said with mock sincerity then with a hateful grin he tossed the bag over the fenced in dumpster, making his friends laugh while the girl looked at him with anger and disbelief.
"You! You!" She growled and Akari was stopped from stepping forward when she felt a building wave of malicious yokia.
"What? Going to go cry to your mommy?" Brian asked, making a crying face as his friends laughed and threw their own jeers. "Oh that's right, you don't have one. Do you?" Brian asked with cruelty in his eyes as he smiled down at the girl that had gone stiff. Akari's eyes widened as the building yokia suddenly snapped and the girl lunged forward.
"YOU COWARD!" She screamed and Akari immediately tried to move forward, her eyes having caught sight of a blade in the boy's hand while her brain was still trying to catch up with the events. Before she could get more than a few yards, Brian's friends joined the fight, pinning the bruised girl down and beating her more.
"What now freak? Nothing to say?" Brian spat as he laughed, only to have that laugh cut off as Akari grabbed his hair and pulled his head back, resting her hand against his neck. To everyone's eyes, it only looked as if Akari was pressing her fingers to Brian's neck but to the boy himself, he felt five sharp knives pressed against his skin.
"All of you will get up and leave with your pathetic tails between your legs. Or I WILL kill you. One. By. One." Akari hissed, and pressed a little harder against Brian's neck, effectively scarring all the boys witless at the sight of blood on their leader's neck.
"O-Okay." Brian gasped in a shaking voice. Akari released him without another word and watched as all the boys took off running, yelling threats of their own once they thought they were far enough to be safe.
"Ano, are you okay?" Akari asked softly once she was sure she had her emotions back under control. The smaller girl winced but nodded, her black eye swollen shut completely as she turned her head and spit out some blood while holding her bleeding arm close to her chest. Akari frowned, her eyes scanning over the tiny girl to assess her injuries before carefully grabbing the girl's arm.
"I'm fine," she muttered and stood up with a wince. "I've had worse." Akari heard her mutter with anger as she winced at the deep slash. The blade had been small, it had still left a deep enough cut that Akari was sure was going to need stitches.
"I'll take you to the hospital. That's going to need stitches" Akari said while standing up and helping the girl to her feet.
"NO! ...No, I'm fine. I just...have a fear of hospitals." The girl said, looking away from Akari and pulling her bleeding arm close, wrapping it in the navy blue jacket that she had around her waist.
"I'll give you a choice." Akari spoke up, making the girl pause and slowly look at her. "I won't take you to the hospital if you come back to my house so my mom can look at that." Akari said and waited for a response. As she did she noticed the wave of fatigue settle over the girl as the last of the malicious yokia drifted away.
"Ever heard of 'stranger danger'? I'm not stupid." The girl said with a touch of sarcasm and turned away, making Akari growl softly as she stomped over to the girl, inwardly ranting with her demon about stubbornness and pride, but ignoring it's comments on someone with similar traits.
"You're going to hurt yourself more if you don't stop being so stubborn!" Akari growled, grabbing the girl's shoulder and spinning her around before lifting the tiny girl bridal style.
"H-hey!" The stunned girl yelled and started trying to twist out of her position. "Put me down!" She yelled, beating on Akari with her good arm in another attempt to free herself.
"I will when I get to my brother's truck." Akari told the girl with a growl. Ignoring the girl's ranting she quickly made her way to Shippo's truck and -after childproofing the door- set the girl on the seat. "Buckle up or you'll end up with more bruises." Akari said cheerfully before dashing over to the driver's side.
