Author's Note: Again it's been a while. I was trying to do a chapter of a Perfect World first but I hit writers block (which is weird because I have that one mapped out very thoroughly) so I've decided to do another chapter of this first and then hopefully that will get me back into the swing of things. And again feel free to pm me/review if you think I'm taking too long.
Yuriko woke up in pain.
A normal person would have screamed and cried out for help, would have panicked and acted foolishly. Yuriko just snarled and reached up to grab her collar. That was when she noticed that her arms weren't working, and realized the pain was coming from having them pinned to her bed by two giant screws.
[Good morning Suzushina-san] A voice said from above her. A man who was obviously Kumagawa was standing over her bed, another giant screw in his hands.
"What the hell do you want?" Yuriko spat at him.
[To defeat you.] Kumagawa said with an inhuman grin, [Hey Suzushina-san do you ever wonder why shounen protagonists always go through hell to train themselves to beat their stronger opponent? Wouldn't the much simpler solution be to attack them in their sleep?]
"Shut up you scumbag."
[This is my way of fighting] Kumagawa said. [By the way shouldn't you be sleeping in a t-shirt and panties instead of paja-]
Yuriko awkwardly shoved her head backwards, forcing the switch on her collar to be hit by a metal stick she had placed in her pillow for just such an emergency. Kumagawa stopped in mid-sentence as Yuriko with her powers now working broke the giant screws like they were toys and shoved him through the doorway and into the next room with utter contempt.
Kumagawa threw a screw at her from within the living room but all it managed to do was bounce off of her and return to hit him with the flat side. Yuriko walked out of her bedroom to see him standing there calmly, completely unharmed and without even a scratch on his uniform despite the fact that she had just thrown him through a door. [How about we call this a draw Suzushina-san?] He said easily.
Yuriko just kept glaring at him and leaped across the room to him in two easy vector-controlled steps. Without hesitating she grabbed his arm and broke it with a simple use of her power. Kumagawa cried out and fell to the floor when she released him.
There was a loud bang and suddenly Yomikawa burst out of her bedroom, and her eyes went straight to Yuriko's injured arms. "Why are you bleeding?" She asked. "Who was here?" She like Yuriko was dressed in pajamas.
"Him obviously." Yuriko said pointing at Kumagawa.
"Is he invisible!?" Yomikawa yelled.
"What? No he's right there. Did you go blind?"
"...Yuriko nobody's there."
"What?" Yuriko snapped. She glared at Kumagawa and saw to her surprise that he was moving his arm around normally as if she hadn't just broken it.
[Don't you get it Suzushina-san?] Kumagawa said. [I'm not really here. This is all a hallucination that's being caused by your guilt. Nobody but you can see me.]
Yuriko responded by kicking him in the shin so hard that it broke and he fell to one knee. "Hallucinations can't injure my arms you moron. Why the hell can't she see you?"
[Ah, I see you're too smart for me Suzushina-san.] Kumagawa said with a smile. [All I did was make her ability to see me into nothing.] To punctuate the point he clapped his hands together and stood up, his shin apparently healed. Still smiling he said [Oh well I guess I lose again huh?] Suddenly a giant screw appeared in his right hand and he threw it at Yomikawa.
Yuriko broke it with a mere gesture but when she turned back Kumagawa was gone.
"What the hell is going on?" Yomikawa asked. Yuriko could hear the other members of the house begin to awaken and decided to not give chase to Kumagawa. He could have gone anywhere and she had a lot of explaining to do. Which would be rather hard considering she wasn't entirely sure what had just happened herself.
* X *
"I think I know who this Kumagawa is." Yomikawa said over the phone.
Yuriko quickly left the living room and walked into her bedroom in an effort not to be overheard by Last Order. It was the afternoon now and Yomikawa was at work while everybody else was just lounging around the house. "Who is he?"
"I think he's the number six level five."
"Think? Can't you just check that bank database?"
"That's the thing, Kumagawa isn't in the bank database. At first I thought it was just a fake name so I looked through for powers that could have caused what you described and I still got nothing. So I have to assume that he was erased from the bank, which has only ever happened once."
"To the number six?"
"Yes. We don't know why but one day he used his power to erase himself from the database. We have a small file on him that's emailed back and forth but anytime we try to make a public database of any sort it just vanishes."
"So what's his power?"
"It says that his power is to turn anything into nothing."
"That's not possible." Yuriko responded instantly. "There's no way that kind of power can exist."
"It says he's a gemstone." Yomikawa responded.
That made Yuriko pause. Gemstones were espers who were born with their powers or achieved them naturally instead of going through the standard esper curriculum program. They were very rare, so rare that most students in Academy City didn't even know that they existed, or thought they were urban legends. Their powers were much less structured than a normal espers were. While a normal esper's power might easily be described as pyrokinesis or telepathy a gemstone's power was far harder to classify. Yuriko had once been in a research facility with a gemstone who could change any colour into another colour anywhere around the world. That gemstone like so many others had died during the course of the research.
"What else?" She asked.
"It says he has some serious psychological issues, in fact it says that he is the most insane of the famously insane level fives."
"Screw you." Yuriko spat at her.
"Sorry, sorry." Yomikawa laughed. Then her voice turned serious. "It also says that he is the most powerful level five and is only held from the top spot because his power is completely incapable of reaching level six. He was put above number seven because they at least understand some of his powers but he's absolutely useless to researchers."
"How can his power be stronger than mine if I crushed him so easily?" Yuriko asked. The thought of an esper that could overpower her was a strange one, and not too long ago she would have laughed at the mere thought. But she had already been defeated twice by Kamijou so the thought wasn't too mind boggling.
"Maybe it's related to his psychological problems?" Yomikawa questioned. The two of them were silent for a moment until out of nowhere Yomikawa said, "Say Yuriko how about enrolling in my school?"
"Not a chance."
"Are you sure? I did some research and found out that that boy you like goes here. Komoe is always going off about how much of a trouble maker he is, and I'm sure I can get her to assign him to guide you around as a 'punishment'."
"How the hell do you know his name!?" Yuriko erupted at the phone.
"That Misaka WORST got it through the Misaka network and told me." Yomikawa said. Her tone was motherly but Yuriko could just tell she was smirking.
"Will you ever just drop that!?" Yuriko demanded "What the hell do you care if I like a guy or not!?"
"This is important as rehabilitation. We need to get you to participate in normal activities. If you won't go to school and don't have any friends then getting you to go out on dates seems like a good place to start."
Yuriko hung up the phone, wishing that it was a phone on a cord so that she could slam it. Then she marched out of her room and right out of the apartment without a concrete goal in mind.
She wandered for a while lost in thought, mostly about Kamijou. She had no idea if she wanted to start a relationship with him or not. The idea of a relationship was just so bizarre to her. She had always viewed them as a thing that other people did, something that she could never have like a family.
You have some family now though. Her subconscious mind told her. Last Order, Yomikawa, Yoshikawa, and WORST are your family.
Yuriko literally missed a step with her cane and fell to the ground when that thought popped into her head. "What!?" She demanded out loud. Then she realized that people were looking at her oddly and picked herself up with a curse.
She returned to wandering and unbidden the thought returned. Last Order is your daughter, Yomikawa and Yoshikawa are your parents, and WORST is your sister.
This time she managed to not fall over but it was pretty close "That doesn't count. I'm sure they don't think of me as family."
Are you so afraid of being rejected that you won't even consider it?
"I'm not that messed up." Yuriko retorted.
You are talking to yourself in the middle of a crowded street.
The voice told her. Yuriko cursed and hurried down the street until she was out of sight of everybody who had seen her arguing with herself.
When she got there the thought tried to pop up again but she shoved it aside and forced herself to focus on Kumagawa, the immediate problem. She didn't know much about him but she was the number one esper in Academy City and she was confident that she could figure out how to find him and take him out.
Due to her distraction it took her longer then it normally would have but slowly she forced herself to go over the situation in her head. His goal was to defeat her but even though his power was stronger than hers was he seemed to want to fight her while she was at a disadvantage. That could mean either that he didn't know he was actually stronger than her or that he was just careful. She could set a trap and pretend to get injured in an accident but - although childish - he seemed too smart for that.
If he was waiting for a weak spot then obviously he was watching her from somewhere, but try as she might she couldn't find him. She even attempted turning her power on and using her enhanced calculation abilities to reason out where he might be but it failed utterly. He was obviously using his power in some way to keep himself hidden.
She also reasoned out two things about him: that his power didn't work on her and that he wasn't trying to kill her. It would have been easy for him to kill her in her sleep if he wanted to, and if he had simply made her power into nothing during their fight then he would have won with ease. That took some of the pressure off but not much, he was still a danger to Last Order after all.
The worst thing was she knew that she was on a deadline. She had to sleep eventually and she doubted that the trick she had used this morning would cut it again. She could handle skipping a night of sleep or even two if need be but even with all of her ridiculous power she was still human. Faking sleep wouldn't work either, Academy City had dozens of technologies that could be used to figure out if someone was actually sleeping or not.
She needed to find him, and soon.
"Um, are you okay Accelerator?"
Yuriko practically jumped out of her skin. Not out of surprise at being addressed while she was so deep in thought but because of something far far worse. She hadn't just been so lost in thought that she had completely ignored the voice, she had also walked directly into the person who was calling to her without even noticing it. Now she was standing so close that she was practically embracing him.
The person was of course Kamijou Touma.
"Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-kamijou!" She stuttered. "You-you-you-you-you-you-" Her entire body was completely red once again, and she was unable to put together a straight forward thought.
"Are you sick?" He asked, the concern in his voice genuine despite everything she had done to him. He raised up a hand to feel her forehead and at the same time - perhaps unconsciously - grabbed her left arm with his other hand. "You really shouldn't be out if you're so sick." He said.
Yuriko warred with herself. Her mind screamed at her to run away, that she wasn't ready for anything to happen with him. Her body on the other hand screamed at her to embrace him back. She wanted to press herself against him, to feel his hard body against hers, to kiss him passionately and never look back. The closeness of him was tantalizing, just a tiny inch more and she would have everything her body wanted.
Never in her life had she been so happy that somebody tried to kill her. A giant screw appeared out of thin air, hurtling at her and Kamijou. Her free hand reached up and hit the switch on her collar with record speed, but she needn't have bothered. Kamijou had stuck out his right hand almost instantly and the screw hit and broke apart with the sound of shattering glass. The pieces of the screw somehow disappeared in mid-air and if she had been in any other situation she would have questioned the physics of that.
Kumagawa walked out of the bushes like he just happened to have run across them on the road, not even seeming to notice their matching scowls. [Sorry to interrupt your lover's embrace] He said cheerfully.
"What?" Kamijou asked. Now that he wasn't in immediate danger the two of them noticed their situation at the same time. When blocking Kumagawa's attack Kamijou had wrapped his left arm around her, pressing her tightly against him. It was just what her body had been screaming at her to do before and now it was enjoying itself shamelessly. "Sorry!" He yelled and released her. He looked panicked and seemed relieved when she didn't try and kill him.
Yuriko couldn't decide if she was glad or upset that he had let go of her, but she had no time to consider it.
[Aha, darn. I was so sure the two of you would be too distracted by your hug to notice me attack you.] Kumagawa told them with a childish smile.
"Who are you!?" Kamijou demanded. He blushed for a bit but quickly changed his expression to a glare directed at Kumagawa. Yuriko really wished she could do the same thing. As it was all she could manage was a half-indignant glare over her blush.
[Kumagawa Misogi.] Kumagawa responded. The childish smile was gone from his face as he glared at Kamijou. [A man who was born a minus.]
"Why did you attack us?"
Kumagawa's face turned back into a smile. [I hate you.] He told them.
"Why?" Yuriko finally managed to get out. She had finally gotten control over her emotions back.
[Who knows? It's not my fault.] Two screws appeared in his hands and he threw them at the two of them. Touma shattered one into pieces and Yuriko reflected the other back at him. The screw flying at Kumagawa disappeared in mid-air.
"You bastard." Kamijou said. He charged at Kumagawa with his fist raised but before he could do anything Kumagawa moved faster than humanly possible and was suddenly behind Kamijou with another screw in his hands.
Yuriko hit him with a burst of wind just before the screw pierced into Kamijou's back. Kumagawa went flying like a ragdoll and rolled across the ground lifelessly. In her haste to save Kamijou Yuriko had hit him too hard and cut into him with the wind, killing him. She had even heard his neck snap as it bounced off the ground.
She scowled. She was trying to be a better person, trying to fight without killing people like Kamijou did but she couldn't seem to stop herself from it. Killing people was just so easy. Like she had once told a man pretending to be Unabara Mitsuki: human life was incredibly fragile, so weak that she could rip it apart with a finger.
"You killed him?" Kamijou asked. The disappointment in his voice stung her heart like a needle, but she forced herself not to look away as she watched him watch Kumagawa's blood pool on the floor. She was a killer and he was a hero. It was time she forced that thought through her head, and time that she cut all ties with him.
[Murderer!] Kumagawa yelled from the side. Yuriko couldn't move from the spot she was standing in. Before her, completely unharmed was Kumagawa. [You killed me!] He yelled, childish again.
"You healed yourself!?" Kamijou asked completely bewildered. "I heard your neck snap!"
"The blood is gone." Yuriko noted out loud. It was so quiet that she was unsure if either of them had heard it.
[What kind of monster could survive that kind of injury and then heal themselves?] Kumagawa asked. [That sort of thing is impossible for a minus like me. I died of course.]
"Don't joke with me!" Kamijou demanded. "Are you telling me that you brought yourself back to life?"
[Of course not. There is nothing that can bring somebody back from the dead. A person who has died is gone forever.]
"Then what did you do!?"
[I just made it so that my death never happened.] He told them. Then he gestured with his hands.
Suddenly dozens of screws appeared in the air all falling downwards. Yuriko broke the one above her with the wind and she heard the sound of shattering glass that meant that Kamijou had broken the one falling above him. Now they were standing in a field of them and at the end of it Kumagawa stood balanced on one of the screws like a character from a manga.
He opened his mouth to speak but before he could Yuriko hit him with another burst of wind, knocking him flying. Kamijou acted almost simultaneously to her. He charged out of the field with his right hand breaking the screws in his way like he was pushing aside branches. He reached Kumagawa just as he struggled to rise from Yuriko's attack and mercilessly punched him in the face.
Kumagawa only came to his feet again a few seconds later, once again infuriatingly unharmed. [Two against one?] He asked them [I didn't know that you two were the kind of bullies who liked to gang up on people weaker than them.]
"What the heck is your power?" Kamijou demanded. "Are you a magician?"
[Magician?] Kumagawa asked. [Don't be silly, everybody knows magic isn't real.]
"Then what's your power?"
[Do you really think I will just tell you my power?] Kumagawa deadpanned. [Am I a manga villain?]
"He can turn anything into nothing." Yuriko informed him.
[Exactly.] Kumagawa said. He didn't seem to care that his attempt to keep his power secret had failed. [I am someone far weaker than you are. While you can only turn the supernatural into nothing I am someone who could even erase the world. A complete minus who makes everything he touches worse.]
"Don't give me that crap." Kamijou told him "How can someone make everything they touch worse? All you have to do is reach out your hand and I'm sure you can save somebody!"
[….Hearing that from someone like you who can save people with ease is really irritating.] Kumagawa said.
"Kamijou move!" Yuriko screamed. She jumped out of the field of screws like she was jumping over a puddle, propelling herself to move with her power.
She got there too late.
Kumagawa had moved again, so fast that he seemed like a blur. He had stabbed Touma through the back with one of his giant screws and Kamijou hadn't even had the time to turn around to defend himself.
Kamijou fell to the ground and Yuriko screamed. Screamed in rage and fury, and didn't even realize what she was doing as she killed Kumagawa again with a blast of pure force. She just stared at Kamijou's blood and screamed.
She felt something building on her back, an evil she had thought she had turned away from. She knew without looking that they would soon form into giant black wings, wings that she knew would kill indiscriminately. The thinking part of her tried to force herself to stop, to regain control of her emotions.
She fell to the ground. Impossibly her battery had run out, and now all she was left with was the rage.
[Aha, all I had to do was make your battery power into nothing.] Kumagawa said to himself. [Even the number one's unbreakable defense has a weakness like that huh?]
She didn't understand the words and she didn't care. She could feel Kamijou's blood touching her hand from the floor. The evil built along her back. She wanted to kill Kumagawa, to rip him into pieces, to snap his bones, and to reduce him to dust like she had with Kihara. Some dark part of her knew that even he couldn't make that into 'nothing'.
[I finally win.] Kumagawa said. He was smiling like Christmas had come early.
His life was saved when a bolt of lightning hit him from behind. He collapsed but pulled himself up again in an instant. Misaka WORST was walking towards him with murder in her eyes. A screw appeared in his hand and he raised his arm to throw it.
Kamijou grabbed Kumagawa's hand and the screw broke into pieces. Kumagawa turned around in blatant disbelief, to see Kamijou standing with a screw punctured through his body. He appeared to be holding himself up with nothing but pure force of will. He released Kumagawa's hand and punched him in the face.
For half a second Kumagawa looked like he would still fight. Then he glanced at Yuriko and she knew he was seeing the darkness on her back even though it had not manifested yet. [No, I guess I lose again.] He muttered.
Then he was gone.
Yuriko blacked out.
* X *
Kazuo Fujita was born to fail. Or to be more precise he was born to get as close to success as possible only to fail just as he started to hope. He was a child error, abandoned in Academy City by his parents so they didn't have to pay for him anymore. He could still remember his excitement coming to the city; his parents had filled his head with stories about how special he would become, how proud they would be. He still remembered his horror when they didn't make the first payment for his school, and had blocked calls from his phone and from Academy City. The city hadn't even bothered to call the police to make his parents pay, just thrown him aside like all the others.
He remembered being isolated because of his power even amongst that group of unwanted children. He remembered them all being taken away for experiments and better orphanages that wanted them. One day when he was the last child left before the orphanage was shut down two adults had shown up looking to adopt. He was so happy, he skipped around the halls and packed his bags without even talking to them. He still remembered overhearing the administrator of the orphanage explain to them what his power was and why they wouldn't want him. They listened. It was the last time he remembered crying. Since then he had decided that the only thing he should do was laugh when his world came crashing down around him.
Kazuo was a level 3 esper and his power was to break down things around him. Items, buildings, even people. He couldn't control it. It just happened sometimes, he would be walking and suddenly a cleaning robot would start to misfunction, or streetlights would stop turning on, or someone would collapse in pain. Sometimes more than one person.
He used to think that he was the most misfortunate person in the world. Until he met Kumagawa. For the first time in his life he met somebody worse off than he was, someone who was more hopeless than he.
There were ten of them in the room, including Kumagawa. All were people like him, who lived in constant misfortune because of their powers. Kumagawa wasn't a charismatic leader who could inspire them to follow him like a hero in a movie, but his very nature drew the misfortunate to him. Everybody wanted somebody to be worse off than they were.
[Okay.] Kumagawa said with a wide smile. He was standing beside a white board with "Battle Plan" written on it. Below that were two names, Accelerator and Kamijou Touma. Kumagawa had explained who they were and Kazuo hated them with a passion. [It's time to decide how to fight these two.]
"Should we practice working together?" Kazuo asked.
Kumagawa looked at him with disappointment [Don't be silly Fujita-san, us minuses could never achieve anything by hard work.] 'Minuses' was what he called people like them, people who could only make things worse. [Obviously the only thing to do is separate them and attack while they are weak.]
* X *
Yuriko woke up laying on the couch in Yomikawa's apartment. Her battery was fully charged and she was again capable of conscious thought. Her mind played through the fight with Kumagawa again to comb for any kind of detail that she might be able to use against him. One thought that came up repeatedly was that she was lucky he hadn't realized the evil on her back had started receding when she saw Kamijou was alive.
"Are you okay asks Misaka as Misaka is worried about you?" Last Order asked from beside the couch.
"…Yeah." Yuriko replied. She pushed the blanket off of herself and sat up to take in the room around her. Yomikawa, and Yoshikawa were sitting on chairs they had pulled up to the couch. Misaka WORST was ignoring her and watching TV quietly. Touma was laying on the floor on a futon, unconscious.
"Really she made us put you on the couch instead of your bed so that she could watch over you even when she ate and you only give her a 'yeah'?" Yomikawa complained.
Yuriko ignored her. "Why isn't he in the hospital?" She demanded.
"He's fine." Yomikawa assured her. "The wound disappeared somehow. He'll wake up soon enough."
"Misaka couldn't even find any holes in the ground from all those screws." WORST told her, apparently paying more attention than she let on.
"…" Did that mean that Kumagawa had healed Kamijou? No it was more likely he had made everything he had done into nothing to erase the evidence quickly and that had coincidentally healed Kaimjou too.
"So what happened?" Yomikawa asked. "I've got an arrest warrant out on this Kumagawa but I don't have any evidence to charge him with if somebody catches them."
"They won't." Yuriko responded. Anti-Skill was the best trained police force in the world and experienced in fighting espers, but even they couldn't bring down a level five without far too much casualties for them to be willing to risk it.
"Then I have to get you in police protection." Yomikawa said and reached for her cell phone. Yuriko shook her head, but Yomikawa continued. "If we can't even see him how are we supposed to protect you from him? He could easily attack you in your sleep again and we wouldn't be able to hear him coming."
"WORST saw him." Yuriko countered. She grabbed Yomikawa's hand to prevent her from dialing the last button.
"Misaka just saw the screws and threw lightning where you were glaring." WORST yelled from the TV.
"See?" Yomikawa said triumphantly.
"Even then bringing in more Anti-Skill won't do anything and could just get them killed. Besides he won't attack me anyways."
"Why not?"
"He likes to be unpredictable." Yuriko explained. "The only things he does consistently are 'healing' himself and using those screws. Everything else is always different."
"How do you know that?" Yoshikawa asked, finally breaking her silence.
"I'm a genius." Yuriko told them without the tiniest bit of arrogance in her voice. She looked over at Last Order and a thought occurred to her. "Maybe Last Order should sleep somewhere else though."
"I give you a place to live and you don't even spare a thought to my safety, but you want the kid to move even though you don't think there's a chance he'll attack you?" Yomikawa complained, both of them ignoring Last Order's loud replies that she wouldn't leave. "Wouldn't you normally sleep somewhere else like you did before?"
Yuriko shook her head. "He won't attack me sleeping if it's in the same place that it was before. He's assuming that I have defenses set up here now. If I sleep somewhere else he'll attack me there."
"Alright, I guess I can take her to a hotel." Yoshikawa said.
"Misaka won't go yells Misaka as Misaka demands you listen to her opinion!"
"Quiet brat." Yuriko said.
Last Order's reply was cut off by a loud groan from the floor. Kamijou was getting up from his resting place on the floor. "Where am I?" He asked.
"My apartment." Yomikawa told him.
"…I'm going to count this one as not ending up in the hospital." Kamijou said to himself. "Do you know why that man attacked us?"
"No idea." Yuriko told him. "He just seems to hate me for some reason, and you too apparently."
Kamijou just sighed, like someone wanting to kill him was a common annoyance for him. Which it probably was. "Alright, what do we do?" He asked. For some reason he glanced at her collar oddly.
"Nothing." Yuriko told him. "Go home. I don't need you."
He looked at her stubbornly. "I'm not leaving you alone if you're in danger."
She would have given anything to not have responded to that by blushing.
"He can share Yuriko's room!" WORST yelled. "I'm sure she'll be happy to entertain you for the night in return for protecting her."
Yuriko blushed and Touma grimaced in embarrassment. Yomikawa and Yoshikawa just watched in amusement. Last Order didn't get it. "Of course she will says Misaka as Misaka promises in her place!"
"…Anyways." Yuriko croaked out. "He won't be attacking tonight and we don't know where to find him. Go home, and I'll call you if something does happen."
Touma looked grateful for the change of topic. "Alright. See you soon then, Suzushina-san." He told her.
He was gone for a minute before Yuriko thought to ask "How did he know my family name was Suzushina?"
Yomikawa, Yoshikawa, and WORST all burst out laughing. Last Order just smiled and pointed at her collar. Yuriko looked down and could barely make out some symbols written on it. She ran to the bathroom mirror and even reversed she could make out her name written on her collar.
Written in between two cutely drawn dog paws.
She ran back into the room and straight to WORST who was still sitting on the floor in front of the TV. "What the hell did you do!?" She screamed.
WORST didn't stop laughing as she explained. "Misaka thought you would look cute in a dog collar."
It had been like this the whole time. That meant that Kamijou had noticed it, and must have thought it was something she did constantly. She turned to Yoshikawa and Yomikawa and demanded, "Why the hell didn't you tell me?"
"WORST said that it would make you look cuter explains Misaka as Misaka doesn't understand why you are so angry."
Yuriko turned and ran, kicking WORST in the face as she passed her. She charged to her room and slammed the door shut behind her. Then for the second night in a row she fell asleep wishing her bed would swallow her, and plotting revenge on WORST.
Author's Note continued: And that's the chapter, hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review, especially if you think someone was OOC.
I'm thinking of making Yuriko running into her room in embarrassment the ending of every chapter. :D
