Yo minna! Back with 'Day 3'. I hope that you'll like this one as well! Enjoy~
To blue shadow of sky: Here are the answers to your questions-
1. Mikoto was drawing Ren when she was provided by a model as she likes Ren. The same goes for Hiroto who likes Mizuki.
2. Homework will cause trouble to other students as well as Kai, since he was a student at Sakura High too. Izumo planned especially to make Kai suffer, he didn't care about other students.
3. Izumo mentioned the classes 3-C, 3-D, and especially 3-E instead of 3-A since he knew that the Principal was a big fan of Kai and Kai was in 3-A, the best class of the third years. He used the poorer classes as his bait to make Bentou increase their homeworks. Izumo is a studious person, so increasing them by half or twice wouldn't bother him. But it was increased by thrice which he didn't expect at all.
Thank you.
To a guest: I don't plan on using all the members of Blade Breakers except Kai, Takao and Hiromi as one of the main members. The other characters would be the OCs. Thank you.
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade, it belongs to Aoki Takao.
Days of Youth
Days at Sakura High: First Semester
Day 3: Delinquents
The third day at Sakura High. The previous one had a lot of happenings within it. Most of the students were tired and had dark circles under their eyes. Izumo's plan had turned against him, although it wasn't successful at all.
Even if Izumo wanted Kai to suffer, he hadn't thought about Ren. He didn't consider that Ren would become a victim.
However, Ren was all fit. She showed no stress at all. The other students of 3-A had gathered around her to take her help in completing their homeworks. Kai and Kazuto left their benches because of the small crowd.
"Just how popular is she?" Kai asked in astonishment.
"Kaze is not only popular because of her looks, but because of her intelligence, cleverness, personality and strength. Even our Sakurai Sakura and her gang admires her." Kazuto said.
Kai looked at him with questioning eyes when he mentioned that Sakura had a gang. Then suddenly, the door opened to reveal a fair skinned girl with sakura-colour hair. She didn't bother to tug her shirt and her blazer's sleeves were folded upto her elbow. Her features were sharp.
Everyone looked at the door and gasped. All showed fearful eyes. Kai looked at her.
"Ah, here she comes..." Kazuto said, "The infamous leader of delinquents of Sakura High."
Kai looked confused, "A leader of delinquents in A class?"
Kazuto looked at him, "She maybe the leader of delinquents, but is actually a genius in studies."
Kai looked at her. In his previous school, the delinquent was in E class, and that one was in A class. That was a wonder.
She had her followers. They entered the classroom in a hurry and greeted her at the same time.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, Sakura-sama!"
Kai looked more confused.
"And the most interesting thing is that this delinquent is Sakurai Sakura." Kazuto said and Kai turned at him with questioning eyes.
"How come Bentou's granddaughter is the leader of delinquents?" he asked.
"Even I don't know." Kazuto replied.
At first, after hearing Kai's voice, Sakura thought that she was dreaming. Then hearing his voice for a second time, she turned back and saw him with Kazuto. She froze for a moment with her mouth open.
Kazuto noticed that and gestured Kai to look at her direction, "You are famous, even with Sakura."
Sakura stood up when Kazuto stated that Kai was famous, holding more evidence that it was the real Kai. She walked upto him in an unsual haste.
"Ha-hajimemashite, Hiwatari-kun!" she bowed to Kai who sweat-dropped. Not even once a delinquent bowed to him. The others looked at Kai with shock, like she would never do anything as such as to bow down to anyone, except Ren.
Sakura's gang gasped at her action.
Sakura forwarded a notebook. Kazuto smirked.
"Autograph, please!"
"I've already signed one for your grandfather." Kai said.
"I want my own!" Sakura said, looking up with big puppy eyes that even defeated Max, "Please..."
Kai wondered how such a sharp featured person could make such big puppy eyes. He couldn't resist her eyes so he took the notebook and signed one. Sakura jumped with joy once he gave the notebook back to her.
Then, turning to look at her watch, she realised that she hadn't done a thing she must do since she came as all of her attention was focused towards Kai. Sakura ran towards the window seat in the second row where the students had gathered. The others moved out of her way.
Ren looked up from a fellow student's homework papers at Sakura, who bowed down again.
"O-ohayo gozaimasu, Kaze-sama!" she said. Kai sweat-dropped at her action towards Ren.
"For the second time, just how popular is she?" he asked. Kazuto sighed.
"Let's say she's popular and respected among everyone in the world." he said, "And you're popular than ever because it is rumored that you arn't cold anymore."
Kai got reminded of the fact that he was acting rather lively since he started going to Sakura High. He was always acting cold in front of others, except someone, of course.
Suddenly, a voice spoke in his head.
"I'm with that guy on this one."
Yes, it was Dranzer.
On what?"
"I think that he is right; that you've changed since you stepped inside here."
"I think so too. Weird."
"You said this line yesterday as well."
"Yeah."
"Stop being dreamy. Or are you really infatuated by this Kurosaki?"
"I don't know. But I get the feeling that I know her."
"You do know her. C'mon, she's the first one you met on your way to this school!"
"I mean that I've seen her before I came to Japan. I've seen her somewhere within Russia. Because of that Black Dranzer incident in the Abbey, I can't remember well."
"Now that's new. Anything else that you can remember?"
"I get the feeling that she was... feared? By Volkov and Grandfather?"
"Now this is interesting..."
The crowd around Ren had started to disappear. Kai snapped out of his mental talk with Dranzer and made his way towards his seat. He missed out on what happened after Sakura's actions. He sat down and again connected to Dranzer.
"Oi Shonen, what up with cutting me off?"
"Gomen."
Silence fell over their talks. After some moment, Dranzer spoke.
"Look, you can always ask her."
"Yeah."
"Okay, then. Ja ne."
Saying that, Dranzer left.
Izumo soon entered the classroom with dark circles under his eyes. For some reason, he didn't got bothered by Kai not having dark circles under his eyes. Hayami approached him as she saw him.
"What happened, Izumo-kaichou? You arn't always this late." she said. Izumo looked up and forced a small smile.
Kamiya entered the class within the next minute. As usual, they followed Mizuki's lead and greeted her.
Sakura looked rather serious when it came to studies. The extra attention she paid towards the classes was something very rare for a delinquent. Izumo on the other hand, looked depressed upon something.
Then it was social studies. The one who entered was a male teacher who was really short. His name was Yuuma Ryuunosuke. His height looked like it was no more than 137 centimetre. His voice was like a mouse with which he shouted a lot. His class was nearly irritable. After social studies, it was recess.
Kai was looking at the sakura with Ren and Kazuto as he found the soothing pink colour of sakura much better than Yuuma's class.
Hayami and Mizuki paid attention towards Izumo from time to time since they thought that something was really wrong with him as he was too quiet. His eyes showed that he was depressed over something.
Hayami decided to approach him, "What happened, Izumo-kaichou?"
"Kaa-san suddenly had another cardiac arrest and has undergone another operation last night. I'm worried about her and the charges..." he said and looked down.
Kai looked at Izumo when he heard about his mother's case. Ren seemed to pay attention when he mentioned his mother having yet another cardiac arrest. Hayami and Mizuku felt rather sorry for him.
"Cheer up, Izumo-kaichou! We are here!" Hayami said as she clasped her hands together.
"That's right. Don't worry about the charges. You'll manage somehow." Mizuki said. Izumo looked rather serious.
"Iie, Asano-san. I can't ignore the charges at all. You know that we have some money problems." he said with a serious tone and expression.
"Then I"ll provide you with them."
Hayami, Mizuki and Izumo looked at the source of the voice. It was Ren. Kazuto began to pay attention too when he heard her.
"What do you mean?" Hayami asked.
"I said that I'll provide you with the charges." Ren repeated. The listeners were a bit shocked to hear that.
"Naze, Kurosaki-san?" Izumo asked. Ren went closer towards his desk.
"Because I understand what it means, that's why." she said with desparate eyes, "Let me help."
'Understand what it means?' Kai thought. Izumo smiled at Ren's statement.
"Arigatou, Kurosaki-san. I don't know how to reply." he said. Hayami and Mizuki looked relieved. Ren smiled.
"Isn't Kaze-kun great?" Mizuki said as she clasped her hands.
Hayami sighed upon hearing that, "Okay, I'll overlook it this time."
Izumo and Mizuki sweat-dropped, 'Overlook what?'
Kazuto smiled at that group. He turned towards Kai.
"His mother is always getting sick, and they're not a very stable family. As per as I know, Izumo's father died in a truck accident. So it was only his mother and him." he said beforehand for Kai to understand the situation.
Kai nodded slightly, "I see."
Did Kurosaki take pity on Izumo because his mother is the only one left for him?'
He suddenly felt another presence inside his head.
"Figured who she is?"
"No, but I can use this as a clue."
"Gathered the courage to ask her?"
"Don't know."
Silence.
"I think you would need some time to do it."
"I think so too."
And Dranzer left. Kai was thinking hard to remember where he had seen Ren before he came to Japan.
Sakura was paying attention towards that all the time.
'Che. Ano baka. All he needed to do was play a drama over his own problem to convince Kaze-sama. But I won't lose either.' she thought with a bitter mind. She never liked Izumo since he was always running after Ren. She bit her nail and tried to think of something to catch her attention.
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A few minutes later, everything went back to normal. Ren was walking through the corridor. All she wanted was peace, but that wish wasn't granted at that moment because...
"Kaze-sama! Matte kudasai!" Sakura said as she tailed Ren. She sighed and turned back.
"Sakurai, I told you to leave me alone. You've been following me through the whole school." she said and Sakura pouted. Ren again started to walk towards the rooftop. Sakura stood there for a moment then started to follow Ren with her cries.
And Haruno's banana peels just had to interrupt. He was eating a banana he borrowed from Fumihiko. As soon as he was finished, he threw the peel at any random direction on which Sakura slipped. Ren didn't bother to stop walking.
"That's what you get for following me." she said in a low voice. Sakura was very disappointed. Haruno came running to see who the victim was and was afraid to death when he saw that it was Sakura.
Sakura stood up and glared at Haruno. She came towards him and grabbed him by his collar.
"How dare you, Tonchiki?!" she said, frightening Haruno to death. Then Sakura suddenly leaved the collar, "Forget it."
Saying that, she left.
The day was quite windy. There were not many students on the roof. Ren seemed to enjoy the weather. Then Sakura made her way through the door to the rooftop.
Upon seeing Sakura, Ren made her way towards the door. She didn't want to be bothered by her. Sakura sensed a bit of irritation coming from her and sighed.
She went upto the parapet. Sakura was a bit taller than the other girls and had good reflexes in comparision, so climbing up the parapet was no new thing for her. She always liked to stand on the rooftop's parapet whenever she was feeling fustrated or angered or disappointed. The only wonder was that she didn't fall off the roof before.
Ren was about to exit the roof, but stopped when she felt that something was wrong. 'The wind... has changed.'She quickly turned back and saw Sakura standing on the parapet, her eyes closed. That was no new thing; Sakura liked to stand on the parapet and feel the wind against her face whenever she was feeling bad. But something was wrong. Ren felt that. She stood there to find out what would happen next.
Sakura closed her eyes, she had never felt that much disappointed before. Izumo got to Ren's warm side before her. She didn't like it.
Nor had she liked sakura. It was her who made her like them. Sakura tried thinking of a good plan, while also trying to figure out why Ren offered to pay for Izumo's mother's hospital charges.
'Don't let anything blind you. Keep racing with the wind. You'll reach your destination. That's what Kaze-sama said to me.' Sakura thought. Then suddenly, someone pushed her from behind. That caught her off guard as she started to fall. Ren saw that too, Sakura falling from the parapet, nothing else.
"Sakurai!"
Sakura shut her eyes down because of fear, but slowly opened them when she felt that she had stopped falling. She looked up and found Ren holding her hand, one foot placed on the parapet. Both looked relieved.
Then again, someone pulled Sakura's leg hard, resulting in Sakura to fall with Ren that time.
Sakura looked down. They were falling from the terrace of a five floored building. She had lost all hopes of getting saved. The only option was...
Ren suddenly grabbed her in a bridal style, "Hold me tightly."
Sakura blushed and nodded. Even if it was someone as amazing as Ren, she didn't expect her to pull off some inhuman stunt...
Ren pushed her left foot against the wall, took a leap in mid-air, gained a steady composure, and landed on her foot.
Sakura opened her eyes and found Ren standing on the ground,still holding her in the bridal style. She blushed like a mad person. Her prince had just pulled off an inhuman stunt.
Other students stared at them, some other came to the scene. Seeing Ren fall from the terrace, Mizuki came rushing as well. Kazuto, too, upon seeing that, joined Mizuki. Kai joined them.
Sakura's gang members rushed to her rescue. There was this guy called Chibisuke Suke who shouted like hell for help from other gang members when he saw his boss fall.
And so, all of them were there. They were relieved to see both of them safe. But it striked Kazuto, Kai and especially Mizuki, Izumo and Mikoto to see Ren carrying Sakura in bridal style; since these people wanted to be carried like that instead. Sakura's gang and Hayami were overjoyed by that.
Sakura tried to look at Ren but blushed so much that she turned her face away. It was like a dream coming true! She always wanted to be carried by her prince like that. Then Ren let Sakura down.
"Are you hurt?" she asked Sakura in a comforting voice. Izumo, Mizuki and Mikoto got extremely jealous of her. Sakura nodded, still with a blush on her face.
"Are you alright, Sakura-sama?" Suke said and Sakura nodded.
Then it was Kazuto to approach them.
"So what happened to you two that you practically had to jump from the terrace?" he asked. Ren and Sakura looked at him.
"Sakura fell from the parapet and I tried to save her, resulting in both of us falling. Then this happened." Ren explained.
"Wow, you're so amazing, Kaze-kun. You can pull of stunts like that." Mizuki said and Izumo and Mikoto nodded, pushing their jealousy aside.
"I was trained in fighting and acrobatics, so I can do this." Ren said and looked at Sakura, "But it sure is a new thing. You have an absolute balance, Sakurai."
Sakura looked at her with confused eyes, "I don't know, someone pushed me and I fell. And when you held my hand, I felt that someone pulled my leg hard."
Hearing that, everyone gasped.
'Just as I thought.'
"Was there anyone else present?" Kai asked and looked at Ren.
"Nope, but something was wrong." she said. Sakura looked more confused yet overjoyed. She was carried like a princess by her prince!
But that was a serious matter. Everyone was confused to hear that someone invisible was desparate to make Sakura fall.
And that marked the end of recess.
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Sakura was walking through the streets without her gang around her. The school was already over. She was deeply thinking about that incident and whenever she thought about Ren carrying her like a princess, she blushed.
Suddenly, a strong hand seized her wrist and pulled her into a dark alley. Sakura was still excited about that incident, so she was caught off guard. Love always slowed her down by 99 percent.
When Sakura looked up, she found an infamous gang of delinquents from Kurayami High. She never had any problem defeating them once, but then they had changed so much. They had much stronger muscles, that there were more of them, plus, she was nowhere near her full potential because of that incident.
Sakura knew very well that she couldn't do anything right then, but was somehow still standing. Her legs were shaking, she was trembling.
Yes, trembling.
The leader, Rai, stepped closer, "So this's the girl who beat us, huh? She looks like a little harmless chick right now."
The others laughed. Sakura tried not to lose her composure and took the humiliation on. But she felt that something was wrong. Was she afraid? What was holding her back?
The others stopped laughing, "Oi, what happened? Are you really afraid?"
"Are you here to take a revenge?" Sakura asked. Rai laughed a hysterical laughter then came closer towards her, pushing her against the wall.
"Reveng? Sou da! I still remember when you and your gang beat our's badly. You stood strong that day. And now, it's our turn!" he said and slammed his hand against the wall. Sakura flinched a little.
"Now, we've gotten stronger, and you've gotten weaker." Rai sneered.
'Weaker? Me?'"But we might spare you if you entertain us." Rai said. That got on Sakura's nerve. She couldn't stay quiet anymore. She knew what they meant by 'entertain'.
"Entertain you?" she said with a smirk, "Like the hell I would!"
Rai got angry upon that, "Shut up, you bitch!"
He drove his hand against her face. Sakura fell on the ground with hard. The other members were quiet until then but started laughing when she fell on the ground.
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and saw Rai stepping right in front of her, "You talk like you've got big powers. Don't forget that you're a woman and a woman must do everything a man says!"
"That's right!" another delinquent wavered him.
Sakura tried to steady herself and forced a smirk, "You say that because you were beaten by another woman, right?"
Rai again got disappointed with her words and kicked right beside her ear, "You still have the courage to speak when you are the weak one here?"
Sakura fell on the ground again. She felt it; something was wrong. Something was holding her back. Even her resisting power had decreased.
'Weak...?'
Rai grabbed her collar and raised her upwards.
'Me...?'
He punched her on the side of her face. It swelled up.
'That's right...'
He again punched her. She fell on the ground. The others joined him too.
'I would never forget...'
They continued to beat her. They didn't care if she was a girl or something else.
'Kaze-sama...'
Blood started to flicker down her forehead. She was starting to lose her consciousness.
'Tasukete...'
'Don't let anything blind you. Keep racing with the wind. You'll meet reach destination.'
Sakura felt her consciousness along with her potential come back to her. She smirked.Nothing could beat her that easily then.
Rai did notice her smirk, "Oi, oi, what's up with that smirk?"
Sakura didn't reply but kept on smirking. She stood up. All the other members backed away. Rai felt nervous too. He knew that smirk wasn't an ordinary one. Nevertheless, he gathered his courage.
"Oi, answer when you are asked something!" he said and drove his fist towards her. But nothing happened. Everyone including himself was surprised. Sakura blocked Rai's strongest fist, and with one hand. She looked up. Her smirk deepened and her eyes came into view. Those greenish-blue eyes sparkled like a cat who caught its prey.
All of the members got frightened of those eyes, even Rai.
"So... what were you sayin'? I'm weak?" she said with a devilish smirk, her voice sounding daring. It caused more fright to the others. Without any more courage, they started throwing punches at her, all at the same time.
Sakura closed her eyes. She could feel from where the punches were coming. In an instant, she dodged them, resulting in those punches hitting their members. Somehow, one hitted Rai with his punch.
"Ow!" Rai exclaimed, "Who did that?!"
He looked around. When his members had realised what they had done, they started accusing each other.
"It was him!"
"No, him!"
"Him!"
"Stop it!" Rai said, getting confused, "You're not supposed to hit me, but Sakura!"
Upon mentioning her name, they all turned towards her. Sakura was standing totally relaxed, "Finished?"
They all started throwing punches again, but that time, not only they were dodged, but was repayed with Sakura's fists and grips. Once she had pinned everyone to the ground, she stepped in front of Rai.
"Now what? You got defeated by this woman who was supposed to listen to you and entertain you?" Sakura asked in a devilish voice. She was totally different than the one before!
Rai looked up with fearful eyes. He knew just how dangerous Sakura could be if she was acting like a devil. The rumors were true. He had no other option other than running.
He stood up and the other members did so, "I'll get you next time, kuso on'na!"
Saying that, he ran away with his team. Sakura's devilish smirk turned back to her normal smile. She walked out of that alley. There she saw her gang members running upto her.
"Ojou-sama!" Suke said as he ran upto her, "Are you alright? I saw Rai's gang run out of here a while ago."
"Yeah, I am." Sakura smiled and said, surpassing the hellish pain throughout her body. There were numorous cuts and swells. Some places had turned violet because of Rai's punches earlier. Her forehead was bleeding furiously. Suddenly, Sakura felt another pain in her ankle, stomach and shoulders. 'Just how much have they beat me when I wasn't in my senses?'Suke understood right away, "Ojou-sama, I see you had a very dangerous fight."
Sakura could only smile as a reply before falling on the ground as she lost her consciousness.
"Ojou-sama!"
End of Day 3
Day of Youth: Extras
Jun: Welcome to the Extras!
Kai: We are the hosts today. And why're you doing it again?
Jun: Because I absolutely had no role in this chapter.
The director appears.
Director: No, because if I were to put you in this Extra with Ren, then it'll end as nothing. The only expression present will be 'hn's. Excuse me then.
Kai: I see.
Jun: Anyway, so you know Kaze?
Kai: I don't know if I know her yet.
Jun: Huh? And I thought that you two were going to make a nice couple together.
Kai: Couple?
Jun: Yeah, like those couples. Two childhood friends meet after a long time, yhen they fall in love with each other, and marry each other and stay happy ever after!
Kai: ...That's some amazing fantasy you've got...
Jun: Anyway, what do you think will happen in the next chapter?
Kai: It's a continuation of 'Day 3'. You'll be there as well.
Jun: Me? Where?
Kai: In the hospital.
Jun: NANI?! What have I done to get admitted in the hospital?
Kai: We're not sure if you're admitted or not. Well then, it's closing time.
Jun: Matte! I'm not done talking yet!
OWARI
Glossary
1. Ohayo/ ohayo gozaimasu: good morning
2. Hajimemashite: nice to meet you.
3. Arigatou: thank you
4. Matte: wait
5. Matte kudasai: please wait
6. Kuso: shit
7. On'na: woman
8. Kuso on'na: damned woman
9. Nani: what
10. Sakura: cherry-blossoms
11. Kaze: wind
12. Ojou-sama: young miss
13. -san: an honorific meaning mister and miss, no gender division
14. -kun: an honorific mostly used after boy's names, sometimes used after girl's names as well
15. -sama: an honorific that is politer than san, mostly used after people with higher status or after people with admiration
16. Tasukete: help
17. Naze: why
18: Ano: that
19: Baka: idiot/ stupid
20: Ano baka: that idiot/ stupid
21. Sou da: that's right
22. Kaichou: President
23. Ja ne: bye
24. Shonen: young man
25. Kaa-san: mother
26. Iie: no
27. Tonchiki: numbskull
Note: I require at least four reviews to update 'Day 3 Part 2'
Phew, this one was long as well. I think that all the chapters will be this long. I hope you liked this one. The next chapter will be a continuation. And Ren is often described as a prince since even if it's a 'she', this 'she' is actually like a cool 'he'. And there is a past where Ren was the hero of Sakura.
Stay tuned for the next chapter!
Ja ne! Please RR!
