A/N: Tadaa! A new chapter :D Oh, in this chapter they will be playing some football, but since in Japan, they follow America and call it 'soccer' I'm using that term here.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara.
Chapter 4 - Kiseki - To Be Ignored
I woke up suddenly by a tapping sound. It took me a while to realize that someone was knocking on my door. I sat up and looked around. "Yes?"
The door opened slightly with a soft creak and Miki's mother, dressed in her work clothes peered from behind it. "Oh, you just woke up?" I gave her a weak nod, still not fully awake. "Well I think you might need to get ready, school starts in fifteen minutes." She gave me a quick smile and closed the door behind her.
"Fifteen minutes..." I repeated groggily. Fifteen Minutes...fifteen minutes...Fifteen minutes! I jumped out of my bed and raced past Sachiko-san, who was nearly at the stairs, into the bathroom. I forgot to put on the alarm on the digital clock placed next to my bed; it was hard to remember something like that after being home-schooled for nearly your whole life, I thought, as I showered and put on my clothes. I raced downstairs expecting to find Miki waiting for me downstairs but there was no-one there except Miki's mum. She left without me.
She handed me a piece of buttered toast in some tissue. "You'd better eat that on the way to school, or you'll be late."
I nodded and bowed slightly. Even though she, too, was a commoner, my parents had taught me to respect my elders. "Thank you for the food."
I walked out the door and ran towards school. I didn't know if I could make it on time, stupid blue-headed commoner! She should've woken me up. My mother would be disappointed if I was marked as late on only the third day.
Ten minutes later, I stood at the doorway of my class, panting slightly. And I had two minutes before class started to spare. I spotted Miki standing by Fujisaki Temari's table and marched up to her. "Commoner! How dare you leave me by myself? I was nearly late!" She continued talking to Fujisaki as though she hadn't heard me. "Commoner!" I repeated with my voice a little louder. She then raised her voice louder, still ignoring me. The nerve...
Fujisaki, who was sitting down gave me a sympathetic look. "Good morning Satoji-kun."
Miki turned around, and had the expression as if she just saw me. "Oh, hi Kiseki!"
I glared at her. "Why didn't you answer me just now, commoner?"
She looked surprised. "Oh, I didn't know you were talking to me. You call everyone 'commoner'." Fujisaki giggled at this, which annoyed me further.
"Fine, Miki-san, why didn't you wake me up?" I asked.
"Well, since you're in school now I thought you should be able to wake up by yourself," she said in an innocent sounding tone.
"Eh? You're living with Miki-chan, Satoji-kun?" Fujisaki looked between the two of us with a puzzled expression.
"Yes, I'll be residing at her house for a few months," I told her. "Though I really don't want to since I could be living at-"
But Miki gave me a look that said 'shut up!' and turned back to Fujisaki. "Oh, his parents are friends with my parents and they're overseas so he's staying at our place." Ah, that's right, I almost forgot my own rule to her to not tell anyone about me being a prince. I was going to tell Fujisaki that I lived in a palace.
Fujisaki's expression cleared. "Oh! So that's why you two walked to school together yesterday." She smiled. "I was wondering about that since you said you didn't seem to have liked him on the first day."
"Well, I don't like him much at the moment either," said Miki. "He can't even wake up on time."
I turned away from her. "I don't enjoy your company either! In fact, the only reason I woke up late was so that I didn't have to walk with you." I walked back to my place.
"Oh my," I heard Fujisaki say.
"He left, finally," said Miki in a relieved sort of voice.
I sat down, leaning against my hand with my face away from Miki. If she didn't want me around, fine! It was her lost not to be in my presence. I stared outside the window at the sky. I thought she was finally obeying my orders yesterday, with helping me do my homework. I didn't know why she's acting like this today.
"Take your seats," said the teacher. There was a scramble to get to everyone's places and I looked up to listen to the teacher. Then I noticed that Miki was sitting next to me. I had forgotten that her place was there. She didn't seem irritated by me being beside her. But she didn't look at me either.
I paid attention in class but I couldn't help sneaking a few glances at Miki. For some reason, it bothered me how she acted a lot. I tried to tune out my thoughts and try to listen to the teacher more, but I kept remembering her tone. There must be some reason to cause that attitude. It was no way to treat a prince, as she knew I was one.
Maybe she was sick or something. Or maybe something happened that morning to make her in a bad mood. It definitely wasn't something I did.
The bell rang, and I was startled, not realizing how much time had passed. Miki cleared her things and left without me. I packed my bag too and followed her, running until I caught up with her. She didn't seem to notice me.
"Miki-san!" I called out to her. Okay, maybe I had to admit that I could've woken on time today. Maybe she just didn't understand that a prince like me had to get used to things.
She didn't hear me, or just didn't feel like talking to me. Either way, it annoyed me so I stepped in front of the door with one hand against the doorframe, blocking her way. "What's wrong with you? How come you're acting so strange?"
"...this is the door to the girls changing room, the boy's one is the one with a picture of a guy on it," she stated in a bored tone not bothering to look into my face. "We have P.E right now, if you didn't know." A few girls wanting to enter the bathroom too giggled.
I felt slightly heated around my face and walked away from Miki and into the boys' bathroom. I found my locker, number 22 as the slip on the paper I received said, which I brought along since when I was first shown the locker-room, I couldn't be bothered to remember the number.
"Hey Kiseki," called out a familiar voice. I turned my head to my left to see that Daichi was standing right beside me, already changed. I had forgotten that his locker was next to mine. "Are you feeling alright? You look a little red."I shook my head roughly; I didn't want him to know that I had just been embarrassed, or that it was because of Miki. He looked like he wanted to say more but he dropped the subject.
I quickly got changed into my P.E clothes: a white shirt and some shorts. And we headed out to the field. I immediately closed my eyes, but not before getting blinded from the sun that was glaring ferociously into my eyes.
"Yeah!" cheered Daichi from beside me. "It's a good day to be outdoors." How could he stand this brightness?"
"Speak for yourself," muttered Miki's voice a few feet away from us.
I whipped my head around and opened my eyes in spite of myself. Miki was standing with her sisters, and was shielding her eyes. When she saw I was looking at her, she turned to look at Ran. She was still wearing her blue hat. I wondered why she always wore it, I asked her yesterday but she didn't answer me.
"Daichi's right, this is a great day for sports," said Ran enthusiastically. "Right, Su?"
But Su was having an expression that said that she was deep in thought. "Two...no, three eggs are needed..." I heard her say under her breath.
Wham! I felt something hit my right side and I fell sideways onto the ground. I closed my eyes as I landed and felt my left arm beginning to hurt too.
"Kiseki!" shouted a few voices.
"Oops, I aimed wrong, sorry," said a voice that, as before, did not sound sorry at all. I opened my eyes and saw Yoru holding a soccer ball and smirking down at me. The others stood around me looking worried. Yoru laughed. "I should've known that if you got hit you couldn't take it."
He hit me. I stood got to my feet and glared at him. "Cut the act, commoner. we both know you hit me on purpose."
"Kiseki, don't call him that," said Miki in an angry voice. "And he already said it was an accident."
"You believe this guy?" I asked her, with an incredulous tone.
"Of course she does." Yoru flashed a smile at Miki whose face turned pink. "She knows I'm telling the truth." Miki nodded slowly. "If I had really been aiming at you it would've hurt a lot more, seeing as you're such a wimp."
How dare he insult me! I wish we were at my palace...I could order my guards to do bad things to Yoru...make him clean all the castle bathrooms, I thought bitterly. In fact, since Miki likes him so much, I'll make her watch while I torture him. Or maybe she could scrub the toilets with him.
I felt something on my shoulder and snapped out of my thoughts. Daichi was gripping my shoulder and gave me a warning look. He shook his head, and then looked at Yoru. "Since we're playing soccer, we'll settle this on the field."
"Sure." Yoru smirked and walked away.
"What a jerk," said Ran looking at Yoru's retreating figure with great dislike. Miki glared at her sister and then she ran to Yoru's side and started talking to him. Ran shook her head. "I don't know what she sees in him." She then turned to me. "Do you actually know how to play soccer?"
"Of course I do," I said. "Daichi taught me how to play when we had free time in the palace. Yoru won't stand a chance against the both of us. He will be crushed so bad that he will be begging for my forgiveness!" I laughed, already imagining the look on Yoru's face.
Ran sweat-dropped. "If you say so." She nudged Suu who was still looked like she daydreaming. "C'mon, the girls are doing the bar today."
They headed to the part of the field where there were a few metal bars of different heights. Miki was already there. Daichi and I also headed to the edge of the field where we were supposed to wait.
The coach, a tall man wearing a blue cap with a very bright red whistle walked over us. "Okay, get a partner and we'll start with drills," he boomed in a loud voice.
"Drills?" I repeated. I wanted to go straight to the game and teach Yoru a lesson, but the moment I said that, he gave me a look that made me walk over with Daichi to one part of the field with a soccer ball.
"So, coach just asked us to practice our passes," said Daichi. "Piece of cake, right?" Yeah. Daichi and I could pass to each other easily. Sometimes when I try to tackle him though, he always manages to dodge me.
"Ahhhh," I heard someone shout and I turned my head to see Miki was on the ground. It looked like she fell after failing to spin on the bar. Hmph, it served her right after how she had been acting earlier on.
"Kiseki," Daichi yelled. I looked behind me and saw that I let the ball go completely past me. "Concentrate!"
"Hah, you were talking big, but you can't do anything," taunted Yoru from behind us.
I gritted my teeth and kicked the ball hard. It went pass Daichi and nearly hit Fujisaki Rizumu. Yoru laughed again. For the whole fifteen minutes I kept kicking in wrong directions or failing to get the ball. Daichi tried to encourage me, I think, but all I could hear was Yoru's taunt echoing in my head.
I finally actually did hit Fujisaki Rizumu. He came over to us, with Sanjo Musashi, his practice partner, and handed me our ball. "That was a great kick."
I wasn't really sure what to say. I sat at their table yesterday, but I'm not really good at conversing with commoners.
"Yeah," Daichi answered in my place. He thumped my back with his hand. "Kiseki can actually play well if he's in the right mood."
Musashi adjusted his glasses. "So why aren't you in the right mood? You look kind of depressed."
"Me? Depressed? You must be seeing things, commoner," I replied.
To my surprise, Musashi smiled. "I can tell you're putting on a tough act."
Daichi laughed. "You could tell? Usually I'm the only one who can tell Kiseki's real feelings."
What was with these commoners...talking about me in that casual manner? Still, I couldn't help but smile.
"Miki-san's acting really strange. And Yoru's...he's..." I couldn't find words to finish but I didn't need to.
"He's just being Yoru," said Rizumu. He shrugged. "I guess it's just in his character to act how he is. Sort of like a stray alley cat." He grinned. "It's best to ignore him."
Ignoring him...good idea.
"Oh, and Miki can sometimes get mad about small things...she'll cool down after a while," Rizumu added.
The coach blew his whistle and ordered us into teams. Rizumu, Musashi, Daichi and I were in one team along with some other people. Yoru was in the other team. He smirked at me from the other side of the pitch. I glared at him in return.
"Good luck, Yoru-kun," Miki cheered. She and her sisters were already done at the bar and were sitting down on the grass, watching us. He looked in Miki's direction and grinned at her. I hate that guy. "...and...you too Kiseki."
I slowly looked at her and she waved, smiling slightly. Suu and Ran cheered too, and Ran had taken out two furry pink things in her hands and started waving them around. "Go for it! Daichi, Kiseki Musashi, Rizumu! Go for it!"
"We'll do our best!" Fujisaki yelled back, with a thumbs-up.
"See, Kiseki," said Daichi. "We've got people cheering for our team, so we gotta put things aside and just play."
I nodded, now grinning myself. I guess I finally have the commoners on my side. The only thing left to do was not let them down.
A/N: Yay, Kiseki's playing! :D I think it took me long to update. Anyway, please review!
