Chapter 9: Suck it and See

Hm hm . . . I'm getting a good amount of reviews as the days go by. What can I say that already hasn't been said . . . Maybe apologies for taking a long time posting things up. I tend to start slacking more when I don't have classes and it is Summer, though I don't like going out during the heat anyway so I kind of don't have an excuse . . . Except that I haven't been on the computer as of late, which is also a lie since I'm on practically everyday reading other people's stuff. Once again the title is from a song. To be precise it's another Arctic Monkeys song. Man do I love AM. Ah yes, I don't own anything except my character. Whatever I refer to in the story belongs to the respective owners.

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Be cruel to me cause I'm a fool for you.

After the fight everything went back to the way it was with the exception of a door being broken and that the fight Kei was in was the only thing that was being talked about amongst the students. Asuka simply sat in her chair and continued taking down notes for the boy that once sat next to her. From time to time she looked over the empty seat and let out a long sigh.

I didn't realize there would be such a drastic change when he's not around. Even when he's taking a nap you can feel his presence. She thought.

Eventually class came to an end and decided to head over to the former bancho's house to see what was up. As she walked closer to her house she could hear feint music coming from what would be Kei's room. She quickly made it to the front door and rang the doorbell. The young woman stood by the door for a moment looking at her feet until the door opened revealing Kei's mother.

"Oh! Asuka-chan you must be here for Kei. I heard about what he did . . . That idiotic son of mine; I swear he gets his temper from his father. Well, come right on in. He's in his room." His mother stated.

"Thank you very much." Asuka bowed to Kei's mother and headed upstairs to his room. She then made it to his door and knocked. Kei made his way to the door and opened up with the same casual grin.

"Oh, hey Kazama, what's up?" He said as if nothing big happened gesturing her to come in.

The Kazama-style martial artist made her way is as Kei went back to his bed and sat down. She looked at his hands and noticed that they were bandaged up quite a bit.

"So tell me . . . Why did you beat those other students up?"

He looked at her for a moment and rubbed his chin as if he were deep in thought.

"I just didn't like how the were looking at me."

"I don't believe you."

"What's there not to believe Kazama?" Kei raised his voice a little bit. "I'm a delinquent; I beat up whoever the hell I want, whenever I want and those guys just so happened to be there."

"That's bull, you said you don't do that kind of stuff anymore then all of a sudden you go back on your word? Why would you just out of nowhere beat up random people now?"

"Heh . . . I don't need to explain myself babe. I did what I did there's nothing more to say and I would appreciate it if you get off my back." The ex-delinquent said in a stern tone. Asuka stood there as if she were a child that got caught doing something she wasn't suppose to be doing. She couldn't help, but feel a little hurt and angry from the young man's remark. She took a quick glance at him and notice that his normally warm eyes were replaced with vicious ones. Normally Asuka wouldn't really be phased by that if it were someone else, but this was Kei she felt that they had a strong connection. Kei soon felt guilty and rubbed the back of his neck feeling quite awkward about what had just happened.

"Look . . . Asuka I-"

"Just take your damn notes! I don't want to speak to you again! We're classmates nothing more! Go back to your delinquent ways and see if I give a shit!" She slammed her notebook down by Kei's feet and then stormed off.

"I'm sorry for being so rude, but I have to go." She said as she quickly walked passed by Kei's mother.

"Kei! What did you do to Asuka-chan?" His mother yelled from down stairs.

Kei didn't say anything he shut his door and leaned on it banging the back of his head on it.

"God damn it . . . "

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Asuka walked home feeling sad and frustrated. It was getting dark, but she didn't really seem to care all too much seeing how she was more occupied with a certain wild haired boy whose glasses she broke not too far back.

"Why would you say something like that? " She said to no one in particular. The young woman walked not sure of what's going to happen between her and Kei. Was this really going to happen? Were they really not going to talk to each other anymore? A part of her didn't want their friendship to end. Even though he just pretty much just flipped out of her. She couldn't help but feel that there had to be a reason for Kei for beating up those two other student and she wasn't going to get anything from seeing how he's probably suspended for who knows how long. Once she made her way home she went up to her room and threw her things on to the bed. She made her way to the bathroom and took a bath. Once she made her way back to her room she looked at her phone to see if he had called or texted her at all. Nothing at all she put her bed on her nightstand and fell onto her bed more frustrated.

"Gah! Damn you Kei for making me like this!" She screamed under her pillow and decided to call it an early night.

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The next day Asuka woke up not wanting to really go to class today still thinking about what happened yesterday. The young fighter got up and got ready for school. On the way there she decided to walk by Kei's house looking at his window, she let out a long sigh and journeyed on the way to school. When she made it closer to the school. She noticed that the two now bandaged boys that Kei laid the smack down on yesterday were standing by the wall near the front gates as if they were looking for someone.

Wow those guys look worse then they did yesterday . . . Did Kei went back and tried to finish the job? She thought to herself. The students noticed her walking and ran up to her. Her body tense up a bit getting ready for anything, but to her surprise they got on their hands and knees begging for apologies.

"PLEASE FORGIVE US!" One of students said.

"W-What are you guy's talking about? You guys didn't do anything wrong." She said slightly confused. The two-bandaged students looked at each for moment just as baffled as she was.

"You boyfriend didn't tell you?" The other spoke up.

"My boyfriend? Kei's not my boyfriend!" She yelled scaring the two students.

"Well . . . Either way after he beat us up he made sure that we apologized to you for making lewd comments. If we didn't come find you to apologize, he would've started looking for us."

" . . . What?"

"To be honest we tried going the cowardly route and tried to ask our Captain to deal with him, but even he didn't want anything to do with your boyfriend. Had we known . . ."

"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" She slapped them both upside the head.

"WE'RE SORRY!"

She walked past by the two students and headed into the school.

Why didn't he just tell me? Kei you freaking idiot! She shook her head furiously and stomped the ground frightening some other students around her. It had occurred to her that Kei beat up those two guys just because they were saying things about her. When she made it to the classroom she almost bumped into the sliding door, because she was deep in thought. As she made her way in the class ran towards her like an unruly mob telling her what the former bancho had done.

"ASUKA-CHAN DID YOU KNOW THAT KEI BEAT UP THOSE GUYS JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT YOU?" One of her friends yelled at her.

"Uh yeah the two students-"

"CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? KEI BEAT THEM UP JUST BECAUSE THEY SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT YOU!" Another friend of hers said rather excitedly.

"He's such a badass! He's like when Matsu Jun when he was in Gokusen." Another female student said with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"I heard he got suspended for two weeks." One of the boys in her class said.

"That's like vacation for him." Another joked. Eventually the teacher walked in and settled the class down. Throughout the day the only thing that was on her mind was what Kei did. During P.E. class she got hit on the head from volleyball. When lunch came around she couldn't even eat correctly. Her friends were a little concerned for her.

"Uh . . . Asuka-chan? Are you alright?" Her friend said to her. When she was about to put grab something from her bento and eat it she accidently poked her eye with her chopstick.

"AH! Fu- Hm? Did you say something?" She said.

"You keep zoning out!"

"I'm fine why do you ask?"

"Well you've been acting like this since we got into class. Don't think I didn't see you almost walk into the door of the classroom. Is it because of Kei-kun?"

"W-What?" Her face turned a shade of pink. Her friends started laughing at her.

"It has to be your knight in shining armor!"

"Stop saying that!"

"Look! She's blushing so bad! It's so cute!"

"Geez, you guys!" Asuka's face was beet red. After lunch the day went by rather normally and Asuka took down her notes for Kei as she normally did.

"I probably shouldn't have left my notebook at Kei's house . . ."

-End Chapter -

I think I'll leave it at that note. If it were to continue it would be quite like long so I figured this would be a little two-part chapter . . . Hm-Hm hm I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please do let me know what you think. Suggestions of any sort at all would be nice since I'm still very much new with this. Is Asuka a little out of character at all? Should I bring in someone else from the world of Tekken? Stuff like that. I should have the next chapter up since I'm on a roll, but we'll see.