April 21, 2011

Forecast… Rain in the morning and Cloudy in the afternoon.

I slowly rolled off of my bed; I knew it was happening, so I was able to stop my fall for the moment. I quickly jumped up to my feet and started to stretch. I was a bit drowsy; I thought it was weird for me to feel like that. Until I looked at my clock… I started to flip out! It was almost eight! I was gonna be late for school! I stood there for a moment, I figured it wouldn't be a big deal until I realized, I'm in King Moron's class… It was the digest deal ever! No way in hell I'm taking a detention with him for this! Switching in to hyper gear, I quickly grabbed all of my clothes for school and threw them on my bed, so that I could change quickly. I ran down stairs and plopped some bread into the toaster and ran up to my bathroom, I quickly brushed my teeth and slapped on some deodorant. I heard the toast pop. So I ran back down stairs to grab it. Then I ran back up to my room and quickly got my uniform on and finally placed my beanie firmly on my head.

I ran to the front door and threw it open, it find out that it was raining out… "Son of a-!" So I ran back into the house and started to frantically dig around, looking for an umbrella, what did I do to derisive this!? After ten minutes of searching I had to end my search, I sighed; turning to the door, I swallowed the last of the toast I was eating during the search and bolted out the door… There was no way that this was going to end well… The rain wasn't coming down that hard; it seemed like it would let up before the end of the day, but still, had I started walking to school, I would have been drenched from head toe. I started to look for any place to run under something to hide from the rain, this day was really starting to suck, and I had just woken up! Still, I ran as fast as I could, running under trees and anything hanging off of buildings. I was starting to run out of breath when I reached the school building, I was barely wet, but it was still visible, so I causally walked into the building trying to avoid being noticed. The bell rang about a minute ago, so I pulled out my phone and typed away at some of the buttons, now I just put my faith in the person my text went to.

Home Room Five Minutes ago

Chie looked over at the empty desk next to her, Kreed should have been her by now, and the bell was going to ring shortly. She didn't want him to get in trouble, yet she didn't think that he was gonna sleep in today. Yeah, yesterday got a little awkward, but that wasn't a real reason not to show up to school. Could he have gotten sick, it was raining, but not very hard, he should easily be able to make it to school without any problems, after all, and she did. Yu looked just as worried, he was their friends after all. Yosuke was doing his homework at the last minute, why? Because he was lazy as hell, or that's how Chie saw it. Still he was a good guy, but back to the problem at hand.

She was worried that it was her fault that Kreed hadn't showed up yet. That couldn't really be the reason could it? It seemed pretty likely at the current place and time, she just sighed a place her head in her hands. They would just have to wait and see if he showed up or not. King Moron had walked into the room at this point, which meant that the bell was going to ring real so-…

The bell rang, Chie sighed, she hoped that Kreed was just sick. King Moron started to take role, just as he was about to make it to Kreed's place, Yosuke raised his hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Morooka?"

Yosuke stood up in his desk, it kept King Moron from looking down at the empty desk in front of Yosuke. "Huh? What is it!? Can't it wait till after I take attendance, you little brat!"

"I think someone wrote some… um," Yosuke thought about something for a moment, Chie looked back at him, but she stopped part way to see someone peeking through the door, that was part way open. She didn't need to guess who it was, after all the glasses and beanie gave it away. Kreed was using Yosuke as a distraction. "V-vulgar… uh, language on the wall on the left side of the black board!"

"What!?" King Moron quickly turned around to look at the wall. "Where!?" Kreed quickly but quietly slipped into the class and closed the door, he started to tip-toe to his desk. "I don't see anything."

"It's up farther!" Yosuke was smiling now as Kreed and him fist pounded, why no one busted them was a really good question. Maybe they just loved the chance to see someone screwing with King Moron, or some other unknown reason… still no one ratted on the two. Kreed slipped into his desk as Yosuke ended his fun when Kreed finally sat down. "Oh, never mind, it was just a brick in the wall."

"Don't screw with me Hanamura!" King Moron's face was bright red with anger. It quickly disappeared as he continued to take role. "Richards…"

"Present!" Kreed held his hand up for a moment and then dropped it and let out a sigh of relief.

Home Room present

All I could think was who freaking lucky I was for Yosuke to actually help me out with that, um… little problem, my god my heart was racing for the running that had taken place and from the fear that I had to experience because of King Moron's uptight motherfu-, anyways. I smiled as I looked to Chie, she was giving me a very confused glance. "So we still up for training after school?"

"Sure," Chie sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "What took you so long today?"

"My alarm didn't go off in time…"

"Oh!"

"Yep, the running killed me more than anything…" I sighed as I looked back to the front of the class. Chie chuckled slightly, I looked back to her raising my eyebrows. "What's funny?"

"Then you might die today…"

Time Change: Early Morning to After School

Flood Plain

"Ready?" Chie smiled as we stood near the river of the flood plain, in a fight stance, I was ready for a sparing cession. Chie was hoping back and forth on her fight like she did when she was fighting shadows. I held my arms up to cover my face and stomach, my stance was wide, that way I could move quickly.

"After what you said this morning…" I sighed, but didn't drop my guard, after all, we were about to "fight," and the shadows had taught me to never drop your guard. "Not really, but… let's go!"

With my comment, Chie quickly ran at me and swung her legs at my feet. I noticed this and jumped her leg, after landing she kicked me in the side, luckily my arm was in the way, unfortunately, my arm was in the way. Let me explain this, if she had kicked my side, I would have been down for the count, if she kicks your arm, don't plan on writing for the next couple of hours. Boy did I learn that the hard way… Anyway, back to the fight. After she kicked my arm, I quickly shot my hand out, open palmed (I'm not dick!). If hit her in the shoulder, it knocked her off balance for a moment, I tried to use that to my advantage, which failed… Hey! Don't laugh! This is Chie I was fighting… CHIE SOTANAKA, she could kick a shadow that weighed a ton into space from the center of the earth!

When I tried to knock Chie's leg out from under her, she used me to regain her balance and kicked my feet out from under me. I hit the ground hard, but not hard enough for the fight to be over. I quickly jumped back to my fight, literally… I jumped at Chie, curled up in the air and got a kick to the legs, it rolled me and I landed on my hands, which I then rolled away from her strait back to my feet. I was noticing that I was on the ground a lot in this fight. Still I got back to the fight again, I shot my hand open palmed at her again, this time, gently at her stomach. I didn't hurt her; I put my hand there for a moment and pushed forward. She was catch off guard, only for a moment, but I was able to get behind her and swipe one of her legs out from under her, then I grabbed her shoulder so she wouldn't fall. "Give up?"

"You wish!" Chie pulled herself back up and kicked my shoulder and knocked my legs out from under me. Knocking me to the ground, yeah, I lost. In all honesty, I would have lost a serious fight with Chie, I think everyone but Kanji would have. Chie is a scary girl when she wants her to be. Chie just stood over me with a smile, you really had to admire the girl's sense of humor… "Give up?"

"Fine, fine!" I threw my hands up as though to say "I'm done!" "You win; mainly because my lungs feel like they're gonna explode… That's beside the point."

Chie smiled brightly, as she held out her hand to help me up, when I was one on my feet we both started to breathe a little heavy. She smiled and put her hands on her hips. "Let's call it a day."

"Thank you!" I shot my arms apart smiling like an idiot. Chie frowned slightly; I still kept my smile though. "Sorry, not that I don't like training with you, just I'm tired as hell!"

Smiled again, until some guy walked up to us. He had on a black jacket with a red under shirt and black jeans, his hair was a black mess. Other than that, I don't like mentioning him still… "Huh? Hey, Chie. Whatcha doing?"

Chie turned around at the sound of the guys voice, she seemed panicked when she saw his face. "T-Takeshi…!? W-well… training! I'm working out!"

He acted like it was a big joke, this dude had managed to piss me off in under ten seconds, not a good move on his part. "Huh? When are you gonna graduate to being king of the hill?"

"K-king of the hill…?" Chie seemed like she was getting upset over the incident, which in turn only managed to get me even more pissed at the guy.

"In kindergarten it was the Runt Gang," The guys now seemed like was reminiscing about something, but it still sounded like he was bagging on Chie. "In elementary school you were an Ally of Justice… Middle school, it was the Vanguards of the Lunch Revolution, wasn't it?" At that point, I knew the only thing was trying to do was make fun of Chie. I was close to knocking the guys lights out! "Haha, so… What is it now? You a Protector of Earth's Peace?"

"W-well…" I really didn't know how to react to this moment, but I didn't want to hit the guy with Chie around, she seemed like she had known him for a while.

"It's none your business now is it!" I tried to hold myself back from calling the dude a mother fucker! He was so proving that he belonged on MY Shit list!

"K-Kreed-kun…" Chie looked at me with surprise, it was either in anger or relief that I stood up for her… Dear god let it be the second one…

"Oh, uhhh…" Takeshi or whatever the guy's name was, was starting to get panicked. "I didn't mean that in a mean way." Bullshit! "I'm Takeshi Kouno. I was with Chie up until middle school… I'm not gonna get in you guys' way."

Was trying not to jump with glee that the guy was gonna walk away, yet I felt bad because Chie started to look really sad. "Hey, what are you…?"

"Oh," Damnit, just LEAVE! "How's Yukiko-san doing…? Does she have a boyfriend yet…?" That was the line I knew that you should never cross with Chie, the guy had pissed me off so much that I made a shit list right there, so far… He was the only person on it. He was crossing far too many lines by just having a normal conversation; he was not someone I wanted to be socialized with. Yet, Chie… Chie seemed fine with it, or at least she wouldn't beat the ever loving shit out of this douche! It was a little too much for me to believe, one of the main reasons being how little amount of socializing I had that didn't involve me getting made fun of or getting the shit beaten out of me… So I stayed my hand and didn't make a move to kick this guy's ass. Still, I was about to tell this guy to go fuck off, until Chie…

"She's fine," I looked at her, and I could see some pain in her face. The only reason I knew it was there, is because it was a pain of not being accepted someone, or anyone. Takeshi didn't really seem to notice it. "And I don't think so."

"I see." He gained a very smug as grin after he heard her answer. Just pissed me off even more. "Cool, cool. She still good-looking?" I was a single breath from kicking in this guy's face; just listening to this was pissing me off! It was fucking retarded how he didn't seem to care about Chie, his so called friend! "Maybe I should try for her again..."

"AGAIN!" After I just exploded both of them stared at me for a moment. They probably had no idea what I was saying. "The fuck do you mean!? Again!?"

"Uh…" Takeshi turned his back to us, and started to walk away quickly. Yes, it was smart for him to be scared of me! "I'll see you later. Say hi to Yukiko-san for me…" After he thought he was out of viewing distance, he started to run. I grinned evil until I say Chie's face, I instantly felt bad for her. It was easy for me to tell that she felt something for him, something that he didn't return. I kinda knew how she felt, only… I wanted anyone to just talk to me. I think I'm over using the sob story now… Heh, you get so used to something that you don't even know if it gets annoying to other people. I thought about what to say to Chie, after a few moments of silence… I smiled, laying my voice with a fake one.

"Maybe I should try for her again…" Chie looked at me for a moment, and then her smile crept back onto her face. I loved that no matter what I could make her smile, it felt good knowing that.

"Hahaha!" Chie was still looking me in the eye. "What, was that supposed to sound like him!?"

"Yep!" I grinned evilly as I spun around her for a moment. She spun around trying to follow my movements. "I thought it was perfect!"

"If you're deaf!" Her smile widened, before disappearing again. "I-I'm sorry. He really is rude, huh?"

"He's lucky I didn't punch him…"

Chie looked away from me now, not being able to make eye contact. "Seriously… He was always staring at Yukiko…" I raised an eyebrow at her; I knew where this was going. "H-hey, don't get me wrong. He's nothing but an old classmate to me! We're just friends, y'know…? We used to get that a lot, though."

I shook my head. He didn't deserve friends like Chie and Yukiko from the way he had acted, the whole time he was talking… the only thing he did was make fun of Chie! I sighed, I was pretty sure that training was over for the day as Chie put on a fake smile for me. "But that's all in the past! Let's head home."

"Sure…" I sighed as we started walking home. She didn't say a word for most of the time that we walked, I felt like the atmosphere was getting heavy. I looked at her and sighed, after a few more feet… I stopped walking. Chie looked back at me with a confused look. "I think I'm gonna hang out with Yu tomorrow, so far Chie, you're the only person that I've hung out with…"

"R-really!?" Chie looked surprised; I guess she really didn't know what I did yesterday before we went to Aiya's. "W-well, wh-why!?"

"I don't know…" I looked up to the sky and sighed again. "Just didn't want to I guess…" Looked back at her with a smile. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow…"

"Okay…" She looked at me with concern in her eyes, she was thinking about me being alone again, I knew she was. I just smiled as her as I walked away. "Laters!"

With that, I walked back to my house. Even though that Takeshi guy pissed me off to no end, it was a good day. I wasn't gonna let anyone ruin my life again, just because they were a dick to me or my friends, I was gonna how I wanted to live life!

Yeah! Got it on before midnight! Hell yeah! Anyway... off topic, I know chapter 9 sucked, so I hope this makes up for it... I hope, anyway! Hope you enjoyed, feed back is welcome. And we are now in double digits now!