TMOTL

Chapter 9: Apparently, I'm Interesting

I have been at school for a couple of weeks now. I know, it doesn't seem like long. What does make it seem long is the constant looks and attention directed towards me. It's driving me insane! Why would I bring that up right now? Let me tell you why. Today, I was asked a question by someone and then my desk was crowded by people awaiting the answer. Here's how it went down and how things proceeded after that.

"Hi Yama!" I smiled at the person that greeted me from beside Ichigo's desk. I lifted my arm in a wave.

"Hi Orihime!" I walked over to my desk and put my bag down on top of it before sitting beside my bag instead of in my chair.

"Hey Yama," Ichigo greeted. Gosh, he's boring!

"Yama, I've been wondering something," Orihime said. Out of the group I joined, there was only her, Ichigo, and Tatsuki in the class, but Tatsuki was busy with something else.

"What is it?" I asked with my head cocked to the side.

"You started so close to the end of the school year. Why?" I was suddenly surrounded and I almost fell backwards, to the open window and the schoolyard below.

"Woah! Don't just crowd a girl that's by the window! I almost plummeted to my doom!" I looked away from the crowd and over at Orihime. "Now, to answer your question, I was in another school back where I used to live, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to move here and I started to go to school here since this is where I am. It's not my fault that it's so late in the school year. How long do we even have left in school?"

"A month," Ichigo responded. I gave a low whistle.

"Wow. I'm here really late in all this, huh?"

"Yeah," Ichigo responded.

"Ichigo, you're showing less excitement than a dead fish and about the same amount of emotion as a zombie that just got shot in the head."

"That's a dead zombie!"

"Exactly my point. It's doubly dead. That's how much emotion you were showing. Now it's just about the same as a dead fish."

"Dead fish don't have emotions!"

"Oh my gosh, emotion exists within you! Gasp of shock and then a party at your place!"

"Hey! Don't throw parties at my place without my consent!"

"Is a joke a foreign object to you or something?" We locked eyes and then he decided to be an idiot.

"It's unheard of to me. What exactly is this 'joke' you speak of?"

"Shut up, orange jello." I have taken to calling him orange foods when he annoys me. We locked eyes again and shot glares at each other before I decided to annoy him further as revenge. "You're so adorable when you glare like that. It just makes me want to pinch your cheeks!" I ruffled his hair.

"Back off Yama!"

"What? I didn't do anything." I pouted at him. This is where our daily fight comes in. It's the same fight every day with this next comment from him.

"I don't give a damn! I told you to back off, idiot!"

"You're the idiot, idiot!" We glared at each other while letting out growls of annoyance.

"Uh, will you two please get along?" Orihime pleaded softly.

"When this jerk starts to listen and stops being annoying," we shouted together while looking at her and pointing at each other.

"Stop yelling at Orihime over nothing!" We both got hit in the head by Tatsuki.

"Ow."

"Ow! It's Ichigo's fault! Why'd you hit me?" I whined while looking at Tatsuki and holding onto my head.

"Because you yelled at her too."

"That's mean Tatsuki. I didn't do nothing."

"Exactly. You did something."

"You used double negatives, idiot."

"Shut up, carrot wig!"

"You shut up, dirt head!"

"Mango!"

"Potato!"

"Pumpkin pie!"

"Walnut!"

"Tangerine!"

"Nutty peanut!" I gasped.

"Take that back!"

"No!" I hit him in the head and then grabbed his collar and started to shake him violently.

"Take it back or else!"

"Or else what?"

"I'll throw you out the window!"

"I take it back!" I let go of him and looked at everyone in class since they were watching us as if it was nothing new, since it wasn't. Like I said, it happens daily.

"So, what's everyone planning for the weekend?" I asked the three I was with.

"Ichigo, I heard Yama threatening you from down the hall! I'll protect you from the yakuza girl!"

"You're an idiot," Ichigo and I told his friend at the same time. He seemed utterly crushed by our blunt statement. I turned my head to look at Ichigo.

"Will you please talk to him so he stops thinking I'm someone that I'm not? It's getting kind of annoying."

"Sure." Ichigo got up and started to drag his friend away. "Come on. We need to talk."

"Thanks," I called out after Ichigo before looking at Orihime and Tatsuki. "So, weekend plans?"

"I'm going to be doing a lot of training at my dojo. On Friday, Orihime and I are planning a sleepover. I know it's short notice, but wanna come? It'll be fun."

"Hm. Sleepover tomorrow with you two? Sounds fun. I'm totally in," I declared while getting off my desk and standing by Tatsuki. "I just need directions that are very detailed and the address so I can use my map."

"You really suck with directions, huh?"

"Yeah," I replied to Tatsuki while rubbing the back of my head sheepishly.

"I'm going to my seat now."

"Later Tatsuki. Hey, wanna eat lunch together?"

"Sure Yama. What do you say, Orihime?"

"That sounds like fun!" I smiled at my bubbly friend.

"Alright! Girl time is extra!" I fist-pumped and then looked back at where Tatsuki had just been only to come face-to-face with some guy that was crouching on the desk across the aisle from mine. "Wah!" I jumped back and into my desk with an arm raised as defense.

"Interesting reaction. Note to self, everything she does is interesting. She's definitely an interesting person."

"Dude, who are you?"

"Not important. Interesting of her to ask that question." He leaned back while I leaned farther away. He stood up straight on the desk and then hopped down and sat in that seat while I looked over at Orihime. She shrugged.

"Hey, it's another new kid and he's friends with Yama! New kid, you better watch out! If I ever see you away from teachers, I'll kick your ass!"

"Shut up Ooshima! No one cares about your empty threats! You aren't scary!"

"You wanna fight again?"

"No, but I will if you don't just leave this guy alone! He didn't do anything to you so just back off and shut up!"

"Why don't you wanna fight? You scared?"

"Of course I'm not scared of you! You didn't land a hit on me during our fight! I can beat you down into the ground! I will do it if you don't just leave this poor guy alone! Wait until someone does something before you bug them!"

"I'll kick your ass!"

"Just try!" We stalked over to each other and glared with clenched teeth and fists. "If you ever try to attack that guy without proper cause, I will destroy you," I growled lowly. "He didn't do a damn thing so just drop it."

"Stop trying to be a hero Yama. You're a pathetic little girl that can't fight. All you do is dodge. You're a coward."

"I dodge because I don't take you seriously." My glare changed to a cold, challenging look.

"I'll show you."

"Just try. If you can make me bleed and double over in pain, I will start taking you seriously. Until then, back off and stop acting all high and mighty, because you're not. You're the pathetic one, not me. If you think I'm a pathetic little girl that can't fight, you will be in for a wakeup call the next time you pick a fight with me and I actually accept it." I turned on my heel and walked back over to my seat with my head held high.

"Her hero instincts are interesting and her way of talking is interesting. It's all interesting."

"Hey, Yama, why are you trying to pick fights again?" I looked over at Uryu.

"I'm not. It kind of just happens."

"Ichigo, please don't make me talk to her! She'll skin me alive!" Ichigo dragged his idiot friend in and over to me.

"Stop it Keigo. You're being annoying. Yama, he won't listen. Just tell him you aren't going to hurt him so we can get this over with."

"Ok." I looked over at the idiot. "Look, I'm not a scary person. I'm not going to do a thing to you. You're a nice guy, gullible, but nice. You don't mess with others so I'm not going to do anything to you. You're the kind of person that I like," I told him with a smile.

"Wow. You're such a pretty and amazing person! I'm sorry for believing in all those rumors!"

"I don't even know where you got those crazy rumors from. I'm glad I was able to get you to realize how ridiculous they were though."

"Hey, new kid, you wanna start something? Stop giving me that annoying look!"

"I'm not. This is just my face."

"Well your face is annoying! Fix it!" I frowned and rounded on Ooshima with a glare.

"Ooshima, leave the poor guy alone! He didn't do anything to you! Back off!"

"Hell no Yama!"

"Leave him alone! He did nothing! That's all you have to do! It's a simple task! It requires no effort! It's the easiest thing ever!"

"Yama, I'll kick your ass!"

"Just try Ooshima!"

"On the roof, lunch."

"Fine by me. Orihime, Tatsuki, I'll be a little late to our lunch together," I told them sweetly with a smile before looking back at Ooshima and glaring. "Now run along and wait patiently since you can't live without a pointless fight."

"It's not a pointless fight! It's to show you who's boss!"

"All fights that aren't for self-defense or defense of others are pointless. This is just extremely pointless."

"Shut up Yama!"

"Go sit down Ooshima."

"Alright everyone, settle down and get to your seats!" We all went to our seats like the teacher asked us to, and class began.

It was already lunchtime and I was eager to get the stupid fight over with. I got up and left the room so I could go wait for Ooshima on the roof. Someone was going through the halls and yelling about the fight after I had left. Soon enough, Ooshima threw the door open and walked on the roof with people following him.

"Go Yama," a bunch of people cheered.

"Boo! Beat her into the ground Ooshima," booed some of his followers.

"This isn't a show. You don't boo someone. It's stupid." They scowled and then my line of vision was blocked by Ooshima's towering figure. "Now, let's see if you can make me take you seriously or if you're going to just annoy me with another stupid and pointless fight you had to have with me."

"Shut up!" He pulled out his brass knuckles and I sighed.

"Weapons make me respect you even less. I don't even use weapons and I'm 'a pathetic little girl that can't fight' so I'd need them more than you," I said in a mocking tone.

"Shut up and stop using my words!"

"Can't help it. You make it way to easy."

"Shut up!" He ran at me and tried to punch me. I moved to the side and got behind him, where I kicked him in the back of the knee. He dropped to one knee and then I kicked him in the back of the head and knocked him down.

"Interesting fighting skills. Another interesting thing about this girl is that she didn't have any spiritual pressure yesterday and then she suddenly had and interesting amount. Definitely interesting." I looked at the new guy, deciding to ignore him being weird.

"Hey, you should probably watch out. When Ooshima decides he doesn't like someone, he doesn't leave them alone. If you make the tiniest wrong move, he'll attack you and you'll have to be able to defend yourself from the jerk tower and his brass knuckles. That one was a freebie help. Now, I'm not going to be able to help you every time he picks a fight with you because I doubt I'm going to be at school every day and every time he decides he wants to pick a fight with you so you should really watch out and play it safe with him around."

"Thanks for the interesting advice."

"Uh, sure. No problem." Suddenly I felt pain in the back of my head so I whipped around and threw a kick into one of Ooshima's goons, since he had hit me. "Let me say one thing before I have to really get into things, ow! Now then, what the hell is your problem? I wasn't even looking! That's low! That is low, even for the lowest of the low! That is fear taking over a pathetic person! That is just low! It is so low that I can't even describe it! It's too low!"

"You, go after her!"

I frowned at Ooshima sending another goon after me and walked forward so that those around me wouldn't get hit. The guy tried to hit me, but I side stepped with my hands clasped behind my back. I started to dodge all of his attacks like that until I got bored of dodging and dodged one last attack that put him in the perfect position for me to throw my knee into his stomach. He stumbled back and then ran at me again. When he got to me, I ducked down and then shot up, sending a powerful uppercut into his jaw. He landed on his back so I looked over at Ooshima with a cold stare.

"You can't even fight your own battles against me anymore, eh Ooshima?"

"Shut up! You two, go get her!"

Two guys stepped forward and went at me. I dodged one, which put me in range of another one. We both threw punches at the same time. Because of my smaller frame, I was able to dodge while still punching him. He fell back so I turned to the other guy and ducked under his punch before sending a kick to his gut. I straightened up in time to move to the side of the guy I had punched and then I threw my leg into his back. He stumbled so I kicked him in the back of the knee so he'd fall down, before kicking him in the back again. The other guy was running at me already and I couldn't dodge or do a good block in time so I took the hit to my face and then moved and kicked him in his side. When he moved back and put his arm to his side, I ran forward and then dropped towards the ground, skidding on the roof and stopping right before his legs so I could sweep them out from under him. I got up while breathing heavily and then took a deep breath and looked over at Ooshima.

"Can we stop fighting yet? I don't want to anymore. I mean, I didn't want to in the first place, but I'm done with fighting you. I can't take it anymore. Please, just stop this pointless fighting. Because you keep attacking, I have to keep defending myself and I'm tired of having to do it."

"Shut up!"

He ran at me again so I just decided I was done. I was going to end it. I dodged his attack and then punched him in the face as hard as I could. He stumbled all the way back to the crowd and then came at me again. This time, I dodged and kicked him back to the crowd, who parted out of fear of his bulky body crushing them. I was scowling and really annoyed.

"Leave me alone from now on. I'm tired of fighting you." I walked past Ooshima and the crowd, straight back to class for lunch. Now, to start enjoying myself with the girls!

(A/N: Another fight with Ooshima, but this one had his lackeys in it. You got to see a bit more of Yama being a badass in this chapter. So, uh, hope you liked it. I don't own Bleach or its characters, but I do own Yama, the weird new guy, and probably some other people that I can't think of now. Thanks for reading! Have a nice day/night!)