Chapter Ten: The Blonde Who Would Meet The Other Blonde's Wrath And Realisations
Akiko had been anxious about his younger sister's reaction. He knew very well her attitude had turned into a very vocal and hands on one, but he hadn't expected this kind of...
"OW OW OW DAMNIT ANNA!"
...Response.
"Listen you," the girl currently dragging a lanky boy along by the ear hissed, "you have no right to pop in like that after ten years and expect things to be peachy."
"YOU KNOW I DON'T LIKE PEACHES!"
"THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!?"
"DON'T USE IT AS A REFERENCE!"
"You..." controlling her all but calm rage, Anna's grip around her brother's ear tightened threateningly, and he allowed a completely manlyyelp. "Why do you always raise my temper so easily? Even when we were young..." She gave him a flinty look. "Before you guys-"
"We didn't!" he cut in quickly, breaking free of her grip.
She gave him a cold look over, her eyes nearly as cold as her hands had been. He rubbed his chilled ears with his warm hands, giving her an exasperated stare.
"Then explain why when I woke up I was alone, on some damn snowy mountain," she countered furiously.
His hard expression faltered briefly, twisting into one of regret.
"Ok, we did leave you, but..."
"It was for the best?" she spat. He flinched at the venom in her voice, and suddenly found the ground an intriguing place for his eyes to rest. "Don't bother Akiko; I've already had that shoved down my throat."
"But..."
"I'm going," she said, and followed through with her promise, departing her weary and saddened brother.
"It wasn't..." He was jolted from his solemn mutterings by a caw. Glancing up and frowning, he shielded his eyes from the sun's probing rays, to view a bird perched on a narrow branch, looking back at him with interest.
"A bird? Another one? The heck?!" a voice yelled.
His confusion curled into a scowl, which he kept on the bird. It made another noise, and tilted its head, intent gaze never wavering.
"It's all your fault," he commented sourly.
BS I
//FLASHBACK//
"Akiko?"
"Anna?"
The two siblings remained in a daze, gawping at each other (Anna a bit more refined than her slack jawed brother, of course) while the other three in the vicinity watched awkwardly. Hao was actually just puzzled, until it clicked.
"Oh, you look like Anna! And your life auras feel similar. How are you related to her?"
Before anyone could reply, Anna had pushed her self to her feet, using Hao's pantene washed hair and head as leverage, which he did not object to.
She stood tall and as dignified as she could be in that situation, dusting her school uniform down with pale hands. Managing to fight down the slight colouring on her features, she gave the lanky boy before her, who had not committed to removing his jaw from the floor, a frosty glare.
Snapping back into reality, he flinched a bit, before he regained his composure and stuffed his hands in his pockets, repsonding with a blank look.
"You...Why are you here?" she asked, striding over to him and completely blanking Manta and Yoh.
Hao, who had since patted his hair back down after Anna's need of aid, hopped to his feet and scuttled towards his brother and Manta.
"This...isn't gonna turn out good," Manta whispered in a high voice.
All irate thoughts aside, a white in the face Yoh nodded in silent agreement, while an unfazed Hao merely blinked and cocked his head to the side.
"There seems to be some hostility in the air."
"No shit sherlock," Akiko huffed.
"You..." Anna remained glaring at him, unsure of what to do, besides ignoring the weird pains in her chest area. "Look...oh forget it." Her glare turned nastier, but Akiko, who had a knack at becoming immune to things very swiftly, simply kept his gaze controlled, without backing down.
"Where are you going?" he questioned as she began to walk away.
Anna paused briefly, before throwing him an 'are you retarded?' look.
"I do believe you know the answer to that question. In case you don't realise, I'll clue you in a bit. I seem to have developed an allergic reaction towards family members, so I'd best go away before I break out in God knows what."
With that she had gone.
Akiko stared after her, concerned and partly irritated. His mind was waging a war, and both sides were equally strong.
However, when the resolve to amend things won out, he dug his hands further into his pockets and sprinted after her.
After both had disappeared, Manta sighed heavily a hung his head.
"Geez, looks like the fireworks are gonna start...Anna's gonna be in a real bad mood if Akiko keeps persisting, but if brother and sister are as stubborn as each other..." He trailed off and his face screwed up. "Dear God, I DON'T want Anna to be in a really bad mood."
"WHA?!" Hao suddenly cut in to Manta's rumbling, face aghast. "THAT RUDE OAF IS MY FUTURE BROTHER IN LAW???"
Manta smirked anxiously.
"Yup."
"No way. He's adopted, or maybe Anna is, because no one who really shares Anna's bloodline can be so..."
And Yoh, tuned out to both their ramblings, let his eyes fall to the ground. They were sad.
"Why didn't Anna tell me she had an allergic reaction to family? No wonder she was so annoyed at Akiko."
//END FLASHBACK//
BS I
"I swear Pairon, never ever go wandering and leave me alone with a drunken Ryu and someone I want to strangle again," a very exhausted Tao Jun explained.
He smiled, the smile being a mixture of sadness and amusement. Jun was one of the most calm and easy going people he knew. Granted, he was dead, so the people he knew before could have changed, but Jun was never one to lose her temper.
Of course, she had done her best to contain it, but Ryu's lecherous antics and Marona's innocently said jibes had worn her down. She was now convinced Marona was a plotting devil in disguise, and her opinion of Ryu was pretty much the same. A perverted drunk that had spent the rest of the plane ride hugging her or vomiting. Sometimes both.
She had thanked Pairon was disposing of Ryu AND making her bring an extra four sets of clothing.
Unluckily, Ryu had broken free (Pairon had stuffed him in the toilet after the 4th time. The fool had gone there trying to peep at Jun, but he'd quickly told Ryu off in his own special way) and had deigned to wrap Jun in the warmth of his arms. Marona had then decided to point out that Jun's hair was askew, and that there was this special spray...
After mentally yelling at Pairon to NOT fling Marona in the toilet too, even though she was tempted to herself, she had settled back into her hair, regarding Pairon from the corner of her eye.
He was standing outside the toilet door, having a conversation of Ryu.
It had ended when Ryu had boasted "I will pwnzer joo", because Pairon had gone away.
And then Ryu had remained slumped on the toilet seat for the rest of the journey.
Jun wasn't even sure where she was now. All she knew was that she was weary, hungry and in the middle of a cold, large airport.
And the fact Pairon's body provided no warmth whatsoever was not a pleasing addition.
Still...
She watched him out of the corner of her eye, and her lips quirked up.
He was boring holes into the floor, abashed at her mock demand.
Which was terribly cute.
However, Jun's reveries were cut short when a retching sound was heard, getting nearer and nearer and-
She closed her eyes, and wished herself away.
BS I
'Ha, ha, ha,' was the most coherent thought passing through Pirika's brain at the moment, so it was obvious something had flustered her.
Of course, she supposed Shigeru had a reason to be curious. He WAS with an ATTRACTIVE angel and saw some competition in Tao Ren's anger. But still...
Pirika came to an abrupt halt, her eyes so wide they put computer screens to shame.
"Wait...what if Ren...likes me???!!!"
She gasped dramatically and planted her hands on her cheeks. It ALL made sense now. She continued through her-OMG as she would put it-phase, she encountered flashbacks.
"Wow...it's like I'm stuck in the middle of a big soap opera," she sighed, letting her hands drop. She curled them and stared hard at the ground. "Why must I be so attractive? Why must fate be so hard on those two boys? But still..." She grinned cheekily. "Love triangles are always fun. Maybe they'll fight over me...but...what's it called if boys fight over a girl? When girls fight it's called a catfight...and we're opposite genders...so is it dogfight? No...because girls are called bitches which translates into a dog...oh gosh this is confusing."
As she awaited her epiphany, something that looked like a jungle of blue mountain peaks bombarded into her view.
Naturally, she shrieked...
And the creature with blue mountain tops and a jungle for hair howled and clasped his hands over his ears.
"For Gods sake Pirika!" he shouted. "If I wanted to do deaf, I'd listen to Chocolove singing!"
The aforementioned blinked.
"Oh, HoroHoro...?"
He was not in the mood to talk. He devised a plan, and tried not to smirk at its brilliance.
"What was that Pirika? Oh no! I cannot hear you at all! It appears you have blinded me; aaaahhhh!"
It was apparent he had not practiced fake screaming, nor keeping his logic straight.
She shot him a lidded look.
"Oh? My screamblinded you, did it?" Seeing his panic, she grinned sardonically and crossed her arms. "I'm so amazing. I defied logic!"
"Um...I meant it...blinded the nerves in my ear, which in turn made me...deaf, and..." He stumbled over and answer, before he settled for mimicking her pose, sans the insane grin. "And you never let me finish..."
There was silence, before Pirika's grin dwindled and curved downwards instead.
"Horo...you're so lame..." She sighed. Aghast, he gasped. She rolled her eyes. "Anyways, unlike you and your...blindedears, I happen to have matters to solve. LOVE MATTERS!" Before she darted away, she rapped her forehead with her knuckle. "A pretty girl's fate...when I mature, I'll end up in love pentagons every month."
And with that, she was gone, not hearing HoroHoro's:
"WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL?! YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH LOVE PROBLEMS!"
BS I
"I obviously missed some things," Lyserg took care to point out.
"Yup," Manta replied.
"Hmm...ha, probably caused by him..."
Hao, who was occupying his time by blowing thin strands of brown from his eyes, stopped to glare in a playful manner towards the dowser. The strand immediately fell on his eye, making him shut it. A one eyed mock glare was very unmoving for the English man.
"Well, originally yes, but that was also Anna's fault for going anywhere with him."
"I AM here you know," Hao explained for their benefit, complete with hand motions, thumbs pointing towards his chest. "AND I can hear you fine. One thousand years and Ipods won't stop me from listening. On that thought..."
His hand dove into his pants pocket. When it slipped back out, a small, silver device was in his hand's enclosure.
Lyserg bristled.
"YOU!"
Hao blinked, really having no idea where Lyserg's anger was coming from this time. He understood the guy was sore about the whole burning his parents thing, but all he was doing was trying to listen to music.
"Yes, me," he said slowly.
Lyserg seethed further.
"You arrogant...that...on the school site..."
"Well done sleuth. You've solved the mystery. I have an Ipod, which means I am listeningto music. I know, it's bad. How many years in the...slammer? That's what people say today, right?"
"SHUT UP! You shouldn't be listening to music when you're not allowed to!"
"Lyserg, Lyserg," Hao tutted, striding towards the green haired boy. He stiffened with each step the 'devil' took. The flame shaman flung an arm around his shoulder and pulled Lyserg towards him, so they were cheek to cheek.
Lyserg had a fit, but Hao's vice grip kept him in place.
"Be a rebel! C'mon!" his hands went everywhere trying to locate an earphone. Eventually it skimmed one, and he promptly shoved it in Lyserg's ear. He popped the other one in his own, and circled the pad on the Ipod.
"NO! I WILL NOT BE TAINTED BY YOUR SIN!"
Lyserg squirmed, and all he did was burn the calories he had recieved from lunch.
Hao's grin only bloomed.
"Oh! How about some heavy metal...?"
"LET ME GO!"
"Hell yeah. Listen to these guys."
"...um...it's alright...actually I quite like-THEY SWORE! THAT'S IT!" After his dilemma of whether or not the song was any good ended, in his rage, Lyserg mustered up enough to kick Hao in the stomach. "YOU! LET GO!"
Hao complied, running his gloved hand through his hair.
"You're no fun Lyserg. Ah, I'm gonna go find Yoh! My perkiness should cheer him up!"
'Or make him plummet into depression,' Manta countered mentally.
Hao halted his search for Yoh. Instead, he pivoted mid-stride and looked at Manta reproachfully.
"Y-yeah?" he stuttered under the dark look Hao was giving him.
"Look, if you're gonna be a jackass, just make sure the person you're insulting can't read your mind and incinerate you."
TO BE CONTINUED
NEXT CHAPTER: The Confrontation Between Brothers! Fight Of The...Oranges?
Key points for the next chapter: Yoh, Hao, Akiko, Anna, Lyserg, Jeanne and Tamao.
