Someone reviewed this fanfic, and I didn't even bother to respond to it. I'm so sorry. I saw it and I was really happy though. I'm so glad someone likes this fanfic.
And I'm happy people are reading this too. Thank you so much for reading it. I wonder if you guys will still read this up to the very end of this story. This may actually be a long story afterall.
Anyways, moving on, to chapter 21 of this story~
"Seriously," Gumi muttered under her breath as she swept the library floor. "How come she can do anything?" She angrily asked the air around her as she continued to do her job. "Always, she talks to us as if we were fools, and then she proves she can do everything right," Gumi was probably more bitter than she usually was, and Leon noticed.
"You're still mad at Mayu for Friday, aren't you?"
"Damn you, Mayu!"
"Taking that as a yes," Leon sighed. Placing the books he was holding in his arms on a table, he crept up to his angry friend. As she was too busy growing frustrated over her teacher as she cleaned, she never noticed her friend coming behind her until she felt fingers stabbing her rib cages.
"Leon!" The girl shrieked, trying to hold back her giggles. "Stop it!" She tried to suppress her laughter while struggling to free herself from him.
"Stop being so angry then," Leon smiled as he released her hold on her. Gumi turned and faced him, releasing a sigh. Gumi pouted and had wanted to scream, but she held herself back. Sighing in defeat, she chose to let out her anger for a moment. "Also, what are you going to do?"
"Hm? What do you mean?" Gumi asked him.
"Unlike the previous two girls I was with, you have a club after school. Coach won't be happy when she hears you were put on rep duty for disobeying Mayu when you have a game on Saturday." Taking in Leon's words, Gumi realized he was correct. SeeU and Flower did not participate in any school clubs or activities so them being a representative was not a problem. Gumi, however, had been a member of the girls' basketball team ever since she began junior high school. While her coach was carefree, she was a typhoon with thousands of sharp needles whenever a member cannot participate in practice or a game for whatever reason.
Gumi had forgotten entirely that she was in that club when she went to do her chores for the evening. "Surely, coach won't kill me."
"She will tomorrow though," Leon told her.
"She can't remove me from the club though. I'm precious."
"I know you are. I've seen you when I go to your basketball games. You are one of the best players on the team, at least until you trip over your own feet."
Gumi shoved Leon and walked past him. "I do not trip over myself!" She practically scolded him.
"Yes, Gumi," Leon followed her as he spoke. "You do. Even Kokone had recorded that one game you were in last year. You were all good until you slipped on nothing and faceplanted the floor."
"Embarrassing!" Gumi yelled. "Wait," she paused when she took in Leon's words. "Kokone recorded that!?" Leon nodded gleefully. Angrily embarrassed, Gumi walked faster, but Leon caught up, walking beside her.
"You two are weirdos! Hentai*!"
"Hentai?" Leon asked. "Formation! One! Two!"
"Not that hentai, you goof!"
"So you mean the hentai where the guy picks up a girl's skirt and flips it up so she-"
"No!"
Throughout the entire walk and argument, neither ever noticed the girl right in front of them.
"Seriously, stay away!"
"What am I? A dog now?"
"Worse than that!"
"What am I then!?"
"Water flea."
"What the hell!"
And throughout that conversation, neither still ever notice her until Gumi walks straight at her. Upon the collision, both girls experience the pain their foreheads earned. Gumi stood and quickly placed her hand on her head, rubbing the pain. The other girl fell to the floor below her, wincing at the pain.
"Furukawa-san, are you alright? I am so sorry for this girl hurting you like that," Leon apologized to the girl with a familiar, reddish ahoge that sat on the floor. Gumi removed her hand and turned to the boy, glaring at him.
"You are making it sound like I'm an antagonist," she hissed at him. Turning to Miki, Gumi extended her arm out to her, an offer to help her up.
"In a way, you kind of are one," Leon commented as Miki accepted Gumi's hand. The green haired girl glared at him again while she pulled up the girl in front of her. "Now I know why Kokone often complains about you."
"What the hell do you mean by that?" Gumi asked bitterly.
"Well," Leon began and faced Miki. "Nod if you agree with everything I am going to say, Furukawa-san." Miki nodded slowly, unsure of what is going to happen. "For the start, Nakajima Gumi is a molester, taking every opportunity to glomp on her classmates."
"I don't think molesting is the same as glomping," Miki murmured as Gumi stared at Leon in disbelief.
"Gumi is also a dimwit. Last week, she turned off her alarm entirely by mistake, and then she went to school super early afterwards, thinking she was late again."
Miki turned to Gumi. "That really happened?"
"It did," Leon informed her. "And she was begging me to show up early. In addition," he continued. "Gumi has anger problems."
"I do not," Gumi complained to him.
"Oh, really?" He turned to her. "Explain what that was five minutes ago."
"You being an idiot."
"You see, Furukawa-san," he asked Miki while pointing to Gumi. "That was purely said out of resentment."
"No," Gumi slowly began, but Leon continued straight away.
"Gumi also once told someone in our class that they were not special."
"Kokone already killed me for that," Gumi commented. Miki had wanted to ask what Gumi had meant for saying that, but very quickly, she spotted a white ribbon resembling rabbit ears behind the pair in front of her. As Leon and Gumi bickered, Miki changed her focus to the blonde hair girl behind them.
"What happened, Kagamine-san?"
Very quickly, Leon and Gumi ended their conversation, which was entirely pointless bickering, and turned behind them.
"Ah, Rin-chan!" Gumi beamed.
"Is there something you need, Kagamine-san?" Leon asked.
The entire time the three were conversing with each other, Rin was overhearing them, interested in their conversations. It had been fun hearing them until Miki had noticed her. "No," Rin spoke quietly in her nasally voice. "It's nothing," she told them before suddenly turning. She dashed off very quickly.
"Hey, Rin-chan!" Gumi yelled out, quickly running to the stairway where Rin was at. "Wait up! Wait up! Wait up!" Gumi made it to the stairs, but when she looked down, the girl was nowhere in sight. "Eh, she's gone," she murmured disappointingly.
"How come you don't want to tell Mom and Dad about the ceremony?" Uni calmly questioned her little sister who sat next to her. Uni was reading the advertisement of the ceremony she held in her hand as SeeU snuggled her older sister. "Were you bullied by Mayu again?"
"Nope," SeeU spoke calmly. "Nothing like that this time."
"Don't get so worked up," Uni told her. "Oh, how about skipping it with that boy?"
"It's okay," SeeU smiled at her. "Mayu announced that she will listen to a request if we do it right." Her smile slightly grew. "Maybe we can ask her to stop deciding everything through tests."
"Somehow," Uni spoke as she dropped the paper and crossed her arms. "I have a feeling that if you try this hard, things will grow more miserable very soon."
"Eh," SeeU began to complain. "Stop it, Onee-chan," she cried. In the very next second, however, SeeU recalled dance class. "Oh yeah, I learned something at dance today. Watch this." She moved out of the bed and stood up. Standing still, she smiled at Uni.
"Here I go!" As SeeU made noises from her mouth, resembling the music she had heard in class, she moved her arms freely, imitating the dance she recited today. Very freely, she moves them and steps at her place, keeping a cheerful smile on her face.
"What do you think?" She asked as she pointed her right arm forward, ending her small, fifteen second dance. Uni chuckled as she watched her little sister entertain her. "Isn't it great? I will do it one more time. Here I go!"
Pressing the on button on the remote held in her hand, Mayu turns on the ipod next to her. Right after school ended on Wednesday, Mayu had made her entire class change into their gym uniform, and she took them to the roof, where everyone was to show what they have learned in the past two days. As the music began, Mayu clapped. "Five, six, seven, eight!" She gave her class the signal to perform.
In their assigned position, everyone recited what they were taught on Monday. Arms extended outwards, and circles were made. Then everyone tapped as they turned clockwise. After finishing Monday's lesson, everyone went down to their knee, and they all extended their arms out to their sides correctly. Finally, everyone made circles with their arms before the music change, signalling them to lie on the floor.
Rin had very weakly danced to what she had learned. Dance was never her strength, nor was anything athletic fun for her. When it came to where everyone would lie on the ground and dance with their arms, Rin had lost what she was doing. She couldn't comprehend what the next part was at. Sitting on the ground, all she could do was stare at everyone around her. Everyone could do the next part perfectly. Rin realized that and felt a bit of shame growing. The girl was so good with math, English, science, and history, and she was excellent at art, but with physical education, she was practically worthless. This dance had only further highlighted that directly to her.
This action of being unsure of what was next did not go unnoticed by Mayu. As she slowed on her clapping, Mayu grabbed the remote and turned off the ipod. When the music paused abruptly, everyone began to sit up in confusion. Keeping her eyes directly glared at the girl with the white bow, Mayu stood up and walked towards her.
"What will it take for you to remember this?" Mayu bitterly asked. "Because of you, practice will never end. Do you realize you are being an inconvenience to the people around you?" Rin couldn't even bring herself to look at her teacher. She kept her head held down, feeling embarrassed. "They are worried about making it to cram school on time," Mayu continued to scold her. Finally, Rin chose to slowly look up, and when she did, she felt a sense of regret. Her classmates were all looking at her. Some glared, others showed a look of pity, some sneered, and the rest just kept their eyes on her. Rin looked down again, and she was glad she had forgotten her hair clips, for her bangs were long enough to cover her eyes.
"I am sorry," she whispered.
"Sensei," Gumi called out cautiously several seconds after Rin apologized.
"What is it?" Mayu sternly asked as she turned to Gumi.
"Please forgive her." Surprised with the girl's words, Rin looked up and turned to Gumi. "She is trying her best," Gumi tried to explain to their teacher.
"Talking for others?" Mayu asked. "You still don't realize that you are disturbing everyone else?"
"Eh? How am I doing that?" Gumi asked rather than answering Mayu's questions, if there was even an answer to them.
Mayu walked towards her. "You try to stand out, even though you are worthless." A sharp pain had entered Gumi's chest when those words came out, but Gumi kept a serious face. "And you left your job to that boy yesterday."
"I did not," Gumi spoke back. The previous day, Leon had kindly offered to allow Gumi to head straight to practice, telling her he will finish for her. "You know I have basketball to attend to, Sensei," Gumi called out to Mayu.
"Everyone," Mayu walked away suddenly, turning her attention to the rest of the class. "You can all go home now. Making you guys stay because of those two would be bad." With that command, most students quickly got up and walked away immediately while others cautiously got up and kept their attention at their teacher. "Satou-san, you will only have to clean the classroom," she informed Leon before turning back to Gumi and Rin. "As punishment, wipe the corridors on all three floors." She coldly commanded to the two girls. "Since you can't even do the basics, you can strengthen your lower body by doing that."
"Bye, Sensei," one student called out.
"Sayounara," another bid farewell to Mayu.
"Goodbye," Mayu returned the gesture to them.
Flower remained standing as everyone departed, and she kept her gaze on Mayu. The teacher had noticed and returned the gesture. Very badly, Flower had wanted to criticize Mayu. Was it really okay to use cruel words to Rin, who can't even get the dance right? Wasn't this punishment too severe? But Flower knew, Mayu will win the argument. Looking down, Flower took several steps away, deciding it was best not to bother.
AN: Hentai means weirdo, but it also means formation, and in the anime world, it also gets translated to pervert, as well as meaning adult anime. Yeah, hentai means more than pervert, surprise surprise. Anyways, I'm starting school again very soon, and I have practice after school on some days, so yay. In addition, I've uploaded previews of a few future chapters on dA. You're more than welcome to look at them, but keep in mind that they are slight spoilers. My dA is AriaDucky. Please review~