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Powerful Rikkai Dai
36 – Nightmare Managing
The rain poured down outside the windows and the thick cover of clouds hid the sun from penetrating and warming the Earth. Hitting hard against the glass it was muffled by the hulking person, sitting hunched in an armchair. Everyone else in the room tried to not look at the young woman, afraid that they might become another victim of her unfortunate fate. Yet still, some where unable to stop their nervous gazed shifting onto her from time to time.
"Please …" She whispered to the man, sitting on the arm of the chair. "Please, I beg you. Is there no one else?"
The elderly man shifted his glasses further up onto his nose and glanced out the window onto the pouring rain and the dull world on the other side. Then he sighed and turned back to her. "I am sorry."
"Why me?" She asked, an edge of aggression surfacing in her voice as she glared up onto him, eyelashes filled with tears and face watery from crying. "I am not the only one!"
Voices were heard from outside as the first arrived to the building, hurrying across the yard to get away from the downpour. Once again he sighed and then decided to speak up again. "We have all talked about this and rather than sacrificing another person you can have one more year."
"I can't STAND another year!" She exclaimed as she noticed how her last hope was slipping through her fingers. "It will kill me!" She stood up and paced through the room. "I can't, I honestly can't, please understand Principal!"
"Pull yourself together Kobaya-sensei." The man had at what it seemed, lost his temper and was standing too. "You have a job and that job is to do this, I will hear no more or I will see your resignation on my desk by tomorrow."
Her jaw dropped. "You- you can't mean …"
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His curly hair blew in front of his eyes at a sudden gust of wind, rushing over the yard. He shielded his eyes and a smirk spread across his face as he looked up upon the school. Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku! As he made it in under the cover of the roof he folded his umbrella and was about to close the door after him when a voice called out.
"Oi! Wait, hold it!" He kept the door open for the girl, rushing inside and away from the rain. Her clothes were dripping wet but she still grinned broadly to him. "Thanks!" She nodded approving to him before disappearing down the hall.
He shrugged and started walking too to get to his first homeroom period at his new school … a new school known for holding the title as National winners!
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Kobaya-sensei entered the homeroom of class 2-1 with a heavy sigh, but then pulled herself together and stood before her students. She scanned over the students who, at what it seemed, had not changed much over the holiday. Some of the boys had been skyrocketing with their height, making the people behind them shift from one side to another to see their teacher properly.
Some of the girls had apparently gotten prettier too, sending long eyelashes towards the boys and giggling together, or- she paused, weren't they always like that? But one thing had not changed …
Unfortunately.
Snooooooooooore.
"Shh … Nadjai-chan, you're too loud …" Riku hushed her friend and apparently tried silencing the snoozing girl with her bag, but rather seemed to strangle the other. Kobaya's eye started twitching. This was the reason she did not want to be the homeroom teacher again this year … Riku stared annoyed and then pouted. "You're hopeless."
Silently crying in her mind, she turned to the blackboard and wrote something down while secretly popping a glass of pills. Yet another long, long year. The rest of the students looked at her with pity, silently agreeing with her.
Nadjai happily and unaware of the situation drooled on the table.
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Renji looked at the two others and they looked straight back at him. Yukimura seemed in an interestingly high mood that day while Sanada was rather … well, Sanada was in his usual mood.
"G'morning." Yukimura greeted, taking his usual seat among the other students of their class. "Had a nice vacation?" The boy watched their teacher entering the room before turning his eyes onto the two others again.
"Collected new data."
"How … fun!" Yukimura turned to Sanada. "Buchou has talked to you too, right?" The other merely stared right back. "Mr. Vice Captain."
A million thoughts ran through Renji's mind at that time.
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"Strawberry-kuuuuuuuuuun!"
Riku watched as Nadjai tackled the boy, as they had made their way out onto the hallway after their first period. She pulled her bag further up over her shoulders before walking over, grabbing the other girl by the ear and pulled her away. "Save it for Seiichi."
"You're still at that?" The black haired girl muttered, still watching the boy who was taking this opportunity to get some space between them – making him move to the other side of the hall. "I am not or will ever be in love with the Princess."
"That's so good to hear." Riku right away started to growl dangerously, sensing her worst enemy and rival approaching; Nadjai too was getting even tenser than what she already was and turned around along with her class mate.
"How come you always know how to find me?" Nadjai stared.
"I have memorized your schedule." Nanao tapped a finger against her head. "So I always know where you are, so we can be together every possible second of our lives."
"Haa …" Nadjai at first just gaped, not really wanting to have heard the answer but then again – answers like that was pretty common and she got over it right away, turning towards Bunta (who meep'ed and tried crawling the wall). "Strawberry-kun." She sang, itching closer. "Got any-"
"No. Or yes, but no, you can't have any."
"…"
They glared at each other.
"You sure?"
"Yes."
"I see … You leave me no choice."
"…"
The drama queen turned towards the two other girls in the middle of arguing and instantly got their attention as she sobbed loudly. "Riku, Nanao … I'm very, very hurt. Strawberry-kun is mean to me …"
Flash.
Both glared at him with obvious hate – people who totally repel each other get together against a common enemy. Two words: Poor Bunta. Nadjai smiled happily about the thought of her two minions who did whatever she wanted them to do, without even having to say it. She wiped the fake tears away and looked at the entertainment unfolding; of course this could not keep her attention for long and she decided to move to her next class.
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He watched the two girls in the middle of attacking a lone boy in the hallway, not really aware of what was going on. "What weird people …" He muttered, glancing down onto his schedule. Only four hours … Leaving the fighters alone he walked down the hallway to his next class, looking out the windows as he went onto the tennis courts.
"Hey, Kirihara-kun, wait up!"
He turned around to face a classmate, whose name he had forgotten. "Hm?"
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"What do you mean I suck?"
"That. You suck."
"Why do I suck?"
"Since you're … you."
"That was the most pathetic explanation I've ever heard."
The two girls stared each other down, trudging after Nadjai who was trying to ignore both of them. She rolled her eyes and looked over her shoulder. "Even though it was a pathetic explanation she's right – you suck for being you." With that – and having shut both of them up – she walked along the dusty road towards another year of tennis practice, laps, sweat, pain, tears …
But not for her.
They passed by the new members of the female tennis team, all gathering around the new captain (someone from the third year) and were chatting excitedly together while sending longing and dashing eyes towards the other team, not far from them. Nadjai shivered inwardly over the mere thought of last year and with that kept on going past them.
Nadjai paused in front of the boys' changing room and thought it over, but with that she pushed the door open with a warning to those inside: "Girl incoming, better hide things you don't want to show!" She partly shielded her eyes and then stepped inside, listening to the yells and shouts of surprise. She grinned. "Hope you are all decent." Her eyes slowly opened and saw Niou standing inches away from her face.
"Like what you see?" He smirked at her.
"…" She pushed his face away and rolled her eyes before looking onto all the boys; most were the seniors and juniors whom she had met already last year but there were a few freshmen looking nervously at her. "I just felt like saying hi."
"…"
"So you walk into the boys' changing room?" Bunta asked, keeping his distance near Jackal, as he apparently thought the taller boy would be able to repel the freakish girl. "You're such a perv-"
Nadjai stared him down and continued. "I just felt like saying hi … and introduce myself as your new manager."
The seniors and juniors didn't even try and hide the horror.
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Yukimura smiled at the now depressed members of the tennis team, Sanada next to him and looking as grim as always – maybe more than usual as the beaming girl next to him always seemed to tick him off. "Welcome everyone and thank you for joining the tennis team this year. I am your captain, Yukimura Seiichi-"
"Woo! Seiichi!" Riku cheered from outside the fence (as she had been prohibited from entering the courts).
"-and this is the vice captain, Sanada Genichirou." No cheering. "Of course we this year have a manager – or mascot …" She stared him down with a sour look. "Fujika Nadjai."
"I LOVE YOU!" Nanao cheered – from the other side of the fence.
The captain smiled angelic. "To start off with we need to find out exactly how good you can play and decide who will become Regulars. So …" Everyone shivered inwardly at his smirk. "50 laps."
Zen had found the perfect new captain …
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IHRHC!
Apologies for the LONG wait but I'm really really busy! So please, hope you liked this "teaser" :)
With this I will leave you for now, but I will be back – sorry this chapter was short *bows*