Depression and lack of a muse suck... this virus oddly enough has killed my motivation even more but I'm really trying to get back into this. Anyway we have Yuzu and Mei back in school same day as the end of the last chapter. Let's go!
Yuzu yawns rubbing the back of her head as she sits down at the lunch table with Aime and Harumi, Harumi was already getting curry from the vending machine for Yuzu to aid the currently one arm capable blonde who was lamenting to Aime how she felt she had bombed the math test
"I'm sure the teacher will let you redo it given what you've been through latley." Aime said patting her on the back with a chuckle
"I sure hope so." Yuzu sighed "I know i did awful. I havn't been studying at all." she said
"Don't push yourself too hard Yuzuchi." Harumi said pushing Yuzu's now prepped food towards the blonde "You've only recently got back to school. Just take it easy."
"You should listen to them and stop bieng such a burden on MeiMei." Himeko said walking up to them
"Ugh what are you doing here Momokino?" Aime said
"I'm the vice president of the student council it's my job to police you lot!" Himeko humphed "Besides... The president wanted to make sure the delinquent was eating properly." she said pointing over her shoulder at Mei, who was looking through the options at the vending machine, with her thumb. "You should count yourself lucky blondey she seems to care a lot about your well being."
"Your lucky I'm wearing this sling." Yuzu said grinding her teeth
"Relax Yuzu don't let her get to you." Harumi said patting Yuzu on the shoulder
"Why wouldn't she care?" Aime said to Himeko
"Meimei has better things to be doing than doting over some random rule breaker." Himeko retorted
"For the daughter of a big time doctor and hospital admin your rather calous towards the injured" Aime said cutting off an angry retort from Yuzu "Mei's just worried about the wellbieng of her sister."
"Pffa as if that delinquent where ACTUALLY related to my Meimei! Distant cousins at best!" Himeko shot back
"Himeko." Mei said having heard her as she walked over with a bowl of curry "My father remarried. My step-mother is Yuzu's mother. We are actually sisters and I would prefer it if you didn't spend so much time trying to insult her lineage. My step-mother is a very kind woman and I would not have you speaking ill of her." Mei then moved and sat down across from Aime next to Yuzu as Himeko's jaw dropped at the conformation of the rumor that Aime and Harumi seemed to have known for a long time.
"You mean that decleration at the morning assembly a month back was real?!" Himeko asked horrified as she zipped over to the other side next to aime in front of mei.
"I'd prefer if you didn't sit next to me." Aime grumbled
"You'll find that Yuzu is not the kind to lie. She might over exagerate and may not present the facts in their full context but a liar she is not." Mei respoonded before nudging Yuzu to eat who had been grinding her teeth and death glaring Himeko "Eat..." she said to her before taking a bite of her own curry. After swallowing her bite of it she looked back up to himeko "She get's fairly flustered when she lies making it really easy to tell."
"You know way too much about her!" Himeko said still horrified
"She is my step-sister. It doesn't take much observation to learn about someone you live with." Mei said. "You should eat, we have work to do before the end of the lunch break." Aime snickered which earned her a glare from himeko which only made her giggle louder. Himeko stalked off to the vending machine to get food. The rest of the group began to dig into their food as two other girls walked past one of them purposfully bumping into Aime. Aime looked up with an annoyed sneer to see the two walking away, one of them tossing a note behind them onto the table near her. Aime picked up the note and unfolded it reading it and giving an annoyed growl under her breath stuffing it in her uniform pocket.
"Bad news?" Harumi asked as Himeko returned sitting down next to Aime in front of Mei.
"The karate club girls are mad at me for spending so much time with you." Aime said waving a dismissive hand. "Nothing really to worry about I'll take care of it."
"You don't have to spend time with us if it's causing problems with the club." Yuzu said with a frown "Your still the captain right?"
"I'll spend time with whoever I want... if that means I'm spending time with the one girl in the school who should hate me more than anyone else and not the karate club i've known since grade school that's my choice." Aime said
"Hate you? Why would anyone here hate you?" Himeko said "Besides the obvious attitude problem of yours of course." Yuzu looked away from her food blushing slightly which himeko caught "pff if the delinquent hates you it's probably not even that big of a deal." Himeko said with a satisfied smirk
"It's none of your buisness!" Harumi spat at Himeko "And for the record Yuzu doesn't hate anyone!"
"Himeko... please refrain from sticking your nose in buisness that doesn't concern you." Mei said which caught Himeko off guard "We have work to do finish your food and meet me back at the student council room." Mei got up and headed out of the cafeteria dumping the empty curry bowl in the trash as she exited.
"I um..." himeko said looking back to the other 3. Aime was looking down and rubbing the back of her neck, Harumi was glaring at her, and Yuzu was looking away from the entire group. "I'm sorry for intruding on something rather personal it seems." Himeko said giving a bow before cleaning up and exiting the lunch room
"Well that was a fun way to end lunch." Harumi sighed as Yuzu and Aime both got up to clean up. Harumi frowned noticing Yuzu had hardly eaten a quarter of her food. She went over to the vending machine and bought a few snack bars as Aime and Yuzu threw away their bowls and walked back over to the lunch table slipping the snack bars into Yuzu's bag which she then picked up to carry for her as the three made a quiet walk back to the class room.
Yuzu snacked on the last of the snack bars as she walked around the outside courtyards of the school waiting for Mei to finish with her student council work. She had tried to stay in the room but she had gotten too bored and just needed to be moving and so had gone outside. She tosses the wrapper into one of the trash cans as she strolls along pulling her cell phone back out and slowly one hand texting harumi back
"I still can't believe there where 3 snack bars in my bag. Right when I needed em the most. I don't even remember putting then in there" she texted
"Maybe your luck is starting to get better huh?" Harumi's text responded with a 4 leaf clover emoji
"Maybe. I could certainly use better luck." Yuzu replied with a hands clasped in prayer emoji
"Just keep a positive attitude and it's gotta get better!" Harumi texted with a thumbs up emoji. Yuzu gave a bit of a giggle at that and started tapping out her reply before hearing what sounded like an argument. She looked up towards where she heard the noise coming from and texted to Harumi
"Gimme a sec somethings going on. Gonna take a look." She texted before stuffing her cellphone back in her jacket pocket and would head around the corner. She froze upon seeing Aime standing there with her guard up battered and bruised breathing heavily her back to the school wall and sorrounded by 3 other members of the karate club.
"You just gonna keep standing there and not fighting back?!" the tallest of the 3 sorrounding amie growled
"This ain't an official match!" Aime huffed and growled back "You know the rules of conduct and so do I! I won't fight you!"
"Coward!" the tall girl shouted again stepping forward and throwing a punch at aime again who raised her arms letting the punch glance off her battered forearms and glance off her cheek causing her to give a pained grunt.
"STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!" Yuzu shouted running forward which cause all 4 girls to jump not having expected anyone else to be there and they all looked over towards her.
"Aihara? What the hell are you doing here?!" Aime shouted
"This ain't your beef blondey! I suggest you leave before you get hurt!" one of the 3 assailants said
"You made it my beef when you attacked my friend!" Yuzu growled
"Oh please... you've already got an arm in a sling... you literally have an arm tied up and we've already seen what your capable of. How about you go sit down before you pass out little miss super anemia." The tall asailant said with a smirk dismissing her and turning back to aime. "Now where were we." she growled at aime before suddenly all she saw was sky. She blinked as she fell backwards, her legs kicked out from underneath her by an enraged Yuzu and then she gave a groan as she crashed into the ground
"I SAID STOP!" Yuzu growled glaring at her with a hostile look that could chill the blood of anyone untrained for a fight... unfortunatley for Yuzu... none of these three where untrained. The other two shouted and charged at her. Yuzu ducked one girls blow only to have the other land a roundhouse kick in her stomach winding the blonde and throwing her to the ground. The girl who had missed then kicked Yuzu in the ribs, causing the blonde to cry out in pain and earning her a straight punch to the face by Aime who had finally unfrozen from her shock at seeing Yuzu attack the assailants. The leader of the assailants finally got back up as the other assailants managed to pin aime while yuzu layed on the ground her arms spread out groaning in pain and breathing heavily, her slung arm having slipped out of the sling.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Aime snarled bucking and struggling against the two others who where still keeping her pinned one of them slugging her in the side to try and get her to stop but seeming not to phase her "I'M GONNA TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB IF YOU HURT HER!"
"Looks like you've chosen an ass kicking blondey!" the attacker leader said cracking her knuckles and ignoring aime's fruitless threats "And I'm gonna make Aime here watch what happens to people when she chooses them over us!" and stepped on Yuzu's chest slowly pushing more and more of her weight onto her victim causing Yuzu to ghasp in pain and squirm trying to push the foot off desperatley. Aime screamed in rage and slammed her elbow into the side of the head of one of the girls pinning her knocking her off and rolled quickly throwing the other one off as she then lept up and tackled the tall one hurting Yuzu and would start slamming her fists back and forth across the tall attackers face as she savagley pounded away.
"ENOUGH OF THIS MADNESS!" a voice shouted at them. Everyone looked up at the owner of the voice to see Mei and Himeko striding forward towards all of them looking very angry. "You will not sully the grounds of this school with this senseless violence!" Mei shouted as all of them slowly got to their feet, Yuzu holding her side as she slowly managed to get her arm back in the sling.
"She attacked us we where-" The attacker leader tried to lie pointing towards aime before being cut off
"We saw the whole thing don't even try to lie. Not to mention you didn't even try to hide from the cameras!" Himeko growled pointing up at the nearbye cameras pointed directly at the group.
"Himeko, you handle these three..." she said pointing at the three karate club attackers "I will handle Aihara and Hiyato." Mei said
"Of course Ms. President." She said with a gleeful evil grin causing the 3 karate girls to wilt a little. Mei turned to Yuzu and Aime
"You two, with me." she said and would head off to which the two both limped along following.
The three walked along to the nurses office which confused the two of them. Mei pointed to the beds as she walked over to the supply cabinet starting to rummage around in it seeing that the nurse was out at the moment. Aime walked over and sat down on one while Yuzu limped over to a stool and sat down.
"No. You need to lie down and rest." Mei said glancing in the mirror above the cabinet at Yuzu. Yuzu blinked confused a bit.
"I'm not that injured it was just a few-" she tried to object before bieng cut off
"Yuzuko.. a kick in the wrong place could tear open the internal wounds you sustained in the assault from Amemiya. Getting involved in a fight like that could have gotten you killed in your current state and was incredibly wreckless." Mei said turning around to look at her directly "Now go lie down while I look over Hiyato." Yuzu sighed and got up moving over to the bed.
"Amemiya... I thought he got fired a while ago?" Aime asked confused as Mei walked over with bandages, antiseptics, and cleaning wipes and began to attend to the scrapes and cuts Aime had sustained from the fight. Mei sighed knowing aime would want an explanation and probably wouldn't take no for an answer.
"Do you recall the morning assembly a few weeks back when the director explained the importance of saftey off of school grounds due to an attack on students outside of school grounds?" she asked.
"Amemiya was the one who attacked you two and did all that to Yuzu?" She asked looking over at the blonde who looked away at the reminder of the attacks
"Yes. He wanted revenge for Yuzu causing him to lose his job." Mei said "He had planned to rape her but when I intervened and he started trying to do the same to me Yuzu attacked him back. Unfortunatley due to her weakened state from her recent bout of fever, she wasn't able to resist him and he brutalized and attempted to kill her. The police arrived quickly enough to prevent him from doing so but she sustained extreme amount of damage." Mei explained cleaning a cut across Aime's cheek and applying a bit of antiseptic before placing a bit of guaze and then a bandage over the wound. Aime remained silent for a while before replying.
"What a massive scum bag." Aime said "I hope they lock him away for good this time!" she snarled "If I ever see him again I'll wipe the floor with his ass!" This prompted a slight smile Yuzu and a shake of the head from Mei... probably the closest aime would ever get to a smile from her so she took it. Mei finished up patching up Aime and then moved over to Yuzu.
"Sit up." she said to which Yuzu grunted in pain from where she was kicked in the ribs... she was definatley going to have a bruise there on the skin... if not the rib itself. Mei began administering first aid to Yuzu.
"You're an idiot." Mei admonished.
"Hey!" Yuzu growled back "I think that's rather uncalled for!" she complained hissing a bit as Mei applied pressure to her ribs where she was kicked.
"This is the nearly the exact same spot where your rib broke off from the Amemiya attack and punctured your lung. What if it had broke again?" Mei said in a very grave serious tone. "Amemiya was strong but he wasn't trained the way those girls are... they can kick far harder than amemiya. What if they hand't held back and kicked at their full strength? They could have snapped that rib off and sent it piercing through your lung and maybe even your heart." Yuzu looked down like a child chagrined by their parent "You need to stop being so selfish and think about others."
"Selfish?" Yuzu asked looking up confused and annoyed
"Your wreckless behavior could have gotten you killed. Tanaguchi was already a wreck when she first heard about the assault imagine how she would have been if you died. Imagine how Hiyato would feel. Think how mother would feel. You act without thinking and your actions have consequences." Mei said to which Yuzu slowly sunk again looking away.
"I just wanted to help." Yuzu whispered under her breath
"Hiyato can take care of herself. She's much tougher than you are and she doesn't have the injuries you do. Next time come looking for me or a teacher." Mei sighed
"I think Yuzu's tougher than you give her credit for." Aime said "Not that i'm advocating she get involved in fights let alone in her current state but the way she kicked Siako's feet out from under her makes me think Yuzu's been in a lot of fights before... none really regimented or with forms but still." Mei raised an eyebrow and looked back to Yuzu who was looking away blushing and whistling to herself. Mei sighed and stood up."Makes me wonder when your anemia started to become a problem if you used to be healthy enough to fight frequently." Aime chuckled looking at Yuzu.
"I uh... i've never been healthy enough for anything prolonged." Yuzu said but didn't elaborate any further
"I'll get that story out of you eventually." Aime chuckled "I'm sure Tanaguchi probably wouldn't mind knowing that story either."
"Do NOT tell Harumin!" Yuzu said snapping a horrified gaze to Aime as she went very pale... well... very pale compared to her usually very pale, which only made Aime laugh uncontrollably
"It's time to close the school up and head home." Mei said shaking her head at the two of them. "I've asked Himeko to lock everything up once she's done suspending those three." she said as she put away the first aid materials. Yuzu and Aime got up and all three would head out to the front gate, Aime waving goodbye to the two aihara sisters and all three headed off to home.
Bit more backstory for this version of Yuzu in this chapter. Hope ya'll enjoyed. As always please feel free to leave reviews with feedback, comments, and critiques. Ciao for now.