Normal POV
If Butch thought he was tired before, he thought wrong. Mr. Mitchelson droned on and on with his lecture. He could feel his eyelids close ever so slightly, trying to keep his head up, and just before he would fall asleep, THWAK! Mr. Mitchelson would slam his ruler on his desk, jolting him awake. Although the mission was to stay out of trouble and find the puffs, it was getting increasingly more difficult. He couldn't wait till after they beat the Puffs, and they would be free to do whatever they want.
"Alright class, now you can work on this partner assignment."Mr. Mitchelson started to pass out small packets to each group before sitting at his desk.
"Finally." Butch mumbled to himself before setting his head down for a nap, knowing that his was probably the only time he was going to get one. After all, he couldn't find Buttercup if he was tired.
"Heeey! Madoka, we have work to do." Kaoru, the guy beside him tapped his shoulder. "You sure do sleep a lot, don't you?" Butch kept his eyes closed, hoping Kaoru would just let him sleep.
"Hey!" Kaoru nearly shouted in his ears. Butch jolted up and was met with emerald eyes. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and glared at him.
"What?" He meant it to come out less threatening, but he was aggravated. Although he doubted Kaoru remembered, Butch did. Kaoru was the same person that ran him over. When Kaoru glared back, Butch kept his glare.
"We have an assignment, and you and I have to work on it ." Kaoru handed half of the assignment over to him before turning back to her desk. "You'll work on half, and I'll work on half. Deal?" She turned back to her desk, not even giving him time to rebut. As he looked it over, he noticed that the questions were on random events on the past. Slightly irritated, Butch put his head back on the desk. He didn't have to do it, and he was sure Kaoru could figure it out better than he could.
Butch's POV
Another bell rings snapping me from my slumber. I yawn softly, slightly refreshed. I look beside me to see Kaoru hurriedly writing down something on the paper. I silently get up and leave the worksheet on the desk before walking out the door.
"Hey, wait up jackass." Brick walks out of the classroom after me. His eyes a reddish tint, even behind the contacts we got him. "That was the most unbearable class ever."
I quirk my eyebrows in response. Although the lecture was boring, I didn't think they were unbearable. "How come?" As we were walking down the hall, I noticed there was a lot of eyes on us, especially from the girls. I shrugged it off, ignoring the constant stares.
"I had to sit next to that girl, Princess. The. Whole. Damn. Period. And she would not stop talking. It was driving me crazy." Brick huffed. "Apparently she's the richest girl in school, so we could get cash from her."
We walked into the classroom. We had Study Hall, but instead of what it implied, it looked as if no one was doing any studying. Some had formed groups and started talking to each other. Some were on the phone, and others were asleep. Few had actually started studying or doing homework. We decided to sit in the far corner of the room, and luckily no one put up a fuss. The second bell for the period rang.
"Has anyone seen Kaoru?" The teacher at the desk asked. Everyone in the room shrugged their shoulders and went back to what they were doing. "Skipping? Again?" The teacher furrowed his brow in thought.
After most of the period passed Kaoru walked in. He slammed a piece of paper on the teacher's desk. "I had extra work in another class because of some jackass." He said furiously. The teacher nodded knowingly.
I groaned to myself, if I had known he was in this class, I think I would've done the work. Luckily he hadn't seen me yet. I sighed a breath of relief as he sat at his desk, although it was in the back row, it was on the other side of the room.
I turned back to my brother who had been looking at Kaoru as well. "Wait a minute, isn't that the guy who ran you over." He laughed. "Hey, but you got a skateboard, so I would say it's worth it."
"Yeah, I also had to "work" on the assignment with him." I signal air quotes at work before continuing. "But, I just took a nap, and it looks like he's pretty upset about it." I smirk a bit, getting a little enjoyment from seeing Kaoru upset.
"It'll be fine, we didn't do any work either, but I think I would've preferred it over Princess' yapping." Brick rocks on his chair. "Plus, if he causes any trouble, trust your older Brick." He gave me a smug grin which made me roll my eyes.
"I can take care of my own problems, I just choose to deal with it a little differently than you." I state.
"If your going to the beat them up anyway, might as well do it the earliest you can."
"Oh, that reminds me, Madoka and Akuma." The teacher in the front scanned the room until his eyes met with ours. I also felt a glare from Kaoru. "I'm Mr. Richardson. Study Hall is a free period so you can sit wherever, and do what you want. If you want a pass somewhere, I'll write it."
"I think this is going to be my favorite class." Brick said, but I couldn't really focus because a person huffed and sat down in the empty chair in front of me. Kaoru glared at me, and crossed his arms.
"What the hell is your problem?" Kaoru huffs angrily. "You didn't answer one single question and then you disappear."
"I was taking a nap." I yawned softly. "It was quite enjoyable." I said bluntly. Kaoru's face turned to a shade of red, as his face twisted into anger.
"I'm not going to be doing all the work, you better do the next assignment or else." Kaoru threatened. My eyes glinted mischievously. It was a first time in a while someone had threatened me. Well, I guess it wasn't me to say, I was acting as Madoka.
"Or else what?" I cross my arms, unnerved.
Kaoru clenches his fist before taking a deep breath, and losing the red from his face. "You'll regret it."
"No, you got threatened." Brick snickered..
Momoko's POV (Third Period)
I growled quietly to myself. If there was one subject I couldn't get, it was math. I pouted to myself as I laid my head on my desk. I didn't have Miyako, Lina, or Kaoru, and even though they were just as terrible in math as me, at least company would've helped through the pain. I took out a twizzler from my bag and chewed on it sadly. The bell rang, signaling the start of the period, the sign of my impending doom.
"Alright, take out your homework, I'll be coming around to check it." Mr. Bert said in his monotone voice. Homework? I pulled out my notebook flipping through the many doodles I had. I came to the last blank page, flipped back, and there I wrote the assignment, however I failed to complete it.
"Ugh." I groaned and put my head back on the desk. A shadow however loomed over me. Mr. Bert held out his hand, and gave me a quizzical look.
"Homework?" He said. I shook my head in response, too afraid to answer. "Again Momoko, I may have to call your parents if you keep this up." He sighed and continued on his way. I took another twizzler out of my bag and chewed on it, letting it ease my stress. I stared at the clock, hoping that time would increase, even if it was by a little bit.
"Who's the new kid?" I heard someone whisper to his friend. New kid? I hadn't heard there was a new student.
"Apparently his name is Akuma. Princess was posting pictures of him early in the morning, saying he's her best friend." The friend replied. Already, I had lost interest of the new student with the mentioning of Princess. If he hung with Princess, that means that he was probably just as bad as her.
"But, he's so gorgeous." A girl beside me commented. "I heard he has brothers as well, and they are also handsome. Unfortunately I haven't seen them yet." With the mentioning of a hot guy, my will wavered. I'm a superhero, I shouldn't base someone on who they hang out with, I reasoned. Yep, I'm being fair.
"Oh my god.." I whispered to myself. He was gorgeous. His bright orange hair was wild and untamed, barely being seen from under his red cap. He was tall and a bit muscular through his clothes. He had darkish brown eyes, and when his eyes met mine, he winked at me. At me.I felt myself melt as my face became red.
"You can sit in the very back, besides Momoko." Mr. Bert said. "Momoko can you raise your hand." This shaked me from my trance. Ok Momoko, just a simple wave and smile, don't look to excited, you can do this. With that I raised my hand and gave my best not nervous smile I could manage. He looked at me and smirked, and walked up the aisle.
This was bad. I took a deep breath clearing my thoughts. He's not that handsome, I tried thinking, remember he hangs out with Princess, so he can't be that good of a person, plus you have Natsuki. I heard him shuffle with the desk beside me, and I turned just in time, and waved "Hello. Welcome to our school."
Akuma was already, however facing the board, rocking ever so slightly on his chair. My face went red again, when I noticed he hadn't heard me nor was he going to talk to me. I took another twizzler and chewed on it angrily as I took the notes.
"Alright class, work on the assignment, and turn it it for homework tomorrow. You can work with a partner." As usual, Mr. Bert gave us independent work to do. However, most people chatted with their friends. I was not one of those people.
I took out my bag of sweets, and started working on the assignment. I couldn't risk missing another homework assignment.
"Psst, what am I supposed to do?" Akuma, who had finally stopped rocking on his chair, pointed to his book.
I turned to him, trying to suppress my boy-crazy urges. "Mr. Bert just gave us work, you just have to factor the quadratic equations." I explained simply. However, Akuma looked like I just started speaking another language. "If you need, I could help."
"Really? Thanks." He gave me a charming smile, and put his book on top of mine before going back to rocking on his chair.
"Hehe, ok." I giggled like a schoolgirl, getting in entranced by his smile. Wait a minute, I realized what he meant by help. Who'd he think he was!? "That doesn't mean I'm going to do all the work!" I threw his book back on his desk.
"Uhh, what?"
"I mean working together. To be honest, I'm not good at this thing either." I scooted my desk closer to his and looked at his work. He had nothing done, and there wasn't a single attempt. "Do you know what we're doing?"
"No, why do you think I asked you in the first place." He rolled his eyes. Wow, rude. I was starting to see why he would hang out with Princess. "Can't you just do it for me?"
"Just because you're hot, doesn't mean you can charm me into doing your work!" I yelled angrily. Everyone turned and stared at me causing me to blush from embarrassment, and Akuma snickered. I lowered my voice this time, so it's a whisper. "So we are either going to work together, or you're going to do it by yourself." I said, already regretting choosing to work with him.
"Whatever Pinky." He then pointed to the clock. "Period's over anyway." With that the bell rang.
"My name's not Pinky, flattering, but no." I rolled my eyes. "My name's Momoko." I packed my books and pencils away, and got up from my desk.
"Alright, whatever Pinky." He snickered, and walked out of the classroom. "See you tomorrow then."
Bane's POV
"Mwuhahahahahhah!" I cackle to myself. The impudent masses thought they could quell my urge. "What fools." I mumble.
"Questions Kiiro?" My chemistry teacher ask, giving me an odd look at the same time. Butch, also gives me an look, but it's more 'What are you thinking of, you better not pull anything dumb.'
"No I was just wondering, what is the lab supposed to teach us?" I ask a basic question. I don't really care either way, I just wanted to start the lab.
"Well, the Flame Test Lab is to teach you that different elements emit different light when pushed to an excited state. This is a way that you can identify different elements since each element's emission spectra is different."
"Oh ok." I said not really listening to what she was saying. I was instead trying to remember, what Boomer told me last time he helped me with science.
Flashback
"Hey Boomer, can you teach me how to make bombs?" I walk into his room, as he tinkers with another of his experiments.
"Why?" He takes his attention off of what he was doing and stashes it away. "I thought you were more for harmless pranks."
"Yeah, but bombs are cool. They go "Boom" and "Psskjdsckh." I imitate countless explosion noises. "And wouldn't they be useful: because unlike you, I can't make balls of energy that explodes." I pout a bit. I didn't even get to fight, or use my powers last time.
"Well, knowing you, you may blow Brick up, so how about I teach you how to make smoke bombs?" Although Boomer was slightly worried about teaching me, he looked genuinely excited to teach me. He pulled out countless chemicals and several minerals from under his bed. He also pulled out a rusted skillet that looked like it hadn't been washed in a decade. I grimaced slightly. "What color do you want it?"
"Orange." I answer quickly. It was my RowdyRuff color. He picks out a yellow dust and walks downstairs, with chemicals and skillet in hand. He turns on the stove, that surprisingly works, and puts two chemicals in.
"All you have to do is, melt Potassium Nitrate." He points to a white powdered substance. "With sugar, at a 5:3 ratio or a 3:2 ratio, just make sure there's more Potassium Nitrate, at low heat until it becomes a brownish color." He mixes it a bit more, and after a while, it liquidizes. He pours it into a piece of foil, and wraps it around, pours in the yellow mineral and puts in a fuse, and gives it to me.
"I think you're coolness rating may have increased."I stare at it in awe, holding it as delicately as I could. "How'd you know how to do this."
"Well, I just asked Mama. He's actually pretty smart and cool." Boomer blushes a bit, as he talks about Father.
"And now you lost your coolness points." I say disappointingly, and Boomer was so close to passing Brick. Now, I understand why Boomer was naive, yet so smart. He hanged around Mojo for to long. "Now let's try out my new toy." I yell excitingly.
"Wh- wait." Boomer tried to stop me, but I was faster.I ran upstairs, with match in hand, lit the little bomb and threw it in Brick's room. There's a was a small rolling side heard.
"What the fu-?" Before Brick could finish his sentence, orange smoke started to fill the room. It started to seep out of the room, and Brick stumbled out the room, blinded by the smoke. "Boomer!"
"I swear it wasn't me this time." Boomer smiled nervously.
Flashback End
With that, I decided to put my plan into action. While Butch did the lab, I secretly worked on my own project. I chuckled as I pocketed my contraband, and hid it in my pockets. I even put extra caution, in not letting anyone see me, although I was still paranoid, as if someone was watching me. With that, I helped Butch with the rest of the period.
"I hope your not going to use that to get in school." Butch said as he pointed to my pockets.
"I'll try my best not to." -get caught. I thought, and with that Butch shrugged his shoulders." We walked together, glad for the break that was our lunch period. We went out in the courtyard, and picked a table. After a while, Boomer finally joined us, and the only person we were missing was Brick.
"Where is Brick?" The bell rang, signaling that the period was starting. There was countless other people walking outside with their lunch, but still no sign of Brick.
"Should we go looking for him?" Boomer says, already standing to go looking for our older brother.
"Y'all can go look for him, I'll stay here until he pops up." Butch goes over to a set of bushes and pulls out the skateboard from before. He hops on it and starts riding around the skateboard, quite skillfully, surprisingly.
"I guess we are on lookout duty." Boomer sweat drops, before walking up the stairs and back toward the school.
Kaoru's POV
"Why did Mr. Bert have to give us a quiz today?" I gron, letting out all my frustration.
"Kaoru, I thought I reminded you beforehand. Didn't you study?" Miyako walked alongside me in the hallway. We're heading to our lockers, to get our lunches, and also to get my skateboard. Sometimes it helped to clear mind. "I thought you had a free period."
"I did." I grinded my teeth. "But this dumbass didn't do his work in Mr. Michelson's class so I had to spend most of the period finishing the stupid thing." Mr. Mitchelson had also given me lecture about how I should be more responsible. I was furious, I should've just beat up the new kid, and maybe then he would've listened.
"Aww, it's ok Kaoru. I'm sure you did fine. You're grades have been improving in math afterall. You've moved from a D to a +C. That's almost a -B."
"Yeah, that's the only good thing." With that, we arrived at our lockers. I put in my combination, grabbing my lunchbox, however my skateboard was not be seen. "Hey.. Miyako, do you know what happened to my skateboard?"
"Uuuuh, no." Miyako closed her locker. "Didn't you grab it after getting in that accident?" I mentally slap myself. How could I forget my skateboard outside? How did I forget about it for so long? "It's ok, it should be still there. Wouldn't someone pick it up and return it to the school or something." Miyako said naively.
It was so optimistic, that it stung. "Not everyone is a decent person." I say bluntly causing Miyako to frown. I walked ahead, heading to the courtyard, hoping to at least get some food to take my mind off my missing skateboard.
"Well, I think it'll turn up somehow, so wait for now." We opened the courtyard door. We went to our normal table that consisted of Momoko, Miyako, Lina, Kassidy, and I. Sometimes Natsuki would join us, if he was free.
"He was so handsome, but boy was he infuriating." Momoko angrily took a bite of her strawberry cake. "Like, he seemed ok before, but after seeing him and Princess in Spanish last period, I could not." She stuck out her tongue childishly. Another one of Momoko's short time crushes I was guessing.
"He didn't seem that bad to me, just maybe a bit egotistical." Kassidy shrugged, blushing slightly. "But I heard, he has three other brothers."
"Who are you talking about?" I finally butted in, letting curiosity get the better of me. Everyone stared at me, like I had lost my mind. Well, except Lina, but she was staring at something else.
"You didn't hear about the four new students. It's what everyone talking about now." Miyako said.
"There's Akuma." Said Momoko.
"Madoka." Kassidy said, making my temper flare up again.
"Mitsuki's the third brother." Miyako said.
"And Kiiro." Lina although, not out of her trance, she responded with great timing. "You haven't seen one yet?"
"I have, well two of them. But one was a real asshole." I took out my lunchbox, and stuffed my face with food, before continuing. "Momoko, know that guy I got paired with in History, well he's Madoka, and he didn't do any of his work for the whole class. He was apparently napping."
"Seriously!?" Momoko stabbed her cake, and then took another bite. "I guess most of them are jerks then."
"Well, Mitsuki seemed nice enough." Miyako fiddles with her hands a bit, blushing a bright pink. If that's coming from Miyako, it must be true, but Miyako also overestimate people.
"Kiiro, is a wildcard." Lina shrugged her shoulders. "Anyway, Kaoru, why's some guy riding your skateboard?" She pointed to the thing she's been staring at the whole time. With ease, I spotted him. Riding the skateboard, full speed, doing ollies and grinding on countless different ledges. I would've been impressed if he wasn't using MY SKATEBOARD. I stood up, and stormed over.
"Kaoru, calm down, there must be a good reason." Miyako followed me, tugging lightly on my sleeves. It was ineffective in slowing me down. All he was doing, didn't seem to be coincidentally, and he had to be purposely trying to piss me off. With that, I stood right in front of his path. He looked up genuinely surprised before masking any emotions, and stopped.
"Yes?" He asked nonchalantly. "Are you still mad about before?" Madoka was trying to play like I didn't notice he had my skateboard in his hands.
'Don't let him get to you' I thought to myself, taking a deep breath. However, I instead just glared at him. "I believe you have something of mine." I pointed to my skateboard. "I would like it back."
"I didn't see your name on it." This time, he smirked. He was trying to piss me off. It was like he knew which on of my buttons to push. I clenched my fist, welling my anger in my fist.
"Actually, Kaoru wrote her name on the bottom of her board, the first time she got it." Miyako stepped in. "We would, just like the board back, thank you." Madoka, looked at Miyako, as if he had said something off, but otherwise ignored her.
"I didn't see that anywhere." He turned over the board, and although my name wasn't there, there was hard scratch marks, where my name should be. With that, all hesitation in my mind snapped. Before Miyako could stop it, my fist reeled back and aimed straight for Madoka's head.
And that's where we will end off. This chapter took a little more time to finish, because I had to properly put the order and what not, and even though I didn't intend to, I left off with a cliffhanger! Anyway, shout out to Kwhel22 for reviewing my last few chapters. They help me push through my writer blocks, and inspire me to continue. Rate and Review, and tell me if you like the story so far.
