Jesús: "Phew, work is tiring...sometimes...all the time...? You know what? I don't even know...Anyway, back with another chapter after this long wait. Sorry to make you all wait so lets just get to it right away..." [Disclaimer] "...I don't own the RF series nor any of the Anime/Manga/Videomages referenced in this story. All credit for them goes to their respectful owners."
Chapter 36
Raguna POV
Oh man, Here we go again. I wonder if things will calm down even after what happened yesterday...
"Son, is something bothering you today?" Dad asked while we were having breakfast.
"Please don't bring the sibling talk up again." Mom said
"Is not that..." I replied "...Remember how Cinnamon got harassed yesterday by our other classmates?" I asked and they nodded. "well, I'm just worried they might do something worse today. I don't know how we should deal with this one..."
"I don't know much of what to say son. I never really went though anything like that." Mom said
"Yeah, I really doubt the "Yandere Kanojo" would have." I said remembering reading a Manga titled like than and it talked about pretty much My mom when she was younger.
"H-h-h-how do you know about that?" Mom freaked out and turned as red as Cinnamon's hair. Dad started laughing at her reaction.
"Mrs. Cari told Cinnamon and me the cute little story." I said and she right away ran to the Phone. I'm guessing to call her and whine to her about that.
"Well son, here's one strategy. Remember the compact cameras we placed on the Farm when we thought there was someone or something sneaking into the fields to get some crops? how about you have Cinnamon carry one of those?" Dad said
"...Two things before we continue this conversation... 1) wouldn't it be obvious she's carrying a Camera? 2) what if she forgets to turn it off during Gym class and ends up recording the girl's Locker room?" I asked blushing at the last part
"1) I'm talking about the Hidden camera that are disguised as objects. Like a pen or even a shirt's button. 2) You can either sell the footage to the boys in the school for a good buck or just erase it afterwards." Dad replied with a straight face even though he just said something really perverted.
"You have a good point." I replied
"To what? Making a good buck?" he replied
"No simply erasing everything afterwards...besides there are even worse things that could be happening in the lockers..." I said
-Mind Theater-
Normal POV
The Girls Locker room, Better known as a Man's Paradise. what a blissful view can be seen in here. Plenty of Valleys both high and low as far as the eye can see. White, Tanned, and even Dark flawless skin in all of the beautiful ladies within this forbidden land.
"Wow Mist, You still as tiny and cute as ever." Lara came from behind her and hugs her.
"Oh you're just saying things." Mist said and puts her hands on the hands of the girl.
"Hey Cinnamon, you got a pretty cute set today? Mind telling me where you get your underwear sometime?" Uzuki asked
"Is nowhere special, besides your underwear is just as cute." Cinnamon replies and gently removes Uzuki's top.
"Wow Selphy, You're really big today. Did they grown again?" Anette asked the blonde
"Yeah, My Bra just won't fit by tomorrow morning if they keep going at this rate." Selphy replied.
-Back in reality-
"Hey son? You ok? You're all red all of a sudden..." Ragna placed his hand on Raguna's forehead and quickly removed it. "...Crap you're hot. We could make some toast on you."
"I...I...Can't..." Raguna said and passed out.
"Son...? Son...?" Dad said while poking him with a wooden spoon.
=Time Skip= 15 Min.
-Raguna's Class.-
"So what happened to you?" Lute asked Raguna who was just plopped down on his desk.
"I died inside a little trying to suppress something too strong." Raguna replied
"Are you gonna be ok?" Uzuki asked
"I...I..." Ragunna stuttered not being able to look at her in the eyes due to earlier's Mental Image.
Raguna POV
"Morning..." Cinnamon said taking her seat.
"Good timing." I said grabbed her and and pulled her along and to the stairs leading to the roof-top.
"Something the matter?" Cinnamon asked
"Can you take off your top?" I asked
"W-why?" She asked stuttering at the Daring request.
"Don't think too much about it. Look see this button...?" I whispered and showed her a "Shirt button" that was in my hand "...It has a Spy-Camera built in it. we can use this to keep watch of what happens to you and if anyone tries to bully you again we can take this to the teachers and keep you from danger."
"I understand. But won't we have to Sew it on?" Cinnamon asked
"Way ahead of you. I got some String and a needle we can use right here." I said and we quickly replaced her second button from the top with the Spy-Cam.
I twisted it to turn it on and looked into my phone.
"Alright, it's recording. I set it so it send the data into my phone in case they find it and think your phone is the recording device. And just in case I also have it set up so that it sends a second recorded data to my CPU in case they find out about the data going to my phone" I said
"Alright, thank you Raguna." Cinnamon said and gave me a hug.
"No problem. Now remember, don't tell anyone about the button, ok?" I said
"Right." Cinnamon replied and we walked back to class.
Normal POV
Cinnamon and Raguna made it back to their classroom in a matter of minutes. the whole way to their class they could hear murmurs of the many girls around, some were saying nice things about them such as "They're so cute together." and "Cinnamon I so lucky. I wish I was just like her." but that was just the minority. Most of the girls in those hallways were saying things like "I wish she would just go away." and "Is only a matter of time before he leaves her, I'm sure of it." Cinnamon reacted to that last one and suddenly many things started running through her mind.
'What if they're right? What if Raguna being with me is just a game to him? What if he really doesn't feels any of what he said he did towards me?' Cinnamon started giving in to her negative thoughts.
"As if!" Raguna said loud enough so whoever said such things could hear. "If in due time I break off my relationship with Cinnamon it'll be due to a mutual reason not just because I say so. I'm not just some guy who would rather have a "Good" life with every girl in the school and then forget about them the next morning. If I get together with someone is 'cause I mean it." Raguna finished his statement.
Cinnamon widened her eyes at Raguna and then tears started forming in her eyes.
"What's the matter?" Raguna asked
"Thank you." Cinnamon said and gave him a light hug trying not to crush the camera or look too clingy against the girls opposing them.
The school day finally began and they went through their first and second hour classes in a flash. third hour on the other hand felt like it was dragging on forever.
"I...Hate...Essays..." I said.
Grammar class teacher, Mr. Stewart, gave us the assignment to write a 500 - 1000 word essay. To make sure nobody cheated or just took the work from someone else he gave a different topic to everyone and noted it on his portable PC.
"Alright everyone. Class is almost over, How are those Essays coming along?" Mr. Stewart asked
"Ugh..." all the class replied.
"Come on everyone. the topics were really easy." Mr. Stewart said
"To be or not to be?" the guy on the front of the room said "What kind of topic is that?"
"Simple Shakespeare." Mr. Stewart said
"Left or right?" the guy sitting on the back of the room right next to Mist said "I'll be honest and say I just said "straight down the middle""
"Here you go..." Both Cinnamon and I said handing our essays to him and he quickly gave them a glance.
"Very good Young Miss Weiss and Mr. Strife. I didn't know the two of you would have the information at hand for this topics." Mr. Stewart said
"Really? You do realize who you're talking to right? the Topic you gave me was "Gaming and their Genres, best strategies." If I didn't know what to write about I'd smack myself so hard that Uzuki would have felt it." I said
"What does Miss Tenshi has to do with this?" Mr. Stewart asked
"She sits behind me." I replied
"Oh, I get it now. as for you Miss Weiss I didn't think you'd know much about Mana and its origins." Mr. Stewart said
"I studied Magic, Mana and everything relating to it for about ten years." Cinnamon replied "In fact the hard part was summarizing all the information into 1000 or less words."
"Well, you two are done. you can go ahead and go on to lunch break early." Mr Stewart said and dismissed us from class.
On the way out Cinnamon got hit on the face with a small spit-ball made of paper. The ball was small enough to be missed by the teacher if moving at high enough speed.
'it started...' I said to myself "Come on Cinnamon." I said and quickly left the room.
"What did I do to them?" Cinnamon asked
"You simply won my heart over before any of them did." I said "don't worry no matter what they try I'll be here to help you."
"Enough about gloomy talk, should we go to the cafeteria to get food?" she asked
"Alright, although I doubt they'll serve us since is still early." I replied and we went on the direction of the cafeteria. once there there was one of the serving areas open.
"Excise me. Can we get some food?" I said and the lunch lady...Girl?
"Hello, sorry. hold on for a second." a girl with green hair and slightly chubby said and walked out from behind a counter.
"Hey...aren't you from class 1-3?" I asked
"Nice to meet you. My name is Eunice Turner. I often help with the cafeteria." the young girl said.
"My names Raguna Strife and this is..." I said
"Cinnamon Weiss. Nice to meet you." Cinnamon said
"Oh, so you two are the rumored Perfect Couple. I gotta say you two do look very nice together." Eunice said and brought up a small board. "Well then, what would you have? These are the items that we'll be serving today."
Cinnamon and I took some time to look through the items and then we made our decisions.
"I'd like a fruit salad with some lemon and a little bit of mild chilly powder." Cinnamon said
"So a fruit salad then, and how about you?" Eunice said as she took note on a small notepad
"I'll take a Meat Burrito. Add a little bit of rice and cheese on it if you can." I said
"So a Meat Burrito with Rice and Cheese." we'll get those done for you two in a jiff." Eunice said and walked back to the counter she was on and handed the note over to one of the Lunch Ladies.
In a matter of seconds Eunice came back with two trays holding our food.
"Here you go. I hope is to the both of your liking." Eunice said and handed us our food.
"Here's the money for the meals" we both said and handed her some money.
"Thank you very much. We'll see you tomorrow." Eunice said
Cinnamon and I took our food and went to the school's rooftop as usual.
"Is really clear today isn't it?" Cinnamon asked
"Sure is. Though you can still see a couple clouds every here and there." I replied and took a bite from my Burrito.
Soon after we started eating Mist, Uzuki, Selphy and Lara showed up.
"You two are lucky to have gotten easy topics for the essay." Uzuki said
"We had Essay's to write?" Selphy asked
"Did you go and read all class again? You shouldn't be doing that." Lara said
"Sorry." Selphy said and tapped the top of her head making an innocent expression.
We all ate our food and finished within ten minutes. After finishing our food the unavoidable conversation started...
"So then, Have they tried anything today?" Mist asked
"Only one thing, but it was so minor the teacher didn't realize it." Cinnamon said.
"What happened?" Lara asked
"They spat a small ball of paper at her face when we were walking out of class." I explained
"How small could the ball be for the teacher not to see it?" Uzuki asked
"It was about 1/16 of an inch in diameter." Cinnamon said while making a gesture with her hand giving a better image of the size.
"Nothing worse could happen right?" Mist said
"..." we all kept silent
"What?' Mist asked
"You do know that when someone says such a thing always the opposite happens right?" Uzuki said
Soon enough Lunch break was done and we all started making out way to the locker rooms for P.E. class.
Normal POV
Raguna and the girls went their separate ways once they reached the entrance to the locker rooms. Raguna pulled Cinnamon aside...
"Real quick..." he said and twisted the spy-cam onto "sound only"
"What did you do?" Cinnamon asked
"Turned off the visuals. I really doubt you want me seeing the things that happen in there. I know I don't want to see anything "Extra" if you can easily get the message." Raguna said and then the two went their separate ways.
Since Cinnamon was held back by Raguna she was the last to enter the Locker room, the person that entered before her had a few minutes ahead of her, Cinnamon was attacked. As soon as she entered the door a bucketful of slime fell on her.
"Hahaha, she fell for it." a girl said while laughing at her.
"I knew she was a slimy girl. I mean just look how she slipped through all of us to get to Raguna-Sama." another girl said
"you know, I think I heard that she enjoys fishing. I guess all those fishes made her this slimy." a third girl said
Cinnamon's eyes started watering, her emotions started overflowing and soon enough she bolted out of the locker room door.
"Cinnamon wait!" Raguna yelled as he chased after her.
Raguna caught up to Cinnamon and she stopped running and just fell to her knees crying. He noticed the Slime on her and quickly removed his Jacket and Uniform's shirt to wipe some of it off her as well as cover her again.
"Cinnamon, are you ok?" Raguna asked "Please tell me this is all they did to you."
"Yeah. This is all they did." Cinnamon replied
"Man, you know what? I wanted to wait until we made sure we had it but come on." Raguna said and lead her across the halls.
After a few minutes of walking the two came into the Main office. Raguna continued to hold on to Cinnamon's hand and completely ignored the front desk lady as he and Cinnamon walked into Principal Stellas' office.
"Hello there Mr. Strife...Miss Weiss what in heaven's name happened to you?" Principal Stella said and quickly walked over to Cinnamon.
"I'm fine." Cinnamon said and then Stella stepped back and looked at the two.
"I'm guessing something happened again." Stella asked
"You bet it did. Take a look at this..." Raguna said and showed her the recording from when someone spat the "spit-ball" at Cinnamon. "...and that's not all..." Raguna then fast forwarded the video until the screen went black. "...this will be sound only."
Principal Stella listened to the recording and quickly understood the situation. she went back to her desk and pressed a button on the intercom switch.
"Tira Less, Chie Yeng, and Ellie Summer Report to My Office immediately." Stella said and then sat down.
"You two, please take a seat anywhere you like." Stella then said to Raguna and Cinnamon.
After a few minutes of waiting three girls wearing the P.E. Uniform walked into the office.
"Can we help you with something?" one of the three girls that had light brown hair said
Cinnamon heard the voice and shivered in fear. Raguna noticed this and held on to her hand to calm her a little.
"You see young Miss Weiss here was attacked by someone with some sort of gooie substance. An easily spotted act of Bullying. since the three of you were percent in the locker rooms I'd like to know if you saw who did such a thing?" Stella asked the three girls.
"I-I'm sorry Principal Stella, b-but we don't know anything. R-right?" another of the girls, one with light orange hair, said
"I see...By the way, Miss Weiss was also attacked earlier in the morning with a spit-ball. did any of you saw who could have done that?" Once again Stella asked
"Once again, we didn't right?" the third girl with dark green hair held in a side ponytail said
"Is that so...Do you really not know? or do you not want to confess?" Stella asked the girls
"What?" all three replied with clear fear in their voice.
"I know Full well everybody in this school, even brand new transfer students. Once I hear their voices, seen their face and hheard their names once I can recognize them no mater what. Mr. Strife and Miss Weiss have proof that the two of you have attacked her at least once today." Stella said
"That's a pretty big accusation." the first girl said
"Is that so Miss Yeng?" Stella asked
"Accusations of this degree are serious ones." the third girl said
"I understand full well Miss Less, but like I said, we have proof..." Stella motioned her hand to Raguna to get closer. "...Now please listen to this and tell me this aren't your voices..."
The three girls listened to the recording just like Stella did earlier and once the recording ended the three stayed quiet.
"Well...?" Stella said
"Those are some really good Imitations." the girl called Chie said
"Still denying it huh?" Raguna said
"What? you're saying we said those awful things to her in an attempt to make her completely miserable in hopes that she would break up with you trying to run away from the bullying so we could make a move and try to get together with you?" the girl now recognized as Tira said
"I didn't say anything, but that was a lot more elaborate than I thought it was. Just how low can the Mighty fall?" Raguna said
"Fine, I confess. Is true. The ones in the recording are us. I did want Cinnamon to cut off her relationship with Raguna-Sama, but I honestly didn't want to hurt her so much. In all truth Tira is the one that started this." the last girl, who would be Ellie, said
"Is that so?" Stella said
"Yeah." Ellie said
"What the heck Ellie, weren't we supposed to stick together al the way through?" Tira said
"I'm sorry but I can't do it any more, and you also spat that paper ball at her ridding class. that was both crossing the line and Un-ladylike." Ellie said
"Screw being "Ladylike" you need to be rough to get what you want." Tira said
"But too rough and you push what you want away." Raguna said "Do you three know why I asked Cinnamon to be my Girlfriend and not any of you three or anyone else at that matter? Is because she is who she is. She is nice to anyone and everyone. She may be quiet, but if you give her the chance she has plenty to say. she's smart yes, and everyone knows and sometimes doesn't even knows anything other than that about her, but in truth she is just one more girl that wants friends and people she can trust. Cinnamon is someone and you are all someone else. that's a fact and it won't change no matter what you do. if you want to try and get my attention by "Breaking my relationships" with whoever I'm with then that's just sad. if that's all you can really come up with I guess I really shouldn't be wasting time with you. I mean, what's better? being who some thinks you should be? Being who you think you should be? or being yourself? In my Opinion that's an obvious answer. Now, If what I said Made any sense to you I want you to do one of two things; 1) Apologize to Cinnamon. or 2) Stop tormenting her for no reason. If you can't do either, hen just get lost." Raguna finished this and then just went back to sit next to Cinnamon, who was completely calm now.
The three girls stood on their spots, frozen they had seen this...heard this. No matter what they did, specially now, would change his mind and make him like either of them. Boy did they now regret what they had done up till now. Ellie was the first to walk up and bow to Cinnamon.
"Cinnamon. I'm really sorry for this. I hope I could take back everything I did and start over. What do you say? Wanna be friends?" she said and then she raised her face and honestly smiled at Cinnamon.
The other two girls were still in shock, they had been doing everything they could for the man they "Loved" but it turned he never asked for it, nor would he ever do so.
"I'm sorry too. I wont ask you to forgive me, but I'd like to become friends if you'd like." Chie was the next to walk up to Cinnamon and Apologize.
Tira, the last of the three girls still stood still. Million thoughts going through her head at a high speed. She didn't apologize did she try to make an excuse. she just walked back out of the room.
"That was very beautifully said Raguna." Stella said "Now, You two go back to class, thank you for your time. I'll let you off this time because You have honestly apologized, but do know that if I hear about this once more I will be forced to notify your parents." Stella finished and the two girls left. "Now you two. You should escort Miss Weiss home so she can get out of those dirtied clothes as well as remove any extra goo on her. You'll be excused for the rest of the day."
"Thank you." both Cinnamon and Raguna said and the two left the school and towards Cinnamon's house.
'Hopefully from now on things will go easier for Cinnamon.' Raguna said to himself as they walked
Jesús: "Sorry for taking so long. Work got me busy as I said last time. in any case, I'll be honest and say I'm both Physically and mentally tired so I'll take my leave. Please leave a review telling me what you think of the story. I'll get the next chapter done ASAP so I'll see you all when that happens. See ya!"