06 Expulsions
"Hey, you hear that?"
Koko wrinkled his forehead and listened close. "Yeah. What is that?"
Kitsu shrugged. "I don't know, man. But sounds like a bunch of girls' voices."
Koko stayed silent. Curiosity got him on the nub. He left his spot next to his two friends outside the principal's office door and took a few steps down the hallway. He could hear a bit clearly now. He turned around and made a face at his two friends. "Make that a whole lot of them," he raised his voice a little. Just in case his voice didn't reach them.
Kitsu shuddered at the mention of a whole lot of girls giggling and talking. It was horrifying to hear the lot of them at the same time. Yuu on the other hand, turned his attention to the bubble pink haired girl who stood across from him, staring at her phone. She kept scrolling something up and down on her screen. He did not know what. "Umenomiya, do you know anything about the commotion?"
Anna's pink hair bobbled when she snapped her head up and faced Yuu. Her big baby blue eyes blinked. Trying to fight a blush from creeping in on her cheeks, she looked down the hallway where Koko stood and true enough, she did hear voices, lots of them, and loud. She shook her head. "Apparently not."
"I don't know, man. I hate girls but this is truly making me curious!" Koko shouted down the hallway. Then his face grew excited and he smiled his stupid grin. He ran the steps up the hallway again and met the curious three who looked expectantly at what he's going to say. "Maybe the girls are doing a stripping fashion show!" he exclaimed giddily.
Kitsu scowled. "That's your definition of hating girls?" His head moved in a pathetic shake. "You truly are a fine perverted liar."
"Porns are different! They don't have high pitched annoying voices," Koko responded in defense. "Their voices are music to ones' ears. Just imagine them screaming your names, it's heaven."
Yuu cleared his throat awkwardly. "Kindly remember we have a lady present among us." He smiled apologetically at Anna who in turned looked at Koko in disbelief mixed with disgust and annoyed. Koko grinned sheepishly at them both.
Just then, a figure walked up the hallway and headed towards them. Kitsu who first noticed the closing figure, squinted more his already squinting eyes to get a clearer view of the persona. It was a girl. And he didn't recognize her for she was wearing a completely different school uniform. He interrupted the trio. "I don't think she's from our academy."
Koko craned his head around and Yuu turned. "Who?"
Kitsu pointed a finger towards the figure that's still advancing towards them the same time as the three males heard a feminine gasp behind them.
They turned to look at Anna's shocked face with her mouth wide open in a really unladylike manner. Her blue eyes were wide. What's wrong with her? The three male turned again and looked at the feminine figure now almost close to them. They're really perturbed by the new presence.
The stranger stopped and finally stood infront of them. She didn't look too happy.
Once again, the three heard a shifting sound before Anna came in front of them and with her back facing them all, she bowed her head slightly in a very respectful manner to the stranger. "Sakura-sama," she addressed her.
Now all of the three furrowed their brows oddly at Anna's sudden gesture.
The brunette, who they concluded based on Anna's addressing, Sakura, acknowledge the pink girl's presence and gave a small nod in return before turning her full attention back to the three males.
"You're blocking my way. Move," she snarled.
Koko, who's the first to get offended by her rude tone and commands, raised his brows in a dissatisfied manner. "That's quite a demand for a girl who's clearly isn't a student here."
Mikan clenched her fists. "I said fucking move," she growled.
Hard to admit but Koko was a bit shocked by her usage of words. So it seemed vulgarity and swearing were a trend among the ladies too. Yuu just silently watched by the side. Kitsu took a step forward and strengthened his back so he would appear taller and inferior. "You're not a student here. You can't go inside," his stern voice came.
Mikan gritted her teeth. Anna who was fully aware and understood Mikan's patience and temper acted quickly. She tugged at Kitsu's sleeves and pulled him aside. She then nudged Yuu to follow as well. Yuu silently moved to the side even if he couldn't understand the whole scenario but he did what he was told. He kept his eyes observant.
And all left was Koko. Gathering his over-shocked state, he held up his head, not moving and rooted to his spot. He stared down at the chit with his eyes. "You're not going inside and that's final." He crossed his arms.
Anna gulped and jumped in to quickly solve the tense. "Koko, just let her in."
At first, Koko stubbornly shook his head, even refused to budge from his spot like bouncer refused to let a hang wired uninvited guest in his club. So Anna was left with her last resort. Her rank power. She finally used it and pressed more, "I'm the vice-president of the student council so I suggest you to let her in." she made an extra effort to emphasize on letting her in.
Koko squinted his eyes at her, debating her act of using her higher power on him. Anna on the other hand, kept her serious gaze and stern face. Koko sighed and finally moved to the side. As if he wanted to mock her a little for finally getting what she wanted despite his ego got crushed by a mere lady's order who was in fact his own vice-president, he made a welcome sign with both of his hands towards the door, ushering her to quickly go inside, with a very very sickening sweet smile.
Mikan knew the guy was provoking her so she glared at him on her way to the door. Though it didn't really do much because the guy was obviously not affected by her foul mood right now. It looked as if he didn't give a damn in the world. His dissatisfied face said it all. But no matter, she can settle with him later. After she settle Youichi's issues first.
Her hand reached for the doorknob and just when they nearly touched the cold metallic metal, the door opened by itself. Mikan yelped and jumped back a little out of surprised. Her face automatically changed to a deep frown when the culprit walked out. The blonde stared her down with his blue eyes.
"Oh, sorry." He had heard the yelp and so he apologized for suddenly open the door and making her surprise. When a thought finally crossed his mind, he asked, "Are you on your way in?"
Instead of answering his question, Mikan ignored it completely and took a step to the side, attempted to walk pass him when he suddenly raised both his arms to his sides, blocking her way. Mikan gritted her teeth and inwardly groaned. Another idiot block my way can I just kill him now?
She's not in time to play games here. She had already wasted her time with the idiot who blocked her way a minute ago and now she had to go through the same thing again. Mikan gave him her best glare.
Ruka shook his head. "Sorry. Students only. You can't go inside."
God, the same thing again!
Mikan's hands shook and her body trembled. She's not in a good mood either. If it's possible, she's in a mood to bite people now. Literally.
Time is catching up. Though Uncle Kazumi had also personally asked in her place, that bald principal of her school still refused to release her. She didn't get any emergency permission to leave but she was granted to leave the school for one and a half hour only, then she had to return back to class. Strict rules and regulations, he said. She had to hold herself from laughing out loud at that statement. Rules and regulations my arse.
Mikan kept her trembling hands by her sides and tried once more in walking pass by the blonde but this time, he didn't just block her way. He had grabbed for her arm to stop her. And that was the last stroke. She had enough of idiots getting in her way. Mikan's chest rose high and low in an even manner.
Anna gulped. Oh boy.
Yuu who had stood right next to her, heard the small sound escaped from the pink haired girl's mouth. He turned to face her and Anna who seemed to understand that simple gesture as a signal for her to explain more, cleared her throat. A worried look crossed her face. "I fear for kaichou's safety."
Kitsu turned to look at her and joined in with Yuu raising their brows. Koko who heard it as well, furrowed his face. "What, why? Ruka is a guy. If that kid looses her temper, she couldn't possibly do more harm than a slap."
Anna shook her head swiftly, rebuffed everything that Koko had said. Her face clearly showed she was afraid and yet, at the same time, she too concerned about Ruka's safety. Sakura-sama isn't someone to mess with when she really looses her temper. If Imai-sama is cold inside and out, pure evil in both sides, Sakura-sama is a devil in disguise. "Sakura-sama learns hapkido."
"What level?" Yuu's voice came.
"She can teach students now."
Horror looks passed all of the guys' faces. Kitsu almost went white. Koko, he couldn't seem to find the right words. His mouth kept open and closing like a fish gasping for air. Yuu, well, he went rigid; quite abnormal for a person who always so calm and sensible.
Now they all feared for their beloved blonde kaichou's safety, who now just assumed the brunette was just another girl who insisted on barging in the principal's office.
"One more time, blondie. If you don't fucking move, you're going to experience a blood bath," Mikan growled.
Anna cleared her throat and just when she about to tell Ruka, or begged if she have to, to move away, Ruka let out a provoking scoff and she swore she heard Sakura-sama's patience just snapped right on the spot.
She moved so fast no one didn't see it coming. They had expected it but none of them could catch the entire move. Apparently, the brunette took a step back, turned around so her back facing him and gave a full swing back with her foot. A loud crash was heard when Ruka went flying back against the door, completely damaging it and landed on the carpeted floor inside the room with a bloody nose. Literally.
Witnessing the after affect, Kitsu and Koko had shrunk back. Their body sizes had shrunk to elf sizes. Their eyes were big but their mouths were shut so tight that people see them would have thought they were biting their lips from screaming. Yuu gulped and glanced at Anna. Anna was wiping her sweat on her forehead. If she knows the brunette and yet, still this surprised with her action, Yuu concluded the brunette was not just someone average.
"Sakura, why do you always bring destruction anywhere you go?" They heard principal's tired voice coming from the inside.
When Mikan casually walked in, the four who stood outside timidly took a peek inside. Principal Kazumi is at his table. Standing straight across him and ever so looking bored was Youichi Hijiri and none of them looked so horrified and ever so shocked like the four. When they craned their necks a little, they could see another person inside the room.
"You know I don't give a fuck about anything you said anymore," Mikan snarled.
"Language!" he scolded her. He then took a deep breath before releasing it in a heavy sigh. He shifted in his seat to look at his poor student lying half dead on the floor and then to his now broken door. "Now you assaulted both my student and my door."
Mikan glanced at the unmoving body on the floor. The blonde was so shocked he couldn't move! He didn't even move a muscle to wipe his bloody nose. Mikan snickered. "That baka blocked my way. I warned him but he didn't listen. Not my fault he was so damn shocked now."
She had now stood next to Youichi. Ignoring everything else, taking his face in her palms, she accessed his entire face. A low groan escaped her throat when she realized her little brother's nose was broken. The bruises on his face would take a few weeks to heal but the nose, she sighed.
She looked around and spotted Hyuuga sitting so comfortably on one of the soft cushions placed on the other side of the room. He smirked at her. Immediately her face turned into a scowl. "Don't tell me that Hyuuga was the idiot responsible for Youichi's face." She looked at her uncle. She could already figure it out.
Just when Izumi could give a proper respond, his ears were assaulted by her niece's another outburst. "And why the hell Youichi has to stand here like a pole when that Hyuuga can fucking sit there so comfortable?" She looked at him accusingly. "Your biased side has gone over the top now."
Kazumi sighed. Mikan and her foul language, it's gotten worse each time they meet. He stood up and mentioned for Natsume to leave the room. "Help Ruka up. The poor kid probably couldn't feel his nose right now."
Natsume shrugged and went to help his now physically and mentally numb friend up. The blonde was limp. When their eyes met, his wide blue eyes blinked rapidly at him as if they were saying fucking hell, Natsume! Natsume chuckled and leaning close to his ear, he whispered, "How did she warned you?" He leaned back and saw Ruka rolled his eyes at him. "Blood bath," his voice croaked. He thought he had heard Natsume's laugh.
"I'll see you two in my office in another few minutes. For now, you wait outside so I can first settle this matter with Hijiri," the principal informed them two.
Ruka gave a weak nod. Hanging limp onto Natsume's body, they started walking towards the door. Ruka's eyes went wide when his eyes finally saw the damage. On the wall was no longer a door but a big space of nothingness. The door was entirely broken to a couple of huge chunks with a few scattered on the floor. A piece of wood was still stuck on the side, hanging limp just like his dead arms and legs now. Fucking hell indeed, the woman was a monster.
On their way out, Natsume decided to rub salt into Hijiri's wound. Nothing much, just a little bit something to boil him. So when they passed by him and the brunette, Natsume playfully winked his crimson eyes at her. The brunette, whom he now addressed as Sakura based on what the principal had called her, frowned before glaring daggers at him. He thought he had heard Hijiri growled at him.
"Don't think I didn't see what you did there, Natsume," Ruka spoke when they're finally outside. They had sat down on a few chairs placed outside the room, lining in a straight line closed to the wall. "You are dumb, you know that. You never learn from your mistakes."
Natsume raised his brows questioningly at his best friend.
"Even if you want her, don't pour oil to the fire, Hyuuga." Ruka scoffed. "You know that kid now despises you so much. Don't provoke him anymore. You guys could end up in a brawl again." He sighed. "Kitsu and Koko went nuts when you started punching each other just now."
"Hell I was!" Kitsu cut in. "You dumbass! If that kid broke your nose, your fans will leave you!"
They had settled down on the chairs as well. Anna, though feeling a bit awkward joining the rest of the guys, took the seat as well. She sat the farthest, next to Ruka. Ruka's other side was Natsume, followed by Kitsu and Koko, then Yuu.
"Like I give a damn about what a bunch of fucking retarded girls would do," Natsume replied drily.
"Dude, without those fucking retards, we aren't nobody. Eye Candy won't even exist!" Koko commented.
Yuu, on the other hand, had decided not to join the conversation. His head was whirling with the new information he had absorbed in. First one ranked inside his mind was Hijiri's relationship with Sakura. Second was obviously who is Sakura.
They intended to argue more about the benefits of Natsume's good looking face towards girls' attraction but their debate abruptly stopped when they heard sudden yells. It was a low one at first, like people's voices talking, then it grew louder, became constant yells and shouts.
Their sweat dropped. It was no use asking them to leave the premise if what the principal wanted to talk about were private matters. They could hear exactly what they were yelling about; more like what she yelled about. The walls did so little in concealing their voices, thanks to the broken door the principal now lost. With the wide gaping space between the walls, they don't even have to break a sweat in eavesdropping.
"You're not going to kick Youichi out!"
"Mikan, this isn't small matter. Youichi had gotten into a serious fight."
So her first name is Mikan then. Mikan Sakura.
Why would the principal call her by her first name? and Hijiri's as well?
"Youichi won't start a fight first. Unless that conceited Hyuuga provoked him."
"We have eyes witnesses, Mikan. All of them said Youichi started the fight first."
"Screw them! If you want to suspend Youichi, you have to kick Hyuuga out as well."
". . . "
"Of course you won't kick Hyuuga out." They heard a feminine mocking laugh. "Hyuuga is an asset to this Alice Academy. Why would you kick an asset out? It's enough you kicked your previous ones before."
Previous ones? They leaned closer to the walls. Koko actually pressed his ears closer for better hearing.
"Mikan, are you still begrudging me of what—"
"I don't effing care about that anymore. You're not kicking Youichi out and that's final. He's not even been here for one week! At least let him off with a first warning first."
"It's because he haven't been here for one week that his behavior is unacceptable!"
"How can getting into a fight is unacceptable? And I told you, Youichi didn't start it first! It's just impossible!"
"Mikan, Youichi has been here for only two days and he already caused a fight. Such behavior is intolerable. If this gets out to the parents committee, they would ask for immediate expulsion."
The room turned silent.
Anna, who was the closest to the gaping space that was once occupied by a door, was anxiously tapping her fingers against her chin. They stayed silent for too long now. So she silently peeked her head in and saw Sakura-sama was now balling her fists.
Then they were greeted by a sound of someone's palms hitting a desk.
"You're not kicking Youichi out." They noticed how each word were forced out.
"I don't want to resolve in threatening you, Principal Kazumi. So I'll try and bargain with you here." Their voices had lowered down.
Koko grunted and removed himself from the wall. He no longer could hear. Apparently they're back to normal voices. Standing up, he tiptoed to Anna and crouched next to her, head peeking in as well. Slowly followed by him was Kitsu. They watched as Mikan leaned across the desk while Hijiri still standing there, pocketing his hands in his pockets. Why isn't Hijiri say anything?
"If you kicked Youichi out, believe me, you will loose 70 percent of the female students in this academy. Even if you already kicked me and Hotaru out and 30 percent of them followed us while the other 70 percent stayed, they are still very loyal to us. Even if Ruka Nogi is AA's kaichou now, I am still their leader one way or another. If you suspend Youichi, I can make these 70 percent transfer schools, probably to ours. You don't want that to happen, do you? After all, half of that 70 percent is huge donors to this academy. You will be left with nothing."
As they listened, Koko's and Kitsu's mouth dropped on the floor when they watched their principal's face paled to the color of white sheet.
Who the hell is she?
That's not a bargain! That's a freaking threat!
Kitsu yelped in surprised when Anna's phone suddenly rang. He was so into the whole complicated atmosphere inside the principal's office, he nearly had a heart attack when that bloody thing suddenly rang out of nowhere.
Afraid of disturbing the peace, Anna quickly fished out her phone and put it near her ear. "Yes?"
A long silence. She was listening to the other person on the line talking.
"Yeah, she's here, in the principal's office." Then she flipped her phone shut and put it back in her pocket. She wasn't too happy.
The two idiots looked accusingly at her. "What the hell was that?"
Anna glared at them both. "Shut the fuck up." Then she's back to watching inside the principal's office. Her thoughts kept buzzing non-stop. First, the news about Sakura-sama's presence inside the academy had spread like wildfire. But what really got her thinking was Hijiri's relationship with Sakura-sama. What is he to her? What is their relationship for Sakura-sama to come this far for him?
They both stared at each other unblinking. What did they just heard? Koko sent Kitsu a silent Did Anna just use obscene words to us? Kitsu merely shrugged and nodded his head.
They watched as their principal finally let out an exhausted giving up breath. He had no choice. Even if this academy is academically known especially among elites, they still depend a lot on parents' donation. If the rest 50 percent leave, they would face a hard time. "First warning to Youichi Hijiri then. Same goes for Natsume Hyuuga."
Mikan leaned back and placed her arms on her tummy, nodding and smiling victoriously. "Settled then." She breathed out in relief. Now that one's settled, she needed to head back to her school quickly. Or not, she might get another one hour detention for breaking her promise with her principal. But before that, she needed to treat Youichi's wounds first.
Grabbing Youichi's hand, turning around, she began heading out with Youichi followed from behind.
"Things are not yet settle, Mikan." Kazumi's voice reminded them.
They stopped.
"Youichi is off the hook but you, on the other hand, is not."
Mikan turned around with a frown on her face. "What?"
"You just attacked one of my students. Not just anyone, but AA's kaichou."
Youichi swore he just watched the colour drained from Mikan's face. It just hit her where she had make a mistake just now. He thought she would passed out that second.
"That blondie is Ruka Nogi?" her voice choked.
Izumi nodded his head.
"Shit," she cursed. Oh boy. Hotaru would be pissed.
"I'm sorry but your crime has now become a matter between two schools."
"Oh no." Hotaru would surely kill me.
"I'm afraid I have to call your kaichou in."
Immediately, her heart just dropped and rolled on the floor. "Oh shit no no no no." Hotaru is going to kill me for sure!
TBC.