Here's some more because I'm feeling happy...or maybe it's the caffeine...Anyway, please review because that would make me even more happy.
The Real Thing
"Too...many...roses..." was all that Kul managed to gasp before she rocked back on her heels and then collapsed backwards off the marble path and onto the emerald grass. The people with her, her friend Kage, and their guides Touga and Wakaba, stared at her in alarm, well at least the latter two did. Kage just lightly kicked her with his foot until she opened her eyes.
"Ow...Kage if you don't stop that I will relocate your foot," the downed girl declared, flinging an arm across her eyes.
"If you were wearing a skirt you'd be flashing everyone," he told her. She raised her arm slightly to give him a dirty look.
"Are you alright?" Touga asked with concern as the rest, by that it is meant he and Wakaba, gathered around her.
"Sorry, I was overwhelmed by the floral theme of the campus," she told them as she sat up. "Let's go find our rooms." Suddenly she stood up apparently bursting with energy. She started heading off down the path and stopped when she noticed that no one was with her. Turning around she found them all motioning in the other direction.
"I knew that," she declared out of breath after running back to them. "I was...testing you all..."
"Fish stick," Kage muttered, for which he received a rather violent blow to a sensitive region of his anatomy.
* * *
Kul stared with wide, now blue, eyes as Touga showed her where she would be staying. It was a coed dorm designed like an old Greco-Roman temple, with a touch of gothic flair for no apparent reason she could discern. Of course had she been an architect and not a romance reader, which she would never admit unless tortured with a succession of the best of Barney tapes, she would have been able to say more about it. She did recognize the green stuff on either side of the walkway as grass and the larger green things as shrubs. She was on an identifying roll.
Kage had been shown his room by Wakaba which was a couple dorms behind them. After she had said goodbye the girl had dashed off in search of her friend to recount her experience with the new girl. Or at least that's what Kul thought. Her friend had been left to his own devices and she prayed nothing electrical would explode when he touched it. For some reason anything electrical took an instant disliking to him and would begin to do strange, inexplicable things. She thought it was rather funny.
"I believe you won't have a room-mate since all the other students have been paired during first semester. That means you have a room all to yourself," Touga announced, casting her amused glance as he noticed her innocent admiration.
"Cool, I love having my own room. I've heard too many roommate nightmare on TV," she told him, rubbing her hands together in unabashed glee. He threw his head back and laughed with indulgent amusement, she couldn't help admire his hot profile.
"I'll escort you to your room," he told her still chuckling. She nodded her consent and took the proffered arm with mock solemnity.
As they passed doorways and walked down hallways and up stairs, there seemed to be an awful lot of the latter, a multitude of heads popped out to stare at them. The girls started giggling inanely, pointing and whispering frantically with their roommates, some just stared at them with shock. The boys were more restrained in their ogling of the pair. Kul hoped being seen with Touga wouldn't irredeemably damage her reputation, of which she really didn't have, but still.
Touga must have sensed her growing unease because he shot everyone a rather cold glance. Every door suddenly closed and silence descended upon the hall. She was rather amazed at the power he wielded over the inhabitants of Ohtori. Silently she wished she could silence an entire dorm with a single look. If she could do that she would be unstoppable.
"Here we are, this is your new home away from home," he told her stopping before a plain looking brown door at the very end of the hall and as conceivably far from the bathroom as possible. Apparently the rooms didn't come with their own.
"Cool, and when will all my stuff be sent?" she asked as she opened the door. She was only mildly worried about the fact that the door had no lock.
"In a few hours most likely, oh and class begins tomorrow for you two. I'll assign some students to take you around. They should meet you in the campus cafeteria at seven, that's breakfast, classes start at eight."
"Class tomorrow?" she echoed in shock. "So soon?"
"You don't want to get any farther behind of the rest of your grade do you?" he asked reasonably. "You'll need tutors to catch up as it is." Upon seeing her worried face he reassured her that he'd take care of everything and if she needed anything, anything at all, all she had to do was ask. She wasn't sure if she was being just paranoid but the way he said that last part made seem a little risqué.
"Okay, thanks," she said giving him a warm smile as she slipped inside.
Her smile slipped as she thought of the prospect of tutoring. She had never needed tutoring in anything before and didn't particularly like the idea having to do it now. The prospect of making up more than a semester of work was a daunting prospect and the fact that she had her own, fairly livable room didn't make up the difference.
* * * *
"What do you think?" Kul asked Kage as she did a little twirl in her new uniform. The teal skirt was uncomfortably short and the sleeves of the blouse were so puffy she would surely suffocate if she turned her head to either side for too long.
As he eyed her critically, having decided to wake her up at six in the morning to show off his uniform, which was completely teal, she tugged uncertainly on the red tie that was purely for decoration. She glanced at the shoes she had arrived with, the black ankle boots, and decided they didn't look too bad considering the rest of the outfit.
"I'd say you're going to be flashing a whole lot of people in that thing," he remarked giving her skirt a tug. She smacked away his hand and turned once again to the mirror. She still couldn't get over having pink hair and blue eyes.
"I either need to borrow one of your uniforms..."
"Hell no, I need all my manly man uniforms I have, which is two," Kage informed her primly.
"Or find a pair of spandex shorts," she continued thoughtfully. "Black because then my butt wouldn't look so big."
"Spandex? Isn't that kinda early nineties?" he asked with a mixture of shock and distaste.
"I don't think a pair of baggy shorts would exactly go with this," she told him gesturing at the short, pleated skirt with white trim. "Besides then my shoes will make sense."
Kage rolled his now-green eyes and leaned back against her bed, "And where will you get these shorts?"
"Well, Touga said I could ask him for anything. Think he has any experience with women's clothing?"
"You're going to ask that guy to help you buy clothes?" he asked incredulously. "I've been hearing talk of him, not much mind you, but he's famous, or more likely infamous, around her as a playboy."
"Worse than you?" she retorted laughing. "Oh that's right, you can't even talk intelligibly when the opposite sex is near."
"It was one girl and it was in sixth grade," he exclaimed indignantly. "Geez, do you have to bring it back up?"
She gave him a look of mocking sympathy, "Did I pop your delicate male ego?"
"Let's go to breakfast."
* * * *
Okay that's it for this chapter, tune in next time and don't forget to review so I know that someone out there actually likes.
The Real Thing
"Too...many...roses..." was all that Kul managed to gasp before she rocked back on her heels and then collapsed backwards off the marble path and onto the emerald grass. The people with her, her friend Kage, and their guides Touga and Wakaba, stared at her in alarm, well at least the latter two did. Kage just lightly kicked her with his foot until she opened her eyes.
"Ow...Kage if you don't stop that I will relocate your foot," the downed girl declared, flinging an arm across her eyes.
"If you were wearing a skirt you'd be flashing everyone," he told her. She raised her arm slightly to give him a dirty look.
"Are you alright?" Touga asked with concern as the rest, by that it is meant he and Wakaba, gathered around her.
"Sorry, I was overwhelmed by the floral theme of the campus," she told them as she sat up. "Let's go find our rooms." Suddenly she stood up apparently bursting with energy. She started heading off down the path and stopped when she noticed that no one was with her. Turning around she found them all motioning in the other direction.
"I knew that," she declared out of breath after running back to them. "I was...testing you all..."
"Fish stick," Kage muttered, for which he received a rather violent blow to a sensitive region of his anatomy.
* * *
Kul stared with wide, now blue, eyes as Touga showed her where she would be staying. It was a coed dorm designed like an old Greco-Roman temple, with a touch of gothic flair for no apparent reason she could discern. Of course had she been an architect and not a romance reader, which she would never admit unless tortured with a succession of the best of Barney tapes, she would have been able to say more about it. She did recognize the green stuff on either side of the walkway as grass and the larger green things as shrubs. She was on an identifying roll.
Kage had been shown his room by Wakaba which was a couple dorms behind them. After she had said goodbye the girl had dashed off in search of her friend to recount her experience with the new girl. Or at least that's what Kul thought. Her friend had been left to his own devices and she prayed nothing electrical would explode when he touched it. For some reason anything electrical took an instant disliking to him and would begin to do strange, inexplicable things. She thought it was rather funny.
"I believe you won't have a room-mate since all the other students have been paired during first semester. That means you have a room all to yourself," Touga announced, casting her amused glance as he noticed her innocent admiration.
"Cool, I love having my own room. I've heard too many roommate nightmare on TV," she told him, rubbing her hands together in unabashed glee. He threw his head back and laughed with indulgent amusement, she couldn't help admire his hot profile.
"I'll escort you to your room," he told her still chuckling. She nodded her consent and took the proffered arm with mock solemnity.
As they passed doorways and walked down hallways and up stairs, there seemed to be an awful lot of the latter, a multitude of heads popped out to stare at them. The girls started giggling inanely, pointing and whispering frantically with their roommates, some just stared at them with shock. The boys were more restrained in their ogling of the pair. Kul hoped being seen with Touga wouldn't irredeemably damage her reputation, of which she really didn't have, but still.
Touga must have sensed her growing unease because he shot everyone a rather cold glance. Every door suddenly closed and silence descended upon the hall. She was rather amazed at the power he wielded over the inhabitants of Ohtori. Silently she wished she could silence an entire dorm with a single look. If she could do that she would be unstoppable.
"Here we are, this is your new home away from home," he told her stopping before a plain looking brown door at the very end of the hall and as conceivably far from the bathroom as possible. Apparently the rooms didn't come with their own.
"Cool, and when will all my stuff be sent?" she asked as she opened the door. She was only mildly worried about the fact that the door had no lock.
"In a few hours most likely, oh and class begins tomorrow for you two. I'll assign some students to take you around. They should meet you in the campus cafeteria at seven, that's breakfast, classes start at eight."
"Class tomorrow?" she echoed in shock. "So soon?"
"You don't want to get any farther behind of the rest of your grade do you?" he asked reasonably. "You'll need tutors to catch up as it is." Upon seeing her worried face he reassured her that he'd take care of everything and if she needed anything, anything at all, all she had to do was ask. She wasn't sure if she was being just paranoid but the way he said that last part made seem a little risqué.
"Okay, thanks," she said giving him a warm smile as she slipped inside.
Her smile slipped as she thought of the prospect of tutoring. She had never needed tutoring in anything before and didn't particularly like the idea having to do it now. The prospect of making up more than a semester of work was a daunting prospect and the fact that she had her own, fairly livable room didn't make up the difference.
* * * *
"What do you think?" Kul asked Kage as she did a little twirl in her new uniform. The teal skirt was uncomfortably short and the sleeves of the blouse were so puffy she would surely suffocate if she turned her head to either side for too long.
As he eyed her critically, having decided to wake her up at six in the morning to show off his uniform, which was completely teal, she tugged uncertainly on the red tie that was purely for decoration. She glanced at the shoes she had arrived with, the black ankle boots, and decided they didn't look too bad considering the rest of the outfit.
"I'd say you're going to be flashing a whole lot of people in that thing," he remarked giving her skirt a tug. She smacked away his hand and turned once again to the mirror. She still couldn't get over having pink hair and blue eyes.
"I either need to borrow one of your uniforms..."
"Hell no, I need all my manly man uniforms I have, which is two," Kage informed her primly.
"Or find a pair of spandex shorts," she continued thoughtfully. "Black because then my butt wouldn't look so big."
"Spandex? Isn't that kinda early nineties?" he asked with a mixture of shock and distaste.
"I don't think a pair of baggy shorts would exactly go with this," she told him gesturing at the short, pleated skirt with white trim. "Besides then my shoes will make sense."
Kage rolled his now-green eyes and leaned back against her bed, "And where will you get these shorts?"
"Well, Touga said I could ask him for anything. Think he has any experience with women's clothing?"
"You're going to ask that guy to help you buy clothes?" he asked incredulously. "I've been hearing talk of him, not much mind you, but he's famous, or more likely infamous, around her as a playboy."
"Worse than you?" she retorted laughing. "Oh that's right, you can't even talk intelligibly when the opposite sex is near."
"It was one girl and it was in sixth grade," he exclaimed indignantly. "Geez, do you have to bring it back up?"
She gave him a look of mocking sympathy, "Did I pop your delicate male ego?"
"Let's go to breakfast."
* * * *
Okay that's it for this chapter, tune in next time and don't forget to review so I know that someone out there actually likes.
