Author: Furieux
Ratings: G [might be rated for language later ^_^]
Genre: Alternate Universe
Disclaimer: Takehiko Inoue owns Slam Dunk, and the slogging is mine.
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[Chapter Two]
"Violé Atashi."
"Here, sensei," She raised her hand.
"You did well for your quiz, keep it up," The teacher smiled encouragingly at the girl with neat double plaits and neat uniform.
"Hai, Thank you sensei, I'll do my best," She grinned at the answer script.
"Violé, your name didn't sound local," The boy seated next to her asked, "What does it mean? And why is it that you have a Japanese family name?"
"My mum was American, Dad was Japanese. And my mum insisted that I use a foreign name." She smiled.
"Oh…no wonder you have grey eyes like that. Pretty." He added.
She gave a dimpled smile and went back to her work, adjusting the thin spectacle frame perched on her nose, "But the name became kind of embarrassing,"
"Why? It sounded good,"
"Yup, but to the French, violé means 'violated'," She shook her head, sighing resignedly.
"Huh? Why that name, then?"
"Mum thought that it sounded 'French' and 'classy', she meant it to mean 'violet'. However, she should have considered the fact that she didn't know much French."
"Hey, it was lucky, though," The boy grinned, "Our school colors are purple and yellow, pretty close to your concept of violets…"
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Maki Shinichi poked the frog. It did not move.
He nodded towards his petrified female classmates, "It's blacked out,"
"Oh thank goodness, Maki-san, this thing scares me…" A girl came over, "And now we've got to stick these needles into it…" Her pretty face screwed up into disgusted crumples.
"No choice, we've got to dissect the frog all right, Natsumi, don't tell me that you are still scared of frog dissection after four years of doing it? Junior high, high school, we've been through it all," A boy laughed.
"Hey! That was mean, you know us girls, we can't stand…yeargh!!!!!!" She yelled as the boy stuck needles into the frog's limbs to fix it onto the wax board.
"Right-o, buddies, now who's going to do the dirty job?" He stood back. The girls shrank away, and even some of the boys look horrified. Everyone's vision landed on Maki, who was sitting on a bench quietly.
"Shinichi…you do it."
Maki sighed, and removed himself from his seat. He was always the one to do the
jobs that no one wanted to do.
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"No…Sodium Hydroxide goes in first…" She dabbed a finger at the instructions. Takago looked surprised for a second before realizing that Violé was right.
It was chemistry lesson, and the constant explosions could be heard from various chemical errors that the students made.
"You are a chem. Whiz, Atashi-san," Takago, her lab partner, sighed.
"It's practice and loads of hard work," She smiled, patting his shoulder, "You can do it too,"
Takago stared at her face for that second and this thought flashed by his mind.
If she'd get rid of those braces, she'd be really pretty.
The bell went. The teacher announced that class was dismissed for lunch break. Everyone packed and went out. Two girls caught up with Violé and made self-introductions.
"I'm Sayuna, she's Marii, and you are Violé, right?" The speaker has long dark wavy hair tied up in a thick ponytail, while the other girl has straight, shoulder-length hair with blonde tinges to it.
"Pleased to meet you, which junior high were you from?" She asked.
"Kainan Junior High, for both of us,"
Violé sighed, "Most people around here are from Kainan Junior High, I seemed to be the only one who isn't,"
"Nah…be proud of yourself! If you were not from Kainan Junior High, you must have done really well to get into Kainan High," Marii encouraged her.
"Thanks, I did okay, I guess."
Maki came out of the Biology lab with a big stack of books and came face to face with the girls.
"Violé!" He looked pleased, "Going for lunch?"
"Hai, want to join us?" She asked.
"Sorry, got to get this stack of stuff up to the staff room, why don't you girls go ahead?"
"Okay, see you later!"
"Violé, you know Maki-san?" Sayuna looked incredible.
"He came to my aunt's pet shop to buy a kitten last week," She stated matter-of-factly.
"Maki and a kitten!" Both Sayuna and Marii faced each other and crooned loudly.
"What?" Violé looked upon the swooning girls with much confusion.
"That is just so Kawaii!"
"You guys know Maki well?"
"Know him well? Everyone knows him! He's the basketball captain, and Student council president, plus Class President, too! He's a wonder-man,"
"A legend come alive," Marii agreed.
"Wow." Violé muttered, "Wow."
"But look here, Violé, I must say, you are half a legend, yourself," Sayuna turned back to her.
"Quit fooling," She laughed, "Me?"
"Yeah, you get good grades, pretty, and nice!" Marii cooed, "You are a walking Mary-sue."
"Mary-sue?" She scowled, "Mary-sue! Wouldn't Maki be a Larry-Stu then?"
"Yes, he is," Sayuna nodded, "Perfect beyond words,"
"Don't say that," Violé frowned lightly, "I don't think he liked to be commented as 'perfect' by anybody, it sounds like a compliment, but it is actually stressful,"
"Aw, come on, Violé, lighten up!"
"Yeah, anyway," Violé smiled, "Nobody is perfect, so Maki is a nobody?"
"No way!" Both girls yelled at the same time.
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Somewhere far off, Maki sneezed.
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"I say, Senpai, do you have a girlfriend?" Kiyota asked, a wicked grin on his face.
"No," Maki glared at him, "And eat your lunch!"
Kiyota made a face before returning to his food.
The rest of the basketball players at the table laughed. Jin smiled good naturedly and prodded Kiyota, "Why the interest? You mean you want to match-make Maki senpai with some girl?"
"Actually, yes," Kiyota smiled proudly, "There's this girl in my class, she's half American or some thing. Has really pretty grey eyes and good grades and all, personally I think Senpai…"
"EAT YOUR LUNCH!"
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