12/10/02- I got ONE review, so I suppose I'll continue this! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (Yeah, I was going to continue it anyway.) The first couple of paragraphs are badly written, so you don't have to tell me. I know. ;)
Okay, now I have two. And NEITHER of them are from my friends that I have ordered to read it. SOB!!! OH, WELL!! I SHALL SMITE THEM LATER!!! FOAM!!!
Cinnamon Eyes
Hitomi was the first one out the door when the bell rang for lunch. She jogged down the hall, dodging passing students, and eventually found herself in another classroom. A couple girls acknowledged her return, and she nodded in reply.
"Hello!" A strange boy with spiky hair at the other side of the room smiled and waved. His three friends, a girl and two boys, followed suit.
"Hitomi-chan!" came a voice from the hallway. She bristled and jumped under the boy's desk.
"Hey, what…?"
"Hey!" squealed the girl.
"Yuugi-kun!" Otogi stuck his head into the room. "Did Hitomi-chan just pass by here?"
Yuugi-kun? Hitomi thought.
"Uh… who?"
"A girl with reddish-brown hair about to here and pink bangs." His hands hovered over his shoulders to indicate the length of Hitomi's hair.
The boy stuttered. "Uh, well, she…"
Hitomi punched his leg.
"Ow! Yeah, she passed by. Keep going down the hall, Otogi-kun."
Otogi raised an eyebrow, but kept going. As soon as his footsteps died away, Hitomi emerged.
"Are you Mutou Yuugi? You finished first place in the Duelist Kingdom tournament?"
Yuugi blinked. "Uhh… yeah. Um… Hitomi?"
She smiled. "Sorry about that. Lunch is basically the only time I can get away from him. I'm Kawara Hitomi." She brushed off her skirt.
"Well, that's the first time I've seen a girl running away from Otogi," commented the taller, brown-haired boy. "I'd understand if it were Jounouchi, but…"
"Hey!" The blonde boy pushed his shoulder. "What are you saying, Honda? Anyway…" he turned to Hitomi, "have you heard of me? Jounouchi Katsuya, won second in the Duelist Kingdom tournament?"
Hitomi scowled. "Never heard of you."
Jounouchi fell over, and the others laughed. "Hey…!"
"I'm just kidding!" She waved her hand. "I've heard of you."
"REALLY?!" This outburst came not only from Jounouchi but from his comrades as well.
She nodded. "Jounouchi Katsuya, won second place; won against Bandit Keith Howard in the semifinals, then lost against Mutou Yuugi the next round. Previously was in the final eight in the Domino City tournament."
"You seem to know your Duel Monsters statistics," smiled the girl. Now that she wasn't in such a panic, Hitomi recognized her as Mazaki Anzu; she'd never talked to her, though she could place the name with the face.
Hitomi sat herself on top of a desk. "I play the game every so often. My deck's not that great, though."
Honda laughed. "Neither is mine, but at the moment I'm hungry. Jounouchi! Go buy bentou boxes for all of us!" He slapped Jounouchi on the back.
"Agh! Why me?!"
Yuugi jumped off his chair. "I'll get them, Honda-kun, don't worry!"
"You're not the one that won all that prize money, Yuugi!" Honda put his arms behind his head. "Or with a job."
Jounouchi grumbled. "But my sis-"
"I'm kidding!" Honda slapped a 1000 yen note into his friend's hand. "It's my turn to pay, anyway."
"Why should I walk there…"
"Aw, quit whining Jounouchi-kun!" Yuugi laughed. "Just go or we'll have no time to eat."
Jounouchi stomped out the door, and Hitomi crept over to where Anzu was standing. "Is it always like this, Mazaki?"
"Most of the time," she sighed. "It's times like this that I wonder if Mai-san was right… Anyway, what's with you and Otogi?"
"Yeah, what's going on?" Yuugi inquired.
"Well…" Hitomi paused, trying to think of the best way to word her situation. "He obviously has a huge crush on me. If he's trying to hide it, he's failing miserably."
Honda laughed. "You must be the only girl in school who doesn't like him fawning over you!"
"He annoys me. A lot."
"He's not that bad…" Anzu brought up. "He can seem a jerk at first, but he's pretty nice."
Hitomi giggled. "Why don't you go after him, then, Mazaki?"
The other girl blushed furiously. "I didn't mean…!" Her eyes darted from Hitomi to Yuugi and back to Hitomi.
"I see," she nodded knowingly. "You like to tower over your guys."
"Ahh…!" It was Yuugi's turn to blush. "Do… do you two really think you should be talking girl stuff in front of us…?" He waved his hands in front of his face, indicating that he didn't want to hear.
"You take things too seriously!" Hitomi sat back on the desk. "Seriously, you do."
"We wouldn't if you didn't say your jokes with a straight face…" Honda suggested.
Hitomi blinked, then broke her calm manner with giggles. "You're right! I'm sorry." She gasped. "Hey, Yuugi, do you know how I could get Otogi to leave me alone?!"
"Revenge against Otogi?!" Jounouchi ran in with five white boxes. "I'm in!"
"It's not revenge, I just want him to leave me alone."
"Well…" Yuugi crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
Hitomi felt a sudden chill, almost like another person had entered the room, or that a person left…? And it wasn't Jounouchi.
Yuugi opened his eyes a second later. "Hitomi, you play Duel Monsters, right…?"
***
"Otogi!" Hitomi walked into her classroom after lunch, and found Otogi's emerald eyes following her. The girls giggled at Hitomi yelling her stalker's name.
"Hitomi-chan!" Otogi crossed his arms. "Where were you during lunch? I would have bought a lunch for you…"
Hitomi ignored this statement and slammed her deck onto his desk. "Otogi, I challenge you to a duel!"
***
^-^ Omake!! ^-^
Well, this chapter isn't much better than the first. Otogi's still a little out of character… malesh! You don't have to read this part if you don't want to, it'll just be random stuff this chapter…
Anyway! I probably won't have the next chapter up until Saturday, at the earliest. I have an essay to do for English by Friday, and I'm hoping to finish my manga for the Tokyopop contest by Saturday. I also have my talkshow and chapter two of the Pegasus' Boats story to do, and I may want to get those out of the way before chapter three of this fic.
Next chapter will get more interesting! It might be a little confusing, because it's going to be riddled with mini-flashbacks, and it'll be the first duel that I make up. Aughhh… *falls over* I think I may be in over my head… but, then again, that can be the describing phrase of my whole life. (Note to the younger viewers: If eleventh grade is the supposed "biggest workload" grade, make SURE you have an elective SOMEWHERE in your schedule. It'll also help to make sure the classes you have aren't supposed to be in SEPARATE semesters…)
Okay, just for kicks, and because I have no idea what else to write, I'll give you my class schedule, just to show you how much my school wants to screw me over. YAY!!!
Fall Semester (September 4- January 17)
Block 1: 20th Century World Studies
Block 2: 20th Century World Literature Honors
Block 3: Integrated Math 3
Block 4: Novice Spanish B
Spring Semester (January 20- June 13) (Unsure of class order)
Painting Portfolio
Spanish 2 Honors
Chemistry
Integrated Math 4
Isn't that just GRAND? History and English are the major writing courses, so we're supposed to have them in separate semesters. This is the SECOND year in a row that I've had them in the same semester, and since it's ELEVENTH GRADE, which is SO important, I have an average of 3 novels to read and 3 essays to write every month. I'm actually procrastinating on my History homework so that I can write this out. *hopes for the delayed opening to be real* Okay, school isn't THAT bad, because all my teachers love me and allow me to cut corners. But in my math teacher's case, that can be not that great, as he thinks I'm OH-so-talented, and it's a HUGE deal if I miss an assignment, because I CAN do better because I'm SO great at EVERYTHING!!! AND!!! If I don't put enough "artistic talent" in my work, he gets upset. HELLO?! It's MATH!!! Malesh. He's just a stupid old man who wears (tight, pink-and-purple striped) shirts that he SHOULDN'T…
Um… Spanish is okay, since I'm utterly talented with languages, but the kids don't like me that much because "I'm smarter than them." They just discovered today that I can draw and read Japanese, also, and one of the girls stomped out the door when I said that, yes, I knew what that (Japanese kanji) said. Malesh. *directed towards the kids in her Spanish class* Yes, I know English and Spanish AND Japanese AND even a little Egyptian!!! (Actually, I only know a single word of Egyptian. "Malesh" means "whatever.")
You know, people have probably long since stopped reading this. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Malesh. Here's a list of songs I listened to as I was writing this. :P
Mokona Ondo de Pupupu de Pu (Magic Knight Rayearth)
Ice Cream Child (Ojamajo Doremi)
Ojamajo Ondo de Happippi (Ojamajo Doremi)
Yuzurenai Negai (Magic Knight Rayearth)
Takeshi's Paradise (Pocket Monsters)
Itsu no Hika (Yonekura Chihiro)
Tomodachi no Uta (Ojamajo Doremi)
Yuugure Buranko (Ojamajo Doremi)
Pop na Yuuki (Ojamajo Doremi)
Ojamajo is No.1! (Ojamajo Doremi)
Ieru Ka Neo? (Pocket Monsters)
True to Your Heart (Mulan)
Ojamajo Happy Christmas (Ojamajo Doremi)
Hikari to Kage o Dakishimeta (Magic Knight Rayearth)
Up Side Down (Kaitou Saint Tail)
Owaranai Monogatari (Ojamajo Doremi)
Now that I think about it… where did my Yu-Gi-Oh MP3s go? HMMMmmm…. Whatever! I'm running out of things to ramble about now, so I think I'll do my History homework.
Thanks for reading! I hope you look forward to the next chapter!!
Next Chapter
Chapter 3: Duel! (The Japanese equivalent of "It's time to duel!")