AN: Weee.. chapter three here.. ya I didn't get my reviews. .. but ehn.. oh well I have people harassing me on MSN =) This chapters my favourite so far.
It wasn't fair. Life wasn't fair. She wasn't even given a chance! And with what chance she barely got she thought she had done a pretty good job considering the horrible mess that was dropped into her lap. The year before the Beyblade club was led by a corrupt senior. He filled the eight regular spots with not but his senior friends, who were all pretty much incompetent when it came to blading. The former captain had been so over bearing that all the juniors of that year of that year gave up blading, which was why they didn't have seniors this year. Well that and the fact that they had prodigy sophomores and juniors. It was really amazing that such a small town had a base of talent they did. Liika had no doubt that if the captain last year had have been smart at all, it would have been Bakuten that won the Colorado State championships, not that snooty private school Abbey. Then she would still be captain and not that…guy. Growling she continued to stomp toward the junior study hall.
Yes, it was all that incompetent jackass of an ex-captain's fault. She once again cursed her being considered too young to captain the team. But then that guy hadn't been considered too young apparently. She briefly wondered if there had been seniors on that Abbey team and if they had minded being bossed around by sophomore.
It didn't help that she was convinced Principal Dickenson hated her. She could never do anything right, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise that he would rid of her as captain of his precious beyblade team at first opportunity. After all the only reason she was captain in the first place was because no one else would take the job.
Gah! Bakuten District Highschool only had a beyblade team because she had gathered them up after the disaster last year. Well that was her opinion anyway, she was sure Mr. Dickenson would disagree with her. The side of her eye twitched and her lips pulled back in a snarl. She was more hurt than angry though. It hurt to think that Principal Dickenson didn't have faith in her abilities as a leader or as a beyblader.
Finally reaching the doors to the classroom designated as the junior study hall –all juniors that had studies had them in that block and in that classroom, she paused and blinked back the tears that were threatening to spill down her cheeks. Taking a deep breath she pushed down the hurt and pain, replaced them with anger and readied herself to face her peers. Pushing the door open she stepped into the somewhat noisy classroom that was filled with about twenty-five other juniors. The desks were paired up in three rows, five pairs to every row. As quietly as she could, so not to draw attention to herself, she walked with her head down toward her desk in the middle of the classroom. Reaching her desk she slipped in her seat, put down her backpack and pulled out her books, almost as if ignoring everyone around her.
"Iki…?"
She didn't look up at the blond that sat behind her. "Yes Enrique?"
The blond sighed and looked helplessly around at the people around him. All focused their attention on the girl. The black haired boy beside her placed a hand on her shoulder. "Are you ok Liika?"
Liika paused in her writing, trying very hard to calm her emotions. She was about to either break down crying –which she really could stand the thought of doing, or explode with rage. At the moment either option seemed likely. "I'm fi- I'm fine Lee." Her voice was somewhat shakey.
Lee frowned, he knew she wasn't. He sent a worried look to Rei and Robert that sat in the two desks in front of theirs. Rei looked helpless and Robert scowled, glancing off to the side to where a lone boy sat across from them in the row against the window. Enrique was getting really anxious, it wasn't like Liika to sit in study quietly doing her work… study wasn't for working! She wouldn't answer him, or Lee, and he doubted she'd answer Rei, Robert or Oliver either. He looked around the classroom to see if anyone else from their 'circle' had noticed. By circle he meant those on the blading team… they had grown up together so they tended to hang out together.
The only juniors in the 'circle' that weren't sitting around them and had study were Tala and Michael, who sat in the row by the door at the front where the supervising teacher had put them for talking too much. Why he'd put them together was beyond Enrique… they only talked when together, which is what they were doing at the moment. Neither seemed to notice Liika's late entrance, and if they did they didn't seem to care. Michael let out a loud laugh at something Tala –who was lounging against the wall looking insanely bored, said. Insensitive jerks, Enrique scowled in their direction. Neither one noticed however –che, typical.
Enrique brought his attention back to the girl that was now the center of attention in their little 'circle' of six desks (it wasn't really a circle just a row.) She was now openly ignoring them all and looked like she was having some kind of internal conflict. Her eyes were squeezed tightly shut and the hand that was holding her mechanical pencil was clenched so tightly that the pencil looked a bit worse for wear. Nope, Liika wasn't taking the demotion very well. Venturing a hand out to touch her shoulder, Enrique questioned softly, "Iki… what's the matter?"
He felt her shoulder tense under his fingers as he waited for her response. After waiting a few moments he sighed and dropped his hand away, dropping his head to the desk in the process. Robert two rows up watched the blond try to reach their friend to no avail, she was taking it too hard. Yes she loved her position but it wasn't like she was off the team or anything! Opening his mouth to voice these thoughts her low voice cut him off before he could start. "You want to know what's the matter?" Her voice was quiet, and monotone, neither sounding angry or upset. This frightened them more than if she had started screaming right there.
Enrique brought his head back up off the desk, "Um, yes?" The others nodded in agreement.
They then noticed her cheek twitching. Enrique flinched, he knew what was coming, she was about to explode. When you knew someone for sixteen years little signs give their mood away, and a cheek twitch was a sure sign that a blow up was about to happen.
Oh boy. He thought and backed away a few inches, Oliver saw this and raised a delicate eyebrow. "Enrique what-"
"I'll tell you what's wrong." Her tight voice cut in drawing Oliver's eyes to her stiff back. "I have been replaced. Replaced. Me, who worked hard all damn summer to put his beyblade team back together got dismissed as if I had never done anything at all!" Her low tone slowly rising into a yell, Rei reached out and said, "Now Liika…" They were all starting to realize she was on the edge.
"I'm not finished yet!" She exclaimed jumping out of her seat sending her chair crashing to the floor. The five boys around her jumped a bit, Enrique shaking his head and groaning a bit.
The crash gained the attention of the entire class as all eyes turned to the raging girl, who was by this point oblivious to the stares. "And what's worse is that I was replaced by some two bit snobby private school reject! He's probably never even seen the inside of a public school, probably too good," she sneered a bit at this, "for a small town high school like Bakuten. And oooohhh he's so great because he led the great Abbey Secondary to the Nationals last year," The last sentence was almost sung in a mocking melody. "But everyone conveniently forgets that they lost in the first round! Ha!" Her chest was heaving by this point and everyone in the class was staring at her in shock, but she was too blinded by her anger to care.
The members of the beyblading team paled and seemed to look at something behind her. Enrique was still muttering and shaking his head, Robert rubbed his eyes wearily, Lee and Rei looked from the desks behind Liika to her, Oliver smiled nervously, Tala smirked and raised one red eyebrow and Michael just looked surprised.
Liika noticed her friend looking from her to something behind her, "What?" she demanded, looking straight at Lee.
Lee coughed in embarrassment, his cheeks turning a bit red and he glanced behind her again. Glaring at him she whirled around and came face to face with a rather good-looking blue haired boy who looked less than pleased.
Kai studied the girl that had just publicly slandered him with out even knowing him. She had long royal blue hair –or what he thought was long as it was tied up into a bun at the back of her head held in place by two black hair sticks, her bangs strewn about her forehead in a somewhat messy fashion. Long black lashes framed flashing turquoise eyes that were filled with not anger but hurt. Her large eyes gave her away. She had a delicate heart shaped face and a lithe body. Her sleeveless dress shirt, red and purple tie, green pleated skirt, green calf high socks uniform and red and white tennis shoes suited her well. She wore a silver watch on her right wrist and gold hoop earrings in her ears. So, this was the girl captain that had so much loyalty on his new beyblade team.
He narrowed his eyes and scowled at her, how dare she talk about him like that, as if she actually knew him. Private school reject indeed! "I take it you are Liika." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
Her turquoise eyes stared right back into his chestnut ones, not flinching at his condescending tone. "Yeah, and you are?" Her own tone matching his.
"Kai Hiwatari. The two bit snobby private school reject." The condescending tone dropped from his voice, instead he picked up the sneer that had been in her voice when she said those exact words.
Her eyes widened to enormous proportions, and she gasped. A bright blush spread across her cheeks. She looked perfectly mortified. "Yo-you-"
He snorted and tossed his head, turning away to go sit back down in his seat. "That's right. I'm your replacement." He pronounced the word in such away that he knew it was like rubbing salt on an open wound.
Her response was a small gasp followed closely by a growl. She stomped the few steps over to where he was now seated and slammed her hands down on his desk, getting right in his face. "Listen here you-you job thieving…freak!"
Kai raised an eyebrow and calmly replied while smirking, "Freak?"
Her face reddened even more and scrunched up into an angry scowl, any trace of hurt gone from her glittering aqua eyes. "Don't go thinking your better than everyone just because you went to the nationals or because Principal Dickenson seems to think so highly of you. I don't give a rat's ass what you were in that snooty private school of yours, be you captain or towel boy. That doesn't make you better than me or my team. Mark my words Hiwatari, this isn't over yet." Her teeth were clenched and she was practically snarling at him.
"That's where your wrong wench. It is over and it's not your team anymore. It's mine, and you'd do well to remember that." He said it calmly, not flinching as her nose almost touched his own.
"Wench?! Why you arrogant asshole!" she screeched bringing her arm back to punch his pretty tattooed face.
Her hand was caught behind her and her arm pulled down. She yanked it out of and whirled to yell at the person that dared to stop her from extracting justice –who just happened to be Robert, but was interrupted by a loud, "Miss Tomoda!"
Liika froze in her tracks, tensing as she heard the stern steps of the study block supervisor. When the footsteps stops directly beside her she turned stiffly and hung her head. "Yes, Mr. Jazzman?"
The teacher surveyed the situation quickly, he had just stepped out of the room to get a cup of coffee when he came back to see the usually good Liika Tomoda about to punch the new boy in the face. "Liika, what may I ask is going on here?" His voice wasn't harsh and demanding, but slightly soft and confused.
"I'm sorry Mr. Jazzman, I guess I just got carried away…" was her reply, her voice totally docile.
"When I came in you were trying to punch the new kid in the face."
She flinched. "You saw that huh?"
"Uh Huh." He shook his head, kids these days. "Mr. Hiwatari perhaps you will inform me as to what went on?"
Kai sneered –but only so much that she could see it, to everyone else it looked like a regular smirk, this caused her to seeth and vow vengence on his snobby ass. "I was just minding my own business when she starts yelling things about me –not very nice things. Then she came over and started screeching in my face, then tried punched me." As he spoke his tone turned innocent, mockingly so, but only Liika and those around her could tell.
"YOU LYING SACK OF -"
"LIIKA!" Mr. Jazzman exclaimed, his eyes wide with disbelief, after all this was Liika. The worst she had ever done was be late for school on occasion, well there was that incident with Mr. Toppers mice last week, but it wasn't proved that it was her.
Robert, Enrique and Lee glared at Kai and his innocent act. He had conveniently forgot to mention all those thing he had said to her, even if she did start it. Oliver and Rei frowned, not liking the whole situation, while Tala and Michael snickered from the corner.
Mr. Jazzman heaved a large sigh and rubbed his eyes. "Since its one word against another, and I wasn't here, I'll let it slip this time. Now all of you go back to work." With that he turned and started back for his desk.
Liika gritted her teeth, threw one last glare at Kai and also started back for her seat, the others following, however, Kai's next comment stopped her in her tracks.
Loud enough so that all her little blading friends could hear –as well as the teacher, but he wasn't counting on that, he sneered, "Hey don't blame me because you obviously didn't have the skills to captain a beyblade team. It's not my fault you're weak."
With one final scream she launched herself at him, fists flying. Kai successfully dodged them all, save one that caught him square in the eye. Finally Robert pulled the screaming girl off of him, as he held his eye. The teacher then stormed over to them and grasped them both by the arm. "Both of you. Office. Now." He growled and hauled them to the door.
"Poor Liika, that's detention for a looong time. Heh, at least she has something to show for it." Enrique drawled as the three disappeared into the hall.
The other four nodded in agreement. "Ha, he's gonna have a nice black shiner after that shot." An approaching Michael said, approval apparent in his tone, he was followed closely by Tala.
"Che, didn't know chicky had it in her. Either way, there's no sense in us worrying about it now." Tala commented with a shrug.
"We should get back to our seats before Jazzman decides to come back and give us all detention." Lee said already heading back to his seat.
The others muttered their agreement and sat back down in their seats, all secretly feeling pangs of sympathy for their friend that had just gotten herself in heaps of trouble.
"I am very disappointed in you two, I hope you realize this." Mr. Dickenson stated sternly while he eyed the two students that sat in the chairs in front of his desk.
The girl sat with her arms crossed over her chest, her legs crossed at the knees. Her head was turned away –she appeared to be studying his bookshelves, she looked as angry as she did when she left the room the first time not 20 minutes before. The boy sat, an icepack over his left eye, his head cradled in his palm, his arm was leaning on the arm of the chair. He looked extremely surly and as if he was about to bite someone's head off.
"Yes, sir." The girl muttered.
"Hn." Was the only thing the boy would say.
Mr. Dickenson sighed. "Former captain and current captain. You are role models and both set examples for the younger students as well as for your peers, fighting in class –fighting period is not expectable!" He raised his voice at the end. He then addressed the girl who sat on the left. "Liika, I am especially disappointed in you. You are not new here, you know the rules. I expected more of you than this immature act of violence." He took a moment to compose himself, then addressed Kai. "And Kai. You are an experienced captain. Whether you are new to this school or not you know comments like the ones you made are not appropriate. Would they have been at your previous school? I think not. Now," He coughed and stood motioning to the door. "You have missed enough class, your study period is almost over. I will see both of you after school Tuesdays and Thursdays for detention and Saturday mornings for Saturday school for a month. Dismissed."
Both students jerked out of their chairs, and stalked to the door, reaching it at the same time. They glared at each other simultaneously –or Kai tried to glare he only had one good eye after all. "This isn't over Hiwatari," she hissed before cutting him off and stalking through the door.
Kai narrowed his good eye further. No Tomoda, it wasn't.
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