Author's Notes: This is my first KND fic and is basically about how the five meet and their journey into becoming KND members. Kuki speaks a bit oddly in this but she's just moved from Japan, so her English won't be perfect. They're all eight and this may contain some #3/#4 and #1/#5 hints.
Disclaimer: Codename: Kids Next Door does not belong to be in any way, shape or form.
And so it Begins . . .
Chapter One: First day.
Kuki Sanban nervously twisted the edge of her sleeve, she gulped and tried to revert back into her normal carefree self. She was never usually this paranoid; it was just that she was in a whole other country. She was very good at English but didn't understand every thing people said and at the moment this was making things at lot more difficult, as it's hard to eavesdrop on people when you don't understand what they're saying. Sure her mother had said that listening in on other people's conversation was rude but seeing as they were talking about her she guessed it was alright. Her brow furrowed in concentration as she pressed her ear against the headmaster's door, now what on earth was that snobby teacher saying about her?
" . . . Assign her to someone?"
"Yes Ms Smith, find someone that can understand a little Japanese or is smart enough to work out what she's on about. They can take care of her until she makes friends." Kuki could practically see the evil smirk forming on Ms Smith's lips. Kuki scowled, sometimes she hated grown-ups.
"Certainly Sir, I'll do that right away." Kuki quickly backed away from the door before it was shoved open by Ms Smith. Smiling down rather viciously at the child she grabbed her by her arm and proceeded to drag her down the corridor. Apparently she wasn't even going to bother trying to speak English to the 'stupid little Japanese girl.' Kuki fought back tears at the way she was being treated, nobody seemed to like her, that or they thought she was stupid. The teacher reached the door to the classroom, letting go of Kuki's sleeve she marched in, leaving the girl to meekly follow her. The class, which had been throwing stationary at each other and searching the room for the answers to the work, immediately dived back into their seats, plastering innocent smiles across their faces. The teacher wasn't fooled one bit, especially seeing as there were bits of balled up paper and rubbers lying on the floor.
"You will all be staying in fifteen minutes after the bell." She declared as she made her way over to her desk.
"Beatles, I want to see you." A boy in jeans and an orange hoodie, who had been sitting at the back and doing nothing but scowl, stomped over to the front. Kuki had heard from her earlier tour-guide (Serena, a young girl in her class) that Wallabee Beatles was also new here (he had arrived a few months ago) and Ms Smith hated him too. Serena had said that he was rather moody, rude and violent. Kuki guessed that he deserved the hatred if he acted like that.
"Wallabee, to make up for your rude behaviour I'm assigning you to be Kuki Sanban, our new student's friend and guide. She's Japanese so she may not understand a lot of what you say; you are to take care of her for the next two weeks until she's settled in. Understood?" Ms Smith had a dangerous smile plastered across her face, one that said she was enjoying herself. The boy was glaring at the teacher, obvious disdain on his face, but he nodded anyway.
"Good, you can start by showing her to the seat beside yours and helping her with the work." Once again he nodded and wandered back over to his seat, Kuki followed. When they got there he turned round and glared at the girl.
"Alright, Ah don't wan' nothin' tah do with yah. So don't get in mah way and ah won't hurt yah. Got it?" Kuki nodded and slipped into the seat beside him. Wallabee proceeded to ignore her for the rest of the lesson. The only time he didn't was to demand that she get her lazy ass off her chair and go too lunch. Oh, she thought as Ms Smith smirked triumphantly as she left the room, she really hated grown-ups.
Kuki stared at the huge crowd of students chattering happily as they scoffed their food, she sighed in relief at them and made her way to the cafeteria. The Wallabee boy had stormed off the moment they had left the classroom, leaving her to find her own way to lunch. Kuki stared at the gooey grey gunk that was shoved onto her plate; she wrinkled her nose in disgust but didn't say anything. She was fed up with being yelled at today, she didn't want any more trouble. She reached the end of the line and grabbed a tub of what was supposed to be yogurt and turned to leave when someone crashed into her. The grey goo that was her food splattered all over her, she blinked in surprise and looked around for the culprit, but he had already run off.
"You alright?" Kuki looked up to see a slightly chubby boy standing before her, he was donned in a blue shirt, brown shorts and a pilot's helmet was pulled firmly over his head.
"Hai* er . . . yes, thank you." He smiled at her and extended a hand, grasping it in her own sleeve covered one he hauled her too her feet. He glanced down at the mess on the floor, then back up again before smiling.
"I can share my lunch with you; my mum makes mine for me and she gives me lots to eat." Nodding Kuki followed him through the throng, out the back door and into the playground. He tugged her over to the only tree in the whole playground and sat down. He pulled a huge lunchbox out his bag and opened it up, smiling he handed her a chocolate bar.
"You're the new girl in our class aren't you, Kuki Sanban?" She smiled; happily surprised that someone had actually known who she was.
"Yes, that be me. What your name?"
"Hoagie P. Gilligan Jr, but I prefer plain Hoagie." The small girl giggled at his long name and nodded at him as she nibbled on her chocolate bar.
"So who you hang out with?" Kuki asked, smiling at the boy beside her. She was taken aback when he looked down suddenly, a sad expression on his face.
"I don't have any friends, nobody likes me. They think I'm a nerd." Kuki paused a second to absorb this information before throwing her arms round Hoagie's neck.
"That horrible, people round here mean. But you no worry, I think you nice, I'll be your friend."
"Really?" The shy smile on Hoagie's face made Kuki's grin grow even larger.
"Of course." She declared as she hugged him tighter, glad to have finally found friend. The two proceeded to chat about anything and everything for the next hour. Some of the stuff he said went a bit over her head and when he saw that she didn't understand he would explain it to her. Not in a patronizing and unkind way like Ms Smith but in the sweet way a big brother might.
"Oy! Kuki girl!" She turned round and the smile on her face disappeared to be replaced with a frown, Wallabee Beatles was marching over and he did not look happy.
"What does he want?"
"He supposed to be taking care of me but he not really that nice." Kuki whispered just before he got there, scowling he snatched her bag up and turned to walk away.
"Hey!" Reaching out, she grabbed her lilac backpack and pulled it back towards her. "What you doing?"
"Ms Smith saw mah without yah and said if ah don't take care of yah ahm gonna be in alota trouble. So move it."
"What if she doesn't want to go with you?" Hoagie demanded, hands on hips as he scowled. He didn't want his first and only friend being taken away from him so soon.
"Tough luck." Wallabee snapped and spinning round he grabbed Kuki by the wrist and dragged her off across the playground. She twisted round and waved at Hoagie, sending him a smile. She liked Hoagie and no silly boy like Wallabee was going to stop her from hanging out with him. Because Kuki Sanban never gave in easy.
A new day, a new start . . . sort of. Kuki strode determinately to her class, notebook tucked under her arm. Today she was going to show that Wallabee that she was no pushover, sort of, well . . . in her own way. Smiling sweetly, she pushed the door open and skipped into the room. Dropping into her seat beside Wallabee she flashed him a cheesy grin before turning round and digging into her bag. She pulled a number of fluffy pens, notebooks and neon colored stationary out her bag and started to set her desk up. The blonde turned round and gave her a weird look.
"What the crud are yah doin'?" He demanded, yesterday Kuki would have kept quiet but not today. She was back to being her normal chirpy self, which only meant one thing, Wallabee was in trouble. Smiling delightfully at the boy before her she spread her arms out wide and started to talk.
"I decorating my desk, silly. It gonna be pink, purple, blue, green and lots of other colors. It be fluffy too. I might bring smelly stuff in tomorrow, make it smell of roses. I like roses, what bout you? You like roses? I do and all other flowers. They pretty." The boy stared in surprise at the girl jabbering on about absolutely nothing before him. He could only stare in amazement until she jumped up and waved a sheet of paper in front of his face.
"You want?"
"Want what?" He spat out as soon as he recovered from his stunned state.
"Sticker." He snatched the paper from her which had stickers of smiling bunnies, hedgehogs and other woodland creatures holding flowers all over it.
"No." He tossed her the paper as he said this and turned to face the whiteboard.
"You sure? I think you should have the bunny, you cute like a bunny. Or the doggy that's very sweet too."
"What?!" Wallabee demanded as he turned to face her, was that girl calling him sweet? He, Wallabee Beatles, was not cute at all, in the slightest, not one tiny bit! How dare she say that?
"Wallabee Beatles, pay attention or I'll give you extra homework." Grumbling he turned back to face his teacher but not before he caught a glimpse of the triumphantly smiling Kuki. That girl, he thought, is dead.
Lunchtime arrived soon enough, and Wallabee Beatles was ready to put his plan into action. That Kuki girl was going to die; she had got him into trouble on purpose. So he was going to get back her, not using some big elaborate plan of course, no he was going to do it his way. He could see her chatting happily with that Hoagie kid, a smirk spread across his face, perfect. He walked over, making sure to catch her shoulder with his own. Spinning round, he pinned her with a glare.
"What do yah think yah doing, yah idiot?"
"Huh?" The girl looked a bit shocked at the fact that she had just been yelled at when she hadn't really done anything. Wallabee mentally congratulated himself.
"Yah knocked into me stupid."
"I did? Sorry, I give you a sticker to make up for it. You want bunny or ducky? I might have a puppy too if you want. Or I could give you my fluffy orange pen, you like orange, I think it might suit you." Wallabee snarled when he realized his plan wasn't working, not only that but she was offering him a fluffy pen? He was the tough guy here, he didn't want a fluffy pen even if it was orange! If anyone ever found out about this his reputation would be ruined. So he did the only thing he could do, he turned and fled.
Kuki smiled to herself as she turned round to face Hoagie. Who had a look of shock on his face; it took him a few seconds to work out what had just happened. When he did he burst into laughter. Once he managed to catch his breath Hoagie looked up at Kuki, a smile still playing across his lips.
"Revenge, right?" Kuki smiled sweetly at Hoagie, pure innocence radiating of her.
"What you mean Hoagie?"
~*~
"She seems kinda smart."
"I don't know, we'll have to keep an eye on her. That Hoagie too, he seems intelligent, he's very good at Maths apparently."
"We gonna break inta da staff room ta take a look at his report card?"
"Yep, her's too."
"Right, what bout dat Wallabee kid?"
"I dunno, he seems more violent then useful to me."
"Ya never know."
"I suppose not, shall we get going?"
"Let's."
*Hai= Yes in Japanese.
I hope you liked it, it's rather short but I thought it was a good place to end. Hope to see you next time. MM.