Hi everybody. Just so you know, I'm really getting into this fanfiction!! I haven't gotten a whole lot of reviews, though.. :( I hope somebody is reading it! Please tell me if I make the chapters too long... I get carried away sometimes, heh.. I'll be updating lots so check back often! :D
-Ditox-chan
"Why don't you cut your hair or something, Kenshin?" Sano asked. I looked at him curiously and shrugged.
It was Friday. Sano and I had met just two days ago, but since he's been acting like my best friend. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't like him. I was just partially expecting to be left alone throughout the whole year. I find it interesting that Sano will beam with pride when he watches a girl giggle after I walk by... It gets on my nerves, that it does, but not on his. I think perhaps he may be just hiding his jealousy. Me? Well, I could care less...
But it was at lunch period that day when things really began to get uneasy. I was carrying my tray of food across the wide, chattering lunchroom when I spotted a girl, out of the corner of my eye, staring directly at me. It didn't surprise me much, considering they tended to do that constantly, but I had to have a double-take in order to really notice that she was gazing at me very lovingly – more than other girl had. To say the least, I was creeped out, that I was...
I forced myself to the opposite side of the lunchroom. I sat with my back to her so I would not be forced to notice her loving stare once again. At one point I couldn't stand wondering if she was still sitting there with her friends, staring at me. I quickly looked over my shoulder – of course, she was there, staring at me. Her friends were only beginning to notice her adoring gaze, waving their hands in front of her face. One followed her stare to me, then burst out in giggles and began to whisper frantically to the girls surrounding.
The one that still stared at me – I had no clue who she was, but she had very long hair. It was black, like most of the other girls, but those eyes of hers... they were so sly, but gazed with such love they kind of reminded me of a fox. As I sat there trying to maybe avert her attention to something else besides my back, a slam from the opposite side of the table made me jump with surprise and spin back around.
Sanosuke sat down with a grin. "Finally checking out the women there, Kenshin?" I shook my head quickly and tried to hide my flushing face with my long, red bangs, but I presumed he saw through my embarrassment because he began to laugh. I watched him lean to the side and look beyond, at the table I had been peering at before. He started laughing harder, but his chuckles were slightly empty. "Looks like you've got a follower at that table over there. Of all people, it has to be Megumi, doesn't it?" I looked up at him. Megumi? Wasn't she the girl in my Biology class, that one who always raised her hand and got everything right?
The one I found particularly annoying because of her freakish ability to be correct at all times?
I began to chew my lunch a bit more ferociously, trying to ignore Sano the best I could, but his voice wouldn't leave my mind. "You're a lucky guy, Kenshin. Got all the girls drooling over you. But you should know, Megumi's one of the, uh, -better- ones, heh heh... From what I've heard, she's been asked out a lot but has not said yes to a single guy." He snickered loudly and began to pull apart his lunch with his final words, "Guess she finally found that -one- guy, huh?"
I began to think about it, but shoved it from my mind as fast as I could. Megumi Takani... She was the one Sano had been writing about on the desk during his detention. Guess he was hiding that jealously after all.
I had been doing homework in the library after school when I was summoned over the intercom to speak with the secretary. Seijuro-san watched me as usual as I left in a hurry. I sped down hallways and stumbled into the main office, stopping before the secretary's desk. I didn't know who he was, but the gold plaque on his desk read, "Yamagata-san."
"Hello, Himura-kun. I was told to inform you that it is required you take at least one sport per semester." He smiled. I winced. "You will be allowed to join a team at this time, though you will be a week late. We will have the two coaches of the sport you choose drill you tomorrow and they will decide which team you belong on, varsity or junior varsity. I suggest you try your hardest and get plenty of rest tonight. Do you have a sport already in mind?"
I thought a moment. I had heard the football team was especially messy, but I knew I wasn't built for tackling people. I could swing things around easily, but most of all I was pretty fast on my feet. I doubted I could excel at baseball. And so I blurted out without thinking, "Soccer."
Yamagata-san nodded and wrote my name down on a sheet of paper. "All right. If you make the junior varsity team, you will have to return later in the afternoon for practice. If you happen to make varsity, you'll have practice directly after your tryout. I'm sure Seijuro-san will not mind. I'll talk to him later this afternoon." I felt my face go pale. S..Seijuro-san? ...The librarian?
I'd completely forgotten about him. I had asked about him on the first day of school and the kid in the library had told me he was the varsity coach. But there were no worries there. I could play awfully tomorrow and make it on the other team.
"By the way," Yamagata-san continued, "You will get a much higher grade if you land the varsity team. The odds of passing the semester and the whole school year increase dramastically. I recommend you do your very best at tryouts. Seijuro-san has a way of heightening the grades of his team because he is also the librarian. He finds a way to persuade the teachers if he seems them studying the teachers' specific subjects in his library."
My arms went limp. Basically, I didn't have a choice whether I should do good or bad. I needed those grades. It was my first year – I didn't know how the teachers thought. I needed to get on that varsity team.
Hey everybody. :3 I'm already done the third chapter! If I stay this intrigued with the fanfiction there should be an update every single day, sometimes even two. I hope you're enjoying the storyline! Please review! :D
-Ditox-chan
