Shinomegami Ryu
Disclaimer: Do not own gundam seed or characters in it, although I wish I did. Although I do own Shinomegami Ryu. SO THERE
Dragon, Dragon
Scan the sky
Spread your wings
Take off- and fly
Into the darkening sky
Into the darkened sky
How true, into the darkening sky, and past. The old song I sung. Before the war…
"Class, we have four new students today, please welcome them…" I tuned out my annoying teacher, and started to watch the new students much closer. They were obviously very uncomfortable, considering almost everybody in this school was a natural, and these new students did not seem to fit in that category. They looked like fish out of water, almost like myself. The sliver-haired boy rolled his eyes and made his way to the back of the classroom to sit at the desk to the right of mine. After a few minutes or so, he leaned over and asked me,
"Is that teacher always this boring?"
"Dryer then a rock," I answered sarcasm in my voice. He chocked back laughter, as the new green-haired boy to the right of the silver-haired one, glared at him, making it a warning for him stop, a warning the silver-haired boy didn't take. The other new boy glared at him as well. I just rolled my eyes. The silver-haired boy saw me roll my eyes and thought it was funny I suppose, and tried to suppress his laughter, while the other two looked scornful.
"Yzak…shut up!" The tan-skinned hissed out the words in aggravation.
"Make me…" came the whispered mock of the silver-haired boy, presumably Yzak.
"Athrun…do something!" The tan-skinned boy looked to the green-eyed boy that sat to my left, Athrun
"Yzak," he said plainly while turning his head to face Yzak, "Shut up…" Athrun's eyes held sharp daggers as he looked at Yzak.
"Do you want to get me in trouble?" The green haired boy whispered.
"Oh…so, now you're ganging up against me too Nicol?" Yzak said viciously as the green haired boy, Nicol looked away and shook his head solemnly.
"Pathetic, he's going to get himself in trouble his very first day," Nicol's barely audible whisper made Yzak's mind shift gear really fast. He immediately took out his notebook and began taking notes on the teachers every word, and I turned back to the teacher.
I took out a book and began reading it beneath my desk; I kept on reading my interesting subject until,
"Is that MATH?" The teachers shadow cast over my desk as I closed my book and looked at a spot on my desk.
"No…" My answer was barely a whisper.
"Genetic engineering… huh?" My teachers face looked confused while saying that out loud after she snatched the book from my hands. Yzak, Nicol, Athrun and the tan-skinned boy all dropped their jaws at those two words the teacher had said.
"I'll bet you can't even understand a tenth of this do you?" The teacher asked with a voice resembling ice. The new boys all were staring at me, so was the rest of the class.
'LIE! LIE! JUST LIE! NOW!' My inner voice yelled at me, and I obeyed,
"No…" there I had lied.
"Then you won't mind if I confiscate this until lunch." The teacher said with a smug face that made me want yell something at her, but I said nothing.
The tan-skinned boy shrugged, and as if it was on que, the rest of the class stopped looking at me.
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Throughout the rest of the class I could sense Yzak watching me, so I didn't all I could to try and look inconspicuous but it wasn't enough.
Lunch finally rolled around, and I had gotten my book back, so I began to make my way down the hall. I rounded the corner only to find Yzak, Nicol, Athrun and the tan-skinned boy, whose name I'm yet to learn, all blocking the exit. Every instinct in my body screamed to jump into a fighting stance, but I didn't move.
"Are you a coordinator?" Yzak asked plainly, his face serious.
'OH SHIT!' my mental voice screamed in my mind, "YOU IDIOT! OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS TO DO…HOW! HOW COULD YOU LET THE TEACHER SEE YOUR BOOK! ARG!'
"No," I lied
"Really now?" The tan-skinned boy looked surprised
"Yes really…I'm not," I lied again; I was becoming good at this.
"Interesting…" Athrun mused and the four started walking away.
I let out a relieved sigh and made my way to the library to read the book, hopefully in peace...
As I sat in the library, I opened the previously confiscated book, and got out a dictionary, just to be safe. If any of the boys showed up I would pretend to search up the words.
"May I sit here?" Five minutes had passed since I had been in the library, and that's when I looked up to see who's voice the question belonged to, Yzak…looking like a hunted animal.
"I can't concentrate on homework with that damned Dearka trailing me everywhere."
"Sure," I answered.
"By the way, my name's Yzak," he said, I already knew that. I began to wonder if the other boys sent him to watch me. I decided to give him a scare and an evil glint appeared in my eyes, one that Yzak took notice of but chose to ignore.
"Mine's Shinomegami," I smiled as Yzak froze.
"Japanese…for Death Goddess!" His face seamed as though the color was sucked out of it and his eyes were wide with fear.
"Hai, I'm surprised you know Japanese," I stated.
"Death Goddess?" He asked again in disbelief.
"Yes Shinomegami means Death Goddess in Japanese," He was visibly shaken by the definition of my name, "don't worry…I don't bite," I said looking at him with a smile.
"Much" I added under my breath
"Huh?" he gave me a stupid expression, "Oh…right" Obviously he hadn't heard the last part of what I had said under my breath.
He pulled out his homework, a pencil and sat down with a sigh.
"If you're posing as an ordinary natural, you might want to deliberately answer a few questions wrong." I said.
"How did you know?" his face snapped up at me from the homework he had pulled out.
"Your reaction timing…it's too quick for a natural, that and when you said, 'how did you know' that kind of confirmed it for me," I answered, a little sarcasm in the last part.
"How can you tell?" he asked suspiciously.
'You idiot, how do you expect to answer that!' My inner voice scolded me.
I laughed nervously and thought up a quick answer, "I have 20/20 vision."
"Oh..." he said, probably wondering what it meant.
I began reading again, pretending to search the dictionary often while he began homework. I glanced to the front of the library when my caught sight of the tan-skinned boy, must be Dearka, he was slowly creeping behind Yzak with an evil look on his face.
"Look up," I said with no emotion as my eyes reverted to the book in my hands. He looked up, with his fist…
WHAP and then a yelp. The tan-skinned boy was rubbing his jaw where Yzak had hit him.
"Thanks for the warning," he said simply.
"Yep…"
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Dearka barked angrily.
"For sneaking around like that," Yzak answered cracking a knuckle.
"Damn you," Dearka's voice held venom as he unwound his jaw trying to get it back in place.
"Shut up," Yzak's voice showed no sign or hint of anger other than a low growl and his left eye began to twitch.
"You're going to pretend that nothings wrong then you're going to explode?"
"Damn right," Yzak answered as he pulled out another pencil after breaking the one he had.
"Take it to the tether ball court?" Dearka asked poking his shoulder. Yzak slammed his book closed making a few students jump and the librarian tip her glasses to look at him funny.
"Any time you're ready to get beaten into the ground." Yzak challenged.
"Oooh, this is something I've got to see," I said wickedly.
"Yzak since when did she get here?" He said stupidly while looking at me.
"Since before you even got here, you idiot." Yzak said hitting him lightly on the side of his head.
"Oh…" Dearka stood and pumped on fist into the air, "TO THE TETHERBALL COURT!" he announced happily, the turned to walk, or march, out of the library keeping his one fist still pumped in the air.
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The ball came whizzing around the causing the chains clanking against the stained metal pole and to land right on Dearka's face with a loud 'whack'
"So, Nicol, who do you think is going to make a bigger fool of himself?" Came a voice from behind me, Athrun's.
"Both, they're being so obvious," Nicol answered watching them.
"Hope a crowd doesn't show up," Athrun said sitting down on a bench a few feet away from mine while looking around nervously.
"Too late…" Nicol observed the people around him that were just showing up.
I looked at the two and decided that they needed saving before they became too obvious.
"Hey! Idiot! Didn't you want help with your homework?" I stood up from the cold bench motioning to Yzak, hoping he would get the hint, he did.
"Oh, right, sorry, I guess I forgot." He tried not to look around much as he grabbed the ball with both hands and settled it.
"Wanna come Dearka?" Yzak glanced to his left, making his motion to the crowd.
"Yzak, you need help with homework?" Dearka was shocked until Yzak hissed something at him that I couldn't hear, causing Dearka to look around at the crowd.
"Oh, sure, I'm not quite sure I can do all of those math problems that were assigned, they're harder than any I've ever done before…" Dearka said rather loudly at first, making Athrun glance at Nicol, both had the same shocked thought.
"Since when did Yzak and Dearka need help in math?" Athrun said wonderingly while watching the three walk away.
"At least the stopped playing tetherball, they were attracting way too much attention," Nicol stated.
"Hmm…wanna tail em?" Athrun asked mischievously.