A/n: changing of povs, mostly on pirika's thoughts. I decided to make them classmates. Besides alot is going to happen when they were classmates and it is much easier. lets just say that pirika is accelerated. promil kid perhaps? If you find it confusing, just disregard their age ok? maybe pirika is a little bit different basing on her fighting ways, anyway she's in highschool already and she can't go arguing like a child. i need a more complex plot. do tell me if pirika is by chance waayy too far from the real attitude of pirika. i wouldn't want to destroy the image she is portraying. same with ren. i'm not sure with their school, miyuki-chan did tell me that. please correct me if i'm wrong. please DO REVIEW. comments and suggestions please feel free to email me. or yet visit my site.
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Disclaimers: Not mine...
Chapter 2: Acquainted? Not Really
"Onii-chan!" I called as I swung my backpack across my shoulders. I was wearing my uniform, ready for school. I finished contemplating myself on the mirror and strode purposely towards nii-chan's room.
"Nani?!"
"I'm about to go now..." I found nii-chan stuffing bread in his mouth while struggling to wear his shirt.
"Ok. Bye, take care!"
"What? Hey, how about my allowance?" I strode towards him and pulled his shirt down for him. "Nii-chan, everyday you pretend to forget giving me my allowance. Aren't you getting tired of your act?" I sat on his bed.
"Oh, alright. Sure you don't want to walk?" He gave me a mischievous grin.
"Onii-chan!"
"Here." He handed me my money. "Go home early, okay?"
"Right." I gave him a quick peck on the cheek and nii-chan gave me a quick shove towards the door.
Bright sunshine.
Fair weather.
People around me smiled as I passed my way to school.
Perfect.
Absolutely perfect.
This is going to be a good day.
_-=*=-_
"Ren?"
"Yes?"
"If you don't hurry up you are going to be late for school." Onee-chan peered inside my room.
"I know, I know." I trudged out of the room to the black car that was waiting for me outside. Pai Long opened the car door for me. Onee-chan stared at me as if I'm a brat that needs to be taken care of. Maybe she had forgotten my age?
"Stud-"
"I will." I answered back before she even could finish that word.
"It is imp-"
Again, I cut her off. "-portant for a Tao to be educated." I looked at her, she was smiling at me. "Anything else?"
"None."
"I'm gonna be late, nee-chan. See you later." Pai Long closed the door and drove out of our great mansion.
Bright sunshine.
Fair weather.
I passed by people who hurried off to work and school.
Great.
Just great.
This is going to be a long day.
_-=*=-_
Shinlagakuen was already full of students by the time I arrived. Not that I was late or anything though, because they were still mingling and chatting with other students. I made my way through the student listings and searched for my section.
I was about to leave when a shiny black car arrived. For a moment I thought it was vaguley familiar. Duh. Who would go to school with a limousine? What a show off. Maybe I should ride a Concorde on my way to school too, huh? Rocketship from NASA maybe? I left and went inside the building to go to my classroom.
I seated myself at the last row, away from the noisy chatter. Besides, it's the one of the two seats that are vacant. Hmm...I wonder, am I the only one that hasn't arrived yet in this class? Before I could answer my own question, the door slid open, revealing a boy with a purplish, pointed hair, yellow eyes that wanted to bloody murder and a mouth set in a prim line.
Familiar. I thought I recognized him.
"What the hell are you doing in the middle of the road?!"
Huh?! How can I forget? That's the arrogant organism who nearly killed me last night! I watched in horror as he made his way to the one and only vacant seat.
Beside me.
He apparently must have noticed my stare. He also stared at me for a long time. He must have remembered me for his eyes registered surprise and annoyance.
"You?!!" We both said at the same time.
Unluckily he was the first who recover. He seated himself, then again stared at me. "Yeah me. And so?"
I plastered a smile on my face just to irk the hell out of him. "Why the hell are you sitting beside me?"
"Do you see any chair besides the one I'm using now? If there is, I wouldn't be sitting beside you, Ainu."
"Yeah, try the teacher's chair over there." I pointed in front of the class, to the empty chair at the teacher's desk. I was trying to look innocent.
"Students are not supposed to sit there." He sneered at me.
"Well, you said CHAIR. Be specific next time will ya? Like, a student's chair, not just any chair."
"Thank you Ms. Know-it-all."
Oh lucky.
"Wow, how luckier can I get? You sitting beside me? Like, whoa! Can I get your autograph Mr..uh..Mr. I-kill-people-for-a-hobby?
His jaw flexed and he narrowed his eyes at me. "Yeah, sure Ms. I-don't-care-if-I-get-run-over-by-a-truck Pirika."
"Gee, thanks." I laid back and decided to shut my mouth before I end up at the end of his spear. Does he have by chance any spear? Like you know, the portable ones? He knew my name. No surprises there. Onii-chan must be talking about me constantly when he was with his friends. Friends, and he was one of them.
_-=*=-_
I can't seem to remember his name, but the answer came when Kaiya-sensei roll-called us.
"Tao, Renny"
He seemed to be shocked when he was called. What? Is this the first time he heard his name? He stood and crossed his arms on his chest.
"It's Tao Ren, not Tao Renny for your information ma'am."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Right then, Tao Ren."
"Present." He sat back down on his seat.
Okaaayyy...laughing at other's people's name is not good..
Laughing at other's name is not good Pirika..
Laughing at other's name is not good..
Laughin is not good at times like this...
Err---
Ahihihihi...
"What the hell are you laughing about?" He glared at me.
"Why, nothing!"
"Then just shut up!" He hissed at me.
"Oh yeah, uhm, right, REN-NY!" I added cheerfully in my cheerfully cheerful tone.
"Damn, how many times do I have to tell you that it is REN, not some stupid name like Renny?!!"
Okay, so no need to kill me. I shut up.
Silence.
"But you know, the name Renny looks cute on you..."
"Shut up!"
Ren Tao.
Yes, I remembered. My onii-chan and him was in the same team in the Shaman fight a few years back. He was the leader of their group. The irritable, hot-headeded, short tempered Chinese Shaman who was actually a rival of my brother. I didn't like his arrogant and self-centered ways too. Many times, onii-chan would taunt him and being the spitfire that he is, he would attack my brother with his spear. Onii-chan on the other hand, would laugh his head off at Ren's reaction. But I never did gave him much attention because I was too busy training my ever hard-headed onii-chan. Well, I knew my brother's other friends, alright. They were easy to get along with anyway.
The laid back Yoh.
The snappy itako, Anna.
The small but cute Manta.
The prophet Tamao.
The wooden sword master Ryu.
The calm necromancer, Faust.
The funny, Chocolove.
The dowser, Lyserg.
The iron maiden, Jeanne.
Well, now, the spitfire Chinese Shaman, Ren Tao.
Renny.
Ahihihihi...
_-=*=-_
Aah...boring. The first two subjects were really boring. At least I enjoyed our English subject a little. The bell rang for break a few minutes ago. I am not really hungry so I decided not to eat and seated myself under a shadowy shade of a tree. I was getting sleepy every moment, so I decided to take out my notebook and pencil and started sketching. Not that I am a good one though, but I love to sketch the things I see around. My love for art must be developing I guess.
Sketch.
Scritch, scratch.
Scritch, scratch.
A tree here, a bush there. A little shading to emphasize. A face, a person, a pointed hair, a walking stance.
Wait a minute...
A pointed hair?
Scratch that. Where did that came from? I saw the so called pointy-haired head walking. When he saw me he glared at me, giving me death looks. What now? I sticked my tongue out at him.
Why is he so mad at me?
_-=*=-_
I saw Pirika sitting under a tree beside the school building. Not that I'm looking for her though, just passing by. For a moment, as I stared at her, she looked so serene, so quiet and peaceful. She was writing, no, more like sketching something down in her notebook, raising her head from time to time. I would have seated beside her now if she kept quiet most of the time and not her usual blabbering ways.
...
What the hell? What am I thinking?
As if on cue for what am I thinking, right then and there, she raised her head and focused her all-too-blue eyes on me. Okay, so defenses up. Who knows what this blabbering Ainu can do. So I glared. She destroyed the image of what I was thinking when she sticked her tongue out.
Oh. How matured.
_-=*=-_
I entered the classroom with only a few students and unluckily Pirika was one of them. I was thinking twice before sitting on my seat which happened to be beside her. I made up my mind, since my feet is already aching from standing here at the door of a freaking classroom. I went to my seat as quietly as possible. She happened to be reading something from her seat so she didn't notice me.
I remembered when she used to go with her brother, she was taller than me back then. But that was before. Growth spurts. Now I have the height advantage. I looked at her. What the hell is she doing? She was again intent on her notebook not minding anyone at all.
"Oi Renny why are you staring at me?" She suddenly quipped as if she can read my mind.
"What?!" I answered back.
"I said why are you staring at me?" Now she was looking at me, crossed arms and all, like as if I'm a guy who stole lipsticks and uses them for myself.
"Nothing! What do you care?!" Suddenly, she came near me, her face close to mine. I was taken aback when she suddenly spoke, sickly, sweetly, smiling at me.
"Are you jealous of me? I know I have a beautiful face, hair and all but..." She blinked prettily. "You need not envy me, I can help you."
I was already getting furious. Help me in what? Talk about being vain! What the hell is she talking about?! Does she think I'm...holy shit. I clenched and unclenched my fists. Damn, I want to strangle this brat, badly. Now.
"Shut up, Ainu. I am not jealous of your...your...feminine qualities. Damn it! I'm not gay!"
Her eyes widened. "You're not? If you say so Renny." More emphasize on the last word. "But you know you do look better as a girl." Pirika retreated, smiling. A couple of seconds more and she was now laughing her ass off. My patience, thinner and thinner by the moment, was already snapping.
"And for God's sake! Stop calling me Renny! My name is Ren. Ren Tao!" I yelled for the whole world to hear. Oh hell. I shouted. Just in time for our sensei going inside our classroom.
"Whatever are you yelling at Mr. Tao?" Miyahara-sensei asked me, eyebrows cocked. She peered at me through her glasses.
_-=*=-_
Oh.
Okay. So maybe that was too much?
"..."
"Keep your voice low."
"Hai."
Did I know that Miyahara-sensei was inside the classroom? No I didn't. So it wasn't my fault. Lalala...
Err--now he's staring at me. His look simply said that he already wanted to bloody murder. Before he sat down, he said to me with gritted teeth, "You're going to pay for this."
Right, right. But he sure looks good when he is mad...
Oh. What am I blushing for! He's going to kill me now. I passed way beyond the limits.
~~~
Pirika's Imagination
Pirika was walking home, hands in her pockets when from behind she heard a rustle of leaves. Completely ignoring it, she walked merrily, even skipping, thinking it was just cats in bushes.
But now, she felt someone following her, footfalls can be heard. "That was no animal..." she thought.
She was getting nervous so she decided to run.
Suddenly from behind, jumped a stranger in black, armed with a spear. It was aimed at her..
AaAaAArggghhhh!!!
~~~
I looked at Ren, who seemed grim and in thought.
I will not piss him anymore...
No more imagining things...
I feel like I am going to have a hard attack.
tsuzuku..
okaay! er--so dat was so wierd. duncha like it? i'd be more than willing to change it if you don't find it too amusing. i'm sorry for my words tho. please review, even if that will be flames. jaa nee