Cupids Bullet
Comparison
The classroom was filled with chattering students. It was morning, and the day was only beginning. Yuzuki was standing right outside the hallway of the classroom she was in; she was put in different classes as Luna was put in purely for her safety. Apparently Luna's father knew her well, enough at least to keep Yuzuki away from her.
"Class, I'd like to introduce a new student that will be joining us for the rest of the school year." Yuzuki heard the teacher say, she shivered nervously reaching to rub a pale hand over her soft skin. Her long hair ending to her waist in dark curls. Her blue eyes darting back and forth in the hallway.
"Miss Yuene, Luna."
Yuzuki froze hearing her name. 'Kami...' She thought her hand moving up, her teeth finding the nail of her index finger. 'I- can't... why did I have to ask her father...' She thought in worry.
"Um...Miss Yuene, please come in." The teacher asked. Yuzuki could hear some students laugh slightly, and also the teacher shush them in the background. With a sigh, her blush dark, she reached over and pulled the sliding door and stepped into the classroom, her silk long hair giving off a slight shine as the sun light from the outside touched it. The windows were open due to the mustiness of the classroom.
Wind fanned her blush as she looked around the classroom. One familiar face... two..., her heart sank. 'But nobody knows me!' She thought as the teacher wrote down some of her stats on the blackboard, without thinking Yuzuki began to absently listen to her origins, from the teacher's narrative.
'I'm part English?' She thought in shock turning her head back to see the board, reading her stats over. She blushed again noticing the teachers look on her as she turned her head back, now noticing some of the students' giggling and chuckling to her. Her blush turned darker and hunched her body over in vain to hide from the stares and giggles of the classroom, "G...gomen-nasai..."
For some reason my mind began to flash back slightly as the teacher went to ask who I was going to sit behind or in front of. That time... when everything was happening to me, the car crash... my bike...I vaguely remember some parts being broken, certainly after so much time my old body should have been healed right? So that means Miss Luna is awake in my body. Pretending to be me... I wonder...what...do they do? Does she touch him like I use to, hug him...does he? Have they? Her look turned dark, depressed.
"Yuene-san, go sit behind Tsutomu-kun." The teacher spoke snapping her out of her thoughts as the teacher had Tsutomu raise his hand. Her heart leapt, 'Tsutomu-sama!' She thought seeing a familiar face, masking her joy she bowed gratefully to the teacher and padded to her desk behind him. She had received many looks, wondering if she had something on her face, she shrunk in her chair slightly when she sat.
She noticed the shameless stares proceed; she blushed even more and looked down to get out her things, and start on the day's assignment.
And just like that...Class started.
"Aren't you supposed to be in school?" Minoru asked randomly as he dodged the items he had thrown at him.
"Why did you cancel my credit card? How dare you do this to me Minoru!" Luna shouted picking up another one of Yuzuki's things and throwing it at him. "I told you to get rid of those damned persacoms and re-activate my credit card Minoru why haven't you done it!" Luna shouted her straight blue hair over her face as she batted it off her angrily.
Minoru closed the door finally hearing the delicate glass cat that he chose for her on their trip to Mexico crash against the door. 'Why is she acting this way?' He thought feeling his blood begin to boil, 'she's nothing compared to the Yuzuki I knew before...'
His mind flashed once more, reminding him why she was this way in the first place. 'Luna...' He thought as he turned angry with himself for leaving her that day. He didn't want to; he wanted to hold her... "Argh"
'Why do I feel farther away from Yuzuki even though she's a room away?' He thought leaving the door closed and the hysterical girl. 'I need to speak with Luna today; I need to see what she's done with her.' He walked down the hall, trotting down the stairs.
"Minoru! Where are you?" Luna shouted angrily after not hearing any more of his pleas outside her door. With an angry huff she looked around as she stomped out of her room. She froze hearing the front door close.
"Minoru?" She asked and raced downstairs seeing him drive out and speed down the road. With a huff she looked away from the gates and walked back into the mansion, her anger seething.
'Damn Minoru...' She thought as she paced into the living room, the light slithering in past the curtains. 'All I need him to do is to marry me.' She thought and looked around the mansion, 'Then affectively drain every cent he has.'
She returned to her room, finding one of the persacom maids sitting there on her bed. Luna gave out a small smile as she leaned down to pick up one of the pieces of the broken glass cat she had thrown at the door earlier. "What are you doing here, servant." Luna demanded her voice very cold.
"Miss...Yuzuki?" The maid asked as she turned to her beloved master, only to receive a hard, violent slash.
Yuzuki felt a slight tinge inside her chest. Something close to having your heart squeezed but less severe, she did notice however that strange ache, so hard that it make your teeth hurt and your knees become suddenly weak. 'What happened..?' she thought feeling something ominous happening, 'How could things get worse?' Yuzuki thought she was leaning against one of the lockers of the girls' dressing room.
Apparently she was given many strange classes that followed very differently from what she had before. In her papers she was reminded repeatedly that she should consider joining one club that she enjoyed. It seemed to her that the school was thrilled to have a pupil that had dropped out earlier in the school year enter again with renewed hope...
Her eyes turned to one of sympathy. "You!" Shouted a familiar voice as she turned and had a familiar finger stab at her, she blinked once, then twice. And then suddenly, her back was met the one locker rather painfully, "M-Miss Noku-"
"Quit your shit! I know very well who you are! Fucking Yuene, what did you do with Yuzuki!" She shouted angrily, Yuzuki herself was touched to see the anger in Noku's face as she stared into the smaller girls eyes. "She's turned into a slut now! What the hell did you do? Don't just look at me with that damn clueless expression!" She shouted angrily shoving her against the locker room harder.
'That's right... nobody knows whats happening, Miss Noku, Tsutomu-sama...nobody.' She thought as her eyes reflected true sorrow, emotions became to bottle up so strong she couldn't resist crying, 'People care...' she thought as she was released quickly. 'People I hardly know actually care-'
"She came onto Tsutomu-kun you know, she actually tried to. Kiss him! My Tsutomu!" Yuzuki froze and looked up to her, from her spot on the floor, the bad feeling that was surfacing vanished completely as she pointed to her in shock.
"You...like Tsutomu-sama?" She asked making Noku flinch and turn bright red. Then turned to her and attempted to kick Luna when she noticed the look on her face, completely baffled, clueless...
"You don't...know?" Noku asked the dark haired girl, her lime eyes wide in wonder. "I thought everyone knew that I was in love with Tsutomu..." Noku spoke as her hair settled; Yuzuki noticed her petite body, her small childish form. She was beautiful in her own way, but she never noticed what a ferocious attitude she had with other people. 'I guess she was only nice to me and Tsutomu-san.' She thought and noticed her face go even more red.
"You can't be that evil bitch that hit Yuzuki-chan with that car." Noku spoke kneeling to her, coming face to face with her. Yuzuki looked at her in a daze; she felt small twinges of pain in her back from the sudden roughness that Noku had dealt her with when she smashed her back against the locker. She was utterly surprised that a girl that small could carry so much power.
"Yuene." Noku spoke annoyed as Yuzuki turned to the sound of the familiar last name, "yes?" Yuzuki asked.
"You're late for class..."
She looked at her watch, and realized... that... "OH NO!"
She was indeed very late. While she struggled to put on her gym clothes, she was hit on the back with something hard, slightly heavy. "Don't bother going to class, just tell them since it's your first day and you got lost or something." Noku spoke walking out of the room.
Yuzuki stood up, rubbing her head and noticed what Noku threw at her; it was a strange package... one of familiar shape. "YOU BETTER COME THIS AFTERNOON! PROVE YOUR NOT THAT BITCH." A distant voice bellowed, making Yuzuki visibly flinch. Even though she was very late, she managed to open her locker and put in the package safely, then run to class.
Got scolded...
And punished.
'Damn...' Yuzuki thought as the class was over 5 minutes after she got there; she had to run around the track field for the whole class time for a week. 'Oh well, things can't get worse at this point...can they?' Yuzuki thought as she made her way to her next class.
"What do you mean she isn't here?...Luna is always here." Minoru shouted while he tore the house apart looking for Luna. He was in her house again, a place he's swore never to go to ever...
"I told you Minoru-san, she isn't here!" The old man shouted trying to keep up with the younger male. He went in all the rooms he could find before he went into hers, he refused to go into her room, and he remembered it all too well.
The strong scent of perfume, the long line of cosmetics... the clothes scattered everywhere, things on the floor from the frequent rants she'd have when she was angry. 'Heh, sounds like Yuzuki now...' he thought as he walked across the rooms, one after another. While also being followed by her father who repeatedly told him that his only daughter wasn't home.
Minoru didn't believe it as he kept searching, finally after a rough hour of looking through every possible place in the mansion; he finally decided to step into her room. He felt a strange cold feeling when his fingers latched over the knob, a strange feeling of... sickness, he did hate her with his all, and he hated this woman and what she was doing to his Yuzuki. What he made his poor innocent girl turn into, he hated her! And by the gods, she was going to pay!
The door swung open.
"..." he stood there frozen. He had braced himself for strong smells, a mess, anything that she might have had in there, but he stood there shocked stiff.
Her room was...clean.
He had never seen this side of Luna, everything in her room was very orderly. She only kept what she needed; walking into her room he was also greeted by an inviting smell, one that made his breath leave his lungs. 'That scent...' He thought as he closed his eyes and inhaled it deeply.
'Yuzuki...'
He looked around to see Luna's room, noticed the plain girlyness it held while he searched it. She had a desk near her window, where she could feel the breeze hit her face as she studied or read. Her bed had one stuffed animal on it, with a pillow and heavy thick bed-sheets, all blue. 'Yuzuki's favorite color...' he thought as he padded the room and opened her closet.
It wasn't booming with clothes as he expected just some dresses, skirts and shirts, all neatly folded and in their own respective places. He walked over and opened her panty drore- "GET OUT OF THERE!"
Minoru fell to the floor with a punch mark on his cheeks as he held one of the small white panties in his hand. "Luna... always wore thongs..." Minoru spoke and noticed her father flush bright red. "Luna has changed greatly, she's not as she was before..." Her father spoke as he snatched the panties away.
"This room..." He spoke and stood up again, the punch thumping slightly as he walked out of the closet. 'This can't be her room...' He thought as walked to her bathroom. This is where her smell was the strongest, 'Yuzuki...'
'STOP IT!' His mind yelled as he held his head, his throat going dry. The older man who had been following him around the house in hope of calming him down, now patted his back in worry, Minoru seemed to be ready to pass out from all the information. "What did she do to her...?" Minoru asked silently looking around the room, the bathroom...
"Why are they acting so different?" Minoru asked and turned to her father. "Why are they acting so different?" Minoru asked even louder. The father sighed, "Ask Yuzuki."
Minoru tried to control his anger now, "Where is your daughter?" Asked Minoru.
"In school."
"School?" Minoru asked bewildered. "I thought Luna was my age-"
"She lied about her age to be engaged to you." Her father spoke.
"How old is she?"
"Roughly the same age as your girl."
Minoru felt something inside him twitch. 'Why did that bother me...?' He thought as reached his hand over his chest.
I feel like, as if I'm back with Luna. Like I'm in some type of twilight zone and they switched places somehow.
"So she's in school right now?" Minoru asked receiving a nod from the father. Minoru sighed and lifted his sleeve to look at his watch. He sighed and looked to the clock in her room. Little foot steps came closer as the door creaked open.
"Mr. Yuene?" A persacom maid asked as she popped her head in with refreshments. "What is it Sara?" The old man asked as his palm creased over his brow slightly while he waited her to gently set down the refreshments on Luna's table.
"The little miss will be coming a little late today." Sara said. "W-what?" Asked the old man bewildered. "But she promised she'd come straight home right after school."
The maid bowed low. "She called a while ago, I told her that you had Mr. Minoru over as one of your guests, she insisted that she leave you two to talk on your own. She had an Archery club try out; it seems that one member was kicked out not too long ago." Sara informed.
Minoru noticed the father sigh in relief. One of the odd things that Minoru liked seeing from the old man was his smile. It reminded him of a faint memory. His face wrinkled slightly when he smiled, his eyes shined. "Oh good, she's starting to get more into her school activities."
"Please be sure to send someone to pick her up-"
"No need, I'll bring her to you myself." Minoru spoke striding out the door and leaving the room before, Mr. Yuene could protest.
'Archery?Archery?' Minoru thought angrily as he walked down the halls. 'How dare you Luna!' he thought his heart beginning to have a strange ache. 'How dare you toy with Yuzuki, -my feelings!'
These thoughts persisted until he was in his car, muttering out the curses, then shouting them.
"How dare you copy her! Take her scent! Violate her delicate personality! Taint her in such a way! DAMN YOU LUNA! I SWEAR! WHEN I GET A HOLD OF YOU!-"
The car screeched down the street in a mad rage, as he continued to drive, going faster, insanely fast. 'She'll pay.. Oh, that damn girl will pay.'
Yuzuki stood up stretching out her legs as her last class was over. As she walked out of her art class, she noticed a tall frame waiting for her. Her eyes widened slightly in surprise as she walked to him, noticing his bored expression as he turned to face her.
"Tsutomu-sama!" Yuzuki spoke happily, making him blink. "...Yes?" he asked as she reached behind her and showed her a package. "I thought you came here to escort me to the Archery-"
"What makes you think I'd come all this way to help you?" Tsutomu snapped at her.
'So rude..' She thought her look turning to one of disappointment. "Oh.." She said and put the tools back behind her, she became a bit angry with him. 'I keep forgetting, I'm not in my own body anymore...' She thought as she proceeded to move her way past him. With a sigh he reached to grab her by the hook of the arm to stop her, but before he could even touch her, she was hauled forward by a familiar tan haired, small lime-eyed girl.
"Thanks for watching her for me, Tsutomu-kun!" Shouted Noku running off, dragging the dark haired girl behind her, and almost tripping her over from running so fast.
Tsutomu blinked and watched after them, noticing her turn a corner. "Oh! N-noku-sama, I-I don't deal well with sharp tu-turns!" He heard the Yuene girl shout before she was lifted off the ground from the turn and carried off, as if Noku never heard her plea.
I remember vaguely, Noku loved doing that to Yuzuki-san when she walked out of class too on her way tot he after class practices. She would always...
His heart gave out a strange beat, when he looked to his hand. 'Even then, Noku would never let me so much as touch her when she was around.' He thought and looked down the hall, beginning to walk behind them, following the line of people they had knocked over.
'Why does this feel so familiar?' he thought and gave out a slight sigh. 'I have to apologize to Yuene for being so rude.. I guess I let the rumors get to me...' he thought and allowed his pacing to turn into a slight jog.
'I wonder why Noku chose Yuene to take Yuzuki's place.'
To Be Continued.
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