Catse: It's me again. Kojika85 and I decided on posting our chapters three at a time, so after the next chapter, it's her turn. So far, she's already started the first page, but it may be a little while after chapter three (she's quite busy with other stories she's trying to update and work on, so we'll cut her some slack). Anyway, here's chapter two of Anime Hearts. Hope you like the story.
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Disclaimer: Well there's nothing to disclaim at the moment, but if you find something, please contact me at the e-mail sight given. I only put it here 'cause there will be stuff to disclaim in the future.
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Catse smirked as she watched Koji leave.
Time to have a little fun.
"Why'd you have to butt in? It wasn't your business there." Hakuchi told her, looking as frustrated as the last time she caught him trying this on someone.
He looked so confident that he would win this little argument too.
He would not stand a chance if she got angry.
"Listen Hakuchi. I run this school got it. I don't accept other bullies taking over my territory, so you just run along and get off to class."
"You get to class bitch." Catse stood there for a moment, glaring at him.
What had he called her?
She may be a bully, but she had her honor.
She never cussed unless it was a biblical term, and this guy was telling her off!
He did the one thing that would drag her back into a ticked off state of mind.
He swore at her.
The bell rang as the last few students escaped to class.
This was good.
No one would be watching and she could beat him without and audience.
She preferred personal fights like this anyway.
Catse's glare was mean...
She let him see every bit of resentment she had for him.
Hakuchi on the other hand, glared back, which angered her more.
'This confident little swine! How dare he?!'
This was it...
She wasn't about to let him get any farther than he already was.
She patted his shoulder with a confident smirk, with the lips curved up in a mixed feeling of anger and resentment, and then, punched him hard in the nose, sending him into a wall.
"Ack...!" He hollered, slumping for a minute before jumping up.
"You get to class you ignorant pig!" She shouted, fists clenched as she gave off her angriest glare and stomped up to him.
"The hell...."
She punched him again, sending him into the wall next to the windows that showed the inside of the front office.
The secretaries busy with their workloads looked up from their computer screen when the window rattled.
"Get up punk...I got somethin' for yah." she replied with a smirk, holding her fist up.
He stood up, wiping the blood that was developing at his nostrils (Eew! Nosebleed!), and smirked again.
'He still looks confident!?! Why...?'
She found out a moment later, when he suddenly jumped at her and forced his fist up her stomach, heading to the ribs.
"Guh..." She fell back, wincing from the pain when she hit the wall.
He had.... He had hit her...!
And he did it again...and again...In the same spot...
Catse sagged against the wall, huffing as she tried to ignore the flaming pain her abs were screaming about.
It would do no good to whine...
That wouldn't save her...
This guy hit her...
Although she had been hit many times in the past...she was surprised that he had the gall to do it!
"I've taken a few karate classes since you last kicked my ass Cat. I'm ready for whatever you got to give."
Catse stood up; rubbing the blood from her mouth as it welled up at the corners.
"Funny...didn't seem like it when I started two minutes ago. What...too idiot to know how to react unless I'm not lookin'?"
"Very funny bitch. Come on, I'm gonna kick you're ass once and for all, then I'll gain respect."
"I got news for yah lug-head. When you was playing bully at the playground, I was kickin' ass in the streets, punks twice my size. You think just because you took a few karate classes that you can best experience. Heh. Then come on and show me what yah got."
Hakuchi stood up; looking even more agitated now than he had before.
"That's it bitch! Come here!"
He grabbed her shoulder, raising his arm in preparation to hit, but Catse was ready for the move. Before he could land a blow, she slipped down from his fingers, swirled on the ground on one toe to knock him over, and then stomped on his chest with her foot to get his attention.
When he looked up at her, he had the undeniable fear and hatred for her that she always saw when she beat him.
"See. A few classes can't beat experience."
"All right...I get it. Please let me go...I'll...I give up!" Catse smirked as she hung over him.
"You'll give up?" She asked sarcastically.
"Yes."
"Hm. Okay then, get off to class punk. But if I see this again, I won't let you walk in one piece. Understood?" He nodded.
Catse figured he would keep to his word.
After all, she could beat him again if he didn't.
She stepped off of him and walked away, smiling.
Now she felt better than she had before.
This was great.
She beat a kid in Dodge ball and now she had beaten a bully.
This was wonderful!
But as she walked away, she found how really stupid she was.
She should have dealt with the bully better, perhaps threaten him more.
Catse only knew he was up when she felt the hard smack of two clenched fists behind her neck.
She collapsed on the ground staring, stupefied, at the floor.
This guy just didn't give up!
Hakuchi bent and turned his victim over, laughing as he saw what kind of pain she was in.
"You fool! You thought I was giving up! You're even stupider than I thought!"
'Stupider...yeah...Learn to use your words right!'
He sat on top of her, holding her down so that she couldn't get up.
This was driving her nuts!
Who'd this guy think he was, keeping her like this?!
Well he would pay...that was for certain...
He punched her good in the jaw, leaving her mouth to bleed over a little as he laughed.
"Stupid bitch. You can't beat me...no one can."
Now that ticked her off.
"Oh yeah? Get your fat ass off of me!" He didn't listen, so she pulled her arms from their trapped position and shoved him.
He was heavy, and she had to close her eyes to try.
It felt strange though.
Like she had energy surging through her body and it was building up.
Well...in any case, if there was energy she was going to use it!
She snapped her eyes open and thrust what she could behind her hands, anger surging through out her body.
Hakuchi jumped up and flew...farther than she thought possible.
He swept past the glass doors, and landed against the farthest wall from her, and slumped, leaving the impression of his hit.
"Whoa..." She whispered, huffing.
Another short stream of blood drained to the corner of her lips and she wiped it away with the back of her hand.
"What is going on out here?!" She heard a voice say from the door.
'Uh-oh...Principal. Gotta go!'
"Catse! I want you in my office now!"
'Oh great...another call to my parents.'
Catse huffed her anger as she walked into the principal's office; still curious to how she had managed to force Hakuchi so far away.
She had never done that before...but then again...there were a lot of things she did that were unexplainable.
'Time to deal with Mr. Evil.'
And she disappeared into the principal's office.
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Koji heard about the fight around lunch from the many groups of gossipers.
"They said she kicked his butt good! The guy went flyin' into the wall and left a mark there that the principal is gonna have to have repaired. Man I would have loved to see the fight. I wonder how Catse was able to leave a mark in the first place."
'How indeed...' She wondered, smiling as she finished up her meal.
'Perhaps...no...was it possible?'
Was she going through now the same thing Koji was?
If so...why?
Koji excused herself from the lunch table a few minutes before class to be left to her thoughts.
She had done something similar as Catse a few years back...and she could still remember the event vividly in her head.
But no matter how much she tried, she couldn't get her body to do it again.
It had been when she was thirteen.
Her stepfather had really ticked her off one afternoon when he insisted she had stole some money that had strangely disappeared.
'Nope...he used it at the bar...That's where it disappeared...In his beer!'
He had accused her of theft and grounded her...and yet never even looked for the proof of what had happened.
She had been so angry that she walked outside and sat on an old car in the front yard, glaring at her father's new pickup, won from a contest he had repeatedly entered for about a month.
Ideas had swum in her head of how to get back at her father, when her thoughts had concentrated on that pickup.
'Red...shiny...new...stupid.'
She began thinking of what to do to it, when her father came out telling her to get her butt inside.
Koji had been grounded after all.
Then, in anger and rage, prepared to yell at him, she let the building energy go. She could never forget that day.
The truck burst into flames, sending bits of metal and tire every which way.
Her father didn't know what had happened, and later claimed that someone had put a bomb in the truck to kill him, but it went off before he could get inside.
But Koji knew.
It was something about her attitude that had brought it about.
Well in any case, it had gotten her father to stop blaming her for his mistakes.
He tried not to anger her anymore, and she was satisfied with that.
After some research, she found out that it was possible that she could perform pyro-kinetics, the ability to cause things to burn or explode with use of the mind.
That had to be what had happened, but if so, why couldn't she do it again.
Perhaps she should talk to Catse this afternoon, after school.
Maybe she could find out how she did whatever she did, so as to know if she to had a similar ability as her.
Koji sighed when the bell rang for class.
She had to find out.
So most of the day she spent reading, finishing her book in her last class, and happily finding that Hakuchi hadn't returned to classes all afternoon.
'She must have beaten him good.'
The bell rang.
It was time to talk to the bully.
Koji packed up her stuff and walked out of the school, searching for the red headed girl that had helped her out earlier that afternoon.
She found her outside the fence around the school, but was surprised at what she found her doing.
Well...then again she was a bully.
She had a young boy, probably ten or eleven at the most, pinned up against a fence.
He had short messy blonde hair that stood up on end like little spikes, and deep blue eyes that glared with a vengeance.
He wore the usual elementary uniform, the blue jumpsuit with the briefcase in hand. Even though someone of Catse's stature would have scared some one this small away, he stood strong and brave, glaring back at her as if he was twice the size she was.
"Kid, you're new around here right?"
"Yeah. What of it?"
Catse snickered for a moment, before glaring back at the kid with a smile on her face.
"I rule this part a'town, and kids like you gotta obey me."
"Who says?"
"I do."
"Then you don't know who I am."
"Oh really." The way they were going, one of them was bound to start a fight, and then they would end up hurting each other too bad to walk.
That was how vicious the argument was getting.
Koji couldn't let it go like this.
She wasn't the kind of person that sat on the sidelines to watch.
So, with out further to do, she stepped in the way of the two bickerers and pressed them away, playing the peacemaker.
"What the hell are you doing?" Catse screamed, slapping Koji's hand away.
"Keeping you two away from each other. What does it look like?"
"Hey, aren't you the girl I saved earlier?"
Koji smiled. "Glad you remembered."
"What the hell are you doing stopping me from messin' with that kid!"
"Keeping things peaceful. You don't need to fight with everything that moves you know."
Catse began to growl at this. "Kid, what's your name?"
"Hane. What's it to you?"
"Well Hane, you got quite the mouth. How about you get your butt home and leave me to deal with Catse."
"No way! She was pickin' on me and I want to get her back!"
"Hane?"
But Catse had had enough of listening.
"Get your ass outta my way!" She shouted, punching at Koji.
She was surprised when her target suddenly vanished into thin air.
"What the-"
"Turn around." She heard Koji say with an amused voice.
So Catse did.
Koji stood there, not a smile on her features, looking agitated.
"How the hell...Well you know what, you can't run forever!"
Catse again punched at her, but Koji dodged it effortlessly once more, and so they fought. Hane sat amused, sitting with a hearty smile as he watched the fight commence before him.
"You're sloppy and ignorant. You punch with out knowing if you'll hit." Koji commented, dodging again.
"You shut up. You have no experience in this, so sit still and let me hit you!"
Koji smiled wanly at that, and allowed Catse to get close enough to hit, before dodging again.
"I've a black belt in Tai Chi, and I have mastered the art of Ninjutsu. You couldn't hit me even if you wanted to."
"What?"
Koji smiled and stood, watching her assailant.
The girl had the experience sure, but not the training.
"I've mastered many fighting moves, and I move too fast to begin with. You can't catch me."
"You'll see!"
Hane watched curiously, but began to wonder what was really going on when the beautiful day of birds singing began to darken, and the skies began to fill with rain clouds.
Thunder began to roll, and soon a few specks of rain splashed onto the cement, displaying a storm.
It had rolled in so suddenly and yet neither girl seemed to notice what was going on.
Both of them continued to fight, with out a worry in the world.
He had to do something.
He had to stop the fight and get the girls inside before something bad happened.
So Hane stood up and ran between the two girls, grabbing their wrists before they could move again.
"Stop it!" He shouted.
"What! Kid get your hands off of me!" Catse yelled, yanking on her held wrist.
"Yes. Let us be. We must finish this."
"But there's a storm-"
Too late.
Before they could leave, a splash of lightning struck the ground, surrounding the two girls and the young boy in the yellowish liquid like light.
Then, the lightning disappeared and the three were gone, leaving only a black splotch on the ground of where they once stood.
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Catse: How was that? One more chapter to go for this and I'm done for a while. I hope you enjoy how it is so far, and we'll do our best to keep updating soon. Well, I have to update the next chapter. Ja Ne!