Chapter 2: Arisa
"Bleached-Blond"
I guess there are some things you can never completely wash out.
One of 'em is a soy sauce stain, like the one on my couch. One of them is the yam spot on my favourite skirt that the waitress PROMISED me would wash right off (the liar...).
Another one is peroxide.
It was pretty much a requirement for being a Yankee to dye your hair some colour. It seemed like the most popular colour was blond. So that's why, one day, I got a bottle of cheap peroxide and tried to bleach my hair. I lost a load of hair before I figured out the right amount of water to dilute it with, and I probably got a blister or two on my head, but in the end, I succeeded. I was officially a bleached-blonde. At the same time, I was officially a Yankee.
But after I left my gang, I tried to ditch all my old Yankee stuff. The surgical mask, the cigarettes, I tossed it all. Including the peroxide. I figured I didn't need to bleach my hair anymore.
But for some reason, no matter how many times I washed my hair, no matter how many times I tried to dye it back to the original colour, the blondness never quite left it. I was at a loss. Finally, I figured there was no use trying to fight it. I gave in and started dying it blond again.
Hey, there was nothing wrong with that, right? I mean, Kyoko-san kept dying her hair orange after she quit her gang. So there was nothing wrong with me bleaching my hair again. Just like there's nothing wrong with threatening people- not beating them up, just threatening them- every so often, or wearing a mask when my allergies start acting up. I'm not becoming a Yankee again when I do those things. Some stuff just sticks with you, y'know?
Kyoko-san and Tohru did help me clean up my life; I can't deny that. But I don't think even they have the power to wash out some things, including this dang peroxide.
Tohru might know how to get rid of that yam stain, though...
Madamada Tsuzuku...
A/N: I thought I had trouble writing for Tohru, but it was even harder for Uo-chan. I think it sounds a lot like her, but I guess my opinion doesn't matter, as I was the one who wrote it. I've never bleached my hair, so I don't know if the stuff about it is correct...