19 reviews? Whoa I guess that shattered my record of the most reviews for one chapter. It used to be 14. Thanx a lot everyone! I didn't think that you guys would like a suicide fic. I actually thought that I was gonna get flamed for this fic. But thanx a lot for proving me wrong. Here's the next chapter. Uhhh enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own shaman king... blah...blah...blah. Now let the readers see what they came for! The third chapter!
With the last scratching sound of her soft sandal against the rough pavement, Anna looked up and saw that she had finally made it to her destination. A place that she had longed to reach for quite some time. But here she was. In front of her longed destination.
She was in front of her high school.
She looked on upon the building, a feeling of remorse in her heart for not arriving with Yoh by her side. She let out a small sigh and tucked away a lock of her hair, for it was blowing freely in the calm wind.
She then looked down at herself and saw all of the cuts and bruises that were endured by her body, all received by her trying to make it to school that day. So many scars, so much pain. But she had to forget about it and move on. For this was just the beginning of a long and unforgiving day.
"Uh Yoh? Earth to Yoh!" Horo Horo said as he waved his hand in front Yoh's face.
Yoh was sitting in his seat in Algebra class, staring off onto space. Horo Horo was sitting next to him and he was desperately trying to get Yoh's attention.
"Hey Yoh? Snap out of it dude!" Horo Horo then snapped his fingers violently in front of Yoh's face.
Yoh shook his head and snapped out of his daze.
"Wha? huh?" Yoh looked over and saw Horo Horo staring at him.
"Dude you've been daydreaming for over 20 minutes now! What's the matter with you?" Horo Horo asked.
"What really?" Yoh asked. He shook his head again as he was still slowly coming out of his daze.
"Yeah. Mr. Lucas (A/N: Heh that's the name of my math teacher) already gave us a math assignment to do about 15 minutes ago." Horo Horo said.
"Oh he did?" Yoh asked. He lazily reached over and grabbed a tattered Algebra book that was on his desk.
"What page is it?" Yoh asked.
"Page 279." Horo Horo answered.
Yoh's eyes quickly widened as he saw all of the math problems that were on that page.
"25 problems?" Yoh shouted. "Ugh I'm never gonna finish this." He whined.
"I would let you copy off of me Yoh, but..." Horo Horo began.
Yoh lazily looked up at Horo Horo.
"But what?" Yoh asked.
"I already finished it and I turned it in to Mr. Lucas." Horo Horo finished.
Yoh then let a loud sigh out and he slammed his head onto his algebra book.
Horo Horo patted Yoh on the back.
"There there dude. You still got like 20 minutes to finish it. But of course that would mean that you'd have to do like 1.25 problems per minute in order to finish on time." (A/N: Can you guys believe it? Horo Horo is actually a math wiz!)
"Thanks a lot for cheering me up Horo Horo." Yoh said sarcastically.
"Any time dude." Horo Horo grinned.
Yoh looked down at his math book with a depressed look on his face. Horo Horo quickly noticed and asked him what was wrong.
"Hey what's wrong dude?" He asked. "You've been daydreaming a lot lately. Are you okay?" He asked.
Yoh answered him, but he continued to stare down at his math book.
"No. I'm worried...about someone." Yoh answered.
"Ugh. Are you still worried about Ren and his constipation!" (A/N: I had to put something funny in there) He told you yesterday Yoh. He's fine. His little embarrassing problem is already solved." Horo Horo stated.
Yoh's expression didn't change. He continued to stare down at his book with the depressed look in his face.
"No it's not that. I'm worried about...Anna." he cleared up.
"Huh?" Horo Horo raised his eyebrow in confusion. "Oh! Don't tell me that you're still thinking about this morning? How you never saw Anna come out of the house. I told you on our way over here...she probably made it to school before us."
Yoh sighed as Horo Horo was talking. Horo Horo crossed his arms.
"Yup. She's probably sitting in class right now, thinking of a way to punish us for coming late to school today." Horo Horo said without hesitation.
"I dunno. If she were here today, she would have come with me to my locker after first period. But she never did." Yoh said.
"Whoa. That's pretty weird. She's usually always following you around Yoh." Horo Horo wondered.
He paused. There was a brief silence. But Horo Horo then raised his hand and gently slapped Yoh in his back.
"Ahh. don't worry about it Yoh. I'm sure that she made it to school. She'll rear her scary blonde head around here anytime now. I'm sure of it." Horo Horo grinned.
Yoh slowly raised his head and looked up at Horo Horo.
"I hope you're right." he answered.
Horo Horo then looked up at the clock.
"Uh dude you might wanna hurry up and do that math assignment cause as of now, you only have like 12 minutes left." Horo Horo said.
"What?" Yoh looked over at the clock. "Aw man!" He then quickly got some paper out of his backpack, took Horo Horo's pencil that was on his desk, and started to work on his math assignment as fast as he could.
Anna slowly opened the front door of the school and made her way into the building. The sound of numerous footsteps and silent conversations, echoed within the school walls.
As she looked around, she saw a few students, hurriedly going to their lockers to retrieve books and other school materials. She saw teachers carrying out conversations with fellow employees, wasting time and depriving a class from their education. She also saw groups of students wondering the halls, ditching class and throwing away their lives as if they had no purpose.
Seeing all of this made Anna wonder why she even cared making it to school that day. She had several cuts on her body, tattered school supplies, and an injured rib. And for what? To attend a low ranked school where she would only be teased and taunted and deprived from her education. This was not a life worth living. Or so she thought.
But she carried the burden on her back for she was strong and was able to take in all pain. She was the Ice Queen after all. She had a reputation to live up to. Although she hated the name that was given to her by fellow friends and family, she decided to stick with it. It would be a nickname that would describe the meaning of her life. Bitter cold, emotionless, and forgotten.
Anna then slowly made her way up the spiral staircase. She was walking up to the second story of the building. For there was her third period class that would soon start in about 8 minutes.
The walk up the stairs seemed endless. Step after step she would climb, but there would always be another one there to take it's place. A never ending route to no where.
As Anna continued her way up the stairs, she noticed a small group consisting of three girls coming down the stairs as she went up.
The girl in the center, or who Anna presumed was the leader of this low life bunch, had long black hair that flowed down to her shoulders. She carried her school books gently in her embrace as she carried on a conversation with the two other girls around her. The other two girls had brown hair, one of the girls had it down to her neck, while the other had hers tied up in a pony tail.
All three girls had newly bought uniforms and nice black shoes. Anna presumed that they were a group of snobby rich girls and diverted her look as she and the group crossed paths on the stairs.
But as the girls saw Anna... they suddenly stopped and chuckled a bit. It was obvious that they were laughing at the way that Anna looked.
After the ordeal that Anna had faced, just making it to school, she was left with two bandages on her face, dirt stains on her long white stockings, and a rip in her school uniform from the blow that she had received in her rib. Her hair was a mess. Strands of hair here and there for she did not have time to comb it before leaving the house that morning.
The girls chuckled silently and started to whisper amongst themselves. The silence was suddenly broken when the 'ring leader' of the "Rich bitches" (A/N: That's Anna's little nickname for the group) placed her foot in front of Anna's causing Anna to trip over it and fall onto the step below her.
Anna's books and utensils fell once again and scattered all over the steps. Her hair whipped violently as she fell onto the step below her. When she had landed on the ground, Anna let out a grunt and quickly looked up at the snobby girl that had caused her to trip.
The young leader of the group was looking down at her and grinning as the two girls around her chuckled at the whole ordeal. The young 'ring leader' smirked and responded.
"Ooops my bad. But when I see a dirty little tramp, I just have to do something." The snobby tramp then bent over and looked Anna in the face. "You know this world would be better off if there weren't any filthy pigs like you sabotaging the place." The girl teased. "You might wanna think about taking a shower once or twice a millennium to." She then slowly got up, brushed her black hair behind her, and joined the two other girls that were waiting for her a few steps down.
Anna's blood started to boil at the remark that was just given to her. How dare a trampy slut like that say something like that to the Ice Queen. She had already taken in all that she could from the world around her, and she had finally reached her breaking point.
She would not stand idly by as the world took hits at her thinking that Anna would not strike back. She was going to fight back and she was going to start right now.
Anna quickly stood up and walked down and caught up with the girl that had tripped her. The girl was turned around and did not notice Anna behind her.
Anna grabbed the girl by her hair, causing the girl to turn around. She was appalled by the fact that this dirty girl was pulling her hair.
"Hey what do you think you're doing you dirty ass bi..."
But before the girl could finish her statement, Anna took a swing and she socked the girl right in her face.
A few seconds after that, the bell rang, signaling the end of second period and the soon to come crowds of numerous high school students, one of them being Yoh.
Author's Note:
Hey everyone I am so sorry that I didn't update sooner. I just realized that I haven't updated this story in 1 month and 5 days! I've been really sick lately (you know stomach aches, throwing up, and all of that good stuff) So I haven't really been able to work on any of my stories. I barely get the chance to get online anymore. But the good thing is that I'm on Spring Break and I get to have a week off. Even though I've spent half of the week being sick and all. I will try and update two more stories this week before entering school again. Once again I am sorry for the late update and I hope that you can all find it on your heart to read my story again and give me a review. Thank you all! Love ya! Bye!
