-Hey guys! Sorry for disappearing from FF for like over two weeks...It's just that I started school again, and I haven't had much time to do anything. God schools a drag. Heh but thanx for being patient with me. I just wanted to say that I decided to update this story before I update "Love at Last" because I'm have a few problems with that story. But fans of that story, can be assured that I'll get everything fixed and update that story as soon as I can. In the mean time, enjoy chapter 6 of Let Go!
IMPORTANT NOTE: (I'll be posting this on all my stories) If you're planning on criticizing this chapter, don't bother. You'll be wasting you're time cause I won't read them. I didn't ask for someone to tell me that my story is "OOC" or to tell me that something's wrong with it. If you don't like this story, then stop reading it. Please don't try to tell me to change something cause I like my stories just the way they are. Sorry for sounding harsh, but I don't write fics to have them criticized because someone doesn't like them. I write fics cause I like to write them and because I like Shaman King.
Disclaimer: Shaman King belongs to Hiroyuki Takei and him only. Hmm...I wonder if he'd sell it to me? XD
Manta, Horo Horo, and Yoh quickly opened the gym door and sneaked into the gym room as quietly as they could trying to avoid the gym teacher who was taking attendance on the other side of the room.
"Man I hope he doesn't see us." Manta whispered.
"Just stay quiet." Yoh answered.
Suddenly, the gym teacher heard noises and turned around to saw the trio of teens trying to sneak around on the other side of the gym. He immediately called for them.
"Usui! Oyamada! Asakura!" He shouted.
The three froze in their tracks and slowly turned to see the gym teacher glaring at the three of them.
"Get over here right now." The coach said sternly.
The three gulped and slowly walked over to Mr.Gracia. All three lowered their heads as they walked.
"Hmm..Seems like I was right. I told you three that you'd be late for class again and you are. What's the matter with you three? You have 5 minutes to get from class to class and you still can't manage to get here on time."
The three kept their heads down and said nothing.
"Fine then. You give me no choice. 3 weeks detention! All three of you!" The coach shouted.
Yoh, Manta, and Horo Horo's heads immediately shot up as they heard the coach's ridiculous punishment.
"What?" Manta shouted. "3 weeks detention for being late to class?"
"Yes. I've had enough of the three of you. You've been late over ten times now and it's time that you received proper punishment for your actions." He replied as he wrote something down on the clipboard that he held on his right arm.
The three boys sighed and sulked.
"Now I want the three of you to sit behind Wiggins over there." The coach pointed. "We're gonna be running laps today."
The three slowly walked passed their other classmates, hearing them giggle at them because of the embarrassing situation. The three sternly sat down on the gym floor behind Rod Wiggins.
Horo Horo sternly crossed his arms and frowned as he sat down on the gym floor. He wasn't angry because of the punishment, he still hadn't gotten over the situation that he had with Anna in the hall.
He was beginning to wonder how better everyone's life would be if Anna wasn't around. He had never thought such things before, but he couldn't take it anymore.
"Now everyone. Get up and run 5 laps around the gym. Now!" The coach instructed.
Everyone moaned and groaned as they all forced themselves up off the cold gym floor and lazily began to run around the gym as instructed.
Yoh, who was used to running laps, quickly started to run around and was clearly ahead of the rest of his classmates.
The coach on the other hand, was not impressed by the slacking off of his other students, so he made sure to run along side those who were slacking off, and began to "motivate" them.
"Come on Gonzalez! I've seen you run faster when there's a cake on the table! Now run!" He shouted.
The husky young girl, became embarrassed but quickly began to run faster.
The coach then ran over beside Manta.
"Lift up them shrimpy legs, Shorty! Maybe now you'll learn how to run and get to class on time!" He shouted.
Manta growled, but did what the coach instructed since he didn't have much of a choice.
Now it was Horo Horo's turn.
"Don't tell me that you're getting tired already! You haven't even done one lap! Maybe if you didn't pig out so much in lunch you'd be in better shape! Suck in that gut and move!" The coach shouted.
Horo Horo growled and ran faster. The coach then moved on ahead to someone else.
"Yeah well I can say the same for you." Horo Horo came back as he stared at the coach's gut as it bounced against his legs as he ran. "Call me out of shape you fat ass." He whispered.
The coach who saw Yoh exceeding past the other students, was still not impressed. He decided to run over beside him and give him a little "motivation."
"Hm...Good job Asakura. You seem to be way ahead of the other students." He said as he ran beside Yoh.
"Thank you coach." Yoh replied, but didn't turn to look over at his teacher. He was too focused on running.
"You're good at running, but not good at watching where you're going." The coach replied.
The coach then put his foot in front of Yoh's and tripped him on the spot. Yoh grunted as he fell with a big thud onto the cold wooden floor.
"Make sure that you watch where you're going!" The coach shouted as he continued to run beside the other students.
Yoh slowly lifted his head and moaned. He then turned to see the other students running right towards him as he lay on the ground helpless.
As the students ran passed him, some trampled him as he lay defenseless on the floor
"Ow. Ouch. Stop. Ow!...Oooh...My arm!" Yoh cried as he was slowly trampled by his fellow classmates. When Manta and Horo Horo ran by him, they stopped and helped Yoh up.
"OMG are you okay Yoh?" Manta asked as he picked up Yoh's arm and helped him up.
"Yeah I guess, but I think I got a few bruises." Yoh moaned.
"Man this teacher is whack." Horo Horo said as he stared at the coach on the other side of the room. "What makes him think that he can treat us like this?"
"Ah...don't squeeze me arm Manta." Yoh said as he had one eye opened and the other closed. "Oh. Sorry." Manta replied.
The three then slowly walked over and sat in the corner of the gym room.
"Agh, I'm tired of running." Horo Horo said. "I'm not gonna let this teacher boss me around anymore."
Yoh slowly and lazily plopped himself down on the floor with Manta's help.
"Yeah this teacher's tough. I can't believe that he's giving us 3 weeks detention." Manta said.
"Yeah well it's not our fault." Horo Horo said. The other's looked up at him. "It's Anna's." Horo Horo finished. "If she would have just told us what was wrong with her instead of having an attitude then maybe we wouldn't have gotten in trouble." He said sternly. "God she makes me mad sometimes." He huffed.
"Come on Horo Horo. Cut it out." Yoh mumbled as tried to open his right eye.
"Cut out what? You know I'm right, Yoh." Horo Horo replied.
Yoh slowly sat himself upright on the floor.
"Look I know that Anna acted a bit harsh towards you and us, but that doesn't mean that you have to talk about her like that." He said.
"A little harsh? She friggin punched me in the face just because I told her the truth!" He shouted.
"Yeah that was pretty mean." Manta agreed. "I wonder why Anna's so angry?" Manta wondered.
"It doesn't matter why she's angry she had no reason to act like that around us. She's got some serious issues." Horo Horo interrupted.
Yoh just stared down at the ground and said nothing.
"Yeah...Oh. That reminds me. Did you see that she had a lot of bandages on her face? She didn't have those before we left the house." Manta pointed out.
"Yeah... and she had those on even before the fight started." Horo Horo said.
"Do you think that something else happened to her before she got to school and maybe that's why she's angry?" Manta asked.
"Ahh who cares. Even if we ask her, it's not like she's gonna tell us." Horo Horo answered.
"I guess you're right."
All of a sudden, Mr. Garcia turned and saw the three of them sitting in the corner of the gym chatting. This immediately angered him.
"Hey! Get up off that floor! Stop chatting like girlfriends and run laps like you're supposed to!" Coach shouted.
The three immediately turned and saw the coach running over towards them. They all got up and ran as fast as they could.
"Just for that, you guys get another 3 days of detention!" The coach hollered.
Yoh, Manta, And Horo Horo both groaned.
Meanwhile, Anna sat in her Geometry class, staring blankly from her seat as her teacher wrote math problems on the board. Of course Anna wasn't paying attention. She couldn't help but ask herself why she had to live such a horrible life. Was it meant to be this way? Was she meant to live a life of darkness?
"...Why is my life like this?" She whispered to herself. "So bitter and dark. It's not worth living." She muttered. She then slowly turned and looked out a small window that was in her classroom.
Because she was on the second floor of the school, the window looked out onto the tall cherry blossom trees that were in front of the building.
She stared as small cherry blossom petals fell from the trees branches and slowly descended to the ground. It was as if they were falling and setting themselves free from the tree's grasp. In a way, that's how Anna felt. She felt as if she were being held back by something and she to wanted to set herself free.
She continued to stare endlessly at the light pink petals, falling. Falling, slowly. Falling towards the ground and ending their misery.
...Watching this, she now knew the solution to her problem.
Just then, the bell rang that signaled the end of class and lunch time.
Anna snapped back to reality as she saw her fellow classmates around her, stuffing their math books into their back packs and leaving the classroom.
She slowly stood herself up from her chair and neatly placed her math book into her backpack. She then started for the door, but suddenly stopped before exiting the room.
She slowly turned and looked back at the small window. She took one last look at the lightly falling petals and then made her way out the room.
"I….shall fall." She muttered as she slowly grinned and walked into the hall.
"God am I glad to be out of that class." Horo Horo said as he stretched his arms and walked next to Yoh and Manta in the hall.
"Yeah my legs feel like they're gonna fall off." Manta sweat dropped.
Horo Horo turned and saw Yoh staring blankly at the floor with the "Dozing off" expression on his face.
"Hey Yoh!" Horo Horo called.
Yoh lazily looked up. "Oh uh huh?" He asked.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Oh…yeah… sorry about that..I must have been lost in my thoughts again." He grinned innocently.
"Heh...Well let's go find Ren and get some grub. I'm starving." Horo Horo grinned.
"Yeah." Manta smiled.
All three continued to walk down the hall until they reached the steps that lead down to the first floor. (A/N: The same stairs where Anna's fight had taken place earlier)
When they reached the bottom of the steps, they made their way out the front door and walked over to left side of the of the school where the 4 regularly hung out before getting lunch. The place where they hung out was by some trees and was a pretty peaceful place to hang out and talk, apart from the loud noise that came from the basket ball and tennis courts.
Horo Horo spotted Ren standing calmly by a tree reading a book.
"Ren!" Horo Horo shouted. Ren looked up. "Hey it's lunch time. What are you reading a lousy book for?" Horo Horo asked as the three walked over to him.
"Well unlike you Horo Horo, I actually get all of my work done and pass all of my classes." Ren came back.
"Agh whatever dude." Horo Horo was obviously not in the mood to fight at the moment.
Ren looked over at Yoh and saw him staring down at the ground with both hands in his pockets.
"Uh...what's wrong with Yoh?" Ren asked.
"Oh.Who knows dude. Sometimes the guy is just weird like that." Horo Horo sweat dropped.
Yoh snapped back to reality and looked up. "Oh uh...you said something Ren?" He asked.
"Yeah actually I did. What's wrong?" Ren repeated.
"Oh uh...I've just been thinking is all." He replied.
"Well that really answered my question." Ren said sarcastically. "What are you thinking about?"
"Oh uh...well mostly about what's going on around here and about ---."
"Let me guess. Anna?" Horo Horo interrupted.
"Uh yeah." Yoh answered.
"Yeah he's been thinking about her a lot lately." Horo Horo rolled his eyes.
"Hmm...Yeah about Anna. I heard that she got into some sort of fight today. What was that about?" Ren asked.
"Just some girls that wanted to cause trouble and Anna was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She got suspended because 3 girls decided to fight with her and she didn't want to admit to the principal that she didn't start it." Yoh replied. "I just don't understand why."
"Hmmm seems like Anna's going through some rough times." Ren replied. "She seemed fine this morning before we left. I wonder what happened to her?" Ren thought.
"Yeah. And doesn't she usually meet up with us out here right about now?" Manta asked. "I don't see her anywhere."
Manta said as he looked around.
The others turned and looked around the school yard as well. They looked at the clusters of students that were also outside to see if Anna was among any of them, but found nothing.
Yoh sighed. "Anna's seemed really distant lately. I don't know why, but I'm starting to get the feeling that she might do something horrible if we don't find out what's wrong and help her." Yoh sighed.
"Agh...what's the worse that she can do?" Horo Horo asked. " Besides. I'm sure she's fine. She's probably just on her period or something and that's why she's cranky." Horo Horo chuckled.
"No I don't think that's it Horo Horo." Yoh wasn't laughing. "It's like she's really depressed or something. As if something's really upset her and she's just trying to cope with it as best as she can, but can't."
As Yoh was talking, Ren suddenly spotted something far off into the distance.
Ren looked up and saw a small figure standing on the very edge on the roof of the school.
He squinted his eyes to try and make out what the figure was. But as he squinted his eyes, he began to notice that the figure was young a girl. A girl with blonde hair in her school uniform. The girl was standing on the edge of the roof as if it were a game. She wasn't worried nor frightened that one false step could cause her death.
It was...Anna.
Ren's eyes suddenly shot open as he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Was Anna actually standing on the very edge of the roof?9 stories up? Ren then quickly interrupted Yoh while he was talking.
"Uh...Yoh? Uh I think...I think I know where Anna is." Ren stuttered as he pointed in the direction of the roof of the school
Just as Yoh and the others slowly started to turn around and look up, a loud shout was heard from a young female student who saw Anna on the roof.
"SOMEONE HELP! A GIRL'S ON THE ROOF! SHE'S GOING TO JUMP!"
Author's Note:
Well I know that I lot of you have been waiting a long time for this moment and it's finally arrived. The suicide. Sorry that it took me so long to get to this part, but I actually wanted to build up a story so that people would understand why Anna was doing this and such. Hope I didn't keep you all waiting too long. And I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter :D I'd really appreciate your reviews and thank you for reading! I love you all! Bye!