Chapter 4: Unexpected circumstances
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Ulrich, Odd,Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, or any of the other characters seen in Code Lyoko. I do however own Shinrai Flare, and Krista Flare.
The next day, a normal life...Well, normal for seven teenagers who fight a computer virus, resumed. Everything looked normal and peaceful, as how it should be.
Jeremie, Aelita, and Krista sat in amazement as Shinrai and Odd began on their fifth bowl of breakfast. The food that even the insane people at the school would not eat, they were plowing through it, as if they had no stomach. Krista shivered some as she saw Odd devestating the food. As Shinrai and Odd were eating, Ulrich and a girl that was beside him walked up to the table.
"Shinrai, Krista, this is Yumi. Yumi, this is Krista and Shinrai," Ulrich said as he introduced her to the two new people. Krista smiled and nodded,giggling as she began pulling a bowl away from a groaning Odd, as if to save his own life. Shinrai stood up and bowed slightly.
"Ulrich had said you were beautiful, and I can see he was right," He told her as he looked to her with mirth.
"He asked me out this morning. I was walking to school and he caught up with me by the park and... "She blushed and hugged Ulrich softly.
"WHAT?" Ulrich could hear another voice over the onces of Jeremie, Odd, and Aelita. It was a voice that made Ulrich groan, the voice came from the girl Shinrai and Krista had met the day before... Sissi Delmas. He sighed and unclenched his fist, breathing deeply as he looked to Sissi.
"Ulrich, how dare you ask this SLUT out instead of me!" Sissi called out, her eyes flashing daggers. Before anyone could ever answer, Shinrai stood up and infront of Sissi.
"Who are you?" Sissi asked the white haired teen.
"I am Shinrai Flare," He turned to face Ulrich and then and winked quickly before turning back to face Sissi again, "and you must be the most beautiful girl i have ever met. I am new to the school and would be honored if you could show me around Kadic, " He asked her slowly, his face looking sincere. Sissi looked at him up and down, and then looking into his Aquamarine eyes, she replied.
"I guess I will. Your cute looking enough, and most likely smart too, I'll see you later Ulrich dear, " she turned around, Shinrai in tow, until Ulrich grabbed his arm.
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" He asked, his face looking puzzled.
"I took martial arts before coming here," He laughed some, knowing what Ulrich meant by the word 'fight'.
"Would you like to spar in the gym tomarrow?"
"Sure.. I'll see you after classes and after Sissi shows me around," Shinrai said before walking, which was more like being pulled, off. They all stared at Yumi, whose fists were clenched, ready to strike. Ulrich wrapped an arm around Yumi softly and kissed her cheek, which seemed to relax her. Odd began to laugh furiously, falling off the chair as he laughed.
"Talk about taking one for the team!" Odd began to howl with laughter, rolling on the floor as he did.
"I think we have found two of the best friends we could ever have," Aelita said, "who else would dare ask Sissi the time of day!"
"I know, and Krista is great too," Odd said, climbing back onto his chair, one arm around Krista's shoulder, "Well after breakfast tomarrow morning, we can watch Shinrai and Ulrich beat each other up,"
Ulrich and shinrai were stretcing out on the mats in the gym while Yumi, Aelita, Odd, Jeremie, and Krista looked at them.
"So, what did you think of Sissi?" Ulrich asked as he crouched down into his stance a few times, to let the blood flow through his legs.
"Yeah, what did you think?" Odd stood and grabbed the stopwatch before backing up.
"She tried to hard, she is a generaly nice person, but she has a bad mean streak," Shinrai replied as he settled down into his stance at the other end of the mat, bowing once before settling down into it.
"IS that Kenpo?" Ulrich asked interestedly, as he returned the bow and settled down into his stance.
"Yes it is, Odd, it is three minute sparring, stop us after three minutes,"
"Right, and... GO." Odd yelled, stepping off the mat quickly as Shinrai and Ulrich began to circle each other slowly, each trying to find a weak point to attack. A seiries of stikes began to pass through each of their mind, as if a chess game. Shinrai grinned and used a stutter step, sending a kick at Ulrich's side. The kick had been easly blocked by Ulrich, Shinrai had known this was to happen, while Ulrich sent a kick to the exposed back of Shinrai's.
The kick was exactly what Shinrai had needed. When Ulrich lifted his foot, Shinrai launched off his other one and pushed against Ulrich's chest hard with his foot.
Ulrich had to let go of Shinrai's foot as they both landed on the ground. Within that instant of being on the ground, Ulrich and Shinrai had rolled quickly and stood up to face each other.
"That was nice," Ulrich said, using his forearm to block a punch towards his chest. With that he used his forearm to push the other out of the way and sent his other fist directly into Shinrai's solar plexus. (A/N: The solar plexus is a part under the ribs that is not protected by muscle or tissues.) Shinrai groaned some and rolled behind Ulrich, gripping at his chest, gasping some for air.
"So was that," Shinrai replied and grabbed Ulrich's arms quickly from behind as he said it, he pulled his arms behind Ulrich, barring them from temporary usage. He pushed that arms in, causing pain to Ulrich each time her pushed the arms to each other.
Ulrich had struggled for a moment and then fell limp to the ground, dropping all his weight out of place. The sudden weight displacement caused Shinrai to let go of Ulrich's arms and flip over him and making Shinrai hit the ground….painfully.
Before Shinrai could get onto his feet again, Ulrich's knee rested on his neck, ready to attack and defend himself if needs be.
"TIME! Odd yeled out, running onto the mat as he reached his hand out at the two, "So no Jet Li moves?"
Shinrai and Ulrich looked to each other and nodded quickly, grabbing Odd's hands and pulling him into the mat as they stood. Shinrai smiled an patted Ulrich on the shoulder as he looked to him.
"Nice match, been a while since I have had that much fun," They left the mats and headed to meet the girls and Jeremie; Odd following behind, grumbling as he held his head. As they approached, Aelita began to clap, which was hard as she was sitting very Very close to Jeremie,"
"That was very exciting!" She exclaimed happily, and amazed, only seeing some movement like that in Lyoko.
"Ulrich knew something that no one else knew what to do, he dropped his weight down when I arm-barred him, he threw me off balance like a rag doll," Shinrai said, chuckling in obvious enjoyment. He loved being around his friends, knowing they would help him and his sister through thick or thin.
A groan from Ulrich made Shinrai turn around. Sissi was standing there, looking embarressed.
"What do you want Sissi?" Yumi asked through closed teeth, her fists clenched.
"I was reminded by someone that I have been an asshole to you all, I want to apoligized to everyone about how I acted," She said softly, looking genuenly ashamed.
"What brought this on?" Aelita asked.
"I asked Shinrai to go out with me… He said that I was being too insulting to people, and he said he would only go out with me if I apoligized to you all, and meant it. I really meant it when I apoligized to you all," Tears began to fill her eyes and she turned around, running to the door of the gym, trying to open it, the tears running down her face. Shinrai ran to the door quickly, calling out.
"Sissi, WAIT! He called out, he reached her quickly and put a hand on her shoulder softly. "I will go out with you Sissi, it took courage to do what you did," He told her softly before smiling, his aquamarine eyes filled with caring and love.
"Um Sissi?" Yumi asked as they ran up to her.
Sissi sniffed some when she looked to Yumi. She then looked away, trying to wipe the tears from her face, she only turned around to face Yumi when she smiled to Sissi.
"Yes Yumi?" She asked slowly, looking over the six who where Shinrai's friends. She gripped shinrai's hand tightly as she listened to Yumi.
"I'm sorry too, we all are… We did not know you really meant it a minute ago, but now we do. I hope you accept our apoligy, because we have already accepted yours," Yumi told her, obviously being upset that she hurt someone.
"Yumi, I am very sorry about the slut comment," she said meekly before Ulrich grabbed shinrai and pulled him to a tree.
"Shinrai, we know that we cannot let Sissi know about Lyoko," Ulrich told him quietly.
"I know about this, I won't tell her until XANA is comepletly gone," He replied, "It must be weird coming from someone you've met two days ago, huh?"
"A small bit, but you had taken an oath not to tell a soul,"
"You can trust me Ulrich," Shinrai said as he looked at the group,
"Sissi has been trying to be with our group for years, although she does look happy, better than she was when she was with Herb's group.
"Herb is the annoying looking one with glasses, standing next to a dumb looking kid, am I right?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Because they are heading over to Sissi,"Shinrai exclaimed.
(Sorr about waittime, I have to share a computer with other people, and updating was hard because of it, I have almost all the chapters written down on paper, just not able to type them that much)