Warning: Some shonen-ai and lotsa Japanese! And Flay and (mild) Ririna bashing from now on ; (if you don't like Flay or Ririna bashing, then get away from this fic because there will be a LOT of it, I HATE those two)
Rating: PG for language
Disclamer: What, do you THINK I own Gundam and CCS? In my dreams i do (seriously), but not in real life. ;.;
A/N: I'm not calling Sakura and Sayoran Mr. and Mrs. Li anymore ; too confusing for me (students will still though) And this chapter, Nari
"Is is enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out,
And leave me here to bleed.
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life,
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please."
-Avril Lavigne, "Anything but Ordinary"
Tsubasa High Chapter Two
Anything but Ordinary
"Mrs. And Mr. Li?" Stella asked the familiar two teachers standing in front of a classroom door.
"Hi, Stella!" Sakura smiled.
"Has your first day been okay?" Sayoran asked.
"Pretty good," Stella nodded, "But just the opposite for my sister."
"Stelllllll" A girl groaned from behind her.
"And this is Nari." Stella laughed, pushing her sister in front of her, "Nari, the Li's know mom and dad." She whispered to him.
"Really?" Nari whispered back. Stella nodded. Nari's eyes widened behind her glasses. Obviously, she hadn't expected any of their parents friends to be in America.
"Nari is a bit shy, so She dosen't like being new in classes." Stella grinned when her sister spun around and glared at her.
Sakura laughed. "You two can go inside and have a seat, you can sit anywhere you want in our class." The two siblings nodded to their teachers and walked into the classroom that was filling up quickly.
"Stella!" Nari said angrily to Stella as they set their books down on two side-by-side desks right next to the window, and towards the front of the class. "Why do you ALWAYS have to tell the teachers that? You KNOW What they always do!"
"Yeah, yeah. They pick on you to talk in class, thinking they can 'help' you become less shy. Which never works. But Nari, I have a feeling that these teachers are different. Not only because they know mom and dad." Stella said the last part quickly before Nari could say anything.
Nari sighed, and looked at the clock. Class was about to start.
While Nari was distracted by the clock, Stella took the chance to quickly push Nari's books to the desk on the isle, and put her own books where her sisters were. When Nari turned back around, Stella was firmly seated in the chair, staring out the window; daydreaming already, and would not be moved.
"Stell, I am DEFINANTLY going to get back at you -.-" Nari muttered. Even if Stella had heard her, she showed her no sign of caring. The bell rang, and the other students scrambled for their desks before Mr. and Mrs. Li could get in the room. As the last student sat down, the couple walked in.
"You guys can socialize right now, the lesson won't be prepared for about ten minutes." Sayoran said to the class, as Sakura was reading papers from a file folder.
As soon as the class started to get up from their desks, Sakura's head jerked up. "First we have to introduce our new students." Some of the girls in the back corner of the room either hadn't realized that Stella and Nari were there, or thought they were just some people who had switched classes.
"Mrs. Li, we don't have any new students." A girl with dark red hair and a pink dress, who appeared to be the groups leader, stood up.
"Flay, just look a---" Sayoran started, before Stella cut him off.
"If you hadn't noticed, my sister and I are new here. I think that means that we are new students, if I am not mistaken….. And please tell me that you just honestly didn't realize we were here." Stella said, standing up now and facing the girl, Flay. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw familiar pink hair, and then Lacus's semi-shocked expression.
Here it comes… Nari sighed and buried Her face in Her hands.
Its Stella! She seemed much more kind earlier… You wouldn't expect an outburst from her at first sight… Don't judge a book by its cover comes into play here, I guess.. Lacus thought.
"Quite honestly, I thought you were just some poor kid who had transferred from another class." Flay said snootily.
Stella glared at Flay. Suddenly, when most people, including Nari, thought she was going to start to yell at Flay, Stella sat down and closed her eyes.
Sakura looked at Nari, and mouthed 'you don't have to introduce yourself if you want, Sayoran and I can for you two.' The girl just shook her head, stood up, and faced the class.
"I'm Nari Yuki, and this is my younger twin, Stella Yuki." Nari paused, and looked around the classroom. She gulped, and started to speak again. "Well… Judging by what you just saw, I doubt I need to say this but I will anyways.. Stell has a bit of an anger issue, but she's pretty good at controlling it. Just don't make her really mad." She sat back down, and looked at the desk. This signaled the class that she was done speaking.
"Damnit.." Stella said quietly. Her hands were clenched into fists, her nails digging into her palms. If one had been able to see her face, which was now facing the desk and veiled by hair, you would have seen an expression that looks like a mix of anger, embarrassment, and pain. "I almost let it get control of me."
"Stella, it'll be alright. Flay's the leader of the snobs, but she's just a big pansy." Lacus offered some words of comfort, and patted Stella's shoulder. Nari sighed, and looked at the almost mirror-image of herself. It was hard for her to see her sister like this. Every time Stella got mad, someone either had to stop her or Stella would just turn away and worry about what might have happened if she hadn't of stopped herself; if someone stopped her it would be if they hadn't have stopped her instead. Looking back to when Stella's main anger problems first occurred, she remembered that there was a reason that Stella wonders what might have happened. Ever since that day, almost seven years before….
-flashback-
Stella and Nari are seven years old. The two sisters are playing in the back yard of the dojo they lived in at the time, wearing new play yukatas. Their birthday had been a week before, and their dad had just built a small cottage for them, complete with a loft, porch, 'glass' windows and furniture. Their mother had sewn curtains and other things for the cabin, and some other relatives gave them things to put in the cottage. The girls loved it! Now, they could play outside for hours on end but still be inside. They could sleep in it, eat in it, do their homework in it, and tons of other things.
After a while, the two sisters decided to play hide-and-seek tag. They played together for hours, only stopping when their mother called them in for dinner.
"Girls! It's time to get ready to eat, come inside and change and wash up!" Momoko called to the girls, who were now playing with two dolls they had also gotten in front of one of the lofts windows.
"Alright mommy!" Stella yelled, and then disappeared from the window to put Sakura's (her doll) things away.
"We'll be there when we put Sakura-chan and Tsuki-chan's things away!" Nari also disappeared from the window, putting Tsuki's (her doll) things away also. A moment later, they were running out of the cabin, their dolls with them.
"Nari, you're a faster runner than I am and Sakura-chan is getting hungry, could you take her?" Stella asked. Nari ran back to Stella and carefully took Sakura, then started running for the house again. Stella bent over to untangle a part of her yukata from her geita then started to run again once it was free. Two minute later, Stella had somehow tripped, and was falling- her head in a collision course with the stone steps to the walkway around the dojo. She screamed. Nari, who had looked out of her bedroom door a bit farther down the walkway, tried to stop Stella's fall, but it was too late. Nari ran to get their mother, who promptly called for an ambulance. Once Momoko hung up the phone, she knew that it would take the ambulance a while longer to get to the dojo, which was at the end of lane outside of town.
-fast forward two months-
Stella had gotten back from the hospital eight weeks ago, after spending two under the watchful eyes of doctors and nurses, and her bandages on her head were removed a week and a half after that. Although, she wasn't out of danger. The doctors did not have to worry about amnesia, because as soon as Stella woke up she knew her family members. They were more worried about any differences in her personality. (A/N: just to let you know, I have almost no idea what I'm talking about right now…)
In the time she had been back at her home, Stella had been acting a little different. But then again, so was everyone in the house. Momoko and Tai Yang had been fighting more and more often. Each time, they thought that the girls hadn't heard anything, but they did. For some reason, Tai Yang wasn't paying Stella's medical bills as much and as often as he was supposed to; the payments were the minimum, and were sent late. Another reason: he was always gone; never home. Each fight made Stella feel more and more uncomfortable, more guilty. Stella and Nari had taken to sleeping in the cabin now, so they couldn't hear any late-night fights if they transpired. One time, after the worse fight yet, Stella finally let everyone know what exactly the damage was.
Another personality. One more violent, destructive, seemingly un-caring. Almost the polar opposite of Stella. She started to yell at Tai Yang. They had found out that what Stella had tripped on was a piece of lumber left over from the construction. Left behind by none other than… Tai Yang. A piece of glass from a window in the cottage a baseball had broken lay nearby. The girl picked it up, and clutched it in her hand. Soon after picking it up, small rivulets of blood trickled from her hand.
"STELLA! NO!" Nari and Momoko yelled simultaneously.
"Stella, please!" Nari begged, "Stella! I know you inside out! You would NEVER do anything like this! Stella… Please, St--"
Stella turned around, "Have you ever considered that someone can change? That it's possible that I during the hours I was unconscious, something happened? I'm not the same girl you used to know. Deal with it." With that, she turned around.
".." Nari tried to say something, but was too shocked to do so. She watched as her twin sister and father fought. Then as she got the reason why he wasn't paying bills; why he was never home when the two girls and Momoko needed him. The answer made Stella's blood boil, and she lunged to attack Tai Yang. Nari couldn't just stand back and do nothing anymore. She jumped in front of her father, in the path of the piece of glass the younger girl held. Holding up her arm to try and protect herself. A searing pain ripped through her arm, and Nari held her wounded limb close to her, as she quickly looked back to see their mother knock out their father, and run to call an ambulance.
Nari pleaded with her sister to calm down. But her attempts were futile, Stella wouldn't listen. Instead, her sister cut Nari's face too. A moment later, Nari fell to her knees and started to sob. This seemed to break Stella out of her anger, and she dropped the peice of glass and ran to her sister. When she saw the deep gash on Nari's arm, and the cut on her face, she gasped.
"Who..." Stella started. She realized there was blood being left where her hand had just rested on her sisters back, and she looked at the palms of her hands. One of which, was covered in blood. "No... I..." She couldn't finish her sentance before she clollapsed on the ground, unconsious.
-End flashback-
"Stella. Nothing like that will ever happen again!" Nari reassured her sister, looking at the area where the scar on her arm was (covered by the long-sleeved shirt she was wearing), and running her fingers gently along the scar that went from right above her left eye to the side of her chin.
"It CANT." Stella said.
Lacus looked at the two with confused expressions. "What are you talking about?"
"Something that happened seven years ago..." Nari trailed off.
"We'd... rather not talk about it.. Its a touchy subject for us both." Stella finished Nari's sentence. Stella opened one of her hands, and looked at the spider-web like scar there. "It has to do with these though."
-End Chapter two-
well... that was hard for me to write o.o;; -points to flashback- My first time EVER writing something like that, and I think it turned out fairly well... what do you guys think? (I know it was kinda short.. but i'm home sick right now and watching GSD so that dosen't help o.o; )
