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The group strolled into room 307 for independent study.
Kuniyasu Chika didn't even raise her head, although many of the other students did.
Briefly.
Before returning to goofing off like they were before the disruption.
There was a cluster of desks located towards the front which the group quickly filled.
"Ugh…" Akane groaned, attempting to run her fingers through her tousled mane, "My hair's an absolute wreck…gawd I just sounded like a total prep, didn't I?"
Sora and Hinode giggled.
"Here." Sora said, snatching the brush protruding from Akane's bag (she stuffed it there on her way out).
"We'll fix it." Hinode smiled, whipping out her own.
Resting her chin on arms, that were neatly folded on the desk in front of her, Akane closed her eyes as they set to work.
As the Otaku Twosome set about untangling the knotted locks as the G-Boys took note of the disarray around them.
"Um…question!" Duo asked, "This is a school right?"
"Of course it is!" Sora laughed, working on a particularly stubborn rat's nest.
"What a question!" Hinode snickered, tackling a rather tangled section near the nape of Akane's neck.
"Watch it." Akane hissed, eyes opening into narrow slits out of pain.
"Then why isn't anyone studying?" Wufei asked tersely, eyeing a group of preppies in the back who were painting their toenails, gossiping and reading fashion mags.
"Cuz this is Independent Study." Hinode supplied, "Student are supposed to study on their own."
"Which they don't." Sora laughed, "Mostly they just waste time or catch up on their z's."
"Why doesn't the teacher say anything?" Quatre asked voice laced with concern, and eyes widening as he witnessed the sensei cut her thigh with the infamous box cutter.
"Cuz...she has issues." Akane muttered sardonically, enjoying the look on his (and Duo's) face as Kuniyasu idly cut the back of her own hand, examined it, then moved on to another section of skin.
Trowa was unmoved.
Heero either didn't care, or the muscles in his face were on permanent hiatus (you decide)
"There!" Sora said, a note of satisfaction in her voice.
"Done!" Hinode smiled triumphantly (so many knots!)
"Thank god." Akane sighed, "It felt like you we're tryna rip out chunksa my scalp."
"Unintentional I assure you!" Hinode grinned, holding uo her hands defensively, "We only did what was necessary."
"Yeah, but it was so tangly!" Sora cried, "Whaddya do? Get in a fight with a weed whacker and lose?"
Akane glared at them as she quickly switched her near-hip length hair into a loose ponytail (…Kikyo? Izzat y-nope. Bangs are too long. Never mind.)
"Shut up."
The bell rang, signaling the end of the period.
"I hope whatever is next will actually be slightly academically stimulating in nature." Wufei muttered, "That shameless display was just too reprehensible to be allowed."
"No such luck." Akane snickered, "It's Studio Art with our school's favorite Pothead, Morita Shigeru."
"Studio Art?" Quatre asked, looking happy, "Really? No kidding? I love art! Painting, sculpting, carving, you name it!"
Sora and Hinode could barely contain themselves at the sight of this happy bishounen.
The urge to glomp him into a coma was most high.
Needless to say, Quatre's visions of a sensei with whom he could share a discussion about Renoir quickly flew out the window upon the opening of door 3-D.
The man in rose tinted glasses (with hair almost longer than Duo's) sat with his flip-flop encased feet propped up on the desk in a Hawaiian print shirt and Bermuda shorts.
Even Heero had to raise an eyebrow when Akane lit up during class and not a word was said.
"Why…isn't Morita-san doing anything about that?" he asked.
Instead of replying, Hinode and Sora just jerked clay covered thumbs toward his office.
Curiosity getting the better of him and the rest of the G-Boys, they strode over and peered inside.
Morita Shigeru has currently toking off a bong shaped like Professor Dumbledore.
They almost couldn't see him through all the smoke.
Wufei looked like he wanted to die; such a disgraceful display from a teacher! (Get OVER it!)
Trowa was still unmoved.
Quatre appeared to be only seconds away from crying (poor boy; so disillusioned)
Heero shook his head in disgust.
Duo was loving this place more and more by the second.
The bell rang again and the supplies were quickly stowed away as they trekked towards third.
"Well what now?" Wufei asked sarcastically, "Balloon animals?"
Trowa's expressionless mask twitched ever so slightly at that last remark.
"No such luck." Sora groaned dejectedly.
"Yeah…we wish." Hinode mumbled dismally.
"It's English with Minagawa Shouji." Akane grunted, "And quitcher bitchin'."
"We don't wanna." Hinode moaned.
"We didn't cram." Sora whimpered.
"And whose fault is that?" Akane snorted (she has a point, ya know.)
The G-Boys got off lucky in this class.
In fact, they got to be entertained as Minagawa zeroed in on Sora and Hinode as if he has They-Didn't-Study-dar (I swear my teacher's have that) as he shot question after question their way.
Wufei and Quatre found the cry of "DOUBLE HOMEWORK!" quite refreshing.
But it got stale after hearing it for the twenty-third time.
I mean, you can only hear something so many times before wanting to hit someone.
When the bell rang for the seventh time that day (1), the group hiked outside for fourth.
The entered the pod (ya know, those classroom that are detached from the actual school thatcha hafta walk out to?) and took their seats.
Shiranui Rikugo gave a fascinating lecture about Endangered Birds.
He even had a guest lecturer from a local wildlife preserve who had several live specimens in cages.
"Ooo! Pretty!" Sora breathed.
"Neato!" Hinode grinned.
Trowa's eyes took on a contented light as the speaker walked past him with the blindfolded Crescent Serpent Eagle (2)
He really wished to hold the bird, but he took note that this was a new world with a new set of rules and settled begrudgingly on giving it a light stroke along feathers that lined it's back.
Then came lunch.
Things were a bit different today.
No one was trying to gore anyone for corndogs like usual.
The reason?
The Superintendent was doing a evaluation of Benitora and he had threatened two months of reform school to anyone who started anything.
Not like that was gonna stop Akane from stirring up trouble.
Hinode was the one who caught in the act of molding a rice ball out of it's proper triangle and into a perfect sphere.
Didn't take a genius to see where this was going.
Aiming at the back of a particularly large, testosterone driven hulk name Usami, Akane bellowed, "FOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!"
Duo watched as time appeared to slow down as the rice ball splattered against the back of the Ah-nuld wannabe's head.
One moment of impact, tables were flipped, creating makeshift barricades and all hell broke loose.
"WAAUGH!" Quatre cried a pudding cup splatted against his cheek.
A bit angry, he grabbed a handful of what appeared to be Udon noodles and chucked them in the direction the pudding had come.
"INJUSTICE!" Wufei shouted, hurling gobs of mashed potatoes in all directions (he got hit full on in the face with a Super Spicy Curry Ramen)
Duo being Duo, leapt into the middle of the fray, armed with a bottle of teriyaki sauce in one hand, and mustard in the other.
"Feel the wrath of Mawell!" he cackled, squirting the condiments in various directions.
"This…is utter lunacy." Heero muttered, avoiding getting hit by staying behind the table.
"Insane." Trowa mumbled.
"Oh, act yer age!" Akane snapped, smashing two handfuls of chocolate cake into their faces.
It was a rule of combat that made Heero and Trowa respond (or at least that's what they told themselves)
Heero grabbed a tray filled with lettuce and chucked it at her.
Trowa lobbed several cartons of milk.
Two of Trowa's projectiles hit the mark while the rest hit innocent bystandards.
Heero's lettuce hit Akane in the back of the head.
Duo noting how his comrades were now in the spirit of things, went to douse a pair of jocks, who were attempting to flee, with ketchup.
Before the bell rung, Sora and Hinode dragged the G-Boys out of the cafeteria, where a war still was being waged.
"Aw, what's th' deal?" Duo whined as he was dragged along by the elbow, "I was havin' fun!"
"Yeah, but the bell's gonna ring in ten minutes for fifth!" Sora said pointedly.
"That only gives ya us much time ta clean up." Hinode said sensibly.
"So we're going to the locker rooms now so we can shower off and change into our gym clothes." They said together.
"Sounds reasonable enough." Quatre nodded.
"Indeed." Wufei said, trying to play off the fact that he was dripping with soup, pudding and mushy bread.
"Where did your…friend…get to?" Heero asked, a little ashamed he had taken her bait.
"Yes, I didn't see her leave with us." Trowa said mildly (he's over it)
"Oh she's just off…borrowing us some uniforms." Sora said awkwardly.
Hinode blushed a bit from embarrassment.
"It really is helpful at times…though I'd never admit that out loud." She thought to herself, "And unless she's royally T'd she only steals when necessary."
They arrived at the lockers with Akane waiting for them; showered, redressed in her gym buruma and hair done up in a high ponytail.
"I left'em inside." She snorted, pushing off the wall, "See ya in class."
"Kay!" Sora and Hinode said in unison.
The game today was soccer, so once again, they were outside.
They were divided into four separate teams.
Akane was named as Captain for Team 1 again.
But the Captain for Team 3 was a girl who went by the name Kouen Miyu.
It was obvious by the vibe between them, they absolutely despised one another.
There hatred for each other was so palpable, that it was almost on par for Akane's hatred of Animanga.
The G-Boys (surprise surprise) ended up on Akane's team, so when they were sidelined to clear the field for team's they ask Sora and Hinode what was up.
"Huh? Oh her?" Sora blinked, looking at the curly crown haired girl with golden brown eyes, "Akane hates her because she's been attempting to horn in on her turf."
"Yeah." Hinode nodded, "That's Genbu the Merciful."
"Genbu the Merciful?" Wufei asked slowly.
"Mm-hm!" Hinode nodded again, "In the world of street gangs, the twelve most powerful leaders are bestowed with the names of the twelve beast gods."
"And I'm guessin' that th' top four, get the titles of the four strongest gods, right?" Duo grinned.
"Exactly." Sora smiled, "The current four are as follows: Suzaku the Fierce: Yakusho Riho. Seiryuu the Cold: MomoiKoji.Genbu the Merciful: Kouen Miyu, who'sin a veryclose second. And in the number one slot…Byakko the Cruel: Kakyoin Akane."
"Akane currently has held the top spot for three years, which is almost unheard of." Hinode shuddered, "If she lasts another year, she's make history."
"Huh…it's hard to find anyone shorter than Woofer threatening(3)." Duo thought to himself as they took the field.
As the group tottered into Wakabayashi Hiro's math class, Duo's pleasant demeanor was gone.
"Hey, I apologized didn't I?" Akane drawled, taking a seat in the back.
"NO!" he snapped, glaring at her through watery eyes.
"Good." Akane nodded, smirking, "I thought in a brief moment of madness I may have apologized for sending that soccer ball rocketing into yer nads."
Duo scowled at her as Quatre attempted to stifle a laugh.
You what they say: It's always fun until someone gets hurt.
Then it's HILARIOUS!
As Wakabayashi, better known as the most boring human being in the face of existence, lulled the class to sleep with his monotone, the blonde Arab Quatre was sweating from the humid heat filling the room.
"Ullgh…" he thought bleakly, eyelids drooping, "Why doesn't he open a window?"
Heero was in the middle of a rather strange dream involving Relena and flan.
Trowa was fighting to stay conscious.
Duo chose to forgo that battle and had fallen asleep three minutes into class.
Wufei eyes were full moons, giving the appearance that he was conscious, when in actuality, he had fallen asleep with his eyes open.
The air room was muggy, stagnant, and heavy with the stink of sweat.
The few who had managed to remain conscious had the glazed unfocused stare of dead fish.
The bell jolted the slumbering students awake and there were resounding cries of joy as the dashed from the classroom.
"I'd be happy if I didn't have so much homework." Sora sobbed as they shuffled aboard the bullet train.
"Quit complainin'." Akane drawled.
"Feeling any better?" Hinode asked Duo, who was standing a little straighter now.
"Yeah." he smiled, "I'll live."
"Let's just get this out of the way." Quatre said comfortingly to Sora, "Then we can get to more enjoyable things!"
Sora glomped him again.
"You're such a gentleman!" She squealed.
Quatre almost fainted.
"Whadda lady killer." Duo hooted.
"…he better keep his inky hands off her!" Akane thought ferociously (Yeesh! Can you say mother hen?)
(A/N: Raves, Mosh Pits, Mini skirts and more! All this next chappie! R&R!)
(1)- It adds up to seven like this: Warning bell, First starts, First ends, Second starts, Second ends, Third starts, Third ends)
(2)- Yes, the Crescent Serpent Eagle does exists and yes, it is endangered
(3)- In this ficcy, the G-Boys have gone through growth spurts. Trowa is the tallest at 5' 9", then Duo at 5' 8", Heero is 5' 7 ½", Quatre is 5' 6" and Wufei brings up the rear at 5' 4"
