Popularity Isn't Everything
By: Fumi

Chapter 4: First Impressions Part 1

The Asakura twins walked into the expansive room that's sole purpose was selling school uniforms.

Hao scratched his head. "Eh…Otouto why are we here?" he asked.

Yoh sighed. "We're buying new school uniforms because you have a habit of burning all of ours…"

"And why did I come?"

"I told you I'd help you with Spirit of Flame129."

Hao started crying. "SPIRIT OF FLAME129!" he wailed.

Yoh looked around the room to see that no one had noticed Hao's wailing.

"Why did you have to get sick on me? WHY? I haven't even had you for 12 hours!" Hao continued to rant.

"Aniki…your pet got sick because you fed it bad food…" Yoh tried to explain.

"I though it was a MISNOMER you can't blame me! I know you do!" Hao then ran into a nearby corner where he continued to sob and sometimes whimper "Spirit of Flame129."

Anna and Pirika walked into the room just as Hao ran to his corner.

As they passed Hao Anna scoffed, "What a loser!"

Pirika nodded. "Seriously! What kind of a guy cries in public? …I wonder what he was crying about…" she added.

"Probably some girl dumped him," Anna stated walking towards a stand of skirts. "Thought he was too wimpy for her tastes."

Pirika smiled, "Who would date him in the first place?"

A green haired boy kept Anna from making a retort. "Excuse me miss…Is there any way I can help you?" he politely asked.

Anna glowered at the boy. How dare he almost interrupt me! "Yes, I need someone to help me sort through the sizes."

Lyserg's watch started to beep; "I'm sorry ma'am…"

"Kyouyama Anna"

"Kyouyama-san, my shift just ended; the next person should be here in a moment. If you would like to complain about my rudeness my name is Lyserg," he bowed. "Diethyl Lyserg."

"Hmph!" Anna replied. "Maybe I will complain!"

Lyserg smiled and left to go clock out of his job.

Pirika squealed, "Lyserg wa kirei desu!"

Anna frowned, "He was rude to just leave me here"

"But he was soo polite about it. If all the boys at this school are like that no wonder Oniichan didn't want me to come!" Pirika was starry eyed.

"That's right…Horo-Horo used to go to this school didn't he?"

Pirika held up a skirt and shirt against her body, "This is cute huh? Oh yeah, he wanted to transfer to Ishi so he could chase boys away from me but Kasan and Tosan wouldn't let him because Shinra is a better school."

Haha This wound up being three times the length of Chapter 3 so I broke it up into 3 parts. At least I finally updated something right? Err...Part 3 will have review replys I think...that chapter will have a really long AN

8/2/05