Okay; here is chapter 6 and stuff! Enjoy!
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Pil-Z: Thanks; I'm glad you like it. And I thought that was a perfect job for Nuriko!
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YG: Being hyper is fun. Yes, Chichiri was cute (wouldn't we all want a basketball that turns out to be Chichiri?) and gym is okay sometimes…it's fun unless you're in health or doing those stupid tests…(mutters) stupid beep tests and cooper tests…
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Sai let out a sigh and tried not to bang her head against the wall. Why; why her? Unfortunately, she had forgotten that that afternoon, she had the worst classes she could ever take the seishi to: Art and Chemistry.
"This sounds fun" Subaru said.
"Says you" muttered Sai, "You don't have to worry about eight other people causing havoc"
"It'll be fine, Sai" Subaru assured her, "I'll make sure Tokaki behaves"
"What about the other six?" Sai asked.
"Hikitsu isn't prone to causing trouble" Subaru pointed out, "Neither is Amiboshi or Chichiri"
"Chichiri sure created some mischief in gym pretending to be a basketball" Sai muttered. Subaru sweatdropped at the memory, "True…but…how much trouble can they cause in art?" she asked. The wheels in Sai's head turned with the many possibilities. When they finally stopped she turned back to Subaru, "A lot"
Then she walked down the hall to the art classroom, "But let's get this over with"
She walked into the art room, ready to cringe at whatever chaos awaited her arrival, but was surprised by normal, everyday, classroom chatter. Subaru smiled, "Um…Sai; you can open your eyes…it's nothing bad"
Sai did so and she was surprised to see that the seishi were sitting at the art tables, somewhat quietly and holding the paintbrushes given to them, safely and not jabbing them at each other like weapons.
"Okay; I must be dreaming" she said.
"Just sit down, Ms. Shimizu" the teacher ordered, "The new students' disciplinary skills in the classroom are perfect...compared to yours"
Sai glared at the teacher, "At least I have hair" she remarked, referring to the teacher's baldness. The teacher fumed at her as she sat down at the table where the seishi sat.
"Was that really necessary?" Subaru whispered.
"Of course" Sai smiled sweetly. Of course, having known Sai for a week or more, neither Subaru nor anyone else at the table, was fooled. Sai was never innocent…or sweet.
The teacher placed a blank piece of thick paper in front of each of the students, "Your assignment this week; draw and paint – or shade – something, someone or some place that has a significance to you. It doesn't even have to be real, but it has to be something that has helped shape who you are today and be prepared to present it in front of the class at the end of the week"
Sai gave a quiet laugh, "Idiot. One thing cannot shape who we are completely…but whatever" she took out a pencil and began sketching. The seishi began to talk to one another and other students as they drew what was important to them. Nuriko drew the outline of what he remembered Kourin to look like.
"Hey Nuriko; why are you drawing yourself?" a girl asked from behind him. Nuriko turned around and raised an eyebrow, "I'm not"
"But that looks like you!"
"It's my sister" Nuriko said, starting to feel a bit sadder when he thought about Kourin again. He had not thought about her at all the whole time he was in this world. That was very strange…
"Fuck off Suki" Sai said, "Stop stalking Nuriko"
Nuriko felt a wave of gratefulness wash over him. It would not have done him any good to break down in the middle of a class. Even in Konan, that would have brought ridicule and jeering comments upon him; he suspected that this place would be no different.
Suki sneered at Sai, "He doesn't belong to you…maybe he wants to talk to me!"
"Yeah; when hell freezes over" Sai said.
Suki blinked, "But…it can't freeze…"
"Exactly" Sai smirked.
Suki was about to say something, but was stopped by someone else joining their conversation, "Suki, just fuck off, will you?" a girl who none of them recognized. Suki obviously knew her, but the two girls' expressions were entirely different. Suki had an always seemingly present smirk on her face while the other girl (who the seishi did not know the name of yet) somehow held a cold look directed at Suki, while giving them a small smile.
"Sorry; just ignore her please" the girl said.
"Are you new here too?" Sai asked. She did not remember seeing this girl in her class before.
"Yes; I arrived here four days ago. You weren't here" the girl explained, "I'm Kaiya Hunter; Suki's step-sister" she scowled at the sentence as if she had been trying to forget that one little fact.
"Well, I'm not happy with it either!" Suki burst out, breaking out of Kaiya's grip, "Just for that, you can hang out with yourself from now on!" she stalked off to her friends' table and sat down. After a few seconds, the entire table was glaring daggers at Kaiya and whispering.
"What a bitch" Kaiya muttered, "What dad sees in her family, I'll never know…"
"Ms. Hunter; sit down or you'll get detention!" the teacher yelled.
"I really don't wanna go back there" Kaiya seemed to be talking to herself.
"Sit with us" Subaru offered, interrupting Kaiya's thoughts. Kaiya stared, then nodded, "Thanks"
As the group did their assignment, they talked to Kaiya a lot. They found out that a year ago, her dad had come on a business trip here from where she had lived in Chicago. He had met Suki's mom, Sarah Saunders (who was in fact an English professor at the local university) and through a series of events which she was still a bit confused by, they had somehow ended up moving across the world just so he could marry Sarah. Then some of the seishi ended up telling Kaiya a bit about their past, but not enough to let her get suspicious. When the bell rang, they were all laughing like old friends.
Halfway into the class, Sai's worst fears happened. Suboshi and Amiboshi, as they were both drawing the event of their parents' deaths and looking at the movie their teacher was watching on his computer about cowboys and Indians in the Wild West, got an idea. Amiboshi dipped two fingers in the red paint and traced two lines on both cheeks. Suboshi did the same. Chichiri thought that this was a game and joined in. Then they eventually converted all the seishi and Sai had her head in her hands, refusing to acknowledge that they were about to what she knew they were going to do. With a yell, thus began the Paint War I. Soon, everyone was covered in paint. Good thing they were strictly ordered to wear old clothes to art class, right? Well, Suki and her friends did not and their designer clothes and leather were soon covered in paint. Suboshi gave on last yell of victory before the bell rang. They walked by the teacher, who had not even noticed what had been going on in his classroom. Sai could not help but laugh as she rolled up her sketch to work on again next art class.
And what did Sai learn that class? She learnt that not everyone in the school hated her, that new students were fun to talk to and that red paint on Suki made her look like a giant tomato. As they left the classroom though, Amiboshi, his mischievous side coming out, could not resist 'accidentally' tripping and spilling the rest of the red paint on Suki. Sai groaned, but smiled inwardly. Art was as bad as she imagined it would be, but it was funny…
However, she would be dreading the next class…chemistry…
"Maybe I can fake sick?" Sai asked Kaiya, who was heading to the same class as they were, "D'you think the nurse would believe me if I said I had Chemistrynitis?"
Kaiya shook her head, "I don't know what you're so worried about; for new students from a very, very small town, they seem to know enough…though art class was funnier than usual"
"You weren't in gym class…" Sai countered.
"What happened?"
"I suggest you go to the outdoor courts and then you'll see"
Kaiya stared at Sai, "What did they do?"
"I'll let you see for yourself" Sai said, walking into the science classroom. She took a seat with the rest of the class behind one of the four lab counters situated around the room in a square shape. One counter had three lab apparatuses and there were lab partners assigned every class. Subaru and Tokaki were lab partners. Sai figured that would be fairly safe, since Subaru was level-headed and could somewhat control Tokaki. Nuriko and Suboshi had been paired up; a dangerous combination, but since they were working next to Sai and Hikitsu, she figured that would be fine. Unfortunately for the rest of them, they had been paired up with girls from Suki's, shall we call it, clique. How unlucky and disastrous…Sai just was not sure which side she was talking about yet…
"Okay; it's simple" Sai explained to the seishi to make sure they did not blow up the science lab. "You light the match, hold the fiery end over the Bunsen burner and then you turn the gas on…then you use these to pick up the strip of chemical stuff and hold it over the fire…and then you see what happens, alright?" she asked.
Tasuki nodded, eyes gleaming at the prospect of using fire.
Everyone in the general area who knew of his fiery tendencies shot him a warning glare and he glared back, muttering about unfair idiots set against a wonderful element. So they finished writing their hypothesis and headed over to where their partners were.
"Hm…so you're friends with that loser?" Tasuki's partner asked. Tasuki, who already knew that she was a friend of Suki's, just gave a snicker at what he could do to her with his tessen if he had it and continued to light the matches. He was amazed that when he finished the experiment, it was a small, bright explosion.
"I don't know what anybody sees in her" the girl – Kana – continued.
"You realize that I don't really care or agree with what you fucking say, right?"
Kana gave a sniff, "I think she should just drop dead and die. It'd do the image of our school and the world a favor. After all, who really likes her? I'm sure you're just pretending to be nice to her. After all, she has no good qualities. She wears black all the time, she's such a bitch to me and my friends and she's probably such a whore"
Tasuki clenched his fists in anger, remembering his friends' words of warning. But he could not really control his temper now. He hated it when people talked about his friends or anybody like that, especially if they were not true. The next thing he knew…
"Shut up you fucking bitch!" Tasuki swore. He struck the match and threw it at the girl, smirking. Kana screamed with terror when her shirt and the ends of her hair began to smoke. Then Tasuki had forgotten he had put the magnesium on his hand, which somehow fell straight onto the fire on her clothes and it gave a big explosion now, singeing off one eyebrow. The next half hour was spent calming Kana down and sending Tasuki and everyone else who argued in his defense when they heard his side of the story to the principal's office.
"I'll let it go this time" the principal sighed, eager to get the day done and over with. He wanted the least headaches as possible.
As the group left the school, none of them noticed a pair of eyes watching them.
'Just wait…just because you have your seishi here – Suzaku, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu – does not mean I will not win'
