Kaorin/Sakaki pairings. In my opinion it would NEVER work.
Kaorin is a possessive little brat who spends the entire
anime/manga obsessing over Sakaki. (Sakaki might go either
way--you never know--but that's getting off the subject.)
Kaorin worships an idealized version of Sakaki and has NO
idea what Sakaki's really like. Also, this may be OOC for
Sakaki, but this is the first time we see her angry...
More notes: I'm normally a comedy writer, but sometimes,
life isn't always funny. Also, this story continues the
events of "Brain Dust" from a totally different POV.
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It was another boring afternoon just before Yukari's class.
Tomo was attempting to goof off while Yomi was attempting
to strangle her. Osaka was thinking random thoughts--going
on about people's brains collecting dust or something like
that. Chiyo-chan was desperately trying to understand her
friend's confusing ramblings.
Sakaki stood up from her desk and surveyed the room.
"I was sick yesterday so I need to borrow somebody's
notes," she thought to herself. "Yomi's smart--no, she's
busy putting Tomo in a headlock with those 'flabby' arms of
hers. Chiyo-chan--nah, she's busy taking her own notes.
Kagura--I love her but English really isn't her strong
subject."
Sakaki sighed. "Kaorin kind of creeps me out--she's way too
clingy--but she has very neat writing. I'll ask her."
Sakaki crossed the room and stopped at Chihiro's desk.
Kaorin was standing next to Chihiro, not really wanting to
go back to Kimura's room.
"Hey, Sakaki," called Chihiro, casually as if Sakaki
stopped by Kaorin's desk every day.
"Hello, Chihiro," replied Sakaki.
Upon hearing the name and voice of her "lover" Kaorin
turned around. "Sa--Sa--Sakaki-saaan!" she squealed,
practically fainting with delight.
Sakaki scratched her head nervously. "Ah...Kaorin..."
"Sakaki-saaan!" Again with the high-pitched voice.
"Kaorin...I need to ask you something...would you--"
"AAHHH! YES! Yes I'm free Friday night! AHHH!"
A slight tinge barely colored Sakaki's cheeks. Even if
Sakaki didn't like Kaorin--she preferred Kagura instead--
she still appreciated that attention. (Or at least she used
to appreciate that attention. But that comes later.)
"Actually, Kaorin, would you--lend me your notebook,
please?"
"Oh yes! Here you go, Sakaki-san!"
Sakaki accepted the notebook--why are there hearts doodled
all over it, Sakaki wondered--and walked back to her desk.
Sakaki sat down at her desk and laid the notebook on it.
"Let's see, what were we discussing in English class
yesterday..."
Sakaki casually flipped open the notebook to the first page
where a heart stared back at her.
KAORIN + SAKAKI-SAN FOREVER
"No surprise there," commented Sakaki. She idly flipped
through the pages, here and there noting Kaorin's tidy
writing, flipping forward to yesterday's date.
Until Sakaki noticed something--dated last week--occupying
a page to itself.
What Sakaki saw horrified her. But she knew it was no joke.
It was right there, in Kaorin's neat handwriting.
Sakaki glared at Kaorin. Kaorin's back was to Sakaki as she
chatted with Chihiro.
Sakaki was pissed. Oh, Kaorin had it coming this time!
Suddenly--Sakaki stood up from her desk, knocking her chair
backwards, and slammed her fist on the desk.
"KAAA-OOO-RIIINNN!"
The entire class froze. Sakaki never raised her voice.
Kaorin didn't even know who yelled her name until Chihiro
turned her stunned friend around.
Yomi dropped Tomo, who quickly picked herself up and hung
her arm around the taller girl's shoulder.
Osaka's latest comment about whether to use Pledge or
Swiffer on people's brain-dust was instantly forgotten.
Chiyo-chan dropped her pencil. It rolled off her desk and
clattered to the floor. Nobody, including her, bothered to
pick it up.
Sakaki's ample bust rose and fell, rose and fell, as she
took in big, angry breaths. Rose and fell...and for once
Kaorin didn't stare.
Kaorin turned white as she stood to face Sakaki, who now
wore an extremely pissed-off look never seen before.
"Sa-sa-sa-sa--"
Chihiro rolled her eyes. "I'll say it for her." In an
artificially high voice, Chihiro said, "Yes, Sakaki-saaan?"
"Hey, that's pretty good," muttered Tomo.
"Shut the hell up Tomo, now's not the time," muttered Yomi.
"Would you mind explaining something to me?" asked Sakaki,
her voice low and deadly serious. (I didn't even know
Sakaki's voice could DO that!)
Kaorin had no comment.
"Kaorin, you bitch, are you that fucking jealous? Or maybe
obsessive?" Sakaki asked, raising her voice a little. "I'm
talking about THIS!"
Sakaki turned the notebook around so Kaorin--and the rest
of the class--could see it. On the page was a crude drawing
of a girl who was obviously Sakaki. And pointing to
Sakaki's breasts was an arrow captioned "96cm!".
"You FUCKING STALKER!"
Sakaki's outburst shocked everyone. Kaorin was shaking like
popping popcorn.
Sakaki turned the notebook back to herself and turned the
page. Flipped through a couple more pages to see what else
there was.
"What...the HELL?"
Sakaki again turned the notebook around--angrily! Chihiro's
jaw dropped open.
"Kaorin-chan, so that's what you were hiding this morning,"
she observed. Even Chihiro was surprised. As Kaorin's best
friend, she was aware of Kaorin's crush on Sakaki--who
wasn't?--but even Chihiro thought this latest development
was taking that crush a bit too far.
It was a map! Leading directly from Kaorin's house to
Sakaki's house. Dated yesterday. Scribbled near Sakaki's
street was a note--"Sakaki-san eats dinner with me
tomorrow!"--encircled with a large heart. And a heart--
stretched to look like a speech-bubble--coming from
Sakaki's house: "Ka + Sa ITSUMO!"
"You possessive little BRAT!" Sakaki roared. "Who the hell
told you where I live? And this...'Sakaki-san eats dinner
with me tomorrow'?"
Sakaki strode around to the front of her desk. "When
exactly were you planning on telling me about this?"
Chihiro took it upon herself to face Sakaki's wrath. She
motioned with her hands--turn the page, turn the page!
Sakaki ripped the page out of the notebook and turned it
over, afraid of what she might find on the back.
"Ask Sakaki to have lunch with you under the tree in the
courtyard," Kaorin had written to herself in her tidy
handwriting. "She'll say yes because she's never refused
you before." Sakaki read the words aloud.
"Disgusting," Sakaki spat the word.
"Hasn't Kaorin figured out Sakaki says yes just to get her
to shut up?" Kagura thought. "Even I could see that."
"While you're eating lunch, try to talk to her," Sakaki
continued reading. "Get to know her--Sakaki-san's SOOOO
cool!"
Tomo stifled a laugh upon hearing Kaorin's catchphrase--
especially coming from Sakaki's angry lips.
"After lunch, ask her if she wants to eat dinner with you,"
Sakaki continued reading from the torn page. "And when she
says yes--"
Sakaki stopped reading and glared at Kaorin. "So what made
you think I'd automatically say yes?" Sakaki turned to
Chihiro. "Chihiro, I appreciate your help, but this is
REALLY not your problem!"
Chihiro took a hint and shut up.
"I can't read any more," Sakaki announced. She crumpled the
page up in one fist and aimed that fist at Kaorin.
"Wanna know what I think of your map? Here's what I think
of your fucking map!" Sakaki uncrumpled the paper, strode
to the open window--and ripped the paper to shreds!
The destroyed shreds floated down, down, out the window.
Sakaki turned from the window towards Kaorin. "If this
wasn't a third-floor window I'd throw you the fuck out of
it!" shouted Sakaki, now flushed beyond belief. Yet still
she managed to maintain her composure, as compared with
Kaorin, who had completely lost hers and turned into a
quaking bowl of Jell-O. Cherry flavored.
Without looking, Sakaki hurled the notebook out the window.
Time stood still in the seconds it took the notebook to
fall down, down, into the fountain below. The sound of the
splash rose up into the third-floor classroom window and
seemed to echo there.
"I'm disgusted," said Sakaki, just this side of raging.
Poor Sakaki was BOILING inside. Kaorin had been stalking
Sakaki for THREE YEARS? Why couldn't this whiny little turd
just take a hint and leave Sakaki alone?
"Kaorin." Sakaki stepped towards Kaorin, her voice purring
dangerously.
"Ka-o-rin." Sakaki stepped closer to Kaorin, in that same
sing-song tone.
"Kaorin!" Sakaki stopped just one desk's width away from
Kaorin. Sakaki is 174cm tall. So naturally she towered over
Kaorin, who was eye level with Sakaki's neck.
Chihiro respectfully backed off. As much as she liked
Kaorin (as a friend), Chihiro knew that Kaorin was finally
getting what was coming to her.
"I told Kaorin it was a bad idea to try to impress
Sakaki like this," Chihiro thought. Personally, Chihiro
thought Sakaki was cool, but that's as far as it went.
"S-s--Sakaki-sa-a-n?"
"When you were obsessing over me," Sakaki said, with that
dangerous I'm-gonna-choke-you-in-two-seconds gaze, "did you
ever consider MY feelings? For one second?"
No response. "Well? Did you?"
Still no response. "DID YOU?"
Kaorin's mouth gaped open like a fish. "I--I just--you're
so--"
"That's it!" Sakaki yelled. "I have HAD ENOUGH of this
shit!"
Sakaki pushed Kaorin backwards. Kaorin promptly crashed
into Chihiro's seat.
Chiyo-chan had had enough too. She jumped up from her seat
and ran towards Sakaki and Kaorin.
"Chiyo-chan, you're so brave," thought Osaka.
"Please--please don't fight, Sakaki!" Chiyo-chan pleaded.
Even in her angered state, Sakaki would NEVER hurt Chiyo-
chan. EVER. But Sakaki did glare at Chiyo-chan until poor
Chiyo-chan backed off.
Sakaki turned her attention back to Kaorin, who was reduced
to staring fearfully at Sakaki.
Sakaki laid her hands firmly on Kaorin's shoulders.
"Let me tell YOU something," announced Sakaki, struggling
to control herself.
Must...not...throttle...Kaorin...thelittlebitch...
"Of course you didn't think about my feelings," Sakaki went
on. "You know why?"
Kaorin shook her head, unable to escape Sakaki's powerful
grip.
"I'll tell you why," said Sakaki. "Because you don't KNOW
my feelings! You have NO idea what I'm really like, do you?
DO YOU?"
Kaorin shook her head. Couldn't argue with that logic!
"How do you think I feel? I just found out I've been
stalked for the past three years!"
Sakaki sighed.
"My breast size...a map to my house...I don't even want to
know what else was in that notebook."
And Chihiro didn't want to tell her.
Kaorin was getting desperate. She'd never been this close
to Sakaki for this long! One chance...one way to apologize.
Kaorin changed her eyes from fearful to loving. It was
difficult--considering her current situation--but she found
the courage to do it.
"Sakaki...I...love...you..." Kaorin said in English.
"Why's she using English all of a sudden?" thought Chiyo-
chan.
Sakaki's face went blank all of a sudden. She was surprised
not only by what Kaorin said, but the fact that she'd said
it in English. Was the use of English supposed to add an
'exotic' or 'romantic' air to Kaorin's simple statement?
"Well, two can play at that game," thought Sakaki, not
fazed in the least. Sakaki stared into Kaorin's eyes,
without much of an expression. Sakaki's usual "coolness"
was now back. Kaorin was making a BIG mistake now!
In very smooth Japanese: "If you want to use English..."
In equally smooth English: "There is a saying from Ireland.
'I hope that a cat eats you, and I hope that the devil eats
that cat!'"
Sakaki hated to invoke cats as curses, but she hoped Kaorin
understood enough of the message to know that Sakaki meant
business.
"Wow, Sakaki's English is pretty good," thought Chihiro,
who understood most of it, but had never heard of that
"Ireland" place.
"Wonder what Sakaki said just now?" thought Kagura. "All I
understood was 'cat'. Whatever, that was awesome! Check out
Kaorin's face!"
Kaorin looked confused.
"What I meant by that is," said Sakaki, and she translated.
"But--Sakaki-san--I...love you..." said Kaorin, now back to
Japanese.
She didn't "get the message" at all! "Kaorin, you fucker!"
Sakaki finally slapped Kaorin. Hard. "I don't fucking love
you back! Get that through your tiny little brain! I don't
love you! I will never love you! If I catch you near my
house--"--Sakaki didn't know, and didn't want to know,
whether Kaorin had memorized that map--"--I will seriously
call the police. Got that?"
Kaorin held her red-and-white cheek--Sakaki had actually
slapped her hard enough to draw blood!
Sakaki noticed two thin streaks of blood on her palm.
Kaorin burst into tears.
"Kami-sama, what have I DONE?" Sakaki dropped her blood-
stained palm to her side.
Sakaki ran from the room, long black hair streaming behind
her as she ran. Only Sakaki's friends noticed that Sakaki
was near tears.
Sakaki's friends took off running after her. Kagura--the
fastest--caught up to Sakaki first.
Kagura was there to catch Sakaki as she collapsed--from
shock or exhaustion, Kagura didn't know, and didn't care.
The others caught up to Sakaki and Kagura.
"Sakaki, are you all right?" Chiyo-chan asked.
"Damn Sakaki, that was awesome!" Tomo cheered. "It's about
TIME somebody taught Kaorin a lesson!"
"Tomo..." cautioned Yomi.
But Sakaki wasn't listening. She was passed out in Kagura's
arms.
"She don't look so hot," offered Osaka.
"Guys," Kagura said quietly, "not now, OK? She's had a
rough day."