Chapter 2:
Wan woke up as the alarm beeped loudly in his ear. He reached out and pounded on it with his fist. He glanced out of the window and noticed that it was dawn, why the hell had he woken up so early? He remembered he was starting school today…and wished he'd taken Shuichi's advice and joined next week. He stretched and winced as his back protested. He'd bruised it when the guy had slammed him into the tree yesterday. He quickly brushed his teeth and showered. Why did people have to wake up early for school? It was not fair! He slipped into his uniform…it was an unusual one at that. Neat tailored black slacks, deep wine red-maroon shirt and a black tie. The colour combination was very different from the usual white and something stuff.
When he stepped out Eiri had already made breakfast…his favorite sausages and scrambled eggs. He gulped it down and smiled at Eiri fondly. The man had never asked him to call him dad as well, whatever his relationship with Shuichi was. Wan had taken to calling him by his first name Eiri and that was that, though they did have a pretty good father-son relationship. Eiri set down a glass of chocolate milk in front of him and went to work on his laptop on the other side of the table.
Shuichi on the other hand woke up with a loud scream about being late and not seeing Wan off on the first day of school. He barreled out of the room and glomped Wan as the boy was pulling on his sneakers. "Wan! I'm sorry I wasn't awake early! Have fun at school, come straight back home today, and we'll have an ice-cream or something ok?"
Wan grinned and nodded, before hugging his dad. Then he turned to Eiri who was nonchalantly typing on his laptop and surprised him with a hug. Eiri looked at him startled, Wan had outgrown the hugging days long back. Then he smiled at the kid. "Don't go chasing after all the beautiful girls and boys the moment you set foot at school!"
"Why not?" Wan gave a frown. "Don't worry I'm sure there'll be plenty to do today what with me joining in the middle and all. He left.
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Wan had decided to walk to school today. He was trying to convince Eiri to let him buy a motorbike. He heard a shout behind him and Hikari came running up. He sighed and waited for her to catch up. He blushed as he noticed that she had really nice legs. She didn't seem to be paying attention to what he was doing. Then she grabbed his arm. "Wan…there's Ralph! He's been dying to meet you!" Wan looked up and saw his red headed friend grinning at him.
He ran up to him and hugged him. "Ralph! God I never thought we'd meet! How long has it been two years? I'm pissed at you man you haven't kept in touch since that last visit you made to India!"
Ralph shrugged apologetically. "I've been really busy! And what do you call those e-mails sent you man! You never replied to any of them! The only time you replied was to inform me that you were dating that beautiful girl, Asha who was two years older than you. Did that go anywhere?"
Wan smiled. "Um…we'll talk about it later, I can't tell you in front of the ladies, man!" Hikari scowled at him. They continued to walk down to school. They were joined by two more students, Ralph's girlfriend Tomoyo and her brother Haru. They looked almost exactly alike with purple hair and black mischievous eyes.
Wan walked on feeling really happy…it was nice to have friends on your first day of school.
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Wan dumped his books into the locker he'd been assigned, listening to Ralph pointing out various people and which clique they belonged to. He finished and turned to follow Ralph who was walking away when he bumped into someone heading for the locker next to his. He looked up and found steel gray. He caught is breath in surprise…it was the same boy he'd fought yesterday.
The boy looked at him sullenly, before pushing him out of the way and opening his locker. Wan walked up to Ralph, looking back at the boy, who seemed to be observing him. "Hey, Ralph…who's that guy?" Ralph looked up and grimaced slightly.
"His name's Kitazawa Shima. He's a loner, doesn't let anybody hang with him or talk to him. He keeps himself to himself, but he's also a really good sportsman. He plays basket ball, soccer and rugby. But man you've got to be careful, he plays like a maniac, he knocked me unconscious once!"
Wan nodded. He wondered why a boy like that would try to steal stuff. He followed Ralph to a table and wondered why everyone was staring at him. Then he realized that Ralph and Hikari were supposed to be part of the 'popular' crowd. He didn't like the envious looks he was getting; the division here between people seemed more than in his last school. But one pair of eyes weren't looking at him with envy; they were sizing him up at the same time they were slightly threatening. Wan gulped, but he couldn't take his eyes off Kitazawa.
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Kitazawa Shima watched the new kid carefully. He was supposed to be the son of Shindou Shuichi, the great singer of Bad Luck and to some extent the son of Yuki Eiri…if the rumours were true. Yuki Eiri…another person who'd known his grandfather. Shima bit his lip, he somehow needed to meet this Yuki Eiri, and then he could get clues to his questions. Questions like who had killed his grandfather, Kitazawa Yuki? Why it had been hushed up? It was because his grandfather had died, that Shima lived the way he did now.
His grandfather had been killed when Shima's father was eight. It had affected his father and grandmother a lot. His father kept looking for the killer, sparing no time for him or his mother. And then the accident had come…he had been orphaned and left with his grandmother. She'd lost it a little when his grandfather had died; his father's death had been the last straw. Instead of her taking care of him, he'd been forced to outgrow his childhood and take care of her. When she died last year he'd taken what money he could find and moved to a small apartment down town. A small job gave him the money to keep the apartment. He was getting through school on scholarship, because of his excellence in games. He sighed maybe this Shindou Wan was worthy of his attentions.
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Wan yanked on shorts and a T-shirt. It was gym period and he was looking forward to playing basket ball with Ralph. He used to be on the team in his last school. They lined up in the gym and the coach chose two captains…Ralph Everett and Kitazawa Shima. Wan was in Ralph's team.
The game went on pretty smoothly. Wan agreed with Ralph that Shima was a good sportsman. He caught the ball and started racing towards the hoop, dribbling it. He suddenly found Shima in his way. The gray eyes looked deadly now, somewhere he could here Ralph yelling for him to pass the ball, but all of a sudden he had this urge to make the basket himself. He smirked slightly, keeping eye contact with Shima. He made a sudden movement to the left, smoothly changing direction to the right and dribbling past Shima. The basket was right there. Wan jumped up, just as Shima threw himself at Wan with a curse. Wan dunked the ball in before toppling backward on to the floor with Shima on top of him.
For a moment….or a few years, it seemed like the world had stopped. Wan couldn't break away from that furious gaze. He could feel all the parts Shima was touching begin tingle. He realized someone was pulling Shima off him. He sat up, exhaling slowly; he'd been holding his breath. Ralph helped him up as the coach started yelling at Shima.
"What the hell were you doing Kitazawa? That was a foul; you know you can't throw yourself on top of a person to stop them! Ok, fifty push ups. Go!" the coach turned to Wan as Shima dropped to the floor. "You ok, young man? That was quite a hard fall!"
Wan nodded. He let Ralph lead him off the court barely listening to his friend's indignant lecture about 'that fucking bastard Shima'. Wan nodded in all the right places, which seemed to keep Ralph happy. Then Ralph left because he had another class. Wan checked his time table…ok he had a free. That was good. He looked up as Shima entered the now empty locker room. If looks could kill, Wan would have been ash. He walked up to the other boy and stuck out his hand. "I'm sorry about that. Friends?"
Shima swatted his hand away. "This is just the beginning. You're not going to get away that easily next time." He walked away leaving Wan staring at him.
The boy must be a bloody psychopath! Wan shrugged and left. Fine, so he'd made an enemy on his first day. An enemy who I have a lot of chemistry with… he shoved that thought to the back of his brain. It wasn't that he didn't like guys, but he barely knew Shima. Plus the guy was insane.
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Shima replayed the scene with Wan under him wide eyed, panting softly. Fucking bastard! No one ever got past Shima…stupid prick waltzing in with the stuck up crowd and then trying to be all friendly. He was so goddamn noble…even yesterday when he'd asked Shima to leave. Shima shook his head, he was thinking of this new kid too much. This wasn't the way to go about it. He just had to show that kid who was boss on the playing field and that was that!
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A/N: Yuki Shuichi lovers, I'm sorry there wasn't too much of them in this. I just needed to bring out Shima's past and Wan's day at school a little bit in detail. Hope you don't mind.
Taka
