(05/28/10)

Monday…

Things began to quiet down at Gekkoukan high, so we weren't exactly as excited as before…

It was third period, morning.

Minako and I were walking down the hallway, when Cato and his gang accosted us.

"Well, well… look what we have here, guys… a coven of vampires! One of em' is half zombie!" Cato said.

His lackeys laughed idiotically.

"Hey, maybe we can get the Volturi here! One of their guards are missing!" Hide said.

"Haha! Yeah, missing!" Hortez parroted.

"Missing huh?" Minako said sarcastically, "They should call the asylum… one of their patients are missing."

"Or, Minako is really hot and Minato needs to take a hike!" Quan said.

"Yeah! Take a hike!" Hortez said.

"A hike? Wow, nice hearing that from a fool!" Minako said.

"I think you two need to get out of our way." Cato said.

"Yeah! Out of our way!" Hortez echoed.

Cato annoyedly smacked Hortez.

"Shut it, Hortez."

"Why should we move? Your pops owns these hallways?" Minako said.

"Ohhh! Looks like someone needs to learn some respect!" Michonne said.

"Yeah! Learn some respect!" Yo said.

"A girl version of Hortez… interesting." Minako said.

Yo narrowed her eyes.

"What did you say?"

"A dumb AND DEAF girl version of Hortez!" Minako said.

"You want a piece of me?!" Yo taunted.

"Nah, I want the whole damn thing!" Minako said, provoking Yo.

Yo advanced and the boys surrounded us.

A fight seemed inevitable, but then a teacher intervened.

"Alright, break it up, break it up!" Ms. Toriumi said.

Yo dusted herself off.

"Yes, Ms. Toriumi!" she said as she and her posse left.

After they left…

"I swear… Ekoda's got to keep control of those animals…" Minako muttered.

"He doesn't care at all… the guy's an asshole." Ms. Toriumi said.

"Tell me about it! He's our next class…" I said.

"Oh shit!" Minako said.

"Go! Before you get late and Ekoda chews my ass out…"

We run to class, barely getting by roll call…

"Ah, it seems our prodigal Arisato's are here at last! Too busy bullying students?" Ekoda said.

"We aren't…"

"Just go to your seats before I write you up!" Ekoda barks.

As we went to our seats, Minako kept muttering curses and death threats to Ekoda.

He kept making pot shots at us, but we ignored them and pretended to write.

I made scribbles, but when I looked at Minako's paper, she made a really good, realistic drawing of Ekoda being hung by a KKK member, while she shot arrows into him.

She has a future in art…

After that, we had lunch with Rio and Kenji, where she continually mocked Ekoda, his teaching style and his mother.

"…And after I kill him, I'd use recarm to bring him back and kill him some more! He'll never expect that!" Minako said as she stabbed her pork and shoveled it in her mouth.

"You are full of surprises… played Devil Summoner lately?" I asked.

"Yes!" she said with crazed eyes.

"I liked using Gdon, Raiho, Nebiros and Cu Chulainn…" Kenji said.

"Well, Binbou-Gami, Pale rider and Atavaka are my all time favorites…" Rio shared.

"How do you even get fiend types?" Kenji asked.

"Easy. On a new moon or full moon, fuse demons seven times or any number divisible by seven and be sure to bring luck locusts…" Rio said.

"Every time I do that, I get a lousy zombie…" Kenji said.

"Devil summoners are great, aren't they?" Rio said.

"And I think they are the ancestors of…"

I cut her off, "We'd better hurry… let's go to the lockers!" I said.

"Sure." Rio said.

"Come on!" Minako said.

"Sure! To the lockers! Wait, I don't HAVE a locker! It was destroyed last week!" Kenji said sarcastically.

"Hey, haven't you changed lockers?" Rio said.

"Yeah, next to Minato's… hopefully, he'd hit his by accident…" Kenji said.

We laughed at him as we went to the lockers.

Minako struggled with her books as it fell on the floor.

Cato and his gang passed us by.

"Hey vampire! You dropped your books!" Quan said.

"Isn't it obvious?" Rio said.

"The books must've looked at your face!" Quan said.

They laughed and walked along.

"Ugh! Total cockroaches!" I said as I helped Minako carry her stuff.

Minako suddenly snickered.

"You know the funny thing? Guys like Quan Lao secretly want me. Bullies like him always want freaky girls… Girls who wear… horn rimmed glasses or Cuban shoes and wear emo makeup… girls who play the flute and wear Vans and want to be librarians someday… yeah, guys like him eat that shit up!" Minako said as Quan looked back at her with mixed feelings.

"Oh really?" I said.

"Yeah, but he just won't admit it because he's suppose to be into girls like Pink or Michonne… who, incidentally, like him." She said.

"First of all, you're not freaky." I said, "Second, Quan DOES not like you! lastly,what the hell is a Cuban shoe?"

Minako smiled mischievously.

"Minato Arisato, are you jealous?"

Fortunately, Yukari passed by with Fuuka.

She gave a silent snort and regarded me coldly.

"Hey." I said.

She smiled warmly.

Then, with a final look of hatred to Minako, she left.

Minako shook her head.

"Wonder what's up HER ass?" Minako said.

"Beats me." I said, "She's as moody as the sea…"

We went to history class, where Ekoda filled in.

"Ugh! Two in one! Bullshit!" Minako said as she saw Ekoda.

"I beg your pardon?!"

"N-Nothing sir!" I said.

"Your impertinence insults me! Try following Cato's example!" he said.

After another round of Ekoda, we went to the lockers, where Minako found a note.

She read it with increasing agitation.

I took it and read it.

do you like me?

[] yes

[]YESS

[]All of the above

I really like you, Minako!

Luv,

-Quan

She crumpled it and walked furiously, looking for Quan.

She found him at the cafeteria.

"What the hell's this, eh?!" she screamed.

Quan put his hands up.

"Uh… a declaration of my love?" he said.

"You ass! I'd rather eat shit!" she hissed as she crumpled the paper and threw it in Quan's face.

Quan held her by her arms.

"Listen! I really, really like you." Quan said.

"Let go of her!" I yelled.

"Ohhh! You love Minako too?" Quan said.

"Don't mess with my friend!" Minako snarled.

Minako freed herself and launched a skull crushing punch that left Quan on the floor.

"Hmph!" she said as she left.

When Quan recovered, Minako threw a bowl of pudding and it hit Cato.

"Why you-" Cato was about to punch Minako, but I, for some reason, used my face as a shield.

The punch felt weak, considering that I've faced shadows worse than Cato, but it still hurt.

I knocked him down and left hurriedly with Minako.

I went to the safety of my locker, when suddenly, I sensed something behind me.

Bang!

A locker was destroyed by Cato's fist.

"My new locker!" Kenji shouted.

A crowd gathered as Cato made a ridiculous Muhammad Ali stance.

"Bet you think you're funny, eh Cullen?"

"Cullen?" I said before dodging a punch.

"Cato, stop, that was an accident!" Pink shouted.

"My fist busting his face, that's the accident." Cato growled.

"Come on, Cato, just stop!" Pink pleaded.

"I don't want to fight you, Cato."

"Yeah, good choice; I wouldn't fight myself neither!" he said before launching a punch, which I easily dodged.

He kept on punching and punching, before Hortez went behind me and tried a back attack.

"Help him, Kenji!" Rio said.

I dodged Hortez and he was knocked unconscious by Cato's fist.

"Which one?" Kenji said.

I dodged more and more of Cato's punches, until he became bullish and made his punches sloppier.

I finally got tired and curled my fist and just rammed it into his stomach.

He was pushed a few feet and landed on someone's foot, and that someone's food tray hit Cato's head.

Everyone cheered, until they saw Mr. Ekoda seething as he looked at his lunch on the floor.

"Everyone clear off this instant or I'll give you all a month's worth of homework to be passed tomorrow!"

As fast as you can say Thunder, they all left like sewer rats.

Then, Ekoda focused on me.

"Minato! This tomfoolery ends today! I want your parents here this afternoon!" Ekoda yells.

"But Mr. Ekoda-" I tried explaining.

"No exceptions!" he said as he helped Cato up, "If your parents don't show up, there will be hell to pay, son!"

Cato made the I-see-you gesture and left with Ekoda.

I shook my head.

"Those guys are class A assholes…" Minako mutters, "Thanks for helping me out, bestie." She said.

"What are friends for?" I said.

Later that afternoon, I called Leah.

"Hello? Arisato, Iori, Otsuji and Sanada residence, this is Leah Otsuji speaking, who the heck is this?" Leah said.

"Leah, its Minato, listen, I need you to come over to school and pretend to be my mom…" I said.

"Ohhh! For Drama class? Oh how I've always wanted to be an actress!"

"No, I'm in big trouble- sort of, and I need you to pretend to be my mom!" I said.

"Ah, you can't beat the classics! Can I bring you a 'Dad'?" she said.

I contemplated it.

"Yeah, fine, but make it fast!" I said.

"Wizard." She said as she hung up.

I waited with Minako, Rio and Kenji at the school gates.

I saw Leah with a man with a brown bushy beard.

Leah had a soccer ball in her stomach, making me think she was pregnant…

The man seemed rather dignified.

He had silver hair up top…

"Hello 'son'! Meet your father!" she said.

I looked at him closer and he took off his fake beard, revealing a bald face.

"I almost didn't recognize you!" I said.

"Let's just get this over with…" he groaned.

We went to Ekoda's office.

"Thank you both for coming! Mr. and Mrs…?"

"Arisato! Pato Arisato, this is my wife, Chisato."

"Chisato Arisato, pleased to meet you." Leah said.

"Mr. and Mrs. Arisato… your son has been disrupting classes, making a ruckus at campus and roughed up my star pupils."

Leah made an overreacted gesture, "My goodness! That doesn't sound like our Minato!"

"That's what any mother would say, but you have been warned. If he keeps this up, he will be disciplined."

"Ohhhwww?" Leah said.

"What do you mean by 'discipline'?"

"By which, I mean Juvenile Detention. Am I clear?"

"Don't worry, I'll fix this boy up, something fierce! Youngmanassoonaswegohomeyou'regonnagetthepunishmentofali fetime!"

Ekoda nodded.

"That's what I wanted to hear. Good day."

As we went out, we saw Ms. Toriumi talking with Rio, Minako and Kenji.

"Hello- Akihiko?" Ms. Toriumi said.

"Man! Looking macho dude!" Kenji said.

"Why didn't Ekoda notice?" Minako said.

"He's as thick as an iceberg…" Rio said.

"And apparently a sexual predator... into bishounen boys like Minato..." Leah said.

"Well, you have nothing to worry about… Ekoda won't notice… he barely reads the student reports…" Ms. Toriumi said.

"I'm Leah, Minato's surrogate mother."

"Hello! I'm Isako Toriumi, but call me... Maya." She said as she gave me a sidelong look.

"Maya." Leah said.

The lot of us went home, while Leah and Ms. Toriumi went shopping.

Minako went home after we picked up a box of Froot Loops, which are also my favorite.

As I went to my room, Minako ate as she wrote:

Minako: THANKS BUD!

Minato (me): SHURE. NP

She smiled.

She wrote something, then pursed her lips and tore the paper, folded it and wrote something else.

Minako: ARE YOU IN LUV WITH DRAGON LADY?

Minato (me): NOT REALLY.

Minako: DO YOU NEED HELP?

Minato (me):OKAY.

Minako: FOR ONLY THREE BOXES OF FROOT LOOPS.

I rolled my eyes.

Minato (me): NO PROBLEM

She smiled.

Minako: I PUNCHED A BULLY TODAY!

Minato (me): BADASS...

Minako: THANKS BESTIE, ILL SEE U TOMORROE

Minato (me):OKAY PLEASANT DREAMS, MINH

She made a poker face:

Minako: AM NOT VIETNAMESE BUB -_-

Minato (me): SORRY!

She smiled.

Minako: GOODNIGHT. HOPE 2 SEE YOU AGAIN. BLECH IM SO GAY TODAY!

Minato (me): BYE!

With that, she turned off her lights.

We went to sleep, eagerly awaiting tomorrow.

A/N: Done!

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