The next morning Tsuki was woken up early by her alarm clock screaming at her. She groans and reaches over to shut it off, accidentally knocking the alarm clock off the dresser onto the floor. "Oops..." The teen yawns, getting up and gets dressed quickly. She grabs her bag and goes downstairs, feeding the dog before leaving the house without grabbing any food for herself. "Ugh it is way to early..."
Yoru on the other hand didn't have such a uneventful time getting woken up. His older sister, Eru having come to wake him up. "Wake up yoru! You have an early detention today!" Said third year shot a glare at his sister in the doorway before getting up and getting dressed. He walks downstairs past his sisters, grabbing his lunch off the counter, shoving it into his bag and grabbing two slices of buttered toast for breakfast.
"I'm off!" Yoru walked out of the door and onto the street, slightly grateful for the jacket he wore since it was freezing outside. "Yo! Tsuki!" He saw her walking down the street a little ways away, but she didn't respond. Tsuki didn't see or hear the older student, she was walking on the other side of the street. Her iPod headphones in her ears, her hands stuffed in her sweatshirt pockets, and the hood pulled up to keep her ears warm.
He grumbles a bit realizing she can't hear him before sprinting after her, catching up and clapping his hand onto tsuki's shoulder causing her to yelp and spin around. "Yo!"
Tsuki sighs in relief when she sees yoru. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!" She reaches up and takes her headphones out of her ears, he was laughing and holding his stomach.
"Sorry! You didn't hear me the first time!" He kept laughing as the younger girl pouts.
"I was listening to music on my iPod" She sticks her tongue out at him. "You get morning detention too?"
Yoru laughs and crosses his arms behind his head. "Yea...for what happened yesterday. You?"
Tsuki rolls her eyes as she replies to him. "Refusal to comply with school dress code."
The third year makes a noise of understanding. "Ah! Yea, i feel your pain. The teachers gave up on that with me a few years ago!" He laughs and pushes his hair back to show to gold piercings in the cartilage of one ear before letting the fringe fall back down over his ear again. "According to them I'm a lost cause now" He shrugs and shoves his hands into his pockets.
Tsuki smiles and chuckles. "Sweet piercings!" She looks around as they walk for a moment before speaking again. "I have a few myself. I have three in my right ear, three in the lobe of my left ear and one in the cartilage. I also have my tongue pierced!" Tsuki doesn't show yoru her ears but she does stick out her tongue to show the flat, silver rose stud in it. "They are still trying with me"
"I guess they are still trying with you cause you got more of 'em" He laughs. "They're all so stubborn" Yoru walks into the detention room together with the lower class man. They sit together in the front row, the boys from the day before were sitting together in the back row of the classroom. He scowls and rests his head on the desk, looking over at tsuki who had passed a note to him without the teacher noticing.
The note read. 'You wanna have lunch with me and rhythm today?' Yoru read the note and was a bit apprehensive at the mention of rhythm but he nodded anyway, making tsuki smile. The three boys in the back of the room get up and make their way over right after the teacher leaves the room.
"Hey cat-boy, how ya doin'? You know its cause of you that we are in 'ere again today" At first yoru glared up at the bleach-blond boy then the glare turned into a cat like smirk as the other grabs his shirt and yanks him up by it.
"There's nothing you can do to me" The aggressive third year looks offended and grits his teeth before glancing at tsuki.
"Well wha' about your girl then?" As if on cue the other two boys grab tsukis shoulders and yank her back against her chair, causing her hood to fall back off her head.
"Only cowards would gang up on a single person in a pack like this" She stares at the boy in front of yoru, she was surprisingly, extremely calm to the point of being creepy. "If you need lackeys just for something like this that just means you know he would kick your ass in a one-on-one fight." That statement made yoru grin.
"She has a point." Now the other was furious.
"Who do you think you are talkin' to me like that you little bitch!?" The insult earns a glare from yoru who kicks the offending boy under the table, causing him to let go of yorus shirt. The three back off just as the teacher re-enters the room, they get told off for being out of their seat. Yoru snickered at the fact they got in trouble but he tried hard to hold it in.
Tsuki started laughing as soon as they were out of detention. "That was too perfect!"
"No kidding!" Yoru was laughing and smiling as well. "Oh~ that was absolutely priceless!" He then mentally kicks himself. "By the way! You were really cool in there!"
"R-really?" She looked surprised.
Yoru laughs. "Yea! Really." He flashed her a cheeky grin.
She turns a bit pink and she smiles. "Thanks Yoru" Tsuki starts to walk with him, when she looked in her bag she realized she left the notebook she needed for her next class in the pool area that connected to the gym. "I'll be right back ok? I left the notebook I need for my next class in my gym locker by the pool, meet me in the cafeteria ok?"
He nods. "Sure no problem!" He starts to walk down the hall after she left, after a few minutes he sees the three boys from detention walking in the direction of the gym. At first he thought nothing of it but then he remembers tsuki went to the pool to grab her notebook. He pauses then turns on his heel and takes off down the hall, getting more irritated and impatient by the second as he is stopped by fawning girls and teachers.
Down in the pool area tsuki was during to leave, about to put her notebook into her bag but she smacks right into the three bullies.
"Well, well, well...look who we found." The leader of the trio smirked.
Tsuki tried to walk past them. "Go away, I'm busy." Suddenly she is grabbed and lifted off the ground. One of the boys had grabbed her arms, the other her ankles and they had picked her up. "Hey! Put me down!"
"How about you go for a swim girlie?" The third year smirks. "Should make us even for the trouble you caused us this morning"
Tsuki was really scared now, she cant swim. "Stop! Stop it! Let me go!"
"Awww shes scared that's so cute!" The boy holding her arms had spoken up.
"Let me go!" She struggled in their hold, desperate to get away from the waters edge.
"Alright, you heard her boys~! Let her go!" With that the two holding her grin and throw the first year into the deepest end of the freezing cold pool.
"Ah! Hel-!" She tries to yell for help but ends up swallowing water, coughing and choking. She cant reach the side of the pool and she doesn't have the strength to keep her head above the water since it was so cold. Tsuki sank below the surface, feeling lightheaded and starting to lose consciousness as her vision blurs.
"OI!" The three bullies turn and see a absolutely livid yoru in the doorway. Yoru sees tsuki in the pool, his golden eyes widen and he immediately shoves the boys out of the way. "Tsuki!" He throws off his heavy jacket before diving into the water. He wraps one arm around her waist and pulls her out of the pool, getting her onto the cement before getting out himself. Once he heard her gasp and cough, confirmation she was alive and breathing he looked up with a furious gaze. "Oi." He straighten up and sauntered over to the three boys frozen in the doorway. Yoru delivered a round-house kick to one and jams his knee into the other side before pinning the leader against the wall with his forearm against the blonds throat. "Why did you do that!? Well!?" He shouts into the already scared boys face
"Like you would understand cat-boy." He smirks, trying to look tough despite being obviously scared. "Revenge. That bi-" He coughed as yorus arm presses harder against his throat.
"You almost killed her! Why didn't you help her when you realized she couldn't swim!?"
"W-well-"
"You don't have a reason do you!?" Yoru threw him down, ready to beat the living day lights out of him but he stopped right before his heavy combat boot reached the offending boy's gut. He stepped back and looked down, his bangs throwing his eyes into shadow. "Get out! Now!" The three boys didn't need to be told twice, they ran as fast as they could away from yoru who swayed then collapsed onto a bench, weak and shivering.
Tsuki hadn't gotten up yet, it felt like her lungs were still on fire. She was soaked to the skin and trembling as she looked up. "Y-yoru?"
He immediately looked up. "tsuki are you alright?"
She nods and slowly gets up, still shivering. "I-i think so..." She was shaking from the cold and the after shock of the fear, she had been so terrified that she was going to die. Tsuki walks over to where yoru was before sitting beside him. "Th-thank you so much...I would've drowned if you hadn't come when you did..."
Yorus eyes widen a bit and his mouth went a bit dry, he didn't know how to react. He saw his jacket, still dry, a little ways away where he had thrown it off. After going and grabbing it he went back over to the bench and draped it around tsukis shoulders even though he was shivering from the cold himself. Yoru leaned against her and rested his head on her shoulder. Thankfully the school had turned the heat on since it had been so cold lately, so yoru and tsuki were still drenched but they were at least warm. Yoru was exhausted despite it still being so early in the day. "I'm glad I got here in time then...I wouldn't have ever forgiven myself if i didn't" He closed his eyes as tsuki looked at him, surprised at the seniors answer. It really wasn't what she expected to hear.