April 25, 2011

Forecast… Cloudy

"Morning Yu," I was able to catch up to our almost silent hero. Let's face it, if he was truly silent he would never say a thing. "Looks like it's gonna rain soon, at least… that's what the weather forecast said."

"Good thing we saved Yukiko then, right?" Yu smiled as we continued to go to school. "Hey, did you hear about the cultural clubs?"

"Cultural clubs?" I just raised an eyebrow at the man, yeah, he's insane. "What the hell are those?"

"Really?" Yu gave me the look like I was insane… Did it really take him this long to figure it out? Well, whatever. "I thought you would have liked those."

"I don't do clubs," I rubbed the back of my neck. "I mean, it's not like I don't like people, it's just… I don't know, I just don't like the idea about them. Unless if you count the investigation team a club."

"Really…" Yu just shrugged, that's when he gave me a horrible thing to think about. "You midterms are coming up soon?"

"MIDTERMS!?" I stopped walking, he was shitting me right! I that's what finals were! Not a test half way through each half of the year! "What the HELL!?"

Yu started laughing at me and still walking. He was actually getting a kick out of this!? Asshole. "IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

"It is to me!"

School Gates

"Morning." Me and Yu both turned around to see Chie running up to us. I smiled as she came to a stop next to us. "Hey, you guys been checking the weather reports? It's not gonna be good by the end of the week!"

Yu and me both had the same thought at the same time. "Good thing we got Yukiko out."

Chie shook her head for a moment, me and Yu said it at the same time. We kinda sounded like a broken record at that moment. "Yo!"

Yosuke was the next one to show up. He, unfortantely, had a different topic he wanted to talk about. "Sup dude?"

"You," Yosuke pointed at me for a moment with a big ass smile on his face. "Yesterday, when you were singing in Junes-"

"You sang in the middle of a mall?" Yu raised an eyebrow at me.

"I was excited…"

"Anyway!" Yosuke tried to get us back on track. "People have been sending the video around, and my parents saw it. I think they want you try and promote Ju-"

"No." I turned and walked towards the school just as the bell began to ring.

"That was way too fast of an answer…" Yu shook his head as everyone ran to catch to me.

Time Change: Early Morning to Morning

"Good morning!" This was a surprise for once in our lives, here in Inaba. The P.E. teacher was actually teaching a P.E. CLASS! I thought the world was gonna end. "Today, I'll have you run so much, you'll have sore muscles!"

Everyone groaned as I facepalmed, I was gonna train with Chie today after school again. I really didn't need to be sore before I got sore from fight… That sounds wrong…. "Hahaha!" Mr. Kondo… yep I thought he was an asshole that day! "Don't look so sad! Everything requires muscles, after all! Why am I going to make you run until you're sore?" Because you hate us? "Because that's how your muscles grow efficiently!" Bull… "Hey, Kreed! Answer this one: what's it called when you gain more muscle after getting sore through exercise?"

What kinda question was that!? There was no logical way to answer it! So what do you do in a situation like this… ya wing it! "Over… um, overcompensation…? I think…" What!? It was the first thing that came to my mind!

"You must be working out, Kreed!" I gave a look that should have said that he was a freaking psychopath! "That's right!" My jaw dropped, so did Yosuke's, who was standing next to me. "It's called overcompensation! If you rest for a couple of days after getting muscle soreness, you'll have more muscle than you started with!" I didn't hear the rest of the lesson, I was guessing at the random crap the teachers threw my way… and was getting all of it right! What. The. Fuck!

Time Change: Morning to After School

"GAH!" I landed flat as Chie kicked me in my stomach. We were training, yet Kondo had still made us run, so I could barely move as Chie's kicks kept knocking me down. "I-I think that's enough trying for one day… Plaese!?"

Chie laughed a little, she knew I was sore. Yet, she wanted to train just a little bit today, mainly using it as revenge for the yesterday… I mean, I did kinda embarrass her… Still, that didn't mean she had to make me lose my ability to live! "Alright… I think you suffered enough for one day."

"THANK YOU GOD!" I cried out as I fell backwards to lie on the ground. Until I tried to get up… "Um… Chie…"

"Yeah?"

"Can you help me get up…?" I tried to look at her, but I really couldn't move, that much. "Please? Chie!?"

Chie kinda laughed at me as she walked over and helped me up. After a moment of pulling and me hitting my head back on the ground, which hurt like a bitch mind you. "That is one reason why I trust my life with you… Except when you smashed my head on the ground."

"W-well that was your fault!" Chie started to blush, it wasn't really that weird, except, her blush was a bright pink… Not red… why, I really couldn't tell. I just shrugged and smiled. "C'mon… I-I wanna go eat somewhere… I heard of a place from Yosuke."

"Sure," I smiled as I started to walk away, then I stopped and turned back to Chie. "Um…"

"What is it?" Chie just stood there and looked at me for a moment. I closed one eye and rubbed the back of my head in embaressment.

"I have no freaking clue where this place is," I kinda looked up at the sky at that moment. "Soooo…"

"Need me to lead?"

"Yes!"

Shopping District

"REALLY!?" I was freaking shocked, and I felt like an idiot for never noticing the food joint in question. "It's right next to AIYA'S!"

"Yeah," Chie smiled as her mouth started to water a bit. "Have you had the steak skewers? The meat is tender and delicious, and they hardly cost anything!"

"I thought you heard about this place because of Yosuke?" It was an honest question, yet again, the pinkish blush returned to her face. Was she sick… meh, it was possibility, after all, colds usually don't disappear after a day… usually.

"I did," Chie quickly went back into "food" mode and the blush vanished. "I just tried it recently… Wait… it might not even be cow meat."

"That is a disturbing thought…" I shuddered for a moment, thinking about trying something that might not be actual steak. What else could it be though, fish, chicken… lamb!? Well, I doubted that, the store would have closed if that was true. At least I hoped… "I think I just lost my appetite…"

"Just kidding…" Chie chuckled nervously at her "joke." "Whoa… thinking about it, that's kinda gross, haha…"

"Not helping…" I pinched the bridge of my noise, just below my glasses. Why below? Because I can! Anyway, back on track here… at that moment, a cop walked over to the store and just looked around, it seemed like he was looking for something or someone. Who really knew, still Chie completely took it the wrong way.

"The police are here…" She really didn't think about it until she looked back at me, at that point… she started to freak out about the perfect steak skewers. "Th-then is this place is really serving fake meat…?"

"I highly doubt it…" Still gross though. The cop turned to use, it didn't really seem like it was us he was interested in… unless Yosuke brought weapons to Junes again… I really wouldn't hold it past him, idiot… Why would you take any weapon into a department store in the first place!? S-sorry, back on track again!

"Excuse me." The cop seemed calm enough, so whatever he was doing it wasn't that urgent… well, when you had a serial murder in your town, not a lot of other things take importance over that… if you're a cop that is…

"Y-yes?" Chie almost busted out into a cold sweat… I almost smacked myself when the next words left her mouth… "I haven't eaten any of the meat today, I swear!"

I just shook my head as the cop gave her a look that screamed he thought she was crazy… apparently… when it came to her meat, she was…

Yet the cop just kept going through with his job, like nothing had really just happened… good on him… I hope. "Lately, there's been several incidents with a group of teenagers bullying people around here."

The word itself seemed to take Chie's interest away from her meat, and into what the cop was trying to do. I knew what he was doing… he was trying to either get us to slip up and give him information to tell him it was us, and if it wasn't us, make us call the cops when we see it. Still, it grabbed Chie's attention. "Bullying?"

"Extortion, if you will." I shook my head, I swore if I ever cot the assholes doing this… they wouldn't walk away unscratched! "Have you seen anyone suspicious?"

"N-no," Way to prove your inacense Chie! Yet the cop didn't seem to think Chie was capable of doing it, if it was because she was a girl, he had anything coming… she could probably kick the snot out of the current UFC camp. Yet, it was probably because seemed clueless about the matter. "No one in particular…"

"You're the first person we had seen since we got out of school officer." It was the truth though, and luckily the cop did believe us. He just nodded at us.

"Hmmm, I see… Well, you two be careful then." With that the cop turned away from the shop and walked towards the South end of the shopping district. I was pissed to say the least, there was no way in hell I was gonna let anyone get away with that. Chie was looking at the ground, as I checked for an item in my bag. I nodded knowing it was there. Chie turned back to me at that moment.

"I'm glad it wasn't the meat…" I finally facepalmed.

"What made you think it was the meat in the first place!?" Chie kicked me in the shine after that comment; her cheeks were red with embarrassment at that moment.

"But still, bullying!?" Chie was no red with rage at the people doing the bullying, just like me. "What cowards, ganging up on the weak like that!"

"Almost everyone who's 'popular' do that!" I rubbed the back of my head. I was ready to go hunt the bastards down myself. "I'm not gonna let anyone get away with this!"

"I agree!" It was weird how I found out that we had something in common, only because we wanted to kick the shit out of some coward bullies. "It's so cruel! And stupid! We'll grab'em and make them apologize! Right, Kreed?"

"I had another thing in mind," I shrugged at that moment, I was showing a very violent side of me at that moment. "But sure that works…"

Chie looked shocked, but that quickly turned into a smile. "I knew you would say that… Mowing down villains and saving the weak, a lone female fighter stands…" I raised an eyebrow at her, then smiled brightly.

"With her partner!" Chie nodded as I played along with her.

"To protect the town's peace," She walked off to the billboard that hid the food joint, we were supposed to be eating at… and did an epic pose, and it worked… kinda… "She throws herself into the battlefield, unbeknownst to all…!"

"I think we have a new hero everybody!" I smiled as Chie finished her little speech and the ruined it just as fast…

"Ooh, yeah! That sounds cool!" Chie was practically beaming at that moment. It made me smile to see her that happy. I don't know way, but hell, if she was happy, so was I. "Kreed-kun, leave it to me!" That was when the bright pink blush returned, she had walked away from the sign, though, I'm kinda ashamed that I still had no idea what she was blushing for… Yet, I was slowly coming to the realization, the thought crossed my mind in that instant… W-why is she blushing like that so much… co-could she… no! That can't be right… "Though I'd feel better about it if you helped… And it'd make me… kinda happy…"

I about went into a coughing fit, but I controlled myself enough to smile at her and nod. "I'd be happy to help the great hero Sotanaka!"

Chie laughed a little, I just pushed the blushing out of my mind for that time. "We should eat first. 'Don't think. Feel…' right? Actually in this case, would it be, 'Don't think. Eat?"

I smiled as we started to walk up to the counter to order, only to hear someone yell in the distance… where was the cop when you needed him!? "Wh-what the hell!? Now I'm really gonna beat them! This was supposed to be a break from exercise!"

"S-stop it!" I stopped when I actually heard the voice, I was actually thinking of letting whoever it was get away with beating the shit out of the guy.

"Shut up you dumbass!"

"Yeah, that's right. We all know it's time to cough up."

"What? This's it? Quit bullshiting us."

"Not him!" Chie stopped dead in her tracks, this was one thing that she would go start into doing… "I'm going to rip them a new one for ruining this day!"

"Th-that voice…" Chie looked surprised as we turned to the alleyway that the voices were coming from "It can't be…! Let's go, Kreed-kun!"

As we ran up, I could clearly see all four people, yet the thugs are so… unimportant that all I'm going to tell you about them is… their leader was so trying to steal my beanie, looked better on me! I was gonna jump the morons… until Chie got rid of our element of surprise. "Takeshi!?"

The largest one of the thugs, surprising no the leader… was the first one to state to obvious! "Hey, someone's here."

"Whatever." The leader, surprisingly the smallest of the group… was a little irritaited by high school kids trying to stop him from getting his money… douche! "Let's take their money while we're at it."

"This guy only had one thousand yen on him." Big fucking surprise!

"We can hear you ya know...?" I was about the smack the asshole with my bag, it would hurt a lot more than it sounded trust me.

"Ch-Chie!" The coward moron, Takeshi ran right behind Chie the moment he got the opening to!

"DON'T SAY OUR NAMES!" I smacked him upside the head. "I hope that hurt like a BITCH!"

"Hey!" The punks turned towards us now. "Whaddya runnin' for? Gonna hid behind a girl, huh?" I was losing my fuse at this point, yep, trying to piss off a guy who tried to commit suicide, not your best move… Why? Because he knows how to kill… Chie was starting to surprise me with how much she actually seemed to care about anyone. I would have left the guy for dead after the shit he pulled last time. Still, no one deserved to be beaten to as low as I had gone.

"Are you all right?" Chie looked out right pissed the fuck off! Not at Takeshi, at the thugs…

"I-I'm fine…" Takeshi sounded scared, good for him… welcome to the real world asswipe! "Y-you've always been good at stuff like this! Th-they took all my money. You're gonna get them for me, right!?"

"Jesus fucking CHRIST!" I turned around and pulled a ten one thousand yen bills out of my pocket and threw them at the prick! "Is that all you fucking care about! Then take the fucking money!"

Everyone stared at me; no one understood what I had just done… I did it for Chie; he had proven he never gave a rat's ass about her! So I gave him what he wanted. Yet, the douche listened to me and grabbed my money! Asshole! Chie turned back to the thugs, a little scared at my display of anger.

"We-well, it does tick me off!" She got in a fighting stance ready to beat the ever loving shit out of all three of them, yet I knew they would play dirty… "Hey, cowards! Ganging up on on guy… You oughtta be ashamed!"

"T-take care of them for me!" With that… Takeshi split, he was gone faster than he had appeared into my life… and hopefully he gone for good!

"Uh, wow," Chie was just as surprised as me… which was pretty fucking surprised. "That was fast! Sheesh!" She turned back to the thugs and got ready to fight them again. "C'mon, what's the matter? Let's throw down!"

"Huh? What's with this bitch?" I was so close to losing it! These assholes were so close to getting the ever-loving shit beaten out of them! "Y'think you're all that? I ain't afraid to hit a girl… We'll kick your ass!"

I couldn't take it anymore, I don't know what came over me… but, I gently pushed Chie aside as a reached for my bag and held it by the strap. "Kr-Kreed!?"

"Who the hell is this asshole!?" The leader punk was official pissed; I just stood there, not answering his question. The punk was getting really pissed now. "Fine then! We'll just kick your ass!"

The leader punk swung at my face, I was still sore, but I was able to dodge the punch. That's when I reached into my bag and pulled out my bat I used in the Shadow World… I know, I know… How's a bat like that gonna fit in a school bag...? Well, it's a big bag. Anyway, as I ducked under the swing, I brought the bat up one handed, into the prick's jaw, I hit him hard enough that he stumbled backwards. I started to sing an appropriate song for this moment in my life. "Iiiii come undone, I think I'll kill everyone. My, what have I done. FUCK IT let's kill everyone!"

The other thugs thought I got a lucky hit in and pushed their leader right back at me. I used his ribs as a baseball and smashed him against the wall in the alley. Then when he rebounded off the wall… I punched him in the face hard enough to knock him out. He dropped so fast his buddies did a double take before grabbing him and dragging him away from me. I just put the bat over my shoulder, in all honesty I kept the bat, just in case the killer tried to come after the same people twice, or we got him in the act. "Screw this! L-let's get the hell out of here!" When they were out of sight, I put the bat back in my bag and turned back to Chie, I had lost control for a minute, only time in my life that had ever happened! I would never let it happen again… I hoped.

"Assholes!" I swung the bag back over my shoulder and looked away from Chie. "Next time they even think about that…" I meant putting a hand on Chie, but… well, she didn't hear that.

"What the heck…" Chie sounded upset, I was kinda confused. We stopped them for the day, maybe even a few days, especially with the rain coming in the next few days. "Running away when you step in."

"What?"

"Why'd you butt in?" Chie was yelling at… at me!? What the fuck!? I was trying to protect her! Yet, I didn't get mad at her, just confused as hell! "What, you thought you couldn't leave it up to me!? I could've handled them myself!?"

"I know you could of…" I believed it, but they crossed the one line I knew never to cross. Threaten to actually beat a woman to a bloody pulp, and my best friend no less! They had it coming! "They, just crossed the wrong with me. Sorry…"

Chie looked at the ground away from me. I felt bad, because she thought I didn't trust her. "No, I'm sorry…" I looked up at her with surprise. She really was mature for the way she usually acted. "I charged in by myself… Caused you trouble…"

"Hey…" I put a hand on her shoulder. "It's fine… You aren't any trouble to me. Just know that you aren't alone in this."

"Thanks." She actually looked sad, I really wanted to try and cheer her up. "You're right, huh? I gotta remember I'm not alone… It's always like that. Everyone's doing their best…" I knew what she was getting at, yet… I knew she need to get it off of her chest. "Then I start to worry that it's all up to me… and I've gotta work harder…"

"It's good to work harder." I smiled while looking at the sky. "Because one day, it might actually be up to you to save everyone."

"Yeah…" Chie looked at my face and my eyes as I looked back to her. "I worry that someday, I'll end up causing even more trouble, like I did today…"

"What trouble?" I put a hand on her shoulder, she needed to stop beating herself up. She was… was… perfect as she was… it was the first time that thought reached my head. I couldn't believe it, why did I… I knew why I thought it; I was just scared of it still. "You protected someone!"

Chie shook her head at me. "Haha… I'm so stupid." I shook my head, yet, the pinkish blush returned to her face AGAIN… I was so baffled by what it even meant! "Kreed-kun… Thank you. Umm…" Her blushed smile turned into a shocked face with blush on it. "N-never mind!" The blush vanished as she gained a look of shame. "I need to work harder, huh? Why am I moping…? I'll think about it some."

"Y-yeah…" I was scared about what was going on in her head. I was scared that if she found out what I was thinking… she would treat me like my old schools had. Still, I put on a brave face and patted her on the shoulder. "C'mon, the steak skewers are on me, Miss Hero…"

"I'm not a hero you know…"

"Do I have a reason to lie to you?" She just about gave her usual answer, yet she thought about it for a moment…

"No."

Not much to say. I'm still sick, but still Ima update as much as possible. So songs

Songs

Kill Everyone by Hollywood Undead