A/n:
Dove: *Cough* *Gasp* *Wheeze* *Choke*
Kenshin: *Stares*
Sano: So, Dove-chan, I have decided that I WANT a BIGGER role in Dark!
Dove: I.. can't.. breath..
Sano: Yes, I know it is a rather strange thing, me demanding something like that.
Dove: *Passes out and falls out of window into kiddie pool below*
Kenshin: *Imitates Capt. Jack Sparrow and dives in. Drags Dove out. Uses the Sakabatou to cut the 'Obi' on her 'Kimono'.
Dove: *Breaths again**Wakes up* Woah.. All spinny..
Kenshin: She made her own Kimono and Obi. Tied the Obi REALLY tight. Couldn't breath. Passed out. You know the rest.
Dove: *Sits up and addresses camera 6B* I just want to thank all of my spectacular reviewers. Without you, I woulda quit Dark! But I got all of these lovely, long reviews (Most containing death-threats..).. I feel SOO special! And all of the ideas – Thank you SOOO much! I'm going to try to use them all, but if I don't use yours it's probably because I forgot it. ^_-
Kenshin: Who's she talking to?
Sano: *Hops out of window* I don't know.. Now Dove-chan, about my contract..
((Oh, in all seriousness. There WILL be mild cussing in this chapter, and some chapters hereafter. *Shudder* But it's gonna be censored. With the first letter and then *'s. It's just because at my school, they cuss. A lot. And I'm just keeping it 'real'.
Oh, and to the person that asked about the 'beheading' thing. See, he woke the person up, but as soon as he saw them starting to sit up, he attacked. That was how that went down. Does it make sense?))
Dark
Chapter Twenty-Two
//Sometimes,
Everything seems to far away
Sometimes it's hard,
To keep the monsters at bay.
But then I see you,
And everything is okay…//
Light came. Kaoru was aware of someone shaking her. If they didn't stop soon she was going to slug them.
The shaking didn't stop when she mumbled a few choice words and snuggled deeper under the covers (Yes, she had finally started using the blankets). It simply intensified. And there were some words being said to her as well.
Finally, Kaoru lashed out with her fist, and back-fisted her assailent right in the jaw. The unfortunate person went flying halfway across the room and skidded into a wall.
Kaoru sat up then, and blearily looked around, taking in the clock 6 O'clock, what the H***?! and the black-haired person laying spread-eagle on the floor.
"Kenshin!?" She asked through the cotton in her mouth. He stood and smiled.
"Intresting move, the whole 'I'm not sitting up until I punch the Master Assassin in the jaw thing'. It really works for you." Kaoru snorted. She stood, and stretched.
"Sorry.. Instant reaction. I'm not used to people shaking me awake when I'm tired. Last person that did that narrowly avoided a broken jaw."
"Yeah.." Kenshin smiled again, rubbing his sore jaw one last time for good measure. "Anyhoo. Get dressed, and do whatever else you need for school done. We need to get breakfast eaten, drag Sano out of bed, and get to school early to pick up our schedules."
Kaoru yawned so hard that she fell back onto the bed.
"Um-kay.. one condition.."
"Hmm?"
"What was the mission that you had that hair-dye for?" Kenshin sighed.
"Long story made very short. I had to go undercover in a rock band and the band I was stuck with all dyed their hair. So I ended up doing the same."
"Okay. Cool.." He left, shaking his head and smiling at her.
Kaoru got dressed quickly, glaring down at the skirt. She KNEW she was going to embarress herself.. So she pulled on a pair of very short shorts underneath.
Feeling safer, she headed into the bathroom.
"Soujiro? You in here?" There was a weak mumble.
"Yeah.. hold on.." A disheviled, boxer-clad boy stumbled past her and managed to find his way to a chair before flopping down.
Kaoru smirked. Only Kenshin seemed to be the morning-person out of all of them. She closed the door, and got to work.
**
Sano groaned. And groaned again. A third time. Finally the annoying buzzing to his left gave him the needed intiative to extract an arm from his cocoon of blankets and slam a fist down on the alarm.
Effectivly breaking it.
Which was okay, because he had a closet-full.
As soon as he snuggled down and started to drift again…
The back-up alarm launched into a series of shrieks halfway across the room.
Sano remedied that by picking up the baseball bat laying next to his bed and smashing it down repeatedly until it found the alarm and turned it off. Very violently.
This was a normal morning for him.
He began to drift into dreamland again..
And three alarms went off at the same time. Buzzing, clanging, and honking shattered the comfortable stillness of the room.
"YEEARRGHH!" These alarms were out of reach. He'd have to stand to get to them.
So he got up, mouth hanging open loosely.
Not only was he exhausted, but..
Well, the thirty-eight beer cans littering the floor could explain the rest.
And GODS those alarms were LOUD!!!
So he cheerfully threw them out the window.
Of course, the window wasn't open, and it was barred so that the alarms rebounded and planted themselves firmly on Sano's foot.
He yowled and hopped around looking like a mad-man, waving around his foot, arms pin-wheeling.
Once his morning exercise was taken care of, Sano wasted no time popping three tylenol, and sucking on an ice-cube as he dressed, adding his Aku jacket atop the offical uniform, brushed his hair so that it fell down, reaching mid-shoulder, pulling said hair back in a loose pony-tail at the back of his neck, adding his piercings (Two in the left ear, one in the right, a stud in the nose).
Punk look achieved, Sano decided that this might almost be fun – he'd make Missy do his homework – and also decided to treat himself to a can of beer. He deserved it for getting up and being ready BEFORE he had to be!
**
"KAORU! BREAKFAST IS GETTING COLD!" Soujiro complained.
"You two should be brother and sister.." Kenshin observed once more.
Soujiro grinned.
"That would be fun! I could be her older brother! But.. what about the names?"
"Your mom remarried. You decided to take the dad's name while Kaoru decided to keep the mom's name."
"I am SO an only child!" Kaoru yelled from the doorway. "Besides, Sou-CHAN, I am older than you."
"We can PRETEND!" Soujiro complained. "PLLEEAAASSSEEE? Then I can beat people up for bugging you! It would be FUN! Come ON!"
"Well, when you put it THAT way.." Kaoru snorted at Soujiro. "Oh well. It's not like it actually matters anyway. No one will bug me." Oh how she would eat those words later.
Breakfast came.
Breakfast went.
And it was time to go.
**
Kenshin raised a fist to pound on Sano's door. And was shocked to the point where his jaw dropped some to see a dressed, ready-looking Sano standing there with a ¾ empty beer-can in his hand.
Kaoru was more shocked.
"Sano.. your HAIR!" He smirked at her.
"Like it? It fits the punk thing I'm pullin'. Think anyone'll notice?"
"With you TALKING like that they will! And those piercings – are those REAL?!" Kaoru shouted, pulling on his ears.
"YES! OW! MISSYY!! STOP THAT!! OW!"
While Kaoru and Sano screamed at each other – Kaoru pausing only to breath and Sano only pausing long enough to draw a quick breath and take a swig of beer – Kenshin and Soujiro held a conference.
"They oughta go into wrestling."
"It does look like a grudge-match." Kenshin agreed.
"I think she's gonna take 'im out."
"Hope not. Sano will probably pull on her hair or something."
"It'll be easy, too, since it's down."
"Yeah.."
"Her hair is kinda like a longer version of the hairstyle on that little girl, Tsubame."
"Who?"
"She was that little girl helping Jessie –The WAITRESS, Kenshin – last night, at the Akabeko, you know?"
"Oh, yeah." Kenshin decided to break it up. "C'mon, we gotta go to SCHOOL!" With some groaning and much complaining, they trooped down the stairs. Kenshin pulled Kaoru back with him and let the others got about twenty steps ahead.
"Listen, Kaoru. I know this might not have crossed your mind.. but.. promise me that you won't try to escape from me or something while we're there? I don't want to have to kill you." His eyes were wide and beseeching.
"Of COURSE Kenshin!" The worry in his gaze didn't fade. "I promise that I won't try to escape from you, Kenshin Himura." She said formally, so he would stop looking so worried. Funny how the gods always managed to file EVERY LITTLE THING away.
"Good." He smiled and she smiled and the gods frowned.
((And one god said to another:
g1: What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
g2: What time?
g1: TIME TO GET A NEW FENCE! HaHaHaHaHa!
g2: VERRYY funny.))
Kaoru ran up to the front.
"I'm driving!"
"Do you know how?!" She sniffed at Kenshin.
"I have a license. SO yes, I do!" He gulped, his eyes settled on the slowly approaching red car.
"Okay.." After another minute of strolling they reached the car.
The four of them jammed themselves in the car, and Kaoru started it up.
When she took off, Kenshin really wished that he hadn't agreed. She was a LEAD FOOT!!!
As they screeched around another corner, Kaoru reached down and picked up her backpack and started looking through it, not even glancing up at the road.
Kenshin reached out and grabbed the wheel, spinning it some. She seemed sastisfied with whatever she'd been looking for, so took her nose out of the bag and slapped his hand away while at the same time plopping the bag down.
"Are you trying to KILL us?!" She asked him almost angrily.
"Ah, no. That's your job.." Kenshin grumbled, grabbing his seatbelt so hard that his knuckles turned white.
The other two in the back had said nothing. Soujiro was dead white, head between his legs, and Sano had his window rolled down and was sticking his head out of it like some sort of dog. The wind didn't even make a STRAND of his hair move. Kenshin decided that this was completely unfair.
**
Somehow, they managed to get to school with no arrests, deaths, or high-speed chases. Kenshin made a mental note: knock her out and toss her in the trunk next time she wants to drive.
"That was FUN!" She announced, giggling madly.
**
And then they headed towards the large, glass double-doors at the front of the school. There was a collective gulp, as all four of them pushed at once.
[[I should end it here. Hmmm. Naw, I'm bored and I have all night to write.]]
The halls were mostly empty, they'd be fuller once people started showing up. Considering that they'd arrived over twenty minutes before the first bus came.
The 'highschool' probably could have passed as a college. It was HUGE. There was a thick, soft carpet and it had an oddly lived-in feeling. Instead of the cold look that usually accompanied a school.
The main color code was very simple. White walls, gray carpeting. All softly faded.
Kaoru was staring around with huge eyes. Her highschool had been 'blessed' with hard carpeting of a completely undiscernable color, and peach-colored stone walls. It definatly didn't have the comfortable aura.
((And now that half a page has been dedicated to a completely pointless cause..))
A large oak sign announced that they'd discovered the office. Kenshin swung the maple door open.
'Funny, the sign is oak and the door is maple. Why not BOTH maple or BOTH oak?' He mused pointlessly as he ushered them in.
The woman behind the desk looked up impatiently, her eyes slightly narrowed.
"Yes?" She snapped. Her black hair was held slightly back from her face with a thin ribbon, and she wore a rather skimpy black outfit. Oddly enough, Kaoru found herself reminded of a villian from Inuyasha. Yura of the hair.
She was severely creeped out to see that her nameplate read 'Yura Tressez'.
"Hello, I'm Hiten Mitsurugi. My friends over there, Igazuchi Ouki and Arashi Tsumuji and.. him.." Sano snorted and added his name to the pile,
"Tsuisho Kuzuryu."
((Since Kenshin can't translate here, That means 'Mallot Rising' 'Nine-headed-Dragon' derived from Ryu-Tsui-Sho-Sen and Ku-Zu-Ryu-Sen.))
"Yes. Tsuisho Kuzuryu. We're the transfer students, we were told to come here and get our schedules." He kept his tone nervous and polite, despite the fact that the look on the woman's face was quite irritating. She seemed ready to fall asleep.
"La? Oh, okay. You have to go talk to the principal. Ms. Mettalium. Through that door." She pointed with a slightly more pleasant smile.
They walked in a single-line formation. There was a big, sunny sign on the door that lead into the office.
'I'm your Pal! Your Princi-pal!'
((Yes, I got this from Dancing Plums and 8th grade literature. It's just to perfect, I HAD to use it. Great story, though. READ IT. *Subliminal message*))
There was a big smiley-face drawn on it. Kaoru felt herself relax some. She expected to see a slightly plump, smiling, elderly woman sitting behind the desk sipping tea.
Instead she was greeted with a shocking sight when the door opened.
There was a haze of smoke, but not bad enough to obscure vision. It was quite smelly, though. There was a woman in there who looked no older than twenty-three, puffing away on a cigarette. The butts of over twenty others rested cheerfully in an ashtray by her elbow.
She was reading. Her long blonde hair was to bright and shiny NOT to have been dyed. And she was wearing a very skimpy outfit, the school symbol blazoned on the front.
Kaoru took all of the details in and filed them away in less than a minute. She was sure that Kenshin had already figured out every escape route, every danger, every weapon, and every other thing in less time than it took her to blink.
"Hello, Ms. Mettalium. I-"
"I heard, darling. Take a seat, all of you." They did. The woman's eyes passed distastefully over Sano's outfit, but she did not comment.
They waited in silence for a minute. She was staring at them, they were staring at her. A very intresting standoff.
Kaoru found herself starting to drift into sleep.
Soujiro jabbed his elbow sharply into her side, waking her up and causing her to reflexivly slam her fist into his gut.
While he coughed, the woman began to speak.
"Well, I'm glad that you four have become students here. Here are some maps.." She shoved four pieces of paper crammed full of lines and numbers towards them.
Kaoru stared at hers in shock. 'D***..' Kiyajo was at least three-fold larger than her old school. Kenshin seemed a little bit surprised, Sano's eyes were wide, and Soujiro was impassive, his left eyebrow twitching slightly.
"And your schedules. Any questions?" Upon receiving their nods, Ms. Mettalium stubbed her cigarette out, simultaniously lighting another. "Good. Then go. School starts in twenty-three minutes." And that was that.
**
A/N: I'm wayy to tired to continue going. It's 9 pages long, that's pretty long for me! Times New Roman, size 12!
Kenshin: *Shrug* She tried to make 14 pages, but ran out of steam. Considering that she was up until 5am last night.
Dove: *Mutter* Shut up, and leave that one alone.
Kenshin: Why? Were you NOT hangin' out with your friend makin' fun of how spoiled Anna Nichole is?
Dove: *Blushes* Yes! I WAS!
Kenshin: Ha.
Dove: *Grumble* Oh yeah, does anyone out there like the Dragonriders of Pern series? If you do, I have a Neopian Guild you might like. *Grin*. If you wanna know about it, say so in your review and I'll email you.
Kenshin: Total shameless advertising.
Dove: Shut up and help me figure out how I'm going to cut my hair in an A-line bob when my bangs are only to my lips, not my chin.
Kamatari: Oh, I can help you THERE, Doll!
Dove: *Blanch* Oh.. good..
Dove: *Cough* *Gasp* *Wheeze* *Choke*
Kenshin: *Stares*
Sano: So, Dove-chan, I have decided that I WANT a BIGGER role in Dark!
Dove: I.. can't.. breath..
Sano: Yes, I know it is a rather strange thing, me demanding something like that.
Dove: *Passes out and falls out of window into kiddie pool below*
Kenshin: *Imitates Capt. Jack Sparrow and dives in. Drags Dove out. Uses the Sakabatou to cut the 'Obi' on her 'Kimono'.
Dove: *Breaths again**Wakes up* Woah.. All spinny..
Kenshin: She made her own Kimono and Obi. Tied the Obi REALLY tight. Couldn't breath. Passed out. You know the rest.
Dove: *Sits up and addresses camera 6B* I just want to thank all of my spectacular reviewers. Without you, I woulda quit Dark! But I got all of these lovely, long reviews (Most containing death-threats..).. I feel SOO special! And all of the ideas – Thank you SOOO much! I'm going to try to use them all, but if I don't use yours it's probably because I forgot it. ^_-
Kenshin: Who's she talking to?
Sano: *Hops out of window* I don't know.. Now Dove-chan, about my contract..
((Oh, in all seriousness. There WILL be mild cussing in this chapter, and some chapters hereafter. *Shudder* But it's gonna be censored. With the first letter and then *'s. It's just because at my school, they cuss. A lot. And I'm just keeping it 'real'.
Oh, and to the person that asked about the 'beheading' thing. See, he woke the person up, but as soon as he saw them starting to sit up, he attacked. That was how that went down. Does it make sense?))
Dark
Chapter Twenty-Two
//Sometimes,
Everything seems to far away
Sometimes it's hard,
To keep the monsters at bay.
But then I see you,
And everything is okay…//
Light came. Kaoru was aware of someone shaking her. If they didn't stop soon she was going to slug them.
The shaking didn't stop when she mumbled a few choice words and snuggled deeper under the covers (Yes, she had finally started using the blankets). It simply intensified. And there were some words being said to her as well.
Finally, Kaoru lashed out with her fist, and back-fisted her assailent right in the jaw. The unfortunate person went flying halfway across the room and skidded into a wall.
Kaoru sat up then, and blearily looked around, taking in the clock 6 O'clock, what the H***?! and the black-haired person laying spread-eagle on the floor.
"Kenshin!?" She asked through the cotton in her mouth. He stood and smiled.
"Intresting move, the whole 'I'm not sitting up until I punch the Master Assassin in the jaw thing'. It really works for you." Kaoru snorted. She stood, and stretched.
"Sorry.. Instant reaction. I'm not used to people shaking me awake when I'm tired. Last person that did that narrowly avoided a broken jaw."
"Yeah.." Kenshin smiled again, rubbing his sore jaw one last time for good measure. "Anyhoo. Get dressed, and do whatever else you need for school done. We need to get breakfast eaten, drag Sano out of bed, and get to school early to pick up our schedules."
Kaoru yawned so hard that she fell back onto the bed.
"Um-kay.. one condition.."
"Hmm?"
"What was the mission that you had that hair-dye for?" Kenshin sighed.
"Long story made very short. I had to go undercover in a rock band and the band I was stuck with all dyed their hair. So I ended up doing the same."
"Okay. Cool.." He left, shaking his head and smiling at her.
Kaoru got dressed quickly, glaring down at the skirt. She KNEW she was going to embarress herself.. So she pulled on a pair of very short shorts underneath.
Feeling safer, she headed into the bathroom.
"Soujiro? You in here?" There was a weak mumble.
"Yeah.. hold on.." A disheviled, boxer-clad boy stumbled past her and managed to find his way to a chair before flopping down.
Kaoru smirked. Only Kenshin seemed to be the morning-person out of all of them. She closed the door, and got to work.
**
Sano groaned. And groaned again. A third time. Finally the annoying buzzing to his left gave him the needed intiative to extract an arm from his cocoon of blankets and slam a fist down on the alarm.
Effectivly breaking it.
Which was okay, because he had a closet-full.
As soon as he snuggled down and started to drift again…
The back-up alarm launched into a series of shrieks halfway across the room.
Sano remedied that by picking up the baseball bat laying next to his bed and smashing it down repeatedly until it found the alarm and turned it off. Very violently.
This was a normal morning for him.
He began to drift into dreamland again..
And three alarms went off at the same time. Buzzing, clanging, and honking shattered the comfortable stillness of the room.
"YEEARRGHH!" These alarms were out of reach. He'd have to stand to get to them.
So he got up, mouth hanging open loosely.
Not only was he exhausted, but..
Well, the thirty-eight beer cans littering the floor could explain the rest.
And GODS those alarms were LOUD!!!
So he cheerfully threw them out the window.
Of course, the window wasn't open, and it was barred so that the alarms rebounded and planted themselves firmly on Sano's foot.
He yowled and hopped around looking like a mad-man, waving around his foot, arms pin-wheeling.
Once his morning exercise was taken care of, Sano wasted no time popping three tylenol, and sucking on an ice-cube as he dressed, adding his Aku jacket atop the offical uniform, brushed his hair so that it fell down, reaching mid-shoulder, pulling said hair back in a loose pony-tail at the back of his neck, adding his piercings (Two in the left ear, one in the right, a stud in the nose).
Punk look achieved, Sano decided that this might almost be fun – he'd make Missy do his homework – and also decided to treat himself to a can of beer. He deserved it for getting up and being ready BEFORE he had to be!
**
"KAORU! BREAKFAST IS GETTING COLD!" Soujiro complained.
"You two should be brother and sister.." Kenshin observed once more.
Soujiro grinned.
"That would be fun! I could be her older brother! But.. what about the names?"
"Your mom remarried. You decided to take the dad's name while Kaoru decided to keep the mom's name."
"I am SO an only child!" Kaoru yelled from the doorway. "Besides, Sou-CHAN, I am older than you."
"We can PRETEND!" Soujiro complained. "PLLEEAAASSSEEE? Then I can beat people up for bugging you! It would be FUN! Come ON!"
"Well, when you put it THAT way.." Kaoru snorted at Soujiro. "Oh well. It's not like it actually matters anyway. No one will bug me." Oh how she would eat those words later.
Breakfast came.
Breakfast went.
And it was time to go.
**
Kenshin raised a fist to pound on Sano's door. And was shocked to the point where his jaw dropped some to see a dressed, ready-looking Sano standing there with a ¾ empty beer-can in his hand.
Kaoru was more shocked.
"Sano.. your HAIR!" He smirked at her.
"Like it? It fits the punk thing I'm pullin'. Think anyone'll notice?"
"With you TALKING like that they will! And those piercings – are those REAL?!" Kaoru shouted, pulling on his ears.
"YES! OW! MISSYY!! STOP THAT!! OW!"
While Kaoru and Sano screamed at each other – Kaoru pausing only to breath and Sano only pausing long enough to draw a quick breath and take a swig of beer – Kenshin and Soujiro held a conference.
"They oughta go into wrestling."
"It does look like a grudge-match." Kenshin agreed.
"I think she's gonna take 'im out."
"Hope not. Sano will probably pull on her hair or something."
"It'll be easy, too, since it's down."
"Yeah.."
"Her hair is kinda like a longer version of the hairstyle on that little girl, Tsubame."
"Who?"
"She was that little girl helping Jessie –The WAITRESS, Kenshin – last night, at the Akabeko, you know?"
"Oh, yeah." Kenshin decided to break it up. "C'mon, we gotta go to SCHOOL!" With some groaning and much complaining, they trooped down the stairs. Kenshin pulled Kaoru back with him and let the others got about twenty steps ahead.
"Listen, Kaoru. I know this might not have crossed your mind.. but.. promise me that you won't try to escape from me or something while we're there? I don't want to have to kill you." His eyes were wide and beseeching.
"Of COURSE Kenshin!" The worry in his gaze didn't fade. "I promise that I won't try to escape from you, Kenshin Himura." She said formally, so he would stop looking so worried. Funny how the gods always managed to file EVERY LITTLE THING away.
"Good." He smiled and she smiled and the gods frowned.
((And one god said to another:
g1: What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
g2: What time?
g1: TIME TO GET A NEW FENCE! HaHaHaHaHa!
g2: VERRYY funny.))
Kaoru ran up to the front.
"I'm driving!"
"Do you know how?!" She sniffed at Kenshin.
"I have a license. SO yes, I do!" He gulped, his eyes settled on the slowly approaching red car.
"Okay.." After another minute of strolling they reached the car.
The four of them jammed themselves in the car, and Kaoru started it up.
When she took off, Kenshin really wished that he hadn't agreed. She was a LEAD FOOT!!!
As they screeched around another corner, Kaoru reached down and picked up her backpack and started looking through it, not even glancing up at the road.
Kenshin reached out and grabbed the wheel, spinning it some. She seemed sastisfied with whatever she'd been looking for, so took her nose out of the bag and slapped his hand away while at the same time plopping the bag down.
"Are you trying to KILL us?!" She asked him almost angrily.
"Ah, no. That's your job.." Kenshin grumbled, grabbing his seatbelt so hard that his knuckles turned white.
The other two in the back had said nothing. Soujiro was dead white, head between his legs, and Sano had his window rolled down and was sticking his head out of it like some sort of dog. The wind didn't even make a STRAND of his hair move. Kenshin decided that this was completely unfair.
**
Somehow, they managed to get to school with no arrests, deaths, or high-speed chases. Kenshin made a mental note: knock her out and toss her in the trunk next time she wants to drive.
"That was FUN!" She announced, giggling madly.
**
And then they headed towards the large, glass double-doors at the front of the school. There was a collective gulp, as all four of them pushed at once.
[[I should end it here. Hmmm. Naw, I'm bored and I have all night to write.]]
The halls were mostly empty, they'd be fuller once people started showing up. Considering that they'd arrived over twenty minutes before the first bus came.
The 'highschool' probably could have passed as a college. It was HUGE. There was a thick, soft carpet and it had an oddly lived-in feeling. Instead of the cold look that usually accompanied a school.
The main color code was very simple. White walls, gray carpeting. All softly faded.
Kaoru was staring around with huge eyes. Her highschool had been 'blessed' with hard carpeting of a completely undiscernable color, and peach-colored stone walls. It definatly didn't have the comfortable aura.
((And now that half a page has been dedicated to a completely pointless cause..))
A large oak sign announced that they'd discovered the office. Kenshin swung the maple door open.
'Funny, the sign is oak and the door is maple. Why not BOTH maple or BOTH oak?' He mused pointlessly as he ushered them in.
The woman behind the desk looked up impatiently, her eyes slightly narrowed.
"Yes?" She snapped. Her black hair was held slightly back from her face with a thin ribbon, and she wore a rather skimpy black outfit. Oddly enough, Kaoru found herself reminded of a villian from Inuyasha. Yura of the hair.
She was severely creeped out to see that her nameplate read 'Yura Tressez'.
"Hello, I'm Hiten Mitsurugi. My friends over there, Igazuchi Ouki and Arashi Tsumuji and.. him.." Sano snorted and added his name to the pile,
"Tsuisho Kuzuryu."
((Since Kenshin can't translate here, That means 'Mallot Rising' 'Nine-headed-Dragon' derived from Ryu-Tsui-Sho-Sen and Ku-Zu-Ryu-Sen.))
"Yes. Tsuisho Kuzuryu. We're the transfer students, we were told to come here and get our schedules." He kept his tone nervous and polite, despite the fact that the look on the woman's face was quite irritating. She seemed ready to fall asleep.
"La? Oh, okay. You have to go talk to the principal. Ms. Mettalium. Through that door." She pointed with a slightly more pleasant smile.
They walked in a single-line formation. There was a big, sunny sign on the door that lead into the office.
'I'm your Pal! Your Princi-pal!'
((Yes, I got this from Dancing Plums and 8th grade literature. It's just to perfect, I HAD to use it. Great story, though. READ IT. *Subliminal message*))
There was a big smiley-face drawn on it. Kaoru felt herself relax some. She expected to see a slightly plump, smiling, elderly woman sitting behind the desk sipping tea.
Instead she was greeted with a shocking sight when the door opened.
There was a haze of smoke, but not bad enough to obscure vision. It was quite smelly, though. There was a woman in there who looked no older than twenty-three, puffing away on a cigarette. The butts of over twenty others rested cheerfully in an ashtray by her elbow.
She was reading. Her long blonde hair was to bright and shiny NOT to have been dyed. And she was wearing a very skimpy outfit, the school symbol blazoned on the front.
Kaoru took all of the details in and filed them away in less than a minute. She was sure that Kenshin had already figured out every escape route, every danger, every weapon, and every other thing in less time than it took her to blink.
"Hello, Ms. Mettalium. I-"
"I heard, darling. Take a seat, all of you." They did. The woman's eyes passed distastefully over Sano's outfit, but she did not comment.
They waited in silence for a minute. She was staring at them, they were staring at her. A very intresting standoff.
Kaoru found herself starting to drift into sleep.
Soujiro jabbed his elbow sharply into her side, waking her up and causing her to reflexivly slam her fist into his gut.
While he coughed, the woman began to speak.
"Well, I'm glad that you four have become students here. Here are some maps.." She shoved four pieces of paper crammed full of lines and numbers towards them.
Kaoru stared at hers in shock. 'D***..' Kiyajo was at least three-fold larger than her old school. Kenshin seemed a little bit surprised, Sano's eyes were wide, and Soujiro was impassive, his left eyebrow twitching slightly.
"And your schedules. Any questions?" Upon receiving their nods, Ms. Mettalium stubbed her cigarette out, simultaniously lighting another. "Good. Then go. School starts in twenty-three minutes." And that was that.
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A/N: I'm wayy to tired to continue going. It's 9 pages long, that's pretty long for me! Times New Roman, size 12!
Kenshin: *Shrug* She tried to make 14 pages, but ran out of steam. Considering that she was up until 5am last night.
Dove: *Mutter* Shut up, and leave that one alone.
Kenshin: Why? Were you NOT hangin' out with your friend makin' fun of how spoiled Anna Nichole is?
Dove: *Blushes* Yes! I WAS!
Kenshin: Ha.
Dove: *Grumble* Oh yeah, does anyone out there like the Dragonriders of Pern series? If you do, I have a Neopian Guild you might like. *Grin*. If you wanna know about it, say so in your review and I'll email you.
Kenshin: Total shameless advertising.
Dove: Shut up and help me figure out how I'm going to cut my hair in an A-line bob when my bangs are only to my lips, not my chin.
Kamatari: Oh, I can help you THERE, Doll!
Dove: *Blanch* Oh.. good..