Rei says: Wewt. Chapter 3. I'm amazed it's up so soon!

Chapter 3

Kana awoke, on time, but feeling wiped out. Damn dreams. Ruining her nice sleep time. She dressed and walked into what you'd call a kitchen to grab a Pop-Tart, and saw Aki already awake, eating some cereal.

His yellow widened. "Holy crap, Kana, you look like a zombie." Aki remarked.

Kana moaned. "Ah, don't remind me...it was a bad night." She munched on her Pop-Tart slowly, feeling way too tired.

He cocked his head. "When did you get home, anyways?"

"About 10:30? I dunno. I didn't really look at the clock…" Kana mumbled and headed out to get some socks for her cold feet. She walked back into her room to get some, and in the process, walked into a wall. Aki started laughing, and Kana blinked and rubbed her head. She turned to Aki and said, "I did NOT just do that…"

"Ohhh but you DID!" Aki said, his voice sounding like that Mr. Moviefone guy she's always seen on the commercials.

After Kana successfully managed to get some socks, she sat down and pulled them on, a piece of Pop-Tart in her mouth. Her skirt bothered her again…It's too damn short! She thought angrily.

She sighed. "Arr-ight, I'm leaving…" Kana said and put her shoes on and grabbed her bag.

"Okay, see you when you get home all right?" Aki said. "I'm at the shop again later."

"As always." Kana said with a lopsided smile. "See you."

Kana arrived at the school perfectly on time, which was pretty darn amazing, considering what happened yesterday. She headed down the hallway and came in contact with a locker.

"Ow…" Kana grumbled. What is it with her and walking into things today? As she walked away, she noticed some student who had obviously seen her walk straight into the locker look at her like she was crazy.

"WELL MAYBE I AM!" Kana shouted to no one. Some kid who had been walking by dropped all his books as she shouted, startled.

"Talking to the air, eh?" Yusuke came out of nowhere, grinning.

"…Yes. Yes I am."

"Are you…enjoying it?" Yusuke raised his eyebrows.

"Hell yes." Kana said, and blinked sleepily, trying not to yawn.

"You don't look too good, Kana. What's up?" Yusuke asked her.

"Didn't get much sleep last night, that's all." A warning bell rang and kids scattered about hurrying to their class before the next bell rang. He yawned. "I'm going on the roof. See you later." Kana managed to wave a little before heading off in the other direction.

She sat down in science, barely able to keep her eyes open. But today was different, because no one really looked at her weirdly like yesterday. As Mr. Kertai began his lecture on so-and-so, Kana stared out the window, occasionally looked back at the teacher and nodding as if she was listening to a thing he said, and not trying to keep herself from falling asleep.

After what seemed like hours later, the bell rang and Kana found herself stumbling into math. The teacher, a real bitch, already began lecturing about some stupid math problem all of the kids had gotten wrong. Kana sat down and tried to pay attention, but she was too tired…

THUNK.

"What was that?" The math teacher, a short pudgy lady named Mrs. Hio, jerked away from the chalkboard and turned to stare accusingly at the class. One kid tentatively raised his hand.

"It's the new girl…she's dead!" A kid cried. Another student reached out and hit the kid's shoulder.

"No she's not; she just fell asleep!"

Mrs. Hio's eyes glared. "WHAT!" She walked over to Kana's desk, where Kana's head was down on the desk, eyes closed, seemingly in a peaceful sleep. "NO ONE SLEEPS IN MY CLASS!" The crazy teacher cried, and took a ruler and slammed it down onto the desk.

Kana didn't move.

"She must be a really heavy sleeper…" One kid muttered to another.

"Yeah, the teacher's probably really pissed now..."

"Poor kid. She's new, too…"

Mrs. Hio seemed to not hear the kids talking and slammed the ruler onto the desk right in front of Kana's ear, harder. This time Kana's head snapped up.

"…What!" Kana looked about, alert. She heard a tapping of heels to her right. Oh crap, she thought as she turned slowly…

"Head down to the main office and tell them why you're there. No one, I repeat, NO ONE, falls asleep in MY class!" Mrs. Hio cried. Kana grabbed her bag and slowly headed out the room, with absolutely no intention of going to the main office. Instead, she walked straight out of the school and down to the park. One kid seemed to notice her.

"Where're you going?"

Kana looked at him. "To get some sleep." Then she turned and walked out the door, no one stopping her.

"Ah…it's so nice without a screaming teacher in your ear…" She said to herself as she sat on a bench under a shade of trees. She closed her eyes and nodded off, this time having no dreams at all to bother her.

"Kana?"

Kana slowly opened her eyes and was greeted by a pair of emerald orbs. "…Kurama?"

Kurama smiled. "What the heck are you doing sleeping on a park bench? I tried waking you plenty times before, but you wouldn't wake. You must have been tired."

Kana blinked. "I didn't get much sleep last night…and I fell asleep during math but got caught…so then I just walked out of the school and came here." She looked at Kurama. "Why are you here?"

"School's already over, and I almost missed you if I hadn't taken the long way home." Kurama explained.

"Why did you take the long way?" Kana asked, then instantly regretted it. Stupid question.

"I like to pass by the park to watch the roses sometimes." Kurama said, motioning to a cluster of rose bushes off to the side.

"Oh…kaay…" Kana sat up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "So."

"So." Kurama repeated, sitting down on the bench beside her. "Where do you live?"

Kana pointed somewhere in the distance, obviously no help at all. "Somewhere over there. In apartment 34-B with my older brother."

"No parents?"

Kana sighed, as if she had gone through this plenty of times before. "Mother's dead, father's up in the old house getting drunk or something."

"…I see." Kurama nodded to himself, as if recalling something of his own experiences in the past. But what could he possibly know? Kana thought to herself. The guy seems freaking perfect. There's no way he could have had something tough to deal with like--

She stopped the thought immediately and turned her attention back to Kurama, who was already talking about his mother, Shiori. Is he like, a momma's boy or something? Kana couldn't help but think that.

"—honestly I think my mother does too much…I try to help her out." Kurama looked at her and smiled. Damn, Kana thought, that's a damn good smile. "I don't like feeling useless."

"I know how you feel about that," Kana said, nodding.

"Yeah…" Kurama stared off into the distance. Suddenly he turned his attention back to her. "I'm sorry; I have to go now. I'm afraid it's getting late and I must get to my house…" Kurama stood up and offered a hand. Kana took it and stood up, brushing imaginary dirt off of her damned skirt.

"I should go too. Aki would have a cow if I didn't head over to the shop now."

"What shop?" Kurama asked her.

"My brother works at a CD store called The Heat. Have you ever been there?" Kana asked.

Kurama shook his head. "Can't say I have, but I know where it is." He smiled and waved as he walked away. "I'll see you later, Kana." Kana waved back, and then hurried off to the apartment to change.

After Kana changed, she headed down to the shop to meet Aki. Somehow she got too absorbed with her thoughts about nothing and wound up somewhere totally different.

Where the hell was she?

Kana looked around; weird dark trees grown close together seemed to hide something in the shadows. The sun's out! Why is it so dark over here?

"Wolf…"

Kana jerked her head over to where the sound was coming from.

"You cannot hide forever…"

"What the hell--?" Kana mumbled, looking around frantically for the source of the voice.

"Give in…"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!"

"Wolf…we know who you are…even if you don't."

Kana furrowed her brows, totally lost. A little freaked out? Hell yes.

"Give in…"

"AUGH!" Kana yelled furiously. "This isn't funny!"

The voices stopped then. Kana rubbed her arms, feeling chilled. "I gotta get the hell outta here," she said to herself and quickly walked off.

Some time later Kana opened the door to The Heat and was greeted with the familiar heavy metal screamo music. Thank God. T saw her and waved.

"Hey Yellow." T said. "You staying today?"

Kana nodded, sighing in relief. "Yeah."

"Aiight, cool." He smiled and went to attend to a black haired Goth with a handful of CDs.

Kana smiled and walked over to Aki. "Hey," she said.

Aki turned and grinned. "What took you so long?"

"Sorry, I got…side-tracked." Kana said, remembering that creepy voice in…wherever she was. She shook her head. "It was nothing, though." Aki nodded and handed her some CDs.

"Sort these."

Kana took them and started putting them where they belonged.

Finally, something normal.

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