Heh, heh, heh. I'm having so much fun writing this reader-centric story. I should probably hit my other stories as well, but I'm just not feeling the inspiration for writing them as I am with this one. So... yeah.
Anyways...
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the KHR or Yugioh franchise. I do, however, own Sora(reader), Arisa, and Kasumi as well as any other OCs that I'll bring in. Maybe.
Chapter Two - Slifers and Obelisks
"This is supposed to be a skirt?" Arisa said incredulously as she held up the bottom half of the girls' blue Obelisk school uniform that they were supposed to wear while they were on the island.
After the hour flight from Domino city, you and your friends had settled into the dorm room you were going to be sharing. Due to some complications (thanks to Reborn, as usual) you missed most of the opening ceremonies and decided to just head straight to your room instead. To pass the time, the three of you decided to take a peak at the Duel Academy's regulation uniforms.
The clothing articles in question consisted of a white top with blue trimming that would be worn over a black sleeveless shirt. It was accompanied by a pair of gloves that were nearly elbow length, royal blue boots... and a blue mini skirt. A mini skirt that hardly covered anything if one chose to either sit down or bend over.
For once, you didn't tell the red-head to suck up her grievances as you were also looking at the thing in distaste.
You were not adverse to mini skirts and you certainly did not go around calling the girls who wore that kind of clothing sluts, either. But at that moment, as you examined the skirt you were supposed to wear, you couldn't help but twitch. Mini skirts were a style and while you hardly battered an eye at just how little it covered when someone wore it, that certainly did not mean you didn't have a problem when presented with the choice of having to wear one yourself. Especially if it was considered mandatory.
"This is not a skirt." Arisa grumbled. "These are cloths sewn together and presented to look like a skirt!"
"Come on," Kasumi said as she examined her own uniform. "It's not that bad."
But you heard the unhappy tone in Kasumi's voice. Kasumi was the closest thing to being the fashionista of the group and while she liked looking nice in the clothes she wore, she was also on the conservative side. You could tell that she wasn't any happier about the situation as you and Arisa were.
"I am not wearing this." Arisa said in disgust as she flung the skirt onto the bed, violet eyes blazing. "I don't care if I get detention for the entire year for not wearing proper uniform because there is no way in hell I am wearing that. If I decided to wear a skirt that short in the States, I would have gotten sent home straight a way to change into something else because I was violating the dress code!"
You raised an eyebrow at your friend as she began her rant. Having lived in the United States until shortly before the start of middle school, Arisa was well knowledgeable in anything related to the western superpower of the world. People in America were more lax in practically everything in comparison to Japan, so the mini skirt must have sure been something.
While schools in the western parts of the world weren't required to wear uniforms, there were still dress codes that the students there were required to follow. One of them being that you couldn't wear something that revealed so much skin that it left little to the imagination.
"Is there anything in the regulation book that talks about the uniforms?" You asked, looking over at Kasumi. "Like, how it isn't mandatory?"
Kasumi was already quickly flipping through the pages of the Rules and Regulations all students had been given before the start of school. After a few minutes, Kasumi looked up into your hopeful gazes.
"Well, it says that the uniform you are provided with at the beginning of the year is mandatory, but modifications are allowed to be made to. And they have to be appropriate."
"They call the skirt appropriate?" Arisa said incredulously.
"Does it specify anything?" You asked. 'Like how you don't necessarily have to wear a specific part of it unless you want to?'
Kasumi shook her head. "Well, you have to indicate that you belong to a specific dorm. Other than that, you're pretty okay from there."
"Good enough for me." You said. Instead of the skirt, you were going to be wearing a pair of jeans and unless the teacher gave you a good reason as to why you shouldn't be wearing them, you would stick with them. Besides, it was just the bottom half of the uniform you had issues with; the rest of it was fine.
You debated on whether you should wear the uniform or not and then decided that at the moment, you were to lazy to bother and would change into the uniform later when it was time for the Welcome Dinner that every dorm would be holding. Your outfit at the moment - A dress shirt that was big for you and that had some of it hanging out from the dark blue sweater vest you were wearing over top of it, as well as a pair of jean shorts - was fine as it was and you wanted to hold off on wearing the uniform for as long as you could.
Deciding that you've had enough of being indoors, you pushed yourself off the bed and headed for the door.
"Hey, where are you going?" Arisa asked when she heard the door open and looked up to see you about to leave.
"Going to explore the island. You coming?"
"Hell yes!" The red head jumped excitedly off the floor, her quest to save the digital princess and digital kingdom laying forgotten on the ground.
"I'll stay behind. There's something I need to do." Kasumi said distractedly, still looking at the uniform.
You and Arisa stared at Kasumi and then turned to stare at each other. Arisa shrugged while you simply raised an eyebrow at her in return before turning away from your the girl who chose to remain behind and closing the door behind you.
xxxx
"H-hey Jaden, where did you go?" The smaller boy said when he realized that his friend was no longer with him. While he had been distracted by his musings of some sort that looked really melancholy judging by the expression on his face, he didn't realize that his companion had run off.
Luckily for him, the two of you came just in time to point out exactly where his friend was racing off towards.
"He went that way." Arisa jerked a thumb at the distant form of a brown and red figure running towards the school.
"Jaden! Wait up!" The bespectacled boy wailed as he ran after his friend.
You and Arisa stared after them for a moment before your friend started running after the bespectacled boy. You weren't surprised by this as Arisa seemed to have a radar for detecting any action that was going on nearby. And with the two reds, she must have sensed that something was happening and was therefore going after them to figure it out because her nature demanded that she do so.
Rolling your eyes, you ran after your friend like you usually did when she sniffed out adventure and just had to after it.
xxxx
"Wrong, this is the Blue Obelisk's campus." You heard someone say just as you turned the corner into room you saw Arisa run in to.
You frowned as you quietly came up behind your friend and watched the scene in front of you unfold, opting not to say anything and alert anyone until the right opportunity came. Confronting Arisa and the two unnamed red uniformed boys were two other boys decked out in blue. By their posture and haughty expressions, you could instantly tell that they were the type that thought very highly of themselves and that they were above others.
The boy who just spoke had dark blue hair and was wearing a pair of glasses similar to the small bespectacled boy in red. But there was a sneer on his face as he stared distastefully at them.
"And you Slifer Red Rejects aren't welcome here, you got that?" His companion, a muscle bound guy who looked as if he relied more on his muscles than his brains leered at them.
"What was that, Gorilla?" Arisa said as she threateningly held up a fist and took a step forward as if to punch the mentioned 'gorilla's' face out.
The boy, despite the fact that he was taller and bigger than her, seemed to sense that she was also more than capable of punching his lights out and took a step back warily while also protesting the nickname she had given him.
"I said that Red Slackers aren't allowed here." He sneered, but eyed her threatening fist warily.
"Oh really?" Arisa snarled. If there was one thing she despised with every fiber of her being, it was a hierarchy of any type where people who were 'on top' looked down upon others; especially at a school. "How about I make you eat those words..." She advanced one step, "by having you meet my FIST!"
Arisa pulled back her arm so quickly that hardly anyone had time to blink and launched her fist at him. But before she could actually break his nose and have his red blood splatter all over the precious blue uniform of his, staining it the very colour he looked down upon, you had quickly sneaked up behind Arisa and restrained her, pulling her back so that she wouldn't be able to hit him.
"What the-? Sora!" Arisa yelled as she realized that you were the one who was holding her back. "Let me go! I need to punch the day lights out of the bastard!"
"As much as the guy deserves a good punch to the face," You quickly said in Japanese so that aforementioned boy who would have had a broken nose had you not interfered, and probably the others, wouldn't understand your words, "the first day of school is not the time to do it!"
Arisa still struggled against your tight grip; she refusing to back down from her attempt of hitting one of the elitists and you refusing to let her do something that would get her expelled right off the bat when school hadn't even started yet.
"Hey, speak english!" Gorilla said. "This is an international school."
You snorted and rolled your eyes, switching to english so that he would understand you mocking his genius. "Yeah, well this international school happens to be on Japan's borders, so I'm allowed to speak in japanese if I want to, dumbass."
"What did you say?" He snarled.
"I said that we're. IN. JAPAN." You emphasized the last two words, glaring at the boy. "I'll speak in Japanese if we want to. And as you mentioned, INTERNATIONAL. SCHOOL. That means that there is going to be more than one language being used in these halls, so you better get used to hearing someone speak in another language other than english, you xenophobe."
There was silence as everyone in the room contemplated your words.
Arisa then broke that silence by snorting and saying, "Nice one, Sora."
Unsurprisingly, the two Obelisk Blues didn't find what you said as amusing as your friend did.
"What the hell did you say, you bitch?" Gorilla was livid and he looked as if he was seriously contemplating on punching you.
"Do you know what dorm we're in?" His companion with the small glasses said.
"Yeah, I'm not colour blind. You're an Obelisk." You said, wondering what kind of point he was trying to make.
"Then you should know that we don't tolerate that kind of behaviour towards us around here!"
Wow, this was beginning to wear on your nerves as well. And considering that you dealt with stupidity on a near daily basis, that was definitely something.
"Will you shut up?" A sixth voice snarled angrily.
Everyone, including you, looked around wondering where the voice had come from. Then you saw a shape from the stands shift and a boy with black hair came into view.
"Who the hell are you?" Arisa asked. From the tone of her voice, you could tell that she had already taken an instant disliking to the new comer.
"Oh, hey." You looked over your shoulder to see the brunet Slifer grinning and waving a hand at the boy. "What's up? My name's Jaden Yuki."
Who looked at the Obelisks.
"And he's-?"
"His name's Chazz Princeton and he was the number one duelist back at duel prep school." The Obelisk with the glasses said. "So you make sure you pay him the proper respects, got it?"
"Yeah, he's going to be the future King of Games! The best duelist in the world!" Gorilla added.
Silence met with that statement and before Arisa could interrupt it again, the boy named Jaden folded his arms and beat her to it, saying, "Impossible."
"What?" Gorilla was taken aback.
"You see," Jaden began to explain, "it's impossible for him to be the future King of Games. Because that's exactly what I'm going to be."
The two Obelisk boys quickly laughed.
"A Slifer Slacker is King of Games? That'll be the day."
And to everyone's surprise, it was Princeton who got them to shut up. "Can it, you two!" Seeing his friends' incredulous stares, he smirked. "Maybe the new kid's right."
"Uh, what do you mean there Chazz?" His friend with the glasses said.
"He did beat Crowler, after all." He looked down at Jaden with a condescending stare. "And that legendary rare monster of his. I suppose that takes some skill to pull that off."
"Finally, an Obelisk who isn't an obnoxious-" Arisa began.
"Got that right." Jaden said, not bothered at all by the fact that he was being looked down upon.
"Or was it luck? I say that we find out right now." He finished.
"Never mind. He's as bad, if not worse, as his two flunkies."
"Bring it!" Jaden declared, a burning spark in his eyes as he accepted the challenge the Obelisk threw out at him.
Before things could blow out of proportion (aka Arisa decking someone) they heard footsteps getting closer towards them and a female voice saying, "This sure is a motley crew."
A curvy blonde haired girl wearing the regulation girls Obelisk Uniform walked into view, followed by someone else who you happened to recognize; it was the boy you sat next to during the duel exams, Yusei Fudo.
Like you and Arisa, he wasn't wearing a uniform. Instead, he wore a dark blue jacket that was considerably shorter than the ones the Obelisk wore over a black shirt with a red symbol. He was wearing a darker pair of jeans and his clothes were decorated with amber gems. To complete the outfit, he had on a pair of brown leather gloves.
"Who are they?" Arisa whispered into your ear.
But Princeton answered the question for her. "Hello, Alexis." The permanent sneer on his face disappeared and was replaced by a charming smile. "...and Fudo. Have you some to watch me mop the floor with my new little friend Jaden here?"
Beside you, Arisa twitched.
"Actually," Yusei answered in place for the girl, Alexis, he had walked in with. "We're here to remind you about the welcome dinner at the dorms." He didn't sound to concerned when he added the last part. "You're late."
"...oh, yeah." Princeton scoffed. He nodded at the boy wearing glasses and Gorilla. "C'mon guys."
Without another word, he turned away from the group and headed for the exit. His two flunkies quickly followed after him. Yusei rolled his eyes and followed after the boys. You guessed that he was from Obelisk Blue like the idiots you had been forced to deal with earlier, but he had shown himself to be a decent person unlike them.
Also, he didn't strike you as being elitist when you first met him and now.
When the Obelisk boys left, the tension that had been hanging in the air immediately evaporated.
"Ugh." Arisa groaned. "If there are more people like them in this place," She glared at the exit. "I think I'll just jump off a cliff and save myself the trouble of having to deal with those guys."
The girl who interrupted what would have degraded into a physical fight courtesy of you and Arisa, Alexis, shot Arisa an amused look. "Sorry about that. Chazz is just a jerk," And she muttered under her breath, "he's even worse than some of the other Obelisks." And then out loud, "Especially to Slifers."
"We hadn't noticed." You commented wryly.
"It's no big deal." Jaden said, flashing a grin. "Those types don't really bother me at all." His grin widened even more. "Besides, I can beat him in one turn!"
"We're going to have to work on that over confidence of yours." His companion, clearly embarrassed by his friend's statement, said quietly.
While Jaden amended his statement to two turns and a half, Alexis reminded them that they were having dinner at their dorm as well and that they would be late if they didn't leave now. Jaden said a quick good bye to the three of you before hurrying off after his companion to head to the dorms.
"As for you two," Alexis turned to them. "You haven't even changed into your uniforms yet."
You shrugged, not at all concerned about that. Arisa, however, froze in place before saying "Shit! We're late for dinner!" and then racing out of the dueling arena as if hell itself were on her heels. You, however, decided to take your sweet time going to where your dorm was by walking at a normal pace.
"Uh... shouldn't you be running like your friend just did?" Alexis asked you.
"Probably."
"And you're not rushing like she is, why?"
"Because she'll be back."
The blonde raised an inquiring eyebrow at you. "How do you know?"
"It's likely that she doesn't remember where the Obelisk girl dorms are, so she'll return any minute to-"
And there.
Arisa was already racing towards you.
"Sora! I forgot where the dorm was!"
You shot Alexis an amused smirk. "See?"
Ugh, this wasn't supposed to go to 3,000 or over 3,000. Ah well. Don't expect the other chapters to be this long though.
Just so you know, the Duel Academy hierarchy is going to be a big deal in this story.
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