cookiiex: Oh, Lordy. Dx Here's chapter three, enjoy! :D OOCness will ensue!
I Pray To You
Authoress: cookiiex
Chapter THREE: Clue
She could feel it. She could feel their beady little eyes boring into her back. Watching, waiting for their time to strike.
She could hear it. She could hear the floor squeak a little as they stepped closer to her. There would be a pause and then they would, again, slowly go towards her. Their heavy breathing hitched. She could hear them let out a sigh of relief that she didn't move.
But she knew they were there. She waited for them to come a little closer. Just like how a spider would wait for their prey to just fly into their web. Stealth. That's what she needed to survive right now. Having the element of surprise helped in a battle. And like flies, they came closer, closer to her web. She could sense their caution as they were a mere four steps away from her bed.
This was the time. She slowly rolled over, halting their steps. Her eyes were still closed as she let herself face them. Faking her slumber, they made there way closer.
"Nee-chan?" She heard one of the little monsters whispered.
"Shut up!" The other whispered angrily. "She'll hear you!"
"Sorry!"
They made it closer to her, close enough for her to grab one of their arms. She cackled in her mind as she heard them gasp in terror. This was too easy.
In one swift movement she opened her eyes as she set in it 'glare' mode.
She was pretty sure people awoke as the screams of her little brothers erupted.
She let go of the arm she held tightly and before a blink of a eye, they ran out her room.
She sighed. Brothers. Reluclently, she forced herself to get out her bed and headed towards her dresser. On the door of it, hung an outfit she esembled last night. A simple blue top and black jeans. Nothing too special for what was awaiting her that day.
Oh she had no idea.
"Echizen! Pay attention."
Ryoma was, like always, playing tennis with his senpais. It was their morning practice but that didn't stop Tezuka from barking orders at the freshmans.
"Mada mada dane."
It wasn't like he needed to try at practice - he could whoop these guy's butts. He just needed to sleep.
Badly.
The old man was on the phone with some annonymous person yesterday. For five hours striaght. And we all know how Nanjiroh is - loud as hell. So how could little Ryoma get any sleep? Exactly.
He didn't.
The old man was screaming and laughing with someone at eleven at night. 'Maybe I should tell mom' Ryoma mused. Who knows who his father was having such a grand time with. Pure blackmail material.
"RYOMA- SAMA!!" called an irritating, ridiculously high pitched voice.
Oh joy. "Onakada- san." he acknowleged. See, he could be polite.
Said girl looked at him with dissapproval. "Mou.. the least you could do is get the name right. Osakada, say it with me; O-SA-KA-DA." Ryoma tugged at his hat.
"Sorry, Osakada-san." The girl smiled
"Good."
Ryoma observed the girl. Even if she wasn't particularily quiet now,she wasn't as loud as she was a few years back. It could be the fact that her best friend was gone for years. Still, Tomoka hasn't developed any real big changes to her personality.
She was still a fangirl. The team's loudest fangirl actually. She was at all of their games for four years and she usually made lunch for the whole team.
She wasn't the kindest girl in the world but she has her moments. But if you throw her and Horio in a room together and someone's bound to lose their eardrums. He didn't quite understand why she was easily agitated when Horio was around but was smart enough to stay quiet about it. Also there was that time Ann and her bumped heads at the Seigaku- Foudomine match. He inwardly shivered.
Girls are scary when they're mad.
She was fickle. Yes, she was. He didn't noticed at first, but when he came back she wasn't avidly cheering for him like she did in the past. When they were still in middle school, she would sneak off to the high school games. At first he thought it was for support and her attachment to her sempais but later.. well he wasn't too sure himself. Right after Kaidoh and Momo left she was practically glue to the high school tennis courts.
Now that Ryoma thought about it, he learned a lot about his peers. They had really grown on him. Sure he would forget a name or two once in while but he knew them by face. That should count for something.
He was talking a lot more than before. If they were lucky enough, he might say more than two sentences.
But he has to say, he did mature.
...
Pfft, yeah, right.
She handed in the registration papers. The secretary smiled as she accepted the papers. "Thank you."
Sakuno smiled back and bowed. The woman turned around and reached for the box on the floor. After she opened the box and pulled out a highschool girl's uniform. Sakuno held the uniform as the secretary signed out a few more papers. She clicked at the computer and out came a printed piece of paper.
The woman handed Sakuno her schedule and bidded her a good day.
Now Sakuno turned left and right in the hallways serching for a bathroom.
"RYOMA- SAMA!!"
Sakuno turned to look out the window. Her eyes landed on the pigtailed girl bouncing to boy in the tennis courts. Sakuno smiled.
"Tomo-chan." Sakuno smirked. She had a plan. But first she had to find a bathroom.
"So what did they say about the petition?" Tomoka asked.
Kachiro sighed. "It's going down hill. Not only is it not enough but the school board rule it as insufficent cause. How is saving animals an insufficent cause?! They have every right to live like us! We shouldn't dissect anything in school!"
Katsuo nodded. "There is a program online. Dissecting online is safer and it doesn't kill animals. You'd think the school board would take that into consideration."
"Exactly! But it's those darn science teacher. Do you know what their excuse is? 'Oh, the students won't get a clear understanding if they learn it on the computer. There are animals out there with complications inside so they won't understand blah, blah, blah.' Ugh, those science teachers make me sick!"
"I don't see what the big deal is." Horio interjected. "They're just frogs, it's not like there isn't a thousand more out there."
Kachiro clenched his fist. Tomoka shouted "How can you say that!? Frogs are living beings too! They.."
Ryoma tuned out the rest of the conversation before Horio asked for his opinion. He saw that all eyes were on him, expecting his answer. He scratched the back of his neck before answering "Well, I don't really care."
Kachiro looked disappointed. Well it was Ryoma's opinion. He sighed before continuing "But I guess that fro-"
"TOMO- CHAN!!" came a loud voice interupting Ryoma.
The source of the voice engulfed into a hug with Tomoka. Ryoma couldn't get a look at the person's face but he could guess it was a girl by the uniform. She was student of their school but he was sure he never saw the semi long flowing auburn hair that was flying with the wind.
After a few seconds of registering what just happened, Tomoka pulled apart from the person hugging her with shocked eyes. She gave her a once over before speaking.
"S..Sakuno?"
All the girl did was smile.
"It's been a while huh, Tomo-chan?"
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