Chapter 4

Enthusiast

Author's Note: I know. It has been ages. I was just so busy and then we have exams. The bright side though. Summer is soon! I can't wait! I'll try to post as much as I can. Well…hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice, Digimon and Shaman King

They didn't know what happened. It was as if it happened in a blink of an eye. Who would have guessed that what they did would have turned into a fatal mistake.

During art period Hitomi, Chihiro and Meruka all got in trouble. They did the impossible and idiotic. They had splashed Mr. Jinno with paint in the middle of a heated paint battle. This then, resulted him to make them no-stars. The sad thing was that if they waited a little bit longer of not doing anything then they would have a normal star ranking just like anyone. Apparently fate was simply not on their side.

"Its ok guys" Mikan tried to console "This exactly happened to me. Mr. Jinno just dislikes people with powers like us. It's not really your fault. He's just a horrible person"

"You can stop trying to make us feel better." Chihiro said with a dead and sad tone "Either way we still got a horrible star ranking"

"Because some stupid person didn't listen to the teacher" Hitomi said irritably

"I said I was sorry! You just never let anything down. Besides I was listening! I just couldn't comprehend" Chihiro replied sharply

"Relax Chihiro" Yoh said as he tried his best to make peace between the two. "Just take deep breaths. It can't be that bad. Right Mikan?"

"Huh!...well…yeah" Mikan said with obvious doubtfulness in her voice "You'll get used to it. I didn't mind after a while." She finished with a small practically tiny smile

"Are you kidding me?" Hotaru said softly without any sympathy "That idiot cried all the time. She kept on complaining and sulked for hours. She practically let this whole thing get into her head. It took me to say something to stop her from falling into despair."

"Way to cheer them up Hotaru" Sora said as she sighed "How about you just tell them what you told Mikan so that they can use it too"

"Why should I? It will only waste my time. Time is money after all" Hotaru said while taking a sip of her juice which for some reason seemed to just come out of nowhere. "Unless…" a glint of light passed through her eyes "you are willing to pay"

When Hotaru looked up she saw the rest of them crowding and talking in whispers.

"Mikan" said Tai Chi "How in the world did you get stuck with a selfish and money hungry friend like her." Sadly this was not left unheard by the famous and cold Hotaru Imai which resulted in Tai Chi being hit squarely on the head with her infamous baka gun.

"I'm sorry Tai Chi but I think you should have been expecting that once you spoke ill of Hotaru Imai" Yamato said as he was trying to calm Tai Chi down. In truth Tai Chi is pretty annoyed with the baka gun and sometimes would wish to smash with his bare hands one day. Sadly he would have to go through a whole lot of other people too. He isn't the only one who would want to get rid of it.

"Seriously you should relax Hotaru. That isn't how a 3-star model student should act" Yoh said teasingly. Sadly the moment he looked at Hotaru he received a glare from her. It was as if she was sending a telepathic message that if he said another word he would face the fury of her baka gun. Yoh realizing this didn't say a single word.

"Oh that reminds me" Chihiro said "What are all of your star rankings?"

"Well…" Sora said "It doesn't really matter does it. Star ranking isn't that important."

"Then why are you avoiding the question?" Hitomi asked while raising an eyebrow at Sora

"Really guys. It's no big deal" Yamato said to rescue Sora from the evil aura coming out of Hitomi.

"Come on!!" Chihiro said impatiently she then glanced towards Yoh who then suddenly whistled then slowly walked away. It was as if he did it on purpose to avoid Chihiro's glance. This annoyed the two girls even more.

"Hey" Meruka said which startled most of them since she hasn't spoken since the whole incident. In fact that was how Meruka was. She was always thinking of something and spacing out.

Surprisingly Meruka grabbed Tai Chi's ear and pulled it.

"Oww!!" Tai Chi said as he was fidgeting from Meruka's grasp "Let go!!"

"I will if you will please tell me and my friends what your star rankings are" Meruka said threateningly.

"Honestly you don't have to" Sora who was surprised with Meruka's actions said. After Sora said this Meruka simply pulled Tai Chi's ear even harder.

"OK! OK!" Tai Chi said in pain "We all got three stars!!!" After Tai Chi said this Meruka let go of his ear faced her friends and simply said "There you go"

"You guys are three starts!!" Chihiro said

"Yeah. Surprising huh. They said it was because we are rare alices." Yoh said plainly "Honestly, I don't think we deserve a three star."

"Hear that Chihiro." Hitomi said irritably "They all got three stars and we got a NO star"

"Will you stop pointing that out" Chihiro said angrily "You're the one who continued on with the paint fight. It's not only MY fault!"

"Well I wouldn't have done it if you didn't start it in the first place" Hitomi replied angrily and was raising her voice.

"WELL…" Chihiro continued but someone grabbed their ears and it was none other than Meruka.

"How about both of you guys just build a bridge and get over it" Meruka said irritably as she was slowly pulling their ears more by the second. As it became more and more unbearable the girls quickly said sorry to each other.

"Good!" Meruka said "I hope I won't hear anymore fights about this" She then shot looks of question towards Hitomi and Chihiro with which the two just shook their heads while holding their sore ears.

Before anyone could say anything it was announced that it was time for dinner.

"Well I guess it's time to try out our star ranking meals" Tai Chi said "I can share some of my food with you if you want, girls"

"Thanks" Chihiro said politely "It's ok though. We wouldn't want to feed of your food."

"Are you sure" Tai Chi asked

"We'll be fine" Meruka said with a smile "Let's go shall we."

As the others went ahead it was only Mikan ad Hotaru who were left there. Mikan then spoke to Hotaru "Poor girls. I remember how horrible it was to be a no star. They would have small tiny rooms, meals that were hardly any meals, once a week chores and even tiny allowances. I just hope they won't take it that bad"

"I guess they'll live." Hotaru simply said before leaving the classrooms.

At the cafeteria all of them sat in their respected seats and simply waited for their meals. Chihiro and Yoh were both fidgeting since both of them were talking animatedly and were curious about what the meals could be.

"Will you guys just please sit still" Yamato said irritably "You guys are starting to make me dizzy"

"Finally someone told them" Hitomi said "Here I thought I was the only sensible person to realize her wrongdoings."

"What do you mean by my wrongdoings" Chihiro said menacingly towards Hitomi

"Honestly guys. Why must you guys do this even at the dinner table" Mikan said as she was trying to calm the two down.

"Dinner is served" said a robot that seemed to pop out of nowhere. It came out along with a thirty more. Together they quickly gave the respected dinners to the deserving people.

The three-stars were given their meals and saw that their dinner was this rice dish along with a slab of juicy steak with it came a gravy bowl for those who wanted to put gravy. The meal came with soup, salad, mash potatoes and even a chocolate mousse cake for dessert. The one star meal, that Mikan had, was a simple spaghetti dinner which came with a drink of choice and bread rolls.

All of the students were gazing at their delicious meals. As Mikan and company were about to dig in they stopped and checked on the three girls. The no-star was a sad meal indeed. It comprised of a cup of rice with a tiny piece of seaweed on top. It came with a bowl of miso soup and pickle. That was simply it. The friends were about to give out their sympathy towards the three when they were disturbed by the calling of names.

Tai Chi, Sora and Yamato looked up to find Hikari and Takeru heading towards them.

"Hey big brother" the two of them both said.

"Aww…you guys are just so adorable" Mikan said. Her eyes were wide because she just can't believe how adorable they were. "Whose siblings are these?"

"Well Hikari who is the girl is sisters of Tai Chi. Takeru on the other hand is Yamato's brother." Sora said

Let me tell you how these kids look like. Hikari for one is a girl who has the same hair color as her brother. It's flat and cut at just right below the chin. Takeru is Yamato's brother who has the same color as him but his hair is shorter and flatter.

"Guess what older brother?" Takeru said excitedly "Hikari and I got our star rankings. We're both double stars but they said it's only because we're still young. They say we're going to be three stars with the rate we're going"

"Umm…Takeru I guess you should hush down first. It might make some of our friends feel bad" Tai Chi said quietly

"What do you mean brother?" Hikari asked

"Well we have friends who aren't as lucky as you" Yamato replied quietly "In fact they are very depressed about it."

Hikari and Takeru then looked at the table to see who they might have been talking about.

"Big brother?" Takeru started "Are those friends of yours those three girls?"

"Yes. Why?" Yamato asked curiously

"Well, they don't look very depressed to me." Hikari said. To the rest of the group's confusion they decided to check out Hitomi and company. When they did they got a huge shock.

Here, the whole group was expecting sad and depressed girls. Well, in fact it was quite the opposite. The girls who had a tiny meal were actually laughing. Another thing they noticed was that their food was half-finished. The strangest thing was that even though it was half-finished the girls seemed to not touch the remaining food.

"Um…" Sora asked "Is there something wrong with your food guys?"

"Nope." Chihiro replied cheerfully "It was really delicious. Why do you ask?"

"Well…you're not eating the rest of it." Yoh pointed out

"Yeah." Hitomi said "It's so good but we're just too full."

"You're Full?!?!?!" Yamato asked in disbelief

"Yeah." Meruka said "Who could eat this much? It's just too heavy! You want some?" she then offered to Tai Chi

"How could you guys be full??" Tai Chi asked in shock

"I don't know. We just are." Hitomi said simply

Surprisingly the meals weren't the only things that shocked them during that period.

During the end of the day the students were now going to be given their room assignments.

"Ok guys. I want you to know that even if your room isn't to your liking you should just continue smiling. You can only just go up to from this point" Mikan said as she was trying to motivate and encourage them. She wouldn't tell them just horrible these rooms would be.

"Ok? If you say so" Chihiro replied confusedly

"Girls" called a robot that was peering at them "My, my so many no-stars. This is not good. You see the school isn't used to having no-stars at this level. The last and only no-star we had was Mikan over here."

"Did you honestly need to bring that up?" Mikan said sadly

"Well, I guess it can't be help." The robot continued, ignoring Mikan's complaint "Since we only have one room I guess you guys have to stay together for the time being"

"Oh wow. Those poor girls. It was bad enough when I was alone. How much more if they are three? They're going to be cramped. I better go and try to comfort them more" Mikan thought. Just as she was about to say something Chihiro jumped up down.

"No way!!!!" Chihiro exclaimed happily "We get to stay in the same room!!!" She then faced her friends and continued to jump excitedly.

"Honestly Chihiro" Hitomi said "I'm really happy too but don't let anyone see you like this. They might think there is something wrong with you."

"Come on Hitomi! Cheer up" Chihiro said "You too Meruka." After Chihiro said this Hitomi and Meruka looked at each other and just shrugged. Then they jumped excitedly too in celebration.

"Wow…These girls are just…Wow" Mikan thought in confusion

"So guys" Ruka then went up to the girls "For some reason Mr. Narumi made me to tell you, you guys have to do these chores"

"Really? Wow…so you're telling me just because they're no-stars they have to do chores" Yoh asked in sympathy

"Pretty much" Ruka said pitifully "That's how it is"

"Well don't worry guys." Mikan said happily "I'm willing to help you guys out and I'm sure the others are too."

"Hold on…." Hitomi said "You're telling me we're going to have to do chores."

"Yeah" Sora said "I'm sorry guys that…" before Sora could finish though Chihiro was suddenly talking animatedly to the other two. The other two seemed to be excited too.

"What are you guys talking about" Yamato asked

"We're getting ready to do chores" Chihiro replied happily "I wonder what we'll do. I hope its dishes."

"Hold on…What??" Tai Chi asked in confusion. "Are you guys happy?"

"Yeah!" Hitomi replied with a smile on her face "Chores are so fun to do!!"

After Hitomi said this, the one thought that went in everybody else's mind was "These girls are really different than others"

"Yeah?" Mikan asked "So are you guys ok or something? Is there a chance they dropped you guys when you were a baby?"

"No!" Hitomi answered bluntly "Why what's wrong with us? Huh?"

"Oh nothing…Anyway…are you guys excited to go to Central Town?" Mikan said, changing the subject. She didn't feel like getting Hitomi angry already.

"Well sure but we have to wait for our allowance though" Yamato said

"We have allowance?" Meruka asked

"Yeah we do. The thing is that it depends on what your star ranking is though" Ruka then said

"It does? So does that mean since we are no-stars then we have a very low allowance" Chihiro asked. Everybody the shifted their eyes because they didn't want to see them feeling sad about it.

"Well…yeah…" Mikan then said "Don't worry thought. It's not like central town is that great and we can always lend you guys, money."

"Oh don't worry about us" Hitomi then said with a smile on her face "We won't really need it."

"Hold on…what?!?!" Mikan asked in confusion

"Yeah…the three of us don't really like to shop. It wouldn't matter how much we get. In fact it wouldn't even matter if we don't have allowance. It's not like we need it anyway." Meruka then said

"Well…guys" Hitomi then said "You guys want to do the chores now?"

"Sure!" Chihiro replied cheerfully "Well see you later guys! Oh and Yoh don't forget the book I lent you."

With that said the three girls left the group speechless. With nothing to say they could only think of one thing "These girls are just weird"

Author's Note: Well I hope you guys enjoyed it! Summer time means more posts. Hopefully…