Hello everyone! How's it going? Here's Chapter Six for all of you now, I hope you enjoy!
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Chapter Six
Getting to Know Each Other-
Give it in My Opinion?
Narrator's P.O.V
The last school bell rang, as students exited their class rooms. The gang stayed in their seats talking to one another.
"Wow Black Star, I never knew that you'd get beat by a girl." Liz said with a grin.
"I didn't completely lose to Shonaku! I was going easy on her." Black Star folded his arms and turned his head. "I don't Black Star," Maka said. "it looked like you gave it your all there." A stress mark appeared on Black Star, and Black Star slammed the desk.
" Huh, why would I do that?! I'm not going to waste all my strength on some little kid! Of course, not even Shonaku's victory shows that she's greater than me! Black Star, the great assassin who will surpass god! Hyahaha!" Shonaku yelled at Black Star kicking him off the desk. He landed face first. "Will you please shut up about that! Lord, it's annoying! And who are you to be calling a kid ya bastard!" Black Star sat up from the ground glaring at Shonaku.
"A squirt isn't going tell a big star like me to shut up! And enough with the kicks! You're going to disfigure the great assassin's appearance!" Black Star went to sit back at the desks. Shonaku rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. She was annoyed with Black Star's boasting and felt like crushing him like a bug. But she also didn't want to start up a fight again, as for yesterday's battle she was too close. If she hadn't done what she did, there was no doubt about it that Black Star would've won that one. Shonaku then had the feeling of something she had forgotten. She glance around and found that someone was missing in the classroom.
"Hey, do you guys know where Crona went?" she asked. "Oh yeah, he said he was heading to the balcony to do something?" Maka told her. Shonaku face palmed. "Of course! I have to go meet up with him! I promised him yesterday that we would talk again, how the hell can I forget that?" Shonaku shifted her books to Maka and started to the class door. "Maka, can you take my books home with you when you leave, please? Thanks!" and with that Shonaku was out of the classroom. "I didn't even give my answer.." Maka sweat dropped and sighed.
Sometimes I just have this feeling that one of these days she's going to blow up Crona's face for some reason. I mean so far for the past days she only wants to talk to him. Geez Louis..Maka thought to herself. The gang continued their conversation as they left the classroom.
Crona's P.O.V
It's been twenty minutes did she forget? Or maybe she had something else to do. It was really weird for me to come all the way here by myself..It's getting late. Should I go? No wait, I can't that would be rude of me.. I looked off into the distance with nothing else to think about. Just then, I heard footsteps near towards me, I turned around and saw Shonaku running this way. She smiled and waved at me, as I did the same. Except for the smile.
"Sorry I came so late I was uh..busy with something..yeah."She rubbed the back of her head. I wasn't too sure about her answer, but that was okay. As I am that way with everyone. "That's okay." I told her. "So umm..what now?" I asked, definitely not making the situation any better. "Oh, right! I wanted to teach you."
"T-teach me?" I asked confused. "Yeah! I've noticed that you stutter a lot, and that really isn't healthy you know. If you continue to stutter you'll be stuck with it the rest of your life! So I'm going to teach you to stutter less! But, in order to do that you need to get over being shy. At least be comfortable talking with me." "M-my stuttering..?" But it's how I always talk. And I doubt there's anything that can fix my shyness. "I-I don't think I can.."
"Oh come on! You have to try! Here let's try something." We both turned to face each other, and criss-crossed. Shonaku was smiling so much, how was it possible? I could be as happy as a rainbow and still not even smile as much as her. I don't like to say it much, but whenever she's in this happy mood of hers it kind of creeps me out..
"Okay, lesson one." she said to me. "Let's start with the alphabet. If you stutter one letter you have to start all over, got it?" I slowly nodded at her. "Okay, now go." I looked down hesitating. "Uh...A, B, C.." I looked up. Same smile on her face, her eyes fixed on me. It nerved me. "D-D..Oh, uh.." Shonaku giggled a little. which scared me a little more. I started back to the beginning. "A, B, C, D, E, F, G.." I wasn't really expecting to do this. It was a little embarrassing really, I couldn't go through half of the alphabet without stuttering. Then I did it once again. "J, K-K. Ah. Sorry..I can't really do this Shonaku.." I looked down. "Hey, it's okay, take your time! Come on you can do it, Crona!"
Why was she doing this in the first place? Really, I'm most likely one of those people who are just there, with everyone minding their own business. I usually mind my own business, but she decided to just talk to me. Why? There's nothing new about me. I can't talk fluently, I'm afraid to interact with others, and there's nothing entertaining about me. Hey, wait. How am I even talking to her in the first place? How did she drag me into this? How does she do it? That's too many questions for me to handle. But, even though she has me here with her I still can't deal with talking to her like any person I know. Yet she seems so open with everyone..
It took me at least half an hour to get to say the alphabet fluently. Well, at least it wasn't so bad. It could've been worse. I think. I think I really did bore her though, at some points she was giving me a face. A "really?" face. This whole lesson thing didn't make me feel any better. But as time went, our conversation didn't get any better either.
"Good! You're getting there, don't worry. From the looks of it it will probably take some time. But that's okay. Hey, I've been meaning to ask you something." she said to me. "L-like what?" I asked shyly. She put a finger to her chin and looked up. "Well, when you saw me at the stairs..I wasn't looking up so I couldn't see you. But you were talking to someone, who were you talking to exactly?" she gave me a look of question. I remember exactly who was talking to me. With his same tellings, always telling me to shut up or man up. I didn't know what to say. What would happen if he saw her? If she saw him? Just then as these thoughts wondered in my head, he appeared out of my back. Ragnorok.
"That would be me! Gupipi!" He shouted pointing at himself.
Shonaku yelped and pointed at Ragnorok. "W-what the?! What in the hell are you?!" "Hehe, did I say I'm a meister? Well you see I'm k-kind of both.." I said. Ragnorok bended down to Shonaku, looking at her skeptically. "What am I? Who are you?" Shonaku gestured to herself. "I'm Shonaku Miwasaki thank you very much. So, like I was asking before, what the hell are you?!"
"I'm Ragnorok! Demon sword Ragnorok!" Ragnorok told her. Shonaku stared at him curiously. "Raganork?" Ragnorok shouted at her annoyed. "No, it's Ragnorok!"
"Ragadork?"
"RAGNOROK"
"Ragnafork?"
Ragnorok seemed ready to rip Shonaku's head off. Shonaku just laughed at herself with a grin.
"Oh, I can so do this all day long." she continued to laugh and make fun of Ragnorok. "Oh, yeah!" Rangnorok said. "What's up with your clown hair, huh? You look like a stupid clown with your whacky hair, and your stupid clothes!"
Shonaku immediately became angry, and started shouting back at Ragnorok.
"Hey, who are ya calling a stupid clown, you little fuck!"
"Who are you calling a fuck, stupid clown!"
"I'm calling you a little fuck!"
"Stupid clown!"
"Little fuck!"
"Clown!"
"Fuck!"
I began to feel a bit annoyed. "Ragnorok stop it!" Ragnorok punched my head then folded his arms. "You shut up, Crona! Ah, screw this I'm outta here!" Ragnorok went back inside. A second later he came back out saying "Clown!" then entered back in. Shonaku yelled. "HEY! Come back here I'm not done with you!" she reached for my shoulders, and yelled behind me for Ragnorok to come back. She then sat back down and huffed.
"Sorry Crona, but that little dude is so fucking annoying. That little cunt, calling me a clown. I hate clowns.." she turned another direction with her arms folded. Ragnorok always does this, he's not the one to make friends with people so easily. "No, I should be the one apologizing.. Ragnorok tends to d-do this, he's not friendly at f-first..but he can when uh, he w-wants to b-be..and I'm sorry he called you a c-clown.." Shonaku turned to me, smiling once again. So suddenly?
"That's okay, Crona. So, what is he exactly? I mean he comes out of your back and all.." "He's my weapon," I told her. "He was fused inside of me long ago...he's my blood..that's how it is..so that's why I'm a little of both..." Shonaku looked a little amazed about this, actually. "Really? Wow, that's something new. I've never known someone who's been combined with their own weapon permanently. Do you guys get along at least?" I looked the other way, not really too happy that me and Ragnorok didn't most of the time. "S-sometimes.." was all I could tell her. "Makes sense." she said. "Well, anyways, another thing that i wanted to do was.." I looked back her.
"Crona, look at the city. Tell me what you see." I turned my head to Death city. "Uh..buildings..trees..people.." "No, no, no." she told me. "What do you see in it? Like, describe it in your own opinion!" I questioned her. "M-my own opinion?" "Yeah, come on you have one. Everyone does, no one makes opinions for you do they? You have independence too you know." My own opinion? What I thought? I'm not very good at that...most of the time people chose for me. Such as..that woman..and Ragnorok. I was never given a choice to say what I felt..
I looked back at Death city. Death city..what did I see in it? I thought hard about it. Did it take this much effort just to think about it? I closed my eyes, picturing everything in my head. I opened them again, and found it. It was like as soon as I did open them, the entire world seemed..different. The sun was setting so calmly. Everything was becoming so settled down, it wasn't as noisy and busy as it was before. The silence between me and Shonaku seemed quite peaceful actually. A soft breeze blew and trees gently swayed and rustled. I never realized because of all this worrying, but the view from here looked so nice. Memories faded into my thoughts. Good memories about coming here to the DWMA. Meeting new people, everyone being so kind to me. The environment, so sweet and calm. My surroundings were so positive looking. It always felt like joy danced around me, happiness trying to find me.
But I could never find it. Surprisingly I smiled just a little. But big enough to realize it myself. "Death city is a calm place," I began to say. "People here seem happy all the time, and when they're not there's always someone or something that brings back their happiness. It's really nice here when everything feels safe and welcoming. The academy and students are just as nice I guess...but it's n-not in my nature to fit in s-so well to this happy place...it's always difficult to just t-talk to someone...but most of the time they never get mad at me because I c-can't talk to them...I do run into problems though, when there are some people who don't like me. And I don't know what I did wrong to make them hate me so. But, at those times, Maka and them are there to help me. But it's not so easy to just forget about those people who feel hate towards me..but overall, Death City is like no other."
I turned back at Shonaku. She was just staring at me. I couldn't tell what expression she had on her face though. Was she mad? Sad? Amazed? There was nothing that I could find to describe her expression. Then it was like she wasn't looking at me. I mean she was, but the looks in her eyes made it look like she wasn't giving direct contact. More like her being somewhat with a now distant look. Looking past me, dazing, thinking about something. "I..see.." was all she said. She suddenly snapped out of it. "Well, any who now that I asked you that, feel free to ask me anything!" she jumped to another subject. What would I ask her? There's many things that I could ask her. Something out of all of them appeared at the top of my head though. And just as that thought did, it was like it wanted to catch my attention. That necklace. The sky was starting to darken a little, but that necklace stood out so much. It glowed ever so brightly, how can you miss that? Its same yellow, pink, blue, and purple colors made it like an odd flashlight. Why did it shine that much? It doesn't look battery powered. Or electrical powered for that matter. It was so bright, I bet if you saw it up in the sky as high in as the stars, you could still see its unnatural glow. But something about it fitted Shonaku. Like it wasn't just some weird accessory, but instead something apart of her. I could never help but ask her about that necklace.
"That necklace..why do you wear it all time? What is that necklace exactly..?" Just like before, she fell into an odd silence, looking down and grabbing ahold of the necklace. She didn't say a word for a while. It made it that I said something that offended her. Did it? Was there something that happened before, or someone important that owned the necklace long ago? Why was she so happy before and silent now? I only sat there, waiting. Waiting for an answer. Then at last, she spoke up. "Well...many things have happened with this..this necklace is something all right...something that I keep..that I wield.." I looked at her confused. Wield? What was that suppose to mean? She muttered something else, but it was so inaudible I couldn't hear it very clearly. I think it was something like but she wasn't allowed to take it off? I wasn't sure, since not even that sentence made any sense. "Oh.." it was so silent, I felt that I couldn't even say anything because of this heavy tension that suddenly filled the air..
Luckily I wasn't the one to break off the silence. "It's getting late, Crona. I don't want you to walk home in the dark.." I agreed with her. Although I was use to walking around in near pitch black. So use to it, maybe even more than walking in daylight. We both stood up. She looked up at me with a half-hearted smile and said, "We'll do this again tomorrow, same time okay?" "Uh..o-okay.." I said puzzled. Again? She shook off that silence so easily, but for me it still stuck on like glue. I guess she only wanted to forget about it and move on. We said our goodbyes, and walked away in our own directions. This evening was such a weird evening. So different. But, it made me feel something warm inside me. Barely though. I had this moment talking to her where I felt that I could just tell her anything. All my problems or anything about myself. I felt somewhat comfortable to talk to her all of a sudden. There was something about her that appeased me. She was so joyful, yet so calm at times. Something bright about her. Maybe Shonaku isn't so bad, maybe she's someone who won't bully me. Can I possibly become her friend? Is she that sort of person? Another thought came into my head. Oh yeah, how can I repay Maka for all she's done for me? I don't know the answer myself, but hopefully later on when I know more about Shonaku, I can ask her myself. Maybe she'll know.
Well that is all for now everyone! Hope you enjoyed, and tune in for the next chapter!