Disclaimers: Some language
Zanshin: Yay! We didn't get flames! And here's the second chapter, enjoy.
Izumi: That's cause you scared them off. By the way…we own NOTHING…well the OCs, but nothing else.
Nasaiki: And thanks to all the people who've read our story.
Zanshin: Idiot brainchild that it is! gets hit by Nasai
Chapter Two: Strange HappeningsSomething loud and persistent was going off near her head, and she was wondering if it was humanly possible to call forth demons to destroy the evil little device.
"If you don't shut that thing off Izumi, I'm going to kill you. Slowly. In great pain." Zanshin threatened in an I'm-still-asleep voice from across the room. Izumi was happy to comply as she beat the alarm clock into submission and, blissfully, silence.
"I call the bathroom first!" Izumi yelled, jumping out of bed. "You can wake Nasai." She added sweetly, ducking as Zanshin chucked a random object at her, and running out of the room towards the bathroom. Zanshin approached the sleeping huddle that was Nasaiki, and gently shook her. This of course didn't work…it never worked. Sighing, she ripped the covers back and stole the pillow.
"Wake up Nasai, we gotta get to class!" Nasaiki glared death at her friend, looking as if she was on the verge of beating her version of an alarm clock into submission and silence. Zanshin gulped and held Nasaiki's pillow up like a shield. "You don't have time to kill me today Nasai, we have class. Remember?" Nasaiki just grabbed the pillow and hit her with it, then turned to get ready, just as Izumi came back in looking slightly stunned.
"The bathrooms are gigantizoid." She stated. Nasaiki and Zanshin looked at her.
"Izumi, that's not even a word." Nasaiki stated.
"Oh who cares. I call it next." Zanshin said, running off. "Wow 'Zumi, you were right. The bathrooms are gigantizoid. What do rich people need with bathrooms as big as an apartment?" Izumi just shrugged at her over the insanities of the rich.
They finally finished getting ready and left for their homeroom class. Since the dormitories were so close, and the girls dorm slightly closer, they were the first ones to arrive, and were able to grab seats in the back. As the room began to fill up, Nasaiki and Izumi got into a discussion about an anime they had watched that weekend, and Zanshin fell asleep on her desk, only to be shaken awake moments later. She glared at the offending hand, then followed it up to a smiling face.
"Hey, didn't you get enough sleep already? You sure are lazy." Yoh stated, sitting in front of her and leaning against her desk so that they were face to face.
"Yeah, you're one to talk Yoh, it took me and Lyserg ten whole minutes just to drag you out of bed!" Trey laughed, plopping down in front of Nasaiki. Zanshin watched as Lyserg sat down in front of Izumi.
"So…we all have first period homeroom together?" Zanshin asked groggily.
"It sure looks that way." Yoh replied happily. Zanshin suppressed a yawn, and glared at Yoh through one eye.
"Why are you so chipper this morning?" Zanshin asked accusingly.
"Why not?"
"Because it is officially a capitol crime to be a morning person. This has been decreed by the aww-lmighty me." Zanshin yawned again, getting laughs from the boys.
"So what are you guys showing us today? We've seen the campus buildings and the theatre, where we going next?" Izumi asked.
"The bakery. They have the best pastries, and cakes." Lyserg replied. "And there is a small café across the street where we can sit and eat. Plus it's closer to the chem. lab." Zanshin gave a half-hearted glare as Nasaiki and Izumi started laughing at her, remembering the extra homework she had had to do.
Then the teacher walked in, and they had to pay attention to the morning announcements. Or rather, read; in the case of Izumi and Zanshin, sleep; as Yoh was doing, he seemed to automatically turn off whenever a teacher was near, play a video game; which Trey was doing under the cover of his desk, or chat quietly as Nasaiki, Lyserg, and the rest of the class seemed to be doing.
When lunch had finally rolled around, the six friends met up in the courtyard outside of the dormitories and walked to the bakery, talking about classes and which teachers were evil incarnate.
"I swear on all I believe in, that my chem. teacher is really a creature sent to kill our brain cells and make mindless zombies out of us." Zanshin complained. "All he does is drone on. He makes explosions boring."
"Hey, at least you don't have my math teacher. The guy hates me. Ah, here we are." Trey said, stopping in front of a smallish building with large windows displaying pastries and seats filled with students outside. "My sister owns this place you know." He informed the girls, walking in.
Trey pointed to all the specialties that the store was having. There were dishes of Tiramisu, filled rugelah, kolatki, baklava, Russian horns, and piparkakut, "All imported." Trey said proudly.
"Um, you have anything…normal? Like jelly-filled doughnuts?" Nasai asked.
"Or, like, coffeecake?" Zanshin added hopefully.
"Well, the tiramisu is like coffeecake, and yes we have 'normal' pastries as well." Trey explained to the three girls, then waited for them to order, adding a few more exotic pastries as well. As they got ready to pay, he stopped them. "Hey, I've got it. My sis owns the place remember?" He gave the bag of pastries to the three girls, then he turned to see his sister give him a pointed glare. The girls missed it, due to the fact that they were waiting for him by the door.
"This is a bad idea, brother." She said lowly.
"Relax, sis, nothing's gonna happen." Trey reassured her before turning and herding the girls across the street to the café where Yoh, Lyserg, and three steaming mugs of the most delicious smelling hot chocolate were waiting for them. When the ringing of the bell finally signaled the end of lunch, the three girls thanked their friends, then they all split up to go to their classes.
The next morning, they all sat in their normal seats, Yoh and Trey chatting animatedly with the girls. Lyserg, on the other hand, seemed to be deep in thought, contemplating some thing. He seemed to come to a decision, and looked up at his friends.
"Did you guys hear the rumors yet?" Lyserg asked suddenly. Everyone looked at him with varying degrees of curiosity.
"What rumors?" Nasaiki asked.
"Well, I…heard that they found a…"Lyserg was suddenly interrupted by the teacher walking in, looking slightly harried. Everyone stood to give him the traditional 'Good Morning'.
"Mr. Othirou? Are you okay? You look terrible." One benevolent soul piped from the front of the class.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine. Good morning class." He stated. "I have a couple of announcements. First, there is a new curfew being instated because students are staying in the wrong dormitories for too long. You are now required to be in your dorms before nightfall. Second, there is going to be an assembly on…" The teacher continued on with the announcements, carefully avoiding questions about the new curfew. After class, everyone left, grumbling about the curfew. Except for Lyserg who was looking thoughtful.
"So, Lyserg, what were you going to tell us? You know, before Othirou told us about the newest stupidity." Izumi asked.
"I can't tell you now, it's too long a story. But I think it's the real reason for the curfew. Meet me at the courtyard for lunch okay?" He replied. Everyone agreed to meet, then ran off to their different classes.
"Okay Lyserg, spill. What's got all the teachers so jumpy?" Zanshin asked, remembering how a teacher freaked out over a minor case of class disruption. The poor kid got two weeks detention for shooting his friend with a water gun.
"Well, I heard that last night, a body was found. Two of them actually. They had had their throats ripped open, and they were pretty cut up besides that. The weird thing is, there wasn't a lot of blood at the scene, almost none." The girls were looking slightly sick and Yoh and Trey had a weird mix of worry and anger pass over their features.
"That's horrible. Who the hell would do that to someone?" Trey yelled out.
"I don't know, but I hope that the curfew is effective enough to stop the killings." Izumi said. Zanshin made a 'tch' sound
"The curfew isn't going to work if they don't tell us the real reason. I mean, would you stop going out because some stuffed shirt decided that people were staying with their friends for too long? Or would you be more likely to stay inside if a mad killer was on the loose?"
"The mad killer…" Izumi sighed, and then she got a weird look on her face. "Lyserg, you said the body was drained of blood right? What if it's vampires!?" Nasaiki and Zanshin fell over. Nasaiki watched as the three boys they were having lunch with tensed suddenly.
"Izumi! Come on, vampires don't exist. Right guys?" Zanshin asked, turning to the three boys.
"Ah ha ha…. Of course vampires don't exist…"
"Yeah, don't be silly Izumi."
"Absolutely no such thing."
"Yeah, see Izumi? No such thing." Zanshin said, causing the three boys to relax again. 'Well, those reactions weren't odd or anything.' Nasaiki thought to herself. She thought about reading their minds to see what was up, but decided that she didn't want to waste the effort.
"Yeah, yeah. But wouldn't it be cool?" Izumi said excitedly.
"A mad, psycho-killer vampire loose on the school grounds that we use every day? Yeah, that sounds like great fun 'Zumi."
"Stop making me sound like an idiot." Izumi yelled at her friend.
"You don't need my help for that." Zanshin retaliated.
"That's right!…Er" Nasaiki stepped in.
"Enough you two! Stop fighting and eat already." She shoved a mouthful of ramen into Izumi's mouth, and an onigiri into Zanshin's.
"Hey, Nasaiki, I've been meaning to try one of those thing. How much are they exactly?" Trey said, pointing to the bento boxes.
"About nine hundred yen…"
"Only nine hundred yen!" He yelped, "They mustn't taste very good."
The rest of lunch was spent watching Yoh trying to get Trey to eat some food out of the bento box, and Izumi running after the both of them because they had stolen her food.
"Hey guys, did you notice that Yoh and the others were acting kind of odd at lunch time?" Nasaiki asked her roommates as they did their homework.
"You mean like him stealing my lunch? Yeah, I noticed that." Izumi grumbled. "And then the clumsy ass tripped, and he spilled everything on Trey…. I'm still hungry…"
"Heh. That was hilarious. You not getting to eat lunch just added to that Izumi." Zanshin shot over her shoulder. Nasaiki intervened as it looked like it was going to turn into another argument.
"No, I mean when we were talking about vampires."
"Not really, why?"
"I don't know. They just seemed nervous."
"They probably thought that we were nuts. Considering we have little miss Gullible over there. 'Aren't vampires cool?' That was kinda lame 'Zumi."
"Hey! It's not my fault that I think vampires would be cool!" Izumi growled defensively. Nasaiki sighed. Her friends couldn't stay focused if their lives depended upon it. She went back to her homework, tuning out her friends.
Izumi: Second chapter done. Review please? puppydog eyes
Nasaiki: Yeah, all you have to do is push the little button.
Zanshin: Oh, and it's been pointed out that we used an Anastasia quote (kinda), so we don't own that either.