"Get up, get up, get up!" echoes though out a dark room, as small hands shook a body eagerly. "We're going to be late!" the voice, high and cheery, though firm and demanding said again as she gave one last heavy shove. The body, cocooned by blankets groaned as it began shifting, and a young woman's head emerged from below.
Her expression was a natural one for someone not ready to welcome the morning. "Today's the first day of High School!" the room's other occupant said with a smile, grabbing the groggy young woman's hand and pulling her out of bed.
"I would tell you to be quiet so you don't wake mother and father, but I don't think they'd care if it were you." The tired one said, straightening out her tank top and rolled up boxers before stretching and running a hand though her messy bangs.
"You're far too negative Shaolin." The cheer one said, sitting back on Shaolin's bed.
"You're much too positive, Suzumebachi… and what did I ell you? Don't call me that. I'm Soifon." Suzumebachi frowned and made a face stating that she didn't like that name before she pushed herself up.
"I'll make some breakfast, hurry up or we'll be late!" she said with a smile before exiting the door and closing it silently, leaving Soifon alone
The young woman walked to her mirror and looked herself over with a frown. To herself she was an unattractive girl, nearly flat chest, short stature, and a nearly ever-present grumpy expression on her face. She was muscular though, her hair fell to mid-back, though she braided that part, leaving her hair layered higher up, giving off the illusion she had very short hair.
She also had magnificently silver colored eyes that she despised. With a heavy sigh she stalked to her adjoining bathroom and commenced to getting dressed. She was in and out, completely ready within ten minutes, the longest portion of her time consisting in braiding her long hair.
"Hurry and eat!" Suzumebachi said with a smile, placing a plate in front of her sister. Soifon nodded and began picking at her food. Suzumebachi, like her sister, had beautiful silver eyes, and long raven hair Anyone would say they looked somewhat similar… they were identical twins after all, but there were big differences, their personalities for one.
Suzumebachi also said that she would never want to look as much like a "grumpy guss" as her sister, so she made it her pride to style her hair differently, and look as different as possible. Soifon was fine with that though, she didn't like the thought of a copy of her walking around.
"Let's go!" Suzumebachi said, putting Soifon's plate away and dragging her out of the door. "I've been waiting to go forever!" the more eccentric twin said, looking toward her sister. Soifon managed a small soft smile reserved only for her sister before patting her head.
"Aren't you hyping yourself up a little too much? What if it's nothing like you imagined?" Soifon said, dropping her hand back to her side.
"It will be because we're in the same class!" Suzumebachi said grabbing up Soifon's free hand with her own. "They kept us apart in Junior High…" She frowned, finally releasing Soifon's hand as they passed the gate into school.
"Maybe that would've been better…" Soifon mused before smirking back at her sister who was pouting.
"Meanie!" she said, about to run away playfully before her cell phone rang. "…Shira?" she answered, not used to getting a call from the younger girl so early in the morning. "…We'll be right there." She said, closing the phone and giving Soifon a look prompting both girls to turn and leave before they couldn't any longer.
The warning bell rang as the tanned young beauty stepped into the classroom, one of the first there as she didn't enjoy gossiping in the hallways five minutes before class started. With a heavy sigh and a scratch of the head, her slightly hazy golden eyes looked over the seating chart.
Finding her name in a window seat, she gladly made her way to it and flopped down, resting her cheek on her palm, eyes watching the door for people she might know. As people entered, nearly everyone looked at her as though she was something that shouldn't have been there, whispers of who she was and rumors began to circulate the classroom as though she couldn't hear their hushed voices.
The class settled down once the teacher came in, though the purple haired young woman eyed the desk beside her, and the one beside it… both were empty. She scoffed at the thought of someone being lazy enough to miss the first day of school.
'Even Kuukaku came today.' She thought with a roll of her eyes remembering the time she spent trying to wake the fiery girl up this morning.
"Good morning everyone and welcome. I am your homeroom teacher this year as well as your mathematics. You ma call me Hana-sensei." She said, looking over the class. "First off I would like to go down the rows—" her speech was cut off by the door opening.
"Forgive our tardiness, we had a little trouble finding the room." A voice said and in walked two raven haired girls, of similar height and structure. Nearly immediately chatter started up about the two of them, something about a famous flutiest or something.
Both girls bowed and took their seats at the empty desks next to the tanned girl, the shorter haired one directly next to her. This girl caught the violet haired young woman's attention so much so that she no longer heard Hana-sensei speaking.
'Who is she? She looks so…familiar. Like.. I've known her sometime in the past…?'
"ouin… Yoruichi Shihouin?" Finally she was knocked out of her thoughts by the teacher's voice.
"O-oh! Here!" The tanned girl said, raising her hand, a light blush tenting her cheeks.
"Next?" the teacher began again.
"Soifon" the short haired young woman said, her posture rigid and expression blank.
"Next,"
"Suzumebachi Fon." The longer haired girl said, raising her hand with a smile, the class erupted once again in whispers.
'It's her!'
'I can't believe she's in my class!'
'I bet I can get her to go out with me!'
These were only some of the ones heard. Soifon scoffed at her ridiculousness of the whispers.
"Quiet down, quiet down… next!" and so the homeroom continued, straight on into first period, which happened to be mathematics.
After a simple class of prep for the upcoming year, they had a five minute recess until period two. Some people stood and left class where as others came in. The majority of the people who stayed crowded around the Fon sister's desk though.
Yoruichi scoffed at the scene, though she did feel slightly jealous, too used to being involved in such a scene herself.
"You're that up and coming violinist. right?" a dark haired girl asked Soifon who frowned harder at the mention. Most of the attention had been centered on Suzumebachi, but at the mere utterance the majority had shifted now to her.
"Oi, Kinai! Don't make people's lives harder!" sounded followed by a boisterous laugh and the younger girl blushed.
"Sorry, Onee-san" she said before returning her attention to her favorite musician.
"Kuukaku, what are you doing down here?" Yoruichi said, a bright smile now forming on her lips as the older girl walked over to her, throwing a chair around to sit in it.
"My class it boring, plus, I was curious how the little one's doing."
"I told you I'd watch her." Yoruichi said, slouching in her chair very casually.
"Eh, I still don't like the idea of a thirteen year old in high school. Especially one that looks like her." Kuukaku said.
Indeed, Kinai had inherited the better half of the Shida clan's genes and was growing up rather quickly, much like her older sister had before her.
"And damn Kaien thinks he's the 'King of the School', just because he's a Senior." She grumbled before resting her hand on her palm.
"I'm still invited to the Fight Club, aren't I?"
Kuukaku nodded, "Of course idiot! I'll see ya at lunch, we can go somewhere quiet." She smirked. Yoruichi rolled her eyes and waved goodbye as her friend left the room along with a number of other people.
The rest of the day came and went rather peacefully, and soon Lunch rolled around, allowing Soifon and Suzumebachi to escape the questions of their peers.
"I can't believe this!" Soifon lamented, taking a seat on a flowerbox on top of the school. "I don't want to be in a club… I'm already too busy with everything else."
Suzumebachi frowned, "We can be in Orchestra… there's also Karate and Kendo… OH! You're fast, you could be in track!" she suggested, looking through the list of clubs.
"I don't want to take more time than I have to away from our job." It wasn't something they usually talked about outside of meetings or at home. "I'm not a normal high school student, and neither are half of these people!" she said, slightly outraged, extending her arms over the campus. "They're with us, or they're with them." She frowned, seeing a few of her allies.
"It's not like we can tell who the enemies are… and I think most of these people just want to try to live… they never know when they'll die, so why don't you?" Suzumebachi said with a small frown. "You have a second chance." She finished quieter than before.
Soifon turned and glared at her sister, frowning heavily subconsciously drawing a hand to her chest before she stood, leaving the food that Suzumebachi had brought her where she had been sitting and stormed off, leaving a none too stunned sister behind.
'It's not your place to talk about that.' Her mind rang just as Soifon said it, slamming the roof door and cutting off the end of the sentence. The longer haired girl sighed, and began picking at the food before her, Soifon would forgive her eventually, she always did.
"S-stop it…" Yoruichi breathed, a bright smile on her beautiful visage as she squirmed away from the older girl.
"Aw, you're not being fun." Kuukaku said, her lips brushing against Yoruichi's neck as she leaned further back into the corner of the stairwell, holding the Shihouin tightly.
"N-no… I'm being… responsible!" The tanned skinned girl nearly shouted the last part as the Shida bit down lightly on her pulse and sucked ever so gently. Fed up with the older girl's games Yoruichi turned in Kuukaku's strong embrace, and the older girl let her guard down for a moment. "Not here…" She breathed, pressing a chaste kiss to Kuukaku's lips before pushing away, out of her embrace.
"Hey, wait!" Kuukaku called, now picking up the pace as Yoruichi ran playfully away from her. It was strange seeing her this way, but she always liked it when she could.
'Perhaps it's because we don't have a meeting today…' She thought, smiling about the thought herself before shaking her head and catching up to the Shihouin.
"Onee-san!" Kinai said, surprised as the Shihouin heir and her sister rounded the staircase. "I've been looking for you!" she said, shrinking back slightly under the gaze from her older sister, always feeling somewhat oppressed even though Kuukaku was never mean to her.
"What do ya need?" Kuukaku asked, crossing her arms and leaning against the stair railing, frowning slightly as Yoruichi waved a farewell and walked off, not wanting to meddle in the business of her friend's family.
"Onii-sama… he said that mother and father are going to have a meeting tonight… and that you should come." She said, frowning slightly, she was never allowed in these family meetings.
Kuukaku grimaced, looking away from the younger girl before sighing. "You can tell him that he should tell them to shove it." She breathed, watching her language around the younger girl, feeling obliged to. "I don't need to be at that meeting, and neither does he." She continued cryptically before turning, uncrossing her arms.
"E-eh? B-but!"
"You'll understand one day, kiddo." Kuukaku said, patting the young girl's head lightly before walking around her. "You be good in class, and listen to what Yoruichi says." She continued with a backwards glance and a smirk before walking around the corner, arm taken up by one of her friends.
The younger girl frowned heavily, running her fingers through her hair with a blush before turning for class, lunch would be over soon anyway.
Finally school ended, and most of the students had lucked out with little to no homework at all, due to the fact it was the first day, mostly the Seniors and the Sophomores, the Juniors were the ones who had it the worst though, expected to be prepared for class, they were no longer hatchlings, they needed the work so that they wouldn't lose any time during school.
"What a bitch!" Kuukaku fussed into her locker, frowning at the work load she'd written down in her planner, she was lucky she was going to skip the family meeting tonight, and the fact that they didn't have a meeting tonight either. She was swamped.
"What's wrong Shida, something got you antsy?" Yoruichi said, her voice velvety smooth.
"Of course! So much damn work, along with our job, and the damn Fight Club…" She sighed, throwing her hands up before slamming her locker. "And I have clean up duty all week." She grumbled, tapping the toe of her shoe against the ground, trying to make it more comfortable.
"I don't have any of that~" Yoruichi said in a sing-song voice, tapping the Shida's nose playfully. This, of course, caused the older woman to grumble angrily.
"Lucky you," She said, her tone full of contempt for the lucky streak the Shihouin always seemed to have. "Well, anyway," She said after a moment of silence, "We should get going, if you're late they won't let you join… or if you're already in, they'll kick you out."
"I think it's one of the few things you'll never be late to." Yoruichi said, punching her friend in the shoulder lightly before running on ahead, already knowing where the club's meeting was being held.
"I see we have some new faces today!" the director said as Soifon and Suzumebachi sat down in their respective sections. Soifon looked down the row of violins, frowning before she looked back to the director, ignoring the sneers and snickers that were echoing from her right..
"What is that… thing?" one of the more vocal girls finally said, Soifon humored her with a glance before shifting in her chair, correcting her posture, ignoring the girl's comment. The girl scoffed before looking back at their director once again, angry that the Chinese girl had not succumbed to her taunting, but that didn't stop her and the others from talking about her.
"Alright, I'd like to tune now, please, A-440." He nodded to the Oboe player and he stood, and turned toward the orchestra and played his note. Everyone began plucking their strings or playing their instruments causing a ruckus in the hall.
Soifon barely touched her A string and turned the pegs accordingly, not checking if it synced up with the Oboe. The girls smirked at her refusing to properly tune her instrument before it finally quieted down and the wind instrumentalist took a seat yet again.
"To make sure you've all done properly, I'll go by rows, each plays a whole note before it goes to the next, starting with the Oboe." The director said, and the note began counting across the rows, few notes having the need for retuning. As it got to Suzumebachi, she was perfectly on pitch and the director smiled at her before it went on, the next flute being a hair sharp.
It seemed like forever before it finally came to Soifon's row, each of the violins before her nearly perfectly in tune, of course, it was harder to tune a stringed instrument than a wind. As the note finally got to her she played a very out of tune A, causing the girls before her to giggle as it went to the next.
Suzumebachi quickly turned around, frowning at her sister, and Soifon wore a stoic blank look to her face. The younger of the two huffed and turned back in her seat, crossing her arms angrily.
Two hours passed and finally the Orchestra was let out allowing Soifon to be free of her metaphoric prison. "What the hell was that?" Suzumebachi said as the others left, the two Fons being the only ones left as the were taking their time leaving.
"I came and played for you didn't I?" Soifon said, smiling back at her sister a very fake smile, the anger glinting in her eyes as she did.
"That was not playing!" Suzumebachi said, frowning. "Why are you fudging something you love to do?" She asked.
Soifon sighed, indeed she did love to play, she loved it very much. It was an escape for her, and that was the very reason she did not want to play in school. "Listen," She began, serious. "I don't want people to know who I am. I don't like that attention, you know I don't. I'm fine playing with you at your concerts, but no one knows who I am, so let's just leave it at that." She said, turning slightly to eye her sister.
"Why?"
Soifon sighed heavily. "I don't want it to lose it's magic." She breathed quietly, and left it at that, walking quicker on.
"Shao—" Suzumebachi was cut off as a group of people ran past her and her sister, some bumping into her.
"Someone's actually standing up to Shida!"
"I heard it was a Babe~!"
"Hey!" Suzumebachi finally called, furious with the person who was not watching where they were going.
"O-oh, sorry!" The guy said turning, and slowing slightly. "Great fight going on, I didn't meant to run into you!" he said, waving before turning back and picking up the pace.
Soifon, intrigued, followed the group silently, Suzumebachi quietly taking up the rear, shaking her head. 'You just can't stay away from a good fight…' she thought walking on.
AN: So, I hope you like this new chapter of "My Heart is Forever Yours" I plan on having some YoruKuu in it, as you have seen, but it won't be as much as in some of my other stories. ^^; I hope to somehow get the girls together in the next three chapters or so, but I want to really build up to it, and actually show what I wanted to show, not just another high school, slice of life fanfic… I've never seen a better one that "The Cat and the Bee" personally. But most of my AU stories begin with them in some sort of high school, and ends up thinning out of that and on more into the actual plot.
I hope you'll stick around for the next!
~Bishimimou