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I Never Asked For Friends

Road and Jasdebi hurried to the gym, as they opened the door. They tried their best to be as quiet as possible as they ducked behind the bleachers to peer out without being noticed. But what they saw, almost made them question their sanity.

There stood Jaiden with her back turned to where they were, hands clenched into fists at her sides. Before her was what looked to be a man with grayish pale skin and amber colored eyes. That person was most definitely not human.

"I heard your little poem; 'I am life without direction but surely not without purpose'. Beautiful, if I do say so myself." The stranger said, taking a few steps forward, a cold smirk forming on his face. Jaiden did not move.

"First Cyril, now you? Can't you freaks just leave me alone?!" It took Debitto a moment to realize that the angry voice was coming from Jaiden. It was then that the stranger stopped, only a few feet away from the girl. "But Jaiden," He said sweetly. "You're an important asset to our plan. It would be nice if you joined us."

"No way in hell, Tyki." She hissed vehemently, as she suddenly held out her hand, a strange dark aura surrounded it. When it cleared, a menacing scythe took it's place. Holding it firmly in both hands, Jaiden took up a fighting stance.

Road then gasped in surprise, she had just realized something!

She hadn't noticed until now, but Jaiden's looks, her eyes, and now this scythe! It's all the things that matched the description of the main character in the book, 'Shadow Reaper'!

The man called Tyki lunged for Jaiden, making her jump back. Road and Jasdebi tensed—any closer and they could have been found. Jaiden retaliated by dashing forwards; jumping up and bringing the scythe's blade down on his shoulder. Tyki winced slightly and was sent back as the heel of her foot connected to his side.

Jaiden smirked, standing straight as she used one hand to brush the hair from her eyes, the other hand holding the large scythe quite easily. "She beat him!" Jasdero whispered excitedly, which caught the attention of Jaiden and she turned in the direction of the hushed voice. Tyki was suddenly back up and behind her. She lifted her scythe to try and hit him but his hand had caught her by the wrist.

"Dropping your guard? That's not good," He said tauntingly. "It looks like you're losing your touch, Jai." Jaiden snarled as the man chuckled. "You know," Tyki started. "If you joined us you wouldn't have to be the sad little reject you are now." Her head was bent, eyes shadowed as she spoke. "I told you already. I'm not going to fuckin' join you!"

At that moment Jaiden's head snapped up, grey eyes glowing. She tossed the scythe over to her free hand, turning sharply and striking him. Tyki did a back flip, landing gracefully on his feet, looking at Jaiden in disappointment.

"What a shame," He sighed. "Well, when you change your mind, you know where to find me." Tyki smirked before disappearing in a portal of darkness.

It was Jaiden's turn to sigh as the scythe in her hand, too, disappeared in a short burst of darkness. "Goddamn bastard," She muttered, heading towards the exit of the gymnasium.

Quickly, Jasdebi and Road scrambled to their feet, wondering if all that was some sort of dream. Road grabbed the twin's arms, and pulled them after her. "Come on! We need to find out what's going on!"

They were finally able to catch up with Jaiden, it wasn't hard to figure out where she went, she had left her stuff in the cafeteria after all. She slung her backpack over her shoulder as they approached from behind her. "Tch, save the world? I can't even beat that shitface..." Jaiden muttered to herself, scoffing.

"That was amazing!" Road exclaimed from behind her, startling Jaiden, and causing her to jump back and face them as if she was going to kill them on sight. Debitto smirked, "Happy to see us?"

Jaiden relaxed, but then her head suddenly snapped up. "Wait! You guys saw me!?" She yelped, pointing at them accusingly. "And you never read 'Shadow Reaper' before? You're the character from the book! You just have a different name in the story!" Road continued, Jasdebi looked at her strangely.

"Shut up!" Jaiden hissed, glaring at the people that were giving them weird glances. "What the hell is going on with you?" Debitto persisted, grabbing her by the arm before she had the chance to run away, Jasdero holding her by the shoulders. Jaiden glowered in their direction, "Like I said," Her voice was becoming calmer with each word. "I've never read that stupid book—but I know everything about it."

"What?" They asked in unison. She sighed before continuing in a whisper, "The author of the book didn't just die—he was murdered by the Kagetori. They found out he knew about them, about me." All three of them blinked simultaneously at that statement.

As soon as everyone was gone from the cafeteria, Jaiden pulled something out from within her jacket; it was black and had something purple floating floating inside of it. She purposely dropped it on the floor causing it to burst open, sending up plumes of purple smoke. Jasdebi and Road had no idea that the little orb would blind them, it was as if someone had pushed them into a pit of pitch black darkness.

They rubbed their eyes vigorously, and when the black disappeared from their eyes, Jaiden was gone.

But Jaiden couldn't avoid them forever—she shared all her classes with Road, and unfortunately for her, Chemistry was a class that she shared with all three of them. Jaiden mumbled a string of vibrant curse words as she saw Road and the twins strode toward her at the back table. Road slid into the seat on Jaiden's right, the twins on her left.

Jaiden's eyelids began to droop as the teacher droned on. Soon a loud 'thump' was heard as her head connected to the black lab table and an exhausted sigh escaped her lips as the teacher snapped at her sternly for 'interrupting' the class.

"Dammit," Jaiden muttered tersely.

"What's up with you?" Debitto whispered, "Earlier you were all kick ass and now you're all fucked up." She scowled, while muttering back to him in a hissing tone. "It takes energy to do what I do! I'm not a superhero. Got it, dumbass?" With that said, she returned her attention back to her textbook as Debitto let out a low growl at the insult, Road looked at him frowning a little.

Through out the rest of the day and the last few periods, Jaiden did not speak to them at all. Debitto was mildly offended by this. considering that he never got the chance to pay her back for calling him a dumbass.

School was finally over as students fled out of school excited to get home, and Road was already fed up with Jaiden's silent treatment towards her questions.

"Jaiden!" Said girl turned around to see Road and Jasdebi coming towards her. She scowled automatically as they quickly approached her, and Road wondered why Jaiden didn't use a magic trick like before—or why she wasn't running from them. Then she remembered what Jaiden had said in Chemistry to Debitto earlier that day.

Jaiden mumbled something like 'retards' before she began to walk away, that's when Debitto reached out a hand, grabbing her arm like he did at the cafeteria. "Leave me alone!" She snarled, trying to twist away from the dark haired boy's grip.

"Not until we get some answers." Debitto shouted back at her. Jaiden finally stopped struggling and her grey eyes narrowed dangerously. "Fuck. Off."

"If we're going to be friends, you better start telling us the truth." Road stated, crossing her arms across her chest as Jasdero added, "We want to help!"

She shook her head disapprovingly, using her free hand to rip Debitto's off her, he flinched as he felt her nails dig into his skin. "I never asked for friends." Jaiden said, the ice cold tone of her voice shocked them.

Jaiden quickly adjusted her backpack over both shoulders, twirled around on her heel, and melted into the crowd of students, vanishing from sight.