7-All Out War
A/n: A Shi Xiu Chapter.
"You're worse than dirt!"
"You're a filthy pig!"
"Bitch!"
"Bastard!"
Recap: Shi Xiu, our lovely American girl who throws punches before asking questions, has pitted herself against Atobe, the filthy rich King of the school she is attending. Atobe offered peace with a catch and she bitch slapped him. So now a little while later they're at it again, during lunch and in front of the teachers who have just about given up.
"PUNK!"
"ASSHOLE!"
"AMERICAN IDIOT!"
"JAPANESE SNOB!"
"Insolent Child!"
"Mother fucker!"
"#$^!"
"Baka-sama let go of me." He didn't, his firm grasp tightened on her wrist. "I said let go." He didn't and her blood boiled. She glared coldly at him and the student body slowly backed away. "If you know what's best for you, you'll let go."
"Ha, Ore-sama does not fear you. Be awed by Ore-sama's prow-" Smack, crack, and ow. In other words: Atobe just got nailed in the jaw.
"I have two hands you know," Shi Xiu was going to have fun. "I will admit one thing you have guts." Shi Xiu entered her stance from earlier in the year and was waiting. Suddenly Atobe grew a brain and walked away from the fight, with a new goal set in his mind.
The Next Day
"What are you doing?" Atobe had currently pinned Shi Xiu's right arm above her head and against a wall hidden in shadow on the side of the school before leaning in closer.
"Ow!"
"You should really learn that I have TWO hands," Shi Xiu nailed him in the gut and almost caused him to cough up blood and the tennis team had just rounded the corner at this instant, sure that Atobe had gotten what he deserved. Later during lunch he had managed to corner her against a tree with BOTH hands pinned above her head. She then took her left knee and kneed him in the balls causing him to hit the ground. "Baka." A few students caught the end of that moment and figured Atobe had it coming. Before club activities started he pinned her to a bench with BOTH hands pinned above her head and he was standing on BOTH of her feet. This time as he leaned in, he was sure she had no way to attack him, but he was proven wrong as her head slammed into his and he started to feel dizzy. The tennis regulars had seen almost the entire thing and agreed: Atobe has a death wish. After club activities he pinned her against a wall both hands in one hand of his above her head, he was firmly on her feet so she couldn't use her legs, and his free hand was holding her head in place. As he leaned in this time, sure that there was nothing she could do, she bit him till be bled. The students who had seen it this time laughed, Atobe was getting his butt whooped, badly. When the nurse asked him what happened he lied and said he scraped it against a tennis ball that had flown close to his face.
The Rest of the Week
Shi Xiu had never struck a counter attack against Atobe, she didn't need to: every plan he attempted failed miserably. When she opened her locker one morning she found a rose on the inside, intrigued for no longer than a moment, she picked it up and snapped it in half in front of Atobe. After lunch that day she found a box of chocolates in her locker and she nonchalantly threw them behind her to anyone who wanted them in front of Atobe. At the end of another day when she opened her locker she found some money in it.
"Oh, I wonder where this cash came from." Her voice dripped with sarcasm and some slight hatred. She walked up to Atobe, who was conveniently standing next to an empty trash can and dropped the money in it. When he tried to get black mail photos on her by having her attacking innocent birds, she ended up snapping a photo of a bird pooping on his one shoulder and another pecking at his empty head. He tried to listen in on her conversations and recorded them incase she said anything he could use against her but instead all that was heard on the tapes was some friendly conversation in the background and Atobe mumbling with several slapping noises in it as he slapped himself in the face. When he went on the internet to dig up dirt on her, he accidentally printed an article about cats, their dietary needs, and other things so when he tried to prove to her she was evil she cracked up laughing. Her laughing had drawn a crowd who all started laughing after they realized what Atobe was holding.
Another time he tried to scare her by making several superstitious things happen to her. On her way to school she was forced to walk under a ladder; she later had to walk through a doorway with an upside horseshoe; after that she bumped into someone who gave her a mirror to hold and then another person bumped into her causing her to drop the mirror and it broke; and finally on her way to the club room a black cat crossed her, but she noticed it had a collar on and decided to find its owner, so she told the club members and they were all eager to help. Atobe dead panned right there, as they all spread out to find the cat's owner, the tennis team just stood their sweat-dropping at their captain.
Another day he came up to her, to ask her a question she surely wouldn't know the answer to and found himself on the floor and her saying the right answer in front of everyone. He tried to set her up in many awkward situations in front of the entire school but only to have her carefully weave her way out of them with ease and he often got caught in his own traps before she could even get anywhere near him. One day he set her up to cut class, so he waited in class for the trap to be sprung and it was for she was twenty minutes late.
"Trying to cut, Makoto-chan?" The sensei gave her a stern look.
"Gomen sensei. I had received a message that my father had gotten injured and I needed to head straight home, but when I got there everyone was perfectly fine and that they would never have sent me a message the way I received it, especially during school hours so I figured someone had set me up. And when I looked at my watch I realized I was going to be late for class no matter what. So I quickly hopped on my computer and managed to trace the message I received to who was trying to get me into trouble."
"Who may this person be Makoto-chan?"
"I'm sure Bak-Atobe, can answer that question for you. And I'm sure if you check his phone you'll find a message that was sent to me exactly like this printed out version of the message I received. Gomen, for interrupting class and taking so long to explain myself." The sensei nodded, allowing her to return to her seat, before turning his attention to Atobe.
"Is this true Atobe?" Atobe sweat-dropped and shrunk down in his seat.
"No sensei."
"May I see your phone Atobe?"
"It's in my locker."
"Well shall we go to your locker and look at it?" Atobe got up and followed his teacher's orders but the teacher was no fool and followed Atobe to his locker. "I've called in a replacement for the rest of this class period. Makoto-chan and Atobe-kun come with me." The two students obliged and found themselves in the principal's office with the teacher breathing down their necks.
"Atobe what is the meaning of this? Purposely trying to get another student in trouble."
"Gomen. It will never happen again. I didn't mean for it to get this far." Atobe bowed his head in shame.
"A week's detention for Atobe. Makoto you get clean up duty today."
"Hai." Shi Xiu nodded and then the students were dismissed. The rest of the day passed too quickly for Atobe as he ended up in detention and for Shi Xiu it went by pretty well, she didn't view clean up duty to be so bad compare to American detentions. Atobe sat through detention wondering why he couldn't find a single weakness. She managed to get out of everything he had thrown at her. Why hadn't anything worked? The question raged through his head the entire time he was stuck in detention and then he realized it. She had fallen into every single one of his traps her weakness was she could get caught off guard but her strength was wriggling out of tight situations. How could he have never noticed it before; now he really felt like an idiot. She had just finished cleaning when his detention for the day was over.
"How was detention, Atobe?" She called out when she saw him.
"Great, just great thanks to you." He was angry but he was planning to strike back at her. Shi Xiu shrugged and went home. For his entire week of detention, she would leave school around the same time as him watching him, as if she knew he was planning something. But nothing happened, so she let her guard down and school returned to being normal, without his plans. She let it slide and continued to enjoy her time in middle school until about a week after he got out of detention rumors started to reach her ears.
"Should I be thanking you personally for creating these rumors or one of your psychotic fan-girls who want me dead?" Shi Xiu walked up during the middle lunch to Atobe and spoke loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Ore-sama is not an idiot." He spoke just loud enough for everyone at the table to hear.
"Well that's news to me because in this past month you proved you were pretty much a solid idiot." Shi Xiu commented. "And another thing why do you believe yourself not to be an idiot? Is there something you're hiding?"
"Very clever of you to have a room full of witnesses to show that I admitted to something," Atobe for once did not speak in third person.
"I'm not going to use them as witnesses. I just want to know should I thank you personally or find your psychotic fan-girl and thank her? And did you stop using third person?"
"Yeah right. Ore-sama forbids anyone from talking to you."
"If you haven't noticed this school is no longer under your complete ruling, and p.s. I'm beating your grades, so soon I'll be student president." Shi Xiu smiled calmly before walking off, seemingly unflustered.
"You should respect Atobe-sama. You shouldn't talk to Atobe-sama like you do. You are an ignorant American child!" Atobe's fan-girls ganged up on Shi Xiu after school.
"You're breaking Atobe's rule by talking to me. You do realize this," Shi Xiu was slowly surrounded by psychotic hormonal fan-girls.
"We will rid Atobe-sama of your presence."
"I'd really rather not have to fight all of you." Shi Xiu sighed.
"Ow. Well I'd say that went over well." Shi Xiu wiped the blood dripping from her mouth on her sleeve. She was bloodied, bruised, and sore after taking an almost two hour beating from the fan-girls, who she wouldn't fight. Shrugging it off, Shi Xiu got up and fetched her bag that she opted to leave in her locker and apparently it paid off, for she noticed the obvious signs of attempted break in all over her locker. The attempted break in left her locker unable to open though so she slumped against waiting for a janitor to come by with a master key and hopefully a hammer as well. Nearby Atobe walked out of the student council room and towards his locker, which happened to be two down from hers.
"Are you okay?" He all of a sudden looked concerned as he rushed toward her side.
"Perfectly fine. I just need a janitor with a master key and a hammer." He could feel the sarcasm dripping from her first sentence and then threw her an odd glance for the second. "Notice the dents in my locker. It's too banged up for me to open and my bag's in there or else I would have gone home by now." She sighed, clearly tired.
"Who did this to you? Why didn't you fight them off?"
"Point A: You indirectly caused this. Point B: A King should not elevate himself above his people. His people should elevate him above themselves. They were your fan-girls, fighting me because you are their 'King'." Shi Xiu explained. "Now just get me a janitor with a master key and a hammer. I want my stuff and I want to go home." Atobe got up and found a janitor with the supplies she wanted, he immediately made the janitor come with him.
"Open her locker." Atobe stood firm and angered.
"You'll need to bang out the dents around the lock before you can insert the master key and unlock it. I've already tried my combination; it will unlock but not open." Shi Xiu took his harsh words and softened them. The janitor nodded and slowly the dents were banged out and her locker opened. She nodded her thanks, grabbed her bag, and left without another word.