Stay guarded; Trouble tends to follow her.
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She stood there in front of her dorm building when a couple of guys stopped her, she sighed.. Kurosaki, Abarai and Grimmjow stood in front of her.. She just glared up at them, they chuckled nervously in front of the girl, making sure they were at least an arm-length away from her.
"I'm not sure if you noticed, woman but this is the guys' dorms." Abarai informed.
"I'm well aware, Abarai and sadly, I was given a dorm room here on account of faulty computers and excessive female residents. Any other questions, ask your motherfucking R.A."
"Serious? We got a girl in our dorm? I can't wait to tell everyone!" Grimmjow grinned, running off before she could give him a warning.
"Wait, so.. Which room are you in?" Ichigo asked, she scowled and left them behind. She didn't have time for this, there was homework that needed to be finished and many more levels before she could prestige.
"Hey, hey! Get back here." But alas, she paid no attention to the boys'.
The two stood there irritated, she was pretty but also stubborn. A little too stubborn, if you asked Renji. But Ichigo felt the need to get pass that cold exterior and hopefully, bring her to a state that won't savagely beat the shit out of his friends every now and then.
In another part of the residence area, Sasuke grumbled to himself for the umpteenth time, just thinking of a way to get the new girl to like him. And everything in his head didn't seem extravagant or near excellent in his mind. And neither Itachi's intervening, or advice in another's words, could help either.
"So there's a bet going on about this Zoii girl now; see who can kick her ass or was it sleeping with her?" Naruto tried to remember what he heard from a few guys' round the campus.
In this school, because of their principal infamous gambling habits, a few guys' especially from a certain gang would hold polls for several different things. From sex, fights to a whole lot of shit; and they didn't give a damn about the person(s) getting a bad name in the process..
Like fore say, a girl has caught the attention of a few guys'. Of course, this certain gang will begin taking money to see which guy gets the girl. Or another poll to see who gets into her pants. And another for how long the relationship will last.
Nothing is sacred in this small world of theirs'.
"What? Who fucking started it?"
"Who else?" Naruto retorted.
Sasuke left his friend in his dust, running towards a certain brother.. And when he did finally managed to find the older Uchiha, he chewed his ear out, "Who and what guy has the fucking balls' to actually try and exploit Kaara?"
"Kaara? You mean that girl in dorm 335?"
"Yes?"
"Well, I certainly did not give any permission to use my new pet in any games."
"Wait-" But it was already too late, Itachi had disappeared in a nanosecond.. Sasuke cursed his brother's speed and agility and went back to brooding. "335, he said, right?" And at this, the Uchiha smirked.
"Forehead, did you manage to get her room number?"
"Well, not really.. I mean it was difficult because of Tsunade, she was being such a bitch today and made me do all her work." Sakura complained, but held a small card with a number scrawled on it. "Here it is." She gave it to her blonde friend, they were both in Hinata Hyuuga's dorm.
Hinata dropped her book when she heard Ino yelled out, "WHAT?" She was looking at the card in a shocked and furious expression, "You got the wrong number, you bonehead! This is a number to the guys' buildings."
"B-But, that's what it said on the computer!"
"Bullshit!"
Hinata opened her mouth, was about the say something until her two friends' started pulling each other hair and fighting. The Hyuuga sighed, "Kiba-san said.. Something about a girl living in his dorm building."
"Say what? Are you serious?" Ino asked.
"Hey! You believe her and not me, what the hell!" Sakura complained.
"Shut up, forehead.. It's Hinata we're talking about, she wouldn't lie to save her life." Ino said, apologizing to the Hyuuga afterwards.
Kaara felt like something strange was about to happen soon, so she again, locked her door. Making sure whoever was on the other side could never get in. And she settled on a chair, playing another round of her favourite game.
And she heard a knock on her door, she glared up at the ceiling. "You think you're funny, don't you?"
"Hey, open up! I know this is you're room." The red head rolled her eyes, not making a sound and hoping the kid would get a hint and leave her alone.. As well, as the rest of the school population. "I can wait here all day, you know.."
With a defeated sigh, Kaara opened her door grudgingly and got a strange look from the handsome pale classmate of hers'. "How'd you get my room number? And what the fuck do you want now?" She leered at him suspiciously as she leaned on the doorway.
"As you already know, we didn't hit it off in the most respectable way.. And I, well uh," He paused, looking away from those magenta hues, feeling his cheeks getting red from embarrassment, "I a-apologize for my rudeness." The dark haired teen sighed once he finished, feeling like an idiot.
Kaara just stares at him incredulously, the way he stuttered was as though he had never apologized for anything he had done wrong. She smirked in amusement, "Alright, then tell me, Sasuke-san; Why do you want to be associated with me? You have ton of other girls' willing to be your friend."
This time it was Sasuke's turn to roll his eyes and relax, "Because, out of all the girl population, you're different and don't find me the least attractive, which makes me ponder if you're-"
"I'm not..." She narrowed her eyes at him, getting at what he was about to suggest.
"Fine, fine whatever… Plus there's a ton of guys' here that don't have the most purest thoughts involving you. I can help with that, if you hang around with me.. Trust me, when I tell you that they won't ever think about interacting with you."
Kaara pondered, wondering if she should- Wait, did she even want to spend precious moments of her life, that she won't be getting back, with him. That was a few seconds too much for her own blood.. But then again, she didn't want any distractions, though sharing a mutual relation with a guy is pretty much a distraction on its own.
She sighed, "Let me think it over.. Go away now."
Sasuke could feel the small breeze when she slammed the door in her face…Just now noticing the sweet smell mixed between cinnamon and vanilla. He stood there, "GET LOST NOW!" he heard from the other side of the door. Finding himself running down the hallway.
She could feel her stomach growling, she dropped her controller on her bed and was soon down the hallway. A few guys whistled and hollered, which she gave them the finger and kept walking.. "Hey, back off guys! Quit it!" She was a little startled by the voice, turning to her side and seeing her orange-haired classmate…
"Great, what do you want? You gonna annoy me to death?"
"No, you've got other people for that…"
She was too hungry to respond and too annoyed at the moment to even shoo him away, so they both walked silently towards the cafeteria… She didn't mind the Kurosaki's presence though, he wasn't invasive and rude like the others'.
"I apologize," He started, "about my friends and all. They can be jackasses most times, but you'll get use to it; and you'll see, they're not that bad to hang around with."
She nodded.
They arrive at the dining hall, walking in together and Kaara ignored the sudden stillness of the room while Ichigo looked around, finding most of the other students' looking towards the two. But ignored it shortly.
"Oh my god, look!" Ino pointed towards to the doors of the mess hall, the rest of the girls' at her table stared to see Ichigo standing beside the new girl that the whole school was talking about.
"That's who beat up Grimmjow, Hidan and Renji?" Temari asked, finding it hard to believe since the girl could only reach up the Kurosaki's cchest. She turned to Ichigo for a second, saying something and looking away.
"Yeah, that's her!" Sakura answered, "She's a lot tougher than you can imagine; she accidentally bumped into me during recess, and I was the one ending up falling."
"Really?" Tenten looked at the girl, "She couldn't be that tough, I bet you I can take her down in a split second." The brunette smirked, her head held up high.
"I wouldn't count on that; You might've been our junior high's top athlete, but this is high school, remember?" Ino stated, not wanting her friend to make a fool out of herself.
"Yeah, Tenten, I hear Tatsuki is incredible in sports' too." Sakura brought up.
Tenten pouted, she didn't like looking weak and being second best. "Whatever, I still think I can beat them both."
"Come, sit beside my friends and me. I promise, they won't rape you this time." Ichigo smirked, grabbing the girl by the sleeves of her sweater and dragging her along with him.
"Do you think Ichigo-san likes her?" Orihime asked her friend, glancing at the way the two bright-haired teens. She could see Ichigo holding onto her sweater, pulling her with him to his friends'.
"Aww, don't be like that, Orihime, he's probably just wants to be her friend." Tatsuki said, acting like it was nothing, though she was quite worried herself about how close they were. She didn't want the Inoue girl to worry too.
"Oh, okay…" She didn't sound convinced.
"Besides, she's not as pretty as you." Tatsuki said lastly as they listened to the other girls' conversation.
"Hey, hey.. I'm fucking sorry 'bout earlier, ya here?" Hidan spat, glaring at the girl as he sat next to her. "Next time, just tell us to stop."
"I did."
"Louder though, you're too quiet."
"You're deaf."
"Fuck you!"
Kaara just glanced at the albino, who stared angrily at his food. "Bad day, huh?"
"Something like that…"
"ICHIGO~" The orange haired student sighed, annoyed as he heard his eccentric friend called him. "I have something to tell you-" he stopped, blinking at the beautiful, bright haired girl sitting in between Hidan and Ichigo. "Hey, you're that new kid's everyone talking about, right? Red hair, pink eyes!"
Ichigo's eye twitched, getting tired of his friend already now.
"Ha! She kicked your ass!" Keigo pointed towards the silver-haired teen.
"You wanna say that again?" He asked, standing up and crushing his juice box in his hand and glaring at the brunet. Of course, Asano grinned sheepishly, running away afterwards.
Kaara put her hand on the silver-haired boy's arm sleeve, pulling him down to sit and eat.
"Don't let it bother you…"
"But…it's all your fault." He mumbled.
"Don't go looking down my shirt then."
"It's hard since you're boobs are hanging out of your shirt!" He yelled, pointing to her boobs. Kaara looked down, she kept her sweater zipped half way up… She sighed, zipping it up all the way.
"Happy?"
He looked away mouthing off while she stared impassive at him. Ichigo beamed, she seemed to be getting along with Hidan, but now he wondered where the others' were. But he looked up, seeing both Renji and Grimmjow with hoodies over there heads', looking grumpy.
Kaara stared up, Ichigo's other friends dropped their trays on the table, both glaring down at her from underneath their hoods. They sat down, didn't really say anything.
"Everywhere we went…We got laughed at, do you want to know why?" He asked, staring at her intently.
She just stared back, sipping her soda drink and didn't say anything else.
"Because of you, that's why!"
"Want me to beat them up for you then?" She asked.
"No, fuck you! I beat up half the PE class to the ground for- For-" He angrily sighed, silencing himself and eating. But he still glared at the redhead that dared sit at his table.
Renji didn't need to say anything else, Grimmjow said it all what needed to be said. Kaara sighed, grabbing her plate of dumplings and standing on top of the table. The guys' could stare up her skirt, but they wondered what in hell was she doing.
She smiled down at them, "FOOD FIGHT!" She began throwing her food at others' at nearby table. And next minute, everyone was throwing something about.
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Kaara looked away impassively, as the female principal passed by her, everyone was standing at the wall…well the one's that were most likely the culprit of this heinous crime. She let out those that she knew would never start a fight.
"Tell me now, who started all this?" She yelled out but still no one stood up and confessed. "If no one's going to confess, then I'll guess you'll be all happy to have detentions for a whole month!"
"WHAT?" Most of the guys' shouted.
"Unless you tell me who's the culprit, then I'll let you all go."
Everyone sweated, realizing that they were going against two powerful women; Tsunade was a tough principal when it came to something like this but other times, she was lenient. And there was Kaara, the kid from the other side of the world, with enough strength to bring down some of their best athletes. But-
"I did it!" Kaara said, holding up her hand proudly, Tsunade blinked at the girl, wondering if she should believe her or not. She could be covering for the others'.
"Ms. Zoii, please be serious, tell me who did this?"
"I did it, tell anyone, they'll confirm it."
Everyone now was thinking she was crazy, did she knew what punishments she could be dealt with when it came to this kind of things?
"Alright then, everyone dismissed and you, come with me." the blonde woman said, leaving and Kaara tagged along.
-x-
"What the hell? Why'd she do that?" Renji was the first to ask, standing beside his friends' and a few other guys'.
"How the fuck would we know?" Hidan answered.
"I might be wrong about this but; she could be trying to let everyone forget about your asses being kicked." Shikamaru butted in, sitting beside the Uchiha in the common room.
"I wonder what Tsunade's gonna do to her…" Ichigo thought out loud.
"Hopefully, she doesn't get kicked out; Not 'til I at least fuck her!" Hidan grinned.
"Fuck you man, she isn't gonna go for you." Grimmjow growled.
"And why would she go for you two?" Sasuke smirked.
"It's obvious that you don't have a chance either, Uchiha." Ichigo interjected, knowing that the girl had turned him down.
"Oh, and you have a chance, Kurosaki?" Sasuke asked, glaring at the berry head.
"I don't know; I wasn't really aiming to get into her pants." He replied.
"Ichigo's gay, he doesn't like Kaara!" Grimmjow shouted.
"Oh fuck you, Grimmjow.. She's doesn't seem interested in any of us."
"Says you." Hidan replied.
Kaara was standing at the entrance of the common room, she heard the whole thing and glared at the guys'. But who was she to judge, they were guys'. Shikamaru, of all the guys', was the first to know that she was standing there in the front. So he didn't say anything offensive as the others' said.
He smiled, waving at the girl standing there… Of course, everyone wondered what he was. The guys' sat or stood there, with their mouths' opened.
"I won't kick your asses yet." She said right before she left them, wondering when and how will she get them. Some were afraid of feeling their only female resident of the dorm would do.
"I could've warned you she was there throughout the whole conversation. Could've…but didn't." Shikamaru chuckled, leaving the guys' to their own imaginations of what horrors' the Zoii could be thinking.
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She sighed, leaning against the front of her door. No one was currently in the hallway so she sat against her door; she couldn't believe what she had done, well not really. She always pulled stints like that, got in trouble because everyone would automatically said she did it. Which she did though but didn't admitted them
But today; today was strange because no one dared to point fingers at her…
She guessed that's why she felt like confessing for once to her crimes; but she also did this on behalf of Ichigo's friends. She wondered now if the whole student body would forget about this morning's bout between her and her classmates. She didn't mean to do that but they wouldn't stop bugging her…
Now, she wasn't punished this time, she just got a warning. Pull another stunt and she ended up with a month's detention and the duty of helping 'round the cafeteria. Yes, that meant cleaning or either cooking. And Kaara couldn't even boil water properly… Something would set on fire just being in a kitchen.
"Hey, are you alright? Did you lose your key?"
Kaara looked up, seeing that boy she met the day before. She forgot to get his name…
"No, just thinking..." She said, not really in a talking mood.
"Oh." He just gave a small smile and sat next to her, "So what were you thinking about?" He asked.
She shrugged her shoulders, not sure what to say. She didn't know how to confide in anyone.
"I'm a good listener."
She wondered why this boy would bother being her friend, she wasn't much fun like the other guys' think she was. All she ever did was play video games, studied her ass off and made everyone around her feel bad about themselves. That summed up her personality in a short sentence.
"Why.. Is it you want to know for?" She asked.
The boy too, shrugged his shoulders in response. "I don't know, I never had much friends too, so I thought you know, I should start. My roommate never seems to want to talk," he looked around and whispered, "He's either high or too moody to talk."
The girl look at the pale boy, and laughed.. An actual laugh. Not those sarcastic ones. Ulquiorra smiled, feeling happy that he made the quiet girl laugh. After she stopped, she looked at the boy and sat down too. She held up her hand, "Sorry about how we first met, my name's Kaara Zoii."
The boy held her hand, "Ulquiorra Schiffer, please to meet you, Kaara Zoii!" They shook hands and smiled.
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I really meant to put this up earlier. Well, here you go...