ME: HI EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO THE 2ND CHAPTER OF THIS STORY
AKI: LOOKS LIKE 2 MORE PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE ADDED WITH ME HERE.
ME: YUP AND WE WON'T BE THAT LONELY ANYMORE
AKI: SAY WHAT HAPPENED TO GIN ANYWAYS?
ME: GIN? I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
(MUFFLED NOISES)
AKI: NAO...WHERE'S GIN?
ME: *SMILES EVILLY* I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AKI. ANYWAYS I HOPE YOU'LL ENJOY THIS CHAPTER.
CHAPTER 2: NEW FRIENDS?
CHOZU HIGH, CHOZUKABE CITY
NAOSASHI'S POV
After yesterday's event of the teacher not showing, I quickly went home and found myself bored at home and expecting for a new day where the teacher will finally come. But to my expectations...NOP!
Our teacher still hasn't shown up and here I am bored to death again. I looked at my watch and saw it was 9:30 A.M. I sat back on my chair once again and crossed my arms then looked outside the window again. 'Where the hell is our teacher? I mean he has to show up after being absent yesterday right?' RIGHT?
I couldn't draw because I don't have any inspiration today. The people in my dreams didn't appear in my dreams last night. I sighed and put my head again my right hand and pulled the necklace from underneath and examined it. Why? I don't know, it has a feeling of curiosity in it because it came from my mother. I twirled the red diamond like crystal between my thumb and index.
What can I say? Sometimes I'm like a cat, interested in shiny things. I twirled it back and forth until I got bored and hid it under my uniform again. I tried to think of what to do so I pulled the pad from my bag to think of an inspiration to write. After I put the pad in my table, I went back to my back to get my pencil but as soon as I turned back to my desk, it was gone.
My eyes widened and heard a voice beside me. "Wow, these drawings are really good!" I turned my head and saw that crimson haired girl holding my pad and skimming the pages. "Who are these people?" She asked me but my eyes twitched and wondered.
"Don't you know that taking people's stuff without their permission is wrong?!" I said with my teeth gritted and I quickly stood up to get my pad back but in a blink of an eye, she was now facing at back. 'What the?'
The crimson haired girl giggled and faced my pad towards my face with a smile on her face. "Can you draw me something like this?" She requested to me but in my reaction I was just like...WTF?!
I quickly took back my pad, with a scowl in my face, and I sat down right after. "You took my pad without permission and then you expect me to make you a drawing?" What is wrong with this girl?
The crimson haired girl made a puppy face with a peace sign. "Aww...Come on please? I'm sorry for what I did." Her 'cute' face was met with a dead panned face of mine. I'm immune to those kinds of things, bitch.
"No" I answered and put my pad on my desk and started to do what I was supposed to be doing but...
I looked beside me once again and saw that crimson haired girl was still standing there and was looking at my pad. "Why are you still here?" I asked the girl, who seemed to have no common sense!
"Come on, can you make me one of those drawings?" The annoying girl asked once more but not with her 'cute' face but with a sincere smile. "I'm really sorry for taking your pad, I'm just used to taking people's things without permission, except from my mom of course." She explained with her smile still intact.
That peaked my interest a bit. "What are you, a thief to be used to those things?" I asked the annoying girl with my other eyebrow raised.
"What are you crazy?! Of course not! I only take things that interests me. For example your pad with good drawings." She exclaimed with her back turned from and a raised chin to make me feel hated. Nice try. I began to look at my drawings again but I then noticed that the annoying girl was still beside me, now sitting on a chair. My eyebrow couldn't help but twitch. "What do you want?!" I said with my eyebrows arc-ed.
"I want you to draw some things like 'those' for me." The crimsonette said to me once more with a frown on her face.
'This girl! Doesn't she get shit or something?' I gritted my teeth to prevent my temper from letting out and I finally gave in. I gotta face it, this girl doesn't gives in to reasons and I really can't win against stupidity. I sighed. "Fine..."
With that being said, she clapped happily which I found annoying and childish. She stood up from her chair, with a smile on her face. "I'll count on that!" She began to walk away and I finally can go back to my peace and quiet. "Oh wait!" What the heck now? I looked to the crimson haired girl. "The name's Oda Misui!" She said with a big greetings smile on her face.
"Li Naosashi, but call me Nao or Li if you like." I said to the now named girl; Misui because it was for mutual respect for each other. She gave a thumbs up and began to go back to her seat. I looked back. I turned my head back to my pad and finally. My peace and quiet is back but a thought hit my head first. I checked my watch to see that it was 9:48 A.M. 'Our teacher still isn't here?' I sighed and gone back to my pad. I've taken my lunch break and more hours passed. Misui would consecutively come back in her spot beside me and ask me about the drawing and I would consecutively answer that "I still can't think of anything." and she would answer "Well think of something!" Seriously! I mean just seriously! I'm the one that's already gonna provide a drawing for her but she's the one getting mad and then laughs after. What is wrong with her? I shook that thought off of my mind and returned back to my pad. I checked my watch and saw that it was 1:01 P.M. and still no sign of our teacher. I really do can't get my hopes up about anything or it will just go downhill from there. I've been sighing, looking out my window and slouching for the past day until now. This cycle hasn't ended yet, hopefully it would end tomorrow. Please?
THE DAY AFTER
A tick mark appeared at the top of my head, as I was slouching with my arms crossed. 'Our damn teacher still hasn't showed up! Is he dead or something? I gritted my teeth and closed my eyes to release some of the anger. After a few minutes of closing my eyes, I opened them and looked to see my necklace was pulled out my uniform and was being examined by who? Who else?!
She was doing the exact thing I do to my necklace. She was twirling it and examining it. "Wow~ this necklace is so pretty, Nao!"
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU PULLED THAT OUT EVEN?!" I, with white eyes of rage, said to her with my fist clenched and my teeth grinded. I quickly tried to snatch my necklace from Misui's hand but in the blink of an eye, her hand was at the opposite direction. Out of my reach. 'How fast is she?!'
"My drawing first~" Misui said with a teasing smile and her other hand gesturing 'give it'.
I gritted my teeth. "I'm already on it! So just wait and be patient!" I responded with an angry tone but her answer...
"Ok~" Misui said and gave my necklace back with a wide smile and began to walk away.
I was just left shocked at her attitude of being so cheerful that my anger doesn't even faze her a bit. I sighed and went back to my pad and began to draw the outline of a teen. The people in my dreams appeared once more and this time they were only 3 people who appeared but the pink haired one was fighting a silver haired guy with a giant scythe. The other two was the girl who has blind eyes and the black suit guy who fights with his feet. I'm deciding to draw that blind girl because she's the only girl I saw in my dream and to finally shut Misui up. Apparently the girl had an attire of a mixed era of ours and the Meiji Period. Her attire was a light lavender, sleeveless kimono-style blouse with vertical lines, tied with a dark purple obi around her waist. She wears a pair of short dark navy shorts with thigh-high stockings and has black high-heeled boots. After a good 20 minutes I finished her upper part and the lower part is remaining. I'm trying to decide if I would put a background of lavender colored petals or a night themed background to put a little beauty in the drawing. I placed my hand under my chin and thought of my decision with my eyes closed. When I opened my eyes, the pad was gone again and I was expecting Misui but it was those guys who looked like gangsters.
A short tanned guy with blonde hair, a tall guy with a bald head, a medium sized guy with a mohawks haircut and a medium sized bald guy. They were checking out my drawing and one of them whistled. "You drew this bro?" The medium sized bald guy asked.
I nodded with my eyebrows arched and my eyes directly staring at them. I hate people taking my stuff without my permission but I really hate if gangsters take it and joke about it. "She's pretty, who is she?" The short tanned guy asked.
I shrugged. "I don't know, just my imagination." I answered and I heard them chuckle.
"Hey, how's about joining us huh?" The mohawks guy asked with a hand offered to me.
I really want to say. 'No way in hell I'm joining you guys.' But I don't want a fight be broken out here. I sighed and shook my head. "No thanks but thanks for the offer."
The mohawks guy removed his hand and put it on his pocket. "You sure?" The tallest of them all asked and I nodded to reply. "Well if you change your mind, just come near us." He said and put my pad back on my desk. "The name's Dojin Soma."
"Sakatoma Bakuro" The Mohawk guy said.
"Shinji Egi" The short guy said.
"Kotome Tadao" The medium size guy.
I nodded. "Li Naosashi" I gave my name but I won't give them my nickname. It's just out of respect. They nodded and walked back to their seats. I returned to my drawing but I found that some of my classmates were looking at me with surprised faces. What the heck? "What?" I asked.
"It's because you rejected their offer." I heard a voice and saw that it was Aki. What the? How do people get beside me this fast?! And why the hell is she here?
"What's wrong with rejecting their offer?" I asked but I really don't give a damn there because I merely rejected them. What's wrong with that?
"You're a greenhorn here so I'll let you figure that out by yourself." Aki said with her glasses shining in white.
I raised my eyebrow in curiosity. "What are they gonna do? Beat me up?"
Aki adjusted her glasses before talking. "Perhaps." I wasn't shocked about that but that made me look at her. "I heard about the last man they offered 3 times to join them but after that…." Aki looked at me with intimidating eyes and said. "..He was mysteriously sent to the hospital and the victim never remembered who he was." She spoke with an acid tone that could seem to intimidate people but not me.
I looked outside of the window. "So what am I supposed to do? Join them at the 3rd offer?" I asked her.
"If you still want your memories intact and not hospitalized." Aki suggested to me with a nod.
I chuckled and grinned. "Hell no." I said to her with my smile of determination. What can I say? I'm a rebel and no way in hell I'm gonna be forced to join them.
Aki looked at me and smiled. "I like your spirit." She nodded then began to walk away after. "It's your death wish." She said to me and looked at me once more. "An advice; Avoid alleyways after." Aki finally returned to her seat with her group.
I looked at those four and I saw them just talking to each other and I returned to my pad to finish what I was supposed to be doing. After another 20 minutes, I've finished drawing her lower part and the background of white lily petals in the background. I looked beside me and just as I thought, Misui was there looking at the drawing with amazed eyes. "Wow~ It's so beautiful~"
I took my pad and ripped the page from the pad and handed it to her. "Here" I said to her and she quickly took it.
"Thanks Nao!" Misui said with a smile on her face which made me smile as well. "Oh wait…" I got curious and she looked back to her seatmate, who was using his cellphone. "Kyoushiro, can you get my folder?" I looked at her seatmate, who nodded to her request. After a few seconds, the guy named Kyoushiro walked towards Misui and handed her a folder. "Thank you~" The crimson haired girl said with her sweet tone which that tall guy nodded to and was about to walk away but Misui stopped him. "Kyoushiro, this is Nao. Nao this is Kyoushiro." She introduced me to his seatmate.
That guy, Kyoushiro came up to me with a smile. "Nice to meet ya, Nao. Shimazu Kyoushiro." He introduced his full name with a gentle tone.
I smiled. "The name's Li Naosashi or Nao if you want. Nice to meet you too, Kyoushiro." I introduced myself too and it was not just out of respect. It was because of his nice attitude that I feel in him.
"OK~" Misui caught both of our attention and she came up to me and showed me her folder. "Now that you two know each other, I'll be putting this in my folder." I looked at Kyoushiro with a stare of 'WTF' and he merely shrugged as an answer. She showed me my drawing that I gave her and opened her folder. She then put my drawing inside the book folder and showed it to us both. "There! It's a part of my memories now!" Misui said with her cheerful tone, as usual.
I couldn't help but smile that one person considered my drawing as a precious memory. There were only two people that has done that at the past but that's for another time. Now she's the third one. "Hey Nao…" My head then turned to the blue haired guy and I saw that he was pointing at my pad. "…Can I?" Kyoushiro asked.
I smiled and nodded. Kyoushiro took it and skimmed through the pages. "Atleast, Kyoushiro here knows how to ask. Not like a certain someone." I looked at Misui, who made a peace sign and scratched her head with a grin on her face.
After Kyoushiro has finished skimming through the pages, he handed my pad back. "You're good at drawing stuffs Nao." He complimented me and after that they both took a seat. Misui beside me and Kyoushiro beside her and we chatted for the rest day. At lunch break, the three of us gone to the canteen and ate together. Of course, Misui being loud and a fool made some people look at us but it was still fun to have her around. After we got back to the classroom, we gone back to our seats earlier and chatted again. They told me about where they live and some details about their life and I told some details of my life and where I live right now. Apparently they have been living in Chozukabe City since they were born but I found out that Kyoushiro's province is in Kyushu which made me curious. He nodded and began to explain. "My family came from the remaining Shimazu Clan from the Sengoku Period. Apparently they were the last Shimazu that survived after our whole clan was wiped out at that time." I was surprised that he came from the Shimazu Clan of Kyoto. "My great, great grandfather left Kyushu to save himself and his family to move to the Kanto Region and hide themselves to be killed." Me and Misui nodded and understood his story. "How about you guys?"
Misui put her finger on her chin and remembered something. "Uhmmm…My grandmother once said that our ancestor was Nobunaga Oda but I didn't believe her." Me and Kyoushiro were surprised at what we heard and looked at her. "What?"
"Y-y-your ancestor is the Shogun; Nobunaga Oda?" I asked with my mouth twitching.
Misui shrugged. "I don't know, my grandmother merely told that story when I was a kid even my mother says it's true but I still don't think it's true." The crimsonette explained and the both of us nodded. "How about you Nao?" I looked at Misui.
"Huh?"
"Do you have an ancestor?" Misui asked me and I could shake my head.
"My father never said anything about us having an ancestor. I tried sometimes but he avoids that question every time I ask him." I explained to them. They both 'Ohhh' and nodded. Silence enveloped us and it was kind of awkward.
"Hey Nao..." I looked at Misui. "…Where is your family?" That question struck me like a bullet in my chest and made my eyes widened.
My mouth was about to speak but….
RIIIIIIIIING
The bell rang, meaning that classes are over. I quickly stood up and get my bag. I began to walk quickly but Misui grabbed my shoulder. "Nao…"
My head then turned with my eyes filled with rage and scowl enveloping my face in darkness. I swear I saw Misui widen her eyes in fear and back up in an inch. Kyoushiro also saw my eyes and he quickly stood up. My mind was foggy and I gritted my teeth in rage. I then turned and ran away from them, leaving a word. "Sorry.."
NORMAL POV
Misui and Kyoushiro look as they watch Naosashi walk out in a fit of rage and was left to wonder, why. The crimson haired girl looked down on the ground and wonder why would their new friend would look at them like that. Kyoushito though took his bag and Misui's and handed it to her. "There's no point in getting sad. We'll ask him tomorrow." The tall student said to the orange eyed girl, who nodded.
Misui took her bag and began to walk out of the classroom while Kyoushiro was left inside the classroom but something then caught his eye. "That's…" He then took the thing he saw and began to run out of the classroom towards the stair and saw Misui between the stairs. "Misui excuse me!" He said and caught the crimson girl's attention.
Misui, being fast, quickly sidestepped and let Kyoushiro past but interested why he was running so fast. "Kyoushiro, what's the rush?"
"I have to catch up to Nao!" Kyoushiro said and raised the thing he took which widened Misui's eye. The blue haired guy began to rush his way again and climb each stairs then he saw Misui behind him, who smiled at him. He smiled back and nodded and both of them rushed as fast they can to the gate.
OUTSIDE CHOZU HIGH
Lots of students are already heading home and Naosashi was just one with the crowd. He was walking as fast as he can and was looking at the ground beneath him, remembering the face he showed to Misui and Kyoushiro. His first friends in his new school yet he shows that face in front of them. He gritted his teeth in regret as he remembered Misui's face when he saw those eyes of hers. Those eyes of fear inside them, they lost their cheerfulness and happiness. 'What the hell was I thinking?!' He narrowed his eyes towards the ground and closed them. After walking for a few minutes, he looked in front of him and stopped. 'My emotions got the better of me…Kuso!'
"NAO!"
Naosashi heard those voices and when he turned around, his eyes widened. He saw them, Kyoushiro riding a bicycle and Misui riding at the back, waving with her casual smile on her face. The black haired boy was about to walk towards them but he remembered what he did to them. Naosashi clenched his fist in anger and gritted his teeth, waiting there.
When the two got close to Naosashi, they stopped in front of him. Misui got off of the bike and walked towards the frozen boy. "Geez Nao, you walk faster than we thought." Misui said with a smile on her face. Those words made Nao clench his fist tighter.
Kyoushiro nodded as he finished putting up the stand of his bike and walked beside Misui. "We took longer because of the students stopping us from catching up to you much faster." He said with a grin but made Naosashi grit his teeth tighter.
"Why?..." Naosashi said, which made Misui and Kyoushiro lose their grin and smile and look at the black haired boy. "Why would you still befriend me even though I snapped and showed that face earlier? Don't you feel scared of me or anything?" He said to them without looking at their face, feeling too ashamed to. A hand was then felt by Naosashi at his shoulder. He looked up to see Misui, with her casual smile.
"We don't blame you Nao. It was my fault for asking that question. I'm sorry." Misui said.
Naosashi was dumbfounded at what he heard. 'They….forgive me?' The black haired boy remembered an event in his life which happened that caused him this.
"And besides…" The two then looked at Kyoushiro and saw that he was holding Nao's pad, to his surprise. "You left your pad Nao, we rushed to give it back to you." The blue haired boy said with a smile on his face.
Naosashi then grinned and took his pad. "Thank you guys and sorry for that scowl earlier…." The black haired boy said to the two.
"We already forgot about that Nao." Kyoushiro said and raised a fist towards him.
Nao gladly accepts it and connects his own fist. "Yeah!"
Another fist then connected above the two fists. "Me too guys! All is forgiven!" Misui said and laughed right after. The two laughed as well and after their laugh they finally part ways with waves from all of them. It was official for Naosashi in his second day. This was his first best day in Chozu High!
THE VERY NEXT DAY!
Naosashi has gotten out of his bed, ate his breakfast and has dressed up. He exited his home and gone straight to school. When he entered the classroom, Naosashi quickly made a grin towards them. They were sitting at those same seats yesterday and they waved towards him. He waves back and finally sits at his original chair.
'It's really weird how new people you meet can make you forget what's happening in the world and make your life more interesting. They can make you laugh and make you forget that you just met them. That it has already passed a long time since you met. Like it is destiny to meet these people. These who you can call a friend. Oh didn't I tell you? This was my story of meeting the ones who I can call family.'
ME: NOW THAT THE CHAPTER IS DONE! ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE ODA MISUI AND SHIMAZU KYOUSHURO!
MISUI: FINALLY GOT MY APPEARANCE
KYOUSHIRO: I THOUGHT GIN WAS SUPPOSED TO APPEAR IN THIS CHAPTER. WHERE IS HE BY THE WAY?
ME: *SMILED DEVILISHY* I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT.
(LOUDER MUFFLED NOISES)
AKI: SERIOUSLY...WHAT IS THAT NOISE?
MISUI: IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE'S MOUTH IS...
KYOUSHIRO: *LOOKS AT ME* STUFFED..."
ME: I AM COMPLETELY HONEST HERE. ANYWAYS, MISUI, KYOUSHIRO. WOULD YOU DO THE HONORS?
KYOUSHIRO: HOPE YOU LIKE THIS CHAPTER
MISUI: YOU'LL BE SEEING US MORE IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!
HEEEEEEEEELP!
AKI: GIN?
ME: WELL SEE YA! *RUNS AWAY* SHUT UP GIN!