I was feeling pumped from the last chapter so I immediately started on this one after ch4. I have really been wanting to do this one for a long time, but had to get in some chaps before this so..yea.
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Shakugan no Shana! - goes and cries in a corner -
Crack.
Read.
'Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end'
Yet another lemon said on the paper.
Assess.
And Press.
Also known as the C.R.A.P routine.
The flame haze awoke the next morning early. Why you may ask?
Because High School for our characters had begun again!
She got up and grabbed the uniform before heading off to the shower. Once done she got ready, ate a quick breakfast, she headed out the door.
She met up with Yuji and, who was there as well, Yoshida. The three started the walk to their school, having not been there for the entire summer, who knows..they may have done some changes. Nah, but people can dream can't they?
Conversation was mostly about everything and anything really, but, Yoshida excluded herself from it after awhile, being lost in thought.
What am I going to do? She thought worriedly, recalling her little sisterly chat with the older Kazumi. How could she suggest I possibly play dirty?
Maybe I won't have to. She knew there was a chance that she was just getting her hopes up, but she couldn't help it. Always think positive! That's what she tells herself.
"Alls fair in love and war" She remembered Mihara saying. Of course she wanted to win Yuji's heart, have him tell her he loved her forever and always, but to play dirty...she'd just feel like she was cheating. That's exactly what it is probably too.
Why does my rival have to be Shana-chan? The brown haired girl asked herself. The flame haze and mystes always had a 'special' connection she noticed. Well they should have since they are like partners in a battle.
How could she possibly compete with that?
What really made her a bit jealous was last night, and yes, she saw the flame haze and Mystes right outside the girl's apartment building.
"Yoshida-san! Are you OK?" Yuji's voice brought the girl back to reality, and she noticed she had been lagging behind the two.
"I'm fine" Yoshida replied and caught up, engaging back into conversation. She didn't really want to think about everything in the fear that she will just end up with no hopes for a love connection between the Mystes boy.
Soon the three arrived at the entrance of the school. The gates were decorated with balloons and there was a big banner that said, 'Welcome back!'.
They met up with Ike and Ogata before all of them went inside to see their classes sheet.
Before you know it 12:00 rolled in and the teenagers were now eating lunch.
"Sakai-kun!" Yoshida called out when said boy walked into view. He came over.
"Hai?"
"The sensei told me to put away the volley balls that were used in gym period today. Could you help me?"
"Sure" And the two walked off to the gym.
The balls were collected and they had headed into the small storage building, now placing the balls in their rightful baskets when the door slid closed.
It caught the two's attention and Yuji headed back over to it. He pulled and pulled but the door wouldn't come open.
"It's locked" He concluded.
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Something was off. Really off.
The ending bell just rang meaning school was over for the day, and the flame haze was waiting by the gates to walk home with Yuji.
As of now it's been nearly 20 minutes and she still hadn't seen him. Actually from lunch on she hadn't seen, nor heard anything from him and there was no way he was avoiding her.
At least she hoped not.
But, then again, he didn't have a good reason to in her opinion. Sure some awkward moments as well as those romantic moments happened, and some false accusations were made(only once), but she wouldn't believe he would be avoiding her.
What if something happened? This made the girl slightly concerned. She shrugged it off though. He was fully capable of taking care of himself in a fight, he was probably just doing some work for a teacher or something like that.
An hour later...
Getting tired of waiting, Shana pushed off the gate she had been leaning on and went back onto the school grounds. Something wasn't right and she was going to find out what.
Deciding to look for him, she first went to all the teachers still remaining in the building. No one had had him do any errands.
She then went searching all over the school.
The sun was setting and the familiar colors of burnt orange, red, and a dash of yellow were glazing the white clouds around the dark orange sun that was half way out of sight.
The teachers left awhile ago as well as every student except three had, leaving the school building looking lifeless and lonely.
A storm was brewing in from the south, slowly making it's way to the city. It seemed to sense a need to be there..
Shana rounded the corner of the school building to see nothing. She walked around and then went up to the side of the storage building before turning toward the wall of it and kicking it very hard out of annoyance and frustration. Something about why she couldn't find him irked her in a way, but what got all the emotions mixed is that she had not seen Yoshida come out of the entrance to the school either.
At the time she didn't think anything of it, but as the day drew on, certain thoughts started to plague her mind.
Could something have happened to him? Did something happen to Kazumi and he went looking for her? Were they together? Were they...
She shook her head too rid of the thoughts. A feeling she never liked always welled up inside her when she thought of them being together in any way other than friends. The flame haze didn't really know why she was so scared. Maybe it was the thought that if he happened to love the brown haired girl then he wouldn't hang around the flame haze so much..he might even leave her alone.
That is the one thing that she had discovered ever coming to this city and making the friends she did. Shana would never admit it out loud but lately a foreign feeling had made itself known and she didn't like it. She was afraid. Scared that she would be alone again.
A flame haze is a one person job, though Whilhelmenia stays with her, most of the time the Manipulator of Objects was always researching or heading off to different countries. For the majority of the time, leaving the younger flame haze by herself.
The happiness her friends brought her made this feeling start. The fear of being left alone again. The mere thought of going back to the lonliness was almost unbearable, sure she never noticed it before. Always devoting her time to getting the job done and nothing remotely similiar to socializing, except before she had become a flame haze.
Shana growled loudly, mad at herself for letting the fear work it's way into her mind like a worm. She kicked the wall again even harder then the last time before no more than 5 seconds later, hearing a feminine shriek come from inside the building.
The flame haze instantly raised her eyebrows.
She nearly ran to the door and tried to open it but found it was locked. What if someones hurt?
This thought made the flame haze try and yank the door, a lot harder than before, and was surprised to see it didn't budge.
Seeing no other choice she kicked the door down with much force, it didn't resist as it fell to the inside ground of the storage building with a loud 'Thump'
To say Shana was surprised would be a downright brutle understatement; to say she was shocked? Almost there.
She was the two combined, plus stunned to the bone yet she felt like she knew it was coming. The girl didn't, couldn't, blink.
Yoshida was laying on her back on the ground and beside her there was a fallen rack of basketballs. Yuji was directly on top of her, one hand beside her head holding him up while the other was groping her left breast. Both were looking at each other with scarlet blushes that probably reached past their neck.
Upon hearing the door land on the ground, the two looked over to see Shana standing there with wide eyes.
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Right before this happened...
Yoshida and Yuji had now been trapped in the storage building for, what they estimated from their growling stomachs, nearly 4 hours.
They mostly killed the time with off and on talking, but after awhile they were involved in a lengthy conversation. It wasn't like they hadn't tried to escape.
The building had one window visible which was to high for either to reach and to small for Yoshida to crawl out of. They tried the door for who knows how many times but to no avail.
It was like someone put bricks on the side of the door as well as a stick so you couldn't slide it open. But they quickly dismissed the thought, nobody really had a reason to, and if they did it to be funny then there are going to get what would be coming. If it was only a joke. Yuji highly doubted it though.
The chit-chat had been cut short when the two heard noises coming from the outside followed by a 'thunk' on the wall behind a basketball rack(which had balls on it).
Curious, Yoshida got up and walked toward where the sound came from when she heard something just beyond the white cement. Before she knew it there came another 'thunk' even louder and the force from the whatever made that sound caused the rack to sway and come crashing down.
Yuji made a quick dash over to the girl, seeing it was to late to run out of the way, he shielded her by throwing his arm over what he thought was her shoulder(he's in front of her), and used his body as a shield. Then the rack came down on them as the girl shrieked.
After...
He opened his eyes to be met with Yoshida's widened ones as she blushed hardcore. After realizing their position he mimicked her. Then the door was brought to a crashing collision with the ground.
Shana's bangs hung over her eyes making them no longer visible to the others.
The silence lingering was so thick not even a butcher knife could cut through it, but the worst part was it was so still. It would make the dead look like drunk teenagers at a party with blaring music.
Not being able to contain herself, the flame haze grabbed what was nearest to her, which happened to be a metal pole, and walked up in front of the two.
"It's not what it looks-" He tried to explain but was cut off by her suddden action.
She swung the pole and hit the boy over the head very hard. It wasn't hard enough to seriously hurt him, though she didn't feel like she would care if it did, but it would leave him a big, very sore, bruise and bump later. It failed to do any real harm since she couldn't put her full strength in it.
"OW!" Yuji yelped in pain. "What was that for?" VERY stupid question.
He looked at her and swore he saw a single tear roll down her cheek before the flame haze turned around and ran.
"Shana!" He jumped to his feet and gave chase to the black haired girl. By then the storm had centered itself above Misaki city and drowned the place with cold rain.
She ran and ran, hearing his calls die down in the distance after sometime. Tears were cascading down from her eyes by now as she couldn't get the images of Kazumi and him out of her mind.
Once the flame haze saw it, her feelings instantly acted up. She was angry, confused, annoyed, frustrated, scared, but most of all she was hurt.
It felt like someone had ripped her heart out and was tearing it into little peices right in front of her. Her insides turned and twisted painfully and she had felt tears already stinging the corners of her eyes when she walked up to the Mystes boys in the storage.
After running for awhile she ended up back at her own apartment. She opened the door and closed it behind herself, making sure to lock it before bolting straight to the bedroom.
The flame haze grabbed hold of one of the pillows and buried her face deep in it, letting the tears fall freely.
A little while later she heard someone knocking hard on the door, but she knew who it was already. Yuji called out for her to open the door but he was only met with very faint chocked out sounds, and silence.
He tried for a couple of hours before sighing in defeat,knowing she wouldn't open up any time soon. And if he continued to knock on her door while shouting then she might just murder him.
The Mystes boy turned around and headed back down the stairs to see Yoshida standing there.
"Ano Sak-"
He shook his head and brushed past her. She knew he wasn't neccassarily mad at her, but she couldn't help the tears that managed to escape and gracefully glide down her cheeks. The guilt she felt, thinking it was partially her fault for the flame haze's current state, she left and went back to her house. 'Their probably worried sick' she thought.
Shana felt somewhat relieved that he left, but the tears continued to fall like twin waterfalls. She turned the light out and got under the comforts, burying her face back in the pillow as she cried herself to sleep. Not caring that her clothes were soaking wet.
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It tore me up inside to write this, BUT it's all apart of the plan :]
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