Booboo-nyaa: *holds up sign*
*sign*: 'I am the biggest procrastinator in the world. Knowing this, I ask of you to please not kill me.'
Taruto: *walks by* What the-?! How do you expect anyone to read THAT?! Your writing is TERRIBLE!
Cough!
Take a breath; inhale, exhale-COUGH!
Take another shaky breath, and then y-COUGH, COUGH!!!
Arekkusu's mind followed this pattern, thinking of nothing more than staying upright; instead of tumbling over and curling into a ball, like she wanted to.
She took another ragged breath as she hunched over, cursing her diminishing stamina. Apparently, just because she now harbored animal genetics, it didn't mean she could go on exerting herself forever.
Another bead of sweat trickled down her back, adding to the glistening sheen that covered her.
Darn it…I would have hoped…that these dang bat genes…would come more in handy..!
The figure standing across from her started walking towards her, with his face unreadable.
Arekkusu swallowed painfully as she stood up straight. If she was going down, she would do it with pride.
The young man across from her closed the distance, and smiled.
"Good job, Itami-san." He motioned to a row of heavy breathing adolescents slumped against the bamboo wall.
"T-thanks…senpai…Phew. Man, I'm beat!" she exclaimed as she sat down next to a girl her age.
The black belt of whom she was sparring with motioned for another victim to come and fight.
Arekkusu shook her head ferociously as her padded helmet fell off. She discarded the remaining gear that was strapped on top of her uniform.
She was tired, yes. But she was in her element in the dojo. Taekwondo was her calling.
"You look strangely happy for someone who just got their butt kicked by Atsushi-senpai." The girl next to her asked suspiciously. Arekkusu blinked and looked at her.
"Really? Huh. Guess I'm just happy that I finally got that spinning hook kick right."
"Yeah, but right after that he ax-kicked you down. To. The. Ground." Apparently, the black-haired girl wasn't all too happy.
"Meh, who cares. At least you lasted longer than me, Usagi-chan." Arekkusu grinned, as Usagi gave her an annoyed glance.
Suddenly, the clock behind them chimed.
The students in the dojo all let out a simultaneous breath of relief. Class was over.
And Ryou will most likely kill me for ditching work. Oh well, it can't be helped.
Visions of how she would deliver her excuse played through her mind as she changed back into her street clothes in the locker room.
"Yo, Itami-san!" another green belt called her as she was about to walk out the door.
"Tadashi-san?" Now what does he want?
Tadashi jogged up to her and stuck his hand out for a high-five. Arekkusu grinned and willingly slapped it.
"Good job today, Itami-san! You seemed to hold out a lot longer than normal today."
"And why shouldn't I?" she asked. Please don't think I'm suspicious…I gotta' keep my mew powers secret!
"Well," he began, "I heard your obaa-chan died recently and…"
Arekkusu's face darkened with sadness. Granny… If she hadn't died… then I wouldn't be living with that mean-faced jerk, Ryou. She snarled on the inside, a mixture of grief and rage.
Itsuko Tadashi knew many things in life, and he knew that he'd better back off soon, if he didn't want a black eye. Arekkusu was in one of her 'I-kill-you-now' moods.
"Well, uh…Bye!" he sweated as he raced out the other exit.
Arekkusu grumbled about people not minding their own business as she stormed off, back to the café.
Kisshu was hovered over the eavesdropping device with a perplexed expression on his face.
"Human training classed are weird." He muttered to himself. Ick…So much screaming and yelling, and too many names. He definitely preferred training with real life-and-death chimera animals.
"Kisshu," Pai said as he teleported in. "Did you obtain any information that would be beneficial for us to know?"
"Nope. Right now it's just a bunch of sweaty people screaming and yelling and fighting. Gave me an earache." He sighed as he rubbed his large ears.
"Report to me if you hear anything of use." And with that, Pai teleported off.
"*sigh* C'mon, Koumori-chan, give me something better to listen to." Kisshu stared wistfully at the noise-detecting device. At LEAST let me hear something about Ichigo, my number one.
"Arekkusu." Ryou seethed, with his face red from holding back his rage and transforming it into intelligible speech.
"Ya know; this is getting to be a bit repetitive. So I'll save you the trouble of chewing me out by going to my room and staying grounded there for like, a decade or so. Whatever makes you happy." With that she started to her room, thinking it was over.
It wasn't. Ryou wasn't letting her go so easily.
"Arekkusu! You get your butt back here right now! You think this is funny, eh? You think I'll be happy by you getting punished? No. What I want is for you to stop going off on your own, and to do as you're told, when you're told." He glared down at her.
Arekkusu huffed angrily, before stomping up and looking him in the eye.
"You're. Not. My father. So don't. Tell me. What. To. Do." She hissed as she stalked off up the stairs.
"Ryou…" Keiichiro, who was in the kitchen and had witnessed the whole ordeal, looked at him sadly.
"Ryou, yelling at her won't solve anything."
"I don't care! Maybe she needs a little yelling at, that stubborn little brat!" Ryou glared up at her room. Why couldn't she see that he was worried about her?! That stupid girl!
"I think that what she needs is a little compassion. You can't blame her for acting the way she does." Keiichiro pondered for a moment in his thoughts, and then smiled, softly. "I know of another person who acted the same way, when he lost everything."
Ryou stopped walking and sighed.
"Yeah, but I didn't lose everything. I had you to take care of me."
Keiichiro walked up and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"And now you have to take care of her."
"Yeah."
Arekkusu was in the middle of shoving two pillows up against her ears.
Darn ears…I DON'T want to eavesdrop on them. I don't need to a- Eh..? She felt around in her hair, until she found a round, black, and shiny thing in it.
"Eww, gross. Yeah, I'm all sweaty and stuff. Think the shower is calling for me." Throwing the strange black thing out the window, she headed towards the bathroom.
"What the-?! Why the heck did I lose signal?!" Kisshu shouted at nobody in particular.
"Heh, well now at least you won't spend the day glued to that thing." Taruto laughed as he played absentmindedly with his clacker-weapons.
Kisshu glared at him. That runt…
To keep from voicing his thoughts aloud, Kisshu tried smacking the device back to life.
A few whacks later though, it was apparent that somehow the other end was broken.
"Hmm. Hey, Taruto. I'm going to find out what happened to the other end of this thing. I'll be back in a bit."
"Sure."
Taruto played with his weapon for a few more minutes before getting bored.
"Might as well send out a few chimera animas and wreck some havoc." He teleported off, thinking of what type of destruction his plan would bring.
Booboo-nyaa: I'll try to update more, honestly, I promise! It's just....MY LIFE IS VERY CRAZY AT THE MOMENT. Really, between school, sports, family, friends, and...more school, I've been holding off with the updates and chapters. I'm sorry...
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