Chapter 2 – City Girl's Rampage!

That night, I felt that it would be much easier to go to bed early that night. When I walked into my room, I noticed the tons of boxes that sat on the sofa that Uncle Dojima must've given me. I was too tired to care, though. I could barely get dressed by myself...

At night, I always tie my hair up into a bun, and then dress up in this pink, dressy-like nightgown that I bought with my own money a few years ago. I saw the TV... the shelf, but nothing caught my attention until I saw the futon laid across the floor. Without a problem, my head hit the pillow and I drifted off into a deep sleep...

...That's what I thought. I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or not, but something came to me that night...

I ended up in this different world... in my pajamas? Well, that didn't bother me, but I didn't feel that tired anymore. All I saw was a bricked path with fog all around, and it seemed like I could fall if I took the wrong step. I noticed I was on my knees, and couldn't help but stand up on my own two feet to start exploring.

"H-Hello?!" My voice didn't echo. I mean, it didn't go far, if any distance.

My voice seemed like it was muted to the fog... Only I could hear myself... What the-

I began to run forward this time, accidentally stepping into some of the gaps that were now forming inside the floor. Walking farther into the fog (I'm as blind as a bat!), I began to hear a strange and unfamiliar voice.

"Do you seek the truth..?"

It asked me this one question. I couldn't answer though, so I had no choice but to walk forward and try to navigate the place where the voice was coming from!

"If you desire the truth, come and find me..."

"What the hell..." I whispered. "What's going on? What's this truth it's telling me?"

Talking to myself wasn't going to work. In fact, it's probably going to make everyone I meet think I'm a psycho in the future. I couldn't get used to that habit! It seemed like my feet were walking by themselves for a minute, and that's when I spotted this swirly-like door...

Not swirly, but.. colored. It seemed orange-ish and reddish, as well as having black lines across it. I was getting this really awkward presence from the square door, and that's when I held my hand out to it.

"K-Kh..." A bright light began to hit my eyes... What was happening again?

...I ended up in this different room, but fog was surrounding the same world. Was I back at the start again..?

"So, you're the one who's pursuing me..."

I looked up front to find what seemed like a man shrouded in mystery. Well, the fog covered him up so I couldn't see him clearly, if at all! I noticed this sword in my hand that was as sharp as a tack on the top, maybe even sharper. I had to hold it with both of them, since it was pretty heavy to hold with just one of my scrawny palms. I felt some sort of power come to my hands, and that's when I began to aim it at that person who was intimidating me.

"Zio!" I cried out, seeing something appear in the fog, but without some sort of perfect vision I couldn't see it very well. Electricity hit him in a flash... Heh, "flash."

"Hmm... It seems you can see a little, despite the fog..." His voice wasn't a gentle angel, that's for sure.

"Shut up!" I commanded, running towards him with the sword in my hand, and then commencing a slash that didn't do anything. It didn't even pour blood or anything like in those action movies!

"I see... Indeed, you possess an interesting quality..." His voice made my skin prickle. Whoever he was, gave me the creeps.

"But... You will not catch me so easily..."

"Catch you?!" Alright, I'm pissed. "I wanna get out of here!"

"If what you seek is 'truth'... Then, your search will be even harder." He advised me of this, but then sent some more fog out to the land. Goddamn it!

I couldn't see... I had no choice, but to drop the sword and guard myself before anything before I suddenly got a critical hit laid against my body.

"Everyone sees what they want to... Yet, the fog only deepens.."

When I noticed he wasn't going to do anything, I used that move... "Zio" one more time, but it seemed like the attack didn't connect and almost attacked me instead! I fell to my knees when his voice filled my head again...

"Will we meet again...?" He asked me. "At a place other than here..."

He chuckled.

"...I look forward to it."

His voice echoed as it seemed like he left the premises.

"W-Wait!" I screamed, "S-St...op..."

I remember hearing a thump... Then, blacking out.

"Breakfast's ready."

I couldn't help but get up slowly. My head was still spinning a little, but that's because I blame.. whatever that was! When I dressed up, I thought the uniform looked OK for it being the school's. It had this sailor-type look surrounding the outside of it, while the inside had this speared-wheel sort of thing. The skirt looked checker-boarded, and now I have to get used to the fact of needing to wear long socks with uniforms again! Ugh...

I didn't let Nanako wait too long, so all I did was leave my hair in a ponytail. She was dressed up in what seemed like winter clothing.

"Good Morning." She didn't hesitate to say hello.

"Good Morning," I replied back, but was astonished at all the food that laid on the table. I sat on the nearest chair, and we just looked at each other.

"Okay!" She brightened up more than yesterday... Perhaps she was tired? "Let's eat!"

"Wow... Did you make all this food yourself?" I noticed Dojima wasn't there. "Oh... Did your father go to work already?"

"Something happened, so he won't be coming back." She sounded reluctant to tell me.

"You're starting school today, right?" She asked me. I just nodded as I ate a piece of toast. "My school's on the way, so... Why don't we go together?"

"You don't mind?" I finished eating breakfast with her. "I-I mean, if you don't want to walk with me..."

"I don't mind at all." She grinned at me a bit.

...This rain was really aggravating me... Especially because I couldn't walk to my school with a jacket or anything. We arrived at the Samegawa flood plain, which was basically the path I should take every morning from here on out. We each had our own umbrellas, and I was just carrying the things I needed for school. Her's was a tiny red backpack, and she still looked just as cute~!

She pointed straight ahead. "You keep going from here on out. My school's back this way, goodbye!"

"Alright, bye Nanako-chan!" I waved back to her as best as I could, then continued walking across the trail. The rain didn't seem like it would let up, especially since I almost had my umbrella fall out of my hands from either the wind combining with it, or something.

I spun my umbrella to keeping the water from pelting me down, and that's when I saw some boy screwing around on a bike... Or, at least trying to hold a goddamn umbrella with the freaking handlebar!

"Whoaaa...!"

*BASH*

I ran up to him as he crashed into the street sign and his stuff was knocked over and everything. Wow. He got hit in the wrong place, too... He didn't look too good.

I saw something that slipped out of his backpack called "Trial of the Dragon." Seemed like a DVD of some sort, but I didn't want to go snooping into his stuff. I risked getting wet to help him pick up everything.

"Are you... okay?" I looked at him in concern, but really I was just examining his looks.

Brown eyes. Blonde, spiky hair. Well, I guess I could say that was a blonde moment off of him. I unzipped his backpack (I was probably soaking wet by now...), and placed everything into the red bag that he was carrying. Seemed his headphones were falling off his neck, so I adjusted them the best I could.

"Yeah... Thanks..." He groaned, holding the spot where it seemed the pain was coming from. I began to cover myself with the umbrella again before walking off. Poor guy...

...

When I arrived at the school, I couldn't imagine how big it was! I noticed the uniform had buttons on it, that I didn't see until I got wet, I guess. I unbuttoned the jacket and noticed that there was the actual uniform under there! Man, that was too close!

"Hey, you!" That's when I heard a loud holler coming from the end of the hallway, and saw a really... ugly looking man coming down the hallway. "If you aren't going to wear the damn jacket, why wear it in the first place?!"

"I-It's wet." Man, was he atrocious! Freakin' buckteeth and a goofy-looking tie, and... man, I don't even want to describe him! "I.. I'm about to go look for my class, right now... You see, I just transferred here-"

"Transferred?" His eyebrows rose, and he just looked at me with a suspicious look. "So, are you that... Komagi chick? Kokagi? Ko-"

"Nagi." I corrected him. "Remilia Konagi."

"Bleh." He turned away from me, "You're with me then. Get your ass over here and follow me."

"Erm.." I began to walk behind him, "Sensei, your name is-"

"Morooka." He scowled at me. "Shut your trap, and don't forget it."

"..." Ugh. I always wondered why we had to be nice to teachers, especially to assholes like him! I continued to follow him all the way to the classroom that seemed to be his. Damn it... He's my homeroom teacher, isn't he?!

He slammed open the door, which made a few kids escape to their seats and have me just walking in grabbing my other arm. From what it was like out here, brown eyes were common. Stupid eyes...

"Alright, shut your traps!" He beckoned the other students to quiet down. "I'm Kinshiro Morooka. Your homeroom teacher from today forward."

Damn it.

"Just because it's spring, doesn't mean you can act like love-stricken idiots!" Whoa, was he really insulting all of us? "Long as I'm around, you students are going to be pure as the driven snow.."

My hands were clenching into fists... How dare he talk about us, like we're some sort of delinquents? I've never been in this school... Yasogami High, but none of the kids looked like they wanted to cause trouble!

"Now, I hate wasting my time, but I better introduce this freak of a transfer student to you." His glare averted to me for a quick second, then looked back at the classroom. How dare he?! Was it bad enough that I had to be insulted for how I looked by that goddamn teacher?!

"This sad sack female has been thrown in from the big city out to a shitty place like this like yesterday's garbage," He wouldn't shut up... Oh my God, I swear. "And she's just as much as a loser as she was there! So you idiots better not try to do anything stupid with her!"

I promised myself I wouldn't cry... Well, blow up. I don't cry in situations like this, but I do go on a rampage like a wild bull.

"Tell them your name, girl, and make it quick!"

That's when I slammed my books down, and made everyone that wasn't paying attention look at the scene that was happening before their eyes.

"L-Listen, you!" I glared at him. "Are you calling me a loser?! I'm not like the city folk at all!! I am not garbage, and I'm not a loser!"

Everyone gasped in horror. What? Haven't they ever yelled at a teacher before?

"Humph." He just blinked, "You're on my shit list, effective immediately!"

Shit list? Didn't he mean "Blacklist?"

"Now, listen up!" He began to glare at me now. "This town, is miles away from your big city of perverts and assholes. In more ways than one..."

"That doesn't make me one." I noted.

"Just listen, dammit!" His voice actually made me jump this time. "You better not even think of getting involved with the boys here. Let alone, get into stupid situations."

"..." I didn't say a word. Just listened to him rant.

"But, what do I know?" He mocked us. "It's not like the old days. Even here, kids grow up too damn fast. "Every time I turn my back, your fooling around with one of those damn phones. Looking up your life-journals and my-places-"

"Excuse me, can she sit next to me?!" I heard some other girl call out to Morooka like it wasn't even bothering her.

"Huh?" Morooka lights up a bit , instead of chastising me. "Yeah, sure. You hear that, Kokagi? That seat over there is yours."

'It's Konagi!' I wanted to stress that one more time, but decided not to even try. I walked over to the seat and quietly sat down until I saw the girl who helped me out begin to whisper to me.

"He's the worst, huh?" Brown hair, brown eyes, and she wore a green jacket that was much different from our school uniform. Why was she helping me out? "Rotten luck to have you get stuck in this class... Well, we'll just have to hang in there for a year!"

I heard rumors going around me from all around the corners. I learned that I could get suspended easily if I got onto his bad side... Maybe I should just keep quiet for now...

So my life here at the school has begun...

I wonder if I'll fit in..?

I swear, when I first heard Morooka yell like an idiot, I couldn't help but laugh at the "Life-journals" & "My-places." Nice one. XD.

So, Remilia Konagi is finally at Yasogami High. Wasn't expecting a chick that looked as nice as can be to spaz like that.

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