A/N: YOU THERE! STTTTOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! This fanfic was written over two years ago and is very, very, very poorly written. An improved continuation of this story can be read here: h(t)t(p(s(:((/()/)w)ww).(fanfic)ti(on.n(et)/)s(/)10470(120/1)/(L)ove(-)Hate(-)and(-)Other(-)Clich%C3%A9s)-(REMAKE)(Remove parenthesis - alternatively, just click on my username "Aliorio" up there, search through my stories and click on "Love, Hate, and Other Cliches - REMAKE." I assure you, this revised version is indescribably better and is also further in the plot than this one ever got. The only reason I am keeping this version up is for me personally to compare and contrast now and in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Disclaimer: I do not own Vocaloid or any of the characters involved in this story.
It's 5:54 PM, about 2 and a half hours after school had ended. Neru led the way to the school's yard with Haku, Rin, and Len behind her. Len had no intention in going, but Rin had insisted, and even though he would never admit it, he wanted to see the result of the fight, too.
"Rin!" Len whispered angrily in his twin sister's ear. "Why did you tell Neru all of that?"
"Why wouldn't I?" Rin responded in a hushed tone. "She forgot, and I had to remind her."
"Not that. Miku never said she was going to kick her butt!"
"Pfffft. I said 'Miku said she's going to kick your ass', not butt."
"Yeah, well, I'm just not a fan of profanity."
"You're such a dork."
"Shut up, Rin."
"Oh, calm down. I only did that to build up tension, and I bet some kids 500 yen(1) that Neru would win, so she needs to fight her best. Besides, Len, you're a guy, why wouldn't you wanna see two girls tear each others' clothes off?" Rin snickered. Len turned a dark shade of pink.
"I'm not into that stuff!" Len's whispering started to sound like quiet yelling. Haku glanced behind her and saw the twins arguing.
'Haha, that's adorable...' She thought, but then turned her attention back to Neru, trying to convince her not to fight with Miku.
"Ru-chan, please don't do this! You could get in serious trouble!"
"It doesn't matter." Came a harsh, dark reply from Neru. She didn't even bother looking back at her, only stared into the direction of the yard that she was approaching.
"What about your mother? What if she finds out about this? She'll be very disappointed!"
"Haku, quit worrying about me, alright? I don't want my Mom to be upset with me, but if she finds out about it, I can't do anything about it. I'm tired of being treated like shit -no- worse than shit from Miku just because she's rich and pretty and perfect! I'll fix her stuck up attitude, and school will be better, not just for me, but for all of the other kids she bullies! If you want me to turn around, you'll have to drag me by my ankles!" Neru shouted powerfully, her eyes narrowed at Haku who stopped in her tracks, shocked that Neru had felt so strongly about this. Haku was very thankful to Neru for saving her on that day when she nearly died in the forest(2), and felt that she owed Neru her life. She didn't want anything bad to ever happen to her.
The twins were also surprised when they heard about Neru's determination. They expected it to be just a quick fist fight, but it went much deeper than they would have ever thought. Rin suddenly felt guilty -a very rare occurence for the blond- for betting on the fight and lying to Neru. Len stared at the ground, not looking at her.
"O-okay, Ru-chan, I'll support you, j-just...just be very careful, okay?"
"Fufufufufu(3), Neru-chan, I didn't think that you'd show up. Oh, and I see that you've brought your friends. That's adorable!" Miku laughed as Neru arrived in the schoolyard. It wasn't anything special. It's just a flat, black concrete with six basketball hoops and crappy swingsets that no one uses. The only thing interesting about it is the 10-foot tall oak tree in the corner of the school yard that never, ever loses its leaves in the fall and winter. Some say it's cursed, and if you ever spot a leaf falling from the branches, bad luck awaits you. Neru wasn't a superstitious person, but she was definitely shaken when she saw two leaves drip down and land on the ground before her.
"Shut it, Miku. We came here to fight, not talk. Get on with it." Neru demanded angrily, but Miku just laughed and came closer. Eventually they were less that one foot apart.
"You know what I like about you, Neru? Your hair. Even though you don't brush or cut it, it's still beautiful. Even prettier than mine." She gently grabbed a lock of her blond hair, and combed through it. Neru didn't move a muscle, until Miku pulled out a pair of scissors from behind her back. "Mind if I have some?" With a swift lunge, she snipped off a great length of her side ponytail. Her hairband fell out, and as if in slow motion, Neru's yellow locks fluttered to her shoulders. Neru instinctively swung her arm forward, expecting to hear the cry of Miku, but instead was met with large hands gripped around her own fist. In front of her was a bulky man at least 6 feet tall, and she, being only a little over 4 feet, was towered by him. Her eyes widened as she realized what had happened. Miku brought guards.
"Neru!" Len shouted at the five feet he was distanced from the blond. He was going to run over to help her, but Haku held him back. "What are you doing? Neru needs help!"
"No." Haku answered calmly, which surprised him since she was just begging her not to fight.
"But Neru! She-"
"It's fine. Neru can handle it."
Judging from Neru's appearance, it was hard to imagine her handling a pack of guards on her own, but then Len remembered what Haku had said at lunch earlier that day.
'The last time someone smacked Neru's phone, which was in 5th grade, a boy was put into the hospital for 2 years. And she never apologized.'
'I'll support you, j-just...just be very careful, okay?'
Haku had said that because she didn't want Neru to hurt Miku too badly.
"Hey! I thought this would be a fair fight!" Neru growled through gritted teeth.
"Oh, simple, dimwitted, cute Neru, you can't ever be on top if you play fair." Neru answered with a lightning fast kick between the mans' legs, and he dropped to his knees, roaring in the pain that she'd caused him. Neru rushed towards and unsuspecting Miku, and grinned when she received a satisfying shriek as her tightly clenched fist popped her cousin in the cheek. Miku slowly drew her manicured hand to her face. She gasped at the purple bump of a bruise growing on her cheek.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!" Miku wailed in her rage. Furious eyes snapped to Neru, and she threw the pair of scissors at her, who dodged effortlessly by ducking her head.
"GET HER!" She screamed. "GRAB HER AND BREAK HER BONES!" Neru didn't know who Miku was ordering to do this until a pack of guards surged forward from behind the tree. Neru counted ten.
'Ten guards? I can handle that.' She thought. Neru cracked her knuckles on both hands. They formed a circle around her and closed in. She whipped her elbows outwards, catching two of them in their noses, then jumped up in a split form, sending two more falling down. 'That's four. Six more to go.' Miku's goon grabbed her arm, and another caught her on the wrist. Neru flicked her right leg up, bashing one of them in their forehead. She could see blood on the ground, which made her cringe. She hated the sight of blood, it brought back bad memories. Using her now free arm, she uppercutted the guard hold her wrist right under his jaw, causing him to crash backwards into another. Neru squatted down. With her hands on the dark pavement, she swiped her leg in a perfect circle, tripping the remaining three thugs. Their heads thumped hard onto the concrete.
Miku clenched her teeth tightly as the fight went on. She knew that her petty guards could not win against Neru. The whole situation was hopeless. The only goons she had left were the other three behind her, and if Neru had taken out ten, she could take out three more just as easily. Miku had lost.
'Or have I...?' Miku thought sneakily as her eyes wandered to Len, Rin, and Haku standing five feet away from the action.
"Guards! Capture those three and bring them to the mansion!" She whispered hurriedly to her goons. "And make it quick!" They nodded.
Neru kicked the last of the ten in his head, and he layed there, unconscious. Grinning triumphantly, she stood before the ten guards she'd just defeated all on her own.
"So, Miku, now your opponent is-" Neru cut herself off. Miku wasn't there. 'That wimp...did she run off?'
"Ru-chan!" She heard Haku exclaim. A guard was holding her by her waist and clamped a hand over her mouth. Rin was experiencing the same thing, but Len was putting up a good fight. Eventually, he got free, delivering a jab to the man in his nose, but too late to help Haku and Rin. A long, midnight black limousine strode into the school yard. A door opened, and the thugs that held Rin and Haku jumped in. Before completely driving out of the area, an envelope was tossed out of the window. Miku's silence shattering laughter was heard throughout the vicinity as she escaped, leaving behind the choking scent of her perfume.
(1) 500 yen is like 4.97 dollars in the US, or 63.76 peso in Mexico.
(2) See Chapter 1. I've changed Haku's story from what it first was when I published this story, and it's rather important, so please re-read it if you haven't already.
(3) Fufufufufu is like mischievous laughter in Japanese, I believe (at least that's what I've learned from manga)
AN: WOOOO I FINISHED IT! I hope a long chapter makes up for the long hiatus. I've never written a fight scene before, so I don't know if it is very good or not, and the ending got rushed again, ahahahaha...This story is eventually going to get really deep and a bit violent, but that won't happen until later chapters. I completely changed the description for this story, because after writing this chapter, I've got a much better grasp on the plot. I can't give an exact date when the next update will be, because I've decided to go in a cycle of updating my 3 LenNeru stories. "Worth" is getting a new chapter next. My English teacher said that I needed to work on the depth and pace of my stories, so if you can give any constructive criticism, I'd be grateful!