Chapter Five: Electric Company

I examined the ring. It was silver save for the stone in the middle which was light blue with many little spots of darker blue through it.

"Kind of like rain!" I exclaimed to no-one in particular.

"I see detention has no effect on you at all." The Female teacher said resignedly. "Well if you must ignore my teachings, try not to disrupt the lesson."

I felt something light hit me in the back of the head. I turned around to find a blushing girl pointing at the ground near my chair. She had blonde hair tied up in a pony tail by a blue ribbon. Her eyes were a brilliant light green and seemed full of life. From what I could see she was not too much shorter then myself, perhaps an inch or so. I looked down at the ground to find a scrunched up piece of paper. I picked it up and opened it. It had the words 'I like you' written on it. I smiled to myself. How nice, a person actually expressing their feelings of friendship to another. I wrote on the paper below her words 'Thank you! I like you to!' then threw it back to her, grinning when she looked up at me after noticing the note on her desk. She quickly opened it then her face went scarlet, this alarmed me.

"Hey are you ok?" I whispered to her.

She swallowed and nodded, though her face stayed the same colour.

I tried to catch the attention of Akira by throwing a piece of paper onto her desk. I repeated this action a number of times before she turned her attention to me.

"What the hell do you want Kendo Idiot?" She demanded.

"That girl's face looks really red; do you know what could be wrong with her?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

She looked at the girl then scowled.

"How would I know?"

"I don't know I just thought you would know seeing as you are a girl." I shrugged.

"Well…when did she turn red?" She asked.

"Well she sent me a note saying that she liked me and I was happy that she would express her feelings of friendship, so wrote back 'Thank you I like you too'" I explained.

Akira shook her head.

"I don't think she was expressing those sorts of feelings." Akira said.

"What other type is there?" I asked her.

"…You really are an idiot." And with that Akira turned and I was left without any idea of what I was meant to do.

After class I decided to approach her and see if I could help her. She was talking to a few of her friends and turned crimson red as soon as I approached.

"You are so lucky…What I wouldn't give to get someone like Shinsei to like me…" A girl beside her said then she realised I was standing there. "Oh well we should leave you two alone."

And with that her friends moved away from us, grinning at the girl who was left there. Then it occurred to me, I had forgotten her name.

"Is there something wrong? You just made a weird face." She said.

"Oh uhm…no nothing is wrong I was just…" I had to think of a cover up. "Your eyes. Your eyes look amazing."

She turned even redder, if that was even possible.

"Why thank you…you are so sweet." She said looking at the ground.

"You have gone really red. Are you ok? If you aren't feeling well enough to walk I could carry you to the nurse's office." I said frowning.

"I wouldn't mind that." She murmured then horror descended on her face. "I mean no I am fine, just fine!"

"It's ok it doesn't bother me." I said smiling.

I put my left arm around the middle of her back supporting her as I bent down with my right arm and pulled her legs up. Our faces came very close for a second, our noses touching; she buried her face in her shoulder.

"Uhm thank you!" She said something after that but it was muffled by the shirt her face was pressed against.

I received many looks as we walked down the halls of our school to the nurse's office, I smiled at them and they quickly turned and acted as if they hadn't seen me. Then I felt a tug on my sleeve. I looked down at the girl in I was holding and she was pointing to something. I followed her finger to the scene. Mikomi was walking by himself, and was being trailed by five male students.

"Isn't he your friend?" She asked.

I put slowly lowered her feet to the ground.

"I am sorry but it looks like I have to go and play mafia." I said smiling. "You aren't to far away from the nurse now so try and walk. I am sorry but I just can't resist this game."

I walked off after the three males. I stayed a good distance away from them so that they wouldn't suspect me.

"Hey Mikomi!" One of them called.

I got ready to intercept them, last time we played mafia they had come at us with real swords, who knew what would happen this time? I grinned to myself but then shook the grin off of my face and watched.

"So, that ring you are wearing…it looks valuable." One of the other boys said.

I looked at Mikomi's hands. His right had a ring that was an amazing orange.

"A lot like the morning sky!" I said in wonder.

Unfortunately they had been alerted to my spot.

"Shinsei! What a pleasant surprise. You beat up my brother here, he, my friends and I are a little annoyed you did that so…" He revealed a paint ball gun that was within his coat. "You are going to be punished."

"When did I do that?" I pondered to myself. "Oh Kendo that's right. You told me to not take it easy on you, so I….hit you on the inside of your leg?"

"You nearly hit me in the groin!" The brother exclaimed.

"I think you may be over reacting, besides not my fault if you left yourself wide open right?" I laughed which seemed to make the five students more agitated.

I looked around, searching for a possible weapon and found none.

Looks like I will be doing this with my fists. I thought to myself and sprinted towards them.

Then something odd happened, I tripped over. I skidded past them along the polished floor. I looked over my shoulder to find no obstacles I could have tripped over, but surly I had felt something on my shin…

Suddenly another person came sprinting towards the five guys. I was surprised to find that it was the girl I had been carrying. She touched two of the boys at a time. Their bodies jerked violently then they crumpled to the ground. Before the other three had known what had happened, the girl had dealt with them in the same fashion.

I got up slowly and walked over to where she and Mikomi were standing.

"Are you ok Mikomi?" She asked.

She looked at me and then to the ground.

"I suppose you think I am a freak now…" She said with despair.

"Not at all! That was possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen!" I beamed at her. "Why would I think you were a freak?"

"No reason." She sighed with relief.

"Ciaosu!"

I looked at Mikomi and discovered he had the baby in the suit perched on his head.

"Reborn! Why are you here?" Mikomi managed to say before the baby pushed off his head hard, sending him to the ground.

"Shinsei don't feel bad about tripping, the truth is I did it." He said.

"Really? Wow you are really fast!" I said, incredibly impressed.

The baby turned to the girl.

"Nonki Hekireki. Do you want to be a part of our mafia family?" Reborn asked.

"Mafia? Sorry that doesn't sound like a good-" Then she looked from me to Mikomi. "Who would happen to be in it?"

"Well the current members are Mikomi, Akira and Shinsei." He put emphasis on my name.

"Well…" She seemed to be split so I decided to step in.

"It is really fun! I just recently got permitted to join this game and I have been having fun ever since!" I smiled.

"Ok I will join!" She said.

"Good. You will need this then." Reborn said.

He threw her a glittering green object. I realised it was like ours, though the stone was black except for a green thunderbolt in the middle that took up a third of the large stone.

I smiled at her.

"Looks like you and I will be spending a lot more time together. I am so happy!" I said grinning.

Her face then turned back to its red colour, and I cried out in alarm as she swayed. When I caught her she had a contented smile over her face, and was fast asleep.