Aoi: Quck note, / means flashback/

/It was late summer, Eiko chased after a blond girl wearing a sailor school uniform, the two colors of white and red showing brightly in the mooring sun.

"Wait up, Hiro!" she called still running. The girl stopped and tuner to face Eiko. After awhile Eiko finally caught up, she leaned over placing her hands on her knees panting. "Why, huff, did, huff, you leave, huff, with ought, huff, me?" she asked still gasping for breath. It was the first day of school; Eiko was entering as a first year, while Hiro was a third year. Their parents had decided to place them in the same school, hoping that the two would become close. 'Wow were they off,' Eiko thought looking back on that day.

"Because we would have been late," Eiko looked up at her sister, the two looked nothing alike. Hiro had her mothers blond hair and her fathers gray eyes. Actually both of her siblings had her fathers gray eyes Eiko was different. Even their personalities were different! No one would have guessed that they were related if they didn't have the same surname. "Lets face it, Eiko, the god of punctuality hates you," Hiro said putting her hands on her hips, looking down at her sister. Eiko stood up,

"You still should have told me you were leaving!" she said looking at her sister. Even thought Eiko was younger they were almost the same height. "Just because I walk with you to school doesn't mean that you would be late!"

"Ugg, we'll talk about this latter." Hiro said ignoring her sister. "Now come on or we'll be late," Hiro sated to walk towards the school.

"What? No we-" Eiko looked at her watch, 'oh great we will be late if we don't hurry!' Eiko looked up from her watch, her sister was halfway down the street. "Hay wait up!" Eiko said hurrying to catch up./

'What do you think happened?' Eiko thought to herself. (More or less) 'Sure me and Hiro had our differences but…'

'Oh lets face it.' The other Eiko said, 'she wouldn't care if you jumped off a bridge.' Eiko wanted to object, but she then remembered what had caused her to relies that her sister hated her.

/Eiko walked across the courtyard. She talked to a girl she had met that day, she had black hair, and stunning green eyes that reminded Eiko of emeralds. Like wise Eiko's eyes reminded the girl of gold.

"You want to walk home together, Tsubaki-san?" the girl asked looking at her.

"Sure!" Eiko said smiling. "I just have to get my bag, wait for me her kay?" she said running towards the art building were she had left her bag. 'Wow she is nice, I'm glad I met her.' Eiko thought as she ran. 'And here I was worried I wouldn't fit in here.' Eiko had had trouble making friends at her old school. She had gone to grade school with her and had found it strange when they found out that she liked to play with kids from the orphanage. Eiko didn't really care then, she had Seto and Mokuba. But when they left…

Eiko looked at eh art building it was big and modern looking. The building had eggshell white walls inside and out with only a few big windows on the second floor. Eiko had been inside earlier today, it had two stories but the second one was mostly a balcony that looked down onto the first floor were most of the actual are was made. Eiko opened the sliding door and entered. She walked over to the table were she had set her bag down. She picked up her bag and turned to leave to find three older girls looking at her. They didn't exactly look friendly.

"Um, hi. Do I know you guys?" Eiko realized that she did. She had seen Hiro talking to them before school, they must have been her friends. Suddenly one of them grabbed her wrist. "Hay!" Eiko said pulling her wrist away. The other two girls grabbed her arms and held her back. "What are you-?" Eiko said struggling to brake free.

"Shut up!" the girl who had grabbed her wrist said slapping her across the face. Eiko was distorted. The two girls threw her against a wall, the surrounded her. Eiko feared that they were going to hurt her, beat her until she begged for mercy. One of the girls looked up.

"Hay, Hiro, you want us to ruff her up a bit?" Eiko looked up, Hiro leaned against the balcony railing, looking down at them.

"No, stick to the plan. Which by the way didn't involve slapping her, Yumi."

"Hay you didn't tell me she was a fighter," Yumi complained. 'W- what is going on?' Eiko's thoughts swirled inside her head violently. 'Why isn't, Hiro doing anything?' suddenly Eiko was covered with a red liquid from below. She looked up to see two girls holding a paint bucket above her. Eiko looked down at her uniform, drenched in the red paint. She noticed a white feather on her sleeves. She looked up again to see the girls dropping feathers down on her. Suddenly there was a flash of light. Eiko looked back at the girls who now had a camera in their hands.

"Oh this is just rich!" the girl holding the camera said, a big grin on her face. "Hay, Rima, your on the school paper right?" she said looking up at one of the girls who had dumped the paint on Eiko.

"Why yes I am, and if you don't mind I would like to use that photo you took for our next issue." The girl said smirking.

"Well I really think that's, Hiro's decision, what do you say, Hiro?" the girl looked up at Hiro. Her face had no emotion in it whatsoever.

"Do it." Never in Eiko's life had two words torn Eiko up inside so much. Eiko stormed out of the art building, crying. It was still early in the day, so most of the students were still at school. As he ran Eiko could hear people talking, laughing, gasping at her.

"What's with her?" one girl said.

"Ha! She looks so ridiculous!" another said. Eiko ran home, to embarrass to go see the girl with the emerald eyes./

'Why did, Hiro do that?' Eiko thought, 'why…'

'Remember when I came along' Eiko did.

/Eiko ran up to her room, still crying. She slammed the door to her room behind her. She wanted to just lie down on her bed and cry, but the paint was still wet and she had already left tracks on her way into her house. She looked at herself in the mirror, most of the feathers had fallen off but there were still some stuck in her hair. The read paint was coated across her hair and cloths, staining them red. 'Even if people couldn't tell it was me before, they'll know when that picture is published in the paper.' Eiko held her head in her hands; it was like something out of a bad teen novel. A teenage girls life is completely over and it seems like she has no were to go. Then she meets some nice people, goes to the dance, becomes prom queen, and dances with the boy of her dreams. 'Humph, yah like that will ever happen' Eiko thought. 'Oh god what am I going to do?'

'You could fight back.' Eiko looked up in the mirror. A girl wearing her school uniform looked back at her. She looked like Eiko had earlier that morning, no paint or feathers. The only difference was the eyes.

"What?" Eiko said aloud.

"You heard me." The image in the mirror said. "Fight back. Don't let Hiro push you around. Fight back." Eiko was speechless.

"But, but…"

"You heard what Yumi said. You're a fighter." The girl in the mirror eye's glowed with excitement. "So fight back. Your strong, you can do it." Eiko was silent."Fight back," the girl demanded. "Fight back! Fight back!" she started to chant. "Destroy them all!" Eiko picked up a small figure from her desk. She flung it at the mirror. Smashing the image into a million pieces. Eiko looked at her hands, they trembled. 'Who was that? Why- why did she want me too…' the fact that a girl appeared in her mirror and told her to destroy her sister wasn't what frightened her. It wasn't ever how much the girl looked like Eiko. It was that while the girl was chanting, she wanted to do it. She wanted to fight, to destroy./

Eiko sat on her couch, just sitting there. She hands were interlocked and placed on her lap. 'So that was you all those years ago?' she thought.

'Yup.' The other Eiko said.

'But why? Why did you want me to fight?' the other Eiko sighed.

'Yah know, Eiko, you could of beaten you sister you know. You are a fighter. You just surpress it. You could destroy if you wanted to. You could destroy everything.' Eiko was quiet. She didn't say or think anything.

'You said that there is another one of you?' Eiko asked.

'Actually, another one of you but yes, you have another soul' Eiko blinked.

'Come again?' she thought. Eiko closed her eyes, she found herself in a dark room, the other Eiko looking back at her.

"Well yah, what did you think I was?" she asked looking at Eiko.

"I don't know? Some alternate universe Eiko?" the other Eiko gave her a look.

"You kneed to cut down on the science fiction. Like a lot…" Eiko chucked.

"Ok fine, Red."

"Red?" the other Eiko said looking at Eiko with a confused look.

"Well yah, your eyes are red, and your middle name is Akai right?" Eiko asked looking at her. The other Eiko smiled.

"Huh, I guess t is. Well see you, Eiko," Red stated to walk away.

"Were are you going?" Eiko asked calling after her.

"To my room," Red said still walking with her back towards Eiko. Eiko was about to case after her but her eyes opened. She looked out the window.

"Morning already?" she said. She looked at her watch. "Gah! I'm going to be late for school!"

Aoi: well there you go! The other Eiko now has an official name, Red!

Red: that's really the best you could come up with. Red…

Aoi: um….

Red: and isn't it just Akai's name translated. What gives here!

Aoi: ok allow me to explain that. I've had this idea way before either me or Akai knew about fanfick. And when we needed a pen name I look at Akai and said, 'how about aoi-akai? Blue-red?' and we went with it. I completely forgot about Eiko 'Akai' Tsubaki and just went with it. But I told Akai about it and the character and she is completely fine with it. (Actually she really likes the character, as I'm sure you guys will to the more we gat to know her) and yes, the chapter was named after Bowling for Soup's song, 'High School Never Ends. so there, and now, I sleep.