Hey guys…

Pinkguin: What's with you?

Me: …

Pinkguin: Seriously, you're all red and wrinkly and your face is starting to swell…

Me: It is 7 in the morning and my grandmother forgot to get me up so we could go to a coffee shop together and I could become normal, and left me here instead. Now I'm like this… Get used to it…

Pinkguin: Ew… *backs away slowly*

Anyways, I promised to update every Sunday, so here is your new update… Enjoy…

P.S. If any of you were wondering, yes I made Luna and Leo the same age as everyone else, I hate it when people include them in a school-fic like this and make them super genius kids, no thank you. So yes Luna and Leo are about 17.

Chapter 3: Where I belong

So far, Akiza's day had been long and exhausting. Her first class was 'Traps and Spells Theory' which Yusei, Jack and Leo had with her, so they all sat together. Unfortunately, Misty and her blue-haired follower, Mina, were also in that class and they did all they could to make Akiza look bad. Yusei and Leo had stood up for her, which had made Misty even angrier, and she had thrown a pencil at the redhead girl. Yusei had glared at the popularity princess and slid his chair a little in front of Akiza in a protective way. From that point on, Yusei had taken a very protective, big-brother like role over the redhead and kept close for the rest of her classes.

Her second period class hadn't been any better. Takami and Kimimi were in that class and kept trying to talk to Akiza. They kept coming up with different designs for her new uniform and tried to taunt Luna about it. Why Luna? Luna scowled at them and Yusei did his defensive thing with his chair again and they got to their work.

Third period Algebra (ugh) had been a welcome change. Akiza pretty much just sat with Yusei and Carly and kept a low profile. The only thing bothering her was all the whispers and weird looks she was getting. Oh, well, as long as she had her crowd which she was sure she had.

Finally lunch had rolled around, Luna and Carly had gone to Akiza's locker to pick her up for the social hour.

"Why do we have lockers? We already have dorm rooms." Akiza pondered out loud to no one in particular.

"Convenience for the students, so they have a place to store their stuff on the opposite end of the school. This is a rather large building and traveling across it isn't particularly easy." Luna explained. Just as she finished, a group of girls ran up to the teal-haired girl and were practically shaking from giddiness and excitement.

"Luna! Did you hear? We're having a 'Welcome Back' dance!" A blond girl with dark skin squealed.

"Really? Cool!" Luna enthused. The group of girls waved as they parted ways.

"Who was that?" Akiza asked her knowledgeable friend.

"Patty, she's one of my friends from the soccer and baseball teams." Luna replied as the three girls headed towards the cafeteria. Akiza was about to comment when a group of students called Luna over to them. She started to go over when two students rushed to her with what seemed to be important news, and four others waved and smiled at her.

Akiza turned to Carly. "Luna seems… Popular." Akiza stated, to which Carly nodded energetically to.

"Oh yes, she's got a ton of friends!" Carly informed.

"But I thought Misty and Takami were the 'popular' ones?" Akiza admitted, a bit confused on the subject.

Carly took in a deep breathe and sighed, preparing for a very long explanation she was about to deliver. "Okay, there are three main 'popular' cliques in our school, we refer to them as totem poles, the head 'popular' person on top, and the others are underneath, according to how popular they are. The first totem pole is Takami's. His group is pretty much known for being beautiful and rich. Takami leads it, of course, followed closely by Kimimi. She hosts the most AMAZING parties, and only invites 35 people to each one. If you're invited, then you know you're important. Kiyomi is also well known for being the most gorgeous human being alive, and Harumi is known for being the class clown. Kichimi and Satomi aren't that well known amongst the entire student body, but still known among the 'populars'. The next totem is Misty's group. She has a lot of followers, but her top two are the only ones we really know of. Misty obviously is the head of her totem, followed by her blue haired companion Mina. Mina used to be sweet, I went to grade school with her, but then Misty came along and turned her into a complete bitch. She's in love with Jack for god knows what reason, and tries to make it obvious he's her territory. Next is Stephanie. She's pretty nice, but we don't talk to her unless its public and other students are around, we don't like to start ruckuses, but Misty pretty much forced her to steal Bruno from Sherry, which wasn't that hard seeing as they were in a big fight at the time, and now they're together. Sherry was crushed after, poor girl… Anyways, Misty also decided to steal Kalin from our group, and now we barely see him, he's the one with the silver hair. Misty is well known for being a pro socialite if you haven't noticed already. The third and final totem is ours, which is headed by Luna. She does all the extra-curricular clubs and teams, and when I say all of them, I MEAN ALL OF THEM. From debate team, to soccer, to chess team, to football, to physics, to cheerleading, to student council, to the dance team… EVERYTHING! And every single student here knows who she is. She's so sweet and kind too, so it's extremely hard to hate her, unless you're Kimimi of course… She's followed by Yusei and Jack, who can rival the good looks of the Angels according to Misty, and when Misty declares something, at least half the student body will agree. Crow is also kind of popular for being Harumi's right hand funny-man, they're actually pretty close friends even though they're in different crowds. Misty and Luna absolutely HATE each other. There are rumors that they actually hiss at each other in the halls, but I don't think its true."

Akiza felt exhausted just listening to that speech. "How do you know all of this?" Akiza questioned.

"I'm the editor and chief for the school paper and blog. It's my job to know all of this." Carly explained.

Misty then decided to interrupt the conversion between the two girls. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Akiza, the girl who managed to become as popular as me and Luna in less than a day." Misty spat at the redhead.

Akiza scowled. "Misty."

"I hear you're going to refuse Takami's offer and stick with Luna's crowd, bold choice." Misty input. Just as she did, Yusei also joined the little group, again taking a defensive stance in front of Akiza. Akiza wondered why Yusei felt so protective over a complete stranger, but her ponderings were always silenced with a feeling of comfort with the crab-head. Were they somehow connected?

Misty's behavior and attitude had quickly changed to a flirtatious manner, making Akiza feel like vomiting on Misty's expensive looking purse…

"Oh, hey Yusei!" she chirped while batting her eyelashes at the teen. Akiza snorted at the socialite, was she for real? Didn't she already have a boyfriend?

"What do want, Misty?" Yusei barked, venom stinging his usually gentle voice.

"Oh, nothing just… chatting." She practically sang, then flashed the boy a winning smile any other boy would've died for.

Akiza tried her hardest not to laugh and throw up at the same time. She half would die for some popcorn and half would die of popcorn. An idea then popped into her head that was sinisterly mischievous. Time to mess with miss popular…

"Yusei, sweetie, can we go get some lunch and then sit together… alone?" She asked seductively then winked rather flirtatiously. Yusei gave her the most confused look he could produce. Akiza then winked again, but more maliciously. Yusei smirked and nodded in understanding. He wrapped her waist in his arms, deciding to play along with this charade of his sister from another mister.

"Sure… sugarplum!" He attempted, hoping his lame pet name would come off well. Akiza slightly rolled her eyes at him but smiled cutely at him nonetheless.

Misty's jaw hit the ground in an instant and Carly was fumbling through her bags clumsily for her camera, since Yusei and Akiza were quite popular at the moment. Misty hadn't been kidding about Akiza reaching the top in less than a day, and this would make for an amazing blog post.

Misty managed to pick her chin up off the ground and began to form words. "Are you two..?" She tried to ask in utter shock.

Akiza, having way too much fun with this, grabbed the sides of Yusei's head and planted one right on him. Misty's jaw hit the floor once again before she fainted and Carly had finally managed to find her camera and was snapping a bunch of pictures for her new future headliner.

Yusei had been shocked at first, but eventually responded to Akiza's forward action and kissed back. They both found it comfortable, yet weird. Not in a bad way, the kiss was actually quite good, but Akiza especially felt weird kissing Yusei. She pulled away and gave him a smile; he smiled back and in an instant knew what the other was thinking; 'that was awkward…'

Misty managed to right herself but was still pale from the shock. Akiza turned to her and smiled. "Does that answer your question?" Akiza taunted and the two 'lovers' walked away to the cafeteria.

"UGH!" Misty screamed as she stormed away towards a group of her followers. She was hating Akiza more and more by the second. She promptly began a make-out session with her boyfriend, hoping it would help relieve some of her anger about 'losing' Yusei to Akiza.

Carly followed after them, taking more pictures and jotting notes down in her notepad of the couple.

The three of them found their social group and immediately took some seats and started mingling. Luna had joined them seconds later and pointed out Akiza and Yusei's intertwined hands. The 'couple' explained the situation to the group quietly and they all decided to play along with it.

Takami approached the group and stood behind Akiza with Kiyomi at his side. The head socialite placed a hand on Akiza's shoulder, grabbing her attention undividedly.

Akiza didn't even need to turn around and see who it was. "Hey, Takami." She greeted dully.

Takami smirked and leant down so that his lips were barely an inch away from the redheads ear. "My dear Akiza, you're gorgeous, witty and you push Misty's buttons with ease, in other words, you're perfect. I want to make you an offer." He whispered smoothly.

"Another one?" Akiza teased, which made Takami chuckle. Everyone snickered at her taunt, but listened intently to Takami's offer.

"Be my girlfriend."

Akiza's breathe caught in her throat. One of the hottest guys on the planet just asked her out. Her eyes started searching the room randomly out of nerves and landed on Kimimi who was giving her a look of death. Akiza quickly averted her eyes and turned to face Takami with a smug look on her face.

"Sorry, I'm already taken, and I'm also rejecting your other offer to join the 'Angels'. I'm already where I belong." She stung him before turning back to her lunch and grabbing Yusei's hand. Takami furrowed his brows before stalking off towards his group's table. Kiyomi kindly introduced himself to Akiza and started chatting with Carly.

Yusei stared at Akiza in disbelief, had she just rejected Takami and his group of beautiful, rich people, whom she would obviously fit in easily with, for a controlling over-achiever, a clumsily awkward reporter, a stone cold jack-ass, a bird-brained clown, a crab-headed grease-monkey, Leo, and a French, overemotional bland? AND she felt she belonged with their freak show? Yusei smiled to himself as a realization hit him, Akiza was the missing link to their group; she was the normal, easy-to-like, fun one who loved messing with people who are loved for fake reasons, like Misty and Takami. In other words:

She was right where she belonged.

END

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