Caged Ch 3
PEMDAS
A/N: DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or its characters! Just my OC's.
Last Chapter: The first day of school commenced, the childish experiment caused a rock paper scissors tournament. In the end the battle of luck had no point, and she chose Shuichi to be her partner. Does this mean friendship?
Time passed quickly, and we did the experiment in a matter of minutes. "So um…" I tried to start conversation, but I didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry, you know, for laughing. I just thought that you would be like every other boy and enjoy being surrounded by so many girls, but you weren't. So I couldn't help but just laugh, I've always thought all boys were like that so, to see you actually not want to be there, it made me kind of…happy." I thought I would clarify.
"I figured as much, considering you acted the same way when all the boys came rushing over to you." He smiled, a real smile too.
"Was it that obvious?" I asked. He just nodded and looked away, then turned back to me after a moment with a curious look. "Are you in any clubs?" He asked.
"Oh, no I'm not at the moment, but I was thinking of joining the choir club." I replied with a real smile. "I love singing, I don't think I could live without it." I said happily.
"You should sing sometime." He said giving me a hopeful look.
"I would love to, it's just that…" I looked away sadly, then turned my attention back to him. "I have stage fright, I can't sing in front of anyone unless I'm really comfortable with them, like Mi-ki over there." I said while pointing to Mi. "I hate that I have stage fright, every time I have to sing in front of someone I don't know very well, or at all, my nerves act up causing my voice to crack and become quiet and shaky." I frowned.
"Maybe if you start out with singing in front of a small group of people, like a few of your friends, then you can gradually work at getting rid of it. For example, once you feel comfortable singing in front of your friends, sing in front of them and your family. Then when you get comfortable with your family move to a bigger group of people, like singing in front of your house, you'll attract people and you can sing in front of them." He explained.
"That's a great idea!" I said excitedly. Just then, the bell rang.
"What class do you have next?" He asked.
"Oh math, how 'bout you?" I asked while gathering my things.
"Math." He answered, short and simple.
"Great! I wonder where I'll sit." I said happily. "Well there is an empty desk next to me. Daisuke sits in the one behind it." He said.
"Oh neat, even if the teacher assigns me to sit next to him I bet Mi-ki will be dying to trade spots." I said not even realizing that we had walked into the classroom.
"Katsune, over here!" I heard Mi shout.
"Coming, I'll see you later Shuichi." I smiled and ran off to Mi who was waiting at the front of the classroom, since we needed to be introduced, oh how I hate first days. Shuichi just waved and went to his seat. I heard a faint chuckle coming from my friend. "What? Why are you laughing?" I whispered.
"'Cause, you actually like a boy." She smirked.
"I told you before I don't like him!" I slightly raised my voice to a now loud whisper, not making that mistake again.
"Well you at least like him as a friend right?" She pressed.
"Well duh, but I don't lo-like like him…" I changed my statement.
"You were gonna say love, darn I was so close to getting you to say it." She frowned.
"OK class settle down. These are the transfer students." A deep voice calmed the class. "Has anyone already met them?" He asked. I saw Daisuke, Lavi, Daichi, some girl I didn't know, and Shuichi's hands all go up. (A/N: You have no idea how badly I wanted to say some random chick.) "OK, good. So why don't you introduce yourselves." He said turning his head to me and Mi-ki.
"Hi there, I'm Mitsuki Amano," She started and said the same thing as last class causing the whole class again to laugh, even the teacher.
"Hi, I'm Katsune Matsumoto." I stated and said the same thing as I did last class as well, we did this for the rest of the classes. The teacher told me to sit by Shuichi, and Mi by Daisuke. 'A WINDOW SEAT, SCORE!' I thought to myself. Later in class I was staring out the window lost in my thoughts.
"Miss Matsumoto, please come write the problem and solve it on the chalkboard.
At hearing my name I stood startled, "Yes sir," I said glancing over at Shuichi who wrote down the problem on a piece of paper. I looked at him and smiled. Then walked to the front of the classroom.
"b*(4+g)=?" I said aloud, while writing it on the chalkboard. "For b use 9 for g use 3," I said aloud again. I solved it quickly, "?=63" I again said and wrote. Then walked back and took my seat.
The teacher smiled, "Good job Matsumoto." He praised. "If you wouldn't mind, could you tell us all how you solved the problem." He smirked. I then stood again and explained.
"I used PEMDAS, Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. You do them step by step, so I first solved the equation in the parentheses, which is 4+3 if you substitute the g. Then that gives you 7, leaving the problem 9*7 left, substituting the b. And thus the final answer, is 63." I then sat down again, leaving the class staring in awe. 'Oh come one, this stuff is easy.' I thought to myself, wondering just why they were so amazed.
"Pssst, Kitty." I heard a whisper from behind me.
"I told you not to call me that!" I whispered back.
She just shrugged it off, "You two have a pretty good vibe going on, you're lucky he helped you out daydreamer, what were you thinking about. You wouldn't have happened to be thinking about him would you?" She teased.
"Shut up, I bet you think about Daisuke every second." I fought back, then quickly turned back to the teacher so as to not get in trouble.
"I do not, meanie that's cheating." I heard her say as she pouted. I just rolled my eyes.
"Whatever, you brought it on yourself." I whispered back still not taking my attention off the teacher, until I realized we were being stared at by the two boys sitting next to us. I dared to look over at Shuichi, who just had a puzzled look on his face. I turned away quickly looking out the window again, only this time I was blushing. Being caught talking about that buy the guy you're talking about is enough to make any girl blush, even if it isn't true. The rest of the day went by quickly, I found out me and Shuichi were in every class together except the first one, and the PE and Science class usually did things together for whatever reason, and of course Mi and I were in every class together, as I had requested. We were soon on our way home.
"Today was exhausting. Do you think that maybe we should skip hunting tonight." Mi said. I nodded in agreement. We arrived at the house very shortly since it was only a few minutes away from school. I quickly got in the shower, and was soon out of it. I had my dark green silk pajamas on, this time with beautiful white foxes on them. I walked out to my balcony, and realized I hadn't sung all day, I started singing a song I loved. "Hey, singing again?" I heard Mi ask as she walked up to me.
I nodded, "sorry did I wake you?" I asked.
"No I haven't gone to bed yet." She smiled.
"Oh that's good."
"Hey, would you sing that song for me, I think it's called Hold me Together?" She asked hopefully while lying down in the hammock I had.
"Sure, I love singing that song." I replied.
A/N: Thanks for reading, please let me know if it was okay. Reviews would be appreciated, don't shoot down the story though, I like pointers not insults if, you don't like it don't read it.