A/N: I'll explain some things that probably have most of you confused in this chapter or at least I will try to. Please read and review and thank you for reading this so far.
-Saya-
I groaned as I stared at the math problems on the sheet infront of me. Of all the things in the world to have me do, they make me do math. Math is my worst enemy, I swear it is.
"Five minutes left."
Shino said and I growled in frustration at my teacher. Who the fuck gives a math test to a new student on their first day? An evil bug manipulist that can turn into a giant ass roach, that's who. I filled the paper out to the best of my ability just as my teacher collected them.
"I'll grade them and give you back the results tomorrow."
Shino said before the bell rang. School was finally over and I couldn't wait to get home and tell Sala about all the crazy shit that's happened to me today. Sala's my penpal that I've been talking to since I was put into the orphanage after I lost my family. She says she's human, but with how much she knows about Mythicals, I have my doubts but I'm in no position to talk considering I've told her I'm human and I'm a Siren.
"You ready to go home Saya?"
Star asked as we walked down the hall to meet up with Sheera. We all had different final classes, but I didn't mind though I would like someone to cheat off of in Math class.
"You really need to ask?"
I asked and she laughed at me as we made our way to the parking lot. We passed Naruto and the others, minus Temari and her brothers, on the way to my car.
"So, what did you guys think of your first day at BlueDevil High?"
TenTen asked and I smiled at her.
"I think, besides the fact that I got slapped by some idiots up on the roof that today was a pretty good day."
I said and she smiled at me.
"We'll see you guys tomorrow, but we need to get home."
Sheera said and we waved goodbye to them all before going to my car and climbing inside. We tossed our bags to the floorboard in the back and I pulled out of the school parking lot and drove home. Once we walked inside Sheera started on dinner and Star and I ran up to our rooms. Her to do her homework like the little Pixie nerd she is and me to write a letter to my penpal about my day only to have Sheera come running into my room to remind me we were suppose to stay after school to go over our parts for the concert with Orochimaru. Star, Sheera, and I climbed back into my car and drove back to the school. Two hours later we came back home and went back to what we had originally planned to do, though Sheera had to start over with cooking dinner so we'd eat a little later than usual.
I tossed my back and my jacket down on my bed before pulling my desk chair out and sitting down and started to write about my day. When I finished I decided I'd risk it and ask her again if she was really a human, I took an even bigger risk and told her I wasn't and I'd tell her what I was if she told me what she was. I signed it with the name I'd been using since I was six and sealed it in an envelope and put it in the mailbox outside before walking back inside to eat dinner with my sisters. I loved how quickly they delivered mail here, you got it the next day instead of the next week. I ate quickly, then did the little bit of homework I had, took a shower and headed to bed.
-Temari-
I woke up before my brothers and went to the mailbox. I smiled when I saw I had a letter from Maria. I went back to my room and got ready for school and ate my breakfast while I read it. I dropped the piece of toast I'd put up to my mouth as I read over the things that had happened yesterday.
There's no way, it has to be just a really weird coincidence.
I thought as my penpal explained she'd had a race with a red headed boy that pissed her off to no end and he tackled her to the ground because she showed him up. I read the rest of the letter and choked on the bits of toast in my mouth as I read the part where she explained she wasn't human, but was actually a Mythical and wanted to know if I was one too. She said she'd tell me what kind she was if I told her what kind I was.
I-It's not a coincidence. I've been writting Saya for the past twelve years and haven't even known it.
I thought in shock and I tried to get my breathing back to normal.
"Morning Temari."
I jumped at the sound of Kankuro's voice and quickly hid the letter from Saya.
"What's with you?"
He asked as he sat down at the kitchen table.
"N-Nothing, I was just thinking and you surprised me."
I lied quickly and he looked at me weird for a bit before shrugging his shoulders and grabbing for a piece of toast.
"I-I'm gonna go wake Gaara."
I said before I left the kitchen and headed upstairs to Gaara's room.
I wonder what she'd do if she found out she's been talking to a vampire for all these years?
I thought to myself as I pushed open Gaara's bedroom door. Then an idea came to me and I smiled to myself.
No reason to tell her what kind of Mythical I am right away, maybe I can just tell her I am one and play a guessing game with her. I might even be able to find out why she hates vampires so much.
I thought and my smile widened.
"Temari, if you're going to smile creepily to yourself do it somewhere other than in my room."
I heard Gaara's voice say from his coffin just as he pushed the lid open and sat up. I blushed as I realized I'd zoned out and smiled at him.
"Sorry."
I said before turning and heading to my room to write another letter to Saya before heading to school. Now that I had made up my mind there was no reason to delay.
"Hurry up Temari!"
Kankuro yelled from downstairs and I sighed before sealing the letter and running downstairs to join my brothers at the door. As we passed the mailbox I dropped the letter in before going with my brothers to the garage. Kankuro and I got into our father's Convertable while Gaara started heading towards his bike.
"Uh uh Gaara, Dad says you can't drive your bike until you work on your attitude."
I said and he glared at me before sliding into the backseat of the car. I pulled out of the garage and headed for the school.
"Why'd you tell him?"
He asked and I smiled to myself.
"My little brother getting beat by a girl and being a sore loser about it? I thought it was pretty funny."
I said and my smile widened a bit when I heard him growl in response.
"Love you too Gaara."
I said as we pulled into the school's parking lot.
-Naruto-
"So, what do you guys thinks of Sheera, Star, and Saya?"
I asked the others in our usual hang out spot in the mornings before school officially started. We always ate lunch under the huge Sakura tree in the middle of the courtyard and everyone knew this was our spot. Neji, TenTen, and Sakura looked up from their cardgame to look at me.
"Sheera seems really smart, and Star seems extremely entergetic."
Sakura said and I nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, but what about Saya?"
I asked.
"She seems pretty cool except for the unexplainable hatred for vampires."
Sasuke said and I nodded in agreement. We were all wondering why she harbored such hatred towards them, but we didn't know her well enough to ask.
"So, do you think we could let them join our group?"
I asked hopefully. It was nice to hang out with someone who liked to pull pranks and goof off like Star, and Saya seemed like a lot of fun as did Sheera.
"What is this, a gang or something?"
Sasuke asked and I glared at him until he sighed.
"I've got no problem with it."
He said and I smiled before turning towards TenTen, Neji, and Sakura.
"No problem here."
Neji and TenTen said in unison.
"I see no problem in it."
Sakura said and I turned to look at Kiba and Hinata.
"I already like Saya, and her sisters seem alright to me."
Kiba said and I smiled at him before turning towards Hinata.
"S-Sure."
She said quietly and my smile widened before turning to look at Shikamaru who was lying on the ground under the tree.
"Shikamaru?"
I asked and he groaned.
"Shikamaru."
I said a little louder and he opened an eye to glare at me.
"If I say yes will you let me get some sleep?"
He asked and I nodded.
"Then yes."
He said and I smiled.
"Alright then, it's settled. Sheera, Star, and Saya are offically part of our group."
I said with a big smile.
"A-Aren't you g-going to ask T-Temari and the o-others?"
Hinata asked softly and my smile fell a bit.
"I'm sure Itachi and them won't care and Temari and Kankuro usually go along with what we decide anyway and Gaara can just deal with it."
Sasuke said and for once I agreed with him.
"Morning guys!"
We all turned to see Sheera, Star, and Saya walking towards us. Star was the one who had called out to us.
"Morning."
We all said together which made the three of them stop and stare at us before they smiled and wove their way into the empty spots around the tree. Star came to stand next to me, Sheera joined the game with Neji and them and Saya laid down next to Shikamaru and crossed her arms behind her head. I smiled to myself at how easily they seemed to fit in with our group.
"Morning everyone."
I turned at the sound of Temari's voice and tensed when I noticed practically everyone turn to look at Saya who was lying next to a sleeping Shikamaru with her eyes closed.
"Yes I know they're coming now stop staring at me dammit."
She said without opening her eyes and we all quickly looked away. Temari and Kankuro joined in a conversation with me and Star while Gaara hopped up on the brick wall in his usual spot and stared out over the campus. I was actually surprised Saya and him didn't argue, but I wasn't going to complain about it. The bell rang and we all moved inside to go to our homerooms. Sasuke, Sakura, Kiba, Neji, TenTen, Gaara, Saya, Sheera, Star, and I all had the same homeroom and first period while Hinata, Temari, Kankuro, and Shikamaru didn't. We said goodbye in the hallway and walked into Kakashi's room.
We all sat down and it was peaceful and everything was going great until Sandy walked down the steps of the raised classroom to stand in the aisle next to Saya.
Oh Kami no.
I thought as I saw the two interact. Sandy said something that made Saya frown, then she said something that made Sandy put her hands on her hips, and the next thing I know Saya jumps out of her seat and tackles Sandy into the aisle and they both roll down the stairs until they're in the front of the room fighting.
-Saya-
I was actually trying my best not to cause any more trouble since my sister Sheera chewed me out this morning in the parking lot for knocking out a guy who called Star 'Sweet thang' and asked how much it'd be to have her for the whole day. Though she couldn't deny she would have done the same thing if I hadn't, I was the one who got chewed out for it. I was even going to tolerate the vampires unless they pissed me off. Everything was going fine until homeroom. I was just minding my own business, staring at the wall and ignoring the red haired vampire next to me when Sandy suddenly showed up and blocked my view of the wall.
"You're going to pay for what you did yesterday."
She said and I sat up straight and looked her in her sandy colored eyes.
So that's why she's called Sandy, not very original.
I thought to myself ignoring most of what she said until she started talking about my family.
"You need to shut your mouth before I shut it for you."
I said and she put her hands on her hips.
"Oh really? And what are you going to do about it Takimura? Oh wait, that's not even your real last name. You were adopted because your real mommy and daddy didn't love you enough to keep you so they threw you away like the piece of garbage you are."
She said and I growled at her before I jumped out of my seat and tackled her to the floor. We rolled down the stairs and ended up at the front of the classroom with me pinning her bitch ass down.
"Don't you ever talk about my family you fucking slut! You don't know shit about me!"
I yelled at her as I hit her repeatedly. She tried to defend herself, but it didn't do much. She reached out and scratched the shit out of my face, but I ignored it and kept hitting her.
"Saya! Saya! Stop it!"
I heard Star shout and looked up to see her and the others in the room were looking down at us and that skank decided to use that time to pull on my hair.
"Yeah, listen to your whore of a sister in a family that adopted you since yours left you to die."
Sandy said and I turned back to her and glared at her before I punched the shit out of her and started to choke her.
"I'm going to kill you you motherfucker!"
I screamed before I felt someone wrap their arms around my waist and haul me up off of her. I struggled against their hold, trying to get back to the Genie lying on the floor, but I couldn't get free. I looked back to see who had pulled me off of her and saw it was Kiba.
"Put me down Kiba, I'm going to kill that bitch!"
I screamed as I continued to struggle against him. I managed to get out of his arms only to have a whole bunch of Narutos stop me.
"Don't make me kick your ass too Naruto."
I said and he paled, but didn't move.
"Saya stop it."
I heard Sheera say but didn't listen. Suddenly she walked up to me and back handed me.
"Saya Nicole Takimura I said stop it!"
She shouted and everyone in the room fell silent. I lifted my head to stare up into my sister's eyes and flinched at the look in them. I saw she wasn't mad with me, but she didn't approve of my behavior either. I felt tears stinging my eyes and pushed past my sisters and the ten Narutos and ran out of the room. I didn't stop running until I made it to the roof. I blocked the door and climbed up ontop of the observatory and pulled my knees up to my chest and let the tears fall. I'd beat a bitches ass for saying something about my sisters, but I'd kill someone for saying something bad about my family. It was a touchy subject for me and Sheera and Star knew this. I started to rock back and forth as flashes of that night passed in my head. I sqeezed my eyes shut hoping to stop the images from coming, but that only seemed to make it worse.
-Sheera-
I sighed as I watched Saya run out of the room. Kakashi decided to come in at that moment and his one visible eye widened when he saw Sandy writhing in pain on the floor.
"Do I even want to know what happened here?"
He asked and I sighed again.
"No, just get someone to take her to the nurse. She'll need it."
I said and he nodded before motioning for Kiba and Neji to take Sandy to the nurse and he left with them.
"I've never seen someone so mad before."
I heard Naruto say as the other nine of him disappeared in a puff of smoke to reveal the original.
"That's because I doubt anyone has ever been that mad. Saya's not our blood sister, our parents adopted her when she was six from an orphanage, but she treats us like her family. We're the most precious thing to her, but the subject of her actual family is extremely touchy. Even my sister, my parents, and I don't know the whole story of how she wound up in that orphanage."
I explained to Naruto and the others since everyone else in the room had moved back to their seats since the fight was over.
"You guys know she's a Siren, but she's the last one of her kind. We're not sure what happened, all she's told us was her kind was hunted down and killed by humans because they blamed them for killing so many of their sailors when it was the vampires who killed them."
I said and they looked at me confused, though Gaara glared.
"So she's denying Sirens ate the sailors and is blaming it on the vampires? That's fucked up."
He said and I shook my head at his comment which made him look at me confused.
"But she's right."
I said and he opened his mouth to protest, but I cut him off.
"Sirens don't eat the bodies of their victims, that's not how they feed."
I explained and they all looked at eachother confused before looking back at me.
"Then how do they feed?"
Sakura asked.
"They feed off the youth of a human's soul, but leave them alive."
I said and Gaara looked at me confused.
"But that doesn't explain why she hates vampires so much. What do they have to do with the humans killing her kind?"
Sakura asked and I sighed.
"That I don't know. She won't tell us anything other than that. She hates humans for killing her kind, but she hates vampires even more because somehow they were responsible for the humans killing them."
I said and everyone fell silent except for the other students in the room that were oblivious to our conversation.
"Do you think she'll be alright?"
Star asked me and I looked into her amber colored eyes and frowned.
"I don't know, but we should probably let her cool off by herself. If she doesn't show up in Music and Arts class, then we'll go look for her."
I said and Star nodded.
"Why wait so long?"
Naruto asked and I smiled up at him.
"She's a Siren Naruto, she loves to sing."
I explained simply and his blue eyes widened and his mouth formed an 'O' as he understood what I meant.
"The nurse says Sandy will be fine. She's got a few teeth knocked lose, a busted lip and a black eye and will be severely bruised for a couple of weeks, but nothing's broken."
Kakashi said as he came back into the room. I laughed at that and everyone turned to look at me confused.
"She actually held back."
I said and their eyes widened before Kakashi said to go back to our seats.
-Gaara-
I was confused about what Sheera had said. If humans were the ones who actually killed Saya's kind, then why did she hate vampires? How were my kind responsible for what the humans did?
"Thinking about Saya?"
I looked up to see Naruto walking backwards infront of me.
"You idiot, why would I care about that Siren?"
I asked and he smiled at me.
"Because you like her."
He said and I glared at him.
"I do not."
I said and his smile widened making me want to hit him, but I didn't have to since he tripped over his own feet and fell to the floor.
Justice.
I thought as I continued on my way to my Study of Human Anatomy class. When I sat down, the chair next to mine was empty and it bothered me. Usually it wouldn't, but it did and that annoyed me. I shouldn't give a damn if that Siren was upset about something that had nothing to do with me, but I was and it pissed me off. She was probably just placing the blame somewhere convient. The class passed and she still hadn't shown up. I walked into the Music and Arts room and expected to see her sitting with her sisters, but she still was nowhere to be found. Naruto, Sakura, TenTen, and the others were all huddled around Sheera and Star and I made my way over to them.
"Alright. You guys know this school better than we do. Search everywhere you can think of. Star and Kankuro can check the Gym, me and Kiba will check the left half of the second floor. Sakura, Sasuke, you guys can check the right half. Naruto, Hinata, you two check out the left half of the first floor, TenTen and Neji the right half. Shikamaru and Temari, do you two think you can check the basement?"
Sheera asked and my siblings nodded before everyone left to do as she asked. Sheera saw me and her eyes widened.
"Gaara!"
She said and I looked at her.
"Can you check the roof?"
She asked and I looked at her confused.
"Why the roof?"
I asked and she sighed.
"She's always had a think for solitary places. If she's not in one of the other places in the school then she'll be up there."
She said and I sighed before agreeing and heading towards the stairs that led up to the roof. This girl was causing a hell of a lot of trouble.
I pushed against the door leading out to the roof, but it wouldn't budge. I growled in annoyance and kicked it and it flew open. I calmly walked out onto the roof and looked around. I didn't see anything and was going to turn around when the wind picked up and I smelled tears.
You have got to be kidding me.
I thought as I looked up ontop of the observatory and saw someone sitting with their knees drawn up to their chest and their head down sitting on top. As I got closer I saw their shoulders shaking and recognized the black and red streaked hair as Saya.
Great, she's crying.
I thought to myself as I jumped up and landed lightly a few feet infront of her. I waited a couple of minutes, but she didn't seem to notice me.
"You know, you're really making your sisters worry."
I said and her head shot up and she stared up at me with wide eyes and I stared at her in shock and let my emotions show for a bit. She had tears streaming down her face and the look of pain in her eyes was so horrible that it made my heart clench.
"Y...You should find your sisters to let them know you're okay."
I said looking anywhere but into her eyes. Silence followed until I heard her stand up. I looked down at her and watched as she silently walked past me, jumped off the observatory and walked back inside. I waited a few minutes before collapsing to the ground and propping up my knee and running a hand through my hair. I shouldn't have cared if she was crying or if she was in pain, but it hurt to see her like that. I growled in annoyance before standing up and shaking the image of her eyes out of my head, but I couldn't get it out.
A/N: There, now you know a little about her past, but not all of it. That will be explained in the chapters to come. What was your favorite part? Least favorite? Please review! Please!
