Those Girls

15-year-old Tsurugi Kyousuke walked out of their house.

"Oi, Kyo! What's with the face?" Kurama Norihito called after Tsurugi.

Tsurugi sighed as he waited for his senpai to catch up to his pace. He replied to Kurama, "Boredom strikes."

"Is it that time of the year where we have our exams?" Kurama asked.

Tsurugi nodded.

"Figures. Yesterday, almost every person in class was inside the classroom reading a book," Kurama recalled.

"Every person in class except me was revising and doing shit," Tsurugi grumbled.

Kurama threw his head back and laughed (well, I never heard him laugh, but I saw him smile...?), "I know right? Sometimes, people get obsessed with those things that they can't even have fun!"

"What do you know about fun, Norihito?" a voice called out from the back.

"Gouichi." Kurama mumbled under his breath.

Tsurugi smirked and did their secret handshake together. (Isn't that how it works? Guys doing their little handshake together and then proceed to talk about unnecessary things? But... that's kind of mean... never mind.)

"Have you seen Ryouma?" Kurama asked.

"Not really." Kurumada replied, "The last time I saw him was yesterday... and that was when he rushed towards his house."

"Weird. Usually, he's the one yelling to get our asses up."

"True," Tsurugi agreed.

They entered the school grounds. Girls looked at them longly, as if they have no chance of being with them. (They could, but they won't.) Every boy looked at them with grudging respect. Not everyone can still feel confident after being humiliated by teachers everyday.

Matsukaze Tenma was especially one of those boys. He respected them, even his fellow classmate, Tsurugi Kyousuke. Tsurugi didn't like people who were too energetic and cheerful (both of them are Tenma's style), but he'd made an exception for Tenma.

Speaking of Matsukaze, let's go to him right now.

"Argentina lost." Matsukaze said, glumly.

Sorano Aoi, his long-time friend, giggled, "Looks like Miya-chan got you now, eh?"

"Tenma! Brazil won!" Miya-chan grinned at her best friend.

Tenma groaned. "I can't believe my team lost..."

Miya-chan combed her sky-blue hair which was messy a moment ago (you'd have a hard time seeing if her hair was actually straight). Apparently, her grandmother forgot to say that their neighbor requested her to take care of their pet cat. Miya-chan couldn't even take a bath, since the cat was inside the bathroom.

Aoi glanced at her wrist watch. She warned her friends, "The bell's about to ring... we have to go to our class!"

"Eh?" Miya-chan frowned.

"Come on!" Aoi tugged her friends and then they rushed towards their classroom.

Luckily, all of them were classmates and that they reached their class in time. Aoi sighed happily as she sat down in her proper seat. Miya-chan reached her seat and she glanced at her seat mate.

Tsurugi Kyousuke was actually on time.

(cue the sarcastic 'ooohs!' and 'aaaahs!')

Miya-chan was curious about her seat mate. He was rather smart in his studies. Even if he was so careless and such a troublemaker, he had top grades in their class! Almost beating her, too!

Miya-chan just sighed and aligned her violet glasses to her indigo-colored eyes. Their sensei came in their classroom and began the roll call. Miya-chan waited patiently for her name...

"Miyazaki Miyako?"

"Present!" Miya chirped. (Finally, we now know her name! Okay, I was kidding... frankly, I knew her name from the start...)

Sensei continued on with his attendance. After that, their sensei began lecturing them. Miya jotted down notes (along with the other students present in the classroom). Tsurugi lamely stared at the board, clearly wondering how many more minutes he had to endure in this stupid lecture.

Miya sighed and then stared at the edge of her notebook.

Funny, the writing doesn't look like hers...

'Delinquent'

What does that mean?

"Guess what?" a girl gossiped after their morning classes.

"What?" her friend asked.

"Kairi has done it again!"

"You mean Iwasawa-san? That second-year?"

"Ah! She punched her senpai and look where it got her!"

"Eh?! She's so troublesome..."

Kurama eyed (see what I did there?) the two girls. He turned to Kurumada. He stated, "If we don't do something soon, that Iwasawa would steal our spotlight."

Kurumada rolled his eyes and responded back, "Impossible. That girl would have to fucking learn from Tsurugi to catch up with us."

"Seen Kyo, yet, then?" Kurama asked.

"I don't like her one bit..." Kurumada kept muttering.

Tsurugi snapped his fingers. The two second-years jumped in surprise. Kurumada was so surprised that he began shouting out cusses. Unfortunately for them, a nearby teacher had heard Kurumada.

"Who said that?!" the teacher growled.

"Run!" Kurama whispered as the trio began sprinting.

Iwasawa Kairi, meanwhile, was in the hands of that same teacher.

"I didn't do anything!" Kairi defended herself.

"Explain to me why that third-year had a black-eye!"

"He punched himself...?"

"The principal is hearing this... and you can't do anything about it!"

"Demo~"

"No, buts!"

Kairi pouted as the teacher dragged her to see the principal. She combed a part of her wavy auburn hair and let it cover her right eye. But, it was no use as she still saw the word.

She widened her dark blue eyes as she found a little word written on the wall. She squinted her eyes, oh so softly, and then smirked as she now know the meaning of it.

'Delinquent'

And it had the same writing style like on Miya's notebook.

Coincidence? I think not.

Long hair was discriminated in the class of Okazaki. Pity on her since her hair was longer than anyone's in the class (until the knees... Yikes!). It doesn't bother her, however. Knowing that most of her classmates were quite afraid of her, she did what she wanted and when she wanted.

Today, however, Okazaki Airi was forced to tie her free indigo-colored hair in a bun. As the teacher had said (and I quote this), 'Long hair is not allowed inside the laboratory! Tie it up!'. Okazaki had no problem with her hair up in a bun, but the way the teacher said it... it made her mad... real mad.

"1...2...3..." Okazaki whispered, trying to let the violence drop (but it was unsuccessful).

"Sato!" Fei called her.

"... Nani?"

"We should get started on the experiment."

"... Hai."

Okazaki (or, rather: Sato) breathed in deeply and continued working with Fei.

Fei raised his eyebrow at the amber-eyed Sato, he began to speak, "You look pretty dull this morning... something happened?"

"Not really, but my sister forced me to eat the last lollipop."

"You should have puked on her."

Sato gave him a half-smile and then replied back, "I doubt she'll let me. She's gonna eat my brains."

"Brains?" Fei laughed.

"Since when did you have more than one brain?"

"Since forever."

"Oi! Aren't you two going to join the experiment?" the group leader scolded Sato and Fei.

"Coming! Let's go, Sato." Fei hummed.

"Right!" Sato responded back with enthusiasm, but not too much. She was still sick about the thought of the lollipop that was shoved into her mouth.

Sato worked inside the lab with Fei. Minutes later, when their experiment was done and she was about to remove her lab coat... she noticed that there was a paper sticking out of her lab coat pocket.

The paper with the same word written on it:

'Delinquent'

How and why?

"Little fuckin' shit." Kurama grumbled.

"What is it now?" Kurumada sighed at him.

"Atsuishi, that's what! That boy is calling me again, because he needs my help!" Kurama scowled.

Tsurugi scoffed, "The last time I heard from him when he called me a loser."

"And then began to beat the crap out of you." Kurumada added.

"Shut up." Tsurugi mumbled, completely embarrassed about the fact that Minamisawa had beaten him.

"Well, I'm never gonna speak to him! Gouichi! Take him!" Kurama growled and then tossed his phone to Kurumada.

Luckily, Kurumada caught it and then he put his phone up to his ear.

"-Kurama?-"

"No, this is Kurumada."

"-can I talk to him?-"

"Nope. He's pissed off at you, bro."

"-I know... can you do me a little favor?-"

"Depends. Does it have money?"

"-well, maybe... but there's this girl...-"

"You want us to help you with a love crisis?!"

With this being said, Kurama widened his eye/s. He quickly snatched his phone back and then told the guys, "Do not wait for me." And then Kurama ran off to who knows where.

"What's his problem?" Kurumada pointed at the direction Kurama went.

Tsurugi shrugged. And then he squinted his eyes at the same direction. He pointed somewhere and then said, "Isn't that Ryouma over there?"

Kurumada narrowed his eyes to look at it better. "Seems like it."

"Tsurugi, here's your copy." Kariya smirked, and then shoved the paper to his face.

Tsurugi glared at him, but took the paper anyway. Kurumada frowned, "Piss off, Kariya."

"Hai~ senpai~" Kariya taunted and then walked off.

"What's that about?" Kira Ai asked her friend.

Kariya stared at his dark blue-haired friend. How weird to see her hair a shade of dark blue, but at its tips were light blue. Even weirder was that her eyes were mixed with blue, purple and gray. Kariya had been curious for years on why her eyes were like that, but he shrugged it off in the end.

Kira tilted her head. Kariya blinked and then apologized, "Sorry 'bout that, Aiko. Tsurugi's a jerk."

"Do you think that? Or is it because he's just a delinquent? I don't remember that he has hurt someone before." Kira whispered.

Kariya blinked, again. He then sighed and opened his mouth to reply, "... I don't recall anything like that, either."

Kira frowned and then stared at her opened book. She was quite nervous about the exams... what if she doesn't pass? And then she stared at the little scrawl that was upside down. She flipped her book and stared at the message.

'Delinquent'

Why did she have a feeling that the word really meant what it said?

Aoi looked at the brown haired girl at the other side of the lunch table she was currently sitting on. The girl was talking to her friend across her. Aoi was sparked with curiosity when they first met.

Thinking that she was another one of those 'it girls' in class, Aoi thought wrong.

She sneaked another glance at the brunette, and then proceeded to talk to her friends.

The same brunette laughed and then took another bite of her lunch. Her brown eyes scanned the expressions of her friends who were beginning to laugh at her little joke.

"Oi, Kari~ aren't you gonna eat your chocolate bar?" one of her friends questioned and tried to grab the bar.

Kari slapped her friend's hand away from it. She wailed, "I bought it!"

"~eh..."

Fujisaki Hikari (Kari) grinned playfully at her friend. After she finished her lunch, she began opening the chocolate bar.

Her friends were all talking with each other that they didn't even notice Fujisaki opening the chocolate bar. It was a good thing, too. If they even did notice her peeling the chocolate bar, they would observe that there was a paper slipping out of the cover of the chocolate bar.

Fujisaki continued peeling the cover, and when she did, a tiny paper slipped out.

"Is this somehow Willy Wonka?" Fujisaki wondered.

But it wasn't an invitation.

The little paper contained a truth, a truth Fujisaki knew would haunt her. It didn't say 'Congratulations!' or 'Oh Yeah!'. It simply stated this:

'Delinquent'

What is it with that word?

Inside the library, people talked in hushed whispers. It irritated the young Shindou Takuto. He gritted his teeth and then glanced around him. Why is it that students would rather shout all day rather than keep quiet and preserve their voice?

Well, duh. The answer was most obvious.

Shindou glanced at the person at the end of the room. It looked like that they were the only two people who decided to shush and read something just because. Shindou then remembered that person.

Kurokawa Erika.

A first year in Raimon. Shindou remembered that, at least. His classmate kept repeating her name over: Erika, Erika, Erika... as far as he remembered, she was rather cold to others.

Erika's purple eyes snapped to meet Shindou's brown eyes. Shindou tried his best not to squirm in his seat. Erika looked like she was strong enough to kill anybody. Shindou gulped silently. Right then and there, he knew Erika held a secret within her.

But we're even, Shindou thought miserably, I also hold a little secret.

Erika snorted as he knew Shindou was failing the little staring-glaring contest they were having. She noticed that her ponytail she did on her hair was falling. She sighed and grabbed most of her dark red hair and tied it to her right side. A rather rushed side ponytail, I presume.

She, then continued reading the fiction book she was currently reading. Frankly, she was almost done and on the very last page of that book, a little word was pasted there.

Erika squinted her eyes at it, but it was still unreadable.

She grabbed the magnifying glass inside her bag (but where she found it, I do not know) and used it to look at the little word.

Shindou's throat constricted once he saw Erika leaning on the book with the magnifying glass on her hand. Not that whatever he saw was perverted or something, but, rather, he knew what the word was.

Erika gasped softly as she re-read the word again and again.

'Delinquent'

The weirdest thing was, though, Shindou didn't know how he knew that.

"Ru-chan~" a first-year called out.

The first-year smiled as her fellow classmate turned. Ru-chan (or better known as Rukia in her class) grunted, "What do you want?"

"What was your score in the pop quiz earlier?"

Rukia sighed, and decided to lie to her classmate, "Two."

"Over fifteen?" the first-year frowned, "That's so careless of you!"

"I know..." Rukia rolled her brown eyes.

"Anyway, I'll see you later, Ru-chan~"

"Right." Rukia nodded. Her classmate waved goodbye and then walked off.

The truth was that Rukia only had one item wrong. But since the class was so competitive, she tried hard not to have top grades. People would just talk about her behind her back. This is why Rukia didn't try to open up to other people.

Rukia sighed and looked at her watch. Lunch was about to end... damn that teacher. I don't know why, but teachers just loved torturing the students, huh? Pop quiz when the bell had rung? Why?

Rukia walked up to the canteen. She wondered what her lunch would be? Instant noodles? Candies? Yakisoba bread? Onigiri?

She decided for instant noodles and some candy. She brought out her wallet and grabbed the money she needed. Written on her wallet were bold letters:

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Property of: Hyuuga Rukia

(Nah~ too early).

Rukia quietly ate at the rooftop of the school. She silently unwrapped her favorite candy... but there was a tiny problem: the candy was missing.

Frantically, Rukia stood up and was about to complain to the canteen when she saw a piece of paper drop. Rukia furrowed her eyebrows and grabbed the paper.

The exact same word was written:

'Delinquent'

And I ask: Why?

"It's done, mistress," a girl stated.

A shadowy figure clicked the off of the remote control it had. The figure smirked and then walked up to the girl. It whispered, "Everything is going well..."

"Yes, ma'am! What do you want us to do?"

"Just wait... and maybe write a letter to him."

"Understood!" the girl proclaimed and then walked off.

"I dunno, are you sure you picked them right?" another figure walked up to the first figure.

The shadow grinned wider, "Are you sure that I haven't picked them right?"

"Not really."

"Kill Joy."

DONE! First chapter and I reached 2,000 words! :D

OC Submission is closed! I'm not accepting anymore! Gomen~ I don't want to write more than ten since I can't possibly keep track of all your OC's data. GOMENASAI~

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