Chapter 66: Some Serious Cyberbullying
In Oedo...
Here in this country lies the Advanced WNA High located beside the town. The same town where the gang used to visit often times in the past back when they're still in the WNA Academy and while Burton, Berecca, Ron and Jane are still under the effects of the ninja gum.
So to begin with, there's basketball practice in the multi-purpose hall where assemblies take place. Van and Keith are in the midst of it as they ran laps together around the hall while dribbling the basketballs. After running 5 laps, they ran to the hoops as Van did a slamdunk followed by Keith.
Cheering can be heard from the bleachers as they and their teammates looked to their right to see several girls cheering and squealing for them. While Keith enjoys their cheering, he set his eyes on Naomi as she simply waved at him and he waved back.
"EEEK! He's waving at us!"
"AHHHH! I wish he's mine!"
"Sheesh. They always put their attention to the no.1 ikemen." One of the teammates exclaimed as he and a few others rejoin the 2 boys.
"Well Radley, the girls voted among themselves and this is the result." Van told him.
"At least we got cheerleaders to boost our sport morale. Right Kendrick?"
"I can really get used to their elegance and beauty Ultimo!"
"Alright guys. Chit chats aside, more training for the last one hour!" Van told them as they resume their training.
Later on, the guys are in the locker room refreshing themselves. Van can be drying himself and Keith just finished his shower. "What's next?"
"I'm gonna go pick Lucy up. She's dong some training today with some sparring partner that she came across with a week ago. If I remember, she told me she's from your class." Van explained as he began putting on his clothes.
"Ah yes. Your girlfriend should be training with our class president." said Keith.
"Really?" Van asked.
"Her awakened power is somewhat similar to Lucy's. You'll see it firsthand once we meet them." Keith replied and once they suit, they left the hall and outside, Naomi is waiting for them and she tagged along.
They soon reached the training room and there, they can see Lucy working on her metal control and for her partner, "Hey isn't that Sakai of Class 2-B?" Van asked.
"Yup! She's known to be taking on 2 presidential roles." Keith revealed and did the explaining. "First, she's the Class President of the class I mentioned earlier on and secondly, she's the Student Council President."
"That's incredibly cool but challenging to handle leadership in 2 areas. What else do you know about her?" Van asked.
"Hmmm...oh yes! She has a twin sister named Miyako who's the vice-class president and a popular pop idol." Naomi revealed.
"Oh yes! We've seen her perform last year! She goes by the stage name, Mika and her Siren Song awakened power hyped the entire school!" Keith exclaimed.
"Did someone mention my name?" They jumped with a bit of fright as behind him, "IT IS HER!" They exclaimed as Miyako stood with them. "Just finished my club activity with the other idol girls."
"Sweet!" The boys exclaimed as they watched the training session together.
"Sakai's Metal Creation not only improve on her power but it also aids Lucy in her controlling. Perfect teamwork from them." said Naomi and speaking of which, they have finished their training as, "Van! Keith! Naomi!" Lucy called out to them as they waved at her.
"Hey guys!" Sakai greeted them as they met up. "My Vanilla Vannie Boo!" Lucy tackled her boyfriend and squeezing him for a tight embrace.
"Sister!" Miyako greeted Sakai as they shared a hug. "How are you doing?"
"All good! Finished the paperwork in the student council room and got the time to train with Lucy." Sakai answered. "And with that, you want to order takeaway?"
"Some dinner bento would be nice!" She replied as they said their goodbyes to their friends and left for their room.
"Of course, since they're twins related by blood, the school arranged for them to share a dorm room." Naomi thought as she and the others also left for their dorms for dinner and rest.
So that night...
"So Emma...how did you celebrate Kappei's birthday?" Lucy asked her friend via phone call.
"Our class threw him a birthday party and I baked him a birthday cake with the help from one of my peers." Emma replied from the other line.
"Sweet! And did you give him a birthday present?" Lucy asked.
"W-Well...I did give him...uh, something...special." Emma replied.
"Wait a minute...you did not just..." Lucy is grinning big as, "OH MY GOSH! YOU REALLY GOT HEAVY WITH HIM!"
"Not so loud Lucy! I just...simply blew him down there between his legs." Emma explained and it cuts to her side in which she's in her room talking to Lucy.
"That's it? You should have gone the extra mile to let him pleasure you. Like for instance, strip yourself bare, let him explore your body, fondle you with love and then, he can put his big katana in you and-"
The call between them was suddenly cut off as, "Wait! I wasn't finished yet." Lucy exclaimed and it cuts to Emma's side and she's seen with her face on her pillow while giving out a muffled scream. Back to Lucy, "Oh well. Now I could use some fun time with my man." She texted out a message and sent it. A minute later, the door is being knocked and Lucy went to open it. When she opened it, "My Lovely Lucy, I heard you could use some sexy time with me?"
"Oh yes Vanilla Vannie Boo! Come in." He went in as she closed the door. Now that they're alone, Van took action and pulled down his pants and underwear. Lucy licked her lips as he sat on her bed and she bent down to make her move. Van moaned and relaxed from her action. It was really hot.
At the same time, Naomi is looking at something in the internet which is some info about biwas and how to properly maintain the strings and stuff. "Alright. I should probably check my email. Mother usually sends me a message through in once every 2 or 3 days." She opened her email account and, "What? 40 emails?" She opened one it says, "Naomi is a prostitute!"
"How disrespectful!" She deleted it and opened another one. It says, "Naomi is not fit for Keith! Stop dreaming you slut! Keith will never love you!"
"They dare to..." Naomi spent the next 10 minutes reading and deleting all those offensive messages revolving around her. After that, "Finally...and I believe it's time for me to hit the hay. Nothing can go wrong tomorrow."
The next day...
"Hey look. It's that biwa slut."
"Oh my gosh. She really is a slut!"
"Heard that she made out with 12 different boys a day."
"Heard she did some quickies with some boys during gym class."
Naomi ignored those whispering and murmuring while walking to class but then, "Hey loser! Did you say that I have a huge zit on my ass online?"
"No I didn't. I wasn't even online yesterday!" Naomi replied but the girl who's a third-year student just smacked her books onto the floor as she sighed and picked them up. When she got to her locker, there was graffiti on it. "I need to get the janitor to clean in up." She thought as she opened her locker, fixed and arranged her stuff and headed to class once done.
But when she got to class, she saw some of her classmates murmuring about her and even moving away from her. "This is not the typical behaviour from my peers..." Naomi thought when a friend of hers' entered class. "Ah, Evelyn. Good morning."
But she just walked away without looking at her. "Wait! Evelyn-"
"S-Sorry...I can't talk to you! I'm really sorry!" She went to sit down as, "How is it that so many people believe those lies?!" Naomi is both frustrated and confused as she went to sit down. And then, Keith arrived as, "Morning darling."
Instead, Naomi ignored him and Keith looked surprised. "Strange. I've never seen my girlfriend behave like this. Not to mention the ignoring part since it's the first time she ignored me..." If only Keith checked social media about it as the school days goes off as usual.
Later on after school, Lucy went to attend her cheerleading practice and after 30 minutes of acrobatics, the team took a short break. "We got to practice the spirit cheer. Good thing I memorized it." Lucy thought as she drank some water from her water bottle while checking some social media posts on her handphone. And then, she caught sight of something.
"Hey...why are there so many hate comments on Naomi?" Lucy scrolled down some more and had a frown on her face after seeing all of it. "Whoever is talking shit about my friend, I'm gonna find the one responsible for this and-"
"Hey Lucy! What are you looking at?" That thought was interrupted by her cheerleader friend named Chelsea as she and another cheerleader named Maggie sat with her. "Nothing much. I'm just furious over this." Lucy showed her friends the posts as, "Wow, that level of hate is massive." said Maggie.
"And to think so many liked them." said Chelsea when she saw 3 cheerleaders leave them gymnasium. "My goodness. Lizzie, Fanny and Leona left early to do some school assignment in the computer lab as usual."
"Yeah. They've started doing it yesterday if you ask me." Maggie told her and this made Lucy feel a bit suspicious until the whistle blew and the cheerleading team resume their practice.
And that night, Naomi checked her email and found more hate mail on her. Same thing as before, she deleted them but this time, "Why...why is this...happening to me? What...What is going on?!" Even worse, a new email surfaced in her inbox as she opened it. It says, "Click here if you think Naomi is a spoiled harlot!"
"What the..." She clicked on the link and to her horror, an image of her face appeared on screen with numerous scribbles. A title above the image says: "Vote for the most useless ninja in school, Naomi!"
The scribbles all around the image says offensive words like slut, whore, bitch, loser and many more. Worse, a voting system is seen below and it shows 90 percent voted for it and 10 percent against it.
All this has made Naomi tremble. She closed her PC and went to her bed. "Why...Why...Why is this happening!?" Tears began to stream from her eyes as she hugged her pillow crying on it.
It then cuts to some unknown darkness and it appeared to be in one of the school facilities. 3 unknown silhouetted figures are seen glued to the screen and typing like machines achieving breakthroughs. Each of their screens shows a vast amount of malicious hate content being typed and posted in social media. Whoever they are and whatever they're doing, it's really giving them the results as planned.
A few days later...
Indeed things got worse for some time. And there is so much hate online that Naomi is on the verge of breaking down. Even in class, she tries not to but somehow, "Hey Sakai."
"What is it Miyako?"
"Have you noticed that Naomi isn't herself."
"Hmmm...as a class leader, I must see to this." They approached Naomi who quickly looked away. "Naomi. Is everything alright?"
"L-Leave me. Leave me alone..."
"Look, we want to-"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Naomi shouted with tears on her eyes and the twins gasped. "How...How long have you've been...like this?" They watched as Naomi began to cry on her desk. Miyako calmly pat her back while trying to comfort her. "What happened Naomi? Why are you behaving like this?"
"You...You won't understand! I...I...I..." Naomi continued to cry as Sakai looked worried and then, "Hey sis, did we miss out anything for the past few days?"
"Beats me. We were so busy in our roles and club activity that we never had time to look at the recent posts in social media."
"And the answers you're looking for are right here." From behind, Keith approached them and showed them all the online posts. "Now I see why Naomi doesn't want to speak me these past few days even ignoring me. From messages to verbal communication."
"Who would do all this?!" Miyako really is furious now as, "I swear if I catch the one responsible for this, I'm gonna do the Randori on them! I mean, this one here says that I eat cockroaches for breakfast which is not true! Especially when it says that it was sent by her which proves that she wouldn't say all this nonsensical crap!"
"That's a lot of negative content. Some of them are even false! I must report this to the school so that they can launch an investigation and find out who has been posting all this." said Sakai and then, van and the other bottle collector members have arrived as, "Naomi! We've been wondering why-" May paused immediately as, "So you guys also noticed it right?" Dan asked the twins. They nodded as, "All of us here are busy with school and stuff and someone had the nerve to provoke me and my friends into anger that one of our dearest friends is being harassed online!"
"I know how you feel. Naomi, please tell us everything on why all this is happening to you?" Sakai asked her but she still doesn't want to answer her. "I know why, some messages involve Keith. Since they're dating each other. I have a feeling she's being attacked for that in many ways." Tyler spoke up while browsing through his handphone.
"Wow...since Keith is the no.1 ikemen, every girl would want to date him and by choosing Naomi, some of them aren't satisfied but they won't show it." said May.
"And this cyberbullying thing is the perfect cover-up to vent out their envy." Van concluded.
"Nice detective work!" Sakai praised them as, "So all we need to do is find out who and where are all this coming from." said Miyako. "However, how will we get the clues to all this?"
And then, "Not exactly. I might have some answers for you all." All looked behind to see Lucy standing outside the classroom.
Meanwhile in the school computer lab at 6pm, "Ha! Ha! Ha! Getting that biwa slut in hot soup was worth it!"
"Yeah! We can spread nasty shit to everyone while posing as her and without being tracked easily!"
"I know right? Even that defiled image we posted got so many likes! Soon enough, Naomi will be broken inside out and I can take Keith from her as my boyfriend!"
"No way! I want to take Keith as my boyfriend!"
"Oh yeah? It should be me! Not her! I wonder why Keith began dating her in the first place? I'm telling you, I refuse to accept their relationship status!"
"Agreed. Naomi doesn't deserve to be with Keith!"
But then, "BAM!"
"Everyone down on your knees and hands behind your head!" Ninja guards stormed in with their katanas on hand as, "What the? How did they find us?"
"Simple. Your suspicious and continuous behaviour over the past week was noticeable and thanks to the tip-off, we caught you all red-handed!" Sakai answered while walking in with Miyako, Dan, Tyler, Keith and May accompanying her. Before them, the culprits which turns out to be Lizzie, Fanny and Leona are busted especially with the computers they're using to commit their cyberbullying activities.
After that...
2 days have passed since the raid and with that, "Those girls have paid the price for initiating this act of cyberbullying. The school won't tolerate this kind of action." Sakai told the group. "As of now, they are expelled from the cheerleading squad and are given 6 months of detention."
"Justice served fresh from the SCP." said Miyako as she and Sakai hi-5 each other. "You know, since they got so much support from their cyberbullying, you should plan a school assembly about the dangers of cyberbullying and the impact it can inflict on society."
"My goodness sis! You're right! I've got to plan something like this when I have the chance!" Sakai can't wait to get started as, "Lucy, I am so proud of you! You have been observing from a distance have you?"
"Of course Van. Remember what we learned in our class? One who draws attention could lead to their defeat." Lucy recited.
"So true!" Van and Lucy then left because they got a date night to enjoy. Miyako and Sakai also left to discuss some stuff and probably go out for dinner afterwards.
And finally, "Keith...um...I'm sorry for-"
"Don't apologize Naomi. It's not your fault. And...always learn to ask for help not keep it to yourself to the point that the problem gets worse. Suffering in silence won't do you anything." He told her as she teared up and embraced him tightly. He calmly pat her back while also embracing her. "Um Keith? Can I...um..." She whispered it to him and he nodded with a surprised look on his face.
Nightfall has arrived and it cuts to the couple in Keith's dorm room. "You...sure about this?" Keith asked.
"Kappei and Emma have done it a couple of times. It's pretty harmless..." Naomi replied and right in front of her boyfriend, she slowly begin to undress herself before him. Keith blinked once and his mouth dropped and soon enough, Naomi stood before him clad in her pink bra and pink panties with a deep blush on her face.
"A natural beauty you are. Well, here goes nothing." Keith began stripping down and soon enough, he's wearing his underwear and the sight of his well-defined body made Naomi blush even deeper. It's all thanks to basketball practice that made him decently buff. At least he still eats a lot and enjoys being a food critic.
"So...how should we start?" Keith asked when all of a sudden, Naomi pounced onto him like a panther and they fell on the bed as, "I've been waiting for so long to do this..." She spoke in a sultry tone while smiling as she kissed him deep. He then melted into it and overturned himself in which he's now on top of her. Makeout time for them and night time is the perfect time to do so as they spent the night together. But yeah, they really won't do it. Yet.
Okay...it wasn't easy to plan this. But through a few recommendations from some good friends I met in Deviantart, this should be decent enough. And with that, back to USK in the next chapter!
Characters of the Chapter
Names: Miyako and Sakai
Profiles
Mature students of the Advanced WNA High in Oedo and known to be twin sisters, Miyako and Sakai have the potential to become true ninjas and lead their class, Class 2-B in which Keith and Naomi are also in.
Sakai is the older and responsible twin and known to be the Class Leader and the President of the Student Council. Many students look up to her for she is kind and determined enough to assume leadership roles though she can be strict in some cases. She is also currently Lucy's training partner in which they train together on their metal themed powers.
Miyako is the younger and cute, peppy twin and is the Vice Class Representative and a popular pop idol known by her stage name, Mika. She's a member of the Pop Idol Club and is adored by many students even having a fan club for her. It is said that her caring and kind behaviour makes her really popular even acting like a mom to children when she's not on stage. Her catchphrase when on stage is: Ready to bring the Music! Not to mention she's ranked the most beautiful girl in this school.
Oh yes, both twins have a fear of cockroaches and they are friends with Van, Lucy and the Bottle Collectors.
Awakened Powers: Metal Creation and Siren Song
Sakai has the power to create metal from her hands and through her mind. She creates different shapes of metal and any type of metal. It's ranked Unique and she makes a great team with Lucy since they have metal-related powers and through it, Lucy can borrow her created metal and manipulate them through her red eye.
Miyako has the power to sing like an angel and her voice is so beautiful that it can boost morale among the ninjas and fire up their fighting spirits enough to fight on without backing down. In some cases, her singing can also cause hypnosis on enemies distracting them long enough to be taken down.