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Characters: Tetsu Kiri, Kiryuu Zero
Date: July 25th
Location: Just outside the school grounds
Rating/Warnings: PG13 (Language and Mild Violence)
Summary: Zero has to go get Kiri after she runs away from orientation and doesn't come back.
Her breathing was level, slow, heavy...a constant rhythm. In, out, in, out, forever repeating as her sleeping form was lost in the never ending pit of her mind. When she was sleeping she looked so peaceful, so elegant, so...delicate, even. So unlike her personality it would boggle any ones mind.
She actually looked pretty.
Shoulder length brown hair, messy bangs falling over her face, just below the eyebrows and right above beautiful, crystal blue eyes.
Her vulgar words and arrogant, unpleasant attitude made her seem so different when she was awake. She only reached the height of 5 feet, 4 inches, and she was actually quite petite, but the words she spoke and the aura she gave off made her look so much...bigger. Unladylike.
Everything she wasn't supposed to be.
And there she was.
Sleeping.
He should have known this was where he would find her. After all, it must take a lot of energy to yell so much.
He stopped for a moment as he reached her. To think, that this slumbering slip of a girl, now looking entirely peaceful, could be such an utter nuisance was almost to the point of unbelievable.
He shook his head. She looked almost pretty...when she wasn't cursing.
He felt a pang of remorse as he kicked her awake. Soon...the yelling would start.
She was sleeping soundly...until she felt someone kicking her! If one was going to wake another up, why wake them through the method of kicking! "Ow!"
She opened her eyes, but her vision was still blurry, so she blinked a couple times while rubbing her now sore rib cage. "Who the hell...?" She looked up, at who she could only assume to be the culprit.
Oh shit.
It's the fucking prefect.
Now, when others are faced with an authority figure they'd probably--out of fear--act with respect and be sure to do what they were told. But not Kiri!
"What the fuck do you want, Kiryuu?"
He blinked at her. That was really all that there was to do.
With a disinterested sigh, he made a circling motion with his hand. "You're outside school grounds. Now get up."
Turning his back to her, he began to walk away, waving his hand as a sign for her to follow.
She sighed, and, surprisingly, smirked slightly. Did he really think she was just going to obey him because he was the big bad prefect? She wasn't like all the other girls that cowered at his very name.
She was different.
"Ah...thanks for the invite, Kiryuu, but I'll stay here. Even if it's outside school grounds, I feel safer here, for some reason. And it's more peaceful. You go on ahead, though. I'll catch up later."
It's not like she was going to run away or anything. She was telling the truth--she'd go back on her own. But she knew the prefect wouldn't just leave her. She looked up...ah, how pretty. The night sky really was breathtaking.
She had to be kidding. Right?
No, he had a feeling she wasn't.
Turning a disgruntled groan inward, Zero made his way once more to where the insufferable girl still sat. "Get up. Now."
This of course left no room for discussion, but somehow, he felt that Kiri might disagree with that fact.
She tapped her finger on her lips, seemingly in deep thought, and then shrugged. "As tempting as that sounds, I believe I must decline."
The moon captivated her. It looked so big, and yet, the stars which looked so much smaller would always be bigger. The moon was different, and the stars were so far away...she thought the moon must be lonely. Being different, being isolated...
It made her sad.
"The night sky's call seems to have beaten out your order. So sorry."
His eyebrow arched in disbelief.
Just who does this girl think she is.
A low growl or irritation manifested itself unwittingly in his throat.
He took her by her arms, and making sure not to use too much force, lifted her to her feet.
Her gaze instantly snapped to him the moment he touched her. Seriously, what is it with guys and touching her today?!
She glared at him. "Remove your hands before I make you remove them."
At this he actually laughed.
You have got to be kidding me.
Just the the thought of this lithe little girl making him do anything was ludicrous.
"Look, you heard me. Let's go."
"...You obviously underestimate me, Kiryuu." She wasn't some fragile little girl. She was stronger than most, faster than most, and she had done so many sports she herself had begun to lose track.
And it pissed her off when someone doubted her abilities because of her looks.
"I gave you fair warning."
Then she did something she probably shouldn't have. She lifted her left foot and slammed it down on Kiryuu's right one, then she lifted all her weight onto it and kneed him in...a very, very sensitive area.
He found himself leaning forward, a sharp stabbing pain radiating from his groin outward.
She didn't. No, there was no way that she had actually....kneed him.
No way.
None....
She had.
And Zero was beyond the point of incensed.
With one sweeping motion, he had dove towards Kiri--pushing her squarely to the ground.
His words came in ragged gasps. "You..little...WRETCH...you...are... going..to....PAY...DEARLY."
She didn't want to, really. Really--REALLY, she didn't. But she couldn't help herself...
She laughed.
"Am I?" She did something actually very rare for Kiri. She smirked, and she sneered, but rarely did she...smile. "Hey, you're the one that touched me first. I don't like being touched without permission. The earlier incident should be proof enough of that. I am sorry about your...little buddies, though. It's become a natural reaction. Boys act all touch and yet one hit to wear it hurts can bring them down. I find it funny..."
A little sadistic? Maybe. She probably should be scared, considering her little words won't mean much to someone that's in as much pain as Zero, but she couldn't keep herself from saying them. Zero just...didn't scare her. Why? Probably because she knew he wouldn't actually hurt her--he was a prefect.
"I do respect that you're not going to restrain yourself from hitting a girl, though. Guys who don't hit people that deserve it just because of gender make me angry. Ah, well, you probably don't give a shit about anything I'm saying at the moment, so I'll try to wrap it up."
Her smile, as rare as it was, was now gone, as it faded into a look of curiosity and confusion. "Don't you think that, as a prefect, you should be careful not to put yourself in situations that could...lead to many, many questions? Especially in public."
He wanted to. He really, really wanted to.
He wanted to strangle her. It was as simple as that.
Zero Kiryuu was on the very edge of strangling the life out of one of his fellow classmates, and that thought didn't seem to matter at all to him at the moment.
He just simply wanted to make her "end". He could feel his hands glide to her throat and enclose it within his grasp. He could do it, very easily in fact....all he would have to do would be to "squeeze".
He was tempted. Oh, there was no question that he was tempted.
Just a little pressure....NO. He wouldn't go that far, after all, the nuisance wasn't worth it.
Releasing her from his grasp, he stood haltingly to his feet, pushing Kiri forcibly as he did so.
"Get up. We're going." At least his voice had returned.
Kiri dusted herself off and tilted her head to the side. She rose from the ground, seemingly complying to his order, only to walk over to the same spot near the wall and sit yet again.
"Nah, that's okay. I don't want to." She looked back up to the moon, and pressed her--now aching--back against the cold stone of the wall.
She was probably being a little mean, but she was rather upset. She didn't want to go back to those dorms. Not yet, anyway.
It was at this moment that Zero realized....He should have strangled her. Not so much as to kill her, no, but still, enough to demonstrate his point. That point being...well, that point being, that he really really wanted to hurt her.
She was insufferable. No, she was far past the point of insufferable, she was infuriating.
That had been it. The final straw.
Abandoning all higher thought processes, Zero began to trek over to where she sat--every step hitting the ground with punishing force.
Kiri heard him approaching, and her gaze drifted over to his form once again. She was dreading the fact that he actually might lay a hand on her again--until a streak of light flashed across her vision and she was forced yet again to look at the sky.
A shooting star!
She quickly disregarded Zero's existence, forced herself to her knee's, clapped her hands together, laced her fingers, shut her eyes tightly and made a wish.
Just as he was beginning to focus on what he was going to do to her...she fell to her knees and clasped her hands in front of her.
There was but one thought that this scenario warranted--The hell?
Stopping dead in his tracks, Zero simply stared. Just what, precisely, was she doing?
For a few brief moments it occurred to him that perhaps she was praying. This seemed unlikely of course, given the circumstances, and he highly doubted that she was frightened enough of him for that anyway. She sure hadn't given him that impression so far.
Rejecting that conclusion, simply because it made no sense whatsoever, he turned to his next conclusion....which he had yet to form. So, giving up the effort entirely, he decided simply to ask her.
"What are you doing."
She opened one eye and, quite rudely, shushed him.
Then, when she was sure the star was gone, she opened her eyes, lowered her hands, and resumed her normal sitting position. She sighed and looked over at Zero boredly. "I saw a shooting star, so I was wishing on it."
For a moment, his old anger once more reeled back into existence--this time at being shushed, but was quickly forgotten once she had finished her explanation.
A shooting star? Her? Somehow the whole scene seemed at odds with itself.
No longer able to fight off his curiosity, Zero finally asked the obvious question--"What did you wish for?"
The look she gave him lingered for a moment before she closed her eyes, crossed her arms, and looked away.
"It's not any of your business." But...
"...I wished for new boxers."
He laughed. He couldn't help it. There was no way of avoiding it.
It was just so...so....ludicrous.
There really was just no other word for it.
Within moments, his earlier anger was almost entirely forgotten, all because he was far too concentrated on not falling over...which was becoming an altogether far too likely possibility.
He hadn't laughed like that....in...forever.
Finally regaining composure, he once more looked down at her.
"Come on." This time he actually offered her his hand.
She deserved it, after making him laugh like that.
She looked over and stared at his hand for a minute. "Laughing at me, eh..."
It was surprisingly lady-like of her. Not only was she pouting, but she was actually blushing. She hated when people laughed at her because she was weird...it was embarrassing.
Slowly, cautiously, she reached over and took his hand. "Jerk."
He laughed once more at her admonishing "jerk", as he helped her to her feet.
"I'm glad you finally saw it my way."
He began to walk off, secure in the fact that Kiri would follow....he hoped at least.
She glared at his back as she followed slowly. "I'm only coming because I haven't actually gotten to see my room yet. And I want to make sure my basketball is still there. Sucks, though. I wanted to break you. Tch."
The last part almost sounded as if she was whining. It was the truth, at least. She wanted to see if she could get him to leave her alone.
But she lo...los...
Oh god. How she hated that word.
Zero once more found himself laughing....this girl seemed to have that effect on him.
"You break me? Not a chance"
She looked at him skeptically. "Are you underestimating me again?"
She yawned, stretching her arms upward and then folding her hands behind her head. "I've broken a lot of people before. Why would you be any different?"
Zero resisted the urge to snort.
"I find that very difficult to believe. Tell me, who have you broken?"
She smirked deviously. "Oh, every woman that tried to replace my mother in my fathers heart, my third grade math teacher, and, well...let's say dozens of boys have been shattered by the attack to the lower region you were lucky enough to survive."
She laughed slightly while saying, "if you hadn't interfered, Aidou would have been one of them."
A sound of consternation escaped Zero's lips. "Had I known that, I would have left him to you. Personally, I would have rather had that scenario than the one I'm currently enjoying."
Zero resisted the urge to grimace from the memory.
"I feel truly sorry for those unlucky enough to have warranted (in your opinion at least) that particular treatment from you in the past, myself included."
She made a noise of distaste. "Don't be bitter just because you earned a knee to the groin. Every boy I have done that to rightfully deserved it."
She smirked slightly, a smile trying to force its way onto her face. "I wish you had left him to me. Having the opportunity to personally make sure Aidou will never be able to reproduce would have made me the happiest girl in the world."
Zero once more barely resisted the urge to snort.
"No, that would have made every girl the happiest girl in the world. But as to deserving it--I don't feel that I deserved it in the least. After all, it's you who has been difficult this entire time."
Kiri coughed slightly, averting her gaze to the ground. "I really, really hate when people touch me without permission. It's an extreme pet peeve of mine."
She mumbled something else, but it was so soft it was inaudible.
He turned his head to the side to look at her over his shoulder.
"Ah, well, considering I was completely oblivious to that fact before this incident--my actions were entirely without fault, whilst yours on the other hand, were completely without reason."
She glared at him. "I have my reasons, thank you."
Maybe she was glad he didn't hear the second part after all.
Zero's "Sure" followed itself with a prolonged silence until the two finally reached the dorms.
Leading Kiri passed the doors, feeling that his job was done, Zero waved listlessly in goodbye and stalked off to his own room.
Date: July 25th
Location: Just outside the school grounds
Rating/Warnings: PG13 (Language and Mild Violence)
Summary: Zero has to go get Kiri after she runs away from orientation and doesn't come back.
Her breathing was level, slow, heavy...a constant rhythm. In, out, in, out, forever repeating as her sleeping form was lost in the never ending pit of her mind. When she was sleeping she looked so peaceful, so elegant, so...delicate, even. So unlike her personality it would boggle any ones mind.
She actually looked pretty.
Shoulder length brown hair, messy bangs falling over her face, just below the eyebrows and right above beautiful, crystal blue eyes.
Her vulgar words and arrogant, unpleasant attitude made her seem so different when she was awake. She only reached the height of 5 feet, 4 inches, and she was actually quite petite, but the words she spoke and the aura she gave off made her look so much...bigger. Unladylike.
Everything she wasn't supposed to be.
And there she was.
Sleeping.
He should have known this was where he would find her. After all, it must take a lot of energy to yell so much.
He stopped for a moment as he reached her. To think, that this slumbering slip of a girl, now looking entirely peaceful, could be such an utter nuisance was almost to the point of unbelievable.
He shook his head. She looked almost pretty...when she wasn't cursing.
He felt a pang of remorse as he kicked her awake. Soon...the yelling would start.
She was sleeping soundly...until she felt someone kicking her! If one was going to wake another up, why wake them through the method of kicking! "Ow!"
She opened her eyes, but her vision was still blurry, so she blinked a couple times while rubbing her now sore rib cage. "Who the hell...?" She looked up, at who she could only assume to be the culprit.
Oh shit.
It's the fucking prefect.
Now, when others are faced with an authority figure they'd probably--out of fear--act with respect and be sure to do what they were told. But not Kiri!
"What the fuck do you want, Kiryuu?"
He blinked at her. That was really all that there was to do.
With a disinterested sigh, he made a circling motion with his hand. "You're outside school grounds. Now get up."
Turning his back to her, he began to walk away, waving his hand as a sign for her to follow.
She sighed, and, surprisingly, smirked slightly. Did he really think she was just going to obey him because he was the big bad prefect? She wasn't like all the other girls that cowered at his very name.
She was different.
"Ah...thanks for the invite, Kiryuu, but I'll stay here. Even if it's outside school grounds, I feel safer here, for some reason. And it's more peaceful. You go on ahead, though. I'll catch up later."
It's not like she was going to run away or anything. She was telling the truth--she'd go back on her own. But she knew the prefect wouldn't just leave her. She looked up...ah, how pretty. The night sky really was breathtaking.
She had to be kidding. Right?
No, he had a feeling she wasn't.
Turning a disgruntled groan inward, Zero made his way once more to where the insufferable girl still sat. "Get up. Now."
This of course left no room for discussion, but somehow, he felt that Kiri might disagree with that fact.
She tapped her finger on her lips, seemingly in deep thought, and then shrugged. "As tempting as that sounds, I believe I must decline."
The moon captivated her. It looked so big, and yet, the stars which looked so much smaller would always be bigger. The moon was different, and the stars were so far away...she thought the moon must be lonely. Being different, being isolated...
It made her sad.
"The night sky's call seems to have beaten out your order. So sorry."
His eyebrow arched in disbelief.
Just who does this girl think she is.
A low growl or irritation manifested itself unwittingly in his throat.
He took her by her arms, and making sure not to use too much force, lifted her to her feet.
Her gaze instantly snapped to him the moment he touched her. Seriously, what is it with guys and touching her today?!
She glared at him. "Remove your hands before I make you remove them."
At this he actually laughed.
You have got to be kidding me.
Just the the thought of this lithe little girl making him do anything was ludicrous.
"Look, you heard me. Let's go."
"...You obviously underestimate me, Kiryuu." She wasn't some fragile little girl. She was stronger than most, faster than most, and she had done so many sports she herself had begun to lose track.
And it pissed her off when someone doubted her abilities because of her looks.
"I gave you fair warning."
Then she did something she probably shouldn't have. She lifted her left foot and slammed it down on Kiryuu's right one, then she lifted all her weight onto it and kneed him in...a very, very sensitive area.
He found himself leaning forward, a sharp stabbing pain radiating from his groin outward.
She didn't. No, there was no way that she had actually....kneed him.
No way.
None....
She had.
And Zero was beyond the point of incensed.
With one sweeping motion, he had dove towards Kiri--pushing her squarely to the ground.
His words came in ragged gasps. "You..little...WRETCH...you...are... going..to....PAY...DEARLY."
She didn't want to, really. Really--REALLY, she didn't. But she couldn't help herself...
She laughed.
"Am I?" She did something actually very rare for Kiri. She smirked, and she sneered, but rarely did she...smile. "Hey, you're the one that touched me first. I don't like being touched without permission. The earlier incident should be proof enough of that. I am sorry about your...little buddies, though. It's become a natural reaction. Boys act all touch and yet one hit to wear it hurts can bring them down. I find it funny..."
A little sadistic? Maybe. She probably should be scared, considering her little words won't mean much to someone that's in as much pain as Zero, but she couldn't keep herself from saying them. Zero just...didn't scare her. Why? Probably because she knew he wouldn't actually hurt her--he was a prefect.
"I do respect that you're not going to restrain yourself from hitting a girl, though. Guys who don't hit people that deserve it just because of gender make me angry. Ah, well, you probably don't give a shit about anything I'm saying at the moment, so I'll try to wrap it up."
Her smile, as rare as it was, was now gone, as it faded into a look of curiosity and confusion. "Don't you think that, as a prefect, you should be careful not to put yourself in situations that could...lead to many, many questions? Especially in public."
He wanted to. He really, really wanted to.
He wanted to strangle her. It was as simple as that.
Zero Kiryuu was on the very edge of strangling the life out of one of his fellow classmates, and that thought didn't seem to matter at all to him at the moment.
He just simply wanted to make her "end". He could feel his hands glide to her throat and enclose it within his grasp. He could do it, very easily in fact....all he would have to do would be to "squeeze".
He was tempted. Oh, there was no question that he was tempted.
Just a little pressure....NO. He wouldn't go that far, after all, the nuisance wasn't worth it.
Releasing her from his grasp, he stood haltingly to his feet, pushing Kiri forcibly as he did so.
"Get up. We're going." At least his voice had returned.
Kiri dusted herself off and tilted her head to the side. She rose from the ground, seemingly complying to his order, only to walk over to the same spot near the wall and sit yet again.
"Nah, that's okay. I don't want to." She looked back up to the moon, and pressed her--now aching--back against the cold stone of the wall.
She was probably being a little mean, but she was rather upset. She didn't want to go back to those dorms. Not yet, anyway.
It was at this moment that Zero realized....He should have strangled her. Not so much as to kill her, no, but still, enough to demonstrate his point. That point being...well, that point being, that he really really wanted to hurt her.
She was insufferable. No, she was far past the point of insufferable, she was infuriating.
That had been it. The final straw.
Abandoning all higher thought processes, Zero began to trek over to where she sat--every step hitting the ground with punishing force.
Kiri heard him approaching, and her gaze drifted over to his form once again. She was dreading the fact that he actually might lay a hand on her again--until a streak of light flashed across her vision and she was forced yet again to look at the sky.
A shooting star!
She quickly disregarded Zero's existence, forced herself to her knee's, clapped her hands together, laced her fingers, shut her eyes tightly and made a wish.
Just as he was beginning to focus on what he was going to do to her...she fell to her knees and clasped her hands in front of her.
There was but one thought that this scenario warranted--The hell?
Stopping dead in his tracks, Zero simply stared. Just what, precisely, was she doing?
For a few brief moments it occurred to him that perhaps she was praying. This seemed unlikely of course, given the circumstances, and he highly doubted that she was frightened enough of him for that anyway. She sure hadn't given him that impression so far.
Rejecting that conclusion, simply because it made no sense whatsoever, he turned to his next conclusion....which he had yet to form. So, giving up the effort entirely, he decided simply to ask her.
"What are you doing."
She opened one eye and, quite rudely, shushed him.
Then, when she was sure the star was gone, she opened her eyes, lowered her hands, and resumed her normal sitting position. She sighed and looked over at Zero boredly. "I saw a shooting star, so I was wishing on it."
For a moment, his old anger once more reeled back into existence--this time at being shushed, but was quickly forgotten once she had finished her explanation.
A shooting star? Her? Somehow the whole scene seemed at odds with itself.
No longer able to fight off his curiosity, Zero finally asked the obvious question--"What did you wish for?"
The look she gave him lingered for a moment before she closed her eyes, crossed her arms, and looked away.
"It's not any of your business." But...
"...I wished for new boxers."
He laughed. He couldn't help it. There was no way of avoiding it.
It was just so...so....ludicrous.
There really was just no other word for it.
Within moments, his earlier anger was almost entirely forgotten, all because he was far too concentrated on not falling over...which was becoming an altogether far too likely possibility.
He hadn't laughed like that....in...forever.
Finally regaining composure, he once more looked down at her.
"Come on." This time he actually offered her his hand.
She deserved it, after making him laugh like that.
She looked over and stared at his hand for a minute. "Laughing at me, eh..."
It was surprisingly lady-like of her. Not only was she pouting, but she was actually blushing. She hated when people laughed at her because she was weird...it was embarrassing.
Slowly, cautiously, she reached over and took his hand. "Jerk."
He laughed once more at her admonishing "jerk", as he helped her to her feet.
"I'm glad you finally saw it my way."
He began to walk off, secure in the fact that Kiri would follow....he hoped at least.
She glared at his back as she followed slowly. "I'm only coming because I haven't actually gotten to see my room yet. And I want to make sure my basketball is still there. Sucks, though. I wanted to break you. Tch."
The last part almost sounded as if she was whining. It was the truth, at least. She wanted to see if she could get him to leave her alone.
But she lo...los...
Oh god. How she hated that word.
Zero once more found himself laughing....this girl seemed to have that effect on him.
"You break me? Not a chance"
She looked at him skeptically. "Are you underestimating me again?"
She yawned, stretching her arms upward and then folding her hands behind her head. "I've broken a lot of people before. Why would you be any different?"
Zero resisted the urge to snort.
"I find that very difficult to believe. Tell me, who have you broken?"
She smirked deviously. "Oh, every woman that tried to replace my mother in my fathers heart, my third grade math teacher, and, well...let's say dozens of boys have been shattered by the attack to the lower region you were lucky enough to survive."
She laughed slightly while saying, "if you hadn't interfered, Aidou would have been one of them."
A sound of consternation escaped Zero's lips. "Had I known that, I would have left him to you. Personally, I would have rather had that scenario than the one I'm currently enjoying."
Zero resisted the urge to grimace from the memory.
"I feel truly sorry for those unlucky enough to have warranted (in your opinion at least) that particular treatment from you in the past, myself included."
She made a noise of distaste. "Don't be bitter just because you earned a knee to the groin. Every boy I have done that to rightfully deserved it."
She smirked slightly, a smile trying to force its way onto her face. "I wish you had left him to me. Having the opportunity to personally make sure Aidou will never be able to reproduce would have made me the happiest girl in the world."
Zero once more barely resisted the urge to snort.
"No, that would have made every girl the happiest girl in the world. But as to deserving it--I don't feel that I deserved it in the least. After all, it's you who has been difficult this entire time."
Kiri coughed slightly, averting her gaze to the ground. "I really, really hate when people touch me without permission. It's an extreme pet peeve of mine."
She mumbled something else, but it was so soft it was inaudible.
He turned his head to the side to look at her over his shoulder.
"Ah, well, considering I was completely oblivious to that fact before this incident--my actions were entirely without fault, whilst yours on the other hand, were completely without reason."
She glared at him. "I have my reasons, thank you."
Maybe she was glad he didn't hear the second part after all.
Zero's "Sure" followed itself with a prolonged silence until the two finally reached the dorms.
Leading Kiri passed the doors, feeling that his job was done, Zero waved listlessly in goodbye and stalked off to his own room.