Apr 21, 2005 22:39
Long night out with the rockheads! I'm locking myself in my room for the next week I lost so much time because of them, damnit!
It was just supposed to be karaoke. That was it. Then it was on to the Shishkabob joint. I can't pass up a good shish. Just can't. I was arguing with them that I had to go home and they were really loudly making fun of me, calling me a pussy-headed pussy. I had just finished screaming "I am not a pussy-headed pussy!" [i wasn't wearing my hood or anything!] when I got smacked on the back of the head.
"Oi!" a voice shouted. "Don't use that kind of fucking language!"
"What?!" I put my hand to the spot that was hit, I couldn't believe someone snuck up on me, first of all! I spun around and stared at my attacker. Honeru muttered "oh shit". She was only a little shorter than me, shoulder-length pale bluish hair that hung in her eyes a bit wearing netting, a sort of tank top and skirt, flanked by two other chicks and by the look on her face you'd think I had just taken a huge dump on her Shishkabob.
"Don't use that word!" she scolded.
"Which word?"
"The 'P' word, jackass!"
I realized what she was getting at. "That's not what I meant!" I pleaded, not wanting to get hit again, or piss this chick off any further. She looked like she could take me, especially if she was able to sneak up and hit me like that. "I usually wear this hood with these little peaks on it," I explained. "Looks like kitty ears and I..."
Her face was getting weirder as I was talking. Suddenly she shook her finger at me and grinned. "You're Kankuro, aren't you?"
"Um... if I say yes, you gonna hit me again?"
She laughed. Threw back her head and laughed. "No, dumbass, I'm Nehorin, from the acadamy, remember? I sat in back of you?"
Oh shit. Nehorin.
She used to pull at the 'kitty ears' of my hood all the time in class to piss me off. I tried to smile. I'm sure it looked like I was trying. "Oh yeah. I remember. What's up?"
"Nothing. Me and the girls were bored and wanted to start shit." So she wasn't even really mad about the 'P' word. Great. "Hey Honeru, Iwashi, Hakomaru," she greeted my companions. "You know this juvie?"
Me. The juvie. Sure. Compared to them I'm the frickin teacher's pet!
They talked for a bit about the reckless things they'd been up to and somehow decided that we were all going out to the east of town for a little 'practice': otherwise known as beating the shit out of each other till they got bored. I was amazed that these chicks wanted in on it, and distraught that they wouldn't let me go home.
I pleaded that I had the Nice coming up but they wouldn't have it! Even Nehorin called me "pussy!" I had no choice. Without Karasu and Kuroari it was tough and Iwashi nearly perforated me once, but I managed to make it through ok.
Dawn broke and I knew I was totally screwed. I'd have to go home and sleep with a book under my pillow or something to make up for it and study all day. Nehorin and her girls were about to go home, Hakomaru was hitting on one, Iwashi on the other when Nehorin walks up really close to me and goes:
"I had fun, but next time you gotta bring your puppet."
"Oh...?" Little bells and alarms and shit were going off in my head like crazy. "After the Nice I'll have two."
"Sweet." She grinned at me. "When's that?"
"Next month."
"Aw. I wanna see the new one."
"I've got it now, just not certified for combat."
"So you can't fight with it?"
"Nope."
"Not even against me?" This is where I realized she was really really close to me. She lowered her eyelids.
"No."
"Aw..."
"I can show it to you... if you want?"
"Ok," she said, grin getting wider. "Is it big?"
"Um... yes..."
"Cool."
Ok. Puppets. Not 'cool'. Not to people who don't use them. I know this. She can't possibly be interested in the puppet. There's only one other thing about me that she might be interested in.
Me.
So. Um. I guess I'm gonna meet her at the Shishkabob place next week. I told her I'd be studying for at least 7 days.
Now.
How the fuck am I supposed to concentrate?! I've got a date!!! *panics*