From: dino1980@usa.net Heroes on Earth - Part 2 By Dino "Well good morning class! It seems today we have got ourselves a new student. She had just been transferred here and I do hope that you will treat her nicely and show here around the school." The teacher told the class before looking out of the door to her right. "Misao? Don't tell me you are shy? Come here and introduce yourself." Everyone had look towards the door by now. Even Aoshi himself was wondering who the girl was. Then meekly, a girl came out from behind the door to the front. There were woos and ahs coming from every boy in the class including Rei. Aoshi, on the other hand, was wide-eyed with his mouth opened as he listened to Misao introduced herself to everyone. "Err.. Ohayo Everyone! I'm Makimachi Misao! Nice meeting you people here. I really do hope to get along with all of you." She said and then eyed Aoshi. Aoshi suddenly realized what he was behaving when he felt Rei's hand pushing his jaw up for him. He shot Rei a don't do that look before he looked back at Misao. 'Oh no! This is the end of my future! My end is near whenever I'm around with her!' "Ok Misao. That's a very good introduction! Your seat will be there next to Aoshi. If you need any help, you can approach him. He is our role model for the class." The teacher said, pointing to empty seat next to Aoshi. "Hai!" Misao smiled at her teacher before proceeding to the seat. Immediately, Aoshi stood up. "Wait!" he said. "You cannot have this seat!" "Well why is that so Aoshi?" The teacher asked concerned. "Well, it's because I don't wanna ruin my life." Muttered Aoshi. "What did you just say? I can't it properly." The teacher said again. "Oh nothing Omasu-sama! It's just that the seat is very dirty!" Aoshi could not believe that he had said all those in one breath. "It's ok Aoshi. It's been kind of you. Misao can use tissue to clean it before sitting down, ok?" And with that, the teacher started her lesson. Time seemed extremely slow moving that day. He had tried to keep his distance from Misao giving her a cold face all the time and not responding even when she called him. 'Oh please go help me!' He thought to himself as he looked at the clock hanging in front on the wall. 'When will lunch break comes?' Aoshi looked dreamily at his teachers going in and then out of his classroom at half an hour interval and then… * rrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnggggggg * goes the school bell suddenly. "Yeah! Can't wait to get our of here! Rei! Let's go!" Aoshi stood up and shouted across the room to his best friend. "Aoshi… Can you wait a minute?" Someone asked him from his side. Aoshi turned to see and found that Misao had with her 2 lunch boxes. "Hmm…?" he asked. "Are you going to lunch? I've brought along an extra set. Do you want to come and share the lunch with me?" Misao asked without looking into his eyes. She was glancing down to her feet when she talked. Aoshi was going to reply when Rei came in and said," Why? It's nice to be able to share! Why don't we join her for lunch huh? Aoshi?" then lowing, Rei whispered to Aoshi, "Besides, she's a beauty and everyone will be jealous of us if we can get to her first." Rei nudged Aoshi again for a response. Aoshi just stood up, gave his usual cold stare at Rei before replying," No, thanks. I've brought my lunch also. So I guess you will have to finish all by yourself." He walked out of the class room without looking back at Misao. Rei stood still at the response. "Hey! Aoshi! Wait up!" Rei smiled at Misao before he chased after his stubborn friend. "Don't take to mind Misao! He's always nervous when he come to meet with new girls!" Misao could only smiled back meekly in reply. As Aoshi and Rei reached their usual place for their lunch, Rei asked Aoshi," Hey, What's all that for? You know you are going to hurt her heart, you know? Don't use that usual cold look of yours on her, will you? She is so nice and cute. And I don't see why you can see differently." "Well, you won't know until you really get to know her." He replied coldly. "And don't ever think of getting her as your girlfriend." "What? You don't want her and yet you don't want me to chase her? No way!" Rei replied, looking at his friend. "I'm telling you for your own good. She's a jinx and everyone who get to know her will have bad luck." Aoshi sat down at their usual spot, the rooftop of their school building. "Jinx? You believe in that? I mean you? Shinomori Aoshi?" Rei pointed out to him, that he was the only one in school who didn't believe in all the superstition that had been going around last year. "Well I believing it now, couldn't I?" Aoshi replied, annoyed at his friend's comment. It was not really a irritating comment but he didn't like it at all. "So are you eating your lunch or are you letting me help you with it?" "Of course not!" Both Rei and Aoshi sat down in their quiet spot and tucked into their lunch when Aoshi realized that he had not taken his medicine yet. He reached out to his pocket when he heard a cry from behind them. They turned around to find Misao surrounded by a group of bullies. "What? They are bullying Misao on her first day of school? Why can't they give everyone a break?" Rei exclaimed, standing up to approach the bullies and saved Misao. ' She will fall for me soon after I rescue her!' he thought quietly to himself. "Come on Aoshi. Let's help her out." Rei called to Aoshi. "No way am I helping out. If you want to help the jinx, do it yourself. I'm not courting my own death." Aoshi replied every coldly again before returning to his lunch. "Ok fine with me!" Rei shouted out. "But don't regret it if I get her to be my girlfriend!" "Never!" Aoshi went back to his lunch, trying very hard to allow the noise distraction from behind. He could no longer stand it when his friend came crashing back next to him. He stood up and shouted to the bullies, " Hey that's enough! Kenti, don't you have enough for one day? You have been collecting protection fees ever so often!" Aoshi regretted what came out of his mouth when he saw the leader of the gang came up to him, followed by his gang. "Oh well? Aoshi? What are you going to do about it?" Kenti smiled evilly at Aoshi, curling his fingers to change his hand into a fist. "Do you think YOU can do anything to me?" "Err… I can tell the TEACHERS about you, Kenti! You will EXPELLLED then!" Aoshi stared back at Kenti. "Do you THINK I'll be LET you?!" Kenti replied and with that he punched Aoshi on the stomach. Aoshi fell to his feet immediately on impact. "Wait! I'm the one who had interfered, not Aoshi. Don't punch him!" Rei shouted back. "Oh yeah? Then you BOTH will get it from me." Kenti looked over his shoulder to his gang members. "Do what you do best guys!" Quickly, Aoshi and Rei curled their bodies into a ball and then came the beating and kicking. It was only a while when they stopped. "Wait! Do you think he is still alive? He hasn't been moving for a while." One of their attackers said to the others. Rei shot up to look at Aoshi. 'Oh no! What happened?' he thought before rushing over to Aoshi to check his pulse. 'No pulse?' He looked up to the attackers, fear and anger in his eyes. "You killed Aoshi! You killed him! I am gonna report this to the police immediately!" He shouted over to his attackers and Kenti. Wide-eyed, the gang looked back at their leader. Kenti moved toward Aoshi and also feel for his pulse. He became alarmed too when he felt no pulse. He retrieved his hand and stood up retreating. "You idiots have killed him!" Kenti shouted out to his gang. "Get out of here!" Kenti and his gang were getting out when suddenly they heard a deep male voice speaking to them," The fun hasn't even began and all of you are retreating? What a coward!" Kenti turned around to find Aoshi standing in front of him. Fear caught him when he saw anger in those blue eyes of Aoshi. "Do you think I will let you off when you had beaten us up like that?" Aoshi hissed at Kenti. "Guys! Kill him!" Kenti shouted to his gang before heading straight to Aoshi too. 'That idiot fake his death! DAMB HIM!' - Half an hour later - Rei looked around him to find Aoshi, Kenti and his men lying on the ground. It was not that All of them beat each other out but Aoshi had beat them all up in amazing speed before collapsing to the ground. For a moment, he had thought that probably the person standing there fighting the bullies wasn't Aoshi at all. Aoshi, to him, seemed totally different because Aoshi had learnt or knew no martial arts let alone the art of Ninja. 'Well that's what they called it nowadays.' Rei looked at Misao again before going over to take a look at Aoshi. He hoped that he had not stop breathing or anything that told him that Aoshi was dead like the last time. He looked down at Aoshi, took a deep breath and felt for Aoshi's pulse again. 'Alive!' He wiped his sweat off his face before trying to wake Aoshi up from his 'sleep'. "Aoshi?… Are you alright? Aoshi?" Rei asked persistently, shaking Aoshi at the same time. "Hmm…? What happened?" Aoshi sat up looking around him. He was surprised that Kenti and his men were lying groaning on the floor around him. "You did this to them?" He asked Rei. "What do you mean me? It was you who did all this!" Rei told him. "What?!!" Aoshi stared at Rei. 'How is it that I can't remember anything about it?' He asked himself. "Are you alright?" Aoshi turned around to find Misao's eyes looking into his, showing concern about what happened. He looked away, feeling his blood rushing to his face. 'What is happening to me?' "Aaa … " He replied ever so coldly again. He stood up and walk back to the classroom. 'Maybe it's the medicine. Dad said that I have some sort of mental illness and taking the medicine will help prevent another relapse of my mental condition… Probably that's the problem why I can't remember a thing about the fight…' His thought had totally caused him to ignore Rei who had been shouting to him to wait. He woke up from his thoughts when a smack landed on his head from Rei. "Hey I told you to wait didn't I?" Rei shouted at him. "Sorry… I was thinking about what happened…" Aoshi muttered. "Come on. I'll tell you what you did if you can’t remember. Let's get back to class as we talk, ok?" Rei spoke as he put his arm around his best friend's shoulder. ------------------------------------------------------------- Well this is the end... I guess Aoshi is beginning to become Aoshi =P This is something like recarnation.. Stay tuned as I introduce more characters beside Kenti and Rei which I created but borrowed the names from someone... and Aoshi and Misao.. --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Register now and you could win a Volkswagen New Beetle at LiQ.com! Click below, 'cause it's going fast! While you're at it, check out our great entertainment products at fantastic prices! Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------