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@mo-chan: it's more than bullying that turned Mayu into such an insecure person, we will revisit her past in depth in the later chapters as she resolves her conflict with Yuki. Thank you for reading!
@bunny_rabbit: yes, BISU!! Anyway, I love how Sae teases Yui so much in rl, like she's a playboy hanging out with a shy, proper girl...lol. Btw, the Saeyui moment in this chapter is one of my favorites among what I've written. Hope you'll enjoy it too!
@Shinoki: thanks! Haha yes, Nezumi is quite a sad character right now, but it will get better soon because Yuki is there for her! Thanks for dropping by!
@fuu_kun: Wow, great to hear another person joining the Honmayan Army! Yui is a fascinating and hard working girl, hope you enjoy Saeyui below!
@Tupi: Mayu is confused because she's been hurt by people around her. But she'll realize her mistake in this Chapter. Please continue to read on and thanks for supporting Saeyui!
@gek geki: teheehee...it's Geki chapter today!
@DC2805: haha Sae fathering himself?!! I don't think I can resolve this contradiction at all!!!!! Sae's a girl here, and Mayu's a girl too, so how Sae became Yuki's kid is also one of the mysteries to look forward to in this story. Thanks for dropping by and hope you could continue reading it! Thanks!
Here comes Chapter 8, marking the end of Majisuka year one of Gakuran, the half-way point of the fic, with a semi-climax for all pairings! Please let me know your thoughts on this chapter. And, I have added a backstory for BlackXGeki too! Hope that's not too shabby...
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Chapter 8 - Madness....Gekikara"When are you going to challenge the heavenly kings, Gakuran?" Yuko complains to me as we finished our dinner.
"Why such rush? You know I'm not interested to go up the stairs."
"Yeah...but why? You care about Majisuka..."
"Yuko, I will ascend the stairs, but not today." I simply answered. I still remember how precarious my position is. The 13th, 14th and 15th generation of Rappapa did not have Gakuran, as far as I can remember. I don't want to change history unnecessarily.
Yuko simply nodded as if she understood my unspeakable reason.
"*Sigh...I was looking forward to your fight with Shibuya before this year ends. You know, she's an interesting....." She got caught in a fit of coughs, which happens quite often now.
I rub her back to soothe her pain. Lately, Sado and she haven't been talking with each other, because she's mad that Yuko hid such a serious illness from her.
"The scenery from the top..." Yuko starts again after she's calmed down. "Does not belong to anyone in current Rappapa....Sado is the only one strong enough, but she's... besides, unless I step down after this year, she'll be graduating with me..."
"Yuko-san! Stop being silly! Everyone in Majisuka needs you, so don't talk about stepping down!"
"Tell me, Sae, how much time do I have left?"
I gulped like a kid caught stealing candy. "No one knows what will happen tomorrow, just think positively and move forward."I look away from her.
"Yes..." Yuko nods knowingly. "As long as I'm Bucho of Rappapa, I will need to find someone...someone...You know what, I caught a glimpse of a very interesting girl in hospital today. I wonder if she's a patient or not..."
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Spring has arrived and it's been 10 months since I've been here. My first year at Majisuka will end soon. Even though I have 'lost' my fight with Nezumi, she's becoming more careful in recruiting people to stir up trouble, since she knows that it's not only Black's pairs of eyes who're watching her moves anymore. As a result, my year became more relaxed, and I had more time to study alone in the library, where nobody goes.
It used to be a great place to fight, but ever since I declared it a sacred territory, no one dares to intrude upon it. Occasionally, Black comes to read with me, but I'm the only one studying textbooks. There was this one time when she randomly picked up an old book of poems, which reads like gothic crap to me. Anyway, she's casually flipping through it today again.
"Why do you like it so much?"
"It's nice poetry."
"You look bored, why don't you just hang out somewhere else?"
"I just like sitting here." She answers with a blank face, without really looking up from the book.
"Ok, suit yourself..."
"What about you, why are you studying so hard?" She suddenly asks.
"I want to go back to school."
"You are already at school."
"No, I want to attend Cattleya." I still remember my promise with Yui. That we will go to high school together.
She gave me that incredulous reaction-queen look again, but I simply shrugged and continue with my math drills.
The door bursts open suddenly, with a bloodied figure appearing, biting her nails as she laughs at the scared soul under her feet.
"Ne...Okotteru?" The girls beating the ground with a wireframe of what looks like a stripped apart umbrella, taunting the poor soul.
"Yes!" I shouted from the other corner of the room. Told you not to bring your fights in here, not even when you are a heavenly king!
"Calm down, Gekikara!" Black has already reached her to stop her from killing the passed out kid.
Looking into Black's eyes, Gekikara finally resumed her senses and walked away.
"Her fits are becoming more and more frequent...." Black disappeared after Gekikara, saying this.
Jeez...I looked at the lifeless body and tried to help this poor kid up. Then I realized that she's from another school...there must be something wrong in all this.
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I followed Gekikara home from school that day. To my amazement, she's challenged 3 times by different gangs of boys, all set to kill, not to fight simply....It's like a crazy stimulus that's working her up each time, with her blows becoming more and more deadly and out of control.
Although I can't say for sure... this kind of monstrous plan can only be chalked up by Nezumi.
The following day, I told Black about this so we could stop Geki from doing something crazy.
"This is beyond dangerous. I must let the rest of Rappapa know too."
"No Gakuran. Let us try to stop them first."
"You are just afraid that Mayu will get hurt when they know, right?"
"It's not about that."
"Yes it is. Stop being so stubborn and ask for help. Don't you care about Gekikara too?"
She blocks me from leaving and warned coldly, "Do as I say or I won't let you leave the room."
"I just don't want to see you blame yourself, especially after what you've gone through with Geki..."
"I know, but let me stop them, okay?" I look into her deep, dark pupils, which brought me back to the memories of Gekikara's initiation to Rappapa. It was all thanks to Black and Yuko.
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/* Black's POV - flashback to a few months ago...
"Meet my new friend, Geki-chan!!!!" Yuko-bucho clapped excitedly as she led a shy looking girl, dressed in green jacket, short-skirt and tall boots in. Her hair is a bit messy, but the cornrows on one side of her hair are tied up neatly.
"From now on, she'd be part of Rappapa -- taking the last place of the heavenly kings!" Yuko-san grins like a child who's doing a show and tell of her pet in class.
Sado furrowed her eyebrows but didn't protest. We're all puzzled about the girl's appearance. She looked timid, and didn't look like she could fight, not to mention that being a complete newbie, people would question why she could take up such a high-rank.
"If anyone here wants to challenge Gekikara," Yuko-san eyed us one by one as if being able to read our minds. "That's fine. Do it in public so everyone can see her true powers. But absolutely," she paused to emphasize her point, "absolutely no one outside of us is allowed to fight Geki. Sado, I'm counting on you to make sure of that."
"Hai, bucho." Sado obeys quietly.
After Gekikara left the band room, Sado finally asked, "To keep an unstable girl under our jurisdiction --- that's a dangerous thing to do."
Unstable? I wondered. Is that why no one else is allowed to fight her?
"Let me see how dangerous this girl is." Shibuya said as she kicked the chair away to get out of the room. Her impatient personality is getting the better of her again.
"Don't you have a meeting with your underlings, Shibuya-san?" Sado put a hand on her shoulder. "This is better done by our lonewolf, Black."
"As you wish." I simply answered and zoomed off. I knew why Sado had chosen me. It's because of my ruthlessness. I can sense that Gekikara is no innocent opponent either.
I stalked her for a couple of days when she got into minor scuffles with some low-level yankees. She usually just let them beat her up and got all excited because of that. But she never fought back, though her screeching laughs were usually enough to scare those people away. I was beginning to think if she was indeed that dangerous, despite the fact that she's definitely mental.
After school, I followed her as usual. She's already bathed in blood after a few so-called fights-- it's been 4 days already and I'm a bit impatient about completing Sado's mission. Plus, I hadn't seen Gakuran for days, get over it already!!!!!
"Ne....Okkoteru?" The one I'd been following suddenly stopped and said.
"Why don't you fight back?" I asked, surprised that she could sense my agitation.
"eeeehahahahah wahahahhahHAHAAHHA" She started laughing and biting her finger nails again. Then, she scratched her finger across the railings, making a loud screeching noise that's even worse than her creepy laugh. But I'm Black, she's underestimating me.
"Hot blood in such soft skin....Tomorrow...there is none." I closed the red book in my hands and dashed towards her.
Blows and blows rained down on her, but nothing's heard except her satisfied laugh. I am not other Yankees, I wouldn't be intimidated merely by this.
Then I think I flicked the switch. Like someone suddenly possessed by a monster, she pounced up and blocked my kick, holding my leg and throwing my whole body away. Tsk...not bad. It'd be a great fight.
She's now attacking incessantly, and the more i dodged, the more fire I saw in her eyes, and the stronger she became. What's the depth of her strength? I was beginning to wonder. But this moment of hesitation was enough for her to knock me squarely on the face with her elbow. I crouched to spit out blood in my mouth, but she didn't let any time lose, and the next thing I knew, I was blocking her yanks and counter blew with a punch. I started to lose track of my moves as we reflexively countered each other's blows. My senses went numb as I focus on her eyes, red hot on fire, spicy and tantalizing.
I didn't know how long had passed when a third hand landed on my shoulder and I was about to twist it before I realized it was Gakuran, who shook her head slightly to tell me to stop.
Catching a few breaths, I looked at my surroundings. Practically everything touchable had been destroyed in our fight, but the scariest thing is the blood that's stained on every surface, from the trash can, to the grey walls, to the electricity poles and also the light stand...I looked at Gekikara's face, who's almost like a disfigured doll, and I looked at myself, appalled at the state I was in.
The scariest part of fighting Gekikara is: She does not know how to stop, and she'll bring you down with her. If we hadn't stopped, one of us might die that day...
After coming to my senses, I could barely stand up even with the help of Gakuran. We slowly walked towards Geki, whose eyes were still hollow, like she's still in a trance. Her laugh was quieter now, but she did not stop grinning at us with those glittering, fired up eyes. Cautiously, I crouched and put both hands on her shoulder, forcing myself to look at her
"Night falls, I bring you the blanket of eternity. Hawks take flight, covering stars in flutters. Fear not...close your eyes and go to sleep. In sleep where clouds don't weep...." I started whispering a poem to her. I didn't know why I chose that poem. Perhaps it's because of her laughter, which sounded so lonely to me. Perhaps it's her eyes, telling me 'no, don't you dare forsake me like others.' I don't know. I felt like she's calling for my help. I felt like she's another me..... So I continued. Continued to recite the poem, which did seem to have brought her to her senses. She collapsed in my arms, and I too, closed my eyes with a smile.
Since then, Gekikara has relied on me to stop her at the brink of madness, whenever she gets into fights. Admittedly, knowing no limits was the best weapon that equipped her in our fights with other yankees, and soon enough, her reputation became on par, if not surpassing, the title she's holding. Sado is also very satisfied with this new recruit, and Yuko-san is the only one who kept telling me we mustn't use Geki too much.
Indeed, Yuko-san was right. One day, when we're walking to her home in her normal mode, we ran into a thief who's breaking in to her flat. She went berserk and I could barely stop her from killing the man. I was so glad that he's a criminal; otherwise, we would have both been sent to jail. That day, I realized that I am responsible for Geki's safety, since I'm the one who could calm her down, and I'm the one she trusts most after Yuko-san. Geki's past is horrible. It's what made her a masochist-fighting machine. Yuko made her a queen to protect her from getting switched on, but this is totally different from Sado's intention of fully utilizing her potential. As a Rappapa heavenly king, I couldn't say 'no' to both of their wishes. Gekikara and I are walking on a fine line here...
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Whether out of fear of being beaten, or just obedience because she is Black, we're now the only two people following Gekikara towards home. Today, someone had already turned her "Geki" mode on just because they knocked over her books, which I'm not sure why they're there in the first place.
As expected, the first gang of challengers appear.
At first, Gekikara just lets them beat her, and then she starts laughing louder and louder as she bleeds more, wiping the blood from her hands and licking it like a sick vampire. I think it's time to intervene.
"Stop it!" I rushed out to attack those guys. Black joins in and all three of us started fighting. Within minutes, most of the gang is defeated, but Gekikara has trained her eyes on someone running away. She's now running after the guy.
"Come on, let's stop her!" We follow from behind, until we see Geki disappearing in a huge building beside the scrapyard.
"Gekikara, it's a trap!" But we have no choice and followed inside.
I'm fully expecting an ambush, but we're literally surrounded by the whole Yabakune. In the middle of those sneering yankees, we spot the culprit, donning an orange zipup hoodie today.
"Stop it, this has gone too far." Black glares at Nezumi.
"I am just doing what you guys failed to do with talent and potential -- bringing the best out of each student....building tomorrow's criminals, today."
The gangs rush towards us and started to attack from all sides. Even though they aren't strong, they are numerous and there's no room for us to stop Gekikara from getting into the fight. She has fired up quickly again, like a flame that was never really put out in the first place. Quickly the maniac has gone berserk, punching and punching on a single target without letting go. Not until long, the rest of the gang realizes that something's gone wrong and tried to stop her, but with each kick and punch on Gekikara, it only helps to fire her up even more.
As soon as we had gotten rid of the people around us, we rushed to join in separating Gekikara, but the crowd that were also trying to help saw how the situation has spiraled into, and left in fear without rescuing their mate. It's now only us trying to knock her off the girl, and Nezumi sitting on a bench, watching quietly like she's in a movie theater.
"They're probably gonna call the police...I'm scared!" Nezumi wails like a fragile little kid. None of us paid any attention to this little devil as we're still trying to fight back the enormous, incontrollable monster in front of us.
I am thinking...one more blow on the head, and that yankee's dead...but Geki threw me to the ground again when we wrestled. Gekikara then stepped back a bit, and laughed out loud before toying the broken piano beside her funnily. She's now pushing the piano towards the cornered, motionless girl, getting ready to crush her. Tipping the piano sideways, I saw Black dashed in front and collided with the gigantic structure right with her back!
"Fuck!" I shouted as I dashed towards her, pushing the piano away with the weight of my body.
Even Nezumi stood up in a shocked face, not expecting Black to throw herself in to protect the yabakune girl, or rather, Gekikara.
The blow seems to have done its job, not only in making Black cough out blood in my arms, but also in stopping Gekikara from attacking further. I stare again at Nezumi, whose face is now adorned with a fine trickle of tears. Turning my attention to Gekikara, she is now also looking at her trembling hands in fear.
A whimper is heard from the previously spiced up girl...then the sound of sirens covered her faint words. I can't make out what they are, but I believe she's saying sorry....
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The rest of Rappapa has just left the hospital to see how Geki is doing in custody at the police. We haven't said a word about Nezumi since she's left before the police came, and no one in Majisuka knew what happened. It's now only me and Black in the room, who's asleep after taking some medicine.
"I'm sorry...." I heard her mutter again and again...her brows furrowed and body covered in sweat, just like when she had that fever a few months ago.
I wiped the sweat off her forehead with a towel and stroke her hair with one hand, holding her hand in mine with my other one. It's so hard to have all the blame on yourself, isn't it? First it's Nezumi, and now it's Gekikara, but it's not your fault...Is that how you feel when I blamed you too mama? It was me, who's too weak to protect Yui, to protect you and to protect myself. But instead of working harder, I blame you, I'm so sorry to put you into pain again....
I feel tears flowing uncontrollably from my eyes. I haven't cried that much for a long time. When I tried to pull my hand away to wipe my tears, Black's hand grabbed on to mine.
"Save me...Sae..."
This is the first time she called me by my name.
"Yukirin..."
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The next day, when I am about to go into Black's room for a visit before school, I see a figure lingering beside her bed. It's Nezumi. I guess she didn't think that yankees will wake up early....
I hid behind the door to watch.
"Kashiwagi Yuki...why, why do you care so much about Majisuka Gakuen? Why can't you just leave me be...why foil my plans?" She doesn't sound angry, but rather, puzzled and lost. "Why do I care about you so much? Why do I want to see you get angry and frustrated? I thought it makes me happy to see you suffer--- it's exciting to see you get mad at me. But now, why does it feel so strange when I see you get hurt?" The last sentence is almost inaudible, but the pain is enough to pierce through the doors to reach my heart.
After a while staring at the sleeping girl, Nezumi turned to leave. I followed her outside and called her to stop.
"I saw it."
She seem startled but ignored me, continuing to walk.
"You just wanted her attention all this time, right?" I asked, but she didn't respond and instead, picked up her pace.
"If you want to know why...try harder to find out!" I shouted. I hope she gets what I mean....
Back in the room, Black has woken up after the first morning checks by the hospital's nurse. I smiled at her and handed her some water.
"Gakuran...I should have listened to you. Nezumi is not going to stop. I'm sure she'll get away with it again even if they found anything, but she's hurting herself if she continues this way...it's too hard for me to stop her. I wanted to protect her and my friends. I end up....failing at both...."
She starts sobbing and biting her lips in grief, and I can't bear it anymore. I threw my arms around her and pull her into my embrace.
"No no...it's not your fault....you just need to get more used to it. There are things that we can never stop no matter how hard we try. Things that we fail at inevitably. But the future is still in our hands. So....don't give up."
I reached for something in my jacket and put it in her hands. "Look what I've gotten you...as a gift in return for the headband you gave me."
I smile as she examines it closely.
"It goes well with your 'black' image...but more importantly, remember that salvation is in your hands, not in any others." I wiped the tears off her cheek gently as I said it.
The gift I gave her is the cross-rosary necklace, which she doesn't seem to own. At first, I wondered why and how she came to possess it, since it's in the photo of the 13th generation Rappapa I saw in my timeline. Ever since I remember it from childhood, I see her wearing it. But then, yesterday when I passed by the antique shop, I saw it in display, beckoning me with its glittering silver.
"Save me...Sae..." Her weak voice from that night rung loudly in my head.
I couldn't believe it when I went in and bought it inadvertently, but is this what they call fate?
She brushes her fingers on the beads, and landed them on the cross. "It's beautiful. It's the best present I've received in my life."
Somebody also said that to me before, I recalled, but that was the best and also possibly, the most regrettable day I had...
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My heart pounded nervously as I took the strawberry shortcake out of the fridge. Icing it with kitten ears and whiskers, I looked at my final product proudly and smiled. It's Yui's birthday tomorrow and I had already planned an elaborate surprise at midnight today. Together with the cake, the box in my pocket would make my surprise complete.
After school, I brought Yui to to a local amusement park, since exams have just ended and there was no homework. We had fun on rides and shows and even stayed for the nightly fireworks. As everyone was leaving the park, I pulled her aside in a dark corner, a gap between two houses that were temporary exhibits of a spring-themed decoration. We stayed till the guards left and I took her to on open-aired restaurant, overlooking the lake. There, I took the cake which I'd hidden earlier with the help of a friend, who is a worker at the restaurant.
"The park is all ours today!"
"What if we get caught?" Yui looks around nervously.
"Well the worst case is, we apologize. I heard a lot of people doing that and getting caught. But since there's nothing really to loose, they usually just let it go. So don't you worry."
I lit the candles against the backdrop of the lake in front of the restaurant, forming a picturesque scenery.
"Wow..."
"Come on, make a wish....it's twelve!"
Yui bowed down in silence and wished with a semi-frowned face. Even though she's from Kansai, there's not a shred of humor in her, since she takes things so seriously, but on the other hand, her clumsiness and awkwardness makes her so funny when she doesn't intend to. Her devil-like laughs are so cute, even though she won't admit that her laughter is too wicked and unlike her usual self.
Finally she blew the candles and stopped those thoughts about her cuteness running in my head.
"There is one more thing," I turned my portable torch on to resume some lighting. "Happy birthday." I gave her the box.
Taking it and opening it slowly, Yui discovered a silver ring inside, adorned in subtle olive branch patterns.
"It's beautiful..."
I took the ring off and put it in her finger. "I hope you like it."
"It's the best present I've received in my life...Thank you." She's in tears now and is almost hyperventilating, to my horror.
"Sssssh....it's fine it's fine....it's your birthday...so let's eat the cake okay?" I chuckled while wiping some cream off the cake using my finger and smeared it on her face, making her laugh again.
"Mou...!" We started eating the cake silently, watching the dark waters flow by slowly in the lake. The night winds blow on her hair, and I couldn't help but gaze at her with longing eyes.
She turned from the lake to me and asked, "Do you know what I wished for just now?" I jolted from my daze and shook my head immediately.
"I wished that you can...tell me how you feel now." There's a moment of hesitation in her voice. Is she...asking me to tell her how much I love her, and how I'd like to be with her forever, not as friends only, but as lovers? Do you know how much I've been longing to tell you how I feel? Do you know how bad it feels when that feeling is welled up in my chest, with no where for me to release it, every time you smile at me?
"Yui...I...I will always be your best friend and be by your side." In the end, I just couldn't say the truth. I was afraid. Afraid that I'd be rejected. I don't want to ruin our special friendship, and lose her forever.
"Is that so? I'm happy to hear that." Yui smiled gently at me, but there's a hint of disappointment in her eyes. Or was I just, dreaming this up?
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"Sae!"
I woke up from my trance, and realized Black has been gazing up at me all this time, her body still in my arms. There is something about her gaze which is mesmerizing, so full of passion...
"I think I'm in love with you..."
If someone's eyes can bulge until they pop out, mine would be all the way across Tokyo Tower now.
To hear the first confession to me in my life... inner Sae should be popping champagnes and streamers, dancing around happily. Except this confession comes from the wrong-est person on earth.
"Yukirin...I..." I looked at her beautiful face again...unable to speak further.
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