PT. 10
They were scattered like fallen marbles across the grand Musume Academy, one of the top all girls boarding school. Though academies were usually set for higher level of educational purposes, this special school also served as the number one for athletics. It was only practical that they had an Olympic size field for sporting activities.
Each was to their own class, conversing amongst other peers, staying within their circle. Because the school focused so much on physical activities, it wasn’t unusual for them to have more then one class, even if it was the same grade level, to be out at the alike time on the same field. Different coaches lead and directed different classes to their activities of that day and oh joy, it just so happened to be Physical Testing day.
“Oh physical testing, if only learning could be this fun and easy, right Mak-” Hitomi looked around for the presence of the friend she
thought she was talking to. To no avail, she didn’t find her sneaky partner but kept searching anyway. Sometimes, if you didn’t watch her carefully, she would slip right past you. Almost like a child, just less cute and more of a little monster. “What the… where is she now?” Hitomi tippy-toed above the heads that covered her blind spots, after no avail, she began to wonder a bit to confirm the departure of the sneaky little rat. “Dammit, she left me again. Just like the last time.
Usually, Hitomi didn’t mind being left alone, or doing sports at all. Why would she? It beat sitting in a class and learning about something that would never be used in real life anyway, right? But for someone as popular and watched as her, it would be dangerous doing such trivial acts- but such difficuilt tasks for the rest of the girls- alone with no one else to share the spotlight with. This was only because Hitomi was no Maki when it came to attention.
The coaches rounded the girls up like flocks of sheep, only because they needed to start each event off at the right time so when their class completed it, another would have their turn. Physical tests were always taken seriously in this school- if they had to, they’d continue during a rain storm, maybe even during a blizzard.
While her coaches were talking, Hitomi couldn’t resist doing a quick scan again, ignoring some sort of announcements for try outs. Whatever it was, it wouldn’t fit into her busy schedule anyway. She sighed and realized that there was no hope, she was alone.
Hmm, I’m wondering if I should just half ass it now…“Ay shit!” Just then, a panting figure ran to her side, slightly colliding with her. “Did… we… start… yet?” The figure asked, as she took a breath in between each word, hunched over to let her lungs rest.
“What the, Gotou? Where’ve you been?” Remembering the question when Maki shot up from her position, “No, not yet, but soon. Where’d you go anyway? I thought you ditched to make out with another girl or something.”
“No! Of course not, no time for that today. Plus, why would I miss a day to shine and totally kick your ass like old times?” She grinned as her heart rate began pacing at the normal speed. It wasn’t easy running across the school, from the main buildings at the front, then all the way to the athletic fields in the in the back; behind the dorms and the gymnasium big enough to hold over 10,000 people. Indeed, Musume Academy was an immense school. Sprinting like this, and not having any real athletic activity for almost a year, let alone being a lazy bum who doesn’t do any time of exercise at her own time- Maki was too out of shape to be doing such tasks. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the ten foot fence she had to climb.
I don’t get it, why is she grinning?Hitomi eyed the new arrival, contemplating if that sly-like grin was for mischief, or for plain rivalry. But there was no time to think, being as she was interrupted by her coaches whistle, signaling that they had to jog to the other side of the field to the track. She focused on the teacher again, listening to what had to be done. If she hadn’t understood Maki’s reasons for coming back, she did understand that it was time to start the various meter dashes, and that her friend should have never came back at all. This was too easy... well for her at least.
“Are you
kidding me?! I have to run again! Sh-” Interrupted by Hitomi’s hand grabbing her arm, the two girls sped down the field, following the already moving class. Well, it was more like watching one girl running in high speeds on purpose, and another girl being forced out of her will to their destination. It only looked that way because Maki’s head could have detached from her body the way she let it bobble as Hitomi pulled her.
“Yoshizawa, Hatsuki, Gotou, well done.” Maki looked just about done for as she lay on the soft earth beneath her. Hitomi laughed at the scene of her friend, out of breathe and beat red in the face as she stood leaning on over her knees.
Noticing that it was time to move on with the busy schedule, she began straightening herself up, then by force, pulled her dying companion up by the arm and led her across the field, again, to start the long jump test.
Wiping her nose that was covered in perspiration then continued between breaths, “Why? Why must they make us go back and forth!?” Maki’s whining took no affect, it didn’t matter how hard she tried to get out of Hitomi’s death grip; she could barely get herself to walk like a normal person, much less talk like one.
“Oh stop your complaining,” Hitomi slapped her across the back, making her emit a sound of pain, “you still managed to beat 19 other girls, making it to third. You’ll do fine.” This time, it was the other giving the grin for her pleasure of purposely torturing Maki.
Both the girls arrived behind the group and ignored their Coach explaining what to do. Instead, they had their own conversation, well more like Hitomi talked, and Gotou nodded while trying to stay a live.
Ignoring Maki rudely leaning on her, she continued her interrogation, “…where’d you go that you had to run so fast? You weren’t setting up a new prank… were you? Because you
know how much I hate those damn snakes from last time!”
Maki brushed her question away lazily, “No, no, not at all. I had to run to the main building real quick to-” She was cut off when she heard her name coming from the front.
“Gotou! Damn where is that girl?” Maki pushed herself off of Hitomi and looked up at her coach.
“Yes coach?” she tippy toed and answered back, hoping whatever this was, it wasn’t going to cause her misery.
“Get your ass up here; I’ve been looking for someone to give the class a real example of what a real standing long jump is supposed to be!”
Gotou looked wide eyed from the strip of sand and back to the coach, not prepared for the hell she as about to partake it. Letting her over dramatic side get a hold of her, she threw her hand onto Hitomi’s shoulder, “Yossui, if I don’t make it, I want you to keep my toy collection. Don’t throw those out, they were expensive.”
Knowing exactly what kind of
toys her sick friend was speaking of, she modeled a grotesque expression as her brain quickly scanned the images of the time she went out of her way to clean Maki’s side of the room. After that experience, she could have cared less if Maki started growing mold on her wall.
After hearing what she had a feeling of coming, she fell back and rolled her eyes to the back of her head, using the first tactic she could think of before going up. Only then for it to be ruined by her ‘best friend’. She peaked her eyes open as she was helped back on two feet and was patted by Hitomi.
Dammit, she knows what I’m trying to do. Wipe that stupid smile off! Hitomi gave her the final push and gave her a thumbs up.
“Yeah Maki, show me how it’s done!” Yossui screamed between to hands as Maki took the painful walk towards the front. The rest of the girls started to cheer for the unfolding show; this even attracted the attention of the classes near by as well. She really knew how to turn heads.
Gotou winced at what she heard. “Dammit! I knew it…” Finally reaching her coach, she turned from the crowd behind her and whispered into his ear, “Coach, come on, do I really have to? I don’t want to have to make a show, haha, you know me, never wanting to make a scene.” Not only was her laugh fake, so was her excuse. “Why doesn’t Yoshizawa do it? She’s as good and…”
“Nonsense, Gotou! You topped it last year, you’ll do it again, now get up there and show ‘em how it’s done with your 189! And hurry it up, you’re wasting time.” Lovely inspiration from her coach. Again, she received an over friendly smack on the back, which made her trip forward.
Staring at the narrow sand road before her, she looked down at her weak and overworked legs. Realizing that they started to tremble, it was definitely not a good choice to use her legs so much earlier.
Alright, all I have to do is jump this stupid thing, at least at my height. I can do that, right? Of course I can! I’ve done a length almost twice my height! You can do this, you can still do this, Maki.She looked back once more at the crowd forming around her test area. One of her peers was in such suspense; her mouth was left open and drooled on the girl she was standing over. She gave them a confident smile, hoping for the best in herself before turning back to the sand strip.
Come on, just 160 centimeters…… JUMP!…The cheers she hoped for never came. Slowly opening her eyes to first look at where she landed below, then at the crowd who looked dumbfounded. She searched for Yossui’s face who shook her head shamefully. Then she turned around and realized just how near she was from the starting point.
The coach quickly measured the distance, hoping his eyes were just deceiving him. “One… one hundred and two centimeters.” Gotou saw the shame in her coach’s face as he shook his head. “Yoshizawa! Get over here, and don’t give me a half assed one, I want a real jump.” He turned back at the failure, “Get over there, you failed. Tsk, didn’t even reach your height.”
Now it was time for Yossui’s turn to shine, time for her fans to get crazy. Some screaming and cheering was heard in the backround, even some stares from other classes. From the corner of her eye, she could see Maki practically collapsing onto her tush to rest.
“Pfft, show off.” To the left of Yossui’s class was the Box Dash Vault test. Probably one of the most dangerous vaults, but that didn’t matter to the school.
She heard the cheers from her neighboring class as she turned her attention back to stretching. “One hundred and ninety! That’s a new record, congratulations Yoshizawa!” Upon hearing this, she put on a mocking face and repeated the coach’s words with a sarcastic tone. She was disgusted at the news and praise.
Rika jumped when she felt a hand land on her shoulder, she immediately stopped her mocking, and turned around, ready to smack the person. It was a good thing she had fast reflexes- it was her coach.
“Ishikawa, I’ve been calling you, it’s your turn now. Are you ready?” Her coach was quite the opposite of Hitomi and Maki’s. He was more soft spoken and didn’t expect more than what was capable of.
Embarrassed that she might have been caught with a weird face and mocking someone, she replied softly, “Yes, I’m ready.”
“Good, you’ll be the last one if you can pull off thirteen, so do your best, okay?” And with that, he took his hand back and let her walk off to the starting point.
With a last crack at the neck, Rika poised herself to run. When the whistle blew, she dashed between the lines, and as if in synch, she threw her arms up and jumped with one leg. She then put her legs together while pushing herself off the horse. Touching the ground with one foot again, she ran past the end mark.
Immediately after catching her breath, she received cheers from her classmates. It was rare for her to hear this sound. She knew she was the athletic type, but she hadn’t heard such cheers since middle school. It was… refreshing.
“Yoshizawa Hitomi, oi! Are you there? Yossui, Yossssuuuiii?”
“Whoa! Huh, what?” Hitomi shook her head and cleared her thoughts. She was so entranced by the scene taking place at the other class. “Did you see that?”
Maki looked at the direction she was facing before interrupting her. All she saw was a group of girls surrounding the coach and another girl. “See what?” she questioned.
“N…Nothing. Let’s go, I think we have the next test to do.”
“Actually, class is about to end, it’s time to hit the showers. You ready?”
The two walked back together slowly, only because Hitomi still had something in her mind too distracting for her to walk any faster. But it wasn’t like Maki mind, her legs were killing her, and she was drained.
“Hey, Gotou likes them young, Gotou likes them old, Gotou likes them tall, she even likes them small. Gotou loves them all.” Maki tried proving her point that she didn’t always just go for the younger and innocent type. But it did her no good; she still received scoffs from some of the girls, and even laughs.
After spending too much time showering and changing back into uniform, Gotou had probably made Yossui late for her next class.
“Are you ready yet?” This time, it was Hitomi whining to Maki. Not only would this be her last late before she earned herself an hour’s worth of detention, but staying in the locker room full of moist hair was turning her hair into frizz.
“Yeah, yeah, let’s go.”
The two of them walked towards the exit, it would have been a silent walk before Hitomi started again.
“Okay, this is the last time I’ll ask you. Were you able to-”
“I told y- OH SHIT! Stay still until I tell you to move.” Maki quickly hid behind the taller, hoping to go unnoticed by a certain predator around the corner, quickly skipping her way towards their direction.
Hitomi, being the completely oblivious person she was, turned and ruined her hideout. “Huh? Oh…” She changed her tone from confused to comprehending as Takahashi neared and walked up to Maki, pinning her against the walls next to the lockers.
Backing up about three feet away, she watched her friend freeze by a single touch of Takahashi’s hand
Takahashi had the upper hand in this one, as she did with all the others. “Gotou-senpai, I can’t wait for our date tonight, can you? I’m really excited.” Her knee kept getting further and further up between Gotou’s quivering legs. A seductive smile was creased between her lips. From the close distance between their faces, it almost looked as if she was daring enough to kiss Maki. Especially when her face just kept getting closer and closer.
Maki, seeing this, immediately shut her eyes tight, waiting for the touch of the other’s poisonous lips.
Hitomi tried to contain herself as she stepped aside. The sight was almost too much for her. Seeing her over confident friend, whimper at the face of her destruction was something she didn’t see often. Though, she had a feeling that she wouldn’t be missing this view soon…
Holy crap, is she actually going to…kiss her…?Takahashi’s lips neared her face, and just when the foreseen climax was about to begin, she diverted Maki’s lips and neared her ear. “I hope you’ll enjoy.”
And with that, Takahashi was satisfied enough to take one last look at her date and smile. Afterwards, she happily skipped back where she came from, ignoring her crowd, Yoshizawa and the rest of the P.E. class that were late as well.
Gotou, still clawing at the wall from agony, waited a bit before speaking. “Is she gone yet?”
“Well, do you feel her hot breath over you?” Hitomi snorted a little, still trying to hold in her laughter.
Not answering back, She volunteered to peeked through one eye first, looking out for any signs of her devil, then opened both. When she realized her coast was clear, she released a sigh she had been holding.
Immediately, taking her shot at Gotou, Hitomi burst into laughter. She laughed so much, she had to lean over Maki’s shoulder, and in turn, she received her death glares. Maki, clearly pissed, picked Hitomi’s hand up like trash and threw it down.
“Haha, laugh now, but we all know you’re only jealous that I get the girls.”
“Yeah, the crazy ones!” As soon as her laugh started to subside, she cleared her throat and started again, “Well, looks like you failed another favor again.”
Ready to turn around now, Maki had stopped Hitomi, “Ah yeah, here you go.” She smacked the file full of papers onto Hitomi’s stomach, knocking the wind out of her.
“Huh,” confused at first, and then looking at its contents, “GEEZ, I told you to get me a picture, not her whole life story!
A response was not made for Maki was already halfway down the hallway, walking coolly as she left her friend intentionally stunned. As she walked on down, she lazily waved back to her without turning around, she knew she’d be thanked later. Whether it was from her, or Miki.
DAMN. I just realized this probably counts as another filler. does it? Yeah, it probably is. damn, sorry about that.
Well, wait. If you think about it, you do learn more about the characters, and some of their athletic ability comes into play in the soon chapters (during/soon after dates). There’s also insight on Rika, and feature stuff dealing with her athletics. Not only that, but you get more fuel for predictions. So that helps... =____=
I guess I at least owe you a preview of the next chapter (for being so lame):
Back to Rika and Miki. But more over, mostly Miki, then more of her pissing Rika off.
I'll try to have this by the end of the weekend or mid week. Depending on how long I will make it- since it will be the last scene before the REAL stuff- and how I choose to spend my free time again ^_^;-Owaranai_sLaVe
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