"Thinking back, my third year in middle school is when I met Takemichi. I was friends with Hinata Tachibana after my brother died, his girlfriend. I never talked to him much, I was very shy back then." Yúshiro thinks to herself as her vision starts to come back.
She sees some gravel under her feet, then looks up to see herself in a playground, just sitting on a bench. She blinks her eyes a couple of times and feels glasses on her nose and a book in her hands. She looks down a sees a sketch of the scenery in front of her.
"Huh? This place looks familiar." Yúshiro thinks, then looks around again. It looks like it was noon from the sun's position, and she sees a public bathroom. She drops some of her things on the bench and jogs into the restroom.
She looks at herself in the mirror, and widens her eyes in shock. "NANI?! What happened to my hair?!" She thinks to herself as she takes a red beanie off her head and moves her head around to look at herself. "Wait, I actually look really good. But, what year is it?" Yúshiro pulls out a wallet and a flip phone.
She opens the phone and sees a picture of her and Hinata, smiling in the camera. She looks at the time and date, July 4th, 2005. "12 years ago?! What happened to me?!" Yúshiro finally takes in her past appearance.
Her dirty brown hair is the same, but with her bangs and back hair dyed a dark blue, long enough to be in a little high ponytail, her bangs barely covering her right eye to show her grayish purple and grayish baby blue eyes with a scar above her right eye, on the temple. She touches the scar lightly, then spins herself around to look at her clothes. A dark bluish purple patterned shirt with the skirt the same pattern and color, gray stockings and some black boots. Some accessories was a black watch on her right wrist and the necklace her brother gave her.
She goes back outside and sees everyone gone, but there was a group of boys just standing around, and one with glasses playing with the gravel with a stick. She walks to the bench she left her stuff at, and takes her glasses off and puts them in a case from her backpack.
"I guess this is before I met Takemichi. His number isn't anywhere on my phone, where is he anyway?" A memory flashes in her mind of seconds of the group of boys approaching her, getting beat up, and her helping them all up. "That is how I met him."
She feels a presence behind her, and was ready to punch the poor boy with pink hair. But the thing is, he wasn't even behind her yet, he was making his way, but wasn't there yet. It was like Yúshiro could see or feel what was gonna happen seconds before it did.
"Huh? What's with that?" The boy asks. Yúshiro puts her hand down, then bows her head a bit. "I'm sorry, I thought I was gonna be attacked."
"Don't sweat it! Have you seen any second years?" The boy asks, making her shake her head. "Really? Guess they really were scared of us, huh?!" He calls out to his friends as they laugh. They all start to approach the brunette and the boy.
"What's your name? You're tall for a girl." A boy with slicked black hair comments. Yúshiro remembers that she is taller for a girl, maybe 6'0, and these group of boys that will become her friends soon, always looked up to her, literally and idolizing.
Yúshiro smiles at the thought, "My name is Fiyuu Yúshiro, call me Yú-chan." She greets, then another deep voice was heard.
"Hey!" The group looks over to see a group of third-years with some having cigarettes in their mouth. "Are you the little shits looking for our second-years?" All the boys start to sweat drop as Yúshiro stands in front of them. "Our second-years are on a school trip."
"These are the guys from that biker gang. I remember now." Yúshiro thinks.
"We're gonna bash your faces in one by one, so line up." Another guys orders as the boy with glasses stampers. "Uh, you guys are third-years right-"
"I'm very sorry about my friends. They didn't know what they were doing, please forgive them." Yúshiro states and bows down 90 degrees with her hands to her chest.
"We already talked to your boss, Masaru-kun." The glasses boy says with a slight smirk, making Yúshiro have an irk mark on her forehead.
"Urusai!"
"Marsaru?" The leader says with an arched brow. Then another one laughs at the second-years. "Hey, Marsaru!"
"Yeah? You don't need to yell, I can hear you." A timid boy with freckles says.
"Go buy us all drinks, Marsaru!" The same guys orders.
"Uh, sure. . ."
The pink haired boy grabs the back collar of Yúshiro's shirt, yanking her up from bowing and behind him. "I tried to stop what happens next, but. . ."
Two guys come from behind Yúshiro and grab her from the arms and waist as the boys start to get beaten up. "H-Hey! Let me down-" She was punched in the stomach, hard, making her mouth bleed out a bit. "Okay, now I'm pissed."
Yúshiro get's punched in the chin, then to her side. That's her weak spot, where a scar is planted by a knife. She gags in pain with blood splattering out, the boy who hit her there starts to smile menacingly.
"Hey, that your weak spot, eh?!" He starts to repeatedly hit that same spot, making Yúshiro more hurt by the second. The boy stops for a second, then lifts her face by pinching her cheeks. "You done yet?" She asks in a mocking tone.
What she did next was a shocker. She lifts her right leg, and kicks the boy in front of her in the chin, making him stumble back. Then she takes that same leg and kicks one of the guys behind her between his legs. He yells in pain and lets her go, giving her a chance to elbow the other guy in the face. The three were knocked out in under ten seconds. The other boys look at her, stopping their pounding on her friends, then start to approach her.
"Oi oi oi! Who do you think you are!?" The leader shouts in her face. She stares blankly at the delinquents surrounding her in a circle.
A boy runs at her from behind and tries to grab her head, but she dodges and turns around. He tries to hit her again but she dodges once again, he tries to hit, she dodges again. She backs up one step while she ducks a kick, moves a fist, blocks with her forearm, and she finally catches his ankle, then uppercuts him on the jaw, making him bit his tongue, enough for it to bleed.
"Ow! Damn it!" He shouts in pain, then staggers away. She plants her feet firmly to the ground, and her eyes start to glow a red hue, as her eye color changes to that same red. "Scram. . ." She says in a warning tone.
"W-Whatever! Let's go guys." The leader says with a glare, angry his men got taken down by a second. "Once we see you again, we won't hold back." The leader states, then bumps shoulders with her, trying to show dominance. Her eye color turns back to her normal heterochromia eyes.
She sighs a shaky breathe, then walks towards the beaten up boys. She helps them all up, then brings them to where her stuff are. She searches in her backpack, and conveniently found a first-aid kit.
"A-Ano, Yú-chan." Yúshiro looks back to see a blonde boy with blue eyes, looking a bit nervous. "We're all really sorry for putting you in danger. You probably didn't want to cause any trouble." The timid blonde stutters out, rubbing the back of his head.
"Takemichi." Yú-chan thought. "Ahh, it's okay. That's what friends do right?" She says, then starts to tend to her friend's wounds. "At least, if you guys want to be." She shyly said. The boys looked shocked to say the least.
