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[kat8cha]

Dedicated to some of my loveys. I assume you can figure out who you are.

“Ow!” Marui stumbled into the wall, rubbing his arm and glaring balefully at the much bigger boy.

“Go away. I don’t have time to mess with you.” The bully cracked his knuckles, grinning stupidly as his cohorts chuckled in a way that Marui figured they meant to be menacing but only came off as being retarded. Still, the odds were four to one and Marui was a girly little kid. He had some muscles but they were tennis playing muscles, plus it would be a bad idea to injure his playing hand attempting to beat the bullies up.

 

“Yeah, yeah, just stand still and take it girly.” Marui bristled. It wasn’t his fault he had pink hair and big eyes! Marui was a genius, not a girl.

 

“Yo! Buuuuunta! Where are you?” Niou’s voice was sing-songing from around the corner. Marui couldn’t have Niou see him like this! It’d be bad for his image! And if Niou was there Yagyuu probably was too, and Yagyuu’s image of Marui would be ruined. Yagyuu was supposed to idolize Marui after all.

 

Stepping up to the bully Marui pulled back his leg and kicked the other between his legs hard.

 

“Ah!” The bullies eyes went wide and he collapsed to his knees, his eyes filling with tears and a loud wail ripping through the school yard.

 

Uh oh. Marui thought as a teacher rounded the corner right behind Niou and Yagyuu. His mother was not going to like this.

 

Marui’s mother had not liked it. In fact she had grounded him for a week, sent him to bed without dinner, and hid all the cookies in the house. This meant Marui moped around his room for three days reading his Lord of the Racket’s manga. By the end of three days Marui’s mother was going crazy from all three of her children spending their time at home and so sent Bunta out to spend time at Yagyuu’s apartment.

 

Niou was there, and he was sporting a bandaid across his cheek and a few on his hands. “What happened to you?” Marui popped a bubble as he flopped down next to Yagyuu. He took the control from Yagyuu when the other handed it over. Yagyuu had the best video games, but he sucked at them. Poor Yagyuu had probably spent all of Marui’s grounding playing them with Niou, which meant he’d gotten his ass handed to him for three days straight.

 

“He got into a fight.” Yagyuu’s voice was disapproving and he went to fetch Marui a glass of milk.

 

“Yeah, yeah.” Niou grinned, stealing a stick of strawberry gum out of Marui’s pocket. “Hey, you run into those guys who were picking on you lately?”

 

“No.” Marui scowled, hitting a combo command and knocking Niou’s character out of the game. “And I don’t want to. And they weren’t picking on me!”

 

“Sure, sure.” Niou chewed the gum loudly, earning himself a kick in the side when Yagyuu made his way back to Marui with the milk. “Whatever. If you want me to beat them up for you I can.”

 

“I can handle it myself.” Marui grumped, setting the milk aside. Yagyuu’s mom never had anything good like Ponta, and she seemed to think milk went with everything. Milk and gum just did not mix.

 

“Of course you can Marui-kun.” Yagyuu’s voice was calm and Marui relaxed a bit more as he kept kicking Niou’s ass at the game.

 

The next day Marui did run into the guys before class. The minute they saw him they all scattered, making for their classrooms. Grinning Marui puffed out his chest and strutted to his homeroom. He was such a genius, kicking the leader had obviously made them all afraid of him.

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The lesson of the story? Get someone mean and badass to fight for you. ^_^