[AQ] Reader Beware There's Something (Shun/Yukiya/Ji-Yoo)

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{Reader Beware}
Reader Beware, You're In For A Scare
+ Description: As new students roll into the school, the upperclassmen begin challenging both their peers and underclassmen to a Test of Courage! The punishment for failing or refusing are unpleasing... The Test of Courage requires that a student sneak into the library after school hours, late at night and spend the night! Few have been successful, saying they were spooked by ghostly flying orbs that attacked them....

+ Gather a group of friends and tackle the challenge: +2 Guardians, -3 Roost

+ Investigate the 'flying orbs': -1 Guardians, +2 Faberge, +1 Roost

+ Tackle the challenge yourself: -2 Guardians, +3 Roost

+ Tattle and get someone in trouble : -3 Guardians, +1 Faberge, -1 Roost

+ Chicken out: +1 Guardians, -2 Faberge, +1 Roost

+ Stand up to the upperclassmen: -2 Faberge, +3 Roost

+ Ignore the upperclassmen and suffer their wrath face on: +3 Guardians, -2 Faberge

+ Requirements: Must be Level 1, Tag for X-mod if investigating the flying orbs

+ Submitted by Kingmochi

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Oh what do. If there is a thing that he seems to always be a victim of, it's being pushed to do things like this. Almost everyone knew how much of a scaredy cat slash easy target he is. And being a relatively new student at Seiyo means that he's going to have some attention on him for a while. And surely enough, the upperclassmen, don't know if it's from the last scare off, challenged him to another one of those Tests of Courage. Gods above, they know that he will fail any test of courage very easily, so if it's for cheap laughs, they really should do better than that.

He tried saying no, but fearing whatever they had in store, he tried to talk to the two people he called his friends about this. Before he actually has to attempt another crap like this. He texted Yuki first, saying that he has no choice but to attempt the challenge and that he's sneaking into the library after hours. But what the hell, he's not even inside yet. Then he texted Ji Yoo, about the same thing, but with different words cause maybe she'll just ignore it if he didn't sound like he's about to die or something.

Yukiya Ji Yoo

[Ji Yoo]

Everything about that day had been going rather smoothly until that weird text from Shun came. She usually ignored most of his attempts to strike up a conversation or meet up, but this time it seemed like he had put a considerable amount of effort in the way he formulated his sentences. There were no grammatical errors and no misspelled words, so she decided to give him a reward and show up. She wasn’t too worried about the actual content, which was something like “I’m being attacked by a gang of bandits who want to kill me. Please help.” He was probably joking anyway.

So, after classes, Ji-Yoo headed towards the library, where Shun said he’d be waiting. To the first year’s surprise, he wasn’t alone. Surrounded by a bunch of upperclassmen, Shun was standing there, about to get into the library, obviously forced by those sempais. Maybe they too noticed that he wasn’t the most literate person and were trying to do him a favor. “Hey, what’s going on here?’ She asked anyway.

[Yukiya]

"...you can't back out of a challenge?" Yuki muttered to himself as he got Shun's text. Was this Shun or was this chara-changed Shun? ...oh wait, it was his personal guardian character that would not back out of challenges. Either way, Yukiya ran over to the library to hopefully pull him out of that mess. But it looked like Ji-Yoo came before him, so at least he had back up.

Wait, there were third years involved? "Okay, okay. I got this," Yuki said, getting in front of the other two and facing the upperclassmen. "Gentlemen, I'm sure you know that you can't just pick people at random to challenge to these things. I know it's summer and all, but look at this face. He's like a puppy. Do you challenge puppies to jump scare them? Nah. You look at at them, and go 'aww', and pet them. So if you could just let him go, we can all have a good time, oh and - you know, I work for Faberge so I could get you guys to any Faberge show you want if you just..."

One of the upperclassmen, a tall one, possibly half-foreigner, glared at him and Yuki promptly shut up. So much for helping Shun.

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"Heeeelp they caught me!" Shun is about ready to just cry or something. He's been in this situation before and he wished that they would stop picking on him like this. He was dragged to the library by the third years and he's just praying that they don't go through with this. He wanted to run to the others and hide behind them as soon as they showed up, but a third year put his hand on Shun's shoulder as if trying to restrain him from moving. This is bad. This is very very bad. What would they do to Yuki and Ji Yoo if they get mixed up in this? It's too late now. He called for help, as usual, and help came.

Yuki has a point, though. He wouldn't ever hurt anyone in such a way, why are they trying to beat puppies to the ground? Do they do that as well? Such horrible human beings. "I just want to go back to the dorms if that's alright..?" But the third year glared at him and he just squeaked in terror. No way he wants to say anything anymore. He'll leave it up to Yuki and Ji Yoo. "I said no but you guys won't let me go! I thought saying 'no' is all it took." That's what Demi said, anyway. But he didn't take into account how these people can just force him with a threat to make him come here. "They'd find me and kick me around and throw my stuff into a pond if I don't." One of the other third years glared at him to shut up again and he just sobbed. Why does it have to be like this?

One of them was pretty pissed off when Shun started to hang around his girlfriend, apparently. It was nothing to Shun because she was conflicted about something and he gave her some fashion advice. The girl loved the results and asked if he could tell her more. Shun of course, doesn't understand the complications of dealing with these types of people so he just dug a deeper hole for himself in the infamous department.

[Ji Yoo]

The picture didn’t look good. Shun had been partially right in his message, these were some kind of gangsters. School bullies, to be exact and Ji-Yoo hated them. They were the kind of people who caused harm to those weaker than them only to make themselves look strong. The way Yuki went about it wasn’t too effective and that was to be expected. These guys can’t possibly be fooled by someone who approaches them with kindness.

Again, Ji-Yoo wasn’t too keen on getting into trouble with upperclassmen, she just hoped that they’d cut her some slack because she was a girl. Besides, guys don’t hit girls, right?

Thus, she approached the one who seemed like their “boss”. The same half-foreigner and the one whose girlfriend Shun had allegedly “stolen”, a tall third year by the name of Kagami Ouji who didn’t exactly look like a bully but more like a resident flirt, a few levels higher than Yuki. He maybe had one too many girlfriends, giving his outstanding looks, but he was jealous enough to make life unbearable for the guy who was seen hanging around even one of them. A true harem owner.

Ji-Yoo cleaned her throat to make her presence known. “Sempai, let this person go. He’s part of my club, so if you want to bully him, you’ll have to get permission.” Her voice didn’t tremble, good, but the way he was looking at her started giving her the creeps. “Alright, Oujo-chan, will you give me the permission then?” The third year was watching her with the eyes of a predator. “Or perhaps, would you like to join me so we can bully him together?”

[Yukiya]

Thank god for Ji-Yoo. Yuki recovered from this group of thugs and let Ji-Yoo take care of it while Shun and him just huddled together in fear. It was nice to not be on the receiving end of her scary side for once.

"Sh-Shun," he whispered, "I don't know what you did, but never do it again."

He was shaking, and it got worse when the third year asked for permission to bully Shun. Somehow he found himself trying to cover Shun. "N-Nah man. You gotta go through me if you want him. Also, Ji-Yoo, how could you? Aren't we your buddies? Your best pals?" Okay, so Yuki hadn't been the greatest friend to Ji-Yoo ever, but he was her friend...right? Right?

"Kagami, save the scaring for the library, won'tcha?" asked another senpai named Oda Shinji. He was shorter, but more muscular and for some reason wore shades indoors. "Although these guys look like they're gonna piss their pants already."

The group of senpai laughed together. Once again Yuki was stuck in a situation where he just wanted to run away and hide. Why the hell was this day off again?

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"Maybe you guys should just stop?" Is that not an option? Then he could just go back to doing whatever he did peacefully. "What did I do to deserve this..." Shun isn't happy about the situation, but the fact that the senpai decided it would be a good idea to ask Ji Yoo to gang up on him is making him twitch with anger. Just a little. His encounter with Demi had taught him that being angry is alright, and he's blown up in more than one occasion already, so how is THIS any different? Well, between the irrational fear of being mauled to death if he opens his mouth and really saying what's on his mind, it just doesn't mix. And he just doesn't have a default angry face.

"Whaddaya mean what I did?? I didn't do anything!" Shun pouted at Yuki who is assuming he did something wrong again. "I've never even seen or had anything to do with these guys! Sure I'm easy to scare, but they really didn't have to do this." He's trying desperately not to cry again. Anger and sadness is just overwhelming at times like these, but he doesn't want to be the butt of the joke nor the one people call weak.

"Piss my pants? I'm sorry, I don't feel the need to go to the toilet yet." Well, knowing Shun, he'll reply to anything that might sound strange to him. Randomly as well. He didn't really mean anything by it. But some people have been known to take anything as a challenge. "It's not possible to just...You know? Let me go?" But the glares just say 'no'. Over and over again. "Like what even did I do wrong?" Where is Leo at a time like this? He could character change to deal with this, but the guardian character isn't even with him at the moment. According to his daily schedule, he should be out for a stroll or something. A flight. Whatever.

[Ji Yoo]

“Shut up!” Ji-Yoo yelled at Yuki. He was interrupting her attempt to deal with the disgusting womanizer that was Kagami. And besides, it wasn’t like she’d accept his offer and abandon them, she wasn’t that bad. The girl thought that Yuki would at least trust her that much. No matter how she looked at it, the recent events just made her view him more and more negatively.

At hearing the other senpai mock the two boys, Ji-Yoo gritted her teeth. She could laugh at them and ridicule them because they acted like little scaredy-cats, but when somebody else did the same thing, it didn’t feel right. So Ji-Yoo got all defensive. “I believe I said that you need permission to bully them. And you aren’t going to get it, so tell your goons to go away.” She sneered at Kagami.

At Ji-Yoo’s words, everyone burst into laughing. “Look at that fierce little girl right there! I don’t think you can handle her, Kagami!” Their tone was mocking, which angered Ji-Yoo even more. Kagami, after a delightful portion of laugh, signaled the other seniors to drag the boys into the library while he deals with Ji-Yoo. “You aren’t going anywhere until you let them go!” Dang, this was bad. She didn’t know whether these guys were going to beat them to death or lock them inside the library but both options seemed equally bad. If only she were taller and fiercer, perhaps they wouldn’t be looking down on her like that.

“Oh, don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.” The senior reassured her, his expression apparently changing to a softer one, although Ji-Yoo could still feel his mocking tone. “That’s what I keep those guys around for…” He briefly pointed to the now firmly shut door of the library. “…so that I don’t have to get my hands dirty.” A malicious smirk replaced his earlier smile. Now this was scary. “But you know what this means? That you also aren’t getting away anytime soon, oujo-chan.” Crap! Was she really witnessing this? What was this guy going to do to her?

[Yukiya]

"O-Oh, sorry," Yuki replied. Still he couldn't help think that Shun had done something but just wasn't aware of it.

After listening to Ji-Yoo stand up to the bullies, he thought Ji-Yoo was super brave. Their savior. Okay, he knew she wanted to get out of this as much as everyone else, but he couldn't help but be impressed. Too bad these bullies didn't think so. Now that he was assured of Ji-Yoo's allegiance to them, he got up - slowly, and with his legs still shaking - and tried to get them away from Ji-Yoo.

"Y-You guys don't attack her! Whatever you were gonna do to Shun or Ji-Yoo, d-d-do it to me instead!"

It was pathetic, but Yuki had to do something to protect these guys.

"Oh look, a volunteer," Oda said, laughing, "Here's an idea. Let's get all three of them in there at once. It'll be like putting rats in a maze. And we'll get a few laughs from it."

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"Wait! Please don't do that! I was the one who called them up!" Oh great, the waterworks returned. "Please just let them all go. I'll do it by myself. I really didn't mean to drag them into this!" As the senpais laugh at this display of crybaby act, the door behind them went shut. They're now separated from Ji Yoo. This is bad. Oh gods, now he really wishes that Leo is around, cause at least, he wouldn't be this scared.

He messed up again. His friends are in trouble AGAIN. And it's all his fault. They must be really tired of him right now. In his mind, he thought that they are also laughing with the senpais. "Okay, all you want me to do is spend the night here by myself, right? I can do that. Just let them go." Now he's in a panic. "That's the challenge, right? If you want a good laugh, I'm your man." Though, can he really be called 'the man'? He's more like a boy. A scared little boy. "Don't hurt them..."

At this point, he just fell into a sitting position on the floor and sobbed his eyes out as the upperclassmen continued to have a good time bullying him. He didn't want Yuki or Ji Yoo to get hurt, yet he called them here. Why did he do that? Just why?

[Ji Yoo]

Ji-Yoo couldn’t help but feel that both of these two guys were incredibly useless. Sure, they had good intentions, but those could seldom salve your life, especially in a situation like this one. Ji-Yoo liked to put on a tough front, but she was still a girl… and very much creeped out by this Kagami guy. She was scared enough to wish that someone would show up and save her. A student, a teacher, someone, anyone, it didn’t matter whom.

And most of all… she didn’t like to be ridiculed. And that was exactly what those guys were doing, but for the sake of her pride and the safety of her frie.. I mean, those two, she had to be strong. Meanwhile, Kagami kept on looking at her like a very hungry wolf at his prey. In all honesty, he liked girls… maybe a bit too much. He liked to play with them, eat them up and then leave them and mess them up. Ji-Yoo would be just one of his victims.

But she didn’t seem to fall for his charms. Not for his handsome face, not for his tough front. It was difficult, but if he had to use those two guys to get her, he wouldn’t back down.

Ji-Yoo just stood still in front of him, afraid to say anything more, but upon him trying to touch her face, she snapped. “Just what the hell do you want?”

Gee, this girl was just too damn cute. Ouji laughed, his hungry eyes landing somewhere on her chest… albeit inexistent. “ What do I want? I want… a date with you.”

Was this guy serious? She’d never go on a date with him if her life depended on it. But it wasn’t JUST her life that depended on it. It was theirs too. Ji-Yoo was at a loss. She didn’t want to deal with any of this… she should have just ignored Shun’s text.

[Yukiya]

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! A date?" he asked. For some reason just the thought of a forced date stifled his fears, although his nerves were still on high gear. He slowly straightened up. Thankfully Ouji was too concentrated on Ji-Yoo and...oh god, just everything about this was just wrong. He balled his fist. What was it? Maybe just...a weird brotherly instinct? He knew that if Suna was in this situation he'd probably - well, honestly he'd probably would've been more proactive about all this even if he was so scared he'd piss his pants. Maybe this was his chance to make it up for being scaredy cats with Shun.

"Do you have a problem with that?" Oda said, "He can get any girl he wants. But stubborn ones are the best."

Oh god. This wasn't even the ringleader and he was freaking out.

"Shun...Shun don't cry, man. We have to save Ji-Yoo. Be strong!" he whispered, although of course he was still nervous. "H-Hey man. That's not cool. L-Let her go. She's not interested!"

"Shut up."

And Yuki got kneed in the stomach, but he had a feeling that Ouji's henchman meant to hit a little lower. He groaned in pain. But there wasn't any way he could let Ji-Yoo go to that bastard, could he...?