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Colliding SYmphonies teaser

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A highschool girl of slender build was lloking at a photowallet she held in one
hand. Her gait was very long, almost a run, but somewhat clumsy, showing how
tired she was. The picture was of a young man with his back half-turned in th
image. He was wearing a mangled whit gi and a short headband, in his eyes showed
a kind of calmness. She regarded the picture with a quiet intensity as she made
her way home from school.

The sun was dashing between puffy clouds as the district's business had begun to
pick up. The girl, wearing a new style blue and white fuku, slowly replaced the
picture in her over the shoulder satchel. (I wonder where he is now?) She ran
her hand through her short brown hair, scratching the back of her hair as she
went. WInter's trail was beginnning to thin in place of March's sun rays. (I
wish I lived closer to the school. I can't even take a bus.) After a bit of
walking, she sat down on a bench. (Well, she's late again,) she thought with a
smile.

She began to pull off her slip on shoes from school and began to tie up some
Converse Chuks when a girls voice caught her attention. "Saaaaa-kura!" She
looked up to see another rather slender girl with long black hair running up to
her. As she reached her, she knelt over breathing heavily from what looked like
quite a run. "Hehe! Gomen Osokunarimashita!"

"Don't worry about it, Meiko. C'mon. I wanna get Kyoshi and go home."

"Whats the matter? Fail another math test?" Meiko asked, smothing her fuku
skirt. "C'mon it can't be that bad."

"The captain of the wrestling team called me out. I'm surprised you hadn't heard
already."

"He did what!?" Meiko grabbed Sakura's arm before she crossed the street corner.
"Well what did you do?"

"I laid him out with my strangle, of course. He was really mad so it wasn't much
fun, though."

"Fights aren't supposed to be, Sakura. They're for when you hurt people."

Sakura waved her hand. "Yeah yeah. Anyways, the gym teacher caught us."

"Oh no!"

"Uh huh. I'm probably going to get kicked out and have to go to another school."

Meiko looked down even as Sakura began to cross the corner. After a moment, she
ran the crosswalk to catch up with her again. "So, whatcha gonna do?"

"Tell mom and dad. It's not like I can really hide it from them." Sakura began
to shadow box a bit, causing the path of oncoming pedestrians to descretely
clear the path. Meiko blushed and receded from Sakura's side.

"Could you not do that here?" she whispered harshly. "And we're here."  She
pointed at the junior highschool over to their left, where students seemed to be
dispersing rapidly. Sakura stopped her jabs and leaned against the side wall,
when Meiko noticed the bad tear in Sakura's fuku sleeve. "Did he do that to
you?"

She looked puzzled, but then realised what she was talking about and fingered
the hole in her left side. "Uh-huh. He ain't the captain for nuthin, he slapped
some kinda abdominal stretch on me before I realised what he was doin. I had to
rip my clothes to free myself and strangle him."

"The imfamous 'Sakura Strangle Sleeper,' perfected by Sakura Nagasaki. The dread
of the Sukeban Deka wannabe's everywhere!" Meiko declared triumphantly,
attracting attention of the student body departing.

"Stop!!" Sakura said, holding back a giggle, when she noticed a young boy
running at them from the entrance quite steadily. "Here comes Kyoshi." she
pointed out with a giggle. He was barely over a year younger than her and was in
the 9nth grade at junior high, while she was in her freshman year at highschool.

"SAKURAAA!" He grabbed her hand as he zoomed by, causing Sakura to pick up the
running pace with him. "I hate it whne you embarrassment me like  that! EVen
when you wait outside! Can't you just stand there and wait?"

Sakura grew a bit angry and napped her wrist, causing Kyoshi to let go and
stumble forward. "So what do you care? All your little friends? Afraid they'll
learn your sister practises Shotokan and Judo? Your big bad sister is gonna bail
you out?"

He picked himself up. "No you baka! If they see you a fighter they're gonna
decide that I'm a fighter too! AND I"M NOT!"

Sakura leaned against a lamp post. "Maybe we should do something about that. . "

"I don't wanna be a fighter, but I don't you adding to the problem! I heard you
got into ANOTHER FIGHT!" Sakura turned red. "You can't keep goin like this!"

"I know."

"And another thi- whaddaya mean you know? What happened?"

"I'm probably going to get expelled for this one." Kyoshi grumbled and held his
head. "Well at least the year is almost over for me. The test isn't too far
away. . ."

"Aw don't sweat it too bad kyoshi. I mean, with dad's job and all we're probably
still gonna move to Tokyo."

"I just hope it isn't before I take the test. I don't wanna have to qualify for
Tokyo schools. That'd be murder, yeesh."

"And I hope you're happy. We lost Meiko."

"Oh well," he answered sarcastically as he continued towards the suburbs. Sakura
did her best to growl, but her voice was high and it souded like a scratched
record. She shrugged and began to follow her 'little brother' home.

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Later that week, Sakura was called to the office with her parents during a lunch
where her frequent fights were a topic of great concern for the faculty. Sakura,
being almost without injury ever time, had little claim for self defense,
especially when she 'played' with members of the judo team. Sakura through most
of the meeting sat with her head hanging. (Can't they understand? I'm not
looking for trouble. . .)

A week later, Kyoshi took the test and made it to upper-middle level.

That evening, their father announced his business moving him to Tokyo, even
providing a house for them.

In Nerima.

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