BLEACHed

Author's Note: For those of you on-guard for fan fiction on this site, this is not. It's called "Bleached", not "BLEACH", and has nothing whatsoever to do with that plotline. Sorry to break your hearts. I probably would've called it Bleach if not for that darn manga. The original title was "High Voltage," but it didn't make sense with the story...but anyhow... This is my third yakuza fic- well fourth including "The Yokada", which I will admit myself was a disaster in words. I good intentions and good ideas... however, not good enough to save it from literary hell. Now that I have bashed myself on that, don't go and bash it if you haven't read it. Anyhow, this was written way back in September 2004 and I haven't abridged it since. I probably should, but I don't plan to. I wrote it with intent to post right when I did, but I didn't. I wrote this during a time in my writing experience that everyone had to have a back story. And at a time that I wrote scripts in novel format. So, I changed the tense and grammar. This is just one of the monstrous updates I've made....will be making. Enjoy! Oh yeah- I should add that it's the only fic I've posted that's T. Woohoo! Yin was somewhat clean!

BLEACHed

A girl walks through the halls of a co-ed Catholic school. Her hair is white blonde, jaw length with tossed spikes and blunt bangs. Her eyes were wide but somewhat squared adding a hint of bette-noir to her face. She was dressed in an altered style of her school's approved uniform; her pleated mini-skirt fit her tightly- she wore a chain belt and it had a high slit on one side. She wore an open blue blazer that showed her fitting white shirt, and her necktie was tied around her hand. Hot pink black and blue striped socks poked out three inches above her leather boots. Her book bag read "Kill Bill" depicting the scene in which Beatrix killed O-Ren and Go-Go. She performed tricks with her yo-yo as she whimsically walked to class, taking her sweet time. As she walked, people walked away from her, forming a path for her. The bell rang just as she opened the door to her class and slipped in her seat.

"Ms. Otougawa," her teacher started ,"Another tardy and dress violation."

"Good morning . Nice to see you as well," she started back, opening her book.

gave her a slight glare as he walked towards the black board and began the lesson.

was a very intuitive man. He had been Kuzume's teacher since she was fourteen years old. He somehow knew she would turn out to be a lone rebel and she had. He was probably one of her best teachers, and despite the way he spoke of her was very fond of her. She had so much potential, yet she used it on other things...

briing...

Lunchtime.

After about two hours of droning class, it was finally time to take a much deserved break. She sat outside on the amphitheater steps and opened her bento. Just as she began eating she saw Ayako, Hirumi and Kumiko sitting next to her. She closed her eyes and held her upset, annoyed sigh in the best as she could as she let her noodles slip from her chopsticks.

"Hello," they said in unison, waving though they sat only an inch from her.

Kuzume let out a slightly exasperated sigh.

"Hello," she replied, monotonous.

Those three girls- known as the butterfly triad were the three snob socialites she protected from the many wannabe gangs on campus.

The a young man approached. The infamous, handsome Naruto Kobayashi. Five other guys stood behind him. He wore a green, blue black and argyle short sleeved sweater overlapping a collared optical print silk shirt, black slacks and gloves, his spikes gelled to mainly one side. He had cold but mysterious green eyes.

Kuzume immediately stood up.

"What's up?" she asked coolly, standing almost in his face.

"You know why I come to you- why I always come to you."

Kuzume laughed in his face coldly.

"No Naruto. I must deny you yet again. I will not be your evil queen," she retorted smartly.

"Good one, but I've gotten over you. I am here to settle the score between you and I."

"What's the anty?" she asked, raising an eyebrow with a smile.

"Honor, control, fame- not to mention getting me out of your hair. But if I win, you will have to resign from playing both sides."

"Okay," she said, hardly having listened to what would happen if she lost.

The crowd scattered on its own, almost in slow motion as Kuzume and Naruto walked the battle circle.

Naruto attacked first...

He threw a high kick- she dodged and went underneath him, tangling him crotch-to-head in the metal wire of her yo-yo; across diagonally in six quick moves before she was on her feet. As she stood, she pulled.

"Why should I actually fight you-" she pulled harder, forcing him to slide closer ," when I already have you ensnared?"

His muscles seemed to enlarge as she pushed against the force of the tetsuken wire and kicked it down- as it flew back it hit and seemed to rip the ground as it went back to her yo-yo.

"I'm not anymore."

She threw a high kick to his head twice, and he blocked with both hands pathetically protecting that one side of his head. She did a dragon kick to the unprotected side of his head. He took it, but dodged her second coming kick- a full force twisting side kick and a yo-yo attack. He dodged under the yo-yo but tiny. razor thin pieces of his hair fell to the ground, cut by her weapon.

That was all it took...

He did a right hook. She was hit by it but spun in one piece, landed and twirled her yo-yo in quick circles and attempted to hit him with the yo-yo base He twisted around her arm and pulled her in, then gradually seemed to snap through her.

"FIGHT IN THE OUTER COMMONS!” a male student screamed and the others ran over, jumped over tables and vending machines- to get to the fight.

He threw a backwards leopard kick. She dodged and did a double kick to his stomach and he flew back against the wall, but he kept fighting. She lashed out with her toy-weapon, and for every time she did he ducked it. She managed to hit him with it once across his face- she then did the wire in a wide circle around. He dodged it in the same motion and attempted to disarm her but was cut. She backward scissor kicked him, then did a forward air-roll kick, her body together in one quick, split-second movement. He threw a punch. She grabbed his arm and kicked him in the back of the head. On the second kick he blocked. She twirled her yo-yo around his neck and took him down. He got up and kicked her backwards once, then punched but again, she ducked and spinning her yo-yo around her ankle sweep kicked him. He jumped them all. She hit him hard with a back kick and in the same move twisted to face him, her heel in the groove of his shoulder, him coming to his knees with her yo-yo suddenly around his neck.

"Your fighting skills are weak, yet you think you can match me." She paused to laugh deeply "Pathetic. Get away from me."

He wiped the blood from his mouth with his scarf. He angrily motioned for them to attack. Her back stayed turned as they came at her. As one they executed a dragon kick. She dodged, dropping to the splits and holding them all in the air with her weapon, then hit them on to the wall. They got up. She did a double butterfly kick, knocking two out-one bleeds, having been kicked in the back. One girl does a dragon punch. She does a triple flying kick, hitting her in the arm, face and stomach, then entangled her. The other two did a simultaneous double kick. She dodged them completely, and they fly in the different directions. With her cord used, she kicked some of the cord into her mouth and bit it, pulling it tighter. She pulls it twice as hard in a different direction and the prisoners were released and fell limply, injured and cut.

Naruto got up again.

He punched, she blocked and attempted to tangle him in her yo-yo, swirling it in a circle. He ducked and threw a dragon scratch, which she barely evaded. She hit him barely with the body of her yo-yo and twirled it around herself, then lashed it at him. He flipped back but was hit by it across the middle, a high spinning kick and again across his back. She flipped away and let him fall on his own, bringing her tetsuken wire back into her yo-yo.

"Yay Kuzume!" the three girls idiotically chanted, clapping, sending everyone back where they were.

The bell rang. Kuzume picked up and walked to her next class as if nothing happened.

Miraculous, she made it to class on time, however she was not five minutes into it before...

A shot came through the window, straight for Kuzume. She flipped away from it and shouted for everyone to run. ore shots came that she managed to duck. A masked man came through the window, leaping towards her with a samurai sword. Just then a man jumped in front of Kuzume and grabbed the sword and broke it in half. He hit the attacker with an axe-kick, gave him a deep cut and picked her up, jumping from an adjacent window, as more shots followed.

Author's Note: Forgive me for making the classes mere narration. They're not important and I didn't see the point. I just wanted to dive in the story, ya know? Plus, I was lazy at the time and still am lazy now. That didn't sound right. Anyway, you can pretty much catch that her yo-yo is no ordinary yo-yo. The yo-yo began its existence as a weapon, did you know that? Well, now you do. Yup. Yo-yo and tetsuken are pretty much interchangeable, and no, this has nothing to do with the game, novel, manga or anime "Red Ninja" by Shinsuke Sato. It's all original, but took me two hours to type so I don't know how soon I'll be updating. I hope you enjoyed this chapter for what it is worth. And yeah...forgive me for using the name Naruto. I was just being lazy. I'm so happy! June 8th it's on Toonami! does dance. And July 7th I'm camping out for tickets to "Fantastic Four". Anyhow, how did I start talking about that? I'm just hyperactive since I mastered a couple Heavy songs on DDR. THAT IS THE GAME! Well, tear me apart now. Peace.