Enough!

[Jyo]

Whack. Another studnet went down as Jyo's right foot slammed across his face. he joined the other three seniors around the tall young man on the ground. Jyo stood there with his piercing gaze looking at the other four left.
"Well are you done? I'm getting tired of knocking you around." He said coldly. Jyo had already accomplished what he had wanted to do which was let the three students being picked on get away. Naturally the guys he inturrupted didn't take kindly to their mindless fun being halted and turned on Jyo who proved much more formiddable then their victems.

"I guess not." Jyo said as another came in and was greeted with Jyo dashing in little more than a blur and his right hand sunk into his gut causing him to double over and then his right knee crashed into his chin while his left hand grabbed onto his neck and he threw him into another one of the punks.
"Enough is enough. Clear out. I'm not a pillar or any of the S.C.H.P. But I'll be dammned if i let you run rampant. Now get your friends out of here." he said. The remaining punks did just that. They at least were smart enough to realize when they were screwed and took the chance to clear out.

Jyo then pulled his sunglasses out and slipped them over his eyes. he still had not ever fully recovered from using his Qi since arriving. He had used it sparingly enough to avoid serious damage but his sensitivity to light was still pretty high. He then started heading into the school from the courtyard where the scuffle had taken place. He really was getting annoyed though. he had come here to escape the duties at his last school. And yet here he was still upholding the ideals he used to and making the school as safe as he could though it was hard. The pillars and the captain were not as active as they needed. Jyo knew that having some overbearing students running things could be bad. But he had met all of them. he knew they were good people for the most part. He needed to whip them into action. between the students and his need to stand against Asiv Jyo was getting to be stretched out pretty thing. He remembered his talk with Renji back at #499 about wearing down from overworking himself. He had said that he was only human and took amusment in Renji's comment about him seeming more than that. Almost untouchable and undefeatable. He wished for that right now. That way he could set things right. Jyo knew now that he would eventually be one of the people fighting the system itself. But the first step was getting the violence down. but he also knew the truth was you had to use violence against violence. Meaning that the people behind the corruption had to be taken down. Shown their place and that they had to stop what they were doing. And not for the first time Jyo felt very alone in his cause wondering if he was the only one fighting to actually make a difference instead of claiming it. He knew when he graduated it would become something different. He knew that a career in teaching wasn't an option anymore. he would have to do something else. And the sad thing was that he already knew what it was....

[Remembrance]

A shadow stood behind a window of the second floor that looked out on the courtyard.It was
a girl and she was watching the fight .

I looked at my own reflection and saw that my left eye was different in my reflection. It was black and looked like that of a snake. The eye looked at me and it was pure evil. With a ipod hanging around my neck and the earplugs in my ears i had to grin when i heard my favorite part of The hand that feeds you by Nice inch nails.Through the music I heard a voice in my head that began to whisper something to me . My eyes narrowed of joy and i nodded with a grin. Slowly i turned around not waiting for the fight to end and turned the music off. It was my second day of school and i didn't know the way just yet but while i was walking i saw a staircase. I walked down the stairs to the ground floor looking for my locker. When she walked past other windows there was another reflection of someone behind her own reflection , following her.But there was no one behind me..After i few minutes i found out that i was lost and looked around "where am i?" Seeing nobody around to ask directions , not that i wanted to ask some ..i saw the doors of the entrance and felt stupid." aahh , not again.." I sighed and lowered my head. The voice began to whisper again - don't tell me you got lost again?..- I smiled a little bit embarrassed, the voice sighed - this is the third time..and the day hasn't started yet.Your already 16..how on earth can you get lost- I began to yell frustrated "well i can't help it! it's not my fault that the floor plan is unclear!" i started to flap my arms out of frustration . I was holding a school bag and i could hit someone with that if i didn't watch out.She looked innocent and kinda pathetic. She stopped flapping her arms and leaned against a locker.With my hand over my left eye i sighed "Why am i even here., it will end it misery and regret like always.."

[Kasumi]

Kasumi held a delighted smile across her lips, she had recently transfered to this school from the now defunct PHS #499, most of the student and faculty had left but Kasumi her self took her leave far before that.

In truth one could say she transfered into PHS #259 from homeschooling but she was never one to be overly picky on the details, her warm eyes watching the boy from her position she knew exactly who he was, there was no denying it...it was him, down to the heroics and the very way that he fought which she had experienced first hand her self.

His appearance hadn't altered greatly since she last saw him either, though her appearance had changed. Her hair color was it's natural definition once more and the once flowing long hair had been cut down, only a minor resemblance to it's former glory. She had matured and grown up alot since her time at #499, but the memories were still sweet reminders of the past life....But it seemed like not much was different, all of these schools were the same in the basic concept so there was no point avoiding it.

The strong picking on the weak, the weak hating and fearing the strong, it was a vicious cycle and as always Jyo was the one who chose to stand up to it, to be the one who went against the river rather then flow with it. He had more courage and strength then she had once possessed, she was one who turned a blind eye to things that had proceeded in #499, one who thought things could be resolved if she worked with the staff rather then against them.

She was wrong and she hated it, she hated her self for it as well everything she had attempted to do was all for nothing and because of it many people had suffered. These were her thoughts as the red-head had begun walking in her direction, cross the large court-yard to the school it was some-where in the middle ground that Kasumi stood wearing the simplest of outfits consisting of a buttoned up white shirt and a skirt that went to just above her knees, if there was some sort of dress code or uniform she was clearly in violation of it but her excuse was simple...she was new, nothing more, nothing less.

A part of her cursed silently under her breath, wishing she had looked nicer at the moment as she glanced down at her legs which were covered with white-stockings all the way up to her knees.

Would the boy even recognize her? That is what she wondered as the young-woman slowly walked forward, their paths would cross for a brief moment before Jyo reached the school.

All together she remained surprised, she had not been suspecting to meet her old friend at this school when she had transfered there...

[Jyo]

OOC: Okay considering the difference in the locations it looks like I'll be meeting Kasumi first even though I like meeting people in order of posts. So for you Freevally I'm gonna have to work something out. Perhapes you head out or i'll go ahead and try getting jyo and Kasumi in more or less right away and have the timeline be at the point where you'r character is making the comments. Oh well I like working with slightly more interesting ways to get everyone in a thread together.


Jyo couldn't help but notice a girl that he passed and she looked incredibly familiar. It took a moment for it to click but as soon as they passed each other he whirled around. Her movements gave her away. She looked older but he recognized her now. Kasumi. the girl from #499 who had been his first friend and several times the voice of reason that he listened to. Once his leader in the group known as the enforcers they had fallen out of touch near the end of his days at their old school.

"Kasumi? Is that you?' he asked staring after her. He couldn't belive she was here. last he knew she had been with Rama corp more or less when he stopped working for Kazuma Kazahana. Not only had he met Skylar who had dissapeared from this school. but now he also had met Kasumi. he wondered how this would go considering unlike with Sky there really wasn't much in the way of bad bood between them. They simply had stopped speaking with each other. Jyo fully hoped seeing his old friend would be a positive thing in the light of Bella leaving. he had felt an almost overhwelming amount of lonliness. Mabey meeting an old friend could break that. Particularly one who had known him longer than most people.

[Kasumi]

She had done far too much for which she was not proud, every stinging memory came flooding back to her as the girl froze in her position biting down on her lip. The pain of the memories struck at her, she supposed that part of her had wished that Jyo would not have recognized her while the other part of her was extremely glad to see that he had survived that hellhole of a school.

The overbearing memories was enough to almost make the girl break down into tears and run away when she had had her name called out, she had regretted far too much of her life until this point but had decided that running away would do no good.

With that, she inhaled a deep breath of air and turned on her heel as she slowly made her way over toward the red-haired man with her hands rested on her hips "Konichiwa, Jyo-kun." She gave a playful little smile, it was better to try and be happy in this new world then linger on the thoughts of her regrets.

With that, she joined with Jyo on his walk back toward the school.

(OOC: That make it easier? XD)

[Jyo]

Jyo smiled. Yes it was her. He hadn't realized that he had missed her quite a bit whent hey split off. She was one of the very few people he ever put real trust into and it was a relife to know he was correct and his friend really was here at the school.

However even with her friendly disposition and happy greeting he could sense something was off. A trait he picked up over his years dealing with people.
"It's great to see you Kasumi." he said as they walked glad to see she decided to walk along with him.
"We have alot of catching up to do I would think but something seems off. Are you okay? you seem to have a bit of sadness hanging around you. Or mabey regret. I know it's been a long time since we talked. but I always trusted you and hope you trust me too. Is there anything you want to unload before we catch up on things. I'd rather have that out of the way." he said sounding slightly concerned. not majorly as he knew Kasumi could handle herself.
"No real pressure. But I'd be glad if you still trusted me enough to talk about it even if it's just lightly touching on the matter." He added.

OOC: Figure we could stretch it out until she was on again so it didn't put a halt on the rping. unless you want to start a different thread for just us.

[Kasumi]

"I've...just had alot on my mind since the transfer..." Kasumi attempted to maintain her regular calm, since Jyo had some-how managed to shoot down her masque of happiness her face sunk into a rather apathetic look, the look of someone who really felt in-different about things and wasn't exactly sure where they stood in the world.

But he was right, Jyo had always been the friend which Kasumi could count on even if they were on opposite sides of the conflict they some-how managed to survive it all with their friendship in tact, that was alot more then she could say about some people who had gone to their school.

It was like her nightmares, her memories from her first school where she had lost her brother. A part of her died at #499, the school for which her innocence was robbed from her, the dark place that had corrupted her.

As hard as it was, Kasumi still maintained her self, fighting off the steadily building urge to cry. She'd never really talked to anyone about it, and seeing Jyo triggered the memories and slight flash-backs that bustled through her mind and haunted her.

"Alot of stuff happened at that school...That I'm not proud of...." She finally said, her voice was low as she had turned to the side her hair getting caught in the sudden gust of wind, what was left it blew in-front of her face.

She had really grown up in the short amount of time that she was gone, she had made no contact with anyone from #499...It would seem that like many other students from that school Kasumi had been deeply traumatized from her experiences there.

[Jyo]

Jyo gave a nod in response. He had been hit hard emotionally by alot of the things there. But unlike Kasumi he had put up so many barriers emotions seemed to have primarly left him or so it seemed.
"Yeah. Alot of stuff happened there. I don't think anyone who ever was at that school is ever going to be the same. Makes me wonder what we would be like if we never went there." He said.

Jyo himself had dealt with the feeling of being responsible for the deaths of no less than ten school-mates and the burden of constantly failing as captain to change anything for the better. Plus his time with Brimstone and his losses of friends plus his time with Sophia. Jy didn't seem to do much but lose there except for the few friends he made one of which he was meeting again.

"You at least seem to be able to feel to some noticable capacity. I kinda envy that." he said witha faint smile.

[Kasumi]

Alot had happened there, alot that she was probably responsable for through her in-action. She had made her attempts to make that cursed school better from the other side, by attempting to focus on the students rather then outraging against the staff.

But nothing mattered in the end, because in the end neither side of the conflict had won...in the end they had all lost, none of them would have ever been the same after going through that school. Kasumi had battled with her addiction with brimstone and several attempts on her life by fellow students and sometimes even adults but in the end she had survived, but was surviving really all it was cracked up to be?

But alot more had happened to her at that school, things that she had not told anyone, things that even her closest of friends did not know before she had left. She was glad that she had met Jyo, it was one of the few enjoyable things that had come from that school.

"Had we not gone to that evil place we wouldn't have met.." She said suddenly, through the saddness and apathy there was actually a bit of happiness in her voice, at least they both could take comfort in the fact that neither of them was really alone in how they felt....The next thing however, was totally unexpected as Katsumi had stopped walking, speaking up again "I'm sorry....for alot of things Jyo..."

[Jyo]

Jyo was thinking of his experiances at the school and at Rama corp. Dispite all his efforts he had never been able to change anything there. Each time he and the others toppeled the people behind the corruption of their school another worse one had arose all under the diection of Kazuma Kazahana. the man Jyo still swore to get revenge upon.

He looked over and gave a small nod in response to Kasumi's comment. It was true that his best friend after Katie had been gained there and she was here with him now. But still. he was mortified at the effects of the place. He was less than human emotionally from his time there.

He stopped and looked over at Kasumi when she stopped walking and tilted his head curiously at what she said.
"What do you mean. We've both done some bad things. But you've never done anything to me to be sorry about. At least that I can remember. Is there something you need to say? I'm not going to hold anything against you. You know me better than that. you're the best friend I have right now for one thing." He said.

[Kasumi]

"I got in the way alot...and always tried to do things my own stupidly..." She muttered out as she started walking again though only enough so that she and Jyo were next to each other once more, her hands absentmindedly fidgeted with the hem of her skirt now.

She wanted to tell him everything that she had thought, he would probably be the only person alive in the world who might have understood her and what she went through but would he really think no different of her if she had told him anything? Would he not stare upon her as if she was some sort of lesser filthy being.

"It's just..."

She wanted to take the risk, to let it out for once but her natural defenses stopped her once again as she clasped her hands behind her back the wind picking up again, the refreshing air tingling across her skin before she had suddenly changed what she was about to say

"I'm sorry I left without saying anything.."

[Jyo]

Jyo pondered what she said as they started walking again. he never really considered her ever getting in the way. They didn't always end up on the same side. To be honest after he had left the enforcer group they often were on opposite sides to some degree. But she often offered insight for him no matter what the situation was.

"You were never really in the way as far as I could tell. We didn't always end up on the same side. But I don't remember us always clashing much." He said giving a rare smile.

"And why should you apologize for up and leaving. left the school to train at Rama corp and then left the city entirly abandoning all of you. If anything I'm sorry. here everyone saw me as some defender of the students and I ran away because I couldn't do anything. You don't have to be ashamed of leaving Kasumi. You should understand that leaving was the only option left. At least the only sensible one." he said and he noticed that almost every student was gone from the courtyard. In fact they were alone.

"Kasum if there's something else please go ahead and tell me. Noone else is here and you know I won't judge you in any way. it's clear something's bothering you. Your the only real friend I trust. I'll keep it between us. You helped me alot in the past. Let me do the same for you." he said.

[Kasumi]

Kasumi had stopped walking once more, her head lowered, that was the end of it...It was better to just tell him rather then let the topic hang over their heads any longer, he said he wanted to get it out of the way before they had begun catching up so she would honor his request...to an extent.

The entire air around them felt wrong, her eyes covered by the strands of hair that remained on her head the feelings pooling around as she felt her stomach twist and wretch as she thought about it. In honesty she wanted to forget about it and pretend what had happened had never happened, like she had done the entire time she was gone from the school.

But that wasn't possible anymore, she at least owed Jyo the truth, or what she felt was the truth anyways.....She'd always heard that it felt better to get these things out, to tell somebody...but she had never known anybody that would have understood or at the very least not find her repulsive for it.

She had approached him, making damned sure that he wasn't going anywhere and that he was facing her. She really didn't want to say it out-loud and so with the added boost she stood upon her tippy-toes, her arms quickly wrapping around the red-heads neck as she pulled his head down to within reach of her her mouth brushing past his ear slightly as she whispered out what had happened to her, perhaps it was the best word that she used to describe what had happened.....but it was what it felt like it had happened to her...

With that she lingered for only a second, next to Jyo's neck before pulling away and turning around her cheeks had turned a bright red from her shame as she stared at the ground infront of her again "....So you see now...?"

[Jyo]

Jyo reared back at first as kasumi came in close. Jyo had never gotten very comfortable with people getting closer to him than a few feet unless he was in combat. So unsurprisingly he stiffened when her arms wnet around his neck. but he trusted her and she was his friend so he almost instantly relaxed. though his eyes went wide when she told him what happened.

He was silent for a second as she turned around looking down. He had not expected this of all things. He didn't imagine it ever happening to Kasumi either. But apparently it had and he understood why she was acting how she did.. He couldn't relate to it but he could make sense of all of it now. He came up and in an act very out of character for him he stpped around her putting a finger under her chin and raised her face to look at him and for the first time in a long time his eyes actually held a little warmth unlike the piercing calaculating quaity they normally held which Kasumi a=of all people knew had only happened a few times.
"Kasumi I'm sorry. Iw ouldn't have pried if I had any idea. I'm glad you trusted me enough to tell me. I promise it never goes past me. You know I'm good for my word." He said.

[Kasumi]

It was actions completely out of character for the both of them as Kasumi had looked away from Jyo even after he had tilted her head upwards, she had only faced him long enough to see his eyes.

She didn't want to look at him in the eyes, she didn't want to really look anyone in the eyes at that moment as her head turned from side to side in an attempting to avoid it but she had finally stopped resting in the position he had attempted to move her head. She lost it then, it was hard to keep it pent up...Even if she had only whispered it to one person it felt like she had screamed it through a loud speaker, airing her shame out for the whole world to see.

The normally strong and composed girl had suddenly broken down into tears, grabbing ahold of the nearest thing which happened to have been Jyo as her head rested against his chest her tears flowing from her eyes.

It was the first time that she had actually cried about what had happened since the night she had left the school, but she felt a small sense of relief from it all as she said nothing only crying.