Crimson Red

As Flash held his lip hatred and fear filled his eyes. "I will get you back for this." He then turned to his would-be accomplices "Let's leave these losers, they will get what they deserve." as he finished speaking he turned to give me one final glance, one that holds something that I could not describe, like it could kill me with a glance.

I could tell something was very off about him, especially since I just punched him. He reacted like I killed his family, well it's something that can be brought up on another occasion. One thing that is bothering me now is that I swear I didn't punch him that hard, yet both his upper and lower lips were split and a couple of teeth fell out. First the healing and now the strength. It really is bothering me, is there more to come. As I was wiping my hand from blood and doing my internal monolog in my head Peter and Felicia started conversing.

A look of dread flooded Peter's face, he was slightly shivering. "W-why did he do that, now they will start harassing Kazuki now." He then looked in my direction, a look of anger appeared on his face. "Why did you do that? Now he is gonna try something one of these days that will make our life hell here. He did the same to another kid who tried sticking up for me, now she moved away. This is why you shouldn't help me!" He finished with his eyes becoming slightly wet.

Before I could respond Felicia retorted with almost the same amount of drive in her voice as Peter's. "Don't speak to Kazuki like that, he helped you. You should have thanked him instead of yelling. What's the worse that Flash could do?" She ended with a question.

Peter's body trembled as if he recalled something that he did not want to remember. "He could leave you in a bloodied mess, spread terrible rumors about you, to tell you how worthless you are. There are all kinds of things he did, just because I was friends with a girl he liked. So I separated myself from her, it lessened the burden a bit but he would come to remind me of what he did and can do." Once he finished he just seemed to deflate.

Before Felicia could speak for me again I said what I needed to say. "I promise you, Peter something like that won't happen to me or you. I have dealt with a similar situation before. Flash just needs some time to cool down then I will talk with him. Just leave it to me and it will get done." I spoke to him with conviction.

After some time of thinking things over, he gave me a nod for confirmation. With a small smile on my face, I told them we should hurry up to the first hour before we are late.

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We first dropped Felicia at her class then made our way towards ours. The first period was Algebra. Peter made his way back towards his desk, a girl around his age waved at him but Peter looked away from her as if something bad might happen. I have a slight idea that she is the girl he was talking about earlier.

The teacher beckoned me inside the room to his side. "Hello, you must be Kazuki Zankoku. I am both your algebra and biology teacher, Edmund Rockwell but you will call me Mr.Rockwell" He had dark brown hair with clear blue eyes. He is pretty average in appearance.

After I introduced myself to the class Rockwell pointed at a seat towards the middle right by a girl with bright red hair and green eyes that seemed almost endless. Once I took my seat by her, she turned to me with an awfully cheerful smile. "Hello! I'm Jean gray." She said very cheerfully.

I had to take a second to get my bearings straight to deal with her brightness. Afterward, I put a small smile on my face and thought up a proper response for her. "Hi, I'm Kazuki. Is there something you are curious about? If it's about my hair, it is from an accident that caused it to get the white streaks in it." I replied to a non-existent question as her face still held curiosity.

Her eyes brighten up once she realized that I was waiting for her to talk. "Well that was one of them but my other one is about your relationship with Peter. I saw you in the hallway earlier with him and Felicia talking about some stuff." I was surprised slightly by her inquire.

I resized her up because she just didn't hold a child's curiosity. "His Aunt and Uncle brought me in after a pretty bad car crash since I have no known family left, I have been with them for about two weeks now. And at the moment you spotted us I was trying to help him with something." I told her.

it seemed like she wanted to ask one more thing so I gestured for her to ask."Ok, thank you for telling me that. Now for this last question might seem a little odd, but can you do things that others can't do?" My eyes opened wide. she brought her voice to a low whisper "You see I can hear people's thoughts, it is very hard for me to control. I hear everyone's in this room except for you. which has never happened before." She said slightly fear-stricken.

After she revealed her secret I calmed down a bit, so she didn't find out. It might be beneficial to share about mine. "Yes, I can do things that are different from others. of what I know so far is that I can heal very fast and I'm much stronger for someone my age." I said with a slight weight leaving my chest.

The look of worry left her eyes and was replaced with joy. "Ah, thank goodness. I thought I was alone, but with you hear now I don't feel so removed from everything." She said with a smile that showed how relieved she was.

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The school day passed by in a flash, after finding out Jean was in a similar situation as I was, we talked more about oddities and the like until the first period ended. Otherwise, nothing of similar importance appeared.

as I was finishing putting my things away the girl who waved at peter earlier approached me, as I got a better look at her she had similar colored hair and eyes as Jean but she seemed less happy as she was. "Hello, do you have a moment to talk" I gestured yes, and then she started talking again "Well I overheard your conversation with Jean, I wanted to ask if you knew the reason why Peter stopped talking to me? If it helps my name is Mary Jane." as she talked she seemed to get more depressive as it went on.

After she finished talking it confirmed my theory that she is the girl peter was talking about earlier. "Ya, I can tell you. Peter was in a predicament with Flash and he didn't want to drag you into it. So he separated himself from you. Now before you try going off to Flash to get him to stop, I am already taking care of it." I added the last part to stop her from screwing up something.

Her eyes slightly dimmed so as to stop her from doing something stupid I said "hey do note that after I'm done with Flash, Peter won't have to worry about dragging you into anything. So you two will be able to talk again in a couple of days. Capiche?" Let us hope this can cheer her up.

After she heard everything her eyes lit up and a small smile formed on her face. "Thank you, Kazuki. I promise I will repay you for all of this." She said some enthusiasm

I Waved my hands in the air "No, you don't have to repay me for anything. I'm not really even doing this for you, It is a thanks to Peter, May, and Ben for taking me in." Let's just hope she doesn't take the words harshly.

She didn't say anything after my reply but just smiled kindly and waved bye.

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Once I got home May and Ben asked how our days went. Peter seemed to be above average mood as retold today's events, I also chimed in here and there but otherwise told them that today was pretty uneventful. Then we ate a small snack and I went to the bathroom to freshen up.

Finishing my shower and brushing my teeth, I got dressed. Then looked into the mirror to comb my hair back to noticed my eyes of a very different color, A bright ominous red. They were the tone of crimson blood.