July 24/Vipers/PG-13/Ended

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Characters: Asuka Tomoe and Ren Yukio.
Time: during school idealkfjdsfa
Location: acting classroom.

Asuka dreaded working with the other acting students - with the exception of Naoki, and to a lesser extent, Max. The rest were all positively infuriating, egos the size of buildings and self-absorption complexes to match. Either that, or they were just plain assholes - Ren Yukio was the leader of that group, and it would have been safe to say that she would rather stick him in the eye with a salad fork than give him the time of the day.

“Asuka and Ren,” said the teacher, effectively bonding the two of them together for an entire period.

Well, shit. And here Asuka had tried so very hard to avoid talking to him; from what she’d seen and what she’d heard, he was the sort of person that would force her into angry, vengeful bitch mode, and lord only knew she preferred not to do that. Except, there was no getting out of this one. As the other students and teacher scurried out of the classroom - the parts they were to rehearse required different settings, or some shit like that. Asuka and Ren had lucked out and been the only ones that were allowed to stay in the room - potentially dodging the increasingly chilly weather outside - but of course, that was as far as their luck went.

Reluctantly, Asuka stood up from her seat and walked over to where the dark-haired boy was. “Are we going to get started, or what?” she said, noting that this was the first time they’d actually spoke.

{ ooc: sorry asdgkjadslfk I suck at opening oakdsghadosif and my titilaelkgj /seppuku :c }

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Ren turned his head to face the dark haired girl. "Hmm? Started?" Ren said as he tilted his head, yawning. He didn't know what was going on at all. He was sleeping the whole time, and when he woke up he was alone with this bitchy girl that he didn't want to associate with. He looked around the classroom, "Where the fuck is everybody?" His eyes widened, "Don't tell me you're going to rape me or some shit.." Ren said jokingly as he backed away from the girl that was famous for her deadly glare.

"Or did you get everyone out of the room so you could confess to me?" Ren smirked. Of course he knew that wasn't the case, he just wanted to annoy the fuck out of her. He's always seen her in class whenever he did go, and he always knew that she would be a fun girl to mess with. "Sorry, I have a girlfriend. She's a lot prettier than you." He continued as he looked at her, from head to toe. He started laughing and scratched the back of his head.

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"Where the fuck is everybody?" Ren said, sleep still caught in his eyes. "Don't tell me you're going to rape me or some shit.." Asuka laughed out loud, unable to control her incredulity. Jesus Christ. She'd prepared herself to work with a dick, but she hadn't expected anything this bad. Clenching her fists, Asuka bit back a venomous retort as he continued to speak - 'blah, blah, blah, I'm an asshole'.

Ren was smirking, as if he thought he was being terribly funny in saying all of this. Asuka had never encountered anyone with a more asinine sense of humor in her entire life. "Mhm, your girlfriend is quite pretty..." Asuka said, determined to win this verbal joust. "Really, it's a nice right hand you've got there. I'm sure the love triangle with your left hand gets old, though - doesn't it feel left out whenever you two crank out knuckle-babies in the boy's bathroom?" She laughed condescendingly, flipping her hair to the side.

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Ren started to laugh with her - not caring about the girl's insults. "Wow, you're a mean one." He said with a big grin on his face. "Working with you will be fun alright~" He put his feet on the desk, "Now, be a good girl and do all the work for me, will you? I'll be taking another nap." Ren stated bluntly as he winked at her, hoping that she'd just go along with it without saying a word.

"Ah, can you also get me a coffee downstairs in the caf while you're at it? I'm kind of thirsty."

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"I am perfectly capable of being nice," Asuka stated, smiling a little despite herself. It was fun to hurl insults at people who didn't break down crying - and she could tell that this one's armour was nigh impenetrable. "Alas, the desire to be more intelligent does not allow me to do so." Ren winked at her, but she managed to let that one slip under her radar. But there was no way she was going to do the work for him, not by a longshot.

Asuka had been inching her way over to Ren the moment she realised that he wasn't going get up, just slowly enough so that he wouldn't think anything of it. She was close enough to make a mad dash and flip it over if he pressed any more of her buttons, but for now, she'd settle for sarcasm. "Yeah, yeah. Cool it with the aloof, 'I don't give a fuck' persona for a moment. It's not impressing anyone."

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"Eh~?" Ren opened his eyes, and to his surprise the annoying girl was still there - and the coffee that he wanted wasn't near him at all. "'I don't give a fuck persona'? But who said I'm not really like this? You're acting like you know my life story just by talking to me within these short three minutes, four eyes." He smirked and sat up, getting a tad irritated by this girl's rudeness. No girl has ever been this rude to him - so it shocked him a bit, not knowing how to react or deal with her at all.

"And why in the world would I go out of my way to impress some girl with a stick up her ass?" Ren retorted with a small smile on his face. "You're never going to score a boyfriend with that attitude."

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"Really, now?" Asuka asked, feigning shock. "So you leashed in a girlfriend like this? I'm amazed, really - whoever she is, I envy her patience." And really, calling her four-eyes? What was he, seven? She readjusted her glasses, pushing them up with her index finger, as Ren sat up in his seat. He was still smirking; and Asuka was still somewhat amused. At least he could take what he dished out.

At the 'stick-up-her-ass' comment, Asuka laughed. "As I said before - I can be perfectly kind to people who deserve it." Briefly, she debated going down and getting him that coffee - if only so she could dump it on his head - but decided against it. "It's not like you're one to talk, regardless."

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Surprised at the fact that Asuka didn't hit him yet, Ren coughed a bit. "Hey, you have no right to talk about Ayame like that." Ren said, getting a bit serious. "So you're the type of girl that assumes right off the bat, hmm?" He stood up immediately and walked past her. "And what kind of people 'deserve' your shitty kindness, Asuka-chan?" He turned around and stuck out his tongue with an emotionless expression.

"I don't think I like you very much~"

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Ayame? That was his girlfriend's name? Asuka didn't say it aloud, but she quite liked that name. And the way he'd flared up for his girlfriend's sake... hm, it seemed her thoughtless comment on his 'tough guy' crap carried more weight than he wanted her to think. Interesting. "I haven't said anything about your girlfriend other than that she must be patient to deal with how abrasive you are." Somewhere inside her, Asuka was aware that he had every right to think she was a bitch. Part of her wanted to reconcile, wanted him to like her; and the other wanted to shove him down the stairs.

"People who don't treat complete strangers like their personal playthings, Ren-chan." Asuka answered, eyes narrowing as he walked past her. What the fuck had crawled up his ass and died? "That was why you started off by calling me ugly, yes? To satiate your juvenile sense of humor?"

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"...Ren-chan?" He mumbled as he twitched a bit, not liking that name at all. But he held his anger in to the best of his ability, thinking that if he got angry now it'd all be over. "Yeah, I really don't like you." Ren said as he sighed, scratching the back of his head due to his frustration.

He leaned on the nearest desk, grasping the edges the tightest as he could. This girl was bad news. She was the kind of girl that made Ren want to beat the shit out of everyone in his sight. But for now, he had to play cool.

"Well, you're probably the biggest bitch I've ever met in this school." Ren avoided eye contact, sure he would punch her in the face if he ever saw it again. "I think you deserve an award, Asuka-chan."

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That did it. Asuka's pent-up ire wasn't going to stay pent-up any longer; Ren was going to end up with a black eye, or worse, and he had only himself to blame for it. Setting her messenger bag down on the floor, she cracked her knuckles, eye twitching at the boy who'd been stupid enough to provoke her. This was going to feel so good.

"The honour's all yours, Ren-chan," Asuka said, grinning manically before closing the distance between the two of them. Her knuckles cracked again as they connected with his skull, uppercutting him from underneath his jaw. She'd been wanting to do that for so long.

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As soon as Asuka touched him - he lost it as well. He grabbed both of her hands and pinned her to the wall, looking at her with a resentful expression. "What the fuck do you think you're doing, Asuka-chan?" He shook his head in disappointment, "That's not lady like at all." He said as his grip on her hands grew tighter and tighter, hoping that he would cause some pain.

Ren wasn't the type of guy to hit a female - he was better than that, at least he thought. He let go of her hands roughly, and softly massaged his face that was aching with pain. He's been hit by girls before - but those were just simple slaps, not punches. "What the fuck, she has the punch of a 40 year old man." He thought to himself, wondering what he should do since he couldn't just fight back.

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Ren had pinned Asuka up against the wall, grabbing her wrists so hard that she thought they were going to break. She relished the way he'd been mortified over the punch - had he never been hit by a girl before? Honestly, she was surprised that he hadn't hit her back; did this ass have a problem with hitting back? It was obvious that he wanted to, but was holding himself back. Wow. His restraint was admirable, but she really just wanted to rip him to shreds. Shaking her knuckles - his skull had been obscenely thick - Asuka exhaled, still viciously angry.

"What, not gonna hit me because I'm a girl?" Asuka asked, looking at him caustically. "Chivalry's bullshit. I hit girls - I mean, look, I just slugged a spoiled, arrogant little bitch." This statement was punctuated with a swift kick to Ren's gut, which felt even better than the punch had felt.

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"Fuck." Ren thought to himself as she hit him once more. That one hurt - a lot. Ren grabbed the leg she kicked him with, and threw it aside violently, enough to make her fall over.

"No, I don't hit girls." Ren said as he crouched over, pretending her hits didn't affect him at all. "If I did, I'd be as shallow as you, you little fucker." Ren retorted as he clenched his fist, trying his best not to hit her with it. "You think you're the greatest little thing huh?" Ren furrowed his eyebrows as he grabbed her collar tightly.

Ren cringed - he didn't like where this was going, but his anger didn't help him stop. "Ah, what made you so angry, Asuka-chan?" He grinned evilly as he stood up with her collar still in hand, almost choking her. "Is it because I called you a bitch?" The evil look in his eyes never left - this girl made him so angry that he actually wanted to kill her.

"Or was it because I called you ugly?" He shook his head, "Either way, this wouldn't have happened if you would have just shut up and got me a cup of coffee like I asked, you little bitch."

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Ren's hands were on her collar, gripping it as tightly as he could. Asuka said nothing in response to his taunts, fearlessly staring back at him. He was shaking, and was obviously hurt more than he wanted her to think - Ren, you're full of shit.

And then he asked her what had made her so angry in the first place - she didn't even know where to start. Seething, Asuka noted the evil look in his eyes with a casually indifferent expression that would no doubt only make him angrier. Her deadpan broke at the end of his sentence, again with the coffee? A high-pitched, humourless laugh flew out of her mouth.

"You want to know why I hate you so much?" Asuka said, shaking with rage. "I can tell everything about you, without even knowing you at all. You, Ren, are a lonely little fuckup who can't decide whether to take his self-hatred out on yourself or the rest of the world." She was too tall for him to be able to lift her up off of the ground; good, she'd need leverage for what she was about to do next. "You're constantly lashing out at everyone else around you because you can't handle the world." Raising her arms from her sides, her hands wrapped around his, wrenching his grip from his collar. "You're like a wounded animal."

Asuka wasted no time in throwing him headlong over her shoulder, Ren's body slamming against the wall. A couple of the wall hangings fell onto the ground, jostled by the impact, glass cases shattering onto the floor. "Lie about it all you want - I understand what that's like better than anyone." Her voice remained the same, but she could feel her pupils wavering slightly as she realised that everything she'd said to Ren was relevant to her, too. Fuck. They were the essentially the same; that's why she'd been able to read him so easily.

Asuka couldn't stop herself from dropping to her knees, tears streaming out of her eyes. Her shoulders shook uncontrollably, and she was on the verge of having a complete breakdown; it was a good thing that her hair was completely covering her face or it would have been obvious that she was crying. Fuck. She needed to leave, and she needed to leave now but her legs weren't working and she just kept sobbing and sobbing - she hated Ren because she hated herself, she hurt him because he reminded him of herself. "I-I'm disgusting.." she whispered to herself, a single gossamer tear dripping from her face onto her skirt.