I stood in front of the pristine wooden door, glaring at it as if I hoped it would burst to flames and I wouldn't have to go through it. I wanted to smack my head against it but if I did all on the inside would know I was there. So I silently sucked up my anger, regret, and hesitance and grabbed the handle. Like any door in the school it opened swiftly and easily. Without much hope I stepped inside and looked to see who I would be stuck with for the next few hours of my life.

The room was empty for the most part, save for shadow, sheik, Midna, and Ganon. The only teacher of the bunch glared at me like I'd killed his dog as I walked over to take a seat by shadow. Ganon for some reason did nothing to stop us being within whispering range of one another.

Believe me when I say that I was thoroughly shocked that he had somehow landed himself here, shadow I mean. For once in my life I listened to my conscience and didn't ask in fear of Ganon hearing.

Looking around the room again with a mixture of curiosity and oncoming boredom my eyes landed on Midna. She was in fact wearing the girls' uniform which included a skirt and a blazer over a white blouse. Shed decorated herself an excessive amount of makeup, exotic colored bangles, and a necklace with a pretty black jewel for a pendant. Her fiery hair was pulled into a ponytail over her chest. Her skin was so pale in the right light it almost looked blue, her nails were painted black against that for an almost creepy contrast. Out of her own boredom she continuously braided and unbraided her locks.

Moving on Sheik came into sight. He sat still, not twitching at all; it seemed that would take years to master something like that. He had long blonde hair fell in a braid down to his waist. He wore the typical male uniform just as shadow and I did. However he wore white cloth around most of his face as if he didn't trust anyone to see who he really was. His backpack slumped against the leg of his chair on the floor; beside it laid some sort of metal case. Seeing as sheik was the creator of the nin-jutsu club I assumed that the case was full of things like kunai knives, shrunken, and needles. It seemed as if he was trying to make eye contact with me through his blonde bangs but I decided it probably wasn't the best idea to attempt any sort of communication being that we were in Ganons detention, so I pretended not to notice.

Finally I looked over to shadow who had fallen asleep. Very openly I must add. His head was on his desk while he used his arms for pillows. I couldn't help but notice his sharp-almost claw like nails, his breaths were shallow as if he barely needed any air in his sleeping state. He'd been writing in a thin black notebook when sleep seduced him. He looked peaceful to an extent. Well as peaceful as someone like him could be. I still couldn't shake the shock that Ganon absolutely had to see that shadow was asleep and was doing nothing about it

I let my eyes stray back to Ganon while my thoughts of why he wasn't wailing on shadow went on; the violent teacher was glaring directly at me. I could only ask why he hated me so much for coming into detention on time and taking a seat in silence.

Thankfully my mind wasn't locked with Ganons evil eye for long before blue burst through the door; shadow pushed himself up, sleepiness blurring his vision to see who'd disturbed his slumber. Midna looked a bit relived the thick silence was cut. Sheik however refused to look at blue at all, still not breaking his perfect motionlessness

I looked over to my hot headed companion; he sported a bruised left cheek and a fat lip.

"Sorry I'm late professor" he panted looking like he'd run here "I forgot and almost got on my bus home"

"Silence your stupid excuses!" everyone in the room flinched. Save for sheik. "You think you can come late to detention!" Ganon slammed his hands on his desk and propelled himself into a standing position. "Ill skin you alive and burn what's left of you!"

Shadow covered his mouth with his hand. At first I thought he was appalled by the thought of blue getting hurt. But after more careful inspection anyone could see that he was poorly attempting to hold in his laughter. One other thing seemed wrong with that picture, shadows claw-nails looked normal again.
I wanted to speak to him about why he was laughing at the situation but I stayed quiet in fear of getting pumbled for interrupting the professor.

"Sorry!" blue squeaked holding up his hands in defense "I didn't mean-I'm sorry!"
At this point the enjoyment of seeing blue break into a fearful ramble had gotten to me and like shadow I had to stifle my giggles so Ganon wouldn't hear.

"Take your seat!" Ganon roared "and your detention time has been doubled." Blue bit his lip the way he always did when he didn't want to openly curse. In favor of not pissing off Ganon any more he moved over to the area shadow and I sat at. Shadow openly smirked as the seething boy slumped into his seat. Blue openly glared back. The battle of wills commenced. The two seemed to forget I was there during their mental brawl; this gave me the chance to let my mind wander again.

I looked quickly back to Ganon who was smoldering due to the fact that one of his 'juvenile' students had arrived late to his hellish detention time. His gold colored eyes openly expressed his hate towards children of all ages. While he was like this it always seemed to take all of my power not to scream 'if you hate us so much why do you keep this job! Why do you bother teaching if you yourself know nothing about your subject? And why FOR THE LOVE OF GOD do you hate me? I've done nothing!' but I was smarter than that. I took pride in the fact that he probably hated me because I never failed any of his assignments or tests. He most likely despised me because he couldn't break me. I sighed and laid my head on the desk. Drawing pictures on the smooth wood with an invisible tool and tracing the patterns.

~begging for mercy~

It was long after blue had arrived that I felt consciousness pull at me again. My body felt heavy and I was unwilling to sit up. The slight sound of a pencil scratching against paper and the rhythmatic one of nails pounding against a nearby desk finally made me submit to pull myself off the wooden surface groggily looking around the room. Ganon had fallen asleep as I had. Sheik still hadn't moved, Midna had migrated over to where blue, shadow, and I sat and had given into unconsciousness. Blue was continuously hitting his own desk with his nails while shadow was writing something. A quick look at the clock reveled that we'd all be here for another hour I gave into the urge to groan at the boredom I was already beginning to feel

"So…" I muttered, my voice was still a bit slurred from my slumber. Shadow looked up from his notebook, slowly as if he was a little sleepy from his own work. Blue jumped a bit and glared at me for not warning him of my upcoming conversation "how you guys end up here?"

Shadow smirked sluggishly. Something about the room seemed to make all of its inhabitants tired considering every one there was ether drowsy or asleep.(1) the air around us felt heavy and no matter how many times I tried to rub the sleepiness from my eyes it continuously came back, each time with stronger vengeance.

"Well. After you left green pointed out that red had stolen blues cookie, blue lost his temper. Like always" he added the last part quietly so as to not let blue hear it. But due to the closeness he heard it anyway and shot a glare in the dark haired teen's direction "anyway after that he hit red. In a spur of the moment deal I got up and punched him. He tried to punch me back. We got into a small fight. Some teachers broke us up and we were condemned to detention with Ganon"

"You make it sound like I didn't get in any hits at all" my cerulean eyed friend snarled. I noticed his hair was a bit disheveled; he'd probably been asleep at some time during our detention hours.

"That's because you didn't" shadow replied with a yawn. Blue stood, he woke Midna in the process. I warily looked over to Ganon who hadn't let his slumber be disturbed by the foolish boy. Reaching up I put my hand on his shoulder.

"This isn't the time or the place blue. You can call shadow out for a fight later" he looked like he wanted to protest but logic got the better of him, he huffed and fell back to his chair with a light plop.

"Is it so hard to stay quiet?" Midna hissed glaring at blue with molten red eyes. Blue glared right back, his pride getting in the way of any second thoughts that would stop him

"Is it so hard not to look like a slut?" he barked, shadow snickered and Midna seethed

"Is it so hard not to act like a whiny five-year-old" blue and Midna engaged in glaring battle. I sighed and laid my head down. Shadow looked at me with a hit of sympathy. Out of what I assumed to be his own annoyance he turned to the angry teens

"Hey! Moron 1 and moron 2. I have a challenge for you. We'll play the quiet game whichever one of you makes it to the end of detention can have all the money in my pocket." They both glared at shadow

"Like we would accept such a stupid proposal" Midna hissed, she fingered the tie keeping her hair in its pony tail.

"Yeah" blue backed up. The two of them had a silent truce until they had dealt with shadow. The purple haired teen just sighed

"I knew you two couldn't do it. You're both just too pathetic"

"What!" they snarled in unison. Blue alternated his glares from Midna to shadow

"I could beat her at anything" blue boasted deciding Midna was his main enemy here

"Yeah right" Midna chuckled in a way that made it seem like he was joking with her.

"So prove it." shadow sighed "the game starts now" and from then detention was left in blissful silence

~begging for mercy~

A quick glance at the clock said that detention was to end in about five minutes. Ganon had woken up shortly after shadows deal with blue and Midna. At this point not even he wanted to be here anymore. His golden eyes stole quick glances at the only time teller in the room.

I sighed and leaned back in my chair. Shadow had gone back to writing in his notebook. And over the entire last hour blue and Midna hadn't stopped glaring at one another.

Finally with about two minutes left Ganon broke. "Get your sorry asses out of here!" He roared

Within the moment he said it sheik was suddenly gone, the door was left hanging open from his escape and none of his things were there any longer. Shadow stood, both blue and Midna broke off their glaring contest to look expectantly at shadow, who in turn looked at them with confusion

"What?" he asked blinking curiously at them. Midna gave a throatily growl

"Well? Who won?" she started fiddling with her ponytail again as she glared

"Well you both stayed silent so… it was a draw" blue immediately seethed

"Then who gets the 'prize' you offered us" he snapped

"You can split it" shadow looked rather pleased that they had brought it up. He dug into both his pockets and pulled up the fabric showing them that they were empty "there you have it. All the money in my pockets"

Midna began growling again "you liar!"

"I didn't lie. I never said there was money in my pockets. I just… implied it misleadingly" blue balled his fists and grabbed shadow by his collar.

"Ill wipe that smirk off your face. I can't believe you made me look like a fool!"

"Are you sure you want to do that here" he whispered smugly "and I can't help it if you always look like a fool" seeing as shadow basically said 'that's a bad idea' and then went on to provoked our short-tempered friend. I decided it was best if I stepped in, not particularly wanting to look like id lost my cool I simply stood and put my hand over blues fist. He looked at me, trying to smother his anger. I just shook my head; blue glared and tore his fist free from my grip before storming away. Midna concealed her anger better she simply stomped on shadows foot on her was out of the room.

Shadow stifled his curses while grabbing his abused limb. Ganon glared at us from behind his desk but didn't voice his anger. I chuckled

"You deserved that" he gave me a grin through his over-exaggerated pain session.

"Maybe I did." He easily put his oh so injured foot roughly back on the ground before stuffing his notebook in his black bag.

I cast my gaze boredly out the window and sighed. The sun was setting already. Quickly sparing shadow a glance I decided I would start my killer hunt today. "Can I walk home with you? I want to avoid going home for a little longer."

He looked puzzled for a moment "why? Is anyone hurting you?"

I blinked "no! Of course not! I live alone remember?" he looked embarrassed.

"Oh… right… sorry" nervously he tried to laugh it off. I smiled

"Anyway can I walk you home?" he bit his lip like it really was a hard decision for him. I mentally kicked myself for making it sound like he was a girl, that kind of blow to his pride would surely make him hate me. But to my surprise he didn't seem to acknowledge it at all

"Sure" he agreed after a long moment, full of energy he hadn't had before. I was still skeptical of him but I tried to ignore it in favor of not going alone.

~begging for mercy~

After we had left the building shadow had become incredibly tense his bright blue eyes constantly sped from side to side as if simply waiting for something to jump out. His grip on his bags strap was turning his knuckles white and the claw-nails hadn't returned, at this point I'd begun to question if id actually seen them at all or if it was a trick of the light.

So far I had stayed quiet but the growing tension was only hanging lower over my head with every step. The night air was quiet and peaceful, while it was still setting the sun hung low on the horizon only showing us the faint glow of the fiery orb. Darkness danced lightly around us its blackness not quite taking over yet, but staying in a nice contrast with the fleeing sun. We could still see but the growing dark was evident. As I pulled myself out of my daze I remembered shadow

"Hey-"turning to start some sort of conversation I realized he was gone. At some point in my distracted state he'd left. The thought scared me as much as it angered me. Why was he so desperate to get away that he would ditch me now of all times?