6. Blue Over Hearing Part two (Aoi's Pov, Oneshot)

Note: I wrote this before watching episode 6

I don't own Vrains

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The best part of being unnoticeable was that you could spend your lunch period however you wanted and nobody would care.

After receiving a brief lecture from her teacher about Akira dropping her off so close to the school, which nearly caused an accident, Aoi decided to walk of her humiliation during lunch.

So embarrassing.

She understood, and was even a little flattered, about her brother going out of his way to drop her off at school fro her protection, she just wished he didn't pull right up to the school where everyone could see.

After a brief five minute walk around the tenth grade wing, she then decided to stop by the bathroom to take a quick piss. Normally it took her less than a minute to to her business and leave the stall but...

"Did you see Zaiszen-san this morning. What a bitch. " A catty female voice drifed into the stalls. Aoi tensed, she was used to girls gossiping about her but it never ceased to hurt.

"I know right. Ahe acts all 'don't mind me' and 'I don't care about', yet she has her brother drop her school off in a limo. Can you believed her." Another, more high pitchted, voice added in.

"Yeah, and she doesn't interact with anyone. I mean what a snob, she acts like she thinks she better than everyone else. I can't stand people like that." A third on commented.

With one hand on the inside of the stall door, Aoi let out a sigh. She didn't have the confidence to face those girls and at the very least roll her eyes at them, but... it wasn't like she could stay in here all day either.

The moment she left the stalls and washed her hands the group of chatty girls shut up, their owever massacred eyes widened in horror. However, as Aoi left the restroom they gave her got one lat jab. "Ooooh, awkward. Hahahaha."

Aoi bit back her lip, tears, and shook her head, those girls weren't worth drewlling on. Although, she was more than grateful to reach her classroom, where her gourmet bento box was.

"Never mind that, , I almost forgot, look at this. " Though the classroom doorway Aoi saw a green haired chubby boy, who she believed his name was Shima, was holding a magazine with a smiling Blue Angel on the cover. Aoi giggle. It was fun to hear people talk about her alter ego. "Isn't she gorgeous, Yusaku." Shima was now practically drooling all over Blue Angel's face and Aoi had to cover her mouth from bursting into laughter. Although she didn't exactly agree with the magazine itself, it seemed to take her less seriously as a duelist and more as a cute girl, she knew it was just fodder that was meant to make money so it didn't really bother her. Her fans already believed in her as a duelist and if nothing else the mag would just get more people to notice her alter ego. "She's amazing isn't she, the best female duelist in all of Vrains !"

"If she is the best female duelist in all of Vrains than how come they only dedicated a few paragraphs to her dueling. Even then they don't talk about her style, or even the duels themselves. Just how quickly she rose through the ranks, and her victories. Not to mention each of her pictures are virtually the same. Even Go Onizuka isn't this much in the spotlight." That voice was one she didn't recognize and made her stop. Oh yeah, it was from that slacker boy, Fujiki was it?

"But she's so cute, just look at the flower shape mark on her face. She 'sl ike one of those anime magical girls come to life."

"Well if you ask me, she is gaudy and over rated." That made Aoi's heart stop, but not because of the criticism, she heard worse scrutiny before, but because this was the first time it wasn't filled with jealousy, strawmannirg, or even bitterness.

"Eh what do you mean, she's beautiful" shima said, waving around the magazin as if his life depended on it.

"If we're going to go by her appearance alone then I can give you three reasons. One, her wings a dispropotnate to her sized and look funny. Like they more decorations than actually wings. Second, she has too many decorations, flowers, hearts, wings, and stuff like that, everywhere, it kind of excessive. Sometimes less is more. Third, I understand using what ever you can to duel, but the way she waves, winks and stuff like that makes me think that she uses her charm instead of actual competence to win and that SOL technology picked her as their cover girl based on her looks alone. "

Not wanting to hear any more Aoi made another lap around the school taking in all the what that pink and blue haired boy had said. The boys words rang in her head endlessly . She did know why. It wasn't the first time Aoi heard critizim form alter ego. Infact, Akira himself made it clear to her that he did not approve of the duel idol. Normally she would just brush it off. Dismissing it as some sort of a jealous rival, a spiteful opponent she defeated, or even straw-man. But this time Fujiki's voice lacked all of those qualities. Instead, it was quick and to the point, and since Fujiki seamdidn't really dueal he had nothing to gain from bad mouthing her either.

Aoi shook her head, it wasn't like on person's opinion mattered. She was the idol of Vrains. So what if Sol Tech picked her to be their icon based on her looks over her skills, one wa just as good as the other. Besides, would people really follow her as much if she looked the same as she did in school? Of course not. Anyways, people cheered her on because she had kick-ass skill, not because she was a big shots sister, being super cute was just an added bonus. Being blue Angel in Link Vrains was so much better than being just plain Aoi Zaizen at school. Even if she did come short of her true end goal.

As Blue Angel she was admired, looked up to, noticed, all the things that wasn't able to obtain in the real world... but she wasn't loved. Not romantic love, she had yet to experience anything beyond a superficial crush, and no matter what her feeling her fans claimed they had for her she doubted it was true genially love, but the secure familial love that only a family member could provide.

Not since five years ago, when her parents died had she believe that she was loved.

Everyone who was ever nice to her as Aoi just seemed to want something from her. Even Akira just seemed to nothing but pick on her.

"Get good grades Aoi", "Don't embarrass our family Aoi", "Try to look a bit more presentable Aoi", where just some of his little nit picks.

Was it too much for him to say "Good job Aoi, I'm proud of you." and not because of what she did as the doe eyed idol, but as the plain school girl who nobody, including her brother wanted to be around. And this was not because just she wanted attention, lord knows she got enough of that of Blue Angle, but because part of her wanted to know what was it like to feel secure... special, valuable. Not just as a student but as a person. That she was worthy of love, friendship and emotional support. Aoi shook her head again, as this crossed her mind.

Why? Why did Akira deny her his love and support? Did he think she was unworthy of it? Did he think of her as damaged goods? From him, from anybod?!

It sure felt that way.

During middle school girls were total bitches to her. At the start, when they heard of her wealth, they would act all nice and friendly, ask her to eat lunch with them, or even to their birthday parties and sleepovers. But when they released, just like the duel club, that she wasn't going to take them to the mall and buy them thousands of dollars worth of gift or introduce them her to her big brother, they would all but immediately shunned her. Then they spread nasty rumors that she was a "stuck up rich bitch" that look down on everyone who she didn't think of as worthy. This wasn't helped by her naturally introverted nature and Akira's advise to 'just ignore them' and to pretend they didn't exist. Easy for him to say, he wasn't they one who had to put up with it.

Unfortunately, even after the rumors fizzled the label of the "bitchy up rich girl" seemed to follow her even today.

Boys were slightly better, but they still ignored her too for same reasons. Except for Shima-san, he was nice enough, the only person in the duel club who didn't treat her as the ticket to the good life, but he was too busy with Fujiki-san and his own goals to pay much attention to her. Not to mention the unspoken hot or not list that goes on in every high school classroom didn't exactly boost her popular or social opportunity. Akira himself was too busy with work to even pay attention to her except to give his usual criticisms.

Geez, no wonder she was always ignored, not only by her peers, but her brother as well. She was just s plain, self pitying Aoi Zaizen, in contrast to her beautiful, cheerful, alter ego.

Sigh, what did she she have to get a little attention from Akira? She already tried capturing Playmaker herself via public duel. After all, who wouldn't mind beating, or for that matter loosing, to the most popular duelist within Link Vrains. But.. he didn't take the bate.

Oh what was she to do, it wasn't like she could just walk up to Playmaker, rub up against him like in the movies and-

Then it came to her like a ton of bricks. Of course, why hand't she thought of it sooner. Instead of luring him out with a public duel, she'd lure him out with her feminine charm, as Blue Angel of course. Once she was away from her drooling fans/not on a mission for Sol Tech she would go look for Playmaker. Once she found him she would thank him for saving him earlier and then pull him into a hug, making sure to rub her artificial breasts onto him, and give him a light kiss on the cheek that would make hime swoon. Once captivated by her looks and charm, and making sure there was nobody else was around, she would lure him into an alleyway and into her personal cubby. Her cubby was a space that Sol Tech provided her, only she had access to, and only she decided who cold get in and out of there. Even Sol Tech couldn't gain access without her permision. Once she got playmaker there she would trap him, contact the sol tech people, all the while she continue to seduce Playmaker, who'd be blissfully uaware of her plan until the cyber cops, or whatever they were called, got there and then hand him over.

It was the perfect plan...except for one little, okay HUGE, problem.

How the hell was she suppose to find Playmaker? He wasn't exactly a spotlight searcher and only really appeared when the Knights of Hanoi were around. Even if she were to try to desguise herself he'd probably see right through her, plus it would probably attract too much attention as well and then for her plan would end before it even began. Also, thanks to Akira's strict, yet unspoken, no boyfriends rule and the fact that most males didn't give Aoi a second, or even first glance, Aoi didn't really know how to seduce or even attract a man. Sure as Blue Angel her cutesy wink, and blow kisses act made men all but fall at her feet, Aoi she doubted that would work on the stoic Playmaker.

Aoi tightened her arms around herself as she walked. Hmm, maybe this was wasn't such a good idea. Oh who was she kidding this was completely hopeless. She wound't be able to capture Playmaker if she had a 50 ft net.

Maybe she should just stop trying to get her brothers attention and just accept that she was an unlovable looser, destined to spend her life as a future old maid and only get the affection she craved in her alter ego form that many people didn't even know was her.

Yeah, pathetic.

"Perhaps I can be of help." A smooth, male voice said out of a shadowy corner of the hallway and pulled Aoi from her solo pity party.

"W-whose there?" Aoi turned and looked around, thinking it classmates trying to play a prank. Only to have her brown eyes meet a pair of pale blue ones

ok so this was Blue Over Hearing Part two (oneshot) hoped you liked it

However, as I said, once Aoi made her formal debut, I would end this and as she did earlier this week, well...

Plus ending on chapter six goes well with the whole numbers thing in the anime. Also, my other ideas don't really fit into Blue Speculations, and not just because their not canon either.

Don't worry I have other stories lined up

I wanna thank everyone for reading this, favoriting, following, supporting, reviewing, (*sending hugs*)

I hoped the you enjoyed it and please tell me what you think, good bad, indecent please let me know and once again thank you :)