There was a lot of tension inside class 3-5. The air felt heavy, and everyone inside the classroom focused his or her eyes on something. They did not know where to look but at the back of the class, where two girls were trying to wrestle each other into the ground. The girl with light-brown hair was furiously trying to claw the flesh out of the smaller, black-haired girl. Accompanying the struggle were two distinct screams that stunned the onlookers, with one being a loud and ferocious roar and the other a shriek of helplessness that was close to deafening. In-between the ferocity of that situation was screeched sentences that were borderline incorrigible to some people, and it was the signal for everyone to interfere before things went out of hand.

"Get off of me!" Screamed and shouted the short girl. Tomoko Kuroki was doing her best to preserve the eye that was still inside her left eye socket, though bleeding by the eyelids. "What the hell are you doing you bitch? Somebody, help me!"

Tomoko looked like a bloody mess. Her left cheek was red from bruises. The rest of her face was full of scratches and a few of them drew out blood that traced down her face. A line of blood flew out of her mouth as she struggled. With each push from the brown-haired girl on top of her, they splattered all over their clean uniform. Tomoko's voice was shaky, almost to the point of sounding delirious. She was scared out of her wits, and her desperation to break away from her assailant's grasp was almost futile. She was clearly overpowered, pinned to the ground, and was protecting herself from further harm through sheer determination. She was truly in pain and utterly confused.

Koharu Minami was not having it. She did not want to leave without at least landing another punch on Tomoko's other cheek. Her breathing was irregular, hyperventilating, and her eyes were bloodshot as the adrenaline in her head took over. Throughout her one-sided massacre against Tomoko that had not lasted for three minutes, she had done so many damage to Tomoko. Koharu was like a rampaging beast, a feral animal consumed by anger bent on making Tomoko suffer as hard as she should.

That girl was getting too cocky.

That girl was turning too arrogant.

That girl was starting to piss her off.

"Tomoko Kuroki!" shouted Koharu repeatedly like a demented mantra as she tried to put her hands on Kuroki's neck. "I'm going to fucking kill you, you bitch!"

"What the fuck did I do to you?" Using her remaining strength, she pulled back her right feet up to her stomach and kicked Koharu away from her. She could feel her kick connecting, but it was shallow to inflict any real damage on her. As soon as she realized that, she got up and ran circles around the classroom to flee from the front door. She thought about dashing straight for the back door, but she did not want Koharu to suddenly grab her legs and smack her into the ground again. She was in full self-preservation thoughts as she stumbled her way, hitting against many of her friend's chair and desk along the way, toward her escape. She turned around as she struggled to walk with her sprained leg and screamed as she saw Koharu standing up before running at her in full speed. Tomoko could not help feeling in danger, as many of her senses told her to run as quickly as she could. "Get away from me!"

"Get back here you creepy girl!" Now, many of their classmates had shielded Tomoko from Koharu. It was clear as day who the rest of the class stopped before Tomoko ended up with further injuries. Yet, even with the entire classroom trying to stop Koharu, she would not stop. She shook her arms, elbowing her peer's face or punching their stomach before dashing straight at Tomoko when she found a gap in their wall. The flames of hatred for Kuroki in her eyes were undying even after what felt like an hour had passed. If anything, as if someone poured them with gasoline, they grew bigger, darker, and welling inside it the uncontrollable release of rage that welled up inside Koharu's heart. "I'm so done with your freaking bullshit!"

"Stop it, please!" Tomoko was sobbing clear tears out of one eye and a blood-mixed one out of the other. Her body was hurting all over and exiting her classroom made her entire body wince in strained muscles and swelled injuries. Her mind was replaying repeatedly the thoughts that none of this was real, that all of this was a nightmare, but the pain she felt right now was all truth. Her body could not lie that she was severely hurting. "I just want you to stop, please!"

"Too late for that you stupid bitch," Koharu screamed before jumping on a classmate's chair and leapt over their desk toward Tomoko, who was now trying her best to open the front sliding door. "Once I'm done with you, I'm finally going to be popular again! Then I can hang around with my friends like we used to do!"

Tomoko slammed the sliding door to the side open with desperation and quickly jumped out of the classroom all the while her classmates were trying their best to hold Koharu in her place. Afterward, she stood up before limping herself to the nurses office. Looking back at Koharu, she saw her movement becoming erratic as she howled and groaned while struggling to break free from the poor attempt of hold by her classmates. The feeling had not sunk in yet, but seeing Koharu's face of insanity was something that will forever haunt Tomoko.

As she lost consciousness, the last thing she thought about was how today was supposed to be a perfect day. Maybe this was it for her. In her next life, if God was not so cruel on her the next time, she wished to experience what it was like to be popular.

Disclaimer: The author does not own WataMote or its characters

Author's Note: This is not a Koharu Minami bashing fic.