[M.E] Run Like Hell - Jin Woo

[Hiyami]

Hiyami - poor, innocent little Hiyami - had just stepped into the classroom when everything went black. Why was that? Well, she wasn't too sure either until she felt the clothe against her skin and realized that someone had thrown a sack over her head.

Of course, at this point, she protested. Loudly. With many movements and struggles and trying to get the hell out of there.

It didn't work.

The poor Asian girl found herself neatly shoved into the sack - completely caught, per se - and unable to get back to her feet. Because she was rolled into a bit of a ball upon getting into the sack, it was difficult to maneuver. And on top of that, the sack was too small to allow otherwise. And the opening had been tied shut.

She allowed herself a single curse word - 'shit,' if you must know - before closing her eyes and listening to what was going on.

"You got the goods?" Hiyami realized that it was a male voice.

"Yeah. Let's get goin'." And so was that.

"Ooooh! This is going to be so much fun!" It was a girl this time.

"I know, right? So romantic!" Another female.

"You're only saying that 'cuz it's not happenin' to you." the first male scoffed.

"Well, duh," said the second girl, "Who wants to get matched up with a stranger? Better someone that's not me."

"I dunno," came the voice of the second boy. "She's quite pretty. I wouldn't mind getting matched with that."

And the world suddenly tilted as Hiyami was hefted. She squeaked - a muffled sounding squeak, of course - and promptly squeezed herself into the smallest human ball that the human body could possibly make. Who knows? She might've made a whole new world record.

"Anyways, you girls lead the way. He'll take her wherever you want."

"What about you?"

"Me? I gotta wait for the other one."

"By yourself?" that was the second boy - Hiyami had begun to pay attention again.

"No, you dumb ass. The others are gonna be here in a coupla minutes to help. Now git movin'. Don't wanna get caught, do ya?"

At this, Hiyami made a major sound of protest - a shriek.

"Where are you taking me?! You stupid--" And at this point, she trailed off into a slew of Japanese insults, with the occasional Korean curse - learned from her mother who learned it from her grandmother.

She would've kept going had something not smacked the side of the little Hiyami ball. Or had she not been knocked into something. What with her being both in the air and in a ball and in a sack... It was kinda hard to tell what was going on.

"Shurrup." It was the second boy. She guessed that the first one had already left. "We're takin' ya somewhere else."

And instinct kicked in to silence her. Being dealt a bad hand had offered her a helluva lot of pain - and an ingrained habit to obey when something felt wrong... as it did here.

"Don't worry!" cooed the first girl. "I promise it's nothing bad."

"Yeah, nothing bad at all! You're gonna live out every girl's dream!" said the second. "You're gonna get married!"

And Hiyami, her mind obviously forgetting the previous warning to be quiet, reacted.

"What the hell?!" she cried out.

And then she winced as she felt the world spinning as she felt herself collide with something that hurt. A corner of sorts - she guessed it could've been a table. It hurt like a bitch and she guessed that she'd have a bruise in her side - a big one, too - but found a plus to the injury.

A hole had opened up in the bottom of the sack. One that she could gradually widen with time.

"Don't worry, though - it's not permanent." said the first girl, probably trying to reassure her.

"Yeah, no worries. It's a fake marriage." chimed the second.

Yeah? Well, fake marriage or not, I'm getting out of here!

[choongsung]

Jin Woo was sitting on a bench out in the school yard enjoying the decent weather outdoors. It was slightly hot, not too humid with clouds dotting the blue sky. Just the type of day that the boy enjoyed.

"Yeah... I'll take you to go see that movie right when school finishes" Jin Woo told his younger sister through the phone. "The time's set for 5pm alright? Is anyone el-"

The boy felt himself being lifted off the bench and thrown onto the floor. It was fairly painful even though Jin Woo landed on the grass behind him. When he looked up, the boy found himself staring into the grinning faces of his fellow classmates.

"...What the hell was that for", asked the boy angrily as he attempted to get to his feet. Before he could do so, Jin Woo was blindfolded, bound by his hands and feet, and carried by his peers off to some unknown location.

"Dammit what the f*ck guys"

"Now, just relax and calm down Jin." came a male voice somewhere off to the left. It was the voice of the kid who sat next to him in most of the classes.

"Yeah really, nothing bad's going to happen to you. Just stop struggling"

This time, a girl's voice made its way into the scene not too far away. "Aww how cute! Our Jin's getting matched up with another girl!"

Wait.. matched up? Jin Woo heard of stories and saw random students being dragged off to some location of the school. However, all he saw was that their friends wanted to play pranks on them and the "dragee" often came back quite embarrassed.

"Guys... where are you taking me now"

"Don't worry little man" said one of his friends named Seth.

Little man, it bugged Jin Woo enough that he was one of the smaller guys in the class but it now frustrated him that he had been chosen because he was small and easy to handle.

"F*ck man, why you gotta be using me for your entertainment just because I'm one of the smallest guy you can find."

"Aw stop complaining Jin" came another female voice. "It's a really cute matchup. You and that upperclassman that is."

Finally Jin Woo felt his classmates slow down and place him on the ground. The blindfold was removed and Jin Woo found himself in a place that he never knew existed on the school.

"Yeah buddy, you're getting married!"

"...You got to be kidding me"

[Hiyami]

Once she'd widened the hole - it was something of an accident though, but one she welcomed - , she ran for it. She fell out of the bag and rolled a bit when it ripped open, but quickly got to her feet and ran. She felt herself getting tackled, but once she made impact - which hurt her lungs, by the way - , she rolled - to get her attacker [the first girl] off of her - and got to her feet to run again.

The second girl helped the first to her feet, but Hiyami didn't stop running, despite being painfully winded. Ah, the things that hardship can allow a body to do. She swore when she came to a dead end, because she could still hear them coming after her, and ducked into a closet and shut the door behind her.

The janitor's closet, to be precise. Which locked from the outside.

"Oh, shit," she muttered to herself, trying to decide which was better - getting married to a stranger, or hiding int he closet until someone freed her.

[choongsung]

"No joke, you're getting married to a cute upper classman!" said one of Jin Woo's classmates.

Sighing, Jin Woo looked around this unknown part of school. Nothing looked familiar whatsoever and he could not find a way to get out of there. Among the crowd surrounding him, Jin Woo noted some familiar and not so familiar faces. Whoever those people were, they seemed to be quite excited about what was going on.

"This f*cking sucks.." the boy grumbled to himself. "All this school finds entertaining is a bunch of fights and weird events like these fake marriages"

After a couple minutes, Jin Woo noticed that the other students were quite preoccupied with setting the marriage up. They seemed to be waiting for some upperclassmen to meet up with them. It was basically to move Jin Woo and his "soon to be fake-Wife" into the wedding area. Jin Woo begun to roll side to side and ended up rolling on the floor and into a hallway. Too bad his hands and feet were bound, it would have made getting away a lot easier.

Just as the young boy got out of view, the upperclassmen looking for Hiyami spotted Jin Woo.

"HEY YOU! GET HIM!"

"Shit..."

This time Jin Woo found himself tied to a chair as his group of "friends" learned that the girl had gone missing. Rather than becoming disheartened, everyone seemed to be even more adamant about getting those two to pair up and become married.

[Hiyami]

After roughly ten or so minutes - according to her watch and it's blessed light-up function - she banged on the door. She hadn't heard anyone in a bit, so she was hoping that the searchers had left. This meant that she was hoping for random people to come by to open the door. It was sad, yes, but she was left with no choice.

Another couple of minutes, and she still had no response. Hiyami was a bit worried. But she kept banging on the door, her mind set on the idea that someone would come by.

And when the door opened, she'd almost hit the person opening it on the face. When she saw who it was, she promptly wished that she had. That's right. They found her.

She tried to dart under boy number one's arm, but it was to no avail, since girls one and two were both there.

"Why me?" she whimpered as she was bound - securely this time - hand and foot - before being thrown efficiently over the boy's shoulder. "Why?"

[choongsung]

Jin Woo had been bound and guarded for more than fifteen minutes when some upperclassmen walked in and told the group that they had found their target. Before Jin Woo could process what was going on, he found himself being carried by several of his classmates to another location.

"Finally we got this settled" mumbled one of the kids carrying Jin Woo.

"Yeah, apparently the girl was hiding in some janitor closet"

Hiding in a closet... gee that sounds quite familiar

When Jin Woo's group had met up with the upperclassmen, the excitement that had previously died down quickly returned. Some were sniggering while others were "oohing" and "ahhing" all over the place. Apparently, these mock marriages were a valid excuse for being late to class. In fact, even some teachers attended these weddings just for the fun of watching kids getting married to each other.

"Bunch of weirdos.." grumbled Jin Woo as he noted another crowd coming towards his direction. That group apparently was the one of his "would-be wife".
Shifting his weight to get a better look, Jin Woo noted that he may have seen a familiar face.

"No.. that can't be her. She's too good at running away to get caught".

Apparently, that girl was causing quite a bit of commotion trying to get away.

[Hiyami]

The boy and his two female companions made a mistake. The first was not keeping watch on her - the two girls were in front, talking with the boy, while she herself was faced backwards. The second mistake was not blindfolding her. She could see perfectly well, and she rather enjoyed that sight. Especially when she looked down and realized that they hadn't tied her very securely, having relied on strips of clothe.

This... would be even easier than she thought. Discretely, she brought her bound wrists to her mouth, and essentially untied them. They, stupidly enough, had used a regular shoelace bow. She'd simply gripped it with her teeth and pulled free. Then, hands happily falling loose, she grabbed the clothe in one fist, even as she promptly began to strike her captor about the head.

Her captor dropped her, and she immediately reached for her feet, quickly undoing that one. She grabbed the strip of clothe there, and then hastily used her awkward positioning as a sprint-base, promptly moving to get the hell out of there. She'd moved quickly and efficiently enough to have caught them off guard.

She promptly sprinted down the hall.

[choongsung]

Once again, another commotion was heard as the girl escaped and sprinted down the hall. In his classmate's excitement, Jin Woo was dropped as the others began chasing after the escapee.

"Now that hurt... a lot.. Yoona's probably thinking what the hell's going on.." As an older brother, Jin Woo thought about what he would tell his younger sister if she were to ask why he had to leave all of a sudden. Yes, he was a horrible liar in the fact that he usually ended up getting in trouble because he would tell the truth.

More importantly.. was that who I thought it was? I coulda sworn that the girl being carried was Hiyami..

Several moments after Jin Woo was dropped, he was now picked up by a large wrestler friend who promptly carried the boy as if he weighed like nothing. Apparently, practically the entire school was after Hiyami now.

[Hiyami]

She sprinted down the hall - hey, she could be pretty fast when she wanted! - and darted into the stairway. It was the main stairway, which meant a bunch of people were there. As Hiyami reached the top and glanced below, she realized what seemed like half the school was after her now. And gaining people on the way. She swore, before seeking out the rooftop stairway. She accidentally knocked someone over, but didn't have the time to stop. Instead she threw an apology over her shoulder and continued to climb the stairs.

At last, she opened the door, breathing in the fresh air. She turned and shut the door quickly - and not a moment too soon. They'd been catching up. She locked it from the outside - it was the kind that had to locks, anyways - and breathed a sigh of relief. She moved towards the edge of the school, catching her breathe and enjoying the view.

[choongsung]

It seemed like forever to Jin Woo as he saw people one after another, chasing after the girl. This was amusing to the boy as he never saw anything like it. People appeared to be calling each other from radio to radio, attempting to catch the girl and bring her to marry Jin Woo.

"This wedding event is getting to be a little ridiculous don't you think guys?"

"Well we never knew she'd be this hard to subdue and catch!"

"Yeah.. most others just went along with it after they were caught. They just wanted to get it over with".

"You guys seriously participated in more than one?!"

"Uh... yeah "

Apparently, the marriage committee had also hired some football players and wrestlers to become involved in this lovely affair. When they found that the door was locked, the hulking beasts punched and kicked at the door until they broke the lock and the door open.

[Hiyami]

At the crunching sounds behind her, Hiyami swore. Loudly. She turned to keep her eyes on them, and stepped onto the safety railing that kept students from falling from the rooftop. She was nimble enough to move on this without any worries of falling - even if she did, she was more than able to catch herself on something.

She moved to a corner - the one farthest away - as she watched them coming through the door. Once they were all through, she simply waited. They got closer to her - she let it happen. And then, when her path was clear, she grinned, almost evilly, and then promptly hopped from the rail - making sure to step on someone's face - and essentially leapt to her freedom, heading for the doorway. This time, she ran down the steps, skipping quite a few at a time. Then, outnumbered - she'd run into a crowd going up and those that she'd passed were coming after her - she let herself fall over the handrail. She went only one flight - it was enough - before returning to safety. She made a face at those above and entered the corridor.

"Idiots." she muttered, moving down the hall.

[choongsung]

"So.. any luck catching that girl yet?", Jin Woo asked mockingly as many of his classmates came back sweaty and tired.

"Dude, just shut up."

"Could you let me leave now?" By this point, Jin Woo was getting irritated because everyone seemed to be really hyped up about this marriage thing. It completely sucked for Jin Woo because he was dropped and carried all over the place like some rucksack.

"Nah, we'll make the marriage happen, no worries!"

While the guys happened to be chasing Hiyami around, many of the girls seemed to have been lolligagging around and doing nothing. When some of the upperclassmen girls saw Jin Woo, they started giggling as they come closer to "inspect" him.

"He looks a bit young you know.."

"But so does our little asian friend, she looks even younger than he does!"

"You know, they still make a great match!"

"I'm not a zoo animal you know.."

[Hiyami]

"Miss Mitsukiri!"

Hiyami paused - that was definitely not a student's voice. She turned to see one of the math teachers heading towards her.

"Um, yes? Can I help you?" she asked, confused.

The woman looked at her as she stopped before her before finally nodding.

"How would you like some extra credit?" she asked. Hiyami simply looked at her, even more confused. "I'm a fan of weddings, dear. If you'd simply allow it to happen, I can promise you extra credit in whatever class you need it."

This... This was worth something. Hiyami paused, simply pondering the idea of it. She liked it. She liked it very much. Not only would she be able to get extra credit, she'd be able to choose the class. That was always a plus. She supposed marrying some unknown guy for a game wouldn't be too bad against that.

She paused for a moment, before nodding. "You've got yourself a deal!"

And the woman smiled before leading Hiyami to a group of radio-wielding males.

[choongsung]

"OKAY GOT THE GIRL!"

"Dude how'd you manage to catch her?!"

"The math teacher apparently offered her extra credit and she fell right for the trap!"

"...Sweeet"

While the males seemed to be preoccupied with Hiyami, all of the females seemed to be preoccupied with Jin Woo. For the boy, it was NOT a fun experience as they seemed to scruitinize him in almost every way.

"Mmm.. I don't like the way he dresses"

"What do you mean?! The way he dresses is nice, it's just that hair."

"No.. but he does have a nice face"

"Eff my life.. Seriously!!" Soon, the entire party of the "pro-marriage" individuals began making their way towards the designated wedding area. This time, the crowd seemed larger than before because news spread throughout the school that the girl had been lured in with the thought of extra credit. Some were obviously friends of Jin Woo and Hiyami, but a vast majority just came in order to see how the wedding would turn out.

[Hiyami]

Hiyami pouted a bit as she was surrounded - they'd gotten into some weird formation that essentially had her walking in the center of a group of boys that looked like they were on steroids. Of course, that could be their hours in the gym or on the field, but that didn't stop her from comparing them to drug-abusers.

Even though she was quiet, she was observing everything. She noted that they were going to the drama club, and after a couple of moments of confusion, she shrugged before deciding that it was for the costuming. After all, actual wedding gowns and tuxedos were expensive - there was no way that any of the students would throw money like that away for just a single wedding.

Still, she was essentially shoved into the room - into the arms of waiting devils girls.

"Well, aren't we going to have fun with dressing you up?" one of them cooed. Hiyami reconsidered the affair, but was immediately latched onto by the many she-devils. There was no escape.

They were chattering for a bit, but Hiyami did pick up on the fact that they'd sent the tuxedo with some boys.