I am a girl after all [WINDBREAKER - Umemiya Hajime]

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: backstory pt.2

I was an angry 11-year-old when I arrived at the Furinen Orphanage. Of course, the other kids would try their best to be friends with me but I was a troubled kid so I would either ignore them or beat them up.

I was a handful, to say the least.

I hated every single person I met and I trusted no one,

The caretakers did everything they could to make me happy but happiness was not on my list of priorities then. I knew I had to do something with the relationship I had with my father, I knew I had to win back his affection.

The only way to do that was to make him proud of me,

And to do that, I had to be the best like what he hoped for me to be.

So I fought...

And fought,

And fought,

And fought some more,

I made a name for myself at the orphanage, I was the worst kid that was ever brought there.

 There were also several instances where I was supposed to be transferred out to a different orphanage, or maybe a mental facility. Still, somehow Yuki-sensei would talk the seniors into letting me stay every single time.

I was only at the orphanage for a week but I've been requested to transfer about 3 times already for sending several kids in the emergency room.

I was a complete menace.

Until I met the person who would humble the crap out of me,

The memory of how I met Ume was still clear as day to me. It was a hot Sunday afternoon and I had just gotten home from the park after beating up 6 middle schoolers for bullying some girl's kitten.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't beat the shit out of those kids to avenge the little girl and her cat, I did it for my gain. I wanted to see if I was getting stronger and sending 6 middle schoolers home crying has definitely proven that.

An 11-year-old taking on middle schoolers, sounds unbelievable, right? Delinquents would be knocking on my doorstep for a fight.

Everyone cleared the way for me when I came home. The other kids completely avoided me and so did the care workers. Well, except for Shitara Yuki-sensei but he isn't really that relevant to how I met Ume.

As I was heading for the mini library section of the orphanage to read, I would usually spend my free time alone and read by the bookshelves, I overheard a conversation between the other kids at the orphanage.

"I heard Ume-nii-san beat up around 10 high schoolers all on his own!" 

"That's so cool! He's so strong!"

"Ume-nii saved Grandma Hayami from some delinquent group from another town! And when his friends came to help him, the bullies were already knocked out on the floor!"

"Ume-nii is a hero!"

"Ume-nii is the strongest!"

The last one really caught my attention.

Just hearing all those praises pissed the hell out of me.

Ume? The strongest? Stronger than me? I highly doubt that,

I stomped my way over to the kids who were talking and I grabbed one of them by the collar to make him face me.

"Who the hell is this 'Ume-nii' you all are so proud of?" I hissed bitterly at them, and they quickly froze and started shaking in fear as soon as I interacted with them, "Answer me!"

"D-Don't h-hurt us!" The kid I grabbed cried,

"Just answer my damn question!" I yelled at them, "Who is this Ume? I want to fight him!"

Again, they didn't answer,

I was about to sucker-punch the kid in the face but right when I was about to, someone from behind grabbed my wrist. I quickly let go of the kid, twisted my arm, and pulled away so I could beat up the person who was interfering with our conversation.

The moment I turned to face that person, I was greeted by the most beautiful and angelic boy I had ever seen.

Judging from his school uniform, he was a 1st year middle schooler, so he was about 13 years old. 

If a 13-year-old managed to beat up 10 high schoolers then he must be pretty tough, I'll give him that.

He had white hair and pretty bluish-grey eyes. 

My heart started beating really fast and I could feel my cheeks heat up. I don't know what I was feeling, this is all too new to me.

My anger suddenly subsided for a split second, but then I remembered about this stupid Ume person.

"What do you think you're doing?" The white-haired boy asked sternly, 

"You do know it's rude to interrupt a conversation," I told him as I stood up straight and dusted myself, showing him I was completely unfazed by his presence.

"Conversation? How? With your fist?" He raised his eyebrow at me,

"Yeah? Who says you can't talk with your fist?" I told him what my father used to tell me when he was teaching me martial arts, "Fighting is a way to communicate-- like I am telling this kid I am pissed off with him for not answering me-- And you are?"

"Umemiya Hajime," He's the strongest these kids were talking about! "And you are?"

Saves me the trouble of looking for him,

"Sugawara Yuzuru," I smirked, "I heard you're the strongest, mind proving it to me?"

"I am not fighting yo--," I did not wait for him to finish his sentence, I was not going to take no for an answer. 

I swiftly ran towards him and rained him with punches and kicks but to my surprise, he easily blocked and evaded all of them.

"If you want to fight me so bad then let's do it outside," He said as he glanced over at the kids who looked completely scared, he didn't want the other kids to watch the violence take place.

We both then headed outside where several kids were watching from a safe distance, but the youngest ones were inside, the older kids made sure the youngest was not around to witness the fight.

I am not summarizing the fight when I say I got knocked out in one punch.

Umemiya and I lunged at each other and were about to punch each other right in the face.

He just happened to get to me first.

I got completely knocked out cold after getting punched right in the nose.

So yeah, the first time I met Umemiya Hajime, he broke my nose.

But that didn't stop me from being a menace... I still was-- to him, at least.

A/N: backstory pt. 3 tomorrow, I wanted to put everything here but it's going to be way long so I'm adding a pt.3

Kinda filler-ish so yeah, I'm pretty empty rn, it's actually sooo fooking hard writing a story for a green flag, if you've read my other books all of them are red flags, its so much easier to write drama with red flag male leads T___T