Kibishii

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by lady_shogun

by lady_shogun

Third pov

The school bell rang, signifying that its the end of the school day. Out of shock, Creed fell out of his desk. Everyone laughed at him. Their English teacher, gave Creed a stern look. "Mr Portgas, no sleeping in my class!" He scolds. Creed grumbles, but apologizes either way. Next to Creed, Ty had a amused look on his face.

'He didn't take his pills this morning.'

"Alright, class. As I was saying, your homework-" but the teacher was cut off when he saw Vinsmoke Ruby trying to sneak out of class. "Miss Vinsmoke, what on Earth do you think you're doing?" The teacher asked. Ruby shrugs, "Leaving class. Its the end of the day, isn't it? And besides, I have training that I need to get to-" "Well I'm sure your coach can wait, Miss Vinsmoke. So sit back down!" The teacher dictates. Ruby let out long drawn sigh, "Nah...I'mma leave." And just like that, Ruby boosted it out of class. "COME BACK HERE MISS VINSMOKE, OR YOU'LL RECEIVE A DETENTION!" "THATS THE LEAST OF MY PROBLEMS, ASSHOLE!" Ruby yells back.

The teacher started to chase her, but Ruby was faster than him. She gad inherited her Dad's long legs, and she inherited her Mum's crazy high stamina. She pushed her way past any ambling students, and sped out of the gate, and down the street. Eventually, she stopped running when she thought that she was a good distance away from school. She let out a breath, and proceeded to walk the rest of the way to training.

Ruby jumped when she heard a motor bike noise. "Ruby!" Ruby turned, and behind her, was her good childhood friend, Moonlight D Blake, riding her motorbike. She parked next to Ruby, and swung herself off. She took off her helmet, and flicked her hair back. "Heard your stirred shit with Mr Yamaguchi again." Blake chuckles. Ruby rolled her eyes, "I can't afford to be late to training. You know what your Mum's like." Ruby mumbles. Blake sighs, and throws Ruby a spare helmet, "Get on. Mum'll be happy that you're early."

Ruby clambered onto the bike, and they rode off. It was true, Blake's Mother, Arabella, was her coach for ice skating. Arabella used to be a famous Prima ballerina. Now you're probably thinking: "Shouldn't Ruby have a famous ice skater, rather than a ballerina?" Well, since ice skating involved the same amount of beauty, grace, discipline & stamina like prima ballet, Ruby begged Blake, who coincidentally had a ballet Mother, to ask Arabella to be her coach. Arabella, agreed, seeing that she was Blake's best friend. Ruby finds it tough, but she's glad to have Arabella around.

'Without Arabella-san, I won't even be able to skate like how I do now.'

They later arrived at the ballet school, with five minutes to spare! Ruby tossed Blake the helmet, "Shot, girl." Ruby beamed. Blake winked, "You know that I've always got backs." she crowed. Ruby rolled her eyes, "Well I better go before Arabella punishes me for being late." Ruby chuckles. Blake smirks, "До свидания. Давай." she called as Ruby jogged inside. She fast walked over to the changing rooms, and changed into a pair of tights, a red singlet, and tied her ballet shoes onto her feet. She grunted about her hair, and lazily tied her short blonde hair in a half ponytail. She walked inside the studio.

The first thing that Ruby noticed was Arabella doing a perfect vertical splits, something that Ruby could do herself. Arabella looked like she was texting someone on her phone, before she noticed Ruby. "Ah, Ruby." Arabella stood normally, and chucked her phone inside her back near by. Arabella turned to Ruby, and frowned, "How ungraceful." Ruby was confused, "I'm sorry?" Arabella sighed as Ruby came in closer, "How many times have I told you," Arabella produced a wooden spoon, and whacked Ruby's back, not too hard, but not too soft. "OW!?" "Your posture is horrendous. If you wanna be a good ice skater, then you need to have good posture. With good posture, you'll be as graceful as a Queen." Arabella noticed Ruby's hair, "And what is this!? This mop!? That is nowhere near tidy! What if your hair comes undone, and you mess up your entire routine? You'll fail!"

Ruby rubbed her back, but managed to straighten out her posture. Arabella sighed, "Lets put it simply: No grace, no championship medal. Are we clear, Ms Vinsmoke?" Arabella asked rhetorically. Ruby nods, "Yes Miss Arabella." Arabella nods, satisfied. "Right, as punishment for these two set backs, while you're practicing, I will randomly stop the music at any given time, and you must stay in that position for one full minute. This will happen ten times. If you move during any of those full minutes, then you will start all over again." Ruby nods, and proceeds to do the punishment.

Just like what she said, Arabella did stop the music at random intervals. Ruby did her best to stay in each position for one minute, and each time, Ruby was always in either a difficult position, or a position that was really awkward to be in. But, Ruby endured it all, and managed to get through the punishment easily. Arabella nods, "Good, good. We still have a lot to work on, but it'll be easy. We'll get through this together. Now tie your hair up properly, we're going to head over to the ice rink now."

Ruby did exactly that. Arabella was strict, very strict, including when it comes to ballet. But Ruby knew that it was for a good reason. After all, Arabella only to help Ruby with training, and to improve her skills in ice skating. Last year, Ruby didn't have a very good coach, and ended up doing everything herself. Because of that, she ranked 3rd, and not 1st in Nationals. But now that she has Arabella on her side, Ruby is winning so many medals, its not even funny anymore.

*timeskip*

Arabella clapped, "The king crab that Blake ate last night had even better free leg than you!" Arabella scolds, as Ruby landed a Quad salchow. As irritating as it was, Ruby knew that it was true. Ruby carried on with her free skate routine, and did a single handed triple axel, single toe loop, then a quad toe lop combination.

'Melt into the music...'

When the music ended, Arabella clapped. "I want you to repeat your combination spin again." Arabella informed. "My spin?" Ruby asked. "Yes. Your arms in that spin weren't tucked in, which is why you almost toppled over; your arms were slowing you down." Arabella observed. Panting, Ruby nods, and started the spin; the camel spin. Ruby closed her eyes, and span, but made sure that her arms weren't flying out, and staying in place. Arabella clapped, "I've seen enough." Ruby stopped spinning, "How was that?" Ruby asked. Arabella smiled, "Beautiful. But for now, lets just go over your programme. We'll practice that spin again another time."