Chameleon Ami
It was yet another day at Juban Junior High and Ami Mizuno had made it to the grounds with time to spare as usual. She was walking down the corridor and no one took notice as she was walking quietly. It was common for people to ignore Ami as either they weren't friends with her or didn't want to talk to her. What was unusual was that Usagi walked past her while trying to balance herself not to trip and fall down. No "Hi Ami, hope you have a lovely day" from Usagi and no blush from Ami today. It was like Ami wasn't even there...
She managed to get to her seat without any issue but something else wasn't right... Makoto was there sat down yet there was no wave from her or a quick chat before class.
"I wonder where Ami is today..."
Ami put her hand on her chin trying to work out for herself why Makoto had asked that question, she was there but Usagi and Makoto blanked her out. She looked at the person next to her, Yumi got out her mirror from her small pink bag and Ami had gasped to herself. She was not visible in the reflection at all, it was like she was a ghost.
Ami froze into place thinking of the worst case scenario, she was dead and life played out business as usual. Upset that her presence was there but her body wasn't. Having that possibility, she went towards her desk and reached towards the pencil that was there. She grabbed it successfully as the pencil went into her hand and not through it.
Miss Sakurada had just opened the door as she arrived into class and saw the pencil move from the desk to floating in mid air being partly visible. She blinked her eyes and wondering how it managed to do that.
"That's pretty weird..."
She thought that she was either overtired from the night before or needed a drink to wake her up properly as she was half asleep, trying to blank out the strange sight she sat down on her chair to rest. Looking at the students, she counted with her right index finger how many were in class and she noticed one was missing. The one spot where the pencil moved. Normally she would say "Good morning class" and the rest would say "Good morning Miss" but what she saw made her a bit unease. Also unusual was that Usagi made it in class on time but she wasn't in the mood to cockily smile towards the always late student.
Miss Sakurada instead shouted, "Has anyone see Ami Mizuno today?"
Straight away the entire class shook their heads, Usagi and Makoto included. Ami looked away and she tried to shout at the top of her voice "I'm here" but in terms of the teacher, she heard something that sounded more like a mouse and looked underneath her desk to see if there was a mouse in the classroom. Miss Sakurada was scared and so was Ami for different reasons.
Getting back up from the chair, Miss Sakurada went towards the chalkboard and wrote down one English word "ADJECTIVES".
"Okay, today we are going to be learning adjectives, synonyms and antonyms in their usage and in literature", explained Miss Sakurada and turned directly towards a certain blonde who was looking towards the "empty" seat and smirked, "Usagi, spell considerate."
Typical of Usagi, her eyes widen has she didn't understand the word in English despite that people called her that word including from Ami.
Usagi bit into her tongue and gritted, "C-O-N-C-ID-... U-R.."
As Usagi froze herself unable to spell the word, straight away Miss Sakurada growled at the blonde annoying her.
"You never frigging learn Usagi, you always let me down."
Out of nowhere a softly spoken voice had said, "C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R-A-T-E."
Miss Sakurada was looking left and right on who said the correct spelling. Her ears are saying that it sounded like Ami but she was unable to see her. The other students did not open their mouths. It was getting creepy and she looked at the desks as well. No signs of tape players and went straight back to her chair defeated and exhausted.
She thought to herself while breathing in and out, "This is getting rather terrifying. I'm going to ask for a ritual done in this classroom or ask Rei Hino from the Hikawa Shrine to do an ofuda. Now I'm wondering whether Ami had died and become a yurei, she never had anything against me unlike Usagi. I considered her to be a role student for the class. There has to be an explanation why the pencil moved and why I heard both what sounded like I'm here and that correct spelling. Did I drink too much sake with my date last night?
Must be. I'm normally rearing to teach but I'm too drained."
For no reason the teacher shouted, "AMI!"
"AMI!", also shouted Usagi and Makoto as they thought that she was in class and heard her voice too.
As soon as the three shouted her name, Ami faded in from her seat. Not as a yurei but as her shy, gentle fully visible self with a small frown on her face. With a scream, Miss Sakurada ran straight out of the classroom in pure fright. Terrified that Ami had popped up from nowhere.
Usagi cheekily smiled, "I wish Ami would do that every school day!"
As it turned out, the youma that they fought the night before had splashed something onto Ami. She got a tissue after going back normal and it was an invisible ink like substance. Due to the rush of Sailors Moon, Mercury and Jupiter fighting the youma and getting their sleep for the next day, they had no time to change clothes and the transformation didn't clear the mess either.