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Story Format: "Speech" & -Thoughts-Against All Odds
Chapter One
Br—innnngggg,B-r—iiinn--gggg,Br—innng! The alarm went off loudly making the figure on the bed to clumsily grope around with one hand. Finally the clock was batted to the floor, silencing it instantly. With the blanket still drawn over the head and the only part of the body visible was the hand that was still hanging on the bedside table, it was pretty hard to tell if the figure on the bed was actually a male or a female.
For afew minutes everything was silent until said figure started to stir. First the blanket was lower and then suddenly a young man sat up abruptly. His flaming red hair was tangled pretty wildly from the sleep. Sleepily he looked around taking in the surrounding of his dimly lit bedroom. It took him awhile for his eyes to focus properly. Squinting, he reached down the side of the bed to recover the clock that he had knocked over earlier. Then he lay back down on the soft bed. Sighing, he was about to fall back into his dreamland when something nagged at his conscious. – Hmm… there's something I got to do today- He thought sleepily shifting into a more comfortable position. –September first…Sept..fi-rrst— "Huh! First Day of School!"He practically shouted, his large amethyst orbs widening. Quickly he braced himself, calming his nerves. Slowly he reached to his bedside and held up the clock. Seeing that he still got enough time to get himself ready, Kenshin drew out a breath in utter relieve. Slowly he got up from bed and trotted over to the bathroom at the other end of his overly large bedroom.
Aoshi sat composed as usual at a circular breakfast table. He grazed through the morning paper while sipping a cup of his favourite caffeine. Once in awhile he sneaked a glance at his wristwatch.
With on last gulp of his coffee he looks out at the beautiful scenery outside. The lake outside was glittering brilliantly in the morning sun. And from what it looked like the breeze seemed to be pretty nice as well. Hearing footsteps entering the room, he then heard his cousin's distinct voice ordering one of the butlers for, presumably a cup of tea. Without turning he said icily. "Forgot it's a school day?"
Catching a glimpse of flaming red hair floated by from the corner of his eyes he turned to meet his cousin.
Kenshin stood over at the glass pane overlooking the large blue lake. Fully dressed in his school uniform of black trouser, long sleeve white shirt, black and gold striped necktie and black leather shoe.
The butler entered with a tray of tea. Expertly he poured the hot liquid into a porcelain teacup and handed it over to Kenshin who accepted it quietly. Quickly the elderly butler placed the tray onto a silver trolley, which he left standing beside the circular table, and strode out of the room.
Kenshin sipped his tea silently before turning to Aoshi and asked pleasantly, "So where's Sano and Yahiko?"
Aoshi stared calmly back at his cousin. "Yahiko's out in the garden and I haven't seen Sanosuk—"
A loud banging noise was heard outside the closed door followed by heavy thudding of footstep. Afew seconds later the door banged open with Sano standing in the doorway, his school shirt half buttoned and his neck tie still hanging loosely around his neck. "Oh! Thank God! You two are still here." He exclaimed flouncing into the room. "Thought you guys left whitout me again!"
Kenshin looked at his friend, amused. Then chuckled lightly,"Well, Sano..That was realll close. Afew minutes more and I think Aoshi might not wait."
Sano flung himself onto a wicker chair beside Aoshi and sighed. "Great! So where my beloved, sweet brother?" He asked buttoning up the rest of his shirt. Aoshi looked boringly out the window.
"Why do you care where I am? Rooster Head!" A voice sounded as another teenage boy walked into the room from the adjoining garden door.
Sano turned around to see his brother standing in the middle of the doorframe. He smiled contently"Just to make sure you're still around and not going about messing with my car."
Yahiko glided into the room airily a bunch of freshly cutted roses in his hand. " I'm just thinking along that line…" The young boy placed the roses carefully onto a tray on the trolley and helped himself to a cup of tea. He chose to ignore his older brother and walked off to join Kenshin at the glass pane.
"Nice day isn't it, Kenshin." He said happily. Kenshin nodded in agreement, stirring his cup of tea listlessly.
"Yea..nice day 'cause Tsubame chan's going to be around." Chirped Sanosuke halfway through his own cup of coffee.
That cause Yahiko's ears to turn bright red. Everyone in the house was well aware that the young boy had pretty much fallen head over heels for the shy young girl.
"It's none of your business, Rooster." Grunted the younger boy iritatedly.
Folding the morning paper up, Aoshi gently place it down onto the table and stood up. "I think we should get going." Without saying anything more he silently made his way out of the room.
Kenshin and Sano quickly follow suit, while Yahiko waited until everyone had left before hurriredly finished off his tea, grab his roses and ran out of the room.
The four of them walked down to the extra large garage that kept more than ten cars of various types.
"So…who's going with who or should we all go solo?" Sano asked rubbing his hands together in sheer excitement. When it comes to cars, Sanosuke seemed to enjoy every single thing about it, the speed, the danger and ofcourse the beauty of the vehicle.
"I'm taking the red mini and no one's going to stop me." He concluded swinging the key around.
And without waiting for anyone he jumped in and starts up the engine. "See ya in school." And he sped off down the hill and out the front gate. Aoshi stared after the spiky haired guy as if it was the usual routine and sighed, while Kenshin just chuckle. Yahiko too, shook his head and looked over to the two older guys."So?"
Aoshi pulled out a key from his shirt's pocket causing to the young boy to nod in an understanding manner. "Sure if you take the black Mercedes then I guess Kenshin and I will have to take the dark blue Porsche."
Kenshin looked down at his best friend's younger brother with a very uncomfortable look.
"ER—Yahiko? I guess that's just you…with the blue Porsche." And he pulled out a key from his side pocket making Yahiko glowered darkly.
"Great so you want me to risk my life with that sport car on my own? No way! I'm not even of age!"
"I didn't mean for you to drive the car, Yahiko, I meant you can have one of the drivers."
Yahiko stared back his large brown eyes bulging with rage. "I get a driver while the rest of you get to show off on the first day of school by speeding in with the latest sport cars? That's not fair! Especially you with that new Lexus of yours."
Kenshin scratch his head unnervingly.
"Yahiko why don't you come with me." Aoshi spoke up flatly, "I don't really feel up to driving this morning. Why don't you go call up one of the driver."
That made Yahiko to smile broadly "Great! I'll be back in a jiffy." And off he ran back into the house.
Kenshin smiled lightly at his cousin."Thanks, Aoshi."
He knew that the only reason that Aoshi had offer to have Yahiko take the ride with him is because he didn't want to ruin such a fine day by listening to argument that was brewing a moment ago. But it was altogether a rather big favor, for Kenshin really wanted to try his latest car that morning.
"You better get going if you don't want to be late." Aoshi replied icily while unlocking the car and climbed into the backseat to wait for Yahiko.
"Sure see you in school then." The redhead uttered and climbed into his own vehicle. And without waiting for anymore reply he switched on the engine to feel the vibe of the latest model of sport car that he had fallen into his possession. And he took off at full speed concentrating hard on how the starting school year would be like.
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The main gate of the school was crowded with various types of cars. Being clearly the classiest school in the country, it had established a certain policy about the admission of its student. Only children of high-class families are being accepted with exception for very few scholarship winners per year. So it was not very surprising that the school were loaded with snobs and show-offs. So far the first day of the school year had pretty much been the same as it had been the previous year and the year before. Students and parents arriving in grand cars and talking loudly about where they had spent their summer. In the middle of all this a young girl walk up to the school's gate and drew in a big breath. She was not of the upper class families nor a scholarship winner, yet she was granted a place at this grand school. Holding her head high she walked pass the main gate and into the ground where most of the student body gathered to greet their friends, gossip and socialise with newcomers. Immediately afew girls showed up infront of her.
"Hello. You're new aren't you? What's your family name?" asked a girl with curly brown hair and greenish eyes.
"Where are you from?" ask another slim girl with shoulder length auburn hair.
She smiled brightly back. "Hi, Kamiya Kaoru. I'm from out of town."
Another girl in glasses spoke up, "Kamiya…never heard before. A scholaship winner?"
At the word scholarship the other two girl's smile faded slightly.
"No, I'm not clever enough to win any scholarship." Kaoru grin uncomfortably.
"Oh! That's great then! I'm Hana Ririe." Said the green-eyed girl pasting on what Kaoru could tell straight away was a fake smile.
"This is my two best friends. Ishima Tohru and Hotaru Kyoko. " She said gesturing to the other two girl who stood nodding slightly.
"Hi.."Kaoru replied waving back uncertainly. But then a shriek was heard throughout the student population that were gathering around on the lawn. Kaoru turned to see what was causing the commotion only to hear the three girls to her side squeal and scuttle away to join the others who now stood huddling in groups next the road that lead up to the main school building.
"What is going—" She asked one of the girl standing next to her. But for her response she just got one of those.'Not knowing anything look.'. And took off to join the huddling groupies.
"Fine." Kaoru muttered and walked over to see what was going on. For awhile she thought -What the hell's wrong with these people.- Then her thoughts were put to rest as she heard cheers erupting from either sides of her. And right before her eyes, a bright red sport car zoomed into the school ground amidst the cheers. Followed closely by what looked like a very long white limousine. Both cars stopped abruptly right infront of the school building and a guy with the spikiest hair Kaoru had seen stepped out of the first car. He made one wave with his hands towards her direction and Kaoru could hear from somewhere around her sounds of breath being drawn by girls. –Weird people!-
The guy, Kaoru realised had made his way to the door of the limousine, which creaked, open to reveal a stunningly pretty lady with dark hair flowing almost to her waist.
The two of them then walked together into the school building not caring one bit about the cheers and the shouts emitting from the lawn.
"They're still going out? I'm amazed!" Kaoru heard one girl spoke up. "They're a perfect match!" Cried another voice.
Kaoru couldn't help but roll her eyes as she watch the parking valet rushing out to take care of the fabulous red.
-Is this the reason why they're all crowding here? To see people coming into school and then gossip?-
And yet again her thought was cutted short with another round of cheers. But this time it was a black Mercedes that made it's way up to the building. Two guys stepped out this time. From where she stood Kaoru could see the emotionless expression of the taller one, who is presumably older. The other was a boy of around thirteen. They too disappeared into the building.
"Wait..Where's..Don't tell me he's not studying here anymore!" She heard someone wailed.
"Don't be ridiculous! Why would he leave!" replied another as a matter of factly.
Without warning Kaoru could hear again for the third time that day the sound of engine coming in her direction. And sure enough a dark silver convertible Lexus sped in, drawing cheers and this time shouts from everywhere around her. All kaoru could see at first was the magnificent blood red hair of the driver that was blowing wildly in the wind. But then as the car got closer she had to gasp. For a brief second she could swear that she saw the driver glancing her way. The car yet again halted at the building. The driver stepped out deliberately slow amidst the deafening roar. From behind her, Kaoru could hear many voices shouting out what sounded very much like a name..."Himura!" -What the?- The guy turned for a second to stare blankly the crowd before he too disappeared into the depth of the building.
As soon as the guy was gone from sight the crowd dispersed chattering excitedly to one another. Kaoru was still not very sure what had happened. -Was it some kind of a tradition?- Kaoru decided that she could never rest soundly without knowing what exactly just happened, so she walked up to a girl who looked quite friendly and ask."Er excuse me..but who are those…?"
"Those people?" The girl concluded then chuckle. "You must be new here."
Kaoru smiled unnervingly back.
"They're the idols of this school. " The girl said simply with a tinge of distinct pride. "Makimachi Misao and you?"
"Kaoru, Kamiya Kaoru."
The girl's eyes seemed to sparkle up but it was gone as fast as it came.."Great! I'll show ya around and I'll intro—"
"MISS MAKIMACHI!" A man of mid thirty came rushing towards them at the lightning speed.
Misao rolled her eyes and muttered darkly under her breath, "Not again."
"What are you doing here? You're suppose to be inside by now. Shinomori san will be worried about you."
Misao turned to see a confused looking girl so she said quickly. "Sorry.Don't mind him, he's my gramp's assistant. Come let's go inside." She said dragging Kaoru away with her and calling over her shoulder,"You can go home now. And tell gramp not to worry!"
Once they were in the building Kaoru couldn't help but widening her eyes. It was so pretty. Expensive looking statues and painting littered the hallway as if they cost nothing.
"Er Misao?"
"Hmm?"
"How come no one's in here yet. I mean why do they just stand there in the middle of the lawn."
The young girl chuckle again. "They're not allowed inside the building before we have made our checking in."
"We?" Kaoru repeated.
"Yea..." Misao replied shortly.
Kaoru nodded trying to understand what her newfound friend meant.
"Hey...so who are those people that got out of those cars?" Kaoru asked curiously.
"Which one?" asked the other girl nonchalantly. "If you mean the spiked head..then Oh there they are!" she squealed happily then sprint off into the direction of a group of people standing together, pulling Kaoru with her.
Kaoru's eyes widened as she saw it was the same group of people she saw saw earlier on.
"Misao!" the spiked haired guy ran out of the group to meet the young girl and pulled her into a big bear hug.
"Quit it! I can't breathe." She girl complained struggling in the tight embrace.
Kaoru could only stand there not knowing to do. The group infront of her was clearly stunning. They could have easily pass as models.
"Guys!" Misao's voice broke into her thought. "I got someone to introduce ya."
"Kaoru meet...Saggara Sanosuke." She said pointing to the spiked haired guy who waved good-naturedly at her and wink. "Enchante' Mademoiselle!"
Kaoru nodded politely back.
"Shinomori Aoshi.." Misao said this time throwing herself at the icy looking man, who Kaoru just realised had a very piercing blue eyes.
He nodded curtly at her causing her to smile nervously back.
"Takani Megumi." Misao said gesturing to the dark haired girl with full lips and a confident smile.
She too nodded in reply.
"That's Yahiko...Sano's brother and Tsubame...er his girlfriend?" Misao said pointing at the younger boy standing near a fountain deep in conversation with a girl.
"And lastly...Himura Kenshin." Misao said pointing to a dead hot guy with flaming red hair that was leaning casually against the wall. He turned to meet her eyes boringly and Kaoru could he his lips curved up into what look like a smirk, before he completely turn away.
"So people! This is Kamiya Kaoru. She's new here.!"
"New eh! Great, well…you can definitely hang out with us." Sanosuke said jostling Kaoru's shoulder lightly.
"Er..thanks." The young girl whispered.
"Now had anyone seen the Yukishirous?" Megumi spoke up causing everyone to look around to check the area.
"I was outside the whole morning but I'm sure I haven't seen them…maybe they're not—" Misao stopped abruptly.
Kaoru could smell a very strong scent of perfume hitting her nose.
"I guess..they're here, Misao." Sanosuke muttered folding his arm across his chest.
"Morning…" Came a placid drawl making Kaoru turn towards that direction. She saw two more stunning people, standing some short distance away. A guy with the whitest hair she had ever seen who was smiling at the group and behind him stood a very pretty girl with dark hair.
"Finally." Megumi sighed.
The two newcomers walked in closer to join the group. The guy eyed Kaoru strangely but kept his silence, while the girl just smile mildly at her.
"So now that everyone's here. Let's go and start this school year shall we?" Saunosuke shouted gleefully and flew off into the school's office. Everyone made after him, but Kaoru just stood there not sure what to do next.
"Aren't you going?" A voice behind her made her jump. She spun around to see the dead sexy redhead staring at her boringly. The young girl blushed furiously.
"Er.. I don't –"
"Then step aside you're blocking my way." He said in a careless tone. Without warning he pushed Kaoru aside and walked airily off into the office without a second glance at the young girl who stood gaping in disbelieve. -My goodness. Could anyone be ruder than that guy!-
A second later Misao's head popped out of the office's door. "Kaoru what are you waiting for! Come on in." She cried motioning for Kaoru to join her.
Kaoru blinked and quickly ran off to join her new friend. -At least Misso seemed like a very nice person.-
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