ANIME DEATHMATCH

CHAPTER I: Double Trouble
By: Ronin Babes

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
Mika groaned and rolled over in her bed, pulling her pillow over of her head. But it did little do mute the annoying beeping of her persistant alarm clock. Sitting up, she looked at the alarm clock with bleary eyes. It read 6:59. Exactly one minute before her twin sister's, Jessica, alarm went off.
"Oh, shut up..." she murmered as she smacked the button on the top of her alarm down, silencing the nagging beeping. She threw off her covers and slipped on her purple fuzzy slippers and tugging on her matching robe as she walked down the hall to her sister's room.
She looked at her watch right outside Jessica's door and counted silently to herself. "One... two... th-"
THUMP!
Mika grinned to herself and continued down the hallway to the bathroom.

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Inside her room, Jessica lay in a tangled heap on the floor. Human vs. the bedsheets. Jessica groaned and looked at her silent alarm laying on the floor next to her. "Not again... this is my fourth alarm clock since we've BEEN here. I've got to stop doing that."
She managed to untangle herself from her bedsheets and pulled on her fuzzy light blue slippers and matching robe. She grabbed her school clothes and walked out into the hallway which was dimly illuminated in the early morning light. Upon opening her door she was almost immeaditely blasted with a wall of steam from Mika's morning shower.
Grumbling to herself, she knocked on the bathroom door. "Mika! Turn the shower down just a bit. We don't want roasted Mika for dinner tonight."
She heard a muffled answer from the other side of the door before she continued to pad her way down the hallway to the other bathroom. She stifled a yawn as she turned on the water. 'This is torture,' she thought, 'no-one should have to get up while its still dark outside.'
After their showers, both girls dried and put up their hair. And, unlike Mika, Jessica put on a touch of blush, mascara, eyeshadow and lipgloss; not too much, but just enough to seem natural. She smiled at her reflection in the mirror before opening the door - and running right into Mika.
"Yikes! Sorry Jessica. But have you seen my hair scrunchie?" Mika asked her.
"Uh, this thing?" Jessica replied, holding up a white scrunchie and holding it out to Mika. "You know, you should really try DOING something with your hair BESIDES a ponytail... curl it or something. Or leave it down."
"No way! Curling irons and I do NOT mix!! I don't even know which end to hold!! Besides, if I did, people would think that I'm YOU!"
"And that's a bad thing?"
Mika smirked. "Yes."
Jessica just rolled her eyes and pushed her sister out of the doorway as she made her way down the steps. "Oh, wait!" Mika called to her right when she reached the top of the steps.
Jessica twirled around. "What?" she asked, clearly annoyed. She tapped her foot impatiently.
"Umm... do you have any of those shorts? The skin-tight ones? I can't stand being in this..." Mika looked down at her school skirt, "THING."
"Mika, that THING is a skirt and," Jessica said, grinning, obviously planning payback for her sister. "Besides, you look absolutely DAHLING in it! And you want skin tight shorts?? Do you have to ask?" Jessica rolled her eyes as she pushed open her door to her room and disappearing inside. She came back out and handed a pair of shorts to her sister who grinned and quickly put them on underneath her school uniform.
"Now, can we eat breakfast?"
Mika looked down with a worried look on her face that turned to suprise when she looked back up at her sister. "Oh, no!" she exclaimed.
"What?"
"We're late!! We're going to be late for our first day of school!"
Jessica shreiked. "Ack! Oh no we've still got to get our stuff together!! And I haven't even gotten to eat yet!!" she said as she turned to run into her room but stopped in the doorway. She turned around and faced the smirking Mika. Jessica narrowed her eyes. "Ha ha ha. VERY funny." she growled at her.
Mika laughed then shreiked and ran down the steps into the kitchen as Jessica started to chase her. Once in the kitchen, both girls took their places at the table and were immeaditely met by a cherry voice.
"Hello girls! And how is your day so far?"
Jessica sat, still glaring at Mika from across the table. "Fine," she said through her teeth, still obviously mad at her sister.
"I thought that you two would never wake up!!" their dad said turning around.
Mika grinned. "We were awake some time ago. Unlike you who was snoring away when I passed your room on my way to the shower earlier."
Their dad walked up to Mika abruptly, shaking the spatula in a nagging manner. "Watch it Missy... you two had better hurry up and eat now. It's almost 7:30 and you have to leave now if you want to make it to school by the first bell!!"
Both girls shreiked and jumped up, nearly knocking their chairs over. Jessica grabbed a bagel from the toaster and Mika grabbed a poptart. Both girls grabbed their books and ran past their dad, each giving him a kiss on the cheek before storming out the door. "Bye dad!" both girls yelled over their shoulders in unison.
Outside, both girls were running hurridely in the direction that they had walked the day before. Jessica stuffed her bagel into her mouth as Mika wolfed down her poptart in record breaking time. Turning a sharp corner, both girls ran smack into two guys.
"Omph!" Jessica said as she landed on the sidewalk, and Mika likewise. Both guys were sitting on the sidewalk in front of them, both parites books were sprawled out all over the pavement.
"Hey, are you alright?" one asked, getting up. He had nice, blue hair, pretty blue eyes, and, to Jessica, an irresistable smile. He moved to help her up, as Mika stood up on her own and the other boy still sat on the ground.
"Whoa," said the other guy. "Am I seeing double?"
"We didn't run into them that hard Kento!" the blue haired boy smiled. He turned his smile to the two girls. "Sorry for that... collission. My name is Rowen and this knuckelhead down here is Kento." he said about the brown haired blue-eyed boy on the ground next to him. Bending down to Kento, Rowen hissed, "Do you mind?"
Kento smirked as if he was planning something. Suddenly he started to howl in pain as he tried to stand up. "Ooooww my leg! I think I broke my leg... ooohhhhh..." he moaned, grabbing ahold of his leg as if he were in pain. Jessica grew concerned and kneeled down next to the howling Kento. "Where does it hurt at?" she asked, looking, to Kento, totally angelic.
"I... my leg..." he said, rolling his eyes in the back of his head then falling to the ground.
"Kento!" Jessica shreiked. She checked his pulse. "Oh, no! I don't think he is breathing but he has a pulse..."
Mika was now starting to look worried. At first she thought that he was just putting on an act, but he wouldn't take an act this far - would he? "He-he's not really hurt... is he?" she asked timidly.
"He may need CPR!" Jessica said, growing more alarmed.
Suddenly both girls looked up to Rowen who was trying not to laugh. But when he couldn't hold it in any longer, he burst out laughing. Mika's face turned to confusion as Jessica started yelling, "How can you laugh at a time like this? He could be dying!!"
"Sure he is. Tickle his stomach; he's just putting on an act. He is perfectly fine, aren't ya Kento? And the winner of the most dramatic performance goes to Kento Rei Faun!!" Rowen said, clapping.
Kento opened one eye and looked up at Rowen, his face had turned red from holding his breath for so long. "Man Rowen, why'd you have to go do that for?"
"Maybe because you're going to make us late, and that you were trying to steal a kiss from..." Rowen trailed off, not knowing the girls names' yet.
Jessica stood up, blushed, and looked down at her feet. "Jessica," she managed to get out.
"And I'm Mika. Here are your books," she said, handing them their appropriate books back to their respectable owners.
Kento sat up from his place on the ground and took his book from Mika. "Hey, you're wearing the school uniforms from Hakura High!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah," Mika said, "that's our high school that we attend now. We only have fifteen minutes until first bell guys," she informed them.
"Alright. So you're new to Japan, or just this high school?" Kento still asked, looking up at the two identical girls.
"Uh, DUH..." Mika said, rolling her eyes. "C'mon Jessica, we'd better get going or we'll be late for first bell!" Mika grabbed ahold of Jessica's wrist and started pulling her in the direction of their High School.
Rowen started walking off after the two girls, leaving Kento still laying on the sidewalk behind them. "Hey!" he called. "Don't forget; we're all late together! Wait for me!" he said, jumping up and running towards the group, which had become quite a distance ahead of him by now.
In front of the school, Jessica started fumbling around in the pocket as if she was looking for something. She pulled out a small folded piece of paper and unfolded it, explaining, "My schedule! I thought I'd forgotten it there for a minute."
"Here, let me see it," Rowen said, reaching out for her schedule. Jessica handed him her schedule and likewise Mika handed her own schedule to Kento's outstretched hand. Kento was expecting something else, and a look of puzzlement washed over his face as he saw Mika smirking. Frowning, he looked down at the slip of paper laying in his hand, and his face immeaditely broke out in a huge smile.
"Hey! You've got first hour with me! Isn't that great?" Kento grinned.
"Yeah. Great." Mika said sarcastically. She turned to look at Jessica, and her twin looked at her and saw a look of desperation on her face. 'Help me!!' she mouthed to her sister, who just sat there and giggled at her.
"Rowen! Hey Rowen!" Rowen looked up and immeaditely smiled. "Hey Ryo! Cye!" Two more guys joined their group. One with dark black hair and pretty blue eyes, the other with light brown hair and matching eyes, 'and a cute smile!' Mika thought. 'No!! I'm not supposed to like boys! C'mon, they're BOYS! I'm supposed to be a tomboy... not a sissy like my sister...' she groaned and painfully tore her eyes from his face and paid more attention to Kento, who still had posession of her schedule and she couldn't afford to loose it.
"Uh, Kento?" she smiled. "Can I have that back now?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. Here." he said and handed it back to her.
Mika then turned her attention back to the two newcomers. "Hi, I'm Mika and this is my sister Jessica." Mika smiled at the brown-haired cutie.
The boy smiled. Rowen turned to the girls and introduced his two friends as Ryo Sanada and Cye Mouri.
"I hear its your first day? First hour bell is about to ring so we'd better hurry!" Ryo said as he adjusted the strap of his bookbag.
"I have no idea where half of my classes are... except first hour..." Mika half-whined and half-grumbled.
"It's ok," the grinning Kento said, "We'll help ya through the day! Hakura High isn't so big that you won't run into one of us, if not all of us, more than once in the day."
"Great..." Mika said, rolling her eyes again and turning to Jessica. "Where's your first hour?"
"Uhh... I really don't know!" she said, looking totally clueless at her schedule. Rowen hadn't helped her much.
Ryo took the paper from her and read it for a second before excaliming, "You don't have first hour with any of US..." he said, looking around at the rest of the guys who had started to giggle a little, "but it's near my first hour so I'll walk you there to show you where it is," he said to the totally clueless Jessica.
Jessica didn't like the way that they were all shifting and giggling, coughing to try to cover it up. "Ummm... is there something that I should be let in on here? I don't see what's so funny." Jessica frowned.
"Oh, nothing." Cye grinned at her which just made the group laugh more.
Bring! Bring! Bring!
"Ikes!! Oh, no! First bell!!" Mika nearly jumped out of her skin as the crowds of people standing around her thinned and started to funnel in through the doorway to school from the courtyard into the lobby.
"C'mon Jessica. I'll show you where your first hour class is." Ryo said, turning to leave.
"Alright, thanks Ryo. Bai guys!" Jessica waved to the guys as she was led into the school building by Ryo.
Kento grinned at Mika. "Well, I might as well lead you to OUR first hour now," he said, accentuating when he said 'our'. He grabbed her wrist and pulled a not-so-happy and protesting Mika into the building. She barely even got in a bai to the guys before she disappeared into the busteling crowd behind Kento.
"I feel sorry for those two," Rowen laughed as the two remaining guys made their way into the school building.
"Yeah, that's for sure. And poor Jessica. She has first hour with Sage! No-one should have to be put through that kind of torture! Especially on her first day!" Cye chuckled.
"Thats for sure! I can't wait to hear their stories at lunch! Well, I'll see you at lunch Cye! Bai!"
"Bai!" Cye waved to Rowen as the two disappeared into their first hour classrooms.

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Jessica slumped down farther in her seat in first hour, slowly getting more and more annoyed at the blonde-haired guy sitting in the row next to her. Continually asking her for a calculator, pencil, pen, a piece of paper, eraser... it was really starting to bother her.
She moved her eyes up to the clock that hung above the center of the blackboard in the front of the room. 'Five more minutes...' she thought, longing for the bell to ring before Mr. Annoying could stop her.
"...so that will be due next week. Five pages, typed, double-spaced..." the teached went on. No-one was really listening to him anyway. Jessica sighed as she gathered her books up. She already had a five page report to write on Japanese history and it was only first hour!! The teacher went on still talking but Jessica tuned him out and focused on only two things - the door and the bell.
Finally, what seemed like an eternity, the ball rang. "Finally," Jessica said under her breath as she made a mad dash for the exit. She quickly stepped out of the room, but she wasn't fast enough to escape Mr. My-Ego-Is-Sky-High, who she bumped into. Jessica groaned.
"Hello there, beautiful..." he said, leaning against the wall. Jessica rolled her eyes and pushed past him. But the blonde side-stepped her and blocked her way once again. "What are you doing Friday night?" he said smoothly.
"Nothing..." she trailed off as he started to grin. But the grin quickly disappeared as she finished. "Nothing with YOU." 'I guess Mika DID teach me something,' she thought. "Now, would you PLEASE get out of my way?"
"Sage! You aren't scaring off all of the new girls on their first day, are you?" someone joked from behind them. Jessica turned around.
"Ryo!" she said, smiling.
"Hi Jessica. Sage, you aren't bothering her, are you?"
Sage put an innocent look on his face when he said, "Who, me? Now, why would I do something like that?"
Ryo just laughed and turned back to Jessica. "Don't mind him. He does this to every girl within a 50 mile radius."
"I thought it was bigger," said Cye, appearing behind Ryo. The two laughed as Sage frowned.
"I do no-" Sage was cut off as a huge group of girls ran up and surrounded him, pulling him away from Jessica, Ryo and Cye, something that Sage didn't exactly resist.
Jessica breathed relaxingly. "Phew. He's gone. I thought I'd never be able to get rid of him!"
Ryo smiled. "Yeah, but that's just our Sage. It takes a 50 pound crow-bar to pry him off of a girl."
"Jessica! Jessica!" a voice squealed from behind her that could only belong to her twin, Mika. Mika ran up to Jessica, Ryo, and Cye and hid herself behind them. "Hide me!" she shreiked. Jessica couldn't help but laugh.
"What did you do this time? It's only first hour!"
"I know!" she wailed. "But I didn't mean to!"
Kento walked up laughing. "Ha ha Mika! That was a good one! You should have seen the look on his face!!"
"Whos face?" Ryo asked, looking from Mika to Kento.
"Mr. Miyako! I mean, it wasn't like Mika spilled coffee on his lap on purpose!! Haha!"
"And how do you know I didn't?" Mika hissed to him, peering out from around Jessica.
"On purpose? Mika!" Jessica scolded.
Suddenly, a teacher appeared from around the corner, a big brown spot covered his lower shirt and upper portion of his pants. Mika skreiked and hid farther behind Jessica and Ryo. "Don't let him get me!" she squealed.
"Where did she go?" Mr. Miyako said, walking up to Kento.
"Eh... I think she..." he didn't get to finish his sentence before Mika had an uncontrollable urge to sneeze. Unable to stop it, she sneezed, revealing her hiding spot to Mr. Miyako.
"THERE you are! Young lady, you'll be coming with me..." he huffed as Mika wearily stood up.
"But it was an accident! Honest!" she said, giving him the face that she gave to so many teachers. The face that she always got out of trouble with. Suddenly, Mika burst into tears, crying, "It's just so hard, coming to a new school where you don't know anybody or where anything..." she cried.
A look of sympathy came over the old man's face as he said softly, "It's ok, I know how you must feel. I'll let you off this time, but please watch where you're swinging your arms next time, young lady." he said, walking off.
As soon as he turned the corner, Mika looked up with a smile on her face. "Phew, that was easy! I usually have to keep that act up for at least five minutes before my teachers give in."
The others just looked at her and laughed. "Wow, we only have a minute until second hour!"
"I've already seen your schedule, Jessica. Your next hour is with me," Ryo said.
"And your next hour is with..." Kento said, thinking hard. "Rowen..." he said, disappointed. "Man," he grumbled under his breath, barely audible for the rest of the group.
"It's alright Kento!" Mika said, slapping him on his back so hard that he fell down. "Don't feel bad. Your third hour is with Jessica. See ya later!" she said, skipping off happily down the hallway with Rowen.
"I have third hour with HIM?" Jessica cried. "Man why do I have to be tortured like this?"
"Just wait 'til lunch..." Ryo said grinning. "Shall we?"
"Sure." Jessica smiled and walked down the hall with Ryo to her next hour as the others split up and walked hurridely to their next hours so as not to be tardy.
Mika and Rowen arrived at their class as soon as the bell rang marking the beginning of second hour. Mika stood up in the front of the classroom as the rest of the class took their seats. Mika's teacher turned to her with a large smile on her face. Mika frowned. 'She's too happy,' she thought.
"Mika... Mika Kenshin, is that right?" When Mika nodded, she turned to the class. "Class, we have a new student. Her name is Mika Kenshin and she just moved here from America. Where at in America?"
"Oh, it's the state of Florida. We lived in a small town near Tampa Bay," she said, more to the teacher than to the class.
"That sounds like a nice town!" The teacher said over enthusiastically as she turned to pull down the world map. While the teacher's back was to her, Mika twirled her fingers around in the air by the side of her head and pointing to the teacher, the sign that meant she thought she was crazy. She immeaditely returned her hand to her side as the teacher turned back around, the same huge smile still plastered onto her face. "Let's locate Florida, class!"
"Umm... I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I don't suppose you want to give me somewhere to sit? Unless you LIKE me up here at your desk..." Mika said.
"Oh, of course. There's a free seat behind... Rowen Hashiba over there next to the window." she said, smiling at Mika.
Mika rolled her eyes as she made her way to her seat, getting a few laughs from the class. She took her seat behind Rowen, whispering to him, "Let's get slap-happy now!"
Rowen coughed, trying to cover up his laugh. "That's not nice!" he said, a small smile tugging on the corner of his mouth.
"I know," Mika whispered, a sweet smile on her face.
"Do you have something that you would like to share with the class Mika?" the teacher said.
"Actually, I think I already have," she said, getting a few stifled laughs out of the class. "About where I live I mean. Rowen was just asking about what part in Florida I actually lived in. And I was just telling him about what a great class this is!" She said, leaning on her desk and smiling brightly to the teacher.
"Well, then," she said, turning back to the map, still seeming to be looking for Florida. "Now, Florida is a magnificent state," she continued, "It's where we get all of our oranges and stuff from..." she said, trailing her finger over the map and passing Florida a number of times.
"I thought this was supposed to be geography class!" Mika whispered to Rowen.
"It is. Mrs. Oda just lets her happiness get in the way of her brain sometimes, what little one he has. I mean, she's like this all the time!"
"Zoned out?" Mika said as she leaned back in her desk and rested her chin in her hand. This was going to be a long, boring class. The next thing she knows, Rowen is lightly tapping Mika on her forehead with the tip of his pencil.
"Uh, Mika?"
"Hmmm... what..." she said, opening her eyes. "Oh, no!" she said as she saw the class filing out of the room. 'I must have fallen asleep!'
"Have a nice nap?" Rowen joked. "It's only third hour now! The day isn't even half over yet. Think you can make it?" he joked, winking at Mika.
Mika muttered something in response as she gathered up her books and followed Rowen out of the classroom. 'Man, why is this day going by so awfully slow?' she whined in her head as she followed Rowen. 'Now, what is my third hour...?' she said, nodding her head in deep thought. Her head suddenly snapped up and a huge smile broke out over her face as she realized that her next class was with Cye.
"Someone woke up awfully quick!" Rowen joked as the two headed down the hallway.

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Jessica looked across the gym floor and giggled as she watched Kento make an attempt to climb the ropes in P.E. class. He looked more like an ape than ever, and the way he climbed so quickly and expertly to the top just proved her theory.
When Kento landed back on the mats, he ran over to Jessica with a huge grin on his face. Jessica couldn't help but laugh as she clapped. "Go Kento! You really had it there! And that look on your face..."
"Hey...! What was wrong with the way I climb? See my muscles?" he said as he flexed his muscles. "These babies are from hard years of working out and that was just simple compared to what I do at Sage's dojo!"
Jessica smirked. "Huh, you've SURE got a six pack on ya!" she said, poking his stomach. Kento stuck out his bottom lip.
"Hey, that isn't fair..." he said pitifully as the teacher released the class to go to their next hour.

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Mika sat, bored as hell at her seat in fourth hour. She rested her chin in the palm of her hand then immeaditely changed positions when she remembered what happened last time she did that. She glanced over to the blonde who had been bugging and bothering her all hour. 'Why won't that annoying little baka leave me alone?' she wondered as she sighed and turned her attention back to her art project.
"Are you sure you don't want to go out with me Friday night?" the blonde-haired boy said, leaning closer to Mika, a huge grin on his face.
'What is he talking about?' Mika thought. 'God, does he ever give up? He's been doing this to me all hour... ARGH!' Mika opened her mouth to say some snide remark to him when she quickly shut it again. An evil smiled curled her lips as an idea suddenly popped into her head. An idea so evil... she just couldn't resist. Mika turned to the boy, her back to her art table as she slid her hand behind her and secretly grabbed her cup of dirty paint water from behind her, out of sight from the guy. She scooted closer to him. "You know, maybe I was wrong... you ARE pretty hot..."
The boy just sat there, a self-satisfaction smile spread all over his face as her words sank in. Mika continued: "Soo hot... that I think I should cool you off!" she exclaimed, bringing the cup out from behind her back and dumping it all over the poor boys head, turning his hair a light shade of pink.
The boy's eyes grew wide as he realized what the girl had just done to him. But he quickly recovered and a look of anger washed over his face as he jumped up. "Why you little..." Mika squealed and ran past the teacher, the eyes of the entire class on the two feuding teens as the bell rang. Mika ran back around, grabbing her books. "Get back here!" he hollered at her as she circled back and made a beeline towards the exit.
"Hold on there just a second, young lady," the teacher told her sternly. Mika stopped dead in her tracks and gulped as she slowly turned to face the teacher. She could hear the boy snickering from behind her. "You think you were really funny back there, don't you?"
"Well... actually... um, no... I - I..." she trailed off, obviously at a loss for words.
"That's what I thought..." the teacher said, walking over to her desk and pulling out a slip of paper that filled Mika's face with dread.
"Oh, noo..." she moaned as the teacher filled out the slip then handed her her portion of it.
"Saturday detention. I'm looking forward to seeing you there... Mika. You're dismissed." she said with a wave of her hand, Mika looked behind her and saw the boy run at her again. She shreiked and tore out of the room to find her sister.
Jessica was chatting with Ryo, Kento, Cye and Rowen before lunch. They were standing outside of the lunch room waiting for Mika and Sage to show up. Suddenly Jessica heard her name being screamed from an adjacent hallway.
"Jessica! Jessica hide me again!" Mika squealed as she ran to the group and hid between them.
"Ok, what happened? Did it have something to do with coffee this time?" Kento snickered.
"WHERE IS SHE?" they heard Sage's voice exclaim from the hallway Mika had just come out of. Sage appeared and everyone laughed at the sight of his light pink hair. Sage growled at the others as his eyes fell upon Jessica. "There you are!" he yelled, storming over to her.
"Me?" Jessica asked innocently.
"Yes you. I know who did this to me!!" Sage said, pointing to his hair.
"Uh, Sage, I think you're confused... you see..." Ryo started.
"I AM NOT CONFUSED! I remember what a girl looks like when I see one and THIS is the one who did THIS to me! You are going to PAY!" he cut off Ryo.
The others laughed as Sage pointed to his hair which just made him madder than he already was. Mika peeked out from the middle of the group. "Well, you deserved it!" she said and stuck her head back in to the safety of the group.
"Wha- what the hell?" he exclaimed, looking from face to face. "There's TWO? Two of them? Am I dreaming? I must be..." the group laughed some more. Some girl walks by Sage. They looked at his hair and started laughing. Sage turned red.
"C'mon Sage, Lets see if we can wash that out before lunch." Ryo said, pulling Sage into the bathroom. Halfway there, another group of girls passed by on their way to lunch, pointing and giggling at Sage, who just blushed even more and ducked into the bathroom with Ryo.
"We'd better get going to lunch! I'm starved!" Kento said, rubbing his stomach as the group laughed in mock agreement.
"But shouldn't we wait for Sage and Ryo?" Jessica asked.
"They know where we sit for lunch. C'mon girls! I'll show ya where the food is!" Kento exclaimed, grabbing each girls' wrist and pulling them helplessly behind them. Both girls looked back pitifully at the two remaining guys as they were led into the cafeteria. Once there, Kento released their wrists and grabbed a tray, quickly piling food onto it.
Jessica picked up a tray and put some food on it, as so did Mika. They went through the line and met back up with Kento, who led them to their 'lunch pad' where the other guys were already sitting and eating.
"Man, Kento, you think you got enough to eat?" Jessica poked fun at Kento. "Yeah, I can see now how you got that six pack!!"
The others chuckled to themselves as Kento's face turned crimson. After clearing off his tray, Kento wailed for more food. "MAN! I'm still waaay hungry and I'm broke!! What'm I gonna DO?" he said, eyeing Mika's untouched piece of pizza laying on her plate.
"Hey...!" Mika cried as Kento's hand shot out and grabbed it. Mika jumped up and chased him around the lunch room, screaming at him to unhand her pizza.
Finally, Mika caught up and tackled Kento as she grabbed for her pizza back. For a minute the two were engaged in a game of tug-and-war. "I'll never let go, Mika! I'll never let go...!" He wailed as Mika reclaimed her pizza. She then flipped him over onto his stomach and sat down on his back, basking in her victorious battle and eating her pizza. Kento pleaded for her to let him go but she just smirked and ate her pizza slowly.
Sage, Ryo, Cye, Rowen, and Jessica watched the battle from the sidelines, as so did the rest of the lunch room. "Whoa," Cye exclaimed, "Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, especially a GIRL, has EVER been able to tackle Kento!"
"Especially over food!" Ryo added.
"Yeah, but that's our Mika!" Jessica said as she grinned at Mika, who was grinning right back at her from ontop Kento. "She can tackle anybody!"
"I can tell..." Sage said, impressed. "Heh, I'd like to see her take ME on, though."
"Nice hair, Sage..." Rowen said, Sage's hair still stained fairly pink, barely noticable. But Ryo and him had gotten most of the paint out.
Mika heard Sage's comment, finished her slice of pizza and, to Kento's relief, stood up and walked over to a smirking Sage. "What was that I heard you comment on?" she smiled up sweetly at him.
"Oh, nothing. Just that you could never do that to me."
"Oh, you mean THIS?" she cried as she flipped him over her shoulder. Sage landed against some chairs and overturning a table. Sage howled with pain from the floor while Mika had a self-satisified smile on her face. "As you were saying...?"
"I'M saying that it's detention for you, missy!" the principal growled as he walked briskly up and grabbed Mika's wrist.
"NANI? Not another one..." she groaned.
"Another? Another one?" Jessica asked.
"The one from fourth hour in art class when I did that to his hair, and now this... aww man." she hung her head as the principle filled out the slip and handed the sheet back to her.
"Be here Saturday. Bright and early. You'll serve BOTH of your detentions!"
"Awwww MAN!" Mika stomped her foot as the principal walked briskly away.
"One more detention, and you'll break your record!" Jessica teased.
"You mean you guys keep track of how many detentions she gets?" Cye wondered.
"Actually, she gets so many that we can't keep track. The most she's gotten in a day is two, and it's only fourth/fifth hour, and she has two already! We've still got three hours! Who knows what'll happen." Jessica laughed as she finished her lunch.
"Oooh... does somebody mind helping me up?" Sage moaned from the mess of tables and chairs.
"Oh, Sage!" the group laughed.
"We'd totally forgotten about you!" Cye teased.
"Thanks," Sage growled. "Now I know what good friends YOU are..." he laughed. Rowen moved over to help him up. Sage glared at Mika who jumped behind Cye.
The group walked back to their lunch table and barely finished their lunches before the bell rang, marking the end of lunch period.
"Well," Rowen said, standing up, "Hey Jessica you have next hour with me."
"Woohoo, geometry." Jessica said, half-smiling.
"Yup."
"I have P.E. next!! Yay!" Mika said, skipping down the hall and doing her so called 'happy dance'. Ryo grabbed her shoulder and stopped her from spinning.
"Watch out there, you don't want to ram into anybody and get another detention, do ya?" he half-joked.
"Well..." Mika looked thoughtful. "If one of you would get a detention with me, it wouldn't be so bad!" The others laughed.
"Yeah, right! I'll do anything as long as food is involved!!" Kento said, grinning.
"Anything is right!" Cye joked as he smacked him on the back. Kento scowled at him.
"What was that for? Rrrrr..." Kento started shaking his fist at Cye, but then decided not to because he didn't want to get Saturday detention and waste his weekend away. Especially since they didn't give you anything to eat. 'I'd starve! I'd absolutely starve!!' he thought as they all headed towards their fifth hour classes.

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"Mmmm my favorite class of all time!" Kento exlaimed as Mika, Kento, Jessica, and Cye walked in through the doorway to Home Ec from their fifth hour classes. "Especially since we get to EAT what we make!!"
"Actually, Kento," Cye pointed out, "I did most of the cooking, and you did most of the eating."
"Well, somebody has to eat what you cook! We don't want perfectly good food to go to waste, now do we?"
"I guess you have your own personal food disposal, huh Cye?" Jessica smiled.
"Ok, class, please take your seats..." the teacher said as she walked into the room. Everyone walked to their assigned seats and sat down. Jessica and Mika, who didn't have any, took a seat by Cye and Kento until the teacher assigned them one on the other side of the room, but still together.
"Today, class, we are going to practice cooking chocolate crépes!" the teacher said. Mika glanced at Kento, who was already hungrily licking his lips. "Please get into groups of six and then come see me and I will assign your group a kitchen."
The classmates got up and hurridely formed into four groups of six. Mika and Jessica joined Cye and Kento's group, and since they were two short, two other girls from their class joined their group as well, Sakura and Natsumi. The group headed over to the teacher, who assigned them to kitchen three. Kento happily bounded over to the kitchen, pulling out assorted pots and pans and looking at them dumbfoundedly.
"Kento," Sakura laughed, "those are for something else. Put them back!"
"Huh? Oh!" Kento said as he put the pots and pans back on their approprite shelves. "Now, what do we need to make these chocolate things?" he asked hungrily.
"Ummm... here's the insrtuctions..." Cye said, bending over a piece of paper that the teacher had handed to the group. After getting out all of the needed items, Cye set to work.
"Wait!" Mika exclaimed, coming up behind Cye with an apron. She swung her arms around him, tying the apron to him. Cye looked down at the apron and laughed at it. The apron read 'kiss the cook'.
"Funny..." he said, turning back to his cooking. After awhile, the batter for the crépes was done and ready for cooking. "You guys are supposed to make your own," Cye said, pouring some of the batter into the skillet and cooking his crépe first. After about fifteen seconds, he removed his crépe and let it cool. "Your turn," he said, handing the skillet to Jessica who made hers, then Mika, then Natsumi. After Natsumi made hers, she handed it to Kento.
"Uh, Cye? Couldn't you, like, do this for me?"
"No Kento," he laughed. "It's your grade, not mine."
"Awwww man!! Please?"
"Sorry Kento. It REALLY isn't that hard. You just pour it in there, swish it around, take it out and your done!!"
"Well, ok, it doesn't SEEM hard..." he said as he took the batter and spooned some into the skillet. He hummed to himself a little as the batter cooked.
Off on another counter, Cye, Mika, Jessica, and Natsumi were filling their cooled crépes with the chocolate filling, not paying attention to Kento whatsoever. Until, that is, they heard someone shreiking behind them.
"Aaaa!!" Kento screamed, running around the kitchens with a skillet full of flames. "Aaa! Help me help me help!!" he cried.
"Kento!" Cye yelled, dropping his crépe on the floor and running towards his friend with a pan full of water. The smoke from the skillet set off the smoke alarms, and with that the sprinklers went off also. Cye dumped the entire pot of water over Kento and the burning skillet as the entire school was evacuated onto the campus.
Once outside, Mika and Natsumi were laughing so hard Jessica glared at Mika. "That wasn't funny!" she exclaimed. Sakura nodded.
"Yes... it... was!!" she said between fits of laughter. "You should have seen the look on his face!!" Mika stopped laughing long enough to say, "Look! There goes the Home Ec teacher up to Kento! She's probably going to yell at him! I won't be suprised if he gets a detention!! Haha! Then we can serve detention together! Woohoo!! Oh, wait." she stopped laughing and suddenly looked sober. "Detention? With Kento? Aaa!" Mika ran up to the teacher to try to convince her not to give him a Saturday.
Jessica just shook her head. "Why would he get a detention for an accident? It wasn't like he did it on purpose!" she said to Sakura, who was standing next to her.
"I know. Your sister, she needs to lay off the hyper pills or something." Sakura smiled a bit.
"Yeah, but try telling her that." she said as the two watched the scene with Kento, Mika, and the Home Ec teacher from across the campus. "You think she's convincing the teacher to not let him have detention?"
"I don't think he'll get one. Although the teacher DID say in the beginning of the year that you're supposed to have a sink full of water at all times in case something like this would happen. And if there isn't a fire, then you just use the water to wash the dishes in." Sakura laughed. "Poor Kento. He was too busy drooling over the food samples that I guess he didn't pay any attention in class that day."
"Nooo... you mean poor ME..." a whining voice said coming up from behind them. "Man I'm really starting to not like Kento very much. I've got a Saturday with him! Him, of all people!!"
"Huh? Why did he get a detention?" Sakura wondered.
"Because she said it was very 'inappropriate' of him to 'run around the room like a chicken with its head cut off' when the skillet caught fire. And that she went over what to do in case of a fire the first day of class. Which he obviously wasn't paying attention in, I gather." Mika still whined.
"No I guess not and, believe me, he is going to hear about it while Mika is walking with him to Saturday detention..." Jessica said.
"Walking with him?" Mika said, her eyes popping open wide.
"Yeah, he DOES live right down the street from us you know. I saw him outside the other day and didn't remember it until now." Jessica teased.
"Awwww why ME? Why does everything always have to happen to ME?" Mika whined as the students were called back to their sixth hours.

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Mika and Jessica were walking back home after school with Kento, Rowen, and Sakura, who all lived not too far away from the two girls. Jessica looked around at all the cherry blossoms in the trees that lined the streets as they walked by. 'Wow... they're so... so kirei!' she thought as she smiled up to the trees.
Pretty soon, sooner than she wanted them to, Jessica and Mika reached their house. "Well, I guess we'll see you guys tomorrow then," Jessica said as she and Mika turned into their driveway.
"Yeah... I'll see you tomorrow," Rowen said as the girls disappeared into their house. "C'mon guys."
"I still can't believe that I got that detention!" Kento wailed. "I mean, it was an accident!"
"Yeah, what happened was an accident, but what you did wasn't!" Sakura laughed.
"I couldn't help it!! I didn't know what to dooo..."
"It's really commen sense, Kento." Rowen laughed. "Fire happens, water puts out fire, fire is gone. It's not hard, Kento."
"Yeah but still..." Kento frowned. "I'm still all wet from when Cye dumped that pot of water on me."
"He didn't dump it on you, Kento, he dumped it on the pot to put out the fire and you just happened to be holding it at the time," Sakura said.
"Argh you guys are no help at all!!" Kento said as he stomped into his house.
"See ya tomorrow!" Rowen and Sakura laughed, walking further down the road to their own houses.

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