Disclaimer: I do not own Kamichama Karin or Kamichama Karin Chu!

Neoko: Happy New Year Everybody! Currently I'm unable to use my usual computer so I can't work on my two Pokemon fantics. (Sorry to people who read them!) Anyway, I thought I'd try a change of pace so I'll write my first Non-Pokemon fanfic. This fic will be the normal romance story with a Sci-Fi twist! I hope you enjoy it!

Just so you know, L.A.T.E. stands for Love Against Time Experiment.

The Encounter

It was the time of the year in Japan when kids in the sixth grade start to get nervous about the middle school entrance exams. This was no exception for Karin Hanazono. While her friends browsed through the mall, Karin sluggishly followed releasing moans after every other step.

"What's wrong with you Karin?" One of Karin's friends looking back to her asked.

"Walk like that and you 'might' get left behind!" Karin's other friend commented, obviously annoyed by her friend's behavior. "We came to the mall to cheer you up and this is how you repay us?"

"C-cheer me up?" Karin muttered in a depress tone. "If you want to really cheer me up you can help me study for my exams!" Karin yelled at the top of her lungs.

"D-don't worry Karin!" Her friend stammered in a frantic tone. "I'm sure you'll do fine on your exams!"

"Neoko!" Karin responded in a touched tone.

"Are you kidding me?" Karin's other friend butted in, "The day Karin gets into a decent school is when the world ends and hell freezes over simultaneously!"

"Masayo!" Karin growled.

"You make it into a decent school, please!" Masayo sighed. "With your grades I'm surprise you are allowed to promoted from elementary school."

"Masayo, you jerk!" Karin yelled, "What kind of friend are you!?"

"The realistic kind!" Masayo responded.

"There's a difference between being 'realistic' and being a jerk!" Karin shouted. "Why can't you be optimistic like Neoko!?"

"Well," Masayo said calmly while a vein popped out of her head. "There's also a difference between being 'optimistic' and being delusion!"

Karin and Masayo were ready to pounce on each other when Neoko cut between the two bickering preteens. "N-now, now!" Neoko nervously shouted, trying to keep the two from killing each other. "Let's just keep walking! M-maybe we can find some good clothes!"

After awhile the two other girls looked away from each, Karin angry at her friend's criticism and Masayo angry at her friend's stubbornness. Little did they know, on the other side of the walkway, three boys their age where having a similar yet different argument of their own.

"Will you stop complaining already!?" The blond haired boy shouted. "So we have to live on campus, so what!?"

The dark haired boy glared, "So what!?" he yelled. "Unlike a certain girly boy I know, I haven't lived next to the school all my life!"

"What'd you call me!?" The blond boy yelled back.

"Girly boy!" the dark haired boy continued. "You know, a cross between a boy body with a girly face and mind!"

"Kuga!" The boy yelled, both ready to kill each other, until a tall brunette boy pushed the two away from each other.

"Can't you guys not fight for 5 minutes?" the boy sighed.

"Tell Kuga to stop whining!" the blond boy yelled, seemingly shaking the whole mall with his voice.

"Tell Kujyou to stop ordering me around!" the other boy yelled back. Equally as loud.

The boy in the middle turned to the dark haired boy and sighed., "Jin, sometimes things happen you can't control…" He started. "When they do complaining about it won't do anything."

"Ha!" The blond boy mockingly shouted out.

"Kazune," The boy said after turning to the blond boy. "Sometimes people don't take change well and yelling at them only brings more stress."

Both boys glared at the boy in the middle. "Just whose side are you on Nishikiori/Michiru!?" The boy's yelled at the same time.

"Neither if you two keep yelling in my ears!" Michiru responded, pressing his hands against his ears.

The two groups continued to fight as they quickly walked closer to each other.

"Why do we have to take stupid exams anyway!?" Karin shouted to herself, causing Masayo and Neoko to sweat drop. "It's like they don't want me to finish school!"

"There's nothing wrong with living on campus!" Kazune exclaimed while Jin rolled his eyes and Michiru continued to plug his ears. "In fact, it's easier than walking from your house and back everyday!"

"Will you stop Karin…" Masayo moaned. "Your stupid voice shouting like that is giving me a migraine!"

At the comment Karin clenched her fist ready to throw them into the air…

"Shut it Kujyou!" Jin yelled. "If I wanted to hear your seminar on 'campus life is fun' I'll ask!"

Kazune, was struck speechless at Jin's words and began to turn his head...

And just when Kazune fully turned his head, Karin's fist move upward in a viciously fast pace. Suddenly Karin's fist came in contact with Kazune's face. The scene seemingly turns to slow motion as Karin and Kazune's eyes meet while the punch is exchanged. Things go back to normal when Kazune falls toward Michiru.

"K-Karin!" Neoko gasped.

"Look what you did you idiot!" Masayo yelled in shock.

"K-Kazune!" Michiru shouted catching his friend. "Are you okay!?"

"Ha!" Jin laughed, "Girly boy gets hit by an actual girl!"

Karin, unable to find any words to say stared at the boy she just knocked down. "Uh… I-" She started, feeling guilty.

Kazune looked up and glared at the girl who punched him in the jaw without warning. "What is wrong with you!?" Kazune yelled holding his chin. "Punching a person in the face… Are you an idiot or something!"

"Kazune!" Michiru whispered to his friend in a disapproving tone. "It was an accident, drop it!"

Karin eyes widen in disbelief at the Kazune's words. "What!?" Karin yelled back, "If you had any sense at all you would have seen it coming!"

"What are you doing you moron!?" Masayo whispered into Karin's ear. "Just say you're sorry so we can go!"

The two ignored their friends comments and continued fighting with each other.

"First you punch me and now you yell at me!?" Kazune shouted. "Only an idiot would do something as brainless as that!"

"Ooooh!" Karin growled in her mind. "This guy is even a bigger jerk than Masayo!

"You started it you jerk!" Karin yelled back. "What kind of guy yells at a girl over an accident!"

"This girl…!" Kazune muttered in his mind. "She's just as annoying and stubborn as Kuga!"

"God you're so annoying!" Kazune shouted at Karin. "If someone looked up besetment in the dictionary they should find a picture of your face as an reference!"

"B-besentment… Rafurence (spelled wrong on purpose to show how Karin pronounced wrong) ?" Karin stammered in anger and confusion. "What does that mean!?"

"Oh! So you are an idiot!" Kazune yelled in a mocking tone.

"Say that again you-you jerk!" Karin yelled, unable to think of a good comeback.

"I can't believe this!" Kazune shouted to himself. "Why are girls always so frustrating!?"

This comment made Karin snap in a fit of rage. "Whatwasthatyousexistjerk!" Karin yelled out at a fast pace. "I was going to apologize 'cuse it was my fault. But seeing what a creep you are, you deserved it! In fact! You deserve another one!" Karin then throws a even more powerful punch onto Kazune's face sending him flying a short distance and runs off in a still clenching her fist. "Drop dead jerk!"

"Karin!" Neoko called out as she and Neoko chased after her.

"Kazune!" Michiru yelled running to where he landed.

Later the two groups started walking again in different direction. Karin still fuming at Kazune's girl comment and Kazune holding his jaw in pain.

"You know," Jin started looking back. "Despite the yelling and punching, that girl was kind of cute."

Kazune, unable to talk loudly just grumbled to himself along the lines of "A girl like her is far from cute…"

"You know…" Neoko sighed a bit. "That boy you punch looked so pretty. Like one of those princes in fairytales…"

"That jerk is far from a prince!" Karin yelled causing Neoko to jump.

"I bet-" Kazune started

"I hope-!" Karin shouted.

"I NEVER SEE THAT GIRL/BOY AGAIN!"

Meanwhile in a large building, not too far from the mall, a group of scientist watch the incident on two different monitors. One focused on Karin and the other focused on Kazune.

"At last…" One of the scientist began. "After all these years… They meet at last…" The scientist turned to one of his colleagues. "Inform the top at once!" He shouted. "Tell him that L.A.T.E. has finally begun…"

Neoko: Dun-du-dun! How suspenseful! Wait, wrong fanfic… Anyway! Who could this mysterious syndicate be and what do they want from Kazune and Karin! To be honest I only thought of this story in a passing thought and I thought, this could make a good plot! So I just followed through with it! I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter! Please review!