Sousuke's Choice

Chapter 1

Life soon ebbed back into the normal tide of things. Kaname went to school everyday and managed straight B's. Tessa transferred to the same college as Kaname and Sousuke to be next to them. Well, mainly Sousuke but still, she valued her friendship with Kaname higher above anyone else.

"KANAME!!" Wailed Tessa outside Kaname's dorm room at about ten at night.

"OPEN UP!! PLEASE" She cried. Kaname jerked the door open and gave her a frosty smile.

"What?" She snapped. She hadn't quite forgiven Tessa for taking her Sousuke away. She flipped a blue lock behind her ear and stared at the shorter girl.

"Its about those latin problems we were given." She moaned. Mithril hadn't considered Latin a required subject. Consequently, it was the only class that Tessa scraped by on. All the others, she passed with relative ease. Kaname's face softened. A chance to brag and show her ability over Tessa's was a rare and valued occurance.

"Come in. Shut the door behind you." Kaname gestured with a pale hand toward a small table. "What are you having trouble with?" Tessa lugged her heavy textbook and slammed it on the table.

"The second declension nouns and the future perfect fourth conjugation verbs!" She sighed, rubbing her fair temples. Kaname smiled. She drew a simple chart on a sheet of lined paper making six rows down labeled:

Nominative (subject of sent.)

Genative (possessive)

Dative (indirect obj.)

Accusative (direct obj.)

Ablative (obj. of prep.)

She headed them "Second Declension Nouns" and made two columns across, one singular, one plural. In a childish, messy script she scrawled:

Us

I

O

Um

O

She went over the masculine and neuter forms with Tessa, patiently then moved to verbs.

"Fourth Declension, huh?" She asked. Tessa nodded. "That's easy! The infinitive form is ire. So, just jack any endings you've got onto 'i' and the perfect stem! The endings are:

Ero

Eris

Erimus

Eritis

Erint. Okay?"

Tessa smiled and copied the words down onto her notepad in a flowing cursive. Kaname gestured her outside only to hear, once she shut the door, Tessa and Sousuke talking. The walls of the dorm rooms were thin and Kaname could hear everything that they were talking about.

"Hi, Sousuke." That melodic female voice, had to be Tessa's.

"Hello, Tessa." The deep voice of Sousuke made her heart ache. It had taken Tessa weeks to train Sousuke to refer to her as just 'Tessa' and not 'Miss Tessa' and not "Madam Captain.' Kaname heard a gasp and the rustle of fabric. She blushed. They obviously had just shared a kiss.

So, the rumors were true.

Xiera had told Kaname of a rumor circulating the university. She didn't know how they had started but they spread quickly, going from freshman mouth to the experienced senior tongues. It was the talk at all the parties and everyone knew that it could be but not that it was. Kaname rubbed her hands together. Perhaps she could use this to her advantage. Perhaps she could take a couple of pictures and just happen to drop them on the newspaper editor's doorstep. Since everyone knew of it, the editor would be bound to run them in the campus paper.

Boy would she get famous! Kaname, the girl to figure out the rumors.

Indeed, they were true and there was no dissent about it:

Sousuke and Tessa were going out.

AFTERWARD:

Hey everybody its me, Toki, back with a new chappie. Review and tell me what you think!

This is the long awaited sequel to both Yatori: Sousuke's Crush? And Rescue: Save Tessa?

Enjoy!